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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary
+Curiosities, by Henry M. Brooks
+
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+Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities
+ Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
+
+Author: Henry M. Brooks
+
+Release Date: June 26, 2006 [EBook #18696]
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+
+During the Spring of 1886 TICKNOR AND COMPANY began the publication of
+"YE OLDEN TIME SERIES, OR GLEANINGS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS, CHIEFLY OF
+BOSTON AND SALEM," with brief Comments by HENRY M. BROOKS, of Salem,
+Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth.
+Price, 50 cents per vol.
+
+Of this Series there are now ready:--
+
+ =Vol. I. CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.=
+ =Vol. II. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.=
+ =Vol. III. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.=
+ =Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.=
+ =Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.=
+ =Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.=
+
+The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles
+of forthcoming volumes:--
+
+="New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the Beginning
+of the 19th Century."=
+
+="Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."=
+
+="Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."=
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only as
+offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certain
+value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for
+the general reader."--_Boston Advertiser._
+
+"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be
+history, they will contain much material for history."--_Literary
+World._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+_Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the
+Publishers,_
+
+TICKNOR AND COMPANY, BOSTON.
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+
+THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
+
+ * * * * *
+
+LITERARY CURIOSITIES
+
+_Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE.
+
+_The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year
+than most scholars do in their great libraries._--F.B. SANBORN.
+
+_No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
+first._--CARLYLE.
+
+
+
+
+THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
+
+GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
+
+SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
+
+BY
+
+HENRY M. BROOKS
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Literary Curiosities
+
+
+"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread
+that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity,
+and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON
+
+
+[Illustration: T AND CO]
+
+BOSTON
+
+TICKNOR AND COMPANY
+
+1886
+
+
+
+
+_Copyright, 1886,_
+
+BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+_All rights reserved._
+
+
+=University Press:=
+
+JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.
+
+
+
+
+ INDEX OF NAMES.
+
+
+ PAGE
+ ADAMS, JOHN 82, 107
+ Adams, Rev. Mr. 8
+ Adams, Sally 8
+ Aiken, Rev. Mr. 125
+ Aldrich, Mrs. 105
+ Andre, Major 111
+ Arnold, Benedict 32, 33
+ Averell, Joseph 7
+
+ BARNARD, EDWARD 19
+ Barnard, Rev. Thomas 19
+ Barnard, Thomas, D.D. 19
+ Bayley, Matthew 105
+ Belcher, Governor 6
+ Belcher, Miss 5
+ Binney, Spencer 8
+ Birbeck, Morris 42
+ Blunt, John 39
+ Blunt, Mary Ann 39
+ Bons, Francis 103
+ Bowen, Henry 9
+ Bowes, John 102
+ Bradstreet, Anne 69
+ Breed, James 7
+ Brent, Eleanor 65
+ Brent, Robt. 65
+ Briggs, Enos 118
+ Brodie, Charlotte B. 9
+ Brookley, John 103
+ Bulkeley, Peter 68
+ Bullard, Polly 7
+ Bulow 111
+ Burt, Emily 8
+ Burton, Francis 12
+ Button, John 104
+
+ CABOT, J. 30
+ Cameron, Mary 104
+ Cass, Lewis 46
+ Cass, Miss 47
+ Casteguedo, F.L. 102
+ Checkley, Samuel 6
+ Checkley, William 6
+ Cheever, Master 125
+ Clough, Sally 11
+ Clough, Samuel 17
+ Cobbett, William 123
+ Columbus, Christopher 16
+ Consist, Francis 103
+ Cook, Nancy 12
+ Cotton, Charles 82
+ Cranston, Polly 6
+ Cromwell, Oliver 70
+ Currier, Samuel 11
+ Cushing, T.C. 62
+
+ DALAND, JACK 13
+ Davis, Benjamin 4
+ De Cugna, Numas 101
+ De la Roche Sur Yon 115
+ De Lametter, Christina 105
+ Derby, E.H. 117, 118
+ Desmond, Countess 102
+ Dexter, Lord Timothy 13, 14, 15, 16
+ Dodge, John 96
+ Douglass, Dr. 57, 58
+ Drakenberg, C.J. 103
+ Drinker, Edward 105
+ Dryden, John 72
+ Dumaresq, Phillip 5
+ Dunham, John M. 8
+
+ ECLESTON, MR. 102
+ Edwards, Pierpont 93
+ Ellis, Miss 103
+ Ellis, Mr. 103
+ Erskine, William 48
+ Erving, John 6
+ Erving, Nancy 6
+
+ FEARON, HENRY B. 107
+ Follart, John 104
+ Forbes, Mr. 48
+ Forster, Margaret 103
+ Foster, John 51, 52
+ Fox, C.J. 113
+ Franklin, Benjamin 116
+ French, Josiah 11
+ French, Moses 11
+ Froome, Mr. 103
+
+ GARDINER, REBECCA 5
+ Gardiner, Sylvester 5
+ Gibbon, Edward 96, 97, 98
+ Goldsmith, Oliver 32
+ Gore, Mary 103
+ Grant, Abigail 7
+ Grant, Alexander 7
+ Green, B., & Allen, J. 17
+ Green, S. 20
+ Green, Samuel, jun. 52, 53
+ Greenleaf, Anstess 4
+ Greenleaf, Stephen 5
+ Guthrie, Mr. 110
+
+ HALL, BASIL, R.N. 54
+ Hanson, Elizabeth 95
+ Hanson, John 95
+ Hanson, Rev. Mr. 93, 94
+ Harper, Miss 47
+ Harris, Benjamin 20
+ Hart, Rev. Mr. 10
+ Haven, Rev. Dr. 39
+ Herrenden, Elisha 11
+ Hill, Elisha 9
+ Hill, Jane 9
+ Hogg, Catharine 8
+ Holyoke, E.A., M.D. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
+ Hubbard, Rev. William 51
+ Huntington, Rev. Mr. 7
+
+ ISAIAH (VII. 20) 126
+
+ JACKMAN, BETSEY 11
+ Jackson, Daniel 10
+ Jackson, Edward 5
+ Jackson, Mary 5
+ Jackson, Rebecca 10
+ Jay, John 82
+ Jefferson, Thomas 112
+ Jenkins, Henry 102
+ Jennison, Dr. J. 5
+ Johnson, Dr. Samuel 49, 50
+ Jones, John Coffin 6
+ Jones, Polly 8
+ Jones, Thomas 8
+ Josselyn, John 57
+
+ KEIMER, MR. 116
+ Keyser, Miss 46
+ King Charles I. 83, 84
+ King Charles II. 32
+ King George IV. 112
+ King Henry VII. 81, 82
+ King James II. 20, 23, 32
+ King William III. 53
+
+ LAINCOURT 111
+ Lamson, Eunice 7
+ Lawrence, Mr. 102
+ Lawrence, Schuyler 10
+ Lemon, Eliza Peel 12
+ Loring, Caleb 7
+ Lovell, Master 126
+ Lushure, Elenor 11
+ Lyell, Sir Charles 55
+
+ MAFEUS 101
+ Maiden Aunt, The 4
+ Mansfield, Lord 49
+ McDonald, Mary 103
+ McIntire, Elizabeth 89
+ McIntire, Samuel 88, 89
+ McIntire, Samuel F. 89
+ McKeen, Donald 104
+ McLane, Miss 47
+ Millot 98
+ Milton, John 38
+ Minns, Chloe 10
+ Mirabeau 120
+ Montgomery, Robert 102
+ Moore, Larkin 12
+ Moore, Thomas 124
+ Morse, Rev. Jedediah 68, 110
+ Murray, W. 51
+
+ NELSON, MR. 106
+ Nicholas, J.H. 44
+ Noah, M.M. 10
+
+ OGLETHORPE, GEN. 103
+ Oliphant, Rev. Mr. 12
+ Osgood, Aaron 38
+ Otway, John 72
+ Oulton, Mrs. 29
+
+ PAINE, THOMAS 96
+ Parker, Elizabeth 7
+ Parnell, Paul 11
+ Parre, Thomas 102
+ Payne, Mr. 105
+ Pearson, Joseph 64
+ Pickman, Benjamin 30
+ Pittengill, Abigail 5
+ Plum, Lewis 12
+ Pork, Robert 8
+
+ QUEEN ANNE 16
+
+ RANDOLPH, EDWARD 20
+ Reeder, John 68
+ Richards, Giles 8
+ Richter, J.P.F. 83
+ Rimbault, E.F. 32
+ Robinson, Miss 8
+ Rose, Aquila 16
+ Rousby, Matthew 10
+ Rowe, Mr. 104
+ Russell, Benjamin 97
+ Russell, E. 94
+
+ SACK, SIMON 103
+ Sagar, F. 102
+ Scaredevil, Mary 117
+ Scott, Sir Walter 47, 48
+ Selsbry, Polly 7
+ Sewall, Samuel 51, 52
+ Seymore, Bridget 5
+ Silsbee, Miss 46
+ Silsbee, Nathaniel 46
+ Simes, Mark 39
+ Slock, Mrs. 105
+ Smallpeace, Robert 122, 123
+ Smith, Major 9
+ Smith, Mr. 104
+ Smith, Samuel 5
+ Spalding, Hezekiah 5
+ Sparks, Jared 46
+ Sprague, Charles 44
+ Stewart, Duncan 6
+ Stiles, Rev. Dr. 113
+ Stillman, Rev. Dr. 7
+ Swift, Jonathan 71, 72
+ Symonds, John 119
+
+ TARRING, WILLIAM 12
+ Taylor, Ann 10
+ Thatcher, B.B. 125
+ Torrey, Rev. Mr. 52
+ Trollope, Mrs. 56
+ Tuck, Rev. Mr. 53
+ Tully, John 20
+ Turner, John 30
+ Turner, Rev. R. 109
+
+ UPHAM, REV. C.W. 12
+
+ WAGNER, ELIZABETH 12
+ Walker, Thomas 90
+ Walter, John 7
+ Wardwell, Ester 38
+ Wharton, Eliza 89, 94
+ Watkins, Dr. 82
+ Webster, Noah 88
+ Welby, Adlard 40, 41, 42, 43
+ Weld, Mr. 111
+ Wendell, Oliver 5
+ West, Benjamin 95
+ Whipple, Plato 13
+ Whitman, Elizabeth 91, 93
+ Whitney, John 5
+ Willard, Joseph 98
+ Williams, Judith 6
+ Williams, Mary 5
+ Willis, N.P. 44, 45
+ Winsloe, Thomas 103
+ Woodwrod, Ebenezer 8
+
+ YATES, MARY 103
+ Young, William 6
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
+
+
+THE following humorous lines well describe the difficulty that editors
+find in pleasing the public. They are expected to know everything, and
+to be able to satisfy all tastes and capacities. No imperfections can be
+excused in conductors of newspapers; they are not even allowed to be
+unfortunate.
+
+
+ THE EDITOR.
+
+ That editor who wills to please,
+ Must humbly crawl upon his knees,
+ And kiss the hand that beats him;
+ Or, if he dare attempt to walk,
+ Must toe the mark that others chalk,
+ And cringe to all that meet him.
+
+ Says one, Your subjects are too grave,
+ Too much morality you have,--
+ Too much about religion;
+ Give me some witch and wizard tales
+ Of slip-shod ghosts with fins and scales,
+ Of feathers like a pigeon.
