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ADVERTlSEMENTf EXTRAORDINARY.
Immediately Wanted, a Youth about twenty (
' lii il-'-ton.the people assure me they've plenty,s
Of whom, if he('ll now and then bear admonition,
A husband 111 make with all due expedition ,
And to show that most serious is my intention,
A few indispensibles here I shall mention : - ,
Ira indifferent to height, so he's perfectly straight,
But perhaps should prefer him about five feet
eight,1 . "
WelJ proportion 'd 'and muscular, walking with
ease,. :""'r- :.'..
Adding Bklvidehe's grace to the strength of
r AttNESK ; s
His nose must be prominent, prythee mark that
I've a horrid aversion to one that u flat ;
His eye's may be dark, sharp, piercing, and kei,
tt His appearance in general not at nor too lean ;
Hjs eye-lashes long, his teeth must he white, ,
And his hps twite kisses from mornwig UU night ;
His beard must be black. I wWskers allow,
His cheeks hies; be ruddy, and arch'd be his
brow i
- His mannars be gentle, bewitching and bland :
lie Love's charming language must well under
. stand: .
Be deep read and accomplish'd of course be
. r ' polite ''. ..,,
. S'mg delightfully well, and bewitchingly write
As women will plague him and troublesome be.
c ,nay wuu men. aa, out must love only
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hot too fonu of retirement, nor addicted to'roam,
Vvhen out must be with me, when not stay at
home-
No more strikes me at present I hate to be nice,
To piudesaud ok! maids I leave being precise
Asl mean to be neither who fancy this letter,
lay make their proposals, the sooner the better.
To the Lady vho odxertised Jor Partner in
Evening Pasta few days tinte.
M&. Edito, :
SIR,
Thougn I am not vain,
Yt the hand of -your fair I think I could gain ;
.ww ouaaS ner, since sne ims not shown,
Ihough you, I must beg, to make myself knewn.
is tr.e that ,n7ears, her t-tnty 1 double, . ..
liu in married life, such thing g.ve no trouble,
Acmoni.h she may, and without any fear, .
I royidcd I sleep, and the noise do not hear.
Ajtid a to "he nose, mine is not flat nor small,
For toVe-candid," I have, no tose at all.
ftfy eyes art quite dark, and especially one,.
So dark,' that it cant see the light of the sun. '
?iy teeth are as'white as Iv'ry can muke,
Oi ;thn Demist .no more of my money shall take.
T'uit she' allows whiskers, to me is a treat.
My wig has a pair of new black Qnea complate.
.i V, iTi iu keeping tnem so,
..... , ,we? o, v..aret eacn uay o now. t cre wi gencrai,y pioduce from filleen l0 twenty
kisses .nvile not, but ready at nand . . . - bushels the .which will yield to the farmer
My to. gue shall spcak for them in language most a greater profit (han pcrhaps anv othcr artide he
. ;, e ,. ',3 ; can raise Penn. jiafler.
I'm not fmd of retirement, yet seldom shall roam,!" , m -
Th-nks to the f .Out, I'm pretty steaJy at heme, j To the Editor of the York Evening Post.
let thu recomintndt-d, I still should despair, i Mr. Editor ' '
But for Gi.e thing untold, to win the coy fair, lt has a3Sertcd wilh grt coor-of trotb
1 hen hear it, .apd tel! her, I Jl make i, appear ' if ml &dpzhXc of demonstration, that it was not a
The one who now woos owns ten thousand a year.' spi;il u opposition to a friflinz Tea tax which
As buxom y'duhg usan was riding of late
On a turn. nike. the toll-man foibade her the o-ai.
tt . . i'---. .-r."---o-rj-
u .nes m.c pa. g nine pence ; mis susav relusd,
And ask'd by w hat right she was stoppf & abus'd,
Thtn u p on the sign-board the toll-man, of course,
. Pointing, said, you see Nine-pence for each
man and horse." , --
" Ah ! hz ! icplied Susan) then why need I care ?
' For I am a woman, my beast is a mare.".
