The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-08-22 00:00:00, page 4

both Honfes. , . ,
A motion was made by Mr. Goad.
fa and supported by Mr. Sedgwick,
to strike out Six Dollars and insert
five—this motion was negatived by
alarge majority. Some progress was
made in the difeoffion, and the pay of
!te^#^
and for eftabli thing the Government of
the Whitera Territory. These two
Bills, at amended by the Semite, Were
then taken into consideration, and
parsed to be enafted.
The engrafted bill for registering
veffils—to regulate the coasting trade,
&c. was read a third,time, the blanks
filled up, and the quefton (hall this
bill pass ? carried in the affirmative.
A committee was then appointed
to bring in a bill for establishing the
pay of the Executive office,- and of
their clerks.
In committee of the whole, on the
bill for eftablilhing the compenfati.
on, to be allowed the Members of
Gay summer's charms are on the wing
Swiftly they fly, e'en while I sing,
Rough winter soon succeeds.
Ye youths,fo glide your charms away,
Provide for winter's haft'ning day
The fruits of virtuous deeds.
Happy the youth, who always treads
Fair virtue's path which upward leids
To climes beyond the dy ;
There seasons no morerun their round,
But constant verdure clothes the
ground,
And air breathes love and joy.
The farmer, 'midit hisdabour smiles,
For harvest soon repays his toils,
Now bends the loaded grain :
So virtuous fouls their joys have sown
Gladness will all their labours crown.
And peace reward their pain.
When, fcorth'd with fervid funs, the
flowers
Recline their fainting heads, the (how
era
Restore the lovely forms.
Friend(hip, 'tis thine to shed relief
Qn kindred fouls deprefs'd with grief
And raise their drooping charms.
The elm supports the feeble vine,
Whose mantling arms around him
twine,
Emblem of love sincere:
So hangs the nympth upon her Twain,
Let him the tender charge fattain,
And all her weakness (hare.
The Grain,with heat and labourworn,
Salutes foft evening's sweet return,
His bleft retreat from care,
When he a cheerful hoar may spend
Or o'er his book, or with a friend
Or some inchanting fair.
The foiling morn invites the herd
And flock to graze the dewy fwerd,
And crop the night-grown blade,
'Till blazing noon's intenser beam
Bids them explore the limpid stream
And feck the cooling (hade.
Groves, fields^ lawns, in all the pride
Os loveliest robes by nature dy'd,
Strike our admiring eyes ;
Herbs, fruits and flowers their sweets
dispense,
Perfume the air, regale the sense,
Aad bless the bounteous ikies.
Sol, mounted in his flaming car,
Drives to the north,and from his sphere
Revives the balking earth,
Quickens her womb with various life,
And bids her fruits,wich em'loas ftrife
Path forward to the birth.
Art ODE ^ SUMMER.
Summer, the glory erf the year,
How brilliant all thy charm, appear,
How bright thy beauties shine!
My frigid Muse, wak'd by thy rayt,
Retuse her long neglefted lays,
Aad owns the power is thine.
(Continued from firft page.)
The engrossed bill for allowing
campenfations to the members and
officers of the two Houses was read—
a motion was then made by Mr. Sedg.
^l% that the fame lhouldb£&& r .
This motion was adopted, and a
committee, consisting of Mr, Gerry,
Mr. Trumbull, and Mr. Buriko ap.
, pointed.
A message from the President of the
United States, by the Hon. Gen.
Knox, was received, refpeaing the
present posture of Indian affairs, sug
gesting the propriety of appointing
commissioners to investigate and report
their aftual situation. The message
also noticed the fubje& of the militia
throughout the United States—refer
red tQ a committee ofthe whole House
upon the fate of the Union,
Another message was received from
the President, by Mr. Secretary Lear,
with the three a&s of Congress; to
which the President has affixed his ap
probation and signature, viz. The
bill for eftablilhing Light-Houses,
Beacons, Buoys, and public Piers, the
bill for establishing the War Depart
ment.
to the resolution of the House for ap.
pointing a committee to report what
business ought to be finished previous
to adjournment, and appointed Mr.
Strong, Mr. EUfworsb, and Mr, Car.
rol, on their part. Adj,
Mr. Ga rrt. introduced a motion,
that a committee be appointed to pre
pare and report a bill for the further
encouragement of navigation and
commerce of the United States.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7.
