Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1806-06-20 00:00:00

Mr. Gage took up his papers - Only one Robert D. H. ...
Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 5 of VOLUME VIII.]
FRIDAY, June 20, 1806.
[WHOLE No. 369.]
By virtue of a Deed of Trust made to the subscribers by Henry Fiser, to secure the payment of a sum of money due from him to Michael Fiser, &c. will be exposed to sale at public vendue, for ready cash, on the first day of July next, a BRICK HOUSE and part of a LOT, in the main-street in Shepherd's-Town. The house is large and tolerably handsome, and in an excellent situation for public business. The sale will commence at three o'clock in the afternoon of the aforesaid day; and due attendance given by
JOHN KEARSLEY } Trustees. and JOHN LINE, June 13, 1806.
SICKLES.
JUST received, a large supply of best warranted Sickles, made by J. Brown of Pennsylvania, also, Waldron's cradling and grass Scythes, Cutting Knives, Cram Creek and Dutch Whetstones, low priced Queen's, Glass and China Ware. A complete assortment of Bar-Iron, Crowley and Blistered Steel, real good coal and upper Leather, and a lot of Skins, men's strong Shoes, a large quantity of Old Rye Whisky distilled in Pennsylvania, together with a complete assortment of GROCERIES of different kinds, and almost every other article necessary for the Farmer. All which are offered for sale uncommonly low.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town, June 12, 1805. They continue to give the highest price in cash for Hides and Skins.
THE subscriber has recently received and is now opening an extensive assortment of the most fashionable EUROPEAN and INDIA MANUFACTURES, of the first textures and most permanent qualities; also, a large and general assortment of almost all kinds of GROCERIES of the best quality; — the whole of which he flatters himself he may with propriety recommend to his friends and customers in particular, and to an impartial public in general. Any further recommendations are considered unnecessary, as the only criterion by which the most reasonable terms are known is by inspection only.
He has also received a handsome assortment of BAR-IRON, Strap ditto, Crowley and Blistered STEEL, SICKLES, and Waldron's highly approved of SCYTHES assorted.
THOMAS C. SMITH. Martinsburg, June 13, 1806:
The subscribers have received from Philadelphia their
Summer Goods; ALSO, A SUPPLY OF MEDICINE,
Among which are, Peruvian Bark, and Fever and Ague Powders. They have on hand, Imperial, Hyson and Bohea TEAS, and a general assortment of GROCERIES and LIQUORS; a few Barrels TAR; CASTINGS, &c.
MEMINGER & COOPER. Martinsburg, June 13, 1806.
Public Sale.
PURSUANT to an order of the Court of Jefferson County, authorising and directing the sheriff of said county to take charge of and to sell the personal estate of John Lemen, dec. late of the county aforesaid, I shall on Saturday the 28th day of this present month, sell at public vendue the said personal estate, consisting of several valuable NEGRO BOYS, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, a Wagon and Gear, Household and Kitchen Furniture, &c. &c. also the Small Grain now growing. A credit of six months will be given to purchasers on giving bond with approved security. The sale will take place on the plantation where the said Lemen lived, about three miles from Shepherd's-Town; and will commence at ten o'clock, when due attendance will be given by
ANDREW WAGGENER, jun. D. Sheriff for A. White, Sh'ff of Jefferson County.
June 13, 1806.
FROM THE BOSTON REPOSITORY.
NO. II.
IT is a subject of fearful curiosity to enquire into the causes, which have so rapidly conducted France to the conquest of the continental part of Europe. By carefully tracing their operation, we may be the better enabled to calculate the chances of her triumph over England, and, of necessary consequence, over America.
It was a long time the fashion to ascribe French victories to the republican fanaticism of her citizens. When France ceased to be republican in name, and it was only in name that she ever was republican, the superior personal bravery of the French soldiers and the superior genius of Bonaparte were deemed to be the two adequate causes of her triumphs.
There is probably little ground for these opinions, or the influence of these causes is much overrated. The body of American democrats are, no doubt, the greatest political bigots in the universe. They are accused to believe that no tenets can be true or wise but their own. That all power is derived from the people and should be exercised for their benefit is a principle of which they fancy the world was ignorant, till it was discovered in the course of our revolution. Considering themselves the sole depositaries of political truth, having in their hands her casket where she keeps liberty, the most precious of her jewels, they think our country is entitled to be not a little vain of the office. They feel too as if all patriotic merit consists in propagating their principles through the world with a rage of proselytism. They would rejoice if not only France but the Grand Turk and the Day of Algiers should gather their unlettered rabble into primary assemblies and make them swear, with all the zeal and sincerity of opium and brandy, to maintain the rights of man with their daggers and their pikes.
Accordingly, when France said and sung and swore the words of their republican creed, they were sure the grovelling world was very near being hoisted from its centre; it would be launched into the sky and glitter among the brightness of the stars. The reign of perfectibility was beginning, man so long a reptile, trodden in the mire, was rising to over top the tallest of the seraphs. Their teeming fancies had made a creation of their own and lighted it with a new sunshine. Above all things, it delighted their hearts and seemed to realize all their hopes, to see the low vulgar, the squalid hoasts of vice and ignorance issue from the opening cellars of the Faubourg of St. Antoine and from the emancipated jails, to exercise the sovereignty of The People by a signal vengeance on the Magistrates, their enemies. They were sure the structure of society must have risen, when they saw its low foundations already higher than its roof. It was not long before this rabble army was arrayed as a body of Marseilles patriots, and as a part of the National Guards. — The splendid virtues of France were attributed to the exalted heroism of these men, who it was said, fought well, not because they were soldiers but because they were citizens. More than a million of the grown people of America believed that the liberty loving passion of Frenchmen made them an over match for the disciplined mercenaries of Austria and Prussia, and that the citizens were the better for their ignorance of discipline. The French Generals drilled and punished their citizens, till they would stand fire and push bayonet, and if they would not, they shot them.
The notion that the political opinions of the common men will make them any better soldiers is strangely absurd. They are more likely to effect a mutiny than a triumph. Men may fancy they are soldiers, but they are not really such, until discipline and habit have new moulded their thoughts and inclinations. The reviews of peaceable tradesmen are no more than the solemn farce of a pantomime acted in the open air instead of the theatre. We would not be understood to say that the militia has not both its merit and its use. Both we confess are great. But we do say that their proper use is not to face a veteran enemy.
