RAN AW AT, Ariit the ift of October last, from the plantation of Mr. Thomas F. Brooke, (in Prince George's county) to A \ whom he washired, a NEGRO MAN, named CJESAR; comm J 3 years of age; abont 5 feet 15 or 9 inches high.; well «j U ; re made ; of a yellowifk complexion:; a little pockmarked; has, when spoken to, rather a down look, and fubmiflive ___ tone of voice: the clothe* he had before be abfeonded * were of plain, such as labouring Ne-;roes ufuaily wear, but these he may probably exchange for others : he will doubtless endeavour to pass for a freeman, having, as I r■ \ .hive been informed, assumed the name oFEtitler : I have I Toefon to believe that he went to Baltimore, from whence A -ke is said to have gone to some part of the gufquehannah, o Cloi probably with a view of getting to Pennsylvania. A street reward of Thirty Dollars will be giwn to the person who Four may take him and sb secure him in some jail that 1 may get him again, if taken in this state, jnd Fifty dollars if -■ taken out of the state, and if brought home or secured in the jail of Prince George's county all reasonable charges CC will be paid by ALFXR. COVINGTON. exhi! Maryland, Frince George's County, at b \ .2nd November, 1796. J Ilth*t&f4w ligh; ' 1 SWANN'S, " Jl Riding School, Norse Academy & Infirmary. Adjoining the Public Square, Market Street. T. SWANN R ETURNS his sincere thanks to those gentlernen by whom lie has been employed, during his refidencc in this City, and I—l flatters himfelf that the faccefs of his efforts, in the numerous, JJ obftinate and dangerous difcafes in Horses, in which he has Pots been consulted, together with his moderate charges, will fe- Crer cure their futurefavors and recemmendation. B rac He now begs leave to inform them and the public at large of S that his spacious end commodious premises, ere&ed for the rant purpofet above deferibed are open for the reception of pupils Wat of either sex, who wifhi to beinftrufted in the Art of Riding, Eeai and the right method of governing their horses, so as to ride j£ na , them with ease, elegance, and fafety—their horses will be rar carefully and expeditigufly broke, for every purpose, and made obedient to the will of the riders ; the natural powers . which are (hut up in them, will be unfolded by art, calling forth uniformity of motion, and giving to that noble anima! all thofe'beauties of a£lion which providence has so bounti- A fully bestowed on them. * ur£ Also, at hishofpiial, every which the horse is liable will be treated according to the rules of art, confirmed by long and repeated experience. The utility of the above inltitution has never been qneftion- yjy-i ed, that it has long been wanted in this city, every gentleman's stud will manifeft, and T. Sw a nh,as the fcrft eftanliftier of the veterenary a t, solicits and relies upon the fuppoit ofthat public (which he is ever anxiou; in serving) to enable him to to perfe&ion. The idea of a fubfeription foi that * purpose has beeu hinted by several gentleman* who wilh to eu promote the institution—the amount of each fubfeription to dire oe returned by services in any of the departments he profefTes, or 1 agreeable to the rate of charges stated in his hand bill. Such No fubfeription is now open, and the fignaturesof many refpeft able gentlemen already obtained. He therefore injorms his: f friends and such Ladies and gentlemen to whom he has not the honor of being known, that he (hall in a few days take the liberty of waiting upon them and folicking their lupport j,j 0 and proteftioo. O, N B. Horses are properly prepared for those Ladies and Gentlemen who wilh to be inftru&ed. Wav. j. ■ uhNotes, Houses, Lands, &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property \ I \* Also Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for sale at Ten Dollars each, which will be drawn early in the Spring. Wm. Blackburn. Philadelphia, Augufl »8, mt^ Trealury ot the United States. OTICE is hereby given to all persons who are or JN may be Creditors of the United States, for any sums «f the Fsnded Debt, or Stock, luring a prefeat intcrejl of fx ber centivnper annum. I ft, That pursuant to an A6l of Congress palled on the 48th day of April, 1796, intitlcdan a4t in addition to an intituled " An adl making fuithcr provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," the said debt or stock will be reimbursed and paid in manner following, to wit. " First, by dividends 1 «' to be made on the last days of March, June and Septem- — «« ber for the present year, and from the year one ihoufand I « seven hundred and ninety-leven, to the year one thou- 3 •' sand eight hundred & eighteen ineluf|ve,ut the rate of " one and one half per centum upon the original capital. < «• Secondly, by to be made on the last day of " December for the prelint year, and from the year one " thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year Xi « one thousand eight hundred and seventeen inclusive, at tic " the rate of three and one half per centum upon the ori *• ginal capital; and by a dividend to be made on the last or «' day of Pecember, in the year one thousand eight hun- iB « d r ed and eighteen, of such sum, as will be then ade « quate, according to the contrail, for the final redemp- va « tion of th; said flock." T ad. All distinction between payments on account of f r Inter*,l and Primipal being thus abolilhed by the eftablilhf ; t ment of the permanent rule of reimbursement abov« de- ag cribed, it has become neceflary to vary accordingly the ! powers of attorney for receiving dividends; the public tl creditors will therefore observe that the following form s cftablifhed for all powers of attorney which may be rf granted after the due promulgation oi this notice, viz. w KNOW ALL MEN BT THESE PRESENTS, tbat t / •/ 'do make, conjiitute and appoint c my true and lawful At- a icrneyjer me, an Jin my name, t» receive the dividends which are, n or flail ie payable according to W, on the (here defcribklg the d (lock) Handing in my name in the hooks of (here deftr ibmgvthe t books of the Treasury or the Commiflioncr of Loans, t where the stock is edited) from (here mfert the com- ii mencemcnt and expiration ol time for which the power of attorney is to continue) -with power also an attorney or attor- 3 nits under him,forthat purpose to make andfuhfitute, and to do all c Uwjul acls require for effecting the premises, hereby ratifying and r rnnfwming all tbat my said Attorney or hisfubJliiaU,ftaU lawful ly do, by virtue hereof. t in IV'ttn/fs hereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal tb> 1 day of in the year a Sealed and Delivered | in frefene'e of, JSEIT KNO WN, tbat on tie day of ) tfire meperfonally came ■within named and acknowledged the above letter of attorney to be < bis aH and deed. Jli tefiimony whereof 1 have hereunto set my Han i end affix- < gj Seal the day andycar la/i aforyaid. I Given »nd«r my Hand .t Philadelphia, this twen- ( tieth day of July'l796, pursuant to directions from the Secretary of the Treafvuy. SAMUEL MtREDITH, . 1 reafui er of the United StaKu July »y " l£ "' ' , «» WANTED, As Coox, in a private family, A YOUNG WOMAN who can produce good rc- Th commendations of an unexceptionable cha.-a&er. L*- rtual J quire of the Printer. i c , T e • e November 17. tf Unite — at 10 The Elephant IS RETURNED FROM BALTIMORE. Ph THE public are refpeftfully informed, that -— this aaimal is t» be leen every day, from 8 o'clock in the morning till fun doWB, in Market- x 1! street, No. 106, foulU fide, between Third and 3 Fourth-ftieets. . by tl r. Admittance a quarter of a dollar, that every ci- —liu n tizen may fee him. ■» (O* At the requefl of many persons it will be exhilited on evenings from five to eight o'clock, h at half a dollar each.—The room will be well [hose lighted. November 7. ; -x. 1 — James Mufgrave, GOLDSMITH & JEWELLER., No. 42, south Seoond-ftreet, 1 . . "] TTAS iuft received an assortment of Plated Ware men ' s ll and Jewellery, Plated Tea and Coffee Urns, Coffee fion, ,5 Pots, Tea ditto, Castors from sto 8 bottles, Sugar and par, e- Cream Basons, Bottle Stands, Baskets, high Candlelhcs, __N Brackets and Chamber ditto, Branches, Sconce;, a variety ge of Silver and Plated Shoe La chets, Spurs, ( 111 dwelling-house, 5 30,000, are J ' 1 ditto 15,000 & calh 25,00 a 40,000 I ditto 15,000 & calh 15,000 30,000 h I ditto 10,000 & calh 10,000 »o,eoo 1 ditto 5,000 & calh 5,o«o 10,000 a 1 1 ditto 5,000 & calh 5,000 10,000 °' c or 1 calh prize of 10,000 co • ur ' ls % do. 5,000 each, are ■ 10,000 a j •' x 10 do. 1,000 - - Jo,ooo the 4o do. 500 - - 10,000 a ls ,an 00 do. 100 . - 10,000 . t he 100 do. 50 - - 10,000 the 400 do. 45 - 10,000 and 1,000 do. ao - ao,ooo ;nds 15,000 do. 10 • 158,000 eiii- sand 16,739 Prizes. lou- Blanks. e of X ital. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000 J. f of -■ 1 Un one N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of fu: year Tickets,thepriae of4o,OOodollarswillbethe last drawn so at ticket, and the 30,ooothe last but one : Ju or '- And approved notes, securing payment in either money da : last or prizes, in ten days alter drawing, will be received for as' hun- any number not less that) 30 tickets. P. ade- This Lottery will afford an elagant specimen of the pri- R :mp- vate buildings to be ereSed in the City of Walhington— lit Two beautiful designs are already fel«aed for the entire at it of fronts on two of the public squares; from these prawings P ilifhf it ispropofed to creel two centre and four comer buildings, Fi ' de- soon as polfible after this lottery is fold, and to convey D r the | them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in Si üblic the manner deferibed in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery, tc form A nett deduaion of five per cent, will be made to defray It/ y be cfce necessary expeufes of printing, &c_*«nd the surplus r'tz. will be made part of the fund intended for the National it ', tbat University, to be ereAed within the city of Washington. n The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are p old off.