The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1799-03-04 00:00:00, page 4

THE HfoUlrt,
SONG,
Crapfid frv & ho. the celebration of
Babington's Berth-Day,
Feb. 22d, at Portfawb. > ,
[7Q— RULE BRITANNIA.]
FROM Helicon's embow'ring (hades,
Defceod each muse, on rapture s
wings Q
Apollo, join th' umpiring maids, „
And sweep the loud-resounding firings!
While anfw'ring echoes hail the morn
That thou, Great Washington ! waft
born!
Thy martial deeds, all tongues employ,
From Georgia, to Hantenia't bounds,
And shouts of universal joy ,
Th' extended Continent resounds.
"This day (re echoing Ikies return)
" Illustrious Washington was born !
He leaves the sweet abodes of peace,
And mounts Bellona's iron car,
Enlur'd, by defy, focctfe.
He rules the thund ring tide of war .
'Till vafaqpiih'd veterans curie the morn
Victorious Washington was born.
His country freed, he fheatbes the sword,
Untainted by ambition's
And joy'd to fee her rights reftor d,
In fifent majesty retires.
His brows, eternal wreaths adorn.
This day, Great Walhingtou was born.
Our Glorious Constitution owes
To him its beauty, strength & grace,
Who with com patriot peers arose, „
And Freedom built on Law s
base.
Then hail the Patriot, by whose aid,
The glorious corner stone was laid .
The Fabric built, his Country claim'd
Her Great Defender for its bead,
He took the helm, with zeal inflam
While all the Statesman mone an
play'd:
Columbia's traitors curse the morn.
Their great Antagonist was born.
To Adams then he gave the helm,
Well fill'd the glorious bark to guide,
Rocks, (halves and storms he makes her
stem,
And proudly brave th' oppofingjide.
His brows with laurels then entwine.
And blend Great Wallington with thine.
But hark! his Country calls ! again
Behold the godlike Chief advance.
He grasps the sword ! refuses the plain !
To curb the arrogance of France.
Applauding millions hail the morn
Their Bulwark of defence was born .
While the warm blood bedews our veins
This annual tribute we will pay,
And famine, plagues, consume our plains
To France and pestilence a prey,
C If e'er our Sons forget the morn
When thou, Great Washington, waft
born. (
[an EXTRACT.]
gbe PRINTER.
A MONG the vtrioui employ
fl menti & occupations which
eagrofa the attention of mankind,
none, perhaps, it more difficult to
conduit to general approbation,
than Printing : Printing being an
art, which the ignorant will do
without, and the learned m, and
will on the slightest difference.—
The Printer, in attempting to than
the cocks of Scilla, will be in dan
ger of running on those of Charib
dit. He has the piffions of 111
who deign to patronize him, to
combat, and the leak difference
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
io feotiment, will break the brittle
thread. —If a vice is fatyrized,
some one take, it :o himfelf, and
imagines it is meant for him, and
(wears eternal enmity to the prin
ter, when nothing was more for
eign, and perhaps, he was wholly
ignorant of its special meaning.—
The (arcafmi of correfpoodenti are
fathered upon the printer. He hi,
political and religious prejudices to
encounter and please, and if he
falls fhorr, the tender tie is broken.
When no news is received of bloo
dy battles, conspiracies, intrigues,
burning, &c. the reader imagines
there is nothing worth paying his
money for, let the papers be filled
with whatever valuable communi
cations, they ma, ; and in short,
whatever is the order of the day,
and let the efforts of the printer
be what they may, a part of the
readers only will be pleased.
But many will become and con
tinue newfpsper customers, until
necessity obliges the printer to
(peak in the language of an hum
ble luppliant,
" The Printer wants bis pay."
" Moo Dieu !" exclaims the
delinquent customers, " if that is
the fruit of taking oewfpaeri, I will
soon rid theprioter of the necessity
of dunning ! I have been a con
stant customer these three years ;
was the firft to encourage the bufi
nefa, and because I have not paid
the trifling fom in which I am in
debted, must be thus publicly dun
ned !"—But this elate are not so
detrimental to the bufiaefi, as the
eat, delinquent, who cannot be
routed, till by the failure of the
printer, hit account is obliged to
be left with an attorney !—Thefe
are ferioui truths. For the further
cotfiderarion and improvement of
the delinquent, read the following
extract from "the Prompter."—
" Now then in order to baffle
temptations of (pending Shillings—
fettle your accounts often, pace a
,w at leaf-tot etherwife they
will (well into an unmanageable
size. Suppose four neighbours
take a new (paper, in partner (hip—
This makes the expense a trifle-
Very good—this is laudable—it is
economical. But Suppose you do
not pay thia trifle—How are the
printers and post-riders, and paper
makers to live? Look ye, my
friends—Connecticut river is a
large river— but this river is made
up of little fpringi that will run
through a gimblet ho&
"When you walk about your
fields, or traverse the woods, you
step over little brocki, and little
gurgling rills, and never think
you are flapping over Coonedicut
river.— But remember, if all these
little rills dry up, Conoedicut river
it gone, just so it is with the
Printers, the Merchants, and with
the State Tretfury. Every fl&
ling is a little rill—a final! Bream
that runs into the poft-rider',
pocket or the collector'i porfe,
a number of these little Breams,
thus united, make, a large stream,
like Farmington and Chickabee
rivers—these Breams empty into
the printing-office or treasury,
where they form Cdoneaicut riv-
" TO RAISE THE GENIUS, AND TO MEND THE HEART."
