Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-05-26 00:00:00, page 2

Bed. licentious Ney, thou verdeutjqueen of
1 WKB .
When fl'lfkm sweet-, mdv'd ancient harde '
. usi- sins; , I
At thy eppsiroeeh the ﬂow'ry. meed: look gay, :
, And When! eongetere cheunt their werh- !
- ling ley :. si '
eathrnl .
* The no] thnt most sondlv vibrated to her call,
In! ! son of the lnfernal trein.
.What lair'one ic this. more serene then the
lighis
Then the den osthe morning more chaste,
'Rnþlendent in glories that (tude the sight,
At her feet ﬂow the stream: of cele-tial de
light,
To mortaic she cries " Freely Truste!"
cum ss . yew-; " music L'".
sim no nempnen-er
an N-UKsi-L .er own : rr,
Remqmcswe. _
"We-um GMcper—em; T'
M-GWJDM. si
,Thlivelling'bpds discloee the op'ning- stom
! add with 1 sigh—when ": bright burning
le'm,
_ Demded inpeerly array.
.M when the dark end!-ged upon desorm
The sate—ifisitbe oky-si'mid the loud howling
* .mm, ,
to! Mlfiﬂh_0 weet lucid ney. &
m :
And tender plant: rise by thy geninl show
'[h] rocesitemom the pearly dew displeys,
The gentle zeph'y re'fan the noon-tide rays.
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And rose; breathe the eweet petsumes of
_ May. ' '
steeds-den: bloom, in thy pralific reign,
While me and herbssage desk the verdant
plain * . " '
The blonom'd orchard dren'd in rich array,
The waving forest-, clad in native ere-en,
Add pleasing lustrc to the turalecene;
\Vhile veriegetedss lawns end ﬂow'ry valee,
But (recruit odours through the gentle gale
But, eh ! how noon thy vernel beeutier sade ;
Emblern of youth, in all thy cherte: pour.
- WY'd; .
Though youth and beauty wither end decey, -_<
Virtue hath charms that never lade any.
" Anon-i to.:ny voice." che benign-nay acid.
sin lien-5, : range thet shields stound]
' duus, ' ' _ss
an deetin'd by Heaven the heppten to did.
si guide-th arrow their peaee would in
. . ] in upon tom, um. -
I)" joye ! dlepenu which ;the worlde-n.
not du- '
agg- power. old-then tlemen
" lsseehe the fiohgist whllo'tis Mrﬂ,
n'd live, .
3! Pnnonto the mrk, and you non-hell
ssss'vaquir-m. sought and desired by di,
To life thus encompm'd with Hiis around, -
Then where shall the mind ﬂt-e from paisi ? '
\Vill the white plume of peace on this gdohe
ne'er bejnuud !
In vice wfth impunity privdedg'd to wound ?
le rectimde' cherish'd in vein ?
hlch few -eh ! how few do attain
Dreou um cond the pan, and with letter;
And envious slandars dischims ? ,
,
'Tia ridicule—lnughing she hsict-shes all sure. ]
_When ludden her Styg'tan dipp'd (. ichion '
the real-e, &
How sure, end how deadly-her ainn.
But who is that sly .'"..*:.-1- who cautious ap- si
First, Envy _who oicken- when other: are
ble-t, .
Or grim o'er thectwrecks he (ii.-plays; , 1
Malignity knave, like : vulture, her brent,
\Vhile the virtue's or fame of mother's con
sess'd
From the fair bmw of worth wrest's thet
days.
Next calumny arm'd with fell quiver & bow,
With :: troutlct or was: takes the field,
" Down me:-it. (sit-.. criesi) be your honOrs
laid low, "
I'hate truth": eﬂuigence—cf genius the glow,
You Ill "to l.}_\' pruu'vsisiisi must yield "
men his: have withal-o May."
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THE woman.. .
