* Canal Lottery, No. 11. Scheme of a Lottery, authorized by an aitcmit!ed " All aft to enable the Prelident and Managers of the £ Schuylkill and Sufqueliannah navigation, to raise, by way of Lottery, the fitrn of Four Hundred I houfand Dollars, for the purpose of works, in their ads of iiicorptration mentioned." — Dollars I Prize of twenty thoufdnd dollars, 5.0,000 I of ten thousand dollars, 10,000 5 of four thousand dollars each, to be paid to the pofieiTors of the five Q numbers firft out of the wheel on the last £- day's drawing, at which time there (ball not be less than 500 numbers undrawn, 10,000 jo of two thousand dollars each, 10,000 ao of one thousand dollars each, ao,eco 43 of five hundred dollars each, 11,500 100 of two hundred' dollars each, 10,000 100 of one hundred dollars each, 10,000 m 220 of fifty dollars eack, xi,ooe -j. 29,500 of five dollars each, M7»s°°. nl 30,000 Tickets it ten doltars eacli. 300,000 Six dollars for each ticket will only be demanded at the time of fsle. All prizes {hall fie paid ten days after the drawing is finilhed, upon the demand of the pofTefier of a fortunate B ticket, fubjeft to a deduction of fifteen percent. l v Such prizes as are not demanded within 12 months fc after the Drawing is finifhed, ef which public notice will be given, lhall be contidercd as relinquiftied for the use of the Canal and applied accordingly. At a metting of the Prelident and Managers of the e: Schuylkill and Sufquehanna Canal Navigation—and ft the President and Managers of the Delaware and v Schuylkill'Canal, r Resolved, That Joseph Ball, John Stemmctz, Stan- L dish Forde, Francis Weft, James M'Crea, John Mil- >- ler, junr. and William Montgomery be a committee to arrange and <iire& the mode of disposing of the tickets ; which committee ihall deposit the money in _ Bank, to be carried to the credit of an account to be o pened for the Lottery. At a meeting of the Canal Board, held January 16, 97, Resolved, That the committee for conducting the Lottery be directed to commence the, drawing on the a firft day of March next. f Extract from the minutes, Wm. M. Smith, Secretary. Joseph Ball, 1 John Steinmetx, Siandi/h Forde, | Francis IVeJI, |> Managers. James M'Crea, I < Jobu Miller, jutt. | William Montgomery, J 'Jan. 2a. j FOR SALE, At Whitefides' Tea Ware-House, No. 99, North Second Street. Imperial f Hyson Skin. Hyson, S- Fresh Teas. < Souchong, Young Hyson, J C Bohea Dec. 9. 3taw3m. Le Breto^ SURGEON-DENTIST, Pupil of the celebrated Mr. Dubois, late Dentist to the King, and Royal Family of France, member of the College and Academy of Surgeons at Paris, , Keeps a* complete aflortment of every thing neeeflary to be used forth e Preservation of the Mouth and Teeth. Patent Minoral Teeth, and Human & Ivory Teeth ; Dentrifice in powder ; Opiate ; excellent Elixir for sweetening the mouth and preserving the teeth —he also furnilhes Brushes and foft Sponges. * # * He lives in Chefnut-ftreet, No. 13J, above Fourth-flreet. November 16. The Elephant, Now exhibited, was bought for Ten Thousand Dollars. He is 3 years old, 6 feet high, growing to 18 feet. He eats 150 weight a-day, and drinks a barrel of water ; he has drank some days forty bottles of porter, •drawing the corks with his trKnk. He is perfectly inoffenfive; travels loose, at the rite of five miles an hoar, and is the greatest curiosity ever brought to this Continent. . He is to be ieen 'till the 15th of January, in Market-street between Third and Fourth-streets, at a quarter of a dollar, that every one may fee him— after which time the former price of half a dollar will b« resumed. He will leave Philadelphia as soon as the weather ■will permit. December 31 / d A CARD. Jf Monsieur G. H. Souls, Who left Bordeaux the 20A June last, and arrived at Boston tbout the middle orAuguft| in the