The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-03-25 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 71, of VOL. XLII.]
TUESDAY, March 25, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2251.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, herewith subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respected number of his present subscribers—and be means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct; therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated.—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which shall be gratefully acknowledged by the Briskest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuance of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register. CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, a d type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half: after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied, and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expenses—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, bookellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr. * This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentleman might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, at which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires. Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received) THE American Museum, CONTAINING, Rural Concerns.
MEMOIR on the distillation of perfumes, by Mr. Isaac Barram; Observations on the raising and dressing of hemp: communicated in the American philosophical society, by Edmund Aitull, Laws of Pennsylvania society for promoting agriculture, Premiums proposed by said society. Moral essays.
On contentment, On confidence, On the importance of a good character considered only with respect to interest, On the folly of being anxiously curious to enquire what is laid of us in our absence, On the pleasures of reflection. Characters. Character of an old maid, of a pedantic school-master. Humour. Consolation for the old bachelor, Lecture upon eyes, Lecture upon noses, Instructions for fine ladies, Instructions for fine gentlemen, Speech of a standing member, by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq. Natural History.
Description of the white mountains of New-Hampshire, Description of the grotto at Swatara, by the rev. Peter Miller. Miscellanies.
Letter concerning chimneys; containing some directions to prevent them from smoking, by Dr. Rulton. Petition of the people called Quakers, of New-England, Ethelgar, a Saxon poem, Account of the order of procession in Boston, solemnization of the ratification of the new constitution, Report of the managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures, Directions on this reading of history. Politics.
Onation on the anniversary of American independence. By the hon. chancellor Livingston, Letter from the hon. Robert Yates, and John Lansing, Esqrs. to his excellency Gov. Clinton, stating their reasons for not subscribing to the new constitution. Address to the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania, Form of the ratification of the federal constitution by the state of Massachusetts, Form of do. by Georgia, A view of the principles, operation, and probable effects of the funding system of Pennsylvania. Natural Philosophy.
Conjectures concerning wind and water-spouts, tornadoes, and hurricanes, by Dr. John Perkins of Boston, Observations on the growth of trees downwards. Poetry.
The sea-faring bachelor, by Mr. Philip Freneau, The seasons moralized, by do. The Brandywine, The grey mare the better horse, Evil company, The dying Indian, by Mr. Philip Freneau, Answer to a riddle, To a man of lively, but unequal spirits in conversation.
The printer returns his most grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of New-York, for the liberal encouragement and patronage with which they have honored this publication. Every exertion shall be made to merit a continuance of their favor.
** The delay of the present number, has been wholly occasioned by the negligence of the stage driver at Newark.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD, At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street, A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plans and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort-Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY. THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some diving roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be grown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c; ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 99 e.d.
FOR SALE, At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn, No. 39, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET, the following
G O O D S, Which will be SOLD at the most reduced Prices, to wit. A VARIETY of Cotton Checks, Mantuas and other Spotted and plain Velvets, Gown Silks, Sarcenets, Peelongs, and A variety of Gloves and Fans, Modes, Linens, Chintzes, and Sheerings, and Printed Linens, and Ozanabings, Cottons, Marcellas Quilting, Fancy Shawls and Fancy Jacket Patterns, Handkerchiefs, A variety of Plumos and Ribbands, Jeans, Fancy Shoe Buckles and Buttons, Jeanette, and India Dimities, A quantity of Linen and
With a Variety of other Articles, Which he is determined to SELL low, for J. F. (upon the face of the Bill) New-York, or Pennsylvania PAPER MONEY.

MISCELLANY.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Of the State of New York.
POUGHKEEPSIE, February 29, 1788.
[Continued.]
THE house met pursuant to adjournment.
The bill for extinguishing fires in the city of Albany;
The bill for extinguishing fires in the town of Brooklyne, in king's county;
The bill to prevent firing the woods in this state;
The bill for establishing and regulating ferries; and
The bill for the relief of William Chase; were severally read a second time, and committed to a committee of the whole.
The bill to repeal the acts therein mentioned, was read a third time, and passed the house.
M. Faulkman moved for leave, and brought in a bill, to prevent the breaking or defacing of mile stones, and other public monuments; which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
Went again into a committee on the supplement to the import bill:
Mr. Hedges in the chair.
The committee having added a clause, for imposing an additional duty on painter's colours, and another clause, to oblige the collector to make a return of exports annually, rose and reported the bill; when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Sylvester, from the committee appointed to prepare a list of the salaries, proper to be allowed, made a report, which was referred to a committee of the whole house, when on the supply bill.
Mr. Sickles from the committee to whom was referred the petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and commonalty of Albany, moved for leave, and brought in a bill, to enable them to raise a sum of money, for the purpose of establishing the night watch.
