The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-08-25 00:00:00, page 4

FOR THE MIRROUR.^'
.MR russbll—You will, by giving a place
%to the following lines in your Mirrour,
much oblige one of your readers.
• to the Hon- Robert Wallace, Esq
on the DEATH @fhis LADY.
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QHALL/o much worth infifo,aft away,
D And no recording muse tbqt worth dijpla, ?
,hallpublic Jpirit, thus in private die, ;
And with the bad the good promiscuous lie?
Her worthy name fball be th'e maps care,
Here lov'd,tube* living, and implor'd fa>ben dead,
;And early call'd to leave these ties behind ;
Flow foAl thmje her varied tribute pay.
Indulge tbs tear, and not debate the lay ?
Go, happy Jbade, to where the good poffifs,
Perpetual, glorious, boundlejs bappinefs ;
WbAe we below th, earthly fate must mourn, ,
Colle& thy virtues, weeping o'er tby urn ;
In one bright foot their fcattsr'dluftrs join.
And bid more freng the blended radiance foine.
Thus the fun's golden beams, if art unite,,
More strong the influence, and more fierce tbs light.
And then, late partner of her fofter hour,
• Thou widow'd bridegroom,a partner now no more,
From whelk endear'd, and ever faithful heart,
Not death could tear her, nor could absence part ;
Tell us,for,boss, alas! must know fa well,
Her private, faucet, demefic worth to tell.
O, ever honor'd, ever bappy jbade.
How well bast thou the debt of nature paid!
B, agefill honor'd, and by youth careft,
Ofdaughters, filers, and of friends, the bes;
The pride of virtue, and of vice the fear ;
AJbam'd to flatter, eager to commend,
A generous mistress, and a /lead, friend ; \
1 Humane to all, but warm'd when virtuous grief,
Orfilent modefy, implor'd relief;
Os J, otlejs principle, unfoaken, just, ,
True to her God, and faithful to her trull.
WallACE,farewel .' Sojourner here no more !
Farewel, immortal denifon of Heaven !
We —re, Augufl 1794.
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RELIGION, a simile.
I'M often drawn to make-a stop,
And gaze upon a picture shop.
There have I seen (as who that tarries
Has not the fame ?) a head that varies,
And as in different views expos'd,
A different figure is difclos'd.
This way, the tool's head is expreft,
.Whose very countenance is ajeft; -
Such as were formerly at court,.
Kept to make wiser people sport.
Turn it another way, you'll have,)
A face ridiculously grave,>
Something betwixt the fool and knave.J
Again, but alter the position,
You're frighted with the apparition :
A hideous, threatning, gorgon head
Appears, enough to fright the dead.
But; place it'in its proper light,
A lovely face accosts the fight; ;
Our eyes are charm'd with every feature ;
" We own the whole a beauteous creature.
TbusTrue Religion fares. For when
By filly, or designing men,
In falfe or foolifh lights 'tis plac'd,
'Tis made a bugbear, or ajeft.
Here by a set of men 'tis thought
Alcheme,by politicians wrought
To strengthen and enforce the law,
And keep the vulgar more in awe:
And those, to Ihew sublimer parts,
Cast all religion from their hearts ,;
Brand all its votaries as the tools'
Os priests, and politicians' fools.
Some view it in another light,
Less wicked, but as foolifh quite :
And these are such as blindly place it,
In superstitions that disgrace it;
And think the essence of it lies
In ceremonious fooleries ;
In points of faith and speculation,
Which tend to nothing but vexation.
With these it is a heinous crime
To cough or fpitin sermon time ;
'Tis worse to whiffle on a Sunday,
Than cheat their neighbours on a Monday ;
To dine, without fi r ft faying grace, i$
Enough to lose in Heaven their places:
But goodness, honesty and virtue,/
Are what they've not the least regard to.
Others there are, and not a few;
Who place it in the bugbear view !
Thinkit consists in strange severities;
H faffmgs, weepings, and austerities. ; I
False notions, their weak minds poflefs,
, Os faith, and grace, and&olineG:^
? And as the Lord's of purer eyes ,
Than to behold iniquities; /0
They think, unless they're pure and spotless,
All their endeavours will be bootless,
And dreadful furies in ^ternuM^; %
In uncorifuming fires will burn 'em.
But, O how happy are the feW,
Who^^itin its popor vi^
To these it Chines divinely bright, • [1
Noclouds obscure its native light ;
Truth stamps convidion in the mind : )
All doubts and fears are left behind,>
And peace & joy at once >m entrance find.J
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N A TRUE STORY.
