#a?efte */ the States, & Philadelphia Dally Advertiser. Number 1350.3 .The Elephant, Now exhibited, was bought for Ten 1 Voufand Dollari, He is 3 years old, 6 feet high, growing to 18 feet. !Ie eats iso weight a-day, and drinks a barrel of rater ;he h drank some c orty bottles of porter, the corks with his trunk. Re is *erfe&ly inoffenfive; travels loose, at the tnte of'five twiles an limr, and is the greatest curiosity 'ever brought to this Continent. He is to be seen 'till the 15th of January, in M*rket-<ftreet between Third and FourtlMlreets, at a quarter of a dollar, that every one may fee him-— a Tier which time the former price of hall a dollar wil "fee reftimed. Lie will leare Philadelphia as soon as the weather will permit ! >> c» nb«r ji WANTED, A MECHANIC, to erect Spinning and Weaving Machines bv water, filch at are used at my manufac tory-Apply to JAMES DAVENPORT, Mo. 4oi.North Front-street. N *B. None need apply but a eompl'ete mechanic, ,and a man of liability. Gl be Mill, December 29, 1796, THE SUBSCRIBER WISHES to ascertain, whether a certain EDWARD NEVILL, by trade a Stone-Cutter, or Brick-Layer, who quitted Irtland ii 1783* or 1784, intw this Country, ('tis fuppofsd to Philadelphia) about four years since, be living or dead As this intelli jpetice is of the highest importanQe, it will be thankful ly received, by GEO. DAVIS, No. 313, High-street w &sim December 31 Elegant Brussels & Turkey Carpeting, For fule by George Dobfon, Ne. 15, South Third-ftrect. December 15. FOR SALE, Tbe schooner ORIIN} Seventy ton?burthen ; Sftaep months .j. y - rilfl; her frame is of the befl of white oak : (he is a faithful built vessel, handsomely finifhed off and well found in every particular ; is ready to receive a «ar£o on bourd, and can be put to sea without any ex pense on her hot), fails or rigging : ihe flows fix hundred barrels; hat a kandfome ca6iu and ftecrage, and a half deck which will flew from feventy-iive to eigh.y barrel?; has been newly caulked, graved and paitited. For term? apply to fiENJAMIN RHODES, At No. 170, corner of Market a*d l'ifth Arrets, Or to the Captain on board said schooner at Messrs. Willis and Yardfiey's wharf, adjoining Chefout-ftreet wh.irf; where there is for sale . Excellent p'ickled Salmon in barrels, the best of American Mess Beef, and some very excellent Boston manufa&ured Chocolate. December 16 jTjkri For Sligo and Killibegs, The American Ship Nancy, Cuthbert Riggs, mafler. Will fail with all convenient speed. For flreigltc or paflfage apply to Who has for lale, 4 Trunks Printed Cottons, well assorted 3 Bales Irish Flannels, and i boxa* L:tien« 25 Pipes Brandy • Madeira Wine ; Indigo . Russia Mattt* A few birrel. Prime IRISH BEEF, PORK, OATMEAL, &c. November *1, 1796, FOR SALE, 7 HE SHIP M ART, SAMU. L PARKER, Master, Two hundred tons burthen. Apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY, & Co. If the MARY is not fold in a few days, Ihe will take freight for Hamburg. Apply as above, October 31 For Sale, or Charter, The Ship DI/IN Samuel Pile, Matter,' 105 47*95 tens «P®»» ;,t in Philadelphia in the year 1791, of live oak and was sheathed. 13 months ago, she has jufl had a compleat out-fit, and may be sent to fa at a very trifling expence. For terms apply to Philip Nicklin Isf Co !rhn btive for fate on board said vejel, b n_ : • ' • '-— — - - caflcs of fine yellow pauTt. g /boxes and iz bundles ot writing 112t36* I box ink stands and note presses. »4 bales of fail eanvafs. And on bandy Imperial } Byfoii* and, >■ TEAS. Souchong J „,, „ „ ■ . 40,000 piece. Nankeens of the flrft quality. 