+
+ I love to read, another cries,
+ Those monstrous, fashionable lies,--
+ In other words, those novels,
+ Composed of kings and queens and lords,
+ Of border wars, and gothic hordes
+ That used to live in hovels.
+
+ No, no, cries one, we've had enough
+ Of such confounded love-sick stuff,
+ To craze the fair creation;
+ Give us some recent foreign news
+ Of Russians, Turks, the Greeks, or Jews,
+ Or any other nation.
+
+ The man of dull scholastic lore
+ Would like to see a little more
+ In scraps of Greek or Latin;
+ The merchants rather have the price
+ Of southern indigo and rice,
+ Of India silks, or satin.
+
+ Another cries, I want more fun,
+ A witty anecdote or pun,
+ A rebus or a riddle;
+ Some long for missionary news,
+ And some, of worldly, carnal views,
+ Would rather hear a fiddle.
+
+ The critic, too, of classic skill,
+ Must dip in gall his gander quill,
+ And scrall against the paper:
+ Of all the literary fools
+ Bred in our colleges and schools,
+ He cuts the greatest caper.
+
+ Another cries, I want to see
+ A jumbled-up variety,
+ Variety in all things,--
+ A miscellaneous, hodge-pod print,
+ Composed (I only give the hint)
+ Of multifarious small things.
+
+ I want some marriage news, says miss:
+ It constitutes my highest bliss
+ To hear of weddings plenty;
+ For in a time of general rain
+ None suffer from a drought, 'tis plain,--
+ At least, not one in twenty.
+
+ I want to hear of deaths, says one,
+ Of people totally undone
+ By losses, fire, or fever:
+ Another answers full as wise,
+ I'd rather have a fall and rise
+ Of raccoon skins and beaver.
+
+ Some signify a secret wish
+ For now and then a favorite dish
+ Of politics to suit them.
+ But here we rest at perfect ease,
+ For should they swear the moon was cheese,
+ We never should dispute them.
+
+ Or grave or humorous, wild or tame,
+ Lofty or low, 'tis all the same,
+ Too haughty or too humble;
+ And every editorial wight
+ Has nought to do but what is right,
+ And let the grumblers grumble.
+
+ From a Salem paper of 1828; author not stated.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "All are needed by each one,
+ Nothing is fair and good alone."
+ EMERSON.
+
+In "old times" almost all the young ladies upon their marriage were
+"amiable" and "agreeable"; at least they are so represented in most of
+the announcements. The "maiden aunt" could not speak plainer in writing
+for the "Boston Sunday Gazette." We copy some specimens from Boston and
+Salem papers.
+
+ On Thursday last, in the Forenoon, was married Mr. BENJAMIN
+ DAVIS of this Town, Merchant, to Mrs. ANSTESS GREENLEAF,
+ second Daughter of STEPHEN GREENLEAF Esq; High Sheriff of
+ the County of Suffolk.
+
+ The same Evening Mr. OLIVER WENDELL, of this Town, Merchant,
+ was also Married to Mrs. MARY JACKSON, only Daughter of the
+ late Mr. EDWARD JACKSON; both young Ladies of great Merit.
+
+ Sept. 13, 1762.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ On Thursday Evening last Mr. _Phillip Dumaresq_, Merchant,
+ was Married to Mrs. _Rebecca Gardiner_, third Daughter of
+ _Sylvester Gardiner_, Esq; of this Town, an agreeable young
+ Lady.
+
+ Dec. 19, 1763.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, to Mrs. ABIGAIL PITTENGILL, an
+ agreeable young widow.
+
+ Dec. 22, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Thursday evening last, JOHN WHITNEY, Esq. merchant, of the
+ state of Georgia, to the amiable Mrs. BRIDGET SEYMORE, of
+ Wesport.
+
+ June 2, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --At Plainfield, Mr. Hezekiah Spalding, a batchelor of large
+ fortune, aged 68, to the amiable Miss Mary Williams, aged
+ 22!
+
+ 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--At Cambridge, Dr. J. JENNISON, to the amiable Miss
+ BELCHER, daughter of his late Excellency Governour
+ _Belcher_, of Nova Scotia, and grand daughter of his
+ Excellency _Jonathan Belcher_, Esq. deceased, formerly
+ Governour of the then provinces of Massachusetts Bay and
+ New-Hampshire.
+
+ Aug. 31, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --At Newbury-Port, Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG, of Boston, to the
+ amiable Miss JUDITH WILLIAMS, of that town.
+
+ June 7, 1788.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEWPORT, Nov. 24.
+
+ The 16th Instant, Mr. WILLIAM CHECKLEY, Son of the Rev. Mr.
+ SAMUEL CHECKLEY of Boston, was married to Miss POLLY
+ CRANSTON, a young Lady of genteel Acquirements, and of a
+ most amiable Disposition.
+
+ Dec. 19, 1766.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ BOSTON, January 12 [1767].
+
+ Last Thursday Evening DUNCAN STEWART, Esq; Collector of His
+ Majesty's Customs for the Port of New-London, was married to
+ Miss NANCY ERVING, youngest Daughter of the Hon. JOHN
+ ERVING, Esq; of this Town; a most amiable and agreeable
+ young Lady.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Thursday last was married, at Newport, JOHN COFFIN JONES,
+ Esq. of Boston, merchant, to the truly amiable and
+ accomplished Miss ABIGAIL GRANT, daughter of the late
+ ALEXANDER GRANT, Esq. a Lady of real merit, and highly
+ qualified to render the connubial state desirable and
+ supremely happy.
+
+ May 22, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --By the Rev. Dr. STILLMAN, Mr. CALEB LORING, distiller, to
+ the agreeable Miss POLLY SELSBRY.
+
+ May 25, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--At _Billerica_, Mr. JAMES BREED, to the amiable
+ Miss ELIZABETH PARKER.--At _Newtown_, Mr. JOHN WALTER, A.B.,
+ to the agreeable Miss POLLY BULLARD.
+
+ March 24, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Married,
+
+ At Topsfield, by the Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. JOSEPH
+ AVERELL, to the accomplished Miss EUNICE LAMSON.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1801.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Editors were formerly very fond of curious matter for their lists of
+marriages and deaths. In the "Massachusetts Centinel" for 1789 the
+marriage of Pork and Hogg has a doubtful look, although it used to be
+supposed that everything in the paper was true.
+
+ MARRIED]--Lately in Delaware, Mr. ROBERT PORK, merchant, to
+ Miss CATHARINE HOGG.--At Pepperell, Mr. GILES RICHARDS, of
+ this town, to the amiable Miss SALLY ADAMS, youngest
+ daughter of the late Rev. Mr. ADAMS, of Roxbury.--At Hull,
+ Mr. SPENCER BINNEY, to Miss POLLY JONES, daughter of Mr.
+ THOMAS JONES, of that place.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A Boston paper of 1795 prints the following:--
+
+ _MARRIAGES._
+
+ At Concord, Ebenezer Woodwrod, A.B., Citizen Bachelor, of
+ Hanover, N.H., to the amiable Miss ---- Robinson. At
+ Longmeadow, Mr. John M. Dunham, Citizen Bachelor and
+ Printer, as aforesaid, to the amiable Miss EMILY BURT.
+
+ The promptness and decision which the said Citizens have
+ shown----
+
+ "In all the fond intrigues of Love,"
+
+ is highly worthy of imitation; and the success that has so
+ richly crowned their courage and enterprize, must be an
+ invincible inducement to the fading phalanx of our remaining
+ Bachelors, to make a vigorous attack on some fortress of
+ female beauty, with a determined resolution,
+
+ ----"Ne'er to quit the glorious strife,"
+ 'Till, drest in all her charms, some blooming fair
+ Herself shall yield, the prize of conquering love!
+
+
+In the "Salem Mercury," June 17, 1788, we find the following
+announcement, which reminds us of "Solomon Grundy, who died on Monday."
+
+ DIED--At Rehoboth, Mr. HENRY BOWEN. He went to a wedding,
+ well, on Thursday, taken sick on Friday, died on Saturday,
+ buried on Sunday.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"Virtuous and amiable" were terms used frequently in the lists of
+deaths.
+
+ --At Portsmouth, Mrs. Jane Hill, the virtuous and amiable
+ Consort of Mr. Elisha Hill. [1790]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following is a list of marriages and deaths at various dates, taken
+from Boston and Salem papers:--
+
+ "Salem Gazette," July 19, 1811.
+
+ ......_MARRIAGES_......
+
+ In Williamsborough (N.C.), Major SMITH, of Prince Edwards
+ (Va.), to Miss CHARLOTTE B. BRODIE.--This match, consummated
+ only a few days since, was agreed upon thirty-one years ago
+ at Camden (S.C.), when he was captured at the battle of
+ Camden; and being separated by the war, &c., each had
+ supposed the other dead, until a few months since, when they
+ accidentally met, and neither plead any statute of
+ limitation in bar of the old bargain.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Mercury," Oct. 21, 1788.
+
+ MARRIED--In England, Mr. Matthew Rousby, aged 21, to Mrs.
+ Ann Taylor, aged 89. The lady's grandson was at this equal
+ union, and was 5 years older than his grandfather.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1817.
+
+ MARRIED,
+
+ In this town, Mr. Schuyler Lawrence, to Mrs. Chloe Minns,
+ Mistress of the African School in Salem, and who has
+ deserved well of the town and of the African race.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Register."
+
+ _MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1827._
+
+ MARRIED
+
+ At New-York, by Rev. Mr. Hart, M.M. NOAH, senior editor of
+ the Enquirer, to Miss Rebecca, only daughter of Mr. Daniel
+ Jackson, of that city. The junior editor of the Enquirer was
+ on the same day killed in a duel. An old Bachelor at our
+ elbow thinks the fate of the surviving editor most deserving
+ of commiseration!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1811.
+
+ ......DEATHS......
+
+ A short time ago, at the romantic village of
+ Laughton-en-le-Morthen, in Yorkshire, England, Farmer PAUL
+ PARNELL, late of the Ewes Farm House, age 76 years, who
+ during his life, drank out of one silver pint cup with two
+ handles, upwards of 2000l. sterling worth of nut-brown
+ Yorkshire stingo (good old ale), being much attached to
+ stingo tipple, of the best double stout, home-brewed
+ quality. N.B. This calculation took at 2_d._ each cupfull.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Essex Register," Feb. 5, 1824.
+
+ _MARRIAGES._
+
+ In Solon, by Rev. Moses French, Josiah French, Esq., aged
+ 48, to Miss Betsey Jackman, aged 40, being his _fifth wife._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," Oct. 17, 1825.
+
+ At Rochester, N.Y., Capt. Samuel Currier to Miss Sally
+ Clough--_his sixth wife_!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Independent Chronicle," Nov. 23, 1797.
+
+ At Gloucester (R.I.), Mr. ELISHA HERRENDEN, AEt. 83, to Mrs.
+ ELENOR LUSHURE, AEt. 88, being his _eighth_ wife!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1829.
+
+ By Rev Mr Upham, Mr Lewis Plum, of Newark, N.J., to Miss
+ Eliza P. Lemon, of this town.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Essex Register," Dec., 1820.
+
+ At Beverly, on Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr.
+ Oliphant, Mr. Larkin Moore, travelling preacher, physician,
+ poet, trader, &c., to Mrs. Nancy Cook.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1790.