Mr. Bloom, from the committee to whom was referred a petition of Benjamin Close, of Salem, reported, that he have leave to bring in a bill, at the next session of the legislature, agreeable to the prayer of his petition, first publishing the same in the newspapers; and that a clause be added to some proper bill, to stay all actions against his estate, till after the next session of the legislature. This was agreed to by the house.
Mr. Taulman moved for leave, and brought in a bill to prevent the destruction of sheep by dogs, which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
The house went again into a committee on the business relative to Gore, Linsley, and Conat:
Mr. Doughty in the chair.
After some further time spent thereon, the committee rose and reported their progress.
A petition of Michal Conolly, in behalf of himself, and the officers of this state, concerning their lands, was read, and referred to a committee of the whole, to be taken up, when the house shall again go into committee on the business relative to Gore and his associates.
Went into a committee on the bill to enable the corporation of trinity church to assume the name therein mentioned:
Mr. Cornwall in the chair.
The committee having agreed to the bill, rose and reported the same; when it was ordered to be engrossed.
Went again into a committee on the tax bill.
[To be continued.]
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
M. GREENLEAF.
The following Essay is the production of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Lathrop, of West-Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, a gentleman universally esteemed for his many sociat-virtues, and of high rank in the Republic of Letters. It is extracted from a volume of this gentleman's Miscellaneous writings, collected and printed by Mr. John Russell, of Springfield. The spirit of religion which is diffused throughout this piece—the clear knowledge of nature, and of nature's laws—the familiarity with which he treats the vegetable world; and the extensive thought that accompanies every sentence, must render it highly acceptable to your numerous readers—Your inserting it, at this time, may produce more numbers of the same complexion.
REFLECTIONS on the SPRING.
AS we have just passed through a dreary winter, and expect soon to behold nature rising from her grave and coming forth animated with new life and arrayed in fresh beauties, it is proper to turn a thought on the power, wisdom, and goodness of the deity, displayed in the changes of the season, in the provision which he makes for the preservation of his various creatures, and in the restoration of the vegetable and many of the animal tribes after they have long lain buried under the frosts of winter.
The sun, by his alternate visits to the northern and southern hemispheres, makes the changes of summer and winter in both, so that in one season provision is made for the expenses of the other.—Without this vicissitude the climes remote from the sun would be utterly incapable of habitation, and even in our latitude there would scarcely be sufficient heat to produce necessary food for man or beast.
The length of the year is wisely adjusted to the degree of fertility in the earth, and to the necessities of its inhabitants. A much shorter summer would not afford time for the cultivation or for the ripening of the fruits of the earth; a much longer winter would cause too great a consumption of the produce of summer.
The winter causes a vast expence, but then the frosts break and loosen the earth, and the snows fertilize and enrich it; thus its tillage become more easy, and its produce more liberal.
The shortness of the summer, in climes distant from the sun, is in some measure compensated by the greater length of the days, which renders the heat more intense, and the vegetation more rapid.
The extremes of cold and heat, to which we are subject, we should imagine, would soon destroy our frame by frequent bracing and relaxing it: but yet we find, men are more healthful, and live to a greater age, where they are subject to these extremes, than in the southern climates, where our rigid winters are unknown.
Greater industry is necessary here for human support, but industry contributes to virtue, health, and longevity. Could we live with less labour we should be more vicious and less happy. Thus one thing is set over against another; disadvantages in one respect are compensated by advantages in another.
Much of the wisdom of providence is observable in the preservation of the various tribes of animals through the winter. Some of them are made immediately necessary for the use of man, who therefore is an instrument of their preservation, as they are of his, and repays the service which he receives. Some are directed by nature to fly from winter and take refuge in more friendly climes. Some have sagacity to provide themselves with winter stores. Some lie in a dormant, inactive state, and subsist for several months without food. Many reptiles and insects are frozen up and wholly deprived of sense and motion, and again wakened into life by the beams of the returning sun. Many other species are preserved by the eggs which they deposit in some proper place just before they drop into the dust.
Thus, in various ways, providence continues the several kinds of creatures thro' that dreary season, which, a person unacquainted with it, would imagine must destroy the animal creation.
The return of spring brings new displays of divine wisdom, goodness and power. In winter every thing wears a mournful aspect; the trees are stripped of their foliage: the herbage of the field is withered and gone; the earth is sealed up with frost and throwed in snows; the streams are congealed into stone; our dwellings are buffeted with winds and storms; the fowls of the air have taken their distant flight and all the musick of the groves is silent; the beasts of the forests are hid in their coverts and the swarms of insects, which enliven the summer, are returned to their dust. One who had never heard of such a season, would conclude, that the end of all
things was at hand, that nature had almost finished her course, that the sun was taking his final leave and abandoning the earth to eternal frost and darkness, that birds and beasts were utterly destroyed, and that trees and plants would revive no more. But God sendeth forth his spirit and they are created; he reneweth the face of the earth. He unbinds her from her frosty shroud and arrays her in new beauties; he calls forth the several species of creatures in their appointed months, and he quickens the seeds that have long lain buried in the dust; he waters the hills from his chambers and softens the fields with showers; he makes the grass to grow for the cattle and corn for the use of man; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of his works.
