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POETICAL SELECTIONS.
FOR THE CENTINEL.
A DREAM.
I DREAMT that buried by my fellow day,
Close by a common beggar’s side I lay;
And as so mean a neighbor shock’d my pride,
Thus like a corpse of quality I cried....
Away thou Scoundrel! touch me not,
More manners learn, and at a distance rot.
Thou Scoundrel! in a louder tone cried he,
Proud lump of dirt, I scorn thy words and
thee!
We’re equal now, I’ll not an inch resign,
This is my rotting place, and that is thine.
From Honey wood’s Poems.
INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS
On the Publication of a Newspaper.
TOO long have vile abuse and party rage
Engross’d the Press and soil’d the weekly
page.
While truth itself, by partial hands pourtray’d,
Half met the light, and half was sunk in
shade.
And was the Press, fair Freedom’s gift, de
sign’d
To serve each baser passion of mankind ?
To flatter pride, to point the darts of spite,
To blast the good, and shield the bad from
light ?
Forbid it heavens! a nobler aim be ours,
To mend the heart, to raise the mental powers,
To show the world on one extensive plan,
All that is great, and good, and dcir to man;
The patriot’s plans and councils to display,
To point where glory shapes the warrior’s
way,
And as fresh wonders burst from every clime,
To mark th’ unfoldings of eventful Time;
That while our youth with sparkling eyes
shall read
How heroes conquer, or more nobly bleed,
Their infant souls may catch the sacred flame,
And join their country’s love to that of fame.
....Co-patriots all, of every sex and age,
Whom chance may lead to view this humble
page,
Protect our Press, espouse a stranger’s part,
And deign to foster Learning’s favorite art;
With candor read, nor too severely blame;
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FOR THE CENTINEL.
AGAINST DRUNKENNESS.
“ For in the wreath that decks the flowing
bowl,
Fell adders hiss, and pois’nous serpents roll!’’
A DRUNKEN man is a greater
monster than any that is to be found
among all the creatures whom God has
made; as indeed there is no character
which appears more despicable and de
formed, in the eyes of all reasonable
persons, than that of a drunkard.
This vice has very fatal effects on the
mind, the body and fortune of the per
son who is devoted to it.
In regard to the mind, it first of all
discovers every Jlunt in it. The sober
man, by the strength of reason, may
keep under and subdue every vice or
folly to which he is most inclined ; but
liquor makes every latent seed sprout
up in the soul and shew itself: it gives
fury to the passions, and force to those
objects which are apt to product them.
Wine heightens indifference into
love, love into jealousy, and jealousy
into madness. It often turns the good
natured man into an ideot, and the cho
leric into an assassin. It gives bitter
ness to resentment, it makes vanity in
supportable, and displays every little
spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Nor does this vice only betray the
hidden faults of a man, and shew them
in most odious colors, but often occa
sions faults to which he is not natural
ly subject. There is more of turn than
of truth in a saying of Seneca, that
drunkenness does not produce, but dis
cover faults. Common experience teach
es the contrary.
Liquor throws a man out of himself,
and infuses qualities into the mind
which she is a stranger to in her sober
moments. The person you converse
with after the mind is exhilarated, is
not the same man who at first sat down
at the table with you. Upon this max
im is founded one of the prettiest say
ings I have met with, “He who jests
upon a man that is drunk injures the
absent."
Thus does drunkenness act in direct
contradiction to reason, whose business
it is to clear the mind of every vice
which is crept into it, and to guard it
against all the approaches of any that
ymdeavor to make their entrance. But
Ntsides these ill effects which this vice
.The ancient bacchanalians used to
\ie their punch bcv.'ls with flowers.
produces in the person who is actuall>
under its dominion, it has also a bad in
fluence on the mind, even in its sober
moments, as it insensibly “weakens the
understanding , impairs the memory , and
makes those faults habitual which are
produced by frequent excesses : it
wastes the estate, banishes reputation,
consumes the body,f and renders a man
of the brightest parts the common jest
of an insignificant clown.
