We arc informed that, in Hageis-Town
and i'.s vicinity, about 150 of theinfur
{jents hare been made prisoners, among
which is the* chics demagogue of Wafh-.
ington county, who, it is expc&ed,
will be immediately executed as an ex
ample to deter others from such treason
able proceedings ; that all thofedeludfed
people opposed to the excise law were
so panic-ilruck on the appioach of our
troops that they could not conceal their
guilt, and surrendered without oppofiti-
on—the mod of them acknowledging
their tranfgreflion and giving information
of others; and that a fnfficient force is
itationed in Frederick to protect that
place, in cafe the tioters (hould tfi'ike
a-iy attempt, whish is totally improba
ble.
Balt'mort-Barrtns, Sept. 16, 1794.
Mr. Anbkli,
" Please to •jnifolii'h the following re
medy for the bite of a rattle snake, late
iv dilcovered :
" TIIE peifon is to put the wound
ed limb into the mud of a spring, or
into any other cold mud, as speedily as
poffiWe, and keep it there half an hour.
This will (top the ojjeration of the poi
son, take away the pain and prevent the
fwellmg. and the perion bit will be per
fectly cured in that time, which 1 will
make appeal to any pe son requiring it.
It, has been proved by experience here,
and has never failed.
" We have no remedy by herbs that
will save one fiom 5 ov 6 weeks of great
pain, nor/the wounded limb from fuell
ing often till it bii' ft. Moreover I hear
of more people being bit this lummer
than I e»er iie;,rd of before ii> twenty
years, some of-them now are expected
to die, which are my re»fons far dtfigri,
ing this to be public, and known to
every one. I am, Sir, your humble
servant,
"JAMES CALDtR."
" N. B. Perhaps it is worth while
toadd, that a handful of cold mud will
cure the fling of -a bee, or of a wasp
or hornet, in two or three minutes."
Yettcrday, afternoon, the body of
Mr. John Fisher, Bookseller and
Brufhroaker, of this town, was taken
oat of the river near the Fort, where
hi had been unfortunately drowned.
We have not heard the report
on this truly melancholy circumltance,
which leaves an amiable fath.ly to de
plore the loss of a protestor, and foci
cty at large to regret a ufeful and in
dustrious member.
PETERSBURGH, September 23
On Friday last parted through this town
on their way to Winchester, the several
quotas of Militia from the counties of
Lunenburg, IJrur.fwick and Dinwidelie,
who have been ordered for the expedition
againil the Insurgents—also the Peterf
burgh Light Dragoons under the Com
mand of Cantain Jeffers. On Sunday and
yesterday a eonfiderable portion of the
quotas from the counties of Greenfville
and Mecklenburg, proceeded on through
town —and we have flattering expectations
thatatthcgeneral rendezvous at Winchester
the Virginians will be fully equal to the
Bomber required from this state.
Died in Prince George, on the 7th inft.
Mrs. Hobbs v consort of Mr. John Hobbs
aged about 100 years—her husband now
living is about 104 years of age —they
have lived in marriageltate nearly 80 years,
antl have buried two children, each of
them survived above 70 years— a re
markable instance of longevity.
The fdtorjjing is an ext' aft from the ad
dress of the Judge to the Grand Jury,
at the commencement of the present fef-
Jion of the DiJlriEl Court.
It is cause of no lmall fatisfadtion in
our country to meet Grand Juries. In
that country from which we have copied
this branch of our Jnrifprudenee, one
great advantage of this institution, is to
ft and between the heavy hand o; govern
ment, and the liberties and rights of the
people ; but with us, it becomes an im
portant part of your duty to Hand, tip for
the laws when violated, and bring forward
. the offending citizen to make atonement
for his transgression. Here the laws rule,
and there is no impropriety in faying we
have no Icing but the laws. Here Grand
Juries form a firm support to the laws.—
When a member of our community of
fends, it is your peculiar duty, colrefted
is yon are, from the various parts of the
Diftriet, to bring the offender forward, to
receive the punishment due to his offence,
that ethers may hear and fear, and avoid
doing'fo wickedly : You are alfoexempt,in
making these inquiries, from the imputa
tion of mediing or being busy-bodies, for
it is your peculiar duty and you are un
der the obligation of an oath.
