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Dirge on iwoYounx Females taking the
Veil.
AN OLD POEM.
I.
‘O secret walks, to silent rfhadec,
i-fl places where no voice invades
rhe .air, but what’s treated by
Their own retired society,
.iiowly these blooming nymphs we bring,
” o wither ouf their fragrant spring; /
For those sweet odours lover* pine,
Where beauty doth but vainly shine.
chorus.
Where nature's wealth, and ’ art’s assisting
cost.
Both in the beams of distant hope are lost.
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To cloisters where cold damps destroy
The busie thoughts of bridal joy ;
To vows whose, harsh events must be
Uncoupled cold virginitie ;
T<> pensive prayers, where heaven appears
Thr ugh the pale cloud of private tears ;
These captive virgins we must leave,
Till freedom they from death receive.
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CUOROS.
Only in this remote conclusion blest,
This vale of tears leads to eternal rest.
3.
Then since that such a choice as theifs,
Which styles them the undoubted heirs
To heaven, ’twere sinful to repent,
Here may they live till beauty, spent
In a religious life, prepare
Them wrlv their fellow saints to share
Celestial joys, for whose desire
They freely from the world retire,
clonus.
Go then, and rest in blessed peace, while we
Deplore the loss of such societie.
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EXTRACTS
from an essay on the Divine Authority
or 7’he imar ‘jfpsT’AMF.kr,
By BOGUE.
The j manner in which a future State is
represented in the New Testa•
, ment .
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When an author chooses a theme
which is level to the human capaci
ty. and of which all can judge from
observation, experience, or reflec
tion. he has greatly the advantage.
A future state of rewards and pun
ishments requires the penof amias
ter to write upon it but tolerably well.
A review of what has been published
on the subject, will evince the pro
priety of this remark.
The Greek and Homan poets, who
were the retailers of the pagan the
ology among thp most civilized na
tions of antiquity, describe the hap
piness of the good, and the misery
Os the wicked, after death. But how
mean the hapiness l It consists in
talking over their battles, 8 in re
hearsing poems, -and in receiving
adulation. A person acquainted
with the ordinary pursuits of mt*n
on earth, if he have but a peotio
fancy* may easily, as to ideas at
least, riyal the description. Their
State of misery is better conceived,
but it is minute and low.
N Mahomet, who knew something
of the New Testament, thinking
perhaps to improve upon it, and to
give a more affecting view, has pre
sented us with his ideas of a future
world, lie indeed gratified curiosity;
but his. minute description are dis
gusting in the extreme* “His state
of reward allures every ‘sense, and
every appetite : it is the happiness
of an epicure and a wanton. His
state of misery fills the soul with
loathing and horror: it is the coarse
imagination of an Arab, who had
seen and thought of the most brutal
cruelty.
Modern deists have been rather
afraid of the subject. A few of
them have spoken of death as the
close of human existence. But there
is something in this so degrading
and at the same time so irrational,
that we can scarcely account sos
their sentiments in any other way,
but bv supposing that they are af
raid of a world of retribution. Oth
ers, nay most of them, allow there
is such a state ; but they say nothing
concerning it, which cah afford sa
tisfaction to an enquiring mind’
There is happiness to the good ;
and some-will add, there is misery
to the widked ; But in what the hap
piness or the misery consists, where
is the deist who has ventured tadcs
cribe ? They seem not at home,
when a future state is the theme of
discourse s we are left altogether in
the* dark. Their description has
no Sjitpstance : it is a fleeting shade
which eludes our grasp. The pa
gan Elysium and Tartarus have a
body ; but they are *OO gross for
reason to endure for a single mo
ment : we are only introduced t6the
Olympic games, and Dionysius's
.tjryrtgepir. Mahomet’s description
has a body too : but his paradise is
eastern seraglio; and his bdi the
office of the Spanish TnquYi*'on
Nature is overpowered, and simcs be
neath the oppression of the torture.
