Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-08-03 00:00:00, page 4

Cemfle of tlx f?9ufts,
INDEPENDENCE.
While the fobjetts of defeats, u ith ensigns
unfur'd,
Toast the birth of a foltan or a king,
Let Americans, bleft in redeeming the world,
To the birth-day of liberty ting.
CHORUS.
'' For no peerage we cu-ott no fceptres dcjuc.
No baubles that garni/h a throne,
True Americans lore, on their uten native lyre.
To celebrate da, of their own.
Let os ling the great day when a natiort decreed
Equal rights for mankind to avow ;
With the sacred unpreffion—“ 'Tis better we
bleed
Than ignobly to tyranny bow."
Fur no peerage, &c.
May the spirit of liberty smile on our mirth,
And responsively echo our cheers ;
While we gladden the day of American birtb,
As a day that each freeman reveres.
For no peerage, &c.
May the trumpeting clangor of arms ever cease.
To difdorb the repose of the date ;
And the Tons of Columbia encompafs'd with
peace,
As a nation be happy and great.
For no peerage, &c.
Let us join in hilarity, friendfhip and love,
Let us hail the return of this morn ;
'Tis recorded by faints in the roll book above,
That this day, a great nation was born,
For no peerage, &c.
A HOT DAY.
% What a plague's a Rimmer breakfaft,
Eat what e'er you will !
Bread and butter's an odious thing,
And toast more nauafeous (till.
Then how to pass the time away
Till dinner—there's the doubt ;
You're hot if you flay in the house,
And hot if you go out.
When dinner comes, Lord help us all 1
Such trying, such a flew;
You're hot if you don't touch a bit.
You're hotter if you do.
Then after dinner, what to, do,
No knowing where to move ;
The gentlemen are hot below,
The ladies hot above.
And now the kettle comes again,
Thai's not the way to cool one;
Tea makes an empty stomach hot,
And hotter flill a full one,
But then an evening walk's the thing,
Not if you're hot before,
The man who sweats uhn he fits still,
Will, when he moves sweat more+
Well, now the /upper's come
To make bad worse, 1 wot,
For flipper while it heats the cool,
Will never cool the hot.
And bed which cheers the cold man's heart,
Helps not the hot a pin,
For he who sweats when out of bed,
Sweats ten times more when in.
The Bachelors are hot, in love,
And maids too long have tarried ;
Each are hot in Angle beds,
But hotter Hill when married.
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Temple of ^ornlitg.
To aid the cause of virtue and religion.
GAMBLING.—AN EXTRACT.
THE pernicious consequences of play
have been frequently described in the
strongest terms, and illustrated by the most
striking examples. Seldom, however, have
they been represented on so large a scale as
in the late account of the fate of a great bo
dy of gamesters at Hamburg, which an in
telligent fpe&ator has published in a Ger
man Gazette as the result of his examina
tion during a period of two years. Os fix
hundred individuals who were in the habit of
frequenting gaming honfes, he Rates, that
I,early one half not only loft considerable
firms, but were finally (hipped of all means
of subsistence, and ended \heir days by felt
murder. Os the rest, not less than a hun
dred finifhed their career by becoming swind
lers, or robbers on the highway. The rem
nant of this unfortunate group perished, some
by apoplexy, but the greater number by cha
grin and despair. He mentions, that during
the whole space of two years to which his
journal is confined, he did not fee one of
these fix hundred gamesters with a single
new dress.
^ffeenaneous Department. .
!To the Editor of the Salem Gazette,
'sir,
) 1 take the liberty to request, through this
meuiumf some of your judicious correfpon
oents to relieve me from a very embaraffing
dilemma. I would inform you that lam a
young girl, with my share of attractions, of
great vivacity, fond of company and fafhion
able life, with a high sense of decency, which
never has, and I am conscious never will,
torfake me. By my love of falhion I have
been induced to throw aside half of my
clothes (thin enough before in all decency)
while modefly keeps me in a constant fuffu
fion cf bhdhes at the contemplation of my
personal appearance. Although most of my
acquaintances should keep Ime in counte
nance by their examples, I am obliged to
spend more of my time at home than I
would otherwise, from the reluctance I feel
at expofmg my health. I have men
tioned my uneasy sensations to a number, of
my female friends, some of whom exper
ienced correspondent ones ; but others, I am
sorry to add, appeared to think this a trifling
Sacrifice to fafhion: I have always conlid
ered your sex impudent enough for me ; tho
•latterly they appear to improve in this ac
complifhment ; it may arise from the fafh
ion of our dress above alluded to —-" and in
deed I don't think them so very, very much
to blame." A young man (no gentleman)
who lately found his way into my company,
insulted me with a double entendre. I frown
ed Efficiently, as 1 thought, to annihilate
him ; but he calmly reviewed my dress from
head to foot, with a look that called me in
confiflent, so plainly, that I was obliged to
dilmifs my frown very suddenly. Thus, as
long as this fafhion continues, (ball I be o
bliged to smile at the most glaring indecen
cies, which my roodefty revolts at ; to resent
them, with the mortification of a similar re
buke ; or not to underhand them, a manoeu
vre which I am too sensible or too artless to
pradife. My perplexity may occasion some
mirth among those who know more of the
world than 1 do, or those who cannot fee the
difficulty of non-conformity to one of my age,
sex and habits. The firft class myconfeious
modesty disdains to notice ; and take my
word for it, the latter are a set of old fafh
ioned crabbed fellows, not one of whom
shall ever kiss tht tip of my little finger.
