The Federal mirror — Concord, N.H., 1795-07-31 00:00:00, page 4

^PARNASSIAN FIELD.
THE DECISION.
Z) Y a couple of levers was Luc, addrejs'd.
And to man, with earnestness squall, o,prefl;
/ 'The one was a youth piping bat from the college,
' The other a follow replete with town knowledge ;
To gain ber good graces both fludioufy try'd,
Best in diffrent directions their flattery apply'd:
The classical lover paid Court to ber mind,
To ber person the buck all bis incense confin'd.
Determin'd at length, to declare ber fix'd choice,
For the latter Jbe gave ber definitive voice :
She rejeaed the Jobolar, tbo' Matter of Arts,
And nuck to the man with bis Natural parts.
VIRTU E.
WHAT though beneath a bumble roof,
I live and die unknown to fame;
From spiresfpires and cities far aloof,
And great ones te'er pronounce m, name !
Tbo' joon beneath some lonel, heath,
Pm lodg'd 'midJi uudiJlinguiJb'd dead,
With not a friend to weep „ death,
Nor place a marble at m, bead :
Yet Virtue, thou Jbalt make me blef —
Tby band Jball lead, tby armJuflain ;
And life, with thee fall lack no rest.
And death with thee Jball give no pain.
EPIGRAM.
Says a medical sage, at a watchmaker's door,
'' The keeping a watch is more charge than a
wb—e."
Says a Jmart girl, who beard him, " Dear doaor,
that's true
So, as the last evil, take me of the two.
A MATRIMONIALCASE.
MY lord and bis lady jcold, wrangle, andfight.
Yet both of one mind, and are both in the right;
She balls him Fool-be knows he's not wife :
He calls her Wb-e—and Jbe can't fa, be lies.
The Humorist.
THE lite Mr. Cleveland, of the
Admiralty, wai fufpeded of be
ing on a very intimate footing with a
Mri. T—i, the wife of an officer be
-Ilonging to one of our dock-yards.—
Mr. T —l had hit suspicions, and fell
upon the following droll contrivance
°'^^%^
other company to a fopper at his own
house ; after the glass went merily
round, Mr. Cleveland took an oppor
tunity of going to the door.— The
lady of the house taking the hint,
made her curtefy, and retired.—The
husband, who had his eyes all about
him, and had waited for this event,
Ilipt out by another door, and met ber
in the dark, at the bottom of the flairs,
nod without any ceremony, seized her
by the faaurn fanaorum, whilst the
flood passive, and gently whispered
him, " O Lord ! Mr. Cleveland 1
come up flairs, my hufbind will fee
us !"—This confirmed poor Bene
dia's suspicions, and put an end to
„ Mr. Cleveland's further visits.
A LADY and her gallant, a few
weeks since, took a trip out of the
pale of chastity, to a certain ion not
far from Vauxhall. They were wait
ed upon by a boy, whole curiosity
was excited to gratify hit eyes as well
as his ears, by means of an aperture
in the wainfeot. His mistress hearing
some company knock above fairs,
imagined it was this tm&lete that
wanted something ; upon which the
landlady called out, " Boy, the lady
and gentleman are knocking for you."
" No, replied the arch youth, they
are not knocking for me— they are
knocking for another boy."%
Singular Advertilement.
IT being mutually resolved to dif
' solve the partnership account (abort
ing between John and Mary Spindle,
husband and wife, in the parish of
.—., and to carry on the bufinetoof
Matrimony on each their separate ac- 1
count :—lf any gentleman or lady has'
any claim of love or affedion on ei-,
ther of the said partners, they are de-_<
fired to bring IFrame to be fatisfied;J
and whoever is indebted;to them, are
hereby required to pay the (aid debts„
to either of the partners, on account
of the (aid reparation, as soon as con
venient.
Domefic Miscellany.
f^'iMiiTir.—i~s
for the FEDERAL MIRROR.^
Veritas, to him who files bimjelf' A Friend
to Mankind,' in a late publication.
SIR,.
AS you have indulged yourfelf with the
liberty of making free remarks upon
Mr. F. T. and myfelf, I hope you will with
out offence, indulge me with the liberty of
making some remarks upon your perform
ance, as I am a party concerned—You have
indeed cast some blame upon both—This is
candid, as in a long controversy both are
commonly more or less culpable—but on the
whole, I think it must be pretty evident to
the attentive reader, that you have thrown
the weight of your opinion into the scale on
his fide the question ; perhaps you think you
have good reason for so doing—l do not juf
tify myfelf in every particular. The cause
however, in which I have been engaged, I.
fully believe to be the cause of truth—all I
have to regret, is the imperfea manner if has
been supported.—Mr. F. T. begun the dis
pute, by throwing a number of pieces into
the paper, of a most licentious and dangerous
nature, which, in the spirit and drift of them,
rendered all personal goodness and piety, to
tally unnecessary, in order to future happi
ness. The most abandoned villains, accord
ing to his scheme, were as sure, at last, of the
bleft abodes, as the most virtuous charaders.
