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Sclcdcd Poetry.
O N L I F E.
" Irotn JDC jtcik oj rRouuirui.
i " FREELY TRANlLATED.
SrT inafter not what path we try, :
X AH tread the road of Care ;
Nor can fb.lolopny luppiy,
Relief to what we. Dure.
T- n '-..1.. fnnrt tlAUrflVPf
v Fell d't fcprd reigns juound ;
And Lawyers meet but to difplay
JThewordyjvar of round.
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In humble cot the village fwain,
" Feels miiery and Woe ;
Nor lefs the fanner, toil and p$in,
From adveife winds that blow. ;
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The gallant ftilor heavei a figh,
Fr Nancy left behind j '
"Wlien fea tempiittuous running high,
Krtrtfi -rr-im,7e thfflP fill fid . ,
- Sutervifor's Cffce. '
fTMlERE has apparcdJ-Ju Ionic parts of
thediltrict of North Carolina j a 4fphV
tiori among fome Diftillersof native materi
als to put themfelves in a capacity to injure the .;
United States by employing twoStills : one
which they clefire toelecYto pay duty on its
own capcaity ; the other to pay duty on the
Spirits manufactured. Having thus made,
their election, - it has been reprefented that
their plan is,, to work the Still elected to pay
duty on the number of gallons diftilled , and
to .make from thence low Wines, or fingle
dimlled fpirits ; which they erroneoufly , do
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not denominate Spirits ; omitting to report
them as fuch to the collector of tlie re'venue :
confidering them as not fo far manufactured
t as to be liable to duty Y thefe then they pafs
over to the other lull ejected to pay duty on
its capacity. there 'rc$ ified of "niadeiuto a -higher
proof ; and are' as they-would per
fuade themfelves not. liable to duty : becaufe
this laft flill pays duty on its' capacity Here
Till loft beyond all hope of life,
Becomes' alalNhe'widow'd wife, f.-
A inartyr to defpair. .
The rich who biflcin Fortune's fmile,
With all her gaveft (lore,
Olin arena ucr iickic tmicc
. Left changing they be poor.
And thefe who join in Hymen's bands,
Contented with their lot,
Soon find fad care their time command!,
And inak.es their b'lifs forgo'.
For if with children bleft, thty find .
The tenderneis they owe,
So fills the anxious parent's mind,
They live a life vi woe. . ...
And if unbfeft (f goes our lot)
The want of heirs they giieve, . ,
To think. the treafure t hsy . have got,
Not knowing whereto leave.'
Nor are the fingle more fecure
Of hlrminpf fnmnlete 1
For who alone can life endure,
And not repent their fate i
Tn Youth we're giddy, wild, and gay,
- . Put luing folly's train y
In Ag, the buty worid furvey
Where all things give us pain,
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Thus life thro' every age is found
A fource of human woe ,
Then change the icene, ye fa.e profound,
Or quickly let ine go.
MoUHtANUS.
then is the evaiion, upon vvhicH for the iu-
tormation or diltuiers. 1 remark- I hat e
very ftill actuallyTemployed inthe dUtillation
of fpirits , is taxed to pay duty at the rate of
54 cents per annuuTon its' capacity ; but the
law has gtveu;to diftillers," a -right of. making
a choice or an -elected rate of payment ; if
this is on the number of gallon's actually diftill-
KUN.-away from the fubfenber, in the
month of September, two negro men,
LENO AD WILL,
LENO is a (lout made negro, . of a yclloV
complecnon, -with a large fear on one of his
cheeks. WILL, is a talUtouc made ne.
gro, and very black, the fmali of one of his
legs is larger than the other, they ire both
-armed, and by the belt information I can
gather, are gone to Newbern, or Clubfoot's
creek but a few days paft. Any perfon that
will apprehend and lecure fald negroes, fo
that 1 get them, fha'l be entitled to, and re
ceive a reward of ten pounds, or five pounds
for either of them, and all reasonable txpen
ces paid. -
; ; JOSIAH IlbWAUD.
