The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1795-02-24 00:00:00, page 4

HE miseries to which human na
ture is liable to, hs often been the sub
jed of contempt 'i?i— Viewing the gloo
my fideof xhe question, the feelings el a
benevolent heart are apt to be exceeding
ly agitated.
Man is born unto trouble as the (parks
fly upward—he cometh forth like a flower
and is cut do^r—he flourilhetti in health
and vigor—but concinueth rot —his days
pass like a fhadew and be is gone—-h<
earth in darkness, hath mu:h furrow and
returneth to h s original duit and no fur
ther remembrance of him remains.
Drath is the law of our nature, th:
debt,which all muff pay, and there is no
discharge in that war. The works of na
tore wareld and decay—the lohielt mon
uments of human arts, pyramids, hates
and empires hive their periods, beyond
which they will not endure—ail things
have a tendency to change; and man
among the rest cf the creation,when called
on by providence, must submit to part
witfrrhe life which was given him. The
great and the good, the wife and the pru
dent, the learned and the ignorant, re
nowned and the obscure, the prince and
the peasant, are all travelling the road
which leads to the grave.
The time of our departure is utterly
uncertain, end the accidents which my
deprive usof life are innumerable. An
unexpected bruise, and uidefi^ned blow
^ftll from 2 horse, the scratch of a pin,
the paring of a nail, or the the daft of
wall, may be made the inifrument of im
#iifcliate Hcrtth—thus Ancereur:, the P^
WAI choaked with a grape stunc —Fabius,
The human pair,th' Almighty Pontiff led.
Gay as the morning to the bridal bed.
A dread solemnity th' espousals grac'd,
Angels the witnesses, and God the Priest ;
All earth exulted on the nuptial hour,
And voluntary roses deck'd the bow'r.
The joyous birds on every bloffom'd spray,
Su r , H, meneans to th' important day ;
Wh^e Philomela foell'd the spousal song.
And Paradife with gratulations rung.
C4,+XXX*+°
" Love's tyrant power fabdues us all.
%sls|ss,ss^ $^
% POETs CORNER- X
j'^ ftttotttoouocaowtw&tttt
ON MARRIAGE.
HAlL,wedlock hail ; inviolable tie,
Perpetual fountain of domestic joy ;
Love, friendship, honor, truth and pure
delight; 1
Harmonious mingle in the nuptial rite.
In Elen firft the holy state began,
When perfea innocence diftinguifh'd
man ;
" A word of fthfe they scarce can use,
“ Either the booby or the slot—"
The Gent, who nature better views,
Here interrupts her with a " but —
preach,
They freak as much as lover's know,
Aud all that capid has to teach.
Dick.
Whole ev'nings pel's .in high delight,
Starch'd Madam cries, " it makes me
tick ;
" What can they talk of alln he night?
" Ata! my dear, foft words will flow,
When once the heart has learn't to
Some from the stranded off Iforce their way,
Fearful of fate, they meet it tn the fa :
Some who ejeape the fury of the ^ave.
Sicken on earth, and foik into a grave :
In journey! or at bom-, in war or peace.
By hardships many, many fall by ease.
Each changing jeafon does its pofot bring,
Rheums chill the winter.agues blast the tyring.
Wit, dry, cold, hot at the appointed hour,
All ail futyvvient to the tyrant's power :
And wi tn obedient-nature knows bis will,
A fly, a grape Jione, ora hair can kill
PRIOR.
'' My love my foul is ever true !"
This they repeat a th ufand n <s;
'Twas all th it I could fay to you,
Tho' draft in billet-doux and rhymes.
“ Aid rules aliie tbs great and small."
W^HEN cookmaid Nell and servant
ths Worcester Speculator.
Miscellany.
The Roman Senator, was fuffocsted with
a tingle hair in a draught of milit—Pope
Alexander with a fly which flew acciden
tally into his mouth—Homer died of grief
—Saphocles with excefi of joy—Dyonitiua
with the good news of a vidcry he had
obtained—Aurelianus in the audit of a
dance.
