Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-05-23

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Frm the Bedford Gazette. ZprI A..
At Louifyile, in the state Of kentuck.
y, town about four times as large az
Bedford, they have no church When
the earthquake gave them the hrf lhcck,
they grew very devout in one night, and
on the next day, with long faces, fub-
fcribed, 1000 dollars for building place
of publick worfhip. There the matter
refted, until a lecond flock came.
Another devout paroxifm produced the
)ubie,iption of another thouiand dollars -
it re.ted again. A third earthq Jake and
devout fit produced another fubfcription
to the fame amount. The earthquake
did not return. The Louilvileans conclu-
ded the devil would not tend tor them
in few years more, and in the mean
time they refolvec to be merry They
Immediately built theatre, which colt
them 1000 dollars, and employed com.
pany Of actors, the ofscourings cf the
maIatime theatres. 10 this company
they gave about FIVE hundred dollars per
week. Fill at length, inftead of railing
the curtain, the actors broke through it,
aud broke each others heads with iticks
and the heads Of fome auditors who 10
tcIfered. he earthquakes have lately
begun to fhake Loullville again, but
whether they iaugh OF pray, have no,
heard. Vesbum fat-A word to the
wife.
Mr.. Worthington, a fenator from O.
hio, being initructed by the legislature Cf
that tate, wrote, in February lait, to the
iecrctary If war, on the claims of the
Ohio militia for fervices rendered. and
repfeiented the "ereat perfonal facri6ces
made BY many Of his fellow citizens, who
were not able to bear them" The
fecretary replied, that he could fay
nothing satisfactory on the fub;ect, as
the claims were not before him, and as
the pay and accountant depa rtmehts we're
not under bis eontrosl. lie adds, how
ever-"The claims in queition no doubt
make part of MATS, amounting to
MANY MILLIONS, which remain unfstfkd,
aud, believe, uNLooKED AT"
This rep ~ is just what any one might
have expect ed, except our difintereited,
patriotic brethren OF the Wet. 1t is as
old as iniquity itfelf, that wars bring
fulfilling, burdens and perplexities-and
the people of Ohio ought to have known
when they entered 10 heartily into the
views of the government, that an admin
itfration, which acts on broad and h1er.
al policy, fhould never be clogged ~ cold
calculations about public expenditures
and perfonal tutoring. coming gener.
alton is to pay the public loans and it
is perfectly conifeent in our rulers to turn
over the Ohio militia to the fame fecurity.
But we have one matter of confolation
tor our patriots beyond the mountains
and we hope they will think of it with all
fuita5le fatisfactlon. They will always
enjoy the comfortable recollection that
they fought and fuffered. in the glorious
itrugsie jor the rights Of the Iaibr and mer
chant. without any reward-without
even the cheap returns of gratitude.
and, il heavy experience have not already
impaired their benevolence, they can fill
go on, i! they pieafe. with "perfonAl
facrilices," without any reaionable caule
to tear, that the "paysdepartment" will
ever make their pa,rlotiim less di6nser-
cited N. MsDssger.
London paper, fays the Charlelton
Ciiy Gazette, contains an order in coun-
-, which nun be extremely mcrtifying
onaparte 1t abolifhss his continental
N. ard takes off the blockade of thote
r France in pofriIits 81 his maje(-
j. ms. lMr. Madifon's morll6cation