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HARPERS FERRY FREE PRESS.
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Whole No. 118.
VOL. in.—No. 14.
HARPERS-FERRY, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1828.
PUBLISHED^ WEEKLY, BY
JOHN S. GALLAHER & CO.
CONDITIONS.
The 11 Free Press” is published at two
dollars per annum, if paid in advance;
two dollars and twenty-five cents if paid
at the end of six months ; or, two dollars
and fifty cents at the expiration of the
year.
No paper will be discontinued until all
• arrearages are paid ; nor then, unless at
least one week’s notice be given, previous
to the expiration of the term subscribed
for.
^^Advertisements inserted three times
for one dollar per square, or less ; and
twenty-five cents per square for every sub
sequent insertion.
Books and Stationary.
JUST received, at the Printing Office
of the Free Press, and for sale,
Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music,
Murray’s Grammar,
Parke’s Arithmetic, Pike’s do.
English Reader, Introduction to do.
Watt’s Hymns, Songs of Zion,
Webster’s Spelling Book,
Wood’s New York Primer,
Writing and Letter Paper,
AND
Almanacs for the year 1824.
Oct. 29, 1823.
TO JOURNEYMEN TAILORS,
AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
HE subscribers will give constant
I employment to two first rate jour
neymen Tailors, who can execute work
with neatness and despatch, if they apply
immediately. They also take this op
portunity to inform the inhabitants of
Harpers-ferry and its vicinity, that they
carry on the TAILORING BUSINESS,
in Shepherdstown,in all its several branch
es. They receive the very latest fashions
regularly from Baltimore and Philadel
phia. Their prices are regulated to the
times—they will make first rate
Superfine Coats m S4. 00,
in the most fashionable style,
^ Plaid Cloaks at 3 50,
Wferior to none in point of neatness and
durability,
Ladies’ Felices § Riding Dresses,
made in the neatest and most elegant style
for FIVE DOLLARS, and all other work
cheap accordingly. The subscribers flat
ter themselves, from their thorough know
ledge of the business, and their indefa
tigable efforts to please their customers
and the public generally, that they will
-receive a reasonable share of the public
favor. HOWARD & MASK.
Shepherdstown, Oct. 29, 1823.
N. B. All orders assigned them from
Harpers-ferry or the neighboring country,
will be attended to with promptitude and
despatch—all kinds of country produce
will be taken in payment for work.
H. Sc M.
NOTICE.
THE citizens of Harpers-Ferry and
the neighborhood adjacent, are res
pectfully informed, that I have opened an
office in Sharpsburg, in the house now
occupied by Samuel Knode as a tavern.
I will attend to any business entrusted to
my care in the County Court of Wash
ington County, the Chancery Court, and
Orphans’ Court.
DANIEL HUGHES, jr.
Attorney at Law.
Sharpsburg, Sept. 24, 1823.
HA1PERS-FERRY RACES.
WILL be run for, over a handsome
course, on Wednesday the 12th of
November, a purse of
Seventy Dollars,
* three rounds and repeat, free for any
horse, mare, or gelding. On Thursday
the 13th,
A Handsome Sweepstake,
r two rounds and repeat, free as above, the
winning horse the preceding day except
ed. On Friday the 14th, a purse of
One Hundred and Ten Dollars,
fgur rounds and repeat, free as above, the
tv-inning horses the preceding days except
ed. Arid on Saturday the 15th, will be
run for, one round and repeat,
A Good New Saddle,
free as above, the winning horses the pre
ceding d^ys excepted. The horses to be
entered the evening previous to each race.
Four horses must Be entered each day, or
no race. PHILIP STRIDER,
Oct. 22, 1823. Manager.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Prediction Falsified.—The late Mr. Me
lish, (a shrewd and calculating man)
deemed the New York Canal a very wild
scheme. At the rate at which the Forth
and Clyde canal was completed, Mr. M.
calculated the Grand Canal would take
220 years to finish it! But how stands
the calculation alongside the fact?