UPAS, OR POISON TREE OF JAVA.
-fiftjTi . aijci icimM.- i.iijf.-xjmt iijmMrii-nr iji...in.nnsi
, - - y
, oj Java.'' ,
ahe accounts given by 1 raveilers othe Bohan-
Upas, rather incline -Ui the marvellous but a
scientific gentleman who accompanied D'Enlre-
oasteaux in his expedition m search ot La Pey-j
rouse M. Deschamps, tt Physician, asserts, that
;io lionan-L-pas ceruwiv exists in Java, but that
tue stories with which, it abounds only arise trom '
" The Bohan-Upas is comn.on in the province
Cf BalembiJUUlig. It IwkS IJie an elm, and K'W
to the heiirht of . about thiny or forty feet.
The leaves are, alternate, otal and rough to the
tou.:h. The howeis are diceual and axiilury.
I ht mule, formed of &.roujnd receptacle, sprink
led vmh Stamina, rtscmblos tht of a dooistania :"
the female has two pistils. The fruit is round,
pikI contains' a kernel. Onbrtaking ibranch of the
Tho Javanese t-at the -animal's killed by roeana of. -
11.1s poison, wunout .leeimg any in enects lr.,mit.
ilui nttion which hagono fcbroad of the ve-
rytnosphr
founded,..! have myself cut .branches' from it ;
bu.t . originates in ihe following circuinstonrs
The Sovereigns of Java, who are muuh tffiW
Tassed oy by 'the- gie;H number of brothers which
, the custom of polygamy produces, get rid of them,
by banishing thetn, wiih oilier slate criminals, to
very marshy and unhealthy Islands, situate on, the
southern cpast of the. great Island As the greater
part of these exiles perish there, the people have
the idea that they aie killed by the exhalatioHs ol
tlie Bohan-l'pas."--5oii:f ;
IT is a habit in this city, on New. Year's day,
for people to congtatuialv eache'.utr ; and amon?
""rM' "c lu,iUW,l,S w u, sudjcci oi obtaining theis; premature growth, by a toial inter
his i tree.; wtre communicated by M Deschatnps ,011 'of foreign importations, is as fallacious, as
to M. iVaUre BEvn,who jhaS published them inpt would be o. expect supplied of wheat and com
his 'trench tditiojfol the Voyage to Coclun-Cbi-1 f - ,hunrrrrf.n H.-.t.tmd-ini tli.hni,..
irve, auu.Ky juice i" inwi u, ancrnninediatciy 1 government" he answered 'means well by these
condenses itbtlf ; it is the iamoiisl poison. Mixed conUnercial restrictions, but cloths sold b'etttr and
Wi'h the blcod, it klllS almost instantaneously. 1 m ...1- mnr. mrnv formcriv , anil h 'neonle wr
the higher order, something stylish is used.. Me
chanicks preotrallv hail each other with ' I wish
you i happy New-Year $ those who are termed
a grade above, with, Sir, the compliments 01 me
season," &c. A blackamore, named Cufly, hear
inc the ! cbmnUments pass, catched the words, as
he had imagined ; and being determined to com
nlimenr his master.' he fcoDroached hirn on New
Year's morning, with, " Atfima, J vnshyouaU.de
Honorable attachment and. fidelity.
A few years ago, a young man in England, of
remarkable good sense and ingenuity whJ naving,
by reason of a film over each eye, been blind from
his births aDDlied to a female occulist for a cure
When the operator was about beginning her work
a worthy young lady whom this buntl man naa
ngaged to marry him, was observed to be ,4
tremely agitated- The operator endeavoured to
comfort her by a confident assurance ot success.
" I fear, replied the lady, that this very, circum
stance, with- which you strive to comfort me, may
undo me. 'My attachment is great, and I have
nose to think that his affection for me is equally
sincere ; but he has never seen me, and, as I am
not handsome, I am afraid, iW, when he shall see
me, he will cease to love me. - -
j The event, however, happily proved otherwise,
i The operation succeeded, and when ilm voung
man recovered his sicrht, he still manifested an
unabated fondness for this good girl, and soon af.
ter married her. '
COMMUNICATION.
