Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-09-28 00:00:00, page 2

From the True American.
A FEW days since I was at Trenton,
and observed a bustle in the street ; the word
Democrat was vociferated with great vehe
mence.—lnftantly a small man was knock
ed down by a large man almost twice his
size. I had heard of one Pendulemwho
is said to be a violent federal paitizan, .nd
I supposed he was exercising himfelf with
fume of the little Democrats preparatory
to the election.—But I was much sur
prised when I came up and found the large
man to be the very identical Mr. Bankrupt
who has been the Federal Ajax for several
years pad, as 1 understood that disgusted
with politics, he had retired to, the Gennef
fees. He was in a great rage, and exclaim
ed “ Damn the Democrats —I will serve them
all the fame way." The little democrat
was soon on his feet. —
Democrat. This is order and good govern
ment I—A man who night and day has rode
with his Mammoth Saddle-Bags fluffed with
religious pamphlets, and bellowed Religion is
" Ye men of Ephefils," why is all this
uproar in the city ? The men whom you
charge with destroying Religion, and robbing
-th'e Chinches,have in no instance done as you
have been inliruaed. The Churches remain
in the fame date of quietude as before, and
the funding system (the modern Temple of
Diana) and all the other pecuniary edablifh
ments, are more permanent than under your
former ellablifhmer.t. If Demetrius cannot
r.get so much profit by his craft, yet, you get
more for your fix per cents, your bank docks,
and all other matters connected with your
fifeal arrangements. If you are relieved
from your (lamp duties, land tax, loans at
an extra interest, if Demetrius, by this mea
sure, finds a drawback in his income, so
much money is fated in your own pockets.
Why then are you diflurbed ? What profit
is it to you, to feed men who live by your
earnings, and when every (hilling they gain
is a difeount from your living ? If the gov
ernment is thus adminifleted for your bene
fit, why should you make a riot because a
number of bangers on are Jhaken off as an in
cumbrance. Do the wheels of government
need a clog I If 5000 men can be set at
work to earn a living, without being bur
thenfome to the community (as excife-offi
cers, (lamp officers, &c.) is it any disad
vantage to those who had to pay them r If
the President tells you, he can answer all
public exigences without these taxes,why are
you clamorous to burden youifelves, when
he fays he does not require it ? We have a
great number of Demetriufes who live by
the craft of deception, and when they are
thrown out of business, they will make a
great noise and disturb the city ; but what
is Demetrius to you ; By feeding him, you
starve yourselves. While he is furnilhing
silver gods at your expence, to burnish up
the temple of Diana, you are growing poor
and depriving your wives and children of
the means of sustenance. Os what service
was a ftamp-aa ? Did it make property
more secure ? But if it is equally as secure
without it, why do you clamor at its repeal?
Os what service was a (landing army ?
While they were in exigence, were your
estates or your lives in less jeopardy ? If they
they are now secure, why do you need them ?
Os what service an eight per cent, loanr
Did the gratifying a few usurers, enrich
you ? Os what service was a land tax? It
served to create a host of officers, but the ad
vantage was very small to those who paid
it. If you can now ride in a chaise with
out a tax, is it not better to apply this mo
ney to (hoeing your horses &-mending the
tackling, than supporting Colledlors ?
Why then, “ ye men of Ephesus," are
you thus uneasy ? Why all this uproar ?
Let Demetrius do as all honest citizens ought
to do, earn his living by industry, and not
by imposition. Support the men who are
willing to relieve you from Taxes, and ne
ver let the great city of Ephesus be again
diflurbed by a set of noisy, lazy sycophants
who only pay court to those who feed them
from honest men's pockets. ---Besides why
do you clamour in this incoherent man
ner? bellowing " Adams & Liberty," Jaco
bin, &c. convinces no man. If you have
any charge against your magistrates, is not
the unwritten judiciary, not the common
law of England, but the explicit, written laws
of the land ; impeach them before the con
stituted authorities. Ye have deputies and
lawyers in abundance ; one half the money
you have given towards paying unnecessary
officers, would be a handsome tee to the
whole body of attorneys. A& like men, ye
citizens of Ephesus, and dont become a bye
word and derision among the citizens of the
earth.