fcliooner .Jane, is in Philadelphia, he is requested to call on Joseph Anthony & Co. No. 5, Chefnut-ftreet, who *vi)l give him some information of importance* December 24, 1796. $ 50 Dollars Reward. k rr 1 LOST, last evening, between eight and nine o'clock, as the subscriber was going to his house at the falls of Schuylkill, from the house of his father-ic-law, Mr. Francis Stewart, in Sugar-alley, betwten Sixth and Se venth-streets, above Market-street, A black POCKET-BOOK, Containing 1190 Dollars, in Bank-Notes From 5 to 100 Dollars each, One of which was of the Branch-Bank of New-York, and several papers, such as receipts and orders.—The road the subscriber feok, was the Falls road, .crossing at the Upper Ferry. Whoever finds the above Podket-Book, and returns it to the subscriber at the Falls, or to his father-in-law, nir Stewart, living in Sugar Alley, ihall be entitled to the above reward, paid by JAMES HAFFY Feb. 3. }. Clocks and Watches. LESLIE and PRICE, No. 79, Makkkt-str'eet, Philadelphia, HAVE IMPORTED, by the late arrivals from London, a laTge aJTortment of WARRANTED WATCHES, csnfiftiug of horizcntal, capp'd and jewel'd Gold Witches, with ferosds, of superior workmanship and elegance ; also capp'd and jewel'd and plain Gold Watches ; capp'd & jewelfd, capp'd, seconds, day of the mouth, and plain Silver Watches ; . eight day & chamber Clocks.; elegant French Clocks with marble frames ; eight day and thirty hoar, brals works, &c. Desetnbet u, 1796. dim for Sale, By the Subfcribers—4n PENN-STREET, a j 6c Pipes Excellent Madeira Wine, old Imposed by the Eagle. c - P WILLINGS & FRANCIS. * Nov. ,0 Ms Brokers Office, and a pa : COMMISSION STORE. ag No. 6t South Third street.opposite the national new Bank' OAMUEL M FRAWNCES and JOHN VAN REED, 0 have entered into co-partnership, und«r the firm ol _ FRAUNCES & VAN REED, in the bufmtfs of Brokers, Conveyancers and Commission merchants They buy and fell on commission every species of stock, rotes of hand, bills of exchange, houses and lands, &c. in Money procured on deposits, &c. &c. ill kinds e' Sti writings in the conveyancing line, done with neatness and ha dispatch; accounts adjusted, and books fettled, in the w ] mod corred manner. Constant attendance wiU begiven. to They solicit a (bare of the public, favor;' they «re deter mined to endeavour to deserve it. fe' N. B Theutmoft seCrecy observed. Ui SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES, 0 f JOHN VAN REED. ire Philad. August 17. 1706- m&wtf tr. Will be pnlli/hdd, on Wtdnefday next, of BY Mess Dobfon, Carey, Campbell, Rice, and the other 0 Book fellers, price One Dollar and twenty-five cents, elegant ly printed on woye paper, and hot-preffod, by John Thomp- St A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF to The CONSTITUTIONS of the several Slates, tii With each other, and with that of the United States: exhibiting in Tables, the prominent features of caeh Con stitution, and classing together their most important pro- _ vifiom, under the several heads of administration ; with Notes and Observations. By William Smith, of South- Carolina, LL. D and member of the Congrcfs of the United States. Dedicated to the People of the United Stttes. . r- N. B. A few Copies printed on an inferior paper, at 3-4ths of a dollar. February 6 mwf er FOR SALE, tc About 1,600 acres of Land, j" WELL situated, laying on and between Marih al and Beech Creeks, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, in | p; four separate Patents. For terms ot sale apply to N Wm. Blackburn, No. 64, South Second-lh'set January 16. mwflf J By Authority. i Schuylkill Bridge Lattery. Sold by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, d Stuth Second-Jlreet. t< SCHEME of a LOTTERY, » For raising Sixty Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Aft of the Legislature of Pennfylvasia, paCTed during the last feflion, for building a Stone Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at the Borough of Reading, in the Gounty of Berks. Dollars, j Prize of go,ooo Dollars - so,o»o 1 do. of ie,ooo do. - • 10,000 :: 3 do. of 5»oo© do. • [ 4 do. of s.ooo do. • - 8,000 ( » to do. of i,oao do. - - - so,eoo 39 do. of 500 do. - - 19i5°° 3 8© do. of 200 do. • - • >6,000 } too do. of 100 do. - - - 20,000 t 300 do. of s° " " iS> 00 ° 1 1 do. of 5»o do. to be paid the posses-? 