The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-06-20 00:00:00, page 3

Rags! Rags!
HOW the best things grow
out of the worjl I —-Even
* the oible is made out of rags!
And yet people will not save
their rags ! Authors, printers,
arts, fc:eices, and records all
depend on rags for support,
and yet rags are thrown away.
G r eat people, that is people
really great, save rags. Why ?
because tho' saving rags is a
very little thing, yet it is a little
thing that has great effects.
Poor people who are really
poor, that is, people who are
not poor and proud, save rags.
Why ? because every little helps.
few pounds of rags bring a
pence, and pence feed hun
gry children. But middling
people, who are above want
and below affluence, will not
save rags. Then let them put
the ,business into the hands of
little folks; children and maids.
Tell Moll and Betty to keep a
rag bag in a handy place
give them all the pence that their
rags will produce. Their minds
are not above the business-they
will think of it —they will buy
a cap or a hat with a year's
collection of rags—•and the rags
By the BrigancineGreyhound,Capt.
Elias Porter, who arrived here in 13
days fromCapef.ancois, informed,that
the situation of affairs, refpe&ing the
disturbances in Hispaniola, wore every
day a more melancholy afped—that
all hopes of peace being reftored,wcre
relinquished—that the colony was,be
yond a doubt, irretrievably lo&—that
latterly, some expectations were en
tertained of the arrival of more troops
from France, but then every profped
of that nature had closed in defpair—
that attacks were made, almost every
night, on the outports contiguous to
the Cape—that the military force was
so enfeebled, that a general massacre
was apprehended—that the Whites
were/ imigrating daily, and it was
thought that, in the course of a few
raonthty not one would be found re
maining on the French part of the I
flaad—that it was confidently believ
ed, that some celebrated characters (a
mong whom is supposed to be the well
known Count D'E — — — —, who had a
little before arrived in a clar.deftine
manner, 1 from France) were the chief
adors among the revolted Mulattoes
—chat the colonial assembly was in a
f^te of the most ruinous anarchy, the
members having, on the day before
Capt. Porter failed, carried their dif
ferences on political opinions so far,
that they aßaally drew their fjords
on each' other, and the hoafe would
have been drenched in blood, had not
the interposition of some less turbulent
spirits fabfided the dreadful ferment.
beamed from her eye, strongly expres
sive of internal fatisfa^ion : She teem
ed to anticipate with impatience the
approaching awful moment, when she
was to receive the reward other forti.
tude and fidelity.
On the whole it was to an Europe
an a Shocking fpeftacle, leaving the
mind in doubt whether molt to ad
mire the heroism of the widow, or to
ibhor the founders and encouragers of
to abominable a practice.
From a late Conneaicut paper.
A PROMPTER.
BALTIMORE, June I.
American Advices.
WE might perhaps search
in vain, for a parallel
instance in hiftory, of the theory
of human rights, reduced to actu
al practice on so extensive a
scale as at this moment inFtance.
In our oWn papers, we have met
with ingenious essays on the
Rights of Women, regarding
elective franchife and teats in
Parliament, but they were the
productions of an idle hour,and
their objed was the amusement
of the reader. In France, they
are the foundation of a serious
demand,made at the bar of their
Assembly. On the xft iftant a
Lady appeared there,and claim
ed as a common right every
privilege, hitherto exclusively
enjoyed by males.
The following is a truncation
of the remarks made on that in
cident, by the Editor of the
Journal de Paris.
" Rousseau has traced with e
qnal truth and energy,the circle
within which that sex should
confine itfelf, whose weakness is
its strength, and which never
commands a more excenfive
empire than when it seems to
obe). What would he -have said,
had he heard a woman this day
complaining, in the name of e
very female, of exclusions from
public functions, and of being
reduced, in her idea; to a state
of slavery—whilst men were be
come free. Had he heard her
claiming a political exigence
(the term of female qualification
to be twenty-one years; and a
right of divorce) certainly he
would have enlightened the
perlon who so little understood
what was necessary to her hap
piness. Let her search, in the
author of Emelius, for that know
ledge in which she is deficient ;
so let her consult those who have
made the heart of that interest
ing portion of society their stu
dy. They will advise her to re
turn to her fire fide, to cultivate
the domestic duties, to inculcate
on the minds of her children
the virtue of Liberty, that gem
of all the other virtues ; to pre
pare her sons to be citizens and
her daughters to be mothers ;
not to envy men the trouble of
public duties, but to leave to
them the torment of ambition,
and' to jecolleff that the seep-
will make a bible or a law-book
—There is a bible and a cap
clear gain! Twenty thousand
families in Connecticut, will
save twenty thousand bibles and
caps ! A great saving for one
year and one date.
