Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1805-06-07 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 3 of VOLUME VII.]
FRIDAY, June 7, 1805.
[WHOLE No. 315]
Cheap Goods.
THE subscriber has just received from the City of Philadelphia, and is now opening a large supply of remarkably Cheap Goods, consisting in part of 4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens, 100 pieces elegant Chintzes, and Calicoes of the newest patterns, 1 trunk Fashionable Muslins of different kinds, a handsome assortment of Dimities and Leghorn Bonnets, 4 bales India Muslins, Netkeens, Apron Checks, a handsome assortment of best Brussels Laces and Edgings, extra Long Silk Gloves, and a variety of other articles.
He has also received a large supply of
BAR-IRON,
of excellent quality and handsomely drawn;
English Blister'd and Crowley
STEEL;
Also—A parcel of good old WHISKY, distilled in Maryland.
The above Goods having been chiefly purchased for Cash, on the lowest terms, I am happy to inform my friends and the public generally, that I am now enabled to supply them, with such Merchandise as they may want, on good terms.
THOMAS C. SMITH.
Martinsburg, May 10, 1805.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
AS an Apprentice to the Printing Business, a lad from twelve to fifteen years of age, of industrious habits, of moral conduct, and whose connections are respectable. One from the country would be preferred.
J: ALBURTIS.
Intelligencer Office, } March 8, 1805. }
FOR SALE,
A PLANTATION, containing about 180 acres, about 100 of which are cleared; there is a convenient Dwelling House and Kitchen and a good Barn on the premises; near the House is a Well thirty feet deep, which never goes dry when kept clean; on one part of the Plantation there is a large and excellent Spring:—The Land is of a superior quality; it lies on the road leading from Martinsburg to Boyd's Ferry, and is about six miles from the former place.—For terms apply on the premises, or to the subscriber in Martinsburg.
IGNATIUS PRICE.
January 25, 1805.
FOR SALE,
Pursuant to the last will and testament of Robert Creighton, dec'd, a valuable
Tract of Land,
Living in the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia, three miles from the town of Martinsburg, on the road leading to Williamsport, eighty-five miles from the City of Baltimore, seventy-five from the City of Washington, and eighty miles from the town of Alexandria—containing six-hundred acres, one half cleared and under good fence, the balance well clothed with timber: There are on said land a number of never failing springs, and a sufficient quantity of Meadow: This Tract would suit well to be divided, as there are two Dwelling Houses, two Double Barns, and two Orchards of choice Fruit. It lies five miles from the river Potomak, the navigation of said river is now completed, produce may be conveyed down the river to the City of Washington and to the town of Alexandria at a small expense. For terms apply to William Riddle, of the town of Martinsburg. A good title will be made the purchaser by
WILLIAM RIDDLE, } Exr's. and Wm. CREIGHTON, } Martinsburg, February 1, 1805.
A variety of BLANKS for sale at this Office.
CHEAP GOODS.
The subscribers beg leave to inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received and are now opening a large and general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, among which are the following articles, viz.
FANCY laced and plain Cambrics, Pink, yellow, blue, black and drab do. Lawns and Linen Cambrics, Cross barred, striped, Jacomet and Book Muslins, Striped, corded and Cambric Dimities, Lute strings, Sattins, Moads & Persians, Chintzes, Calicos and American Prints, Ladies and Gentlemens elegant embroidered Hose, White and coloured ditto, Pantaloon ditto, Pink laced, pink and black, picnic, English and French extra Silk Gloves, Kid and Fawn ditto, 7-4, 6-4, and 5-4 elegant Damask Silk Shawls, A variety of Silk, neted Cambric, Book and Jacomet ditto, Scarlet, chocolate and blue Bandanae Hankerchiefs, Flag, Madrass, Catty, Longee and Pulicat ditto, Silk, Linen and Cotton Romals, with a variety of Pocket and other Handk'fs, Green, blue and dove Silk plush Bonnets, Leghorn ditto and Boilers, Wreathes, Artificial Flowers & Feathers Satin, Lute string, Surcenet, striped & cross-bar'd Fancy Ribbands, Kid, Morocco, Stuff and Leather Slippers, Silver and Ribband Ornaments, Superfine Broad Clothes & Cassimeres, Sattin, Mersailles, and Fancy-figured Janes Waistcoating, Coloured wide and narrow Nankeen, Cotton Cassimeres, A large assortment of coarse Muslins, such as Burboon Garrahs, Jallapore and Janna Lawns, and India Baltas, Irish, German and British Linens fully assorted, Striped Bed Ticking and striped Linens, Linen and Cotton Checks, Madeira, Sherry, Port and Malaga Wines, 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, French, Peach and Apple Brandies and good old Whisky. A complete assortment of Groceries—Hard-Ware and Cutlery, among which are Andvils, Visis, Cross-cut and Mill Saws, Scythes, &c. &c. Spinning Cotton and Flax—
All of which articles were selected with the greatest care, from the latest importations, and are now offering for sale at the most reduced prices, for Cash or Country Produce.
MORROW & BROWN.
Shepherd's-Town, May 24, 1805. [6u]
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed by Adam Sheets to me, for the purpose of satisfying a sum of money due from the said Adam Sheets to Andrew Waggoner, sen. will be sold at public vendue for ready money, on Saturday the 8th of June next, on the premises, a well finished two story HOUSE and Two LOTS, situate in the town of Martinsburg, and bounded on the north by Martin Street, on the west by a lot belonging to Thornburgh's heirs, on the south by Richard M'Nakon's lot, and on the east by Church Ally. The sale to begin at 12 o'clock, when due attendance will be given by
PHILIP P. WILSON, Trustee. May 17, 1805.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber by Note or Bond, are requested to discharge them immediately; and those who have open Accounts with him, are also desired to prepare to close them as soon as possible, either by giving their obligation for the amount due, or by paying them off—It is expected that this notice will be punctually attended to, as no longer indulgence can be given.
SAMUEL BOYD.
Garrard's-Town, May 24, 1805.
LANDS FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishes to sell the Plantation whereon he now lives, situate on Back Creek, Berkeley County, 7 miles from Martinsburg and 15 from Bath, containing 333 acres of good strong Limestone Land, well watered, with at least 7 springs—150 acres are cleared and well enclosed, 8 acres of Meadow are made, and more Meadow land; the remainder of the tract is well covered with fine timber.—On the premises are a convenient Dwelling House, newly finished Kitchen, a large Barn, Distillery, Fulling Mill, and some out houses with a number of Fruit trees.—There is a good mill-seat, with a sufficiency of water, on this tract.