Diseases and deaths, fays an ingenious
author, are fecretlv lurking every where—
they are in our b&foms, in our bowels, in
every thing we taste, in every thing we
enjoy—we have death dwelling with us in
our houses, walking with us in our fields,
lying down with us in the beds, and
wrapped about as in our very cloaths, al
ways ready, at the divine command to
give the fatal blow, if heaven permits
Benhadad is fiain in his bed, and Ammon
at his table—Bellhazzer in h°is cups—«he
Egyptian firft born in their deep—Saul in
the field—C^far in the Senate, Caligula
iu the theatre—Antiochus in his coach —
Bercheriah in the temple—and Pope Vic
tor at the sacrament.
To exclude from our thoughts that
which cannot be avoided, betokens a
weaknefl and timidity, which a prudent
man, who desires to act his part with pro
priety, would not indulge. Meditation
on death, which terminates every feeae of
the short period of exifteuce allotted to
man in this transitory Mate, though gloo
my, is imerefting and may be rightly ben
eficial ; it induces us to enquire where
fore we were made— to aiceft^n the du
ties incumbent upon us, and to a serious
and attentive practice of them. No event
is more feieinn and important than that
which is to elofe the connections of life—
to prepare for this laii hour is a moment
ous object— to be able to meet it with a
rational composure and dignity, calraaels
and fortitude, fhoud De the earned define,
and tngrufs the principal attention of
man.
IN America, that Country, which
Gou and mao have concurred to render
the blifsful haoitation of abundance anc
of peace, the poor are not broken down
by taxes to support the expensive trap
pings of royalty, or to pamper the luiu
ry of an infolem robl't. No loroty pte
trampies down the corn of the hu/ba d, aa,
no proud prelate wrings from him thet) the
4 hisinCcUty. They have neither tain
chicanery in ermine, nor hypcsrii, in
lawn. The community is not there di
vided into an oppressed peafangry, ano
in overgrown aristocracy, the one cl
whom lives by the plunder cf the state,
while the o hers are compelled to be the
objects of it. Plenty is the lot of all;
Superfluity of none.
An equal and undistinguished law is the
only sovereign acknowledged by a fret
and independent people, which as all
contribute to make, so all are itcii.-
ed to support. The word- subordina
tion, a term unknown in the vocabulary
of freemen, and which metns orly a re
ciprocation of Slavery and tyranny, never
wounds the ear of the high minded re
publican. Order, real order is preserved,
because no man has an i t<reft in oiliarb
ing it. The peace of millions cannot be
broken by the bloody defpotifty of one
man. The maxims of the prince of Peace
are not only preached but pradifed.—
The trumpet of war is never founded by
the heralds of despotism, to enkindle a
spirit of murder and of rapine. Dun
geons,whips,chains,racks and gibbets,are
not there resorted to as lessens of morality,
or instruments of conviction. , Crimes are
not often punished with rigor, b+caufe
they are prevented by inftruhie,. Above
all,a baneful luxury which, engenders dis
eases that not only embitter life,but poison
the very source of it, is there unknown.—
The, have no wants but such as nature
gives, and which may be easily supplied
by a moderate degree of labor, ^ife is
Simple, and therefore it is happy.
This is rut the gaudy picture of a dif
empered imagination, but the @1 repre
sentation of things as they are. Many
pars have I resided in the bosom of that
country ,and have seen and felt the blessings
That we may have a peaceful and hap
py exit, when we are called to quit this
mortal feene, it becomes us to renounce
the purfut.s and indulgence of vice and
error, and to walk in the paths of virtue,
which alone lead to the true felicity.
" Boatt not thytcif of to-morrow, for
thou knowei lnot what a day may bring
forth."
A Citizen cf the world, who is now tak
ing tne tout if the United States, give;
the following description of Africa.
which I describe ; & therefore with honest
pride and conscious truth,! hold it up as an
objeß of admiration to the whole world.