00 for f the firft drawn 110. ) s , t do. of 3,000 do. to be paid pofleflors 5 , of the five last drawn not J ' 9,400 do. o 15 do. : - 141,000 ( ; 10,054 Prizes 300,000 . : 19,946 Blanks | 30,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars 300,000 1 All Prizes (hall be paid fifteeri days after the drawing is finilhed, upon the demand of a poileflor of a fortunate licket, fubjeft to a deduction of twenty per cent. The _ Drawing will commence as foontes the Tickets are disposed of, or perhaps sooner. of which public notice will be given, j Philip Miller, Peter Kerjhner, William Witman, Joseph H'tefler, James Diemer, Thomas Dundas, Jamet May, John Otto, John Keim, Daniel Graejf, f Sebajlian Miller, Commissioners. , Reading, May the 9th, >796- Tickets in the Canal Lottery, No. a, to be had at the e above office, where the earliest information of the draw er ing of the Walhington No. t, and Patterfon Lottery's, are received, and checkbooks for examination and regif n tering are kept. t Tickets in the above Lottery to be bad at Mr, Sheri dan's Race-ftrcet, John Hay, North Third-flrect and I) Henry Sw;yer's, German Town. January 26 sawtf r Lottery and Broker's Office, No. 64, South Second stkkmt. TCKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, for sale—a Check Book for examination—and prizes paid in . the late lottery. Check Books kept for examination and registering, for r the City of Waihington, No. 1, and Pattefon Lotteries, n both of which are now drawing—information where 0 tickets are tc he had, and prizes exchanged for undrawn tickets. A complete lift of all the prizes in the late New- Port Long-Wharf, Hotel and Public School "Lottery, for examination. The fubferiber solicits the application of the public and his friends, who wish to purchase or fell Bank Stock, k, Certificates, Bills of Exchange or Notes, Houses, Lands, of &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property, r. Also Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for e- sale at Ten Dslltrs each, which will be drawn early in the Spring. Wm. Blackburn. «S Philadelphia, January 16, 1797. mth *> Houses and Lots for sale, at I)Y the Subscriber, in the town of West-Chester, Chef- JJ ter county, 25 miles from Philadelphia, on the great ; t (late-road, leading Westward' V*iz. No. 1. A two-dory Wj Stone House, the corner of High and Gay streets, 40 feet t0 front by 34 feet deep, including a very convenient florc houfo : the House contains ten well-finilhed rooms, a kit chen and entry : the Lot is 144 feet front oniGay-ftreet, —equal to any {land in Wefl-Chefter. No. a. A two-fto — ry (lone house adjoining, 27 feet front, containing eleven well-finilbed rooms, both being ceiled in the garrets, house and lot fame depth as the other, a kitchen, &c cellars under both houses, with good ftabWs.on the lots. These Houses are almost new, done by good workmen, in a maflerly manner. No_. 3. a Lot 41 feet front. No. 4, 34 feet. No- 5, 44 feet. No. 6, 119 feet, all of them ten rods deep. On two of the above are ere&ed log and frame houses, two (lories high, cellars under the j™* whole, and a small liable to each ' The above Lots are situated near theCourt-Houfe. The d > whole will be exposed to PUBLIC SALE, oiythe 21ft and ■s ; lid days of February next, at two o'clock, when the c'on :ka ditioßs will be'maifc known. Possession may be had the all firft of April next. The Title is indnputable. JOHN KINNARD. January H W w 3 w Twenty Guineas Reward. P RAN AW AY iroßi the fubferiber on the a 3 d Oaobcr, a Dark MULATTO BOY, named MOSES; li years old; about 5 8 inches high ; had on a. m.