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INDUSTRY and Frugality are
kindred virtues & similar, in their
principle and effefts. They ought
always to accompany each other and
go hand in hand, for neither without
the other caw be a virtue, or answer
a valuable purpose to the individual
or to lociety. He that is laborious
only that he may have the means of
extravagance and profufenefs ; and he
that is paMirnonious only that he may
live in laziness and indolence, are a
like remote from pal^on^ and en ffaved
to his predominant vice. To live
sparingly for the fake of amassing a
useless heap, is not Frugality, but
sordidness, To live within the bounds
of nature, that we may &fyy-terer
health and may b^ more free front
worldly embalmments, is prudence.
Tdlive frugally, that we maybe just
Wall nun ; may do more good to the
indigent, and may be more ufeful to
society ifyirtytius. Decency and
Propriety ordinarily require, that we
live according r to oar rank & ability.
But there are times when Patriotism
galls upon 4hofe in affluence & high
ftfe^TO fall a little below the usual
mark, that their example may en
courage moderation among others,
private ©economy enriches the in
diWdual, so the prevalence of it would
enrich the community. Moderate
savings will make amass in time. A
country so deeply in debt, and sub
-toed tp_fo great expences, as this
The COLLECTION.-
-=—"%SO ,
The great importance and utility of
Newspapers.
IT it owing in a great degree to the
want of information, that the peo
ple are so oriea fuipicious of their
rulers, and entertain the idea that
the intermit of the people and interest
of the government is unconne&ed ;
and that the latter have no object but
to aggrandize ihemfelves, acquire un
limited power, and lay heavy burdens
upon their constituents, which they
themfelvet mean not to feel the weight
of. Reftlels and disappointed men,
oat of office, ever propogate fach
ideas; and so long as the people at
large, or any number of them,ground
their opinions upon verbal reports,
they will be likely to ramgin in a Itace
of uncafiaefs with regard to their lib,
berties and properties.
_ Every man who feels interfiled in his
Own fate, & the fate of his offspring
should SEARCH FOR HIMSELF, and
initead of alking hismtormanc, ''Are
these Ehiags so," he Should apply- to
the NEWSPAPER, the faithful re
gitter of.tbe tranfacton of the day ;
its pages testify concerning public
men and public msafures. If the
rulers of the people ad uprightly,
study the iatereft of their conttituems,
conlult the good of the great whole,
the people will red farisfied, if they
know it, and the true and only fare
channel through which this informa
tion tfn be gained, is a NEWSPA
PER, If rulers err,the people should
know of their milcondutt, which will
ever be painted in its true colours by
the impartial Editor of a Newspaper,
and impartial every Editor ought
to be/ ter, if patroized by the people,
much is intruded to him, felf inhered,
if no other motive Simulates, and
mult induce the Editor of a NEWS
PAPER to found an alarm when
danger is at hand, for the deltruaibn
of a free PRESS will be the firit ob
jea with meh determined to endave
their fellow citizens. Such determi,
nations, however, will never be form
ed, while the people continue watch
ful of their rights, attentive to the
proceedings of government, and libe.
ral patrons of the arts, ''among which
a free press holds a diltinguiihed
rank."
FRUGALITY.
country now is, should consider fru
gaiity as a cardinal virtue. Let it
begin with particular persons and
spread through the community ; let
it take place in families, nor be over
looked in government; let it not be
confined to the poorest. or the mid
dle ranks ; but appear among the rich
and great. While the-poor are fru
gal from necessity, and the common
farmers and mechanics are frugal
from prudence, let the opulent be
frugal from patriotism: and if they
would make their patriotism a kill
more excellent virtue, let the savings
of extraordinary frugality be Applied
to some charitable purpole. For the
rich no certain rules can be prefcrib-
ed ; their frugality mult be voluntary
and discretionary. People Os mode
rate fortunes, and moderate incomes
mould aim at a regular conduct. Ex
cuse a few hints, eved though they
may appear too trifling to be obfay.
ed. If they appear worthy of noge&
let them be carried into practice.
