The Federal mirror — Concord, N.H., 1796-10-04 00:00:00, page 2

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^d it fort of a kind reception from
bWty|, i° petticoat!.
'Yonder it another fort of animal;
whole befitting gate tod confuted
appearance evince be bad rather be
cuffed with thou wind and the gout,
than spend fix fecond# io a bevy of
female#. You observe he is flapping
hit forehead with hi# right hand, a# if
he wo racking invention for fad//
tec But ata !—that diflorted phiz
too plainly declare# bi# labor is of
hone effect ; yet not willing to give
over bi# good wishes in their behalf
moves on contemplating the when &
tap most proper for introducing
himfelf and observation#—till, in a
phrerzv of (peculation, be bounce! g
gainft feme one of the company#
which entirely difconcettt him lot the
evening, and he b glad to escape
with—" good night ladies."
This man we mould pity from our
fouls—and charity, the loveliest ofc
virtues, should be fweerly dealt out
towards him. Such ii the texture &
habit of many minds, that the, can
but poorly join the apostle in being
ill thing# to all men. Much less for
tunate ate they in reducing the mat
ter of their thought# to the medley of
remarks, which form the currency of
mixed company.
Far be it from us to with the fore
going spirit should be wafted on rhufe
Daggering boobies, who ftroli a
mong foci&l parties, a# a country lout
over beautiful field# of Yoweri With
what confurnace impudence they en
ter —ten to one,but they forget bow
ing to the lady of the hcufe § but fl p
her on the fliouder—kik ov^ her
teatray and scald her puppv. Ii the
evening is far Ipeot, the frft thing,
which fixes their notice it the side
board, where having filled themfetves,
they retire to fom? armchair, or win
dow feat—and whiftie in praise of
Bacchus.
BERI HESDIN.
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th £ SHAKERS.
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Frmth WESTERNER.
ANOTHER sovereign Pontiff of the
Stahrs, Joseph Mbechum by name,
his very lately disproved the former opinion
of their immortality, by a pretty sudden de
cease, in the meridian of his years. He
was a man of penetration and sensibility,&
some think that the melancholy decline
which terminated his career, was npralit
tie owing rd the alarming defection of his
followers', which ever; art and effort doeshot
Check.
/Their consequent arrangements on his ;
death are as yet unknown, though i< is not
doubted but Hrar, Cfeb will succeed hQ
who, beingin many refers of a very differ-'
entcharaQer, mfr regulari^s ire expe&ed, *
:and the more so as their form, and regula
tions from the fitft have varied in an aimed
continual progruffian, too intricate' arid un
interring to trace in full his now some
timelfo their dances, their music, and fy
they term if,) their whole ~/,,, have been
greatly altered. At their main feat, in
New Lebanon, that people are at preterit dil
^%^%^
r, left (who are embodied in their tillage,
W, their officers, are riSualfat from a
common flock, and are ,«ftrdfr
iri2'troops,) there is * lecond division, who. '
i'll*'
Chirth, have net embodied themfetehwith
:;'todlf on their owri faft m : the!ntyfe^
hood, and ire tributes „s the Church
P^Vgiined the more,
trfem T Andtnis oroer agxin luociivideo in*
utaries, living alt out qftpe yil^teff^h
?^hd''N^ Hampshire dates, their ^gdufa^
ty^^e,^ jaG dumbed; 'to^ them the
■and woman's rank are
by the length & fine
nd 1 have particularly
from the fsort
for theteelegilifefs,.
ind inoffensive behav-
Their Hall of Worlhip, (which fa the low
er floor of their church) is very little of it
occupied by 44, but the mast Ignorable
families of the tributary order, who there
assemble for worship on Sundays ;&^ the^
neighbour, hareacceG to their wo ihip, I
have lately attended it, and will briefly tfe
fcribe it.
The different families, &c,are, each dis.
linaiy marched m the. moiling tromtheir
different quarters, in two camped files, the
men forrmoft, with two in the long blue
coats, as file leaders, and the women at their
heels, with leaders of their own sex. ^fon
they arrive in the road opposite the Church,
the women fieeff to enter at their own gate
and door, and ^thl men march on and enter
ai fhehV
r Along the back fide of the fl >or is a bench
or feat, tor the IcMimof the two fexestofa
gm, each at their proper end. The bench
bppofite fl middle post, is the placed the
rhiet EHer, when he deigns, f metim^s, for
a few minutes during the worship of this in
4e!io£crdcr, to figjt., On his left handis
the women's place, a, on ,his right &
meh's; and tw&fea&re of the mtn who
commonly prefix and speak; generally eg.
