Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1805-07-26 00:00:00

and their hunters kept them in abundance of meat.
Buffaloes are said to be in great numbers, and of large size—Two descriptions of deer are described; those resembling the common kind of this country being larger, and the tail 18 inches long, and the hair much longer on their bodies; the other kind having a black tail. Elks and goats are numerous. The grouse, or prairie hen are in plenty; and before the closing of the river in the fall, water fowls in abundance. Fish scarce, and those principally of the cat kind. Some of the white bear skins, had been brought to the fort by visiting Indians from higher up; but the party had seen none of those animals. The Indians keep horses, which are used entirely for the chase, and in war.
From such information as they have received of the country above there, it is about 600 miles to the great falls which are made by a ledge of mountains, called Rocky Mountain, in which it is presumed the Missouri terminates. At their winter quarters the river is nearly a quarter of a mile wide; is equally as muddy as its mouth, and has continued its rapidity with very little alteration, as high as they have gone, though it has become considerably more shallow, so that they will not be able to take their large barge any higher. From what information they have obtained of the course of the upper part of the river, the most are at the Northwardly part.—From where they wintered to the falls, is nearly a south course. The description given by M c Kenzie, of the head waters of the river, is accurate.
They have sent on to the president of the U. States, an accurate journal, with a map of the country thro' which they passed.
Six of the party were sent back—the party now consists of 28 men, exclusive of the two officers. They have enjoyed perfect health—not one having been sick except the unfortunate young man before mentioned, and he was taken off in a few hours with a cramp in his stomach. The greatest friendship existed with the party; and the men who have returned, speak in the highest terms of the humanity, and uncommon pains and attention of both the captains, Lewis and Clark, towards the whole of them; and that they left them in good spirits fully convinced that they would winter on the Pacific Ocean.
They were told of six nations of Indians they would have to pass, before they would arrive at the falls, from only one of which they apprehended any difficulty—they are called the Snake tribe, and reside high up.
Curiosities of different kinds: living beasts, birds, several boxes of minerals, a pair of uncommon ram's horns, from the Rocky Mountain, scions of a new discovered berry, called the buffalo berry, &c. have been brought on by the returned party and deposited with the commanding officer at St. Louis, to be sent by him to the president.
We expect in a few days further particulars relative to this interesting voyage.
A letter from Capt. Meriwether Lewis to the President of the United States.
Fort Mandan, April 7, 1805. Dear Sir,
Herewith inclosed you will receive an invoice of certain articles, which I have forwarded to you from this place; among other articles you will observe by reference to the invoice 67, specimens of earths, salts, minerals, and 60 specimens of plants; these are accompanied by their respective labels, expressing the days on which they were obtained, the places where found, and also, their virtues, and properties when known; by means of these labels, reference may be made to the chart of the Missouri, forwarded to the secretary of war; on which the encampment of each day has been carefully marked; thus the places at which these specimens have been obtained may be easily pointed out and a gain found should any of them prove valuable to the community on further investigation.
You will herewith also receive a part of Capt. Clarke's private journal, the other part you will find inclosed in a separate tin box. This journal will serve to give you the daily details of our progress, and transactions.
I shall dispatch a canoe with three, perhaps four persons, from the extreme navigable point on the Missouri or the portage between this river and the Columbia river, as either may first happen; by the return of this canoe I shall send you my journal and some one or two of the best kept by my men. I have sent a journal kept by one of the serjeants to
Capt. Stoddert at Fort Lewis, in order as much as possible to multiply the chances of saving something, we have encouraged our men to keep journals, and seven of them do so, to whom in this respect we give every assistance in our power.
I have transmitted to the Secretary at war every information relative to the geography of the country we possess; together with a view of the Indian nations, containing information relative to them, on those points which I conceive it important the government should be informed.