Spend not your money before you
have earned it, nor promise it before
you are fare of it. Promises made
on other men's credit,or on mere con
tingencies are liable co fail. If you
^ifeppoint your neighbour often, you
lose your credit, and his confidence,
and perhaps provoke a suit, which
breaks friendship, and deftorbs your
peace, augments your expence, and
throws your money into the hands of
diofe, whom you chietty envy. Etti-
matd your probable incomes, making
feme allowance for difypointmenis,
and let your expences fall so much
(forty that some thing may be left at
& year's end. He that daily con
fames the fruits of bis daily labour is
unprepared for the day of his misfor
tune. Most men, if they live in the
bounds of nature, may by moderate
industry, provide for themselves and
their families. It is always reputa
ble to live moderately, when we have
hot the means of living fpfendidly.
Compute the needless consumption
of ardent spirits for one year, and will
it not make a sum worth laving?
The example of others is not a stand
ard by which we are to judge of ;fy
travagance, but our own circumltan
ces & abilities. That may be extrava
gance in one, that would be parsimo
ny in another. Enter not into top
close connexions with those of supe
rior fortunes, if they afe defpofed to
live fafter,than you can follow. Nev
er make a vain orientation of wealth,
which you don't possess, nor live at
other men's expence, so long as you
can live at your own. While
not in indulgence, that time which
you owe to the duties of life, the cuk
tore of you/ mind, and the support
and education of your family. €on.
fume not in luxury the money, which
'you owe to your creditor of to the
public, or by which you might relieve
your family ffom diffrefs. When you
fee another grow rich, of seem co
grow rich in any calling,conclude not
that you can do the fame, nos quit
your own profeffion for one which you
don't underhand & have not the art
ofpurfuing. Many have fallen by
reaching to things too high for check,
Lay out for yourfelf to fill up your
time, but not more than yoti can
manage well. Be not; in too great
•filfen^ri^Tfdh°^
profits of your own proper business
are the surest, and the honest gains of
industry and frugality are the mot
sweet, reputable and durable*
Book-Binding.
"foi M mifflte\
THE Book-Binding business iff
its various branches, will be
carried on at Lamson's Office, if suit
able encouragement offers ; where a
ny person may be supplied with Led
gers and Day-Books, on the shortest
notice, neatly bound, and ruled 4e &
any pattern. Old books, &e. will be
r©bound ata cheap rate,— ——* <-
OCT. 7.
TUESDAY last, a few minutes
after 3, P. M. this town was
winced by a whirlwind or tornado, An
gularly capricious in its limits and
effeds. The base of the column of
air agitated, appears to have been
compressed to a small circle below,
far the theatre of its adion here ex
tends but a few yards, although the
various matters borne aloft in its vor
tex, to an amazing height, demon
strated that the air above partook of
its force and motion co a wide circle.
Its dream or direction on earth, was
from nearly weft. A back up itair
J:pufe, behind Mr. Ogborn's; was the
victim & instrument of its vengeance/
for the whole of the roof of the bal
cony and ihingling of this building,
having a westerly- afped, was borne
upwards on the wind to aconfiderable
height, in a circular sweep, with
three long rafters attached to it, to
the utter affonifhment of all who saw
it; that part of the roof not dircdly
attached to those rafters was feperat
ed from them in the air, and dispers
ed itfelf far and high in a flight of
thingies, while the other attached to
the rafters, with their thick end
downward, precipitated Ranting up
on the franc roof of a house, forty
yards distant in another street, with
inch force, that the ends of the raf
ters not only pierced through it, but
even penetrated the ceiling of the
room's below; while the clumpy
wreck of Shingles that accompanied
them; lay flat on the battered objed
above. The weftern end of Mr.
Townsend's balcony, juff by Mr, Og
born's premises, was Wrenched from
the houfe ra wall and left in a tititik fi.
tuation ; butit is now in the hands
of tradesmen, to prevent its enabling
down.
Weft-Indies.
St. JAGO DE la vego, (Jamaica,)
• American Advices.
A man was taken up in Hell.AL
ley, and carried with irrefiftable fu
ry into one Window of Mlr. Bright's
house, and out at another the other
fide.
In convention at the court house in
Danville, 25th July, the following
resolution was agreed to:
f ßefolded.
