Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1806-05-30 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[NO. 2 OF VOLUME VIII.]
FRIDAY, May 30, 1806.
[WHOLE No. 366.]
Two Apprentices wanted, to learn the Art of Printing.
THE Editor of the Intelligencer, will take, on advantageous terms, two lads (from 13 to 17 years of age,) of moral character and sprightliness, to learn the Art of Printing.
Fresh Summer Goods.
THE subscribers have just received from Philadelphia, an additional supply of seasonable Goods, which, in addition to the former stock of Philip Nadenbousch, makes their assortment tolerably complete; they also in a few days expect a supply of sundry articles necessary for harvest; all which they are determined to sell low for cash, or on the usual credit to punctual customers.
Their assortment consists of in part as follows:
Coarse India Muslins, 4-4 Irish Linens, Yellow Nankens, short & long pieces, Bandanae Handkerchiefs, India Calicos, fancy and dark colors, And a variety of other articles too tedious to particularise.
ALSO,
Old Whisky, suitable for harvest, by the barrel, New England Rum and Molasses. Long's Sickles, A few barrels of Tar, Soal Leather and Fish Oil, Ground Allum and Liverpool Salt. A general assortment of GROCERIES, on terms which shall be accommodating to the purchaser.
F. NADENBOUSCH, & Co. Martinsburg, May 23, 1806.
More Cheap Nice Goods.
THE subscribers again respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and are now opening a very handsome assortment of
Fancy Goods,
which were purchased on the best terms for ready money, and selected with the greatest care from the latest arrivals. Persons wishing to buy will find it their interest to give them a call, as they are now offering great bargains of nice fancy Goods, quite a new style.
They have also received a complete assortment of BAR-IRON, Crowley and Blistered STEEL, all of an excellent quality, and will be sold on good terms.
ROBERT WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, May 23, 1806.
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND containing 200 acres, more or less, situate lying and being on Back Creek, in the county of Berkeley, 15 miles from Winchester, between 3 and 4 miles from Garrard's-town (commonly called Middle-town) and convenient to several merchant-mills, saw-mills and fulling-mills. This land is of the first quality, a great part of it rich bottom, 20 acres of mowable meadow which may easily be watered, and much more may be made; 3 or 4 never failing springs; the timber is of superior growth, which naturally shews the strength of the land. The buildings on the premises consist of a comfortable dwelling-house, kitchen, barn, and other out-houses—there is also an orchard containing about one hundred bearing apple and other fruit trees. The county road passes between the dwelling house and barn. For terms apply to the subscriber, living in Winchester, Virginia.
THOMAS KEENAN.
May 2, 1806.
N. B. There is a mill-seat on the premises, and part of the race already dug.
Doctor I. Price,
RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of Martinsburg and the public generally, that he has re-commenced the practice of PHYSIC, SURGERY, &c. in the house he formerly lived in, being part of the house of P. M'Govran, on the north side of Burke-street, two doors from N. Choppert's, and one door from James Faulkner's store, on the opposite side of the street, where he intends to devote his time strictly to the business of his profession, and will endeavour to merit the approbation of those who may please to employ him by the success of his practice. The public's obedient and humble servant,
I. P.
May 2, 1806.
P. S. He has just received a general assortment of Medicines, Drugs, Paints, Dye-stuffs, &c. which he will sell low at apothecary rates for cash; also, an assortment of East and West India Fruit.
Latest Fashions.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received and are now opening, a very extensive and complete assortment of
New Goods,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Selected out of this spring's importations—Among which are a great variety of beautiful rich FANCY GOODS , of the latest and newest fashions.—All of which have been laid in on the best terms, and are well worthy the attention of all those wishing to purchase nice cheap fashionable Goods.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town, April 25, 1806.
Horton & Clark,
Grocers, next door to Husey's tavern, North Howard-Street Baltimore, Have on hand and intend keeping a general assortment of
GROCERIES,
of the best kind, among which are Cogniac Brandy, } Teas of every description, Madeira Wine, } Sugars do. do. Spirits, } Coffee do. Holland Gin, } Candles & Soap do. Bounce, } Chocolate do. N. E. Rum, } Cheese do. Molasses, } Spanish Segars, Salt, } Pepper & Spices, Oil & Paint, } &c. &c. &c. Plaister of Paris, } These Goods are offered unusually low.
Orders from the country thankfully received and punctually attended to.—Highest prices given for Country Produce, Flour, Hemp, Butter, Bacon, Ginseng, &c. &c.
August 16, 1805.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber on Sunday last, a Negro Man named Jim , alias Jim Thompson , but better known in this county and Jefferson by the name of Fifer Jim ; he is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, about 40 years old, has a round flat face, of a very dark colour, and is a stout well made fellow; he was lately confined in the Martinsburg jail from which I relieved him. He has for several years past blowed the fife for the militia companies about Martinsburg and other places, on which he performs very well, & plays the fiddle also. He had on an old surcoat made of gray coating, overalls and waistcoat of the same cloth, a pair of about half worn shoes, split down the vamp owing to their being too small, and stockings, and probably other clothing with him. I will give the above reward to any person who will return said negro to me, or confine him in Berkeley or Jefferson County jail so that I get him again.
ROBERT CHRISTY.
Berkeley County, March 28, 1806.
Fresh Goods.
THE subscriber has just received from the city of Philadelphia, a very general assortment of SPRING & SUMMER
GOODS,
Which, having been selected with care, and purchased for cash at reduced prices, he can recommend to all who wish to buy Goods on reasonable terms. He has also received a large supply of very handsomely drawn
Bar-Iron,
Of which he always intends to keep a general assortment.
He returns his sincere thanks to his friends for past favours, and hopes nothing on his part shall be wanting to merit a continuance thereof.
THOMAS C. SMITH.
Martinsburg, March 28, 1806.
A Great Bargain.
