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VOL. III.—No. 39.
HARPEHS-FERRY, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1824.
PUBLISHED, WEEKLY, BY
JOHN S. GALLAHER & CO.
CONDITIONS.
The 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 sixmonths;
or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the expiration of
the year.
A notice to discontinue, must be given at least
a week before the expiration of the term subscrib
ed for, and all arrearages paid.
*V* Advertisements will be inserted at the rate
of One Dollar per square, for three insertions, and
Twenty-five Cents per square for each subsequent
insertion.
The postage must be paid on all letters and com
munications, or they will not be attended to.
WEEKLY ALMANAC.
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1824.
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JACOB H« VpiOMAS
CONTINUES to be the occupant of
the Harpers-Ferry Hotel, and is pre
pared to receive visitors; for the com
fortable acommodation of whom his best
efforts will be used.
April 14, 1824. _
CATECHISM.
THE Evangelical Catechism; or, a
plain and easy system of the princi
pal Doctrines and Duties of De Chris
tian Religion ; adapted to the use of Sab
bath Schools and Families. With anew
method of instructing those who cannot
read—second edition. By the Rev John
Mines. Just received and for sale u this
office-—price 12§ cents.
April 14, 1824. _'_,_
MILLET SEED $ POTATOES.
FJT^HE subscriber has a quantity of those
| articles, which he will sell low for
cash. TheMillet is of the very best species
of that valuable plant; and the Potatoes
are unusually fine.
CASPAR W. WEVER.
Stone Mill, March. 17,1824. , ■. _4
^ Beware of a Swindler!
F W<HE public will do well to be cautious
JL of a certain WILLIAM B. BALD
WIN, who absconded from this place on 1
Wednesday morning last, without the
vouchers which honest men usually car
ry with them, such as receipts for hoard
ing bills, cash loaned, &c. This fellow
is a black-smith by trade, and has thus
put the heat on his creditors. He is about
six feet high, pretty stout made, of a light
complexion, and of a slow delivery in his
speech. Keepers of boarding-houses are
especially advised to guard against the
reception of this character, as a part of
the bread and beef which served to aug
ment his body to its present bulk, is un
paid for, and was consumed at the ex
pense of several hard-working men.
Harpers-Ferry, April 14, 1824.
A GOOD HACK,
WTATITH a Pair of Fine Horses and a
f V careful driver, can be furnished at
a short notice, by application at the Har
pers-Ferry Hotel. Travellers to and
from the Shannondale Spring, and else
where, will find this a pleasant mode of
conveyance, as the carriage is well fin
ished and comfortable, and the horses
perfectly tractable and fit for travelling.
The fare will be Five Dollars per day,
including expenses, or Three Dollars
when the expenses of team and driver
are paid. GEORGE LITTLE.
April 14, 1824.
Medicines Just Received.
CALOMEL and Jalap, Rhubarb, Ep
som Salts, Camphor, Peruvian Bark,
Cremor Tartar, Magnesia, London Cal
cined do. Bateman’s Drops, Staughton’s
Bitters, British Oil, Oppodeldoc, Cold
pressed Castor Oil, &x. &c. For sale by
April 7, 1824. M. K. WART MAN.
Portraiture of Methodism,
CONSISTING of their belief, and the
doctrines which they preach ; also,
.a summary account of the Life and Tra
vels of the Rev. John Wesley. To which
is added a Defence of Methodism, being
an answer to some objections to the me
thodists, and some remarks on toleration,
with a vindication of the principle of uni
versal and equal liberty in matters of re
ligion. For sale at this office.—-price 37|
cents. Dec. 3, 1823.
WRITING PAPER,
F an excellent quality, for sale at this office,
for Cash, Also, a variety of BOOKS.
SSOJWB MIU. S&?SE9
FOK SALE.