On taking the New Testament in
to our hands, what a different scene
is presented to ou. view. We are
no longer left to grope in the deist’s
darkness: nor disgusted and shocked
with the tmseemly particularity of
the: others. The happiness of the
disciples of Jesus is described by
f images natural, innocent, and most
lovely : and there is always an inti
mation that they are but images, and
are designed to represent to us a
state of felicity, consisting in per
fect knowledge and perfect holiness;
a felicity arising from conformity to
God, and a full fruition of him, and
from the society of perfectly wise
and holy beings. The misery is de
scribed by comparisons from natu
ral objects, which are exceedingly
awful; and which, without racking
the feelings like the Koran, fill the
heart with salutary terror. At the
same time information is plainly
Conveyed, that the misery in a great
measure consists in evil dispositions
and passions, in remorse and des
pair, and in the displeasure of a
justly offended God. v The superior
ity of the New Testament on this
most difficult of subjects, must be
obvious to every reader. Let him
fairly ascertain the cause.
There is a peculiarity belonging
to the manner in which this subject
is treated, that merits notice. When
men write on a future state, they are
apt tb throw the reins upbn the neck
of fancy. With the exception of the/
modern deists,* this lias always been
the case. Hence their descriptions
are minute to tediousness. They
know not where to stop: and the au
thor’s exuberant'fancy is displayed at
the expence of his judgment. But
we db not find this in the apostles of
Christ, There is a dignified reserve *
When they have advanced to a cer
tain limit, a veil is thrown over the
rest. If this had, in one or two of
them, sprung from a spirit of cauti
ous sagacity, is it not probable that
others would have gone further ?—*
Might not one, at least, of a more
adventurous soul, and more luxuri
ant fancy than his fellows, have gi
ven a loose to his imagination, and
said many things which they never
thought of ? This might be the more
naturally expected, as some never
saw the writings of the others, and
therefore could have no monitor or
pattern tp regulate their steps. The
remark acquires additional force* if
we extend it to the writers of the
Old Testament, to whom it is equal
ly applicable. How shall we ac
count for it ? Was there not a divine
hand guiding the pen ? * r
The motive s proposed by the Got pel.
From its doctrines, precepts, and
discoveries of a future state, the New
Testament appears to be no com*
man book. The motives it presents,
tnough partly included in these, may
yet be considered as distinct, and in
a peculiar point of view* If the
matter be duly examined, it will npt
be looked upon as% rash assertion*
that it is impossible to conceive
stronger motives to deter from evil,
and influence to good, and conse
quently to banish misery and pro*
duce happiness, than those which the
gospel sets beforci our eyes. Here
every spring of action in the human
heart is put in motion : Hope, fear*
love, hatred, desire, aversion, grati
tude, is addressed : not a chord in
the heart is left untouched. Diver
sity in motives is of essential benefit.
Is not the fear of evil known and
felt to be a powerful principle in the
soul ? Christ and his apostles reveal
from heaven the wrath of God against
ail ungodliness, and unrighteousness
of man ; and* enumerate the many
and bitter miseries which tread on
the heels of aggression, in a present
life. But a future world is the state
of retribution : and we are taught by
him, who will sit on the tribunal at.
the day of judgment, “ that the wick
ed shall go away into everlasting
punishment, where there shall be
weeping, and wailing, and gnashing
of teeth.” Could fear suggest a con
sideration more powerful, for res
traing those strong propensities to
evil which are m the human heart l
But motives of a different kind are*
more fully, and frequently insisted
on. Christianity is not the religion
of a slave. It does not debase the
mind with terror. It is a noble and
generous aud abounds with
motives of love, and promises of
blessings, and the hopes of glory.—.
Here we are entering on a roost ex
tensive field ; but we must pass thro*
it in haste : yet we may enjoy s<jj ne
thing of the delightful prospect, as
we advance, The Supreme Being
describes himself by one word, which
contains volumes of ideas: GOD IS
LOVE* Infinite the guil
ty and miserable,, meets our eye in
every page. The boundless corn*
passion and grdee of the Lord Jesus,
who came into the world to seek &
to save that which was lost, eVen the
chieFofi sinners and ius iucdnceiv- f
able affection for his disciples ; are a
frequent anddelightful theme.—
The power 01 the sacred Spirit, and
his enlightening, sanctifying, and
comforting influences, are often pre
sented to the mind. God’s paternal
care of his people* his guidance hfs
support, his presence, his consola
tions in afflictions, and his more than J
a fatbits regardraml sympathy at
the hoar of d»ath, are expressed in
language never Used in any other _
book. In addition to all these, the
eternal world is unveiled before our
eyes; and we are called to behold a,
state of the noblest and purest feli
city, continuing and increasing thro’
all eternity.
