The Federal mirror — Concord, N.H., 1796-02-16 00:00:00, page 4

SACRED to SYMPATHY & PHY.
PARNASSIAN FIELD.
THE HORROR OB IVAR
We have never seen more rffc&infy portrayed, than
.in the following TRUE STORY.
; term a Liverpool paper °f Aug. 3.
A POOR mother in this city, last week, in a fit of
# defperation suddenly look bet child, about 3 years
^bid, in the public street, and daffied its head to the
wall. Immediately surgical aid was called in, but
m vain the little unfortunate expired ! The
cause, as limply told us, is, if possible, more horrid
than the confluence The poor woman had loft
her huffiand in the war— and, having implored re
"^ lief, at several doors, in vain, was suddenly seized
with a mental phrenzy, which produced this dread
ful catafcophe Upon opening the body, the fur
,g^^ gate ft as his opinion, that its stomach had not
received food for three days before. The miserable
mother is committed to Laocafter castle.
Fr&ma London paper of Sept, 3.
1 Mr. Printer,
I -? & a moment when too much compassion cannot be excited
b for the raiderits of tbe poor, or too much rtfcntmrat raijed
'again ft that accursed war, which is .thecanft of them :
_„rbfythe mral imfereffion ^bi&tbef^^
(Joanded on a recent melancholy fad) are adapted to
product, may be thought fa far to compenjatefor their
piticclmperfeaions, as to procure them a place in your
\f,fa,tr... ^-—f
f\'ER once the haughty Baron's House of War,
Now to a country's dreary gaol decay'd,
Whose rums frown on ,on tall hills, from far,
' . The dead of night had thrown its deepest (hade:
Hufh'd lay the captive foes of angry law ;
The lift'ning ear no clanking fetters fill ;
Oblivion blefs'd the hopeless felon's straw,
And Misery's mad inebrious mirth was fttll:
But one there wis whose lids refus'd to close ;
One sleepless daughter of unlull'd Despair,
Who wildly thus effus'd her wakeful woes,
Thro' the deep silence of the midnight air^
" Tis well ; tis well : my worst of ills are o'er :
Thou little wretch, that caus'd my keenest pain,
Shall lift the piteous looks to me no more ;
L For food I have not ; food I could not gain.
Come, kill the mother, who her child has kill'd ;
\ Haste, righteous judges,and avenge the deed !
/ Beatb, to thy gate, I come at last for aid ;
I knock'd at others, and they gave me none :
I and my babe are perilling, I laid ;
Me and my babe they sternly bade begone,
g Friendof thepqor,one all forlorn receive
Oh! save a wretch the wealthy will not save!
Th v kinder hand lh.ll all my wants relieve :
INo hunger gnaws us in thine ealy cave.
%mteitawitt=m re
A mother gave it all the had to give ;
F , Gave it a beggar'd z^W/^fy
Oh 1 hard I strove my innocent to save,
N All spent in cries for bread I could'not give !
j nuipen c,
For three long days my wond'mus patience bore
I cries•
, Bore behold the pining looks implore;
I Bore the dumb cravings of the hollow eyes!
#' Into the world because her child has come,,
1f
tv This hand, tn mercy, hurl d it out again..
¥L H Th: h :^
)WAnd.Jh^'th^^^^^
Whfnoire will helo a fallen' wretch to rife •
' And then look down with unrelenting eves."
ra_=~—_CT_„ ^ ——
PrOTa Lot^npeper of Nov.ty
THE PIOIJSTHEFT:
Or,tbeWWOWand to ORPHANS a true Story,
founded on the latefearcit, of bread. r .
WHILE out school books are full of the
generous inftancet of devoting life to princi
ple in an heroic age, and among a people for
whom futurity bad no terror, ^r us record
€ late event to which Birmingham was wit
nest, and upoo the authenticity 6l Which our
readers may rely. /"
A widow woman went one mornisgro a
baker's, during the deliver, of bread to the
people, and, taking up a loaf, hurried away
with it £0 her home. The baker observed
it and followed her immediately.
The house, to which he traced her, wore
the appearance of -a neat poverty —fluttifh-
nefs was not there to degrade midortone.
When he entered the room, be few the
loaf divided between three children, who de
vowed it with the most ravenous haste&
He taxed the woman with the fad, which
the did not hesitate to acknowledge.
" 1 know, (she Lid) I muff fuffer for the
theft, and 1 am content to do 10, but not to
ifemy children perith." /;
It is not easy at all times to verify the
complaints we hear, and the baker doubted
the Widow's flor,.
" I tear (said he) you are accustomed to
such aaions, and live by theft—What have
you in that cupboard ? " Look (said she)
and fatisfy yourfelf."
He perceived a dith, which he thought
had meat in it, and exclaimed, “ I.fuppofe
this was stolen also r'
"Look nearer it and judge I" said the
wretched mother.