Mr. Seney presented a memorial
from John Whitt, Continental com
mffioner of accounts for the State of
Pennsylvania, De^eware, and Mary
land, appointed by the late congress,
praying that compensation may be al
lowed to him and his assistants for
services performed, for special reasons,
after the expiratioi of hit commission:
This memorial with accompanying
papers were read, and on motion, re
ferred to a committee, confiding of
Mr. Sine, Mr. Fining and Mr. Heif
fer.
grefs. -
The firft Clerks under the Secreta
ry and Clerk of the Houses, at Three
Dollars pr. day, and the other Clerks
at Two dollars pr, day, each during
the time they are employed.
The Serjeant at Arms Four Dollars
pr. day, during the sessions.
The Door-keepers 730 dollars pr.
ann. during the sessions.
A message was received from the
Senate, by their Secretary, informing
that they infilled on their amendment
to the treasury-Bill, refpeaing the
removability of the Secretary by the
President. Also that they had agreed
Mr. Gerry moved that a commit
tee be appointed to report a catalogue
I of books necessary for the use of Con
gress—an estimate cf the amount—
and the best mode of procuring them.
Laid on the table.
In committee of the whole on the
bill for establishing the compensation
to be allowed the Members of Con
gress, and their officers—fome amend
ments to the bill were made—the
committee then rose, and reported the
fame which were agreed to and the
bill ordered to be engrossed : It now
Hands as follows.
The wages of the Speaker Twelve
Dollars pr. day—and two days pay
for every twenty miles dftant from
Home.
The salary of the Chaplains was
fixed at the rate of §oo dollars pr.
annum, during the fellions of Con
gress.
The salary of the fecretarv of the
Senate, and Clerk of the House, at
1500 Dollars pr, ann. and Two Dol
lars pr. day duringthe sessions ofCon-
as in the bill—the former at Six Dol
lars, and latter at Twelve Dollars, pr
day..
The committee rose without going
through the Bill, and the House ad
journed. —
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6.
chairman reported the amednments,
which were acceded to by the House,
and the bill was again ordered to be
engrofled for a third reading on Mon
day next. The House then adjourn-
find it necessary to employ,was voted.
The other articles stand as agreed to
yesterday :. The difeuffion being fi
nifhed, the committee rose, and the
dollars a day during the session for
himfelf, and such laborers as he may
The question for the recommitment
was determined in the affirmative;
and the house immediately went into
a committee of the whole,—The fe- 4
fyal clauses of the bill were then dis-i
cuffed, and the following amendmentsj
agreed to, viz.—lnftead of two days 4
pay as an allowance for every twenty 1
miles distance from the feat of govern
ment-fix dollars for every twentyfive 1
miles, was adopted—by which the
Speaker is in this refpeft put on an
equality with the other members.
The allowance of 730 dollars to the
door keepers was (truck out, and 3
through, it was in the power of the
disappointed, forever to impede the
public bulinels—that as to the small
Salaries given in particular States, the
circumstances did not apply, as gen
tlemen were in such inßances at home
and under no necessity of incurring
any extra expences, but that the mem
bers of Congress came from the ex
treme paQs of the continent, and were -
supposed to make temporary facrifices
when they took their feats in theHoufe
—that with refped to the public opin
ion, however proper it may be to pay
attention to it, if the House under
that influence was afraid to decide
upon such measures as the majority
thought to be right, [the constitution
was but aname.
rnilted, this motion was seconded by
several members, which' brought on a
debate.—ln favour of the motion it
was observed, that if the Bill Should
become a law in its present form, there
was danger of its having an inauspi
cious influence upon the reputation
of the government, that the Salaries
of the most refpedable officers in some
of the States, and particularly Mas.
fachufects, where the governor receives
but Sool, a year, and the Judges of
the Superior Courts but gool. and
where the public business is executed
by men of the firft abilities, and no
difficulty exists in procuring the moll
competent talents for every depart
ment—would lead to enquiries upon
these allowances, which it would be
difficult to answer—that the compen
sations proposed to be given to some
of the officers of Coagrefs, will be
considered as a profufe and thought-,
less application of the public money,
and as greatly overating the Services
for which such compensations are al
lowed—that in particular the sum 730
dollars to door-keeper, was so out of
proportion to other compensations as
to render the bill inconfittent with ii
felf—that it was contrary to the rule
adopted by the House, with refpeft
to other appointments, especially the
clerks in several departments, to some
of which it was with difficulty that the
Houses consented to allow 600 dollars,
where talents and great respon sibility
were expected.