DAPHNE.
FOR SALE, by
Samuel Balch,
At his shop near Portsmouth Pier.
A QUANTITY OF
Shingles and Clabboards
of an excellent quality, and will be fold on
moderate terms.
July \
fEe fempatbife with our far friend in her
perplexity, and add our felicitations to feme
gallant knight of the pen to rejeue this mod
ern DaphneJrc,m the rudenejs of the flaring
god of day, or Jome alerter of the fights of
Homan,to arm her with a mail which will
field her prom the wounds of which decency
renders her fa Jufceptible.]
—<..<..< <¥ 6«s^^l r >">"' —
ADVICE TO THE YOUNG LADIES.
LOVELY CREATURES,
TAKE well this advice, formed to wipe
ofFblemifhes in your conduct ; some of which
are rather the fault of your situation in the
world and your education, than your natural
disposition. If you would be truly valuable,
estimate not yourselves chiefly according to
your money or land, but on the graces of
your persons and minds. I advise you to
read a little more ; read divinity, morality,
hillory, innocent poetry, and if you like, the
Rories of prudent generous love. You dress
well, and have the belle air and mein ; be
as polite in your language as in your dress :
and learn to write a Rile. 1 mean to be at
ble to write on all occasions, not as scholars,
but as gentlewomen. As you are ingenious,
a little application forms you good house
wives ; but to improve the beauties of the
mind and carriagewill cost you more. Blend
both accomplishments together, and not as
some, be mutes and statutes, in company ;
nor as others, perpetual larums. Nolonger
be won by faces with brainless heads, or fiik
dockings with runaway legs beneath them.
Neither mistake a very low bow lor pure
good manners, nor a powdered tortured head
with a Ihort foppifb tail for gentility, nor a
fool that wears pantaloons that button up un
der his chin, trim'd off with a gross or two
of velvet binding and a velt about fix inches
long, for an independent fortune, nor servile
cringing for true love. Above all, do not
mistake wit for wisdom, but call a benign
and tender eye on him who has Ready, man
ly virtue and prudence in his conduct, and
gives fair hopes of minding at heart the main
chance. Do not take an affront, and report
(lander about any person without a just rea
son, for nothing is more unbecoming and
disagreeable in society ; and I presume to
fay that many of you find it so by experience.
To conclude I inform you that a party of
ladies at the next house talk so sass and laugh
so uncommonly loud, that I am obliged to
flop to'admire the blessings of Rrong lungs.
ogricultreL
Directions for preJeriing TURNIPS from Infers.
Turnips ars so frequently detiroyed by a Small
fly which feeds upon them when they are quite
young, that farmers are, in a great measure, de
terred from attempting to cultivate that valuable
root.
The following Method is reccommended to pre
serve the plant.
Firjl. To a quart of turnip feed, add one ounce
of brimstone, finely powdered, and put into a
bottle large enough to afford room to fliake them
well together every day,tor four or five previous
to sowing, keeping the bottle well corked.
Second. Take such a quantity of elder leaves,
as when bruised will yield juice enough to cover
the turnip feed you mean to sow, in which let it
soak übout twelve hours, the next day mix it with
the bruised leaves and a final! quantity of alum,
and sow all together.
Turnip feed is generally covered with a bush
harrow, take elder bushes for this purpose.
If, notwithflanding these precautions, the fly
should attack the young plant, draw elder bushes
gently over them.