FOR SALE,
FOUR hundred and seventy-three acres of LAND, lying in Berkeley County, Virginia, on one of the main roads leading from Williamsport in Maryland to Winchester in Virginia. About one hundred and sixty acres of this tract are rich bottom, abounding in every species of valuable timber, forty acres of meadow cleared, part in grass, the rest ready for grass seed this spring, and two hundred acres open for farming, secured by strong new fence. This land is uncommonly well watered; 10 or 12 springs which never fail, some of the strongest lime stone water, others soft water; several of these springs in different situations on the public road, have in a short distance from 25 to 45 feet fall of water, handsomely calculated for stills, breweries, tanyards, blacksmith's shops, &c. with a sufficiency of good stone raised, and in place, for building a large distillery. One half of this land is of a strong red lime stone quality, the residue slate; well adapted to any kind of grass, or grain, and in a peculiar manner suited to the use of plaster. A new stone Dwelling House put up last summer, with other necessary buildings. A handsome stream of water runs thro' the centre of this tract, which has worked a saw-mill to great advantage for 15 or 18 years past, affording also a snug seat for a churning mill. A bearing Apple Orchard, young one lately set out, and nurseries of 2000 trees of the choicest fruit, most of them fit for planting out. This farm will admit of a handsome division into two lots, with meadow, wood, springs and farming land to each. It would be needless to enumerate any other advantages, it will be sufficient to say, that nothing but a pressing call for money, could induce the subscriber to offer this property for sale; his terms are moderate, he will sell, part cash, the balance on credit; but to a person who could advance the greater part of the purchase sum, he will throw in 100 acres of grain which promises a very good crop, and give immediate possession, or continue the crop begun, and pay the purchaser 150l. or 400 dollars for the year. Any one from Washington County, Maryland, or Pennsylvania, disposed to purchase, will call on Mr. Joseph Smith, sen. near the Big Spring, Chalmer's tavern, he will shew the property, or to the subscriber on the premises.
ERASMUS GANTT.
May 2, 1806.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber some time since gave to Amos Hoff two notes, one for nine dollars and the other for six, in the exchange of horses, both of which became due some time next fall, and the said Hoff, having practised a deception in the said exchange of horses and having since taken back his horse, I am determined not to pay them unless compelled by law; the public are therefore cautioned against taking assignments on said notes, as they have been fraudulently obtained from me.
ABRAHAM COLE.
Berkeley County, May 23, 1806.
Valuable Real Property for sale by the heirs of Michael M'Keirnan, dec'd.
Part of the real estate of said M'Keirnan in the State of Maryland, viz.
A VALUABLE Plantation of rich Lime-stone Land, on the waters of Conococheague, containing about 275 acres. This Land is of the first rate quality, with a number of never-failing Springs of water, a large proportion of good Meadow, with a House, Still House, Barn, &c. also, a number of Fruit trees, and a never failing stream of water running thro' the place; within sight of a Lutheran Church and in the heart of a German settlement. This property is about 9 miles from Hagerstown and 3 from Potomak river, and has a number of merchant mills near it.
Also for sale, in the town of Hancock, on the river Potomak, one House and Lot, well situated for a store or any kind of public business.
In the State of Virginia.
One Plantation, on which is erected the noted stand called the Half-Way House. This Tract contains 266 acres of Land, the whole of which is tillable, and a great proportion cleared; this Land is particularly adapted to small grain. Its situation makes it more valuable than perhaps many stands in the county, being central between Martinsburg and Bath; it abounds with fine Springs, a good Orchard of choice Fruit; the House is large and well calculated for the reception of travellers, a Stable, and an out house for the family separate from the tavern.
Also, 400 acres of Land, within 3 miles of the town of Bath, 20 of which are cleared and under good fence; this Land is of good quality; on the Land is a House and Stable, with good Water and some Meadow.
Also, a small Farm on Sleepy Creek, about 5 miles from Bath; this place is in good order, with a convenient House and Barn, and Meadow well watered, and a good Orchard.
Also, in the town of Bath, that noted stand known by the name of the Coffee House, adjoining the Bath square; this House is the largest and most convenient for the reception of visitors at Bath, having upwards of 20 lodging rooms, a large ball-room, a dining room, dressing rooms, bar room, and a fine Kitchen.
Also, a Lot on which is erected a large Stable, sufficient to contain 40 horses, near the Coffee House, and a small Dwelling House.
Also, a Lot adjoining the Coffee House, on which is erected a two-story log House weatherboarded and painted, with Store Room, Kitchen and Stable.
It is unnecessary to be more particular, as it is presumed any person wishing to purchase, will first view the premises. By paying a reasonable proportion of the purchase money down, the balance will be taken in easy payments. For further particulars inquire of Laurence M'Keirnan, who resides on the first described place in Maryland, to Timothy Monahen in Hagerstown, Ignatius O'Ferrall, on Mill-Creek, Berkeley County, Virginia, or Andrew Goulding, on Potomak river, 5 miles above Bath.
October 25, 1805.
FOR SALE,
A TRACT of LAND, containing about 900 acres, one half of which is cleared, the balance well timbered and a considerable quantity of well watered meadow. On the premises is a good Merchant Mill and Distillery, on a never failing stream of water, and in sight of the Potomak river. This tract can be divided into several different tenements, with a Dwelling House and Barn to each; it is of the first rate lime-stone quality; and is situate in Berkeley County, Virginia, on Potomak river, 10 miles from Martinsburg, 8 from Williamsport, and 15 from Mercersburg. This land will be sold together, or divided into two tracts, as may best suit the purchaser. A good bargain will be given to a purchaser, in the mill and one half the land, on paying about two thirds of the purchase money in hand. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises. GEORGE NEWKIRK. April 18, 1806.

FROM THE REPERTORY.
COMMUNICATION.
THE speeches of Mr. J. Randolph have attracted an uncommon share of the public attention, but not more than they will be found on careful examination to deserve. All that is correct in them has not only the recommendation of piquancy and smartness, but of novelty. Indeed he is frequently most piquant when he is most unsound. Who could have expected sound politics from a Virginia democratic leader; from the persecutor of judges, from the demolisher of the judicial department, of the constitution, from the mover of such an amendment as might startle Abraham Bishop's profligacy, or flash some forbidding fears into Parson Leland and the committee of addresses, who were laden with the great cheese? Even the Jacobins have heretofore often allowed that Mr. Randolph was ultra revolutionary. He outran his party in the race of confusion.