As ours is a government founded on the
authority of the people, we have nothing
to hold us together, or to protect our per
sons and our properties, but the law,
could we but for a moment, suppose the
laws to be thrown prostrate, the most
dreadful consequences must follow—con
fufion must take place instead of order,
and rapine instead of honest industry.—
Thus every man who loves his country,
v ill give his whole strength to uphold the
laws. The law is no other but the expref
fion of the public vill, in which the voice ■
oi the majority must p cv .il, and it sol- '
lows that the minority, are bound to sub- j
tliit. I fnall not detain you to prov.: the j
necefiity, the propri ty of such fubmtfltoc; '
this has already been so well done by j
speeches, by letters, by publications in )
every bodies hands, that I could not fay j
more or better than what others have laid; j
the thing seems feif-evident. To mention 1
a government of laws, expfeflive of the j
will of the people, seems toeairy con-j
viAion with it, that is, it must be the will'
of the majority, for the minority to refill, .
is reverting the eternal and unchangeable
nature of things, and aHumm;? a power
w ■ h neither God Ilnr j.?.ture ever com- i
mittcd to man. Hq-v great mult be the >
crime, and how aggravated the guilt of j
those persons. who beCaVle a particular j
law may b - tifagreeable, or may be incon- j
vetj'ent to theiaihall declare w« will not
" Submit, we mil not take the regular
'• peaceable mocie of i'efefcing inch amend
" ruents as- ape proper, by applying to
" thofelegiflatoreswhoin v:e hjvtrchofen to
" repr-cf«iit us, but we willrefifl, we will
" oppose otir force agdinit the wil! of our
" Countrv"
What is this but rebellion, hut tre9-
fo:i again!): our common country, and
wounding the roajelty of the iaw ? Let
us rejoice that our countrv, where we
dwell, furnitheS no instance of such a
bandoned depravity^
When we obtained our Indepen
dence, at the expence of so much blood
and tieafure, it was predicted of us that
we could not govern ourselves—thai we
wanted both (kill and virtue to matnage
a government not conduced by force,
and, like the Cappudocians of i/ld, we
(hould crouc'i again under the shadow
of some tyrant or uturper, who might
save us the trouble oi' governing our-
{"elves.
The nations of the earth have been
looking up, they Kive been watching
the rcfult of the experiment we have
made ; a free govci mnent founded on
the will of the people, founded on all
the virtues ! The fuecefs of our experi
ment has astonished the world—it has
ailonifhed ourlelves! Our increase in
population, in Wealth, in commerce, our
advances in agricultute, in arts, in ma
nufactures, are perhaps without ?, pa
rallel in the page of history. When
lo ! a small tax imposed by proper re
prefentativej, to help defraying the ex
pence of an Indian war, is refilled,
which perhaps, the unjult aggrefiions of
some of the individuals may have con
tributed to, kiudle again it us : The
thing is painful and dittreffing to the
mind of every man who took an honest
pride in the prosperity, iri the glory,
in the happinefsof his country.
Whatever others may do,let it be our
study, our pra&ice and our delight, to
set an example in our persons to incul
cate in our communications, a proper
respect and obedience, to the laws of
our country —if we continue to preserve
an honest industry, and yield a rencjy
obedience to the laws of virtue and our
country, we have every reason to hope
for a continuance and an increafc of
those blessings which Heaven has alrea
dy bellowed upon us; the hope could
not be thought extravagant, if we were
to adopt the stile of bold eastern meta
phor, and fay So will peace jloiu down
among us like a river, and the glory of
our land like a mighty J!ream.
The answer of the Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury, return the Judge
their thanks for tile feulible and judi
cious charge delivered them ; having no
prcfentments to make nor any criminal
business before them, to your honor's
congratulations on having a maiden as
size, they most cordially add their own.
Enjoying the wifdl and mildest govern
ments upon earth they feel every tie that
can unite man to man, binding them to
fupportthe laws of their country —They
have heard with the deepest regret, the
attempts made by the factious and ig
norant in a remote part of the union a
gainll the majesty of the laws; they
pledge themfelvcs as far as their influ
ence extends to aid in fuppreifing all
such vicious pia£lices, which evidently
tend to debase the human chara&er,
to introduce ariltocracv, monarchy, or
wild anarchy, which ends in despotism,
and which leads base minds to propa
gate opinions that, reason, without
such unnatural diltinftions is not fuffi
cient to govern men.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Foreman.
RICHMOND, Sept. 24-
ExtraS of a letter from Harr'tfon county,
dated Cjth September
A gentleman directly from Limestone
in Kentuckey, fays that General Scott
had besieged and taken Glaize Town,
a noted harbour of the Indians, killed
and taken 300, with the loss of about
70 of his men—That General Wayne
was within about four rtiiks of General
Scott's army.
