The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-10-02 00:00:00, page 4

For want, of this, bow man, times are we
obliged to "go back farrowing over the
ground we have incautioufy trodden ?" And
frquentl, cannot, with all our repentance, re
pair the loss and injur, our imprudence has
brought upon us. How much cafar to prevent,
by care, than to remedy, b, repentance, tlx
falfeflops of burr, and inattention. .
^os^^s^^sMs+;
^odd Corner.
From the NewbampJhire Journal, &c.
An Eulogy on the Times, together with
some general directions to young flu
dent's and other buckijb lads, who wilh
to be thought Fine Gentleman.
THE cautious traveller, who is a
granger to the way, will enquire which of
the max, roads before him leads to the place
of his deflation. —He willwalk with care
ful fleps thro' the different and untried places
he has to go over. His care and vigilance
well he encreafed as these are multiplied.
Happy would it be for us, if, in the jour
ney of life, we used the fame precaution !
Happy, indeed if, to great prudence in our
common affairs, we added the utmost delibera
tion and circumjpeflion in all our moral ac-
In modern times a man should be
A drunken rake—a debauchee,
If he'd be well receiv'd ;
For men have grown more wife of late,
Old faffiien'd virtue's out of date,
Or sure I'm much deceiv'd:
Now every youth who has fuppli'd
Ilia want of sense by llore of pride
With lab'ick arts, and flattering tongue
Debauch some maiden fair and young,
For that will be genteel !
Dost be too scrupulous—win the fair,
Then you may leave her to despair
A rake Ihould never feel !
Be conversant in arts like these,
You surely will not fail to pleafe,—
Become a man of spirit!
D^fpife those " dull pedantick folks"
Who pay attention to their books,
And hope to rife by merit.
The most incorrigible dunce
Becomes a gentleman at once,
By praftifing these ru'es:
Though men of sense will think him mad,
Yet whatof that—the rakish lad
Will gain the applause of fools ! ! !
AMINTOR.
Were fare afmple race :
With them an honcft man—though odd,
Was thought the noblest work of God !
And has a little cash ;
If he can drink, and game, and (wear
With what is call'd a " genteel air—"
Why then he cuts a flalh !
Would you a gentleman commence ?
Then truly, Sir, to common sense.
And face of crimson hue.
Then in the midst cf drunken rout,
Brimful of Bacchus sally out,
By night patrol the street ; —
And roving o'er the silent town,
Full some old crazy building down,
T'will be a glorious feat !
But when in such a cause you join,
Then firm as death and hell combine,
Be true one to another :
Equivocate, and even lie,
And work the matter " curfedfj"
Not to expose each other.
Let those, whom nature meant for fools,
Bid bold defiance to her rules,
Aid countered her laws :—
With iron lengs, and flippint tongue,
To ribaldry, and nonsense hung,
They'll surely gain applause.
You firft must bid adieu—
Ne'er let a brother rake be higher
Drink, till your blood is all on fire,
LET others scrawl fatyrick rhymes,
And la!h tie follies of the times
With unrelenting rage—
May we in strains feraphick sing
While hill and dale responsive sing,
The Wifdem of the age !
Our fathers, who in days of yore
Firrt landed on Columbia's shore,
fiens.
EPIGRA M.
You live too low, fays honest John —
You starve your Muse, her spirit's gone—
Your verse has loft its fire ;
That's falfe, the angry Poet cry'd,
'Tis in the Garret I reside—
Tie now another case.
Pray, how can I live higher ?
Tab MONITOR.
I We are moral agents, defined to pass a
life of change and trial here—and fan, ver,
Joon, to land on the firm and immutable ground
of an eternal exigence.—The happtnefs of ev
er, part of life depends much on our conduct
\tbe proceeding period—and in the fame man
ner the condition of the future on the genera!
tenor of the present.
No vices are so incurable as theft
which men are apt to glory in. Off
would wonder how drunkenness frub
have the good luck to be of this number.
Anachafis being invited to a match of
drinking, at Corinth, demanded the prize,
bacaufe he got drunk firft.
