The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1796-03-17 00:00:00

FOR SALE. A valuable PLANTATION, on Mill Creek, in this County, containing about four hundred acres. The said Creek is copious and never-failing...
TO BE SOLD. THAT eligible and commodious HOUSE and LOT, belonging to the subscriber, and now occupied by Capt. Richard Ransone. The situation and convenience of the house for public business, is equal to any one in Martinsburg.
LONDON, December 2. THE TWO BILLS.
OUR readers have seen the alterations that have been made in the committee on the bill to prevent seditious meetings. We submit them to reflecting minds, and challenge any man to prove that the poison is extinguished.
A single magistrate has still the power of dispersing a meeting and in case they do not separate, they shall be charged "felons, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy."
And what is in our minds more important than any other part of the bill, the clause which authorizes domiciliary visits, after the pure mode of the school of Robespierre, remains: by this clause no dwelling can be sacred; no tavern club, no society, no private family ever can be safe against the forcible intrusion of the myrmidons of office.
What may not be the abuse of this unqualified outrage on the privacy of families? What harm to a lodge of free masons; what body of religious men, meeting for mutual instruction; what friendly society of neighbours who make themselves select by ballot, and who pay a mighty sum for the expenses of their meeting, can be safe after this bill shall pass into a law?
This bill has with truth been asserted to be an extinction, directly and pointedly, of the seeds, sources, the elements and terminations, of civil freedom in this country. A demolition of that on which stands the wide fabric of British liberty, freedom of thought, freedom of communication, freedom of discussion, freedom of petition, (growing in the very heart and vitals of a free state, even if it were not consecrated by express laws) in a word, that which constitutes the essence of our government, without which, whatever liberty remains to us is comparatively nothing, even if that remainder must not soon totter, after its foundation is removed by passing the bills.
Mr. Adair, in the committee, said in substance, that the right of discussing the conduct of ministers remained untouched by this bill, and that by the alteration in the principal clause there would now be an end of misrepresentation, for the great grievance was remedied.
The original bill consisted of twenty two clauses; the amended bill of the same number, with some compression and transposition, and with one clause: the 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 21st clauses in the amendment bill, are mostly word for word, the same as in the original. Their meaning is strictly so—and the only addition to them is the filling up the blanks. The 14th and 22d are new clauses; the 22d relates to the commencement and duration of the bill; and the 14th extends the power of the magistrate to places that are licenced, as well as to those that are not, inflicting the penalty of 100l. there upon refusal of admission, as well as where no licence has been obtained.
In the 18th clause, the difference is indeed very material. This clause in the original exempted the Dissenters, according to the law of the first William and Mary, and the Popists, according to the 31st of the present king, from the operation of this bill, as well as the universities of this kingdom. In the amended bill it entirely omits the exemption.
NOTICE. MR. J. G. KONECKE having assigned to us the subscribers, as partners of the late concern of J. G. KONECKE and Co. all bonds, notes, and open accounts, which are now in the hands of our agent, Mr. JAMES LABES, for settlement; we therefore request those gentlemen, who not withstanding the different advertisements of J. G. KONECKE and Co. have put off the settlement, to come in and have their different accounts adjusted, in order to close the books, as the accounts of those who do not choose to settle, will be put into the hands of JOHN DIXON, Esq. to sue for settlement, as likewise the bonds and notes of those which have been due some time past.
Five-Pence Half-Penny Reward. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday the 28th ult. a servant girl named Sarah Reed, 17 years old, bound by order of Court; she had on when she went away, a white bed gown and linsy petticoat. Whoever takes up said run-away and returns her to me, or committes her to goal, shall have the above reward, but no charges or thanks.
FOR SALE. Several tracts of Land, lying on Back Creek, a House and Lot in Burke-Street; and lots in this town, of which some are Me. under the name of the member of the House of Delegates.
MR. WILLIS. I SEE in your last Thursday's paper, a discontinuance of my advertisement of the 25th February; your authority for this discontinuance is spurious, and I desire that the publication, though of a very disagreeable nature, may be re-inserted, because the reasons which first gave rise to it, still continue to exist as obstinate as ever, and I do most earnestly desire that you will not publish any thing (extract of a letter to any other) that may tend to under my name (or in that publication) contradict the caution contained in that publication.
THE subscribers being appointed by the County Court of Berkeley, for the purpose of purchasing a small tract of Land, situate on or near the mouth of Toicarrora, for the purpose of erecting thereon Houses for the reception of the Poor of the said County; do hereby give notice, that they will receive proposals from any person owning lands in the said vicinity, who may be disposed to dispose of the same.
WHEREAS my wife Elizabeth, appears unfortunately disposed to involve me, particularly at the stores, more than my circumstances will admit of, and is unhappily too much determined in this conduct for my arguments to have any weight; I am therefore reduced to the necessity of thus publicly forewarning all persons from crediting her, with a view of receiving payment from me.
ORDER OF BERKELEY COUNTY COURT. ORDERED, that George Cunningham, William Porterfield, Joseph Swearingen, James Axell, Abraham Shepherd, John Britton, and John Turner, Gentlemen Justices, do attend throughout the ensuing quarterly term.