The wisdom and goodness of providence appear in the stated and regular returns of spring. Any considerable variation of the seasons from their usual course must be fatal to the human race, as we should never know what provision to make for winter, when to sow our seed for another supply, nor when to look for harvest.
The earth affords a various supply for the various wants of all its numerous inhabitants, partly by spontaneous productions, partly by the labors of man, who while he boasts himself the lord, is in a degree the servant of the lower world. The labour of each man, however selfishly designed, is the support of many. Every species of creature is brought into existence in such a place and in such a season as yields the proper nourishment, and while nature provides for the brutal tribes, the support of man must depend on his own care. Thus one thing is adapted to another. How manifold are the works of God! In wisdom he has made them all.
American Occurrences.
CHARLESTON, March 10.
YESTERDAY morning about three o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broke out in the cellar of one of the brick buildings belonging to Messrs. A. & W. Tunno, on the Bay; which having seized on a considerable quantity of sea-coal there deposited, rendered all attempts to extinguish it fruitless. A party wall prevented its communication with the rest of the range; the buildings well calculated to resist external fire, and the engines being well served and judiciously managed, the destructive element was got under without further damage than consuming the store where it broke out, with all the goods contained therein, to a very considerable amount.
On Wednesday evening, the 15th inst. Mr. Nicholas John Wightman, merchant of this city, having been in company with some respectable friends at a house in Meeting-street, was shot through the heart, with two balls, and three swans shot. It appears from information, that Robert Stacey, was in the house of Thomas Jones, in company with several persons of bad fame, and Mr. Wightman passing by the door, on his way home, about eleven o'clock, Stacey followed, and shot him, with an intent to rob, but Mr. McDonald hearing the report of a pistol, set a light in an upper window, which prevented the body being stripped. Mr. Wightman had with him the keys of a store, which Mr. A. Merrick and Mr. Wrench, jun. went for about half past ten o'clock, but the deceased promising to accompany them in a few minutes they went home, and after waiting above an hour, growing uneasy for Mr. Wightman's safety, they agreed to go back to the house where they had left him, but about ten doors distance, to their inexpressible horror and amazement they found his lifeless body in the street. Information being given to Dr. Lynah, and the city guard, it was determined to search a suspected place, where were found Thomas Smith, Josiah Jordan, John George, Robert Stacey, Andrew Keating, Edward Hatcher, Ann Jones, Ann Connelly, Rebecca Stacey, and Kate Crowley, who made her escape.—They also found two negroes hid under a house, the property of Mr. Bonneau, which George intended to carry up the country for sale. In Jones's house and upon the prisoners were found a pair of large pistols, one loaded with thirteen buckshot, the other contained eleven, a large clasp knife, a piece of fine file gauze, some money taken from Capt. Marston, which he identified, and a few papers of correspondence with some persons in goal, one letter from Glascock, in which he describes that he and his fellow prisoners live merry lives, being in want of nothing but a few books to read, and desires that a gimblet and sharp chissel may be brought to the goal on some night that they shall know of, when a string will be let down to draw them up, and he does not doubt but they shall all get out before the court meets. After the guard were gone to the guard-house with the prisoners, two men came to Jones's house, with an intent to get in, but being discovered by a neighbour, ran off, leaving behind them a saddle.—Next morning the prisoners were examined before John Standford Dart and Thomas Hall, Esquires, when Capt. Marston deposed, he was attacked by three men near governor's bridge, about eleven o'clock, who demanded his money, which he readily gave them; that Robert Stacey held a pistol to his head, and appeared determined to kill him, if Jordan had not interposed; that
Stacey hit him a violent blow on the face, and then the men went away. Edward Hatcher deposed that he was with the prisoners at Jones's, and saw the murder committed in the manner stated yesterday; that he heard of the robbery that morning in the guard-house, from the prisoners; he saw Smith have a saddle, silver-mounted, cut at the girths, marked J. R. this appeared to be the property of Jacob Read, Esq.; that Ann Connelly gave the prisoners powder from a flask, and some shot from a glove, advising them to go out and rob. The prisoners were examined separately, and in such parts of their history as they chose to confess strongly corroborated Hatcher's testimony. They were all committed.
Thus fell a victim to the barbarous inhumanity of an infernal villain Mr. Nicholas John Wightman, in the bloom of life, much esteemed while living, and whose untimely death is sincerely regretted.
The citizens are greatly obliged to Dr. Lynah and Capt. Davis, for their spirited exertion in breaking up a desperate gang of thieves, who have too long committed their depredations in and about this city.
Thursday night the stable of Peter Smith, in Beaufain-street, was broke open, and two horses carried away.
A canoe overset yesterday off Mr. Gibb's wharf, in which were two white men and a negro; never rose again, but the men saved themselves on the canoe's bottom, until they were relieved.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16.