By reference to the muster rolls forwarded to the war department, you will see the state of the party; in addition to which we have two interpreters, one negro man servant to Captain Clarke, and Indian woman wife to one of the interpreters, and a Mandan man, whom we take with a view to restore peace between the Snake Indians and those in this neighbourhood, amounting in total with ourselves to 33 persons; by the means of the interpreters and Indians, we shall be enabled probably to converse with all the Indians we shall meet on the Missouri. I have forwarded to the secretary at war, my public accounts rendered up to the present day; they have been much longer delayed than I had any idea that they would have been when I departed from the Illinois; but this delay under the circumstances which I was compelled to act, has been unavoidable. The provision perogue and her crew could not have been dismissed in time to have returned to St. Lewis, last fall, without evidently in my opinion hazarding the fate of the enterprise in which I am engaged, and I therefore did not hesitate to prefer the censure that I may have incurred, by the detention of these papers, to that of risking in any degree the success of the expedition. The detention of these papers has been a source of serious disquiet and anxiety to me, and the recollection of your particular charge on that subject, has made it still more poignant. I am fully aware of the inconveniences that must have arisen to the war department from the want of these vouchers, previous to the last session of Congress; but how to avert it was out of my power to devise. From this place we shall send the barge and crew early to-morrow morning, with orders to proceed as expeditiously as possible to St. Lewis, by her we send our dispatches, which I trust will get safe to hand; her crew consists of ten able bodied men, well armed, and provided with a sufficient stock of provisions to last them to St. Lewis: I have but little doubt they will be fired on by the Sioux, but they have pledged themselves to us that they will not yield, while there is a man of them living. Our baggage is all embarked on board six small canoes, and two perogues; we shall set out at the same moment that we dispatch the barge, one or perhaps both of these perogues we shall leave at the falls of the Missouri; from whence we intend continuing our voyage in the canoes and a perogue of skins, the frame of which was prepared at Harper's Ferry. This perogue is now in a situation that will enable us to prepare it in the course of a few hours; as our vessels are now small, and the current of the river more moderate, we calculate on travelling 20 or 23 miles per day, as far as the falls of the Missouri; beyond this point, or the first range of rocky mountains, situated about 100 miles farther, any calculation with respect to our daily progress, can be little more than bare conjecture. The circumstance of the Snake Indians possessing large stocks of horses, is much in our favour; as by means of horses the transportation of our baggage will be rendered easy and expeditious over land from the Missouri to the Columbian river. Should this river not prove navigable where we first meet with it, our present intention is to continue our march down the river, until it becomes so, or to the Pacific Ocean.
The map which has been forwarded to the secretary at war, will give you the idea we entertain of the connection between these rivers, which has been formed from the corresponding testimony of a number of Indians, who have visited that country, and who have been separately and carefully examined on that subject, we therefore think it entitled to some degree of confidence. Since our arrival at this place, we have subsisted principally on meat, with which our guns have supplied us amply, and have thus been enabled to preserve the parched meal, portable soup and a considerable proportion of pork and flour, which we had intended for the more difficult part of our voyage. If Indian information can be credited, the vast quantities of
game with which the country abounds, through which we are to pass, leaves us but little to apprehend from the want of food. We do not calculate on completing our voyage within the present year, but expect to reach the Pacific Ocean and return as far as the head of the Missouri, or perhaps to this place before winter.—You may therefore expect me to meet you at Monticello, in September 1806: On our return we shall probably pass down Yellow Stone river, which from Indian information, waters one of the fairest portions of our continent. I can foresee no material or probable obstruction to our progress, and entertain therefore the most sanguine hopes of complete success. As to myself, individually I never enjoyed better health, than I have since we commenced our voyage. My inestimable friend and companion Capt. Clarke, has also enjoyed good health generally; at this moment every individual of the party is in good health and excellent spirits, zealously attached to the enterprize and anxious to proceed; not a whisper of discontent, or murmur is to be heard among them, but all in unison act with the most perfect harmony. With such men I have every thing to hope and but little to fear.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
LEXINGTON, [Ken.] June 18.
Books are opened in this place, by Messrs. John Gordon, jun d . Alexander Parker, and John Bradford; commissioners for receiving subscriptions of shares, for opening a CANAL at the Falls of Ohio. The liberal spirit evinced by the citizens of Lexington for the public good, it is hoped will be as conspicuous on this, as on former occasions.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.
The brig Nancy, Capt. Lake, is arrived at the Lazaretto, and has on board forty French officers and soldiers, many of whom are suffering under wounds received in the late warfare near that city, (St. Domingo) One of the crew died on the passage, under every indication of violent yellow fever; and the captain and another hand, are now in a very low condition with the same disease.
NEW-YORK, July 14.
We have received by Capt. Starbuck, of the brig Ann Maria, a printed copy of the new constitution of the Empire of Hayti. It is a curious and interesting document, comprising 16 pages 12 mo. The supreme command is vested in Dessalines, who is called 'Emperor I.' but the government is not hereditary; slavery is abolished forever; no particular church establishment is acknowledged by the state—provision is made for the education of youth; and the national colours of Hayti, are very appropriately declared to be black and red stripes.
