men lived, on an average, 23 years
and 7 months. From 1815 to
1826, the average was 38 years
and 10 months.
From the Boston Patriot.
To the Roxbury Moscheios.
A truce! a truce! ye tiny things,
Put up your nippers, shut your wings,
And hear your Poet!
I'll speak the words of truth and nater,
If not, why let some big moscheto
Stand forth and show it!
I'll cull for you the sweetest words,
Ye beauteous flock of humming birds,
That well will jingle;
And while your Laureat sweetly sings,
Pray, pray keep quiet all your stings,
For faith they tingle.
Full oft, most sorely I've been bitten,
And oft, most angry I have smitten
With mighty blows;
Though when I laid thefoemen dead,
My fist, full furious, came like lead,
Whack on my nose !
And, sirs, I ne'er began the fray,
!No no I've often ran away,
Fall fast, I reck'n;
And if you think I fight for fun,
I'll tell you, every mother's son,
Ye're just mistak'n.
There! there's a rascal on my face!
D'ye think I'll bear such foul disgrace,
Thou varlet rude?
Take that! and half dead, kick and sprawl,
It 1 could only near thee bawl,
Twould dome good!
My certes! smarting with the pain,
Is'o more my anger I'll rcstain,
Nor fear your faces;
Villains, I know not what ye're made for,
(Remember, what I say I've paid for,)
So keep your places.
In self-defence the serpent stings,
And then his honest rattle rings
Its warning shrill;
But ye, blue-bottle imps of Satan!
Ere we can vent our rightful hate on,
Ye've got your fill!
Then whiz! away! and cry, ye brutes!
tome, 'tollow,' 'tollow like 'Der Freychutz,'
Ye ugly quizzes!
And while we stop to cure the smarts,
We feel five dozen venom'd darts:
Confound your phizzes!
Why, one would think some meddling foots
Had taught you in our human schools,
My lords and madams;
Ingratitude belongs to man!
And has, since Adams' days began,
Or Mrs. Adams!
There's not a bug, a worm, a fly,
A toad, a spider, flea, that I
Ere seek to kill;
But of your race, I've millions slain!
And for as many more again,
Bring in your bill!
O ! had I firmly by the wing,
Ten millions of you on a string,
I'd show you fun!
O! not an instant would 1 stay,
With nettles scourged a year, a day,
And just begun!
D'ye bite? d'ye bite? what, all at once?
Trust me, I'm not so great a dunce
To fight the fleet;
Take that, and that, and that, and that,
By George! Fit lay some hundreds flat,
And then retreat!
'm jF! but Pray, sirs, do not think
1 11 offer you the prettiest pink
v r , r , Of civil speeches:
No! from henceforth I'll pound and maul you
And all my days forever call you
The Dl's leeches!
A Clergyman catechising the
youths of his parish, put the first
question in .Hicdelberg's Cate
chism to a girl "What is your
only consolation in life and in
death!" The poor girl smiled,
and no doubt felt queer, but did
not answer. The priest insisted
"Well then," said she, "if I
must tell, it is the little shoema
ker that wears a striped jacket."
Dancing. A boy being asked
if he had ever seen any tight
rope dancing, said he had seen
a man hanged, if that was the
dancing meant.
Last Cull.
HPHE Subscriber informs all persons
indebted to her, that a settlement
must be be made at or before the Supe
rior Court in October n-xt. All open
cccounts after that time, will be placed
in the hands of an officer for collection.
D. JVOMDLE.
Halifax, Aug. 2S, 1828.
Longevity. An opinion has
Decn prevalent anions philoso
phcrs, that as the world grows old
er, the lite ot man grows shorter.
and his stature less, and that his
strength is diminished. So far as
the gradual shortening of human
lite is concerned, it now auoears.
that the wise ones of the earth
nave oeen in error. Mons. Odier
of Switzerland, has been lately
engaged in investigations on tin
subject, the result of which is that
as the world grows older, the ave-
i age lite ot man is extended. He
I.Af lSfc xxrna 1ft vfinra find Si 1U TllL rlULiNU3 ur ,
UVll JL J I ,
months. From 1G0O to 1700,J fi
1 Jfrinksnn
MVllVI til e tf
SINCE the election of Mr. Adams, it
will be admitted by all candid and
impartial men, of whatever party, that
the course of the SENTINEL, in refer
ence to the Presidential Election, has
been, as strictly neutral as was possible;
admitting into its columns any
thin"- relating to the national politics of
the day, which could be construed often
sive by cither party; as often publishing
for as against the respective candidates,
and seldom in fact, selecting any thing
in relation to the subject. This purely
neutral course, might indeed appear a
strange political anomaly, when remem
bered that almost every Journal in the
country had taken sides, either for the
nresent incumbent or against him. The
reasons which produced this state of
neutrality on the part of the bentinel,
are to be found in the circumstance of a
division of opinion between its former
editors on the claims of the individuals
who were before the public as candidates
or the Presidency, and the fact, that be
ns a paper of local interest, it support
was chiefly derived from gentlemen of
)0th political parties. Ihese reasons,
and particularly the latter, induced the
editors to assume a stand, which in their
opinion, was best calculated to concili
ate all. and avoid those embittered leel-
ings which would result from a zealous
support oi eiincr cancnuaie. uuiue&.
