Gazette of the United States. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVKNING, OCTOBER 21. Prices of Public Stock, PHILADLLP H »A, OtTOKKR *O. Eight percent, ftock—lO On Hambvrgh do 36 a 37 cents \ [p;r Mark Rates of Foreign Coins and Curren rencies in the United St.ites per ■ act of Congres for payment of £)i£ ties. " Enjrlilh pound sterling 4 44 Irilh do do 410 / Butch Florin or GuilJer 040 ( Hamburgh Mark Banco o 33 I 3 J try T lie iubfcriber having frequently heard complaints of the want of accuracy i n the price current of public stock, has conclud ed tctiiirnifli the Gazette of the United States, occasionally (it called for) with wh*t rnav in his opinion be considered the Market l'ripes of Stock, and the Rates of Exchange. M. M-COtfNELL, Cbesnut street, No. 143. Tne following orfi>J<»riy,refembles much of Noah Webster's, and deserves a place in hi 3 Babylonian Di&ionary. An advertifetnent for letting lodgings runs thus in a certain paper—" Hay sack and Jlour to let, thicken and Carrot. It may be proper to apprise the reader'that all this .means nothing rr.ore than " A fec»nd floor to let, Kitchen and Garret, A Highwayman was lately apprehended on a grey horl'e, which it appeared, had .been his companion for some years. The name the animal went by, was not inappro priate to hij situation, " Old Rcbin Grey," There formerly lived a Mr. John Cburib, at the %n of the Six Bells, in Friday flreet i-ondon, to whom a precise Quaker thus addrefled an ejiiltle—" John Stceple-boutd, at the sign of the Six Nccdlctses, in Sixth Day Street. A gentleman, who lodged at the house of a Carpenter wanting a piece of wood for some purpose, went into his landlord's Ihop, and took such a piece as he thought wotjld answer ; Which the Carpenter perceiving, observed that, for the sum he received, he could not afford to find his innate both in board and lodging. A Tar being told that hostilities would soon break out in the Eall-Indies, afkcd, as how ? The narrator then went on to flute that Tippoo and Ztm.in Sbab were both pre paring for war. As for Tippoo replied the *?.!ilor, our generals will soon tip it to him, and as to your Sbaman Sba'U. there will be an end to his Seamanship the lirft time any of us gets itlong fide. A Gentleman, who happened, to be in Company, where dear V.nico was prrfent, and almost fiifibcatrd with the arAbian gale ci his perfumery, rep-ated to a lady, who • fat by him, the following lines froiir-C'oiy- which do, in some fort, describe a di plomatic Tribble. I sann >t tilk with Ctvil in the room A fine Puss Geritlemin that's all perfume, Thcfgbtj enough—no need to fmellz. Beau, Who thru its his nose into a raree (how ! His odoriferous attempts to please, Perhaps might prosper with a I'warm of bees, Hut, wc who make n j honey, though we Iting Poets, are fomet im'i apt to maul the thing. A Crimp attempting to inveigle a young Sbet d to inlid, by the dale promise of making him a Sergeant, was archly anfwer jed by the latter, that he was already a Jield officer. The late Lord Courtenay, wjia was one of the oldded lam lies in England being married to a Mils Clack, who was much infe rior, in point of birth, a convcrfatiou took place, on tliedif| arity of the match. What's your objettion ? laid the B.fhop of Exeter to a lady, who took the principal lead in the •onveri'ation —want of family, my Lord— want of family, echoed the Bidmp, why I'll prove hev of a bettsrfamily thin his Lordlhip. He may, perhaps, trace his snceftors, as far back as the conquest —but the family of the Clacks, are as old as Eve. lurxcMTF.n On a young lady, who had pafT'd feme time In playing with a very young child. Why on this lead of little Milies, Did Celia wade so many kiflrs ? Quoth Love, who dood behind, and fmil'd, She kiff'd the Father in the child, For the 24 hours preceding Tuesday mor - ning at fun-rife, there werfc 10 deaths in Baltimore and its vicinity. [ A per!" nuy tVe iia'rifVof Joshua Matt!