The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-08-21 00:00:00, page 4

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to the following lines in your Mirrour,
much oblige one of your readers.
to Hon, Robert Wallace, Esq :
ON THE DEATH OR HISLADY. ;
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Shall public,pirit, thus in private die,
so with the bad the good promiscuous Ite?
Her worthy name Jh^
Here lov'd, when living, and deplor dwhen d<ad,
& early call'd to leave theft ties behind ;
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Go, baflyfeade, to where the good,offifs,>
Perpetual, glorious, boundlejs happinejs ;
While we blow th, earthtyfate muffmourn,
Colka th, virtues, weeping o'er th, urn;
In one bright foot their falter'd Ifo join,
And hid morefang the blended radiance sane.
Thus the fun's golden beams, if art unite, _
More flrong the influence,and morefarce the lights
And thou, late partner if her ffor^^, rt -,,,
Thu widow'd bridegroom, a partner now no more,
From whose endear'd, and everfaithful heart,
Not death could tear her, nor could absence part;
Tell us,for those, alas! mast know so well, ff
Her private, facet, etoftic worth to tell.
Ofer honor'd, ever happy tote,
How wellbaft thou the debt of nature ,rid^^
flill benor'd, <mdbj,outb carts.
Ofdaughters, filers, rod offriends, the best ;
The pride of virtue, and of vice the fear;
Kern'd to ffdtrir, eager to comment, .^
A generous tyfrefs, and a dead,friend ;
Humane to all, belt warm'd when virtuous grief,
Orflent mode,,; implor'd relief; ^)
Ofjwleri,iuciple, unfe^ ' A
True to her God, and faithful to her trud.
Wa lla CE,farewel! Sojourner bereuo more f
Farewel, immortal denifa of Heaven !
Wlfo,Afflict ^^^
RELIGION. a simile.
I'M often drawn to make a stop.
And gaze upon a pi&ure (hop.
Therehave Ifeen (as who that tames
Has not the fame ?) a head that varies, -^
And as in different views expos'd, '*
A different figure is difclos'd.
This way, the fool's head is expreft, ^ r °
Whose very countenance is a jest f ^',
Such as were formerly at court, ', tz
Kept tomake wiser people sport..
Torn te#^ 2&
A face ridiculcufly grave, >
Something betwixt the fool #nd kriave. J
Again, but alter the position,
You're frighted With the apparition :r
A hideous, threading, gorgon head
Appears, enough to fright the dead. <
But, place it in its proper light,
A lovely face accosts the fight ;
Our eyes are charm'd with every feature ;
We own the whole a beauteous creature.
Thus True Religionfare,, For when
By filly, or designing men, ^,
In falfe or foolilh lights 'tis plac'd,
'Tis made a bugbear, or a jest.
Here by a set of men 'tis thought
Aicheme, by politicians wrought
To strengthen and enforce the law.
And keep the vulgar more in awe: j,^
And those, to shew fubiimer parts,•
Cast all religion from their hearts ;
Wind all its votaries as the tools ^^f,
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Lefswicked, butasfo3lifh quite:
And rhefe are fueh as blindly place it,
In fupcrftitions that difgface it ;
And thinkthe essence of it lies ^fo^f
In ceremonious fooleries:
In points of faith and peculation,
Which tend to nothing but vexation.
With these it is a heinous crime ,„
To co ugh or fpft in sermon time;
'Tis worse to whiffle on a Sunday,^
Than cheanheir neighbours on a Monday ;.
Ito dine, without firft faying grace, is
Enough to lose in Heaventheir places: ^^
But good nefs, honesty and virtue, ^
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Who ulaceit in the bugbear view ! <ri%^
Trank itrange levcntic^, ^^^
In fiftin,, weepings, ^flerit^^
"ft their weak fiends possess, ^
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Andas Lora purer eyes
Than to behold iniquitiesQ ,J^„
Tilted think unlefsThev 're pure andipoticis,l
&rmendeavours will be bootless,I
TO these it o^^ Divinely bri,U ^
Noclduds obfeure ^ native light; %
Truth stamps conviaion in the mind : I^4-
All doubts ?ndrfears are left behind,[
And peace & joy at once an entrancefind. J^
,^Hilarifyc^ <• -^ v
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ed & calf, set with it on a horse
at iA^Sic toufe^ Which a Aioe
maker, remarkable for his drollery,
obfervrog, and knowing that the
butcher had to pass through a wood,
;offered to thi laridlord to steal the call,
,provided he would treat him with a
sixpenny-worth of grog. The land
'lord^ agreed, and the shoemaker set
off and dropt one new ffipe in the
path near the middle of the wood,
and another near a quarter of a mile
Ifatal it.