He will also sell one other tract of Land, situate on the river Potomak, near Richardson's Ferry, containing 102 acres, 40 of which are cleared, the greater part river bottom, the remainder of the Land is well timbered, and has a large sugar-camp on it—a small House is now built, and logs ready for raising a larger one. For terms apply to the subscriber.
WILLIAM SNODGRASS.
Back Creek, June 22, 1804.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber, having declined his Mercantile business, now offers his property in Garrard's-Town (alias Middle-Town) Berkeley County, for rent; there are four half-acre lots, three of which corners on the main street and a 20 feet alley; on one is a good Dwelling House and stone Kitchen, with a good Spring of limestone water in the cellar, also a Wash and Smoke House, Barn, Stables, Corn House, &c. all in good repair; on one other Lot opposite is a large Garden and a convenient Granary on the corner; on the opposite side of the street is a Lot, on which is erected a large Store-House, Counting House and Ware-House, under one roof, with a large dry cellar, and every convenience necessary for a Merchant, which has been occupied as a Store for 18 years, and is equal to any stand in the district for doing an extensive business in the retail way, and is well worth the notice of any industrious man in that line. Possession will be given on the 20th of May next, or perhaps sooner if required. For terms apply to the subscriber at his residence adjoining said town.
WILLIAM WILSON.
Prospect-Hill, April 26, 1805.
The following animated Discourse is the production of an author whose literary labours have already commanded the admiration of his countrymen, and cast a strong gleam of hope upon his subsequent exertions. It was written at the particular request of a respectable Clergyman, who was delineating and lamenting the prevailing immorality of the youth of Virginia. "Give me," (exclaimed the young author, as his eye pursued a circle of intoxicated young men, who were passing the steps of the capitol,) "give me an appropriate text, and I will attempt to sketch out a picture of these melancholy vices, which shall equally address itself to the sensibility of the sceptic or the faithful; of the man, who has placed his happiness on this world, and of him who has looked forward to futurity: I will see whether I cannot combine in one piece, the maxims of morality and the exhortations of the Christian religion." The text was given. The genius of the author was called into action: and the following impressive discourse was the result of his labors. Need we ask the reader, whether he does not perceive in it the almost imitable grace of style, and the bewitching power of picturesque description which animate and adorn the
THE LAY-PREACHER?
To a person of reflection and sensibility there cannot be a subject of more painful thought than that which the morals of our youth present. In many of them we observe the brightest colours of the human character, almost totally e-
clipsed by the foulest immoralities. We see them triumphing in vice as a proof of distinguished merit and refinement; and permitting their passions to shoot wild in all the dreadful luxuriance of folly and guilt. Amid this wide extended ravage of talents and virtue, it becomes not the man of benevolence to sit idle. Silence would be treason to society. Let us unite, then, in the arduous, yet delightful task of guiding the steps of inexperienced youth. Let us point their passions to Heaven and teach them to burn with holy love. Let us teach them that the happiness even of this earth consists not in brutal enjoyments and in the debasement of their faculties; but that to be really happy it is necessary that their affections be pure, their objects be innocent, their minds clear, serene and steady; and that the feeblest pulse of conscious virtue distributes more genuine bliss through the system, than all the spasms and convulsions of libertine pursuits.
Fully remarked of virtue and vice, that in order to render the latter disgustingly repulsive, and the former irresistibly attractive, nothing more would be necessary than to personify them; to make them the objects of human sight; to display them naked to the eye; instead of describing them to the mind of man. I know not what effect such an exhibition might have on the frigid hearts and inveterate habits of advanced age; but on a youthful mind I am persuaded that the impression would be deep and strong. In vain would vice beckon them to her embrace, while her phrenzied face, her gorgon looks, her distempered gesture would drive back the current of blood upon their hearts and chill it all with horror. Virtue, on the other hand with placid mien and sweetest smile, would wake into life each generous affection, touch their souls with rapture; and stretching forth her arm of snow would only have to bid them come, to be obeyed. Thus would the pencil delineate them. Ours is a more difficult task. We speak not to the eye, through which the vivid communication is so direct, so rapid, so resistless. We address a slower organ and must solicit patience.
The words of our text present an immense subject. They might lead us to descend on the lust of pride, the lust of dominion, the lust of fame and renown, and all the great as well as little passions of misguided youth. Let us limit our remarks within a narrower sphere, and select from the cluster of youthful lusts, one which is more fashionable, and perhaps more detrimental to them in every point of view, than any other with which the present age is scourged: I mean the illicit indulgence of that passion which was given to us for the preservation of the human species. Considered merely with reference to this life I know not a more deadly antidote to bliss than this lawless tyrant over man. How often does it dig the grave for genius and character! How are all the energies of the mind unstrung by its excess; all the affections of the heart deadened or impoisoned; every virtuous propensity put to flight and the charms of chaste society lost and forgotten. Mark the youth today! See his cheeks crimsoned with the stream of heat; his eyes beaming intelligence; his smiling lip portraying the peace which presides over his breast; and his step how firm, elastic and sprightly. Attend to his conversation. Hear the depth of remark; the nice discrimination, the flash of fancy; the affecting sentiment of virtue, and the tone of eloquence. Every object lends a spring to his feelings or his reflections. He looks abroad on the scenery of nature and his heart beats with the sweetest agitation. He surveys the course of the planets, "Wheeling unshaken through the void immense,"
and his soul kindles with religious fervor. He traces on the page of history the revolutions of the earth, and experiences every change of emotion and sentiment; he applies the incidents of other nations to his own, and by the fate of one foretells that of the other; glowing in the pursuit of knowledge he watches the operations of his own mind and feelings; he scrutinizes those of others—

He observes the human character in all its grave, as well as eccentric movements. In short he is alive to all around him, and presents to an admiring world the interesting spectacle of a youth combining the most sublime faculties, the most vigilant observation, and the warmest virtues. Mark the youth a few months after his resurrection from the bed of sin. Gracious heaven! can this be the same! Where is the vigorous gesture, and the eye of fire, the form and manly voice, and the roseate bloom of health—See how feebly his emaciated form totters along! Fled are the roses from his cheek, dim the lustre of his eye, fallen his visage, and his voice once all melody, is now nothing more than tremulous discord. Or grant that his health may yet remain, his soul, the breath of heaven, is sullied. No more are we enlightened by the profound remark; no more are we astonished at the brilliant flight of imagination; no more are we attracted by the amiable sentiment of virtue! His mind once so active, so excursive, so towering, now grovels and slumbers in the dust! All its gay and rich creation of ideas has vanished like a vision of enchantment, and all its glory is extinguished! His heart too that once beat responsive to every call of virtue, that melted o'er the tale of pity, glowed indignant at the picture of cruelty, and rose into extatic actions of generosity and magnanimity, whether have all its delicate sensibilities fled! Scattered and hurled to ruin before the black storm of vice. Melancholy reverse! See with what grim discontent he scowls on that creation, the view of which once gave him pleasure? The stars that lately beamed delight to him now become his accusers and prate his midnight excesses; and what of all other is the most heart-affecting change, that hand which but a few months ago was stretched forth in friendship and respect to greet him, now points at him "the slow unmoving finger of scorn!" Whither shall he look for happiness!—For happiness, do I say! whither shall he fly for refuge. The frightful phantoms of his ruined hopes start in gloomy array before his imagination and haunt him to madness! Despair, distraction in every feature; he is reduced to the bitter alternative of pondering in solitude on the wreck of his fame, or of assuaging for a moment the burning stings of conscience by a repetition of the crime—Miserable remedy as if every new transgression did not lend an additional thong to the envenomed scourge of reflection.