A method of employing ones time
profitably is a thing so little studied,
that the common amusement of our
young citizens (especially of such as arc
at a great distance from those ot the
first breeding) is drinking. This way
of entertainment has custom on its
side; but as much as it has prevailed,
I believe there have been very few com
panies that have been guilty of excess
in this way, where there have not hap
pened more accidents which make against ,
than for the continuance of it.
It is very common that events arise
from a debauch which are fatal, and al
ways such as are disagreeable. With
all a man’s reason and good sense about
him, his tongue is apt to utter things
out of a mere gaiety of heart, which
[ may displease his best friends. Who
then would trust himself to the power
• of grog, recollecting that it raises the
imagination and depresses the judgment?
Were there only this single conside
ration, that we are less masters of our
selves when we/drink in the least pro
portion above the exigencies of thirst i
I say, were this all that could be ob
jected, it were siaCficicnt to make us ab
hor this vice. But we may go on to
say, that as he who drinks but little is
not master of himself, so he who drinks
much is a slave to every person who is
soberer than himself; and of course in the
power of his enemies and dependants.
As for my part, I ever esteemed a
drunkard of all vicious persons the most
vicious: for if our actions are to be !
weighed and considered accoiding to ;
the intention of them, what can we i
think of him who puts himself into a
circumstance wherein he can have no
intention at all, but incapacitates himself
for the duties and offices of life , by a ■sus
pension of all his faculties.
If a man considers that he cannot,
under the oppression of drink, be a
friend, a gentleman, a master, or a ser
vant ; that he has so long banished
. himself from all that is clear, and given
up all that is sacred to him, he would
think of a debauch with horror, and
avoid the company and places liable to this
temptation with equal resolution as if the
yellow fever were there prevalent ! For
when he looks still further, and acknow
ledges that he is not only expelled out
of all the relations of life, but also lia
ble to offend against them all, what
words can express the terror and detes
tation he would have of such a condi
tion ? And yet lie owns all this of him
self who says he was drunk last night.
As I have all along persisted, that all
the vicious in general are in a state of
death, so I may safely add to the non
existence of drunkards, that they died
by their own hands. He is certainly as
guilty of suicide who perishes by a slow,
1 1 as he that is dispatched by an immedi
j ate poison.
But as our faults are double when
they affect others besides ourselves, so
this vice is still more odious in a mar
ried than a single man. He who is the
husband of a woman of honor, and
comes home overloaded with liquor, is
still more contemptible, in proportion
to the regard we have to the unhappy
consort ot his beastiality. The imagi
nation cannot shape to itself any thing
more monstrous and unnatural than the
familiarities between drunkenness and
chastity. The romantic tales of vir
gins devoted to the jaws of monsters,
have nothing in them so terrible, as the
gift of a modest woman to a baccha
nalian.
, isle reflection of such a match as
spotless innocence with abandoned
, lewdness, is what puts this vice in the
worst figure it can bear with regard to
others ; but when it is looke*: upon
with respect only to the drunkard him
self, it has deformities enough co make
it disagreeable, which may be summed
up in a word, by allowing, that he who
abuses his reason is actually guilty of
all that he is liable to from the want
of reason.
ANTI-BACCHUS.
t Tour-fifths of the adult males in the
southern states die through intemperance.
Is not this suicide ? ?
BLANK SHERIFFS TITLES
For Sale at this Office,
Valuable Medicines .
WHICH are in high esteem and general
use, throughout the United States, ma
ny of them (independent of their superior ef
ficacy) being sold for less than the Drugs, of
which they are compounded, could be purchas
ed at a retail store. For several years past,
they have been celebrated for the cure of most
diseases to which the human body is liable,
PARTICULARLY,
Worms, + Corns,
Coughs cf Colds, + Itch,
Asthma, * Diseases of the
Consumption, * F.yes,
(rout , Ringworms, Tet-
Rheumatism , + ters, is'c.