This, I supposed in its tendency, subversive
of all religion, and morality, and so totally
inimical to the peace, good order, and hap
piness of human society—As no one appear
ed to answer these pernicious publications, I
thought it duty to throw in my mite, to
counteract, if possible, their poisonous influ
ence. I took him up, as I suppose, on fair,
and rational ground—ln the firft place, I
proved by a great number of plain and ex
press passages of scripture, the fallhood of his
scheme—that future and eternal happiness
was no where promised to any, but the ri^ht- .
eous—that everlasting misery was constantly
denounced against the wicked, without re
pentance-ad. I answered the principal texts
he adduced, in support of his scheme- hy^- .
-.^m^rnCT-ccffifoons.mnifowing, that T.
when fairly explained, they are nothing to
his purpose to prove the Universal Do&rine :
in doing which, I was under a necessity to
speak something upon Election, as several of
the passages were expressly upon that fubjed.
I know it is an edge tool, and may by an un
fkilful management do hurt ; for that rea-.
son, I was very careful constantly to insist on
the absolute necessity of faith & good works,
in order to be finally approved—but you, it
seems have taken a different idea, that, by
Election some good characters may be loft.
No Sir, it is not so— by it, happiness is fe- .
cured to all such—We are 'chofen to salva
tion, fay,the Apostle, through fan&ification
of the spirit, and belief of the truth—it is on
ly the bad characters and those that continue
bad, I have constantly insisted upon, are lia
ble to and must fe loft without repentance.
You fay it is a doCtrine Ought never to be
promulgated—But Sir, ifyou can prove it is
not already promulgated in the scriptures, I
will give it up—l with not to entertain a ten
et that is not clearly found there.
You fay that Mr. F. T. seems to exhibit
a more generous spirit than Mr. V. because
he seems willing all should fare alike—that a
wicked man should be treated in the fame
manner as a good man.—Do all fare alike in
our courts of justice ? are not diftindions
made t^ere between the good and the bad ?
and ought not the righteous to be juftified,
and the wicked condemned ? and is the court
ungenerous for doing thus ?—No Sir, by no
imeans. .
And is it n)tthe fame, in the court of the King
of Heaven ? has he not confant I, told as in his
word, that he will make difinaious in the last
day, and that he will feunifo the wicked, and re
ward the righteous ? and is this ungenerous^or do
I dejerve the cbaraßer of being ungenerous, be
cause Ihave frenuouf,pleaded, that this will in
evitabl, be the caje? Or is it ,our opinion that
thatfcheme which is the mos licentious, is the most
generous ? If that be the criterion to determine
generofa, th, devil was more generous than the
Almighty—be made a reftrvt of one tree in the
garden—the devil gave liberty to partake of the
•whole— B, this rule the falfe prophets were much
moregenerous than the true—the former promised
the wicked Israelites peace and impunity, though
the, walked ever, one in the imagination of bis
own wicked heart-the letter faithfully warned
and threatened them with ruin, in case they perfif
.• is that phyfaian fa mo# I
generous, whofitters bis patient till ,his dijerft is
pad remedy ? or is not that she most generous v^bo
plainly tells him bis danger and applies the bf
means for bis recover, ? —Surely, fir, the most
real gencrefit,, is always on the fie of truth, and
fidelity. Again you )a,,you don't blame Mr. F?
T. for bolding the doarine of UniverJaliJm, but
for trying to infnuate the fame into others —But
fir if it boa true doariue, why fauld he not use
bis endeavors to propagate it—feeing it is so well
calculated to dissipate all the fears and horrors of
mankind? But no, you go on to fay be ought net'
to propagate it; for, it is your Jincere belief, that
were it not for the fearful apprehenfims of a future
bell, we /bould soon have a bell upon earth—tbere
would daily be committed murders, thefts, pari
tides, ^c. by which means, all mankind would
joon be exterminated from the earth—This then
according toyourfincere opinion, would be the ten
dency of Universalism, or believing there was no
hell—and can this fir be a true doarine, that is of
such a dangerous and fatal tendency ? by which
all mankind would Joon be exterminated—can this
be from a benevolent God, that in the issue of it
would destroy all his human creatures ? No,fir ;
but from him whose proper name is Apollyion, the
deftroysr. This then is your generous doarine,
which jf niverjall, believed would in a fbort time
unpeople the earth. If, fir,you will abide by your
own confequer.ee, you will no longer baptize it,
by the name of generosity, but of cruelty and deft ruc
tion. You insinuate in your address to Mr. F. T.