Is this fancy or is it fact? Let me appeal to the man who has made a progress in this crime, whether bliss is not a stranger to his breast?—Nay whether it is not the principal employment of his life to fly from the tormenting alarms of thought?—Whether the clouds of ignominy and contempt which surround him, do not assume a darkness infinitely more dismal, when he remembers the splendor with which the sun of his youth arose?—Whether he does not sigh with regret for the chaste society which he has forfeited, and whether in the paroxysms of his anguish he does not even pray for annihilation.
Well may he pray for it, for if the displeasure of this world be so intolerable, what will the displeasure of heaven be? When his soul, divested of its earthly tenement, and with it, of all the artifices with which he was wont to drown the clamors of conscience, shall have no other employment than to survey its own contamination; to behold at a distance the extatic world of saints and angels, and to writhe under the vengeance of an offended God:—With what colour of plausibility can the libertine hope for future happiness? If his vices render him an unfit companion for the more respectable part of the human race, can he be a fit companion for the immaculate purity of souls emparadised? Or suppose he were admitted to that blessed society, what happiness could he taste? Let him appeal to his experience on earth. What is the scene of his pleasures? the company of the virtuous? No, from such, his soul shrinks back, like the bird of night from the meridian effulgence of the sun. No, he seeks his pleasures in a circle whose every habit and sentiment, whose every look, word and deed is pollution and guilt. Could he hope for peace then if he were admitted into the bosom of heaven? No, to him every cherubic smile would be a dagger; every hem a draught of the deadliest poison.
If then the libertine knows no real joys on this earth and can know none hereafter; if, on the contrary, his life is a perpetual flight from an accusing conscience! If his practices tend (as they certainly do) to the degradation of his in-
tellects, to the destruction of his character and tranquility here and to his perdition in that life which shall never end, I would demand of him what object his crimes give him sufficiently to balance all this havoc? Is the insidious and mercenary smile of a prostitute, an equivalent for temporal and eternal ruin? What pity is it that every man's lips will answer this question in the negative while their lives give it an affirmative answer; what pity is it that while the road to peace and character here and to bliss in the realms of neverfading light is so simple, so obvious, so direct, that youth forever deviate into the wilderness of vice. The time will come when this choice shall be repented of!—God send that it be not too late; when death shall dissolve the charm which had fettered their senses and when repentance shall have no merit; this view of the subject is too painful. Let us rather indulge the hope of reformation.
The arguments in its favor are so strong that in order to be effectual they need only to be considered. On the one hand temperance, health, wisdom, honor, respectability, peace: on the other, intemperance, disease, infamy and misery. Pause and weigh this statement. Pause e'er dissipation shall have scattered abroad the bloom of youthful beauty and consigned your names to indelible disgrace. Pause e'er the anger of heaven shall overtake you; when your tears of supplication and screams of terror shall be mocked; when you shall exclaim amid the horrors of eternal ruin "O! that I had obeyed the injunction of St. Paul! O! that I had fled youthful lusts."
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From the Vermont Journal. Mr. ELLIOT to his CONSTITUENTS. LETTER VI.
OF the Georgia Mississippi Territory, the state of Georgia, by an act of their legislature passed Jan. 7, 1795, sold about twenty-two millions, (some say forty millions) of acres to four different companies, and the purchase money, amounting to half a million of dollars, a very trifling compensation indeed for so large a territory, was paid into the treasury of Georgia. The original grantees soon after sold this land in shares of various descriptions, principally to gentlemen in the eastern and middle states. On the 10th of Feb. 1796, the succeeding legislature of Georgia passed an act, declaring the former "usurped act" null and void; and all the grants, rights, and claims arising therefrom, of no validity or effect; and that the said territory was the sole property of the state. This legislature also ordered that, in their presence, and that of the public officers of the state, the several records, documents and deeds, in the several public offices, should be "expunged from the faces and indexes of the books of record of the state; and the enrolled law, or usurped act, publicly burnt." To give greater solemnity to a scene so extraordinary, it has been said that the law and records, like the messengers of Azariah, were consumed with fire from heaven; by flames excited from the sun in his meridian. Whether this account be correct or not most certainly the sun never shone on a more singular transaction. Admitting that the members of the legislature of 1795 were interested in their own grant, as contended by their successors and the terms of the grant furnish, aside from other evidence, a strong presumption against their integrity, yet it cannot be doubted that the legislature of 1797 would have had the same right to annul the rescinding act of 1795, as the legislature of 1796 possessed to destroy the granting act of 1795, and so ad infinitum . Until now it had never been doubted that the supreme legislative power of every community possessed the power of granting its vacant lands and such grants had been considered as pledging the faith of the community. If they can be rescinded by succeeding legislatures, of the people themselves, public faith is but a name, or at most but a snare for the unwary. Besides it is repugnant to the principles of natural equity, that a legislative body should sit in judgment upon the acts of their predecessors, and "damn them to everlasting fame," unheard and unconvicted—Whether or not the grant of 1795 was void on the ground of corruption, was a judicial and not a legislative question.
