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For many have learnt the things of the grave,
Asthey wander'd,that hour, by the Demon's
ACave;
Where the fiends of sorcery urge their spell,
And deeds have been done, that might star
tle hell!
Then, trav'ller, beware of the strange,
strange light,
That sparkles so fair, at the middle of night;
Unless you would know the things of the
grave,
Beware howyou pass by the Demon's Cave!
Oct. 1810. H*„*S.
For the Constitutionalist.
1
MR. BEALS,
111 " Carr's Nothcrn Summer" is to
be found a beautiful and impressive
little hymn, which, he informs us, is
made use of by the Russians at their
funerals ; and as I have seen it copied
into a number of the Southern papers
lately, I have thought proper to send
you an attempt at versification, which
I mhde some years ago. HOEL.
RUSSIAN HYMN,
Recited over a dead body previous to
inhumation.
Oh! what is life ?—a vapour's breath,
A momentary blossom gay,
A pearl that gems' Arachne's wreath,
For zephyr's wing to brush away.
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POETRY'
^OCO^-'
For the Constitutionalist.
In the township of Chester, on the
main road from Haverhill to Concord,
is a circular eminence, half a mile in
diameter, and 400 feet high, called
Rattlesnake hill. On the south side,
10 yards from its base, is the entrance
of a cave called the Devil's den, in
which is a room 15 or 20 feet square
and 4 feet high, floored and circled by
a regular rock, from the upper part of
which arc dependent many excrescen
ces, nearly in form and size of a pear,
and, when approached by a torch,
throw out a sparkling lustre of almost
every hue. Many frightful stories
have been told of this cave, by those
who delight in the marvellous. It is a
cold, dreary, gloomy place.
Morse's Universal Geography.
In the regions of fashion, nothing
is talked about but the new Empress.
Her costume —her person—her con
versation —her manners, are all so
many models of taste, and woe to the
luckless Parisian who should hope for
fame —whether from the diction of an
essay or the ton of a kid slipper—in de
votion or in dimity—a problem, or a
petticoat, unless it have received some
colour of its claims from the irradiating
genius of this despotic divinity When
shetakes an airing, duration at Paris
.is at an end ; and the operations of na
ture are suspended ; sav£.that the winds
qeap in undulations round her, & some
Qud accompanies her as a parasol.
The Empcrour makes a merit of doing
the most outrageous things at her sug
gestion. If she were to express a wish
for one of the pyramids, he would send
a nation to fctQ it ! Ata single',ord
she might transform Elisian Fields into
a fesert and the Louvre intertables. —
If the Seine offended her, & would
change its course, and roll it through
a different province into the sea.—At
the Opera, which she condescends to _
visit in private, she employs a constant
succession of messengers. The sweet.
air in Europe must be repeated, or
the divinest dancer must again exhibit
Approach ! learn wisdom from the grave !
Where now the youthful form of grace ?
The liquid fire, that once would lave
The orbs that shone from beauty's face ?
DEMON'S CAVE.
- vedi e trenwi. —Betu. Lib. Part 11.
Oh, stranger, beware!—'tis a dangerouslight,
That circles yon hiR, at the middle of night;
By witchery then the grass is impearl'd,
And, the voices, you hear, are not of this
Strange skeleton shapes, the forms of death,
Are seen to ride oft on the mist of the heath,
As, at midnight, they go to you dreadful hill ;
Oh ! travel not then, lest your blood should
chill!
What shrieks, when death prepares control
To set life's little prisoner free!
What mournful smugglings of the soul,
While mingling in eternity !
Since life, a transient shadow given,
Seems error's unavailing sleep;
Let us secure thf wreath of Ileav'n,
And shun the blade that wounds so deep.
world.
sisceUanp.
Scenes of human distsesuhterest the mind.
The New York Watch Tower, heads
some very neat and pathetic lines—
Virgil says—' Mentem mortalia tangunt."
“ Mentum mortalia tangunt."
That is— Scenes of human distress affect —
the chin ! !
Rep.
There is one species of murder,
which frequently makes us smile—the
murkier of Latin, by our brethren of
the Type. Scarcely a mail arrives
without bringing the mangled corse of
some beautiful image or sentiment of
Virgil, Horace, Cicero, or some of
those Immortals, and so ludicrously
disfigured as to destroy the identity.
In the Hebrew language 'money is
called chesaph, from the root chasaph,
which is to say he has desired, because
money is desirable, being the grand re
quisite for obtaining the nescessaries of
life.
