The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1789-10-08 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Congress-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
Proceedings of CONGRESS. (Continued.)
In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES.
FRIDAY, Sept. 18.
A Bill making provision for the invalids of the United States, was read.
A petition from the Rev. William Stoy, stating that he had discovered an effectual remedy for the Hydrophobia, and praying the house that in their wisdom they would devise some way by which the publick may be benefited by the remedy, and the inventor recompensed for his expense and time in making the discovery, laid on the table.
The bill to amend the part of the Collection Law, which estimates the Rouble of Russia at 100 cents, was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed.
The engrossed bill for the establishment of the Post-office, was brought in and signed by the Speaker.
A petition from Barnes, Attorney to James Rumsey, respecting a variety of curious discoveries, and original inventions of the said Rumsey was read, and laid on the table.
The motion of Mr. GERRY, enjoining on the Secretary of State the procuring such Statutes of the respective States as are not in his office, was read and adopted, and ordered to be sent to the Senate for their concurrence.
The report of the committee on the motion of Mr. White, respecting the cession of lands made by the State of Virginia, &c. was read, and referred over to the next session.
The House then went into a committee of the whole on the bill for establishing the salaries of the Judicial Department.
Mr. BOUDINOT in the chair.
The bill was then read, and on motion of Mr. Goodhue to strike out 4500 dollars, the proposed salary of the Chief Justice, and to insert 3000. A lengthy debate ensued. The committee finally agreed on the following salaries, viz. —
  Chief Justice, per annum, 4000 dollars,   Judges of the Supreme Court, each, 3000   Judge of District of Maine, 800   New-Hampshire, 1000   Massachusetts, 1200   Connecticut, 1000   New-York, 1500   New-Jersey, 1000   Pennsylvania, 1600   Delaware, 800   Maryland, 1500   Virginia, 1800   Kentucky, 800   South-Carolina, 1800   Georgia, 1600   Attorney General, 2000 
The Committee then rose.
A message was received from the Senate, with the resolution respecting the Statutes of the respective States, concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, 10 o'clock.
SATURDAY, Sept. 19.
The House took up the report of the committee of the whole on the Bill to establish the salaries of the judicial department. The salaries reported were severally confirmed, except the salary of the Chief Justice, which was reduced to 3500 dollars, and the District Judge of Georgia, from 1600 to 1500 dollars. The salary of the District Judge of Kentucky was increased from 800 to 1000 dollars, and the Attorney-General reduced from 2000 to 1500.
Mr. WHITE moved for a reduction of these salaries—and gave his reasons therefor—but the motion was negatived.
The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the order of the House of the 17th inst. reported an estimate of the sums requisite to be appropriated during the present session of Congress, towards defraying the expenses of the civil list, and of the department of War, to the end of the present year, and for satisfying such warrants as have been drawn by the late Board of Treasury, which yet remain unpaid.
A message was received from the Senate, accompanying a bill for regulating the process in the court of the United States—Referred to a committee of the whole on Monday.
Also the Judicial bill in which the Senate had concurred with several of the amendments proposed by the House, and disagreed to others.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments made by the Senate to the bill for amending the Constitution of the United States—some of which they negatived, and others they concurred in; but not having time to go through the same, adjourned.
MONDAY, Sept. 21.
Those amendments to the Judiciary bill, in which the Senate had not concurred, were taken up, and the House receded from the same, and agreed with the Senate.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury was read, and referred to a committee, consisting of Messrs. WADSWORTH, SMITH (S. C.) SMITH (M.)
The amendments of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House to the Constitution, were again taken up. Some were agreed to, and others non-concurred: Messrs. MADDISON, SHERMAN and VINING were appointed a committee to confer with a committee of the Senate on those amendments in which the two Houses do not agree.
Mr. JACKSON moved that leave be given to bring in a bill to alter the time fixed for the annual meeting of Congress. This motion was carried, and leave given to bring in a bill.
The House then proceeded in the discussion of the bill for fixing the temporary and permanent seat of the government. And after a short debate, the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
A message was received from the Senate, informing that they had concurred in the bill for establishing the salaries of the Judicial department with amendments.
The amendments were to raise the salary of the Chief Justice from 3500 to 4000 dollars—the salaries of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court from 3000 to 3500—that of the Judge of the District of Maine from 800 to 1000—and that of the Attorney-General from 1500 to 2000. The House agreed to these amendments, except the last.
