The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-02-17 00:00:00, page 4

A Parfon,overtook a young ,ag upon tbe road,
alked him if he could chop logic ? Logic ! said the
wag, Ido not know what it is.— Why, said the
parson, it isto tell of a thing that is not so,
and make it appear that it is so.— Then said the
wag, your,faddle is a mule. How can that be re
tort, the parson ? Because, said the wag, a Mule
is between a Horse and an Ass and so is your sad
dle. N
Richard who had a uoify scolding wife, requeOdd
a friend to call and fee him, and, referring to his
wife, desired his Neighbor to come in a Thunder
ltorm when her clack would not be heard.
EPIGRAMMATIC).
I've tried near half an hour to make
An Epigram delight one ;
But feel so very dull indeed,
I think bell not to write one.
!G. HELMBOLD,
Informs his Republican friends, that by the advice
of federal citizens, he intends ifeing proposals
'faafull length Poriraif of "
AARON BURR, Esq.
As a companion of Thomas Jefferson's
which is now in great forwardness in the
hioTs of the engraver.
Ttofeffho have already fubferibed for
the whole length portrait of Thomas Jeffer
ffin, and who are desirous of obtaining that
of Mr. Burr; wilt be so obliging as to leave
theif names at the Ledger Office.
LOUD let the high ton'd organ swell,
Devotion fire each part ;
, A (acred zeal each foul inspire,
• Religion fill the heart.
Flavrifa has a multitude of charms. She is sen
sible, affable, modest, and good humored. She is
tall, without being awkward, and as firaight as an
arrow. She has a clear complexion, lively eyes,
a pretty mouth, and white even teeth ? and will
answer the description which any rhyming lover
can give of the mistress of his affections, after
having ransacked heaven and earth for fimilies, &
jumbled together fun, moon, stars, lillies, rates,
carnations, &c. and yet 1 cannot admire her. She
wants, in my opinion, that je ne fcai quoi, that
namelrfs something, which is far more attractive
than beauty, and so extremely alluring, that few
men are able to refill the Fair-one who is poffefl'ed
in it. It is, in short, a peculiar manner of faying
the most infignificant things, & doing the mod tri
fling actions, which captivates us inftautly,& takes
our hearts by furprize. Few even celebrated
toasts, have this ceflus in their possession. I never
met with but one who had it ; and am apt to be
lieve that die would not have been so thoroughly
amiable, had die not been attacked by the finall
pox at an age when admirers were beginning to
buz about her. For while the beautiesof her face
Were obfeured by that spirit-damping disorder,
she ruminated seriously on the insufficiency of per
sonal accomplishments, ceased to be proud, affect
ed and coquettish, and became one of the mod a
greeable girls in the world. Nor did her pride,
affectation, and coquetry, return with her beauty.
Soon after her recovery, Die was addressed by a
man of sense and vivacity, with whom (he was
highly pleated, and agreed to be his wife, before
she knew that (he should once more be admired
by every eye which beheld her. When she was
married, the sincere elleem which she had for her
amiable bufband, and an increasing family, pre
vented her from re affirming her former airs. In
this manner was one fine woman saved from de-
Itruttion ; and if all the handsome lovely creatures
would take warning, and adore themselves lets,
they would be more idolized by our sex.
Though I am a firenuous advocate for a modefl
decent, and an unaffected deportment in the Fair
Sex, 1 would not have a fine woman altogether
insensible of her personal charms, for she would
then be insipid. 1 would only have her conscious
enough of them to behave with freedom, and to
converse with fluency and spirit. When a woman
flalks majestically into a room, with the haughty
airs of a firft rate beauty, and expels every man
who fees her to die for her, my indignation rises,
and I get away as faft as 1 can, in order to enjpy
the conversion of a good natured, easy creature
who is neither beautiful nor conceited enough to
be troublesome, and who is as willing to give
pleasure as desirous to receive it.
" I once heard a very agreeable married woman
(who was always miftreh of the above-mentioned
charm, tho' she never had the lead pretentions to
beauty, by the lieip of which (he made the men
prefer her to all handsome acquaintance) thus
archly address a circle of pretty girls who panted
for admiration, and longed to increase the num
ber of their danglers ; “It is of no consequence
whether a woman has beauty, if she can behave in
fitch a manrne as to gain admirers. For my part
I had rather be homely and followed, than band
fom and disregarded," The girls, who were
conscious that they laid too great a stress on,heir
outsides, and that they wanted the irreliftible
power of pleasing, bit their lips, and flirted their
fans, but were incapable of making a reply.