On Monday the 11th inst. the superintendent of Indian affairs dispatched messengers to invite the chiefs of all the Indian tribes within the northern district, to a general treaty in the spring, to be held by him and the governor of the western territory, by order of Congress, to settle if possible, all uneasiness existing between the United States and the Indian nations, and to establish a lasting peace.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20.
The manufacturing society of this town have at length obtained two complete machines for carding and spinning cotton, one of which cards 40 lb. of cotton per day, and the other spins 50 threads at a time. We feel infinite pleasure in communicating this agreeable intelligence to the public, and we have no doubt, that by application to the society, private persons or companies will be informed how they may be supplied with them. As they are of the greatest consequence to this country, we beg leave to suggest the propriety of gentlemen in every town in the state, joining to procure one of each. Five lads of 15 years of age, and a girl of 12, may tend four spinning and one carding machines, which will card and spin 12000 lb. of cotton per annum. We trust these acquisitions will afford immediate employment to our stocking-weavers in Mulberry-ward and Germantown. This valuable branch, in which there are above 80 private looms, has been suspended for want of cotton yarn.—The duty on hosiery is considerable, which will exceedingly favor the manufacture. It is necessary, however, that our supply of cotton be increased. The planters of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, as wheat, tobacco and rice decline in price from the quantity, will, no doubt, apply to raising this raw material. The price of cotton at this time is from 28 to 35 as in quality, by the large quantity.
It is with great pleasure we learn, from a correspondent, that the ingenious artisan, who constructed the carding and spinning machines, though not the original inventor, (being only the introducer) is like to receive a premium from the manufacturing society, besides a generous price for his machines; and that it is highly probable our patriotic legislature will not let his merit pass unrewarded by them. Such liberality must have the happy effect of bringing into Pennsylvania other useful artisans, machines and manufacturing secrets, which will abundantly repay the little advance of the present moment. On this ground, which supercedes the necessity of manual labour, the manufactures of the United States must succeed: The only doubts which have arisen on the subject heretofore have been from the high price of labour, and the scarcity of hands; but when the expence of manufacturing thread can be reduced 90 percent, we find those doubts most happily dissipated. The ingenuity, versatility and enterprize of America will enable her, we confidentially trust, to acquire the various secrets and improvements of the old world.
It is earnestly hoped by one of our correspondents, that the southern states will pay the most immediate and the most unremitted attention to the cultivation of COTTON, to which their soil, their climate, and the nature of their population, are all adapted. He adds a particular request, that this little paragraph may be favored with a place in every news paper to the southward of Pennsylvania. Without cotton, the newly acquired machines will be of no value; with abundance of that raw material they may perform wonders.

New-York, March 25.
YESTERDAY arrived, in 24 hours from Poughkeepsie, the sloop Catherine; the Sprang her boom, and received other damage. A number of the members of assembly were on board.
Also arrived yesterday the sloop Dolphin, Metchet, Curricoa and St. Croix; Spanish Packet, Infanta, Don Casimiro, la Madrid, Havannah; and brig Patty, Mallaby, Aux-Cays.
We learn from Poughkeepsie, That the honorable the legislature adjourned on Saturday last, after having passed ninety-five acts. These acts shall be given the day after to-morrow.
By the Boston papers we find, that the rage of electioneering is in its zenith. The candidates for LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, are numerous; the names of S. Adams, Gerry, Lincoln, Gorham, and Warren, are held most conspicuous; but of these, Adams, the patriot of 75, stands foremost, and next to him Gerry, whose election, it is expected will be strongly contested.
From a CORRESPONDENT.
It is with surprise I have noticed, that even the most trifling paragraphs, in the New-England papers, are tinged with aristocratic poison. Hitherto, the republican mode of simple Mr. in addition to a name, or rightful title, was sufficiently honorary; but now we behold, instead of this republican simplicity, the majestic distinctions of illustrious, noble, right reverend, &c. or the better sort, in contradistinction to the low-born, and commonality! How do we already pant for "the noble order of the Cincinnati," "the illustrious board of Bashaws," "the right reverend order of Night Arrants," &c. &c.
Accounts from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, of March 7, say:—Yesterday was exhibited on the parade in this metropolis, a scene at once curious and singular:—
An African (Prince Jackson) had been tried before a special court, held at Black Jack's Hall, Puddle-Dock, and consisting of members of his own colour, on a charge of theft. The circumstances appearing pretty evident, poor Prince was convicted of the fact and sentenced to receive (in their words) fourteen tripe on his necked brack-thirteen for United States—and one for brack company. This sentence was duly executed at one o'clock, under the direction of the sheriff, the deputy sheriff, and others of their colour; the stripes were laid on regular and with a degree of humanity; and the culprit received his correction with a true spirit of subordination. The deputy sheriff, before he proceeded to lay on the stripes, harrangued the spectators in nearly the following words; "Gentlemen, you see what we do with brack man, we make no distinction, if he be officer or not, if he be found guilty, we correct him accordingly; dis brack man bin tealing, our court sentence him to have fourteen tripe; thirteen for United States, one for brack company, and dis way we f' port good government, and to Quahy lay um on well." An affair so novel, collected a large number of spectators, who were not a little surprised to see justice so duly administered by these sons of Africa upon one of their colour, holding up to those of a different complexion, an example, if not worthy of imitation, at least commendable and deserving much applause.