TAKE NOTICE, THAT whereas I the Subscriber, some time in the spring 1792, gave my bond unto a certain JOHN QUIBB, for eighteen pounds fifteen shillings, payable the September following, and having since payed up the said bond to a small trifle, and have payed no credit on the bond for the money paid, got no credit on the bond for a settlement; and being nor have as yet obtained a settlement; and being informed that the said QUIBB has been endeavouring to sell said bond for the full sum therein specified, I do therefore forewarn any person from taking an assignment on said bond, as I am determined not to pay the same until compelled thereto by law.
NOTICE. THE monies arising from the sales of the 3d June, of the estate of James Stride, deceased, having become due the 3d instant, it is expected all persons who became purchasers at that sale, as well as those who are otherwise indebted to the said estate, will make immediate payment, as the money is much wanted. The price of produce is such, that every person who are or will be able to pay, it must be considered as a refusal, or a wilful neglect, and suits will be commenced accordingly, without further notice.
TO BE SOLD. A very valuable PLANTATION, containing 186 acres, adjoining the Potomak River, within 2 1/2 miles of the Public Arsenal, and one of Keep-Trist Furnace. There are in this tract 100 acres cleared, and fresh land; a two story dwelling-house, completely finished, a good barn and still-house, with a never-failing stream, a good orchard of peach and apple trees. The Plantation is well watered and in good repair. There are 186 acres of land adjoining the above, which will also be sold, if the purchaser chooses. For terms of sale, apply to the subscriber, living on the premises.
NOTICE. All persons indebted to the Printer, are solicited to make immediate payment.
A Man's Saddle found. FOUND in my inclosure, a fine skirred Saddle, nearly half worn, the pad covered with red plush, and a blue cloth. The owner may have the same, by applying to the subscriber.

tion in favour of both the Dissenters and Papists, and only protects the universities.
The first clause takes out of the bill a greater description of meetings than were excepted in the original bill, and so far the amended copy is better than the original: but as these do not extend beyond meetings called by aldermen, head officers of departments, or grand juries, the mass of the people are liable to the inconveniences of this bill in assembling together, in direct violation of the 5th article of the Bill of Rights—which, let it be observed, was made for the poor and powerless, not the rich and great. But this inconvenience looks into nothing before the other evils of this bill, "for where the greater malady is placed, the lesser is scarce felt." An inconvenience in the mode of meeting is a trifle, light as air, in comparison to the bloody consequences which the bloody code of last Friday has notified over the heads of the people of England.
No meeting of more than 50 persons can be held otherwise than under this act. At all meetings, whether convened according to the provisions of this act, or in neglect of them, any magistrate has the right to arrest any speaker at his discretion. He has a right to dissolve the meeting; and if 12 persons remain one hour after his proclamation, he has a right to order them to be killed, and is indemnified, together with all his assistants, military and civil, from all consequences.
If the person arrested by the justice should in any way resist, the penalty is death.
If any person should in any way, aid the speaker so arrested, the penalty is death.
If more than 12 persons remain one hour after the magistrate orders the meeting to disperse the penalty is death.
If any person or persons should oppose the magistrate, by arms or without, in the words of the act itself, "if they should in any manner be, hinder, hurt," the justice or his assistants, or obstruct them in any way, the penalty is death! death! death!
From such a law may the Almighty God defend our country, ourselves, and our posterity!
Do not the promoters of these bills subject themselves to an imputation for high treason, for endeavouring to procure laws, which in the application for the royal assent fairly be construed into acts tending to intrigue his Majesty to violate his coronation oath, by which he swore to maintain inviolate every article of the Bill of Rights, the 5th of which declares that it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and that all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal, one of the conditions by which the house of Brunswick held the crown of these kingdoms!
These bills we are informed, are to be followed by a bill which will at once blot out from our system the freedom of the press, by obliging every man to sign his name to every article he writes.
The country has still one mode left to prevent these bills from passing into laws, and no time is to be lost. New meetings should be called, and humble petitions sent to his majesty, praying him to exercise his royal prerogative in refusing his royal assent, should they pass in the two houses of parliament.
The ancient and royal city of York, at a public meeting of the inhabitants, summoned by the Lord Mayor, came to spirited resolutions against the bills now pending in parliament. Tomorrow there is to be a public meeting of the freeholders of that great county, when similar resolutions are expected to be carried.
The large and populous city of Glasgow too have come forward in a spirited manner against the bills.
The county of Northumberland has petitioned against the bills, as well as many other respectable places.
THE Commissioners appointed by an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, for forming an artificial road from Little River, in Loudoun county to the town of Alexandria, in the county of Fairfax, give notice, that books will be opened for receiving subscriptions under the said act, on Wednesday the 15th day of April next, in the towns of Winchester and Alexandria, and will continue open for that purpose three days and so on, until the whole subscription is filled up. The subscribers are to advance twenty dollars for each share at the time of subscribing, and will not be called on for a further sum until the progress in the work will make it necessary, and then as they conceive, by different and easy instalments. As the business promises great advantage to the adventurers, and utility to the public, the commissioners themselves that monied and patriotic gentlemen will come forward on the occasion.
March 16, '96.
THE Commissioners of the Tax for the West side of Opecquan, in Berkeley County, will attend at Martinburg, on the first and second days of March and April Courts, for the purpose of delivering to those persons who live within his district, a list of their taxes (grants) for the year 1795.