And when the Town-Clerk had thus
spoken, each man went away to his own
home, and the citv was quiet.
OLD-SOUTH.
meaning of what I propose in this number,
I will attempt to modernize his language,
and apply my difcouife through the medium
of the Town-Clerk.
Lawyer House-Tax. —Any man who makes
that affertipn ought to have his damn'd bones
broke.---Don't let the fellow escape
make an example .of him- What 1 Hap
py and prosperous ; Ruin flares us in
the face !---Taxes taken off---Puplic debt
reduced-Economy praaifed--Sixteen use
less Judges dil'miffed--we are on the verge
of deftrudion !--down with him again.
Secretary Alun,— Gentlemen, altho' I had
the honor of being nominated to an impor
tant flation in the Military department, and
therefore may be prtfumed to be an advocate
for the decision by Battle —Yet I much
doubt the policy of making political conver
sions with the ffi^The mode I purfuc, is
to w rite letters to the leading Democrats in
the country inviting them to ny house
I then try what can be done by the arts of
perfuation--and the alarm of religion being
in danger.
Bankrupt.— Damn that cant--! have tried
it till lam on the brink of starving Fire
and sword for me--the Flemington Quixote
is my model.
Secretary. Such characters as you and
Quixote have disgraced us—Sallying out
with Pistols, and Saddle-bags, and news-pa
pers -Talking religion at taverns, and,
at the fame time getting drunk Preach
ing up order and good government, and at
the fame time knocking down every man
who differs from you in politics such
conduit has destroyed the federal interest.
Bankrupt. Who fat us on ?---Did not
you largely contribute both in money and
scurrilous pieces ? Were not you and
Houje-lux at the bottom of the business t-
And now our violence has undone the cause
——No, it is your cringing fellows who
have ruined us Toch as House-Tax who
to day execrates To-mor row fawns.
And you, Mars, why not come out
boldly : Why these fly letters and religious
hypocrisy r It is true I carried religious
pamphlets, but every body knows what I
aimed at.--Some peopledo all the electioneer
ing drudgery, and others enjoy all the emol
uments. One Commiffoner builds an
elegant House, another officer purchases a
line of Stages—But where does the money
come from ?—Fair play, Gentlemen, if
the public is to be plundered, let us all go
Jnacks.
Land-Tax. Silence Bankrupt, the elec
tion is our own this year ; you (hall be Clerk
of the Alfembly.
Bankrupt. Softly Mr. House-Tax ; you
had better secure one Clerk/hip before you dis
pose of another ; these democrats are damn'd
Grange fellows ; who knows what the Devil
may put in their heads ; caution, Mr. House-
Tax ; caution.
House-Tax. O ! what a violent ague has
seized me ; call the Do&or ; Lord have
mercy on us ; these damn'd democrats, the
very name makes me shiver. Dear Bank
rupt, do you think they harbor such wicked
designs as you hint at ?
Bankrupt. Yonder is Judge Snarl, ask
bim, he can (peak feelingly.
House-Tax. I will go and consult him ;
Lord how I ihake ! Poor Snarl, he looks as
if an ague had pursued him from the time of
the repeal of the Judiciary.
Democrat. Altho' 1 have been abused and
knocked down, yet as we are enjoined to do
good for evil, I will give you gentlemen some
advice, which if followed will be for your
benefit. You well know the causes which
have produced the change in our public
officers. Want of economy, prodigality of
the public money, violent oppreflion, disre
gard of rights, facrificing every thing to
party, Sedition laws, oppreflive taxes, con
tempt of the people, and breach of the Con
dilution ; these have hurl'd the Federalists
from their feats, and in their dead men have
been appointed to office whose sole objed is
the public good, and under whose auspices
our country enjoys unexampled prosperity
and happiness. We may now with truth
sing "Hail Columbia, Happy Land." Now,
Gentlemen, my advice to you is, to attend to
your private concerns ; to practice your fa
vorite dodiines of submitting to the consti
tuted authorities of our country ; to desist
from abusing and reviling the Gentlemen to
whom the administration of our government
is committed ; to behave like peaceable citi
zens, and participate in the general pros
perity.