Proposals are issued in Charleston (S. C.) for printing, by subscription, the HISTORY of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By David Ramsay, M. D.—the writer of the elegant and impartial History of the Revolution of South Carolina—a work greatly and justly celebrated.
ALLEN'S (New London) Marine List. Thursday, March 6th. Pleasant, serene, warm, morning, wind W. Friday, 7th. Hazy morning, wind N. N. W. meridian W. S. W. Saturday, 8th. Hazy morning, N. N. W. Sailed, brig Brothers, George Hallam, for Cape Francois. Schooner Patty, William Warner, for South-Carolina. Sunday, 9th. Hazy morning, wind N. W. b. N. Monday, 10th. Hazy morning, wind N. N. W.—Meridian, wind N. E.—4 P. M. calm. Tuesday, 11th. Pleasant, serene morning, wind N. N. W. meridian, wind N. E. Wednesday, 12th. Pleasant, serene morning, light wind N. meridian wind S. W. Arrived, Packet Lady Washington, Culver, from New-York. Chappel, ditto.
To Ebenezer Hazard, Esq.
SIR,
YOU have at length deigned to reply to the many, many complaints, which the Printers from Boston to Virginia, have repeatedly exhibited against the department under your sovereign will and direction. How far you have exculpated yourself in Mr. Greenleaf's paper of Friday last, is not for me to decide. I may, however, venture to pronounce, that what you deem "a succinct state of facts," will be considered as low subterfuges and mean evasions; and that your conduct in suppressing the free circulation of newspapers deserves the severest reprehension. The oppressions complained of,
are generally known, felt, and acknowledged; you have, therefore, no chance to escape the just censures and execrations of the people: though you seek for refuge and protection under the wings of Congress, their resentment will even reach you there, and expose your "dark deeds," to open day-light. But to the point and to your succinct state of facts.
You have either wilfully misrepresented the established rules and customs of the post-office before and since the revolution, or you are totally ignorant of the subject. That the post-office was established for the benefit of the community at large, as well as "for the purpose of facilitating commercial correspondence," no one will presume to doubt. And here it would not be amiss to query how far have you, as post-master-general, facilitated commercial correspondence?—Let the candid merchants of Philadelphia and this place, declare in what manner they have been treated by the rigid adherence of post-masters and their assistants to office hours? Besides, newspapers are not infrequently of more service to merchants than letters from their most active and attentive correspondents.
But it is also a fact which cannot be denied or controverted, that the printers of newspapers have, time immemorial, enjoyed the privilege of exchanging their papers through the channel of the post-office; and that the carriage of the papers for their subscribers was a perquisite of the post-rider, with which the postmaster had no connexion or concern. The riders "stipulated" with the printers only for the carriage of their papers directed to subscribers; but newspapers for the printers have ever been considered as a part of the mail, and, until your new arrangement, were admitted into the same port-manteau with it. The opusculum or false belly of the mail was conceived in your own brain: it is a monster hitherto unknown among post-masters and printers; and future generations must confess themselves indebted for this noble production to your enlarged understanding.
These are stubborn facts which your piddling genius cannot invalidate or set aside. If it were necessary, I might, with great propriety, appeal, for additional support, to John Laurence, Esq. late a member of Congress, and now a senator of this state, who assisted near right or ten years in the management of the post-office in this city, and to Mr. Thomas Tillyer, who was likewise an assistant in the post-office at Philadelphia, before the revolution: nay, I might refer you to Dr. Franklin, & John Foxcroft, Esq. the late post-masters general under the British administration.
And here it is worthy of remark, that so tenacious were the people of this privilege, that the British post-masters never attempted to preclude the printers' papers from the mail, not even after the battle of Lexington—And shall a creature who was tolled, into the office by an intriguing junto of the provincial Congress, without the least claim or pretension thereto, now be permitted to exercise his interdicts? Can any man in his senses suppose that Congress ever meant or intended to place the post-office on a worse footing than before the revolution?—Be assured, Sir, this ancient and useful custom has long been fixed on too solid a foundation to be trampled under foot and destroyed by your fancied power and importance.
Since I have mentioned the subject of appeals, I appeal to Mr. Grummond, who has contracted with you for the transportation of the mail on horseback from this city to Philadelphia, whether you did not absolutely declare to him that he had nothing to do with the printers' newspapers, though you have positively asserted, in your succinct state of facts, that you had given no orders or directions about them either to the post-masters, or to the riders? Here the eye of suspicion looks shrewdly on you, and seems to call your veracity in question. Did not the post-master in Philadelphia receive your instructions on this subject? or was your lengthy epistle to Mr. Bryson, couched in such ambiguous terms as to admit a double construction?
