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v iLTMi II. NEVVBERN, N.jc. SATURDAY, ( CTOBER IB, IM9 T&KIV1S. t j ; Tqe Carolina centinel '-is published I weekly by .JOHN I. PASTEUR, At Thrkk Dollars pef annum, one third payable in advance. : . ! Vo oaper will lie discontinued until all arrearages' are paid up, except at the op- Itio., of the publisher. - ! bvbim7 ...ua yuu, per vjuare the first week; and 25 cent a square tor eacn succeeding insertion. . ' VTmISC E LL NEOUS. " J MORALITY, " 1h f')ttwin Essay is frtn the 5th No: vft'ie Plaaili-iJuy, edited hy S. South wick Esq. (jf Albaiiif. , VVins is a mocker, strong drink is rising, and vv.oso-?ver is deceiv ed therebw not wise." These a-L. th-' words of a writer Whose tie vVi embraced the whole economy, ot life, and whose experience had taught him all that' was wise in pra ctice, as bis genius of inspiration h;ul enabled him to perceive all that was virtuous in -precept We nre not, I however, about to l write an essay acinst drunk nn rss, as the wo ds iz h:ne qu ted would seem o im po't. The confirmed drunkard is, pern jps, in most t cases beyoucl the rui h of rrt'irm ; anB the tafik of re d:minghim from his dreadful ma! ; acl v is more h pelss than the t p of the grave. The yiesr of which wc art speaking, is a disorder of the ap petite, more easily prevented hm c !?:(!. It frequently approaches by alow degrees, and originates in sitidl deviations from unvct and stedv habits.. It Whs justly nb gf ved, in a-late, newspaper para g a )h, 4 that while you are labour i, . to curtail the vices of the grog s won'nl it rjot be well to remt-m-b r the sideboard" This is ah ex cellent hint, and strikes at the root of a pr ctice, which frrquendy leads to rhe vice of drunknnes : a prac tice, the existence of vvhich we have lof.g r. greted ; we mean the custom oi inviting all, who happen to step lft to our houses to make a friendly tail, or dissipate an idle moment, to d inkrardeht spirits. On these occasion., a will ysu ti.kc a ?lis of wine is ihe "first J salur uion aft. beinc scau d. If t v. question be p li(tiy negatived, it u renewed as polijely in the shape of ,i persuasion , Ptd'j di not refuse ; a li di will not hurt you ; it wll do you good. u A little will not hurt you." These words have done more mis chi-f among mankind than perhaps all :he arttller of satan besidrs. A little taste- f the forb ddm Jruft said th- ar. h tempter to the mother of mankind, will not hiri yoid It will on thaicontmr open your eyes to b hold hidden mysteries. The; unsuspect ing fair believed too readily, andtwe all know "and feet the consequence. It is indeed; as every person' of ob servation knows, by lift I? and little tht every species f hum-m frailty giins upon its victims, till it sub dues their mental fortitude, and bids d- fiance to their .noblest resolution. A little wine will rarely huit one but that little too often repeated, btcomes intempt.-ran e ; in'emper ance produces idleness, idleness confusion of affatrs, dept and embar rassment, and these lead directly, if uot to fraud and embezzlement, to penury, want, and the limits of a ja'l, 'Here is a pretty climax, in deed, of human frailty and weak ness, and all for the want of a ittle f 'nitude and firmness to refuse at first to accept si-little sideboard hos pitality. In short a liltle sleep in the morning a little punch at noon a little wine and bitters before din ner --a little more wine, and a little test after dinner a little visiting, and a little more drinking at night ; all these soon wind up the industri ous concerns of the I'lough Boy, the Mechanic, Merchant or profes-i-mal character ; and leave them all alike, the victims, not of a little but crreat deal ot wretchedness.. We beceech the Plouch Bovs. of aH 1 others, to avoid these (f'begiriings. to such i-rrea1 vits - iai Vach wrctthcu,, ead3 Instead oi indulging ihe fre tksf appetite, and ad hankering alter luxuries which never fail-to destroy the wnolseome habitsessential tothrjf prosperity in life, let them cling to those habits as a ship wrecked mariner would to the .last.lank of hi ill tated bark.' It was said bv the illustrious Edmund Burke, in "the very meridian of his spl.ndor, that he made his dinners oi tne -impost lo-.d : a d;that he would frequently invite such men as Pitt, Fox ad other shining cha?a ters of th Vt day v to dine with him j upon a boiled leg of mutton and tur- nips, ana i nottie or two ot mild claret. It was " the feast of reason and the flow of sou!," and not .the indulgence- of sensual, irrational tppetite, that a4 sought by those 11 I us t r'l a us ch a mpi on s ot F n gl i d' .ame and glory. Suxh was likewise thf temp ran e and frugality oi nuV franklin whose immortalitv i ouilt up ;i the same basi is th u ot tb Burkes and Pitts of old England. From such example let us. learn despise an i to banish luxury and dissipation from out hous.r- and fes tive board :. and let 'the Plough Boy be th 'first to pursue this path of do mestic virtue and economy, l et them never sick n at the labour which they cannot avoids becaust Providence his decreed jt as the most salutary mean of human sub sistence. Let them rather re joice, that they have always labour enough, il they c.htrse to pursue it, to krep the Devil from qatchmg them idi-., that he mai draw th. m into hi-- snares oi destruction.'