19 tubs Qyickfilver. , 1 _ ' 1 cherts li"nd.inno handkerchiefs. A f« v c'nsfts Manchester goodswell assorted 111 Cor jiur'oyj!, thick sets, Ginghnms, Muflinet!, Dimities, &e. 3 boxes black sewing fiik. 180 crates Qotens ware well aflorten. 10 tans fhett lead. Nails assorted, flat and ifcarp points. London Particular, | Madeira Wine in pipes London Market, ■ f and hogfl>ei&s. New-York Market, J * 40 pipes and 10 hoglkeids TeneriUe wme. 8 tierces Root. •30 logs Mahogawy. ■ Nov 7 For Sale, Bv George Defchamps, No. 91, NORTH SIXTH-STREET, Nova-Scotia Prime Salmon, in barrels and h«H barrels Ditto Herying and Maekarel. Soaked Harrlng in barrels and kegs Ditto ' Salmon, by the iattn or fingW one Dry Codfifh, from one to fifty kentalt dftU Plaftet 1 of Paris, in the stone and -roumi, for manure and stucco-work T - •* William Bell; Also, mwftf » d ttK&ftf THURSDAY EVENING, JANUART 5, 1797. Philadelphia and Lancaster Road Company. A Meeting of the Stockholders for the Election of a Prefidpot, Managers, and other offieern, will be held at the Company's uSSee on Monday the 9th Jan. next, at 10 o'clock. Bv theßorrd. WM. GOVETT,Sec'ry. iawtiftj.dt9 h December i, 1796. Brokers Office, and COMMISSION i?TORE. No. 6j South Third llreet.oppofita the natior.il new Bank. SAMUEL M FR UNCrS and JOHN VAN REED, have entered into co-partnership, under the firm of & VAN REED,yi the business of Brokers, Conveyancers and Commiflion merchants. They buy and fell on commifilon every species of stock, notes of hand, billfof exchange, houses and lands, &c. Monet procured on deposits, &c. &c., all kinds c r writings in the conveyancing liac, done with neatnefsand dispatch; accounts adjusted, and books fettled, in the most correA manner. Coallant attond&nce will be given. They fojicit a Share of the public favor; they are deter mined to endeavour to deserve it. N. 3. The utmost secrecy observed. SAMUI-L M. fRAUNCES, JO N VAN REkD Philad. Augufl 47, 1796. Lottery and Broker's Office, No* 64, Smth Second strkkt. '"THICKETS tn the Canal Lottery, No. a, for sole—a A Check Book for examination—and prizes paid in the late lottery. Check Books kept for examination and registering, for the City of Washington, No. a, and Pattefon Lotteries, both of which are now drawing—information where tickets are to be had, and prizes exchanged for undrawn tickets. A complete lift of all the prizes in the late New- Port Long-Wharf, l4otel and Public School Lottery, for examination. The fuWWiber the application of the public and his friends, who wiffo to purchafc or fell Bank Stock, Certificates, Bill* of Exchange or Notes, Houfea, Lands, &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property- Also tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for file at Ten Dollars each, which will he drawn early in tJae Spring. Wm. Blackburn. Philadelphia, Augufl 18, 179, 6• mth S A L T PETR E. A large quantity of Double-Refined Salt Petre for sale at No. 25, South Third-ffreet. j. November 5. - ■ A CARD. If MonJieur 6. H. Sour, a, Who left Bordeaux the i»th June last, and arrived at Bottom ibont th« middle of Aisgoft, in the fehooner Jane, it in Philadelphia, he is rwjitefted to call on Jnfeph Anthony & Co. No. 5, Chefnut-ftreet, whe will give him fomc information cf importance. December 24, '1796 Fashionable Waistcoating. GEORGE DOBSON, No. 2.5, SOUTtJ THIRD-STREET, Has received per iht Diana, from London, Clouded and flriped Spini!h Swanfdcwn Clouded Erminats And Moleflcim Striped do. aRd do. Figured Manillas ' Scarlet figured Errainets Printed Flwinetts y Do. Oxfijnets and Caflimsres Superfine printed Quiltings, newef) pitterm Also, per different arrivals, A large and general, aflortment of