The Federal mirror — Concord, N.H., 1795-10-16 00:00:00, page 4

THE PARNASSIAN FIELD.
THE HAPPY BACHELOR.
How th, is th Bachelor's life,
Who con,anti, lives ctt bis safe ;
Never plagu'd by a proud folding wife,
. , And ndjquailing children to teem.
Heater' act thefrewus ^f the fair,, §
He Jcorns the coquette with her art;
For toe never fell to bis Jbare,
Its pains never tortured bis heart,
But wedlock, O where are thy joys ?•
That man has perceived in tb, date,
Ajetae of vexation and noise,
Which thousands have reason to hate.
Tome, bow detefled the cries
ty children round,-a,ing far bread;
''Till / fee the poor man advertye,
64 That bis wife has elop'dfrom bis bed."
Yet fall's' ma " ma , I""' "J''
If be has but a grain ej content ;
Though once if be weds to a Miss,
He will,nd it too late to repent.
Infriendship, and freedom, and eaje.
The Bachelor's life rolls away;
For friendfei, and freedom can pleaje,
When beauty is gone to decay.
Yim Crufty may tell of bis pain,
“ That bis years all unhappily roll;
That fagle be lives but in vain,"
1 despise bis complaint from my Jeul.
"Poor Crufy has whin'd for a bride,
His breeches and flockings to mend;
Wbeh bis wants might as well be Supply'd,
If be, bad best a maid or a friend.
But the wrrteb who has nevir afriend,
- „ Shield jure never marry a maid;
For thus would their wretebednefs blend,
And their griefs be by Jorrow repaid.
Tea, children to add to the gloom,
For mark what feme clergymen toll;
The infants receive tbsir Jaa doom
When they die, to the dungeon of bell.
Avaunt fawflitious Divine,
If infants to miser, go,
Zou ne'er fall have children of fline.
To fateace to regions, of woe.
Iftoad is accural from bis birth,
Add you /caretgive him marines of,eace;
-Better fend forth a (word on the earth.
And bid population to cease.
— Totem^y no children he born, _<
Difrefs and misfortune to /bare ;
But let me relieve the forlorn,
And banife tbefabif despair.
The children ufforrow 1 cheer,
The beggar is often m, £"',;
Tbey Jmih aad suppress every tear,
Their gratitude fastens my ref.
'Tis tbuf I difpofeqf my wealth —
My bouje is an innfer the poor™;
Hive in contentment and health,
lam happy, I wife for no more.
While I live, I will cberijb content;
-And love the old Bachelor's life ;
So never I'd need to repent,>
Nor wife Betty Wrinkle m, wife.-
"EPITAPH on Judge Boat, who died in 1,23,
by Dean Swift.
UERE lies ffudge Boat within 4 cefr,
Pray, gentle-folks, forbear your Jetting;
A boat a judge,yes, where's the blunder;
Aswoodenjudge is rio fueb wonder ';
And in bis robes you toft agree,
„No boat was better deck'd than be*;
'Tis needhjs to describe him fuller,
In fart be was an able faller.
~mHUMORIST
A Qtintry citizen was lately bfleed
A by one of our violent declaimin'
against the Treaty, what hit opiniq
of that instrument was ? The other
replied, that he had no opinion on the{
^ubjed ; and being asked why he
had not, he answered, " that the Ja-
Robins of America would not permit
General WASHINGTON fa toe
an opinion of it ; and until the father
of bis countty was allowed one, be could
never pretend to an,." This answer
ftcuck like a thunder bolt ; and had
its proper effea.
f >A COUNTRYMAN fading the
Bible to his wife, where it stated that?
Solomon had three hundredtoerand :
(even hundred concubines, the good
woman, in a tone of furprize, said the
fa fare he did not read it right, and
\
infixed upon looking at the pafy|
kerfelf ; when having conn'd it okr
two or three timet, ^nd fafc6ed that
it was so, the looked up in hb face,
and chucking him under the chin,
exclaimed, " Eb! what a fa,te Solo
won wonldft thou make I'! A.-
REPARTEE.
ONE of those wretches, who, Hav
ing overcome every principle of hoo
efty, affected likewise to disregard the
feelings of nature, was condemned to
be hanged. When under the gal
lows, he uttered very prophane and
profligate bravadoes ; and at last, as
the moment of execution arrived, he
boldly asked the hangman, " if be
bad an, commands for tie other world."
Ketch, tying the noose, very delibe
rately replied, " Yes a, friend-4 will
trouble ,on with a line.".
—- : : —►—C—OQte'
Mifcellan,.
T „ HONORABLE BANKRUPT.
