flptecellaneotts.
To Bachelors and Spinsters.
The knave who traffics in a wife,
Content, it" rich, to take for life
A woman or a ninny.
Will gain small pity if instead
Of fortune's to.l he chance to wed
A fool without a guinea.
She who for fashion, figure, birth.
Not kindred tastes of mortal worth,
Her happiness will barter,
Who thinks each dear Adonis' love
Must needs be constant as the dove,
May sometimes catch a Tartar.
Unless when both arc thus deceived,
To balance which is most aggrieved,
Each may lament the other:
"Nor need relations scold and hull",
The wretched pair are sure enough
To punish one another!
Be not of future joys too sure,
Rather the present share secure,
And prize them ere they leave thee:
Distrust appearances, for bliss
May greet thee with a Judas kiss,
When plotting to deceive thee.
The wise, the virtuous, the discreet,
May oft in life's probation meet
Disastrous disappointment;
But friends will honor them the more,
And their own minds to every sore
Will yield a healing ointment.
Not so when Providence condemn
The man of guilt and stratagems
To ruinous reverses;
His own black thoughts the public hatc
Uis ill success will aggravate,
And prove his direct curses.
MAN.
Itke to the falling of a star,
Or as the flights of eagles are,
Or like fresh spring's gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew,
Or like a wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which on water stood:
Even such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in, ami paid to night:
The wind blows out, the babble dies,
The spring entombed in autumn lies;
The dew's dried up, the star is shot,
The flight is past, and man forgot!
INDIAN SPKKCII.
tlln, or about the year of our Lord,'
1710, a Swedish Missionary preached i
a sermon, at an Indian treaty, held at
Conestoga, in Pennsylvania, in which
sermon, he set forth original sin. the
necessity of a Mediator; and endeav
ored, by certain arguments, to induce
the Indians to embrace the Christian
religion. After he had ended his dis
course, one of the Indian chiefs made a
speech in reply to the sermon; and the
discourse, on both sides, were made
known by interpreters. The Missiona
ry, upon his return to Sweden, publish
ed his sermon, and the Indian's answer.
Having wrote them in Latin, he dedica
d them to the University of Upsal, and
requested them to furnish him with ar
guments, to confute such strong reason
ing of the Indians. The Indian speech
translated from the Latin, is as follows:"
A SPEECH
Delivered hy an Indian c!drf in reply
io a sermon, preached by a Swedish
Missionary, in order tit convert the
.Indians to the Christian religion.
"Since the subject of his (the Mission
ary's) errand is to persuade us to em
brace a new doctrine, perhaps it may not
he amiss, before we offer him the rea
sons, why we cannot comply with his
request, to acquaint him with the grounds
and principles of that religion, which he
would have us abandon.
"Our forefathers were under a strong
impression, as we are, that those who act
well in this life, shall be rewarded in the
r.cxt, according to the degree of their
virtue; and on the other hand, that those,
who behave wickedly here, will under
go such punishments hereafter, as arc
proportionate to the crimes they were
guilty ot. lnis hath been constantly
and invariably received and acknowl
edged for the truth, through every suc
cessive generation of our ancestors. It
f-cuui not have taken its rise from fable
for human fiction, however artfully and.
plausibly contrived, can never gam ere-.
dit long, among any people, wneie uee
enquiry is allowed; which was never de
nied by our ancestors; who, on the con
trary, thought it the sacred, inviolable,
natural right of every man, to examine
and judge for himself.
"Therefore we think it evident that
our notion, concerning future rewards
and punishments, was either revealed
immediately from Heaven, to some of
our forefathers, and from them descend
ed to u, or, that it was implanted in
each of us, at our ci cation, by the Crea
tor of all things. Whatever the meth
ods might have been, whereby God hath
been pleased to make known to us his
will, ami gives us a knowledge of out
duty, it is still, in our Lense, a divine
revelation.
"Now we desire to propose to him
some few questions. Does he believe
that our forefathers, men, eminent for
(heir piety, the constant and warm in
pursuit of virtue, hoping thereby to mer
it everlasting happiness, were all dam
ned Does he think that we, who are
their zealous imitators, in good works,
and influenced by the same motives as
they were, earnestly endeavoring, with
the greatest circumspection, to tread the
paths of integrity, are in a state ol dam
nation It these be his sentiment,
they are surely as impious a they are
bold and daring.
"In the next place, we beg that he
would explain himself more particularly
concerning the revelation he talks of.