The present, appearance of our commercial af
fairs calls for every kind of information, that can
tend to lessen the inconvenience resulting from
the want of such articles as we have been in the
. haWt 0f obtaining from abroad. Among the lux
urits, ii not necessaries, ior which c uuc ynu
cipally Deen dependent on foreign countries, is the !
r. m. Th, ed f this
, isrsuperior tothat of England ; and it can
be tJy and successfully manufactured here, as
jn any rhrt of the world: The only diHicuhy is to
; ' .,irr.:.,. f,h .-.a
r Thc writer 0f this article haviiiR bOen conver-1
' sant with the method of raising mustatd in Jbng
the land, begs leave to call the attention of -our ftr
jmers to this subject, lie recommends the iol
.lowing method of culture- Select ground that
would produc e turnips or hemp, and that is cle;ir
of weeds Early m the spi mg, plough and liar
row it well. Let two qmrts of bn n seed bt
8catttred carefully over an acre- When the plants
are a few inchei! high, take out the wecds witi, a
smal, hoc and thin the- plailts so as to leave for
each remailiing one a space cf from six to nine
incht9. VVhen the lower seeds are ripe.thejMd
hip rr,-,n knA tUirJ the nlai.t is in bios
o - -f i ,
torn, cut the plants with a sickle, bind them in mo
derate sized sheaves; and put them in small stacks
. for a lew days. In this situation, the seeds that
'were green, when cut, will soon riptn. Let the
I sheaves then be carefully placed on a iarge cloth,
to prevent waste, and conveyed to the bfrni where,
. in a" few days, they will be fit for threshing. Whtn
I well winnowed aud cleaned, the seed, wilt -corn-
man(i from five to ,eyen doar9 . bushe,,.
One a-
gyAte to the dihmemberment uf the 'American
btatis from Great Britain, so mucti as the prodi
gious attainments, theyihud made in population,
.wafUind4naustryhich-HBdeTedhemv too
powerful fdV the lank of a Colony, and necessarily
engendered a spirit of independence, which sought
a piea to effect its emancipation if it should be at
the point -of the sword.
1 have been led to this subject at present by a
parallel consideration, as to American manuiac
tures. A necessary result of pur increase in ac
tive and industrious population, and the happy
.- -i-,.---. t . . r , : . ' -
Hiusi vc, 111c iiiusi icnci-i it sources lur, Ciouiiii
and olhtr manufactures within ourstlvts : and ii
lhe Sametacauses continue to operate, we snml in
time exiwrt those ariicics to countries possessed
0 WCalth with Itss industry. ,
, However beautilul the theoryMr. Editor, be-
lieve the experience of every age his evinced, that
.u. . ,i.;..ki 1.. , i. ;..a
train of the slow movimfcaubes ; and the hope ol
1 v;sited &ind of mine yesterday who "con-
rt,trr WMTi-fixrtnrv. ' um aft. r fvr. ( inn- mv
admit anon ci his frigen'ipus arrargernents, 1 , ie
marked that in a few years he must make a for
tune. " Ves'r said he, ' if we have a free trade
with England." I told him that his remark sur
prized mc, as I knew from his politics he was no
fiicnd to that country, and certainly in his branch
rcf business ihe English are powerful rivals. Our
not lhcn manufacturii.)? mad, my suvants were
more .teadv and.useful : I believe that if the du-
tit9 coii.inued on British roaLulacturts, and our
:.JilouId utf VndeiJendent."
I'ETRO PETIIOVITCH.
Nkw-Orleams, Jan. 29.