A resolution was received from the Senate, that it be recommended to the several States to pass laws to make it the duty of the keepers of their several gaols, to receive, and keep therein persons committed under the authority of the United States, until they be discharged by due course of law. The United States to pay 50 cents a month, for each person confined, and likewise to support all persons committed thereto for offences against the United States.
Mr. WADSWORTH, from the committee on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, brought in a bill, by which appropriations are made for defraying of the expenses of the civil list—
The department of War—For warrants issued by the late Superintendent of Finance—
For warrants issued by the late Board of Treasury,—And to pay the invalid Pensioners. This bill was read a first and second time, and committed to a
committee of the whole to be taken up to-morrow.
The report on the petition of the Baron de GLAUbeck was agreed to, allowing him fifteen month's pay as a Captain in the late Continental army.
A message was received from the Senate, that they had receded from the amendment for raising the salary of the Attorney-General—and had appointed a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the Houses on the amendments to the Constitution,
On motion of Mr. VINING, the report of the Committee on the petition of the publick creditors was taken up and agreed to.
On motion of Mr. GERRY, the House resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to apply to the Supreme Executives of the several States for the state of their publick debts, and the funds appropriated for the discharge of the principal and interest of the same; and the amount of the loan-office and other securities in the State Treasuries.
TUESDAY, Sept. 22.
The engrossed bill for establishing the Seat of Government for the United States was read the third time, and passed, ayes 31, noes 17.
Mr. GOODHUE introduced a resolution rescinding the vote for adjourning on the 23d, and to fix the time of adjournment on the 26th instant. This was adopted.
The bill to recognize and adapt to the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of the troops on the frontiers, by the ordinances of the late Congress, was taken up in committee of the whole.
Mr. JACKSON proposed a clause, to empower the President of the United States to establish posts, to raise troops, and call forth the militia of the States of Georgia and South-Carolina, in case the Creek Indians refuse to treat with the Commissioners, or violate the conditions agreed to at the ensuing negotiation.
This motion after a lengthy conversation was agreed to so far as it respects calling forth the militia, or sending part of the troops on the establishment, to that State, should the President think proper.
The committee having gone through the bill and made several amendments, rose, and the Chairman reported them to the House—The House immediately took the amendments into consideration, and agreed to the same. It was then ordered that the bill be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Secretary LEAR, with the act for allowing compensations to the members of the two houses and their respective officers which was received with approbation and signature.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary OTIS, informing the House, that the act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office, was returned to the Senate with the approbation and signature of the President.—Also that the Senate concurred in the resolution of the House to adjourn the 26th instant.
Mr. BLAND moved, that leave be given to bring in a bill, to amend and explain a clause in the Coasting Act, which was granted, and Mr. BLAND, Mr. GOODHUE and Mr. BENSON were appointed a committee for that purpose.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23.
The bill to recognize and adapt to the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of the troops on the frontiers, was brought in, engrossed, and passed.
The appropriation bill was committed, amended, and agreed to by the House. Ordered that it be engrossed, and 100 copies of the Estimates, on which the bill is founded, be printed for the use of the Members.
Mr. BLAND presented a bill to amend the Coasting Act, which was read a first and second time.
The bill altering the time for the next meeting of Congress, was committed to a committee of the whole; and it was agreed that the first Monday in January next be the time. The amendment was admitted by the House, after the committee rose, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
A message from the President, with the salary bill for the Judicial Department, was received, informing he had approved and signed the same.
The House went into a committee on the bill for regulating processes in the courts of the United States, and went through the same.
NINTH ACT OF CONGRESS.
An ACT providing for the Expenses which may attend Negotiation or Treaties with the Indian Tribes—and the Appointment of Commissioners for managing the same.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, shall be and the same is hereby appropriated to defraying the expense of negotiating and treating with the Indian tribes.
And be it further enacted, That each of the Commissioners who may be appointed for managing such negotiations and treaties, shall be entitled to an allowance exclusive of his expences at the place of treaty, of eight dollars per day, during his actual services, to be paid out of the monies so appropriated.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBURG, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—August 20th, 1789.
