The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-09-16 00:00:00, page 4

IAMI AM going to tell what my notions are
about Aristocrats and Democrat.—
People d ffer, I find, in their ideas, wide
ly. I have heard many called by the firft
name, who were not so, by any means in
my view ; and others call themselves by
the fecocd, whom I could not allow to be
such.
When I fee a man blustering and fu
ming about the extravagance and 'mifman
agement of our Governors and Legisla
tors, and damning the inequalities which
cxift in the State, the avarice of office, and
the oppressions and {offerings es the peo
ple, I view this man at all points, to dis
cover whether bis actual condu& in life
correspond, with his pretentions; for on
this I most rely. J will iaftance one of
my neighbours, under the name of M^to,
to illullrate this.
Mero is a man of much property, He
has within a few years purchefed a farm
not far from where I live. When he pur
chased, rhere were a number of small plan
tation* adjoining it, owned by persons who
were just letting out in the world, and had
but very ,ittle property. Mero had set up
a store of goods in the neighbourhood and
gave large credit. Nothing was mere na
tural than for theft people to be getting
this, that, and the other, at the tore;
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The old BACHELOR'S ADVICE.
A new song, tune " The folding wife."
YOUNG men beware,
Lave is a snare,
Alas ! the girls arc cruel ;
Biailh desire,
And let love's fire
Be quench'd fir want of fuel.
If Cupid 's dart
O^ce hits your heart—•
Farewell to peace and pleafare
You'll have ro rest,
B it at the belt
Be tortur'd without measure.
Perhaps you'll fay,
" My Goddess miy
Prove kind, as fc is fair.
Oh ! then 'tis joy,
Without alloy,
Such mighty bliss to ihare!
And then we'!. 'join
At Hymen's Ihrine,
In wedlock's facr^d bands ;
In unity
Os fympa'hy,
Join hearts as well as hands !"'
Remember this,
That all our bliss
Is fhert and transient toe ;
_ The honey moon e
Will soon be gone—
'Til like the msrnipg dew ;
And then, 1 Tear,
Ysur Goddess dear
Will dwindle to a woman :
P ffeffioß cloys,
Erratic joys
Difgufl, if once they're common.
UAll grim death
Shall stop your breath,
If once you're join'd together
Indeed your wife
Is yours for life,
In spite of wind and weather.
The CORDWAINER —No 2.
Affairs so nice
Require advice,
Pray fir, this precept learn ;
Look ere you leap
Adown the steep,
From whence there's no return.
Fair liberty,
I bow to thee—
To tbee alone I wed,
I bave no mind
To be confin'd—
E'en silken chains I dread.
[The following was written in the county oj
Be^kfAre — The idea of an Arf%rat ana
Democrat is certainly good —and the 11fan
co welljourtrajed.]
From the WESTERN STAR.
and Miro Was very patient about his pay,
Maro in thia was accounted a very nice
man. It had gene on for several years
—when a sadden exigency made it necef
fury for Maro to realize immediately all
his outftandiag debts. This, to be fare
was putting his customers to their trumps,
who had thought but very little how or
when they ware going to pay, and whole
accounts proved to be (no impeachment el
Maro's honofty) much larger than they
expected. In short, their farms were giv
en up into the hands of Maro—and where
used to stand their plank cottages and log
huts, their little clean door-yards and gar
dens, the passenger now fees the full bar
racks & the inclufurcsof cattle,belonging to
the unfeeling Mate. Now this man ma,
fay what he pleases and be a member of all
the Democratical Societies in the Union,!
ihall always call him an Aristocrat.
It is otherways with Mentor, another of
my neighbours. Mentor i< called an A
riftrocrat by many because he disapproves
of Democratic Societies, speaks difref
pffiily of Citizen Geirt, and his follow
ers, and is warm in the praites of President
Wethington, Secretary Hamilton, and fe
deral mcafures. lie is never heard to vent
;any complaints against the administration,
;or to insinuate that there is corruption at
helm. Mentor, in his private life, is ths
,very reverfs of Maro. How often have 1
known him to exert himfelf, even to the
material injury of his own interest, to affiA
and relieve a poor man in fame exigence,
in which he was in danger of being ruined !
he too has a neighbourhood of pool }peo
ple ; but inflead ofentrapping their pro
perty and contriving means to root them
out, mob of his time and his income i>
employed to relieve their aecelfries, tv
ad them in the improvement of then
mail farms, and to enlighten their mind:
on futjeHs suited to their capacities. Hr
s a father to them and they 100 and ref
pett him like children. They may fa,
what they will, this is the man that I cal
a Democrat.