The United States have always held a claim or pretended claim, to this territory. I have been told that it was the opinion of one of our ablest politicians that we had a good title; but this may
well be doubted. Many proceedings in the general government, however, from time to time, gave strong colour of title to Georgia, if they did not expressly recognize her claim. And as a principle to govern in this case, it is stated, that in courts of equity it has been established "that the true owner of land shall be bound by a sale of a stranger who has no title, if the owner suffer the sale to go on by an innocent purchaser, without giving notice of his title when it was in his power; and that the case is much stronger against the owner when he has given a colour or title to the seller, and thus helped to deceive the purchaser." The claim of the United States is not immediately connected with the question between the legislative grantors and the private grantees of Georgia; she finding herself embarrassed by these various claims, and the very singular situation of that business, ceded the whole territory to the United States for a very small consideration, accompanied with a mutual stipulation that the U. States should appropriate 5,000,000 of acres to satisfy the claimants, at the discretion of the United States. It is a plain principle of law that no subsequent purchaser shall avoid a precedent purchase on the ground of fraud, but a purchaser for valuable consideration. If the United States are purchasers for a valuable consideration, they are purchasers from Georgia, and they now claim under the title of Georgia. For if any believe that the claimants of an earlier date than 1795 have any just claims upon the state of Georgia; the public faith of the union must therefore be considered as at least tacitly pledged to appropriate at least the greater part of the five millions of acres for the claimants under the act of 1795. A bill passed the preliminary stages, authorising commissioners, to settle with the claimants generally limited in their chief operations to the appropriations of five millions of acres. Mr. Randolph opposed this bill with all the powers of his eloquence, and when he found that it was likely to pass, he arrested its progress by the introduction of a set of resolutions, calculated to establish an inquisitorial and censorial power in Congress over the state governments, declaring the legislature of Georgia of 1795 to have been corrupt, justifying the proceedings of the legislature of 1796, authorising the state legislature or even the people themselves to rescind contracts in which the public faith is pledged, and declaring that the United States were under no obligation to appropriate any part of the five millions of acres to the satisfaction of the claimants under the act of 1795, and that no part should be so appropriated. That I may not be accused of misrepresenting the language or the object of those very extraordinary resolutions, I will transcribe them from the speech of the mover, and reserve my comments upon them for my next letter.
1. Resolved, That the legislature of the state of Georgia were at no time invested with the power of alienating the right of soil possessed by the good people of that state, in and to the vacant territory of the same, but in a rightful manner and for the general good.
2. That when the governors of any people shall have betrayed the confidence reposed in them, and shall have exercised that authority with which they have been invested for the general welfare to promote their own private ends, under the basest motives, and to the public detriment, it is the inalienable right of a people, thus circumstanced, to revoke the authority thus abused, to resume the rights thus attempted to be bartered, to abrogate the act thus endeavouring to betray them.
3. That it is in evidence to this House that the act of the legislature of Georgia passed on the 9th January, 1795, entitled, &c. was passed by persons under the influence of gross and palpable corruption, practised by the granters of the lands attempted to be alienated by the aforesaid act, tending to enrich and aggrandize, to a degree almost incalculable, a few individuals, and ruinous to the public interest.
4. That the good people of Georgia, impressed with general indignation at this act of atrocious perfidy and unparallelled corruption with a promptitude and decision highly honourable to them, did, by the act of a subsequent legislature passed on the 13th day of February 1796, under circumstances of peculiar solemnity, and finally sanctioned by the people, who have subsequently engrafted it on their constitution, declare the preceding act and the grants made under it in themselves null and void; that the said act should be expunged from the records of the state and publicly burnt;
which was accordingly done; provision, at the same time being made, for restoring the pretended purchase money to the grantees, by whom, or by persons claiming under them, the greater part of the said purchase money has been withdrawn from the treasury of Georgia.
5. That a subsequent legislature of an individual state has an undoubted right to repeal any act of a preceding legislature, provided such repeal be not forbidden by the constitution of such state or of the United States.
6. That the aforesaid act of the state of Georgia (the rescinding act) was forbidden neither by the constitution of that state, nor by that of the United States.
7. That the claims of persons derived under the aforesaid act (the corrupt act of the 7th Jan. 1795) are recognized, neither by any compact between the United States and the state of Georgia, nor by any act of the federal government.
8. Therefore Resolved, That no part of the five millions of acres reserved for satisfying and quieting claims to the lands ceded by the state of Georgia, to the United States, and appropriated by the act of Congress passed at their last session, ought to be appropriated to quiet or compensate any claims, derived under any pretended act of the state of Georgia, passed or alleged to have been passed, during the year 1795.
JAMES ELLIOT.
BOSTON, May 15.
Of the European War. —Some conversation has recently passed, and much curiosity been excited by rumors of Peace in Europe. We have with considerable attention, looked over most of the London papers, received by the late arrival, to ascertain whether there be a nominal prospect of Peace. Much dependence is placed upon the eventual determination of Russia. Her language has been extremely ambiguous, and her conduct indecisive. However, whether the continental powers enter vigorously into war against France or not, it seems certain, that Great Britain must still continue in a hostile position. If other powers will not co-operate with her, so as to enable her to undertake offensive measures, with a prospect of success, she must continue to act on the defensive. Whilst Bonaparte retains the power, which he now possesses in the north of Europe, the safety of Great Britain lies in her vigilant, active, and vigorous support of the war. In war, she may resist the attacks, and defy the utmost efforts of France; but in Peace the arts and influence of the Gallic emperor, under present circumstances, are irresistible. The language of Great Britain must now most decidedly be—MY VOICE IS STILL FOR WAR.
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
A letter received in town from Malta, of the date of 16th March, states "that the American squadron sailed three days previous, on different routes, in search of 6 Tripolitan privateers, which they learned were out on a cruise. One Neapolitan vessel which had been captured by them, was retaken off the island of Stromboli, and had arrived at Malta."