A BUTCHER, who had purchas
ed a calf, set with it on a horse
at a public house door; which a Shoe
maker, remarkable for his drollery,
observing, and knowing that the
butcher had to pass through a wood,
offered to the landlord to steal the calf,
provided he would treat him with a.
sixpenny-worth of grog. ' The land
lord agreed, and the Shoemaker set
off and dropt one new shoe in the
path bear the middle of the wood,
and another near a quarter of a mile
from it.,
The butcher saw the shoe, but did
not think it worth getting down for ;
however when he difeovered the sec
ond, he thought the pair would be an
acquifitioq, and accordingly difmounc
ed, tied his horse to the hedge and
walked back to where he saw the firft
shoe. The shoemaker, in the mean
time unstrapped the calf, and carried
it across the field to the landlord, who
put it in the barn. The butcher mif
fing his calf, went back to the inn and
told his misfortune, at the fame time
observing, that he must have another
calf, cost what it would, as the veal
was bespoke. The landlord told him
he had a calf in his barn, which he
would fell him—the butcher looked
at it, and asked the price. The land
lord replied, give me the feme as you
did for the calf you loft, as I think, it
irtfull as large. The'butcher would
by no means allow the calf to be so
good, but agreed to give within fix
fhillingi of what the other cost, and
accordingly put.the calf a second time
on hit horse. Ctifein, elated with&ta
success, undertook to steal the calf a-,
gain for anbtherfixpenDy-worth,which
being agreed on, he posted to the
woods and hid Himfelf ; where observ
ing the butcher come along, he bel
lowed so like a calf, that the butcher,
conceiving it to be the one he had
loft, cried out in a joy, " Ah I are you
there 1 have I found you at last I" and
immediately dismounted, and ran into
the woods. Crifpin, taking advan
tage of the butcher's absence, unftrap-'
ped the calf, and actually got back
with it to the tavern, before the butch
er arrived to tell his mournful tale,
who attributed the whole to witch
craft. The tavern-keeper unraveled
the whole mystery, and the butcher,
after paying for, and partaking of a
crown'i worth of punch, laughed hear
tily at the joke, and the Shoemaker
got applauded for his ingenuity.-
SOME time ago, a mountebank in
Paris had bills of a monstrous size,
posted up in every corner of the me
tropolis, setting forth, that on such a
day he would exhibit the black gen
tleman the DEVIL. Admittance an
petit ecus, half a crown each person.
Avast concourse of people, and es
pecially of ladies, flocked to fee the
diabolical exhibition. The Katterfelco,
made his appearance, in deep mourn
ing, on a high fcaffjld. After vari
ous profeffional grimaces, he pulled
out an empty pwfa and pointing co ir,
exclaimed, in a roaring tone, c'eft la le
diable, Messieurs /—there is the DE
VIL, gentiemen!
; A GENTLEMAN just married,
told Foote, that he had laid out
three thousand pounds, for his dear
wife, in Jewels, Faith, fays the wit,
you are no hypocrite ; lhe iijoxr dear
wife indeed.
§ AN Irishman was lately brought
before a justice, on a charge of hav
ing fix wives /—The magistrate ask
ed him, how he could be so hardened
a villain as to delude so many 2 —
, Please your wotfhip," fays Pat, 66 I
was only trying to get a good one."
A PERSON, strongly impressed
with the idea of the depravity of hu
man nature, on reading a late adver
•tifement for gwd men's shoes, ex
claimed, with a sigh—" Alas! he
did not know where the Ihoes of such
men. were to be procured—for we
read; that there is none good, save
one!
A PREACHER, losing his cause incourt,
and being called to preach before them the
following sabbath, from this passage of scrip
ture, on theje Commands bang all the law and tbs
prophets, he took for bis text these words—
HANG ALL THE LAW!
FROM these premises I draw this con
clusion, said a disputant— Daaw it you must,
replied his opponent, for 'tis very certain it
will never follow.
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FOR THE MIRAO UR.
FROM THE_WOODS.
Mifcellaueous Observations, and
Advice—communicated by w. D.
A Pious and good man once said that all
Religion consisted in two things—thus
exprefled by David, '' Trust in the Lord, and
dogood," —and thus express. dby Dr Yoyng,
'* An well, and leave the rest to Heaven."
CURIOUS was the miftakeof him, who,
for the word Ujuage, miffed every letter by
writing r^wweh..
TRULY beautiful are the lines, and very
applicable to many a fine girl, who, retired
and unfortunate, pines in solitude, pouring
out ' faint wishes to the cold fruitlefs moon,'
and finally withers an Old Maid,
" Full man, a gem of purtf ray jerene,
Tbs dark, unfat bomed caves of ocean bear ;
Fall man, a flower is born to blush unfan,
And wafts itsfweetnefs in the delert air." How
much happier the lot of Alexander's favorite,
thus described,
c fbe lovely Tbais b, bis fde.