One of the early sallies that marked his matchless audacity and unbridled intemperance of spirit was his letter to President Adams, about the insult the majesty of the people had suffered in his person from certain officers of the army, who at the play house treated him a little too much in the style of liberty and equality. He called the officers "raggamuffins" because they were engaged in the honourable service of their country. He opposed all measures of any spirit against France in 1798, at a time when even Gallatin was found to yield to the palpable necessity of resisting France.
If Mr. Randolph then had any patriotism, his own headstrong passions and those of his state appear to have extinguished it. His education, in which every thing seems to denote he was a spoiled child, his youth and inexperience when he acted this strange part in congress, and perhaps too, the overflowing ardour of his zeal for Mr. Jefferson's party afford all the excuses our candour can frame for his conduct.
How he acted on the momentous business of the "occlusion" of the Mississippi by Spain, whether he was then as tame as he was before towards France, and how he voted and spoke on the shameful event of that dispute in the payment of tribute to France, are matters of importance to his reputation, and of a nature easily to be ascertained, but they are not now distinctly recollected. If he could then approve the payment of fifteen millions of dollars for the exercise of our undoubted treaty right to the navigation of the Mississippi, we do not see why he should now burst out into such a strain of vehement indignation, because our country is destined a second time to submit to infamy and tribute. Mr. Randolph should know that when honour, public or private is concerned, C'est que le premier pas qui coute. The first time a man submits to be spit upon, he is cankered and blackened to the marrow—the second injury of that sort may be wiped off with a pocket handkerchief. After he had assisted Mr. Jefferson to place America in the pillory and had seen her republican forehead anointed and glistening with rotten eggs, it is unaccountable that he should now declaim so loudly about our innocence and honour, when Talleyrand will be content with prison fees and the costs of prosecution. We shall be allowed to wear our ears, upon sharing our purses with the republican emperor of the French.
These are topics in reference to the public conduct of Mr. Randolph, that claim and in future will command attention.
A better remembered exploit of this gentleman is his prosecution of Judge Chase. The violent spirit with which he proceeded, seemed to evince that there was nothing in jacobinism that would give any shock to his principles, nor in democratic innovation that could awaken his fears.
When therefore the mystery of iniquity was acted, which at length 61 votes to 57 have decided, should be unfolded to the people, and thrown like Pluto's "dark dominions open to the day" it could not have entered into any one's thoughts that Mr. Randolph was an antagonist of Mr. Jefferson, the champion of our national honour, the inflexible opposer of the cowardly, base, treacherous policy of the administration. The fact is nevertheless true, and it is a subject of inexhaustible astonishment to the nation. The Jacobins wonder and are dismayed. The federalists cannot withhold their curiosity, but they suspend their operation and their confidence. The rival leaders hate each other, but
the principles and views of both of them are probably as bad as ever—They bawl liberty, but the unquenchable fire, the never dying worm that gnaws within them, is ambition.
Mr. J. Randolph's speech of the 5th March on Gregg's non-importation Resolution is a fund of information as well as amusement, that will not be soon exhausted. The style of insolence, scorn and hatred with which he attacks his foes, and the pretences to which he resorts to involve them in popular odium, would afford to future ages a tolerable idea of our manners and politics, if all other records of history should be lost. He indulges himself in a licence of speech, in a vehement rage of invective which would shew how far decency has lost its salutary power to restrain competitors, and how powerfully faction excites them. If Randolph's speech had been dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, the reader could swear it was made in a degenerate and falling republic. On the perusal of it we are presented with a lively view of the rage and bustle and noise of the republican swarm. We see the operations of the commonwealth in a glass hive, and behold the drone Jefferson skulking in its darkest cell, from the wrathful pursuit of the hornet.
It is a political phenomenon that Mr. Randolph should make such a speech. It is also a curiosity in itself.
It is certainly not the least extraordinary part of it that Mr. R. is so nearly correct both in the judgment and feelings in regard to Great Britain. To many Virginians, every Englishman has seemed invincibly odious in the double character of a monarchist and a dun. Debt no less than favours make ingrates and enemies. Federal justice ever since the Constitution was adopted has been hateful to Virginia pride and luxury. As men early mould their opinions to their wishes, Virginia faith has admitted the legality of fraud and sequestration of British debts. Mr. Randolph seems not to have felt, or to have got rid of his dislike to England, so far as it might have sprung from this source. But either to court the mob, or because he has not risen above their stupid prejudices, he takes occasion to express his aversion to the British form of government. This declaration will have its effect with every man of sense when he makes up his estimate of Mr. Randolph's sense or sincerity.
Nothing can be more just than his remark on Gregg's resolution that it is a war measure. Let us pause to wonder that Mr. Gregg, from the back woods of Pennsylvania, a man of no note or influence, and in point of talents perhaps below mediocre, should be brought forward to demolish our commerce at a blow. Was it the case that no democratic merchant or orator could be found to do it, because a man who knew anything must know that such a resolution would be suicide. It is a war measure, for what does it propose to do but to excise Great Britain?
Admit the shallow theory of the Jeffersonians that we are able in this way to coerce G. Britain, does it follow that she will leave us at leisure to pursue this way? Will not policy, nay, according to their own argument, will not self preservation oblige her to shift the contest to some other way in which we cannot coerce her! The folly, the palpable folly of all the resolutions offered to Congress is of course below all criticism. The way in which we cannot coerce her, and yet Mr. Crowninshield says we can, is that of a naval war. Nelson's victory off Trafalgar, set at liberty British ships enough to blockade all our bays and harbours. With no trade at all, could we hold England dependent upon the United States by the terms we may in our wisdom think fit to prescribe for its regulation. There really seems to have been a coalition for the government of this devoted country, between the fearless presumption of Bedlam and the drivelling imbecility of the Alms house.
This part of Mr. Randolph's speech deserves approbation. But what he says of the confiscation of British debts merits the loudest applause. He condemns with equal force and feeling the alike base and feeble project of confiscation. He calls it detestably dishonest.
I forgive him a thousand political sins for this one merit. I shrink from the touch of that man's hand who would hold it up for such a principle. I call it cold blooded, thinking villainy, for a government by law to sanction a fraud which a knave the most blasted by infamy in the nation would deem it double infamy to take advantage of. Bad as some men are, they cannot act out all their baseness; their hearts and principles are still worse than their practice.