Sprains, + Inward Weaknesses
Palsy, * Aervoitf Disorders,
Head-Ache, * Female Complaints,
Tooth-Ache, * Hooping Cough,lfc.
Among the nnmerous respectable recom
mendations, (which may be seen at the place
of sale) the following are selected.
Hamilton’s Elixir,
For Coughs, is’c is’c
From Luther Mat tin, late attorney general of
the state of Maryland.
Hamilton’s YVorm Lozenges.
Letter from the Honorable A. C. Hanson, Esq.
Chancellor of the state of Maryland, to
the Editor of the Maryland Gazette
fr SinFor the good of the public, as well as
aom a desire to do justice to a man of merit
Ind genius, I request you to publish the fol
owing cases :
A young man in my family, who had read
Dr. Hamilton’s advertisement, and who had,
for some time, as he says, experienced the
symptoms described by the doctor, as indicat
ing the presence of worms in the human sto-
I comply with your request in stating my
opinion of Hamilton’s Elixir. It has been
used in my family for two or three years past,
with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs,
or similar complaints have rendered medicine
necessary. I have myself found it an excel
lent and agreeable remedy for ajfery painful
and troublesome affection of theHHast, accom
danied with soreness, and with obstructed and
j difficult breathing.
i On these accounts Ido not hesitate to re
• commend Hamilton’s Elixir as a valuable me
i dicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN,
mach or intestines, resolved, without consult
ing any person whatever, to try the doctor’s
remedy.
He accordingly procured a box of the Lo
zenges. Last evening he took four of the
yellow, and this morning he took an equal
number of the brown kind. They did not, as
he says, operate harshly, except one stool,
when there came from him a worm, perfectly
white, about a yard in length, as broad as his
little finger, and having a number of joints,
about an inch or an inch and a quarter distance
from each other.
Besides this worm, he says there came from
him a considerable numbtrof small flat worms,
about three quarters of an inch in length, and
nearly the same in breadth. He did not think
of counting them, but he says there were more
than twenty.
I regret extremely that I had not an oppor
tunity of seeing the tape-worm; the young
man not having, as he ought to have done,
taken measures for preserving it, and the sini
tle servant girl, who attended his chamber,
having, before I had heard of his taking the
medicine, thrown it and the o'her worms into
the necessary, not thinking it of conseciuence
po take care of them. The girl, however, and
another servant, concurs with him respecting
the worms which appeared in the vessel; and
the tape-worm, they say, was alive, so far as
to have motion, after it came from him.
It is needless to describe liis symptoms, as
he says they were exactly such as aie describ
ed by the doctor.
Another young man of my family also with
out any consultation or advice, one evening
, and morning, about three months ago, took
seven lozenges, which operated powerfully.
No worm came from him; but in the course
of two or three days he was quite well; and
has since had a considerable accession of flesh
i and strength.
In short, although I, l : ke many others, have
been incredulous with respect to the virtue of
Hamilton’s Lozenges, I am at length perfect,
ly convinced of their great efficacy and utility.
As I cannot reasonably be supposed to have
any motive, except a consideration for the pub
lic good, in publishing these cases, I flatter
myself that I shall not incur ridicule or censure
from unthinking men, for adding my second
hand testimony to the evidence of the numer
ous respectable characters who have aimed to
render justice to Dr. Hamilton, (with whom
I have not the slightest acquaintance,) and to
give important information to their fellow
creatures.
I think it not amiss to add, that, from the
! healthy appearance of the young man, who j
i has been so greatly and quickly relieved, I 1
i should have ridiculed his symptoms and apprtS- j
hensions, had he communicated them to me j
I before he took the lozenges. The fact, lam !
, persuaded, is that most young persons, who i
j are from time to time disordered without any
.' visable or apparent cause, ate afflicted by
worms.