The following form of devotion needfsshy
on of the ancienu ia suitable V-sshlind ﬂorct'
ssteieof Adm'e race, who'hdw Mild
ean' how- end-dy, eitherthsieqnehntiu'oectct
jhe -.qual'mea- of more", enjo} inent meet
concluden to their own .gnnd,- -* Giie me
what-Gentian, be good for me, though (
ehould neglect to pray for it ; and deny me
-_whnteoever would he hurtful, tho' I ehould
ignorantly—zmake it the object ofrny aunpli
cattonef" The way: ofsiDivine Providence
nremysseteniona. but unerring ; ite kindneu
't: manifemd srequen'tlyin withholding as
nere-i] aa-inpgiving; ae well-in rettrainta as in
'tfidulgencee ,ss'n'well in dinppointmente as
-1n crowdingsiour wish-se with succeaa. How
ostg'insiour journey of life, has Providence
lehwnrtetl our-inclinations, and by this means
prevented our wmderings ? -HUW oft have
Are been walking lilin-lly upsin she ('(ljve :.sa
preciptce;siprcparcd'to tal. si li.-L' fatal leap,
when an'invitible powc'si ss.'.si. en our course
by disappsvinting us of um' purpose ? "How
'osr have incidents that seemed evil to us at
sifil. been productive of good; and how
ost might the things which our hearts de
tired and of which Providence disappoint
ed no, been-hurtful in the enjoyment? si'Aa
little children cry for thinge that would in
jure'them, and atruggle with the hand -that
restraine them from running into "dangera;
so we children ol a larger zize, but in ma
ny instancesnot knowing what it good to
ourselves. frequently- desire with-most ea
gernen what wouldbe most for our hurt,
and pervertely repine even at -thoee provi
dential reatrainta and trinle-whieh—sinre the
eﬀects of a_mercisnl purpose. . -ss
" During the violence of : atorni'." laye-a
German fable, " a traveller 'oﬂ'ered- up hia
tupplicationt, and betoughtss- Heaven tti na
all thoee who escaped;- re et-hone, would
be kidnappedct abroad- With thin new im.
{meanen in the sieymm, en end-ende:
sibnted embergo eyetetn, and might benude
to form e very tteesul e di: wsiig; einee _
.' -. ,"-'--_c_r;,-n'a Palrt'at. ]
A. si'- _ _ ; :-*cu\'ed hie ap
psssisspsissss _ . - . ' '.L Rmssizmcourt,
it was si _si _ - s r.,- v- )f bone-et
peopivss :" ,,si \ , .; (: n__;u-si*zs. not to
bsi ahlr . . . ., -. 5. .: wzcl poesihly]
"sun to 3- ,. si !;'\!'.*. -Þ.'.s miuion.—-'
fro an ..z- - .- -ct .;"l recommend-I perusa'l
of me ("si .sisi.si ;.mcttsi. a. under the helde of
Goueolpur. —:.* si Pucrsburg, which may be !
laund m our tolumns of to day. They will ]
there fiu-sii, that (me object, at least, vhich
Mr-si-A-Jams had to accomplieh was, the m- !
clusion cfaur ships from Ruasian herb": ! ;
Do not ltarc-at this, fellow citizml: ] tell ss,
zou nothing but the truth;-nothing which'
the, paragraphe alluded to will not confirm. '
Read them. and contince yourselves. You ss
will there find that John Quinesiv Adame, !
the apoemte, lue been sent to Runia with
an outﬂt .)f-nine thoueend dollare of the
people'e money and & yearly ealery of nine
thoueend more ; not to adjuet exieting dif
ferenqee, for we have none; not to procure
for out eitizene new privilege: and immu
nitieez-httt-isi-P tell itnot in Geth, Dnblieh
it not in the etreeu of Aekelon"'—te brg Me .
Rmn'an government to quiet our own, in
aid-'a; " non-Him Nncuon" to leon-ay
what little cum-me: it yet ly} m Mole".
