The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-10-07 00:00:00, page 1

z. If there fh^ll be a sincere and general
acquiescence in the execution cf the firri
laws, until the said tenth day cf July next,
a general pardon and oblivion of all fach
offences ffiall be granted: Excepting
iherefrcm, nevertheless, every person who
Shall in the mean time wilfully obfiruft
or attempt to obitrua the execution of any
of the laws of the United States or be in
any wife aiding or abetting therein.
j. Congress having by an ad paged on
the fifth day of June last, authorized the
State Courts to take cognizance of offence?
sgainll the faief ads for railing a revenue
upon distilled feints and Rills, the Prefi
denfohas determined that he will direct
t"ftnts ageinft such delinquents to be prose
cured therein ; ifupon experiment it be
found that local prejudices or other causes
do not obftrua the faithful adhiiniftratiot
ofjuftice ; But it is to be waderftood, that
'T^E Commifioners appointed by the
Pica..ent of the Uneed Stares to
confer with the cinzenf in the we^ s n parts
of Pe rfyivania, having been affixed by
the committed of Conference, of t*tir de
termination to appiove the prc r ofals made,
and to recommend to ths general co^ran
tee a 'pointed by the inhering at Parkin
fin's, Ferry, a febmiffion to the ^cis of
Cpngrefo ; do no* proceed to declare
what affura^ecs oi fub^idion will be dee-,
med fu 1 & nd foisfa^ory, and to detail
the engagements which they have power
tc m:kc.
The hid cemmffioners, rs a fall and
perfect compliance with the above requi
titions tike place, have power to proinife
and engage in manner following, to wit.
j. No pfofecution for any treafer. or
other indictable cffence Against the United
States committed in the 4th survey of
Fennf,lvarfa before this day, fhhl be
commenced or proceeded on until the
tenth of July next.
4. Tbit romures be taken to ascertain
by meetings in election diftiidr or other
wise, tie determination of the caizen.
is the fourth fcrvey of Penr.f-Ivania, to
Submit to the said laws, and that fatis
factory affiances to given to the laid
Coramiffivnera that the people have so de
termined 40 submit on or before the 14th of
Se, tember next.
A repe,; ofthe proceedings of the committee ap
pointed at the meeting at Parkinjonsjerry,
duthe 14.6 uh. to coujer '©th commqfo,.^
on the part of the executive of the Union, is
on the part of the Executive of l'en jjroa
ma, on the jubje& of the late opposition to
the laves cf the Union, and molauon of the
peace oj Jiate geverermut.
[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.]
1. It is expeded and required by the
fiidcimmWi^ers, th :t the citizens com
,cfing the sod genera, committee, do on
or before the 6,ltday of Sept, explicitly
declare their determinarioA to fibmit to
she tor,fthe U+• d Stors, end tha
they will net dire&y oricdirc ''ly oppose
the execution of the # L<ts, for railing a re
venue on distilled feuits .and fulls.
2, That they do explicitly recommend
a petfra and entire acquiefcenct under
the execution of the ftid ads.
3. Tharthey do in like manner recom
mend that co violence, injuries, < r threats,
le off-red to the perlon or agnioft the pro
perty of any officer us the united Staces,
orcitizeus complying with the laws, ano
do declare their determination to support
(as far as the laws require) rhe civil autho
rity, in affording the proteaton due t
all officers and citizens.
[No. 28. ofVoL. ll.]
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PHILADELPHIA, Sjpt. §.
THE
Columbian Informer;
Or, C HESHIRE JOURNAL.
PRINTED and PUBLISHED by H E N R Y~B L AK E, ^ CO. \x KEE NE, New-Hampshire.
We presume it has been understood bv
you that the conference on car part consists
of members rot only from the counties o!
Peuef/vania, weft of the Allegheny
mountains, but aifo from Ohio county, it
Virginia, ^r.d year proportions made in
general by soar firft letter peing addressed
to this conference, the Onio county was
considered as irxludd; vet in your pro
pofivon made in detail by your I'aft, you
confine them to the fur^cy within Penn
(ylvauia. We would requell an explana
tion on this parties or.
We hive only further to fay we shall
make a faithful rep^t of your pro ^ouri n,,
skich we apptovoof and will recommend
to the people, aid h wever they may be
received we are persuaded nothing more
could have been done by you or us to bll s g
the bofinefs to an accommodation.
of this he must be the judge, and that he
does not mean by this determination to
impair any power verted in the executive
of th/ United States.