A. C- HANSON
Annapolis, Sept. 18, 1802
Itch Ointment.
Warranted to cure by once using, and to be
free from Mercury or any pernicious or offensive
ingredient, &.c. may with perfect safety be ap
plied to the youngest infant.
Hahn's true and genuine
German Corn Plaister.
An infallible remedy for Corns, speedily re
moving them root and branch, without gvitig
the least pain
The Genuine Persian Lotion
The Restorative Powder, *
For the Teeth and Gums.
Hahn’s Genuine Eye Water,
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes
Hahn’s Anti-BiHious Pills,
Celebrated for the mildness of their opera
tion, &c. for being the best known remedy for
cleansing the stomach and bowells
Hamilton’s Essence & Extract
of Mustard,
For Rheumatism, Gout, Palsv, Swelling,
Numbness, &c
Tooth Ache Drops,
. The only remedy yet discovered, which gives,
immediate ar.d lasting relief in the most se
vere instances
The Anodyne Elixir,
For the cure oi every kind of licad-a'che
The Damask Lip Salve.
Hamilton’s Grand Restorative,
For debilitated constitutions
The Public are respectfully informed that
the subscriber has brought from
Let's Patent Medicine JVare-house,
SEW-VOBK,
ayresh Supply of the above Genuine Med
icines
Geo: S. Houston.
December 31. 75
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Entertainment.
WE have procured the house in
this place, known by the name
of the EAGLE TAVERN, (formerly
occupied by Mr. Thomas Mounger)
and have furnished it with the articles
necessary for the comfortable accom
modation oi travellers and private boar
ders.
Ihe patronage of such persons as
may be disposed to promote the interest
ot this establishment, w ill be gratefully
received by
Edwin Mourger, C?
Sterling Grimes.
Milledgexnlle , May 1, 1809. 3 m 96
For Sale.
OR EXCHANGE,
A1 RAC 1 of land in Washington
county on the waters of Buckeye
and Ohoopy, lying within twelve miles
of SandersviiJc and three of the Oconee
river, containing seven hundred acres
—the whole tract is remarkably level
and well adapted to the culture of
corn and cotton, and is in the neighbor
hood ot an excellent range for cc.de.—
A gveat bargain will lie given to a pur
chaser for Cash or Negroes, or it will
be sold on a credit of one and two years;
or it will be exchanged for town lots in
this place or for lands lying within twen
ty-five miles.
NICHOLAS WARE.
Augusta, Feb. 18, 1809, 83
GEORGIA, Jackscn County.
At a Court of Ordinary held in and
for said County,
May Term—lßo9. r
; Present , their Iknus James Hen
dricks, Etheldred Wood, and
David Witt, Esquires.
UPON the petition of Matthew Hob
son, stating that Duncan Camb
btll, in his life time, executed liisbond
to make titles to whatever land lie
might draw in the contemplated land
lottery, bearing date the first day of
August, eighteen hundred and six, Jo
John Hobson, who assigned the same
to the said Matthew, and the said Dun
can drew Lot number one hundred and
seventy, in the nineteenth district of
Baldwin county, and departed this life
intestate, without executing titles there
to, and John Hobson became the ad
ministrator upon his estate ; and pray
ing that the said administrator be di
rected to execute tides in conformity
to the law. Whereupon, IT IS OR
DERED, that the said administrator
will be directed to execute said tides,
at the next court of ordinary, to be held
in and for said county on the first Mnn
; day in September next, unless cause be
| shewn to the contrary ; and that this
I rule be advertised in two or more pub
lic places in the said county, and at least
: three months previous to the sitting of
i said court be published in one of the
j public Gazettes of this state.
A true co/nj from the Minute <.
Edward Adams, c. o. o.
May 27. 97
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AN APPRENTICE to the
Printing business, a smart active boy—
one who can read and write, and is from
thirteen to fourteen years of age. Ap
ply at this Office.
June 3.
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