.el. ' ' - '
Ih'ieie eeminly e-refinelnent in d'rplo
untie poliq,*till noev'unthought of : it it
eve-nen improvement upon our own cele
sunge tne tempest. out tnesterm commu
ed with nnabating fury; and while he-wss
drenched with the ﬂood, fntigued with his ss
journey, and exposed without 'shelter, he
became peevish. and even complained s-,
loud of the ways of Providence. Approsch— ss
ing at length the burden of a forest.--he snid
to himsel . " Here I shall lind protection,
notwithstsnding Heaven has neglected me,
and turnedsdnf esr to my pmmzv' But -
as he went forward : rohber (sprang out
suddenly from-behind: bush, nnd sithe tra
veller, sffrighted at the psirospect,ctﬂ=d out
of the forest, exposing himself sgsin to the si
tempest of which he lind Io-grievonsly ccm- j
plained. _ - - -- (
The-robber. in the mesn time, "sitting on
nrrow to his bow took exact _nissm ;* but- the
bow string being reh'xed by the moisture of
the Weather,thc arrow fell'shorsit of'its mark,
and the traveller esilsiþesid unhurt. As he
continued his journey : voice proceeded
swful from the deade: '*-Csie'ase, * mortal;
to repine at ches-Divine dispenmion ; and
learn to acknowledge the goodness of God
in resusising so well as-in 'graoting your pe
titions. - The storm which you complained
ofso bitterly has been the mesns of your
preservativn. ct'si'ssﬂad not the bow string of
your c.] -my- been renrlered useless by
rain, yvu hadsallenn vietim to his vio
lence."
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,iereaster. heated-te a government.
.nbatedeooy deckoreetool pigeon ieteass
fss ler'ssi'a -, convenient lore to draw hid
'fr'ieadaintasithe .enaree-ofsi-aa one-(. <Il
, old federaltitneesswsie need-to voi-tain en
i basiaia'doie at soreipedunsil fetche .puepoeess
?ofpeeeertfring our 'citiatna and their ]:
si from the [rup of Wnctz-bn—the
sigemeeratic ingenuitv of modern days hae
. eaploded auch muety, arietoeratio-notione
iaetheae, and discovered that the only 'm
I of embaseadon, at the present day it to an
; eiet asisot'eigo tyrant in 'trampli'ng upon one
privilegee. '
1 The pretence about-sithe Fomentation-6!
our. Bag. it too ﬂimsv to cover-foe anon-en;
- such-a barefaced attempt, by our own ac
; credited agent, to destroy ,ottr_ eotnnterce.
' lt ir-pei'hppl an siexeueess which-Nap'qleon
might urge it:-defence of euCh alle-un;
! but to hear it advanced by -the repreeenta
' tive of the Americon people, in an outrage
' upon ai'ct decency, that might even- make a
tt-rant blush. iThat prostitutione (us-Cut
si-(lag-actuully rain; I have-msitactsidohbt.-—
j Oure "te-the only-neutral ﬂag- upen the ocean:
it would therelore be extremely-singular,
is other nations should not atte mptsito- pro
fit hyct the one of it. isBut ere we—to'sihave
nothing ; because there it a. poee'ibility 'that
- we may abuee what we have ? 'Shall we cut
out the tongues 'of our eititene: because
-they may *.* proatitute" them to dandcroue
or idle purpoeea ; ehal'l we forbid-them sictthe
me of their hands, because thoee' hande
=mighsit b'e devoted to the commiesioo of e- 3
vil; or, because a bale of goode may now 1
-and then be ampggled, an'-we to prohibit *
ifimportation altogether ? ' .ls-outsi—hg is pro- 4
! etituted; to are all Bags in similar-Situa
a tion: ; and it in quite-enough! if the injtmd
! nation be permitted to punieh 'the guilty,
without involving the - innocent in the- name
snow wonderfullyimpartial our. covena
ssm'ent mult be, thou to ssv'olunteer their cer
\ vicet-in support- of the " continentaI-eye
[sitemss !" - For it it too plain for an idiot-to
x- mimke it;-that this blow was nimed by our
L'etn'imnador principally at' England -nno
! ther link in the grand chnin whiEH'Napole—
'on'has been so long -and- no indumiotnly
'- forming to exclude FEnqlith : production
'from the eont-inent. -' l should, however. be
si'ver mnch obliged to some of—thoee-'who
per ap- are in the nent,-if they-"would
place to inform me for which one 'blÞ'Nn
poleon'e mumeroue sum of friendship to
and: us, we have eondeeeended to tooke
& him shi- my done-1 and use-doom "
tn-n. - is it for his Berlin decree; or it it
for his kindnets in impriuming out seemen;
orii-it-sor bit tender- mercies in burning
our ships; or 11 it for cequeetrIting our
yopertv; or is it for licen'cing privateen
to crmee against our mmmerce; or- (or
what other or greater ben'efit is it,- thnt we
are so gratefully obscquioue ?
