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? MUSE U M. From the Feddhalist. Gentle Reader, , i Whenever yottfhall be pleifed to-turn over to the third chapter of the firft book of the. Prophet JLtdraS, jo u will there find it written to the folloivinv purpsfeJ IN the reign of Darius Hyttafpes (fuccelfor to the grand Cyrus,- whom ye may have read o" in romance) Darius made a grCTeaTl3WtiitfpitRmdTiobIes ! to his chief captains, and to the governor of his hundred and twenty-feven rrtovrncei j-and at the feaft, three young and princtly geuiufes arofe, and offered to difpute for preeminence before that great afiV.mbly And the quftion turned on what wa3 ftrongeft : The .firft fa id, that Wine is ftrongeft, the fecoul faid, that the King is ftrongeft, and the third laid that VV m As the RroBgeftr When the two firlt bad fpoken4heirft'ntiinenta, then flow and bafhful, arofe the yo'!r advocate for the1 T AlKfM&owltg thrice around, let his words go forth, --as the 1 breath in 5 of foft mafic. . Great, T3HP!rTnceB ! great is the ftrength of Wine, and much greater the Strength and glory or Ma - jesjty J cut ytt, there is a iupenor power ! a power 1 that tempers ard moderates, aad to which even rulers themelves pay delightful obedience. r Man,' is as the rough and crude element of earth, unmollified by the fluity of water and light '. Heaven, therefore, fent Woman ! gentle, bright and beaulitvs Woman to f joihe, form and illuminate the rudeneli of His mafj. ' . .' - ' Site comes fjrSon man in the meaknefs of water. I and in the brightnefs of the morning beam ! fhe im perceptibly infufes love and delight into him, and bids his affections go forth upon kindred and country. . The planter who planted the vineyard, and vintner who prefled the grape, were born of woman ; and by woman alone the fuhject and the fovereign receive exift-. iff T j 1 eletirable ! She brings man forth in his weaknefi, and mebrings him up to his ftrength I he is foftered in her bofom I he .is nouriflied with her fubfUnce ! and he imbibes into Ins being, the fweetnefs bf humanity with the milk cf his mother ! ' ' Withut woman where would be lather, or where ould - bechil d ? Where the relations, endearments, .id connexions oFkmilrefl T The cKanty Th it binds the" wide world together in onej'nclutivc family? the great brotherhood of raan ? ' -She comes hot againd you, O ye Princes and Nobles L ia the hodiiity ot iveaponr, or in the fearful nefs of pwcr J No, ihe comes in the comfort and mild light of beauty ! he Iuoks abafhed and takes you captive. She trembler, and you obey : hers the furelt feignoty on earth, for her dominion is fwet, and oar fubjedion voluntary ; and a freedom from her yoke is what no man can bear. There are no formsof human government that can e::enpt us from her fway.; no fyftem of laws that can exclude, her authority. Do wc not Itudy, toil and fvveat, and go forth in the iarknefs, and put our faces to every danger, at heme and in fir countries, -to win: and bring bonne ornaments arid treafure to our Laves f even the robbers, a udiavage fpollers of mankind, grow tame to the civilizing prerogative of female beauty ? lf men feek peace, 'tis to live in kindly fociety with woman,, and if they feek -war, 'tis to pleafc her with the report and renown of their valor. 1 Even Darius ! the higheft'and mighticd ! the king of kings ! and lord of all temporal lords ! is caught on Wednefday, Friday and Sunday at 10 A. M. Re turning, leave Louilburg every Monday, Wednefday, and Friday at 2 r, m. and arrive at Peterfburg in two days, on Wednefday, Friday and Monday at 10 A. m From Louifljurg by Raleigh, A verafljorugh and . i4ayettevilleto M'Falrsrtbrer times a week. Leave Loaifturg every Sunday, Wednefday and -Friday at 2 r. m. arrive at M'Fails 011 Tuefday, Fri day and Sunday by 9 a Returning, leave M'FalPsjsn Monday, Wednefday and Friday at 3 p. m. and arrive attLoui(burg on Wed nesday, Fiiday and Monday at 10 A. m. - -From M'Fall'a by.Cheraw courthoufe to Camden, thiee times a week. Leave M'Fall's every Sunday, Ttiefday and Friday at I p. m. and arrive at Camden on Tuefday, Thurfday and Sunday at 10 a. m. Re turning, leave Camden, erery Tuefday, Thurfday and Saturday at 2 p. m. and arrive at MFlFs on 'ihurf- . r- t - ' f 1 td r a in tne pewitcning net or nrs imitreis apame 1 . j law her feated by his fide : ftae took the crownTrom off his , head, .and gave it new luftre by the.beSuty of her Iroio and by the brightnefs of-her trelTes 1 I fa w her chide him in her play fulnefs,- and even ftrik him ia her petulance ; yet he pre (Ted the hand of her pLcafing prefumption ..to his lips ; he gazed fondly and rixedly on her ! if file laughed . he laughed alfo ; but if (he af feded difpleafure, he fpoke and looked fubmifiive, and was fain to plead and fue for reconcilement. Here ended the bloom in orator. The monarch e i and the arofe Irom hisltfljonr and gave loud a place refounded with the mduts and acclamations of the whole aflembly. J. t: . '.. Wherefore it was decreed (by the laws of the Medes and Perfians) that ..female beauty, ought -to goTern the: wo'rld in meelntfs, and that men owed thereto a volun tary obedience. ' Hear ye fair daughters of this happy land, ."