A Curious mistake. —Capt. William
Lyons, an officer of the British navy
in 1583, was promised promotion to
the first vacancy by Queen Elizabeth,
for his bravery against the Spaniards.
The bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
dying about this time, a vacancy in the
,see of Cork was announced in the pa
pers, Our honest tar who had not
been educated at an university, read it
or understood it sea of Cork, and ap
plied for an appointment; and the
Queen finding him to be an honest, so
ber and sensible mtin, fulfilled her prom
ise, and made him a bishop, telling him
she hop'd he would take as good care
of his church as he had of his ship. Ly
ons held his bishoprick about twenty
years, but never attempted to preach
but once, and that was a funeral ser
mon on the death of the Queen, which
he concluded in these words—
Curious etymology of some Hebrew
A poor person is called ebion, from
the root ebesch, he would have had,be
cause the poor man would have had
all he wants. 4
" Let those who feel this loss de
plore with me on this melancholy oc
casion; but if there be any that, hear
me who have secretly wished for this
event—as perhaps there may be—they
have got there wish, and the devil do
them good with it."
The glorious uncertainty of the law.
The colon andfull point ;or period,
were, for a century after the discovery
of Printing, the only marks of punctu.
ation used. A perpendicular stroke,
like a parenthesis, without its curves,
was afterwards brought into use, and
denoted the pause of a comma. The
exclamation and interrogation notes,
were not used until the last bentury.
Law books were printed without any
points or stops ; and the practice was
denominated, by barristers, " the glo
rious uncertainty of the law."
J. Russell's Address.
Dean Altrich's reasons for drinking.
" Si bene quid memini,
Causae sunt quinque bibendi
Hospitis adventus,
Prxsens situs, atque futura,
Aut vini bonitas,
Aut quidlibet altera causa."
An enemy,schur from the root schur
or schor,he has observed, he has sung,
because he sings or rejoices at any mis
fortune which may happen to the man
he hates and is always watching his
actions, with a design to hurt his char
acter, if possible, should he discover a
ny thing improper in his conduct.
Chesel, which signifies folly, is used
to express hope. 1 need notmakeany
observation on this ; the reason for em
ploying the words synonimously is ev
ident "
Rashang, restless, is used to express
the word wicked; and Rabbi Solomon
Jarchi says, that the wicked man is
called Rashang, from his continual and
restless avidity to those things in this
world which he thinks the best./
Sedacka, which signifies justice, is,
used to express charity, nothing being
more just than to relieve the poor and
unhappy.
some pathetic movement, or some elo.
quent attitude. Her caprice, which in
England, would be deemed madness, is
in Paris denominted velocity of sensa
tion.
A Character.
Lindor never opens his mouth, but
at the expence of others ; he always eats
at others tables, and speaks ill of all
the world.
Beauty,,
Aristotle was once asked, why ev
try person was so fond of beauty ?
To which the Philosopher replied,
it was a blind man's question. /
Sound Logick.
' °
" A scolloped oyster is better than
nothing ; and nothing is better than
heaven— ergo, a scolloped oyster is bet
ter than heaven."
Words.
When the khan of Tartars did not
jpossess a house to live in, and only
lived on rapine, had finished his dinner,
consisting of milk food, and horses'
flesh, it was proclaimed by a herald,
" That all the potentates, princes,
and great men of the earth, might sit
down to table."
The following enigmatical epitaph
was written for Lot's wife :
Cadaver, nec habet suum sepulcrum;
Sepulcrum, nec habet suum cadaver'.
Sepulcrum tamen, & cadaver intus.
She was herself her corps and her Se
pulchre.
Mereschal #d'Huxelles was thought
by many to be a misanthrope. One
day being rallied on his celibacy, " I
have never" said he, " yet seen a wo
man, whom I wished for a wife, nor a
man of whom I would wish to be the
father."
To get wheat out of the straw, by an
Old Sailor, in the town of Paris,
Virginia, by which five hundred
bushels may be got out in one day,
without injuring horses, or caus
ing one shilling expense more than
the ordinary mode.