When innocence and leautj; hefh combine,
What foul but melts ? —Their force is alt
divine. Anon.
^AL FRENCH author, giving an ac
count of • ver, agreeable man, in whole
charaaer he mingles good qualities and
infirmities, rath r than vices and virtue#,
tells the following story :
" Oar author, fays he, was pretty muc l
addi&ed to the meft fashionable of ah
faults. He had a loose rogue for a lac
quey, not a little in his favour, though hr
had no other name for him wharf he spoke
of him but the Rascal, or to him but Sirrah
Ooe morning as he was dressing, Sirrah,
laid he, be lure you bring home this even
ing a pretty wench. The fellow was ^
person of.diligeace and capacity, and had
for forte time addrafted himfelf to a decay
ed old gentlewoman, who had a young
maiden to her daughter, beau e us as an
angel, not sixteen years of age. The mo
ther's extreme poverty, and the in fin na
tions of this artful lacquey, concerning
the foft c-position and generosity of his
matter, made her confeat to deliver up her
daughter. But many were the intreaties
and reprefentationsof the mother to gain,
the child's consent to an a6Wbn, which she
laid she abhorred, at the fame time ihe
exhorted her to it : But, child, fays she,
can you fee your mother die for hunger ?
The virgin argued no longer, but hurft
ing into tears, laid she would go any
where. The lacquey conveyed her with
great obsequiousness and secrecy to his roa
fter'i lodging, and placed her in a commo
dious apartment,till he came home. The
Knight, who knew his man never failed
of bringing home his prey, indulged his
genius at a banquet, and was in high hu
mour at an entertainment with ladies, ex
pe&ing to be received in the evening by
one as agreeable as the belt of them.—
When he came home his lacquey met him
with a fancy and joyful familiarity, crying
out. She is as hand feme as an angel, (for
there is no other simile en these occasions,)
but the tender fool has wept till her eyes
are swelled and bloated ; for the is a maid
and a gentlewoman. With that he con
duded his mailer to the room where she
1 have met both one and the other now
and then at an evening, at the Inn ; Me
rocurfes Mentor, for an infernal Aritto
crat; Mentor thinks Maro's darling foci
eties, and his violent politicks, will do
his country no benefit ; and forbears to
add any more.
On the Influence of Innocence
and Honour.
N. B. Leather for foots, by the pair,for
sale, of tbsfirfl rate from Bfon- —alje af"w
pairs of Boot legs, of excellent Cal/jhin—All
•which mill be fold cheap for Case only.
Keene, Sep. if, 1,94.
THE fubferiber takes this method to call
on all those whom he bas accounts
and Notes against, of a long ftanding,for im
'mediate fetuement.
RICHARD WEEKS.
N. B. The Accounts and Notes will be
left in the bands of Jofopb Wicks of Rich
mend, who is empowered to fettle wtbfab at (
call in my absence.
Swanuy, Sep,. 1,, >794'
A JOURNEYMAN Boot and Shoe
maker, who is a neat workman —to
fach an one conf ant employ for fix months will
be given, and good pay made, as faft as it is
earned. —Aljo, wanted an Apprentice to the
above bufnefs, with whom great pains wikt
be taken to learn him ; by the fubferiber.
DAVID SIMMONS.
CLOTHIE R ;
Respectfully informs the Public,
that he carries on his bufiefs at the
works formerly owned by Mr. Ephraim
Leacb, in Winchefter,—All persons who wilt
please to employ him in bis prefeffon, may de
pond on having their work executed in the
left manner, on reafonakle terms, and every
favor will be gratefully acknowledged.
W^cbefer, August 30, 1794.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
was, and retired. The Knight, when he
saw her bathed in tears, said in feme fur-'
prise. Do you not know, young woman,
why you are brought hither? The unhappy
maid fell on her knees, and with many
interruptions of sighs and tears said to him,
I know, alas ! toe well why I am brought
hither : My mother, to get bread for her
& myielf,has sent me to you todo what you
pleased ; but I wish it would please Hea
ven I could die, before I am added to the
number of those miserable wretches who
live without honour ! With this retie&ion
the wept anew, and beat her bufom. The
Knight, stepping back from her, said, I
am not so abandoned as to hurt your inno
cence against your will.
“ The novelty of this accident fcrprifed
him into virtue ; and covering the young
maid with a cloak, he led her to a rela
ion's house, to whose care he recommen
ded her for that night. The next morn
ing he sent for her mother, and alked her
Thcr daughter was a maid ? The mother
allured him, that when she delivered her
to his servant, (he was a stranger to man.