THE numerous fubjeds of which a
newspaper treats, gives to every pro
feffion and occupation, some informa
tion ; whilst its variety holds out to every
taste, some gratification.—lts cheapness
enables almolt every member of a com
munity to purchase it; and its concifenefe
puts it in trie power of the meft busy to
peruse it.
From a book entitled " Curiofciu cf Litera
ture."
EARLY PRINTING.
WHEN firtt the arc of Printing was
difeovered, they only made use of one
fide of a page: They had not yet found
out the expedient ofimpreffing the other.
When their editions were intended to oe
Curious, they omucted to print the firlt
letter of .*chapter, for which they left a
blank space, that it might be painted or
illuminated at the option of the purchaser.
Several ancient volumes of these early
times have been fouud, where these letters
are wanting, as they have ncgle&ed to
have them painted.
When the Art of Printing was firft ef
tabiifhed, it was the glory of the learned
to be correctors of tne press to the emi
nent Printers. Physicians, Lawyers, and
BUhops themfelvcs occupied this depart
ment. The Printers then added fre
q ently to their names those cf the cor
rectors of the Preis ; ana editions were
then valued according to the abilities OT
the corrector.
BLUS leave to inform the Public, that
he tranfpOrts the Mail from Beftov
to Charlettown, No. 4, and curing the
winter conveys tne Mail in a convenient
cleft Sleigh for the benefit of thole Gen
tlemen anti Ladies who will pleale to fa
vor him with their company in laid Mail
)tage at 3d. per mile, with i^lbs baggage
gratis. The Mail sets off from Bolton on
Wlurefday mining, arrives at Leomin
her the evening of the fame day—Thurl
uav, arrives at Capt. Bullard's Coffee-
House, in Keene— Friday morning leaves
Keene, and arrives at Charleftown at 2
o'clock, P. M.—fame day returns to Wal
pole—Saturday arrives at Keene, at 9 o'
clock, A. M. Marlborough, • 11, A. M.
and on Monday arrives at Bolton. 7 o'
clock in the Evening.
Leominfier, Jan. 24., 1795.
To be SOLD,-
ABOUT four hundred acres
of excellent Land, lying
in Gillum, in the county of
Cheshire and Stale of New-
Hampshire ; well situated to
make three or four good Farms
and only about eight or nine
miles from the Court-House in
Keene. Any person difpoled to
purchafc the whole has an op
portunity to make money, and
may apply for particulars to
J. BARRETT,'
of Northfield.
Northfield, Jan. 22, 179,
MILITARY CIVILITY.
The breach, (fays a L^udun rapes)
treat the Briulh army with very little cet
emony. Our correspondent lays, tea;
Pichegru lent a pelite melNge to th<
Duke of York, intimating to him.-
" That as he meant to make Nimegeen
the feat of his winter quarter), he wouia
be obliged to Citizen York to remove wna
all convenient Speed. H. was lorry to be
obliged to disturb the Citizen, but h.
was convinced from his former civility,
that he would have no beuu&Qn in com
plying withhe r< {eil.
-Ear.—:_u.-MHiMW- ..tit ^4aHmaraß*
joth^m Johnson;
INFORM the Public that they have under
taken to ride Pest from the tffce of Hen
ry Blah. & Co. Printers in Keehe, for one
year, and longer if encouragement effirs, be
ginning allo. 94, of their Paper. They
have bought rat part of the Subfribers which
belonged to Benjamin Ellis and David
Brown. If thoje jubfcribers wire not all
fried the left week, she, beg them to be,a.
tient, as they were not negl@d through in
JOHNB SCHELLER & SON,
P O S T-RIDERS;—
For fal eat the Printing. Office in Keene, the
following EGAS.
rHE AMERICAN Preacher ; or a
collection of Sermons from feme
of the melt eminent preachers,now living
in tha United States. Sterne's sentimen
tal Journey. Vicar cf Wakefield. Young's
Night Thoughts. Odiorne's Poems. Fa
mi.iar Dialogues. Lift of jofeph. The
Redeemed Captive, returning to Zion.