-—The money prizes will be payable in thirty days b I At- after it is finifhed ; and any prizes for which fortunate rhare, numbers ate not produced within twelve months after the 1< lg the drawing is closed, are to be confidercd as given towards g.the the fund for the University ; it being determined to fettle .oans, the whole business in a year from the etding of the draw- p com- ing, and to take up the bonds given as security. ver of l'he real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, attor- are held by the President and two Direaors of the Bank do all of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the a ng and mount ol the lottery. rwful- The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late afiifted in the management of the t eal tbi Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake thijardudus talk f 'X a second time on bAals of the public ; a fufficieot num t ber of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the ; friends to a National University and the other federal ob jea« may continue to favor the design. ; By accounts received from the diflerent parts of the 1 y to be Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the i affix- drawing will speedily commenee, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a fafe disposal of twen- the tickets, has rendered the inort suspension indiipcnlable. :dions SAMUEL BLODGET. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia ; of t James Weft & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston ; fteu of John Hopkins, Richmond ; and of Richard Wells' tiy Cooler". Ferry. M /' v „ m Delaware and Schuylkill Canal. Tho Stockholders are hereby notified, that the an nual Election for Officers for the ensuing year, wul be held at the Company's office, near the Bank of the $OJj0Jj United States, on the firft Monday in January next, at 10 o'«tock, a. m. By the Board of Managers. WM. MOOtLE SMITH, Sec'ry. Philadelphia, Dee.' I, 1796. focStlD ° r^ A Short Delay sd , In the Drawing of the Canal Lottery, In Wafliington city, has been unavoidably occasioned by the nnforefeen intervention of Mr. Blodget a Lottery * —but as the major pait ef the tickets are now disposed of, this is to inform the public that the drawing of the Ca- s , - nal Lottery will tertainly commence without fail, on the 3 firft Monday in January 1797, and those holding tickets, 8 J aje hereby refuelled to fend a flatement of those fold, and to those on hand. 3° NOTLY YOUNG, -DANIEL CARROLL, of Duddington, GEORGE WALKiiR, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY, , 9* W. M. DUNCANSON. The Printers who gave our advertisements a plaoe in e their newlpapers, are requested to give this notice admif e Con, as the remaining tickets are cxpe&ed rt> be soon above d »ar, and we wifti adventurers to be timely informed A ». '*• Z t^ 6w " finiQ r _ tick) DANCING SCHOOL. Dr„ d WILLIAM M'DOOGALL will open hisfchool on Mono < s ' day the 3 lift inft. at ten o'clock in the morning, at his 1 Elegant hew Ball Rooms, J°J> In Fourth, between Chefnut and Walnut Streets. J an >f Hours of tuition for young ladies, from 10 to 1 o'clock », on Mondays, Wednesday, and Friday mornings; and for R young gentlemen from 6 to 9 o'clock on the evenings o i- the f.ime days. _ ? 01 In addition to a number of new cotillions, he means to ln g introduce a variety of Scotch Reels. are . Note. The firft pra&ifing ball to be on Tuesday e- tern vening, the firft of November, and to be continued every 0 Tuesday, during the season. T For terms, &c, enquire at his house, No.l34,Market fteeet. ■ rr( Oft. 17. e, — — —- t d _ cent Samuel Richardet a, p ESPECTFULLY informß the Gentlemen IV Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS OOFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia*. * The Subscription Room will be furnifhed with all the 9 daily papers published in Philadelphia, New-York, Bos- 10 ton, Baltimore, together with those of the principil com- 100 ik. mercial cities of Europe—They will be regularly filed D, an d none permitted to be taken away on any account, of Tea, Coffee, Soupes, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety *33 rs, 0 f French Liquors; together with the usual refreihmente, 4®» nd w iU »t all times be procured at the bar. " •d, Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated with 635 the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most £ of approved Malt