Are you not then, replied the Knight, a
wicked woman, to contrive thedebaucher,
of yeur own child ? She held do%n her face
with fear and shame, and in her confufion
uttered some broken words concerning her
poverty. Ta your shame be it, said the
gentleman, that you fhiuld relieve your
elf from want by a much greater evil :
Your daughter is a fine young creature,
do you know of none that ever fpokc of
her for a wife ? The mother answered,
here is an honed man in the neighbour
nood that loves her, who hath often said he
would marry her with two hundred pounds.
The Knight ordered his man to reckon ou.
hat sum, with an addition of fifty, to bu ;
he brile clothes, and fifty more as an
iclp to her mother."
1 appeal to all the gallants in town, whc
her possessing all the beauties in Great
Britain could give half the peafure tha
his young gentleman had in the reflet
iron of having relieved a mifereble par
ent from guilt and poverty, an innocent
virgin from public shame, and bellowed s
virtuous wife upon an honest man.
THE PRINTERS want their pay—
and they would thank all these
who are indebted to them for Papers (am
who have never paid one farthing) if 'the :
would now advance a little.—We are for
ry to be under the necessity of dunning
but it is that which compels us ; there
fore we hope our request will be attendee
to.—The PAPER-MAKER calls loud ;
and if the tall is not noticed, perhaps th.
next will be a CheJbire,ff. Those cf
our Patrons who receive their Papers ot
Benjamin Ellis, are solicited to pay fom<
regard :o this call, his receipt for us w^
ne a difeharge to them, for whatever the
pay. We return our thanks to those who
have been punctual, and to the Public sot
their encouragement ; but unJefs pur.&u
ality is attended to, the Press will run
heavy. HENRY BLAKE, & Co.
TAKE NOTICE !
Oliver ^Blaur,
O be fold a FARM lying in
L Rindge, containing about
Ifo Acres, with good buildings,
pleasantly situated on the main
road from Vermont to Boston,
in a convenient place and well
accommodated for a Tavern,
(for which it is now occupied)
or for a Store : For particulars
enquire of Benjamin Kingsbury 7
Innholder in said Rindge ; or the
Printers hereof.
Sept Bth, 1794. .'
BROKE into the fubferiber's
enclosure, on the firfl inst.
a three year old HEIFER, with
a white face, of a darkish colour,
and some white spots on her fide.
The owner is desired to call,
prove property, pay charges and
take her away.
SAMUEL M'CURDY,jun.
Surry, Sept, Bth, 1794.
ALL Perlons who are indebt
ed to the fubferiber by book
or note, are notified that pay
ment must positively be made to
him by the firft of Odober next.
^ W. BLAKE.
Keene, Sept. Bth, 1794.
THOSE who are ambitious enough io.
appear as Soldiers, on Field and other
training days, are informed they may he fap
plied mah the following clothing, at the mo
derate price of ftven dollars per fait, and at
a credit of three months —viz. An elegant
cach'd Hat, with cockade, plume and grid
cord, for loop and band —.4 gented 6%
broadcloth Coat, with buff facing and litin,
—A bu^ Fiji—white, tinea overalls, wno
knee fraps complete.
As there are but afe«w suits to be disposed
of, those who wjhjor a choice, mill do well
to apply soon to the fubfertber,
ALL Persons indebted to the
fubferiber, in any name or
nature soever, are hereby re
quested to make immediate pay
ment, or else look out !
ISRAEL HOUGHTON.
Keene, Sept. Sth, 1794.
REGIMEN rMTUN^ORMS"!
FOR 400 dollars only, and a
considerable pay day given
for the greater part ; —One hun
dred acres of excellent LAND,
for plowing, mowing, pasturing
and orcharding, lying in Keene :
40 acres thereof into good pas
turing, within three and half
miles of the meeting-house, and
on the great road to Weftmor
land, with a dwelling-house
thereon—and a large brook that
constantly runs through the
whole, with a Fulling-Mill on
the fame. For further parties
lars enquire of David Wether
ell living on the premises, or the
fubferiber who is empowered to
fell the fame.
RAN away from the fubferi
ber on the night of the 21st
ult, an indented servant boy,
named Nathan Butterfield, about
13 years of age, —Had on when
he went away, a mix'd colour
ed fnitout, fuftian trowfers and
a striped waistcoat. Whoever
will return said Boy, shall be en
titled to the above reward.—
All persons are forbid harboring
or tripling said Boy, on the pen
alty of the law.
FIKE DOLLARS REJQRD.
LUTHER EMES.
Keene, Sept. Bth, 1794.
N. COOKE.
Keene, Sept. ;d, 1794.
, THOMAS EDWARDS.
Keene, Sept. 8, 1794.
A BARGAIN !