. Cincinatus, the Koman Patriot, weeding in his turnip garde? - ; Burke, the British Cicero, dwnig upon a mutton cho. ; and Franki in, '.me of .the. saviours -of. America, feasting . upon Iv ead and water in a printing office 1 What illustrious ex amples for modern patriot, modern philosophers and m dern Ploligh Boys ! H. Hv J r. Front the Ladies' JJierary Cabinet. V idlenlss. How destructive i- the indulgence of idleness T How many promt -ing buds have been blighted on the s alk, ere the expanding leaves perfumed the ai with their odoriferous stweets, by the too near alliance with that rancorous weed which, is suffered to grw and infest - the soil around it. Oh 1 it is the bane of all earthly en joyment the mother of every sOr- did vice. rlow often do we be fnd the vouth that has been educated in all the refined branches of literature, reared in the lap of luxury, ored in the sch ol of virtue and morality, born to shine in the sphere of p dish ed life the ornament' of his noble progenitois, the glory and hope of the country thit fostered him, the cjelighc of his fond and do : ting pa rents falling into the snares of idle ness, arid all its accompanying, ruin ous train.' In him were centered all their earthly expectations ; every pleasing pros"pect of maturer years pointed to their darling son, -and thev were haDDY. But, h ! too soon we behold the prop of their declin ing yrars the youth on whom eve ry transient eye dwelt with admira tion too sO n we see Aim, that im maculate gift of Heaven, cherishing poisoning seeds of destruction, that mingle with, and strenghten every t vil propensity that is born in our nature, and which is suffered too of ten t rankle at the heart, to check the growth of reason, aud to destroy everv fine feeling of the soul sink ing into a pre mature grave, shrouea in all the sins his youthful imagina ti n could suggest, despised, by the world, his uawept relics b rue the sTient tomb, unpied bv the pas sing traveller, a guilty burden to his. unfeeling bearers, unlamented bv the friends who would have blest' his memory and laised a monument i bono literature live to u--th hn-r Inner since poimru T V"'V yr-Z -; ' , siept in me w - , A a k ur of genius, philosophy, anu - - rTn1 onh, the one four h-jndvedth part of the aescepa.n down o. the: - ' 1 rv roll-f nil if thp women 01 Lorha. r"7 "'l - J .J 1 n . His parents no longer y 11" , , . 7 earth or 1.60 miuzs diameter, i At wean 3 lo-pere, wiii Deimmenseiy witness his shameful end, or -; t" . Y diameter as seen front the earth uouldh , tint- nosom )i uic rauii,.;- - r --v he a' 1-17 Iv . Kvo.'-in m ronstnutn To; i icii t . . ' . 1 .! pordigal son. I William Bilderbyck, admired as the r.rst poet that modern Hoilmd has - produced, and not less distin guished by the other brilliant qual ities of his mind, did not - in his vouth seem to show any happy dis position to study, iiis father, who formed an unfavorable opinion of his talent, was much distressed and fre quently reproached him in severe terms for lis inattention and id e- 1 nes ; to whit h you? g Bilde'rd i ck d id not appear to pay much attentipni In 1776 the fatner, with a -newspaper in hi hand, came to stimulate him by showing him the advertise ment of a pi ise offered by the Soci ety of Leyden and decreed t the Vuthor of a piece of Poetry sigued vith these words : " An Author ightrtn years old who was invit d,io make himself known. "You ught to b'!ush,,idler,1, said old Bil U rdyck, to his stn, here is a boy nlv of your age, and, though so v ung, is the pride and happiness of his parents : and voa " "Tt is myself,. - answered oUng William, thrt-wirio- himelf inro Ki furhpra ! arms. 1 H ! Dr, foiiNsov asserted in m party at which Sir Joshua HtynoldS was present, that no rnun l.ved labor. Sir Joshua said, that he thought he could adduce an instance to di- prove Johnson's asserti on. It is re- . corded, (said he) t Pope, that he would retire from agreeable society, of which no man was more fond, to write verses, at which he ceriainh lab"ored With great pa ient e. u Sir,' replied Johnson, " would Mr. Pope have dune'so, if he had kuown that his verSes were afterwards to be consigned to the flames ? No it. was not a