4- Curtain beneficial arrangements for
adjusting delwquences and profecution#
for penalties nov, depending ihall be made
and communicated by the officers appoin
ted to carr, ^e laid ads into execution.
Given under cur hands at Piufbargh,
thiszad day of Avguft, 1794.
JAMES ROSS,
J YEATES,
WM. BRADFORD.
Li confequeßce cf the above, a confer
ence tuck place with th: Gentlemen from
Onio, and terne arrangements were mkde
accordingly.
[TO BE CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.]
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Let your men- acquaintance be of you
Hatband's choice,and not recommended to
you by any foe-companions fbecaufe they
will certainly fix a coxcomb upon you, and
it will cost you some time and pains, be
fore you can arrive at the knowledge of
diftinguilhing such a one from a man of
sense.
Never take a favourite Waiting-maidin
to your cabinet- council, to entertain you
with histories of those ladies, whom she
formerly served, of their diversion and
their dresses ; to insinuate how great a for
tune you brought, and how little you are
allowed to Squander ; to appeal to her ficm
your husband, and to be determined by
her judgment, because you are sere it
will be always for you ; to receive and dis
card fervent# by her approbation or dislike ;
to engage you, by her insinuations, into
misunderstandings with your belt friends ;
to represent all things in falfe colours, and
W be the common emissary of Scandal.
A LET TER to a very ?oung Lad, bn be.
[ ADVISE, that your company at home
ihould co^fid cf men, rather than women.
To fay the truth,! never yet knew a tolera
ble woman to be Tend of her own sex. 1
confess, vhen both are mixed and web
chofer, and put their bell qualities for
ward, there may be an intercourte of ci
vility and good-will ; which with the ad
dition of some degree cf sense, can make
conversation or any amusement agreeable.
But a knot of cf Ladies, got together by
ihemfavcs, is a very fchcol cf imperti
nence and detraction, and it is well rfchofe
be the wcrft.
The Cemnufii n^is on me
pan of the Uaion.
Signed by order of the Committee.
EDWARD COOK, Chairman.
CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST
Pittsburgh, dug. 23, 1794.
Gentle Den.
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MARRIAGE.
TUES DA r, October 7, 17941
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As little refpeft as I have for the gene
rality of sour lex, it hath sometimes moved
me with pity, to fee the lady cf the houte
forced to withdraw immediacy after din
ner, and this io families where there is not
much drinking ; as if it were an eftablifli
ed maxim, that women are uncapable of
all conversation. In a room where both
sexes meet, if the men are discoursing upon
any general fubjed, the ladies never,
think it their business to partake in what
passes, but in a fepara:e club entertain
each other with the price and choice of
lace, and silk, end what dresses they liked
or disapproved at the Church or the play
house. And when you are among your
selves, hew naturally, afterihe firft cem
plimentt, do you apply your hands to each ;
others lappets and ruffles and mantua's, asl
if the whole buflnefs of your lives, and the!
public concern of the world, depended up,
on the cut or colour of your dresses. As
divines fay, that some people take more 4
pains to be damrieo^han it would cost them I
to be saved ; so year sex employs more
thoughts, memory, and application to be
fools, than would ferye to make them wife
and ufeful. When 1 refled on this, I
cannot conceive you to be human creatures,
but a fort of fpeeie hardly a degree above a
monkey ; who has more diverting tricks
than any of you, is an animal less mis
chievous and expensive, might in time be
80l the grand affair of your life will be
to gain Ana prefers the friendship and cf
teem Os four b?f/3and. Yea are married
to a man of good education and learning,
es an excellentund'erttanding, and an cx
afttafte. It is true, and it is happy for
you, that these qualities in him are adorn
ed with great modesty, a moltamiable
fweet^fs cf temper, and an unusual dis
position to sobriety and virtue : But neither
good nature nor virtue will fuffer him to
g/hen; you against his judgment ; and al
though he id not capable of using you ill,
yet you will in time grow a thing indiffer
ent and perhaps contemptible; unicis you
can Supply the left cf youth and beauty
with note curable qualities. You have
but a very few years to be young and
handiome in the eyes of the world ; and as
lew numbs to be so in the eyes of a huf
oand, who is not a fool ; for I hope yeu
do net Itill dream of charms and raptures,
which marriage ever did, aad ever will,
put a sudden end to. Btfidea, year's was
a march of prudence and common good bit
iag,without any mixture of that ridiculous
paffiou, which has no being but in play
book: and romances.
Yeo muff therefore use all endeavours to
attain to feme degree of thole accomplish
ments, which your husband meft values in
other people, and for which he is most va
lued himlslf. You must improve ycur
mind, by elefely pursuing such a method
of ftuf, , as 1 shall direct or approve of.