A gentlwnan who has lately travelled
through the (late# of rcnnfylvaiiia <Mid
Ne.v-Jerfey, cxprclcs hi# eMrom • fe is
fait ion id obfei Vj'.ig tlu ti 'v parriutir
behavior of the people in their deter
mined opposition to the incendiaries of
the western mountains, and to enforce
proper refpeft to theLivsof their coun
try. While the citizen lbldier rs thus
employed in thr Xapport of his govern
ment, the spirit of the female depart
ment (lands equally confpicuons in this
important dilemma, 5a aidim- and pro
tecting the profeffional afl".iii<i of their
refpe&ive huibancs and friends, with an j
alacrity indicative of their acquiefcerice i
in the expeditio<.
CANAAN. N Y State.
September 24, 1794.
On Saturday last at a horfe-ra'ce in
this town near Major Dmiglafs's while
the two horses were in full speed, and
nearly at the end of the race one of the
horses turned fuddenfy out of the path
towards a fence where flood a number
of people, each of whom attempted to
avoid the dangei—Josiah White, a
young man in attempting to spring the
road bfo't himfelf diredlly in the way
of the opposite horse, which (Irtrck hiin
with luch force that he was pitched
nearly 16 feet he was taken tip apparent
ly dead, but after being bled he difeo
vered signs ofliic—on examination one
of his (boulders was found to be broken
in a (hocking manner, and that he was
otherwise very dangerously injured—he
was alive but as he has conti
nued ru a (late of inlenfibdity horn the
firft there are but fiiiati hopes enter
tained of his recovery.
NEW-YORK, Sent. 29.
EmifTaries Jiave beer, discovered in •
parts of jNew-jerfey, Pemify'lyama and
Virginia, where the militia were enrol
ing, attempting to diflViade them from;
obeying the of tiers 'of the Executive, i
These incendiaries address themfclveS 10 i
the compafuan of their countrymen ; ■
" what, they fajr, would you take arms
and filed the blood of your fellow-citi- j
7-ens !" These vile men foiget that
the Infurgentß have begun these outra
ges ; and have Jlrji taken arms, burnt
houses, and attempted to murder their
felloni-cUi%euS. This, foifooth, is no
crime in the Infurgenss; but when their
fellow-citizens rife to pfaltS themfclves
and their property, they are charged
with cruelty. Even in this city, perlous
have been overheard, exprelfinjr a wilh
that the lufurgelits might fland by each
other, that they might succeed. These
men were lliielded by darkness and could
not be known ; but ,it behoves all re
publicans to keep an eye on the foes of
government who are lurking about the
country, ipreading sedition, and sowing
the feeds of jealousy and discord.
From the Wejiern Star.
THE CORD WAITER—No. VI
Who {hall presume to set boundaries
to the excursions of the human mind !
Who can tell where the spirit of im
provement (hall end? When 1 consider
the in.menfity of the ocean on which I
have embarked, the pen almost drops
from my fingers through aftonilhment.
Not to lose fight of that wonderful
luminary in the region of authors, Mr.
Paine—who that so lately observed him
mddeftly walking in the plain obvious
road of Common Sense, would have
thought of looking so soon for him in
the ruggid hye-paths, and fculking
corners of fophiftir/, infidelity, and E
than-Allen-ism ?
Equally amazing has been the pro
gress of regeneration (if I may be al
lowed the exprefiion) in that modern
Delphos, that great treasury of the
" Oracle 3 of reason," that ftore-uoufe
of political and intelle&ual light
France. Little didlt thou think, ill
fated La Fayette ! when firft thou in
stituted the cause of Fiefdom 111 thy
native country, in the lober, modtlt
guise of reform, fondly imagining to
retain the fubltance of government as
ter it (hould have been dripped and
(horn of the fungous excrescences of
despotism—little didst thou think that
so rapid {hould have been the progress
of this wonderful spirit of improvement,
so hard {hould itprefs upon thy heels,
that within so short a period thou
(houldeft be deemed a traitor, and dri
ven into exile for thy honell adherence
to a constitution yet " mewling in its
nurse's arms."
Little didst thou think that in proportion
to the increase of Liberty tir,d Equality in
thy country, should the value and security
of the lives'of its inhabitants decrease, till
traps and gins should be set up, for expe
dition in destroying them, as we should
for rats in a garret, or flies in a market —
till the loins of a Lewis Capet should be
lighter than the little finger of a Mjrat or
a Robefpierrc—till a man's head should
stand with l«fs fecuriry cn his fhou!dcr»,
(than th; buttons on Ms cost, or th epo-iv
ri '-on his hair, ill a' 1 .ifed yoi g man !