+
+ _Died_]--At Horseley, in Derbyshire, England, a venerable
+ matron, named _Frances Burton_, aged 107. She had practised
+ midwifery upwards of 80 years. The husband of the above old
+ lady was sexton of the parish church 70 years; and this
+ ancient pair frequently boasted, that she had _brought into
+ the world_, and he had _buried_, the parish twice over!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ 1807.
+
+ ......_DIED_......
+
+ Near Gloucester, Virg., _Elizabeth Wagner_, aged 107. She
+ never took medicine of any kind in her life.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ From "Salem Gazette," 1811. Appropriate name for a
+ rope-maker.
+
+ Mr. WILLIAM TARRING, rope-maker, 38.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Massachusetts Mercury," Dec. 27, 1799.
+
+ Died,
+
+ At _Hamilton, Essex_ County, PLATO WHIPPLE, aged 103, one of
+ God's images in ebony.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1811.
+
+ Mr. JACK DALAND, a very worthy black man, aged 65. He was
+ brought from Africa to the West Indies at about 11 years of
+ age; but instead of being _eaten_, as he expected, by the
+ white men, he was transferred by purchase to a happy asylum
+ in this place, where he has spent upwards of 50 years of his
+ life, respected by the whole town, as a faithful,
+ industrious, pleasant-tempered, intelligent man. His honest
+ industry was rewarded by the acquisition of a comfortable
+ property, which he has left for the enjoyment of his family.
+ The long train of white people who followed his remains to
+ the grave, testify to the esteem in which he was held.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following is a notice of a "distinguished merchant" and "literary"
+character of Newburyport, Mass. In the appendix to "Lord" Dexter's great
+production--where all the stops are placed together on the last page,
+so that "people can salt and pepper as they please"--we find these
+lines:
+
+ "All men inquire, but few can tell
+ How thou in Science doth excel!"
+
+ TIMOTHY DEXTER. The subject of the present sketch, according
+ to his own account, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. "I
+ was born," says he (in his celebrated work, "A Pickle for
+ the knowing ones"), "1747, Jan. 22; on this day in the
+ morning, a great snow storm in the signs of the seventh
+ house; whilst Mars came forward Jupiter stood by to hold the
+ candle. I was to be a great man."
+
+ Lord Dexter, after having served an apprenticeship to a
+ Leather dresser, commenced business in Newburyport, where he
+ married a widow who owned a house and a small piece of land,
+ part of which, soon after the nuptials, were converted into
+ a shop and tanyard.
+
+ By application to his business his property increased, and
+ the purchase of a large tract of land near Penobscot,
+ together with an interest which he bought in the Ohio
+ Company's purchase, afforded him so much profit, as to
+ induce him to buy up Publick Securities at forty cents on
+ the pound, which securities soon after became worth twenty
+ shillings on the pound.
+
+ His Lordship at one time shipped a large quantity of
+ _warming pans_ to the _West Indies_ where they were sold at
+ a great advance on prime cost, and used for molasses
+ ladles. At another time, he purchased a large quantity of
+ _whalebone_ for _ship's stays_; the article rose in value
+ upon his hands, and he sold it to great advantage.
+
+ Property now was no longer the object of his pursuit; but
+ popularity became the god of his idolatry. He was charitable
+ to the poor, gave large donations to religious societies,
+ and rewarded those who wrote in his praise.
+
+ His lordship about this time acquired his peculiar taste for
+ style and splendour; and to enhance his own importance in
+ the world, set up an elegant equipage, and at great cost
+ adorned the front of his house with numerous figures of
+ illustrious personages.
+
+ By his order, a tomb was dug under the summer house in his
+ garden, during his life; which he mentions in 'A Pickle for
+ the knowing ones,' in the following ludicrous style:--
+
+ "Heare will lie in box the first Lord in Americake the first
+ Lord Dexter made by the voice of hampsher state my brave
+ fellows Affirmed it they give me the titel and so Let it
+ goue for as much as it will fetch it wonte give me Any
+ breade but take from me the Contrary fourder I have a grand
+ toume in my garding at one of the grasses and the tempel of
+ Reason over the toume nand my coffen made and all Ready I
+ emy house painted with white Lead an side and outside
+ touched with green and bras trimmings Eight handels and a
+ good Lock, I have had one mock founrel it was so solmon and
+ there was so much Criing about 3000 spectators I say my
+ house is Euqal to any mansion house in twelve hundred miles
+ and now for sale for seven hundred pounds weight of Dollars
+ by me
+
+ TIMOTHY DEXTER."
+
+ Lord Dexter believed in transmigration sometimes; at others
+ he was a deist. He died on the 22d day of Oct. 1806, in the
+ 60th year of his age.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Dec. 17, 1825.
+
+From what we have heard and read of Mr. Dexter, it is a matter of
+surprise to us how such eccentricities could have attracted the
+attention they evidently did. It is doubtful if so much folly and
+conceit could now interest many people for any length of time.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Curious old almanacs.
+
+ AN OLD ALMANACK. A friend has handed us an almanack one
+ hundred and fifty years old, which is quite a curiosity in
+ its line. The following is the title:
+
+ "The New-England Almanack for the Year of our Lord MDCCIII.
+ Being Third after Leap-year, and from the Creation, 5652.
+ Discovery of America by Columbus, 211. Reign of our Gracious
+ Queen Anne, (which began March 8, 1702,) the 2 year. Wherein
+ is contained, Things necessary, and common in such a
+ Composure. As the Quarters of the Moon, Aspects of the
+ Planets and Weather set down Exactly according to the
+ Aspects, Courts, Spring Tides, Rising and Setting of the
+ Sun, Sun and Moons place, time of Full Sea at Boston, the
+ Eclipses, High Ways, &c., with several other Curiosities.
+ Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, the Metropolis of
+ New-England, Lat. 42, 24, but may serve any part of the
+ Country, (even as far as New-York,) without sensible Error.
+ By Samuel Clough.
+
+ The Heavens to us, God's Glory do make known,
+ By th' Firmament, his handy work is shown.
+
+ Licensed by His Excellency the Governour. Boston: Printed by
+ B. Green and J. Allen, for the Booksellers, and are to be
+ Sold at their Shops. 1703."
+
+ Then follows a short address "To the Readers" of the
+ Almanack. The figure of "Man's Body" with the "Twelve Signs
+ of the Zodiack," is headed with the following lines:
+
+ The Anotomy must still be in,
+ Else th' Almanack's not worth a pin:
+ For Country-men regard the Sign
+ As though 'Twere Oracle Divine.
+ But do not mind that altogether,
+ Have some respect to Wind and Weather.
+
+ The months of the year are introduced as follows:
+
+ _January._
+
+ Cold Weather now 'gins to be fierce,
+ And Norwest Winds our bodys pierce.
+
+ _February._
+
+ The Weather still continues cold,
+ Therefore warm cloaths are good we hold.
+
+ _March._
+
+ 'T is the best Month of all the year,
+ Wherein to brew good napping Beer.
+
+ _April._
+
+ Now Leaves on Trees begin to spring,
+ And Birds on Hedges sit and sing.
+
+ _May._
+
+ To walk Five Miles in his own Farm,
+ Will do a Husbandman no harm.
+
+ _June._
+
+ Now Countrymen each Sun shine day,
+ Mow down their Grass, and make it hay.
+
+ _July._
+
+ If Mildew now blasts English Grain,
+ 'Twill make poor Husbandmen complain.
+
+ _August._
+
+ But if from Blasting it be free,
+ The Farmers then should thankful be.
+
+ _September._
+
+ The Leaves from Trees now fall away,
+ And sweetest Flowers do decay.
+
+ _October._
+
+ If Barns are full, though Fields be empty,
+ It doth prognosticate a plenty.
+
+ _November._
+
+ One day this Month each Fruitful year,
+ Give thanks to GOD, and Eat good chear.
+
+ _December._
+
+ The Weather now 'gins to be cold,
+ Which makes to shrink both young and old.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.
+
+ The Salem Observer.
+
+ ANOTHER OLD ALMANACK. In our last we gave an account of an
+ old Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen
+ another some sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687.
+ It was bound in with an old account book that formerly
+ belonged to the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover,
+ from 1682 to 1718,--the great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas
+ Barnard, D.D., the first minister of the North Church in
+ this city, who died Oct. 1, 1814, in the sixty-seventh year
+ of his age, also an ancestor of Capt. Edward Barnard, of
+ this city. We insert the title page and other extracts
+ therefrom, which we trust will impart the same interest to
+ our readers as we derived from its perusal.
+
+ It is prefaced by the following:
+
+ Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack
+ for the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find
+ nothing in it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore
+ Allow it to be Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris,
+ Book-Seller in Boston.
+
+ EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secr.
+
+ The following is the title:
+
+ Tully 1687. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXVII.
+ Being the third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5636.
+ The Vulgar Notes of which are Prime 16--Epact 26--Circle of
+ the [Symbol: Sun] 16--Domin: Letter B. Unto which is annexed
+ a Weather Glass, whereby the Change of the Weather may be
+ foreseen. Calculated for and fitted to the Meridian of
+ Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42
+ gr. 30 m. By John Tulley. Boston, Printed by S. Green for
+ Benjamin Harris; and are to be Sold at his Shop, by the Town
+ Pump near the Change. 1687.
+
+
+ Then follows "A Table of Kings," from William the Conqueror,
+ 1066, to James 2d, 1685, closing with the lines--
+
+ Now may we look on Monarchy and sing,
+ In health and peace long live great JAMES our King.
+
+ And concluding with the "Weather Glass," &c., &c., which
+ follow:
+
+ _Prognostica Georgica_: Or the Country-man's Weather-Glass.
+
+ Prognosticks of Tempests. The obscuring of the smaller stars
+ is a certain sign of Tempests approaching, the oft changing
+ of the Winds is always a forerunner of a storm.
+
+ Of Winds. The resounding of the Sea upon the shore, and
+ murmuring of the Winds in the Woods without apparent Wind,
+ shew wind to follow; shooting of stars (as they call it) is
+ an usual sign of wind from that quarter the star came from,
+ Redness of the Skie in the morning is a token of Winds, or
+ Rain, or both: if the circles that appear about the Sun, be
+ red and broken, they portend wind: if thick and dark, Winds,
+ Snow, or Rain: The like may be said of the Circles about the
+ Moon.
+
+ Of Rain. If two Rainbows appear, they are a sign of Rain: If
+ the Sun or Moon look pale, look for Rain: if a dark Cloud be
+ at Sun-rising, in which the Sun soon after is hid, it will
+ dissolve it, and Rain will follow: if the Sun seem greater
+ in the East than commonly, it is a sign of Rain, if in the
+ West about Sun-setting there appear a black Cloud, you may
+ expect Rain that night, or the day following, if in the
+ winter time thick white Clouds appear in the South-east near
+ the Horizon at Sun rising, they portend Snow, a day or two
+ after: If black Clouds appear there, it is a sign of Rain.
+
+ Of Fair Weather. If the Moon look bright and fair, look for
+ Fair Weather. Also the appearing of one Rainbow after a
+ storm, is a known sign of Fair Weather. If Mists come down
+ from the Hills, or descend from the heavens, and settle in
+ the valleys, they promise fair hot weather: Mists in the
+ Evening shew a fair, hot day on the morrow: The like when
+ mists rise from the waters in the evening. Much more might
+ be added, but I would not tire the reader.
