Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-08-03 00:00:00, page 1

^ THE Sabbath was made $ for
man." 'lts divine origin is e
vinced by its wonderful tendency to promote
the happiness of the human family, as well
in producing and cementing social order, as
in cherishing religious principles. Ihis
might be Shown in a variety of instances, but
I shall confine my remarks to the necessity
and utility of the Sabbath; in refpea to edu
cation. "A due observance of the Sabbath,
in a regular attendance on the sacred institu
tions of fecial worship, is the belt fche >lof
good manners for children and youth. While
it powerfully tends to season their minds
with such impressions of accountability as
will operate as a restraint on all vicious pro
renfities, it cherithes the feeds of virtue, and
produces and ftrengtltens those orderly ha
bits, which are equally necessary to their own
individual happiness, and to their becoming
ufeful members of society.
If the infinitely important confederations,
Writing from religion and a future hate ot
existence, were entirely out of the question,
bill the Sabbath might be considered as a
necessary and most excellent institution for
training up youth ; insomuch that, were pa
rents to have no concern for their children
beyond their temporal interest, the best possi
ble expedient to promote this obje& would
be to habituate them to reverence the Sab
bath and to attend the institutions of chrif
rian worlhip.—This sentiment is not found
ed on theory, but on substantial faus. Ihe
•truth of it is evinced by viewing the different
ftat p s of society in our own country. Wher
ever the sabbath is duly observed in a regular
and general attendance on public worlhip,
marks of order and fuperiorfivibzauon are
commonly apparent: profligacy and de
bauchery are put to shame; morals are pu
rified ; social intercourse is promoted, and
the social feelings are strengthened, and ex
tended. The children in such places are
commonly more decent in their behaviour,
more ambitions to acquire ufeful learning,
more orderly at school, more dutiful to their
Current prices of per from , to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iffrt, T. 90 0 105 0
, Pearl —no 0 0 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, lb olf 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
Butter lb 0 12 oz 3
Beef, common B. 9 0 12 0
mess -- 13 ° '3 5°
Beans, white bu. 1 12 1 16
Brandy, Spanish 4th, r. G. 150 156
, Naples 4th pr. — 15° 0 0
Barley none, bu. O O 0 0
Brimstone, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian — 0 75 0 80
Rye -- 095 1 0
Cassia jb o to 06 5
Cloves • —° 1 33 ° °
Coffee >- 0 20 0 22
Cheese, American — 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign scarce -- 040 0 0
j American — 0 24 0 0
Cordage, American C. 14 0 0 0
, Foreign, -- 12 0 13 °
Chocolate, common lb 020 0 0
, best N % 2&1 -- 028 032
Candles, mould — 018 019
, dipt -- 016 0 0
Coals, foreigri Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American; -- >7O 18 0
Copperas, C. 35° 4 0
Cloth; To^ yd. 016 017
Duck, Russia, if qual. Bt. 16 0 17 0
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (For Caf) par #
do. do. : : : 6o days, : : do. : I pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : I| • do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2 do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : do. do. do.
NUMBER 49. VOL. III.]
MISCELLANEOUS.
ON EDUCATION.
Republican Ledger,
AND
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
CT^n gen ffjaH tffle ticesg relate fyeak of t^em ng t>ei are :
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. c.
Duck, Ravens ^ 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Fish, Merchant, C. 4 0 4 2 5
,W. India mark. — 325 35°
Scale — 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° 8 °
Flour, super. frefh — 750 0 °
, fine — 650 0 0
, middlings — 60 0 0
, country C. 375 4 °
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. , Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
9^7, -- 14 0 0 0
< < Bby6, -- 11 0 11 50
y ) Hamburg iob,B, — 13 0 13 50
\ 7by9, -- 12 0 12 50
Gun Powder lb °s° °
Geneva, Holland if pr G. 15 0 0
, Americanize -- 090 0 0
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard lb 0 ^ ° r 4
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 00
, Russia --115 ° 12° 0
, Swedes -- 125 0 130 0
Logwood ' T. 40 0 45'
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dr, — 15 0 0 0
, red — 866 9 0
, sheet — 11 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. — 9 ° 9 5°
Shingles — 150 220
©ljoUfale prices Current, at poctfmrab, 12ribDampWire,
• CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
—^^^^^^^^Q^^^fr-b^ — _
parents, than they be in places where the
Sabbath is but little observed. There seems
to be an inseparable conneaion between the
decent observance of the Sabbath and train
ing up children in ufeful learning. An at
tentive observer who should pass through
this country, would find ^generally, that
wherever the Sabbath is revered and chrif
tian worlhip is decently supported, there is
a correspondent attention to schools. He
will rarely pass by a well finifhed meeting
house, without feeing near it a decent school
house. Indeed the proximity of those build
ings is to common, that the latter seems to
be a natural appendage to the former. If
his curiosity should prompt him to enter the
school house, he will find the matter to be
not ah ignorant vagrant, incapable of pro
nouncing the language that he profeffes to
teach, but a man of competent learning and
decent appearance. He will perceive the
children to be attentive and orderly ; for
that decency and order to which they have
been habituated in public worlhip on the
Sabbath, they carry with them into the
school.