The New-Jersey democrats begin, in imitation of the Revolutionists of Pennsylvania, to agitate the question relative to an alteration of the Judiciary System of New-Jersey. Their scheme appears to be "an annual election of Judges and a total exclusion of Lawyers from all courts of Justice, or an abolition of all Courts and the substitution of a system of arbitration for the settlement of all disputes of a civil nature." The present system they unqualifiedly declare to be productive of more fraud and oppression than justice.
As these men have now the power completely in their hands of doing what they please with the government, they certainly ought to improve it to the best advantage.
If the present judiciary system, in their opinion, is productive of more evil than good, they are bound by the most solemn obligations to alter it. The good work is going on apace in Pennsylvania, and opening with some prospect of success in New-York. Our democrats who seem to delight in dragging at the heels of these two great states, may, therefore, now follow on with pleasure. It is to be hoped they will not falter in the undertaking before them, but meet it like men, and prove at least for once, that they were honest and sincere in their professions—That all this noise which they make about Courts and Lawyers, is not as their clamours against the federalists were, merely to turn out the present incumbents in order to get places for themselves.
The time between this and the general election in the fall is amply sufficient to make all necessary arrangements. As
yet the party is tolerably well united in New-Jersey. Governor Bloomfield and a few others may make a feeble opposition; but such characters can have but little weight. Now, then, is the golden opportunity for the accomplishment of this project, which, if suffered to pass unimproved, may be forever lost, and the democrats must stand condemned as slothful and unprofitable servants of the people. Let them then who have this project at heart be up and doing, that the people may have all the advantages resulting from it as early as possible.—There can be no reasonable excuse for one moment's delay.
We sincerely wish to see this scheme of the democrats fairly tried. We wish those who advocate it to know and feel, experimentally, what it is. 'Till this is the case the community will be continually disturbed with their plans and projects, and half-way measures will constantly keep the Judiciary weak, impotent and inefficient.
[Trenton Federalist]
MARTINSBURG, July 26.
From one of the best edited papers the cause of truth can boast of, we extract eve of the best political sketches we have lately seen. It is evidently the work of no common hand, and it cannot fail to obtain the attention of the sound-hearted and well-judging. [Fred. T. Herald.]
From the (Boston) Repertory.
THE opinion that Mr. Jefferson will decline another election, is so freely avowed by the Jacobin prints, which are considered as the vehicles of his sentiments, and especially by the Aurora, which was notoriously paid by a fat job for being the organ of his will, that every one has already made the inquiry and nobody attempts to answer the question, why does he decline?
Supposing that this resolution has not been forced upon him by his party, those who know the man will readily conceive that his vanity had no small concern in suggesting and recommending it. Our Augustus may think he acts a great part when he actually resigns the empire which the Roman hypocrite only affected to be weary of administering, and having once avowed this design, he has men in his cabinet who would pin him down to the execution of it. He probably enough expects to be great in his retirement, and that homage and flattery will follow him into the shade. But if it be, as we strongly suspect, that he retires because he perceives, as his party have long since perceived, that the march of our revolution is becoming too quick for his timidity, he will find himself in private life completely laid aside, and left to play the philosopher in good earnest. When he wrote his Mazzei letter of defamation, he acted a part and fled from office only to be pursued and courted back to a higher. He will not indeed in his solitude be disappointed of the honours that will be noisy in proportion as they are empty. And as parade is a cheap reward, in conferring which, a party enjoys all the flattery it seems to bestow, that reward will not be sparingly measured to the ex-chief who has sacrificed all the fair fame of the rest of his life to deserve it at their hands. No doubt Mr. Jefferson has discovered that joy is sometimes as studious to pomp at funerals, as sorrow. If he will consent to be buried alive, there are no posthumous honours that his friends will refuse him.
Ample as these may be, they will not long exclude from his Elysium, some of the spirits and pains of Tartarus. The collection of great bones will not so well as formerly occupy his ambition, nor will the lullaby of Samuel Harrison Smith sooth it, as it does his readers, to sleep. He will certainly grow weary of the calm of experienced insignificance, and sigh to return to the tempestuous exercise of power, we mean provided these should not appear to be any danger in it.
But the consequences of this step to Mr. Jefferson himself, are not much to our purpose, and little concern the public. The man who with a little spirit has held a great office, will sink almost as soon into oblivion as contempt. He has earned infamy, but he will prove too perishable a subject to convey it to a distant age. The race of vulgar demagogues has swarmed in our day, and we cannot see why a feeble minded pedant should be remembered longer for his agency in hastening an American Revolution than the kindred and almost forgotten Brissots, Rolands and Condorcets of France.