+
+ It appears by the following that the first form of
+ government, under the King, was accepted by the people in
+ 1686.
+
+ May 14, 1686. Arrived from England, His Majesty's Commission
+ to divers worthy Gentlemen, to be a President and Council
+ for the management of his Majesty's Government here, and
+ accordingly on the 25th of May, '86, the President and
+ Council being assembled in Boston, the exemplification of
+ the Judgment against the Charter of the Late Governour and
+ Company of the Massachusetts-Bay in N E together with His
+ Majesty's Commission of Government were publickly read, and
+ received by persons of all conditions with general
+ Acceptance.
+
+ It will appear by the following advertisement that a market
+ was then first appointed by authority to be kept in Boston.
+
+ Advertisement. There is Appointed by Authority a Market to
+ be kept in Boston, and a Committee is ordered to meet and
+ state the place, and days, and other circumstances relating
+ to the good settling thereof: Of which a more particular
+ Account may be speedily expected.
+
+ This Almanack was published only 67 years from the
+ settlement at Plymouth, and 59 from that of Salem.
+
+In the eyes of the old New England people the almanac stood next to the
+Bible in importance. Almost the only knowledge we have of many events of
+those early days has been obtained from diaries kept in interleaved
+almanacs. It is true, important facts are often found recorded in
+connection with trifling or quite unimportant matters.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The venerable Dr. Holyoke, of Salem, president of the Massachusetts
+Medical Society, who died in March, 1829, at the age of one hundred
+years and eight months, wrote a letter, a few months before his death,
+in answer to a request that he would furnish some particulars of his
+mode of living. Dr. Holyoke was through life noted for being remarkably
+temperate in all things. After his death it was reported that some
+physician said (perhaps in fun) that if Dr. H. had not been in the
+habit of using intoxicating liquors he might have lived to a _good old
+age._
+
+We give here a copy of this interesting letter.
+
+ Salem.
+
+ SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1829.
+
+ DR. HOLYOKE. The Medical Society of this District have
+ rendered an appropriate tribute of respect for the memory of
+ their venerated associate, the late Dr. E.A. HOLYOKE, by
+ publishing an elegant little volume, containing a memoir of
+ the deceased, prepared by a Committee of the Society, and a
+ few of his writings. We have selected from the latter the
+ following articles, which will interest the reader. The
+ first is an account of Dr. Holyoke's habits of life, diet,
+ &c., furnished by him in a letter to one of his friends; the
+ others are a historical memorandum and a fragment of the
+ Doctor's poetical effusions.
+
+ _To ---- ---- ---- Williamsville, Person County, North
+ Carolina._
+
+ SALEM, Oct'r--1828.
+
+ SIR,--I received yours of the 20th ult. on ye 30th, wherein
+ you wish me to give you some Account of my Mode of Life,
+ &c.--In answer to which I would first mention that I was
+ providentially blessed with an excellent Constitution--that
+ I never injured this constitution by Intemperance of any
+ kind--but invigorated it by constant Exercise, having from
+ my 30th to my 80th Year walked on foot (in the Practice of
+ my Profession)--probably as many as 5 or 6 miles every day,
+ amounting to more than a _million_[A] of miles, and tho'
+ sometimes much fatigued, the next Night's refreshing Sleep,
+ always completely restored me. In early life, between 20 and
+ 30, I used to ride on Horse back, but being often pestered
+ by my Horses slipping their Bridles I found it more
+ convenient to walk.
+
+ As to my Diet, having been taught to eat of any thing that
+ was provided for me, and having always a good Appetite, I am
+ never anxious about my food, and I do not recollect any
+ thing, that is commonly eaten, that does not agree with my
+ Stomach, except fresh roasted Pork, which tho' very
+ agreeable to my Palate, almost always disagrees with me; for
+ which however I have a remedy, in the Spirit of Sal Amoniac.
+ Eight or Ten drops of Aqua Ammonia pura in a wine glass of
+ Water, gives me relief after Pork, and indeed after anything
+ else which offends my stomach. As to the Quantity, I am no
+ great Eater, and I find my appetite sooner satisfied now
+ than formerly;--there is one peculiarity in my Diet which as
+ it may perhaps have contributed to Health I would mention; I
+ am fond of Fruit, and have this 30 or more years daily
+ indulged in eating freely of those of the Season, as
+ Strawberries, Currants, Peaches, Plums, Apples, &c., which
+ in summer and winter I eat just before Dinner, and seldom at
+ any other time, and indeed very seldom eat any thing
+ whatever between meals.--My Breakfast I vary continually.
+ Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, with toasted bread and butter, Milk
+ with Bread toasted in hot weather, but never any meat in my
+ Life--seldom the same Breakfast more than 2 or 3 days
+ running. Bread of Flour makes a large portion of my Food,
+ perhaps near 1-2. After Dinner I most commonly drink one
+ glass of Wine--plain boiled rice I am fond of--it makes
+ nearly 1-2 of my Dinner perhaps as often as every other
+ Day--I rarely eat Pickles or any high seasoned
+ Food--Vegetable food of one kind or other makes commonly 2-3
+ or 3-4 of my nourishment--the condiments I use are chiefly
+ Mustard, Horse radish and Onions. As to Drinks, I seldom
+ take any but at meal times and with my Pipe--in younger Life
+ my most common draft was Cider, seldom Wine, seldom or never
+ Beer or Ale or distilled Spirits--But for the last 40 or 50
+ years, my most usual drink has been a Mixture, a little
+ singular indeed, but as for me it is still palateable and
+ agreeable, I still prefer it--The Mixture is this, viz. Good
+ West India Rum 2 Spoonfuls, Good Cider whether new or old 3
+ Spoonfuls, of Water 9 or 10 Spoonfuls--of this Mixture
+ (which I suppose to be about the strength of common Cider) I
+ drink about 1-2 a Pint with my Dinner and about the same
+ Quantity with my Pipe after Dinner and my Pipe in the
+ Evening, never exceeding a Pint the whole Day; and I desire
+ nothing else except one glass of Wine immediately after
+ Dinner the whole day. I generally take one Pipe after Dinner
+ and another in the Evening, and hold a small piece of
+ pigtail Tobacco in my mouth from Breakfast till near Dinner,
+ and again in the Afternoon till tea; this has been my
+ practice for 80 years--I use no Snuff--I drink tea about
+ sunset and eat with it a small slice of Bread toasted with
+ Butter--I never eat any thing more till Breakfast.
+
+ I have not often had any complaint from indigestion, but
+ when I have, abstinence from Breakfast or Dinner, or both,
+ has usually removed it; indeed I have several times thrown
+ off serious Complaints by Abstinence.--As to Clothing, it is
+ what my Friends call thin; I never wear Flannel next my Skin
+ tho' often advised to it, and am less liable to take cold,
+ as it is called, than most people--a good warm double
+ breasted Waist-Coat and a Cloth coat answers me for winter,
+ and as the season grows warmer I gradually conform my
+ Covering to it. As to the Passions, Sir, I need not tell you
+ that when indulged, they injure the Health; that a calm,
+ quiet self-possession, and a moderation in our Expectations
+ and Pursuits, contribute much to our Health, as well as our
+ happiness, and that Anxiety is injurious to both.
+
+ I had a good Set of Teeth, but they failed me gradually,
+ without Pain, so that by 80 I lost them all.
+
+ Thus, Sir, you have, blundering and imperfect as it is, an
+ answer to your Requests, with my best wishes that it may be
+ of any service to the Purpose for which it was made--But
+ must rely upon it that Nothing I have written be made public
+ in my Name.[B] Wishing you long Life and many happy Days,
+
+ I am Yours, &c.
+ E.A. HOLYOKE.
+
+ P.S. I forgot to speak of my repose. When I began the
+ practice of Physick, I was so often call'd up soon after
+ retiring to Rest, that I found it most convenient to sit to
+ a late Hour, and thus acquired a Habit of sitting up late,
+ which necessarily occasioned my lying in bed to a late Hour
+ in the Morning--till 7 o'cl'k in Summer and 8 in Winter. My
+ Business was fatiguing and called for ample repose, and I
+ have always taken care to have a full proportion of Sleep,
+ which I suppose has contributed to my longevity.
+
+ _Recollections & Memorandums of Past Events._
+
+ The first thing that I entirely remember was the funeral of
+ Aunt Oulton, which was on July 18, 1732.
+
+ The first Aurora Borealis I ever saw, the Northern or rather
+ Northeast Sky appeared suffused by a dark blood-red colored
+ vapour, without any variety of different colored rays. I
+ have never since seen the like. This was about the year
+ 1734. Northern lights were then a novelty, and excited great
+ wonder and terror among the vulgar.
+
+ In 1737, Square Toed Shoes were going out of fashion; I
+ believe few or none were worn after 1737. Buckles instead of
+ Shoe Strings began to be used about the same time, but were
+ not universal in the country towns till 1740 or 1742. Very
+ broad brim'd Hats were worn as early as I remember. My
+ father had a beaver whose Brims were at least 7 inches;
+ which when he left off, I remember I used to wear in the
+ Garden, or in a shower, by way of Umbrella. They were all
+ cock'd triangularly. And pulling them off by way of
+ salutation was invariably the Fashion by all who had any
+ Breeding.
+
+ Boots were never worn except on horseback, or snowy or rainy
+ weather. They frequently had large broad Tops that reach'd
+ full half way up the Thigh. But Boots did not come into
+ general use till the close of the revolutionary war.
+
+ Funerals were extravagantly expensive. Gold Rings to each of
+ the Bearers, the Minister, the Physician, &c., were
+ frequently given when the family could but ill afford it.
+ White gloves in abundance, burnt wine to the company, &c.,
+ &c. This extravagance occasioned the enacting sumptuary
+ laws, which though they check'd did not entirely suppress
+ the complaints till the commencement of the revolutionary
+ war.
+
+ In 1749, it was reported the train band list of the town of
+ Marblehead was equal to that of the town of Salem. The
+ difference is now very great. I suppose Salem has at least
+ twice the number of Marblehead.
+
+ [1749.][C] The Houses (in Salem) were generally very
+ ordinary. The first handsome house was built by Mr. Jno.
+ Turner, then Col. Pickman, then Mr. J. Cabot, &c.
+
+ There was but one ropewalk, and that was on the neck, inside
+ the gate. But one tavern of any note, and that was an old
+ house at the corner now occupied by Stearns' brick store.
+ The Houses for public worship were only the old (first)
+ church--the eastern parish--the secession from the first
+ church--the Friends' meeting house, and the Episcopal
+ church.
+
+ The number of Inhabitants was estimated at between 5 and
+ 6000.
+
+ The Commerce of this town was chiefly with Spain and
+ Portugal and the West Indies, especially with St. Eustatia.
+ The Cod fishery was carried on with success and advantage.
+ The Schooners were employed on the fishing banks in the
+ summer, and in the autumn were laden with Fish, Rum,
+ Molasses, and the produce of the country, and sent to
+ Virginia and Maryland, and there spent the winter retailing
+ their cargoes, and in return brought Corn and Wheat and
+ Tobacco. This Virginia voyage was seldom very profitable,
+ but as it served to keep the crews together, it was
+ continued till more advantageous employment offered.
