The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-10-01 00:00:00, page 4

OH hark ! how nature groans beneath the load
Os her valt weight. Eternity draws near.
When all created worlds shall be deftroy'd,
And Chaos resume its native right.
Then all the splendor that- now gild? our Globe
Shall be confum'd ; the Heavens themselves ?
Shall melt; and universal nature shake ~
Through its parts. Nothing remaining on
This yaft ^xpanfe, (hall then withstand, against
The ruins of this tottering World, or
Once oppose its all-resisting fury.
But all must yield, willingly or by force.
To the dire prey of this deftruftive scene.
All, all /hall feel its lhare, Jehovah and
His throne except, in the dread fate of this
Great conflagration. But what will add to
The amazement of the aftoniffi'd fpe&rem, a.t
This great day, will be the appearance of
Their frowning Judge ; who then will come array'd
In awful splendor, having ten thousand
Angels to attend him, all ready at his call,
Swift messengers to execute his Will,
And ready to perform his great command ;
Bright flames lead on his way ; flames which at once
Shall burn up all the dross of felf-profeffors ;
Only the pure of heart, shall then be able,
To Hand the tryal of the fi'ry test ;
To take almighty vengeance on his foes,
To his dread errand from the bleft abodes.
66 But gather firft my faints the Judge commands;
•'Whofe fouls abhorred all ignoble crimes,"
And Readily purfu'd a life of virtue.
Then luddenly bright Angels are diipatch'd,
To gather them from th' four winds of heaven,
And,bear them to their heav'nly Father's bolom;
A bosom long defir'd and often fought,
By many intercessions at his throne^
Now joyfully they hear the welcome voice,
'* Arise ye deeping dead and come to judgment,
And gladly meet the presence of their King.
Being now assembled, their almighty Judge
Proceeds to try them, and to prove their ways,
In the impartial scale o. truth divine ;
Where being found, juftifi'd and compleat;
Not in themselves, but in their glorious
Head, they hear thebleffed euge, enter
«' Ye chosen servants of your Lord, enter
" That heavenly rest for you prepar'd,
''By me, before the earth's foundations were."
Now tney begin happiness without end,
And bliss complete to endless years the fame.
~ But Omy foul ! I tremble to relate
The awful sentence that awaits the wicked ;
Who being found impenitent and vile,
Having refilled all God's precious calls,
And wilfully withstood the day of grace,
Shall hear their Judge pronounce in words of thun
«' Depart ye curled' to eternal fire [der,
«' Prepar'd for the Devil and his Angels ;"
Now headlog they are thrust in black despair,
Where they endure keen torture infup portable.
And amgnifh of the never-dying worm ;
Here tirey must lie enwrap'd in burning flames
And spend a whole eternity in torment.
A FRAGMENT.
INDEED, said Pathos, ahe afflictions to which
F mankind are exposed, promote more pain to
a sensible mind, than all the gratifications we can
procure to ourselves. •
I deny it, said Spleen: the pain you talk of is
affeftation ; mankind deserve a ^reat deal of
what they fuffer, for they are themselves their own
tormentors, they make to themselves objects and
sources of misery—they catenate' discontents, and
learn a method of change which furnishes a restless
ness of disposition that unceasingly difturhs their
minds, makes them diffatisfied with their Ration,
and ungrateful to God.
Why, how now!—cries Cheerfield, as he bolted
in, here's two meagre philosophers taking up the
horrors of human life and making as bugbears to
ourselves.
You have no feeling, cried Pathos.
The man's a so& said Spleen.
Come, said Cheerful, I'll prove whether what you
both fay is true or falfe.
Mr. Printer, if you think the following lines ma, he
of an, service to any of your readers, pleaje to in-
Jert them in your paber, and you will oblige your
facere . FRIEND.
On the general Conflagration and ensuing
JUDGMENT.
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
Trial of Three Living Characters.