Such are the motives of the gos
pel ; all tending to promote faith,
holiness, and resignation to the di
vine will, and to make men like God.
Stronger ones cannot be adduced.—
But how came these fishermen and
tent-makers and publicans, to ex
haust the mine ? Look at the mo-1
tives of ancient and modem pagan
ism, which the votaries oi Jupiter, of
Brahma , and of Fo , have held up to
the view of their worshippers 1 Rea
son blushes at the sight, and is a
shamed to draw a comparison. If
Mahomet could not but perceive the
* strength of the motives from a future
state of rewards and punishments, he
has sunk them from spifit to flesh 1
and many of those sweet, tendei, &
insinuating ones, which sprang out
of the love of God, and the compas
sion of the Mediator, he has entirely
left out. Well informed deists will
own, that their writers seem far
more zealous in exclaiming against
superstition, than in Urging the mo
tives to the practice of natural reii
; gion, which even natural religion af
fords : but these are unspeakably
inferior in number, strength, and
clearness to those of Christianity.
From the Columbian*
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, To the Editor,
SIR,
The inclosed is a description; in
part, and correct as far as it goes, of
one of the most celebrated sleeptalk
ers which has appeared upon the
footstool for two thousand years.
Please publish it s it may give occa
sion for the display of much scepti
cal ingenuity.
Very truly yours,
ALFIERI.
WONDERFUL PHENOMENON.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman
in the Western district* to his
friend in this city, dated March
20,1814.
N . T*’
DEAR WILLIAM, ,
I went last evening with dur friends
Sand H to hear the famous female
solmniloquist, or sleep talker , of
whom I said something in my last.
We went at an early hour, that; we
might have an opportunity of con
versing with her while waking, and
of laying in stores for scepticism 1
She is a plump, hale country lass of
nineteen, rather above the middle
size; of a smooth, equal, vacant
tranquility of visage* without men
tal vivacity or vigor. You would
pronounce her eye to be good ; but
it is unsteady, wild and capricious
with an unusual* if you please say
Sickly, dilation of the pupii. She
is taciturn and diffident, with a hea
vy, languid drawl of utterance* which
pains you.’ .
Our conversation was of a critical
cast j run mostly upon facts relating
to herself; her parentage, nativity,
age, education* health, accidents, re
ligion, &c. and the amazing uncon
scious faculty of talking in heF
sleep. She followed all our question s
in a regular anticipated
nqthing—but on the last head spoke
with reluctance, and in a manner
which betrayed a deep sensibility of
her misfortune. > It was not a reluc
tance called in t<n resist our incivil
ity : it was female delicacy, busy in
secreting a deformity.
She informed us that she had been
in that way about two years, and was
not sensible of any bodily disorder
which could produce it. She is of
the Baptist sect, and for many years;
has been a zealous and fervent dev
otee, and when sleeping, her mind
taking the pious tendency of her
waking hours, appears to be wholly
occupied with subjects of religion.
■ On this head she appeared to be
intuitively prepared to meet ques
tions the most dark Sc abstruse. She
answers with promptness, without
multifarious remark—right onward
without repetition—to a total ex
haustation of her subject, and not
unfrequently of herself—These facts
the people with whom she -lived, and
who had known her from’ her in
falley, united in confirming. The
object of our visit being attained,
and our curiosity more strongly_ ex
cited, we retired to a neighbor's for
an hour, and returned Ao full gra
tification* She had been in otd
sometime, and in a few moments
we heard her commence—The doors
were thrown open and we all entered
—it was not uncommon we were in
formed, for three or four hundred to
be present.