May 27.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By the arrival of the brig Superb , capt. Besworth, from Liverpool, we have been supplied with London and Liverpool papers to the 22d April. Among the few articles we have been enabled to select from the latest dates, will be observed, That very important dispatches had been received from Russia, and that they were understood to be highly favourable to the prosecution of the war; that the Grand Secret Expedition had actually sailed; that the naval armaments in the ports of France, Spain and Holland had made many dispositions for putting to sea, having received on board large quantities of troops and military stores.
Lord Hawkesbury is said to have been appointed to the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord Harrowby succeeds to the Secretaryship of the Home Department.
TOULON FLEET OUT.
LATER AND IMPORTANT.
Capt. Folger, arrived here on Saturday, in 35 days from Lisbon, is the bearer of the very interesting intelligence of the escape of the French fleet from Toulon. He states that on the 14th April the Doric transport ship, captain Lamb, arrived at Lisbon, despatched from Sir J. Orde, off Cape St.

Vincents, to the British Minister, with news of the Toulon fleet being off Cadiz consisting of 10 sail of the line and 4 frigates; that the D. fence of 74 guns, narrowly escaped being taken as she lay with her yards and topmasts down when the French fleet was in sight. The English Minister at Lisbon, immediately ordered out two Packets the Ophelia frigate and a Gun brig, then in port, with dispatches for England; the brig was however obliged to put back having sprung her bowsprit and foremast in crossing the Bar—45 hours after sailing, Capt. F. spoke the British fleet under Sir J. Orde, consisting of two 74's and 3 frigates only, standing for England.
Capt. F. further advises, that the French minister had arrived at Lisbon, and was escorted from Belleisle Castle to the city by the nobility and Prince Horse Guards. Jerome Bonaparte had set out for France by the way of Madrid; and his lady was a passenger on board the Etna, which came out of Lisbon in company with Capt. F. bound for Amsterdam.
Accounts had been received at Lisbon of the capture of two valuable Brazilian ships off the Isle of Corvo by the Algerine squadron.
In corroboration of the intelligence brought by Capt. Folquier, we learn, that Capt. Trefethen, arrived at Portsmouth, on Thursday last, from Merseilles, reports, that on the 8th April, about 10 leagues E. of Gibraltar, he passed the Toulon fleet, of 19 sail of vessels, viz. 11 ships of the line, of which 3 were of 80 guns, 6 frigates and 2 brigs, having on board 7 or 8000 chosen troops, commanded by Gen. Lauriston; on the 9th he again passed the fleet in the Gut, then steering W.
LONDON, April 19.
EXTRAORDINARY ANECDOTE.
A respectable morning paper has published the following intelligence which was communicated to the editor in a letter written by a gentleman at Yarmouth, and dated 12th inst.
"Jean De. St. Faust, who commanded and was taken on board, L'Honneur Schooner, by his majesty's sloop of war, the Scorpion, Carteret, relates the following, which he declared to have taken place a few evenings prior to his quitting Paris.
"Bonaparte had commanded a play at the Theatre Francaise, and in the usual style of sovereigns, he appeared there with a brilliant retinue, and a very numerous guard. The house overflowed in every part. He was seated in his box and the curtain about to rise, when an Orange apparently artificial, was thrown upon the stage: several voices exclaimed "Ouvrez, Orange!" (open the Orange!) The cry was repeated and re-echoed in every part of the house.
A man immediately came forward and in compliance with the universal wish opened the Orange, wherein he found a paper containing a 20-livre piece of gold coin. Several voices exclaimed, "Lisez le papier. Lisez le papier!" Read the paper. Read the paper. It was again repeated with like earnestness and enthusiasm as before, the house resounding in many parts with the tumultuous outcry. But before he complied the cautious actor looked towards the Imperial Box, when Bonaparte fanning it might be some adulatory compliment to himself, nodded assent. The house was silent as the grave: When the actor read aloud the following words:
"Fiez, le Garde, prenez votre Louis!"
"Renoncez the Corsican, and restore your Louis."
"The rapturous bursts of applause which ensued from every part of the house on these words being uttered, was not described; it appeared to rend the house. Bonaparte heard it as his knell, and quitting the Theatre, returned to his palace in the utmost confusion and dismay."
MARTINSBURG, June 7.
We feel it to be our duty to direct the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Messrs. Bradford and Conrad, & Co. in this day's paper, who it will be seen, have issued proposals for republishing that vast work, entitled "Rees's New Cyclopaedia;" a work that contains a Library of valuable information on almost every possible subject, and at a comparatively trifling expense of time, may make himself in a degree master of every science. The public spirit of those who have the courage to undertake, and
the capital to execute such a work, surely deserve the patronage of the public.
It is the design of the publishers to annex, in addition to the maps in the London edition, a map of the United States, besides one of every state in the Union. The typography it is expected will do credit to our country, and the engravings, will, instead of disfiguring as it must be confessed is too commonly the case, serve not only to illustrate but to adorn.
It is not from mere difference of opinion, in matters of government, that the federalists are so constant and so zealous in their opposition to the ruling party in this country; but solely to the intriguing and dishonorable practice which it has invariably pursued, in gaining that ascendancy it now possesses. The leaders of the party, well knew, that nine tenths of mankind, in this as well as in every other country, were either incompetent to judge thoroughly of political matters, or were too indolent to investigate them; and consequently were easily to be flattered and deceived. Believing this, they have tried the experiment, and found it too generally successful. The federalists, on the other hand, have been open and honest in their appeals to the public; they have advocated no doctrines, which have not the test of experience to prove their correctness; they have warned their fellow-citizens to beware of the deceit daily practised upon them, by artful, and malicious writers—many of whom, are hired to do the dirty drudgery of the party; they have shown the final issue of Republican revolutions, not only in France, but in all precedent time; and what has this conduct availed? Truly very little—it may have chained the wheels of democracy, in its downward course of national degradation, and thus prevented a precipitate destruction; but it has not totally stopped its progress; the work is still progressing; and it is feared, nothing less than the interposition of Providence, can save us from all the horrors of disunion, anarchy and civil wars—for truly has the poet said.
TRUTHS would you teach, to save a sinking land; All read, none aid you, and few understand.
[Boston Gaz.]
MARKET REGULATIONS.
Made at a meeting of the Trustees of the Town of Martinsburg, June 5, 1805.