in a community so limited as that in
which a paper published in Newbern,
must necessarily circulate, no good con
sequence could be produced by the agi
tation of a question upon which every
mind was already made up beyond the
probability of alteration.
Recently, the Sentinel has become the
joint property of the present proprie
tors, who, anxious to maintain for it that
neutral character which it has heretofore
sustained, published a Circular declar
ing their intention to pursue that course
which was best calculated to give mutu
al satisfaction to their patrons, and a po
sitive assurance to do nothins: which
could produce any additional heat in the
political atmosphere around it; but at the
same time, tendering their press and
services to cither or both parties, for
the publication of any matter in relation
to the subject of the Presidency, in the
shape of pamphlets, or a separate paper,
to he under the guidance and direction
only of the parly having it phblished.
This proposition, made with a view to
the pecuniary advantage of the editors,
and extended alike to all, has excited
the resentment of the friends of the ad
ministration, many of whom have with
drawn their support from the Sentinel.
reeling that this act of hostility on
the part of the friends of Mr. Ad
ams was altogether unmerited and un
called for, the editors of the Sentinel
can only express their regret that their
efforts to please and conciliate, have not
been met.
And since they are no longer fettered
by the reasons which originally directed
their course, the Editors have now to
state, that the Sentinel, with their best
efforts, will henceforth be devoted to
the exclusive support of the People's
nights, and the election to the Presi
dency of the People's Candidate, Gen.
ANUUKW JACKSON. Having ta
ken this stand then, the Editors look
with confidence to the party to which
they belong for a generous support; con
vinced mat the cause in which they have
embarked will ensure to them a full
measure of patronage.
THE SENTINEL will be published ev
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half in advance.
Newbern, June 23, 1828.
PROPOSAL,
For publishing in Petersburg, Va. a
Newspaper to be issued every Mon
day, to be entitled
THE TIMES.
Francis G.' Yancey, Editor.
Henuy Whfte, Publisher.
Devoted to Agriculture, Manufac
tures, Commerce, the Mechanic Jlrls.
Sciences, Literature, Poetry, and
General JSews.
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that neither expense nor labor shall be
pared to render it useful and entertain
ing to the planter and farmer, the mer
chant in town and country, the profes
sional gentleman, the manufacturer, the
mechanic, as well as the lover of mis-
llaneous reading. They will endea
vor especially to make it acceptable as a
r T r. - . i . i
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markets will be particularly attended to;
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sought, and the prices ot domestic pro
duce, as well as of foreign goods, given
with the utmost attainable accuracy.
lo insure the readers of the limes the
earliest intelligence, a correspondence
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urg, June 24, 1828.
PROSPECTUS
OP THE
jfreeman's GBcljo.
This Paper is published weekly in the
wwn oj Washington, N. C. by
HENRY D. MAC II EN,
On a royal sheet, with good type; and
win oe aevoieu to the interests of our
country and our country's friends. The
Editor wishes rather to diffuse useful
miormation, man to wage a partizan
warfare; and to edify, amuse and please
his readers, with literary, scientific and
religious matter, and occasional repasts
of wit and humor: and promote tha
prosperity of the people, by notices of
valuable improvements in agriculture
the mechanic arts, domestic economy,
and whatever else can be likely to en
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real patrons, who pay its according to
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To those who will not be content, un
less we avow at the start, our political
sentiments and preferences, we have but
a word to say. Neutrality, it would
seem is no favorite with Providence,
since we are so formed, that it is scarce
ly possible for us to stand neuter in our
hearts, although we may often deem it
prudent to appear so in our actions: and
in politics, he who affects to be neutral,
usually acquires for himself the name of
trimmer. We dislike the epithet, and
therefore shall claim, and freely exer
cise the right of freedom of opinion and
of choice. Nevertheless, we freely ac
cord to those, who dissent from us in
sentiment, all that we claim for our
selves. A candid and generous support
we conceive we justly owe to those
whom the Nation has called to admi
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appear to do their utmost to promote the
general weal. That the nresent Admi
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fore they merit our respect and confl
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of the town, the adjacent towns and the
surrounding country, a fair trial. Libe
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will inevitably cause the tones of our
ECHO... .ere long, to grow feeble and
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