Th^t Melfa.Muter, Campbell, Lo
gan, Kenedy, Marfhaf, Leitch, Ma
chir, Edwards, Slaughter, Lee, Shel
by, Smith, Grundy, Trotter, and
^&^ts&X-^^fo-GMU^ti^^
any four of them, be a committee to
draw op, and transmit to the execu.
tive, a remonstrance on the fabjett of
difefrarging the scouts aid dangers in
the different counties of this dißri& ;
and also to date to his excellency the
President of Congress, the defenee
lefs fate of our frontier's — the most
probable mode of defence —the de
predations committed by the Indians
in this diff ria'the iff of May lase
the final! number and dispersed situa
tion ofthe continental troops, which
renders it impossible they can either
assist us, or intercept an enemy; and
report to the next session of the con
vention copies of, their proceedings,
Tetters, and the aafwers they have re
ceived in ccnfequence thereof.
Tuefd ay was likewise memorable,
by a Grower of rain that fell about
noon, which deluged the parade, and
a few Greets in the center of the town
—but not a drop was thed at the ri
ver fide, on the work house of the
poor hsu'fe—-whieW form two thirds
of a circle, not a mile in diameter,
LEXINGTON, SEPT. §,
United- Stated
Kentufy.
Obio-Countr,. \
PITSBURG, NOV. zC \
B, Simon M'Grew lately from De
troit, we are informed, that while at
that place, & vessel had arrived with
cannon and stores for the garrison,
which is now making very Rrongj
and there is every appearance of all
intention to hold it against force.
Maryland.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman
near Fort Wheeling, to bis friend in
this tewn, dated Nov. 12, 1,89.
" The spirit of emigration to the
wedem regions rages more thus e
ver ; upwards of 3000 persons are en
camped near this place, feme of whom
have been here ever since July last :
They are detained on account of the
high frelhes in the River, -want of
boats, provisoes &c. -Their filiati
on its truly deplorable, as this part of
the country is but thinly fettled. This
large body of peoplepwith theirborfes
and cattle have railed the price of
provisoes to an staling height; this
has induced many of them who were
able„o return, while others are fpenda
ing their little all, in expectation to
fee the waters fall;
" But Ihould this riot be the case
soon, and an early winter fetin, the
distress of the people will be great in
deed ; for the principal part of them
are very poor, and have difppfed of
thejr old home=fo that they have no
retreat.
" The great diftnefs which thous
and, of our countrymen expose them
(elves, by undertaking the journey to
Kentucky at too late a period in the
year, Should ferv^ as a warning to
those who intend removing to that
country. Every head of a family,bee
fore he quits a comfortable home, for
good and all, Should reconnoitre the
waters where he intends to Embark,
build his boats and lay in aftock of ~
provisions, before he fetches his fam
ily, negroes and dock.
"We have this tiromerit received
intelligence, that a few days ago the
Indians took the boat in which a Mr.
Thornton, from Augusta Country,
. Virginia, with his family, embarked
' at Red Gone a few days ago.%
" The boat, it was said, was forced -
on the Indian ffiore by a large raft of^
itrees and logs, floating down the
river. The fate of this unfortunate
family is as yet unknown. Tiere
are (by the beff information) large
parties of Indians: patroling the weft,
ern banks of the Ohio, in order to
intercept the great dumber of boats
now preparing down the river,"
Massachusetts. I
BOSTON, DEC. 26.
CHRISTMAS. 7
Yesterday, the birth of our Saviours ■
was celebrated at the several Epifco.
padian C^chesr and at the Univer.
fal Meetinghouse: 'his town. At .
& r-Ricards delivered < ■
ao ;or 3 ;re. inflated Sermons 1
pe< r w : adapted to the occafion*
Th npofed^y Mv. 1
ffcH^?/, Introrc -1
ofthe
HYMN. H 1
Th z-%6/, so!« -& Gabriel feed,! ' |
Unborne on wing, of fight, ]
Jehovah's glory round him spread, ,
_ And chang'd to Day—the Night.|
Swift down to Earth th' Archangel
From God's eternal throne : $-#
His shining robe, of rain bow hue, }
The Stars, Noon, Sun, outshine.
Ten thousand, thousand left the Sky
▼ To each Salvation's found; %
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GEORGETOWN, DEC. Z;