«ed green coat, with a green velvet cape and oval yellow button., a (Wd veil; a pair of dark spotted pantaloons and whole boots much worn. It is probable he may change _ his name and dress. He has been accullomed to driving a carriage, and waiting. The above reward will be [ paid for securing him so that the fubferiber may get him -v again, and if brought home all reasonable charges p<udby [ Rebins Chamberlame. P a Eafton. Maryland, Nov. TO- 14 ''uniawtl 115 ~ No. 170. . 0 f DiJlriS of Pennsylvania, to <u>it. br BE it remembered, that on the 24th day of January in the twenty-fit (I year of the independence of the United States of Amcrica, John Thompson of the laid diflri(s>, hath deposited in this office the title of a'Book, the right whereof fie claims as proprietor, in the words following to wit— f , «< a Comparative View of the Conltitutions ot the several States with each other, and with that of the United States, exhibiting in tables the promiaent features Ij of each Constitution, and classing together their mod important provilions under the .several heads of admimf- tv tration : with notes and observations. By William Smith a of jll. d. and member of the Congress te of the United States." In conformity to the aft of the Conprefs ef the United States, intituled "An Ad for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies oiaps, .charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during ths times therein mentioned." SAMUEL CALDWELt.. Clerk of theDiftri<2 of Pennsylvania Feb. 1. DANCING . TAUGHT »V MRS. B r R N, Of the New Theatre, Tc Ladiet only. THINKING it a great advantage for them to have a Female Tutor in that art, pledges herfelf to their par ents and friends to take all poflible care in their inftru&ion. In addition to the Dances taught in Philadelphia, means q to teach the Minuet, Minuet la Cour, Allemand,GGa t ] vot, Quadrilles, Strathspeys, and all Scotch Dances ; and above all to pay particnlar attention to that very necessary J j part Palii' Addrtfs. For particnlars enquire of Mrs. Byrn, n No- 70 north Eighth-street. Februry6 mwftf Samuel Richardet o RESPECTFULLY linforms the Gentlemen Merchants, that he hv this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia: The Subscription Room will be fureiihed with all the daily papers publiffied in Philadelphia, New-York, Bos ton, Baltimore, togather with those of the principal com mercial cities of Europe—They will be regularly filed and none permitted to be taken away on any account. Tea, Coffee,.Soupes, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety of French Liquors;' together with the usual refrefhmen-.s, will at all times be procured at the bar. Gentleman may depend on being accommodated with ; the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most , approved Malt Liquors from London and other breweries. , The Larder will be supplied with the prime and earliest 1 produ&ions of the Season. Large and small Parties, ot Tingle Gentlemen, may be » accommodated with Breakfafts, Dinners, or Suppers, at 1 hours most convenient to themselves—-a cold Collation is 1 regularly k?pt for conveniency, the Billof Fare to be had ' at tha bar. ' , The Lodging glooms will be completely furnifcfd, and the utmost attention paid to cleanliness, and every other 1 requilite., Simuel Richardet will be happy to receive, ana ' execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at " large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges ' hitafelf that nothing