She opened with a prayer of half
> an hour and delivered herself with
great distinctness,in a clear, harmo
nious unhesitating animated tone of
voice, with much devotional zeal and
attracting fervouH when through,
she sighed and groaned as in bodi
ly anguish* for ten or twelve minutes,
—-her chest hove—she grated her
teeth and catched her breath, as one
does v ith a palpitation of the heart.
- At a proper interval, someone
who -belonged to the house, calling
her rftildly by her name, observ
ed that her elder somebody—his
name I come some
distance to see her. On this, she la
bored a moment as fqr breath, when
she commenced aj|d went through
with a most elegant exhortation,ad
dressed to him personally, on the
subject of his duties; urging him to
diligence, assiduity and persever
ance in his calling—painting in co
lors of delirious extacy, the pleasures
of the life to come, for the life well
spent ; and denouncing in awful so
lemnity* with the shuddering
rors of eternal damnation, the sen
tinel who slumbered or winked upon
the watch-tower—interlarding her
discourse with many pertinent scrip
tural allusions, and in a copiousness
of language, which indeed very much
astonished us* The elder In the
meantime,
“ * pa!e amazed,
All gaze, all wonder - .*?
Eyeing in tremulous weakness,
oracular corpse which lay before
him, in deep dead sleep, interwove
the sentiments which dmpt from
it with the awful mysteries of a pre
ternatural—'“ Saul! Saul.l why per
secUtest thou me?’—and Wept in
silent obsequiousness. In fact, the
deep attention of th£ auditors—the
sighs of the spattering
hail—the howling tempest—united
with the speaking fcorpse* as it
peared uttering its awful warnings
to mortality—offered one of those
.moments of retirement to the
soul, wjien we shudder and shiver in
sublimity, like a culprit ih Rome,
with his heels to the precipice ; in
deed I Was ten times within an ace
of coiling Up my logic and uniting
in the sympathies Os the cro »vdr
, Having finished her adress to the
elder* she relapsed again iiitO the
same convulsion which she had in
her first interval, but visible irt
greater pain : it was the contort
tion of an e incubus j it was the last
conscious grasp oflife to its fixture:
she was as colorless as death 1
This unexpected and frighful de
bility of the young* lady excited our
curiosity,. and gave rise to a conver
sation with the lady of the house
upon the subject. She told tis that
three nights the company
had so multiplied questions upon her
Jhat she Was driven to a state of the
most alarming exhaustion, and
whenever this happened it required
six, eight, and sometimes ten days
Os kind attention,’ caution and for
bearance to recruit her. We were
very sorry for this information,.as
we were obliged to give over asking
her many questions with which we
had come prepared. The company
on this information* immediately
broke up and we retired.
Now friend Willi ami do you
think of all this ? Get along as soon
as posible with all your doubts * take
it as a fact that it is no imposture, no
delusion 5 and then let me Hear from
you.
REMARKABLE LONGEVITY-
Manfeus, who wrote the history
of the Indies, which has always been
a model of veracity as well ais ele
gant composition, mentions a native
of Bengal, named Nuraas de Cogne,
who died, .15&6, at the age 0f370.
He was a man of great simplicity,
and quite illiterate, but of so exten
sive a memory, that he was a kind
of living chronicle, relating distinctly
and exactly what had happened with
in his knowledge in the compass of
his life, together with all the cir
cumstances attending it. He bad
four new setts of teeth : and the co
lour of His hair aqd beard had been
frequently changed- from black to
grey, and from grey tQ black. He *
asserted that in the course of his
life hfe had seven hundred wives,
some of whom died, and'others he
had'put away. The first century of
his life passed in idolatry, from
which he was converted to Maho
metanism, which he continued to
profess till his death. f ‘
This account is also confirmed by
another Portuguese author, Ferdi
nand Lopez Categueda, who was his
toriographer royal.