To chaunt the great Jehovah's praise,
Let infant voices rife ;
Loud alleluiahs fill the air,
Responses meet the flties.
Let heavenly music swell the dome,
With true angelic found :
Let ev'ry voice assist the lay
With reverence profound.
This day Jehovah calls his own,
A day of sacred joy :
Mortals forget your toils and cares,
Let praise each tongue employ.
Poetical Department.
-4-4 4sg^s>>fr IT
[ORIGINAL.]
At Church on Sunday.
On Female Attractions.
^umorift.
A great variety of
White, color'd, netted and fringed
Camels hair Shawls, from 7s. to 245. cot
ton, linen and cambric pocket Handker
chiefs ; black and fancy silk do. and Shawls ;
sewing Silks ; Twists ; Threads ; knitting
and mending Cotton ; black and color'd
Gallooms ; Shoe & quality bindings ; round
and flat Bobbing ; Tapes ; mould and wire
ffiirt buttons ; Ferrets ; cotton and silk Bra
dells ; white and chintz Bed Lace ; Line &
Tassels to match ; white & color'd Fringes.
Chintzes of every description ;
Cotton Checks and Stripes ; Ladies', Men's
and Boys' Beaver Hats all sizes and prices ;
silk, cotton and worsted Hosiery ; silk, cot
ton and leather Gloves extra lengths ; a few
dozen open work, white and colored Cotton
ditto.
An extensive assortment of
Book, Jaconet, plain, figured and
ftrip'd Mullins; Cambric Muslins from 556
to 12s. per yard ; a few pieces of the new
est fafhon spotted and striped ditto ; Likewise
9-8 thin cambric for gentlemen'sMecker
chiefs.
A variety of
Color'd, ftrip'd & plain Durants ;
Calimancoes ; Wildbores ; Tammies ; Shal
loons ; fancy printed and black Florentines ;
Cambleteens, and cloak Camblets ; Cordu
roys ; Thicksets ; plain and fancy Velvets ;
day Cords ; Dimities ; Muflinets ; some
beautiful white & printed Marseilles Quilt
ing ; a few pieces of very fine cotton Shirt
ing, and a general assortment of Irilh Lin
ens.
White and color'd Baizes and
Flannels ; spotted Swanfkins ; Ratteens ;
Plains ; Kerfies ; Forest, Elastic and Broad
Cloths ; Coatings ; Duffils ; Kerfymeres,
and Swandowns.
Black, green and crimson Mohair
Plulhes ; black and color'd silk Velvets for
Ladies' Bonnets ; a few squares rich black
Velvet for Shawls.
Fashionable Muffs and Tippets ;
Fur Linings for Shawls ; Italian Crapes of
all colors ; cotton, silk and silver Trim
mings.
14great variety of „
Fans ; a few very elegant dress do.
Fancy Feathers and Plumes ; Wreaths and
Ladies Cap Bands ; white and black Laces,
Edgings, and Veiling.
Ladies' Slippers, Shoes & Clogs,
of all kinds ; a few with cork soles ; Floss
and silk Rofetts to match.
And per thefoip Nancies, Capt. Lunt, just ar
rived from Liverpool, is received,
A-general assortment of
HARDWARE & PLATED
Men's low pric'd HAT'S,
will be fold wholesale only.
The GOODS having been chos
en by himfelf at the manufaaories, and
bought with ready money, he presumes will
enable him to serve his friends on the best
terms.
Portsmouth, Nov. 17, 1800.
All persons who are indebted
to or that have any demands on the Estate of
Mr. Jofcpb Cotton,
Boat-builder, late of Portsmouth, deceased,
are hereby desired to call and fettle the fame
with
Samuel Bowles, r
Executor to the last will and testament of
the said deceased.
Portsmouth, Dec* 29, 180& ;^; w
A DWELLING HOUSE—FOR ^l£,
Four Rooms on the floor and shop in front,
in the center of the town, for further parti
culars inquire of the printers.
An elegant assortment of
Ladies' Hats and Bonnets of the
newelt fafhion, trimmed and untrimpaed.
BENJAMIN BRIERLEY,
Late of the Firm of
Lang, Brierley, & Co.
Which are now opening, and for sale eithe
By Wholesale or Retail,
Begs leave to inform bis friends and
the Public that be is just arrived from .