--J Whofe radiant eyes the vanquifii'd world commands : Virtue is beauty, but when charms of mind, With eleg ancs of outward form are joind; When vouth makes fuch bright objeBs ftill more bright, And fortune fets them in the ftiteft light ; 'Tis all of Heaven ! that we on erth can view, And all, but adoration ! is your due ! " . P Il iO P O S . A L S, FOR CARRYING . ' ' -r7 The Mails of . the United States, ' ' " Orr t hetotkrwCTgrtttRmdSfi--- If ill be received at the General Pol'OJice, Philadelphiar !",... until the toA day of July next. . . FR.OM Peteribur'g fey Harrifville, Goldfopvillc and -lVarre nton taJLaulfbiuig-. three times a week. day, Saturday and Monday at ic A. m. C7 , Note 1. The mail is to be carried in a wheel carriage or by a led hot fe. A penalty at the rate of 12 cents a mile will Ke incurred by the contractor .for each time and mile that he fhall carry the fame wfthout making ufe of either a wheel carriage or led horfe. No alter ation will be made in the times fixed for the arrival and departure of the malls. . Note 2. Fifteen-minutes mall be allowed for. opening and clofing the mail at all offices where no particular time is fpecified. Note 3 For every fifteen minute delay (unavoida bJe accideot. excepted) in arriving after the tims pre- fcribed in any ebntraft trfe euntiacor (hall forfeit nel dollar ; and if the delay continue until after the depar ture of any depending mail, whereby the mails deftin ed for fuch depending mail lofe a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars (hall be incurred. Note 4. Perfons making propofals arc defired to (late tneir prices uy inc year. 4 uoie wjio comrai wm ic ivoML rpayqu a exly Arril, Tuly and Odober. fflofg r -Tticfentrawtee4nperatio'n--bn4h- iirlt day ot October next, and are tojcontmuc in lorce until the fir ft of October, 1804. JOS: HABERSHAM, Pofrrajler. General. General-Poll Office, Philadelphia, March 20, 1800. .10 6 - April 21, iSoo. . PUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby giver, in purfuance J:of the acofongref8, palfed onthe firft day of March,onc thoufand eight hundred,-mtrtuled An aft in additioft to an aft, intituled," an aft regulating the grants of Ia.nd appropriated for military fervices, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propa gating the Gofpel among the Heathen," as follows1 ill. All the frrf&ional parts of the quarter town mip8 adjoiningYo the Indian boundary line of the traft of landreferreto in fa?d ad, except the fractional quarter townhipsnumber jour in. townfhip number fe ven of range aumber twenty : Alfo, all the fradtioual parts of the quarterXtownfliips adjoining to the river Scioto, except the quarter townfliips number one and four, in townrbip number cne of range number nineteen , the quarter towninips numoer rico ana wree, or.iown (liip number three, in range number ninet en ; and the quarter townfliips number one and jw in townflrip number five, of range number twenty ; together with t fifty qiurter townlhips hereafter defcribed, arc re served to be located, for the original holders of war rants granted Tor 'military fervices, olr their beTrs, in lots of one hundred acres, purluant to the act above recited. 2d. The following is a defcription of the fifty quar ter townfliips referred to in the preceding articles and which were defiVnated by lot in .the prrfence of the: Secretary of War, purluant to tne act attve recitea . hundred acfes, arc depofitcd in the 'ofHce of the Re- gifter of the ireafury wheres. the locations are tp be made ; and upon furrendering the warrants which mall be thus located, patents wJJJ be iiTued in the manner and upon the conditions prefcribed by Itfw. " GivehiidcrmyJiandlatPhikddDhia OLIVER WOL.COTT, ....... 15 3 m. Secretary of the Treafury. U N I V E R S .I T Y. THE annual examination in the Univerfity of N; Carolina, will commence cn the 23d of June. The Committee of Vifitation on whom agreeably to an Ordinance cf the Brard. thrutv of atttrdincr at that lime has devolved, will confift of the following Truftets : - - ; - . Fhe nob. jifrfge Haywood, Halifaxr Salifbury. Newbern.' Edcnton. Hilifborough. Wilmixigtoa. . Fayetteviilc. Morgam ft1 s i" 1 iff a 0 L. i 4 -1-8 8 IO -3. 5 5 1 "7 7 .8 4 10 3 7 9 3 2 4 1 3 4 I 3 1 1 2 4 3 .3 3 1 3: 8 2 6 7 8 8 4 6 7 2 2 4 5 "7 9 1 7 9 1 1 1 2 , 3 2 3 2 I 3 3. 1 2 3 3. 