^upy ttetwo lie# places ot the bench @ 1
; .t|g fight. /IB men, when 4hey enqte,|
firm on that fie of tac fljor obliqutly mi
franksund sites, an 1 tewomem in like man
ner do the tetr; in # such% manner as that the
j flirt between the @nand women unoccu.
I pied, forms nearly a jight angled triangle.
The fillers on the bench being in the red.
angufar poiht, which 1,.a lit,le opened to
iff &m room^ {The men & women stand
',opeir rank,, partly fronting each other,
during the lervices 'arid the intermission, ex
cepririg that now and then one of them
change place with feme who fit near the ends
of the bench. ,
On the front fide the fpeSators are oblig
ingly seated, the two fetes apart, arid thus
they partly front both the ranks of men and
women and also the rulers.
WW they h,ve ttiut silently, waited tW
all have assembled, and a little longer, those
who are seated rife, and the singing begins,
I fed by the fi ft manin the frontrank. Thi
voice is modulated much as in the old mode
of figging in our Low Dutch actings, with
<hts dff repce, tl^Qio word, is expressed in
whole or in part, excepting O! by the lead
ef; and that in aver, unequal and irfeglfi
lar manner ; the leader deals cut the founds
in threes; which seems like three b^a^ina
bar This figging lasts perhaps eight or ten
minutes, and is followeirty an address from
the Sp&&r of perhaps about the fame
length of time ; then apgufe of intermidion
enluQ of Perhaps fifteen % twenty minutes,
iafter whi^h 'the fi ging is repeated, and i,
nether speech delivered. Soon after this,
the men and the women, each at their prop,
er end of th^ flor, form in a square body,
r^nk and file, all facing the bench, which
/I, now left by the rulers, and occupied by a
few fingers, who soon begin a tune a little
;more lively than the former, arid the crowd
belli, to faly shove each person one foot at
ayme, and to face as soldiers do when re
treating f but every tune they turn, they
bowfor rather crouch in a very ex raordi
nary and particular manner, lending the
body to an almost horizontal posture, the
hack a little curved, the knees bowing for
ward, ttie : hands sprawling forward & down
warf and the posterior part of each pro
jecting so as tg nearly approach the face of
the . „;°,- T , continues a fcw min.,
utes,and the worship ends ; though fume
times a third service is performed the fame
day ; the people standing the whole tim&
^ meeting, never 4ifmi£fed from the.
rank, nil they,are again marched off. ,
r I vety lately attended their meeting ; their
,prindpal S,Q,„a,te#&bee x pa.
tiated on the privileges of that oeoole above
othersqnd asserted fyfyalone had th,
power ts God and way of Salvation • that
were totally°c'or'ru^a ohhe: r ^
ofGodL as fotete beaftty and as the
Monks and Nuns of the east • that ftnuld
Q^lc!^^&
I in the prophesies, &c 'the labor would be
Il(4tv for want of capacity in the world to
I underhand foiritual @w thro' their so
fr^fr^^^
, that thufc gentlemen, (foroe of them ofrank,
figure and accomplishment) came from their
distant homes with reverence, seeking in
formation from the fountain of wisdom,
ratherthanout of curiofy to remark on the
NroLebfo, ^^13,1796.
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: Frem TtouA Massachusetts SPY.
The NEIGHBOR.
TT ituoiverfill, acknowledged that,
a# men ye capable of improve
menti, they mould be continual!,
Disking them. These improvement#
to, be cohered „,Q civil,
moral, and religious. Civil improve-^
meat# comprehend an acquaintance
with mattera of civil nature so far at
ib oeefffary to regulate our conduit
and concerns as member# of civil so
ciety. Moral improvement, refpea
moral dutif#, which we Should en
deavor to know more fully, and to
pradice more universally; and Read
ily. Religious improvements consist
in a growing acquaintance with the
diviie charter and command#, and
in a growing concern and fatiafaaion
iri being conformed to the one, and
bobeying the other., All these im
p^ovemdmtt, or richer improvements
io ill these branchia, are both ultfu
and ornamental, in proportion to the
abitilies men poffefa the flation# they
fill; and the part# they have to aft in
the social drag# Th© gr the
improvement# m,n tyU the more
ufeful they may be, and the more
happinefe they may ? be instrumental.