THE DEPUTY-SHERIFFS of Berkeley County, for the West side of Opecquan, will attend at Martinburg, on the third and fourth days of March and April Courts for the purpose of RECEIVING (GRANTS) from those persons who live within their district, the amount of their taxes, agreeable to the list they receive from the Commissioner.
March 16, '96.
NOTICE.
THE Stock-Holders of the Bank of Alexandria, will please to take notice, that the second payment of Forty Dollars on each share of the augmented stock, will be payable on the 21st instant; and are informed that any bank notes from Philadelphia to Alexandria will be received in payment.
At a meeting of the President and Directors of the Bank of Alexandria, on Monday the 29th February, 1796. Resolved, That to soon as one thousand shares are subscribed (there being 587 shares already subscribed) to the augmented capital, and the four first payments fully completed, that the Board will then proceed to discount at Sixty Days, so that the time shall commence on or before the 23d May next. By order of the Board.
GURDIN CHAPIN, Cashier. Alexandria, March 13, '96.
LOFTY BROWN,
WILL COVER this season, at the Subscriber's Mill, in Backstown, Berkeley County, at the low rate of THREE Dollars and one bushel of oats the season, One Dollar and a Half the single leap, or six Dollars to insure the insurance money to be paid as soon as the mare is known to be with foal, and for the single leap the money to be paid before the horse is let to the mare. The oats are to be brought with the mares.
LOFTY BROWN is a fine dapple, full seveneen hands high, and may well be called the Lofty Brown by his elegant carriage. He is seven years old this season, and bred from the bell and bay breed; his dam by Old Fox Hunter. Lofty Brown is thought by good judges to be the finest horse in the settlement for the draft or saddle, but his appearance will recommend him for any thing of the draft kind.
The season to commence the first of April, and end the fifteenth of July. He is to stand the three first days of the week at my mill, and the three last days of the week at Jonathan Robert's, on Richard Ridgway's plantation.
DAVID REED. March 16, '96.
WHEREAS in the 13th day of October, '94, I gave six bonds to Stephen Snodgrass, the sum for 61. 16s. Pennsylvania currency, due October 1, '95, which has been paid, the other five for 61. 8s. 6d. each, like currency, payable annually from the first of October last, being in consideration for a tract of land containing 101 acres, lying on Sugar, Mill, which land was formerly take the horse Back Creek, rents by the said Snodgrass (which up by State Warrant, but being appraised by the Court, and the plot assigned to me, I hereby caution all persons from taking any assignment of either of said bonds, until a lawful and sure title is made or secured to be made to me for said land, at which time I shall be ready and willing to pay the bonds as they become due.
JACOB SYLER, Jun. March 13, '95.
At a Court held for Berkeley County, the 23d day of November, 1795.
IN CHANCERY. Thomas Griggs, complr.
Robert Throckmorton and Marquis Calmes, eldest son and heir at law of William Calmes, dec. The defendant Marquis Calmes, 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 first Monday after the third Tuesday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette for two months successively, and published at the church door in the parish of Norbourne, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court-House of the said County.
A copy. Test. MOSES HUNTER, C. B. C.
To be Rented, from one to ten years, A two-story Dwelling-House, with a Brew-House and Stable adjoining, situated in Water-Street, near Paul Verdier and John O'Ferrall's; handy to mill and water.
Another Dwelling-House, one and an half story high, with a kitchen under the same, on the next adjoining lot to the above.
Apply to Charles M'Kewan or the Printer. March 16, '96.
Thomas Clarke & Co.
RESPECTFULLY inform the inhabitants of Martinburg and its vicinity, that they intend carrying on the business of Painting, Glazing and Upholstery, in all various branches, in a cheap and neat manner, with dispatch. They will keep a constant supply of Paints and Putty for sale. Martinburg, March 17, '96.
IN Pursuance of a Decree of the County Court in Berkeley, will be sold, on the third Monday in April next, if fair, if not the next fair day, the premises, for ready money, two hundred and seventy-two acres of LAND, lying on the Shenandoah river, near Key's Ferry, on which there is a value sufficient to satisfy the claims of John Potts and Elizabeth Osborn, amounting in the whole to one thousand pounds current money of Virginia when due attendance will be given by THOMAS RUTHERFORD, GEORGE HITE, JOHN DAVENPORT, March 16, '96.
WHEREAS an advertisement appeared in my public prints, in which John Evans, senior, my husband, has forbidden all persons from trusting me in his name, &c. (reference being had to the advertisement).
Mr. John Evans, by the first information of a piece being in the public papers, utterly denies that he had ordered or ever did intend any thing of the kind, but immediately ordered a discontinuance.
Mr. Joseph Evans, jun. steps forth with a piece of writing, in which the aforesaid scandalous advertisement is to be published, and which he says the hand-writing of John Evans, senior. Mr. John Evans denies the assertion; positively declares, and has declared before respectable gentlemen, that he never signed said instrument of writing.