If turnip feed is sown while it rains, it does not
require to be harrowed in, and the young Plants
shoot so strongly that they soon gain Rrength be
yond the power of the fly./
The rations are to be furnifhed in such
quantities, as that there shall at all times,
during the term of the proposed contraas,
be fufficient for the consumption of the
troops at Michilimacinac, Detroit and Nia
gara for fix months in advance ; and at each
of the other polls on the weftern waters, for
at least three months in advance, of good
and wholesome provisions, if the fame shall
be required. It it also to be permitted to
all and every of the commandants of fortifi
ed places, or posts, to call for at seasons
when the fame can be transported, or at any
time in the case of urgency, such supplies of
like provisions in advance as in the difere
tion of the commandant shall be deemed
proper. It is to be understood that thecon
tra&or is to be at the expence and risk of
issuing the supplies to the Troops and that
all lolfes sustained by the depredations of an
enemy, or by the means of the troops of the
United States, shall be paid for by the Uni
ted States, at the price of the article captur
ed or destroyed, on the depositions of two or
more creditable characters, and the certifi.
cate of a commissioned officer, afeertaining
the circumstances of the loss, and the amount
of the articles for which compensation shall
be claimed.
HUR DEPARTMENT, 2^ so ^O2.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT feperate Proposals will be re
ceived at the Office of the Secretary of the
Department of War until the expiration of
the gift dayof July next ensuing, for the sup
ply of all rations, which, may be required for
the use of the United States, from the 1R
day of October 1802, until the 30th day of
September, 1803, both days inclusive, at the
following places, viz.
First. At Niagara, at Detroit, at Michilimaci^
nac, and at Fort Wayne.
Second. At Cincinnati and St. Vincennes.
Third. At Fort Maffac, near the mouth of the
Ohio, and Katkafkias.
Fourth. At South Well Point, Tellico, Knox
ville, and on the road from Nashville to the
line between the Chickasaws and ChoCtaws,
and any place or places where troops are or
may be ttationed, marched or recruited within
the date of Tenneflee.
Fifth. At the Chickasaw Bluff's, Natchez, Fort
Adams, Mobile, and on the road from Natchez
to the boundary line betu een the Choctaws and
Chickafaus, and at any place in the Chica
faw or Chottaw country, between Bear Creek
and Natchez.
SEPERATEfropofals will also be receiv
ed as ajorejaid, for the Jupply of all ra
tions which may be required for the life
of the United States, from the firft day of
January 1803, until the 31st day of De- 1
cember, in the fame year, both days inclu
fae, within the Jevcral fates herein af
ter-mentioned, viz.
Sixth. At fort Wilkinson, at Cockfpnt island,
and at any place or places where troops are or
may be ttationed, marched or recruited, within
the flare of Georgia.
Seventh. At Charleston, at Rocky Mountain,
on the head waters of the Santee, and at any
place or places where troops are or may be
Rationed, marched or recruited within the
states of South and North-Carolina.
Eighth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places
where troops are or may be Rationed, marched
or recruited within the Rate of Virginia.
Ninth. At Fort Me Henry, and at any place or
places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched, or recruited within the Rate of Ma
ryland.
Tenth. At Fort Mifflin, and st any place or
places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited within the Rates of Penn
sylvania, New-Jersey and Delaware.
Eleventh. At Fort Jay, at Well Point, and at
any place or places where troops Are or may be
Rationed, marched or recruited within the
Rate of New-York, excepting Niagara.
Twelfth. At Fert Trumbull, at Fort Wolcott,
and at any place or places where troops are or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited within
the Rates of Connecticut, Rhode-Illand and
Vermont.
Thirteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston
harbour) and at any place or places where
troops are or may be Rationed, marched or re
cruited within the Rate of Massachusetts, the
dißrift of Maine excepted.
Fourteenth. At Portsmouth, at Portland, and
at any place or places where troops are or may
be Rationed, marched or recruited within the
State of New-Hampdiire, and diftria of Maine
A ration to consist of eighteen ounces
of bread or flour, or when neither can be
obtained, of one quart of rice, or one ,nd
an half pound of lifted or Molten Indian
meal, one pound and a quarter of beef or
three quarters of a pound of pork, one
gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and at the
rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of
vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound
and an half of candles to every hundred ra
tions. The price of the several component
parts of the ration, as well as substitutes and
alternatives, must be fpecified.
The priviledge is to be understood to be
reserved to the United States of requiring
that none of the supplies which may be fur
nifhed under any of the itfopofed contrads,
shall be issued until the Applies which have
been or may be furnished under contracts
now in force, have been consumed, and that
a supply in advance may be always required
at any of the fixed polls on the seaboard or
Indian Frontiers, not exceeding three
months.
HENRY DEARBORN,
Secretary of War.
State of New- Hampshire.