After making choice of a spot of
ground on your farm for your wheat
yard which should be a level place and
clear of grit lay-off your yard to suit
your farm ; if your farm be large, let
your wheat yard be in proportion.—
Let us say the yard will hold one hun
dred bushels. Weed your yard deep
and throw your dirt on the outside of
your yard, and let the inside of your
yard be kept clean for work. Then
slack your wheat round, the outside of
your yard, close to your yard. Then
throw off your wheat in the yard, and
set the heads up, and make it about 8 or
10 feet wide all round the yard. Then
take your waggon and four horses, and
drive round on the wheat ; and in four
hours one waggon and four horses will
get it out clean, and two waggons will
get it out clean in less than three hours,
and three waggons will in one hour.*
Then rake your straw on the outside
of your yard and the wheat on the in
side; and lay-down another floor of
wheat, and in one hour more you may
get that out also ; andso on as long as
you have any to get out. Take care to
feed and water your horses in the mean
time. In going round the yard, your
waggon wheels will all tread in their
own track,and one wheel will tread out
as much as two horses. You must put
some weight in the waggon ; the more
weight, the more the wheels will cut
the straw, and if the' horses pull they
will strike harder with their feet on the
straw. Keep your Hands on each
side of the wheat, with their pitch-forks
to ,ove the wheat under the waggon.
If your yard is made deep, the straw
will not spread so much. When your
wheat is trod out pretty well, then let
two hands go, one oppisite the other,
with their pitch-forks, and turn the
wheat over from the bottom, of the
yard, and let the grain shake to the
bottom, and when it is trod pretty well
again, tprn it again anchshake the wheat
to; the bottom; in a little time turn it
again ; and in a few rounds more you
may take off some of your waggons and
set your hands to raking the straw
off from the top of the yard, and let
some of your waggons continue on a
- while to shake and loosen the straw up
out of the wheat while your hands are
raking the straw off#
To what heighth has not fashion
carried its tyranny ? There has been a
period when it was not becoming to be
healthy; it was considered as indica
tive of being a low, vulgar person.
At another time the vapours were in
vogue, and it was thought a mark of
good breeding to have them excessively.
An inhabitant of Gubia, in the duchy
of Urbino, in Italy, suspecting the fi
delity of his wife he, in a fit of jealousy,
in order to find out wither his sus
picions were true, did what the eccle
siastic history informs us Origen did
from devotion.
The opinion commonly received con
cerning the origin of the Alcoran, is,
that it was composed by Mahomet,
with the assistance of Barylas, a Jaco
bite heretic ; Sergius, a Nestorian
monk ; and some Jews.
Joseph Scaliger.
Perhaps no one, either of the au
cienl or moderns possessed so much
knowledge of things in general, as Jo
seph Scaliger. The following distich
was written for him :
Nec tibi secla parem,Scalane,priora tulerunt,
Nec tibi secla parem posteriora ferent.
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State of New-Hampshire, on the
third Tuesday of September, Anno
Domini, 1810,
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Guardian unto Mary Atwood, Eliza
Atwood, Harriot Atwood, John Mul
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and about seven acres of Land, situate
in Kingston, in said county of Rock
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and that it would be. greatly for the
interest of said minors, that said House
and Land should be sold and the pro
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Land aforesaid, by giving bonds and
complying with the requisites of the
law in that behalf.
Ordered by the court that the pe
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to appear before the Justices of the
the Superior Court of Judicature, to
be holden at Portsmouth, within and
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first Tuesday of February next, to
shew cause if any they have, why the
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ROCKINGHAM, ss.
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Husbandman, deceased, are desired to
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JONATHAN GARLAND.
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ROCKINGHAM, ss.
To the honourable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, now
holden at Exeter, within and for
the County of Rockingham,
Respectfully sitEWs Ed
mund Pearson of Exeter, Esq.
Guardian of Mary Gilman, of said Ex
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termined to be non compos mentis.
That the debts and demands due from
his said ward, and expences incurred
for her support, amount to the sum of
two hundred dollars. For the pay
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bont twenty four acres of land situate
in Exeter aforesaid, bounded northerly
by the Rev. Mr. Rowland's land, west
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Abner Dolloff and Noah Barker and
by the Little River. That it would
conduce to the interest of his said ward,
as well as necessary for her support
that the whole of said land should be
sold. He your petitioner therefore
prays your Honors to grant him li
cence to sell the whole of said premises
or such part thereof as you may think
proper and most for her benefit
EDMUND PEARSON.
Sept. 21, 1810.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
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titioncr notify all persons concerned
to appear before the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, to be
holden at Portsmouth, within and for
the county of Rockingham, on the first
Tuesday of February next, to shew
cause if any they have, why the prayer
of said petition should not bd granted,
by causing said petition and order of
Court thereon to be published three
weeks successively jn the Constitution
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