I appeal to the post-master at Bristol, whether, under the idea of his acting agreeably to your orders and opinion, the rider employed by Mr. Grummond, has not recently thrown out the printers' papers, which you were so condescending as to admit into the false-belly of the mail, declaring that he would not carry them; and whether he did not scatter them along the road near Bristol? and I appeal to Mr. Thompson, secretary of Congress, whether, since the new arrangement, he has not complained to a certain printer, in Philadelphia, that the papers for Congress did not come forward as usual? How ridiculous and absurd then must this excellent arrangement appear, when the papers for the Congress themselves have been, and perhaps now are, at the mercy and under the controul of the post-riders, who derive their consequence and influence from the post-master general?
As you have availed yourself of a resolution of Congress in the year 1782, by giving us a partial quotation relative to the post-office, I have taken the trouble to transcribe their late resolutions in toto, on the same subject, for your consideration, as well as to satisfy more fully the public mind with regard to your contumely, insolence of office, and unwarrantable stretch of authority.
IN CONGRESS, July 26, 1787. ON the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. Dane, Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. Pierce, to whom was referred a letter from the post-master general, RESOLVED, That the post-master-general be, and he is hereby authorised and
instructed to enter into contracts with sufficient security for the conveyance of the mails for one year, commencing on the first day of January next, from Portland in Massachusetts, to Savannah, in Georgia, by stage carriages, if practicable,* and that the same be done by four or more separate contracts, and in case of only four contracts, the first to extend from Portland to New-York; the second from New-York to Philadelphia; the third from Philadelphia to Suffolk in Virginia; and the fourth from Suffolk to Savannah, by such route as the post-master-general may find most convenient.
Monday, October 15, 1787. On motion of Mr. H. Lee, seconded by Mr. Carrington,
Resolved, That the post-master-general be, and he is hereby authorised to contract for the transportation of the mail for the year 1788, by stage carriages or horses, as he may judge most expedient and beneficial; provided that preference be given to the transportation by stages to encourage this useful institution when it can be done without material injury to the public, and that the mail be conveyed three times per week, from the first of May to the first of November, and twice a week from the first of November to the first of May, from Portland in Massachusetts, to Suffolk in Virginia, and twice a week from the first of May to the first of November, and once a week from the first of November to the first of May, from Suffolk to Savannah in Georgia.
On motion, Resolved, That the post-master-general be, and he is hereby authorised to alter the route from Peterborough in Virginia, to Savannah in Georgia, to Augusta in Georgia; provided he may judge it beneficial and expedient, and that in case of such alteration he establish cross-posts, agreeably to the principles provided in the resolve of the 15th of February, 1787, to the commercial towns on the sea coast.
From this plain state of facts, there can be no doubt but you have acted not officially, but officiously and tyrannically, and that the exchange of the printers' newspapers does not rest on its original foundation. This has been the sole cause of all the complaints and objections which have been raised against the department, and which have involved you in your present disagreeable dilemma.
The interest and welfare of society require and demand, that the post-master general should, at all times, "promote the general convenience," and that he should not impede or obstruct the free communication of sentiments, through the regular channels of intelligence, especially at this important and interesting period, when the liberties of America are, as it were, suspended by a single thread.
Rotation of office is allowed, on all hands, to be one of the greatest excellencies of a republican government; it is high time then for a change in the administration of the post-office; if the late arbitrary and unjustifiable procedures of the head of the department, with respect to the circulation of newspapers, did not loudly call for the measure.
For the present I shall take my leave, and resign you up to the merited correction of your superiors. A TRUE FEDERALIST. New-York, March 23, 1788.
* Query—Whether it was not practicable to contract with the stage owners from Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, to Suffolk, in Virginia? + Query—What material injury could the public have sustained, had the contract, for the transportation of the mails, been made with the proprietors of the stages?
TO BE SOLD, At PUBLIC AUCTION, On FRIDAY the 18th Day of April next, At XII o'Clock, at the Merchant's COFFEE HOUSE in the City of NEW-YORK,
The Mills and Farm, AT Paramus, in Bergen county, state of New-Jersey, now in the occupation of Jacob Bumper, and late the residence of Col. James Marc Prevost. The farm contains about two hundred and ninety acres of land mostly of superior quality, of which about one hundred acres are wood. There are two orchards of well chosen apples, and an abundance of choice, and rare fruit of other kinds, a spacious and very convenient dwelling house, large barn and mill-house. The mills are well situated on a lively and never failing stream which runs about three quarters of a mile through the farm, affording several mill seats not to be equalled in that part of the country. The land is otherwise beautifully watered by a variety of springs, and is capable of the most elegant and fanciful as well as profitable improvement at a very small expence. The situation is also particularly advantageous for trade, being at the intersection of two great roads. The most unexceptionable title will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
The Creditors of Charles Williams, deceased, and all others interested in his estate, are requested to take notice, that the surplus of the money which may arise from this sale, after paying the purchase money due from the said Charles Williams, will be applied to the satisfaction of his other debts. New-York, March 12, 1788. 47.c.d.tod.
