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Vroni the A. i. Daily Advertiser .
THE SAILOR BOY.*
Dark flew the feud along the wave
And echoing thunder rend theJky ■,
All hands aloft, to meet the form*
At midnight veas the boAtj wain's
cry .
On deck flew every gallant tar*
But one—bereft of ev'ry joy ;
// ‘itbin a hammock narrow hound ,
Lay flretchcd this helpkfs Sailor
Boy.
Once when the Boatswain pip'd
all hands ,
The firfl was he of all the crew,
On deck to fpnng , to trim the fail,
To fleer , to reej\ to furl or clue.
Now fell difeefe hadfeiz'da form
Which nature cajl in finefl mould ;
The mid-watch bell now jmots his
heart,
his la fly his dying kneel it toll'd.
€( 0 God !” he cried > and gaff and
for breath
° Ere yet my foul Jball cleave the
JkieSy
“ Are there no Parents—Brethren
near,
4t To cloje in death , my weary eyes.
t( All hands aloft to have the
florin*
<% I hear the wint'ry tempest roar ;
Heraifd his head to view the feene,
And backward fell to rife no more.
The morning fun in fpJenchr rose,
The gale was huflo'd , and fill'd
the wave -,
The Sea-Boy, far from all his
friends,
IVas piling'dinto a wat'ry grav-e.
But he who guards the Sea-Boy's
head ,
He who can five or can deflroy ,
Snatch'd up to Heav'n the purest
foul >
That e'er adorned a Sailor Boy<
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Prom the (Richmond j Minerva .
Mr. Grantland,
The following whimsical letter
caught my attention, on look
ing over feme old publicati
ons the other day j if you
think it dejerves a corner in
your next • Minerva,’ you
will please give it one, and
oblige.
MERVILLE.
Dear Sir,
I am married to a lady of a
very nice and delicate disposi
tion, who is cried up by all the
good women of her acquain
tance, for being the neatest body
in her house they ever knew. •
It mult be confefled, that a
due regard to neatnels and clean
iinefs is as neceflary to be ob
it- rved in our habitations, as our
.-i lbns j yet I do not like to
nave my haufe rendered uleiefs
to me under the pretence of
keeping it clean. For my own
part, I cannot fee the difference
between having an lioufe that is
always dirtv, and a hoiffe that is
always to be cleaned. I would
very willingly compound to be
walked out of my home once in
the week ; but my wife is so
very notable, that the lame clean
ling work mull be repeated eve
ry anda 7 in die week. All the
morning long I am lure to be
entertained with the domestic
concert of scrubbing the floors.,
kuiiring the iVons, *ind beating
the carpet** m.d lain Conftatu
ly hunted from room to room,
whilll one is to be defied, ano
ther dry-rubbed, another walk
ed and another run over with a
dry mop. Thus, indeed, I may
be said to live in continual dir
tmefs that my house may be
clean ; for, during these nice
operations, every apartment Is
(termed with soap, brick duff,
land, ferubbing bruffies, hair
brooms, rag mops and difh
clouts.
You may suppose, that the
greatest care is taken to prevent
the leaf! (peck ofdirt from hol
ing the floor. For this reason
all that come to our house (be
side the ceremony of feraping at
the door) are obliged m rub
their (hoes for half an hour on a
large ragged mat at the entrance:
and then they muff straddle their
way along several less mats,
ranging at due distances from
each other in the passage, and
(like boys at play) come into
the room with an hop, step and
a jump. The like caution Is
uled by all the family. I my
lelf is Icarcely allowed to stir a
step without flippers; my wife
creeps on tiptoe up and down
flairs i the maid lervants are
continually slumping below’ ?n
clogs or pattens; and the foot
man is obliged to sneak about
the house barefooted, as if he
came with a fly deflgn to ileal
something.
, This extraordinary solicitude
in my wife for the cleanliness
of her rooms, and the care and
j preservation of her furniture,
makes my house entirely useless,
j and takes away all thateafe and
j familiarity, which is the chief
comfort of one’s home. I mull
drink out of an earthen mug,
though a great quantify of plate
u constantly displayed on the
fide-board, whilll all the furni
ture, except when we have
company, is clone up in paper,
as if the family, to whom it be
longs, where gone into the
country. In a word, fir, every
thing that is decent and cleanly
is too good to be used, for fear
it ffiould be dirtied ; and I live
with every convenience, at hand,
without the hope of enjoying
one of them. 1 have elegant
apartments, but am almost afraid
to enter them; I have plate,
. china, and the moft genteel fur
| mture, but muff not life them ;
i which is as ridiculous an ab
surdity, end almost as great an
hardfiffp, as if I had hands with
out the power of moving them ;
the organs of fight, smell, taffe,
without being inhered to exert
them * and ieet without being
permitted to walk. Thus fir,
this extravagant paflion for
cleanliness, keeps the family in
a continual ffate of muck and
dirti and whilll we are surround
ed with all necelTaries, fubjecls
us to every inconvenience. But
what nukes it Hill a greater
grievance is, that it has been the
ridiculous canfe of many other
misfortunes. I have fornetiines
created her anger by littering
the room with throwing my
garters on a chair, or hanging
my peruke on one of the gilt
sconces. Having once fpilt a
bottle of ink on one of the befl
carpets, (he was irreconcilable
. for a month * and I had scarce
brought her to temper again',
j when I molt unfortunately run
againff the footman* who was
entering with the dinner, and
threw down a leg of pork and
peafe-pudding on the parlour
floor. This superabundant neat
ness did also very nearly occa*
fion my death : for whilst I lay
ill of a fever, my delicate wife,
tl inking it would refrefh me,
ordered my bed-chamber to be
mopped i and the fame ferupu
lous nicety was also the means
of our luting a very considerable
addition to our fortune.