GEORGE WASHINGTON. President of the United States
GRATITUDE, A Parson Patten of Whitstable, was well known in his own neighbourhood as a man of great oddity, great humour, and equally great extravagance. Once, standing in need of a new wig, his old one defying all farther assistance of art, he went over to Canterbury and applied to a barber, young in the business, to make him one. The tradesman who was just going to dinner, begged the honor of his new customer's company at his meal, to which Patten most readily consented. After dinner a large bowl of punch was produced, and the reverend guest, with equal readiness, joined in its demolition. When it was out, the barber was proceeding to business, and began to handle his measure, when Mr. Patten desired him to desist, saying he should not make his wig. "Why not!" exclaimed the astonished barber, "have I done any thing to offend you, Sir?" "Not in the least," replied the guest, "but I find you are a very honest good-natured fellow, so I will take somebody else in. Had you made it, you would never have been paid for it."
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Further news from France.
HOTEL DE VILLE, at PARIS, July 13, 1787.
Formation of the Parisian Militia.
T HE notorious riots committed by the various mobs, having determined the General-Assembly to re-establish, without delay, the Parisian Militia; the following are the particulars:—
 1. The militia to consist of 48,000 citizens, until further orders.  2. The first register made in each of the 60 districts, to be 200 men, for the first day, and so on successively, during the three following days.  3. The sixty districts, formed into sixteen legions, and twelve of which, to compose four battalions; and the other four, three battalions only, named after Quarters of the city, whence they are raised.  4. Each battallion to consist of four companies.  5. Each company to consist of two hundred.  6. The staff to be composed of a commandant General of the 16 legions, of a second ditto, of a Major-General, and of an Aid-Major-General.  7. The Etat-Major of Each legion, to be composed of a Commander in Chief—ditto second—Major—four Aid-Majors, and an Adjutant.  8. Each Company to be composed of a Captain—two ditto—two Lieutenants, and two sub ditto; the companies to consist of eight Serjeants, the first of which, to be Serjeant-Major—thirty-two corporals—one hundred and fifty-eight privates, and two drummers.  9. The Permanent Committee to appoint the Commander General; second, the Major-General; the Aid Major-General, and the Etats-Majors, of each of the 16 legions. As to the officers of the battalions who compose the said legions, they are to be appointed by each district, or by commissaries nominated for that purpose.  10. The colours of the city have been adopted by the Assembly, and every person is to wear a blue and red cockade.  11. The Station, or General Quarters of this Militia, whence the parole and countersign are to be given out, to be at the Town-House.  12. The Officers, composing the Etat-Major, to have a seat in the permanent Committee.  13. To be 16 principal Corps-de-Garde for each legion, and 60 others corresponding to each district.  14. The patrole to be stationed wherever it may be necessary.  15. The arms given to each man to be returned to the Officers at the end of the service; in default of which, the officers to be answerable for them. 
P A R I S, July 30
On Tuesday last the Marquis de la Fayette performed the ceremony of incorporating the French guards, under the appellation of Gardes de la Nation, by which they are henceforward to be distinguished.
At Strasburg, great violence has been committed, the chief magistrate was obliged to escape in a cart load of tanner's bark. The populace forced the town-house, and demolished all the furniture, took possession of 1000l. sterl. of the public cash, and destroyed many of the archives. The citizens required leave from the Comptede Rochambeau to arm, which he refused, as well as to call on the militia—The prince de Hesse Darnstadt, col. of a regiment in garrison took this on himself, and with 4000 armed citizens, dispersed the mob, several of whom were hanged. In their violence, they had got at the vast tuns of Rhenish wine, and stock which are preserved there en depot, and waded up to their knees in it.
Aug. 1.—Monsr. Necker arrived on Wednesday—paid his respects to the King and States General—and on Thursday, he entered Paris, amidst the acclamations of thousands, who took the horses from his carriage, and dragged him in. Lenient measures are pursuing, and order is fast establishing.
We had great illuminations at the Palais Royal last night, on account of M. Necker's arrival; but they will be general when he visits the Hotel de Ville, to which he will be invited. The national club at the Palais Royal had eleven of the arcades most beautifully illuminated with transparencies of the King and Mr. Necker.
Nothing could be more affecting than the first interview between the King and Monsieur Necker.
By the demolition of the Bastille, a subterraneous passage has been discovered communicating with another state prison, about four miles from Paris, at Vincennes, near the Duke of Orleans' Chateau.
State Prisoners were generally put into the Prison at Vincennes, and conveyed under ground to the Bastille. Those who were first put into the Bastille were conveyed under ground to Vincennes. By these means all idea of the situation of the prisoners was completely discomfited.