Be it enacted, that from and after the 7th day of this month, no person shall be allowed to sell any kind of Butcher's meat within the limits of the said Town, on any day, except in the Market-House, before the hour of nine o'clock in the morning; and that the buyer and seller, in such case, shall each be liable to a fine of one dollar, recoverable before any justice of the peace for said County—alleging and regulations coming within the purview of this act, is hereby repealed.
Be it further enacted, that the law authorising a tax of six and a half cents, on each quarter of mutton, veal or pork, is so amended, that each quarter of each of the said meats and lamb, shall pay the aforesaid tax on each quarter, whether sold whole or cut.
HUGH V. PATTERSON.
June 6, 1805.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against cutting wood on, or carrying it away from the plantation of the subscriber near Martinsburg; from fishing through his meadows, from throwing down his fences, and from committing any other unlawful depredations thereon, as he is determined to prosecute every person so offending.
JOSEPH PLUMMER, and JAMES MENDENHALL.
6th Month 6, 1805.
WILL be offered for sale on the 20th inst. my PLANTATION, lying on the drains of Tuscarora, about 5 miles from Martinsburg and the same distance from Garrard's-Fown, containing about 60 acres, with a considerable proportion of Meadow ground which may be watered, also cleared land, a variety of Fruit trees, which are now in full bearing and never fail to bear, a convenient dwelling House, and other houses; it is presumed the purchaser will view the premises, therefore a further description is thought needless.—Also, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and a variety of Farming Utensils. The sale to begin about ten o'clock, when the conditions will be made known, and due attendance given by
JOSEPH PLUMMER, and JAMES MENDENHALL. 6th Month 6, 1805.
SUMMER GOODS.
THE subscriber has just received and is now opening, an elegant assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
suitable for the present season, which he takes the liberty of offering to his friends and the public in general uncommonly cheap, consisting in part of the following articles, and a number of others too tedious for insertion:
 Dowlas and Ticklingburgs,  Russia Sheetings and Drillings,  Brown Holland,  9-8 Irish Sheetings,  4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens,  10-4 Damask Table Cloths,  4-4 and 5-4 Diaper Linen,  9-8 and 12-8 Apron Checks,  Furnans and Jeans,  Nankeens,  Cotton Hosery,  Mouselles Vest shapes,  Silk and Cotton Suspenders,  Umbrellas,  Fashionable Chintzes and Calicos,  Low priced ditto,  Coloured Cambric Muslins,  Low priced ditto,  Dineties, uncommonly cheap,  12-8 Damask Silk Shawls,  Extra long pic nic silk Gloves,  A variety of elegant Laces and Edgings, low priced,  Lutestring and coloured Sattins,  Ribbons,  Book and Jacquet Muslins,  Morocco and Kid Shoes,  A large assortment of Extra and Habit Silk Gloves. 
THE above mentioned articles are of a superior quality, and to be had at very reduced prices. The subscriber has also received a complete assortment of
Groceries and Hard-Ware;
He has Waldron's Grass and Cradling Scythes, Moiland and Crum Creek Whet Stones, and in a few days shall receive a large quantity of LONG'S SICKLES; He assures his friends and customers generally, that he will sell those articles on very accommodating terms, and begs leave to solicit their custom as usual.
PHILIP NADEBOUSCH.
Martinsburg, June 7, 1805.
Bolting Cloths.
MEMINGER & COOPER, in addition to their supply of Seasonable
GOODS,
have received from the importer, for sale on his account, an assortment of 5-4 and 6-4 BOLTING CLOTHS, of the Dreie Kengen Manufactory—also a Glass to examine the quality.
June 6, 1805.
Dr. E.O. Williams
HAS removed to Shepherd's-Town, opposite to Mr. Baker's, with a handsome assortment of
MEDICINE,
and a determination to attend particularly to the practice of Physic, Surgery, Midwifery, &c. for the good of mankind. June 7, 1805.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the subscriber on the 29th March last, a light sorrel HORSE, about six years old, bushy mane, set tail and carries it on one side, a large star and snip, white feet and is a natural trotter; also, a dark bay or brown MARE, about seven years old, has a very small star on her forehead, a switch tail, and trots and canters well; also, a 3 year old sorrel FILLY, long tail and white feet. The horse was raised below Fauquier Court House, Virginia, and it is probable they will go that way. Whoever has taken up the said horses and gives information to the printer hereof, shall have the above reward, and if brought home all reasonable expenses paid.
NICHOLAS CLOPPER. Chambersburg, (Pen.) May 25, 1805.
DR. REES'S New Cyclopaedia.
S. F. Bradford and J. Conrad & Co.
Are preparing to publish by subscription
The New Cyclopaedia;
OR, UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, IN TWENTY VOLUMES QUARTO.
Formed upon a more enlarged plan or arrangement than the Dictionary of Mr. Chambers.
COMPREHENDING, The various articles of that work, with additions and improvements, together with new subjects of Biography, Geography, and History, and adapted to the present improved state of Literature and Science—
By ABRAHAM REES, D.D.F.R.S. Editor of the last edition of Chambers's Dictionary; with the assistance of eminent professional gentlemen.
Illustrated with new plates, including Maps engraved for the work, by some of the most distinguished artists. The whole improved and adapted to this country, by a gentleman of known abilities, by whose aid it will be rendered the most complete work of the kind that has yet appeared.
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 1. The work will be printed in large quarto, with new types, cast for the purpose, on a superfine woven paper.  2. It will be comprised in about twenty volumes, from eight hundred to a thousand pages each.  3. An half volume, in boards, will be regularly published every two months, price Three Dollars, payable on delivery. No advance will be required.  4. Any subscriber, who, upon receipt of the first half volume, does not approve of the work, shall be at liberty to withdraw his name.  5. Between six and seven hundred plates, engraved in a superior style of elegance, will be comprised in the course of the publication; by far a greater number than is to be found in any other Scientific Dictionary. At the close of the publication will be delivered an elegant frontispiece, the dedication, preface, and proper title pages for the different volumes.  6. The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained.  7. A list of the names of those who subscribe will be published in the last volume as patrons of this great and magnificent work. 
Subscriptions received by John Bell, Winchester, Thomas Toole, Shepherd's-Town, and John Alburtis, Martinsburg.