, I pit; thee from the 1...t0n. ~>f my
J T.jo jrely thou hacjft, ari tlu- far.le ..f tJi
d..jr and has lha;ic ~ a.; ttheitia; Jj ■ 'h y
tmndout.ived tue dodtrine in thy country,
and this has been thy ruin. What pity
thy loitering genius was thus oat-foare.i
by theftro.'g pinioned sons of the l\io J» -
tain, in their favorite system of fnadowy
good and substantial evil! Alas! hadft
thou saved thy d;ftance to hare reached tire
pah s of a Committed of Safety—but
it is vain to with; we mult leave thee to
:hy duri«v( n. '
I beg pardon of the courteous rea
der, loi- this 'o.ig apjll.-ophe ; and I
know he will grant it, tor the fake of
the fibjeci;, hoU-ever it fcav be fo.ind to
violate the laws of cOrtrpotition. I
could wot well do lets than pay this iri
bute of iympatliy to that unfortunate
martyr to my iubjc&.
This is the age of revolution. Go
vernments, Religion, Morals, Opini
ons, and Faßes seem to have caught
the impulse, and to partake in the jre
neral whirl. To keep pace with it, a
man who was lalt year a republican,
mull this year be a mad-«,p—if he ad
vocated political freedom last year, this
year he mud (hake his fifl at the King
of Kings. Had the man whose life
was lalt year deemed incompatible with
the public fafetv, survived, and his prin
ciples could have remained in Jlxitu quo,
he (hould this year have been a fair can
didate for a Legitlator, or a General of
an army ; and it is well if the approved
politician of to day be fufFered twelv*
months hence to rei> tindillurbed in the
grave,
Militia Mufler.
r • fjOiiCK is hereby given to the Mili
• tii remaining in the City, that 011 Monday
i the 6th of October next, is the Company
J Matter Day according to law.
; Ihe Companies are to aflemble irt the
j Centrt.' Square, and form in that and the
"contingent part of Broad street, at nine
0 clock in the morning.
Lewis Nicholas,
lufy.-ilur.
Sept. 30
MILITIA.
Courts of Appeals.
THE infpeftor's ill health preventing
his attendance at the Courts of Appeal, on
the days fpeeified m the notices, he informs
thole concerned that he will hold those
Courrs .. j) the following days, when they
may attend.
For the Firjl Regiment.
On Monday the 6th October next, at
Major Pancakt's, in south Fourth street. ,
For the Artillery and Third liegimeaf-.
On Tuesday the 7th October ?nev.t, at
Mr. Michael Kitts's, in Market street.
For the Second Regiment*
On Wednesday Bth October, at Mr.
M'Shane's, north Third street.
For tlx Fourth Regiment. •
On Thurfciay 9th Odtobcr next, at the
fign'of t(ie White Swan, Race street.
For the Fifth Regiment.
On Friday 10th October next, at tht
sign of the Kifing Sun in Race street.
Each day at 3 o'clock in the afteilioon.
Leyvis Nicholas,
Infpeßor.
Sept.. 30
Ricketts's Equestrian
CIRCUS.
THIS EVENING, Sept. 30.
Will be performed a great variety of new
and Surprifmg 1
Feats of Hpriem?nfliip.
In addition to the great number of
Equejirian Performances,
Mr< Ricketts, will introduce, fcveral
Feats of Horsemanship never yet perform
ed. He will for this evening perform tlie
Sailor s Voyage a Fox hunt-
ing. i
Mr. Ricketts will dance a Hornpipe, in
the character of a failor,and will perform
the.
Whimsical Metamorphosis,
Master F. Kickttts will perform fevf ral
pleasing Feats, on a single horse in full
i'peed.
Mr. M'Donald will perform his omic
Feats and Surprising Leaps.
Mr. Ricketts will ride two Horses in full
speed a T nd carry his young pupil Mafler
Long, on his Ihoulders, in the attitude of
a young Flying Mercury.
With a variety of other feats too nume
rous for iniertion.
The whole to conclude with
A Sailor Riding in a Sack.
Mr. Kicketts has provided a grand Band
of Muiic, under the direction of Mr.
Young.
Mr. Ricketts refpetffully informs the
Pu blicthat the Circus is open every Morn
ing for the purpose of mftruftmg Ladies
and<3entlemen in the elegant arcrtnplifi)-
ment of Riding & managing their horfe»_
# Doors to be opened at} A, and
performance begin exactly at 5 o'clock. —
Day a of Performance Tuesday», Thurs
days, and Saturdays.