But our traveller, in passing over a diffria
of the country where there are seen no de
cent buildings for public Worlhip, and where
the Sabbath is spent as a riotous holiday;
cannot but perceive a correspondent defi
ciency in refpe& to schools. Once in seven
or ten miles, perhaps he fees a miserable ho
vel, called a school house, through the cre
vices of which the awkward children are
peeping and staring at him. If he enters
this abode of jcience, be fees a master of un
couth dialed and shabby dress, and whose
glassy eyes and rosy nose plainly indicate his
supreme attachment to the bottle. In the
mean time, he beholds a set of unmannerly,
disorderly children, destitute of ambition,
and reludantly dragged to their lessons by
the cudgel of a drunken preceptor, who, per
haps, enforces the terror of his blows with
horrid oaths and execrations. Disgusting
fight ! This, forfooth, is the way to educate
and prepare children for their being Well in
formed and virtuous, members of a free re
publican government 1
The people of Massachusetts and Con-
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1802.
Course of Grcbange, at Lofton.
„ , INLAND B^LLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Caflij I per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, ■ : : do. : do. do. do.
do. New-York, ■ : : do. : do, do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or? 6 o &vs - do 2 do
New-York, j •'
N. B. Rills at fhorterfight, proportionally higher.-
Current prices of per front to
D. C. D. C.
Lemons frefo bx. 10 o ii o
Lime, half hhd. ! 75 2 o
Leather, Soal, dried, ffi 620 be
Molasses G. 040 044
Nutmegs lb 5 0 55°
Nail Rods fcarte C. 750 8 0
relent M - 0 34 0°
n|6dj t$ — 066 0 c
^J 6d, wrought — 117 o (
< ;tod, do. infpecled - - 175 IBc
Z I 2od, do. do. -- 245 250
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 11 50
-1 ("Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
O [Linfeed G. 112 120
Pepper lb 028 0 0
Pork, best pieces B. 20 0 do
, common -- 14 0 z 5 °
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 0 26 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C° 375 4 °
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /refo cafle 850 9 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 0 0
, Windward ^ pr.-- 080 o c
Rice scarce C. 6 O 0 c
Rosin scarce B. 45° 0 °
Soap, whYe 1b 014 016
, brovrt — 010 012
, cafth -- 017 0 0
Sugar, Haynnati C. 17 0 0 0
, Eaftjndia —l2 0 0 0
j , Wes-India -- 9 0 12 0
nedicut, afte the laudable example of their
ancestors, ha*e been in the pradice of fop
porting and ^tending public worlhip : and
there is perlaps, in those two states a greater
number of oad common schools, as wed as
of literary elablifhments of a foperior grade,
than can be found in all the other Rates in
the union. In almost every town, new set
tlements excepted, decent school houses are
planted at onvenient dittanies from each
other, in which there are employed reputa
ble matters ind mistresses., By these means,
there is fuel a general diffufion of the rudi
ments of learning, that it is rare to find, in
those diftri&s a man or a woman of decent
appearance, who cannot read, and also write
a legible hand : and one might venture to
aver; that in that part of the country, reli
gious older on the Sabbath has been the pa
rent and the nurse of science.