Aug. 3.—The States General are busily engaged in arranging the Constitution—providing for the exigencies of the state—and establishing the credit of the nation.—Glorious tasks!
The Nobles are entirely defeated—and order is restored.
The Form of the new Constitution of France.
The Committee has reported its deliberations on the subject of the new form of Government. The Archbishop of Bourdeaux, M. de Clermont Tonnerre, and M. Mounier, read the preliminary observations to this important object before the National Assembly. The Abbe Syeyes has likewise made known his very valuable treatise on the rights of mankind: M. Mounier has done the same; both point to the same object, though they take different ways to come at it.
The principal heads of the form of Government which the Committee has recommended, are as follows:
That the National Assembly be composed of two houses of Parliament; (the committee all agree in this point, but they find a difficulty to decide in what manner the chamber of Parliament shall be organized; some are of opinion that both should be elective: Others, that the King should have the power to nominate the members of the first, in the same manner as the British house of Lords is created: )
That the States General should be permanent, and meet yearly.
That the King shall have the Treasury of the State under his protection.
That he shall have the supreme and absolute command over the army.
That he shall have the nomination to all places, civil as well as ecclesiastical.
That he shall have a revenue for the maintenance of his dignity, even more considerable than he has allowed him at present.
Such are the principal points on which the Constitution is to be raised.
The Protest made by the Court of Spain, relative to the succession of the French Crown; the return of the Duke de la Vauguyon, the French Ministry at Madrid, at the opening of the States; his subsequent appointment to the Ministry here, on the Expulsion; together with the inconsiderate declarations and menaces of the Count d'Artois, all concur in proving, that Spain was certainly to have taken a part in favour of despotism on the first signal.
L O N D O N, Aug. 6. THE MUFTI'S BULL.
As a sample of MAHOMETAN respect for deceased PRINCES, and of the singular means which the ministers of the Divan use to work upon the superstition of the followers of MAHOMET; we lay before our readers the following Bull, if we may so call it, lately published by the Mufti, at Constantinople:
To all faithful Mussulmen.
There is but one GOD—and MAHOMET is the powerful arm of him who moveth the Heavens, and giveth light to the moon, that it may shine in the midst of darkness, and for the triumph of the TRUE BELIEVERS.
He has pulled ABDUL HAMET* from his throne, as the branch that bangeth in the air is torn from a tree.
He has placed at the head of the empire a young man † full of ardour, who will be the sword that shall revenge the many outrages which the favourite nation of the LORD has suffered.
We have been defeated, because the Minister ‡ of the TRUE BELIEVERS had incurred the displeasure of the GREAT PROPHET.
Resume your wonted courage—Fear neither the fire or the sword of the INFIDELS§—Hope for every thing from HEAVEN—If you escape the dangers of war, riches and honors will be heaped upon you and your glory will never die.
If you fall in battle for the honor of MAHOMET, and the glory of SELIM, the most exquisite pleasures await you. Prepare yourselves for the soft embraces of HOURIS||.
The ANGELS of MAHOMET will lead you to the shady summits of the mountains, or shew you where to stray in the flowery vallies below them.
Graasp your swords—cross the seas—recover from the INFIDELS what, only as a punishment for our crimes, they were permitted to take from us.
Those will most certainly die, who shall fight against the SPIRIT, by which they have hitherto been animated.
But those may rest assured of victory, who shall fight with confidence, without dread or fear, and who draw the sword for the defence of the OTTOMANS, and the glory of the TRUE RELIGION.
NOTES.
* The late Sultan and uncle to the present.
† Selim III. the present Sultan.
‡ The late Sultan.
§ The Christians.
|| The beautiful females destined, according to the Koran, to reward in Heaven those who, while on earth, have faithfully followed the precepts of Mahomet.
A report prevailed yesterday, that the King of Prussia had commenced an attack on Dantzick. Such an event was not impossible, from the equivocal article from Warsaw in Tuesday's mail.
The conduct of Spain has been charged inimical to the freedom of France, and if the insinuation be established, it will be probably fatal to her transmarine interests:—Already a participation of her South-American Colonies between France and North-America, is spoken of among the leaders of the people;—and it is said, the condition of the division is an army of 20,000 men, to be furnished by the United States.
It was a saying of the late King of Prussia, that "Life was but a dream, and that the best dream a man could have, would be, that he was King of France:"—were he, however, alive now he would hold a different language.