If he admit no other, than what is con
tained in his written book, the contrary
is evident, from what has been shewn
before; but, if lie says, God has revealed
himself to us, but not suliicient for our
salvation; then, we ask, to what purpose
should he have revealed himself in any
wi-e? It is clear, that a revelation, in
sufficient to save, cannot put us in a bet
tor condition than we should be in with
out any revelation at all. We cannot
conceive that God should point out to
us the end we ought to aim at, without
opening to us the way to arrive at that
end. Hut, supposing our undcratand
intrs to be so far illuminated, as to know
it to be our duty to please God, who yet
hath left us under an incapacity of doing
it, will this Missionary, therefore, con
clude thai we shall be eternully dam
ned' Will he take upon himself to pro
nounce damnation against us, tor not do
ing these things, which he himself ac
knowledges were impossible by us to
be done? It is our opinion that every
man is possessed of sufficient knowledge
for his salvation. The Almighty, ir
any thing wo know, may have commu
nicated the knowledge of himself to a
different race of people, in a different
manner.
"Some say they have the will of God
in writing; be it so their revelation
has no advantage above ours; since both
must be equally sufficient to save; other
wise the end of the revelation would be
frustrated. Hcsides, if they he both
true, they must be the S3me in substance:
and the difference can only lie in the
mode of communication. He tells us
there are many precepts in his written
revelation, which we are entirely igno
rant of. Hut these written commands
can only be designed for those who have
xhewritings; theycannot possibly regard
us. Had the Almighty thought so
much knowledge necessary to our salva
tion, his goodness would not long have
deferred the communication of it to us;
and to. say, that in a matter so necessary,
he could not, at one and the same time
equally reveal himself to all mankind,
is nothing less than a denial of his om
nipotence. Without, doubt he can make
his will manifest, without the help of
any book, or the assistance of any book
ish man whatever.
"We shall in the next place, consider
the arguments,, which arise from a con
sideration of Providence. If we are the
work of God, (which I presrme will not
be denied) it follows from thence, that
we arc under the care and protection of
God: for it cannot be supposed that the
Deity should abandon his own creatures,
and be utterly regardless of their wel
fare. Then, to say that the Almighty
hath permitted us to remain in a fatal
error, through so many aire; is to rep
resent him as a lyrant; how is it consis
tent with his justice to force lite upon a
race of mortals, without tneir consent,
and then damn them eternally, with
out ever opening to them a door of sal
vation? Our conceptions of the gracious
God are more noble; and we think that
those who teach otherwise, do little less
than blaspheme. Again, it is through
the care and goodness of the Almighty,
that from the beginning of time, through
manv generations, to this day, our names
has been preserved, unblotted out by
enemies, unreduced to nothing. Hy
the same care we now enjoy our lives;
are furnished with the necessary means
of preserving those lives. Hut all these
things aic trilling, compared with our
salvation.
" Therefore, since God hath been so
careful of us, in matters of little conse
quence, it would be absurd to affirm,
that he has neglected us, in cases of the
greatest importance. Admit that he
hath forsaken us, yet it could not hive
been without a just cause. Let us sup
pose that an heinous crime was commit
ted by one of our ancestors, like to that
which we are told, happened among an
other race of people; in such case, God
would certainly punish the criminal,
but would never involve us, who are in
nocent, in his jruilt. Those who think
otherwise must make the Almighty a
very whimsical, ill-natured being.
Once more, arc the Christians more vir
tuous? or, rather, are they not more vi
cious, than we arc? If so, how came it
to pass, that they are the objects of God's
beneficence, while we are neglected?
Does the Deity confer his favors with
out reason, and with so much partiality?
In a word, we tuid the Christians much
more depraved in their morals than our
selves; and we judge of their doctrine
by the badness of their lives."
London Paper.
The follow iug highly political inscrip
tions, instead of the vulgar issuing ot
"Hoots anil Shoes,'' are to he found on
the signs of two brethren of the craft in
the metropolis:
"Here's the man that wont refuse
For to mend both bouts and shoes;
My leather's good, my charges just;
Excuse me 1 c mtu-t trust. "
The next is more Mihlime; but as it is
less of the business like style than the
former, we should be inclined to prefer
the man of modest pretensions for our
cobbler:
Tilow, O blow, ye gentle breezes,
All anion;; the lcaxes and trcezes;
Sint;, O sit, ye heavenly muses;
And I'll mend your boots and shoozes."