+
+ There were a few Chaises kept by gentlemen for their own
+ use, but it was no easy matter to hire one to go a journey.
+
+ _Salem Observer._
+
+[A] This seems to have been a slip of the pen; the following is his own
+calculation, made in 1823, and which from his great degree of
+exaggeration falls short of half the actual amount. "If from my age of
+20 to 80 years I have walked 5 miles a day, which is a moderate
+calculation, I must have gone in that 60 years,
+
+ 109,500 miles.
+ And in the first 20 & last 15 years, 38,325
+
+ In 95 years probably, Total, 147,825
+
+
+[B] This prohibition could only have regard to the period of his life
+time and was occasioned by that extreme modesty which always rendered it
+painful to the Doctor to be held up to the public notice.
+
+[C] These remarks refer to the period of Dr. Holyoke's residence in
+Salem, preceding the revolution.
+
+Dr. Holyoke during his whole life, it is said, was never fifty miles
+distant from the spot where he was born. He was the first person to
+receive the degree of M.D. from Harvard College; was the first president
+of the Massachusetts Medical Society; and he made in the course of his
+life three hundred and twenty-four thousand professional visits.
+
+ ANTIQUITY OF NURSERY RHYMES.--Many of these productions have
+ a very curious history, if it could only be traced. Some of
+ them probably owe their origin to names distinguished in our
+ literature; as Oliver Goldsmith, for instance, is believed
+ in his earlier days to have written such compositions. Dr.
+ E.F. Rimbault gives us the following particulars as to some
+ well-known favorites: "Sing a Song of Sixpence," is as old
+ as the sixteenth century. "Three Blind Mice" is found in a
+ music-book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed
+ in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice" dates from
+ 1633. "London Bridge is Broken Down" is of unfathomed
+ antiquity. "Girls and Boys come out to play" is certainly
+ old as the reign of Charles II.; as is also "Lucy Locket
+ lost her Pocket," to the tune of which the American song of
+ "Yankee Doodle" was written. "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where
+ have you been?" is of the age of Queen Bess. "Little Jack
+ Horner" is older than the seventeenth century. "The Old
+ Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of James II., to
+ which monarch it is supposed to allude.
+
+ _Salem Gazette._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Some British opinions of Benedict Arnold.
+
+ "The good whigs of America," says a late paper, "may be
+ assured, that the infamous BENEDICT ARNOLD'S mansion is the
+ very next to TYBURN,--a well chosen habitation for such an
+ abandoned traitor: A step or two conveys him to that fatal
+ spot, where the most guilty of all the miserable beings who
+ have ever suffered, was perfectly innocent compared with
+ him.--He lives despised by the nobility and gentry, and
+ execrated by the people at large--countenanced by none
+ excepting their Britannic and Satanic Majesties, and such of
+ their adherents, respectively, who are looking for promotion
+ under their royal masters."
+
+ By a gentleman from the southward we learn that it is
+ expected Congress will fix their permanent residence at
+ Philadelphia.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Feb. 26, 1784.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEW-YORK, November 16.
+
+ By very recent accounts from St. John, Nova-Scotia, we are
+ informed that _Benedict Arnold_, having attempted to JOCKY
+ some of the inhabitants out of their property, but being
+ detected, and the people being much exasperated, offered to
+ deliver him up to the Americans for ten dollars; but alas!
+ before the bargain was firmly agreed on, he made his escape
+ to Halifax, and there got protection from the populace.
+
+
+ We are informed that Benedict Arnold lately sailed from
+ New-Brunswick for London. It is said that his residence in
+ America, even among the provincial Loyalists, was rather
+ uncomfortable; he therefore wisely preferred being
+ enveloped in the atmosphere of London to residing on a
+ continent which had been the theatre of his traitorous acts,
+ and consequently the occasion of more frequent reflections
+ on the infamy of his crimes.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ November, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Receipt for apple-pudding, in 1788, with the apple and the pudding left
+out.
+
+ _For the_ HERALD _of_ FREEDOM.
+
+ HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PUDDING.
+
+ _Being a curious, elaborate and sublime_ DISSERTATION,
+ _never before published._
+
+ By _YANKEE DOODLE, Esquire._
+
+ (_In Continuation._)
+
+ CHAPTER.--HOW AND ABOUT NAMES.
+
+ _Nugaeque canorae._ Hor.
+
+ I LOOK upon it as the greatest happiness of my life, that
+ fortune has given me _a name_ that corresponds with my
+ nature and constitution. Patriotism is the strongest
+ passion; and I glory in being a _Yankee_.--A _Yankee_ is any
+ man born in New-England--and New-England contains the three
+ northern States, and a certain _little, pestiferous, pseudo
+ Island_. My countrymen generally have the credit of being a
+ good-natured, psalm-singing, religious kind of men, very
+ honest, but plaguy hard in their dealings--insomuch that a
+ _Carolinian_ or a _Georgian_ frequently swear that the very
+ _Satan_ himself could never get to windward of them.
+
+ This puts me in mind of a story.--A certain Boston sea
+ Captain, of a sloop of 60 tons burthen, coming with a cargo
+ of New-England rum, shoes, cheese, potatoes, and other
+ valuable commodities, into _Broadway_, which you must know
+ is a very _narrow_ passage in the _Appomatax_, a branch of
+ _James River_ in _Virginia_.--Before I proceed I must
+ acquaint the serious reader--and who is there but must be
+ serious in reading the solemn truths I am about to
+ declare--that every _iota_ of what I shall delineate in in
+ these sacred depositories of facts, is TRUTH.----I am now
+ about to elucidate the psalm-singing, religious character of
+ _Yankees_, by a TRUE STORY, _never before
+ published_.----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came
+ into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he
+ goes down into the cabbin, had to stoop a little, because
+ the cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60
+ tons, although our religious sea-captain _entered_ but 40
+ tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of
+ conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for _light
+ money_, when there was not one light-house in all the
+ ancient dominion.--But this is nothing to my story.
+
+ _N.B._ I mean to give the good-natured reader a whole
+ chapter on _the art of_ STORY-TELLING.
+
+ Well, as I was saying, the Virginian being obliged to
+ stoop--the _stooping_ caused his head to be bowed down; and
+ looking down, he saw a _book_ lying upon the starboard
+ locker.--Well, says he, and what the d----l--but I think it
+ expedient to omit the _Virginian_ oath; for this man, not
+ being a moral man, swore consumedly, and did not know a
+ _bible_ by sight, but only by _hearsay_.--And Captain, cried
+ the _Virginian_, will you sell this bible of yours: I hear
+ it's a mighty clever book for children.--And why not for
+ grown people? cried the Captain, taking up the _book_. Why,
+ quoth the _Virginian_, because I mean my three boys, who are
+ from 11 to 14 years old, shall be good _scholards at their
+ larning_--they can all say their letters already, and the
+ youngest can spell.--The Boston sea Captain opening the
+ bible found these words: "_Search the scriptures_;" and
+ without saying any thing himself, pointed out the passage to
+ the _Virginian_.--Pugh! said the _Virginian_, and walked
+ upon deck.--Now, to explain this mystery, you must know the
+ Yankee sea Captain shewed him the passage to denote that he
+ would sooner sell his soul to the d----l, than his bible to
+ a _Virginian_;--and the _Virginian_ said pugh! and walked
+ upon deck, because he could not read.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONGEVITY. Since we published the examples of longevity,
+ collected by the editor of the Medical Adviser, we have seen
+ another list, which is _supposed_ to comprise all, which can
+ be found from the year 66 to 1799. The number of those who
+ lived from _one hundred_ and _seventy_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _eighty-five_ years is 3; from _one hundred_ and _sixty_ to
+ _one hundred_ and _seventy_, 2; from _one hundred_ and
+ _fifty_ to _one hundred_ and _sixty_, 3; from _one hundred_
+ and _forty_ to _one hundred_ and _fifty_, 7; from _one
+ hundred_ and _thirty_ to _one hundred_ and _forty_, 26; from
+ _one hundred_ and _twenty_ to _one hundred_ and _thirty_,
+ 84; from _one hundred_ and _ten_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _twenty_, 277; from _one hundred_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _ten_, 1310. Total of those who survived a century,
+ _Seventeen hundred and twelve_.----This writer could not
+ have included in his list the examples of longevity which
+ Russia furnished, for we frequently find in the bills of
+ mortality of this country for a single year, twice the
+ number of centenarians. We have before us the table of
+ deaths for 1813, which gives the following remarkable ages.
+ One 165;--three 135;--one 130;--fifteen 125;--thirty-three
+ from 115 to 120;--fifty-three from 110 to 115;--one hundred
+ and twenty-seven from 100 to 105;--fourteen hundred from 95
+ to 100;--two thousand eight hundred and forty-nine from 90
+ to 95;--four thousand four hundred and fifty-one from 85 to
+ 90. Whole number of deaths 971,338.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 29, 1825.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston shop-signs in 1789.
+
+ To read the signs in this town is a delicate, sentimental
+ repast.--I hope _Bostonians_ will never complain of want of
+ amusement, while there is one sign standing. If I had time,
+ I would certainly consult _Milton_, to see how he has
+ _arranged_ matters in his description of _chaos_.--I doubt
+ not I could there get a _hint_ for two whole chapters. I had
+ as lief take a walk through Cornhill, as to go to the
+ new-invented moral lectures.
+
+ _Herald of Freedom._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A CURIOUS WOMAN.
+
+We have often heard it said that men are curious, and we can well
+believe it; but now we find it recorded that there has been at least
+_one_ curious woman. Read the following extract from the "Salem Gazette"
+of 1795:--
+
+ Married at Andover, Mr. Aaron Osgood to the _curious_ Miss
+ Ester Wardwell.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "AWFULLY GOOD."
+
+In our opinion the oft-repeated words "awfully good," "jolly fine," and
+similar expressions, which sound so "charmingly sweet" from the lips of
+interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used
+in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the
+Day," Nov. 24, 1798:--
+
+ MARRIED]--In this town, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev.
+ Dr. Haven, MARK SIMES, Esq. Deputy Post-Master, &c. to the
+ elegantly pretty and amiably delicate Miss MARY-ANN BLUNT,
+ youngest daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of
+ Little-Harbour.
+
+ _Genius of Hymen; Power of fondest Love!
+ In showers of bliss descend from worlds above,_
+ _On_ Beauty's _rose, and_ Virtue's _manlier form,_
+ _And shield, ah! shield them both, from time's tempestuous storm_!
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A FEW years since, a young gentleman at the University in
+ _Cambridge_ asked of a Collegian the loan of his _W_irgil.
+ The inelegant pronunciation of the word _Virgil_ was
+ burlesqued by the young Collegian in the following story,
+ with which his invention readily supplied him:--_Lately_
+ (says he) _I set out on a woyage to Wersailles, with one
+ Captain Winal, in a British wessel called the Wiper; but we
+ soon met with a wiolent storm, which drove us into a port in
+ Wirginia; where one Capt. Waughn, a wery wicious man,
+ inwited us aboard his wessel, and gave us some weal and
+ wenison, with some winegar, which made me wery sick; so I
+ did womit like wengeance;_ (and added, reaching out the
+ book) _You may have my Wirgil, and welcome_. This humor had
+ the desired effect; the young gentleman saw the absurdity of
+ doing such w_iolence_ to the letter V, and has ever since
+ spoke like other people.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ April 26, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+What Mr. Welby, an English gentleman, saw when he was in the United
+States in 1821. A very flattering picture of the West.