Nevj-Rhcr, Onjlru cwnty t Oflobcr 4.
FOR SALE,
THE !Plantation and lands whereon the
fubferiber now lives, containing about
one thburand acres, lyingfitteen miles below
Newbern, and onNeufe river and Sloconib's
creek. There are on faid lands three plan
tations all in complete order for farming, and
'every houfe needful for tarru or family.
. The terms are, one third of the purchfc
money in hand, one third in one year, and
the remainder in two years, and it not fuld
by the eighth day of December next, it will
be put up at public vendue uporl the preuit.
fc$. At the lame time and place a quantity
. of houfuold and kikhen filrniture, plantation
tools and ftock will be fold for three months
credit Alfo a quantity of corn will be fold
for ready money.
. ADAM TOO LEY. ,
Ofaher 24.
edthe quantity, in gallons is to be returned
in a book and hvorn to. - '
The operation of riiakin'g ov winesls truly
and abioluttly the ' pptraiiprt md procejs of
dijillaiion.--hov Vines like ill merchantable
fpirits, have a portion -of water in them, but
are nevertheki's abioluttly fpirits of -an infe
rior jlrength 1 they are dutiable too ; ibr the
law is guarded, in not beginning the fcale of
dutied fxits at any fixed degree of tlrength : -all
fpirits of whatever ftrength, comes Avith
in the letter of the law , 'i he ' firit dais of
fpirits are all thtfebrh-vo a certain itandard,
viz. " more than 10 per cent ludow prorf."
Here then, under 'proof fpirits taking thei
whole range frotu- 'o per cent under,' clown
to the very weakeft fpirits which the dirtilling
procefs fh all have produced are liable to the
payment ot auty at tne rate or leven cents
per gallon. If a diftiller, to delraudhTstuf-
tomers, cr his country, wul make lpirus no
ft 1 1
ltronger tlianr, lie is neverthelcls not
xenipted ti om liability of payment of duty.
Ifluch grog or low wines be put into the
other lbll which was elecied to pay duty on
its capacity ; it cannot exempt that ftill from
its monthly or annual duty, though n may
produce in addition yery Jerious confe
quences : for it mutt be further obferved, that
the law. contemplates two branches of thedif
tiling bufineis. One branch" is the making
j root raw material (that is of the growth or
produce not manufacture of the United States)
on Vh.ch alone a IxemcdiHU, as fuch, can be
reguWly employed. The other brapch is,
the rectifying ot low wines and other fpirits of
whatever denomination,' lueaknefs, itrength,
or h-vour, at.d converting them into fpirits of
a new ilrengih or flavour or name, ihat is
to fay, the making a new kind of fpirits, as
to ltrtngth flavour or denomination from
fo:he previoully munufaflured material : not
from materials as they were originally grow,
or produced, fuch as all kind of grain ana fruit
or ItricUy duin-tcrials.
1 lie Xltli bect;on of the Act ol the H of
Ju:.c, I7;4, fixes a penalty of one dollar
per gdloii o.iarcctuierot low wines or other
inferior fpirits whkh he fliail reclify, without
giving notice to au olficer of lnfpcJlion.