- son, of AHaui'i,, S'.ifr of M been apprehended it :7V fly, i\'. Y. fui Counterfeit Dollti's, Oil Saturday lad the foundation ft or. e of the eal>er« pier o? t|ie Scliliy 1 kill Permanent Bridge was laid, m tl:c pre fence of the Mayor, a number of the members of the City Counci), Aldermen and other refpelia ble cifizei s, tidio honored the D'reflors of the B; ■•(1 e Corporation with their company. Til ? ceremony of laying the stone, (on which the date was illlcnbed) being linillied, a neat ami plentiful collation was participated in accompanied with sincere and appropriate for the covnpleti >'.< of the un dertaking, wnieh is so intimately conne&ed with the prosperity and convenience of this weathy and flourifhins; city. The nuller Mafou and workmen alio took a pait in the ceremony. Par amoun of a f:ire 4©o We fire happy to date, that from the quantity of materials in rWineft, the puCUi ality with which the funds are sustained, the great increase of tolls from the prefer.t tem porary bridge, which, yields a large lurplu i'age.after giving half yearly dividends, the wcu-k will be prog-reded in with fpir.it and certainty 011 the opening of the next fcafon —the present it is hop?d will give time \Jo get up the firft pier, as it is but a few feet from the solid rock to the furt'ace t»f the ground. In ancient Home, on the occasion of any great public undertaking, presages or omens were looked for with much solicitude, and good or ill success often followed, as ardor was excited or reprefied, from the mode of interpretation.—Without attaching value or negleft at the present like antici pations, it can be attended with 110 bad con sequence to notice an agreeable circum flance oil the present occasion . —Precifrly at the hour appointed for commencing the ceremony of placing the firll'ftonc, fettling it, examination of the inlcriptian, adniea furement, Etc. the (ky which h..d been ob scured for three days by heavy clouds, ac companied by tempelluous rain, wh:th th:ea tened a' drenching continuance, fi,d.!enly cleared away,"and the fun flionewith entp'nf ed splendour from the date of theaimufphere, and exhibited a clear blue expanse on one fide—wfcld, on the other fide, a Rainbow —the arch of beaven, appeared i 1 liv.ely hues, and in the utmod beauty, being strik ingly contraded with the august and volumi nous dark clouds which were propelled by the wedern breeze.—On such an occur rence, if fancy can be brought in, in aid of reason in favor of good, the relult may be well. Poulson. Mi. Cu. Between 9 St 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, as a man and his wife were returning home, in Catherine ftrtet,"near Second, they were met by an unknown person in a sailor's hab it, who ordered him to stop, and immediately •lifchargrd a pistol at the roan and thfn made off. The explosion alarmed the neigh bourhood—-The man was condu&ed home, and upon examination it appeared that one or two dugs, had entered just under the left pulp, and lodged near the spinal bone, Me dical afliftance was called in .{.but it is fear ed, from the direction of the slugs, that he will not survive. The wif- had her hand and arm confidently mangled by the dis charge. Vigilant feaich is mafiing for the appre henkon of the perpetrator of this nefarious aft. From a screw found near the spot where the deed was committed, it is suppo sed the villain uicd a horfepiftol. Pbii. Gaz. We undcjljnci a Fellow bat been arrested on suspicion of bavin? been the pcrpetraor of the above torrid deed. On Saturday evening last, as M r . John Chain, of East Penlborough, was leaving this town with his waggon, the horses weri by some frightened ; in attempting to stop them he was thrown from his horse, the waggon ran over his bread, and he expired immediately. [Carlise paper. NOTICE TO MERCHANTS. From the Coffee-bcuse books. T he U. States frigate New-York, Capt. Morris, will call into the Delaware, on her way to the windward I(lands for the purpose of taking under convoy any vessels that may join her—She is ezpefled to leave New- York on Sunday .next, and will remain 48 ho in Old Kiln