+
+ More Travellers' Stories.
+
+ _From the National Gazette._
+
+ A new book of Travels in America has been recently issued in
+ London which rivals the volumes of our old friends Weld,
+ Ashe, Fearon, &c. It is entitled "A Visit to North America
+ and the English Settlements in Illinois, with a winter
+ residence in Philadelphia; solely to ascertain the actual
+ prosperity of the Emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic, and
+ Commercial Speculator"--by Adlard Welby, _Esquire_, of South
+ Rauceby, Lincolnshire. This esquire has said enough, should
+ he be believed, to settle ultimately the point of the truth
+ or falsehood of Godwin's notable doctrine, that we owe the
+ increase of our numbers chiefly to emigration. No sane
+ European would venture among us after having read Mr.
+ Welby's book. He discovered that, in Philadelphia, living
+ was _very dear_, comfort _very uncommon_, and good manners
+ still more rare. Throughout his journey he found in the
+ taverns "a system of impertinence, rudeness, rascality, and
+ filth, rendered more intolerable by an antipathy to the
+ English, in the brutal manifestation of which most of the
+ Colonel, Doctor, and Squire, keepers of the taverns, were
+ pleased to indulge." When he asked an hostler to call him
+ early in the morning, he was answered that--he might call
+ himself and be d----d. In the Western country he found no
+ symptoms of hospitality--witnessed only idleness and
+ licentiousness, and experienced every where brutal rudeness
+ and unbounded extortion. The western people usually combine
+ in cheating all travellers, and sometimes "_rifle_," that is
+ _shoot_ residents among them who do not choose to descend to
+ their own level. In Illinois "a party proposed to each other
+ _coolly_ to go and shoot neighbour *****, who had behaved
+ ill to them sundry times; it was agreed upon; they went to
+ his field, found the old man at plough, and, with unerring
+ aim, laid him dead." And Mr. Welby adds that the country
+ would be desirable to live in, did not the folks _shoot_
+ each other thus, and were they not half savages. The
+ _shooting_ case reminds us of a traveller's story which we
+ heard at a dinner table abroad. A gentleman and esquire of
+ strict veracity, like Mr. Welby, related, in order to shew
+ how common was the calamity of the _coup de soleil_, or
+ stroke of the sun, in the Island of JAVA, that sitting once
+ in the house of an opulent merchant of Batavia, drinking a
+ _cool_ glass of Madeira after dinner, with the merchant's
+ wife in the room, the lady was, in the twinkling of an eye,
+ _reduced to a heap of ashes_ by a _coup de soleil_; when the
+ husband observed to his guest, "don't be alarmed--we are
+ accustomed to this;" then rang the bell with great
+ composure, and on the appearance of the servant, _coolly_
+ said--"Boy--sweep your mistress out, and _bring us clean
+ glasses._"
+
+ In the neighborhood of Mr. Birbeck's settlement in Illinois,
+ Mr. Welby could obtain neither eggs, milk, sugar, salt, nor
+ water; and when he and his party sent a request to Mr.
+ Birbeck for some water, the answer returned was, he made it
+ a general rule to refuse every one. Mr. Birbeck is
+ represented as having deceived and disappointed most of the
+ English who were lured to his settlement by his "Journal."
+ Mr. W. could discover none of "the snug cottages, with
+ adjoining piggeries, cowsteads, gardens and orchards," which
+ Mr. B. had introduced into his canvass. He found nothing but
+ the primitive log building, that served the whole
+ family--"for parlour, for kitchen, and hall." "The strange
+ heterogeneous mixture of characters," says Mr. W. "which are
+ collected here by the magic pen of Morris Birbeck, is truly
+ ludicrous. Among many others, a couple now attend to the
+ store at Albion who lately lived in a dashing style in
+ London, not far from Bond-street; the lady brought over her
+ white satin shoes and gay dresses, rich carpets, and
+ everything but what in such a place she would require--yet
+ I have understood that they have accommodated themselves to
+ their new situations, hand out the plums, sugar, whiskey,
+ &c., with tolerable grace, and at least 'do not seem to mind
+ it.'"
+
+ In one of the principal literary journals of London, Mr.
+ Welby's book is recommended as "carrying on its front the
+ stamp of plain dealing, _truth_ and candor, and entitled,
+ from internal evidence, to the highest authority amid the
+ conflicting statements and opinions respecting emigration to
+ America." The reviewer adds:--"From a country so destitute
+ of moral beauty as the author depicts it, so disgusting in
+ its human externals, and so low in the scale, not merely of
+ refinement, but of good principles, we are happy to
+ withdraw." As Mr. Welby spent a winter in Philadelphia, and
+ had acquaintance here, it is probable that such of the
+ latter as have not seen his book will be pleased to know the
+ complexion of its contents.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ May 18, 1822.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Essex Register" of July 18, 1833, may be found the following
+notice of two well-known American authors:--
+
+ DISCOURSE ON GENIUS. The Richmond Compiler speaks in terms
+ of great praise of a discourse delivered recently in
+ Richmond, before a Young Men's Society, by Joseph Hulbert
+ Nicholas. A number of extracts are also given in the
+ Compiler, as specimens of the performance, from which we
+ take the following notices of two of our
+ fellow-townsmen.--_Boston Courier._
+
+ Of Charles Sprague, of Massachusetts, no language can be
+ spoken but that of unqualified praise. Forsaking the modern
+ school of writing, he is contented with being simple and
+ natural. Sublimity, tenderness, wit, elegance, and
+ beneficial satire characterise his muse.--The only complaint
+ I have ever heard made of him is that _he does not write
+ more_.
+
+ Of Nathaniel Parker Willis, a native of Massachusetts, and a
+ fellow-student with myself at Yale College, I come now to
+ speak. Of him I shall speak familiarly, as of an intimate
+ friend; and impartially and justly, as one who wishes him
+ well. Willis, I venture to pronounce the most remarkable
+ genius our country has yet produced. I do not call him
+ remarkable merely for his unusual precocity of song, but
+ remarkable for the possession of that rare genius, which by
+ any man, young or old, in our land, I do not think has ever
+ been displayed. Nature has done wonderful things for him;
+ but alas! he has thus far done but little for himself. The
+ great pieces he has sometimes given us have cost him but
+ little effort, and he has thrown out his productions, in
+ prose as well as poetry, with a profusion and a variety that
+ seem miraculous; and yet, of all our bards, he has met with
+ the most severe and merciless censures. In some measure he
+ has deserved the treatment. In College he would not
+ condescend to study, and charity only for his high genius
+ enabled him to gain a degree. Besides, he gained his first
+ and best reputation by pieces founded upon scriptural
+ subjects, and he stood committed to the world as a
+ _religious_ man. Many who had never seen aught of him but
+ his productions, and had formed the loftiest estimate of his
+ personal character from the pure tendency of his effusions,
+ were astonished and grieved when introduced to the
+ author.--His head made giddy by the praises of young and
+ old, he forgot himself, and possessing most shrewd good
+ sense, he would talk the reverse. He became fantastic in
+ apparel, as he did likewise in his style of writing; made
+ himself too common, and almost broke a pious father's heart
+ by deserting the altar of that divine Jesus upon whose Bible
+ he had founded the fairest fabric of his fame. My friend, of
+ whom I so sternly speak, is now in Italy; and should these
+ remarks, per chance, ever meet his eye, I beseech him by our
+ past friendship, by our walks "by moon or glittering
+ star-light," through the Eden groves and avenues of
+ New-Haven, by the love he bears to his parents, and above
+ all, by the love he bears that Saviour, upon whose image and
+ the scenes of whose mortal pilgrimage he is rapturously
+ gazing, in the matchless pictures of the Italian masters, I
+ beseech him, when he returns to his native land, to wear no
+ longer a ridiculous mask, but to appear in his own native
+ strength, dignity, and surpassing loveliness.
+
+In the "Salem Observer," March 8, 1834, are to be found the following
+references to well-known young ladies of the day. Miss Silsbee is
+supposed to be the daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem,
+Massachusetts senator in Congress. She afterwards married Jared Sparks,
+the well-known historian, president of Harvard College, etc.
+
+ HIGH LIFE AT WASHINGTON. The Washington Correspondent of the
+ Boston Morning Post, in describing Gov. Cass's soiree, thus
+ notices some of the young ladies who were present:--
+
+ Miss Keyser of Baltimore, uniting youth and beauty,
+ possesses an eye as dark as the absence of all light,
+ beaming with a lustre that eclipses all. I never saw a
+ countenance betoken such perfect happiness; it was like a
+ star-lit lake, curling its lips into ripples in some dream
+ of delight, as the west wind salutes them with its balmy
+ breath and disturbs their placid slumber. I never before
+ realised Byron's idea of
+
+ "Music breathing o'er the face;"
+
+ till Miss Keyser's brought it home to the business and
+ bosom.
+
+ Miss Silsbee, of Salem, with a form of great symmetry,
+ possesses a countenance not only beautiful, but entirely
+ intellectual--the most so of any you have met with either
+ here or elsewhere; it is of the Italian model; and should
+ have basked beneath an Italian sky. She is very easy,
+ graceful and modest in her deportment, and dresses 'rich not
+ gaudy;' the cameo necklace that graced her person was only
+ the foil that set off the diamond.
+
+ Miss Harper of Baltimore, with a fine face and form, is
+ particularly unrivalled for a bust of unrivalled symmetry;
+ it would furnish a model for a Canova; and reminds me of
+ Greenough's Medora.
+
+ Miss M'Lane of this city, with many separate charms that
+ could not fail of attraction, unites with them the finest of
+ fine forms.
+
+ And last, not least, the younger Miss Cass possesses the
+ most perfect _Madonna_ countenance I have ever seen clothed
+ in living lustre. It was one of the first that attracted my
+ attention when I entered the saloon, and the last that
+ received my parting glance when I retired; it seemed to be--
+
+ "While in, above the world;"
+
+ I am told it is entirely characteristic; that she is in
+ heart and thought, what you behold in her
+ countenance--happy, but not gay; serious but not sad;
+ devout, yet not a devotee.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 is the following curious information
+about Scott's novels, which shows how easy it is for people to be
+mistaken.
+
+ William Erskine, Esq. is said to be the author of the new
+ and interesting Novel, "_Guy Mannering_."--Walter Scott had
+ been pronounced the author.
+
+ WAVERLY.--It is not yet decided to whom this very
+ interesting novel belongs. It came into the world with all
+ the advantage that the name of Walter Scott could give it;
+ but Guy Mannering's appearance seems to have dissolved that
+ connection. An article in our first page attributes the work
+ to Wm. Erskine; but in the last North-American Review we
+ read the following:--"An English Magazine says, the author
+ of Waverly and Guy Mannering is a young gentleman of the
+ name of FORBES, the son of a Scotch baronet." The Review
+ remarks, that the extract in the title page of the latter,
+ from the _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, was a delicate way of
+ informing the public that they were under a mistake in
+ attributing the former to Walter Scott.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+On the 16th June, 1806, there was a total eclipse of the sun. The
+following is all the "Salem Gazette" of the 17th has to say of such a
+remarkable event.