In the House of Representatives June 1.7,
1802._
1 HE foregoing bill having had three seve
ral readings palled to be enabled.
Sent up/or Concurrence,
JOHN PRENTICE, Speaker.
In Senate the Jame day, this bill having been
read a third time, teas ena^ed.
AMOS SHEPARD, Prefdent. .'
Approved, June 18, 1802.
J' r. GILMAN, Governor.
A True Copy, Attest,
J. PEARSON, See 7.
The several printers in this State, are requeued
to publish the above Law, for the term of fix
weeks, (at the expence of the State,) in their se
veral Newspapers, for the information of the pub
lic at large. J. PEARSON, Sec'ry.
NEW BOOKS.
Just received from New-York and now ready For
Sale at the flore of
N. S. & W. Peirce,
Book - ft-Ilers and Stationers,
Corner of Congress and Market-streets ;
The hiflory of the Adminiftrntion of
JOHN ADAMS, Etq. late President of the United
States—By J. Wood, author of the Hiflory of
Switzerland, arid Swiss Revolution.. also, a
Pamphlet entitled, a Narrative of the Suppreflion
by Col. Burr, of the hiftory of the Adminiflratiou
of JOHN ADAMS.&
VOR SALE,
By Elisha Lowe,
At No. i, Portsmouth Pier.
A few Jars excellent OIL.
100 quart bottles of do.
%/y 27.
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Cbe Republican Ledger,|
Is published, weekly, every Tuefday morning,
on the following Conditions
One Dollar and Fifty Cents per annum (excltifive !
poflagc)— One third to be paid in advance. l
John B. Sewall,
HAS jolt opened at his (hop lately occu
pied by Mr. Edward j. Pierce, in
Market-street,
An Afortmeyt of
ENGLISH GOODS,
suitable for the Season, which he will fell
very cheap—viz.<
A few Ladies fafliionable Straw
Bonnets; ditto fine beaver Hatts; gentle
mens' ditto ; fprig'd, lappet, Book, colour'd
and printed Mullins ; book Mullin, and lap
pet Handkerchiefs ; tambor'd neck cloths ;
Callicoes ; Cambrics; Muftinets ; Dimi
ties , fi. k Shawls ; Chintz, purple, Camels
hair, and fancy ditto ; ladies' white, black
and color'd silk Gloves ; gentlemen's white
and black silk ditto ; lungee, malabar, poli
cat, linen and cambrick pocket Handker
chiefs ; a few pieces yellow Bandannas ;
Modes ; Saifnets ; Tiffanies ; walking flick.
Umbrellas ; Parasols ; India Cottons of va
rious kinds ; Jeanets ; Nankinets ; Fuflians ;
handsome Waistcoating ; ladies' cotton Hose
men's plain and fancy do. Diaper Table
Cloths ; ladies kid and black Morocco
pers ; misses red ditto ; leather and cotton
Gloves ; Bobbin ; Fans; white Theads,
from No. 7 to 50 ; color'd do. sewing Silk ;
Pins; Needles ; quality & shoe Binding;
silk Ferret ; Suspenders ; Durants : Cali
mapcoes ; Ruffels ; Tammies ; Checks ;
Broadcioaths ; Kerfeymeres, &c. & c .
^ lad Wanted,
From 13 to 15 years of age, to
serve as an apprentice 10 the SAIL-MA
KING bulinefs. Inquire of the Printer.
.26.
E. Wentworth
Informs his customers that he
has removed to the (tore lately erected, ad
joining the New-Hampshire Union Bank,
corner of Buck-street, where he continues to
keep For Sale, an assortment of
GROCERIES,
of the foft quality.
State of New-Hampshire.
In the year of out Lord, one thousand eicht
hundred and two.
#*#### An ACT to prevent the circulation
*L.S.* and currency of Bank Bills of a
###### denomination lets than five dollars.
BE it enabled by the Senate and Houje of
RepreJentatrves in General Court conve
ned, That from and after the firft day of
December next, no person shall pay or re
ceive in difeharge of any contra& or bargain,
or for any valuable con fideration whatever,
any bill ilfued by any Bank or any banking
company, other than the Bank of the Uni
ted States, or the Bank or Banks within this
State, of a less denomination than five Dol
lars, under a penalty of four Dollars, to be
recovered as well of the person so paying's
of the person so receiving, by a&ion of debt,
with costs of suit, to the use of any person
or persons, who shall within one year there
after prosecute the fame.
And be it further enabled, That the Secre
tary cause that said Ad be published as soon
as may be, in all the Newspapers printed ia
this State, fix weeks.