His present partisans, whose will soon grow faint, for it is power only that

they flatter, they pretend this is a noble act of self-denial, which evinces his unambitious character. It is as absurd to pretend that character is proved, as that it could be formed by a single act. A man really unambitious, would have his whole life to corroborate the testimony—And to believe this of Mr. Jefferson because he is soon going to resign power, we must forget how eagerly and how meanly he sought it. We must forget how the governorship of Louisiana and the collegorship of New Jersey were promised and afterwards bestowed to secure the votes that made him President. Indignation must be dumb and say nothing even by signs, about his employing Freneau, the libeller of Washington and his government, and how Mr. Jefferson himself libelled both in his letter to Mazzei. Infamy must pull down her gibbet where he himself has inscribed his name as the dear friend of Tom Paine. We must disregard too his character and his actual situation: his character which equally unfits him for the foibles he has, and the qualities he has not, for leading a party—and his actual situation at the head of a party, made unmanageable by success and on the point of splitting.—There are thousands of men who might lead a party tolerably well in its advance to power—Few very few after its complete success.—When all are running one way, he who happens to run fastest seems to take the first rank, because all the others follow him. But when the race is over, a scrutiny then begins, to ascertain where the pre-eminence really lies. The question who shall be first has shaken the world with alarms and bathed it in blood beyond any other that ever was agitated. Precisely that question is beginning to be stirred in the bosom of the reigning Jacobin faction, and it already heaves like Ætna kindling for an explosion. And now it is that Mr. Jefferson perceives, probably enough with surprise, that his difficulties begin. Little did he anticipate that the sea would prove most tempestuous in the harbour. A man very far from unambitious might choose to retire in season from such a scene. His ambition might be strong and yet his discretion or his fears prove stronger. Serpit humi tutus nimium, timidusque procelle.
We have taken no little pains to convince Mr. Jefferson, but he will learn it later and more painfully from his experience, that a rapid change of popular favours is in the character of our politics. Revolution incessantly shifts its instruments, but never its full purpose. It seems to be decreed, and as he reads history he need not believe it on our word, that the first demagogues are not permitted to be the first emperors of a republic. Ten races perish before one is established.
The unambitious Mr. Jefferson!!! Are we permitted by facts to believe him moderate in any of his passions? There are men with whom popularity is the desired end, the summum bonum , and others for whom it is only the instrument, and the despised instrument of power. But to whichsoever class he belongs, and certainly he belongs to one of the two, it is as absurd to talk of his moderation as of his piety. The question never has been nor never will be whether he is a Cato who holds it life, immortal life, to be virtuous. It is whether he is like Pompey who stopped, fatally for him, in his way to empire to hear the music of his own popularity, or a Cæsar who thought and acted as if he could not live at all unless he reached it. Both were bad citizens, either would have proved fatal to the Roman Republic. The difference was, Pompey hated equality as heartily as Cæsar, but he wished to be King by the votes of a Roman town-meeting, and Cæsar aspired to reign by the pikes of his legions. Pompey wanted to get sovereign power without losing popularity. Cæsar sought popularity only to get power. Had Rome been like the United States, destitute of an army, the Jefferson of that day would have more surely destroyed the public liberty than his rival Cæsar. For he, Pompey, trusted more to intrigue and flattery, relying that popular favour is no niggard in its gift of power.
Accordingly, the Roman mob conferred upon Pompey, an authority over the treasures, land and sea-forces of the state, not less ample than Congress has granted to Mr. Jefferson for the government of Louisiana.
It must be supposed that the fulness of time is come when the secret cabinet of the revolutionists has profoundly weighed all the means of securing the permanency of their reign; and if Mr. Jefferson should appear to them, as we verily think he does, poorly qualified to
conduct the vessel of state through the tempestuous sea of liberty, they will of course, seek or make the occasion for a change. It would not be the first time they have said he was good for nothing as a head. Tiger as he appears to the dismissed federal officers when there is no opposition, he is a Hare when there is. He is, say the jacobins, meddlesome, conceited and capricious, and mars their best considered plans by his thirst for vengeance and his fears. He is they add, too fond of playing the author, and writing with exulting vanity to-day, what with no little mortification he will have thrown in his teeth, in proof of his consistency to-morrow.