+
+ Yesterday the great Solar Eclipse took place, agreeably to
+ the calculations which had been made. The day was very
+ favourable to viewing it. The air was remarkably clear, and
+ there was not a cloud in the hemisphere. As the sun shut
+ in, the stars appeared, and many were visible at the time of
+ total darkness. A considerable alteration in the temperature
+ of the atmosphere was felt during the continuance of the
+ Eclipse.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Boston Palladium" of 1819, copied from a London paper, is Lord
+Mansfield's opinion about a word in Johnson's Dictionary. In the
+original editions of this work are to be found many very curious
+definitions, some of which bore so hard upon the government as to be
+construed into libel.
+
+ FROM A LONDON PAPER.
+
+ _EXCISE._
+
+ The following curious little document is the opinion of Lord
+ Mansfield, when Attorney-General, upon Dr. Johnson's
+ explanation of the word Excise:--
+
+ _CASE._
+
+ Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published a book, entitled "A
+ Dictionary of the English Language, in which the words are
+ deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their
+ different significations by examples from the best writers.
+ To which are prefixed a History of the Language and an
+ English Grammar."
+
+ Under the title "Excise" are the following words:--
+
+ EXCISE, n.s. (_accijs_, Dutch; _excisum_, Latin,) a hateful
+ tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common
+ judges of property, but _wretches_ hired by those to whom
+ "_Excise_" is paid.
+
+ The people should pay a rateable tax for their
+ sheep, and an _Excise_ for every thing which they
+ should eat.--HAYWARD.
+
+ "Ambitious now to take _excise_
+ Of a more fragrant paradise."--CLEVELAND.
+
+ _EXCISE._
+
+ "With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds,
+ And on all trades, like Cassawar, she feeds."
+ MARVEL.
+
+ "Can hire large houses and oppress the poor
+ By farm'd Excise."--DRYDEN'S Juvenal, Sat. 3.
+
+ The Author's definition being observed by the Commissioners
+ of Excise, they desire the favour of your opinion:
+
+ _Qu._--Whether it will not be considered as a libel; and if
+ so, whether it is not proper to proceed against the author,
+ printers and publishers thereof, or any and which of them,
+ by information or how otherwise?
+
+ _OPINION._
+
+ "I am of opinion that it is a libel; but under all the
+ circumstances, I should think it better to give him an
+ opportunity of altering his definition; and in case he
+ don't, threaten him with an information.
+
+ "(Signed) W. MURRAY.
+
+ "29th Nov, 1755."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Samuel Sewall, whose remarkable "Diary" has within a few years been
+printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society, appears to have been
+the successor of John Foster, who printed the first book ever issued
+from the press in Boston,--namely, "Hubbard's Election Sermon,"--in
+1676. All previous printing in the colony had been executed at
+Cambridge. Mr. Hubbard was the minister of Ipswich.
+
+ SAMUEL SEWALL.
+
+ When John Foster (the first who carried on printing in
+ Boston) died in 1681, the town was without the benefit of
+ the press; but a continuance of it being thought necessary,
+ _Samuel Sewall_, not a printer but a magistrate, and a man
+ much respected, was selected as a proper person to manage
+ the concerns of it, and as such was recommended to the
+ general court. In consequence of this recommendation, the
+ court, in Oct. 1681, gave him liberty to carry on the
+ business of printing in Boston. The _license_ is thus
+ recorded: "Samuel Sewall, at the instance of some Friends,
+ with respect to the accommodation of the public, being
+ prevailed with to undertake the Management of the Printing
+ Press in Boston, late under the command of Mr. John Foster,
+ deceased, liberty is accordingly granted to him for the same
+ by this court, and none may presume to set up any other
+ Press without the like Liberty first granted."
+
+ Sewall became a bookseller.--Books for himself and others
+ were printed at the press under his management; as were
+ several acts and laws, with other works for government.
+ Samuel Green, jun., was his printer. In 1682 an order passed
+ the general court for the treasurer to pay Sewall ten pounds
+ seventeen shillings, for printing the election sermon,
+ delivered that year by the Rev. Mr. Torrey.
+
+ In 1684, Sewall, by some means, was unable to conduct the
+ press, and requested permission of the general court to be
+ released from his engagement. This was granted; the record
+ of his release is in the words following.
+
+ "Samuel Sewall by the providence of God being unable to
+ attend the press, &c., requested leave to be freed from his
+ obligations concerning it, which was granted, with thanks
+ for the liberty then granted."
+
+ In 1684, and for several subsequent years, the loss of the
+ charter occasioned great confusion and disorder in the
+ political concerns of the colony. Soon after Sewall resigned
+ his office as conductor of the press in Boston, he went to
+ England, and he returned in 1692. He was undoubtedly the
+ same Samuel Sewall who, when a new charter was granted by
+ king William, was for many years one of the council for the
+ province, and who, in 1692, was appointed one of the Judges
+ of the Superior Court; in 1715 Judge of Probate; and in
+ 1718, Chief Justice of Massachusetts. He died Jan. 1, 1729,
+ aged 78 years.--_Boston News Letter._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Knowledge of natural history at the Isles of Shoals in the early part of
+the last century.
+
+ A CENTURY AGO. The N. York Gazette relates that when Rev.
+ Mr. Tuck, in the early part of the last century, was
+ ordained minister of Star Island, one of a cluster called
+ the Isles of Shoals, his parish offered him, beside the
+ usual parsonage house, a quintal of fish each family, but no
+ money, as a salary. It is well known that the fish cured at
+ these islands are called dun fish, and have the highest
+ reputation for excellence wherever known. They are caught in
+ the depth of winter, and are fit for market before the hot
+ weather. They derive the name of _dun_ from the color which
+ they assume. There were at the period of which we speak,
+ about fifty families in the cluster, giving him fifty
+ quintals per year. The average price of a dun fish is about
+ ten dollars, and the worthy pastor always procured a ready
+ sale for them, thereby realizing his five hundred dollars
+ per annum. With this stipend he flourished, and brought up
+ a family, whom he educated himself, and fitted one of his
+ sons for entrance into Harvard College. The lad had never
+ been away from the Shoals till he reached Long wharf on his
+ way to Cambridge. He had never seen a horse, nor heard a
+ church bell. On landing, he saw many horses attached to
+ various vehicles; and speaking to his father, said, "Only
+ see what queer cows they have in Boston! they are not shaped
+ like ours, and are all without horns." In passing by the Old
+ South, in Cornhill, the big bell of that church struck up a
+ peal, the effect of which nearly drove the young man mad.
+
+ _Salem Observer_ [1829].
+
+What Captain Hall, R.N., thought of a Salem gentleman.
+
+ _From Capt. Basil Hall's Travels in America--just
+ published._
+
+ We reached the town of Salem in good time for dinner; and
+ here I feel half tempted to break through my rule, in order
+ to give some account of our dinner-party, chiefly, indeed,
+ that I might have an opportunity of expatiating--which I
+ could do with perfect truth and great pleasure--on the
+ conversation of our excellent host. For I have rarely, in
+ any country, met a man so devoid of prejudice, or so willing
+ to take all matters on their favorable side, and withal, who
+ was so well informed about every thing in his own and in
+ other countries, or who was more ready to impart his
+ knowledge to others.
+
+ To these agreeable attributes and conversational powers he
+ adds such a mirthfulness of fancy, and genuine heartiness of
+ good-humour, to all men, women, and children who have the
+ good fortune to make his acquaintance, that I should have no
+ scruple--if it were not too great a liberty--in naming him
+ as the person I have been most pleased with in all my recent
+ travels.
+
+ After dinner, we repaired to the Museum, the rich treasures
+ of which have been collected exclusively by captains or
+ supercargoes of vessels out of Salem, who had doubled one or
+ other of the great southern promontories,--the Cape, and the
+ Horn, as they are technically called by seamen. As my eye
+ fell on numberless carefully cherished objects, which I had
+ often seen in familiar use on the other side of the globe,
+ my imagination revelled far and wide into regions I may
+ never live to see again.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Compliment to New England._ In a speech made by Mr. Lyell,
+ the eminent geologist, at a late meeting of the British
+ Geological Association, he said--"Were I ever so unfortunate
+ as to quit my native land to reside permanently elsewhere, I
+ should without hesitation choose the United States for my
+ second country, especially New England, where a population
+ of more than two millions enjoys a higher average standard
+ of prosperity and intellectual advancement than any other
+ population of equal amount on the globe."
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1843.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Mrs. Trollope avers that pigs are caressed by the ladies and gentlemen
+of New York.
+
+ "REFUGEE IN AMERICA."
+
+ NEW-YORK AND BOSTON. Mrs. Trollope, in her new work, called
+ the Refugee in America, introduces some queer comparisons
+ between the manners of the two cities. We quote for
+ example:--"In Boston, there are no persons allowed to vote
+ at the elections of President or Governor of that province
+ but native born yankees; while at New-York, emigrants are
+ forced from the ships in which they arrive directly to the
+ hustings, which are kept open the first two weeks of every
+ month at Mason's lodge, Broadway, where they are allowed to
+ jostle off the sidewalks the most respectable inhabitants.
+ If they are reproved for such conduct, the answer invariably
+ is,--'Isn't this a land of liberty?' I was one forenoon
+ myself stopped at the lodge and offered a vote, with the
+ preliminary question,--'Are you a Clay or a Jackson man?' In
+ Boston, a person seen with a segar in his mouth in the
+ street, is counted a blackguard; but in New-York no
+ gentleman makes his promenade without one. In Boston, a
+ housekeeper would be placed at the Sessions dock for
+ suffering the refuse of his mansion to be thrown into the
+ street; while in N. York he would be fined $1 if he allowed
+ it to be thrown elsewhere near his premises. Swine is a
+ Bostonian's bane, and a N. Yorker's antidote,--indeed this
+ animal is as much caressed by the ladies and gentlemen of
+ the latter city, as a lap-dog in London or Paris. The
+ Governor and his twenty chosen ministers have made it a
+ capital offence to molest one of these interesting
+ quadrupeds while roaming the streets!"--[Oh! what a lying
+ jade!]
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 13, 1832.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ EARLY ACCOUNTS OF NEW-ENGLAND. The first settlers of
+ New-England must have been blessed with singular powers of
+ vision. One of them speaks of lions in Cape Ann: another
+ (Josselyn), who arrived at Boston in 1663, and resided in
+ this Colony about eight years, says of our frogs, "some,
+ when they sit upon their breech, are a foot high, and some
+ as long as a child one year old." He likewise says "old
+ barley frequently degenerates into oats" in New-England.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"Enthusiasm" is described as a nervous disorder by Dr. Douglass, author
+of the Historical Summary.
+
+ DR. DOUGLASS'S NOTICE OF SALEM. In looking over Dr.
+ Douglass' historical summary, we found the following note on
+ Salem. The author formerly lived in Boston, and after his
+ removal to England, published his work in 1749. As he was a
+ physician, he probably considered himself authorized to
+ broach new theories. He certainly showed his ingenuity in
+ imputing to our soil a tendency to produce the diseases of
+ which he makes mention. It is perhaps fortunate for us that
+ the Doctor did not live in our day, as he would have found
+ in the excitement which has recently prevailed here in
+ relation to the Mill Dam, Theatre, &c., new proofs of the
+ correctness of his hypothesis.