It is indeed very possible that political enthusiasm, as well as religious fanaticism, may inspire a sudden fury into the bosoms of a raw undisciplined multitude. But a veteran corps would surely defeat such a multitude.
If the inhabitants of France ever felt the republican enthusiasm, which is indeed very questionable, there is not much reason to believe that it contributed to fill the ranks of their own army or to make those of their enemy give way. Experience, which brings plausible theories to the test, and a correct knowledge of human nature, have abundantly confuted the notion that the common men are the better soldiers for the soundness of their logic or their politics. Men are very much alike, in all the European countries, in respect to their capacity of being trained for war. When so trained, the difference between two hostile armies of equal numbers will be found to lie in the talents of their subaltern officers and principal commanders.
Common soldiers are soon trained, but it is the work of time to form officers. There is not the least reason in the world to suppose that the Austrians or Russians are inferior to the French soldiers in steady, persevering valour. But there is ample evidence of the superiority of the French officers over those of their enemies. War has become, indeed ever was, among civilized nations, a science. It excites and employs the utmost vigour and extent of human intellect. Though it is a science, it is such only for the officers, not for the common men. For two centuries past, France has devoted more attention and more money to the perfection of this science than all the rest of Europe. Louis XIV. established such military schools as the Great Cyrus would have desired for the education of the officers of that army that achieved for him the conquest of Asia. Bonaparte and Moreau, undoubtedly great Generals, are indebted for their triumph to these schools. It is often said the common men will dare to do whatever their officers will lead them on to do. It is no less proper to say the officers will seldom flinch from leading the men if they but know how to lead them.
Nothing is more certain than that the military institutions of France supplied the first revolutionary armies with an infinite number of accomplished young officers, who glowed with impetuosity to gain glory and promotion in that profession which had from their infancy engrossed their thoughts and kindled all their passions. The revolution furnished only sparks and not the fuel for their combustion.
Nor is there the least reason to pretend that the first French armies were composed of raw recruits. An immense standing army was maintained, and when it is considered that on the side of the Low Countries and the Rhine, France guarded what has been emphatically called her iron frontier, with a double row of fortified towns, and that every one of these was occupied with a veteran garrison that would figure as a respectable American army, we see plainly that France possessed every advantage for success in war, from the very first day of her military operations.
The democrats, to a man, believe that France was entirely defenceless when the "coalition of despots" secretly entered into the treaties of Pilitz and Pavia for her dismemberment. Those treaties, it has been a thousand times proved, are forgeries. Austria was taken by surprise. The Emperor Joseph had levelled the ramparts of his towns in the Netherlands, Luxembourg excepted, & his troops in that country were no more than a feeble corps of observation. The Austrians had a larger proportion of raw recruits in their armies than the French.
Be it remembered too that the revolution supplied the French with an unexhausted superfluity of men and means that no regular government in the world could countervail. That man must be strongly disordered in mind, who can now look back on French affairs and say that the revolutionary leaders, possessing such means, left any option to the governments of England or Austria to remain at peace. As well might they say, when a whole street is burning, that a man, by sitting calm in his elbow chair,
might save his house from the flames. The English government, in particular, was near the scene and could not see the revolution, like Etna vomit fire, without some prudent measures of precaution. Who is now ignorant that Brissot and Barras and Danton and Robespierre would choose to understand those fears and those precautions as signs of the inveterate hostility of kings to the French liberty. If the English could have shunned the war in February 1793, it would have been forced upon them before June.
It is childish prattle to charge the enemies of France with the commencement of the war. The nature of the revolution was war against mankind. Its vital principle was a burning passion for power within the state, and when they had gained that, to establish by arms the power of France over every other state. Why is the vulture carnivorous? Why does not the tyger of bengal eat grass? We might with as much good sense enquire why does not the torrent stay upon the hills? Why are the collected waters of the revolutionary storm precipitated from the height of the Alps, to desolate the plains and to bury men and their labours under masses of barrenness and ruin?
The military means of Austria were stinted, those of France unlimited. In almost every battle the French had the advantage. The officers, even the subalterns, had been educated so as to qualify them to be generals. The generals were fit for nothing else—they understood their trade and aspired to no other sort of distinction. The French, always well commanded by their officers, well supplied by their enemies' countries which they ravaged, have rapidly overrun all Europe.
Another cause of the French superiority and which has grown out of the real superiority of their military science is to be found in the excellence of their artillery. The number and the manageableness of the French field artillery, must have given them decisive advantage over the Russians in the late battle of Austerlitz. It is not to be supposed that the Russians have equally improved their artillery, nor if they had, would they have encumbered their march of eight hundred leagues, especially when they had so many reasons for haste, with an immense train of field pieces. They would be the less disposed to do this as the Austrians must have been relied upon to supply them in sufficient number. The French, by the celerity of their movements, had however obtained possession of a great part of the Austrian artillery. The deficiency of the Russians in this point, was probably a material cause of their loss of the battle.
When gun powder and great guns were first brought into use, they were more capable of striking an enemy with a panic than of breaking his line. The cannon were unwieldy machines, and the management of them was unskilful. Still the army which had them must have possessed a great advantage over that which had none. In the time of the famous Duke of Marlborough, the event of a battle depended on the expertness and resolution of infantry in discharging their muskets. In still more modern wars, the bayonet has been considered the arbiter of victory. But the French have introduced another revolution in the science of war, the lightness and prodigious number of their horse artillery enabling them to disorder and break an enemy's ranks, without coming to close fight, by raining upon them an intolerable tempest of grape shot.
By means of their innumerable field pieces, and of their unusual proportion of cavalry, it has become impossible for an enemy to defend a country by lines or field entrenchment. It has been stated that Bonaparte's grand army was attended by fifty thousand horse. Such a body, always on the alert, could strike an enemy at almost any distance, and in every mortal part at once. If he contracted his posts, his flanks would be turned—if he spread out his troops to prevent it, his lines would be pierced. By resisting, he met his fate, and if he retreated, it was swift and overtook him.