Sat like a blooming eastern bride;
In flower of youth and beauteous pride:
Happy, happy, bap,y fair."
THE. flowers anew, returning seasons bring,
But faded beauty knows no second spring:
Hence, while,ou may, and when you can, Ofair,
Marry—avoid reproach, and fee despair.
LAWYERS seldom goto law.
PHYSICIANS seldom take physic.
ENTHUSIASM usually rages most in dog
days. '
AVOID contrading a habit of. attending
and being attached to Nothing. To do noth
ing, if one is faithful, is hard work, and sure
ly unprofitable work—therefore be always
doing Something.
A SUDDEN change is, not so well, even
from bad to good, and why ? Because 'twill
probably be of very short continuance.
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From the Georgia Gazette.
WELCH INDIANS.
PERHAPS your reader may relish
some new traqitienary accounts of
the Welch Indians, said to inhabit a
region of this country, between the
• Miffiflippi and the Pacific ocean. The
two following are at your service, the
authenticity of the firft may be quest
ionable, and the second seems to merit
some notice;^^^,
° In 1780, an old native of Walei
gave us the following oral tradition :
About 130 years ago, Captain Ow
en Montgomery, with a considerable
number of his country men fleeing from
religious persecutions, left Wales, in
several ships, failing-touch wardly. For
many years after, mo intelligence was
had in Europe of these adventurers.
At length a tomb-stone of rude work
man ship was found by some Spaniards,
near the Ifthmuft of Darien, with an
epitaph in language unknown. This
tomb-stone, or a copy of infeription,
was sent home to Spain. After due in
vestigation, it was found to be Welch:
"Here lies the body of Owen Mont
gomery."
To the above tradition may be sub-
joined the recent story of two Welch
boys, hunters in the weftero country,
as late as the year 1784:
Having crossed the Miffifippi, they
took the refolutioo of afeending the
Missouri. Penetrating far to the west
ward, they came to a tribe of Indians,
with whom they could hold conver
sation in a dialed of the Welch or
Old British language. Those people
had red hair, were of low stature,
swarthy complexion, and unacquaint
ed with the use of fire arms.— With
bows and arrows they were very ex
pert. They had some idea of a Sab
bath day ; they (hewed the remains
of an old Welch bible, which how
ever, none of their tribes pretended to
understand. They informed our trav
ellers that " about 100 years back,
their ancestors lived on Kentucky, to
which place they had emigrated from
a country in the fouth ; that veftigea
of their fettlemepts must still be trace
able on the eastern fide of the Missis
sippi ; that fueaffive tribes of black
haired people preffirg upon them from
the fifing of the fun, they were com
pelled to retire up the Miffifippi.
Ooe of the Welch boys remained
with them, the other returned to the
Virginia fettkments and related the
above particulars. He added, that on
faking his leave of them, they begged.,
him to life his inrereft with some more
of his countrymen to visit their nation,
that their young people might be
taught some of th^fe things which
they had heard by the two hunters
whohad happened to fall in with
them."
Here, I believe, the matter uki,
mately retted, as I have never heard
of more than one in the nation, nor
of him who returned. The . curious
may make their own use of these tra-'
dirionr. The old Welchman was a
live last April. The other informant,
who give, us the second tradition, wat
alive last June. The firft live^ 150,
and the other 400 miles b^ck in the
interior country, both men of com
mon underflandiog, of tolerable read
ing, and of acknowledged veracity.
They would neither of them vouch
for the truth of the Rories, but they
declared they related them faithfully
as they had heard them, the one in
Wales, and the other near the Hol-'
stein settlements of Virginia.
Dec. '93. A Natfee of Kanhawa,.
Good Stand for a Mechanic.
„TO BE'SOLD,
An excellent LOT of LAND,
SITUATED in Concord, Newhampfhire,
containing about ten acres, mostly under
improvement, with
A good House and Barn,
and a beautiful young Orchard, with a vari
ety of Fruit Trees; and a good Well of Wa
fer; lying on the east fide of Merrimac river,
on the road leading from Newburyport to
the northerly part of this State. Any person
may find good terms for payment, by apply
ing to the fubfcribet, in laid Concord.
NATHANIEL AMBROSE.
Concord; July 17, 1794. 95
K, N- LADb informs those who have
contracted to makeChoes for him, that the
leather therefor is ready for delivery-— They
are requeued to call for it immediately——•.
He withes to let out more Shoes to make, the
leather for which is ready for delivery.
Concord, August 1, 1794. 93ff'
Just published, and for sols at this Office,
The Life of JOSEPH, Son of I/raeL
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