- THE CONVEN i ION. - -Yesterday,
after having signed the plan of a Con
stitution, finished Iheir laborsThough we. are'
not one of those who are willing to believe that
the instrument they, have framed will produce a
milleniura, we are willing to accord to the mem
bers that tribute of respect and gratitude, which is
due to men who leavetheir homes anhe" season
of the year when their presence is peculiarly de
nianded, t minister to the good of thfeir felloy
citizens. May Ihey on their return, meet the
rrateful smilei of their constituents.' v .. '
Mr. Majrruder from the committee appointed to
draft a letter to the President of the U. States,
and to accompany the constitution, reported the
' fr.t1nimo , f V''''--r, -i' i; v' V" '
-v.. i. ........ , '
1 . In Convention, January 58, 1812
" Sib The Representatives of the people of the
territory of Orleans, in convention assembled, have
now the honor to submit to the consideration of
Coniress,-the Constituuon or form ot government
tlie result-of, their joint deliberations, under the
act providing ior uie aamissiou ui ima tomniy ui
to the union of the States motives of peculiar ur-
gency, connected with the repose and security of
the people ot this territory, have induced them to
solicit of the executive, that the constitution, here
with transmitted, may, beimmediaely laid .before
Congress, so as to be acted on at the present scs
sion. The anticipated cnange in me government
of this ..territory, has considerably relaxed the ad
ministration .thereof, in some of its most import
ant departments Provided the adoption of the
new form should be delayed to a distant, period,
serious injuries and inconveniencies to the people,
are apprehended. The convention, therefore, beg
leave to express to the congress, through the ex
ecutive of the United States, their earnest 'solici
tude tor as speedy a provision against such a state
of things, may comport; with ihe ether national
duties of that body. , -With
great respect,
We have he honor to be, sir,
Your Excellency's most Obt.
t ' ii i President.
(By Unanimous order of the Convention.
To the President of the U. States. ' 1
EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED
Manchester, 2d Januqry 1812.
" Our manufactures have lately experienced a
considerable rise in price, owing to several causes
-the first which may be mentioned is the de-
j C'-?asd, quantity manufacture j another, the con
'rable relief m the mon.ed community ; w ,th
j l,ie oiher causes, . which are however distinct
i f'om any expectation ol a demand for Ihe. United
al' Scotch goods may be stated to havt arr-
st.n on an average aoout twenty per cent, anc
Manc'-esier a-d ooltn goods alwu 10 percent "
Mate 15ank ot Norm tar vjna
iUL Ij'l) itUf Cr J. v'i
Ala mertiriti-ot the Directors ol , A
incipal
Hark ol the State Bank of North.
ma, on
the d-'y aforesaid,
RESOLVED, that subscriptions ve h'ui
dred and tigbty tiht bhares cyfy.al sloe
te leceived at ihe brauch Bank at ' trn f
.if -ic
hun-
stock
'or
branch
Uank at VV ilmington f --for" tlntt. Jrti) and
eight shares at the branch Bank f.n aton , for
thrte hundred & eighty tight ihaii0j- ,;he branch
Bank at Fyeiu il)e ; and lor one gvied and fif
ty seven, shares at the branch Ba:It Salisbury,
under the supvrintendance and , fiction " of the
Ptcskents end Cashieis of thesirahch Banks
KSpr.tively : That the booL tft'eried on ths
1 8 1 h of April ind kept open . j . p h-s, unlcs
the shares shall be sootier takefT. third of
the amount of each share to be paui' ior at the
time of subscribing one third on or before tiie
18th day of June, ai.d the remaining third on or
betore the I8fr- day of August next. Payment
shall be made m specie, or m pnper, money, at;
- . r r ... A 1 : r r.-r
... 7 -
discount of 5 per cent.' And in .case of fail-
ure of any subscriber to pay ihe .said instalments,
within twenty days after the same become payable,
each and every such share shall be forfeited and
vest in the president and directors of the Bank,
and such share 0 ortbtir.
order sold at public auction ior gold or silver coin,
and transierred to . the purchaser or purchasers
thei't-ot"The proceeds of such saletT jue fir
applied to "the payment or payments V)("jih jhall
appear u be due to the Bank upon sutV-hare ur i
shares, toga tier witu uie inteiesi inereuilai..we-
costs und charges of sale, and the surplus, it aij,.
be paid to such riockholdcrs' or his rep'escnta-
31.4w VVM. 11. HAYVVOOD,C,;f-.