The work of revolution is best prepared by those who have violent passions and no talents. It advances under the management of subalterns who have such passions and such talents, but it is consummated by men who have an ascendency of genius to subject their own passions and those of others to their ambition. The dregs of the people are at first the materials, and then for a time the tribunes of the people become the conspicuous agents of innovation. In the progress of things, however the Cæsars inevitably take the lead. The pen first inflames the contest, but after licentiousness has triumphed, a sharper weapon must be drawn to decide it.
Hitherto the jacobins have gladly allied themselves with all the ignorance and vice of our cities. They have eagerly embraced the renegades of Europe, and vaunted the pre-eminence of all the little learning and capacity they have been able to employ.
But now the faction has triumphed, it extends its views and contemplates the employment of vigorous spirits, first rate leaders suited to the more decisive nature of its work. The Pasquins and Duane will soon be of no more party utility than the jacobins are now to the Emperor of France. This is not a thing to surprise any body. Every kind of filth is mingled with effect in the soil to augment the crop; but men prepare the sharpest sickles for the harvest. The harvest of party is almost ripe: the field is already flushed with yellow, and the heads are bending with their fullness.
By the purposed change of the head of the party it seems highly probable that our masters have changed or rather ripened their plans. They will not select another chief to enslave us who is the slave of his fears: who by sometimes affecting scruples may be entrapped to act as if he really felt them. They will have a man who seeming to despise his own interests will try to raise his party to the empire. These hopes of the party nevertheless will be disappointed. The Emperors that will last are not to be made by choice. After many struggles the diadem will be found to encircle his brows whom chance and nature have concurred to make first, and who will not owe his greatness to a majority of votes.
If we are right in our conjecture that the ruling party will soon proceed to measures more violent than ever, then we are to expect innovation upon innovation; amendments till we have no constitution, and victories won for the people till the people are nothing.
Mr. Jefferson may live many years to endure ignominy if not remorse, to sicken in the light of his successor's popularity, to see him consul for life or perhaps Emperor. He may live long enough to experience the neglect, the ingratitude, and very possibly like his friend Condorcet the reproaches of his party, and finally lie down in the dust with Callender; to share with him the nauseous reputation he was not ashamed to purchase from his pen.
THE HARVEST.
For ten years past the people of Pennsylvania have not been blessed with such a harvest as they have had the present season. In this country it has exceeded all possible calculation. Long may the honest farmers enjoy the fruits of their labour;—and whilst bounteous Providence smiles on their efforts, let them cling fast to the constitution, which has yielded them happiness and security for fifteen years. [ Lancaster Journal. ]
The following BLANKS , printed with NEW and ELEGANT TYPE, are always kept for sale at this Office: DEEDS, Common BONDS, Apprentices INDENTURES, Pomsissory NOTES, &c. &c. &c.
CASH Given for clean Linen and Cotton RAGS. At the Office of the INTELLIGENCER.
THE TRIPOLINE CAPTIVE.
THE moon silver'd o'er the rough surge, That broke on the Barbary shore, Where Tripoli's rough castles emerge, And frown while the hoarse billows roar.
On a rock that look'd over the flood, While the clank of his chains pierc'd the air, A son of Columbia stood, A statue of woe and despair.
His eyes in distraction were roll'd, His countenance hallow and pale, His sighs would his sorrows have told, But their murmurs were lost in the gale.
O my country! heart broken, he cried, Where now has thy liberty gone? Independence, thy boast and thy pride, Did once at captivity spurn.
Ah! why then this cruel delay, While your children in slav'ry you see! Where's the gold that you lavish away? Where's the valor that once made you free?
At a distance, you hear not our cries, You know not the anguish we bear; Or else when our death shrieks arise, Columbia would soon drop a tear.
But adieu every hope of reproach, My tears, ye no longer shall flow! Death rapidly makes his approach, To relieve the poor captive of woe. What means this renewal of grief? O my parents, your sorrow is vain, Adieu! ye can give no relief, Adieu! we shall soon meet again.
His knees were now bent to the ground; His eyes in distraction were rais'd; When suddenly glaring around, On the scenery ghastly he gaz'd; Then quickly the poniard he drew, And plunging it deep in his side, Like the lily depress'd by the dew, He sunk on his mantle and died.
THE subscribers, having completed one session at the Academy in Charles-Town, being conscious that no means have been knowingly omitted which were thought necessary for the improvement of the youth under their care, and having the satisfaction to hope from the great increase in the number of Pupils, that their endeavours have met with approbation, most respectfully inform the public, that they have entered on another session, and have engaged an assistant.
