The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1793-01-07 00:00:00, page 4

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
— <se**m
The DEBTOR.
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HILDREN of affluence ! hear a poor man’s
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prayer,
O haste, and free me from .this dungeon gloom :
Let not the hand of comfortlefs defpair.
Sink my grey hairs with forrow to the tomb.
Unus’d Compassion’s tribute to demand,
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With clamorous din wakeCharity’s dull ear, ■
Wring the ow rid from Pity’s loitering hand, :
Weave the feign’d tale, or drop the ready tear
Far different thought employ’d my early heurs, .
To views of blits, to fcenes of affluence born,
The hand of Pleafure ftrew’d my path with Howers,
And every blefinghail’d my youthful morn.
But ah 1 how quick the change ! the morning gleam
That chear’d my fancy with her mangle ray,
Fled like the garnith pageant of a dream," .
And forrow clos’d the evening of my.day, "
Such is the lot of human bliss below,
And hope a while the trembling flow-ret rears,
‘Til unforefeen defcends the blight of woe.
And withers in an hour the pride of years.
In evil hour, to fpecious wiles a prey,
I trufted—(whom from faulis is always free ?) ,
And the hort progrefs of one fatal day,
Was all the pace 'twist wealth and poverty.
Where could I feek for comfort or for aid ?
To whom the ruins of my hate commend ?
Left to myfelf, abandon’d and betray’d
Too late I found the wretched have no friend I
E’en he amid the reft, the favour’d-youth,
Whofe vows had-met thetendereft warm return,
Forgot his oath of consrancy and truth.
And left my child in folitude to mourn.
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Pity in vain stretch’d forth her feeble hand,
To guard the facred wreaths by Hymen wove,
While pale-ey'd Av’rice from her fordid ftand.
Scowl'd o'er the ruins of neglected love.
Tho’ deeply hurt, yet fway'd by decent pride,
She nuth'd her forrows with becoming art.
And faintly ftrove, with fickly (miles, to hide
The canker worm that pray’d upon her heart.
Nor blam’d his cruelty—nor with'd to hate
Whom once the loy'd—but pitied and forgave,
Then unrepining yielded to her fate.
And funkin filent anguilh to the grave.'
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The Sos of Snow.
EVERY man, experienced in love, must have felt
the pleafure of being deceived; and perhaps he
who fubmits with moft cheerfulness to the arsa of the
-other fex, acts with more wifdom than the
cun
ning lover, who is forever inveltigating facts and
cireumftances. This was the conduct of a certain
Turkith merchant, of whom we are going to give an
anecdote.
This merchant went upon a trading voyage, which
contumed two years ; and during his abfence, his
wife, who was young and handfome, feeling for his
abfence, confented to the folicitations of an ardent
lover to fill his place.
The confequence was, that
the merchant’s wife became a mother without mak.
jug a father of her betrothed fpoufe.
The merchant returned Suddenly, furprifed his
wife in the very act of miffing her fpurious bant
ling—and afsuming a complaifant air, enquired
with great humility, to what happy accident he
owed the encreafe of his family.
The lady anfwered, “ Mahomet muft be the fa
ther ; for one day as I lay reclined in the garden
upon a bench, a cloud Suddenly burft over me—
turning up my eyes to heaven, I perceived there
was a fall of fnow; I ejaculated a prayer at the in
ftant, a fleak of fnow fell into my mouth, and with
in ten months I was delivered of this fair babe.”
' " I thank the holy prophet,” faid the merchant,
6 I withed for an heir and he has Sent me one—I am
Tatisfied, and we muft take care of the offspring of
the father of the faithful.”
The merchant was,a perfect maker of difimula
tion 3 he also loved peace, and, therefore, never
unbraded his wife, or hewed the leak want of af
fection to thefon of the boly prophet.
The fon grew up and when fifteen, the merchant
propofed to carry him on a journey. He carried
him to Alexandria, and there fold him to a mer
chant who traded to the Eaft-Indies.