Koads. The Adams frigate, capt Robinson, will l ea ve Cliefapeake about the 3d November, and W >H ca " into the Delaware for the like purpose on her wfy to Cape Fran cois. Arrived at the Fi>rt, the three maded fch'r La Diana, Cald.vell, (prize matter) prize to the U. S. fch'r Experiment, capt. Stewart, taken the id infl. laden with sugar, coffee and cotton, and carried into St. Kim, which placx: (he If ft the sth indant. G*n. RIG ADD was on board at.the time of her capture; he was lodt>»d ill charge of Com modore Tiuxton at St. Kitts. Fri>m the Salem Gazette DEATHS. On the sth inOmt, on his pafTas-e from Cal tu ta, Captain John Murphy, in the 47th year of his romraanrter of the brig Wafhingtfn. Thi» worthy man was a native of Ireland, and was brought by the fortune of wir into this town about twenty years ago ; here he fettled, and formed Ibe mod intimate connexion, and in thecourfecfan indu-ftrio'us application to bu finefi, as a failing raafter and faflor, acquired a handfotne property. A good mercantile e !u ---catian enable \ him to do bufmtfs with accura cy ; his preblty feenre-! hiai confidence, and his intelligent mind fucceli. He was remark ably kiud-hef bypocrify and falfthooel -which claH'es him with the mo,ft worthless and dangerous of men. Coxe's cbarafter has indeed long been cor.fiderfd by the virtuous part of the community as too monstrously depraved, to fufFer his declara tions to obtain any weight, except in. To.far as they are corroborated by strong circum stantial evidence, by the chara&er ol' the par ty aecufed, or by his silence upon those char ges which the public voice tails upon him explicitly to answer. In, the fafts which Dr. Rufli is alledged to have alTerted, this whole nation is eflentially interested, and every citWrt has a right to he informed on what foundation such aflVrtlons ha«e been made. Pie is therefore called upon to declare whether the (latement alluded to, is correftly made, and if so, what were the grounds upon which he liajtarded. Vhnrgrs a trainft a Government, of which he wis a« of ficer, of a nature so fcrious, and as is believ ed, so wicked! y calumnious. , A REAL REPUBLICAN. ELECTION. MR. Wayne, The following statement of the L&ncaftcr County Eleilion, will, no doubt give fatisfacti »n to the Friends of government and good or der. It is corre.ll, and proves that the address of the federal conmittee, signed by R. Cole man Esq. Chairman ; and William Montgo mery Esq. Secretary ; had more weight with th« good inhabitant of the County ofLancafler, than an addiefs signed by a Tench Coxe, a Tim. Matlack, a Sam'l. Bryan, a Muhlen berg, or a J Carpenter, and a dozen more like ihem.—lt required no great exertion to oppose such ltadern in our county. We had between thirteen and fourteen hundred votes lefl than lift year, which if all had turned out, would hire been federal. Every exertion on ihe other tide was made, and all their party nearly to a man came to the eleftion, so that no doubt fe deralism his gained ground in our County, not* withstanding all their boaliing. LANCASTER COUNTY. Fed. Republican. Jacobin. Congrefi. Thomas Boude 4175 John Whitehill 1916 Senator. - Mathias Barton *286 C Shaffiier, jun. 1897 y.JJembly. John Hopkins 1306 Jo'.n Roberts 193 D Richard Keys ai'jty John Mohler 192 c Jaeob Strickler 1178 lienj.-Kanffraan 1911 Daniel Buckley 2272 Htnry Hambright 1913 Alexander Scott 2264 Gen. John Steele 1901 Jereiniah Brown 2777 Samuel Co*ke 1897 Sheriffs. Emanuel Reigart a»5 1 George PqflTirfd 1434 Michael Rine an 6 Godlieb Nouman -1387 York County carried the whole Anti-Fedp'- ral or Jacobin tick-1 ; —and Adams' County carried their Federal Republican Members, fr.