The prices for Tuition, exclusive of 50 cents for the winter session from each scholar for firewood, and 12 1/2 cents each session for keeping the building in order, are as follows:
Reading, Writing, and common Arithmetic, } 2 50 per Qr. The highest parts of Arithmetic, including the Branches of Mathematics, } 4 00 Grammar, Composition, Geography and the use of the Globes, and the Latin Greek and French Languages, } 4 00
The money to be paid at the end of each quarter.
As the greatest order and good understanding has hitherto subsisted, they have no doubt but every thing will progress conducive to the well-being and credit of the Seminary, and they are determined (if possible) to increase their zeal and activity in a cause of so much importance to the happiness of individuals, and the good of society. At the conclusion of the last session the number of students of both sexes were 78, and the present having commenced with a considerable addition, must be circumstances which they humbly hope will give pleasure to the founders of the Academy, and encourage them to continue their patronage and support to the institution.
LEVI HEATH, FRANCIS TILLETT. July 26, 1805.
STRAYED from the subscriber's plantation near Martinsburg, about the last of May, an Iron Gray MARE, about 3 years old, with a small white mark in her forehead, is between 13 and 14 hands high, branded with the letter V on the near shoulder, and has never been shod. One dollar reward and reasonable expenses will be paid to any person who will return said mare, or give such information that I get her again. ABRAHAM VAN METRE. July 26, 1805.
NOTICE.
WAS taken up as an Estray the subscriber living on the Potomac River, in Hampshire County, Virginia, on the 7th June 1805, a flea bitten Gray HORSE, supposed to be 20 years old, near 14 hands high, cat hammed, bad footed, a scar or navel gall on the hind part of his back, paces generally, apparently crest-fallen; appraised to eleven dollars. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
ISAAC WORTHINGTON. July 26, 1805.
Messrs. Samuel Craig, Anthony Kenedy, and Patrick Campbell, take Notice,
THAT on Saturday the 24th day of August next, between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening of the same day, at the house of Col. David Hunter, in the town of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia, I will take the depositions of said Hunter, William Riddle and James Faulkner, to be read in evidence upon the trial of a suit in Chancery, depending in the Court of the said County, where in I am complainant, and you, as trustees of Tabb & M'Affry, Michael M'Kewan, James Faulkner, and Richard M'Sher-ry, are defendants.
I am, Yours, &c. JOHN O'FERRALL. Martinsburg, July 26, 1805.
SIX CENTS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber about the 7th instant, an apprentice boy named Thomas Hazlewood, 20 years old last winter, is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has dark hair, and is slim made; had no clothes with him, but those he had on, which were of coarse home made stuff. The above reward will be given (but no thanks) for returning him.
EDWARD SOUTHWOOD. Berkeley County, July 26, 1805.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold at public vendue at the late dwelling plantation of Mrs. Margaret Evans, dec. at the Big Spring, about two miles from Martinsburg, on the 15th of August next, a Negro Woman and Child, Horses, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming Utensils, a Wagon and Geers, one Still of 120 gallons, and a number of other articles too numerous to particularize:—A reasonable credit will be given. Terms will be made known on the day of sale. The sale will begin about 9 o'clock.
EPHRAIM EVANS, Ex'r. WILLIAM BENTLEY, Adm'r. July 26, 1805.
Patterson's old Mill.
THE subscriber has got the above Mill in complete order for the reception of Wheat or any other Grain. He will manufacture Wheat as it has heretofore been done at said Mill, and will be responsible that all Flour manufactured by him shall pass inspection if safely carried or delivered at the ports or places of inspection—In case of condemnation, a certificate from the inspector mentioning the cause thereof, together with the brands and marks of the barrels, will be necessary before the difference can be made good.
ROBERT CHRISTY. July 26, 1805.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold at public vendue on Wednesday the 7th day of August next, (on the premises) the plantation on which the subscriber now lives, situate on Opeckon creek, six miles from Martinsburg, containing 85 acres of good land, about 75 of which are cleared, the balance in excellent timber. The improvements are a convenient Dwelling House, good Barn, Stables, Corn House and other necessary buildings—an excellent Apple orchard with a variety of other fruit trees, and a Well of good never-failing Water near the house. The sale will begin about ten o'clock, when the terms will be made known.
ABRAHAM VAN METRE. July 26, 1805.

RETIREMENT.