4 4 to 11 l5 16 17 3 8 6 .8 8 1 21 7 7 2 6 7' 7 1 2 4 1 1 I 4 3 2 3 4 4 4 1 2 :4 4 . Leave Pcterfourg every MondayTTWednefday-and- F.riday at 2 . mv and arriye at Louifburg in two days, 3d. All the lands in each of the above fifty quar ter townfliips,' and in the fractional parts ofqiartcr the refpeftive plats thereof, as returned by the Survey or General, into as many lots of one hundred acres each, a6 ""the quantityTuch quarter,townfliip or fraction is ftated to contain will admit, in the manner pointed oot and required by the above recited att -4th; The plats divided as aforcfaid into lots of one Alexander Martin, Richard D. Spaight, . David Stone, Richard Bennehan, Benjamin Smith, John Hay, '' - Tofeph Dickfon, - The ofHce of the Committee of Vifitation is to fa- perintend and pronounce their judgment on the exa mination, lb hx a relates to t he conduct and pro fici ency of the Students, ancH'o ' xnmine into the Hate of the Public Buildings, Library, Apparatus, .&c. and of the Inuitution in general, fe as ! to report there .qn to the Board at the next annual mcetintr. It is hoped that the magnitude of the truft repofed in them, will of ilfelf be fufiicientiio convince the Gentlemen of the Committee, that a difchargc of the duties in cident to it is of the greateft importance to the inter eft of the Inftitution, and that their punctual attend- ' ' r - - . .... . ance is or courle earneltly lohcited. Examination will begin with the Prcpara- T Of VSr"lYrt A i fi ftVTtlT Yim J vtfI niul nm. ceedJa,tbciveuedrder ofitheclaiTe&Jrom da v. to day until the 16th or 27th, when the Senior Clafs will be examined. .1 On Thuifday the 26h7 there will be a competitien among the; Students before the. Committee of Vifita tion, lor the honours of fpeakrn. l On the forenoon of Friday the 27th, a difcourfe mllif-dcliv&rcd on the Firewell Addrefs of PVcfident Wafhington to the peoplof the United States. On the evening of the famrday, Oict'pns will he delivered bv i.hr ivtprmF'ttrz r.nA hv nfrfnns rlinferi frnrri" thp- t-iwrr fnnlt-i 'io-t.n- fntm- .nrtU ; . . . On the forpnoon of Saturdiy the a8rh, Orations will be delivered by peifons diHinguilhcd by the Facul ty at the laft quarterly examination on account of good fcholarfhip. . On the evening of the firre dav, Orations will be J t f r 1 .. 1 r " 1 t 1' . n .' 1 - ucnrciru, iy pcrions icitctea xor gooa icnoiarin'f, auu. by the candidates for degrees. The whole to conc'udc with the ceremony of conferring degrees, and a Va 'tdictory Oration. - . - . 111 Ullliuiu; tillltl UllUl A IlC OtUUllHS, HUH. villi commencement of the prefent feffion, nHcrda a very flattering profpect of this examination, and renders it an' object well worth the attention of literary charac ters, and all fuch as feel thcmfelves iiiterclted luTliC progrels of general improvement." Publiflied by order, ' WILL: E. WEBB. Chanel Hill. May 20 x Ihe 1 horouc'h Hitrh-lircn liorit; - D O L O N, Whofe Cobs are in fuch liigh eftimation, are no lefa fahiable for their beautiful form than for theic ' fize, few of which that were folded lafl fpring, arc undtf four ftetlfive, and many are . fotir ftet feven inches high : : ""TTTILL Stand at my Stable, about three miles 11 .1 " n r r-rr . t .1 r 1 i i . y y nortn-eait otvwainan1 court nouie, at ten goi lars the feafqn,- and three and an half for the firgle leap ; the leap money to be paid dowu wr.en the mare si covered; that for the feafon, the -owners of the marts to give ihcir notes payable,! on or before the f 5th of November next V as the number '"ot. mares are to be li mited, it will behoove thofe who intend to fend their, mares to Dolon to lend them as early in the feafod as . fPi 1 rr . r " r . L ' . ! t. A puiituie. x nc icaion iu ocgiu iuc iciuii ui ivianis, nu end the firft of Auguft. - - ' - DOLON is a beautiful chefnat forrel, rifing twelve years old, and fifteen and att half hands high ; "in point of figurej ftrcngth and.beauty, judges allow him to be equalled by few, and excelled by none." DOLON was got byTippo, Saib vvljfe was got by - lJelanrv's iath. out or the 15randum mare, dam ot Pigrim, Clsdius, Bucklkin, and'Col. Ogleby's Ce lar, who was the fire of M. Duke Johnfton's cele-: brated running gelding that was lately fold for 1500 dollars, to Col. Wade Hampton. DOLON's dam" was got by Old Partner, his grand dam by the old im ported Valiant, hjs great grand dam by the old im ported Jolly Roger, out of an imported mare, the pro nrtv of the tete Hon-Petet-Randoloh. DOLON's dam was alfo dam to the: late Andrew Mead's running nreVSlellaTlnlfi? the field at New-Market laces, iii May "1 793. , . " Gdtd and 'exteiifive pafturage, and all poffible- care 4aken of mares; but I will not be anfwcrablc for acct dents, otny JtindntCSpesT -1AMFR. wnivi p n
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