THE
er and keep the bufioefa going on.
Now follow nature— little rills run
perpetually. They murmur too,
but they raff, or the river dries
up—They never stop and (ay,
any other time will do as well."
[O "' Mirror's Cuflomm, who are
in arrear for last year's papers, (and many
delinquents there are) are dfred to read the
foregoing Essay, a,d confer its meaning
and application. We hope it n^ill not be to
them, as feed (owe by the ''ma, fide.'']•
DESCRIPTION of the TEA PLANT.
[Frew Maceartnej's Embaff, to China.]
IN an account of China, it would
be thought a culpable omiffioo
co Uy nothing on the fubjeft of
the tea plant. The following is
the fubftacce of fir G. Staunton's
information on this valuable exotic:
In China, wherever it is regularly
cultivated, it rifei from the feed
town in tows, at the distance of
about four feet from each other,
ia land kept free from weeds.
Its perpendicular growth is imped
ed, for the convenience of coher
ing its leaves, which is done firft
in (pring, and twice afterwards in
the course of the summer. Its
long and tender branches feting
up almost from the root, without
any intervening naked trunk. It
is bushy like arose tree, and the
expanded petala of the flower bear
some. resemblance to that of the
rose. The largest and eldest leaves,
which are the least esteemed, and
destined for the lower classes of the
people, are exposed to file with
little previous manipulation. The
young, leaves undergo no incon
siderable preparation before they
are delivered to the purchaser.—
Every leaf passes through the fin
gers of a female, who rollsit up
almost to the Form it had assumed
at its firft appearance. It is after
wards placed upon thin plates of
earthen ware or iron ; much thin
ner than can be executed by artists
out of China. It is confidently bid
that no plates of copper are ever
employed for that purpose.—
Scarcely any utensil in China is
made of that metil, the chief ap
plication of which is for coin.—
The earthen plates are placed over
a charcoal fire, which renders the
leaves dry and crisp.
The colour and aftripgency of green
tea is tho't to be derived from the early
period at which the leaves are plucked,
and which, like unripe fruit, are gener
ally green and acrid. The tea is packed
into large chests lined with very thin
plates of lead, arid preff^d down by, the
naked feet of Chinese labourers The
upper ranks in China are notwithstand
ing as food of tea a&the people are, and
particularly felicitous in their choice of
it. That of a good quality is dearer in
Pekin than in London. By the way,
this affection of Sir G. Staunton does not
seem very well to agree with the informa
tion derived from Bell's Journey ; where
we are told, that the price of the best tea
at Pfkin, either green or bohea, is half
an ounce of silver the Chinese pound ;
which i, equal to what it would be at two
shillings a pound in England. We are
hot however to conclude, from this in
consistency, that either of these travellers
has given an erroneous computation.
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the fflotalffi.
HEN winder frowneth
upon the earth, gloo
mfras the vale of death, cold
as the devotion of aihcifm,
severe as the rage of battle—
indu&y hath prepared her
habitation and laid up a ftorc
in the bounties of Providence.
Friendship there fmileth be
neath the roof of hofpirality.
Diligence rejoiceth in the
fruits of her labor : She
throws over herfelf the gay
mantle of cheerfulnefs ; and
the howling ofthe tempest
heightens the music of joy.
O man let the seasons inftrua
thee. In the gaiety, warmth
and maturity of life, learn to
improve thy time, and treas
ure up wisdom and virtue :—
Then (hall thine old age net
be dreary and wretched as
the winter of indolence ; but
it shall be amiably splendid
as the clearly setting fun of
summer : Thy past days
shall then look back upon
thee with the fmilc of friend
ship ; and the morning of
immoral felicity, dawning up
on thy foul, shall glorioully
irradiate the valley of death.
Time's wint'ry storms will then be over.
Sin cease to freeze the mind—
O may we reach that blifsful shore,
Where spring blooms unconfin'd.
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,Biographical Anecdote.
Rev. JOHN WESLEY,
Was a most fuccefsful and
energetic preacher of meth
odism; a man, whose intek
ligence or activity in his caL
ling, one is at a loss which
most to admire. He had ob
served that he had loft too
much time in sleep ; and by
this method of perseverance
regained for his ufeful and
honorable labors, many hours
which would have otherwise
been defined to idleness and
oblivion. “If any one, fays
this extraordinary man, in his
sermon on early rising, " de
sires exactly to know what
quantity of sleep his situation
may require, let him recur to
the experiment I made sixty
years ago. I generally went
to bed at nine o'clock in the
evening, and then waked ev
ery night about twelve or one,
and lay awake some time. I
readily concluded that this
arose from my laying in bed
longer than nature required.
To be fatisfied, I procured an
alarm, which waked me the
next morning at leven, near
an hour earlier than I rose
before ; yet I lay awake a
gain at night. The third
morning I arose at five, but
nevertheless I lay awake.
The 4th morning I arose at
4, (as by the grace of God I
have done ever since,) and I
lay awake no more ; and I do
not now lay awake (taking the
year round) a quarter of an
hourin a month."