Bankrupt. Good advice ; but I'll be
damn'd if the Federalists will follow it.
Feathers discover which way the wind
blows. Gentlemen Editors, the above is at
your service, and at the service of the public.
VENTRILOQUIST.
September gih, 1802.
Extrafl from the Vermont Gazette.
Fellow citizens look, at these things--the
amount of our national debt was afeertained
thirteen years ago, and a system for its dis
charge ostensibly patronized ; since then we
have paid into the United States treasury
andaxger, until Cufetun^ mountain almost
(hook to its centre— — --This man has knock
ed me down^for only faying we are happy
and proffor^u\ under the prejent Adminijlra
tion.
nearly one Hundred millions of dollars, and
yet our national debt; previous to the inau
guration of Mr. Jeffer son, was several mil
lions greater than when we started. The
feene is now changed. The savings from
dismissing useless troops, 554,000
In navy arrangements, 200,000
; In fortifications, 139,500
In correcting the judiciary, 45,000
By difcontinuence of the offices
of the commiflioners of reve^
nue and fuperintendant of
(lamps 12,000
In the appropriation for foreign
service 21,000
Do. for relief of our seamen 15,000
Do. for presenting claims
for captured property 35,000
Making a total of 1,021,533
These retrenchments were made by the
firft Congre/s under the present President,
the foregoing enormities of the former ad
ministration were developed, and will be
thoroughly lifted next session : a scheme was
devised to pay off seven millions three hun
dred thouiand dollars, annually, of our na
tional debt, instead of fuffering it to aug
ment, as has been customary in times pad.
It behoves every republican to aft with de
termination, to give the new administration
a fair experiment, and carefully attend to
the ilfue.
I was singularly struck with the beauty of the
yearling rams. I think their mean weight was
about eighty pounds, and they continue growing
until they are three years old. The cuttom yow
is to leave on their fleeces until they are eighteen
months old before they are sheared.-—About a do
zen lambs are (beared at the end of a year byway
of experiment. This has always succeeded well ;
though it has been found that lambs (beared the
firft year, fullered from the long rains of the sum
mer, or the firft frofts of autumn. Mr. Bourgeois
(the fuperintendant of the national farm) has con
firmed by his own observations what I myfelf
have remarked,that it is of great importance to the
beauty of a ram or sheep, that his growth should
not be interrupted by any accident during the firft
year. Another reason for waiting to the second
year before (hearing, is that the ewes are worth
less than the wool they yield, and that the weight
of the firft fleece at the age of eighteen months, is
equal to that of the two (hearings, in the old
wav.
Out of about fikty rams, I observed a dozen of
excellent (hape. As to the finenefs of wool there
is bnt a final! difference among them ; for none
but fuperfiners are kept in the eilablifhment. The
horns are not cut as they used to be. unless they
are so close as to hurt their heads. It has been
found that purchasers prefer rams with their
horns entire.—These rams are singularly mild and
tradable. They collect around those who go in
to their fold and never pretend to butt. They
may be catched and examined without the lealt
difficulty. But they attack one another and fight
with fury. Sometimes there are more than twen
ty battles at once in their inclofure. M. Delorme
the firft fhepard in Rambouillet said at such times,
instead of attempting to part them he found it
necessary to take case of himfelf. The ewes are
more shy and hard to catch, when you wish to ex
amine them. The keeper called our attention to
those which had not been (beared for thirty
months, and are under experiment for afeertain
ing what will be the condition of the fleece
at the end of three years. The wool is seven in
ches long, and Ricks on as firmly as if it was only
one year old. These two sheep do not fuffer from
the weight of their fleeces ; but neither of them is
Foreign Mijcellany.