Dry Goods, Suitable to the profent and approaching season. November .5. dtf FOR SALE,/ About 1,600 acres of Land, WELL situated, laying on apd between Marfli atid Bf-ech Craek9, Mifflin county, Penfrfylyania, in soar feparale Patents. For terms of sale apply to Wm. Blackburn, No. 64, South S^eond-ftrset. mwftf October 31. FOR SALE, At Whitefides' Tea Ware-House, No. 99. North Second Street. Imperial f Hyson Skin. Hvi'in, C Frcfh Teas. < Souchong, Youag Hyson, * J L Bohea D«c. Q. Iwsurance Company of the State o: Pennsylvania. THE Stockholders are hereby notified, an ele&iori for thirteen Dire&or? to serve for one year, will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 9th January next, at II o'clock.—And agreeably to the a& of incorporation a (Vatement of the affairs of the company, will then be laid before theitt. SAMUEL W. FISHER, Sec'y. Philadelphia, December 19, 1796. dt 9th Jan# 1 Imported from London & Liverpool, EARTHENWARE, in crat-es and hogsheads, well assorted Wine Bonks in hampers Window C*lafs of all fiz^s .Two gates of stationary One chest of yellow Jesuits Bark Two cases of Roll Arnotta ( A small consignment of I'-ofe Blankets., Flannels, Baizes, Broad-cloths, Coatings, Plains, &e. Paints of various colors. Baiket fait in hogsheads. A Iso on hand, Madeira wins, very ©Id, in pipes, hogsheads and quarter calks Holland gin in pipes, firft quality Anchors of different sizes As.» trunks of ladies Frenchihoe> afforttd Silk nan kern, &c, Like wife an assortment of Dutch goods, consisting of Olnabeff«, tieklaahergs, bed-ticks, stripes, checks. Morlaix linen, platilhc, va»en« duck, Britannias, &c. And for sale by 111 e package only by Thomas Ejf John Ketlmid. Walnut-street Wi»arr. •otf N«y. if. A few hogsheads of choice N. E. Rum, a»d a quantity of LARD, for file; Enquire at No. 71, North VViter-Ilreet. December 24 Turnpike Imported in the late ttrrh'-ils from Europe and the Weft- Indies, ( H©lland Gin, in pipes Choic* St. Croix Sugar atid Kum Martinique Molaffis, in hoglheads Choice old LiJbon Wine, in pipes and quart«r-cafU6 London ParaicuUr £c London Market Madeira Wi«*> in pipe?, half-pipes .ind quarter-caflts Malmsey Madeira Win«, in pipea and quarter-casts Teneriffit Wine, is pipes Russia & Flemish Sheeting and Ravens Dui-k, in cases Window Glass, 3 by 10, in boxes Coffee Mills and Straw Knives, in caiks Mill Saws and Cross-cut Saws, in boxes Also, on band, A few ohtfts of Bohrt Tea ; Jefuitß Bark ; AfTafoe- tida and Tapioca ; and a few bales of Coflaes, Baftas, Onrrahs, Bandanna and Muslin Handker chiefs, and a complete atTortmmt of 5-4 and 6-4 Boifltiag Sloths October to m&wtf A Gold Watch was Found A few days ago, in the lower part of Second-street. The owner, on calling at No. 127 in said ftrcet, and proving it to be bis or heis by a riefcription in writing, may receive it An piyinj; for this advertilement. December 29 Frejh Garden, Grass and Flower-Seeds, Roots, life. &e. This day landing from the ship Eagle, captain Fofdick, from London, And FOR SALE by GOLDTHWAIT & MOORE,, Corner <*f Walnut aa.d Second-streets, /I mo/i capital and gxttnfive AJfortmcnt of GARDEN, GRASS and FLOWER-SEEDS, ROOTS, &'c. &c. kinds Four Twenty-five Si* Ekve* Twenty-fix Cauliflower Celery Cucumber Common and lemon Thyme Curled leaf and sprigged Paisley Pot Marygold' Pot Marjorum Balm Thyxnfe Mangel Wurtzei Leek Kail Shallots Rape Seed Rye Qrafs Saint Foin Lucerne Red and white Clover Tiir.othy, &c. &c. With a curious of the i\ioft eftecmed Three Five Tea FLOWER-SEEDS and ROOTS, Being the most extensive ever imported into this city. The ahove are from a capital Seedsman in London, and ara