i he wi-rds of the Jaw arc, " And be it tur
thcr taaded, 'i hat every rcctitiv-r of h jj
-Atnef or other diJiilltJ jph'its, and every d f
tiller oUordiulsand ilrong water thcrctroin,
dull enter at fomculiicc i;f IiifpcAion, all or
any fuch Ivjj -,oincs or oihcr dij tilled fpirits t
prior to the removal of tlictn to his duliiiery
or rcctiiyinghoufe, andrVio iu I -ginning
the rectifying, imprqving, or altering the
quality, iLvour,' or proof tl.crrof, under the
penalty of One HjiJt rJ DulLrj for every calk
of one hundred gajto'u und fu i t pi oportioa
for every greater or kf quntiry. "
The devke for maVhij lew wines or other
fpirits of lirt infcTTC"qtrihry it 0:1c il l!, an I
thrr Arithcttt-prtKceding as a rectifier,- will
appear irocv v hat 1 have oflereJ, to be .pal
pably wrong-; for low wines, as has been
before dated, are abfclately and in fact fpirits
produced by aijt illation, 3c come wir&iUh 4ri4
dafs of prool' which confrfihcrids all dril
led fpirits however lowv that are jo percent
Jbelow pf oof, for fucb u e the words of the
"Act otthe 3d of arch, 1791, cftabliTning
the clulles. -. " '
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1 uuti uiiiv iururcr qatroc, iliac U 3 Uliill-
ler lhall omit to reportlur fpirits called low
wines or other fpirits by whatcvername they
r " w - - - . - - iv 1 1 1 v ii i it.
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election had been made, to pay the duty on .
the number of gallons diitUled; and lhall
I
iwear to thequantity diftilled, omltti ig the
low, wines or other fpirits of inferior quality ;
futh dutilltT vvill be liable to profecution, un-
cler the ia-s tor ralle lwcrnig. .
buch devices and;e'alioi)s are m their na
ture litigious and corrupted : they are incoiW
liitentwun -j.uitice ro the noneit citizens ;
thev arejnvurious to the honelh and si.-ri,rhr
dilriller"; abTolutely defraudina the U-
nited States of their juif revenue, in 'which
each individual is more or lefs concerned.
InltruclionshaVe bcenilfud to the oificeers
of infpection to ufe every lawful .means to
detecVibuieof the forefroinE nature, and the:
infractors being detecledA may depend ppoa" '
to procure punilhment.
WILLIAM POLK, Sutcnnfo-
of the Rl venue aJhiclofNorth-Canlirw.
October 4th, 1 7 96. : ' ? , -. 1
; I U IS 4 S O U D, l
FOR the payment of the taxesj agreeable:
lr Wttrtticmjiy, JUUCU UL. liaiClgll,
in December, , in the year 1794. Sundry
lands entered in Carteret county, as follows,
6ao acres entered for llichard Ul:irLlplT. -
f
400 acres entered for Thomas Blackledge j
400 acres en tered for William , Blackledge
and 400 acres entered for Berdamin Black
ledge. All the above was entered by Rich-,
ard IMackledge, ?n the 8th day of May, 1778,
6 tracts of 640 acres each, 1 do.'ofio icresr
1 do. of 400 acres and 1 do. of 420 acres,
entered by Jofeph.Leech, on the 5th day of
February, in the year 1780, and 127 trach
of 640' acres, entered for, David Allifou, oa
the 2ad day of September, in the year 1704-
As the fubfenber has already been com
pelled to pay the public tax on the above faid
lands to. the treafurer, they will be expofed
to pub ic fale, fixty days after date, at Beau
fort in Carteret county, if- no one appears
to pay the rcfpective taxes due on the fame,
before that time.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, fin.Jbrif
Carteret county, Oclober 16, 1796.
THIS "DAT IS 1 PUBLISHED,
And for Sale at the Prinling.Office,
NORTH -CAR O L I N A
ALMANACK,
For thcYtMr of our. Lord, 1797.
And of AMHllCANlNOFPeNUPNCI,-XXI,-XXM,
. Being "the ift aftir Lkp Yi a a.
Calculated lor the Meridian nf 11 lkich, 35
Deg. 54 Min. 'North Lai. 3 peg. 36
Min. Longitude, Well from Phi Ladel
fhi a.
FOR S A L K,.
SIX hundred and foi ty r.ci es of land lying
in :le ftate of Tenncnec, ami in the
vcr. An undoubttd right will be made the
purctafsr i for terms pp!y to ,
, . THOMAS CUP.TIS.
- November f y.
rc&fying or ouicrvf'tf c altering ihe:n ut sr,vz
N
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v. IMlNTfD RV
F H A N C O I U .X. M 'AUTI N.