Thus we have seen the French maintain the same invariable superiority over the Austrians in the field, that the Spaniards possessed over the Mexicans. The

Russians and Austrians are as brave as the French, but the French are really superior in the science of their officers, in the number and management of their cannon and in their cavalry. They will continue therefore to beat their enemies as the Romans did. Even the Grecian phalanx, supposed to be the perfection of military science and absolutely invincible, was found unequal to the contest with the Roman legion.
The French victories have happened in such a series that we cannot rationally suppose them to happen by chance. They are the inevitable results of superior numbers and of the French military advantages we have mentioned. They would happen again, if their dejected, beaten adversaries could rise again to resistance.
From these positions this melancholy influence is to be drawn; the continental enemies of France are totally incapable of resisting her in the field—She has taken a permanent ascendancy over them. Austria humbled and beaten, is in no condition to learn the conquering art of her masters. Prussia, without risking the combat, has fallen prostrate with her useful arms in her hands. Russia, like the ancient Parthia, is invincible but insignificant to the system of enslaved Europe.
If the French armies could pass the channel, there seems to be no sort of reason to hope that Great Britain could resist them. The regular army is spread over all the Empire, and if it were all collected it would be a handful against the French hosts, and surely no military man would place the smallest dependence on the volunteers of England.
It is one of the inveterate, perhaps incurable evils of Mr. Pitt's administration, and the greatest blemish in the fame of that truly illustrious statesman, that instead of forming an efficient army of two hundred thousand men, who could be sent wherever they might be wanted, he was either the schemer or the dupe of the useless, expensive, and, if the French land in England, fatal project of volunteers. By equipping all volunteers, he not only had no army, but it was out of the power of England to have one. The men were all engaged in acting the comedy of an army, and the finances were exhausted in getting up the decorations of the piece.
The sole protection of Great Britain is in her navy. The writer has been brought very late, and loth to believe, that the military resistance of the continental nations of Europe would be ineffectual. Events have at last convinced him that the French actually possess a greater and more decisive military superiority over those nations than the old Romans did over the forces of Antiochus, Mithridates and Jugurtha; and especially over the Carthaginians, Greeks and Macedonians. Nothing is wanting to the solid establishment of a new universal empire by France, that should spread as far, last as long, and press as heavily on the necks of the abject nations as that of Rome, but the possession of the British navy. France whenever she can get access to her enemy is already irresistible. If Mr. Gregg would give her that navy, he would impart a kind of obliquity to her power. The soft winds that wake the spring in the remotest regions of the globe, would waft there the ministers of French rapacity to blast it. France would enjoy every thing that Rome wanted to make the plundered world her province.
Are these ideas chimerical, or are the inferences drawn beyond the admitted truth of the premises? Is India more capable of resisting France than an English merchant company its present sovereign? Spain and Italy are provinces already. Greece, Egypt, the Turkish empire, and all the shores of the Mediterranean were once the patrimony of the Cæsars, and for many hundred years slept soundly in their chains, till they were rudely waked by the Goths, the Heruli, the Huns and the Arabs. Africa is a quarter of the globe that could be governed by factories, and America is another that would yield not merely with tameness, but alacrity to imperial Rescripts. If by miracle force should be needed, France could employ Spain or Dessalines, or slaves still more abject than they, to use it with infallible success. We should be ready, not merely to take, but to buy our chains, and to pay our last dollar as a fine for the temerity of our resistance. We should patiently sow our fields, and see our kindly seasons ripen the harvest for French reapers. Our posterity, born to servitude, would inherit our baseness, and bear the yoke from the infancy to the old age of their dishonored lives, without sorrow or repining.
Suppose the whip of the oppressor should at length tear off the callous skin from the slaves' backs, and rage should be kindled by pain and courage engendered by despair; yet our resistance would only avail to exasperate our tyrants, and to embitter the sense and aggravate the pressure of our calamities. France would not fail to array an army of base Americans, and to place them in the strongest positions of our country—and if these should be insufficient to crush the first movements of rebellion, her ships would transport reinforcements from Europe with greater celerity, than the American insurgents could collect and train forces to resist them. Our independence then must be renounced, or we must betake ourselves to the fastnesses of the wilderness to enjoy it, like the revolted negroes of St. Domingo, in peril, want and barbarism.
The preservation of even this condition would then appear to exact and merit the display of all our energies. Comfortless and desperate as that savage independence may seem, it would nevertheless be preferable to the horrid stillness of our servitude under the power of French tyrants, exercised by their deputies, the Jeffersons and Nicholson, the present artificers of our ruin.
It is very seldom that the events of war turn out according to the predictions of speculators on their probabilities. Futurity is no doubt wisely and mercifully hidden from our view. Yet the issue of the contest between France and Great Britain is so momentous to America, it is impossible to restrain our curiosity from examining the position and relative strength of the combatants.
Supposing G. Britain to possess adequate means to cope with France, it is an interesting previous question to decide, or rather to conjecture whether there is a spirit in her government and people to persevere in the employment of them.
The death of Mr. Pitt has made a complete change in the ministry. He discerned, and it is strange that Mr. Fox, his supposed equal in talents, should not have discerned, the necessity of opposing France in arms, and the fatal consequences of a delusive peace—and any peace that should leave France a giant among pigmies, would be delusive. But as Mr. Fox has been the opposer of the war ever since 1793, and as he, and a large number of his most strenuous adherents are admitted to power, it may be expected that he will insist on proposing a negotiation. Proud as Bonaparte is, he would joyfully accept the proposal. He may be as liberal as Englishmen can ask in his terms, for any peace will make him their master. Nothing could make it safe, but that France should reduce her power. This is a condition Mr. Fox will not prescribe, nor Bonaparte concede.
We will not undertake to say that Mr. Fox is bound in point of consistency, now, to propose peace. He may say with plausibility, perhaps with strict truth, that the circumstances of the two countries are changed, that he was a friend to peace while Europe stood independent and powerful in arms to secure the observance of it by the French Emperor; but that now, peace would lessen none of the burdens of the nation, while it would put its commercial and naval resources, inaccessible in war, within reach of the power and intrigues of Bonaparte.
What is Mr. Fox's present opinion or disposition, we know not. We have no hesitation in saying, that as a faithful member of his Majesty's counsels, it is his duty to prosecute the war till England can be safe in peace, and she cannot be safe unless she is great in comparison with France.
