The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1795-03-28 00:00:00, page 4

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Poet*s Corner.
the beginning we frad only
fiefh of animals to eat i and if they
tailed we starved. Two of our
hunters having killed a deer, and
broiled a part of it, saw a young
woman deicend from the clouds
and feat herfelf on a hill hard by.
Said one ttr the other, “It is a
spirit, perhaps, that has ftnelt Our
venison; let uy offer feme of it to
her.”—They accordingly gave
her the tongue; fife was pfeafed
with its flavour, and said M Your
kindhefs (hall be rewarded; come
here thirteen moons hence, and
you (hall find it.”—They did so;
and found, where her right hand
had touched the ground, maize
growing; where her left had been.
H ’ ye who meet flern winter's frown,
jfy Upheld by fortune’s powerful hand.
Who fee the chilling snow come down.
With all her comforts at command :
Worthy of a place, not only.in the ’corner
of every ncwfpaper,but also in the cor
ner of every human heart.
O I think of their lets happy doom.
Whom poverty’s sharp Woes assail I
No sparkling fire, no cheerful room,
Revive their cheek, cold, funk and pale.
Deep howls the wind! the peltingrain
. Drips thro’ the fhatter’d casement cold >
While the fad mother’s arjns contain
Her infanta, shivering in their fold.
tn vain thay raise their piteous cry*
And plead at hungry nature’s call; „
Their only foo^ a mother’s sigh I
Their only warmth the tears that fall!
StrechM on his miserable bed.
The wretched father finks in grief:
Pale sickness rr^s upon his head.
And only hopes from death relief.'
• - > •’ ' *’ »
The parents’ tender, mournful eyes,
M’ngle their faint and humid beams:
Fresh woes from retrofpeflion rife,
Frefii source from mem’ry’s fountain
streams.
d rich ! the transport might be thine* '
To soothe their fufferings into peace I
To bid the fun of comfort shine.
And want’s dppreflive empire GClfc 2
On fancy’s pinion ofc 1 roam,
With pity^ partner of my flight.
Forget ft while chat grief’s my own,
And wfte a soothing, sweet delight.
To fee the glow es Health return,
Reanimate their faded cheek I
Life’s feble (park, re-ktadied, burn,
And give—what language cannot speak.
forget the many pdignant woe#,
A SWEDISH Minister took
occasion to inform the
Chiefs of theSufquehannah Indians
in a kind of fermon* of the prin-
That Weigh this drooping form to earth:
Where restless sorrow hopes repose,
’Scap’d from those ills which gave it birth.
O 1 ye embark’d for pleafore’s fliore,
Refrain a while the fluttering fail I
At .pity’s call, retard the o<r, . ■ i
Nor let her plaintive pleadings fail I
cipal historical fa^s on which the
cbriftian religion is founded £ and
particularly the fall of our firft
parents by eating an apple. When
the fermdb was over, an old In
dian orator replied,—What you
havetoldus is very good •, we thank
you for coming so far to tell us
those things you have heard from
your mothers; in return We will
tell you what we have heard frpm
[By tßt late DoSor Benjamin Franklin.'}
The ORIGIN of TOBACCO.
. VERSES,
- old-Gothic fabrick of feudal ty
ranny. But the whole ftru&ure
muff come down, and great events
* will precede the general craflt.
-v-v * -
The favpricc play and farce
tiOW performing at Copenhagen,
is a French tranffadon of d All in
the Wrong, ,r With “ The devil to
Pay ” The popular piece at
- Amsterdam is; “ Tis well it’s no
worse.” The School of Arro
/ gance,” & “ The Road coßuin,”
LONDON is of all places the
molt convenient and retired
lur a man of small fortune ; there
every fort of neceiTary is to be had
in the smallest quantities; and pro
vided a man has a clean flint and
three pence, in his pocket, he may
t^lk as loud in the coffeehoufe as
the ’fquire of ten thousand pdunds
a year. No one asks how he lives
or where he dined. It is not so
in the country $ your neighbors
wanting that constant fuppiy of
news or amufemenc to be Had in a
great city, busy tnemfelves in the
minutest enquiries, .not drily scru
tinizing into the birth, 1 parentage,
education^ and fortune,, of ( their
neighbors; but even retailing the
articles of their daily ho use keep
ing, insomuch that at the little
chandler’s shop in every village,
it is exactly known.how many eggs
each inhabitant had inhislaft Sun
day’s pudding.
kidney beans-, and where her back
side had been, they found tobac
co.”
