The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-05-09 00:00:00, page 4

A new mode ofwinning a wager.
THE Ex-Marquis de St. Hur
vge known' in London for a
mendicant nobleman, and in Paris for
being the ruler of the m°b,was deem
ed a nuisance in a genteel circle, into
which he had obtruded ; a gentleman,
who wasgoing to show him out of
the window—told him that his inso
lence was unpardonable, to endeavour
to mix with honest people ; he, who,
with other innumerable vice, was an
errant coward, and fuffered himfelf to
be caned at will, and who the evening
before had received an hundred strokes
of a cane. Here St. Hvruge inter
rupted him, faying," I'll lay you an
affignat of 200 livres, that I did not
receive what you fay". "Done, re
plied the other, they both then repair
ed to the coffee-room, where the cor
redion was said to be administered:
A mate was giv'n divinely fair,
To fill bis vacant arms ;
Surpris'd be gaz'd, and soon drew near
Attraßed by her charms.
Her conversation more endears
As fide by Jide they rove,
Each day some new-born grace appears,
Each day confirms his love.
Eden he deems no more as wafle.
Each Jbrub now breathes perfume,
The fruits produce a richer taste,
The flowers afairer bloom.
Sweet thrill the fongflers of the grove,
More balmy zephyrs play ;
The rills in fofter murmers rove,
All blejs the bridal day.
Hail honour'd wedlock ! sacred rite !
The crown of life is thine ;
The fountain thou of chafe delight,
To Adam's virtuous line.
DeJpisd by none but sordid fouls,
The fop and debauchee ;
Who reajon down in midnight bowls,
Are wicked to be free.
Detefling those, my wiser friend,
Thou aimfl at nobler bliss,
In one lov'd fair thy wijbes end,
And truth endears the kiss.
May you all heav'nly blessings Jhare,
With each terrefrial good ;
Be happy as thefrfl form'dpair,
While innocent they flood.
While every look content exprefs'd
No place for wijhes found ;
While earth spontaneous gave the feaft
And heav'n the banquet crown'd.
AN old felloe, who opened a pub
lick house in the neighbourhood
of Glasgow, some time ago,having ad
ded to his name on the sign board, the
letters D. M. R. S. F. excited vari
ous conjectures and inquiries into their
fignification. No body could suppose
that he was either a Doctor of Medi
cine, or a Fellow of the Royal Socie
ty. It was ,at last, however,difcover
ed that they were intended only to in
timate, that he had" been "Drum Ma
jor in the Royal Scotch Fufleert."
A POEM to a FRIEND,
ON HIS MARRIAGE.
ADAM when form'd by heav'n whs
plac'd
In Eden's happy grove,
4fc?ne by nature richly grac'd
With every joy but love.
He wander'd round in pensive mood,
Nor could suppress his moan ;
And heav'n pronounc'd it was not good•
For man to be alone.
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SEAT of the MUSES.
PLEASAURABLE ARTICLES.
Mr. Mycall,
1 earnejily request that the following let
ter ma, have a place in your ufejul
paper, that it may be of the benefit to
the public, it has been unto
Philanthropy.
To Mr. D=S-
Sir,
WHEN I left you divine provi
dence cast me into a family
which led me often to think ofMartha,
Mary and their brother Lazarus, whom
Jesus lov6d, though they were bapti
sed in their infancy. And as Twas
meditating in the field, I seemed to
hear a voice faying to me, Ezra, why
have you rejeded all the ancient
churches of Christ ? Is a particular
mode of baptism, of more value, than
to live in fellowlhip with the friends
of vital piety ? I paused, and soon saw
that baptism by immersion could not
be required, to the violation of the
great law of love. That I said with my
felf, whereis baptifm,by dipping, re
quired since the eredion of the Gospel
Church ?
A PERSON observing that the
coat of his friend had a long
time been threadbare, afted him if it
was not Jleepy? Slee,,!Says the o
ther,why do you ask me that ? Because,
said he, I think it has not had a nap
these many years.