Mr. Randolph is very successful in exposing the mistake of those gentlemen who had imagined we should have a great advantage in privateering against the British trade as we had in our revolutionary war. He justly says the cases are not analogous. He might have added, that the case as it was in 1781 and 1782, was far from encouraging. Admiral Digny, in a few months, swept our whole sea coast and almost annihilated our privateering resources. We are far from pretending to offer completely in detail the pertinent remarks that occur to us in this famous speech. Its outlines will occupy more room than can be conveniently spared in a newspaper.
Nothing can be more strikingly just than his view of the bad policy of our attempting to aid the French in ruining the British navy. It forms he says, the only obstacle to the vast ambition of France. How often has the Chronicle declared for the whole jacobin party their ardent wish that this navy might be ruined? We candidly think the Chronicle writers shallow enough to believe this event favourable to the United States, because as they foresee nothing, they are blind to tyranny by land and sea which France would instantly commence on its occurrence. We choose to forget that the effect of the British naval superiority has been to destroy the trade and navigation of her enemies and that our commercial profits have arisen from our being employed by those enemies of Great Britain to carry on that trade for them which they cannot transact for themselves. The revival of the maritime power of France, Spain and Holland to an equality with the British, would instantly put an end to the profits of American neutrality.
This consideration ought not to silence our complaints against the British maritime doctrine if it is untenable in point of right and principle. But it is a sound reason for abating the hostile intemperance of those complaints.
Is Mr. Randolph quite certain that a foreign war is only the war that could shake what he considers the loose and uncompact structure of our government to pieces? Has he seen nothing to convince him that the uncontested power of a conquering faction may prove equally fatal? Sure of party support, will the head of such a faction delay sending the millions of tribute to Paris till Congress could be convened to go through with the forms of an act of appropriation! Has he never reflected that it is not a cent's matter, what our constitution is, when the arbitrary will of a faction interprets and administers it without check or restraint. If all these causes of rational apprehension have not attained their fatal maturity, has he not seen them in rapid progress towards it, and could they not reach it as surely and as soon in peace as in war.
In peace, an administration composed of bad men, and acting on a system of popular deception, can repeal taxes to gain popularity and yet make six per cent stock enough to afford plunder to its ministers abroad and at home. Feeling little of the burdens and seeing nothing of the operations of such a government, the people would give their confidence to their plunderers and their votes for their tyrants. Under this broad mantle, faction could hide and finish its work. Its chief need not call himself first consul to be above law.
On the other hand, war would oblige an administration to impose taxes, to make efforts, and to manage great affairs for the success of which they would be deeply responsible—Disasters (and the most successful war has many of them) would shake their popularity. The pressure of evils, would quicken popular jealousy. War is not the time to cheat a people out of their liberties, nor is it the time when their courage falls so low that they would not defend them.
If war would destroy our constitution, we cannot very clearly see why Mr. Randolph would defend the country if the army of an invader should ravage the tobacco fields. The President's army to expel him, would be as fatal to our liberty, according to his fanatical creed, we should imagine, as the equipment of forty American ships of the line, and as many frigates. Could a navy pass the Alleghany to controul elections?
We cannot hesitate therefore to pronounce our judgment, and we hope it will ever be the decision that American patriotism will maintain, that the abandonment of the sea would preserve neither our honour nor our peace, and that Mr. Randolph's philosophic abjuration of foreign war, can be as little vindicated by his own assumed reasons, as by those of any sounder politician.
Mr. Randolph is young & of an ungo-
vernable impetuosity of temper. Hence we are disposed to make allowance for his eccentricities and errors of judgment. This is so much the more proper, as he has made a very considerable improvement as a statesman since his first appearance in congress. He seemed out of his element on the trial of Judge Chase. Analysis is not his sort, nor should we infer from his speech that cool investigation is. He takes and gives rapid glances at political truth. He does not seem to be any better qualified than disposed, patiently to descend to the bottom of her well, or laboriously to climb to the summit of her hill, where the prospect is clearest and widest. Messrs. Bidwell, Crowninshield and Varnum will say, that they feel no two excellencies of his speech so sensibly as its sarcasm and effrontery.
His system of policy in relation to foreign nations evinces scarcely more spirit or judgment than Mr. Jefferson's. He would not defend commerce, he would defend the land. Let enemies come here, and they shall feel our vengeance. Convince them of that, and they cannot only annoy our vast commerce of incalculable value, but utterly banish our flag from the sea. Are not our cities worth defending—and if our government will not protect our vessels on the ocean, will our cities be worth inhabiting. Is nothing worthy defence but a tobacco field? Are the negro owners the only rightful claimants of public protection, and will the impartial and equal justice of a republican government be denied to the fishermen, whalers and mariners of New-England, who are spread over all the seas? Would the votes of Marblehead be given as they are for the friend of their enemies, if they could be made to understand the rancorous hostility of Virginia to their rights.
Mr. Randolph, one would suppose, could scarcely fail to see the national dishonour of such a desertion of our maritime rights. Our cowardice would be equally unavailing and scandalous. It would provoke aggression. Even Spain has ships enough, if Britain was at peace, to blockade our ports and to make America in the view of the astonished world the servant of servants, with one hundred thousand seamen, inheriting the spirit of Nelson, and ready under Preble, to rival his renown, why should we choose to be more abject in our liberty than the allies of France, are in their chains? We are no advocates for war—but when justice and honour impose the necessity for it, they would demand no sacrifice so great as our passive tameness would insure. No curse that heaven, in its wrath, sees fit to send upon a nation, proved more inveterate than the committing its great affairs to its little men. We should like to know of Mr. Randolph, whether it does not savour of comptinghouse policy to recommend the sacrifice of our commerce as preferable to the charge of protecting it by a naval force. We cannot match the British navy; and Mr. Crowninshield's gasonade will devote his name to ridicule his life long.—But we could soon prepare a force that would cope with Spain, or even with such squadrons as France could detach to our coasts. Any force, especially if it were kept as it ought to be, in a state of active increase, would infinitely augment the reluctance any nation would feel towards a contest with the United States. States respect each other exactly in the proportion of their force. To be weak is to be despicable. Voluntarily and on plan to be weak at sea is treachery, is folly, is infatuation, on the part of any member of Congress who is capable of feeling as an American.