New-Jersey Canal.—Governar Clinton
and Benjamin Wright, Esq. and some
other scientific gentlemen, are now in
New Jersey, traversing and examining
the route of the contemplated canal, which
is to connect the waters of the Delaware
with the Hudson. These gentlemen were
at Patterson on Wednesday last, where
an entertainment was given them by the
citizens at Godwin’s hotel.—[Com. Adv.
THE PRESIDENCY.
The Philadelphia Observer, asserts po
sitively, that Mr. Shulze the governor
elect of Pennsylvania, is decidedly in fa
vor of Andrew Jackson, as our next Pre
sident, and adds—“in November 1824,
the Jackson Electoral Ticket will be car
ried in Pennsylvania by a majority of
90,000 ! in defiance of every art and con
spiracy to defeat the will of the fieofile.”
Lieut. Platt, one of Com. Porter’s offi
cers, while in the Havana, was grossly
insulted by the Lieutenant Governor of
Cuba, who called the commanding officer
and his men a set of pirates. Commodore
Porter wrote to the Governor on account
of this, who replied in terms of the great
est respect to the gallant officer, and to
the men who served under him. It is said
that the Deputy Governor, a poor little
tadpole of royalty, has been deprived of
his command.—[2?a*. Chron.
The U. S. schr. Terrier, Lieut. Com.
M’Kean, was spoken 20th S^pt. then in
chase of a piratical vessel, which was
seen by the Cutter Neison, (arrived at
Providence) same morning.—[lb.
Emigration. —No less than„485 vessels,
having on board 10,0 if settlers, Have ar
rived this season at Quebec from Great
Britain and Ireland.—[76.
GEN. BALLASTEROS.
An English paper states, that there are
intimations that this officer since bis capi
tulation, has done nothing to answer the
views of the French, and that they are
obliged to watch his conduct. It is ad
ded that his defection was not known to
the Cortes, with whom he still keeps up a
correspondence.
NATCHEZ.
| Advices from this ill fated city, to Sep
; tember 24th, state that no new case of
the epidemic had appeared in that place
for the last four days. The board of
health were directing the usual precau
tionary measures preparatory to the re
turn of the absent citizens. The total
number in the place on the 19th, was as
certained to be 784.
—-mmo —
To Sufferers by the Fever and Ague.
The writer feels it his duty to inform
you and the community at large, that af
ter enduring the Fever and Ague daily
for about twenty-five days, which would
not yield to strong decoctions of snake
root and other applications, he was advis
ed to take the following remedy, which
effectually cured the disease in one day ;
and he has the pleasure of acknowledging
that he is now in the best health, with an
excellent appetite; nor shall he dread a
return of this shivering plague so long as
he can avoid the cause from which it
originated.—The remedy is as follows :
Take the shells of three Eggs; strip
off the thin skin which adheres to the in
side of the shell—burn or roast on a sho
vel the shells until they are fit to reduch
into powder, which may be done by any
means most convenient—Take this pow
der in a little molasses, or any thing more
agreeable, an hour or two before the fit
comes on, and it will be a wide chance if
the patient is troubled with the Ague on
the succeeding day.
It may be necessary to observe, that the
writer had taken an emetic and cleaned
his stomach the day previous t» his tak
ing the above mentioned powder.
The effect of this specific upon many
in this town can be attested by a host of
respectable persons ; and if it was thought
that names would attach any additional
consequence to this simple remdy, or in
duce a more general experiment of its ef
ficacy, there are numbers at hand who
would voluntarily subscribe to the truth
of what is here asserted.—[Louis. Her.
Of foreign intelligence extracted from
papers received at the office of the New
York Commercial Advertiser.
ALGIERS.