On the other hand it ^25 said that
the bill had received repeated difeuf
4ions, that it was now in the third
stage of its progress, and if gentlemen
had ferioully thought of making so
strenuous an opposition, they ought
to have come forward at an earlier day
—that it would ill comport with the
prniciples of economy which some gen
tlemen appeared to advocate,„to Spend
any more time in a tedious discussion of
a bill which has so long been before the
House : That if the bill was not so
perfectly accurate as some gentlemen
wished, yet it would be more eligible
to pass it, then to Sacrifice the time of
the House in going ever the ground
again, especially as every part of it
had received the Saudion of 2 refped
able majority—That rhe motion was
Entirely out of order, and if the rules
of the House were thus to be broken
Writing-paper given for
clean Listen and Cotton and Linen Rage
at this office.
Blanks of most forts may
he had at H. Ranlet's office as ybeap
as at an, office in the flats.
THOMAS LEAVITT, one ofthe
Executory of said Moulton's las will,
Hampton, July 30, 1789.
Lands belonging to said
Moulton,at bit decease, in Poplin, Chi
chefer, Kenfagton, Burton, 13 rights ;
Effingham, Gilmantown, Dublin, War.
ren, Chatham, 1§ rights; Haverhill,
Gunthawait and Wentworth, including
a Farm therein of 100 acres, late in
the occupation of Enoch Page, Esq. and
ten acres of woodland in Hampton ;alJk
a PEW in the Meeting-boufe at Hamp,
ton, and some Articles of Personal Eflate.
^ Conditions of sale to he known at
time and place.
By licence of the Judge of Probate.
7° ° be fold at Public
Au&ion, on Tburfda, the third da,
of September next, ten o'clock A. M. at
the dwelling house of the late JONA
THAN MOULTON, Esq. deceased,
in Hampton,
Such is a Batcbelor—fuch the life
of a batchelor—what becomes of him
after Death, lam not casuist enough
to determine.
AB ATCHELOR is a fort of
whimfica! being, which nature
never intended to create. He was
formed out of the odds and ends of what
materials were left after the great work
was over. Unluckily for him, thefner
passions were all mixed up in the com
position of those creatures intended
for Social enjoyment,—What remains
for the Batchelor, is hardly enough to
rub round the crafty mould into which
he is thrown. To avoid waste, some
seasoning, that he may not be quite
insipid, must be substituted in the Stead
of more valuable ingredients : so in
dame Nature toffesflf.bq/e without
weight or measure—a kind ofinder.
Handing that is fit for no other ufe—
a Sprinkling of wisdom, which turns
to acid, from the four difpeiitioa of
the vessel in which it is contained :
and the whole composition is conclu.
ded with an immoderate portion of od
dities. Thus formed, thus faifad, a
btchelor is popped into he worl^tmere
lumber, without a possibility of being
' ia ppy himfelf, or essentially contri
buting to the happiness of others.
His only business is to keep himfelf
guief. He gets Up, to lie down; he
lies down to get up. No tender paf
lions enliven his waking hours. No
agreeable reveries diverfify his dronifh
Slumbers. If he ever speaks the lan
guage of sensibility he speaks it on the
excellence of some favourite dish ; or
on the choice liquors with which his
cellars abound. Qn such fubje&s he
feels the raptures of a lover.
The pace of a Batchelor is Sober.
He would hardly mend it to get out
of a storm, though the florm were to
threaten a deluge. But Shew him a
woman who is entitled to the compli
ment of his hat, and he will Shuffle on
as if he were walking for a wager.
A coffee^houfe is ^ fanflumfaa„
rem against bright eyes, and dazzling
complexions, —Here he lounges out haft
his days. At home he fulitarily fits
down to his anfaial meal : and wheat
his palate is pleafcd he has no other
passion to gratify.
^ Au&ion,
B LANKS.
Character of a Batchelor;
MISC,ELLANr.