Mr. Randolph's reason for this extraordinary tameness, so little agreeable to his character, deserves to be stated. He says the federal constitution was not made for war. It is too feeble to bear it.
Does Mr. Randolph really think this constitution a good one, and yet that it will answer only in peace and fair weather? Or does he in good faith, expect that it will be always fair weather? Are we to escape the experienced lot of mankind, and to enjoy a millennium that shall be local to the United States and denied to the rest of the world? The philosopher sitting in his whirligig chair, may shut his eyes to the world we live in, and see some other world, lighted with moonshine, and enjoying the sober stillness and inaided serenity of an everlasting peace.
Mr. Randolph, with all his vivacity of imagination, we thought more likely to expose this long ago exposed reverie than to partake it.
Our profits during the war have grown with the extension of the British naval powers, and have been greatest when the nations her enemies were reduced by her

arms, to an utter incapacity of managing her own commercial concerns. Grant if you will, that the abuse of that power has curtailed those profits, yet, if Britain should lose her superiority those profits would be annihilated. Nor are we left to vain conjecture as to the abuses of the French naval force, if that should succeed to the empire of the sea, since we know that France has actually robbed us of more millions than all other nations put together.
Mr. Randolph has endeavoured to confute the principles of Mr. Madison's book, with singular felicity of sarcasm. He maintains that the losses our trade has suffered from the decisions of the British Admiralty are not wrongs.
Some persons will doubt whether Mr. Madison could answer Randolph's argument of twenty lines, though he should write a second heavy pamphlet of 200 pages. But that delightful inquiry we cheerfully leave to those rivals of the labours of Hercules who may have achieved to the perusal of the first.
If then the British Admiralty decrees are not wrongs, neither Gregg's, nor Nicholson's resolution can be vindicated as remedies. They are in themselves futile, and by their designed as well as inevitable tendency to irritate, they are and must be aggravations of our commercial evils.
Mr. Randolph says we have no cabinet. We believe him. Mindful only of popularity, Mr. Jefferson has cared for no objects, that were not personal. To please Virginia, he has repealed the tax on coaches. To reward the whisky league, the distillers are tax free. To give bread to his hungry parasites and to slake his own burning thirst for vengeance, worthy federal officers are dismissed, and jacobins put in their places.
A democracy is a government by the worst passions of the worst of men. Accordingly popularity must be gained in order to have the influence and aid of such men, and such passions. But to consult together for the honour and interest of the nation, form a Cabinet as a public council of wise and faithful men in high office, devoted to public duty and thoughtful of nothing else, because nothing else can advance their honest fame, or consist with their principles; such a Cabinet cannot be formed and never was formed in a factious democracy. To repeal and punish the aggressions of Spain, to stiffen the unbending neck of Spain, to stiffen the unbending neck of America against the yoke of ignominy and tribute to France, to act according to the best feelings of the brave and the best counsels of the truly wise is no part of Mr. Jefferson's plan of official life. To sneak through eight years, destitute by the good and extolled by the venal and the base, is the utmost extent of his views. It seems now that universal and even vulgar contempt will reach him before he can reach obscurity. There is not one measure of vigour that he has dared to recommend, nor one that Randolph has devised that his back stairs friends have not been instructed to quash.
There are so many things in this speech that are excellent, because they are true, and doubly excellent, because they are said with a vivacity of manner that will flash their light to the darkest extremity of our territory, that we scarcely know where to stop our commentary upon them. There is certainly much to approve and much to admire in Mr. Randolph's observations. His views of the French and British policy are unexpectedly correct—and he exposes with a scorn that nobody could express with more pungency and that no man of sense will feel in a less degree, the shallow, treacherous and base projects of the administration and its friends.
It is a less pleasing but an indispensable duty to observe that Mr. Randolph though always brilliant is often absurd.
On the whole we do not hesitate to say, that if Mr. Randolph should, as he intends, reject Mr. Jefferson and elevate another President, the new administration, we sincerely believe, might not deserve our confidence more, but would extort our contempt less than the present.
NORFOLK, May 20.
By captain Block, in 32 hours from New-York, we received the papers of that city to Thursday, which contained a vague account of a rupture between Prussia and Great Britain. We must be candid to confess that we placed no reliance in this intelligence because we could not see, upon what ground a rupture between those two governments could happen, unless that Prussia should have acquiesced in the views of Bonaparte, to exclude the commerce of Great Britain from the north of Germany. Perfidious, as we have always viewed the general
policy of Prussia, as regarding Great Britain and the allies, we had not brought ourselves to believe, that she was so degraded, as to obey the mandate of Bonaparte. But we have been mistaken in this particular, as appears from a Liverpool paper of the NINTH of APRIL, which was politely sent us by captain Johnson, of the ship Merchant, arrived from Liverpool in Hampton Roads, in 37 days, bound to City Point. By that paper it appears that ALL PRUSSIAN VESSELS IN GREAT BRITAIN ARE STOPPED—war is of course inevitable.—All the effects which this event may produce, we do not pretend to calculate on, but we are persuaded that it will be productive of serious inconvenience to both parties, and to the commercial world in general, in which the merchants of this country will come in for their share. It cannot be supposed that this conduct on the part of Prussia, will not be followed by measures of retaliation. The blockade of every port in the North of Germany may be expected, a circumstance that cannot fail to reduce the price of our own, and the colonial produce in this country, by depriving us of the markets of Hamburg, Bremen, &c.
The King of Prussia has brought himself to that state, which it has been foreseen, and foretold, he would reach, if he did not oppose the views of the French government. As far as relates to Prussia, it must excite no compassion for anything which she may suffer, but the fate of Hamburg, Bremen, &c. must excite the sympathy of every generous heart, while every independent mind is fired with indignation. The oppulence of those cities arose from commerce, and principally in their intercourse with England, and this intercourse must cease, because Buonaparte wills it!
Captain Wills, who arrived here yesterday in the ship Shepherdess, from London (via Cape de Verds) left London on the 6th of April, he left all his papers but one at the Cape de Verds, which he has favored us with. Captain W. informs us, that at the time of the embargo on Prussian vessels, it was supposed there were three hundred sail of that nation in the River Thames.