The public are well acquainted with Mr. John Evans, senior; he is aged, infirm, and both disabled in body and mind, I am therefore under the necessity of bearing the burden of the family. Mr. Joseph Evans wishes to have a hand in the family transactions, but as I oppose him, he owes me a grudge, and on that account he has imprudently placed himself in such a light, that every well thinking person will hereafter despise him; he has scandalized his parents whom he ought to honour. In the advertisement referred to, in the behaviour of a wife her husband is respected or despised. But I make this public declaration, in spite of Joseph Evans and all his adherents, that I will from henceforth (as I have done heretofore) act as lawful wife of John Evans, senior, without being contradicted from them or theirs, and that my transaction in the family shall be such as shall characterize a prudent house-wife; and that it is my desire that Mr. Joseph Evans, from henceforth may act with more caution, as perhaps I may, if compelled with severity, which would be painful to me.
I remain the public's humble servant, ELIZABETH EVANS. was, 1795. and 1796. quantity of hemp, flax, wheat, &c.
To the Freeholders of Berkeley County, on the Opecquan.
My good Friends, HAVING on all former occasions, showed a laudable jealousy between the inhabitants of the upper and lower side of Opecquan, I have been much astonished and distressed of late, to find the apathy into which we are fallen on the lower side. Will nothing rouse you? I have not observed the repeated proffers of service, as representative, made by a certain Physician on the other side, whose natural abilities we all acknowledge—to which a long experience in the country of law has added greatly. Now, my friends, what will be the consequence, if the summing, artful man, should go from the upper side without having a proper person on this side? especially as he is going for the express purpose of arming the laws. Shall we not be neglected? Perhaps it will be said, he will have our interest as much at heart as theirs, having been on some occasion very ill used, and it is said, drove out of the county by them; but the honor they will confer on him, will make amends—besides, let me observe, the nature of a spaniel is not confined to dogs. My natural modesty, which you are all acquainted with, has theretofore prevented my public offers of service, having waited for the solicitations of my fellow citizens—but I humbly conceive, I have as great a right to offer my unselfish service, as the Doctor, at, without vanity, I think myself as fit for his colleague, as any person below the creek. It is true, I am not so well acquainted with Watts's Hymns as he is, but there is another part of my education which is inferior to his—I mean the part I received at Baltimore. It is true, he may in time, acquire a similar tuition, as it is said, there is a few very shortly to be erected at Richmond. No doubt some pretended virtuosos may, with hypocritical faces, try to prejudice weak minds against us both, by observing that very strict laws would not suit either of us, but I suppose you will allow us the general privileges granted to law-makers in Virginia, of being law-breakers. If we should have influence enough to change all your bad laws for good ones, certainly you will allow us to live as we list afterwards.
I shall conclude with a general recommendation to my fellow-citizens, to avoid promising their votes, and to come forth on the day of election and give their votes to those they think fittest for the important trust. If I should be their choice, they may rely on the utmost exertion of my abilities in their service; if not, I shall be happy to find there is a fitter person for that office than myself.
CORNELIUS CONWAY.

CHARLESTON, February 25.
Captain Freeman from St. Croix, informs, that ... was in St. Kitts 26 days ago. At that time they ... authentic accounts there of the arrival of part ... the British fleet at Barbadoes. Two sail arrived ... the 20th of January and thirteen sail of the line ... eight days after. The number of troops said ... arrived, was 10,000. Martinique was to be ... place of rendezvous. The troops that had been ... St. Kitts, and other English Islands, had been ... to Martinique, where preparations were ... to go against Guadaloupe.
PHILADELPHIA, March 3.
Captain Minton yesterday arrived from Lisbon, ... whence he left the 24th December informs, that ... Humphreys, had announced to him, in company ... a number of American captains, that the ... had recrossed the Rhine, and obtained a ... victory over the Austrian army. Yesterday, in the House of Representatives of ... United States, a Resolution, in substance as fol ... was laid on the table by Mr. LIVINGSTON; — ... That the President of the United States ... be requested to lay before this House, a Copy of the ... to the Minister of the United States, ... the treaty with the King of Great ... communicated by his message of the 1st ... with the Correspondence and Docu ... relative to the said Treaty.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
March 1.
A Message was received from the President of ... United States, by Mr. Dandridge his Secretary, ... forming the house, that the Treaty of Amity, ... Commerce, and Navigation, lately concluded be ... Great Britain and the United States having ... ratified, and the ratification having been ex ... on the 28th of October last, he had tho't ... to cause the same to be promulgated, and ... transmitted a copy thereof to the House for ... information. The message being read, it was ... that the same be referred to the committee ... the whole on the state of the Union, and that ... Treaty be printed for the use of the members — of ... ed.
March 4.
The order of the day was — The court that be ... bill. — This Contempt — Captain Livingston was called for on the Land ... the said def — with the order of the day to ... with for the time, to take up the mo ... laid on the table two days since, calling on ... for certain documents relative to the ... Treaty. Mr. Kitchel hoped the order of the day would ... be disposed with. There was but one section ... the bill remaining to be discussed, it could there ... be gone through; but he imagined the ... action called up by the member from New York ... take up much time. Mr. Livingston contended to waive his motion for ... present, there remained but one section ... be considered.
BALTIMORE. March 9.
The following extract of a letter, dated St. Croix, Februa ... ry 3, '96 to a gentleman in this town, was obliging ... ly handed to the Printers of the Federal Gazette last ... evening.
"For your information and government, we ... mention that orders have lately been issued by the ... English to their ships of war and privateers, to ... take all neutral vessels bound to or returning from ... Dutch ports, and carry them to their own for adju ... dication; and under the strength of which, several ... Danish ships have lately been captured!"