Are there not probable grounds of conjecture that Mr. Fox came into the ministry on the terms of supporting the war measures of the government. Before the peace of Amiens, the fruitless negotiation at Lisle, had opened the eyes of the English nation, to the immeasurable ambition and profligacy of the French rulers. Mr. Fox then persisted in condemning the war. After the peace of Amiens, he paid a visit to Bonaparte in Paris, and received and permitted such attention from the French Chief, as raised the wonder and disgust of all men and the suspicions of many. His motives for making that visit have never yet been explained.
This is certain, his parliamentary influence had surprisingly dwindled, and perhaps he owes it as much to his frank open disposition, so unused to, and incapable of duplicity, as to his splendid talents, that the nation with its characteristic generosity, has been willing to forget and forgive his strange visit and strange conduct in Paris.
There is reason to believe that when Mr. Pitt last came into office, the English king had neither forgiven nor forgotten it. He considered Mr. Fox as a Jacobin, and resolved to deny the opportunities of both parties to admit Mr. Fox to his counsels. Lord Grenville thought himself bound in consequence to stand with Mr. Fox, and to decline office.
When the death of Mr. Pitt, and the desertion of the allies in Germany, seemed to force Mr. Fox upon the king, for all men agreed it was necessary to drop party divisions, and to unite against the common danger, we are told, Lord Grenville was closeted with his Majesty, and finally arranged the ministry to mutual satisfaction. As Lord Grenville is an honest man, we cannot believe such a man would recommend a Jacobin to the king, or that he could prevail over his Majesty's aversion to Mr. Fox, without being personally responsible for his conduct and principles.
When it is considered too, that those two eminent men formerly acted in opposition to each other, and that for three years past they have come to a mutual good understanding, the grounds of division in the present ministry must have been fully explored, and such engagements mutually required and given, as will prevent their collision. Those who had always acted together before they came into the ministry we think more likely to fall out afterwards.
The union of the present ministry is the more probable too, when we advert to the known sincerity and amiable temper of Mr. Fox. The attachment of no man's friend has been stronger than Mr. Fox's have ever manifested towards him and those who remember his famous coalition with Lord North, will believe that too much stubbornness to maintain the appearance of consistency is not one of that gentleman's faults.
Mr. Fox is the only member of the new administration who can be the champion of peace measures. Lord Grenville and Mr. Wyndham love their country too well, and its dangers are too eminent to permit us to believe that they are disposed to adopt the fatal counsels of the old opposition.
On these grounds, therefore we presume to conjecture that the English ministry will be united in favor of a prosecution of the war.
We have not yet enquired whether there is sense and magnanimity enough in the nation to support the ministry in such a resolution. The nation no doubt is weary of the war, and staggers under the weight of its burthens. But peace can scarcely cheat the blind multitude with the delusive hope of a respite from those burdens. A vigorous and able opposition to the war in parliament might afford aliment to popular discontent. But the men who used to lead that opposition are now in the ministry. They may say they did not choose, and have made the war; their predecessors, whom they were accustomed to oppose, left it a sad necessity on their hands.
Besides, peace has once been tried and proved not only delusive, but almost fatal. Bonaparte gained more territory in peace than in war, and England voluntarily gave up her conquests, except Malta, Trinidad and Ceylon. Such another peace would ruin her.
Under these circumstances it may be expected, that even the populace will see that the continuance of the war is the hard but inevitable condition of English liberty and independence.
If we are not deceived in these speculations, the British ministry and nation will concur in pursuing the war.
With what hope of ultimate success they will pursue it is a more difficult problem.
BOSTON, June 2.
Capt. Sawyer, arrived at this port, from Leghorn, has furnished the annexed information:—"The blockade of Naples by the English is said to have been declared at Polermo and Messina on the 28th of March. There were some apprehensions that the blockade of Leghorn would follow. The squadron off Sicily and Naples consists of 4 ships of the line, 10 frigates, and 2 brigs. The city of Gaeta opposed the entrance of the French, and is not yet taken; but besieged by them, and is supposed would surrender. The Emperor Napoleon is soon expected at Rome to be made King of the Romans. The Pope to retire to Versailles on a pension. It is supposed the Emperor will make some changes in the government of Tuscany. A slight earthquake was experienced at Leghorn on the afternoon of the 16th April."
We have seen letters from London of a late date, which say, that the differ-
ences which have subsisted between the United States and Great Britain, are rapidly approaching to a happy conclusion; many of the points in dispute have been fully discussed and settled; among others, it was presumed, that the American flag would be suffered to protect its seamen, let them be of what country soever. The important point, as well as some others, which relate to our commerce with the colonies of Great Britain, it was expected would form the basis of a commercial treaty between the two countries.
NORFOLK, May 31.
We are informed that the Caterpillar is making great ravages about Richmond, that its appearance is not general through the country, but wherever it comes the whole vegetable kingdom is destroyed, and the face of the country at a distance has the appearance of being destroyed by fire—the insect, is perhaps the same which in some parts is called the canker worm; and a gentleman near Petersburg, assured our informant, that within a short time, he had lost a field of wheat, which was estimated to produce four thousand bushels, had not the Caterpillar totally destroyed it.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
A London paper of the 21st April, received by a recent arrival at Boston, contains the following intelligence:—
The letters brought by the Lisbon mail were delivered this morning. A general apprehension appears to prevail in Portugal that some attempt against the independence of that country will be made by Spain. The Emperor of the French, it was reported, had determined to annex part of the Spanish territory to his dominions, for the loss of which Spain is to be indemnified by the acquisition of a considerable part, if not the whole of Portugal. The Spanish provinces which Buonaparte is desirous of obtaining, are those of Biscay and Galicia, within which are comprised the ports of Bilbao, St. Sebastian, Ferrol, Coruna, and Vigo. When the packet left Lisbon, Spanish troops were expected there, and it was reported that all these ports were shut against neutrals. The Portuguese Government was to be transferred to the Brazils.
That Buonaparte should be anxious to possess the whole of the territories which skirt on the Bay of Biscay is natural enough, and, fatal as such an arrangement may prove to Spain, we fear there is neither energy nor disposition in her government to resist it. We are sure, that if Biscay and Gallici are surrendered to France, the Spanish monarchy will not out-live their formal occupation half a year; or, if it should, the authority of the King will not be greater in his capital, than that actually enjoyed by the Pope at Rome.
