The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-03-24 00:00:00, page 4

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, SEAT OF THE MUSES.
p .,4 r TIME -an ODE. ;
Written among the ruins of an old Abbey.
TIME conquers all !— I heardthefound
Echoing through yon mould'ring tow'r ;
Where jculptur'd ruins load the ground,
And ivy jorms a solitary bow'r :
Where midnight owls retreat.
And felf difreffing melancholy reigns ;/
Save -when tumultuous ravens meet.
And fierce the gloomy round with Jhrill untune
ful flrains.
Hark ! once more, the found I bear,,
Sorrow's accents flow the fame ;
All is hush'd, and Fancy's ear
Lift'ning, turns to whence it came.
'Tis foe !—tbe threadbare gatment flies
In tatters to the gale:
Her wafting cheeks and hallow eyes
Give awful fanaion to the Muje's tale.
,'Tis fa? 'tis drooping Art,,
That fees her monuments and trophies fall
Before the touch of Time's keen dart ;
While flow decay consumes, and gently saps
through all.
See ! beneath yon crumbling bust
On her trembling band foe leans ;
Wrapp'd in monumental dust.
Not a perfea line remains.
Time conquers all ! The young, the gay,
The valient, and the old,
Mus ()pite of Hope's alluring ray)
This truth adore, and be, what they behold.
The Wreathing done /ball feel•
A tyrant ruin on its firudure prey ;
And fading colour must reveal
That Paiuting is, at best, a momentary day.
View my lov'd Palmyra, J pread •
Crumbling o'er the barren foil !
Whither are its beauties fled?"
What avail'd the mighty toil ?
Embalm d beneath, on pile is laid
Triumphant Folly's Jon ;
&v'r, glorious feat's display'd
His warring chiefs' bis joldiers' and bis own.
The pyramid may tell
The crimson horrors of infenjate war ;
How must rtfeaion pitying dwell,
Tofind thope Junk in dufa who rode on vift'ry's
"car!
E'en for Heaven's eternal year,
When we leave this earthly round,
IChat's the tale that's whifper'd here ?
pierQf^cqlloutfrQWidJL-— 1
Time conquers all — Creation feels,
And'trembles as he treads ;
The traitor here in ambujb Jleals,
There waves bis feytbe, and def olation Spreads.
E'en pref and clojely bound,
Shorn of bis wings, the god of rapture lies ;
No more bis fhafts can wound,
His lightnings languish and his magic dies.
Passion, from the wrinkled brow,
Stek'ning, turns his fated e,e ;
Puljes ceaje to throb and glow;
Breads to heave, and hearts dofigh.
The fun exhaufed in bis orb,
Thenars fall melt away,
Exulting Time the whole absorb,
And quench expiring day.
Os d'arknefs pow'r supreme,
Outliving light, the Jhapelefs void be jways ;
While nature's parting beam
Shoots o'er the dreary wafe, and in its glcom
decays.
O'er the general chaos spread
All that's human gone andfaft;
Still he lifts bis hoary head,
Os creation ff and las !
YeG Time bimfelf—from beav'n I bear
The sacred truth descend,
With all bis Spoils fball disappear,
Add in Eternity the triumph end.
From his grajp behold
Relinqufb'd Love bis quivering plume display !
Neko born, and uncontroul'd
By earthy Bright, be boars, and floats in endleft
day. r
Struggling dill, and fill undone !
In the wreck and wafle cfthings,
See him burl'd from Nature's throne,
TIME,!he vanquish'd king of kings !
;HILARITY. 1
THE whimsical and immortal au
thor of Triftram Shandy, was
married to Mrs. Sterne on a Saturday
morning. His parifhoneri had time
ly information of this circumstance,
and knowing he would preach the
next morning at his parish church,
and desirous at the fame time of fee
ing the bride, they assembled in foch
crouds that the church was full before
the bell had done tolling. The bride
as was expected, made her appearance,
and the country folks indulged them-
feva with the usual observations un
til Sterne mounted [he pulpir. Here
every eye was direaed to him, )aod
ever, ear ready to catch the words of
his text, which turned out to their
aftoniihment, to be the following :-=
We have toiled all night, end ^^
caught Boffo. The congregation loom
ed at each other ; fume smiled, oth,
era flopped their mouths with
handkerchiefs to prevent them M
laughing, while the old folks wofl
very serious faces, and thought the
humorist a very odd fort of a man for
a pulpit lecturer. However, they at
tended to his difeourfe which turned
out, as usual, very inftruftive, and all
went home highly diverted with the
text, except poor Mrs. Sterne, who
blulhed downio her finger's ends ev
ery step of the way to her house.