warranted frefti and good. Printed citaicgucs may 1?e had by applying as above, Dcc. 17. dtf. Just Landing, As South Jlreet wharf, from on loarti the fh'ip Stdg ley, Captain Hedge, from St. Pelrrfiurg, The following Goods: Ruflia Sail Duck, fir ft quality. Do. Sheeting Jo. Do. Diaper. Do. Huckaback. Do. Craft. Do* While Soap in small boxes. Do. Cordage of finr yarn. Ravens Duck. iGnglafs, lfl and 2nd fort. Horse Hair uncurled. y Russia Ear Iron. Do. Hoop iron. Do. f Nail Rods, iq Tons Oakum and Junk. St. Peterihurg Clean Hemp; O&ebcr 12, .THE fubferibers finding it impofiible to fnpply their store with any more China from France, the prices being too immoderate in the manufifleries, give no tice that they will fell at prime; cost the remaining Heck on hand, ctSnfifting of Dessert Setts, Tea-Table Setts Separate Caps and Saucers Croupes and Figures Alabaster Vases Looking Slafles, in gHt frames, Bcfides India Japan'd Toilet Deik», Chairs, Ta&les md Quadrille Boxes. PASQUIEK ic Co. Ne. 9f, South Seeond-ftrett. 3 taw 3m« December sth For Sale,- By J. WARDER, PARKER & Co. An Invoice of Cordagte, GdnSfting of different fizea, from 11 inch cables down, to fope of aincliee/of different lengths: in the fliip Swift, from Hull, and entitled to drawback. Sept. >7. ' _dif Those Gentlemen who hold any of the undermen tioned Notes o'Draught* (whether due or net J arc requested to meet at the City-Tavern on Wednesday next, at 6 o'clock in the evening i at which time an arrangement will be ];ropofed which it is expsfled will be fatiafaftory to the holders. Edward Fox's notes in favor of James Gre«n!eaf. James Greenleaf's notes in favor of Edward Fox. James Greenlflfs draughts on Edward Fox. Abraham Dubois's note to Edward Fox, Edward Fox's note to Abraham Dubois. Jamet Oretnleaf $ draughtt on Abraham Duboii. At tbr reQiifJt of * major fart *f tht Gentlemen inttrtfltd. Deeembcr 19. For Sale by Pragers Is? Co. dswm&tham Among which are, [Three [Twelve Thirteen Afparagus|: Bcrecolej; BcHPRr I Fifteen Beets; BrocQlif Cabbage! Carr«t Fifteen Six Four iTwcnty-three Twenty-one Mould Candle*, 4, 5 and 6, to thej lb. of the Englift £25. y „ White Candle Tallow. For Sale by Philips, Cramond, & C®. _ S Cheap French China. NOTICE. EDWARD FOX. dtw diw No. 2s t South Thifd-flreet, Has just received, per £agle, Capt. Fofdich, rial; (fife* don, an aiTortment of Scarlet "N Drab / Cloaks trimmed with his and Purple and { ermine. Pearl J December 15. § A new method of keepirlg Bill Books, Adapted for the cafe and convenience of merchant* in general particularly for these who are ex tenSvely concerned in trade: exhibiting at one view, all the bills which a merchant may have to receive or pay, in the course of the whole year, fsr each month feparativdy. And thereby pre- 1 venting the trouble and inconvenience attendant en the mode now in us«, of fele&ing the bills due in •ach month from the promifcuuus entries of ftveral months. A table /hewing the number of days frew any day of any month, ta the fame day ia any other ffiontb. Philadslphia, printed for and fold by R. CAMP' BELL & Co. January 2. Whs is well acquainted with the River And will give Dira<SHon» for filling into the fame, that can be depended on, ftnll be gtneroufly -reward? Ed for his information, provided he will leave the dire&iaiis with Mr. John Fenno, printer, Philadelphia, or Edmund M. Blunt, Newburyport: Bank of North-Amefica, January 2, 1797. At a meeting of the Dire&ors this day, a Dividend ot Six per Cent. was declared for the last half year, which will be paifl to the Stockholders or their raprefentativea* at any timp after the 10th in&ant. Hy order