Nigh where, with chrystal stream, the impetuous rill Hoarse-murmuring flows adown the fertile vale; Where Sylvan shades adorn the moss-crown'd hill, And bending poplars court the whispering gale.
How sweet, with mind contemplative, to stray, (Far from the scene where mirth in- temperate reigns) What time slow twilight shades the face of day, And awful stillness rules the shadowy plains;
Save where, with warbling note amidst the grove, Sweet Philomela tunes her evening song; Whilst for her consort's loss, the wood- land dove Complaining coos, the towering elms among.
For this the sage forsakes the gilded dome, And thither oft, with devious pace, retires; Here musing contemplation loves to roam; Here solitude the serious thought in- spires.
Tired of the world and pleasure's giddy sphere, Hither, with wandering steps, oft let me stray; Whilst true repentance prompts the swelling tear, And the still voice of truth directs my way.
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Subscriptions received by John Bell, Winchester, Thomas Toole, Shep- herd's-Town, and John Alburris, Mar- tinsburg.
SUMMER GOODS.
THE subscriber has just received and is now opening, an elegant assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
suitable for the present season, which he takes the liberty of offering to his friends and the public in general uncom- monly cheap, consisting in part of the following articles, and a number of o- thers too tedious for insertion:
Dowlas and Ticklingburgs, Russia Sheetings and Drillings, Brown Holland, 9-8 Irish Sheetings, 4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens, 10-4 Damask Table Cloths, 4-4 and 3-4 Diaper Linen, 9-8 and 12-8 Apron Checks, Fustians and Jeans, Nankeens, Cotton Hosery, Mersailles Vest shapes, Silk and Cotton Suspenders, Umbrellas, Fashionable Chintzes and Calicos, Low priced ditto, Coloured Cambric Muslins, Low priced ditto, Dimities, uncommonly cheap, 12-8 Damask Silk Shawls, Extra long pic ni silk Gloves, A variety of elegant Laces and Edg- ings, low priced, Lutestring and coloured Sattins, Ribbons, Book and Jacquet Muslins, Morocco and Kid Shoes, A large assortment of Extra and Ha- bit Silk Gloves.
THE above mentioned articles are of a superior quality, and to be had at very reduced prices. The subscriber has also received a complete assortment of
Groceries and Hard-Ware;
He has Waldron's Grass and Cradling Scythes, Moiland and Crum Creek Whet Stones. He assures his friends and cus- tomers generally, that he will sell those articles on very accommodating terms, and begs leave to solicit their custom as usual.
WARRANTED Bolting Cloths, Superfine, Common and Midling, of the first quality, for sale on the usual terms. PHILIP NADEBOUSCH. Martinsburg, June 7, 1805.
BERKELEY COUNTY, ss. June Court, 1805. MICHAEL M'KEWAN, Complainant, vs. GEORGE LINDENBURGER, Defendant. In CHANCERY.
THIS day came the Complainant by his Counsel, and it appearing to the Court that the defendant is not an in- habitant of this Commonwealth, it is or- dered that the defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the complain- ant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer and continued for two months successively, and also be posted up for two months successively at the door of the Court House of this County.
A Copy. Attest, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
Berkeley County, ss. June Court, 1805. Daniel M'Kenney, Comp't, against Samuel Woods, Def't. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, Samuel Woods, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said De- fendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complain- ant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
FOR SALE, Pursuant to the last will and testament of Robert Creighton, dec'd, a valuable
Tract of Land,
Lying in the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia, three miles from the town of Martinsburg, on the road lead- ing to Williamsport, eighty-five miles from the City of Baltimore, seventy-five from the City of Washington, and eigh- ty miles from the town of Alexandria— containing six-hundred acres, one half cleared and under good fence, the ba- lance well clothed with timber: There are on said land a number of never fail- ing springs, and a sufficient quantity of Meadow: This Tract would suit well to be divided, as there are two Dwelling Houses, two Double Barns, and two Orchards of choice Fruit. It lies five miles from the river Potomak, the nav- igation of said river is now completed, produce may be conveyed down the river to the City of Washington and to the town of Alexandria at a small expense. For terms apply to William Riddle, of the town of Martinsburg. A good title will be made the purchaser by
WILLIAM RIDDLE, and Wm. CREIGHTON, Exr's.