The man approached, and beheld the
Remains of a Dog !!t [O htav'ni!]'
He shuddered! His eyes brim full of tears ! His
hand fpontaneoufl, faught hi§ pocket ! He put baf j
escrows into her hand ; and charged her to ^l fre
quently upon him t The man went to, the weal
thy part of his customers, and told the story with the
plain eloquence of truth. He produced a libdiri
fubfeription for this poor family—and has been the
happy instrument to frekrve worth, beyond what
poets have immortalized inpaft ages. ^ > ; . f rf
,From the FARMER'S CHRONICLE.
" Il is an old ceflom."
A NEIGHBOR reading my obfervationi
in the last Chronicle, exclaimed—" Well
Ben is more than half right— Too much
crediting is A load which makes business
drag heavy, and is a wifte of time, but Mr.
Reason cannot alter it—Though I with it
could be done, and believe that if pay down
was as univerfilly pr^ifed as charging on
book, business would be much brisker than it
inow is— But to give credit ua# old cufiffi
and who can alter it?^:,
I readily agree with my neighbor that it
is an old custom, and that one perfoo can
not alter it—And, that he (poke the opin
ion of people io general—But its being so
old custom, io no argument against the at
-Qof it - But let „ ^f,^•
renovation of the custom ; and I much
doubt whether it Will be found impossible,
ot that any one will cry against it, by Lying
it is an old cuflem,— Giving c^dit was nec
effafy When money was scarce ; but now it
is too plenty, that necessity Vfaiffieth.
ty Old customs that were J6od, the youth
find n °,q c °''y M °f_
a e h A M ^-Sho^
I nhfervp that bovi ufetf lOtmeriy to Know
fotmttcmQ^^ -=_——. —__
Reason; [trenti, fylffik*^^ til
cufloms to the contrary BOtwifbftandiog.
/ BEN REASON.
ADXbONITORY.I
POR THE FEDERAL MIRROR.
q<HE Pedant; this moment p^ffgd by
the doot=See the gay pretender,—,
his countenance distorted with ambition, hit 3
breast inflated with pride—uffefts ion fewms
all his gefturee, and' atari every feature of ,
hir foce#~Elation dwells in his heart, and
hh.fpeech is modled by oftentaion—Vain
glory hath lifted him op above • bis fellow#
creatures, he hath placed himfclf 00 a loft,
summit, and looks with <™^ah on Iltbe
neath hir, he febrns evek the ground where
the vulgar tread. Thus being upheld by
fell conceit, and entertaining too high ad &
pinion of himfelf, and affixing to know
much more than he doth, he frequently er
poses him fell ; and instead of acquitin
character or & an accomplished gendemtOj
will soon be called an ifl,tetarate coxcomb,
and justly become a fubj,-& 'of ridicule for
them who he now holds in derision.
True, there i, a dignity bestowed on pur
mindi by the B)8Ki:ol Beneftaor of na
ture, that mskes us capable of gaining ac
complifliments that are an embefilhmeot to
the most consummate beauty, and a core
fpicuous ornament toelegahce itfelf. df we
Seek co improve all our hcqlties as Iball be
most go the honor of him who hath bestow
ed such a dignity on our nature ; ever studi
ous of the good of our neighbor, with a d&
fire to promote the pace',nd hippinffi of
all mankind ; we fat! at least have felf-ap
;probation on out fidE but the confeibufoefe
of out own uprightness will not always pro
ted us from the cenfur^ of others ; fort
man may ad according to the best of his
knowledge and wHdom, all the days of a
long life, (though it is feidom the case) and
die without reputation at last ; but this
ought hot to difeoorage us from oor duty,
but animate usto a& without any view ot felf inter
est, jig order our condud by a uniform principle,
Is not one impartial God the maker ofns all? Daft
; not the fa me fun cast forth his on^beams to light
the whole race of intelligent beings ? Why tti&ft
fhonld one vaunt himlelf above another? Why
should the accomplished thus tritomphover humil
ity, and bcaft of his own superior qualities ? Surely
he must one day experience that death puts a period t
to all diginaions, and,pays.no deference Mung
title, but ft ikes at him with as unrelenting fury as at
the meanest pedant who toils in the fp^eious field.
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THE HUMORIST.
△GENTLEMAN telling the hufbffi
i 1 of a ledy remarkably beautiful, that
he : could never W « his Wife Witty*
^^ ^^^
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ceedinul, fatigued The teife fighed,—/
wife I urnto Heave*-the hufb^d replied,
Life iwaau &et Oh, you old
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~ A NOBLEMAN Mfaff^^ fang .
I Ts with' W An/'ktirfe his maieftv
oref'ent
ku fo* !Wharram Kiiliorew caes ind ex-'
untfn&hii • Whlt'are you doing'
hW*re^L<> ! o{;fod Kfflt^re% ytßft.m
h&'fob'" ^^ "° '" *"*