THE subscriber will sell this well
known tavern, at present occupied
by himself. It is believed to be equal to
any country stand. Besides the necessa
ry buildings, gardens, &c. there is at the
door a running pump of as good water as
any in the state. With the tavern he will
sell a few or more acres of land to suit
the purchaser. He will sell with it his
GRIST & S1W MIUiS,
if the purchaser prefers buying them al
so. The mill house is of stone, and has
in it two pair of French burrs and one
pair of corn stones, with all the necessa
ry machinery driven by two overshot wa
ter wheels, all in excellent repair. An
ample supply of wheat can easily be ob
tained. ‘ THE LAND
Consists partly of river bottom of the
best quality, and partly of fine upland for
wheat, See. and the timber is abundant.
There is in the whole tract upwards of
three hundred acres. There are on the
land several houses and many fine never
failing springs.
This property is situate in Washington
County, Maryland, on the Potomac river.
The great south western road from Balti
more, through Fredericktown, Harpers
Ferry and Winchester, to Knoxville and
Nashville in Tennessee, passes through
it. This road is much travelled at pre
sent, and the travelling will increase in
consequence of the erection of a bridge
at Harpers-Ferry across the Potomac,
which will be commenced in a few weeks.
The contemplated Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal has been located through this pro
perty; and a turnpike from Harpers-Fer
ry to unite with the Baltimore turnpike
at Fredericktown, has also been located
through it, and no doubt will be made.
This property affords first rate scites
for a Distillery and Tannery, as over
head water can be easily commanded
from a never-failing spring of excellent
water, there is an abundance of timber
on the land very convenient; and bark in
great plenty can be procured in the neigh
borhood. It is also a good stand for a
store. The tavern is about three miles
from Harpers-Ferry.
In consequence of the expenditure,
monthly, of at least fourteen thousand dol
lars at the armory at Harpers-Ferry, by
the United States, many advantages are
enjoyed by the citizens of the adjacent
country, not to be met with in other pla
ces.
To those acquainted with the property,
i further description is unnecessary, and
strangers are invited to view it. It may
not, however, be improper to observe that
its locality is such that every public im
provement in this part of the country
must materially enhance its value.
Vhe price will be moderate and the
tenns of payment reasonable.
CASPAR W. WEVER.
March 24, 1824.
Off The Editor of the Lebanon {Pa.)paper ■will
plea® insert the above to the amount of $5, every
otherx-eek, and forward his account for payment.
Two More Drawings,
"10|JILL complete the distribution of
V V the whole of the prizes contained
in the
GRAND STATE LOTTERY,
All of which are now floating, viz:
hfrizeof 100,000 DOLLARS,
1 prize ijf g20,000 1 prize of g 1,000
2 do, 10,000 7 do. 1,000
Beside a multitude of minor prizes.
This lottti-y will dra\v for the last time but
one\ on
THURSDAY, 13th MAY,
When, if the capital prize of g 100,000
should notbe drawn, the price of tickets
will probacy be much advanced, as a few
only remain unsold.
For tickets and shares of choice num
bers, adventurers are invited to call at
FORTUNE’S HOME,
No. 32, Market street, near the Market.
JRESENT RATE.
Whole tickets, <g20
Halves, 10
Quarters,
Eighth's,
2 50
Adventurersat a distance, by forward
ing their orders, will meet the same at
tention as though applying in person.
Address W.Q. CONINE, Baltimore.
A pril 21, 1824.
THE^EW YORK
CITY HALL RECORDER,
CONTAINING interesting reports of
trials from the years 1816 tol821, in
clusive, in three volumes, for sale at this
office. This work will prove very useful
to gentlemen of the Bar, inasmuch as it
presents decisions involving very impor
tant points of law.
HORRID BARBARITY.
INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 30.