The Swedilh minister was dis
gusted. “ What F told ycu,” Paid
he. “ is sacred truth Vyours is fable,
fi&ion, abd falfehood.” The In
dian, offended in his turn, replied,
“ My friend, your education has
not been a gpod on.e; your moth
ers have not done you justice; they
have not well inftru&ed you in the
rules of common c’Vdity. You
saw that we, who understand and
pradife these rules', believed all
your ftoriesi why then do you
refute to believe ours ? We believe,
indeed^ at you have told us, that
it is bad to eat apples; it had been
better that they had all been made
into cyder ; but we would nor have
told yob so, had you hot disbeliev
ed the method by which we firft
obtained maize, kidney beans and
Tobacco.”
It is curious to oblerve how few
events whjgh generally come under,
the denomination of news, are
furnifhed by the United States in
a time of peace. If arrivals from
Europe fail for three weeks, the
whole American horizon is tran
quil—*a dead calm succeeds. The
proceedings of legislative bodies
keep the , politician awake; but
porter houses and dram (hops be
come dull, and the war folks,who
live oh the news of blood and car
nage, ablblutely yawn about as
lifelefs as oyftcrs. The specula
ting gentry too almost run out of
employment for want of a rife
and falfof. prices, and often are at
their wits end for news.— Patience
good people. Wefterlf winds
cannot blow always. There is
work enough going on in ; Europe
The war between the high and
low is not yet ended—a few (tones
only are yet knocked out of the
SKETCH OF THE 'TIMES,
n£w-London, march 5.
King George in a fright.
Left Gib bon ffiould write'.
The hiftory of Britain’* difgrice,
Thought no means more fore
Ht» pen to secure.
Thin to give the historian a place.
But hk caution is vain,
*Ti< the curse of hi* reign *
That hi* proje&s should never succeed,
Tho* Ke' writeo DOtn line.
Yet a cause of decline,
. In the Author’* example we read.
Hi* beck well describes.
How corruption and bribe*,
Overthrew the great empire of Rome,
And hi* writihgs declare
/ A degeneracy there
Which hi* conduit exhibit* at home.
CHARLES A.
c. j. FOX.
Upon the, promotion- of the aVtAox to
the Board of Trade in 1779«
were getting up in America; but
by order of Congress, “ Look
before, you Leap,” and “ How to
grow Rich,” bare been substituted
in their places “The Contrivan
ces,” has been got up in Sweden,
with a farce of “CrofsPurpofes,”
and at Peterfbungh the landing fa
vorite is “ Achilles in Petricoats,”
with the entertainment of the “The
Ephesian Matron.” Tne perfor
mances in Genoa ate ‘Falfe Del
icacy,’ and ‘ The Hypocrite,’ and
at Geneva, they have been playing
“ The Fobl,” and “ The Meta
morphoses. 1 ’ In Flanders, “ The
Combat,” has a continued run, and
in Great-Britain, the favorite is,
“ All’s well that ends well.”
The following ANECDOTE of Mr* GIB .
BON became public a few. days a go,, by
the dispersion of a celebrated orators libra
ry, who in the fir ft Volume of Mr. GIB •
EON’S Hi dory had written the foilow
ing memorandum and verses: . .
“ The author of this book upon the
delivery of the Spanilh rescript in - June
1779, declared publicly at B'ookes’s, that
there war, no salvation for this country
unteli fix of the heads of the Cabinet
Council were cut off and laid upon the
table of the Houses of Parliament as exam
ples-*and left than a,fortnight after that
declaration took an employment under the
Cabinet Council/*
? and to have promoted
faRT^, SCIENCES, MaNUFACT.
URES, AGRICULTURE, and HU
MANITY,
by liberal laws, and liberal grants j
If to haye '
Saved the United States from a
FOREIGN War,
by its wisdom and pre^iince;
; Tq.have , ...