Jove of labor, Sir but a love of fame; Iitiander swam th He-Ies- pont, but it was not from the love of - - t - swimming. u V i V f f L" somebody had once employed him . tu ir..... 10 painia lanascape wun a cave ana St. Jerome in it. IT- accordingly pai;ted the landscape, with St. Je rome in the entrance, but, when he delivered the'picture, the purchaser, who understood nothing of perspetr tive, said, " The landscape and the cave are well made, but St Jerome is not in the cave " ' I understand you sir," replied Vernet, " I will alter it." He therefore to k the, painting and made the shade darker, so that the St.' seemed to sit farther in. The gehdeman took the paint ing, and it again' appeared to him that the St. was not in the cave.- Vernet then whipped out the figure, and gave it to the gentleman, who seemed perfectly satisfied. When- er he j saw strangers to whom hr showed the picture, he said, " Here you see a picture by Vernet withiSt. Jerome in his cave." u But ive do not see the Saint," replied the visit ors, j Excuse me, gentlemen," an- i 1 - I for I have seen him standing ( at the entrance, & afterwards farther back. and am therefore quite sure he is in it ;.:: FEMALE PATRIOT. In South America it is not the men only who are conspicuoui for the enbrgetic assertion and defence of their liberties. The women are animated with) a republican de votion to the rauSe of Indtpenence, the able guarantee of private happi ness. The wife of Gen, Padilla a companies him to the field, and has been 1 nominated a Lieut. Col. for taking with her own nanus a Spanish C( dour.. The women of Co- chabarabo were stationed to defend a post, on the attack of that town, and all nerished. In upper Peru it. 1 r - perpetoate the exploit is, Wo, thev hav, all KertchHrl in Aric- nf their I i Ulliil V ... ANECDOTE. o n-vn ...... . f innilirP Q f PV I ish ot riisan- i "hu''".' lu Mfrtirf. lite otner three t ineveioeitu ot the rnmptnt ihxutras FOR THE CAROLINA CENTINELV . COMETS. - V During the appearance of the late I comet, the weather was generally too uui4vui4uic to qis. over its situation c compact' Doaies souo, nxeu with any degree of accuracy. While : and durable ; a .kind of plaiets9 visible here it was seen in the, Lynx, which move in very oblique1 :rbits . progressing, slowly towards the left in a directions, with the greatest lore paw of the Great Bear. The freedom, persevering in their mo gradual1 diminution of its tail, as U?nsi fcven against the directio- Vand """.lanty ana length, proves that it nas past its perihelion. The number of Coroets belong- ing tta oursolar system is as yet ve- ry imperfectly known, and! will pro - babiv remain so for m ny ages, until the cometarian system, it more care- fuily'observed & better understood : tor it is more than probable that the , return of many a cornet that has per formed innumerable revolutions, is 'ooked upon as heretoibie Uirdisco vered, and added to the catalogue t6 swell the number. In the year 161.8, Kicciola, had enumerated 154. In 1665 Lubienktzki stated the num ber at 415 ; and some late writers have increased the list to 700. 1 Doct. Halley was the first wh " I predicted he return of a 6m-1.-- By comparing the elements ot th t of 1456 with those of 153U 1607, and-1682, he supposed them to be one and the same, and that it would return about the ends of the year 1758, or beginning of 1759, which pr diction was verified." Of the Comets which appeared, one in 1680 and theother in 1729, the former was remarkable for the smallness: and the latter for ' the greatness of its perihelion distance from the .sun That of 1729 at the time of its nearest Approach to, the sun; was 377,490,000, miles from that body, and dsemded below the orbit ol Ceres 'about 121,14o,000 miles. That of 1580 caused 'much surprise among astronomers, and crave rise to manv wonderful cal culations. Sir Isaac Newton stat ed, boot its aphelion distance at a- 11,200,000,000 mites, and its perihelion only 490,000, being less ,-Q the sun's semidi- ameter, from its surface. " Its evelo city was at the astonishing rate f 880,000 miles pef hour, when in that part 'of its orbit nearest the sUn; and Us heat was 2,000 times greater than red hot iion, (a heatsufficient to vitrify or calcine almost any sub stance, we are acquainted with,) and that so heated, it would retain its heat 20000 years. Its return is calculated to be 3 75; years The sun would appear , to the inhabitants of the Crmet 100 degrees in breadth consequently 40.000 times as large as he appears to us. Newton, Flamstead, Halley, and the English astronomers, seem sa- tishtd 01 tne return of Comets. Cassini, and others of the. French, think it highly probable; but De la Hire and others, oppose , it howe- ver, it is generally Dencvea mat they