It becomes our painful duty to record one
of the most outrageous transactions that
has occurred since the settlement of the
state. We have been enabled to collect
the following particulars, from the infor
mation of a traveller who has just passed
through the neighborhood, and in whose
veracity we place the utmost confidence :
It seems that a party of Indians, ten in
number, consisting- of three men, three
women, two girls about half grown, and
two small boys, were encamped on Fall
creek, in Madison county, about eight
miles above the Falls, and 35 miles above
this place, for the purpose of hunting.—
On Monday, the 22d of this instant, a
party of five white men and two boys
went to the camp and decoyed the three
men away from the camp, for the osten
sible purpose of assisting- them to hunt
some cattle. After they had gone some
distance from the camp, two of the In
dians were shot dead; the third made
his escape, badly wounded. In the even
ing of the same day, the same party re
turned to the camp, and, after making
some professions of friendship, murder
ed the whole of the women and children.
Their bodies were most shockingly man
gled, for the purpose of producing an
impression that it was the work of In
dians, and thrown into a hole of water
occasioned by the falling of a tree. One
of the men killed one of the children by
taking it by the heels and beating its
brains out against a tree. On Tuesday,
the place was visited by a party of men,
when one of the women was found still
alive, but died on the evening of the next
day. At the time the camp was first vis
ited, after the massacre, the property of
the Indians, consisting of guns, skins,
furs, &c. was still at the camp and was
left there unmolested, but on the succeed
ing day, when the place was visited by a
party of men from the falls of Fall creek,
the bodies were found entirely stripped,
and every species of property carried
away.
We are further informed, that one of
the lads concerned in the murder (and
who was compelled to assist, by the
threats of his father,) soon after the
transaction, gave information, and five of
the party concerned were immediately
arrested, and are now in custody at the
falls of Fall Creek; one made his escape,
and the youth who gave information is
said to be at liberty in the neighborhood.
Since their arrest, it is said that the per
sons have made a full confession.
All the families composing the settle
ment, in the neighborhood of the scene
of this horrible transaction,, have remov
ed to the mills, at the falls on Fall Creek,
to avoid the retaliatory vengeance of the
Indians.—[Gazette.
NAYAL ACTION.
NEW YORK, APRIL 19.
We learn of Capt. Osborn, of sloop Da
vid, 7 days from Havana, that an action
took place off the Bay of Matanzas, on
the 3d or 4th inst. between a Colombian
squadron, of two corvettes and a brig, and
the Spanish sloop of war Ceres, of 28
guns, having a fleet of merchant vessels,
all from Havana, under convoy. The
action lasted an hour, and resulted in the
capture of the Ceres, three heavy ships,
and 8 drogefs, and the victors immedi
ately bore away with their prizes. It
was supposed they would stop at Key
West.
The Ceres was built in this city, by
Mr. Eckford. She lost between 30 and
40 in killed and wounded. The captain
was killed a: the first broadside. A num
ber of the crew jumped overboard; those
who succeeded in reaching the shore,
were sent to the Moro.
An embargo was immediately laid at
Havana, which lasted till tiie 9th, when
an expedition, consisting of a frigate, a
sloop of war, a brig, and a schooner, sail
ed in pursuit of the Colombians, which,
by this time, it was believed, had got out
of their reach.
SPLENDID CHURCH.
The Montreal papers state that pre
parations are’making to erect a magnifi
cent Roman Catholic Cathedral, surpass
ing in splendor and magnitude any eccle
siastical edifice on the continent of North
America. It will be strictly and purely
gothic, after the best models extant, will
hold ten thousand worshippers, and cost
four hundred thousand dollars. Its length
is to be 253 feet—breadth 132, with two
towers in front each 200 feet in height,
and it is to have seven altars, the high
altar at the east, behind which is to be a
great window 32 feet by 45.
THE GKEEK CAUSE.
I he following extract of a letter from
the Greek Committee in London, will be
read with interest by the numerous friends
ot the Greek cause in this city. It will
be an additional gratification to them to
learn, that the contributions in the United
States to aid the Greeks in their struggle
for liberty, which have already been for
warded to London to be transmitted to
them, amount to thirty-five thousand dol
lars ; a greater sum, as appears from
the following letter, than was subscribed
during a year in Great Britain.