that the doarine of future puniJbment is on the
whole a deception, but yet a very profitable one,
both here, and hereafter ; here it prevents man,
crimes,for if the fear fan earthly halter, prison,
chains, &c. which are but (bort in comparison of
eternal puniJbment, prevent murders, robberies,
&c. surely the fear of an everlasting bell will be
a much greater preventive ; therefore Mr. F. T.
indulge people with a belief, that there is afuture
puniJbment—for if you think that all will be Jav
ed, there are many who do not, who if they did,
would become notorious rogues ; besides, if all will
certainly befaved, I see no need of communicating
the fame to them beforehand-for that will tend to
lessen their happiness, as an unexpeaed pardon ad
miniflers the greateJi bappinejs—ln this represen
tation of,ours,fir, there is at leaf a very Jbrewd
su gg e fi° n > tbat the Almighty God is making use of
a deception, through the whole of the prejent peri
od—his threatenings are only scarecrows and bug
bears to keep the world in awe and order—there
is no truth or reality in them —and is this, fir, the
condua of the God you own and worJbip ? is be a
deceiver ? This is not certainly the true God, but
another you have made to yourself—and therefore
he has no concern with the government of this, or
the other world.
tou aljo declare it as,our opinion that neither of
us can fairl, prove our assertion ; I know not what,
fir ,ou will call a fair proof —in law, if a fl atute
can be produced, made express!, to decide the point
in dijpute, were,on a judge on the bench, would
you not call it a fair and substantial proof ? Well,
fir, lean produce a 4atute made by tbsjudge bim
jA£&mjtylarh, and @tefih upon the point in
disptaGMai72fyWben the Son of man Jball come
in bis glory, and all the b°ol, angels with him,
then Jball be set upon the throne if bis gios, ; and
before him Jball be gathered all nations ; and he
Jball separate then one from another, as a Jbe,bird
dividetb bis /beep from tbegoats ; &be Jball set the
Jbee, on bis right hand, but the goats on the left ;
then Jball the king sa, to them on bis right band,
come ye bleffid of m, Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for youfrom the foundation of the world,
&c.— Then (ball be fa, also to them on the left
band, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared jer the devils bis angels, tic. 8
in the close, it is added, that these last ihall go
away into everlasting punishment ; it is not
said, perhaps they may, as though the matter were
doubtful: But they flhall, noting the infinite cer
tainty of the event.
Now Sir, if this ftalute, from the Judge
himfelf, so expressly making a diftindion
between all the nations of the earth, and so
expressly assigning the one part, under the
emblem of goats, to everlasting puniihment;
and the other under the emblem of iheep, to
life eternal--! fay, if this is not to you a
fair and fatisfadory proof, you must wait,
till you can, with the Scotchman, have ocu
lar demonstration —ls you will not believe
Moses, and the Prophets, Christ, and his
Apostles, you will not believe, though one
should rife from the dead, and tell you he had
seen both heaven and hell—about the exist
ence of the latter, you seem, however, to en
tertain the greatest doubt—Your expression
is, when speaking upon that fubjetl, if fueb
place there be— have you not, Sir, equal rea
son to doubt, whether there be such a place
as Heaven ? is not the one as plainly re
vealed as the other ? and by the fame au
thority—had I found such an expression in
the writings of a heathen, I ihould not have
wondered ; but to fee it drop from a chrif
tian, and one who profeffes a willingness to
support the chriftian worfyip, is really afton
ilhing—have I not reason to give you the
fame kind caution as you did me, to be care
ful left you injure yourfelf.•
Believe me, Sir, Wniverfalifm is the next
step to Deifin ; for, upon the fame ground
you deny the exigence of a place or future
punishment, you may deny the existence of
future happiness, yea, of Angel, or spirit—
No man that means to be conriftent, can long
be a Univerfalift, for when he comes candid
ly, and impartially toconfider, and compare
the several parts of scripture together, and
give each its due weight ; he will either re
turn to the full and compteat belief of his bi
ble, or else he will reject the whole, asa fa
ble. Take heed, Sir, left your next leap be
into downright Infidelity—The way of error
is down hill ; one admitted, others easily
follow.—l must, however, thank you, for the
friendly hint to Mr. F. T. and myfelf to be
sociable. I frankly declare, I have nothing
against him as,a man—l know him not,
therefore can have no personal grudge—it is
his error I have been combating—l heartily
with he, and all others in the fame licentious
scheme, may renounce it, and come to a more
sober mind, to embrace the true doctrines of
the gospel.—l have no desire to prolong the
controversy—he has now a fair opportunity
to quit the field, if he pleases—but if he Con
tinues, I ihall, as a friend of truth, plead its
cause. VERITAS.