on his part (hall be wanting to pre serve that patronage with which he has been so diflinguilh -3 ingly honored. s Philadelphia, April 19. mw f e Frejh Garden, Grass and Flower-Seeds, Roots, &t. &c. This day landing from the ship Eagle, captain Fofdick, fVom London, r * And FOR SALE by GOLDTHWAIT & MOORE, Corner of Walnut and Recond-ftreets, e A mqft capital and sxtenfive AJfortment of GARDEN, GRASS and FLOWER-SEEDS, =• ROOTS, See. &c. Among which are, Five kinds Asparagus Three kinds Cresses Four Berecole Twelve Onion Twenty-five Beans Thirteen Radiffi Six Beets Fifteen Turnip Eleven Brocoli Fifteen Peas Twenty-fix Cabbage Six Savoy Six Carrat Four Parfnir Three Cauliflower Twenty-three Melon five Celery Twenty-one Lettuce ■a Tea Cucumber in Common and lemon Thyme Curled leaf and (prigged Parsley >r Pot Marygold Pot Marjorum s, Balm Thyme Mangel Wurtzel re Leek Kail Shallots n Rape Seed Rye Grass Saint Foin Lf.cerne r- Red and white Clover Timothy, &c. &c. >r With a curious collection of the most esteemed FLOWER-SEEDS and ROOTS, •c Being the most extensive ever imported into this city, k, The above are from a capital Seedsman in London, and Is, are warranted frefh and good. ■Printed catalogues may be had by applying as above. Dec. 17. § in — Washington Lottery. TICKETS, warranted undrawn, may be purchased or exchanged for prizes, at the Office, No. 147, Chefnut — f:reet, where a correal Numerical Book is kept for public infpedlion. Also Canal Lottery Tickets for sale er ex changed for prizes drawn in the Waihington Lottery, of f- uhich the 60th and 61 ft days returns are received, at xhe Business ot a Broker carried on as usual. ry January 11. ttstf et ■ ———— , c t " Insurance Company of the State of st, Pennsylvania. °- WT OTICE is hereby given, that the direitors have de en JL\ clared a dividend of thirty dollars per (hare, on ife hebufmefs of the lafl fix months: which will be paid to irs he stockholders or their legal representatives, after the ?(e 10th instant. » SAM. W. FISHFR, Sec't. 4> Philadelphia, Feb. ad, 1797. dtioth. •m —-—— hf Bank of Pennsylvania, January 4, 1797. ® At a meeting of the Direilor; th ; s day, a dividend of n sixteen dollars on each lhare was declared for the iait 6 months, which will be paid to (the Stockholders af c ter the 14th inft. JONATHAN SMITH, Cathier. r j Jan. 3. dtf. Particular Teneriffe Wtnf. 50 Quarter-Casks Particular Teneriffe WINE, Of a superior Quality, For sale by A MARPI.E & IS. IV. MORRIS, No. 6e Deck-fir February 8 wf&niiat Pennsylvania Population Company. NOTICE is hereby given, to fuel) Share-holders a« as havs not paid their affeflments on theirfhares—to pay the fame immediately to the Secretary of the Compa ny, at the Company's Office, NO. 53 north Fouith-ftreet, Philadelphia. I'hey are further informed, that in default of paying the fame within thirty days from the 4th of Fe bruary, instant, the several forfeitures will be flriaiy cx a&ed, in conformity to the lift article of aiTociation. By order sf the Board, SOL. MARACHp, Secretary Feb. a. 4— S3O Washington Canal Lottery, N°. I. WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorifii the underwritten, to raise twenty-fix thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollar*, for the purpose of catting a Canal through City of Washington, from th Poi tomacto theF.aftern Branch Harnour. The following is Ae SCHEME of No. I. Viz -x Prize of ao,ooo dollars, . 10,000 1 ditto 10,000 10,000 llaft drawn > Ticket*, each j 00 ° 6 ditto 1,000 6,000 10 ditto 400 4,009 ao ditto 100 »,000 55 ditto S° a.?s® 5750 ditto 11 69,008 To be raised for th« Canal, 16,15s 5850 Prizes, „ 175.000 11650 Blanks, not two to a prize. 