should this yesr .get et lesst twelve hun
dred weight. ctl hsve noticed sisiin the Cou
rnnt that 41! dollsrs per ton hsd lately been
paid in Boston for hemp rsised st Long
Mesdow—this is a very unnsnsl price- lt
has been considered s [sir peace price st
two hundred dollsrs, when our intercourse
ws! open with Russis; end st that it will
my vsstly more than no other crop. ss tns
seen by the following very-libenlests
lnste of cultivsttn and dressingthe pro
dnctofone nere land thst isin good or
det- ,
fu'Lostlo-of more 18'00
'Plongbint and borrowing : tinues -6 00
2 '1-2 bns
[T is believed that there is at this time
no crop that sowe]! compensates the labors
of the husbandmsn as that of hemp. Many
persons have erroncouﬂy supposed that it
required a peculiar soil and that its cultiva
tion was nttendnnt with-much uneertainty—
it is now how-ever. sscertained from daily
experience, that not only the it.-faile 'banks
'ofthe Cc-nneeticnt and Genrs<ee i-ivsizcts, but
most ofour own warm uplnnds, it" prope'ly
prepared, _produce it in abundanc<z. A.
evidence of- the prosits of the eultivation
of hemp, ! would stste that thirty five. dol
lars per acre have been psid for one year's
us: of land for this purpose. And I am
creditsbly informed that the town of Long
siMesdow, has received st Boston, N. Yoek
snd New Raven, thirty five thoussnd do].
lars for one year's crop. An sverage crop
from land in.good hesrt nisv be considered
from eight to twelve hun red weight per
scre ,- sncl-the-land if properly taken care of
the second your will duce more ths.
the first. A judicious srsnerin tn neigh
borhood lstely told me thst he when
800 wei ht oﬂ' sn scre last-yesrsssnd lind no
doubt t st with little more sttention he'ss
eogtnoo sate.
elso'feeedstodolls. ctsi9 00:
lowis'; end lime-ring 1' 00
-' On THE CULTlVATION or Hzmr.
ct'From the Comzecticuo Courcnt.
wntcn u-to ne lett- a- month'- longer to ripen
-3To be bound with __rye- atratr in small
bundlce and—lest a few dayassinthe field to
dry 'that 'thesi'ba'tk may-"be tou'gher and not
; injured siin- moving-the bondlea to be land
handes-the waterto rot from ten to twenty
dlya- accordilg'to the" weather, as it lOll
l- much '-the- faster in warm weather. Clear,
s—atanding fist water isthe but for this pnr
1 pace,-fand dalt water,! by car recent-English
Ppublieation ia oonaidered altogether inad
ictmiaaible. .Asict- it i. eulieiemly rotted
_-—which siia eneily ' neertained lay-drying and
{breaking-aileth- ol it, the bundles to be
"dried in the ,op- n air. and when thoroughly
ssdried to be bound; when drealed'-firat.to
! pan through : coarse brake and-afterwards
4 through a-comeon one and mingled like
' In:
-The seed hent}: it-to be pulled-"neven at
the aeed begins to fall from the atallt, and
to be bundlrd and carried immediately to
- the place where it is to Be threaded, there
to be act up in the aon a sewdaya and then
l.;ently threaded; and. again put in the tun
m lew days more and hsterunrds threshed
again-5 it in then to be treated & before di
'*rected for the-male hemp.