A FARMER on his death bc^,
advised his wife to marry his man
John. Dear husband, fays (he, it has
been agreed upon long since.
COLONEL Tarleton, who spake
lightly of Colonel Washington, said,
"be wifoed to fee bis face," " 'Tis
a pity then," replied a young lady,
" that you did not wheel about at the
defeat of Cowpens."
OnENVY.
OF all the things that are permitted
to torment mankind, there is not one
which possesses such extensive powers
as that of Envy : every petfon pro
feffes to despise its influence, and yet
too many feel the force of its malig
nance : the favourites of fortune are
the constant objects of its pursuit; the
prosperity and happiness of a contem
porary feeds its venom and gives
scope to its poison ; it pines and sick
ens at the success of a rival, and tho'
generally disappointed in all its proj
ects, it thrives and feemi to acquire
pew vigour from, the chfegri&z^fa
quent upon defeat to its withes ana
defirei : Its best offices are detradion
and revenge—lts objefy of calumny
are merit in every grade of light :—
abilities and delete attrad its reproach
es and contempt, and when success at
tends a virtuous enterprise, when mer
itorious characters are promoted, this
demon always assigns some base and
deteftible cause for the triumph.
Envy is a most industrious little
Devil ; it not only assails those in ex
alted stations, but defeends to the mi
nutia of life ; it assumes the charager
of umpire in every case that comes
within its knowledge, and Applying
the deficiency of caste and judgment
by a brazen front, it condemns with
confidence what it does not compre,
bend, or what may contravene its own
preconceived ideas. Thus it perpec"
ually torments the bosom where it re?
(idea and mars the happiness of all
that falls in its way#— But the wife
and virtuous, while they avoid the
society of envious fnarlers, confeious
of the rectitude of their own he@,
are borne along through life, superior
to their chagrin, their malice or their
calumny.
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HOPE thTIAmF of LIFE.
IF I should judge of that part of life
which lies before me, by that which I
have already seen, the profpea is hid
eous. Experience tells me, thaHny
past enjoyments have brought no real
felicity, and sensation assures me that
those which are yet to come will bring
none. Yet experience and fenfatW
in vain perfoade ; HOPE, more pow
erful than either, dresses out the dis
tant prospect in long perspective; fffil
beckons me to pursue; and like a
losing gamester, every new disap
pointment increases my ardour to con
tinue the game.
The following is jaid to be the Dream of a young
man in Philadelphia ftn the year 1757,' and
,that it was again refeatedio him eleven years
afterwards. The copy of it has been mere than
, ofcven years in the peffeffon of a gentleman in
Newyork, who obtained it from bis friend in
Philadelphia.
PROPHETIC DREAM RESPECTING
i, PHILADELPHIA.
I DREAMT 1 was going through
Philadelphia, and had arrived in
^ Chefnut-ftreet, near the State House,
when the fun was letting : and one
who bore the appearance of a man in
bright eloathing, having iviogs at his
shoulders beckoned me to come to
him ; so when I came forward, he said
to me " Come, I will shew thee the
calamities which will befall the people
of Philadelphia." And he flood up
about the third round of a ladder raid
ed against the State House, and he
took hold of me, and said, “ Ascend
- with me, for I must shew thee their
calamitous situation from the tops of
the houses." —My mind suggested the
difficulties which would attend it, and
I exclaimed, " Oh! how (hall we
walk together in such a place ?" He
replied calmly, “ Abide by me, and
there will be no danger,"
The datknefs of night now faft ap
proaches, and I mounted, in fear, to
the top of the ladder, where, when I
arrived, I saw the ridges of the house,
levelled before us, so that we could
walk easily. " Look around over
this great city," said he, holding me
faft. And I looked and saw a multi
tude of black waggons, following in a
train, each drawn by four black hors
es, and attended by two men in
mourning, having black caps on their
heads, and lighted torches in their
hands ; each carriage had a driver,
and was laden with dead bodies of the
human species of both sexes, heaped
confufedly upon them.