[from THE SALEM GAZETTE,]
" OrtHE motto I have chosen mod decidedly ap.
,plies to,,the present moment. The politi
cal pot is boiling', and calls up much scum. The
eleftion of your federal reprei^tatives draws near,
and thdfe felffeeking and ambitious men, who wiih j
for the places of your present members, are, byl
their instruments, filling all the public prints with j
slander—they are catting every possible reflexion I
on Congress, on the members of this State, on the
measures of the lad session, and on the official de
partments—They would fain make you believe|
that Congress have been together, fix months,
merely to carry away their wages, and done no
public bufinefs —They have made use of fly de
lusion and low buffoonery—and they endeavor to
alarm all your feelings by an insinuation that your
liberties and properties me endangered.— Thatj
jealous headed men Ihould do this occasionally is;
not furprizing ; and their spleen and consequence
is dissipated with their blatts; but when we fee
such attempts perpetuated in the face of reason and
ftubbora fa&s, it proves a desperate design to Suc
ceed at all events in raffing themselves. If there
be any one State in the Union, particularly bene
fitted b, the lad session, Conueclicut is the State.
It is true the session was long, and produced divifi
cn of opinon and sometimes heat in discussion ; but
the measures, which caused this protraction, were
such that the Connecticut members ought to have
contended for them through the whole, indeed of
half the year, if they could not have been effected
sooner. We are told Congress have done nothing.
Is the funding system nothing? Is the assumption
of the State debts, and the provision of ways and
means nothing? Is the arrangement of a system
of national revenue, and its application, nothing?
Is it-nothing to bring together and harmonize a
thousand opposing interests, through a diftrid of
country twelve hundred miles in length, and half
that in breadth? Is it nothing to arrange a plan
for the settlement of accounts between the States,
amounting to more than one hundred millions ?
The two sessions of Congress which we have seen,
had to execute greater duties than were ever done
on earth by one set of adors ; to lay anew all the
foundations of a great nation.- Could this be
done in a hurry, or may we suppose the raprefenta
tives fronyany part of the Union would fuffer them
selves to be driven, in things fointerefting to their
constituents ? These fubjeds required much difeuf
fion—light was to be collected from the condition,
from the advantages and from the particular pres
sures fabfiding in every part of the empire.. Honed
and great men had different opinions on all these
momentous fubjeds; it was the case in Congress,
and more so in the country ; and had Congress
proceeded with precipitation, it would have con
vulsed the empire, and their own heads would have
been forfeited for rashness.—Still we are told Con
gress have done nothing. -It is now eighteen
months since their power commenced ; they have
been id session ten months, and in that space have
done more than the old Congress did in seven
years, when in constant session antecedent to the
present government. We are told that Con
gress fit but four hours in a day. Itis grant
ed; but the greater part of the fame members
spend from four to eight hours in private commits
tees, ih arranging anlpropofing business for.the
houfej this is the most expeditious method which
can be dbvited, and is , fyry more than
proportioned to the grati ude oFtheir caluminai
tors," _____ - _-= _
ANECDOTES.
A MEDICAL impofter, meeting with a cler
gyman, who is celebrated for his good feafe
I just nW met with a poor soldier fitting on the
cold stone of a store door—whose services for his
country had been faffered to adorn his brow with
no better laurels than the fears he will bear with
him to the grave—his wife and two children fat
beside him, and* die was dividing between them a
hard cruft which had been tossed into the street
from a fervantat an opposite house—they fat dawn
to this rebaft after a long journey which afforded
them no supplies :
PFay now, addraffing himfelf to Spleen, what
would you have done in this case ?—faid Cheer
ful/,
Why, answered the other, I would have quettion
ed the fellow what he had been guilty of, that he
(hould not be fopported by the country.
And I said Pathos, not doubting he "{hould gain
more favor, would have lamented his unhappy lot,
from whatsoever source it arose!
Poh !—faid Cheerful, I put my hand in my pock
et, and relieved them !
