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KINDERHOOK dHERAED. _ _________ . ________________________ y - •-- i„di^ - 8 bRUaipjlpItg^ DEGENS^^trRO s|3li ROfirjO.” KINDERHOOK, n : Y. THUJpDAY, JULY 21, 1825. ■ V -E N o . 8 F O T ^ H E D WEEKLY. , P. VANpCHAA^K, Jr. editor '^P ^ proprietor : t h o s .' b . r a n n e y , PRlNTl^R. TERJ\JS OF THE HERALD. './rf* 'f HE Herald will be *^^ucd from the dffice at two doHoj-s per unnuin, pa;/|^fe half yearly. Papar.i v/ill not bo .discontinue^ until all arrearao’cs sliail liave been paid,* except at tli^ discretion of the editor. Advcrlb'enicnts iiiserte'd upon the usual terms, and tliosc whf ili are sent without Ordcr.'^, will bo inserted until forbid. .Ij' Letters to the editor must be post paid. w>:cv>Yovk Prices CmTCiit, highest price ASHES, Pot, per toil §107 50 Pearl, “ 112 50 CANDLES, Dipt, per lb. Mould CaTTON, Upland per lb. Louisiana ^ Tennessee ^Alabama ‘‘ FLOUR, N. Y. superfine prbl 4 75 YVestem do 4 50 Rye flour 2 63 Indian meal in hds 13 00 do in bl per bl 2 87 FURS, Beaver N. per lb 5 25 CORRECTED -VVEEKLy. July 19, 18:^5. •— highestrice p IRON, Pig, Eng. per ton 75 00 'Amer. Pig GO 00 Country bar “ 100 00 Russian old sable 117 00 do new sable 112 00 Swedes 112 00 English as’d 120 00 Sheet, cwt 9 00 Hoop, Amcr. cwt 6 75 Eng. do. “■ 9 50 LEATHER, Sole, oak tail’d per lb 29 do hemlock “• 26 Upper dressed side 3 00 Undressed “■ 2 37 LUMBER, N R pine boards MR 18 00 Alb. pine do piece 19 Plank,lank, vellovrellov/M M Rl 30 00W per lb 5 25 P y t SO do S. ■“ 2.50, Scantling p i n e 1500 do W. “ 5 00 do oak “ 2000 ' - - - - 2(j 350 l50 5300 Raccoon N & S skin 351 Oak timber, sq. R 'MuskratNir S perlb 50' Shingles, bc^t M M n .rtni. O a n .ad a 05 do common “ 1 00 Pipe Hhd.doW .oak“ 4000 Bbl do do “ 2400 30j Heading do “ 4500 25 Hoops 2800 3 75 PROVISIONS, ^ 3 75 Beef mess perbl 1000 Prime 675 Cargo .450 Pork, mess 1450 Prime 10 50 Cargo 9 00 Butter Cheese Mqrtin, Canada do N W .Bm rN & S lied Fox Mink, north do south •Otter, north •do sefuth GRAIN, N. wheat per bush 92 Vi^estern do “ 1 00 Rye “ 50 N. corn, novr yel. 50 do white, N 56 Southern do pr bush 45 Oats “ 35 HEMP, Russia, clean, ton 195 00 SEEDS, Amer. dew rot “ 140 OOj Clover seed, new lb HIDES, Buenos Ayres, per lb 19 Westindisi “ 15 S. A. horse hides, pie. 94 .HOPS^ First sort, pel? lb. 20 Senrtnd sort “ 18 HEREAS Cornelius Earl, and Mary his wife, of T T tlie town of Now-Lebanon, in the county of Co lumbia, to secure, to Thomas Hoag, of the town of Chatham, in the county aforesaid, the payiu'ent of the sum of si.Y hundred and forty dollars with tlio interest ?ee off Mortgage,ortgage, hearingearing date thereon, did, by indentur o M h the tliirteenth.day of April, in the year of our one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, mortgaj to the said Thomas Hoag, all the of our Lord [i eight hundred and ninetec 'homas Hoag, al l those thr< and, situate lying and being ____ . (wn of New-Lebanon aforesaid, formerly the town of Nevv-Canaan, and described in the said indenture < mortgage, as follows: The first-ofthe said three pii cos aud parcels of land, being butted and bounded i follows, viz: Beginning at the south-west corner of the first mentioned piece or parcel of land hereby convoy ed, adjoining the land of Calvin Herrick, fornlerly Na than Herrick’s, thence running ndrthorly by Richard JJohnson and Jonathan Watt’s lajjy- aa the fence juaut* stands, to aTpoplar'stacllo; tlie^e running easterly by a piece of land W’hich the said parties of the first part purchased of. Lovina Pratt; thenco to Benoni parcels of land, situatt town of New-Lebano 5VV-Canaan, and d' gage, as follows: The first-of the said three p: -ud pareds of land, being butted and bounded 3 a staice and stones; thcnco southerly by John Kitbey’s land, formerly Darnel Stranahan’s, to a stake and stones; thence avestorly by William Pratt's land,'and Calvin Her rick’s land, to the first mentioned bounds and place of beginning: Likewise all that other piece and par cel of land being the second piece of land hereby con veyed, butted and bounded ds follows : lying on the northnorth side off thee roadoad leadingading fromom Edwarddward Wheccler side o th r le Ir E \Vlie s to George Crego’s ; beginning