The French philofophifts, who aimed to
to establish the reign of anarchy and to de
stroy every vestige of civilization as well as
of religion, could not poflibly have taken a
more effe&ual method to accomplish their
nefarious purposes, than they did in abohfh
ing the Sabbath ; nor can there be a readier
way to debauch the morals of children and
youth, to bar their progress in literature and
to extinguish within them all ambition for
things which are truly excellent; than to
bring them up in an habitual contempt of
the Sabbath and of the sacred fervides of the
chriftian worlhip. SENEX.
SENTIMENTS FROM STERNE.
SOLOMAN faj s, oppreflion Will make a Wife
man mad. What will it do then to a tender and
ingenoos heart, which feels itfelt neglected ---too
full of reverence for the author to complain, fee it
fits down in silence, robbed of its courage, ot all
its natural powers to please-born to fee others
loaded with caresses—in some uncheery coiner it
nourishes its discontent---and with a weight upon
its spirits, which its little (lock of fortitude is not
able to withfland—it droops and pines away Sad
victim of caprice.
Nothing so powerfully call home the mind as
dihrefs ; the tense fibres then relax —the foql re
tires to itfelf—(its pensive and susceptible of right
impressions : if we have a friend, 'tis then we think
of him ; a benefactor, at that foment all his kind
red sceisupon our minds.
•Dotting extenuate, not set boton ongift in malice.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Mr. Canning's irrefragible proofs addu
ced in the House of Commons, that the set
tlement and cultivation of our new territory
of Trinidad, would require an importation
of 250,000 negroes from Africa, not only
present a confederation that cannot be enter
tained without horror, but Ihew the futility
of all expectation, that under any change of
Minivers, even under the auspices of the
humane and difereet Mr. Addington—is the
Slave Trade, that odious and detestable traf
fic, to be diminished, much less exploded.
To cant about the blessings of liberty we
enjoy, and the wealth and prosperity we con
tinue to derive under that liberty, at the ve
ry moment we are projecting new plans of
enslavement for the unoffending natives of
Africa, to promote our ow n aggrandizement,
is more ridiculous, if possible than the eleva
ted fan&ity of certain divines, who frundle
their unwieldy carcasses in gilded chariots,
from the temples of luxury and dissipation;
to preach mortification, repentance andlack
cloth, to their lean and indignant flocks.
How muff the morality of that country
stand, whose fenators,'at the moment they
are pronouncing panegyrics Upon the envied
and unparalied liberties of their own coun
try, plead commerce and territory as a juftifi
cation for a traffic in human flefb, and de
voting millions of people who never injured
us, with their pefterity, for ever to chains ?
If in the pursuit of wealth and prosperity
be competent argument for rapine, blood
(bed, and fubjugaticn; towards an unoffend
ing people, who shall, queftipn the benevo
lence, the justice, or moderation of the Al
gerines, or any other band of plunderers pub
lic or private ?
But it seems the French and the Ameri
cans arc to commence the trade, and have
the honor of fopplying our Weft India Iffand#
if we decline it. "Any thing, fa±d a lady
once who opened a brothel, "^or a bit of
'honeft bread—there wfi be always bawds in
the world—-and not one the less for my de
clining it." If it muff be done, (said an ex=
ecutioner when his father came to be hang
ed) I may as well take the job as another.
[Landon paper
Current prices of per from. to
D. C D. C,
Starch, Poland 16 017 0 0
, American — o 121 017
Sugar, Loaf 16 02$ 0 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's Island — 6 0 6 m
, Liverpool — 450 5 0
, Rock -7 0 0 0
Steel, German so 0 14 0 0
, English — 0 16 018
Salt Petre, refined — 025 0 0
Shot Patent, C. 11 0 0 0
fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading — 26 0 28 0
>W. O. bbl. — 10 0 12 50
< 1 R. O. hhd. — 10 0 11 75
^ do. Shooks 066 0 0
[W. O. do, < 1 20 1 30
Tin in sheets bx. 18 o 2o 0
Tar B. 325 0 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 0 0
, Souchong -- 065 0 0
, Bohea -- 032 033
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia -- 550 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
, seine •—5 ° 55°
~ Madeira' G. 217 283
Q |Lifbon y&zrtc, — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 117 120
^ I Malaga scarce q.c. 32 0 0 0
? [Red Port — 140
SLAVE TRADE.