The butcher saw the shoe, but did
[not think it worth getting down for ;
Ihowever when he discovered the sec
ond, he thought the pair would be an
acquifitioo, and accordingly difoouot
;ed, tied his horse to the hedge and
Iwalked back ©where he law the firft
shoe. The fhhemaker, in the mean
time unstrapped the calf, and carried
it acrofythe field to the landlord, who
put it in the barn.j,n butcher mif
fing hi# calf, went back to the inn and
told his misfortune, at the fame time
observing, that,he must have another
calf, cost what it would, as the veal
was bespoke. The landlord told him
he had a calf in his barn, which he
would fell him—the butcher looked
tf'g,@,Wthe pti%, ghe land
lord replied, give me the fame as you
did for the calf you loft, at I think, it
is full as large. The butcher would
by no means allow the calf robe fo 3
good, but agreed to give within fix
/hillings of what the other cost, nod
accordingly put the calf a second time
on his horse. Cr'ifpin, elated with his
success, undercook to steal the calf a
gini for another fixp p rny-worth,which
^@hg agreed on, he pefted to the
woods and hid himfelf ; ,hereobferv
jng the hutched coffin along; he be),
towed so like a calf, that the butcher,
conceiving it to be the one he had
loft, cried out in ajoy, " Ah ! are you
there I have I found you at last !" and
immediately dismounted, and ran into
the woodi. Crifpin, taking,advan
tage of the butcher's absence, unstrap
ped &cilg and adually got back
with it to the tavern, before the butch
er arrived to tell his mournful tale,
who attributed the whole to witchy
craft. The tavern-keeper unraveled
the whole mystery, and the - butcher,
after paying for, ind partaking of a
crown's worth of punch, laughed hear
tily at the joke, and the fhqemaker
got applauded set hit ingenuity.
& v--+ —efofaraare—^tA^^
^ SOME time ago, a mountebank in
Paris had bills of a motifttous size,
posted up in every, corner of the me
tropolis, fettfog forth, that on such a
day ht,would exhibit the black gen
tleman the DEVIL. Admittance ##
petit ecus, half a crown each person.
&so concQUrfe of people, and es
pecially of ladies, flocked to fee the
diabolical exhibition. The Katterfeko;
made hit appearance, id deep mourn,
ite on a high fcaffi>ld.^Wter te
out nrofeffional grimaces he pulled
out an empjy purfa and pointing to it,
m tnA r'atl h
exciaimeprfin a roaring rone, &
‘centiemen
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A GENTLEMEN just married,
AN Irishman was lately brought
before a justice, on a charge of hav
ing A fy/-The magistrate ask
ed him, how he could be so hardened
a villain as to delude so many ?—
/< Please your worship,” fays Pat, “I
was only trying to get & one,”,
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A PERSON, strongly i^preffed
with the idea of the depravity of hu
man nature, on reading, late adver
tisement for g^ men's (hoes, ex
;claimed, with a sigh—" Alas ! be
did not know where the shoes of such
men were co tte procured—for we
read, :h@: there is none good, save
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F A PREACHER, losing his c^fe in court,
and bring called to preach before them the
^following febbath, from this passage of scrip
ture, on theft Commaxdsbaxg all the law and the
prophets, he took for his text these words—
HANG ALL THE LAW!
FROM these premises I draw this con
clusion, fetid a disputant—Draw it you muff,
replied his opponent, for 'tis very certain it
wiU never/o/fow. '
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FOR THE MIRROUR.
FROM THE WOOWS.
MifreHaneous Obfervaticns, and
Advice —communicated bj w. D.
A Pious and good man once faid'/fc all
Religion confiftcd in two things—thus
exprefled by Davfd, " fruft infcLord,fo
•dogoodf'—and thus expreffi d by Dr Yo^^ G,
" Aa'well, and leave the re, to Heave*?'
CURIOUS was the miftaLfe 6fhing who,
for the word Uju^e, miffed ev^ry letter ty
writing nwtf^. S ;
TRULY beautiful are th§ lines,'and very .
applicable to many a line girl; who, retired
I and unfortunate, 'pines in foliinde, pouring
out ' faintwifhes to the cold fruiitelk-mo
andfinally withersan Old Ma I D,
" Full maw, a gem H pure, ray jerene,
The dark, unfat homed caves of ocean for';
Full ready a flower is born to blu,ux,%
And 96a,c,sfafflftefs in the desert air." How.
much happier the lot of Alexander's favorite,
thus described,"
" The lovely Thais b, bis ,de,.