You must get a colledion cf hiftory and
ttvth, which I will recommend to you,
and fend feme hours every day in read
ing thj,and making extra's from them,
ifyoor memory be weak. You must in
vite perlons of knowledge and undertian
rirg to an acquaintance with you, by
whefe conversation you may learn to cor
red ycur taste and judgment ; and when
you ean bring yourfelf to comprehend and
rebfli the good fenlt of others, you will
arrive in time to think rightly ycurfclf;
and to become a reasonable and Agreeable
c mpabion. This mull produce in you/
hulband a true rational love and esteem for
you, whch old age will not diminish.—
He will have regard for ycur judgment and
opinion in matters cf the greatest weight ;
you will be able to entertain each other
without a third perfan to relieve you by
fidirg difeoerfe. The endowment of
,our mind will even make ycur person
more agreeable to him ; and when you
are alone, ycur time will not lie heavy up
on ycur hands for want of feme trifling
amufemxnt.
Pnycbferve bow insignificant things
m titrcto^raß^^ when the,
have passed tk^yffl beauty ; how
contemptible they appear to the men, and
yet more contemptible to the younget
part of their cwn sex ; and have no relief
but in paling their afternoons in visits,
where they are never acceptable ; and
their evenings at cards Among each other ;
while the former part of the day is Spent
in fpleea end envy, or in vain endeavours
to repair by art and draft the ruins of times
a tolerable cririck in velvet and brocade,
and, for ought I knew, would equally
become them.
I wcnldhave yon look open finery as a
neccffary folly, as all great ladies did,
whom J have ever known : I do net cefire
you to beout of the faffiion, but to be the
|afi and the leadio it. lexped your dies,
ffiall be one degree lower than your for
tune can afford ; and ia your own heart!
would with ycu to be an utter contemner
cf all diflindient which a finer petticoat
can give you ; because it will neither
entire you richer, handsomer, younger,
better, matured, inure virtuous, or wife,
than if it hung upon a peg.
Ifyou are in company with men of lear
ning, though they happen to difrourfe of
arts and fcier.ces out of your compass, yet
ycu will gain more advantage by liflening
to them, than from all the non'enle and
frippery of,oar own sex ; but if they be
men of breeding as well as learning, they
will seldom engage in any convei faticn
where you ought not to be a hearer, and in
time have your part. If they talk cf the
manners and cuftotoscfthe Several king
donas of Europe, of travels into remoter
nations, of the state of their own country,
or of the great a:eu and actions of Greece
and Rome; if they give their judgment
upon Engliih and French writers, either
in verse th prose, or of the nature and lim
its of virtue, and vice, it is ashame far am
Englifa lady not to relish such dikourfo.
net to improve by them, and endeavor, by
reading and information, to have her fharc
in those entertainments, rather than turn
aide, as it is a efual cufiem, ar' .nfau
with the woman, who fits next her, #©ou<
a new cargo of fans.
It is a little hard, that rot one gentle*
man's daughter in a thousand fhculd be
brought to read or unde. Aland her own na
tural tongue, or bejeege of the cafieft
books that are written in it ; as any enc
may find, who can have the patience to
hear them, when they are disposed to man
gle a play or a novel, where the Jeaft word
out of the common read is sure to difecn
cert them. It is no wonder, when they
are not so much as taught to spell in their
childhood, tor can ever attain to it in their
lives. I advile you therefore to read a
loud, more or lets, every day to your hus
band, if he will permit you, or to any oth
er friend (but not a female one) Sho is a
ble to set ycu right ; and as for fuelling,
you may or mpa^ it in time, by making
collaatons from the bocks you read.
I know ver, well, that those who are
commonly called learned women have left
all manner of credit by their impertinent
ta^karives cfs aid conceit cf themselves :
But there is an easy remedy for this, if you
once confidef, that aicct aid the pains you
may be at, you never can arrive ia
point of learning to the petfe&ioa of a
fchcol-boy. The reading I would advise
yeu to, itcnly for improvement of your
own good ftnfe, which will never fail cf
being mended by dikretion. It is a wrong
method, and ill choice of books, tbit
makes those learned ladies just so much
worse for what they have read. And
therefore it shall be my care to dired yog
better, a tail; for which 1 take myfelf to
be not ill qualified ; because I have fperi
more time, and have had more opportuni
ties than many others, to observe and dis
cover from what sources the various follies
of women a r e derived.
[Whole No. Bo.]
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