Berkeley County, ss. February Court, 1805. Robert Kennedy, Executor of Thomas Kennedy, deceased, Comp't against Daniel Kennedy and others, Def'ts. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant Daniel Kennedy, not having entered his appear- ance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it ap- pearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Com- monwealth, on the motion of the Com- plainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Ber- keley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County. A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
Berkeley, ss. June Court, 1805. William Stuart, Comp't against
Josiah Raymond, Tunis Newkirk, Geo. Newkirk, Reuben Newkirk, Samuel Swearingen, Gideon Goss, Joseph Wallingsford, Thomas Cox, Rignal Butt, Henry Holman, Adam Myers, Bazil Cross, Baldry Butt, William Bennett, Richard Morelatt, Abraham Morelatt, sen. George Lanchart, John Grove, James Likens, Nathaniel Linthicum, Cornelius Simmons, George Filson, John Strode, Jer- emiah Strode, William Godman, Pe- ter Seaburn, William Seaburn, David Harris, John Lammer, Jacob Hoover, John Harrison, James Warren, John Smith, Edward Mercer, Rignal Green, Joseph Foreman, Christopher Parrott, Thomas Cox, John Randall, Anthony Turner, Robert Burns, John Jones, Thomas Shepherd, Aa- ron Farthing, Joseph Ingle, George Mason, Jacob Comegis, John Butt, Frederick Imhoff, Swearingen Ray, Lewis Wisenall, and Jacob Smurr, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, Josiah Raymond, not having entered his appear- ance agreeable to an act of Assem- bly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Com- monwealth, on the motion of the Com- plainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Ber- keley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County. A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
FOR SALE, Two likely Virginia-born Female
SLAVES,
one sixteen the other eighteen years old. They have been accustomed to house and out work. Apply to the Printer. June 28, 1805.
CHEAP GOODS.
The subscribers beg leave to inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received and are now opening a large and general assort- ment of MERCHANDIZE, among which are the following articles, viz.
FANCY laced and plain Cambrics, Pink, yellow, blue, black and drab do. Lawns and Linen Cambrics, Cross barred, striped, Jacquet and Book Muslins, Striped, corded and Cambric Dimities, Lutestrings, Sattins, Moats & Persians, Chintzes, Calicos and American Prints, Ladies and Gentlemans elegant embroi- dered Hose, White and coloured ditto, Pantaloon ditto, Pink laced, pink and black, picnic, En- glish and French extra Silk Gloves, Kid and Fawn ditto, 7-4, 6-4, and 5-4 elegant Damask Silk Shawls, A variety of Silk, neted Cambric, Book and Jacquet ditto, Scarlet, chocolate and blue Bandance Hankerchiefs, Flag, Maddrass, Catty, Longee and Pullicat ditto, Silk, Linen and Cotton Romals, with a variety of Pocket and other Handk'fs, Green, blue and dove Silk plush Bonnets, Leghorn ditto and Boards, Wreathes, Artificial Flowers & Feathers Sattin, Lutestring, Saracenet, striped & cross-bar'd Fancy Ribbands, Kid, Morocco, Stuff and Leather Slip- pers, Silver and Ribband Ornaments, Superfine Broad Clothes & Cassimeres, Sattin, Mersailles, and Fancy-figured Janes Waistcoating, Coloured wide and narrow Nankeen, Cotton Casimeres, A large assortment of coarse Muslins, such as Burboon Gurrahs, Jallalpore and Janna Lawns, and India Baftas, Irish, German and British Linens fully assorted, Striped Bed Ticking and striped Linens, Linen and Cotton Checks, Madeira, Sherry, Port and Malaga Wines, 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, French, Peach and Apple Brandies and good old Whisky.
A complete assortment of Groceries— Hard-Ware and Cutlery, among which are Andvills, Visis, Cross-cut and Mill Saws, Scythes, &c. &c. Spinning Cotton and Flax—
All of which articles were selected with the greatest care, from the latest impor- tations, and are now offering for sale at the most reduced prices, for Cash or Country Produce.
MORROW & BROWN. Shepherd's-Town, May 24, 1805. [6w]
European & East India GOODS.
JUST received and now opening by the subscriber, an extensive variety of the Latest Improved Fashions, of su- perior quality, well assorted and select- ed from the present Importations; also a general assortment of HARDWARE and GROCERIES.—All of which he highly recommends to his friends, cus- tomers and a liberal public, at the most reduced cash prices. Impressed with sentiments of gratitude for the flattering encouragement, he has heretofore experi- enced in his line of business, all friends and customers will please to accept his best respects.
JEREMIAH EVANS. Martinsburg, May 24, 1805.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia: Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
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