[Balt. Fed. Gazette.
Greek Committee Iloom, Crown and Anchor Tavern.
LONDON, JAN. 18th, 1824.
Sm : The accounts which the committee have
received lately from the Morea, are very encourag
ing', and they trust, that, in the ensuing campaign,
a very powerful assistance will lie afforded to the
Greeks in the stores which the subscription of last
year, amounting to nearly 7000/. enabled them to
send. These consisted in printing presses, types,
surgical instruments, medicines, and hospital stores ;
two brigades of guns, for maritime service, ammu
nition, materials for forming a complete laboratory
for the manufacture of rockets, spherical roll shot,
and every species of destructive fire works. The
committee sent with these articles, eight men, (ar
tificers) and a very intelligent firemaster, to direct
and instruct. Two surgeons have been sent and
four German engineer officers.
We request that you will be kind enough to
give circulation to the documents accompanying
this. We have, etc.
JOSEPH I-IUME, Chairman.
John Banning, Secretary.
It is reported in an English paper that
Lord Byron has returned from Greece,
with his enthusiastic and chivalrous feel
ings in favor of that country greatly cool
ed, and with his hopes of its success di
minished. The report adds that nothing
but: the severe strictures on his character,
which have appeared in some of our pub
lications, prevents him from paying a vi
sit tq the United States.
Extract of a letter from an officer on board the U.
States ship Franklin, dated Valparaiso, Uec.
4, 1823'.
u We are now busily employed in caulk
ing the ship, and, as soon as that is done,
which will be in the course of six or se
ven days, we go again to the Intermedos,
and bring up, 1 suppose, as before, at
Callao, where I hope we shall remain
•but a short time, and return here before3
or a short time after, the arrival of the
frigate United States. As to the state
of affairs in this part of the world, I only
mention that the Patriot expeditions
which sailed from Callao and hence have
failed, and that the Royalists are again
in possession of ail the coasts in Upper
Peru. Bolivar is at Lima, and, I under
stand, expecting more troops from Co
lombia; but it will be a long time, ac
cording to present appearances, before
the war will be terminated, as the ratri
ots’ resources, it is said, are declining,
and their pecuniary circumstances much
deranged. Shortly after we arrived here,
I attended the funeral ceremony of Com.
Wilkinson, who died after a short illness.
He was buried with military honors in
Fort Antonio, by the side of Capt. Gra
ham, the government authorities attend
ing. The only arrival we have had here
from America for some time, is the schr.
Adonis from Baltimore.”—[Balt. Amer.
——» oomao —
Captain Burrill, from St. Domingo ci
ty, says that, in the latter part of Februa
ry, a plot was' discovered among the
Spanish Jnliahita.ti.ts to revolt against the
Government, and declare that purr of-the
island independent. A number of the
conspirators were arrested. Four of them
were executed on the 12th of March, and
twelve others were sentenced to impri
sonment for a period of two to five years.
[Merc. Adv.
FROM BUENOS AYRES.
A file of Buenos Ayres papers to the
first of February has been received at
Baltimore. In a paper of the 12th of
January, the editor states that, by the ar
rival of an extraordinary courier from
Santiago de Chile, information is receiv
ed of the arrival of the British brig oi
war Blossom at Valparaiso from Lima,
with advices to the 1st of December.—
They confirm the intelligence before re
ceived in this country of the termination
of the differences betw een Riva Agueko
and Gen. Bolivar, by the surrender ol
the former, and remark, “ that the Libe -
rator General, being now free from all
these cares, will be enabled.to commence
the campaign at the head of ten or twelve
thousand men. In the capital of Peru,
they have celebrated with much enthusi
asm the imprisonment of Riva Aguero."