Front t!>e New-Tork Daily Gazette.
| Mr. M'Lean,
J I have observed in making up
the accoi** of our, lofies in the Well-#
Indies, we dp not make a fair ft'atement,
Hy considering only the debter fide; To
me t -it 'appcais, that though we have
been injured by thofc depiedati6ns, yet,
-ihole.apparant. lotTes have been intermix
ed .vidi this^d vantage, that on account
01 w hich our trade has
been have recewcd
; large tlio' ft may be objeSed
j thai in ratio to the increafeof the pnee
or imported articles, is theburthert on
the * the bail tendency," iti
regard to liberty, from the too great ac
cumulation of l ights in the hands of an
individual ?
Yt t the firit is,in a great mtafure remov
ed, wiieu we con liuer, that though the
price ot sported arii, les is increlfed, thsty
are iliil purraakd as cheap iij foreign coun -
tries, and thus no greater proportion of
the produce of our own is required in
payment; and the last is of lefe weight,
when we cons.d r, that if it should be for a
long continuance, this consequence might
follow; but being only temporary, the dan
ger cannot be ercat. Our right to resent
the injuries we have received, cannot be
doubted ; but certainly our policy may,
and I hope our dill-eminent will lead us to
avoid the of . other nations,
who, by their irrafibility, have greatlv
contributed to enhance the sum of thole
debts, which sooner or letter uiull prove
tlieir ruin.
Let us rather contain our just refent
meut while they ars exhaulling their
itrength by ufeiefs and expensive wars,
and be contented with the acquisition of
wealth a.id the importance in the scale
oi tortious, which we fliall acquire, even '
from their contells with each other.
The intention of tho£.- few observa
tions, is to induce my countrymen, not to
listen to thole perfoiis, who, by ccttitinu
ally expatiating 011 the dark fide of the
p.eture, would urge thein to violent and
hasty measures, which would at least tend
to retard our riling greatness, and to sub
mit their cayfe to the difpoi'al of our ad
ministration, convinced that every Hep
Will be taken, consistent with propriety,
to secure our rights, and to obtain ccm
penfation for our pait loflcs.
dc6o
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.
This forenoon the President of the
United States left the city for the ren
dezvous of the militia of Pennsylvania
and New-Jersey at Carlisle. We leant
from good authority, that after his ar
rival at Carlisle, he will determine upon
a nearer view of things, whether he will
return in time for the meeting of Con
grtfs, or will take the command of the
troops, which are destined to ait againit
the Infurgeuts in the Wetlein Counties
of this State In the latter event he
will proceed at the Head of the combined
forces either with the Pennsylvania and
New-Jersey line, or the Virginia and
Maryland line.
The Secretary of the Trcafury ac
companies the Prelident.
The Editor has conversed with a gentle
man who brought the intelligence from
Kentucky—he informs that by accounts
from a Britilh dcierter, who had left Capt.
Campbell after the adlion it appears that
the Indians were induced to attack general
Wayne, from the intelligence of a Mr.
Wells, one of Gen. Wayne's spies, whom
they had taken —and who, on being inter
rogated as to the ftrcr.gth of the American
army, told the Indians that Gen. Wayne
had only five hundred men.
The Government dispatches are on the
road, and may be hourly expeifted. Gen.
Scott is not killed, as reported-'-Captain
Slough is ilightly wounded, and Captain
Van Ranfeliaer, dangerously.
At the date of thelalt accounts General
Wayne's army was at Fort Dcliance—a
bout 40 miles from the scene of the late
ailion, where the General had renred to
obtain a supply of provisions.
dtioO
This afternoon an express
arrived at the War Office
with dispatches from Gene
ral Wayne —confirming the
Intelligence from Kentucky.
Thefilly bigntry that <was re fumed at Na
ples, in consequence of the recent erupti
on of Vefwuius, is thus luJicroujly
defcriled by the luhhnfcal
Peter Findar :
When Mount Vtfuvius pour'il his flames,
And frishti ned all the Naples Dames,
What did the timid Dames, I trow —
Why, ordered i fat Car. Sin alto go
With good St. Januarius's head.
And lhake it at the Mountain 'niidfl his riot
To try to keep the Bully quiet :
The Parfcn went, and ftiook the jowl,
and sped:
Snug was the ; the fteme« at once kept
houfc;
The frightened Mount grew route a» any
mouse.
#
An AMERICAN,
♦
t