NORFOLK, February 29.
Saturday arrived the sloop Union, captain Shack ... ellord, in 20 days from Antigua; the captain says, ... that before he failed accounts were received at An ... tiagua, of a number of the English fleet having arriv ... ed at St. Domingo, and of 12 or 14 sail being seen ... off Barbadoes.
There are other accounts in town, brought by a ... vessel which arrived last evening in Hampton Roads, ... in 14 days from Cape Nicholas Mole, that 3,000 ... troops had arrived there from Giberalter; it was ... imagined they were intended against St. Mark's.
There are also reports in town, said to be bro't ... by the above vessel, that six of the English transports ... were taken by the French ships of war.
ALEXANDRIA, March 10.
TREATIES WITH SPAIN AND ALGIERS.
The Spanish treaty lately negotiated is now be ... fore the Senate of the United States, and is such, ... we understand, as to do honour to the negotiator, ... and to the administration. It provides for a free ... navigation of the Mississippi, on such conditions, ... however, as, if we are rightly informed, will to ... deprive us of that great boon, from the operation ... of the British treaty. The above we collect chiefly ... from common report, and cannot vouch for its pos ... sible accuracy, but have some reason to believe it ... not very far from truth.
The treaty with Spain is now laid before the Se ... nate; the grand object of this treaty is, we under ... stand, the free navigation of the Mississippi; there ... fore it is presumable, the Senate will be careful not ... to ratify this treaty without that stipulation in its ... fullest latitude as the mere outlet for our produce ... in our boats or vessels which may be built in Ken ... tucky is a farce, unless we can freely navigate our ... ships and vessels from the sea up and down that ri ... ver; and New Orleans made a free port, without ... which the United States can reap no material ad ... vantage.
The treaty with Algiers is also before the same ... tribunal. Rumour states it as not so favourable. ... So far as it goes to the release of our citizens so ... long in cruel confinement there, the sums paid can ... not be regretted; but it is feared, that as its fulfil ... ment on the part of Algiers is not guaranteed by a ... ny European nation, it may be broken, and prove ... a trap for many of our enterprising mariners.
MARTINSBURG, March 17.
The papers by yesterday's mail are entirely bar ... ren of European intelligence, there having been no ... late arrivals.
Congress, by the latest Philadelphia papers, ap ... pears to be principally engaged in the land-office ... bill, and the bill providing for a loan for the pur ... pose of completing the public buildings in the city ... of Washington.
A letter from Philadelphia, says, "It is not un ... common in conversation to hear that the President ... will retire at the end of the present term. I have ... nothing more to found an opinion on than an in ... clined to believe that will be the case, if the present ... session ends well, and nothing unfavourable from ... abroad appears. Such an event will open an ample ... field for intrigue and management, which it is thought ... would be practised in an eminent degree."
The Senate of the United States have unani ... mously approved the Spanish and Algerine trea ... ties.
Mr. Harper, in the House of Representatives of ... the United States the 4th inst. complained, that it ... was proposed to proceed in the important business ... of affording relief to American citizens from foreign ... impositions without sufficient information. — He ... spoke of the impropriety of depending on Newspaper ... affidavits: He spoke of newspaper affidavits with ... great contempt. What is this running out against news ... papers? what is it to say the newspapers done to Mr. ... Harper? or to say the newspapers done to Mr. ... what they have done something for him. But of a ... motion could the Honourable Member give ... a "newspaper affidavit" — is it any thing more or ... less than an affidavit qualified in a newspaper? ... It is presumed not. To elucidate and bring the ... matter home to the feelings of the Honourable Gen ... tleman: — should a speech of his find its way into a ... newspaper, should it be contemptuously called a ... Newspaper Speech? Would it not still be the speech ... of the Honourable Mr. Harper, and would it be a ... whit the worse for being published in a newspaper? ... No; — it might be the better.
IMPORTANT.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Armagh, Ireland ... to his friend in Baltimore, dated December 3, 1795
"FOR some time past that part of the county of ... Armagh, called Longgale Black Water Foot, to ... wards Cookhill Tabridge, &c. had been in a state ... of insurrection, by a constant engagement between ... the people and the military. The former, assem ... bling in great bodies from the neighbouring coun ... ties, and threatening to destroy all before them; ... and if they gain the day, to divide the lands among ... them. Mr. Lawlen, of Fairlawn, with the regiment ... of North Mayo militia, marched, on Friday last, ... with 10 pieces of cannon, and attacked a body of ... people, who had taken post at Black Water Foot, ... at a place called Mickery. The firing was brisk ... on both sides for the space of two hours, when at ... last the republicans were obliged to give way, and ... retreated across the river Black Water, into the ... county of Tyrone, where they have taken post in a ... strong situation, near Carenal, where they are ... determined to make a stand. The havoc was pro ... digious on both sides. The militia had 3 officers ... and 133 men killed, and 207 men and 5 officers ... wounded. There were upwards of 500 of the ... other party killed, wounded and drowned, in cross ... ing the river. We hear that a large body of men ... from Belfast, Ballemena, &c. are on the route to ... join the republicans, headed by old and experien ... ced volunteer officers, with a large number of field ... pieces, ammunition, &c. All is confusion here — ... How happy must you be in America, where you ... draw the breath of liberty and happiness! I see ... nothing but the appearance of desolation to this ... once happy land; when, or how it will end, God ... only knows. — 10,000 militia are now stationed at ... Verner's bridge, this side the water: and General ... Conyngham, has been appointed commander in ... chief."
EIGHTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living near ... Shepherd's-Town, on the evening of the 12th ... instant, a Negro Man named NEPTUNE, a stout ... well-set fellow, very black and comely, about 30 ... years of age, has a large scar on his left arm, and ... one on the side of his back from the prick of a sword ... when a lad; had on a light coloured coat of home ... made cloth, his other dress he frequently changes. ... Whoever apprehends the said slave and brings him ... to the subscriber, shall receive two dollars if off the ... plantation, if over 5 miles from home 4 dollars, if ... out of the County 20 dollars, if over 50 miles from ... home 40 dollars, and if taken in any sea port town ... 80 dollars, to be paid by me on receiving the negro.
EDWARD LUCAS.
Berkeley County Virginia March 16, '95
NOTICE!
The Carpenters and Joiners of Charles ... Town, and its vicinity, are requested to meet at ... Mr. Flagg's tavern, the first Saturday in April next, ... in order to regulate and augment the prices of their ... work
A friend to Carpenters and Joiners. Charles Town, March 12, '96.
AN Election will be held at the Court House, ... on the first Monday after the third Tuesday ... in next month, for the purpose of choosing two pro ... per persons to represent this County in the next ... General Assembly. All persons intitled to vote, ... are requested to attend, under penalty of the law.
JAMES WILSON, Sheriff.
Berkeley County, March 16, '96.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN out of my stable, on Friday the eleventh ... instant, two bay Horses, the one a bright bay, ... heavily made, has flap ears, and a very flat head, ... owing to a disorder he has had on the top of it, ten ... years old, no perceivable brand; the other a bright ... bay, very lengthy, has a line of black down his ... back, a switch tail, some white on his near fore foot, ... and a few white hairs on his forehead, six years old, ... no perceivable brand; both the above Horses are ... much run'd with the gears. Whoever secures the ... Thief shall have the above reward, twenty dollars ... for either of the Horses, and forty for them both.
ALEXANDER P. BUCHANAN.
Berkeley County, March 13, '96.
Exquires.
WHEN I proposed an amendment in the paper ... of the 18th of February last, I was fully sa ... tisfied that moderate fees, paid daily as the Justices ... did business, would, in the course of two or ... three years, be a better reward to the Justices, ... than the office of High Sheriff, and that it would ... be a great inducement to each Justice to attend, ... and endeavour to inform himself in the law, in or ... der to draw the run of business to himself. The ... Clerk's fees, to be sure would be less than they ... now are, but common generosity in the Clerks ... ought to induce them to give up some of their ex ... travagant profits, rather than the people should ... be distressed in attending Court under the present ... law, when they might have their disputes settled in ... a better and cheaper manner.
The Lawyers say they disregard the business un ... der the petition law, and so I hope they are not ... disturbed by said amendment, to far as it concerns ... petitions. And as to the list upon the choice of ... officers in the paper dated 3d of March, I am of ... the opinion the people at large who pay taxes, ... ought to have a vote in choosing officers. I can ... not think it right that civil officers should succeed ... from office to office, without a new appointment. ... A man may be fit for the office he is appointed to, ... and succeed to the next office which he may not be ... fit to act in. A man may be a good Magistrate, ... and neither a good clerk nor a good Sheriff. I also ... think, (and am confident in my own mind that I ... shall be joined by the universal opinion) that no ... man ought to hold an office that he is above acting ... in, or is unfit to act in. If the Sheriffs were chosen ... by the taxables at large, yearly, or every two ... years, they would endeavour to do justice, lest they ... should not be re-elected: But under the present ... law, I suppose the highest offer gets the office of ... Sheriff.
But to you, gentlemen, that are discouraged from ... seeking what you wish for, least you should not ob ... tain it, I say it is possible to obtain a law that is ... generally desired. There must be a beginning, be ... fore any thing is brought to perfection. If there ... should be but few in the Assembly that are not in ... terested in those oppressive laws, the other Coun ... ties are free to choose who they please as well as ... we, and when a proposed law is published for pub ... lic consideration (as it is often done, witnesses the ... making lands liable for debts, and the penitentiary ... law) the people will choose against the next session ... of assembly, those they think will act for the pub ... lic good in general, and not those that will be rul ... ed by their own private interests. I shall at this ... time only mention one amendment more, and that ... for particular gentlemen to consider, and not the ... public, and that is, the law for slander. I think ... that law wants amending in order at least to re ... primand those who call themselves the gentlemen, ... but do not merit the title, unless it is by their ... wealth only, when a malicious or designing man ... can, for a pint of whisky, or a quarter of a dollar, ... hire the vagabond, or lawless person, to say what ... they direct him to say, to ridicule whoever they ... please, for spite, or for the interest of the employ ... er. I propose to them to amend the above-said ... practice themselves, and to induce them to do so, I ... only desire them to consider three generations, the ... precedent, the present, and the succeeding, count ... ing themselves the medium; all which have been, ... are, and may be, liable to be ridiculed hereafter, as ... well as others. I will conclude with the words ... of the poet, called false grandeur, which I shall dedi ... cate to M c K's, alias M c Woms the heathen idol, who ... made it his business to cavil and snarl at every other ... idol.