FREDERICK-TOWN, June 14.
Caterpillars.—We have seen several accounts of the ravages committed by a species of caterpillar upon the wheat and rye fields in different parts of this state and Virginia. In some places, it has totally destroyed the crops and is extending its devastations to the corn and grass. In our county this mischievous insect has also made its inroads. Many farmers, who promised themselves an harvest, unusually abundant, have had their hopes entirely frustrated and are presented in their fields with a mere waste of decaying vegetation. But fortunately there are some farms, where these destructive worms have not been seen and on many, they are in such small numbers, that no apparent mischief has yet been done by them.
All these accounts agree in the description of the insect and its unbounded voracity in demolishing the blades and heads of the grain and in some instances the stalk also. It cannot bear the heat of sunshine; but during a fair day withdraws itself into the ground and, by night or when the weather becomes cloudy, returns to resume its ravages. In many places its devastations were so rapid, that in the space of a few nights, large fields of grain have been destroyed by it. It is worthy of remark, that this insect preys principally on the finest and most luxuriant grain and is chiefly found, in such fields as had been fallow land, and very seldom in the corn ground. On some farms, the richest spots appear to be marked out for destruction; while the rest has sustained little or no injury.
A variety of methods have been attempted to check the mischief done by it. Some farmers have had ropes drawn over the grain to shake them off. Others, after shaking them off in this way, let their swine into the field, which, it is said, devour them greedily and will not

meddle with the grain, as long as any worms can be found. Lime is also said to have been made use of. And experiments have been made with powdered plaster of Paris but to no effect.
It is hoped, that from its nature, this insect cannot long remain in its present destructive shape; but will undergo the transformation to which all that race of worms appear to be destined. It is asserted in the Richmond Enquirer, that it has already been found in some places in the chrysalis or aurelian state. From this state it changes into a fly, when it is supposed to deposit its eggs for the continuance of its species. It would be worthy the attention of some ingenious farmer to preserve some of them in earth to ascertain what kind of fly it is, that is the parent of this most mischievous of all the caterpillar kind. Some have conjectured, that it is the same species of insect, that for some years past committed so much injury on the crops of cotton in Georgia and South Carolina.
One cold stormy day last February, a female stranger made her appearance in the Backwood's settlement on the Lackawana. She appeared to be about thirty; tall and delicately formed; but the rose that once had bloomed on her cheek was withered by the canker worm of care; and reason no longer swayed his sceptre over her mind. "They drowned my mother, O! how she screams! there! there! she sinks, help her, help her!" was the burden of her song. But she would occasionally cast her eyes on the men, and with a wild and fearful look, exclaim, "No! No! I hate you, you've ruined me. Poor Poll would drown herself but the water's cold." No entreaties could induce her to take shelter from the ravages of the storm. But she flew from house to house, a most melancholy picture of sorrow and woe. After having been absent a day or two, she returned with an infant naked on her bosom. "Poor thing," she would cry, when the hospitable cottager begged it of her, "poor thing, I know you'll starve it." Nature remained true to her duty, although reason had fled from her seat. A tear, the first she had shed, fell and mingled with the snow on its neck. The soul of the little sufferer was just winging its way to a kinder Parent, when the unfortunate maniac entered a cottage where the woman had but the week before buried a new born infant. She kindly begged that the child might at least be put in her arms. The mother consented, and Mrs. Bucklin, (for that is the name of the humane woman) wiped the snow from its neck, wrapped it in warm flannel and gave it the breast. A gleam of wandering reason seemed to shoot across the mind of the distressed mother. She was delighted to see her offspring on the breast of its humane nurse, and expressed no wish to take it again, but soon wandered off; declaring she had drowned her child. She passed the village, and it is not known whence she came or whither she has gone. Mrs. Bucklin still keeps the child and nurses it as her own. Col. Stanton of Wayne county, has sent it some clothes, and the name of Polly Snow, expressive of the place of its birth. In the name of humanity I thank them for their kindness.
[Luzerne Federalist.]
The unhappy maniac mentioned in the above article has, since she left Luzerne, been wandering in this county, principally in this township. She raves of her mother and her babes having been drowned, but sometimes says she has left one with a good woman who took it from her when she was going to drown it. We have no doubt she is the woman whose tale is so pathetically told by Mr. Miner. Would it not be worthy of the legislature of Pennsylvania, to make provision for restoring to society those afflicted beings, whom misfortune has robbed of the proudest attribute of humanity?
We cannot close this article, without noticing the benevolent kindness, the heartcheering goodness with which Mr. Gaskins and family of this township have upon all occasions treated the unfortunate Polly. "They also shall have their reward."
[Northumberland Argus of May 28.]
RICHMOND, June 10.
"FULL OF YEARS; AND FULL OF HONOR." On Sunday morning the 8th inst. departed this life, the venerable chancellor of the Richmond district, GEO. WYTHE. Over the suspected causes of his death, let us for a moment draw the veil. Every situation in life has its rights and its duties. Let us therefore respect the rights of the accused.
But of the deep, the solemn, the al-
most unparalleled impression produced by his death; we may be permitted to speak. Let the anxious solicitude manifested for his recovery; let that sorrow which buries beneath it all political distinction; let the solemn and lengthened procession which attended him to his grave; declare the loss which we have sustained. Kings may require mausoleums to consecrate their memory; saints may claim the privileges of canonization; but the venerable George Wythe needs no other monument than the services rendered to his country, and the universal sorrow which that country sheds over his grave.
WINCHESTER, June 10.
Committed to the prison of this county, on the 4th instant, Negro Harry, a slave, the property of Mr. James Hathaway, charged with the murder of James Stuart, said Hathaway's overseer. We cannot, at present, state the particulars of this horrid transaction.
Nelly Shore was examined last week before the sitting magistrates of the county court, on a charge of drowning her illegitimate child. She was recommitted to prison, there to remain until the next District Court, when she will be finally tried for said offence.
Abel Clemmons was tried at the Circuit Court held in Morgan-town, last month, for the murder of his wife and 8 children, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on the 30th inst.