S £ t lifeafarti%%,q, byide;
In,river ofyortb and beauteous pride :
%„, bapp,, hupp, pair,
THE flowers anew, returning seasons bring,
But faded beauty kndws no second spring:
Hence, while,ou may,and when ) O " can, Ofair,
Marry—avoid reproach, and fa def pair.
LAWYERS seldom go to law.
. PHYSICIANS seldom take physic.
ENTHUSIASM usually rages most in dog
days.
AVOID contracting abfi^fyfitending
and being attached to Nothing. To doncth
ing, if one is faithful, is hard work, and sore
ly unprofitable work—therefore be always
doing Something. ' : ; Y '
A SUDDEN change is not so well, even<
from badto good, and why ? Because 'twill
probably be of very short continuance.
From the Georgia GazbTtx.,
): WELCH INDIANS, t^/
PERHAPS ycur readers may relish
some new traditionary accounts of
the Welch Indians, said to inhabit a
region of this country, between the
Mississippi and the Pacific ocean. The
two following are at; your fetvice, the
authenticity of the firft may be queft
ionab!e,and the second fee ms to merit
some notice.J
In 1780, an old native of Wales
gave us the following oral tradition :
About < 30 years ago^Captain Ow
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miny re , after, no Mceffigeace was
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At length a tombfiooe of rude work
epp^^^f ^k,,fyTh<i
tomb-stone, or a copy of wfcnption,
wo ferichometo SpJn.^ After duein-
TCftigation, itwas found to be We^,>
joined the decent story of two Welch
boya, huntera in the weftern country,/
i# ,*^re%fy';'
Having crossed the Mfo, &
;took the refolutioo of afcendiog the
;Miflouria Penetrating far to the weft
;wira, they came to a tribe es Indiana,
with whqm they cpuld hold conver
liq 4 dia^a of the Welch or
Old British language. Those people
had red hair, were of low futures
fwartby complete,, affl&cquaint.
ed with the uf&olfire arma.— With
bows and^ arrows they were very ex
pert. They had some idea of a Sab
t>ath day ; they Viewed the remains
of an old Welch bible, jphich, how
ever, none of their tribes pretended to
understand. They inforfafed our trav
ellers ghat 66 about 100 years back,
their ancestors lived 00 Kentucky; to
; which place they had emigrated from
a country fb iherfodifi ; that veftigei
of their settlements must still be trace
able on the eastern fide of the Miffit
fippi ; that fucc^ Give trib# of black
haired people preffieg upon them from
the riling of the fun, they were com
pelled to retire up the Miffifippi. ^ ^
One of the Welch boys remained
with then% the other returned to the
Virginia fettle menu and rented the
above pwriruiaft. hie added; that on
t^fytyfeave of them, thef begged
him to i@§js ioteteQ^ more
of his^onotty men to v:fit their nation;
'ffißhefr fouog people might be
taught 'feme of ttefe ibfogs ,whfch
they had heard bv/the <wo hunters
who hhd happened to fall id, with
them."
Here, I believe, the matter uki
m^efr'^ted^ I have never heard
of more than one in the nation, nor
of him who rerorhtd." "The curious
may make their own ofe of fcfe tra
ditiOT^. The old Welchman was a-
Jive last Aprils The otto informal
who gives us the second tradirftfo;ten
iftv^laft June. The ^rftfi
and the other 400 miles back inthe
interior country, both men of effi^
men understanding, of tolerable tead^
log, and of acknowledged veracity,
They would neither of them vouch
for the truth of the ftortes, but they
declare, they related them faithfully
as they had, heard them, the one in
Wales, and the other near the Hol-
Rein settlements of Virginis. @
bec:93. A Native of Kanbaway,
Ggod Sttfndjor a Mechanic.
TO BE SOLD,
^ excellent LOT of LAND,
SITUATED in Concord, Newhampfhire,
O containing about teh acres, Hioftly und@r
improvement, with '{
A good House and Barn,
and a beautiful youag Orchard, with a vari
ety pf Fruit Trees ; and a good Well of W^-
ter ; lying on the east fide of Merrimac riff,
on the road leading from Newburyport to
the northerly part of this State. Any person
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NATHANIEL AMBROSE 1 ..
Concord, July 17, 1794. :& ^^ $
^ __——— to. —I»..dll».l.-I.-f»il 1
i^ ts N - LADD informs tbbfe Who have
contrasted to make Shoes for him, that the
leather therefor is ready for delivery—They
lareI are requeued to call for it immediately—-^
He wiffies to set out mere Shoe, to mak^ the
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