"Myso. Forbear to all him blest, ... That only boasts a large estate; ... Should all the treasures of the West, ... Meet and conspire to make him great. ... I know thy better though; I know, ... Thy reason can't descend below. ... Should a broad stream with olden lands, ... Through all his meadows roll, ... He's but a wretch with all his lands, ... That wears a narrow foot."
ROBERT WILCOX.
March 15, '96.
The 150th Hymn alluded to in the paper of ... 3d March, will be in the next paper, in a cor ... ner.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
A SONG,
"With additions and alterations," for Feb. 22d. America's political Christmas.
"Begin with the infant in his cradle, let the first word be lips be WASHINGTON; and let the grey-headed fire expire with this prayer upon his trembling lips, 'Give of good! long, long indulge this country with thy WASH- INGTON.'"
WHILE others sing of Kings, And such like titled things; To prattle in song, HEROES, in battle slain, STATESMEN, who still remain Our glory to maintain, To us belong. GOD save great WASHINGTON, Beloved's noblest son, Long to command; May every enemy, Aw'd by his virtues, flee, And be grim tyranny Bound by his hand.
God save America! Free from despotic sway, 'Till time shall cease; Long hath the din of arms Been hush'd; to war's alarms Follow'd, in all its charms, Heaven-born PEACE.
Thy name, MONTGOMERY! Still is, and e'er shall be, Prais'd in each breath; Though on the fatal plain, Thou wast untimely slain, Virtues like thine, shall gain Rescue from death.
And fain, great patriot JAY, Would we a tribute pay, To worth like thine; While all the good and wise, Thy late proceedings prize, In vain to blind our eyes, Shall knaves combine.
WILT thou great HAMILTON! Genius and virtue's son, Accept these lays; Although thy treasury Of fame, exhausted be, We give, from penury One might of praise.
But time itself would fail, Should we attempt to hail The FEDERAL BAND: Long may Columbia know, What joys from freedom flow, And ne'er may any foe Distress our land.
To be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, For ready money, on the last Wednesday in March next,
A VALUABLE tract or parcel of LAND, situ- ate on the West side of the river Shenandoah, in Berkeley county, containing 879 acres, on which are many improvements; the said land having been conveyed by George Adam Kellenberger, by a deed, bearing date the fifth day of January, 1795, to the subscriber, as a Trustee to secure and satis- fy a debt due from the said Kellenberger to Tho- mas Williams and Joseph Cary, of the town of Alexandria, within this Commonwealth, for which purpose it will be sold. The sale will commence on the premises, at the hour of eleven o'clock, and attendance for that purpose given, by CHARLES MAGILL.
February 26, 1796.
ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG,
From PHILADELPHIA,
RESPECTFULLY acquaints her Friends and the Public, that she has taken that noted Public House for several years past occupied by Mr. Flo- Mahony, where she purports to commence and conti- nue business in the same, and if close attention, a full supply of every requisite of the first qualities, necessary for the comfort, pleasure, and satisfaction of the citizen and the traveller, together with a well furnished stable and faithful attendants, will entitle her to public approbation, the flatters her- self with meeting their countenance and support. Gentlemen may be accommodated with genteel boarding.
Alexandria, 20th February, 1796.
At a meeting of Commissioners appointed by an act of the Legislature of this State, to open books and receive subscriptions for a Turnpike- Road to be made from this place to the great Falls of Potomack, a sufficient number being present to proceed in the business; they therefore hereby give notice, that a book will be opened at the court- house in the town of Alexandria, on Monday the twenty-eighth day of March next, and will be con- tinued open from nine o'clock in the morning until six in the evening, for four successive days, to re- ceive subscriptions for that purpose, when and where those who wish to become subscribers, will be pleased to attend, either in person or by proxy.
RICHARD CONWAY, JOHN POTTS, JONAH THOMPSON, WM. HODGSON, ROBERT YOUNG.
THE Trustees of the Town of Martinsburg, see- ing with great concern, an immense number of Hogs constantly running at large in the said town, contrary to the Act of Assembly establishing the same. They have moreover been frequently ap- plied to by a number of the citizens, to take mea- sures to prevent the continuance of so great a nu- isance, and to enforce the law which expressly for- bids it, and authorises any person to kill and des- troy all hogs that may be found running at large therein. They therefore give this notice to the owners of such Hogs, that after the first day of April next, they will cause the law to be strictly executed, by causing all Hogs that may be found running at large in this town, after that date, to be killed and destroyed.
PHILIP PENDLETON, EDWARD BEESON, ED. HUNTER, MOSES HUNTER, DAVID H. McKEWAN, MICHAEL M. MOHT, ROBERT M'KNIGHT, PAUL VERDIER.
Martinsburg, March 1, 1796.
A Merchant-Mill for Sale.
TO BE SOLD,
A MERCHANT MILL, with about 40 acres of Land, on which there is a small Dwelling- House, Stable, and Cooper's Shop; situated on Opeckon-Creek, about 3 miles from Martinsburg, and 7 from Shepherd's-Town. The Mill has two water wheels, two pair of stones (one of which are burs) with new bolting cloths, &c. Its situation for custom is perhaps equal to any; the land is good and most part of it may be made meadow.