I was the other day hearing the ftery oi
Jeremy Jug, who was reckoning up how
much liquor had passed through his gullet
the last thirty years of his life ; which ac
cording to his computet on, amounted t<
twenty-five hogsheads of New-Englanr
rum ! this he computed to have T& him
twelve hundred and fifty dollar, besides
the time spent in earning it, ahich is
about one thousand Dollars more.—
In addition to this, he had incurred phy
ficisns bills for wounds, bruises, and other
consequent attendants on drunkenness,
amounting to two thousand four hundred
and fifty dollars ! As a compensation for
this fam he had the pleasure of getting
drunk more than ten thousand deferent
times ; in the course of which, he had se
veral times run the rifque of his life, had
his shins broke, his body bruifed,his clothes
loft or torn to pieces, and his pockets
picked. I alked Jery what age he was
of? He replied, it is 55 years finite I firft
began my existence, the firft eighteen of
which, lam glad to be able to fay, were
not entirely loft ; the remainder f my con
science tells me, has for the greiteft part,
been it a fiatc of deliberate, fell, linger
7th. If all things are predeftinated,how
can any thing be avoided ? and if una
voidable, upon what principle to be blam
ed or punilhed?
Bth. Is man a free agent or not ?
9th. If he is a free agent, may he not
choose or refufe, do or leave undone, and
not be accountable ?
After hearing the good man through,
he turns to him, and asked him if he hac
any pork or beef to fell? No. Any
/heat or grain of any kind ? No. Any
butter, cheese, wool or flax? For fayr
the Governor, if you have, I will give
you money for them. Why no, he had not
any thing to fell. Then, fays the Gover
nor, suppose we Should make a bank &pa
per money, how do you expe& to get it/
Why, truly he did not know
Let us run in debt less, spend left, and
pay more, be frugal and induftricus, ano
we shall soon find our affairs mending ;
our debts both public and private lelTen
ing, and money becoming plenty. Fo:
the scarcity of money is a disease that will
work its own remedy, and make a plen
ty as in other merchandise. But it mult
be in away of industry and frugality—
and whenever money becomes plenty i:
any other way, it does more hurt that
good, as is creates idleness aud wicked
ness among the people, of which we have
already too much.
IT would be pleating to a number of
candid persons, to fee answers to the fol
lowing queries.
I ft. Are all future events predeftinated,
or infallibly fixed, and so determined,
that they will and Ihall come to pass ?
ad. Is it possible for any predeftinated
event to be fru^rated that it may not be ?
3d. Is it possible for any event to be,
that is not predeftinated ?
4th. Is it proper to fay of any event
that it may or may not be ?
sth. Are there any continences in
the moral, political or natural w,d, or
does any event depend on contingencies ?
6th. Is it reasonable to blame any man
for unavoidable events?
loth. If he is not free, then how is he
accountable ?
J/VHEN the good Governor Tal
cot presided over Connecticut*, a poor
:imple man came to h.m one day, com
plaining very bitterly of the hardness of
the times, and scarcity of money, and
that he was unable to get any, and won
dered they did not make money, and
would have him use his influence to have
a bank made.
THEOLOGICAL QUERIES.
CURE FOR HARD TIMES.
On DRUNKENNESS.
Agriculture is jaftiy though:
to be the molt ancient art ; and it is cer
tainly by far the most ufeful. The febfitt
ence and welfare of mankind depend
more on it than on any, or all others.
And all oth n rarts would soon be use
less, were the: culture of the furface of the
earth neglected. Nb art therefore ought
to be held i^ higher estimation. The an
cients valut ^ it highly ; and no good rva.
lon can be given why the modern (h uld
lightly eft%m it. The Egyptians,Greeks
and Romans, aferihed the inventions of
this art to their Gods; but Jews and
Chriltang rather trace it up to Noah ana
Cain, thf: former of whom planted a vine
yard, ami the latter, long before h m was
s tiller 0 f the ground. Even Adam in
paradife pradifed one branch of this art;
he was put into the garden of Eden tv
dress il.
Thu immortal pcet Virgil did not think
agricu !ture a fubied unworthy cf his gen
ius ; and his Georgicks are esteemed a>
the ra oft excellent of his works. Agricul
ture 'has drawn the attention of feme of the
grewceft men of all nations, many of whom
had their hands, as well as their heads
employed in it. Cyrus the younger plant
ed and cultivated hi.:garden partly with
his own hands ; and it is well known that
»e Remans took feme of their greatest
generals from the plough. Cincinnatur,
vhofe fame is great in America, was
ploughing in the ned, when the Roman
rrmy was besieged in its trenches by the
JEqui and Volfci. Being sent for, he
vent to the army, routed the enemy, en
tered the city in triumph,and then return
ed to his plough. Agriculture has been
so great an objeft in Britain, as to em
ploy the pens of a a multitude of its ge
r.iufes, ; and the Englilh books that have
been written upon it are furprixingly nu
merous. In that country, if I millake not,
hufbindry has been brought as near to per
fedion, as in any part of the world. And
it is now owing to this that the iffand sup
ports so great a number of inhabitants;
and that the Englilh nation, has been so
opulent and powerful.