Accounts from Algiers, through the
Dutch papers, state that the Government
has again turned to its despotic proceed
ings. A ship laden with various bales of
goods, and bound to Algiers, was obliged,
in consequence of a storm, to be at the ex
pense of 16,000 francs, for repairs at Mar
seilles and Nice. On its arrival, the cap
tain would not unload till he v/as indem
nified for the expenses, which he proved
by c-oper documents. Those to whom
the cargo was addressed complained to
the Dey, who ordered it to be delivered
to them, adding that it was not the cus
tom at Algiers to make any allowance for
average. All the European Agents pro
tested against this decision, which is con
trary to the law of nations ; but the Dey
persisted, and the captain was compelled
to give up the cargo without receiving
any indemnity. The Dey’s fleet is still
in the Levant. The plague has not yet
appeared there.
1 he Dublin Journal of the 5th, gives
accounts of two mere miracles. The sub
ject of this ne v? miracle is Michael Reed,
a shoe-maker, at No. 14, Coal quay, who
had been confined to bed for three years,
in consequence ©f a contraction in the
joints of the arms, hands and feet. At
the close of the Mass, performed in the
chapel ef St. Michael and John, on the
1st inst. “ he felt through his frame a ge
neral thrill, indicative of returning mus
cular power;” and accordingly he walked
home as cleverly as a lamplighter.—
Prince Hohenloe and his followers will
make miracles too common, if they go
on at this rate.
A great number of domestic animals,
have perished in the course of the last
winter and spring, in East Prussia for
want of food, viz. 1 1,345 horses, 1,969
oxen, 2,234 cows, and 6,397 young cattle
of various kinds.
It was announced in London on the 8th,
th-t'c a r:5/£sseng;-r with & communication
from the Provisional Government of
Greece, had arrived at the Foreign Of
fice.
The samples of new wheat brought to
the Exchange, are for the most part damp
and unfit for use—but the weather conti
nuing very fine, there is great dullness of
trade in every species of grain.
Capt. Kotzhue, of the Russian Navy,
has sailed on his third voyage of disco
very round the world. He is to go to
Rio de Janeiro, round Cape Horn, and to
the South Seas. He had arrived at Co'
penhagen.
It is reported that several Danish ships
have been captured by Spanish privateers.
The King and Crown Prince have al
lowed 40,000 rix dollars per annum, for
the support of the Theatre.
Baron Von Strongonoff, late Russian
Minister at Constantinople, arrived at
Amsterdam on the 27th of Aug.
Three American vessels were loading
with iron at Stockholm, on the 19th of
August. 200,000 ship pounds have been
already shipped the present season.
A fire broke out in Batavia, in March,
which consumed one hundred and forty
bamboo houses, and one hundred and
twenty Warongs. The loss of merchan
dize, it was feared, would be considera
ble.
It appears from the Irish papers that a
system of robbery, very serious and pre
judicial in its consequences, has been car
ried on for years among the public offices
of that country. The article plundered
is parchment containing the writs, plead
ings, judgments, Sec. in short, the records
of the courts of law and equity ; and as
immense quantities have been carried off,
a mischief more dreadful to the public
can hardly be imagined.
Discovery Shifts.—A look-out vessel,
with provisions, it is understood, will
shortly be despatched to Lancaster Sound
in search of Capt. Parry. It is said that
those Northern Seas remain clear of ice
until the winter is somewhat advanced.
If this be the case, it may not yet be too
late to make the search; and perhaps
some of the whalers lately returned from
Davis’s Straits, which are particularly
fitted for, and used in the navigation of
those seas, would be the best calculated
for the enterprise.
M. Hyde.de Neaville arrived at Lisbon
in the beginning of August.
The Gazette d’Augsbourg contains the
following particulars in a letter from
Rome : “ Cardinal Consalvi, who for 2,0
years was not only the minister, but the
confidential friend of Pius VII, never
quitted the bed side of the Holy Father,
and the fatigues he underwent have en
dangered his own health. At the moment
they were administering the Viaticum to
his Holiness, Cardinal Consalvi fainted.