Thus may serve' as a general direction,
* but the intelligent sarmer will make such
experiments as his land, his sictm'wn and
' his convenience will per-it, and !;3- com
l municating the result}!!! unscr an chi
l gation on that claae osioeiety of which si'ne
i writer of thia ia one. .
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J Me next. at Public Auctian,
That va uable MlLL SLAT,
late the property of Eliaha I annoy,
]TUATE in the said town of Occoquan
On this ecite-wae ereoted, about eleven
years ago, a epacioue three atory B R ] CK
M ]LL 5 0 0 8 2, which ever since has
been occupied as a manufactussing mill, un
til about twelve-month: ago it was destroyed
by' fire—the nones and bficka of the former
while, and the-iron work of the building ale
upon the lpot,- and would anewer for a new
kill, which ' in with theee aid-,be elected
in time to [,t - the growing crop of wheat.
The UhW-Wshg to this valu
*bl* m. With 3]! the drieat season
never name water, b— hmieh'ed by ""
Occoquaa river. are se generally known al
not toand a particular munication : suffice
it to etate, that "it be dun-die a health! .nd
louriahing little town at the Falla of the rl
ver, about 16 milee and]: of Alexandria, on
he me! etage road. leading north and mth
—in the heart of a wheat country—and has
naeigable water to the mill door, there vea
eela may come of eufident bunhea to cast!
500 bamla of ﬂour. With thla valnable out
for water works of any deeeriptlea, there
may be had about no ecre'e of well timbmd
land, lying on the oppoelte dde of the river
For this PNPG'W one-tenthoftoe han
money will be required la band. an the re
eldue lntbree equal annuel paymeate, vith
intereet "from the day of eate.
s .- _si ﬂaming ., . '
&"!!th &:
! 'Thellbove-eetitmte which it "Wood
. ly an hi 'h an it should-be, would I;. ted".
. edsonzderahly- by hunt; the heap du...
! ed in a mill, {or-which ._purpon .
? ssare-alreassdy-"ereeted about the country,
;si'by mvmme noeku'tr ahivealim
"urges-high purpote they answer touch.-.
! - derable degree. ' _
? There eisiina no danger from a cloud
market, it trill-never be Impottxd che
from abroad, lad should sitte-go luccenfusi
.ly into the cultivatiou fos t!,ct (or many ye,"
to nue-'yo—lheuld not more than equal th,
[de-and there would be, as soon non,
ahipo were-permittedcttp apread their tail;
si-upou the oeean. ss ._
] ssh'esollowing-m'ethodsiol onlpvation [m
been praetieed-with . great auceeu—nss
:- 5round isnot already-brokenup to he tho
fought,-"ploughed in ,.the {all, that the turf
' may be well rotted; aad in the tpring, .. -
early as the z-ae'aaon will .permit. to 5.
ploughed aguilt withsi-more—or less mature,
i according to --the condition of the land; she
! ploughing tobe repeated till the_aoil become.
; lightand tually-.; that which tessvpeculitrly
ss proper would-mo: require-more than two
ploughingo -in_*the spring; the end to be
; eown add well'cthctnowed in, on a very even
s lursace, from the in to the -10th ol May,
, that it may be out of-the way of from, by
ss which it it lialssle to be'iojurt d. --When the
ss blossoml fall from the male'hemp, at it will
" do about the (middle of August, it is to be
pulled by'm'aking all:-ye through the field,
and selectlng thesi male frosim the seed hemp,
'Þ'UR SALE,
At the town as -Ocooo_3uu. on the SGlh d'ay
Trmm or 0 die"; !. my
Aprilﬂz. ! , si laZk:
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nations-Smi- toom
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Richard M. Sooth