St. Huruge feeing the gentleman
who had chastised him, went to him
without any mauvaife honte, and asked
him very politely, how many strokes
he had accepted the evening before at
his hands the other answered,
"Wretch ! I intended to have given three
hundred,but my cane flew into an hun
dred pieces the ninety-eighth Jlroke." —
''Bravo," (aid the Marquis," ^7/
me the affgnat," which was according
ly paid.
John the baptist was under the Mo
saic dispensation, for the law of cir
cumcision was then in full force and
our Lord was a minister of circumci
sion ! and is it not absurd to fay that
dispensation ceafeth, and yet fly to
John's going into the water and his
coming out of the water, to prove that
immersion is the only Gospel-baptism?
Christ was 4odays with his difci
ples,after his refurredion,fpeaking to
them of the things of the kingdom of
God. And what is the succeeding
practice of the Apostles, which we are
to follow ? I read the A&s & the Epis
tles to find a precept or an example
for going out of an house to a pond,
pool, river or lake, for the only pur
pose of baptism, but found not a sin
gle ihftance. Philip and the Eunuch
were travelling on the road,and when
they came to water, they both descen
ded from the chariot and went to the
water, and the Eunuch was baptifed.
But in what mode,we are not inform
ed. In like circumstances one of our
standing ministers would do the
fame.
It is said, that the word baptife,
means to dip. But is that the only
meaning ? In my Bible the word is u
sed in a very extensive sense, to stain,
to sprinkle, tojwafh, to pour upon for
the (offerings of Christ, for a'pro
feffion of faith and the answer of a
good conscience, that no man of any
modesty would pretend to fix a parti
cular mode of haptifm, by a word of
such undetermined meaning.
We read, buried with Christ by
baptism into his Death : and also ; we
are circumcised with the circumcision
of Christ; We become, by baptism,
under obligations to be conformed to
the design of our Saviour's life, death,
burial and refurreaion. But this is
no divine command for baptism by
immersion.
What has an intemperate zeal for
baptism, by dipping, produced ?It
has produced Shakers, Univerfalifts,
Deists, and infidels, in abundadce.
That I .conclude those pious men to
From the Essex Journal, &c.
P U N.
be right, who have left the baptists
and never repented ; but continued
with the Handing churches to their
death. That iff was now to.be bap
tifed, I would receive the ordinance
by Sprinkling, for that was the ap
pointed sign, when a person or people
were separated from others to God ;
and we never read of immersion or
dipping as used for that purpose.
Yours E B
IT must afford great pleasure to the
Friends ofAmerican manufactures,
to fee the rapid improvements, which
have, within these few years, been
made in machinery, within the Uni
ted States ; and too ranch praise can
not be given to those individuals, who,
notwithstanding the numerous obsta
cles which present themselves against
new inventions, in a young country
by Heady perseverance, complete val
uable machines.
At the head of this lift, Hands aCiti
zen of the Delaware State,Mr. Oliver
Evans ; this excellent mechanic did,
in the time of the late war, invent and
complete a machine for forming card
teeth, which- makes 1500 complete
teeth in one minute, and with great
accuracy. As Mr. Evans had not
capital fufficient to set up an extensive
card-faftory ; and as he did not with
that his invention fhduld benefit in
dividuals only, he applied to some of
the leading members in the assembly
of the State of Pennsylvania, and pro
posed eftablilhing, in that State, un
der the patronage of the Legislature,
a card & wire-factory, which would
draw the wire, and when it was fine
enough, make it into teeth for the
cards,in less time and trouble,with his
machine, than to wind the wire in the
usual hanks and lay it aside. They
however did not think proper to give
him any encouragement, and he fold
the secret to individuals.
The principles of this machine are
now in use in the United States,
and the proprietors of it are enabled
to excel Europe in the manufactory
of cards.
When we eonfider the state of this
country, the innumerable quantity of
never failing streams with which it is
supplied, it muff be obvious, that by
a proper attention to labor-saving
machines, we may obviate the great
objection made to manufacturing in
this country, the high price of labor.