State of North Carolina, -
lutuL.L. LOU.niY. -. -
- ; - February Ter m; 8 1 9t
James Kerr," Esquire j - 1 t.m. -M
Wm. W.ay s representatives Jn,eUl' lfcvkd'
It appearing to the, court the Representa
tives ut Wiuiam Wray, dec'are not inhabitants of
this state, it is ordered that publication be made
for three weeks in tke UaleighMintrvd, and that
the said defendants uppear ai our next court of
picas iind quarter sessions to be hell lor the county
ot Iredell at the court house in Statesville on the
third Mondayin May next, anJ plead to Saul suit,
or judgment will be taken against them.
TT, J()iiN N 1SB1T, c. c.
btate of North Carolina, '
lKk.Ui.LL. COUNTY.
...... Pcbruat y Term 1812.
John Stevenson "1
vs. L Original attachment, levied, See.
Robert Bryson.J , -
It apppeaiing to the court that the defendant is
not an inhabitaitt cf this, state ; it is ordered that
publicalion.be made three months in the Minjrva,
and that the said defendant appear at next court
to be held at Statesville on .the.jhird Monday of
May-next, and plead to his suit, otherwise judg.
meiit will be taken against him. , . -
TasTr JOHN NISBlT, c c.
31-Sm. -,'
State of North Carolina,
MONTGOMERY COUMY.
Elizabeth' Allman
' ' vs. ;
Drury Smith, ad m'r of
Richard Allman.
Petition.
It appearing to the cjiurt that Drury Smith is
not'an (inhabitant, of this State; it is therefore or
dered that publication be made for three weeks In
the Raleigh Minerva, that unless thesaid Smith
1 tj. - ' 1
appear at the next ptit Term of the Cauaty Cour
ot Montgomery! answer, demurr or plead to tna
said petition, that judgment be taken pro confessor
: JOHN SMI THT a. r.. ft
TT A3 wo copies of the General Stud Book of
11
England, price S 1 1
Mawes on gardening, r3 S
Marshall on ditto ') 9 j U .' J
KosciuscO's maftofutres of Horse
cry,
Macontb on Courls-Martil,
Stockhoiiae's history of the Bible,' 6 vols'
Paley's Natural Tlieology Dito Evidence b$
.Christianity ditto' Sermons, ' 4 . .v
Faber on the Prophecies, '., ,, ; ' ' ;
The Sermons of Blair, Saurin, MThorteir, D;r
na,' Doddrige, Paley, Davies1, FordyceY IVcu;
Kyand M'Laurin, . y'".;. '. ,.j": 'r'.
Robeson's Proofs of a conspiracy against religion,
Butterworth's Concordance, . - t . : ' - T
M'Laiirin's Essays, , t , ,
"' wiwiv kiui tiisi filial wes, '-j;
buck s Aliscellany,
Treatise on religioua experience, , , &'.
Daviesr Sermons 3 vols, including . his last ,'tet'-
mons, ,
John Newton's worksl 1 vols gll, ,
Newland on Contracts, ' 1
Anthon's Analytical abridgment of Blockstonejs
Commentaries in I vol.
Chitty on PleacHng ,
Selwyn's Nisi Prius 2 vols, -l'
Cruise on real property 5 yoi,
Massachusntt's Reports $ vols
Cavallo's Philosophy, '
-; -
on Electricity, .
Gillies' history of Greece,
D'Anville's ancient Geography, .
Dobson's edition of the Encyclopaedia from IQ W
S70, 'v . r.'
Humes Essays, , . v
oin.e's clement s of Criticism,
Sketches of ihe.,history of Man.1 v
- RaVigh, Febnuuv '4
State -of North Carolina,
Court ofileas and muirttr st-mona. Jan. term 18 1
Johnston & O'Hara, ")
v' i- Original attachment.