New-York, Elizabeth-Town, and Philadelphia New Stage Line.
THE frequent neglect of business, by some of the proprietors of the former line of stages, has compelled the subscribers, who were concerned, to withdraw themselves, and to join in establishing a new line. By strict attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to merit the favors of the public.
The stage will leave Paules-Hook, every afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Elizabeth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point. The stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridgetown in Raway, Woodbridge, New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Bristol, to the Indian-Queen in Fourth-Street, Philadelphia, in one day, for the moderate price of THREE HARD DOLLARS for each passenger, with the allowance of 13wt of baggage; and all way-passengers at FOUR PENCE per mile.
One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same price as a passenger, viz. Four Pence per Mile. No racing allowed in this line.
JOHN MERCEREAU, JOHN HEARD, CHARLES BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLIN. New-York, March 21, 1788. 49
At PRIVATE SALE, THE pleasant and valuable FARM
whereon the subscriber now lives, about three miles from Flushing town, on the public road leading to the plains, containing about 200 acres of cleared and wood Land, and 16 acres of good Salt Meadow. On said Farm is a good Dwelling House and Barn, two good Barracks, corn Crib, a Court Yard and Garden in neat pale fence, with a good bearing orchard and other improvements, is remarkably well watered, and within a few rods of a grist mill. If not sold by the 21st day of April next, it will on that day be sold at Public Vendue. The conditions may be known by applying to the subscriber on the premises. LAMBERT MOORE. March 21, 1788. 48—c. d. t. 21 a.
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof, and by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen Street,
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE Latin Grammar,
EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners; with Notes and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics. By JAMES HARDIE, A. B.
Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK.
A number of the Schools in this city have adopted and are about to adopt this Grammar, the excellencies of which will be more fully delineated in a future advertisement, by a number of the first literary characters in this State, &c.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE, those signed by J. Nouit, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Enquire at No. 20, Queen-Street.
JACOB REED, jun. Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and
SPECIE; And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the estate of SMITH RICHARDS, an insolvent debtor, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, assignees, appointed according to law. All accounts, or obligations, not discharged by the first day of May, will be put in suit without distinction. MELANCTON SMITH, JAMES SHUTER. New-York, March 11, 1788. 39. end.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market-Street, nearest to the Bin-Yards
B L A N K S To be had at this Office.

POET'S CORNER.
The Bils o' Retirement.
THY, ye soft, sacred, solitary bow'r, Where contemplation finds her gayest hour! Mild fair and beautiful then Eden's grove, For there's no serpent—no! not that of love! Nor Amal's beauty, nor her frowns I dread, While the sweet nightingale sings round my head. Away ambition! Hence ye dreams of power! Tortures of lust!—artefacts of the hour! Thou vain, false world!—how fruitless are thy charms!
Thy aid I ask not, nor yet fair thy harms. Rem'd let me pass my cheerful days, Love with the muses, and rebound their praise; Pursue those paths which good men always trod, In love with nature, and in love with God!
A N E C D O T E.
UPON the publication of Lord Bolingbroke's philosophical works, by David Manet, Dr. Johnson was asked his opinion of the author and publisher: "Why, fir," says Johnson, "I look upon them both to be a couple of atheistical high-waymen:—my Lord for having the piece up to the muzzle against the peace and happiness of society; and manet for drawing the trigger."
Assize of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weight Two Pounds Five Ounces for six pence A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One pound Twelve Ounces for three pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, March 25, 12h. om. Morn. Just imported in the Jane, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell,
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BOOKS,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an account of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Miss Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruffian; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Miscellaneous; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Memoirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edinburgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published,
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CONTAINING regular travels, campaigns, voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal, in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
DR. SPEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings sewed.
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medical commentaries, with the recommendation of several eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edition of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit, and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY in particular, pocket-books, ink-holders, paper blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
N. B. SAMUEL CAMPBELL returns his sincere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books or Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of book, and the reasonable prices he sells at, will insure a further continuance of their favors The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scots MAGAZINES.
TO BE SOLD,
At PRIVATE SALE,
A LOT of LAND,
SITUATE on City Island, Westchester county, about 20 miles up the East-River from New York.
The above Lot contains eight acres of land, and is well situated for a garden plot, for the supply of this city with vegetables, or meadow for the watermen.
On this lot is a small tenement, with one chimney only, and a never failing spring of fresh water. The excellence of this spot is too universally known, to require any particular description.