Who could have thought, ten years
ago, that it was possible to conftruft
a mill, that, after the wheat was
emptied from the deck of a fhallop,or
the tail of a waggon, into a fpouc it
should immediatly ascend to the upprr
floor, and from thence to pass through
all the cleaning-machines into the
hopper for grinding, and, as faft as
ground, to ascend again to the meal
loft, and there be spread, cooled, and
gathered again into the bolting hop
per, and bolted, & that part which
requires to be bolted, to pass from
one fide of the house, to the other, in
a horizontal direction, there ascend
again, and a quantity of bran be com
pletely mixed with it, and the whole
bolted over, and all this, without the
assistance of manual labour ?,Such a
mill, ten years ago, would have been
ranked with the perpetual motion, or
philofophers' stone, as the dreams of
a visionary projector ; but we have
lived to fee it conftruded ; andhre at
a loss which most to admire, the
extent of the improvement, or the
simplicity, and, if I may so express
myfelf, the harmony with which it is
applied.
From a certificate publiihed lately
in the Delaware Gazette, signed by
Messrs. Shallcrofs and Stroud, it ap
pears that four men will do all the
bufinefi of two mills, with the assist
ance of Mr. Evans' machinery,with
as much case as four men did the busi
ness of one mill, without it, thereby
saving one half the labour. Now, if.
we suppose 2000 mills in the United
From the Delaware Gazette.
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§— E the fubferihers being
'' appointed, by the Honorable
Judge of Probate for the County of
Reckingham, to receive and examine
the claims of the several creditors to
the Estate of ABIGAIL ODLlN,late
of Exeter, in said county, Widow dc
ceafed, represented insolvent—hereby
give notice that we will attend upon
that business at the house of Dr. Will
iam Parker, on the last Monday of this
and the five following months, from
3 to 6 o'Clock, P. M.
JUIN HAVEN,
SAMUEL TENNEY,
WILLIAM PARKER,jr.
Exeter, March 20, 1792.
States, and by this machinery 2 men
are saved in each mill, there will be
a saving of the labours of 4.000 men,
at 200 dollars a year each, will be
4.00,000 dollars saved. We are hap
py to learn that Mr. Evans is now
likely to reap the fruits of his labour;
upwards of ico mills have adopted
his improvements, and they are daily
increasing in public estimation.
Downingflown, ( Pennf. jDecgo.iyoi-
LAST night deierted from
my detachment now on their
march to Fort Pitt, the following;
soldiers of the 2d. United States Re
giment, viz.—JOHN CROCKER,
22 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high,
frelh countenance, gray eyes,, dark
short hair, Hout built man, rather
round Ihouldered, an inhabitant (as
he fays) of Kittery, Maffachufetts—
alfo MERRILL LADD, ip years
old, 5 feet 7^ inches high, light com
plexion, light eyes, light hair, born
in Haverhill, Massachusetts, resided
of late in Hopkinton, New Hamplhire
—also, JOSEPH GREEN, 30 years
old, 6 feet high, born in Stratham,
New-Hampfhire;B ARTHOLOMEW
ALLEN, 22 years old, 5 feet 10
inches high, born in Medford, Mas
sachusetts, light complexion, light
eyes, light hair, Hraight well built
man—WINTHROP LEAVITT 18
years old, born in Stratham, New-
Hamplhire, five feet 6^ inches
high, dark eyes, dark hair, dark
complexion.—They had on when
they deserted the uniform clothes of
the United States. Whoever will
take up said deserters and deli ver
them to any continental officer, or
secure them in any of the goals in the
United States ffiall receive 5 dollars
reward for each deserter, from the
public's most humble servant,
JONATHAN CASS.
Captain of the id U. States Regiment,
FL^X,
OF A VERY GOOD QUALITY, TO BE
SOLD BY
%&T.Odiorne.
Exeter, \ft May, 1792.
ALL persons indebted to,
or who have any demands on
the ettate of THOMAS LEAVITT,
late of Hampton, cordwainer, deceas
ed, are requested to exhibit their ac
counts for settlement, to
DANIEL PHILBRICK.
Hampton, April 24, 1792.
VArious kinds of Writing
V Paper, made at the Paper-Mill
in Andover, to be fold at this Office,
by the Ream or Quire. Alfa, —
Foolscap Printing, and a few Reams
of Casing., Exeter, 1792..
WANTED
DY the printer hereof, a
V few Tanned Sheepsk l ns, suita
ble for binding, for which good pay
will be given. April. 4.
25 Dollars Reward,