-m Affernbly down to the Comm ttioncrt. The Congress and Senator Members being ch< fen by York and Adams' Counties, were Anti-Fede ral or Jacobin. To the Members of the LegiYlature of New-Jersey. ELECTORS in your State, are chosen by you in joint-meeting. By another art, puf fed, 31ft of O&ober '96, it is cxprefsly ü ßt clared, that th-y, (the Electors)," shell be appointed on the thirty fourth day. pre ceding the firfl Wediiel'day 111 December"— that day, wilt be the 3o:h of this month. You are to meet, by your Colflitution, the JBth. Your friends have been uncom monly aflive—no trouble, no expence have they avoided, to frcure your-eWition. Let them hear, therefore, thatytu are not inattentive, to an all important duty- Be at Trenton, ths Monday before, Besides choosing your Speaker and other officers, you have to effect, what they, for fix months past, have been so anxiouQy laboring for, to wit, the choice of eleftors for New- Jersey, who will vote for John and Charles Cotofworth Pinckney. MOVE ON. October 2 lit. The soli iwng articles are from Jamaica pa- pers. The American ship Esgle, from Ni York, to Ourracoa detained by His Majes ty's Ihip Nereide, arrived on Tuefdsy even ing. We underOand that information is receiv ed by an officer of his Majefty'i'fhip Nere ide lent on purpofr that the n3i?inei from that veflVl had landed on the iflalid of C;ir racon and had taken pn(W?ioti--t>f f wo veiy flrong places, which Were fwfendertid to them without the least rcfiftanQt-. September 19- . In our paper of Yesterday we tyfntionec/ that information had been, received of the Marines from the N;reide hating taken pofleflion of two places in Curracoa, we have lince been able to learn the cause of it. Sonic time ago about jtj.Cmall veflels having French troops on bonid arrived at that Isl— and from Guadalcupe to affjft the banditti that had rebell;d against their niaflc t those r J • Jamaica, Sept. 18. planter, whs (l.ve's hid rcmiioed faithful to them, and wqre afratd of an attack from tire insurgents requeued as we are informed that two passes well fortifi-d, but which they could jmt protest (hould be t a ke.n polfcfllon of by Englilh Marines from the Nereide then Cruising off the coast which request the Captain humanely' consented to protect them from the inroads of their barberous enemy. The American Ihip Eagle sent in hi r by the Nereide, has we understand on board jcv£ral thoultnd (land of arms ami a vast quantity of gunpowder which it is affirmed rtie was carrying to Lupply the rebels with. We undprfland that in confequnce of ad vices received fiom Corracoa his M ijefty's Ihips Maleagcr, La Legere and another tri gate failed this morning for that iflane with all the Marines belonging to the fleet. Gazette Marine Lift. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED, days Schr, La Diana, Caldwell, (prize master) [jSrize to the Experiment, Stewart Sloop Harmony, Elwood, Alexandria 9 , Tobirco—Tunis Annefley, &c. CLEARED, Ship Galen, Thufton Cowes Schr. Suectfs, H ck Halifax Holfccr, Mcdler Havaßna Rosebud, Da»et Plymouth Polly, Lombard, Boften Nancy, Hawkins Norfolk Sloop Aftrea, Stanbce, New York Schr. Atlantic, Kingftoii, from hence, to La Guira, has been taken and carried into Tortola —Libelled and acquitted, paying colls. Ship Mackay, Mecham, ot Philadelphia, was spoke September i, latitude 51, longitude I;, W. thirty three days out from New' York, to Dublin, all well. Ship Swanwick, and (hip BeWlderc, for Phi ladelphia, were at Liverpool .September 4, SALEM, September 14. Arrived, the brig Washington, Wilf-jn, (late Captain Murphy) from Calcutta, in 5 months and four days. September 15, arrived, the schooner Sukey, Captain Kjnfwun, in four days from Halifax, where (he tad betn tent in by the B rt .j(h fri gate Cleopatra, un ner homeward palfage from the Havinna, tried, and cleared. The Judge in his decree admitted tint there was not jull raufe of fofpicion atjainft the v c flcl ; but this was afterwards altered, and the costs and char ges thrown upon the owner', in order to prevent an appeal by the Captain 1 f the frigate, which, of the two evils, was the leaj; The (hip Orono, George Middlcton, matter, was lpeke with on the Grand Bank, la itude 44, longitude 51, from Liverpool for Philadel phia • NORFOLK, Oftnber 16. The (hip Fabius, Captain Klaik, has arrived in the Roads, 70 days frem Liverpool