Liquors from London and other breweries, mg nd The Larder will be with the prime and earliest eric he production? of the Season. f° r£ ;n. Large and small Parties, or single Gentlemen, may be to r sr* accommodated with Breakfafts, Dinners, or Suppers, at in t hours most convenient to themselves—a cold Collation is n regularly kept for conveniency, the Billof Fare to be had ' at tha bar. con The Lodging Rooms will be completely furniftied, and ma; _ the utmost attention paid to cleamlinef®, and every other sou Tequifite. ets 0" SAMUEL Richarhet will behappy to receive, and I : T execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at > large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges himfelf that nothing on his part shall be wanting to pre fervethat patronage with which he has been so diftinguifh ingly honored. Philadelphia, April 19. mwf Twenty Guineas Reward. RANAWAY from the fubferiber on the 23d Oflober, a Dark MULATTO BOY, named MOSES ; 21 years old ; about 5 feet 8 inches high ; had on a mked green coat, with a green velvet cape and oval yellow buttons; a striped veil ; a pair of dark spotted p.intaloons, a«d whole boots msdi worn. It is probable he may change his name and dress. He has bepn aceuftomed to driving tlO a carriage, and waiting. The above reward will be paid for fccuring him so that the fubferiber may get him °r. again, and if brought home all reasonable charges paid by ly Robins Cbamberlaine. Eafton, Maryland, Nov. 10. 14 Cjmiawtf Treasury Department, n0 September 28, 1796. f u XTOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will he re- JN ceived at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury — Until the expiration of the firft day of March next en yof suing, for the supply of all ration® which m«y he Required aWn for the use of the United States, from the firft day of June, 1797, to the thirty-firll day of May, 1798, both T >ney days inclusive, at the places and within the diftridts h*re- I for after mentioned, viz. At Ofwego; at Niagara; at tvv Pjefque lfie; at Sandu&y Lake, and on Sandulky a pri- River ; at Detroit; at Michilimackinac; at Fort-Frank- to] oi Un; at Pittsburgh ;at Cincinnati; at For;-Hanailton ; itire at Fort St. Clair; at Fort-Jefferfon; at Grcnville; at ings Picque Town and Loramies Store; at Fort at ings, Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance ;at any place bslow Fort nvey Defiance on the Miami River to Lake Erie; at Fort 3, in Steuben ; at Fort Mafifac ; at any place from Fort Mafiac tery. to the south boundary of the United States on the river :fray Miflifippi; at Fort Knox ; at Ouiatanon. rplus If supplies lhall be for any posts or places not ional mentioned in this notice, all such supplies {hall be fur on. niihed at prices proportioned to those to be paid at the i are posts before recited, or as may be hereafter agreed on days between the United States and the Qontra&or. mate The rations to be fupplicd are to conftft of the fol r the lowing articles, viz, sards One pound two ouaces of bread or flour. fettle One pound two ounces of beef, or fourteen ounces raw- pork or bacon. qi Half a gill of rum, brandy or whiskey. v t ] rizes. One quart and half a pint of falt."^ Bank Two quarts of Vinegar, t hundred rations d le a- Two pounds of Soap, ( r n One pound of Candles, J int of The rations are to be furniflied in inch quantities, as that j 'f the there lhall at all times during the said term, be fufficient t] istalk for the confv.mption of the troops st Michilimackinac, Dc num troit, Niagara, and Ofwego, for the term of fix month* in t the advance, and at each of the other posts, for the term of al ob- at lead three months in advanee, in good and wholefomc provisions, if the fame shall be required. It is to be un jf the derftood, that the Contra&or is to be at the exj ence and ;ickets rifle of iffuirg the supplies to the troops at each post, and it the that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or re and by means of the troops of the United States, fliall be paid sal of for at the price of the articles captured or destroyed, on . liable, the depofitioas of two or more persons of creditable cha racters, and the certificate of a commiffioncd officer, as- • ia ; of certaißing the circumstances of the loss, and the am oust ofton ; of the at tides for which compensation shall be claimed Wells' OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treafar^. v By Authority. « Schuylkill Bridge Lottery. S»:d by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, South Sccond-Jlrcet. SCHEME of a LOTTERY, For railing Sixty Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Aft of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, patTcd during the lait fefllon, for building a Stone Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at (he Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks. Dolbrs. 