at the south-west cor ner of said piece of land ; thenco rdhning northerly by Jonathan Watl’s land to a stake and stones; thence easterly by the lands formerly Owned by Ira Pratt, now owned by Cornelius Earl, party b'f the first part, to a stake and stones by George Cregh’sland; thence southerly by said George Ctego’s laud to the road aboveabove mentioned;entioned; thenceence westerlyesterly by saidaid roadoad or m th w by s r the first mentioned bounds and place of allil thathat otherr pieceiece andd parcelel off highvv'ay to the beginning: a t otJie p an parc o land being the third piece, butted and bounded as fol lows : beginning at the ^oiltli-'tt'cstcdnlci' df .said piece of land at a stake and stones;. thence running ndf- therly fay Nathan YVhceler’slam itda stake andsioncs; thenco easterly by said Nathan Wheeler’s land to a stake and stones; thenco southerly bjr George Cre go’s land to a stake and stones; thence westerly to tlic first mentioned bounds and jilaco of beginning; which said three pieces and parcels of land above de scribed, arc estimated to contain thirty acres of land, be the same more or less, and %vcro conveyed by Oba- diah Pratt and Lydia Pratt his wife, unto the said Cor nelius Earl, by a w’arrantce deed bearing date the eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six; Likewise all that piece and pared oflaiid; situate lying and being in the town ofNew-Lebanon aforesaid, butted and bounded as follows : boginning at tlie south-east corner of said piece of land hereby conveyed, at a stake and stones standing on said corner ofland, and on the line of land formerly owmed by Ricliard Crego, now owned by George Crogo; from thence northerly said George Crego’s land to a stake an thence westerly to Flax, cl’n, ck.7bush WOOL, Merino, 1st qiial. lb. 62 Mixed “ 50 Common “ 38 Pulled, Spinning “ 4-1 Amer. Hatters “ 60 BANK NOTE TABLE. Corrected, xaeshlyfor the Kinderhook Herald. July 19. 1825. U. S, Bank JSrotc^. N o t payable in N. York, par A'erc.’-Yorfc. All the city bks. par Albany b. |)a; State, Albany, . par Mecb&FarmGrsdo pnr Troy b. par Farmer’s b. Troy, par Mohawk b. Sche’y par Lanslngbnrg b. par Nev/’g old emission par do signed with red par do branch at Ithacfl par Orange county par Catskili par Oolumb. at Hudson pRi Middle District par Utica par do hr. Canandaigua par Ontario b. at Utica par Greene co bk Auburn par Geneva par C6nt. b. C. Valley par Chepango , par Wash, and War’n 3 P la t tsb p ^ 21-2 ' JeffprsoncQ. 1 l-2a2 Niagara,’ new em Connecticut. Middletown b. . par Nevvr London par Norwich par Phenix b. Hartford par Bridgport b. pif New-HavenK . . par Eagle b. N. Haven par • do payable in N; Y. par Hartford Disc. Disc. Maine. Portland banlrs 1 l-2a2 The notes of the coun try banks are at pre sent quite unsaleable. jV. Hampshire notes 1 l-2a2 Massachusetts. Boston banks lal 1-2 Springfield b. “ Hamp.sliirc b. at Northampton “ Salem banks 1 l-2a2 Worcester b. “ Other Ms. notes “ Rhode Island. Providence bks 1 l-2a2 Other R. I. notes “ Vermont. B o f Windsor 11-2 Burlington notes “ Brattleboro “ hfexc-Jersey. Bruns’k par do at Trenton uncer do at Camden 2 Farmers b.Mt.Holly 2! Cumberland b 21 Pennsylvania. Philadelphia bks par Farmers’ bank, Bucks CO 2a2 1-2 Other notes “ There arc many banks in the interior of Pennsyl- ydfiid, the notes of which are unsaleable. Canada. Bk o f Canada 4 do payable in N.Y. par Montreal 4 par Uppet Canada oncer on the line of stake ami Hinnes -Irrim , thence westerly to a stake and stones standing at the corner of land owned by Nathan \Wbeoler; thence con tinuing the same course on the line of said Nathan I Wheeler’s land to a stake and stones; thenco sotith- westerly on the line of George Franklin’s land to a stake and stones; thence easterly on the line of said George's land to a stake and stones; thence southerly on the lino of said George’s land to a stake and stones, and thence easterly to the place of beginning, contain ing fourteen acres of land— jJ/id iclu r> as dofdult has bcenmadd in the payment of the princijial and inter est secured to be paid by the said mortg.agc —JVolfce i.s therefore hereby given, that by virtue of a power con tained ih the said mortgage and hi pur.suanrb of the statute in such case