P. S. Tell Moll and Betty,
that you paper-makers do not
mean to get away their difh
clouts—after their rags are be
come unfit for didi-clouts or
houfecloths, they are just as
good for paper-makers as everted
From the Belfaft Newsletter.
RIGHTS of WOMEN.
Saysa correspondent in a late
I Philadelphia paper —It is not to
be wondered at that a certain
'limner in London was puzzled
to find an original from which
to paint alikeness of the Pevil.
His Satannic Majesty is of all
shapes and sizes, and is recog
nized under all the colours of
the rainbow, and all the variety
of shades arising from theircom
binations. For the truth of
this, I will just repeat some of
the remarks which were made
in a retail store a few days since:
I —, piece of linen, devilish
yellow —one piece of dark cali
co, devilish black—another, de
vilish grave —another, devilish
gay —another, devilish ugly —
and another, devihlh pretty, &c.
—and how common it is to
hear it said, devilish handsome,
devilish homely, devilish tall,
deviliUi short, devilish great
foot, and a' little devil of a
foot ! In short, any, and all co
lors, and no colors whatever ;
any shape, features, form orfize,
are equally descriptive of the
prince of darknefes who, with
the greatest facility, accommo
dates himfelf to the exigencies
of those who are puzzled to fill
a gap in their ideas.
The thanks of the Society
was voted the Hon. Joshua
Brackett, Esq. for his gene
rous donation of books for the
use of the Society, confining of
one hundred and twenty Vo
lumes on the various branches
of the profeffion.^
tre of the Law, the reins ofAd
miniftration, the scales of Jul
rice, and the sword of Mars,
were all as ill disposed in the
hands of women, as a diltaffin
the hands of Hercules. The
few exceptions to this general
rule, prove that each sex has its
refpedtive virtues —its respec
tive duties. April 20,
^At the Annual Meeting of
the N. H. Medical Society,
held at Dover on Wednesday
last, His Excellency Josiah
Bartlett, was unanimously
elected PreJident.
JosfTOa Brackett, Vice-
Prudent and Librarian.
COUNSELLORS —'
Ammi R. Cutter,
Nathaniel Peabody,
Hall Jackson,
Samuel Tenney,
William Page.
Samuel Tenney, Secretary,
William Parker, Treasurer,
censors-—
Ammi R. Cutter,
Hall Jackson,
John Jackson,
William Page,
John Rogers,
Ebenezer Rockwood,
EXETER, June 20.
It is said in a late Philadelphia
paper, that Meflrs Richard and
James' Potter's have paid Ten
thousand Dollars duty on goods
imported in only one vefel this
feafon<
WRITING-PAPER.
VArious kinds of Writing
V Paper, made at the Paper-Mill
in Andover, to be fold at thislJffice'
by the Ream or Quire.——^//o,- »
Foolscap Printing, and a few Reams
of Casing. Exeter, 1792.
A journeyman cabinet-maker
of Chester, in the employment
of Mr. Gardener, has displayed
an astonishing effort of mecha
nical ingenuity, in the comple
tion of a wooden automaton,
in the human form, nearly five
feet high, which walks about a
room, at the fame time playing
upon a harp. .
Among the literary prodi~
ges of the present day, may be
reckoned Miss Btnger, author
of " the Female Geniad," which
ffie wrote at the age of thirteen.
f^ASH,or Writing-Paper,
given for clean Linen,or Cotton,
and Linen RAGS, at this Office.
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All. perlons who have a=
ay demands on the estate of Daniel
Poor, jun. late of Adcinfon, deceas
ed, arc requeued to exhibit their
claims to the subscriber —and all those
who are indebted to said estate, are
desired to make immediate payment
to Humphrey Noyes, Aam'r,
Atkinson, April qth, 1792.
WANIED by the Printer
hereof, a likely Lad to serve
at the printing business.— One who is
well read—trufty—induflrious— faith
ful and ingenious, will find good en
couragement on immediate applica- ,
tion. Exeter, June 1%, 1792.
Advices from France, as late
as' 16th April, mention the em
barkation of Boco troops, for
the Weft-Indies, to quell the ne
gro inlurre&ions therein.
BRoke out of the Goal
in Exeter the 15th inst. a
man by the name ui 'James Reid,
has dark hair, and is a little crcfs
eyed—Whoever will take up
said Reid and return hm to the
Goal in Exeter, fhalll receive
the above reward and all neces
sary charges paid by,
James Rusdlett,!^.Sheriff.
Exeter, June 16, 1792.
Died, in the Creek Country Col.
Alexander M'Gillivry, the (Aebraed
Chief of that nation, and an ail, of the
United States.
All persons indebted to
or who have demands again&
the estate of Deacon Joseph
Wadleigh, late of Brintwood,
deceased, are desired to fettle
the fame, with
Five Dollars Feuard.
Joseph Wadleigh, Ex'r.
Brint<wocd, June 19, 1792.