CAME to the plantation of the subscriber on the 4th instant, an Iron-Gray MARE, fifteen and a half hands high, a large white spot on each side of her back, about eight or nine years old, no brand, strong made, and shod before. The said estrap has been appraised according to law, and valued at 80 dollars. The owner is desired to prove property, pay charges and take her away.
ALEXANDER DOUGHERTY. Berkeley County, June 7, 1805.
MARTINSBURG SCHOOL-ROOM.
THE subscribers to the said school will take notice that the vernal examination of the Pupils of the said School-room, will take place on Saturday the 22d day of June at 3 o'clock P.M. at which time the Pupils will exhibit their elocutionary exercises and dramatic pieces.
Tickets for admission to the Exhibition, price twelve and a half cents, may be had of the subscriber.
J. BOND.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed by William M'Causland to me, for the purpose of satisfying a sum of money due from said M'Causland to William Burns, sen. will be sold at public vendue, on the premises, on the 2nd day of Berkeley June Court, at 2 o'clock, P.M. the HOUSE and LOT now in the occupancy of the said M'Causland, situate in Martin Street, in the town of Martinsburg, and known in the general plan of said town by Lot No. 132. The House is built of Brick, one and an half stories high, tolerably well finished; the Lot is well enclosed and is an excellent one for a Garden.
WM. BURNS, Jur. Trustee. June 7, 1805.

ODE TO MODESTY.
N YMPH of the downcast eye, Sweet blushing modesty, Whose mien supplies the music of the tongue, Thy charms were still delay'd, Thy beauties unportray'd Though Fancy pencil'd while the Mus- es sung,
More lovely to my sight Than Morn's returning light That wakes the lovely dew encumbered rose; Or mingling into day, With light and purer ray, Its mellow lustre o'er the landscape throws.
Oh thou the more admired, Whose seeming most retired Who far from pomp and grandeur lov'st to dwell; Thou who art often seen Upon the village green, Or in the cottage, or the humbler cell.
Come, sweet nymph, and bring with thee Thy sister, dear Simplicity . Come gentle exile of Patana's shore, And draw the veil by fashion rent a- side, Forbid each eye promiscuous to explore Those latent beauties Nature meant to hide.
Illumine the cheek that recently display'd At once the lily's and the morning's glow; E'en in thy absence health begins to fade, And see the crimson yielding to the snow.
And when thou com'st, more grateful than the spring, Crown'd with green garland, after Winter's reign; With all the blessings this instruction bring, And let the moral echo round the plain.
Those charms so fair were far more love- ly still, If obvious only to the mental eye, Those beauties, form'd the ravish'd heart to thrill, Expos'd to all will soon that power deny,
Thy smiles, so open to the vulgar sight, Were soon unheeded as the mid-day beam; That bosom gives more exquisite de- light Conceal'd—and throbbing but in fan- cy's dream.
Arabia's perfumes lavish'd on the breeze Soon grow familiar to the sated sense, And each attempt that beauty makes to please, Devoid of modesty, but gives offence.
The lofty fruit, that toil to reach de- mands, Acquir'd, a richer recompence be- stows; And the rude thorn, that guards from vulgar hands, But gives a higher value to the rose. &
***** T HE Subscriber returns his most grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the public for the encourage- ment he has experienced, and respect- fully informs them that he has just re- ceived, and will constantly keep for sale at his Blacksmith's shop in the main street Martinsburg opposite to the In- dian Chief Tavern, a very large and complete assortment of
BAR-IRON,
of the best quality, selected with care by himself from the Iron Works, and which he will dispose of on the most reduced terms. He continues as usual to carry on the Blacksmith's business in all its va- rious branches, and flatters himself, that if good materials, manufactured in the most serviceable manner, together with the strictest attention to business, can secure the public favour, he shall not go unrewarded.
Any purchaser can, with convenience and dispatch have any quantity of Iron cut and bent if necessary.
JOSEPH CHAMBERS. Martinsburg, March 29, 1805
Pay your Taxes.
To all whom it may concern, NOTICE is hereby given, that the Taxes for the last year have be- come due, and are now distrainable, and as I am determined to make my collec- tions within the time prescribed by law, all persons concerned are requested to be prepared to discharge their Taxes when called upon, as no indulgence can be gi- ven.
ALEX: PORTERFIELD, D. S. Berkeley County. } May 31, 1805. }
T HE subscriber acquaints his friends and the public that he has removed to his own place, near Hopewell- Meeting-House, on the main road lead- ing from Martinsburg to Winchester, where he intends to pursue the business of CLOCK MAKING and WATCH RE- PAIRING , on an extensive plan—He has still in his employ, that celebrated Watch Repairer, John Grove .—His Martins- burg customers are informed that any work they may want done, will be faith- fully attended to by leaving their orders with John Hooper of that place, to whose care the work will be returned when fi- nished.
REES BRANSON. 5th Month, 31, 1805.
R AN away from near the White-Post in Frederick County, on Sunday the 28th of April last, a Negro Man , named JOHN , about 18 years of age, he is about 5 feet 8 inches high, stout made, and has a remarkable scar on one of his cheeks occasioned by a burn, had on a dark coloured cloth roundabout, lead coloured casimere pantalettes, and an old wool hat. Twenty Dollars Re- ward will be paid for apprehending and returning said negro to the subscriber, or securing him in jail so that he gets him again.
SAMUEL DUNAWAY. May 31, 1805.
W ILL be sold at public vendue on Saturday the 15th of June next, on the premises, Lot No. 223, situate in the town of Martinsburg, on which is erected a tolerably convenient Dwell- ing House—An indisputable title will be made the purchaser. On the same day I will also dispose of a variety of Household Furniture, &c. A liberal credit will be given, and the terms made known on the day of sale.
THOMAS WILSON. May 31, 1805.
Lewis & Robert Willis,
Have just received and are now opening
a variety of SPRING and SUMMER
GOODS.
Selected from the newest and most fash- ionable importations, together with a general assortment of
  Queen's Ware,  Glass Ware,    Hard Ware,  Sadlery & Cutlery.    They have also on hand,    Imperial,  French Brandy,    Hyson,  Sherry,    Hyson Skin,  Port & } Wines.    Souchong & } Bohea,  Lisbon, }    Country twilled  Holland Gin,    Bags,  N. E. Rum,    Spinning Cotton,  Rye Whiskey, &    Crowley and Blistered Steel, &c. &c.  Apple Brandy,  
All of which they are determined to sell unusually low for Cash , or approved of Country Produce . They are with much respect, the public's obliged and humble servants.
