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POET R Y. A CHRISTMAS ODE. Firjl Shepherd • AT this unwonted hour, behold What strikes my wond’rjng foul with fear f How all yon east is ftrea’d with gold ! As if the op’oing morn was near! Second Shepherd. I mark it I—now the streams unite ! One pillar now of moving light! 3V£y foul too (hakes !—it finlts—it dies! See 1 through the air the vision flies ! Third Shepherd . Heav’n shield us !—lo ! ’tis just at hand! Some strange event impends ! O’er head direst, it seems to stand! And now the blaze defeeuds! GABRIEL. Ye Shepherds ! all your fears resign ! I come, not arm’d with wrath divme ! But fraught with heav'nly love f The news, the welcome news I bring, Sounds high from ev’ry sacred firing Thro’ all yon realms above ! I come! (and *tis ablest employ) I come the meftenger of joy i Go! publidi what I (ing. Earth is no more a feene forlorn ! This night a promis’d Christ i» born ! Your Saviour and your King ! At Bethle’m, in a manger lies The swaddled babe ! let raptures rife Round this terrestrial ball! The raptures catch from heart to heart! ’Jill all (hall feel, let all impart! For (Thrift was born for all ! r CHORUS of ANGELS. Glory to God, in drains till now unknown, From ev’ry glowing Seraph round his throne ! I Peace to this globe 1 all worlds admire the plan Os HeavVs free, vast Benevolence to man. ANECDOTE. A Number of felf christened philosophers in France, who had adopted Voltaird s Atheiftical principles, proposed to ereft a statue to that Poet’s memory. The scheme was in great forwardnefs, when an Englilh gentleman defeated it,by introducing the fol lowing into all the faftiionable rutile at Paris: Infeription for an intended Statue </* Voltaire. .Behold If dtaire / deferring of a (tone j Who in poetry was great, In hiftory little ! Still less in philofopbyj And in religion* • I Nothing at all. His wit was acme, His judgment precipitate, - f His diftionefty extreme. Loose women smiled upon him, The half learned applauded him, And the profane patronized him. Though he spared neither God nor mac , A junto of Atheists, Who call themselves Philosophers, Scraped fame money together, And railed this Statue, To his memory. A LIKELY NEGRO BOY To be fold for Tobacco. Inquire of the Printer. Writing Paper For Sale at the Primiug-Oriice, w Cumming & MCredies / Have imported in the lafl vejfels from London and other parts of Great-Britain, A complete and general Assortment GOODS, Which they are now' felling on mo derate terms at their Stores in du gufta, Campleton t and at Liberty Hill , near Pickens* Warc-houfe, viz . WHITE, blue, green, and drab coloured plains Fearnoughts, ftrouds, rose and duf fil blankets Superfineand second broad cloths of molt colours Green, buff, white and red flannels Caflimers, lagathies, duroys Womens Icarlet, blue and crimson cardinals Durants, flwloons, calamancoes,laft ings, bombazeen Irilh linens of every quality White and brown fbeetings, dowlas, Ruflja (heetings and drabs, bed ticking and bunts Oznaburgs A variety of printed linens,callicoes, and chintzes An assortment. of check and linen handkerchiefs Cambricks, lawns, lawn aprons and handkerchiefs Plain and figured mullins Black and coloured Barcelona hand kerchiefs Plain anddriped (hags for waistcoats A great variety of waistcoat patter s Corduroys, plain and figured velvets Jeans and fudians Brown Holland, linen and cotton checks and (tripes Black florentine, modes, Persians and other silks Mens and womens worded, cotton, thread and /ilk (lockings Mattraffes Mens and womens saddles, bridles, girths, surcingles, (addle bags, port manteaus, holders, saddle cloths, &c. A complete assortment of mens (hoes and boots Ladies calamanco, lading and Mo rocco (hoes Childrens ditto A large assortment of mens coarse and fine hats Ladies black and white riding hats White and coloured threads, ribbons Writing paper of every kind, Bibles, Tedaments, Prayer books, Watt’s Hymns, Spelling books, dates, sealing wax, ink powder Buttons, buckles, spurs. stirrup irons, bridle bias An assortment of locks, bolts, hinges, drawing knives, reap hooks,knives and forks, cutteaux, pen knives, razors, fciflbrs, .augers, gouges, chiffels, (hovels and tongs, (ire dogs, brass fenders, smoothing irons, grid irons, de(k furniture 4d. 6d. bd. iod. i2d. 2od. and 2^d. nails and flooring brads Weeding and grubbing hoes,felling and broad axes -« • Trace chains Mill, cross cut, and hand saws, with files An aflbrtment of planes and plane irons Smiths anvils, vices, fledges, and hammers Frying pans Bar iron, shear moulds, German and blistered ileel Iron pots and Dutch ovens Steelyards, hand vices, awLblades, shoe and saddle tacks Guaging rods Cutting knives, scythes, gun locks Large and (mail grindstones Brass wire and hair sieves Looking glaffcs, furveyorS inftru meats Weavers flays and Ihuttfes An afiortment of tin ware An aflbrtment of crockery ware Pewter dishes, bafons, plates, &c.' An aflbrtment of glass ware Copper stills, with worms, &c. com* plete Copper tea kettles Bar lead, (hot, and gun powder A variety of medicines Pins, needles, fifhing hooks, sewing silk, twill, &c. They have also for Sale , ■* Allum and fine Salt $ Jamaica, Weft India, and Northward rum; white and brown sugars, molas ses, coffee, chocolate, teas; alfpice, pepper, brimstone, ginger; cop- I ! peras, allum, nutmegs, muftard* cotton and wool cards $ leading lines, bed cords, and twine; with a variety of other articles too tedious toenumeratec Auguftai Dec. i, 1788. Just publijhed , and may be had at the Printing- Office, a jew Co pies of a Funeral Sermon On the Death of Daniel Kelloggs late of the State of Conneflicut; who died at Wajhington , the 20th of August 1788. Preached at the Request of the WASHING TON LODGE, No. 5. of ANCIENT YORK. MASONS. By the Rev . Brother JOHN HURT Also may be had at the Print ing-Office, A Jew Copies of the L A W j? Os the General Afiembly of* the State of Georgia, paired Session. ALSO THE J O URN A L OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE of GEORGIA , On the Federal Constitution. The Federal Constitution is contained in the above-mentioned Publication .