For some days, adds the same corres
pondent, the names of the Cardinals So
maglia, Pacca, and Zurla, are often men
tioned. The first is the oldest of the
Cardinal Bishops, born in 1744; the se
cond was born in 1756; and the third is
about 60. It is reported, that in a pri
vate sitting of the Sacred College, it was
proposed to hold a Conclave in the Quiri
nal forthwith; and thus to save 200,000
scudi, which the necessary preparations
in the Vatican would cost.
Several French and Italian merchant
men bound for Odessa, had returned with
out entering the channel, because the
measures adopted by the Turks against
vessels bound for the Black Sea, were ex
ecuted with the greatest rigor, and be
cause all the remonstrances of the Euro
pean Ministers at Constantinople huve
hitherto remained ineffectual.
NEW-YQRK, OCT. 26.
By the British Packet, Lady Louisa?
arrived last eveningfrom Falmouth,which
place she left on the 12th ult. Loudon pa
pers to the 9th are received.
These papers furnish two important ar
ticles of intelligence. THE GOVERN
MENT OF PORTUGAL HAS JOINED
FRANCE IN HER WAR AGAINST
SPAIN, and sent a naval force to assist in
the siege of Cadiz; and the Trocadero?
a fortress in the island of Leon, has been
taken possession of by the troops under
the Duke of Angouleme.
These articles of information are con
tained in the French papers of the 5th
and 7th ult.
The Trocadero is, it will be remember
ed, on the main land, opposite to Cadiz,
from whence it could only be succoured
by sending detachments across the bay.
Its fall is no otherwise material, than as
it diminishes, in some degree, the difficul
ty of penetrating with a fleet into the in
ner harbour of Cadiz. Sufficient defenc
es are yet left, however, in the batteries
of the city, at Puntales, and at the bottom
of the bay at the Caracas, to render any
such attempt on the part of the French
highly improbable.
The Duke of Angouleme has issued a
decree declaring the Cortes to be outlaw
ed.
Diseases and mutiny prevailed on board
the Turkish fleet near Trieste, and werfr
rapidly weakening their strength. The
Greeks were strong and confident.
North-western Boundary.—Major De»
lafield, the agent of the United States un
der the treaty of Ghent, for our north
western boundary line, accompanied by
Mr. Ferguson, the principal surveyor,
and Mr. Whistler, draftsman, with some
of their voyagersq arrived here in the schr.
Tiger, from Mackinac, on the 5th instant.
The whole party is from the Lake of the
| Woods, the surveyors having been absent
| the last eighteen months, pursuing their
labors, in the Indian territory; and we
learn that they will be obliged to return
another season to complete such parts as
the approach of winter made it necessary
they should abandon Maj. Delafield en
tered the Indian territory in the spring,
and has penetrated to the extreme north
western limits of the United States. The
party has enjoyed good health during the
whole time, and has never been, in any
instance, molested by the Indians.
We are authorized to state, that the
American (a Mr. Tanner) who was shot
by the Indians near Lac la Pluie, was in
no manner connected with this party.—
He was a hunter of long residence among
the Indians, and the attempt to kill him,
arose altogether from quarrels of a pri
vate nature, and not from any hostile dis
position of the Indians generally towards
the Americans in that quarter. 'On the
contrary, this party has uniformly been
received with great kindness, at such
posts of the Hudson’s Bay Company as
they passed, and received facilities to
their progress, both from the traders and
the Indians.—[Detroit Gazette.
Salt Works.—In a few years upwards
of a million of bushels.of salt will be ma
nufactured in the county of Onondaga,
(N. Y.) the duties on which, at 12| cents
per bushel, will amount to gl25,000 an
nually, which, with the tolls of the canal,
are forever appropriated to the canal
debt, and will soon liquidate the whole*
sum. The gross income in a few years
may be about g3G0,000.
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Eighty-two persons died in Philadelphia
during the week ending on the 18th Oct\.
41 adults, and 41 children.