17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, - 17.5,000 The Cemmiflioners have taken the Securiti#t re quired by the aforefaid a<fl for tke pnn&ual payment of I the prizes. The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as thf Tickets are fold, of which timely notice will be given. Such prizes as are not demanded in fix months after th« drawing is iinifhed, (ball be considered as relinquished for the benefit ef the Canal, and appropriated accordingly. (Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, o/D. LEWIS DEBLOIS, GEORGE WALKER, Wm. M.DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. Crty of Washington, Feb. ir. { A PARCEL OF VERY FINE St. Croix Sugars and Rum, JAMAICA SPIRITS, and LACUIRA HIDES, For Sale by Feb. 7.—Jiw JAMES YARD. TO BE SOLD, 7 " The Time of a smart, active, young Negro Wench, BETWEEN 13 and 14 years of age, andjuft had the fmal? pox. For t;erms, apply at Mr. WILLIAM B AXTER'S, in south FrQnt-ftrcct, No. 312, below Almond-street. February 7 *4L. A Quantity of Brandy, FIRST & id proof, Gin, of 4th praof, in pipes Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof, in Hhds I Old Hock, in cases of 40 dozen each GUfs Tumbler?, in pints and half-pintj I Window Glass, in boxes, of different lizt« liazleniits, in sacks Whiting wESX,d \ I fc Spanish Brown 3 For Sale by PETER BLIGHT. January 4 } This Day is Published, I By BIOREN & MADAN, at their Printing QTic», ' No. 77, Dock-street, and fold by the principal , Bookl'eilers in this City. The American Annual Register ; 1 Or historical Memoirs of the United States, for the I J Year 1796. 3 I No. 167. s D'tJlriQ of Ptnnfylvania, to wit : )' Be it remembered, that on the 19th day of January f in the Twenty-firfl year of the Independence of the II I United States of America, Bioren & Madm of the kid L J difiriifl have deposited in this Of&ce tlie . title of a Coofc I the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors it the I words following to wit : I " The American Annual Register, or Hiftcrical ] " Memoirs of the United States, for the year 1756. In conformity to the a<sl of the Congress of \he I United States entituled "An a& for the encourags- I ment of learning by securing the copies of Map*, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors df I such copies during the time therei* mentioned." Samuel Caldwell, j 1 Clerk Pennsylvania Diftriit. I Jan»ary 15. iaw4 PURSUAN'rto a Resolve of the Eoard of Truflees of Washington Academy, in Somerset County, and I State of Maryland, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, I That the office of Principal Teacher iq. the said fchoel |i» . I vacant. ic A GENTLEMAN qualified to teach the higher Greek and | xV Latin Ciaflics, C-eography, and the Mathcmptics, with r I such other branches of literature as are ufuaily ra'ight in such ° I schools, would meet with liberal encouragement, and, it is I believed, wouldoblain a very eligible {ettiement. For the I prefect, the Truflees would be willing to contract with a per* | son capable of taking charge of a Grammar School. ~ I Asthis Institution is provided with buildings fufficirnt t» )I I accommodate the principal and his family, and from seventy I to eighty a library, an excellent plvilofophical and ma- I thematical apparatus, globes, maps, Sec; lias tcfpefiable e * I funds, and is fituatcd in a plentiful anil agreeable part of the >•> I country ; nothing lerms warning to [Bake it rank among the to I moll ufeful seminaries in this part of the Union, buta. f«itable le I character to ptefide in it. I ■ Proposals may be addrefTed to the fubferiber, in Prince'*. I Anne, in the neighborhood of the Academy, or to Dofl"' I Martih L Haynij, No. 83, north Third-flreet, Phils _ I delphia, or to the Printer hereof. ■' - EZEKIEL HAJVgf' I January »9. Feb. 7. w J PRINTED BY fENNO —No. ii£ — CH KSUVT-iTRFIf. 1 fPriec Eight D'oHw p" Annum.]
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