THE FRENCH ADMIRAL LINOIS TAKEN. Saturday arrived in Hampton Roads his Britannic Majesty's frigate Tartar, Captain Hawker, from Bermuda. Three days since boarded the American ship Hunter from Lisbon bound to Alexandria. On the 16th April in lat. 25, long. 33, the Hunter was boarded by H. M. brig Raven, from the squadron, under the command of Sir John Borlase Warren, then in sight, with the French ship Marengo, admiral Linois, of 34 guns, and the frigate Belle Poule of 40 guns, captured by Sir John, on their passage from India to France, about the middle of March. The squadron consisted of thirteen sail, including the two captured ships.
Linois was returning, laden with the spoils of a three years successful cruise. The Hunter went up the bay yesterday.
BALTIMORE, May 21.
Our very distinguished fellow citizen, Wm. PINCKNEY, the present attorney-general of the state of Maryland, has taken his passage from hence, with his family, in the Diana, bound to Liverpool, as minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the court of London. The Diana is expected to sail this day.
If distinguished talents and unsullied virtue can obtain to this country the blessings of peace and neutrality, we may calculate on a successful issue of the mission of Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinckney.
We understand that Mr. Pinckney still retains his office of attorney-general, and that he has entrusted the discharge of the duties of that office, in the court of appeals, court of chancery, land office, Baltimore county civil and criminal courts, to John Scott, Esq. who is authorised to supply such vacancies as may happen to occur in the deputy-prosecutorships, and otherwise to represent the attorney-general.
HORRID MURDER!!
KNOXVILLE, April 25.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Hawkins, to his friend in this town, dated
April 19, 1806.
“DEAR SIR, There was on Tuesday night, the 8th instant, one of the most HORRID MURDERS committed in the upper end of this county ever heard of. Michael Doherty, was murdered by his daughter about 13 or 14 years of age, with three strokes with an axe; the old
man was asleep, with one of his little children in his arms; the first stroke was in his temple, he turned, and the girl gave two more in his forehead which put an end to his existence. The girl, her brother 10 or 11 years old, and sister 8 or 9 years old, rolled the old man on a hand-barrow, to carry him off; the oldest girl took one end, her brother and little sister the other, but the little girl was unable to carry her part, and her sister (the murderess) whipped her severely to make her carry it, but could not.
She then opened the cellar (or potatoe hole) and rolled him in, where he lay until Saturday, when he was found; the three children two smallest ones slept there every night. When the girl was apprehended she said she had killed her father, and had done so because her father had killed her mother. Since her being committed, she says she did not kill her father, but that it was her brother, and says she was scared, and confessed she had killed him to save her own life, being afraid the men who took her would hang her; the brother and sister say she killed him, and flung him in the cellar where he was found; the girl intended on Saturday night to have cut him in pieces, so as to enable her to carry him off. The old man drank hard, and when drunk was very cross in his family; that she used to tell him of killing her mother, and he frequently whipped his daughter; that on Sunday before the murder was committed, she got an axe to kill her father, and put it under the bed where he lay, by which it appears she was determined to commit the murder on Sunday night, but did not until Tuesday night; then did intend to have cut him in pieces, to have removed him, which in a girl of her age, is astonishing!”
CHARLESTON, May 12.
General Miranda.—Captain Griffiths, arrived on Saturday from Rio Pongo, touched at St. Bartholomews, from whence he sailed 14 days since. The morning previous to his departure, accounts were arrived, via St. Kitts, that General Miranda had landed his forces at Magaretta, whence he had crossed over to Cumana, + which place immediately surrendered to his arms. It was further stated that wherever he erected his standard, the inhabitants and natives, flocked to join him; that his flag was flying on every fort from Cumana to Laguire, and that he had obtained complete possession of the provinces of Cumana and Caraccas, with little or no opposition. The whole of this fine country may now be considered as lost to Spain.
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• Margaretta or Senna  Margaretta de la Carraccas , an island of Terra Firma, in south America, from which it is parted by a strait 24 miles wide; 68 miles W. of Paria, or New Andalusia. Columbus discovered it in his third voyage, anno 1498. It is 40 miles in length; and being always verdant, affords a most agreeable prospect. It abounds in pasture, maize and fruit; but there is a scarcity of wood and water.—There was once a pearl fishery on its coast, which produced one pearl, the finest ever seen, valued at £25,000 sterling, bought by the king of Spain. The inhabitants are a mixture of Indians and Spaniards, who are lazy and superstitious. Here are several sorts of animals, particularly wild hogs, with fish and fowl.—N. lat. H. 46. W. long. 64. 12.
† Cumana, or Cumana , the capital of New Andalusia, a province of Terra Firma, South America. It sometimes gives its name to the province. The Spaniards built this city in 1510, and it is defended by a strong castle. This town, (says Dampier) stands near the mouth of a great lake, or branch of the sea, called Laguna de Catriaco, about which are several rich towns; but its mouth is so shallow that no ships of burden can enter it. It is situated 3 leagues south of the North Sea, and to the S.W. of Margarita in about 10. 20. N. lat. and in 64. 30. W. long. . . . Morse.
MARTINSBURG, May 30.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Vincennes, dated May 28th, 1806.
“A strange and very singular disease is said to prevail in the Illinois country. It seizes only girls, of twelve years of age or under, beginning with head ache and fever, and generally terminating in death on the third day. A gentleman of Prairie du Rocker is said to have lost all his daughters—I have not heard further particulars.”
Caleb Strong, Esq. is re-elected Governor of Massachusetts by a plurali-
ty over Mr. Sullivan of 613 votes; and by a majority over all the candidates voted for of 353. The town of Boston sends 27 Representatives, federalists, elected without opposition from the democrats.
The Tunisian Ambassador left Washington on Thursday on his return home. He was accompanied by Mr. Cathcart, who will attend him we understand thro' the principal towns to Boston, from thence he will embark for Tunis. He took leave of the heads of departments, and those with whom he had formed an acquaintance, in the most respectful and friendly manner. His suit we hear did not accompany him, preferring an asylum in this free and happy country.
