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P O E T R r.
The WINCHESTER CENTINEL.
IINES
On the Dea'h of Mifs Catherine
Kurtz, who was unfortunately
drowned in the Shenandoah river
in May laft.
2Y A LADY OF FREDERICK COUN
TY.
In prime of youth in beauty’s bloom,
The lovely Cahenne found her
doom.
Brom Catherine's fate, ye thought!'efs
maids receive,
A UJTm that will teach you how to
live:
Let it dir eft your minds to feek for
truth,
And give to God the efence of your
youth :
Teach you from pride and vanity to
Jbi
Inftruft you how to live, and how to
die :
‘Gainft vice of all deferiptions learn to
ftnve i
Tcu know not when your fummons
Jhall arr ive :
A few days jince, you flaw the lovely
maid,
In health, and Jlrength , and innocence
arrayed ,
Like you, fbe thought her life had juft
begun,
Nor once Jufpefted that h:r race was
run i
But now , alas ! the awful change
behold,
A lifelefs form, inanimate and cold
What horrors would your gentle bo
fonts jeize,
A fght fo jhocking ‘might a lioic freeze ;
‘Jo fie that form, which veauty lately
grac'd
Bloated and bruiz'd—its features all
defac'd,
And could itJ"peak, ’twould fay t{ be
hold in me”
A true rtfcmblance of what all muft be.
do youth and vanity it loudly cries,
a Learn hence how frail is beauty,
and be wife ;
Ch ! learn from me the vanities of
earth,
And cbertfh joys of pure celeftial birth ;
Be net with earthly cares too much
employ'd,
All that is made on earth mull be de
ftroy'd. >
To prove aft ill more awful truth am /,
A fad example jhewn, that all muft
die.”
With words like thefe, the powers of
vice Jhe checks ;
But to her parents, thus her fpirit
J peaks —
ct Ye tender guardians of my mortal
years,
Forbear your grief and check thofe
ftreaming tears j
Leave every figh , let nature not rebel
Againft that God with whom 1 now
muft dwell.
ft bat though my frail my feeble form
was drown'd,
What is your hfs compar'd with what
Pve found —
I've found a homefecure from mortal
pain,
Where blifs ineffable muft ever re'gn —
My Saviour /natch'd me from a world
of toil,
Where you alas ! muftfojourn yet a
I while ;
” A little longer by its forms be driven,
The come and tafte with me the jys
cf Heaven.”
Look round you with attentive
eye, and weigh characters well, be
fore you conned yourfelf too tlofdy
with any who court your focicry.
JUSTICE,
As it fcas deferibed at Coach-Ma
ker’s Hall, in the year 1786.
His head is the fcttll of a fuperanu
a ted attorney, in which are depoftted
the brains of a goofe . On either fids
there hangs the ears of an dfs, to jhew
his family connexions . His eyes : with
which he looks at virtue, merit, and
fortitude, are thofe of an owl in the
Junfnne, blinking. He has the teeth
of a moufe. that will gna w through a
deal board for a bit of toafted cheefe.
And his tongue, like that of a jack
daw, cannot /peak till fplit with a
piece cf filver. He has the hands of
a monkey, picks up all within his
reach, and hides the booty that’ he
fingers. His bread is the paunch of a
hog, filed with the blood cf the male
faft or, the bread of the indigent, and
the tears of the orphan and widow,
which, like the petrifying wateri of
fome rivers, have hardened his heart
to a J,'tone . He has the back of a bear
filed only for an exhibition, or a cud
gel i and his legs /ball befurnifhed by
an old cow, for the fake of a cloven
foot.
As it would be highly improper fo
let him go naked, we • will cloth’ him :
but not in an Englijh dr efs, for he is a
difgrace to the name. On his head
you. behold the turban of official info •
knee, in which he rivals the great
Mogul. His under garment is the
veil ot ignorance, which he axioufly
wifhes to hide ; over his jloouldtrs
hangs the mantle of tyranny, which
was torn off, and trampled on by Bri
tifh liberty, at the glorious revolution,
and hu feet are flood with the Jandals
of impiety and perjury.
Let us now enquire after his quali
fications for the office, and we Jhall
find him pojfejfed of the compaffion of
the crocodile, who weeps over his prey,
r to in ere aft his fpoils. ‘the demon of
avarice taught him benevolence, and he
carries the bkftings cf the unfortunate
in a nut fell. He has the Jympathy
cf an eft rich who delsrts its young,
and andf pi ays tkefenfbility of a foie --
lie ftudied logic and rhetoric at Bed
lam, learned chaffi'y in a brothel , and
>gathered his piety from the hiftory [A
orders of the Hell Fire Club.
It is necejfary to give him an equi
page fuitabie to his rank, and that
Jhall complete his portrait. His coach
is the car cf oppreffion ; the arms
painted upon it are dfcord and knave
ry embracing each other in the field of
plunder, ‘the horjes that draw him
are fear and flattery ; the footmen that
•follow him are vvamy and contempt .
Belzebub mounts the coach box, and
an old proverb makes him an excellent
motto —He muft needs go whom
’ the devil drives.
. The Human Countenance .
An old author fays of the human
1 face—lt is, as it were the foul ab
breviated, that is, the pattern and
image of th* foul; her efcutcheon
with many quarters, reprefenting the
collection of all her titles of honor,
planted and placed in the gate and
fore front, to the end that men
1 mav know that here is her abode
and palace. It is as the hand of a
dial, which noteth the hours and
movements of time, the wheels and
motions themfeives being hid with
in : to be brief, it is the throne of
beauty and love, the feat of laugh
ter and killing, two things very pro
per and agreeable unto man.