The small grain and herbage in the vicinity of this town, and several other parts of the country, has suffered much of late by worms (called by some caterpillar worms.) Whole fields of wheat and rye which, two or three weeks ago, made a promising appearance, have been entirely destroyed by them, they have also destroyed the corn in many places. The immense number of those reptiles, and the depredations they have committed in many fields, lots and meadows, is incalculable.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Rockbridge county, dated June 3, 1806.
"A numerous swarm of black worms, about the size of caterpillars, have lately made their appearance in this county, and committed dreadful havoc among the small grain. The earth is already covered with them, and you may kill several every time you tread."
MARTINSBURG, June 20.
As far as our information at present extends, various parts of Maryland and Virginia have been much injured in the destruction of their small grain, &c. by the caterpillar. On a few farms in Maryland, we are told, that almost every green thing has been destroyed by this devouring reptile—In our neighbouring county, Jefferson, some injury has been sustained, but not to a very great amount; Frederick county has suffered more than Jefferson;—We have made enquiries from almost every part of this county, and find that Berkeley is almost exempt from their ravages, no injury worth mentioning has been felt by our farmers. The present appearances are very flattering—and we trust that a few days will put it out of the power of those reptiles to injure us.
A New-York paper of the 4th inst. says—"It is with regret we have to mention the re-appearance off the Hook of the Leander and other British ships of war; and their recent capture of two valuable ships bound to this port."
JAY'S TREATY. —It deserves attention, that by the 27th article of the British treaty, had it been in force, capt. Whitby might have been demanded of the English government, to answer for the murder of John Pierce. But as the present administration have suffered that part of the treaty to expire without providing a substitute, we have no redress but such summary as Mr. Jefferson's proclamation. Capt. Whitby has only to avoid exposing himself ashore, for which he has no occasion, and for want of Mr. Jay's abused treaty government must vent its rage to the winds.
[Boston Repertory.]
MIRANDA.
The reports concerning Miranda have been so various and contradictory, that truth is scarcely perceptible in the midst of these confused accounts: we will therefore endeavour to state such facts for the public information which may be considered as correct. It is well known that
Miranda proceeded from Jacmel to the island of Atuba, situated a small distance to leeward of Curacoa; he left it about the 16th April with the Leander and his two sch'rs, and was attempting a landing towards the province of Coro, when his little squadron fell in with 2 Spanish privateers, one of 14 and the other of 12 guns, fitted out at La Guaira by the government of Carracas. The Leander after attempting to engage the stoutest, suddenly withdrew from the contest, crowded sail and escaped: the sch'rs were left to their own fate, and after a trifling resistance struck their colours to the smallest of the Spanish privateers. 2 young Spaniards who were on board of the sch'rs anticipating their inevitable fate, threw themselves over-board and were drowned:—the remainder were taken and carried into Porto Cavello, where they were lodged in jail—some of the leading men, young Smith among them, were immediately ordered up to Carracas. The sch'rs were entirely laden with ammunition of all kinds, and a considerable number of proclamations in the Spanish language from Miranda's press, conceived in terms well calculated for their object, to inflame the minds of the Spanish colonists. The fate of the adventurers taken must be lamentable indeed; their criminal rashness will carry many of them to the block, as the Spanish government considers them in no other light than pirates.—The blood which very likely is already spilt, cannot but fall on the heads of the abettors and promoters of this Miranda expedition in this country; it would have been much to be wished for that no suspicions should have appeared against our government in this scandalous affair; but if the circumstances stated in Mr. Ogden's memorial to congress as far as they relate, both to the president and Mr. Madison prove correct, the consequences for the country in general, and many families in particular, will be too serious to be overlooked, and they should answer, not only for all the mischief, but also for the stain thrown on our government and national character. No great sagacity is required to anticipate that Spain and France will call upon us for some millions of dollars by way of compensation, and we shall be indebted for this new blessing to our virtuous and philosophic, economical administration.
[U. S. Gaz.]
Surprising Extrication of Inflammable Air.
Near one of the sources of Licking River, in Kentucky, there is a separation of phlogistic gas from something in the interior strata of the earth, in greater quantity than is perhaps known in any part of the world. This light and inflammable fluid is discharged through water into the atmosphere. It bubbles incessantly through the centre of a muddy pool, of about two rods in diameter. The gas readily takes flame on burning gun powder in it, or by the approach of any blazing body. The volume of it is so great, that a man who approached near enough to snap a pistol in it which he held in his hand, was suddenly enveloped in the flame, and sorely singed before he could escape. When set on fire, it burns with remarkable splendour and vehemence, not only for hours, but days and weeks in succession, mounting to the height of ten or twelve feet or more. The relator of this, (Mr. Senator Breckenridge) was one of a party that encamped near this serial fountain, on an excursion through the woods. They discovered, that after the inflammable air had been on fire for six or eight hours, the water of the pond was heated to an uncomfortable degree, and emitted copious exhalations; and the ebullition at the spot through which the air ascended was more vehement.
It was judged, that if the flame had been sufficiently continued, the water would have been made to boil, and all have been evaporated.—Then the surrounding space would have been heated. And lastly, there was reason to suppose that the faculent and carbonick matter in the bottom of the pond would have been put into a state of combustion. From the crater at the place through which the gas rose, and the evacuation of the surrounding ground, it appeared as if this had really happened on some former occasion; and for fear the like might occur again the gentlemen of the party extinguished the flame, by slapping, agitating and dissipating it with green boughs, before the water arose to a temperature too hot to enable them to approach near enough for this purpose by wading into it. When once in a blaze, there seems to be no end to its burning, but the stop which a storm of wind and rain may put to it.
AGRICULTURE.
POTATOES.
Put a table spoonful of Plaster of Paris to each hill of Potatoes, about the latter end of June, and the vine will assume a different colour, and the stalks grow much larger and in great quantities. They will produce double the quantity. The Potatoes will be of a much better quality and much larger. As Potatoes are of great use to farmers in fattening swine and beef-cattle, we recommend it to those people who use the Plaster, to make the experiment for themselves, by plastering the Potatoes soon after the first hoeing.
The MAN of FASHION, and the MAN of BUSINESS at their End.
AN EPIGRAM.
Two Personages mounted the Dew Drop, A chimney sweeper one, and one a fop; Sir Spruce his black companion 'gan to scoff, 'Filth! you will spoil my clothes—stand further off.' Sweep thus replied—'As hanging is our due, 'I'm fix'd—I've as much business here as you!'