of procuring both to themfeira and
other#. In i comparative view of
these teveral improvement#, those of
the moral and religion# cUffe# are of
the bigheft importance, coafideriog
our relation to one another, and to
Him who made, who uphold# and
govern# ui, and co Him who came to
redeem and save us. Morality & re
ligion embrace the noblest objecti a
bout which the iffl aioni and the
faculties of men can be employed. In
a particular: acquaintance with these,
confide the highest perfeaion, & the
gre&eft happinef# of men. P'fb be
deficiebt in morality and religion i#
the most dangerous and disgraceful
deficiency ; it ii a degradation of
charader, and a diminution, if not a
deftru&ion of hsppinefi. It may
therefore be recommended to all, ef
pecitlly to the youth, who are in the
age of improvement, that they'd Ru
dy to be ufetul, to be virtuous chem
felvei, and to promote the virtue and
hippinefi of other#, to the extent of
their power.,
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Army of the Rhine & Moselle.
,^ ^ f^^^,Li Jilt .
Moreau, Qfe&@ ta Chief;to fa Emc^
. ^, - '',&fa^Pirs%,b^ '^
!;, Head Quarters, Oberkirch July 3.
“ Citizen P,^E£TO,S,
" nN'he id iaft. we pushed a re-
Ucoamoitering party cp(heppi,
of Babrac. Tfc,cmfroccupted it
„ well it the pofitioo of Koubti, at
the back of the black mountain—
All the off^ P!,> o f 'he UQ
were driven into the camo.
1,, comm ^fo^ of &
looti&mibn@de, charged b, 156
„i_, who called out to foo
Broder, and Cff, Fra I<R% and
they would do them no harm, replied
by a well directed fire, which killed
The grenadier# would have injured'
bi^ checked^ —
the chi&urt to Cfrrp^u ft
The define of Renrtai,,«hich
to penetrate, was lull of enem^^U
trotfo, #nd of aim^peafants, whom, ™
however, he soon diverted. He found
the eoemy ip great force upon the?<
mountain of Koubig, the highest of
the Black Mountain#.;&did not beg
itare to attack them in spite of the
obftaclei which the ground prefenced,
and without a«ilter,„ Qie road# did
not permit him to have any:
" After hiving driven them from
the mountain, where they had made
the most obftina/te tefiftance, there re--
mained to be carried a iter, fttong re
doubt which the enemy had built up-^
on the fommit, with a casement sur
rounded by a ditch. ~
" The courage and impert)ofy,f'
the French could alone overcome ffich
an obstacle. Gen. Ltr'ofy,^
tirft to jump into the ditch, and n<X- •
withstanding the terrible fie of those
who defended the redaplx, and the
grenades which they threw into ißte
ditch, he fca!ed the walk, at the head^
; of the &ive chiffeurg whom he com
manded. ' /
66 The lofscf the enemy wai con
fiderible ; the field of battle wai cov
eed uih dead bodici. Four hyodred
prisoners were t&n, two pieces of
cannon, and tw,p p*ir of colour#.
" The Prince cf Warted berg
commanded in pqfop, and, before
the affair, harangued bit troops, hop
ir $ he hid, that they would defend
the redoubt better than they had done
at K 4ll. Hedtb and refra.
(Sig ed) “ MOREAU.”
Paris, JULY 10.
The Journal of Paris announce!
that the emigrants, competing the ar-^
m, of Conde, are surrounded by the
army of General Moreau. We have
al yet tie' details on this fubfe&
The pretender is at Hertolzeim..
We are iffuf&that (ft troops
which we have ar preterit in Italy, a
mount to 66,000 men, and thatW ,
onaparte wants to torch with his ar
my to Vienna, not by Tyrol, bur
through the Venetian flitet, ictofe
which, the route is more e'aly, and
shorer. Buonaparte tepefy all the
prodigies of entbufi^Cm and boldnefe
from an army to freqgently viaoriourt
He dreads only a too long inaaivity,
and the heat of the dog days.
We may publish now, without dan
ger, adeven with pride, that when
Buonaparte entered Italy, he had of
cavalry, but from 7 to 800 bad hors
,% and 18 artillery hot fa that drew
two pieces of cannon, The remain
der of the artillery were drawn b,
men. Now he has a brilliant cavalry
composed of at least 15,000 horfet
for dragoon# and artillery. V/
It it Rated for certain; that the
French troop# under the order trf Ge*
Maff^a, in Italy, have bty the
Austrians on the Ala, at five league,
from Roverdo, and hart obliged
them to retire behind the town of
ITrent. 3}:^/^€^/
The Empreft of Ruffi. it offering
^^^ .°^
attack with .W.?^'^
' The Prince I Wurtemberg b laid
Frrtfoer/todfo
Army against the Chouans.^^