The shrieks of men, women, and
children were, in my ears, terrible be
tfbjond expreffion;and t alked - my
"guide the reason thereof. He answer
ed, " Let us walk farther, and 1 will
shew thee the meaning thereof, pres
ently." So we walked along on the
tops of the houses, until we came to
Front-Street. " Look down, now,"
said my guide. And I looked, and
reckoned about 75 waggons, with
black horses, &c. attended as before,
going up the streets. Although the
night was datk, their poficion, and
actions were plainly difceroible by the
light of the torches which the mourn
ers carried in their hands. In the
midst of the 75 waggons I saw one
drawn by eight horses, moving regu
larly with the rest, though without a
driver ; and, in the midst of it I saw
some thing resembling a tun, with the
head out, and a black column of
smoke issuing from it, so thick and
dark, that it put me in mind of the
darkness of Egypt, which it is said
might be felt.
And as it proceeded, men, women,
and children, fled with terrour, on all
sides, in order to escape it, and were
seen hurrying through the Greets, and
retiring into their houses, (hotting
their doors and windows : And the
cries of terrour and lamentations of
despair, were,' if possible ten times
more dismal and piercing in my ears
than before ; so much so, that the
found thereof cannot be easily forgot
ten by me. Turning to my guide, 1
enquired of him an explanation of
what I saw. '' I will tell thee, said
he ; " the black carriage which is
drawn by eight horses, contains the
plague, or pestilence, with which the
people of this great city are afflided.
Come, I will now shew thee their
places of interment."
So we proceeded up the street, un
til we had arrived at what some call
Christ's Church burying ground, and
looking down, I saw great p::s, like
those dug for the foundations of hous
es ; and I saw many of the waggons
unloaded bythe mourners And drivers
with pitchforks, arid both texes thrown
promiscuously into them.
My guide fh^wed me the fame in
other burying placet, but I do not re
member to what feds they belonged.
1 enquired concerning the ^offerings of
the Friends and how it would go with
them ? And he shewed me another
place of interment. But as this part
of my dream did not appear to me as
plain as the former, I do not recoiled:
whether it was the Friends burying
ground, or not, though I remember
the bodies were here put into graves
infte^d of pi^.,
“ Now," said my guide, I have
(hewed thee all ; 1 will condud thee
to the place from whence f brought
thee." Sb taking me back tp theffi
ladder, he helped me down to thethirdm
round, and bade me look forward, andl
Llooked and Jaw the fk, clCTtnd fe-1
rene, and the fun rising in fuH lpftre,fl
and he cried, " Return to the coun-U
try !"I
So I awoke, methought with then
dismal wailings of the people, in myl
ears.l
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'WAR DEPARTMENT. 'I
January 301 b 1794..
INFORMATION is hereby given
to all the military invalids of the
United States, that the sums to which
they are entitled for fix months of their
annual peofion, from the fourth day
of September 1793 and which will
become due on the sth day of March
1794, will be paid on the (aid day b,f
the Commiffiooers of the Loans with
in the fta© refpeaivelß under the
ufoal regulations.
Applications of executors and ad
ministrators must be accompanied with
I!s^%£4^^^
es, and a|fo of the time the invalids
die! whose penfipn they may claim.
By command cf the President of the
United States. H- KNOX,
Secretary of War.
^ The printers in the refyeAive states are
requested to publifli the above in their news
papers for the fpace.of-two months.
January 30. 7 0
Newbtfon Proprietors Meeting,
WHEREAS I have received
adefire from more than one fifteenth
part of the proprietors of Newbofton, in the
state of Newharnffiire, to call a proprietors
meeting, to be holden at the house of Capt.
John M'Laughlen, on Tuesday, April zzd,
1794, at one o'clock, A. M.—The said pro
prietors are hereby notified to meet at time
and place afoiefaid, to a& on the following
articles, viz. ,#, To choose a moderator for
said meeting.) 2d. To confirm by votefome
matters that were left unaufhenticated at the
last meeting, gdly. To tranfa& any other
business that may be thought necessary when
met.,
JAMES CALDWELL, Prop. Clerk.
Newbofton, March 10,1794. 73
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Note 0/ Hand.
AJOTICE is hereby given to
1. ▼ the public, that I have paid a certain
inote of hanty signed by me, for go pairs of
shoes, payable,to Caleb Stevens, or his order,
and have said Stevens's receipt for the fame.
This is therefore to warn all persons ^gainft
purchasing said note, as I shall notpay it a
second time. Said note is ffie^gj&ff 4% .
at Loudon. ri^'
WILLIAM MOULTON.
Loudon, March 6, 1794. 75
b_ ^ ‘irm,i^^
TO BE SOLD,
By the Subscriber, in Concord,
about one hundred
Salted dr, Hides,
if application be made immediately to
NATHANIEL LADD,
Concord, Feb. 27th, 1794. 7 1
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