Synonymous with gallows.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, living in Shepherd's Town, Jefferson County, Virginia, on the 8th day of May last, a BLACK HORSE , about 15 hands high, four years old, and has neither mark nor brand; he is a natural trotter; shod all round without shoes, and one of his fore shoes was broke; he has a star in his forehead, and is a little ram-faced. If said horse is taken in this county, I will give five dollars, and all reasonable charges if delivered to me; and if he is taken up out of this county, I will give 8 dollars, for information so that I get him again, and if brought home to me, I will give the eight dollars and all reasonable charges. If said horse is stolen I will give twenty dollars for the horse and thief, if the thief is convicted, and all reasonable charges for bringing the thief to justice, paid by me, DENNIS STEVENS. June 20, 1806.
F. NADENBOUSCH, & Co. HAVE just received, in addition to their former stock, a very handsome assortment of
Choice Goods,
almost of every description, suitable to the present season. Those Goods have been selected with care from the latest importations; and they are satisfied on particular examination will give satisfaction to the purchaser both as to cheapness and quality—to be had for cash, country produce, or on the usual terms of credit to punctual customers. Martinsburg, June 20, 1806.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber intends to remove to the Westward some time in the beginning of October next; he therefore requests, those that have any claims against him, either by bond, note, or book account, to exhibit them for settlement, and those that are indebted to him are also required to come forward and settle. As some people make it a practice, that when a person is on his journey, to issue attachments, &c. to prevent such trouble, the subscriber earnestly requests all claimants to come forward immediately, and those that will neglect the foregoing notice may depend that I shall not pay any demand that shall be made after the first day of October next. GARRARD HAMMERLY. Martinsburg, June 20, 1806.
N. B. WIND-MILLS for sale by the subscriber. G. H.
NOTICE.
A NUMBER of notes of hand, payable to John Bishop, late of Berkeley County, which became due in May last, were deposited in my hands; all persons concerned are hereby notified, that unless immediate payment is made, such notes will be put into the hands of an attorney for collection by legal process.
JACOB BISHOP. Martinsburg, June 20, 1806.

Two Apprentices wanted, to learn the Art of Printing.
THE Editor of the Intelligencer, will take, on advantageous terms, two lads (from 13 to 17 years of age,) of moral character and sprightliness, to learn the Art of Printing.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT of LAND, containing about 900 acres, one half of which is cleared, the balance well timbered; and a considerable quantity of well watered meadow. On the premises is a good Merchant Mill and Distillery, on a never failing stream of water, and in sight of the Potomac river. This tract can be divided into several different tenements, with a Dwelling House and Barn to each; it is of the first rate limestone quality; and is situated in Berkeley County, Virginia, on Potomac river, 10 miles from Martinsburg, 8 from Williamsport, and 15 from Mercersburg. This land will be sold together, or divided into two tracts, as may best suit the purchaser. A good bargain will be given to a purchaser, in the mill and one half the land, on paying about two thirds of the purchase money in hand. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises. GEORGE NEWKIRK. April 18, 1806.
Fresh Summer Goods.
THE subscribers have just received from Philadelphia, an additional supply of seasonable Goods, which, in addition to the former stock of Philip Nadenbousch, makes their assortment tolerably complete; they also in a few days expect a supply of sundry articles necessary for harvest; all which they are determined to sell low for cash, or on the usual credit to punctual customers.
Their assortment consists of in part as follows:
Coarse India Muslins, 4-4 Irish Linens, Yellow Nankens, short & long pieces, Bandanae Handkerchiefs, India Calicos, fancy and dark colors, And a variety of other articles too tedious to particularise.
ALSO.
Old Whisky, suitable for harvest, by the barrel, New England Rum and Molasses. Long's Sickles, A few barrels of Tar, Seal Leather and Fish Oil, Ground Allum and Liverpool Salt. A general assortment of GROCERIES, on terms which shall be accommodating to the purchaser. F. NADENBOUSCH, & Co. Martinsburg, May 23, 1806.
More Cheap Nice Goods.
THE subscribers again respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and are now opening a very handsome assortment of
Fancy Goods,
which were purchased on the best terms for ready money, and selected with the greatest care from the latest arrivals. Persons wishing to buy will find it their interest to give them a call, as they are now offering great bargains of nice tasty Goods, quite a new style.
They have also received a complete assortment of BAR-IRON, Crowley and Blistered STEEL, all of an excellent quality, and will be sold on good terms.
N. B. A large quantity of good old WHISKEY distilled in Maryland; also PAINTS, seal and upper LEATHER of an excellent quality; all of which will be sold uncommonly low. ROBERT WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, May 23, 1806.
WANTING in the neighbourhood of the subscriber, residing near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia, a SCHOOLMASTER of good morals, sufficiently capacitated to teach spelling, reading and writing, according to the true rules of English grammar; and also arithmetic. GEORGE TABB. June 6, 1806.
Levi Price,
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has purchased Mr. J. EVANS's late stock of well assorted
GOODS;
and he flatters himself from the terms on which he has them, that he will be enabled to retail them on as advantageous terms to the purchaser as any other person has it in their power to do. He does not despair of obtaining a share of business, as he is determined to make it the interest of all who may please to call on him.
A handsome salary will be given to an active Young Man, that can come well recommended, to attend a store. Martinsburg, May 9, 1806.
THE subscriber has just received and is now opening, a large and general assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER
GOODS.
Among which are Laced, Embossed and Plain Cambricks, Silk and Cotton Shambray Muslins, Trafalgar Vest Shapes, and Calicos, Long and Short Nankeens, Leno and Paris Net Veils, Oval and Square Silk and Cambrick Shawls with netting, Umbrellas and Parasols, trimmed and plain Bonnets;—also, Mill and Cross-cut SAWS, Madeira WINE, Port WINE, and the best Havannah SEGARS;—also, about three thousand volumes of BOOKS;—all of which will be sold at the most reduced prices, for cash, or on a short credit, to punctual customers.
JAMES FAULKNER. Martinsburg, May 9, 1806.