do re' turn at .nearly regular or tated periods; the inequality in point of , time, as to their return, is not a convincing argument against their returning, and being the same comets, when theirjelements nearly agreje ; for the planet Saturn has been observed to have his motion so disturbed, by -ffie other planets, es pecially Jupiter, that his period is uncertain for several days together. To what erro-s or inequality then, may not Comets be liable, which rise to such a vast 'height above the orbit of Saturn ; for if their velo ity (from any unknown cause to us,) were but a little increaiea, u w-uu'. change or incline their eliptical qr'os into parabolic ones ana ptyduvc Ceres, is one of the four plcraets vered since, the year 1800; its orbit is 'treen Mars and Jupiter: it performs covered hef treen Mars and Juviti its revolution round thesun in 1681 days m 1 1 A ...if?0 Xr VJ tr'..,l r. n . . time. Its mean distav.ee front the sun is 256 347,000 miles : its magnitude is plaitets a'-e estimated considerably sniah Irr. Wir names are Vallus Ji.WK .i nd Vesta -all wxivg in orbits. Uticten Mars xand Jupiter. ' r . - jth t inequality iri point of tia e, by ,m iking the comets return irregu-- larly. ' q.;:i.'-V-vK- Little doubt can be entertained that comets do return, and that they s coupes oi . tne plane t s and i hat mey are mnabited, is beln ved by many ; for the great vicissitudes of neat and cold, they undergo,, is 0t:v a sound argument against 4heir he lnR habitable. For the same -u Ferae omnipotent, omnihtirnt b iigv who has. created innumerable worlds; coma assimilate constitutions to the climate he intended the mjo enjoy; " ;-. d tempers thi wind to the shorn lamb," nor maketh he any thinij ia' vain. Mr. VVhistoh supposed that the deluge was occasioned by tht tail of the comet of 1680, in its descent to wards thesiin, and he also suggc sted, that the general j co flagradon will arise from the tail of the same comet iu nit ustcuurom me sun. l ne in -terval between the two successive periods, i's supposed to be 12,000 years. If the pej-iodic time of ihe above comet is 575 years, whi h ia generally believed, there will be 21 revolut"nns' in 12,075 years. Doc tor Halley, by calculation, found,the comet of 1680, November the -1 lih, at 'one hour si x' minutes P. M , not above one semidiameter of the e:t tji to the northward of the path ol th6" earth in her orbit, at which time had the earth been in that part of iis or bit, the; comet would have h.ui 4 parallax equal to the" moon. V hat might have been the consequenrr of so near an appulsc ? a cont iVt. or at -least a shock of the. celestial bodies ! Mr. Whist(m"says, a de luge Mr. Maclaurin, sp'raking of the same comet, .says, u it is not to be doubted, but that while so many cometVpass among the orbi s f the ' planers, and carry such immense tails with them, we should have been called, by Very extraordinary consequences, to attend these bodies long ago, if their motions in tht u i verse, had not been'at first design, d and produced, by a being of suffix Jcient kill to foresee their distant consequences." Mr. Dusejmr, ob serves, 41 it is very improper, to in still terror into the minds of. mm, without any just caus or Teason." -The comet of' 1770, approached nearer to the earth, than any hither, to observed, and produced no sen- -sible effect, either upon the motion of the earth, or upon its inhabitants, which has a tendency to prove that neitner tne earth nor planets m ve im solid orbs, and that an attractive and repulsive quality are so materially intermixed in the planets and corn t Sp as to prevent such dreadful iatastro phies as would arise from colli? ions C'.mets are Very - plausibly sup. posed to be of ihfinitie service to the . solar system (to ,wTnich the them selves belong,)t by r plenishing na ture itself, as it v.ere: if th- -tr i sion may be allowed. The tail - of comets are various s to length, and. no doubt, as to density. I T he tail of the, comet 6f 1618, appeartd un der an angle of 104 degrees ; that of 1680 subtended an angle of 70) degrees e xt. nding from the h ad to a. dista'ace scarcely inferior to the vast- dis'cance of the tun fom ihe eaith. Thtf tails thu producd m l cur pcuiicuifii ui tuiiici , win go fjit ;l ..i:J 1 -''11 . tv aionj' witn uieir nc?us, into r n te ' regions, and eithtr return thence. ' , 1 11 --"ei5,-aiitr..-a lost, and vanish bv little and lirde and the tomtts be Uft bare, till at ,u; .1 A , V " 71" wf luI,c 1 nulla nuillL it iir Minn l f. ' " w , . . K.lr 1 T V7 VT W " ""4CU 1,1 ,ri ,r;.u WI IL" "i'fwares in tne Kin- so great tehile passing its perihelion, that tie latitude of KnrLrifi: it would tare erjormed 50 rer Muttons round the ghbfr one "r - :
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