made and provided, the said se veral mortgaged premises will bo exposed for sale at public vendue or auction, at the house of tJjo subscri ber in the town of Chatham, on the third day of Fob- J a 1 b P r i i i t i i i g 9 pyery description executed ih handsome ^style, and 6n the shortest notice at this office- - . , . - m jkxm L B , ,Blank Dpeds, Mortgages,* Bonds, Warrants \ Judgment Records on Confession, ,^ aaid MHitary blanks,for sale as above. ruary next, at two o’clock in the afternoon of that day. Dated atCIiatham,thisl'wcnty-eighth day of■Junc,18i June,1825. THOMAS HOAG. MELVILLE SALVE. r J^H IS salve in almostevery instance in which it has JL been used, has proved an dlfectual cure for many pains and disorders to which the human framo' is sub- je c t;—such as pain in the breast, side and bock, to gether with tooth ache, ague, frozen feet, clulfalains, corns, &c. &c. For proof of which the public are re ferred to tlie salte itself, and to tlie certificates 6f tliosc who have experienced its salutary effect.^. Directions for using will accompany each roll. The price of a roll is 50 cents—half a roll 25 cents—quarter roll 12 1-2 The salvo is IcR for sale at present, witli J. P. Beck man, Kinderhook—James Mellon, Hudson—^Mancius & Co. Albany—Gales Co. Troy—J. B. Myndeese, Schenectady—Judds; Litchfield (Conn.)—Croswcll & Co, Cattskill and J. C. Morrison, N. York, Driiggists. CERTIFICATES. Hudson 182.5.—I do hereby certify that I have had a pain in my side for nparly a year aitd tliat by apply ing a plaster of your salve for one day and two nights, I fbund it an easy cure. Yours, See. DANIEL CURTISS. of the system, and in every case^ it effected a speedy I think the public may bo assured that it will c6ld. I have frequently had occasion to use it in my family for tooth-aehe, ague, and pain in different parts Phb answer the end for which it was designed. REUBEN SALMON; Hudson, 1825.-^This is to certify, that I have bee'h troubled with corns on my fdetfo'f several years, which gfivomeso much pain that it was with difficulty! could wear shoes. By applying plaster made of the Melville salve a speedy euro was effected. Mrs. C. VAN ALEN* W. Pockham, , I N F O R M S his J[ friends and the public in general, ^ that he continues his V business at his old ^tand, two doors e a st of LEWIS’S HO- TELjtvhere he in tends keeping constantly on hand a general as sortment o f BOOTS AND SHOES. All orders in his lino o f business will he thankfully received and piinctimlly attended to. Kinderhook, IBth June, 1826. nStf THE ?HII,OSOPHfeR’S SCALES; , By Miss J a ^ T aylor . W h eii^ifdus Alchymy, with puzzled brow Attempted things that Scicried laughs at now. ^ % >is if if * “ What were they?—^you ask; you shall presently see The scales Were not mH;de to womh smr.ar and tea t That qualities, weigh I Together willi articles small or immense, - Erom.iiiBtintains or planets, to atoms of sense ; Nought was there so bulky, but there it could lay J And nought so ctherial but there It would stay; And nought so reluctant but in it must go ; All wfiieh, sufllUffiSJRpies more clearly will show. “ The first thing he tried was the head of Valtaire, YVliich retained all the Wit that had ever been there; [) of a leaf, thief; __ on a sp As to bound like a ball, on the roof of the cell, ‘‘ Next time ho put in Alexander the Great., With a garment that Dorcas had made—^for a weight; • And tlio’ clad in ariiiour from sandals to crown, The hero rose up, and the garment went down. ‘‘A long row of alm.s houses, amply endow’d By a wc*ll-cstccm’d Pharisee, busy and proud. Now loaded one scale ivliile the other was preH By those mites the poor widow dropp'd into the chest; Up flow the endowment, not weighing an dunce. And down, down, the fartliing's worth came v.’ith a bounce. “ Again he performed an experiment rare; A monk, wHh austerities bleediug and bare, Clim’d into Ifis scale; in the other was laid Tho heart of our Howard, how partly decayed ; When he found with surprize that the whole of his brother Weig d less by some pounds, than this bit o f the other. “ By further eXpAimentK, (no matfer hovv%) [plough, lie foudd that ten chariots weighed less than one A.iE sword with gilt trappings, roseOU upJJ in11 the scale, 4 U U 1 Tliouglt balanced by only a ten-penny nail; A1. shield and.1CM a. helmet,tCllUGI.) a4 bucklerUV-iVlUl ah‘difU spear, Weighed Icssthar - 4r A lord and a lady ^ U a i « U U Weighed less tlian a widow’s unchHstalizcd tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sjiil, When a bl'e chan.