The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-02-27 00:00:00, page 4

I ALKOMACK, the great Indian cbif, ^x
■ preparing for the war in which be was
■ made prisoner and tormented, is laid to barn
made the following bloody reflexions and
■ observations to the virgins and attendgrt!
I of bis wigwam, in the night preceding ibe
I firft battle.
NO W the storm begins to come !
Every yell foretokens doom.
■ Hear the warrior's whoop from far,
, Tells us to prepare for war
■ Woods and caverns near my cell,
I Now the awfulftorm foretell.
■ Shouts with rending terror rife,
■ Strike the mountains, then the Ikies!
, Hark! ye virgins, hear the found!
Quick with terror clothe me round.
■ War with horrid roar commands—
■ Quickequipme, joinyourhauds.
■ Give my eyes a fiery glow,
■ Darting horror or the foe.
I Let horrific black entwine
1 Ev'ry limb; let red combine.
■ On my head the crest affix ;.
■ Let the plumes with terror mix.
1 Let my hbkhdt that flows,
Beam terrific on my foes :
Where's my belt with wampum fill d ?
■ Quick—begirt me for the field. ,
■ This my scalping knife shall Ihaw,
■ What a mighty chief can do.
■ Stop ! the bow must crown my arms;
■ This wit^twangs the warrior charms.
I Twice ten arrows hence shall bound ;
Twice ten chiefs shall bite the ground.
Hark! the wopds reecho round;
Caverns ring withmidnight found.
■ Nowthemigh^y warrior's song,
I; Murmurs thro' the warrior throng.
Ev'ry chief with visage grim,
■ Dooms his fee in blood to Iwim.
^Virgins, cease from me your care;
1 Now for war yourselves prepare.
■, Thrilling cries your throats convey ;
I Crimson paths shall lead your way.
■ Close behind your warriors go-
Urge them briskly on the foe.
I lithe foein fluftbethrown—
■ Then with love your Warriors crown.
■ If your lovely chiefs are low —
■ Sadly weave the woof#woe.
Now the mighty Goel* looks pale;
■ Sitting ontbeeaftern vale.
■ frry chief is funk to rest :
■ Gloomy thoughts invade my breast.
I See the dimly looking blaze,
■ Glim'ring thro' the woodland maze.
I See the fiknt smoke arise
■ Rising still—it strikes the skies!
I Darkness soon shall change the scene ;
I Virgins — ev'ry chief convene.
I Let a solemn talk be held,.
I While this gloom pervades the field.
When the morning Gods appears,
Howls of death shall ftfike our ears. ,
Arrows hurling from afar,
Soon shall shower floods of war.
>/ *TA Moot. ff^ Son.
A SEA SONG.
A LL ^#4' "° w on tefrd, quick to the
^vii&fe taste ;
Heave laftily, , hearts ! the anchor well;
weigh;
Heave 0 . 'nowit come—bean, 0 ! there—
avaft! • ,
The forefta,-fail Icofe—jour cable belay.
< Now wind, foip,m, boys f fa'll work like a
: top:
Farewell,,e dear girls !no longer weflop.
' See to the gentle breeze ear bellying jails
&„,and their white canto, and flip b,
h : : : the fare ;
The ft, looks jerene, and, proptifas the gales ;
lit nodanger we fear,&mld tbejoultim
pef roar;
'* (to “ft difar^g, ^ btol». adi,u,
, fyngid,b#art> ar#&tb
A&atalUfeort.-wbOT all tan fy
2«&&«&rf"“ bin, at ft—;
H%lt tbt to, rating lab btdt sa,
g ^ Qfe^#
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,THE
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
•• ' ——=„=w_aCTH_mw- .
" TO R AISE THE GENIUS, AMD TO MEND TH§ HFAR.T." [;
From the Weekly Musewm.
THE RIVULET.
and honours accordingly, Com
mon Sense (mileage the delusion
and feemi felicitous to correa the
errour.— Is Che man a mere cy
pher all this time ? Does he count
nothing of himfelf ? Snalihe not
be rated so high as the parte or
chest, that contains the common
standard of his worth ? M^y cone
of the endowments of nature, or
acquirements of art, have the hon
or of being inventoried with the
stock of his farm, hit merchandize,
or household furniture ?—He^ is
a small mistake fays the world, or
its careless computers ; we really
left out his mental ware, in mak
ing our estimate. How shall we
correct the error ? What is the
average worth, of a man, stripped,
like Job, of his external property?
—A hard question truly, and but
little tho't of. I should luppofe
it as easy to find an average size
for all the animals appendent to
the earth. I koow of no way to
estimate his value, except by what
he is worth to the community, or
his friends. By this ftaodard,
there would be as great a diverGty
in the ^orth of men, without
'property, as with. A Franklin,
though penhilefe, would rife high
er than a *, poffefed of a
hundred thousand: the one, a
public honor ; the .other, a pri
vate disgrace. Innumerable in-
Biota might be penned ; but
they are under every one's obser
vation.
Wealth is a good thing, con
neaed with a liberal mind. Merit
has its value, wherever it is found 3
but is generally prized lowest by
those who value money the hiQ
eft. To do it some degree &
justice, let, moderate price %
agreed upon and set down against"
a lift of the most obvious publick|
and private virtues, and ufefblac-]
quirements. ' This will introduce
a new k^d of calculation Men's
estates may be inventoried as usual
liter their decease ; but there will
be a cohfidersble difference be
tween what they are worth while;
living and after they are dead.—-
_— ____ — —_
* The author translates this perplex
ing blank, " Lord, is'it I?”