The useful arte.r—There has been
exhibited for two or,three weeks in
an apartment of the cajfttal in this
city an improved Loom, which for
general utjlity promises to excel any
modem improvement in the useful
arts which has come within our
knowledge. Thishnachine resem
*bles the common loom, though
smaller, but is so ingeniously con
structed as to require the force and
agency of a single arm only to give
a perfect and rapid motion to a!! Its
parts. * By simply working the bat
ton or slay in the common manner,
motion is gfWn to a Spring shuttle,
works the treadles and, kt /propel
times, lets out the warpafld Vmds
up the cloth, keeping the whole well
tightened ahd in proper order. Ihe
shuttle can he thrown 200 times iii
a minute, (or any number of times
the slay can be made to traverse*
as the motion ot the former is gen
erated bv that of the latter ) and the
work of the loom, averages thirty
yards of common cloth per day \
two inches of ordinary size have
been woven.in one /minute. Such
i*j thexharactergiven of the machine
by the proprietor, and. after atten
tively witnessing its operation, Wfc
cannot question his statement. The
inventor of it is Mr. Walter Jones
of Connecticut The loom is adap
ted to the manufacture of any fab
rick, from the finest silk to the co;*rs
, est bagging,: and from its cheapness
; and superiority for family use will
prove a benefit to the community*
as we hope of wealth to the inventor
and proprietors* «t
Nat . InU
sheiuff^slZeT”
On the first Tuesday i>t July next y at
the Court iff)use of Clark County,
WILL BE SOLD ,
the following property , to w/7
Th ee hundred and fifty acres of
land,, lying on Shoal creek in said
county* joining Charles A. Redd*
David Harris and others, grants*
riot Know’n. five negroes to wit one
fellow known by the riante of Will*
Lucey and her three children, -Kit,
Lewis and Edmond—all levied 01V
the property of George* Y. Farra'* toy;
satisfy an execution in favo' 1 of the
State Os .Georgia, vs Y. Far- ,f
Tar as Tax Collector of Clark covin-;
ty, and John Barnettj Joseph Brown,
and Jack F. Cocke, his securities. , 1
SAMUEL JACKSON, Sheriff.
May 26/V Ul4.
V *, i
NOTICE. *
ON Friday ths tenth day of June next,
- at the plantation Where J*hn Bor
berts , deceased , formerly lived,
/ WILL BE SOLD, f
A. , / ,7
LL the perishable property of
said Roberts, deceased.— iioe
teonihs credit will be given— jutes
with approved security will be re-
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AVERY ROBERTS,
t Administrator.
May 2d, 1614.
/
DOMESTIC MANUFACIU RES*
THE SUBSCRIBERS £
Have established a x } **
CARD MANUFACTORY,
■ , “!v> *”* ‘ *•
In this city, where may be had No;
10 Cotton Cards, and Card Leaves for
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MACHINES ;
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Os the best quality ; which they will
continue to sell as low as they can
be had for from the Northern Cities.
PerspnS having worn out cards, may
have new leathers with wires put on
them, making them equally as good*
and at less price than new cards.—
They have'.also a constant supply of
GUN-POWDER, »
Os superior quality—manufactured
at the ,
‘-j.. ‘ - . ■
AUGUSTA POWDER MILLS,
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Warranted of equal or greater
strength and cleanliness on burning
than any made in the United States*
—This powder has been thoroughly
tried, ar*d highly recommended by
the mcil skillful sportsmen.—lts
strength Will be satisfactorily shewn
by an accurate powder prdof.—Also
may be had of them
COPPER FOR STILLS,
Os 6G‘ to 120 gallons each, w|th rais
ed Caps and Bottoms; with
* SOLDER AND RIVETS
--»V - » ‘ .. J k. .Jt ./
Complete—br they will. have them
made up to order, on shoit
Also a quantity of,
WHITE LEAD,
In Oil double ground , of WitherePs
Manufacture, vrarranted>to contain
no adulterating mixture, and pro
nounced by all who use it, superior
to that which from Eng
land.—Also,
PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURED
MILL SAWS AND MILL SAW
FILES.
! ■ *#•:-. • J3t
These saws were made to order, of
superior thickness and quality.—All*
low for Cash* or approved Town
Paper*. 7’ L-, *
J H. %, Ta THOMAS. 1
Augusta, April 15*