It was formerly the property of Mr. Gilead Hunt, who, by a deed of gift, conveyed it to Mrs. JEMIMA PELI (widow of the late Joseph Peli, of the Manor of Pelham) by whom a good title will be given.—Enquire at No. 25 Water-street.
C A S H,
and the highest PRICE given for clean linen
R A G S.
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street, and the other BOOKSELLERS,
Conductor Generalis,
OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assizes, and of the peace, &c.
To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and several other books on those subjects.
By JAMES PARKER, Esq. late justice of the peace in New-Jersey. Now adapted to the United States. By one of the J U D G E S.
The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in.
At the above STORE may be had, a great variety of
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Consisting of HISTORY. Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
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Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Barkit on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, a vols, Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's Carr's, Erskine's, Boston's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice ophyic, Van Swieten's, commentaries, 18 vols, Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols, Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quincey's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemistry, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Entick's latin Dictionaries, Davidson's Virgil and Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eutropius, Erasmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammond's algebra, Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guthrie's and Salmon's geographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ash's, Dyke's, Bailey's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictionaries, Bennet's christian oratory, Scott on election, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose, Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's measurer.
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Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION, CONTAINING,
A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Jets, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States. A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Haley, Accomptant.
Price 1f. 6d. single. The usual discount to Booksellers, and others, who may purchase by the Hundred, Dozen, &c. ** Also may be had of Messieurs Campbell, Reid, Allen, Macgill, and Mills, Booksellers.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Provost formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the river up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE , two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (being built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also, a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of ashes, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees: on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, commanding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood-land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the land enclosed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS , in maiden-lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same.
The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
TO BE SOLD, For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Wood-ridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Wood-ridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town.
New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
TO BE SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE, a Pleasant situated
F A R M,
BETWEEN Rack Pond and Fresh Creek, adjoining the sea, at Shrewsbury, in Monmouth county, in the state of N. Jersey, containing one hundred and fifty acres. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser, and a good title will be given. For further particulars enquire of PETER OGILVIE, at No. 6, Crown-street. New-York, Feb. 13, 1788. 17
Masters & Owners of Vessels,
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterboro' hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lin, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Ropemaker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
AT THE TANNERY,
Near the Fresh-Water Pond, MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manufactory, and procure them a run of custom—for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price.
Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD.
N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40 c.d.
Just Published, The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For February, 1788. Price TWO SHILLINGS.
C O N T E N T S. A Bridgement of the Education—Mode of it laws of nature in examined, French and English, The contrail, Vindication of the preface—Letter III, from Belzebub, renee women are sup—The force of habit, or the posed to have for men regularity of the city Medical questions, Philadelphia vindicated in opposition to Government—Mr. Jefferson's arguments in fa—Peter Pickpenny's are of vor of an unalterable pulling into business, constitution, consider—Curious extracts from an- ed, cient records, Letter III, to Dr. Stiles, Anecdote, describing the remains Dr. Mitchell's account of of fortifications at Musk the insect which de- ingum; with remarks stroy the wheat, on the Indian barrows, Letter from Juvenis, and the striking ana—Narrative of the escape of logy between certain the Countess Valois de la Motte from the Ba- customs of the Indians stille, and ancient Britons, Continuation of Smith's A Hibernian's request, history of Virginia, Law questions.
P O E T R Y.
On the departure of a young gentleman who had failed for England sometime since, Lines written by a youth on the death of Mr. Childs, Mr. J. Reid, —Mr. J. Hastings, at Boston, —Messrs. Hudson and Goodwin, at Hartford, —Mr. J. Beers, at New-Haven, —Mr. A. Stoddard, at Hudson, —Messrs. W. Falconer and Co. at Albany, —Messrs. Young and M'Colloch, at Philadelphia, Mrs. A. Timothy, at Charleston.
The NEW LINE of
STAGES.
THE Proprietors of the New Line of STAGES, finding many inconveniences arise both to the respectable public and themselves from inattention to business; in future they are determined to use every endeavor to serve the public, and with encouragement only in proportion to their exertions and attention to their business. From the date hereof the fare will be from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook, three Spanish milled dollars, and all way passengers four pence per mile, 150lb. of baggage to be the same as a passenger; Primers papers and letters will be conveyed gratis; convenient port manteaus are provided for that purpose. The Stages leave Powles-Hook at 3 o'clock, P. M. every day for Philadelphia, except Saturday.
JOHN CUMMING, MATTHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN CULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, MICHAEL DENNISTON, N. B. Papers, Letters, &c. to be sent to Christopher Beckman's, Cortlandt Street, where the Stage Office is kept. February 10, 1788. 29 c.d.
To the afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—c.d.
S H R U B,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-street.
FLAX-SEED,
STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-feed store lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—c.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquainted with MERCHANT'S ACCOUNTS,
would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38—c.d.
A YOUNG married woman with a good breast of milk,
would be glad to take a child to nurse. Enquire at No. 30 Little George-street. 29 c.d. 10
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