Niches. Anions: the miseries of the
rich, not the least is their anxiety con
cerning what will become of their mo
ney after they are dead. In this coun
try, and perhaps in others, one of two
things very commonly happens to a man
who has the good or ill fortune to be
richer than his neighbours. Either he
has a graceless son who squanders for
him all he can lay hands on in his lifetime
and only waits for his last breath to be
gin squandering the rest; or else a way
ward daughter, who falls in love with
whom she pleases, marries him in spite
of her honored father, and obliges the
old gentleman, if he leaves his property
to his own offspring, to leave it to be en
joyed by the very fellow whom of all
the world he detests the most heartily.
Saying grace at Meals. Dr. Frank
lin, when a child, found the long graces
used by his lather before and after meals
very tedious; one day, after the winter's
provisions were ?-lted, I think, father,
said Benjamin, if you were to bay grace
over the whole cask, once for all, it
would be a vast saving of time.
Gaming. Gaming was invented bv
the Lydians,when under the pressure of
a jrreat laminc. lo divert themselves
from dwelling on their suffering, they
contrived dice, balls, tables, &c. It is
added, that to bear their calamity the
better, they used to play a whole day
without interruption, that they might
not be racked with the thoughts of food.
The invention, intended as a remedu for
hunger, is now a very common cause of
that evil
Anecdote. At a musical count mea
ting a vocal performer who was rather
shabbily dressed about his under gar.
ments, being complimented on the pow
er of his voice, vainly threw up his head
and replied, "0 lord sir, I can make any
thing of it." "Can you indeed!" said
a wit in the company, "why, then, I'd
advise you to make yourself a pair of
breeches of it."
The Celebrated Horse
SIR ARCHIE
W7T r T CT VTT-k .1
n..ju oiaiu ine ensu
ing season at my stable, in
iorinampton county, North
Carolina, about threp m i lot.
from the Court-house, nine miles from
the town of Halifax-, and tiventv-or
miles from Belfield, Va. He will "cover
mares at ( SEVENTY-FIVE QoIlcr5
the season,' payable on the 1st of Janua
ry next, (with one dollar to the Groom
in all cases.) Such of Sir Archie's
friends that live at a distance will send
their notes with the mares, payable "on
the first of January. Also, the feeding
of the mares to be paid for when taken
away. The season will commence on
the first of February, and terminate the
first of August. 'Extensive fields of
small grain and clover are sowed for the
benefit of Mares, (which may be left
with the Horse,) with the addition cf
grain feeding at 2s. per day. Separate
enclosurp3 are provided for mares with
colts No pains will be spared in taking
the best possible care of mares, &c!
which may be left, bat no responsibility
for escapes or accidents.
blood, great
size, performance: on the turf, and cele
brity as a foal getter, are sufficient recommendations.
JOHN D. .MIS.
Feb. 17, 1829.
27-8
GEN. MARSON,
WILL STAND the ensc
i&ilSfins: season at mv stable, in
Halifax county, North-Carolina,
1 mile from the town of
Halifax, 11 miles from Enfield, and 16
from Pollock's Ferrv; and will be let to
mares at FIFTEEN DOLLARS cash,
the single leap THIRTY Dollars the
season, payable at the expiration of the
season and FORTY-FIVE Dollars to
ensure a mare to be in foal, payable as
soon as the mare is ascertained to be in
foal with 50 cents to the Groom in eve
ry instance. The season has commen
ced, and will end on the 20th day of July.
Mares sent to remain with the horse
will be well attended to; and can be fed
with corn and fodder, if required, at 25
cents per day. Separate lots are provi
ded, for mares with young colts. All
necessary pains will be taken with mares
and colts, to prevent accidents and es
capes of every kind; but I will not be li
able for either.
NICHOLAS M. LONG.
March IS, 1S29. 33-3
11 U( t iJL VIA.
riLL STAND the ensuing season
one-half of his time at my stables,
the other half at Logsboro', in the neigh
borhood of Dempsey Bryan and Josh"
Lawrence, commencing the third Mon
day in March at Logsboro', and loavin;
there Saturday afternoon, and so on eve
ry other week until the Saturday befoi'2
the third Monday in July next, at whir
time the season will expire. He will . c
let lo mares at FOUR DOLLARS the
single leap, to be paid when the mare i
covered; SIX Dollars the season, to be
paid at the expiration of the season; and
TEN Dollars to insure a mare to bo m
foal, payable the first day of January next.
Where a mare is insured and the Pr0VeT
is changed before it is ascertained that s.'
is in foal, the money will be claimed.
WAS three years old last July, and
let to more than thirty marcs last sca
and has proved himself a sure foal et:e
MOSES PiKEZ
Feb. 2S? 18?9.