bound to Alexandria. The ship Richard Caton, has anchored on the Horfelhoe, fix weeks from Li(bon, oound to Baltimofe. Arrived in Hampton Roads, the (hip Union, Captain Hooper, 60 days from Hull, bound to Baltimore. Spoke on the 3d inftant,ln latitude 38, long itude 60, brig Weft India, Captain ChiflieJm, from Charleston to London, out fourteen days. BALTIMORE, Ortober it. ENTERED, Brig Mary, Kearney, Cape Francois Fair America#, Turner, Liverpool The Brig Fehcicity, of Portland, from Li verpool, bound here, parted her cables 111 the gale of wind en Sunday, and was driven on Ihore near Chester river. The p lot fays there are a number of vtflVla in Hampton Roads and New Point Comfort, b >und up. Brig Mary, Kearney, twenty days from C. Francois. Sailed the following velTels under convoy of thefloopof . Sloop Dilpatch, , " Middleton Charlotte, Smith, do. Same day, fcho*>ner Mary, M'Namara, 13 days from Char elton/'difmailed m the gale ef Saturday last. *. 1 n . Same day, Britilh ship Alexander, Williams, twenty-eight days from Monticrrat. Schr. Sufaanah, Baitdj Peteribirgh, (Vir.) seventeen days. New-Theatrei ON FRIDAY EVENING,' October 22. 1 ■ \ Willfce prefnted (for the firft time this season) a celebrated Tragedy 1n 5 a&s, called . Hamlet, PRINCE OF DENMARK. Mr. Sohper—Gh'ost of Hamlet's Fithjr, Mi'.. Wignfll—Horatio, -Mr. Wood-4-Ctaudius, Mr, Warren— Laertes, Mr. Gain—Polonius, , Mr. Bernard. Queen, Mrs. Shiw—Player Queen, Mrs. Salmon—Ophelia, Mrs. Merry. To which mill be added, Not a&ed these two years, a farce in 2 A£ls, 'Gillkd * . v . The Village Lawyer. Justice Mittipius, Mr. Prigmore— Sheep-Face, Mr. BlilTett—Kate, Mrs. Dodlor. jr3"" On Monday, (never a£Ved in Am*' vica) a favouritecomedy, called MANAGE MENT, written by the author as the Dra matic, Will, &c. with new Scenery an 4 Decorations ; v.ith Entertainments. Box, one Dollar. Pit, three quarter! of a Dol lar, an j Gallery, half a Dollar. The Dnors of the Theatre will npen at t 4 pad 5, and the Curtain rifeat 1-4 pad 6o'cloclc. Gen'lemen and La lies are rrqu'efted tn fend their servant" to keep placesin the boxes at a quarter pad five oMcek. Piano-Forte, SINGING €sr GUITARk R. TAYLOR, MUSIC PROFESSOR, STILL cofmiiuwtfaching Ladies* the abov* ftruments, &c. Thole who tmy wish for his inftru. O&ober 23. th-&fa:aw. Jufl Received, By thcGeor t e, Amiable and other late arrival, AND FOR SALE, On low terms, by tbe package, at No. 48, South Front street, 10 Bales Rose Blanke "j ditto ' ' 15 bales Kendal Cottons 4 bates low priced EromScloths 4 bales London fuperftne do. . ™ » bel«s Plains and Fijreft Cloths r I bale fifliioiia'ole fine C'\atint;s u a bales falhior.ahte Lior.&in d } imall bales low priced c w3iiidowns 5 4 bales Intjrain YorluJhire Carpets and ao hhd. Scin Twiu ALSO, An cxfcnfive and choice afTortmcnt of , DRY GOODS— 0.» WILLIAM FRENCH •. ■ -■ .. tvSaVer it Jurt Received, By the hie arrivals here, and at New-Tort, AND FOR SALE BY Lorain & Son/ No. 5> North Third Street. An elegant aflortmciit of Chintzas and Calicoes, English utirin, Preatones, >« odes, Sarfnets, and Lutestrings ; Dimities, Bobbins, Coatings, Flan nels, Becking Banzies, Broad-Cloths, Swandowns, Dc.uble-mill'd Drabs; — Worded Yarn ard Cotton Hoficry ; Plain Foreii Cloths CARPETS & CARPETING. Also on Hand t Low-priced and fine India muilini, IriCi and quadruple linens, Gerncn D( wlas, riVions, (rdia fatin>,l'Jt firings, and fonfhanws, mill'd yarn glove, ivory and horn combs, fadlery, and a variety of Ironmongery, and feafonahle. DRY GOODS. A LSCV To be Sold, or Bartered, For DRY GOODS, a Handsome Three Story BRICK HOUSE. With Piazza and Kitchen adjoining, situate in Vine nea- Fourth crcet, bu ill in modern ttyle with excellent materials, an I well calculated,to ac commodate a large family. ' , ept. iltf. Baltimore and New York Mail Stage OfEce IS removed I ram No: 13 South Fourth ftreetyjto No. 18 South Third ttreet. An OfSce for those ftiges is ilfo kept as mr. Hirdy's lp.n. No. 98 Market ftroet. General Post Office, April 38. m 3