MARTINSBURG, VIRGINIA
PRINTED and RUBLIH*D, every MQKDAYby N. WILLIS, at his PRINTING-OITICE, in
BUrx:-STR*IT, near the
CoUR-HoUSE.
On his return the wife was diftracted at the lofs
of her foil.
“ Calm your pafsion," faid he
the prophet on
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a fultry day,
The boy and I, on
ly is to blame.
travelled upon a lofty mountain, when on a fudden.
yourfon began to difsolve, and melted before my
I would have ..attempted to afsift him; but
eyes.
recollecting you had told me he was made offuow,
I considered it would have been labour in vain,"—
The wife made no anfwer.
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A N E C D-O T E.
A
N Irishman, called
Colonel Lyon, and de
on
fired to be .employed
as a workman in his
forge .' the Colonel waited on his countryman to
his countryman to
view his works ; on their way they' met with one of
those animals which generally make their abodein
.and about ponds ; the Hibernian having never feen
'he like, aiked the Colonel what it was; who an
iwered a turtle: “a durkee,” faid Paddy,
and
.can he fly ?" at the fame time pointing towards it
; his national club, on which the turtle, as is ufualfor
hem, drew. his head back immediately into the
thell; on which Paddy in furprife, faid,
" 7—s ! fee
hanv hefwallies his head !
Jnce9 4 -//e, hit L. 133 .
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ouentestgseee
Berkeley County, head of Bull jlin, by the ll'hite llaufe
Tavern, November 18, >792.
"TheS UBSCRIBER,
WILLIAM McFATRECH,
E G S leave to inform the Public in general,:
_ that he makes and repairsail kinds of four
wheeled CARRIAGES, fuch as Coaches, Chariots,
Phaetons, Coachees, Family Waggons,
one horfe’
Chairs, Chaifes and Sulkies, panelied or Winfor.
He has on hand a neat panelled Sociable, with a
light top, for one horse, which he can fmilh.af the
horteft notice, and will fell for caih or country
produce. WILLIAM McFATRECH.
sczngsnczomap
Wanted, as a journeyman,
A perion who . underftands the Wag
gon-making Bufinefs. .
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Good encouragement will be given by the Subfcri
her, as above.
NOTI C E.
ALL Perfons are here by cautioned
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gainft trefpalsing on my land in any manner what,
ever, as has hererofor " been practifed, as I am de
termined hereafter to put the law in force indifcri
minatelyagainft all thofe who may be detected in
fuclr injurious and illegal practices.
CORNELIUS THOMSON.
Berkeley County, Dec. 15, 1792.
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WHEREAS fome time in the month ’
of March, 1791, I gave
■a note to WifKam Boland, for '
6d. which note Boland obtained from me un- 1
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jufily, through my ignorance of the Englith lan
guage, he reading the note I figned different from
what it expreises, and as I was not in debt to him
the.aforementioned fum, I therefore caution all per
fons not to take an aflignment thereof, as I am de
termined not to pay it, unless compelled thereto by
law. —
• JOHN SOCKMAN.
Shepherd's-Tovon, Dec. 15, 1792.
To be rented for three years
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That well-known, commodious
T A V E R N
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Belonging to theSublcriber, fituated in the centre of j
MARTINSBURG.
This Houfe, for fituation and convenience, is not
‘equalled by any one in the place for public bufinefs.
For terms, apply to
ALSXANDER ROGERS.
AllPerfons indebted to him, are defired
P. S.
to lettle their accounts, if they do not pay.
Novembsr 19, 1792. ■ '
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FOR
SALE,
449 Acres of 'LAND, lying on New
Creek, in Hamplhire County, within 25 miles of
Potowmac River, 200 acres of which land are tilla- •
ble, 50 acres are cleared and under fence, 4 or 5
acres ate in good meadow, and much more may be
added. The land is thin, but valuable, being con
j venient to navigation, which is daily improving—
boats now load at the mouth of New-Creek. A
ge
neral warrantee will be given the purchafer.
For terms, apply to THOMAS WHITTAKER,
near Charlejlwjn.
Se/t. 14, 1792. rf.