WHEN one man it worth a
thousand pounds and a.
gp;her ten thousand, io common
language, we fay the latter is
worth ten timet as much as the
former. If this meadt no more
than simply, that one had ten timet
as much, property aa the other,
time would be ill spent in cavil
ling with the expression. But
when people edimate the worth
of a man by the weight of his
putfe, the extent of his farm, the
number of his, fervanti or size of
hi, house, without examining ei
ther the furniture of hit head or
MISCELLANY.
From tbs Farmer's Weekly Museum.
qualities of his heart, measure their
bows and deal due their civilities
Common Sense, ia Dijbabilh.
N°. XXXII. .
The wogb of man ; er, Man of worth.
THE readers of the Faraer'i
Weekly Museum, may have
observed in the paper of- Novem
ber 13th, under the head of wants,
the following - - " the Houle of
Colon & Spondee waste an Ap.
prentice." To fathfy our custo
mers, and particularly my friends,
who have recommended me for
my" honesty and indoftry," that
I have not been idle, though ab
sent, nor broken my indenture
and run away, like that rogue of
a Jonathan Daryle, my prede
cessor, 1 think it necessary byway
of apology, to state the following
circumftancei. It is well known
that our shop is large and contains
many apartments. A still, sober
lad, like myfelf, might be at work
in a back room, several weeks,
entirely unnoticed by our custom
ers—this has really been the case
with me. God forbid, that I
fhcu!d ever reveal the secret mys
teries of our trade, though I veri
ly believe they are as numerous
as those of the French Dhedory,
or an enchanted castle ; but it is
well known that my mafteti are
often abfeot from their fhopthem
felves, for a month together, to
the great diffatisfaaion of their
cuftomeru This may account
for the flow progress I have made ;
and, pefliblyy in the variety of
their concerns, they may have for
gotten, that I am under their in
ftruaion. Every perlon who has
cast his eyes upon our Sign Board,
must be sensible that our business
is of a very curious and complicat
ed nature. It would require sev
eral days for a perlon, of a good
memory, to learn the bare names
of our tools ; and many weeks,
for a raw hand, like myfelf, to be
come acquainted with their use.—
In our garret, the part allotted to
those nine female journeymen, we
call the Mules, there are, besides
spider's webs, (which I once tno't
the common yarn of all their fine
webs,) a catalogue of Alexand
rines, Antiftrophes, Apostrophes,
Sapphics, Trochee; Hufton-pro
ta-cons and various other less,
more numerous than the invento
ry of paints, puffs, plasters, poma
tum, &c. &c. on the toilets vs the
fame number of antique city belles.
Finding thtfe ladies of the upper
loft, very capricious, and generally
disposed to shun my pretence, I
not been much in their com
dffy.— On my firft introduction,
'they refufed, even to smoke one
of the moulds of my "great un
cle Peter Pinder," when I was a
bout to run an Ode on Flattery.—
Notwithstanding their aversion to
me, I give them the credit of
granting, when requeued, their
ready/nd united iffiftaoce to my
matters/ Though principally em
pfoyed fa the lower departments
ofihe (hop ; yet, even there, I
LtLit il\
Let people, while alive be ranked
accordingly to the fuo total of
their real per focal and mental
property, and whi ! e pride justly
humbled,took it, placeio the kuch
eo, merit would be- called to the
parlour, and receive its due honor
from men of real worth.
PETER PENCIL.
WOMEN affea coyness
as an addition to their
beauty. They are complete-,
ly cruel only to those they
.hate. <.
The wit of most women
serves rather to fortify their
folly than their reafon.•■•.#
" They have an entertaining
tattle, and Sometimes wit ;
(fays Cheftetfield) but for
solid reasoning & good sense,
I never knew one in my life
that had it, or who reasoned
and aded consequentially for
four and twenty hours to.,
gethcr.",//
^L ^
have met with many mortifica
tions, from my ignorance of the
business and awkwardness in hand
ling the tools.—To instance one
from many=i thought myfelf
matter of our double twisted fafre
lathes, and proud of my acquire
ment, went flapping them about
the street, like an impudent hack
man, in every one's face and eyes,
till a young journeyman, from a
neighbouring shop, saluted me in
my own way, and happening co
hit my eye wi h his foapper, con
vinced me' that every one had
their vulnerable foot ; and that I
had my superior, even at this
game.. Mort fied with disaster, I
laid aside this instrument, and un
der the f^ar of the lash, promis
ed myfelf never to take it pp, a
gain. Though I can boast no
great progress in the use of the
long lift of curious tools in our
shop, I have not futfered those,
enumerated in my indentures, to
rust for w^t of using. After the
ufuJ talk of the day, I have struck
off with my " Paen.. Machine,"
some half dozers of " Family
Lenores on houkhold and barn
hold economy," which will soon
be completed for our customers in
the country. In the morning,
whenever I have been so fortunate
as to gain admission to my early
rising mistresses, I have been em
ployed with my 6 Pencils, Bru Ihes,'
and " Colours Poetick," adjust
ing and ornamenting the " Fair
Characters, Rhetorical Flowers
and Deep Pathetic Lines," in &
piece of " Garret Ware," cast in
one of the moulds alluded to in the
abovementioned indentures; By
my own industry, the (mail aid of
the Nine, and the afflftance of one
of their greatest favorites, the
piece has received its finilhing
touch (the puff excepted ;)'and if
our good cuftom^rs, at the 66 great
Toy Shop," should fee fit to be
pleafikl with this puerile specimen
of Thespian headetaft, and the
productions of my " early rising"
and evening industry should meet
with moderate fßceuragement, ic
will give a flim^as to my exer
tions—l shall joon form a more
general aoquqntance with our
tools and cuftomen ; and, if Peter
Pencil live, the " House ot Colon
and Spondee, shall not want
AN APPRENTICE."
Southedfl corner of the Shop, fourth
^ year and month of the Firm.
WOMEN.