1 Prize of ao,ooo Dollars - 20,000 1 do. of te.ooo do. • . 10.000 3 do. of 5,000 do. . . 13,000 4 do. of «,000 do. - - 8,000 so do. of 1,000 do. - eo,ooo 39 do. of 500 do. . . 19,50# 80 do. of soo do. - . . 16,000 so® do. of ioo do. - ao.ooa 300 do. of jO do. - . 15,009 1 doj of 500 do to be paid the pofTef- ) for of the firft drawn no. J 5 do. of 3,000 do. to be paid poflelfors > of the fire last drawn oos { 1 i'®°° 9,400 do- of 15 do. 3 - 141,000 10,054 Prijes 300,000 10,046 Blanks — 30,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars 300,00* All Pri«s lliall be paid fifteen days after the drawing it finidied, upon the demand of a podeflor of a fortunate ticket, fubjeft to a deduction of twenty per cent. The Drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are difpofei of, or perhaps sooner. of which public notice will be given. Philip Miller, Peter Kcrjhncr, William Witman, Joseph Hiefler, James Diemer, Thomas Dundas, Jamet May, John Otto, John Keim, Daniel Craeji, Sebajlian Miller, Commissioners. Reading, May the 9th, 1796. Tickets in the Canal Lottery, No. a, to be had at the above office, where the earliaft information of the draw ing of the Washington No. a, and Patterfon Lottery's, are received, and oheck baoks for examination and regif teringare kept. Oflober 7. aawtf Paterion Lottery. FOR railing fix thousand fix hundred and fixty-farea • dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen par cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a price, viz I Prize of .5000 dollars is dollars 500 a I 1000 1000 l soo 500 5 iOO lOCO ao ' iOS aooo 99 SO 4950 100 1-S 5000 ~ aooo 10 to,ooo 5 Last drawn numbers of rooo dollars each, 5000 , a33a Prizea. 44.450 j 4018 Blanks. t 6350 Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 44,459 t By order of the Directors of the Soeiety for eftablilh . mg UfefulManufadhires, the fnperintendauts of the Pat t erl'on Lottery have requested the Managers to offer the foregoing Saheme to the public, and have dire&ed thim ; to refund the money to those persons who have purchased t in the former Lottery, or exchange the tickets for ticket* s ft this Lottery. 1 rhe lottery has actually commenced drawing, and "will continue until finilhed. A lift of the Blanks and Prizes 1 may be seen at thf office ol William Blackburn, No. 64 r south Second street, who will give information where tick ets may bt procured. i Dated this 17th day of June, 1796. t J. N- GUMMING, --i- V' s JACOB R. HARDENBERG, > Mmagm. JONATHAN RHEA, ) STATE OF THE WHEEL. 1 Prize of 5000 ... 5000 1 1000 - 1000 1 500 - J OO 5 aoo • • Igo# r > ao ico - - - aoo9 : ® 90 J® 45 165 a 5 • - - ■ *"S ] The five last drawn tickets, 1000 e.ch, jooa j , e Being all the valuable prizes, belides a full propor tion of the io dollars. ,e As the Lottery is considerably more than one third n drawn, the value of the undrawn tickets is gre&t iy ly increased, and it is worth the notice of those who hold tickets in the old scheme, that they can ex change their tickets for thole in the above, if they ap ly soon, and at a moderate advance eonfidermg the now real value of an undrawn ticket. The tickets being nearly all fold, the drawing in future will be oftener, and' the Lottery soon fisifhad. November it. mws « 7 £ Walliington Canal Lottery, Of N°_L lh TXTHEREAS the state of Maryland has authorifsd «- W the underwritten, to raise twenty-fix thousand, at two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting ty a Canal through the City of Walbtngton, from th Po; k- tomac to the Eastern Branch Hari/our. 1 ; The following is .he SCHEME of No. I. at Viz .1 Prize of ao,ooo dollars, 20,000 at I ditto 10,000 10,000 >rt 7 last drawn 7 ;rt Tickets, each 1 ac 6 ditto 1,000 6,000 er 10 ditto 400 4,000 ao ditto 100 a,OOO ot 55 ditto so a,750 ir " 5750 ditto la 69,008 he To be raised for the Cwal, «6,ajo 5850 Prizes, 175,000 11650 Blanks, not two to a prize. 17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars. - 175,000 The Commissioners have taken the Securities re 1 quired by the aforefaid aft for the punctual payment of * the prizes. The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without ,n» delay, as soon as thf Tickets are fold, of which timely notice will be given. Such prizes us are not demanded in fix months after tha lat drawing is finifhed, (ball be confidercd as relinquifaed for i nt the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly. 3 f" (Signed j NOTLEY YOUNG, "" DANIEL CARROLL, »/D ---oi LEWIS DEBLOIS, lDie GEORGE WALKER, Wm. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, " or JAMES BARRY. >'aia City of Waftupgion, Feb. 11. $ r ofl ' ' ' -- — :ha- PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, mat XT J —No. 119 — C H P S N U T-S T R F. E'T. (. [Pricc Fight Dollars per Anmim.] V