A Gentleman engaged in the mer
cantile line, h@d followed busi
ness with various fuefefs; his integ
rity, his efforts, and Wit abilities, were
unquestionable, and/ for "many years
they enabled %im to make head, a
gainst a tide of misfortunes, which
would have overwhelmed a common
capacity ; but hit creditors themselves,
well convinced of the propriety and
frugality of his arrangements, readily
contributed the means, which his con
tinued losses only, converted into an
accumulation of his arrears. Weary,
at length, of a warfare Which fate
seemed to render so unequal, he sum
moned all those to whom he flood
indebted, and forcing upon them, ac
cording to the amount of their de
mands, an exaa proportion of the in
terest which remained with him ; and
thus voluntarily divesting himfelf of
every Filling of property, he founds
to his great regret, that it was only;
adequate to the difeharging of e very/
small part of his arrears § he received,/
however, from hit approbating credi
tors, receipts in full ; and, thus exon
erated, in the estimation of the law,
he very soon made up his mind, rela
tive to his future definition ; a gen
erous friend fopplied him with a small
turn, by the means of which he em-,
barked on a foreign voyages pros
perous gales soon wafted him to hit
desired port, and he preferred him
felf with such credentials as he merit
ed. Shakespeare fays, theie is a tidel
in men's affairs ; he had embraced
the favorable moment of opportunity,
every thing that he undertook was
prosperous, all his tranfaaioos were
marked, and crowned by success, and
a few years saw himfelf master of a
very haadfome property, he kept
no correspondence with his friends
during what he termed his period of
exile, but he no sooner grasped that
independence, after which his noble
spirit had so long and so ardently sigh
ed, than he departed in a fhrp of hi#
own, richly freighted, full speed for
his native country. Information of
hit return was conveyed to his credi
tors through the medium of a card,
soliciting their presence at a public
house, to partake of an entertainment
which he had Ordered for them. His
: creditors remembered him asan un
forceiwe, but an honest man, whose
arrival they flhould gladly welcome
over a cheerful glass, and they obey
ed with avidity his summons. The
firft compliment was marked by mu
tual exprtffioni of latishaion, and
from the lips of the welcome claim
ants, the warmest gratulations seemed
spontaneously to tffue, A superb din
ner was served up with much elegance,
I find the cover, being removed, the
bottle was briskly pushed about ; but
who can expreft their aftonilhment,
when in the midst of their hi-arity,
every man wo preferred with the full
fam which be had so lormerlf relin
quished, together with every Shilling
of interest, which would have been
legally due, had they received prom
issory notei from him, inftea&of grant
ing him the releases which they had
so voluntarily given 1 A generoui
contention immediately ensued, but
our merchant convincing hit friends
of hit ability, they finally yielded to
hit remdnftrancea ; a monument of
their admiration, and their gratitude,
they were, however, determined tp
exhibit, and they Solicited, and ob
tained permission of the government,
to erea in a public stand, a migoifi
cent obelisk, the facet of which were
iofcribed with the name of the up
right debtor, and with a circumflan
tial account of the whole tranfadion.
How much more honorary it a virtu
ous fame, than the puff ffion of houses
or of landi. The law was not made
for the votaries of integrity, their own
feelings are Efficient to them as a rule
of adion, and Justice, unerring ,#/-
lice, it the great Standard of vneir
lives.
From the ORACLE of the DAK
MR. PEIRCE,
I'M for peace with all the feorld.—T don't
like quarrelling, not I.—My neighbour
Short, fays he won't buy of any man that Jignod
the Paper. —Now, fays I, neighbor, you're a
fool.= Buy of them that fell the cheapoft, that's
my way.—l don't care whether he's a treaty
man, or no-treaty-man—that's not my busi
ness.— He that fells cheapest shall have my
money.— -Now, fays I, neighbor Short —Fair
play is a jewel.—Every man don't think a
ftke.—You don't like the treaty, —good.—
Neighbor Sprague likes the treaty—good.—
You think the treaty will make us poor—
good.— Neighbor Sprague thinks 'twill make
ui rich—good again——You don't think a
lite, that's all.— So I reafon'd the case with
him.—Now, fays I, neighbor Short, go home
-[mind your bulinefs Get as much mo
fy—m dm hm6^^ of them that fell th%.
cheapeft,—that's my way.— —So we parted
good friends.<
Keep peace with all the world, M,. Prin
ter, that's my way ——l'm no party -man—
not I.—l don't meddle nor make with any
man's bufinefs.——l'm for peace and good
fellowship.—l don't understand the treaty.
Neighbor Grroe fays 'tis very bad.— Neigh,
for Grouse fays 'tis very good.—l don't know
which to believe.—One they call Jacobing—
t'other they call Riftocrat—but I believe they
are both fools.
Now, I'm for keeping frtends with all the
world.—l mean to mind my business-— Get
as much money as I can —and buy of them
that fell cheapest. ——That's my way Mr.
Printer. Your's to fervc,
HUMPHREY STEADY.
A Bargain ! A Bargain !
THE SUBSCRIBER HAS
^A SMALL FARM,
LYING in Canterbury, which
he would fell at a low price, for Cash
in hand, if applied for immediately—or at
a reasonable price for half Cash down, and
the other half in one or two years, with se
curity on interest.