Europe with a very general assortment of
Fancy, Fashionable and Staple
for Cash or ffiorf approved Credit,
At the fore on Spring- Hill, nearly oppofte
Mr. Peter Coffins.
THE ASSORTMENT CONSISTS OF
NEW GOODS,
At Wbokfele & Retail.
GOODS.
Which with a few Boxes of.
GOODS,
The subscriber sent to the
Poll-Office in Portsmouth, N. H. in the
month of August last, a letter direded to
Edward Gray, Esq. of Bottom, containing
a Note of hand, of which the following is a
copfoviz.
' Boflon, Feb. 1/1, 1796.
" 3670 Dollars.
On the firft day of February, one thou
sand eight hundred and two, 1 promise to
pay to John Tucker, Esquire, or 10 his or
der, the fam of thirty-fix hundred and sev
enty dollars, being for value received.
Witnefi—fdCpß Kuhn. CHA's CUSHING."
qWlfeh Npte, was endorsed (bitink) by
John Tucker, Esq. and neither the Note or
letter hate been received— Therefore all
persons are hereby cautioned against pur
chasing the fame, as payment is flopped.
And whoever possesses the Note or Letter,
is requeued to give immediate information
to Edward Gray, Esquire, Court-street,
Bolton, to William Gardner, Esquire,
of Portsmouth, N. H. or the ,,bfcriber
SAM' IH. HEWES.
P.S. A Reward of TWENTY
DOLLARS will be given to any perlon
who will deliver the abovementioned Note
as afore said.
I Boflon, Nov. i,%i800.
REMOVED.
EBEN'r CHADWICK,
LONG & HAMILTON,
Inform their friends and the public, that they
have a general assortment of
Goods in the Ship Chandlery line,
Confining of the following articles,
TAR, Sail Needles,
ROSIN, Hammers,
Brimferity Tacks,
Shea tffflLPaper, Clouts,
C° r *ti& Scupper Nails,
Rumaffirck, Table Spoons,
Buntings, Fleih Forks,
Quadrants, Iron & Steel Handsaws
Compares, Gimblets,
Spy Glasses, Drawing Nails,
Twines of all forts, Sheathing ditto, -
Log Lines, 2od, iod, & 6d, do.
Mackerel do. Hop Heads,
Paint and tar brushes, Coopers' Adzes,
Dull and fcrubbing.de. Carpenters' do.
Ships Clamps, Wood logs,
Sailors Palms, Deep sea and hand
Ships Scrapers, Leads,
Caulking Irons, Long tar brushes,
Making do. Iron Camboofes ot dis-
Marking do. ferent sizes,
Bung borers, 1 Lanthorns,
Half hour Glasses, | Tin Ware, &c. &c.
14 & 28 fecund do.
—ALSO—
A general assortment of
WEST-INDIA GOODS,
' ) AND
JAMES L. GILES,
Refpeflfully informs bis Corners and the pub
lic in general that be bar removed to Jef
frey's Row, Bow-street,
Where he continues to carry on the
Taylor's Bufineis, .
with neatness, punctuality and dispatch.
Conflant attendance given, and the Jmallefl favors
acknowledged with thanks.
Portsmouth, fan. 5, 1804•
Elliot's Snuff per keg; Kitefoot
and Spanilh Segars ; Pipes ; Tobacco ; No.
1,2, &3, Smoaking do.
Connecticut Cheese ; Pollock
Fish ; Coffee ; Chocolate ; Cotton.
Raisins ; Flour ; Poland Starch ;
Mould and dipt Candles ; Windsor & Cur
tis's (having Soap ; Salt Petre; Mustard ;
Brimstone ; Spermaceti & sweet Oil ; Car
pet and drawing Brooms.
London Porter; Vinegar ; Wrap
ping and Writing Paper ; empty Barrels &
Kegs.
Men's and Boys' Shoes ; English
bend Soles.
Rye; Pork ; Bay-Tallow, &c.
Refpeflfully informs his cuflomers and the
public, that be has taken a fore oppofte
Mr. Sami Hill's in Fore-frat,
Where he ^s for Sale by wholelale & retail,
The following articles, cheap for cajh or fort
* approved credit —viz.
A few hhds. 2d & 3d proof good
flavored St. Vincents and Tobago RUM ;
pipes bed Holland GIN ; Coniac and oth^r
BRANDIES.
4d, 6d, iod & 2od. Nails ; Ame
rican & Englilh Spades and Shovels ; Ship-
Scrapers ; Shot and Flints.