Women— f< In youth,” favs Ba
ean, “ women are our miftrefses, at
a riper age our companions, in old
age our nurfrs, and in ail ages our
friends.”
a wav from the fubfcribers
living in Morgan county, on the
14th of Auguft, inftanc, a negro
fellow by the name of JIM, about
? thirt*.-fi-e yeais of ag“, ana about
five feet ten inches h.gn, thin made
and very bias k complexion.
AI fo, a vUlow wench by the name
of JUDAH, about twenty-eight
years of age, ‘hick made and wears
her hair tied—moil people would
fuppofe her to be free from her co
lour, as fhe is very white for a ILve
—both Virginia born.
Allo, a negro fellow by the name
of GARLAND about 25 years
of age, of a yellow complexion, flout
made, about five feet ten inches, has
a kind of impediment in his Ipeech,
when fpoken to he has a down look,
and has a fear on his left bread oc
cafioned by the whip.
Alio* a neg-o woman by the
name of JUDAH, about twenty
five years of age, tolerable black,
looks very wild out of her eyes, and
very talkative. Theit cloathing
cannot be deferibrd, as they carried
off a quantity.—lt is prefumable
they will aim for Virginia, Or the
Indian nation.
The above reward will be given
for fecuring them in any Jad, or
ten dollars for either of them, de
livered to either . , ~
TACO& CD AM, or
FIELDS KENEDY.
Morgan county, Aguft 15th 1808;
SHERIFFS SALE.
WILL BE SOLD
On the fir ft Tuejday in Oftober next;
ct the Court-Houfe in Jack/on coun
ty, between the ufual hours , the fol
lowing property, to wit:
Two trades of land on the Ap
palache river iri the aforeiaid coun
ty j the one countaining feven
thoufand one hundred and fixty a
cres, bounded by lands granted to
Filhborrie, Cobbs, Evans and o
thers—alfo one other tradl contain
, ing feven thoufand three hundred
acres, bounded by lands granted to
Cobbs, Collier and others—the
faid lands granted to Bafil Jones,
and levied on as his property to fa
tisfy two executions in favor of
’ George Henning and Ignatius Few.
WM. POTTS, Sheriff.
September id, 1808.
SPORTING.
ryi
JL HERE is now a Subfcription
open for a ‘Produce Sweep Stake in
Oglethorpe County, on the Bowl
ling Green Turf, free for any Colt
foaled in this State in eighteen hun
dred and eighr, running the fall af
ter they are three years old, two
mile heats with a ketch of 80 lbs
on each ; entrance two bales of clean
merchantable cotron, weighing three
hundred pounds each 5 half forfeit.
The Subfcription will be kept
open till the twenty-fifth of De
cember next, and no admittance af
ter that time.
Perfons wilhing to enter may do
fo by applying to this Office.
A Jockey Club is about to be
eftablifhed on the fame ground, to
commence this fall and continue
five years.
Auguft 13, 1808.
BACON WANTED.
FEW hundred weight of Ba
con is wanted immediately, for
which a liberal price will be given.
Enquire at this office.
Will be given to any perfon*
who may find a large red M
Pocket-book, which the fuaittioer
loft: between Little river and the*.
Appakchee, on the road leading
from Miiledgeviile to Athens, ft
contained feveral papers, among,
which was a note on Wm. Mitchell
for 250 dollars. The finder will %
receive the above reward by leaving y
it with Doftor Neifier in Athens.
CHATTIN D. CHQWNINGj
Sept. 17.
“WTITP - )
Is now at his own liable in Walh
ington, and will Hand until the 31ft
of Oftober next, and thofe that put
marcs to him in the Spring fealon,
that failed toftand, are at liberty to j
continue them, gratis. If any mares
Ihould be left with the horie, I
will feed them as directed, at a mo
derate price.
EDWARD JORDAN.
Waftington, July 16tb, 1808.
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ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
On the fecond Saturday in Oftober next,
at the plantation whereon JeJJe
Moon, late of Jackfon county , de
ceafed,. lived,
WILL BE SOLD
All the perfonal efta'e of laid
decealed, confiding of horfes, cat
tle, hogs, flieep, houlehold and
kitchen furniture, together with the j
plantation tools.—Twelve months
credit will be given, by the pur-
Chafer giving bond with approved
fecurity for all fums over three
dollars.
BOLAR MOON, AdmV,
Auguft 17, 1808.
WILL BE SOLD—or
i RENTED,
THAT valuable and well known |
[ tra£l of land lying in Clark county *
, on the middle fork of the Oconee i
5 river, including the mouth of Bear
creek and the long fhoal on faid
. fiver, feven miles above Athens, -
f well watered and a healthy fituation,
containing 945 acres, a great part
of which is of firfi and fecond qual
ity, about two hundred acres under
cultivation, in good repair, orchards j
’ and good buildings alfo, a valuable j
faw-mill, two grift-mills, a cotton
machine, a large diflillery and tan- tj
1 yard on faid river. Any perfon
1 wifhing to purchafe may get a great <
‘ bargain. Likely negroes will be
c taken in part payment —the terms
’ will be made known by applying to
R. S. EASLEY.
J Auguft 30.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
FOR SALE
The trafb of land on Sandy creek
in Jackfon county, whereon Mat
thew Knight formerly lived. A
good plantation is opened upon the
premifes, on which Vs a large Peach
orchard, and the place is tolerably
well improved with buildings—it is
a molt excellent Hand for a country )
ftort. The terms of fale are good.
Apply to James D. Cole, near A- I
thens, or co Thomas W. Cobb in ’
Lexington.
September 22, 180&.
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SHERIFF'S BLANK TITLES
FOR SALE
AT THIS OFFICE.