Said; FARM contains Forty
Acres of Land, well watered—,and lies on
the main road from Concord to Sandborn
ton, but seven miles from Concord Court
Houfe —is well proportioned; as to mowing,
pasturing and tillage ; yielded fix or seven
tons of hay this season ; has a piece of low
J ground cleared, ditched and sown with grass
eed, which will very soon add considerably
to the quantity of bay now cut ; has a very
thrifty young Orchard, of about one hun
dred trees, will make this year ten or twelve
barrels of cyder—has a comfortable house
with three rooms and two fire places—and
a barn 30 by 35 feet. ' e .
f Said Place is about two miles
from Canterbury fouth meeting house, and
very pleasantly situated where four roads
meet, which would render it very convenient
for a Tavern, Trader or Tradesman, and it
is particularly so for a tanner or blacksmith.
For further particulars apply
to the Subscriber, living in Epsom, or to
Capt. Thomas Currie or Mr. Obadi
ah Mooney, who live near the premises.
"^SOLOMON SUTTON.
Epf@m, Oa. 8, 1795, $
State of Newbampfoire.
FJBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that
William Harper, Davi d M'Cril.
Lis, Esq's. and others, have petitioned the
General Court, letting forth, that the erec
tion of a Bridge over Pemigawau set River,
at or near a place called Pine Hill, in Bridg
water, fa es to pass from Plymouth through
Bridgwater, Newhamptoh, Sandbornton,
Northfield, Canterbury and Concord, co
the East fide of Merrimac River, to Pern,
broke, will Shorten the distance from Ply
mouth W Pembroke nearly ten miles^
Wherefore they pray to be incorporated tor
the purpose of ereding a Toll Bridge at the
place above directed.
Upon which petition it is ordered that the
petitioners he heard before the Gen. Court,
on the second Thurfsay of the next fcffion,
and that the petitioners cause that the sub
stance of the petition and order of Court
thereon, be p&blilhed three weeks successive
ly, in the Mirror, printed at Concord,
commencing fix weeks prior to said day of
hearing ; also cause that a copy of said pe
tition and order, be posted up in some public
place in the towns of Newhampton and
Bridgwater, the like term of time prior to
said Jay of hearing, that any person or per
sons may then appear sod thew cause if an,
the, hive, why the prayer thereof may not
be granted. Atfcfl,
NATHANIEL PARKER, Dept. Sec.
Hanover, June 10th, 1%%. 5
'John Ellifan's Eflate.
THE Subfcribefs being ap
pointed Commissioners by the Hon.
Judge of Probate, for the county of Rock
ingham, to receive and examine the claims,
of the creditors to the estate of Mr. JOHN
ELLISON, late of Canterbury, deceased,
represented insolvent, hereby give notice.
That we will attend on the business of our ^
^appointment, on the second Mondays of'
October, December, and February next, %
from one to four o'clock in the afternoon of
each day, at the dwelling house of Mr.
-Daniel Rendal^o Caterbury.
OBADIAH CLOUGH, ),
SAMUEL GERRISH, ~° m ""°
JOSEPH CLOUGH,
Canterbury, Sept. 21,1795.5
N. B. All perlons indebted to
the above estate, are requested to make im*
mediate payment, to
DANIEL RENDAL, Administrator. .
ttt C=Cfe____t_ fc -____——_______.
CONCORD BRIDGE.
•rEZffin^n^&fl _ -
I by requested to meet at William Stick
ney's in Concord, on Monday, the 19th of
-October, instant, at 10 o'clock a. m. to ad
on the following articles, viz.
I. To choose a Moderator.'
2 To fee what sum or funis of money the
Proprietors will assess, if any Should ba tho't
necessary.
3. To fee what measures the Proprietors
will adopt relative to the opening of said
Bridge.
4. To fee what further measures the Pro
prietors will take, in order to obtain a road
from the top of the hill between Mr. But
ters's and Mr. Chamberlain's to said Bridge,
and from thence to the dark plain, so called.
, By order of the Directors,
PAUL ROLFE, P. Clerk. •
Concord, Oa. 1, 1795.
' Farm for sale.
TO BE SOLD,
A FARM, situated in Concord,
about 4 miles from the Meeting House,
ON the main road from said
Concord to Loudon—Containing one
hundred acres of good Land, well watered
and timbered—with a convenient House and
Barn, and a thrifty young Orchard thereon,
which affords considerable of that health,
drink called CYDER- Thirty acres of said
land are under good improvement—pro
portioned into mowing, pasturing and til-
la g e -
•Part payment will be takert,
and a good payday given for the remainder,
upon good fecuri'y. For further particu
lars, apply to the fubferiber on the premises.
MILLEN KIMBALL.
Concord, Sept. 11, 1795. 1
—__- — _ I-,
CONCORD BRIDGE.
'THE owners of Shares Nos.
1 13, 15, 23, 24, 3 9, 41, 42, 47, 57 ,
58, 59, 60 and 84, in said Bridge, are here
by notified, That their respective Shares will
be fold at PUBLIC VENDUE, to be held
at the house of Mr. Wm. Sticknet, on
Monday, the 19th day of October outfit
I O'clock P. M. unless the assessments due
bn the fame, are previously paid into the
Treasury. B, order of the Dire%,
PAUL ROLFE, P. Clerk/
Sept, u >79, 3