" When the political pot boils, the scum rises to
the top."
Extra# From the OBSERVER—N° XX,
published in a Hartford paper.
VERBUM DEI.
and literary abilities, declared he could difeover
any disease and all the fymptems attending it, by
the pulse, without any information from the pa
tient refpc&ing his particular feelrng^ The Rev.
Gentleman, being himfelf an invalid, requeued
the Doctor to examine his pulse, and give him a
fpeciaen of his frill. Upon which the Dr. me
thodically touched his pulse, and with necromantic
phiz, pretended to describe the disease, and all the
feelings, which his patient experienced ; but, not
being right in his conjedures he was permitted to
repeat his trial several times ; until, observing on
the countenance of his patient a contemptuous
smile, the Dr, passionately exclaimed, " Ifu„ofe,
fr,you think lam afool, " Upon my word, Dr.''
replied the Clergyman, "you have mor&fenfe than
I expeded for you can dijeover a man's thoughts by his
pulfe."'
IX7 E the subscribers being appointed
▼ V by the Hon. Oliver Peabody, Efqurre,
Judge of Probate for said county; to -eceive and
examine the claims of the several creditors to the
Estate of JOB JUDKINS, yeoman, late of Exeter,
in said county, deceased, reptefented insolvent, give
notice, That we will attend for that porpofe at the
hdofe cf Mr. Daniel Smith, in said Exeter, on the
last Tuesday of this and the five following months,
from 2 to 6 o'clock, P. M..
DANIEL SMITH,;
DANIEL TILTON. J
Exeter, August 12tb, I,go. ~
THIS DAY PUBLISHED, 4
^ th Printer hereof) and for full at bis Office; i
MR. STEARNS' SERMONS on
the DIVINE CHARACTER.
'gSubferihrs are dtfred to find for their Bair.
EXETER, SEPTEMBER 17,1790.
NOT long since a sermon was preached by an
itinerant Methodic Minister, in a neigh
bouring state; from the uncommon eloquence of
the preacher and the viable effedsupon the audi
ence, the hearers had it in contemplation to get it
printed, and probably would have done it, had they
not been prevented by an old woman, who observ
ed to them, Ah? you may print the words; hut you
can't print the TONE. [Salem Gaz#]
An ACT authorizing the Secretary
of tie Treafury'to finilh the Light-Hous^
on Portland-Head in the District of
Maine.
BE it enaaed h, the Senate and House of Re,refen« -
tati vet of the United States of America in Con
gress affimbled, That there be appropriated and
p^id out of monies arising from the duties on im
ports and tonnage, a sum not exceeding fifteen hun
dred dollars, for the purpose of finishing the light
house on Portland-head, in the Diftri& of Maine ;
and that the Secretary of the Treasury un&r the
directions of the President of the United States, be
authorized to cause the said light-house to be finish
ed and compleated accordingly.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the Hou,e of R^prefentatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-PKefdent of the United
States, and PreJident of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUG. 30, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
(true copy)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
*@G>G>®9®©ssss©o<<© <,o<»§Qx,^
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, by
A Alexander Gregg of Newbotton, in the
county of Hillfborough, Administrator of the estate
whi'ch Was of James Gregg, late of said New
bofton, weaver, deceased—That on the third Tnef
day of August instant, at Amherst in said county,
A Decree was made by the Hon. Samuel Dana,
Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills. &c. within
said county, upon the said Alexander's administra
tion accounts of the estate of said deceased ; from
which decree the said Alexander then and there
claimed an appeal to the fuperjor court of judical
tale, next to be holden at Amherst, wi hin and for
said County, on the firft Tuefday of October next,
which was allowed by the said judge, and will be
proftCH ted accordingly.
WILLIAM GORDON, ^%
Amherst, Aug. 23d, 1790$ [for said Appellant.
STATEOF NEWHAMPSHIRE—ROCKINGHAM, SS.
CONGRESS.