The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-31
VOLUME NUMBER SO.
From the Richmond Times.
A Relic of By-Gone Days.

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A Relic of By-Gone Days.
A friend has put into our hands copy
of the Ulster county, (New York; Ga
Sette,. of Saturday, January 4, 1800.zsAs
newspapers reflect the manners, customs
and feelings of their time, some extracts
from this ancient journal will not be un-
interesting to the living generation, who
have passed through mighty revolution,
the coming of which could only be fore
seen by the sagest of our ancestors. The
Gazette comes down to us heavily drapcd
in mourning for Washington, then just
dead. and contains an account OF the fu-
neral ceremonies at Mount Vernon, and
report of Mr.. John Marshall's (after-
wards Chief Justice of the United States0
eulogy in Congress on the Father of his
Country.
The following Indifferent verses, by q
young lady, are accorded prominent
position. we find as bad poetry in the
papers of the present day. =
ON THE DEATH Or ~ =.
GENERAL WASHINGTON. fs !,
By Young Lady.
What means that solemn dirgc that strikes my earf
the tear? ss.s--s.at
Why toll the bells, the awful knel of fate se
All ! why those sghs that do my fancy satel
Where'er turn the general gloom appears,
Those mourning badges fill my soul with fears
Hark! Yonder rueful noise! tits done! 'Tis donei
The silent tomb inyades our Washington; =
Must virtues SO exalted yield their breath?
Must bright perfection find relief in death? 81
Must mortal greatness fall o glorious name
What then is riches, honor and true fame
The august chief, the father and the friend,
The generous patriot Let the muse commend;
Columbias glory and Mount Vernon's pride,
There lies enshrined with numbers at his side =
There let the sigh respondent from the breast,
Heave in rich numbers let the glowing zest
OF tears rcfulgent beam with greatful love;
And sable mourning our afliction prove. ~ s. s.
Weep kindred mortals, weep no more you'll End
A man, so just so pure, so firm in mind 3
Rejoicing Angels hail the Heavenly sagei
Celestial spirits greet the wonder Of the age.
Much space is given 10 the proceedings
of Congress, and Fluctuations that were
interchanged by the Senate and House
with the President, John Adams, on the
suppression Of the then recent "whiskey
rebellion" in Pennsylvania.
The French Republic had just COM
menced its career Of conquest in Europe,
and the arrival Of the aBiitish packet,
Princess Charlotte" puts the Gazette in
possession of London papers only two
months old, from which aremade copioas
extracts relatingt the:movc vcments OF the
s'Army of the Rhine, :" Napoleon and
Arch Duke Charles :
But it is not the formal proceedings of
Congress, or the poetry of young ladies,
(Which is like the same in all ages, that
will bring us face to face with the rncr
and women that lived and toiled in that
far off time; but this the advertisements
will do. Referring to the advertising
columns we find, among the cards of
grocers, auctioneers, dry goods mer-
chants, which are much like those ofsour
day, oh; horror of horrors! the following:
FOR SALE, et
THE ONE HALF OF A
SAW MILL, s,1s
With a convenient place for BUILDING,
lying in the town of Rochester. BY
the Mill is an inexhaustible quantity Of
PINEWOOD-And also,. 49,,
A STOUT, HEALTHY, ACTIVE ;,E
| NEGIlO WENCH.
/ ANY person inclined to purchase, may
know the particulars by applying to
JOHN SCHOONMAKER, Jun, at Ro--
chester
| November %, 1899. - (.
1t was we'll for John Schoonmaker that
he sold his "chattels" so long ago. The
aforesaid "negro wench" was, ten to one,
bought by q Virginian, and her desceil-
dants were set free, after bloody war,
by the New York Seventh regiment and
other troops (among them, perhaps, some
young. Schoonmakers) from that State
some sixty-six years later: This is Prog
ress. t--s
We conclude our exracts from this in
teresting. old chronicle with the following
advertisement which shows that there
were naughty and extravagant DANES in
New York, even at that early period,
when crinoline was q tradition and wa
| terfalls were unknown: 5ss,s ~
SECOND NOTICE,
Ofmy wife HANNAH, is hereby given,
forbidding all persons whatever from
harboring or keeping her, and from trust
1iinee-hheel ing her aeeonnt: as l am deter.-
mined to pay no debts of her contracting.
MATYS VAN STEEFBERGH -
Saugertiesi (Kingston precinct) Noyem-
Der Is, 1899. %
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana
at it's recent Council resolved to recon
meet itself with the Church. of the United
States 1t passed resolutions of respect