Translated for the N. Y. Daily Advertiser.
National Farm for Agricultural Experiments
in France.
The French Nation has an experimental farm
for agricultural experiments, at Rambouillet, dis
tant ten leagues from Paris. This farm'is fifteen
hundred acres in extent, and supports the valua
ble flock of neat cattle, horses, sheep, and other
domellic animals kept for improving their ref
peftive breeds. Wepublifh the following account
of the dock of the Spanish (heep now kept there
as being more immediately connected with the
interest of the United States ; it is extracted from
a more detailed account forwarded from the Ron.
Robt. Livingflon, our Minister Plenipotentiary at
Paris, to Dr. Mitchell, dated June 1, 1802.
The sheep cot, which is the molt mterelling ob
ject at Rambouillet, is detached from the farm
house only a few hundred paces. It was former
ly a breeding place for pheasants. It is a building
confiding Os tour large galleries, connected at
their extremes.--The racks and mangers are on
the two (ides. The sheep cot is floored and
well ventilated. Litter is very plentiful. The
place is neither cold nor hot, nor is any bad smell
perceptible on going into it.
It is only fix days since the lambs began to be
weaned, and there are already sixteen of them.
It is at Rambouillet where one must go to view
the true Spanish race of sheep. These fine crea
tures have bodies of an extraordinary beatuy.
The pains which are always taken to prevent their
receiving the ram before the third year, gives them
a chance to have a full growth and developement
of parts which are in common cases prevented by
too early Or premature gestations. They are
remarkably strong, square, and low upon
the legs. Those which give fuck or which
are almost ready to bring forth, have their
udders diflended and their teats hanging almost
like little cows. They afford abundance of milk
though they live upon dry fodder all the winter.
The second cuttings of clover and lucerne are
their only forage.
Each sheep, besides his two pounds of lucerns,
eats about half a pound of oats with la Balle of
corn. In the evening some draw is put into the
rack to amuse them during the night, but this is
not calculated on as any part . ftheir nourishment.
In the winter they are foddered four times a day ;
and the flock is driven about and to walk for ex
ercise during an hour or two, provided the rain
does not prevent.
The Iheep, are divided into four diftinft flocks,
to wit : ewes, rams of two years old and up
wards ; the male lambs ; and the female lambs
and whethers. This lad flock is not at Rambouil
let. The whole of these animals amounts almost
to fix hundred.
Citizen Barthelemy then read the following
SENATUS CONSULTUM.
Extraafam the Regifers of the Conservative
Senate.
August 2, 1802.
The Conservative Senate, &c. having seen the re
port of the Committee for that purpose, which
Slates, that 3,577,259 Citizens have giten their
fuffrages, and that 3,568,885 Citizens have voted
that Napoleon Bonaparte foetid be appointed
Consul for Life.
Considering that the Senate, established by the
Conditution as the organ of the People, in every
thing which the social compaft is interefled,,
ought to manifeft in a splendid manner the na
tional gratitude towards the conquering and pa
cificating Hero, and to proclaim solemnly that it
is the Will of the French People to give the Gov
ernment every necessary liability and independ
ence, in order to ensure the prosperity and glory
of the Republic, decrees as follows:
Art. 1. The French People do appoint, and
the Senate do proclaim, Napoleon Bonaparte
First Consul for life.
2. A Statue of Peace, holding in one hand the
Laurel of Viftory, and in the other the Decree of
the Senate, shall attest to posterity the gratitude
of the Nation.
3. The Senate shall convey to the First Consul
the expression of the confidence, the love and the
admiration of the French People.
(Signed) BARTHELEMEY, Prefidens.
The First Consul replied at follows.
'' Senators,
“ The life of a Citizen belongs to his Country.