We hear that in consequence of pleasing intelligence from the Mediterranean of peace and harmony prevailing between the Barbary powers and the United States, the Chesapeake will not be sent out. She will probably be ordered to protect our commerce from the insulting depredations of piratical cruisers, and proud oppressors.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ON Monday night, the 26th instant, was taken out of the subscriber's stable in Martinsburg, a BLACK HORSE, about fifteen and an half hands high, supposed to be seven or eight years old, has a white spot on the left side of his back, occasioned by a sore produced by the hind part of the saddle, and it is supposed has a few white hairs in his forehead, (the only white about him) is a little crooked behind, but otherwise well formed; is a natural pacer, but trots and canters well, is an easy going horse, and when rode carries his tail a little to one side; was shod all round, one of his fore shoes was of the old kind with turned up heels, the other three shoes made in the new fashion without heels. On Monday and Monday night a number of negroes were in Martinsburg and it is tho't probable that some one of them rode him off. I will give a very generous reward to any person who will take up and secure said horse and inform me of it, or return him to me. If he is stolen, I will give the above reward to any person who will convict the thief, so that I get my horse again.
JOHN ALBURTIS
May, 30 1806.
Cheap Goods.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received from Philadelphia and are now opening a handsome assortment of GOODS, which have been purchased at very reduced prices, and selected with care from the latest arrivals; they can recommend them to their friends and all those who wish to purchase Goods on reasonable terms.
They have also on hand a large assortment of SUGARS, COFFEE & RICE, Port, Sherry & Lisbon WINES, French BRANDY, West India SPIRITS and RUM; together with a large quantity of Old Maryland WHISKEY, of a superior quality to any that has been offered for sale in Martinsburg for a considerable length of time: all of which will be sold uncommonly low for cash or approved of country produce.
THOMAS NEILSON, & Co. Martinsburg, May 30, 1806.
Jefferson County, ss.
May Court, 1806.
Thomas Flagg, Plaintiff, against
Edward Ridgway, Thomas Lazenby and Sally his wife, and Robert Lazenby and Margery his wife, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendants, Edward Ridgway, Thomas Lazenby and Sally his wife, and Robert Lazenby and Margery his wife, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendants do appear here on the second Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, 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, GEORGE HITE, C.J.S.

JOHN ALBURTIS, Has it in contemplation, if sufficiently patronized, to print an elegant edition of Addresses to Young Men,
By JAMES FORDYCE, And for that purpose submits the following proposals to the consideration of all who feel for the welfare of the present and rising generation, whose happiness these Addresses are so admirably calculated to promote.
TERMS: The above Addresses shall be printed with an elegant and entirely new type, on good paper, in an octavo form, and will contain about 500 pages. They shall be neatly bound and lettered for $2 25—or $2 half bound, payable on delivery of the work. They shall be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained, and finished without delay: TO THE PUBLIC.
The present publisher, as a member of that class of the community, to which this highly valuable work is addressed, recommends it particularly to his young brethren—but every person who feels for the good of his country, and for the welfare of society, he doubts not, will consider it a duty to patronize a work of this kind.
The dispositions and manners of Young Men may be regarded as of the greatest consequence both to the present and future generations—An intercourse with those of worthy manners and dignified deportment, is evidently, much more efficacious in moulding the minds and directing the actions of others, than the highest authority, or the wisest example, of age. How deeply society will be affected, by the connections which Young Men shall form, and by the conduct which they shall hold, as they advance, it is not difficult to imagine; nor can it be necessary to prove, that, as the behaviour of individuals in their early days gives for the most part a turn to the rest, so from the character of our Youth in general, we may prognosticate favourably, or otherwise, concerning our own times, and those that shall more immediately succeed them.
The above work, tho' more particularly addressed to, and intended for, the improvement of the minds of Young Men, inculcates principles that would add dignity to age,—and be ornamental to the nature of either sex. To persons acquainted with the author and his writings, any recommendation that could be offered, would be superfluous; but to those unacquainted with both, it may be proper to observe, that the work here offered, has stood the test of time and experience, and has been universally extolled by the virtuous of every sect and country where it has been read.
It would be a valuable present from a parent to a child, and for which they may expect remuneration in the rational improvement made in the minds of their progeny.
To complete this work, in a style that will do it justice, will subject the publisher to very considerable expense; but he doubts not but he shall be compensated for his expense and trouble, as every one will acknowledge, that the dissemination of books of this kind are an actual good to the community at large, and will therefore feel disposed to patronize it—for this purpose all who feel inclined to do so are invited to the Office of the Intelligencer, Martinsburg.
POCKET BOOK LOST.
ON Saturday last, the 10th instant, the subscriber lost between the Yellow-House and Buckles-Town, a Red Morocco Pocket Book, containing a number of subscription papers for "Fordyce's Addresses to Young Men," one of which had a considerable number of subscribers to it, and probably some other papers. Any person who will return the said Book shall receive the thanks of
JOHN ALBURTIS. Martinsburg, May 16, 1806.
REGIMENTAL ORDERS.
SATURDAY the 17th of next month is appointed for the muster of the 1st Battalion of the 67th Regiment Virginia Militia, at William Johnston's mill; and Saturday the 31st of said month for the muster of the 2d Battalion of said Regiment, at Buckles-Town. All persons who have received public arms and accoutrements, are ordered to deliver the same to the Majors of Battalions on their respective days of muster aforesaid.
D. HUNTER, Lieut. Col.
Com. 67th Reg. V. M.
April 11, 1806.
NOTICE.
FOR the purpose of indemnifying me, in becoming security for Peter Beller, of the town of Martinsburg, for a debt of fifty dollars, due by him to Isaac Vanmetre, payable the 15th of September next, he the said Beller gave me a deed of trust (executed on the 9th day of January last) of the following property, viz: one road waggon, one feather bed, bedstead, sheets, bolsters, pillows and covers, and one dark bay gelding, which property is yet in the possession of said Beller; in order therefore to prevent innocent persons from being injured in purchasing any of the above articles, I do hereby forewarn all persons from dealing with said Beller for said property, as it of right belongs to me, until his stipulations in said deed of trust are fully complied with.
ELI BELLER.