A L S O,
A House and Lot in this Town.
For terms of sale, and further particulars, apply to the subscriber.
DAVID HUNTER.
Martinsburg, February 27, 1796.
To be sold by PUBLIC SALE,
On Tuesday, the 5th of April next,
A GOOD PLANTATION, containing two hundred and eighty acres of Land, within 8 miles of Martinsburg, and 3 miles from Parks's gap. On said place there is a good house, kitchen, and barn, three good springs, good meadow, be- tween thirty and forty bearing apple trees, and a young orchard of 112 trees planted out last year, and some peach and cherry trees. There are near 100 acres of cleared land, better than 60 acres now ready for a crop. There will be given four years and half for payments. The chief of the price may be made on the said place. The sale to begin at XI o'clock, when due attendance will be given by me, EBENEZER SUTTON.
February 29, 1796.
N O T I C E.
PERSONS having claims against, or who are in- debted to the estate of John Miller, late of Berkeley County, deceased, the former to render their accounts, properly attested, on or before the first day of April next, and the latter to make pay- ment by that time, as every matter respecting said estate, is allotted to be settled by the period a- bove-mentioned. Claims presented thereafter will be excluded, and this Notice pleaded in evidence. We will attend at the mansion-house of the deceas- ed, on the first day of March, and the first and se- cond days of April, in order to settle all accounts that will be offered.
HANNAH MILLER, } Executrix. ALEXANDER MILLER, } Executors. THOMAS SHARP, }
February 8, '96.
For sale at the Printing-Office, Blank Deeds of Bargain and Sale, Common Bonds.
FLOUR STORE.
THE Subscribers beg leave to inform the Far- mers, Millers, and Country Merchants, that they are provided with two large and commodious Ware-Houses, sufficient to contain Ten Thousand Barrels, and that they will thankfully receive Flour on storage, at six pence per barrel, to lie any length of time.
Joseph Riddle, and Co. Alexandria, Jan. 15, '96.
Frederick County, Long-Meadow, Jan. 28, '96.
At this place, on Monday the 21st day of March next, a public sale of the personal estate of Isaac Hite, deceased, will commence, consisting of number of Slaves, Household and Kitchen Furniture, a considerable quantity of hemp, flax, wheat, rye, barley, hemp-seed, a good clock, a corrie and a stocking-loom. Also, a great variety of other arti- cles.
Twelve months credit will be allowed the pur- chaser, by giving bond, with approved security, which if not punctually paid, interest will be char- ged from the date.
ISAAC HITE, Executor.
N O T I C E.
THOSE who stand indebted to me by bond, otherwise, are earnestly requested to make payment before the 15th day of next April, o- therwise suits will most certainly be commenced against those who fail.
MOSES HUNTER.
February 8, '96.
YOUNG FIGURE,
WILL cover this season, at the Sub- scriber's Stable, in Martinsburg, where he stood last season, at the low rate of Four Dollars the mare, paid the first day of September next, and one foal, if the mare is brought. The bulk of oats when brought, paid April, and end of season will begin the first day of May, and first day of July.
YOUNG FIGURE is a full bred horse, of a dapple grey, black mane and tail, sixteen hands and one inch high, was got by Figure, owned by Messrs. Robeson and Bennet, near Carroll's Ferry, Pennsylvania. Said Figure was got by Figure, im- ported by Dr. Hamilton to run the horse Scenam, belonging to Mr. Galaway (which was distanced the third heat by the said Figure). Young Figure's fire stood 17 years at one stable, and covered year- ly at three pounds the mare, and never lost a race till he was 15 years old, though he ran every fall from three years old, and was sold at 20 years old for 350l. The dam of Young Figure's fire was imported, and the dam of Young Figure was a full bred Janous mare. The colts of Young Figure, where he formerly stood, are allowed by good judges to be equal to any on the continent; but the appearance and activity of Young Figure will sufficiently recommend him, without any farther account of him.
ROBERT WILCOX.
February 21, '96.
TO BE SOLD,
A good Waggon and Team,
The Waggon about half worn, with cover and bags, the Team consists of four horses, with gears com- plete. Inquire of the Printer.
THE Subscriber will give for BARKE deliver- ed at his Tan-Yard, in Martinsburg, in good order, for chestnut-oak 3 1/2 dollars, for red and white oak 2 1/2 dollars, for black do. 2 1/4 dollars.
PAUL VERDIER.
Jan. 28, '96.
A valuable Plantation for sale,
SITUATE in Berkeley County, Virginia, containing 600 acres, within 3 miles of Martinsburg, on the road leading from thence to Williams-Port, equal to any land in the neighbourhood for farming, with a sufficiency of meadow ground, two standing springs very convenient to the dwelling-house, over one of which is built a stone spring house, with a number of other standing springs on the tract, a commodious dwelling-house, two barns and every other office house necessary for conven- ience, two bearing orchards, with other fruit trees, the whole in good repair. A further description thought unnecessary, as it is supposed the purcha- ser will view the premises and know the charac- ter of the land. For terms apply to the subscriber, living on the premises.
ROBERT CREIGHTON.
February 16, '96.