The People of France wish that the whole of mine
should be confecraten to their service, and I obe„
Ingiving me this new, this permanent pledge of
their confidence, they have imposed upon me the
duty of maintaining the fyflem of the Laws and
inflitutions of the Republic. By my efforts, by
your co-operation, Citizen Senators, and that of
the Conßituted Authorities, and by the confidence
and will of this immense People, the Liberty,
Equality, and Prosperity of the People of France
will he secured from all the accidents which srde
from the uncertainty of futurity. The bell ''"°'
pie (hall as they deserve, be the most happy,
their happiness shall contribute to that of all Eu-
rope
“ Content with having been called by the order
ofhim from whom every thing emanates ro brir.g
back upon the earth Juffice, Order, and Equality,
I shall hear my lad hour found without regret.
An IriAi paper slates the following Wages fc±
daily laborers in that country, at onefhilliig a day
from May to November, the other fax months tea
pence per day. The prices of neceflariea of life;
with these means of purchasing them ; and a com
parison of each with the prices of labor and neces
saries in the U. States, would afford a very perti
nent illufiration of the difference between Demo
cratic and “ regular" governments—and point
out the great cogency of that preference which
the Tories always, give to the blessings erjeyed un
der such a happy subjection —where the laborer
has one Shilling a day for his toil, and his titered
majesty has about 4000 Shillings for signing his
name—-or lending it to what he has not sense e
nough always to underflands
in the farm of Thanksgiving Prayer ordered
for Tuefday, among other fubjetts tor gratitude is
the preservation of “ onr free Monarchy" a word,
we believe, peib'lly new in this species of com
position.
" ». I IIHI. II «..llf f- . ■ ■,.
Foreign articles,
By the Galen, Capt. Hinckley, from London, Dales
to the 13th August, ißo£.
FRANCE. Paris, Atc. 4, 1802.
'AT the Levee yeflerday, Citizen Barthelemy,
President of the Conservative Senate, addrefled
Bonaparte in a fpcech of which the following are
extracts.
“ Citizen First Consul,
“The French, grateful for the immense ferri
ces you have rendered to them, wish that the Frit
Magistracy of the State fliould be irrevocably fix
ed ill your hands. In thus conferring it trpon you
tor life, they only express the opinion of the Sen
ate, as Rated in its Senatus Coufsitum-on the Bth
of May. The nation by this solemn aft of grati
tude, confides to you the talk of confolodating;
our Inflitution.
“ A new career commences for the First Con
sul—aster prodiges of valor and military talents,
he has terminated the War, and obtained every
where the most honorable conditions of Peace.
I he French People under his auspices bate assum
ed the attitude and character of true greatness.
He is the Pacificator of Nations, and the Restorer
of France. His name alone is a tow er of flrength.
“ Already an Administration of less than three
years has almost made us^forget that epoch of st
archy and calamities which seemed to have dried
the sources of public prosperity."
“ The Senates Coufultum which the Senate ina
Body now present to you, Citizen Firlt ContA
contains the expreflion of its own gratitude.
The organ of the Sovereign W:11 it was of opin
ion, could not better fulfil the intentions of tl”
French People, than by calling in the aid of thi
Arts to perpetuate the remembrance of this mem.4
orable event."\
A very important Secret in Agriculture was
made known ro the company at Mr. Coke's fheep
(hearipg, for the communication of which 200
guineas was previously fubferibed. It is a pre
ventative for turnips against the infeft called fly.
“ The difeovery is'to sow 2 pounds cd radilh feed
on every acre of turnip land, with the turnips,
u hich the inventor declared, will so attract <te
fly, as to prevent its proving at all injurious to
the turnip."
A letter given in the French papers, from Vietw
na, fays, “ The troubles in Wallachia are daily
augmenting. The Ptince himfelf has fled,and the
Foreign Consul, have witlidrawn into Traufylva
nia and Moldavia. It is rumoured that Pafwaa
Ogldu has entered BucharolL This intelligence
may be relied on.''
very thick. There are a number of remarks 4
feeding, italling and keeping this breed of fhee,t
and of the management of another flock lately id
troduced from Perpignan in Spain, winch we maA
probably offer to our readers on a future occafior.
Mr. Livingflon has already sent over some of this
breed of ft^ep, as the mod valuable prelcut
could make to his country.