A rich old uncle, on whom
we had great dependence, came
to town lass summer on purpose
to pay us a vilic -, but, though
he had rode above fifty miles
that clay, he was obliged to Hand
in the passage till his boots were
pulled off', for fear of foiling the
Turkey carpet. After supper
the old gentleman, as was his
conflant pra&ice, desired to have
his pipe i but this, to be sure
could by no means be allowed,
as the filthy ftenck cf the tobac
co, would never be gotten out
of the furniture again : and it
was with much ado that my wife
would fuller him to go and
fmokein the kitchen. We had
no room to lodge him in, except
a garret with bare walls; be
cause the Chintz bed-chamber
was, indeed too nice for a dirty
country squire. These flights
very much chagrined my good
uncle; but he had not been
‘with us above a day or two, be
fore mv wife and he came to an
c -quarrel on the following
cu .and m. It happened that he
had biought a favorite pointer
vvdh him, who at his firfl: com
ing, was immediately locked up
in the cole-holc : but the dog
having found means to escape,
had crept slyly up flairs, and
had very calmly flretched him
felf out upon a crimson damask
lofa. My wife not only senten
ced him to the discipline of the
whip, but infilled upon having
the criminal hanged up after
wards when the mailer inter
posing in his behalf, it produced
such high words between them,
that my uncle ordered his horse,
andfwore he would never dar
ken our doors again, as long as
he breathed. lie went home,
and about two months after died:
but he could not forgive the
ill treatment which both he and
his dog had met with at our
house, he had altered his wiil,
which before he had made en
tirely in our favor. ‘
I am Sir,
Your humble Servant,
peter plainall.
Frew the Petersburg Intelligencer.
Mr. Dickson,
The following letter is from
a man of talents now resident at
New-Orleans, and one who re
ceived from the hand of Rush,
no small portion of the cup of
science, as a phyffeian. Should
you think the happineffs and lives
of men, (Particularly the town
people) worthy your observati
on, no doubt you will give the
letter a place in ypur paper—it
may draw ufeful observations,
and render through the medium
of vour paper, the means of
laving perhaps thousands from
an untimely grave.
’ A CONSTANT READER.
Virg nib, Oft. 15, 1805.
leans, fan. 7, 186 c
Sir,
Since my arrival at this place,
I am induced ro differ with our
old friend Dr. Rush, in
on thefubjeff of the use of To
bacco, which I am sure will sur
prise you, after hearing me fa
frequently uie the muff persua
sive argument againff: it, as in
jurious to the constitution—my
opinion I very generally sup
ported by an appeal to the opi
nion and writings of that greac
man. But lead you should iup
pofe my opinion taken up on
(lender grounds, T will mention
to you the cause and foundation
of the reasons that operate con
viction on my mind.
Lass summer and fall, we had
in this place the moft alarming
disorders, which proved fatal to
numbers—but more particular
ly new comers. I was feme
what aftoniihed to find, that
there was feme that appeared
exempted from the general ca
lamity, and amongst these, I
found numbers who were new
comers; upon examination, I
found they were thole who
seemed to be in the habit of
tiling tobacco, particularly thole
who used rappee fnufF, and
chewed tobacco. Allow me to
fay to you, I never once sow a
phyffeian called to a perfoa who
used both. There was a kind,
refpeftable family, to whom I
made the cbfervation; who had
loft several of their dear fiends
and looked every day when ti e
grim meffonger lhouid approach
their happy walls—who imme
diately entered on the use ‘'/to
bacco, by taken the rappee
fluff the firff thing in the morn
ing, and taken Bor ten pinches
in a day, with a moderate life as
above, and happy am I to as
sure you, not one had even a
fympeorn of that dreadful pre
vailing sickness. I rnyfelf fol
lowed it up, and I find, when
uied in moderation, of great
ftrvice to me, and gives me a
ffrong belief of its medicinal
effects and I believe, if people
who are confined to the towns,
would make a moderate” use of
it, they would dilcover the ef
fects laiutary, and worthy their
attention. But an immoderate
use may have a different effedl.
My dear friend, an immoderate
use cf the pceeft wine, muff in
jure us in time j and no doubt’
from Immoderate use of tobac
co, however salutary it may be
in moderate use, wmuld injure
any conftiturion. And, as peo
ple are apt to use tobacco im
moderately, may we not conjec
ture that, that great man, full of
cbfervation, fawit, and, there
fore, was for giving it up alto
gether—particularly as the im
moderate use seems to light on
the moft ufeful, the greac stu
dent, accustomed to trim his
midnight lamp, and hang over
the sickly taper. For the pre
sent enough on this lubjecl, un
til farthercbfervation, when you
(hall hear from me. I know
your objection to the use of to
bacco, but may J. hope you v’ilj,
look into the matter by observa
tion r
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