CARPET & COVERLET WEAVING.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has removed his shop to the house in the occupancy of Mr. Philip Craft, blue dier, and nearly opposite Mrs. Prudence Thornburg's tavern, in Shepherd's-Town, where he will colour and work Coverlets & Carpeting in the best manner and newest fashions, also, Counterpanes, Diaper, and all descriptions of plain work, on the shortest notice and lowest terms; which cannot be done at any other place in Shepherd's-Town. He returns his sincere thanks for past favors, and hopes, from the goodness of his work, to merit their future support.
SAMUEL AGER.
May 9, 1806. [9w] N. B. All orders in his line are thankfully received and punctually executed.
Berkeley, ss. March Court, 1806. Christopher Parrott, Complainant, against James Maxwell, Defendant. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, James Maxwell, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, c.b.c.
Berkeley, ss. November Court, 1804. George Dickson, Complainant, against James Smith, Defendant. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendant, James Smith, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June, 1806, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, c.b.c.
Cheap Goods.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received from Philadelphia and are now opening a handsome assortment of GOOD S, which have been purchased at very reduced prices, and selected with care from the latest arrivals; they can recommend them to their friends and all those who wish to purchase Goods on reasonable terms.
They have also on hand a large assortment of SUGARS, COFFEE & RICE, Port, Sherry & Lisbon WINES, French BRANDY, West India SPIRITS and RUM; together with a large quantity of Old Maryland WHISKEY, of a superior quality to any that has been offered for sale in Martinsburg for a considerable length of time: all of which will be sold uncommonly low for cash or approved of country produce.
THOMAS NEILSON, & Co. Martinsburg, May 30, 1806.
Jefferson County, ss. May Court, 1806. Thomas Flagg, Plaintiff, against Edward Ridgway, Thomas Lazenby and Sally his wife, and Robert Lazenby and Margery his wife, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE Defendants, Edward Ridgway, Thomas Lazenby and Sally his wife, and Robert Lazenby and Margery his wife, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendants do appear here on the second Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County.
A Copy. Teste, GEORGE HITE, s.j.c.
BOLTING CLOTHS.
JUST received an extensive assortment of best warranted BOLTING CLOTHS, of every description, which will be sold unusually low, by KENNEDY & RAGAN. Hagers-town, June 5, 1806. [1y]
For sale, or exchanged for a Horse, A WELL formed, valuable MARE. Her grand sire was an imported horse, and the mare this spring was put to Florizel.
Enquire at this Printing-Office. June 6, 1806.
GREAT BARGAINS.
THE subscribers have just received from the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore, a most elegant assortment of Fancy Spring Goods, of the newest and latest fashions, selected with the greatest care from the latest arrivals from London, consisting in part of elegant Damask silk Shawls, Leno Shawls and Veils, Colonade, Leno and Needle worked Muslins, silk and cotton Chambroy Muslins, a great variety of handsome Chintzes, Calicos and Waistcoating of Trafalgar figures, Cambrick Muslins and Dimities, ladies' pic nic silk Gloves, Italian plaid Silk, fashionable Bonnets, artificial Flowers, &c.
Have also just received, 4 bales very cheap India MUSLINS, a large supply of Waldron's cradling and grass SCYTHES, German SCYTHES & CUTTING KNIVES, Crowley and Blistered STEEL, a quantity of CASTINGS, 10 tons of BAR-IRON of good quality, and about 50 doz. prime SICKLES made by H. Long of Pennsylvania. All of which they are determined to sell uncommonly cheap for cash. SELBY & CROW. Shepherd's-Town, June 6, 1806.
WHEREAS I gave a note to Peter Beller, of Martinsburg, between the 25th and 30th of May last, for between six and seven dollars; I did also sign an acknowledgment on an account in the time above mentioned, to said Beller, for between four and five dollars; as I conceive the said note and account were not properly obtained, I do forwarn all persons from taking assignments on them, as I am determined not to pay either unless compelled by law. June 6, 1806. JOHN DUNCAN.
Whisky for sale.
THE subscriber has for sale at Paterson's old Mill, a large quantity of excellent WHISKEY, which he will sell low, by the barrel or gallon, for cash or on a short credit. ROBERT CHRISTY. June 13, 1806.
Horton & Clark,
Grocers, next door to Hussey's tavern, North Howard-Street Baltimore, Have on hand and intend keeping a general assortment of
GROCERIES,
of the best kind, among which are Cogniac Brandy, Teas of every description, Madeira Wine, Sugars do. do. Spirits, Coffees do. Holland Gin, Candles & Soap do. Bounce, Chocolate do. N. E. Rum, Cheese do. Molasses, Spanish Segars, Salt, Pepper & Spices, Oil & Paint, Pepper & Spices, Plaister of Paris, &c. &c. &c.
These Goods are offered unusually low. Orders from the country thankfully received and punctually attended to.— Highest prices given for Country Produce, Flour, Hemp, Butter, Bacon, Ginseng, &c. &c. August 16, 1805.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber on Sunday last, a Negro Man named Jim, alias Jim Thompson, but better known in this county and Jefferson by the name of Fifer Jim; he is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, about 40 years old, has a round flat face, of a very dark colour, and is a stout well made fellow; he was lately confined in the Martinsburg jail from which I relieved him. He has for several years past blowed the fife for the militia companies about Martinsburg and other places, on which he performs very well, & plays the fiddle also. He had on an old surtout coat made of gray coating, overalls and waistcoat of the same cloth, a pair of about half worn shoes, split down the vamp owing to their being too small, and stockings, and probably other clothing with him. I will give the above reward to any person who will return said negro to me, or confine him in Berkeley or Jefferson County jail so that I get him again. ROBERT CHRISTY. Berkeley County, March 28, 1806.
ALL those who made purchases at the sale of John Kerney, dec. late of Berkeley County, will please take notice, that their obligations became due on this day, and that we expect they will make immediate payment, as no indulgence can or will be given. We purpose attending at the house of the deceased on the 23d and 24th instant—all those having claims against said estate, are requested to bring them forward on those days properly authenticated for settlement; and all those who stand indebted, either by bond, note, or book account, are desired to make payment against that time, otherwise their accounts will be put in the hands of proper officers for collection, without respect to persons. JAMES KERNEY, Adm'r.  SUSANAH KERNEY, Adm'r. June 5, 1806.
N. B. Those wishing to discharge their accounts previous to the above time, can do so by calling on me near Shepherd's-Town, Jefferson County. JAMES KERNEY, Adm'r.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
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