~ed to light on tlin opposite scale. Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiel-s, one earl, Ten coufiscllor.s’ v/igs, full of powder and curl, All heaped in one ballancc and swingingfrom thence. Weigh’d loss than some atoms of candour and sense; A lirst-watcr diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potatoc just wash’d from the d irt; Yet, not mountains of and gold would suffice, ‘ One pearl to outwcigTOl^twas the “ pearl of great price.” ' “ At last th^jVi?Ko^e world wa.s bowl’d in at tho grate ; YVith the' sdifl of a beggar to serve for a weight; When Iho t^iwis^tTang up tvitlT'Jo’strong a rebuff That it made a vast rent, and escaped at the rOof; When, balanced in air, it ascended oii high. And rail’d up aloR—a balloon in the sky; While the scale with a soul in, so mightily fell. That it jerk’d tho Philosopher out of his cell. ^ Fro77i the Bvfl'alo Emporium. JONATHAN’S WEDDING. Mister Pr/n/cr—Sum big feelin ffillers may laf about this pccO, and say it ant spelt rite—^Irat I gue.ss Jjow you wont find ane word in this but what is .*.pelt rite. Well, I spose you bant found out how I am got Tnarrid, so I’ll be darn’d if I « ont tell you all about it. Nance I ’rulor, who lives close by my dad’s just oVer the brook, crost the swamp, cunato our house one day when I was gohi to trainin ano talk’d to me about bein marrid. Gosh ! thinks I, w’hat’s that 1 but arter 1, tbot^ a little about it, thifiks I, to mi self, Dad got marrid, and Mum got marrid, and'our Poll got marrid, ril git marrid tu ! So I ast Dad if I mite git marrid; and he made a grata mouth and scoul- ed up his face and said he didn’t cafe nothing about i t ; so I told Nance how that I liked her best of ane body ; and if she'll h'ax e me then I’ll have h er; so we agreed on the day, and I spoke to squire Tie not to come and marry us. I wanted to pay him in w ork, hut he said he drothor have beans arter harvest, afid t thot twaUt best to l^se the chance. Well, such a darned site of boys and gals I never seed afore ; and when the squire told us to git up, I h& darned if I didn’t blush behind the ear.s, as the saing is ? What he sain I cant tell I was dumb skarct—^but it was Something aboht having one another for better and wos. How he told it over, I cant rememb'ur-—but you kno I am alwais makin varsis, and I bleve twas sum like this. You both agree, now as ydti have hold of hand, , Nance tu be woman, ;in3 Jonathan tho man. I tu raise com,and she Jonny-cakes to make,” Each other to like, and all olhers fomake. I got a swampin bunch of wiskey, aad moth er sade we might put in jest as much maple su gar and lasses as we was a mind t o ; and uncle Whiffle’s rifie balls Ivodent a fievv round quick er ! By nip, I wuuder they Kadent all got drunk. The gals got as good a sup|)er as ever a bod fish laid his jage over, and after a whie they all !,went hom’e !—that nite Sal Tow Yarn gin John Jeho the mitten; she sefid as how Johh shud not go hum with hur. I gess she meant to ■catched the squire f bnt he couldent wark a crak,- as the saj-in is, and so Sal had to go hum atoiie, by Gaully. John said he didnt care one cent about it, and went hbip with Moll Trudge- aldhg, and Dad ^ says he gesBes how twill be a match- Now thinks I fo myself, tfs its the fash ion to have marriages printed, I. should he is glad as a dog .with tu tales, to have mine put in ;* and if you can afford to du it, I and ,my wife, an4 dad, and unde Torn; and ant paf, and all our folks would he very glad to read it, for they tell me your paper goes a grafe mAny m lles.^ When you cum this way don’t forg-et to stop, if as how I should not he at home,ject tell Nance youre the printer, and ;you shall have fhe best the house affords. So gud bye ! YOUNG JONATHAN. Sergeant Davy’ one of the King’s counsel, on the Oxford Circuit, .having professionally trimmed a gentleinan commoner ojf Brazennose, on a faihpus trial, .was .waited on the .next mor ning by the gownsman and his friend, at his bedside, threatening to horsewhip him. “ Not ih bfid, I hope,” said Mr. Davy; ‘ No, not in bed.’ “ Then,” said turning, himself “ I’ll not rise till you are in nAgtter hiimor.” ktm C IM E X S O F A .PA T E X T POCKET DICTIONARY. Aknidgement—Any thing contracted into a small 'Cpmpass ; Such, for instance, as the A- bridgement of the Statutes, in fifty volumes folio. - . . . .. ’ . ' ^ . Ahstirdity .—^Aliy thing advanced by our op ponents, contrary to diir own practice, or above our comprehension. ■ • Advice .—Almost the only cp.mmodity which the world refuses to receive, althouh it may be had gratis, with an allowance to those who take a quantity. ■ ■ Ape .—‘The author o f the .fall of man accord ing to Dr. Adam Clarke, who informs us that the tempter of oiir first parents was an ouran- outang, not a serpent. * , Baafielar .— Plausibly derived by Junius from tho Greek word for foolish, and by Spellman from Baculus, a cudgel, because he deserves it. An useless appendage of society: a poltroon who is afraid to marry;lest his vyife should be- ccihe bis mistress, and generally finishes by con verting hjs mistress into a wife.. , 'Body .—That pprtion of our system which re ceives the chiefattention of Messrs. Somebody, Anybody, aUd Everybody, while Nobody cares for tlie soul. ’ A G I ^ C trtT H H A t.. DEVON CATTLE AND SAXON SHEER [Mr. Hulbert resides in what may be called a dairy country, and is well known in Baltimore market, where he sells, annually, a very large quantity of cheese, - He “ shears his o^vn fleece and he wears it,” for w’e have generally seen him clad in liomespun broadcloth, of elegant quality, from his own sheep, and spun in his own family. He is what may emphatically be called a well judging practical man; so atten tive to his own affairs, and so nice.an observer withal, that we should suppose he could give us some particulars, some weights and measure-f ments, illustrative of th.e quality of his favour^.. ites, the Deyans; what they have yielded in milk, butter, cheese, beef, &c., and bow th'.y have compared at their cattle shows, in the yoke and otherwise, with other breeds. They could not be in better hands than his and Mr. BdrUey’s.] , • . . Winchester, Center County, Conn. ? J. H SKixxn- , E sq .. 27th June, 1825. ^ Vfe tdke the liberty to enclose you . the im pression of a wood cut of our Devon bull, Holk- 1mm; it is a tolerable likeness, though not . so fine in the head as the original. We purchas- ed Ilolkham of Mr. Patterson, of your city, in the fall of 1819. lie wms then 7 months he is now Six years old, and probably weighs 1700 iL's. ari4 his progeny cannot be less than nine hundrY?d. He is. doubtless one of the fin est animals of the breed, or of uny other breSd in America. His stock, wherever they are* known, are mor6 admired than any other breed of cattle; they seem to be exactly fitted, in .:!1 respects, for the' pastures of New-England. II s oldest cali:es are now four years old, im4.it is now ascertained, that the cows are soperior.fcr the quality Of thmr milk, and for the.qiiantity they are aS good as any breed of cattle we are acquainted with; and we have never seen any oxen equal them for. symmetry of shape, for sprightlinefs, for docility and. tra'ctability n* learning to work, andforthOir ability to endure heat and fatigue. We find this breed to b more harffy and easier kept than any cattle w v ever saw ; they fatten easy. We have dispo sed of sev^al imridred ol^ixed, and a few fufi bloods, since we have had this bull—^have sold ail we ev ^ offered for sale, and have/disposed, of them short of oDeyear old—and the call for them has greatly increased within the last eight months. Mr.Col|fe does idneed “deservethe eveHasting gratitudh .of the people,” not pnly “ of .Marj’-' land,” but of the United States generafiy^ for thq valuable present of this tSfoed of cmtlg f o Messrs. J^atterson and CatobV We can With pleasure, anticipate the ti^e when the pastures of ;New England sh^ll abOj^nd with North Devons. .'We have already suppII^H orders for stock from jHolIcham, frofii Massachusetts, Vermont^ Ohio, South Carolina, and a considerable number for the state of N e # York. We saw last week, ice Albafiy. the ^ock of ML Van Eonssaloaur—hhf