of the Board. Cresses Onion Radifti Turnip kinds dti6th Peas Savoy Parfhir CEORGE DAVIS announces to his profefiional friends, and the Gentlemen of the Law, generally, through the Union, that his late importation of BOOKS is now arrang ed, and ready for Sale, from a fmgle volume t© an entire li brary, without any advance upon his former exceeding low prices, whieh for fevejal years pail have iu so diltinguilhed a manner recommended themfto notice. Melon Lettuce Printed Catalogues combining the most extensive collec tion cf the latest Englifti and Irilh Editions ever imponcd into this country, ate publi(hed. and will be delivered giatia oq application. Orders addressed to G. D. in writing from any diftar.ee (hall Ke pun&ually attended to. A number of TRUNKS for Sa)e. ALSO, TO BE LET, A convenient LOFT, near Mai ket Street Wharf. ov-3. V tuicfyo AT a Meeting of the Stockholders of the Bank ©£ Pennsylvania, at the Bank, December 29th, 1796, k was unammoufly refolv«d, That, from ths inforraau tion this day given by the Board of Dire&ors, and the Do cuments exhibited, the Stockholders do fully approve the condu& of the .Dire&ors • and that the thanks of thn meeting be returned to the said Dire&ors for their adtivi ty, zeal, apd fueceftful exercion6 in the discharge of their dntie* in relation to the abuses lately pra&il'ed upon thl» Institution. , Resolved, That the foregoing Resolution be in the Ncwfpapcr* of tJfei.n city EDWARD SHIPPEN, Chairman. BFNJAMIN CHEW, Jr. Secretary. Dec. 30. $ FOR .railing fix thousand fix hundred and fixty-fevea dollars arid fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize, viz 1 Prize of jooe dollars is dollars 5000 x rtoA 1000 f SOO 500 5 400 ioco 10 10* aooo 99 50 4950 900 si jOOO Isoo to 10,000 5 Lad drawn numbers ®f nh dollars each, 5000 »33» Priacs. 4018 Blanks. 6350 Tlckett at Seven Dollars each, 44,450 By order of the Directors of the Society for establish ing Utfeful Manufactures, the fupetinsendants of the Pat« erfon Lottery hare requested the Manager* to oflfer the foregoing Seheme to the public, and have directed them to refund the money to those persons who have purchased ia tlje former Lottery, or exchange tie tickets for ticket* n this Lottery. The lottery has actually commenced drawing, and will continue until finifliecj. A lift of the Blanks and Prises may be seen at the office oi William Blackburn, No. 64 Couth Second ft#eet, who will give information where tickfc ets may b< procured. Dated this i?th day of June, 1796. J. N- GUMMING, ") JACOB R. HARDENBERG, £ Managers- JONATHAN RHEA, ) STATE OF THE WHEEL. t Pri»e of 5060 -■ * 5000 I iboo » - » too* 1 joe * * ■ » 500 f ■ tod . * ' * 1000 »e ico » » * 4 tooo 90 JO * 450P I4j is . - * * * 41*| The Ave last drawn tjek«t«» 1000 «wfc« joo* Being all the valuable prizes, befidet a foil propor tion oi the io dollars. As the Lottery is coafiderably more thin o»e third drawn, the value of the undrawn tickets is great ly increifed, and it is worth the notice of those! who hold tickets in thaold scheme, that they can ex change their t*»kets for those m the above, if they ap ly soon, and at a moderate advance coniidering the now real value of an undrawn ticket. The tickets being nearly all fold* the drawing in future will be oftcner, and tfie Lottery soon finUhedw November is. mws Women's Cloaks. GEORGE DOBSON, THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, To which ii prefixed, Any Person MISSIS I P P I, JOHN NIXON, Prefidcnt. Davis's Law Book Store, No. 313, HIGH-STREET. Bank ol" Pennsylvania. Paterlon Lottery. [Volume XI. tawtf 44.4J0
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