L AN D S IOR LANDS.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,
OUR Hundred Acres of Land; (called Mahon’s)
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- lying en Buffaloe-creek, Monongalia County,
pon which there are upwards of 40 acres of the
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belt meadow, a good mill feat and ipring, and the
land equal to any on the Weftern waters.
Three Hundred and eighty four acres adjoining
'4 large proportion of
below, on fame creek
mea
dow, and a good fpring, the upland equal, which is '
held-by fettlement-right, and a general warrantee
will be given.
One.Thoufand Acres on’ the. Donkard-mill run,,a
branch of faid creek, held by preemption-right, of
equal quality to the above,.and the fame warrantee
will be given, all lying from 14 to 25 miles from •
Morgan-Town, and from 3 to II miles from Mo
nongalia river—the State road from Morgan-Town -
pafses near or through the
the little Kenh
to
aw a
faid land.
One Thoufand Acres on Bingerman's creek, held
by preemption right, a great proportion of mea
dow, and well watered, which lie's in the fame coon
ty, the upland of good quality, about 10 miles far
ther from Morgan Town.
One thoufand acres on the little Kenhawa, about
14 miles from the mouth of faid river, held by an
old location on treafury-warrant, the land alfo ve
ry rich.
Any property in the counties of Berkeley or
Frederick, negroes, or good bonds, will be taken
in payment.
DAVID GRAY,
Berkeley, April25, 1792.
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For SALE on reafonable Terms.
WO TRACTS, containing 500 acres each, in
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the County of Harrifon, on the Weft fide of
the Little Kenhawa ; two other Tracts in the State
of Kentuckey , in the County of Jefferion, about 15
miles from the Falls of Ohio, on 1 ick-Creek, equal
Lands in
% ’ that Stare, one Tract containing
to a
Acres, the other 70,5 ; one Tract in theCoun
too
Berkeley of 106 acres, near theOpeck an-creek;
tyg
one
ther in said bounty, near theWhite Houfe, of
34 acres, adjoining the lands of Mr. Jofeph Bell.;
one Houfe and Half Acre Lot in Charleftown, well
known by the name of Capt. Rofs's frore.
Alfo,
the Tract whereon I now live. Any perfon in
clinable to purchafe, may know the terms by ap
plying to me. ■ JAMES CRANE.
November 10, 1792.
WHEREAS Mary, the wife of the Sub
fcriber, fometime fince, without the leaft juft caule,
left my bed and board, and with the afsiftance of
my fon, in my abfence, took away my property to
a very confiderable amount ;—this therefore, is to
forewarn all perfons whatever, from harbouring,
crediting, or receiving any property from the faid
Mary, on my account, as I will not be accountable
for any of her proceedings or contracts, after this
date.
DAVID KENNEDY.
Montgomery County, Maryland, Dec. 21, 1792.
Five Shillings REWARD.
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RAM AWAY from the Subfcriber,
about the 26th inftant, a
Negro Man named SOM
MERS, about 5 feet 8 inches high, 25 or 26 years
old, of a tawny colour, and is a imart, ftrong, ac
tive fellow. Whoever takes up faid run away, and
returns him to me, fhall have five fallings reward,
JOHN KERNEL
N. B. AH perfons are cautioned againft dealing
in any manner with my negroes, without my writ-*
ten licence.
December 1792.
8 dollars reward*
STOLEN out of the Sabfcriber’s ftable, on Back
Creek, on the night of the 27th inftant, a black
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MARE, about 6 years old, 14 hands high, has a
ftar in her forehead, paces, trots and camters, is
branded on the neck, under the main, with,the let
ter I.and was ihod all round. Whoever uake no
faid Mare and returns her to me, or delivers her to
N. WILLIS, in Martinsburg, fhall have Two Dol
lars reward,, or Eight Dollars for the Mare and
Thief, to be paid on conviction of the offender.
JAMES McGOWEN.
December 28, 1792.
P. S.
P. S. The above mare has been fome time paft
employed in the bufinefs of poft-riding, on theBack
Creek rout, and was ftationed at my plantation.