Devout Extremes of the Heart. The IM
Solemn Scene, a Sermon. The Hiftery
of Tom Jines. Travels to the West
ward. The Rights of Christians. Pope's
on Man. Present to an Appren-—
rale, by a late Lord Ma, or of London.
Recovery from Sicknei's j a prefant to one
lately raised from a dangerous disorder,
A choice drop of Honey, from the Rock
Christ. An Historical Catec^ifm. The
Old Bachelor's Re?fors for Celibacy.
A froaliEff>y on the signs of Chrill's se
cond appearance. The Toy Shop. Pro
digal Daughter. Divine Songs for chil
dren, by 1. Watts. A dissuasive from the
Sin of Drunkenness ; and a great variety
Pamphlets not here mentioned.
The above BOOKS will be fold cheap
for Cash, Country Produce, or Rag's.
Great allowance made to Pedlers, who
purchase by the quantity.
In addition to the above we have just re
ceived
TH*
VOYAGES
ADVENTURES
OF
Captain ROBERT BOYLE,
IN SEVERAL PARTS !OF THE
WORLD:
Webner's First Part, Alexander's En
glish Grammar.
Just published. An Elegy rathe Death
ofthe f
IRer.1Rer. JOHN WESLEY^ /
attrition. It is their determiration to & „
,un&ual as those Polls bane bun. Papers to
be dedvered on the Jame tome, and all kinds
of bufaefs entrufed to them Jhall be executed
punctually. 9be Papers will generally be de
livered by John Eacbeller jun. Th, ride
through the towns of Packerfold, Dublin,
Jeffrey,'Marlborough, Fitzwilliam, Rindge,
Winchendon and Royaiflon, and fall extend
their route further, if they have encourage
ment.-
They remain the Public's obedient femants,
JOHN BACHELLER & SON.
ON the night of the 25th infant, the
STORE ofihe fubicriber was bro
ken open, and the following articles tak
en, viz. One piece Caffimere—one
piece Velvet—one dozen worfled Hole
one piece Checked Linen—one dozen Wo
men's kid Gloves : with a variety of
Handkerchiefs, of the following kinds;
India Bandannoes—black Barcelona do^
check'd Silk do.—several pieces Silk and
Cotton do.—Cotton do.—linen do.
one piece Chintz Shawls—sundry kinds of
Twill—federal hundred Needles, &c. &c.
There ate the strongest marks of fufpicioh
agaiaft a certain perlon, who calls his same
CALEB OAKS.—He is a well built per
son, about five feet ten inches, or fix fee#
high—dark hair, & grey eyes—thick let
—about twenty fix years of age.— Had on,
while in this town, alight coloured ftrip'ed
elastic coat, confiderablr worn, and a
light mix'd coloured broadcloth one—vel
vet waistcoat and breeches—round' hat,
wore boots, and looks like a thief.—He
nad a red Ihag wairtcoat ; and his great
coat was a dark brown,trimmed round the
cape, collar cuffs, &g. with leallkin, furr
out.—He rude adark bay horse, carries
018 head low, and trots. —He is a Sboe
oxker by profeffion, and plays on the Vio
lin, which he kespv with him. Whoever
.13 Ucue said t|pef in any of the jails of
this C<mmouwealth, or recover said good
o,hat the fubicriber may have them,
ihall have TWENTY DOLLARS re
ward, and all lawful charges.
JEREMIAH MAYHEW.
Newuedford, 28th Jan. 1795.
JO BE juLl, OR LET
BY the Subferiber, a good FARM of
100 Acres of LAND, and a fatal!
HOUSE on it.
ALSO, a few lots of wild LAND for
Settlement. PayroeOmaae easy.
SHELDON LOGAN.
Chefterfiefd, Feb. 9th, 1795,
BY ILHANAN W^CHISTER.
O STOP THIEF!-
^OO JC J.