Martinsburg, April 12, 1805.
W ITH a view of promoting the ge- neral interests of Learning and Virtue in our country, at the same time that he is necessarily employed in super- intending the education of his sons, the subscriber has just opened a Grammar School in Shepherd's-Town, where be- sides the Latin and Greek Languages, and some of the most useful Sciences, the elements of English Grammar will be carefully taught, and particular pains taken to enable the pupil to speak and write his native tongue with propriety and elegance. The price of tuition for the Learned Languages and science will be $20 per annum; for the English Grammar $16; one half of each session to be paid in advance.
MOSES HOGE. Shepherd's-Town, May 3, 1805.
PROPOSALS By J. D. DIETRICK, Bookseller, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, For Publishing by Sub-cription, THE FOLLOWING WORK, FOR WHICH HE HAS OBTAINED A COPY RIGHT.
District of Maryland to wit: Be it remembered, That on the twelfth day of March, in the twenty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Jacob D. Dietrick, of the said District, had deposited in this of- fice, the title of a Book, the right whi- ch he claims as Proprietor in the words following, to wit:
THE NEW AMERICAN Clerk's Magazine,
AND Complete Practical Conveyancer.
CONTAINING The most useful and necessary Pre- cedents in Conveyancing, as settled and approved by the most eminent Conveyancers;
WITH Observations and References to the Laws, &c.
With a variety of other useful instruments of writing:
The whole of which are adapted to the use of, the Citizens of the United States and more particularly to those of the State of Maryland; under the following heads, viz.
Acquittances, Acknowledgments, Af- freightment, Affidavits, Agreements, Annuity, Apprentices, Arbitration, As- signments, Awards, Bargains of Sale, Bills of Sale, Bonds, Bottomry, Con- tracts, Conditions, Covenants, Composi- tion, Carpeters, Deeds, Distresses, Exchanges, Feoffments, Gifts, Grants, Indentures, Leases, Letters of Attor- ney, Letters of Licence, Mortgages, Obligations, Oaths, Partitions, Petiti- ons, Promissory Notes, Receipts, Re- leases, Revocations, Sales, Surrenders, Settlements, Wills, &c. &c.
With Necessary Instructions and forms of Pre- cedents,
For the use of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables, and of matters which relate to the du- ties of Executors and administrators in the settlement of the Estates of de- ceased persons; also of Guardians, &c. The whole selected from the Laws, and Draughts of actual practice.
BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE BAR."
In conformity to the act of the Con- gress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learn- ing, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors or proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned."
PHIL: MOORE, Clerk. D. C. Maryland.
TO THE PUBLIC.
No book could be offered, which stands in less need of encomium and recom- mendation—The want of such a book as " The New American Clerk's Maga- zine, and Complete Practical Conveyancer " has been long and generally com- plained of, and is in innumerable instan- ces severely felt by the people of the state of Maryland in particular.
With a view of facilitating the com- munication of information, necessary to the interest and happiness of the people, the above work was undertaken, and it is believed, has been executed in a man- ner that must be extensively useful; it is in considerable forwardness, and will be published in the course of this summer.
CONDITIONS.
 1. It shall be neatly and correctly print- ed in a handsome duodecimo volume, on excellent paper, and an elegant new type.  2. It will contain between three and four hundred pages.  3. It shall be elegantly bound and let- tered.  4. The price to subscribers shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents, paya- ble on delivery of the work.  5. Those who subscribe for, or obtain ten subscriptions, and account for the money, shall be entitled to one copy for their trouble. 
Subscriptions received by the publish- er, and the different gentleman who hold subscription papers.
Subscriptions received at this Office, and by Mr. William Sommerville.
CASH
Given for clean Linen and Cotton
R A G S.
At the Office of the INTELLIGENCER.
Fresh Spring Goods.
T HE subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they are now opening an extensive and complete assortment of FRESH SPRING GOODS , of every description, which they are selling cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town. April 5, 1805.
Weaver's Reeds.
A LL kinds of Weaver's Reeds (made by that noted workman Christopher M'Alister) may be had at the following Stores, viz: at Philip Nadenbousch's in Martinsburg, at James & John Lane's , Selby & Crow's , and at Thomas Toole's in Shepherd's-Town, and at James Hol- iday's in Winchester, they may also be had of the subscriber, near Flagg's mill, by the small or large quantity.
CHRISTOPHER M'ALISTER. Berkeley County, May 3, 1805.
European & East India GOODS.
J UST received and now opening by the subscriber, an extensive variety of the Latest Improved Fashions, of su- perior quality, well assorted and select- ed from the present Importations; also a general assortment of HARDWARE and GROCERIES .—All of which he highly recommends to his friends, cus- tomers and a liberal public, at the most reduced cash prices. Impressed with sentiments of gratitude for the flattering encouragement he has heretofore expe- rienced in his line of business all friends and customers will please to accept his best respects.
JEREMIAH EVANS. Martinsburg, May 24, 1805.
W ILL be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 12th of June next, on the premises, the PLANTATION on which the subscriber now lives, one mile and a half from Martinsburg, on the main road leading to Shepherd's- Town, containing near 200 acres of good Land, 50 acres are in excellent Timber, about 30 acres of Meadow, and the balance good arable land. Tuscar- ora Creek runs through this tract, and the whole of the land is well watered. The Improvements are, a two story Dwelling House, a good Barn, Smoke House, &c. a good Apple Orchard, with a number of other Fruit Trees. On paying from five to six hundred pounds in hand, a reasonable credit will be allow- ed the purchaser for the balance.
There will also be sold, on the same day and place, Cows, Hogs and Sheep, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and a great variety of Farming Utensils. Nine months credit will be given, on bond with approved security. The sale will begin about ten o'clock.
JOHN VAN METRE. Berkeley County, May 24, 1805.
Forman's Ferry.
T HE subscriber informs the public that he has rented Forman's Fer- ry, at the mouth of Opeckon, where he has a new Boat in good order for the conveyance of passengers across the ri- ver with safety. The roads are in good order on both sides for waggons or car- riages of any kind. Due attendance will be given by
JOHN BARBER. May 17, 1805.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
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