THE above named Peter Beller, on the 3d day of April last, gave me another deed of trust for the purpose of indemnifying me, as his security in a replevin bond, bearing the above date given to Mrs. Ann Hunter, for the sum of forty-nine dollars, sixty-one cents and two-thirds of a cent, payable the 3d of July next, the undermentioned property, viz: one sorrel horse, one bedstead and feather bed, one six plate stove and pipe, a chest of drawers, twelve chairs and four tables—All persons are cautioned against purchasing any of the said property, as it belongs to me only until the said deed of trust is complied with.
ELI BELLER.
May 9, 1806.
Hampshire, ss.
March Court, 1806.
Thomas and Rees Morgan, Complainants, against
David Nidy, Defendant.
In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, Adam Nidy, 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 Complainants by their Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainants, 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, ANDREW WODROW, c.h.c.
Berkeley, ss.
March Court, 1806.
Christopher Parratt, Complainant, against
James Maxwell, Defendant.
In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, James Maxwell, 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 Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, 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.
Berkeley, ss.
November Court, 1804.
George Dickson, Complainant, against
James Smith, Defendant.
In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, James Smith, 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 Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June, 1806, to answer the bill of the Complainant, 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.
Levi Price,
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has purchased Mr. J. EVANS's late stock of well assorted
GOODS;
and he flatters himself from the terms on which he has them, that he will be enabled to retail them on as advantageous terms to the purchaser as any other person has it in their power to do. He does not despair of obtaining a share of business, as he is determined to make it the interest of all who may please to call on him.
A handsome salary will be given to an active Young Man, that can come well recommended, to attend a store.
Martinsburg, May 9, 1806.
THE subscriber has just received and is now opening, a large and general assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
Among which are Laced, Embossed and Plain Cambricks, Silk and Cotton Shambray Muslins, Trafalgar Vest Shapes, and Calicos, Long and Short Nankenees, Leno and Paris Net Veils, Oval and Square Silk and Cambrick Shawls with netting, Umbrellas and Parasols, trimmed and plain Bonnets; also, Mill and Cross-cut SAWS, Madeira WINE, Port WINE, and the best Havannah SEGARS; also, about three thousand volumes of BOOKS;—all of which will be sold at the most reduced prices, for cash, or on a short credit, to punctual customers.
JAMES FAULKNER. Martinsburg, May 9, 1806.
Forman's Ferry
TO BE RENTED,
FOR one or more years, with good convenient buildings suitable for public business. Possession will be given immediately to the renter. For terms apply to the subscriber living at the Ferry.
JAMES FORMAN. Berkeley County, May 9, 1806.
CARPET & COVERLET WEAVING.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has removed his shop to the house in the occupancy of Mr. Philip Craft, blue dier, and nearly opposite Mrs. Prudence Thornburg's tavern, in Shepherd's-Town, where he will colour and work Coverlets & Carpeting in the best manner and newest fashions, also, Counterpanes, Diaper, and all descriptions of plain work, on the shortest notice and lowest terms; which cannot be done at any other place in Shepherd's-Town. He returns his sincere thanks for past favors, and hopes, from the goodness of his work, to merit their future support.
SAMUEL AGER. May 9, 1806.
N. B. All orders in his line are thankfully received and punctually executed.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Charles Edelen, dec. by bond, note, or book account, are requested to come forward and pay off whatever may be due the said estate immediately, or suits will be brought against them. Those having claims against the said estate, are also desired to bring them in properly attested for payment.
JACOB FRENCH, Adm'r. Berkeley County, May 9, 1806.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Dr. Jacob P. Harris, dec. either by bond, note, or book account, are hereby requested to exhibit them properly authenticated for settlement; all persons indebted to said estate are also requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, as no indulgence can be given.
AARON FARIS, Adm'r. NANCY HARRIS, Adm'r. May 2, 1806.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber, having withdrawn himself from the Ferry and Tavern opposite Shepherd's-Town, which business he has attended to for the last six years; in the course of which time a number of accounts have originated which he is anxious to have speedily settled, those who owe by paying their respective balances, and those who have claims by exhibiting them to Mr. Presly Marmaduke, who is authorised to receive and settle the accounts; and who likewise has the present management of the Ferry and Tavern, he being interested in said business, will no doubt use every exertion to please the public, and the former customers particularly, who, I hope, will accept my unfeigned acknowledgments for their past patronage.
JOHN BLACKFORD. Swearingen's Ferry, May 2, 1806.
HAVING taken the management of the FERRY and TAVERN opposite Shepherd's-Town, formerly under the direction of Mr. John Blackford, the public are informed that an uncommon fine boat, with excellent sober hands, are constantly to be found at this extraordinary fine crossing place, where no delays ever take place from high winds or water—They are likewise informed that particular attention will be paid to the tavern. In order comfortably to accommodate the traveller, liquors of the best quality, fine stableage, with every other necessary, are provided; pasturage, hay and grain, for the accommodation of those who drive stock. Having a quantity of fine ice on hand, I will be able to pleasantly regale persons or parties who may please to call during the warm season. Having a desire to please the public generally by a strict attention to business, I hope to merit a share of their favours.
PRESLY MARMADUKE. Swearingen's Ferry, May 2, 1806.
LAST NOTICE.
THE subscriber, having declined business on his own account, takes once more this method of informing all those who are in any wise indebted to him, either by bond, note, or book account, that if they do not come forward and settle off their respective accounts on or before the first day of June next, that suit will be brought on each and every account without respect to persons. Sufficient indulgence has been given, which must do away any reflection that such a step might create. In hopes that the above request will be attended to, I take the liberty of subscribing myself the public's obedient and humble servant.
PHILIP NADENBOUSCH. Martinsburg, May 2, 1806.
Those concerned will be able to judge how far they may be interested; their accounts will dictate as to indulgence given.
LAND FOR SALE.
WILL be sold at public sale, on the 12th of June next, a TRACT of LAND, containing 232 acres, situate on Back Creek, in Berkeley County. About 100 acres of this land is good rich bottom, 130 acres cleared and in good order for farming, and the remainder clothed with excellent timber. The sale will be on the premises, and the terms will be made known on the day of sale.
Will also be sold at the same time and place, Mares and Colts, Cows, and Sheep, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming Utensils, and a number of other articles too tedious to mention; they will be sold on a credit of nine months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security.
ALEXANDER FLEMING. May 2, 1806.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
TERMS OF THE INTELLIGENCER.
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