Though ether employments are often
times more lucrative to individuals than
hulbandry, none can be so advantageous
to the world.—ls it is a flower way 01
gaining wealth than some others, it is per
haps the least hazardous of any. The
farmer depends not on the winds & waves,
like the mariner ; nor on the good will of
his neighbour and the public, tor employ
ment and bread, like the mechanick. The
oufinefs is highly adopted to promote the
health of the body, and the cheerfulnefs
and content of the mind. And if it were
better under ftjod in this country,and more
spiritedly pursued, both the pleasure and
the profit attending it would be greater
than we have yet experienced. It is an
employment which affords a variety of
entertaining (peculations to an inquisitive
mind ; adapted to lead us into a con fid
erable acquaintance with the works of na
ture.
ing marder ! and affords a refleaion af
iroft too great for a mortal to support!
Here is a pidure drawn from the life ;
and fach another may I never have the
misfortune to behold. A man almost six
ty years of age, whose head was silvered
with hoary locks, and his cheeks furrow
ed with age, uttering truths that made him
appear even worse than a brute beast.
My horror for his fituadon was, however,
considerably abated, on percieving the ray
of light that was dawning upon his mind —
he appeared to be feasible of his situation,
and desirous to exchange it for a better.
Benosus, having set up for a share in
the Roman Empire, and being defeated,
hanged himfelf. When seen by the army,
notwithstanding, he had been brave, the
common jest was that they thing they saw
hanging before thera on the tree, was not
a man but a bottle.
However highly this dafs of people may
think of themfelvts, they may be assured,
that a drunkard is a greater monger, than
any in creation ; and indeed there is no
character that appears more despicable and
deformed.
“ In a philosophic view," ftys one,
"Agriculture it great and extensive. In
a political view, it is important, and per
haps the only firm and liable foundation of
greatness. As a profeffion, it strengthens
•he mind, without enervating the body.
In morals, it tends to increase virtue,
without introducing vice. In religion, it
On AGRICULTURE.
Th farmer.
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NOTHING need be said on the part of
the Editor to prove toe utility of peri
odical publications ; their ufrfulnefs is ack
nowledged by every civilized nation. Month
ly publications are efablijhed in mofl of the
United States ; Even the State of Newbamp
jbire Jupports a publication of this kind : The
Editor fatifed shoe the enlightened inhabi
tants of Connedicut will not he behind their
neighbors in supporting Literary produnions,
flatters himfelf that he jhall meet with liberal
encouragement, and he is determined that no
thing on his part fall be wanting to gratify
his readers : In order to enable him tofuit ev
ery tafle he now Jolicits the aid of the gentle
men of genius in this idl the trnghboringflates;
and as the writers in this part of the country,
have beenjufl, celebrated Jor th.ir ufeful and
pleafng prodw&ions, he hop's with their kind
nffijlance, to be able to give universal fatis.
fallion.
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pendence on providence, without a tinc
ture of infidelity. It is a rational and a
greeable amusement to the man cf leisure,
and a boundlefi source of contemplation
and activity to the industrious."
// ar -Department.
Aug G 1793-
INFORM ATION is hereby given to all
the Military Invalids cf the United
States, that the sums to which they arc
entitled for fix months of their annual pen
fon, from the 4th day of March last, and
which will become due on th: sth of Sep
tember next, will be paid on the said day
by the Commissioners of the Loans, with
in the States refpedively under the usual
regulations.
By Command of the
President of the U* itsd States.
H. KNOX, Secretary at ki'ar,
THE Non-Resident owners cf Lands
in the town cf Gilfum. are hereby
informed, that unless their high way pen
ny-tax, which became due in the years
'9O, and '9l, is worked out, or fettled, by
the 15th of O&ober next, their lands will
be fold at public vendue, for the payment
offaid taxes.
ZADOCK HURD, Collcdor.
Gilfum, Sept. 3d, 1793.
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A rich Fool is like an overgrown Hog,
A woman who is never spoken of is
praised the most.
Modesty is female courage.
A girl who frequently blulhes, knows
for why.
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