Prepared against its Calamities,
by efficient armaments;
7 and to have paid > f .
A great part of the/^; ofgratitude to France,
in advancing her money—
yet still Supporting the duties of Neutrality;
If tojhave ,■ -
A and td have <
Restored the confidence of the People,
in the Government of their choice ;
. . r, If to have
Courted, by liberal rewardr, the Friendship,
; tad jo have chastised
The InfoUaed of ho ft ile Aboriginals ;
If to, have done
Deeds like thefe^ be meritorious.
The Decesfed,
i .Has never ceased
<‘TO DESERVE WELL OF ITS
COUNTRY.”
Quelled an INSURRECTION, which
threatn’d our Peace, without blood fixed ;
7HE THIRD CONGRESS
ON Turf day t the Third of March > 1745,
expired L in blefled hope,
of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :
. , If to have
Provided for the Redudion of the
, NATIONAL DEBT,
by a mode the moil easy and ample;
If to have,.
Encouraged COMMERCE,
. by prote&ing it;
Political Epitaph,
TO purchase two orthree tons of
i HOG’s FAT,
. for which the cafli will be paid by
-7 .. ^Woodbridge Odlin;
jxetef^Feb. 16, 1795.
Smith’s Hymns.
fuft pubUJhed and ready for fak by
the printer hereof,
THE Sixth Exeter Edition of DI
VINE HYMNS, Or, SPIRITUAL
1 SONGS &c.—Containing about Forty
” excellent Hymns which' have dot bets*
printed in any former edition—and some
• of whieh are Original.
WA ^T E D,
BY the Printer hereof, ar
few bushels of OATS, for
whichra generous price will'
> be given.
* WANTED, *
A few pounds coarse Sheeps
Wool, for which a generous price
will be given, by the Printer
& hereof t . .. .
kags.
ASH, Writing-Paper, or
Books given for dban
Cotton and linen RAGS at
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immediate payment to him, o her wife their
notes and accounts wilt be left with Ar
thur Livermore, Eiq. hi. attorney,
without further notice.
TOPPAN WEBSTER.
ChtHer, February, 1795.
4 L L Persons, who have
AV > Claims againft.the Efiate of JOHN
SULLIVAN, late of Durham in the Coun
ty of Stafford, Elq; deceased, inteflate, are
desired - to'prefent the fame to Jomathah
STBBta>;Efc[’ Durham; or Gaoncr
Sullivan of Exeter, Admrtiftrators cf
the Estate of laid Deceased j—and all per
sons, who are indebted to fvid Estate, are
requested to ifiake immediate payment to
the aforefaid Administrators.
1795.
which he now lives io, together with a
Very convenient
Store, two stories high,
with a good Cellar under tht whole, a back
Store adjoining, with a Chaise-House,
Wood House, Stable, and every necessary
out building ’.—Alfo a good Garden, with
a number of fine fruit-treer* with a final!
piece of excellent mowing land, the whole
enclosed With a high board fence, well
painted ; he also has a Rock of GOODS
in the Store, of about £2ooo.—The Dwel
ling-Houfeis decently furnifhed; the whole
will be fold together, if more agreeable to
the purchaser, and generous credit will be
given with good security.
To he Sold or Let,
BY the fubfenber, withili
half a mile of the Rev. Mr. Br ad.
•trebt’s Meeting-House r in Chcfter, in
a central part of the town for trade, and on
the great road from Coos to Portsmouth,
Newbury. Port, Salem, &c> A large and
well finifhed
request ail thole indebted to him,to make
As the fubfcib r has it in contemplation
to leave Chester in a tew mooch—would.
BY virtue of the Judge of
Probate, at Public Venoua at th®>
house of Mores Hopkinson,late of Exeter
deceased, op Monday the 30th day of March
inst. at one o’clock. P.-M. 2 Co*s, some.
Sheep and some Featherbeds and Bedding
and house bold furniturf.
N A . ENOCH ROWE, Adm’r.
March 17, 1795.
for Tale two shares in the
Concord & Haverhill Stage..
WANTED a good Milch
COW.
Enquire of the Printer.
Dwelling-House,
WANTED,
To be Sold
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