An intimate of QUIN's being invited to a remarkable fine haunch, took with him a friend, whom he introduced as a gentleman and man of fortune, which produced him a polite reception. Quin observing him at dinner repeat his cuts at the venison rather often, broke out with, "By—, Sir, I had rather have your appetite than your estate."
NORFOLK, (Virginia) Sept. 12.
Extract of a letter from North-Carolina, dated Sept. 3, 1789.
From the elections which have taken place for members to our Convention, which is to meet in November, I think you may rest assured that this will adopt the New Constitution."
HARTFORD, September 28.
The 15th instant the wife of Mr. Jacob Resligue of Ridgefield, was safely delivered of three children, two sons and a daughter, who with the mother, are likely to do well
PHILADELPHIA, September 16.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Danville (Kentucky) to his friend in Baltimore, dated the 9th of last month.
"It is with great concern I communicate to you the following truly melancholy intelligence:—About three weeks ago, Mr. Richard Chenoweth, had six or eight men allowed him, by the officer of the garrison at the Falls, to guard his exposed plantation, in Bear Crab settlement, below the Falls. In the evening of their arrival, before they had taken their station as a guard, a number of
Indians rushed into Mr. Chenoweth's House, killed two of the soldiers, and three of Mr. Chenoweth's children, and tomahawked and scalped his wife, leaving her on the floor for dead—Mr. Chenoweth, (who had his arm broke by the savages) with the rest of the men, made their escape.—There was one of Mr. Chenoweth's children sick in a chamber, and it is reported, she never heard any thing of the dreadful massacre; but next morning, crawling down stairs, she was inexpressibly shocked at the sight of a beloved parent almost breathless.—Mr. Chenoweth returned the next day, to his house, and carried his wife to a neighbouring plantation where they are both likely to recover, and what is remarkable, she wants to return to her own house.—The savages have been very troublesome in this neighbourhood.—A small company are gone to White river, to extirpate 80 or 90 Indians, who, as spies have informed, have upwards of 300 horses, &c. at that place."
Sept. 24. Friday night last, five villains entered a house in Market-street between Thirteenth-street and the Public Square, and after beating one Mr. Farland, who lodged there, in the most barbarous manner, plundered the house of what was worth carrying off, including cash to a considerable amount. The unfortunate man was so much injured that it was found necessary to remove him to the Hospital, where he died on Saturday afternoon, all assistance proving vain.
On Sunday afternoon his remains were deposited in the burial ground of the Presbyterian church in Pine-street, attended by a large concourse of respectable citizens.
The above robbery and murder were perpetrated by some wheelbarrow men who escaped from prison the same night, but most of them have been since taken, and are now under the most strict confinement. Among them are two or three who have very often been concerned in business similar to the above, the merciful tenderness of the law serving only to encourage their bloody depredations.
B O S T O N, Oct. 3.
A gentleman lately arrived from France, which kingdom he left the 7th of August, informs, that the calm of peace was succeeding to the storm of insurrection—and adds, that America is rising most gloriously in the eyes of all Europe: And the respect now paid to her flag increases with the moments of her NATIONAL EXISTENCE.
From Shrewsbury we learn, that a young lady spun on a common wheel, a skein of cotton yarn, which weighed but two troy penny weight—which, making allowance for waste, give above 120 skeins to a pound of cotton. Such an example is worthy encouragement and imitation.
NEWBURYPORT, Oct. 7.
The Algerines have taken a Spanish vessel with 5000 ducates on board—Also eight vessels from the French. The Swedes have taken a ship, loaded with lead, from the English.
A strawberry was last August pulled off a vine in Bothwel Castle, Garden, in Scotland, which measured five inches in circumference.
At a late Linen-market in Dublin, to the amount of one hundred, thousand pounds sterling, more was sold, than at a similar market held in that place, the last October.
A Wilmington paper of Sept. 19, mentioned a marriage to have been celebrated in that place, the preceding Monday, of "Mr. Robert Pork, merchant, to the amiable Miss Catharine Hogg."
One Mary Hall, of Chester county, Delaware, lately, on her birth day, when 100 years old, spun half a dozen of yarn, besides making her bed, cleaning her room and cooking victuals, and appears likely to live many years longer.
Extract of a letter from Maryland, Sept. 9.
Colonel Lloyd has this day caught, at one draught of his 60 fathom sein, in Wye river, 1455 black drum fish, weighing 67,000lbs.