Hyfon, young hyfon, hyfon skin,
Souchong and Bohea TEAS ; Luaf, Ha
vannah and brown SUGARS.
Logwood, Redwood & Euftick ;
Indigo, Copperas and Alum.
Nutmegs ; Pepper; Pimento;
Cinnamon ; Cloves ; Mace and Ginger.
Ship Chandlery Store.
GROCERIES.
CASH, and the highest price given for
Clean linen, & cotton & linen Rags
at this Office.
" Many estates are fyent in the getting,-
Since women for tea forfook spinning and knitting.
And men for their punch forfook hewing and fpiitting"
So, without delay prepare you bags,
And take force care to save ycur RAGS.
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weekly Galenber.
a FF.BRU.IRr HATH 28 DAYS.
Full moon 28th day ioh 13m forenoon,
.SUN,\HSGH
Days of the R, S.\ water. |R. S'.
24 j uctuay, Udou 0 3 ' 4 4
35 Wednesday, 635 6 9 ^ 1 5 28
26 Thursday, r 633 6 10 14^6 4
27 Friday, 632 6 10 59 1 6 36
28 Saturday, . 63^6 11 33 m. rijes.
I Sunday, 6 296 12 '6 49 ~*
2 Monday, 62^6 0 2 5 ,7
m^^tffi^^^^^^^
0e Republican Lebgu,
Is published, weekly, every Tueifo n^^ing, (
oirthe following Condit isw
One Dollar and Fifty Cents per anuQf %
of portage}-ff^ "'^
Those perlons who take wa
ter from the Aquedud into theit ho les,
stores, &c. and have not paid for the water
and logs, or either, up the 31st Decer ^r,
1800, and to the 30th June, 1801, are re
queued to pay the fame to the fubfater
immediately, who will attend for that pur
pose at No. 3, Portfmonth Pier, every day
in the week (Sunday excepted) from 9 a.m.
to I p. m. and in default the untermenuon—
ed Vote will be put in force without dis
crimination.
G. LONG.
At Proprietors Meeting, January 7, &0.
Voted, That the Directors .be requited
to take the moft^ffedual method to collect
the debts now due the Propriety— and thati
a&ions be brought against all who may be
delinquent on the firft day of March next
and that all who may be hereafter indebted
who flhall not pay the fame at the time lim
ited by the directors, be dealt with in the
fame manner or be deprived of the ufc of
the water, as may be thought bed by the di
re&orL
A Post-Note of the United States of
Three Ihoufand Doi :rs;
AND having apprized ^ : t^ banks in
the United States oi the marks <f the ;d
bill, it can be of no real use to ,uy but LS
owner: but as he feels an imonvtnie ^e
from the want of it, he will rav any perlon
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
that has been so fortunate as to find it, rad
will deliver the fame to
JOHN TAYLOR.
Richmond, Fa. Dec. 21 1800.
N. B. The printers of the United Rites
are requeued to publiffi the abo\. adver .e
--ment in their refpc&ive papers th^e times,
and forward their accounts to Mt Ainf
tine Davis, Postmaster, Richmond,Vu ua,,
for payment.
Jefterfofs PirtQt.
Tc ,!;,.
Amateurs of the Ehw^rts
THE FVLLC ^\G ftlc&f
FOR PUBLISHING
A FULL LENGTH PCff^f:
THOMAS jEFFERSON,
Are Rcfpeajuiiy Submit;,.:.
By the Public's molt ott,fy-r
and verv humble terva;.:
GEORGE HELMBCI D.
CONDITIONS.
1. The engraving will be done from a
portrait of this American Patriot, taken
expressly for the purpose by an eminent
portrait painter, and will be executed by an
engraver of the firft rate abilities.
2. The size of the print fliall be 22 inch
es in length and 14 inches in breadth, so as
to make it a match for Stuart's print of Gen.
Washington.
3. The price to fubferibers will be Six
Dollars, The price to non-fubferibers will
be enhanced.
4- The fubfeription money to be paid on
delivery ofthe print, which is expected to
take place in five months.
, 5- The publisher pledges himfelf that the
hkenefs Shall be accurate and striking, and
that the engraving Shall be equal, if net fu.
perior to any work of the kind hitherto ex
ecuted in the United States.
Subscriptions are received at this Off e.
Notice ! Notice ! Notice ,
SAVE FOUR RAGS.
Co tbe Lebien
LOST,
G. Long, Clerk.