Prices Current,
By the quantity, at,Bofton, July 210
Copied from the Mercury.
ASHES, Pot, ton, ^ol.
Pearl, — 45/.
Beans, white, bufb. Bs.
Beef, prime, barrel; ,2s
miff, — 84/.
Butter, pound, lod
Brand), gallon, 7/9.
Boards, prime, M. 961
2d quality, 63s
Barley, bufbel, §j
Bees wax, lb. 21
Coffee, lb. 131
Chocolate, lb. ij§
Cotton, Joutb, 1,4
Weflindia, isg
Corn, foutb, bujb. 6s
north, 656
Codfjb, quintal, 27s
Cbeefe, 16. 10a
Flour, fuperj. bbl. 78s
common, 73s
—— middling, 66s
Flax, lb. gd
Flaxjeed, bufb. 436
Gunpowder, lb. ,6
Gin,foreign, gal. 716
— — borne, yg
Hogs lard, lb. lid
Hoops, bogjb. M. 120 J
— — barrel, 901
Herrings, dry, bbl. goj
pickled, 261
Iron, American,ton, 281
Swedes, 2&
Indigo, Carolina, lb. 5$
French, loj
Lemons, box, 3,
Molaffa, gall. y 6
Oil, linjeed, gall. 456
• • Fellow Mortals attend!
THE Subferiber, willing to do all
the good he possibly can for the people
of Newhampfhire, takes this opportunity to
inform them that he now resides in Deerfield
on the middle fouth road, one mile north
weft of the Baptist meeting house—where he
will be found at any hour in the 24, ready
to attend on the important science of Physic,
Surgery and Midwifry.
The Subferiber, from the great suc
cess he has met with in the ture of ulcers and
fores of all kinds, calls on all persons labor
ing under those infirmities, to call on him,
that their health may be recovered.'
He likewise invites all Medical pa
terns of erudition, to examine into his med
ical celebrity, that they may have no suspi
cion that he is unqualified for the amazing
talk he has undertaken for the health and
happiness of mankind.
That the inhabitants of this state,
who are unacquainted with the literary ad
vantages of the Subferiber, may not die thro'
lack of vision, he informs them that he has
studied with one of the best KITRIDGES in
America, besides other eminent Physicians ;
and that he now owns the most modern and
approved of Library within the realms of
Newhampfhire—for which reason he invites
all Pupils, who wish to store their cranniums
with the noblest of old Europe's produdions,
to call on him, and every favor shall be ac
knowledged by the Public's sincere friend,
JOSIAH HILDRETH.
Deerfield, July 19, 1795, 4
Apprentice wanted.
WANTED an Apprentice, from 15 to
17 years of age, to serve at the Cloth
ier's business. Apply to Moses Clark, of
Gilmanton. July 14, 1795 4
Saddle Bags Loft.
LOST, on Wednesday last, between Cbef
ter meeting house and Concord, a small
pair of black grained Saddle Bags, contain
ing sundry articles. Whoever has taken up
said Saddle Bags, and will return them, or
give information to the fubferiber, shall re
ceive a generous reward.
NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, June 29, 1795, 4
' .Oats, bufb. §6
. Pork, 1 hogg, bbl. 102 s
• —1& half do. 96s
j — middlings, 120 s
. Pitch, bbl. 18,
1 Pepper, 16. 2:8
. Rum, Wefiin. gal. 6s
s New. 4/4
s Rice, cwt. 36s
s Ratlins, cajk, 48;
J jar, 20s
I Rye, bufb. 8s
;Rfo, bbl. 28s
, Sugar, Mufeo. cwt. 78s
, *■■ ■ >loaf, lb. I'7
s—— white, cwt. 96s
)Soap, turpentine, lb. is
J caftile, 1,4
ISalmon, bbl. 54/
s Salt, coarse, bid. 36s
s -—-fine, 30'
s Staves, white oak,
1 barrel, M. 108,
)red oak, bhd. 66s
5 — bbl, 54$
5 Shingles, mer. M. 18$
^Tea, Bobea, lb. 2/3
^ —-— Souchong, gs.
J —- — Hyfon, 7s
7 Tobacco,Jbip. cwt. 39s
> j —— manufaa. 46s
s Tar, bbl. 15s
7 Turpentine, % 18/
• Tallow, lb. 12/
j Wheat, bufb. 12s
is Wine, Madeir.gal. 15$
s Sherry, 7/6
6 Lijbon, ; cajk, 9s
5- Malaga, — 138$