Jas. G. Chalmers Sr. Co. J
Returned, executed by summoning Thoma
Gatewood, Thomas Rutfin and Stephen D. Waf
kinsj Garnishees."
Jt appearing to the satisfaction of this Court
that James G. Chalmers and William D. Wiils.jn
the defendants in this suit, are not inhabitants of
this state, whereupon on motion, it is ordered that
the same be advertised three weeks in the na
leigh Minerva, that unless the said defendant be
and appear at our next court of pleas anl qua-'
ter sessions to "be held for the county of Caswell
aforesaid, on the second Monday .of April ntxt
and defend said suit, judgment final will be tn- -tered
against them
test, ALE'r. MURPIIEY, c. e.
SJ-r3t. '"'.'
THE CELEBRATED IMPORTED HORSI
DION,
.VTTILL stand the ensuing season at my st
VV in baiisoury; He is fifteen handa
half high,' a beautiful bay, and one of the iV
powerful and compact horses ever imported- lie
is now m high health and perfection, and will
cpver mares at twenty dollars the season, which
may be discharged by. the payment of sixteen
ai4oIIars on or belore the 25ih day1 of Decem!er
j e j ,, . - . .
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next : and forty dollars to ensure a mare to be in
foal, which may be discharged by the payment
of thirty-twodoilars on of before the 25th di'yxf
December next,- The insurance money will h
demanded in. every instance when the property of
the mare is changed. . " --
N. B. Notes must be sent with the mares for
the season7xrinsuranceL .... . ''.
rPEDiGREEi
DION was got by Spudille, his dam Faith byt
Pact let, grandam Atalanta, by Matchem, Lass of
the Mill, by Oroonoko, Old Traveller, (sister 10
Clark's Lass of the Mill,) Mr. llomes's Miss
Makeless, by Tonne: Greyhound,' Old Partner,
Woodcock, dam of the LitmptonMiss Doe Croft's
Bay Barb, Rrandam of the Ancasier Sterling,
Makeless (Desd'emora'i dam) Biimmer, Dickey
Bierson, (son of Dodswcrth) Burton Barb mai e-y
Spadille was got by Highflyer out of FJora, by
Squirrel, her dam Angelica by Snap, Uegulus,
Bar.lctt's Childtrs,, &ct , :'
Fait h, the dam of Dion, . was a mare of the Hrt
celeurity as a racer, and afterwards equally dis.
t :nv;uished as -a brood mare. The Calendars from
1800 to 1805 give the performances of several oF
her produce, particularly Marcia and Vesta ; ;the .
former having , lost but two out of 15 fourm;le
races, botjh of which were won by Iord Darlin)?-V
ton's celebrated horse Haphazard,! whom she af.
terwards beat tor the gold c at Pontrefact She 7
also beat Agonistis, Alonai Orville, and many
oUier goodrvinners, ,'
Vesta, was; only beaten once in 1804 "and 1805
which was for tne.$t. Ledger stakes at Doncau r
in 1804, where1 she fell in running.1 In I 05 she
won (among other distinguished races) the great
supscription for four years olds at. York, beatir,j
Sir H. T. Vane's celebrated colt Master Betty ai d
M. Mellish's Quid , ' V
The celebrity of this horse as a foal getter is in
ferior to no horse in the United Slates. Somt of
his colts have pnoved themselves tv be among the
best racers of the present d-y, particularly Mr.
W. R. Johnson's Don Quixotte, who has run more
races and with more success than any horse of the
same age in America. -
Theseason will commence the first of arch. ,
and end tlje first of August. I will pasture gratisT
a few mares. I pledge my self to have due atten
tion paid to mares that may be seiit to the Horse ;
and such as mayTbe.left.:iihine shalUif iuiredr
be fed with corn, oats and fodder at fifteen cents
per day, or at the market price of these article.
Every attention will be paid'to prevent accidents'
or escapes, but Lwill not be liable for either. ' v
.' JOSEPH CHAMBERS; '
Salivary, Ftbrtiary 22 - - '"-
Printing
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