+
+ "In Salem and its neighborhood _Enthusiasm_ and other
+ _nervous disorders_ seem to be _endemial_. _Hypochondriack_,
+ _hysterick_, and other _maniack_ disorders prevail there,
+ and Ipswich adjoining, to this day."
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Beer and cider "Federal liquors."
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788].
+
+ A correspondent wishes that a monument could be erected in
+ UNION GREEN, with the following inscription:--
+
+ IN HONOUR OF
+ AMERICAN BEER AND CYDER.
+
+ It is hereby recorded, for the information of strangers and
+ posterity, that 17000 people assembled on this Green, on
+ the 4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the establishment of the
+ Constitution of the United States, and that they separated
+ at an early hour, without intoxication or a single quarrel.
+ They drank nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to
+ prize those invaluable _federal_ liquors, and to consider
+ them as the companions of those virtues which can alone
+ render our country free and respectable.
+
+ Learn likewise to despise
+ SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, as _antifederal_;
+
+ and to consider them as the companions of all those vices
+ which are calculated to dishonour and enslave our country.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be
+interesting:--
+
+ ......POETRY......
+
+ _From the Lady's Miscellany._
+
+ YANKEE PHRASES.
+
+ AS sound as a nut o'er the plain,
+ I of late whistled chuck full of glee,
+ A stranger to sorrow and pain,
+ As happy as happy could be.
+
+ As plump as a partridge I grew,
+ My heart being lighter than cork;
+ My slumbers were calmer than dew,
+ My body was fatter than pork.
+
+ Thus happy, I hop'd I should pass
+ Slick as grease down the current of time;
+ But pleasures are brittle as glass,
+ Although as a fiddle they're fine.
+
+ Jemima, the pride of the vale,
+ Like a top nimbly danc'd o'er the plains;
+ With envy the lasses were pale,
+ With wonder stood gazing the swains.
+
+ She smil'd like a basket of chips,
+ As tall as a may-pole her size--
+ As sweet as molasses her lips--
+ As bright as a button her eyes.
+
+ Admiring, I gaz'd on her charm,
+ My peace that would trouble so soon,
+ And thought not of danger nor harm,
+ Any more than the man in the moon.
+
+ But now to my sorrow I find
+ Her heart is as hard as a brick,
+ To my passion forever unkind,
+ Though of love I am full as a tick.
+
+ I sought her affection to win,
+ In hope of obtaining relief;
+ Till I like a hatchet grew thin,
+ And she, like a haddock, grew deaf.
+
+ I late was as fat as a doe,
+ And playful and spry as a cat;
+ But now I am as dull as a hoe,
+ And as lean and as weak as a rat.
+
+ Unless the unpitying fates
+ With passion as ardent will cram her,
+ As certain as death or as rates,
+ I soon shall be dead as a hammer.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ April 5, 1811.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Gentlemen and children have sometimes been considered bugbears.
+
+ Boarders Wanted.
+
+ TWO or Three Ladies can be accommodated with Board, on
+ reasonable terms, in a small family, 18 miles from town,
+ where there are neither Gentlemen or Children; a Stage
+ passes the house twice a week, and the Middlesex Canal Boat
+ near it every other day. Inquire at the Centinel Counting
+ Room.
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ July 25, 1812.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LIBERAL DONATIONS_
+
+ Of the Legislature of _New-York_ to the University of that
+ State: 1,500l. for the Library; 200l. for chemical
+ apparatus; 1,200l. for a wall round the College; 5,000l. for
+ erecting a Hall, and additional wing to the College; 750l.
+ for five years annually, for the salaries of additional
+ Professors.--_Blush! Citizens of Massachusetts, for your
+ Legislators--who have so frequently denied relief to your
+ University!!!_
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ May 5, 1792.
+
+The books children read in 1789.
+
+ A great Variety of
+
+ =Children's Books=
+
+ Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are sold by
+ _T.C. CUSHING_, at the Printing-Office in Salem--viz.
+
+ LITTLE ROBIN RED-BREAST.
+ Memoirs of a PEGTOP.
+ The SUGAR-PLUMB; or, sweet Amusement for leisure hours.
+ The JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER, containing the Lives of little Masters and
+ Misses.
+ Be MERRY and WISE; or, the Cream of the Jests, and the Marrow of
+ Maxims, for the Conduct of Life.
+ The HOLY BIBLE abridged.
+ History of little KING PIPPIN.
+ History of GILES GINGERBREAD.
+ History of TOM JONES.
+ History of Master JACKEY and Miss HARRIOT.
+ History of CHARLES CAREFUL and HARRY HEEDLESS.
+ Mother GOOSE's Melody.
+ The Exhibition of TOM THUMB.
+ Tom Thumb's SONG BOOK.
+ The FATHER's Gift.
+ The MOTHER's Gift.
+ The BROTHER's Gift.
+ The SISTER's Gift.
+ Nurse Truelove's NEW-YEAR's GIFT.
+ Death and Burial of COCK-ROBIN.
+ The ROYAL ALPHABET.
+ The HERMIT of the Forest, and the Wandering Infants.
+
+ _Salem Mercury._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A new way to cure insanity.
+
+ _A CURIOUS IDEA._
+
+ KNOWLEDGE is attained with the greatest difficulty; we have
+ it not by intuition, but acquire it by many unsuccessful
+ trials and long experience. One gives a hint, and the other
+ improves it; but prejudice and ignorance too often stand in
+ the way: "_That cannot be,_" or "_I cannot believe that,_"
+ has crushed many an useful project. How incredible did the
+ recovery of drowned persons appear at first! When the report
+ reached England, that many abroad had been brought again to
+ life, after laying under water some time, who gave it
+ credit? But experience has since convinced us of its
+ possibility.
+
+ Now, from the great success attending the recovery of
+ drowned persons, I would offer a hint to the public, and
+ leave it to be improved by them, respecting the recovery of
+ those who are mad, and given up as incurable.
+
+ When madness breaks forth, the first care of the physician
+ is to reduce and keep his patient low, in order to check the
+ velocity and whirl of his thoughts; and if possible to
+ procure sleep, by quieting the internal turbulency. If all
+ his skill and efforts fail, such a person is as much lost to
+ society as if he were dead. Now if such an one were plunged
+ into water, and there kept until he was apparently dead, and
+ was then recovered by the usual methods (and of which
+ recovery we have now a moral certainty) I am apt to believe
+ we should behold a perfect cure. There is, I own, something
+ shocking to nature in the experiment; but if the patient be
+ already lost, and dead to society, why should we hesitate a
+ moment to make the trial, when the probability of succeeding
+ is so flattering?
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ July 12, 1791.
+
+It would be interesting to see the punch-bowl out of which the members
+of Congress drank in 1811, on the day succeeding the marriage of Mr. and
+Mrs. Pearson.
+
+ At Washington, Hon. JOSEPH PEARSON, Esq. (Federal
+ Representative from N. Carolina), to Miss ELEANOR BRENT,
+ daughter of Robt. Brent, Esq., Mayor of the city.-- --> _The
+ greater part of the members, the next day, left the business
+ of the nation to attend the punch drinking, so that the
+ House adj'd at an early hour_. Dec. 13, 1811.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+As the following lines have the indorsement of a Hartford paper, we
+venture to reproduce them:--
+
+ From the New-York Daily Advertiser, May 10.
+
+ DESCRIPTION OF CONNECTICUT.
+
+ HERE fond remembrance stampt her much lov'd names,
+ Here boasts the soil its _London_ and its _Thames_;
+ Throughout her shores commodious ports abound,
+ Clear flow the waters of the varying ground;
+ Cold nipping winds a lengthen'd winter bring,
+ Late rise the products of the tardy spring.
+ The broken soil a labouring race requires;
+ Each barren hill its generous crops admires,
+ Where nature meanly did her gifts impart,
+ Yet, smiling, owns how much she owes to art.
+
+ But keen as winds that guide the wintry reign,
+ All bow to lucre, all are bent on gain;
+ As chance decreed, their various lots are thrown;
+ Its house each acre, every mile its town;
+ With gilded spire the frequent church is seen,
+ Sacred to him that taught them to be keen;
+ Eternal squabblings grease the lawyer's paw,
+ All have their suits, and all have studied law;
+ With tongue that art and nature taught to speak,
+ Some rave in Latin, some dispute in Greek;
+ Proud of their books, in ancient lore they shine,
+ And one month's study makes a learn'd divine;
+ Fond to converse, with deep designing views,
+ They pump the travelling stranger of his news;
+ Fond of his wit, but fonder to be paid,
+ Each house a tavern, claims a tavern's trade;
+ While he that comes, as surely hears them praise
+ The hospitality of modern days.
+
+ Yet brave in arms, of enterprising soul,
+ They tempt old Neptune to the farthest pole;
+ In learning's walks explore the mazy way
+ (For genius here has shed his golden ray);
+ In war's bold arts thro' various contests try'd,
+ True to themselves, they took their country's side,
+ And, party feuds dismiss'd, join to agree
+ That scepter only just that left them free.
+
+ _Connecticut Courant,_ July 14, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Errors of the press.
+
+ The following paragraphs will shew how completely the sense
+ is altered by the omission of a single letter of the word in
+ Italics.
+
+ "The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed with
+ considerable _laughter_."
+
+ "Robert Jones was yesterday brought before the sitting
+ Magistrate, on a charge of having spoken _reason_ at the
+ Barleymow public-house."
+
+ "In consequence of the numerous accidents occasioned by
+ skaiting on the Serpentine River, measures are taking to put
+ a _top_ to it."
+
+ "When Miss Leserve, late of Covent Garden Theatre, visited
+ the 'Hecla,' she was politely drawn up the ship's side by
+ means of a _hair_."
+
+ "At the Guildhall dinner, none of the poultry was eatable
+ except the _owls_."
+
+ "A gentleman was yesterday brought up to answer a charge of
+ having _eaten_ a hackney-coachman for having demanded more
+ than his fare; and another was accused of having stolen a
+ small _ox_ out of the Bath mail; the stolen property was
+ found in his waistcoat pocket."
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1827.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _A CURIOSITY._
+
+ "We have often heard of the Lord's Prayer being written in
+ the compass of a shilling, but have lately seen a piece of
+ paper of that dimension, which contains, in manuscript, the
+ Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, Psalms 117,
+ 120, 127, 131, 132, 134, and 150; 9th chapter of Proverbs,
+ Prayer of St. Chrysostom, two Collects, Prayer for the
+ Royal Family, Nobility, Clergy, &c., &c., the Blessing, and
+ Junior, 1702, the name of the writer. This curiosity is in
+ the possession of Mr. John Reeder, of Brighton, who being an
+ auctioneer at a sale where it was lately sold, purchased it
+ on very easy terms. It is not legible without a good glass."
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ June 5, 1790. _Eng. pap._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In an old Salem paper we find the following:
+
+ --> We understand the number of deaths in this town the past
+ year was 234, of which 15 died abroad.
+
+This reminds us of the curious jumble made in the first edition of
+Morse's "American Gazetteer," published in Boston in 1797. In the
+description of Albany, N.Y., it says: "This city and suburbs, by
+enumeration in 1797, contained 1,263 buildings, of which 863 were
+dwelling-houses and 6,021 inhabitants. Many of them are in the Gothic
+style with the gable end to the street, which custom the first settlers
+brought from Holland."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ The earliest American writer of whom we have any information
+ was Peter Bulkley, who was born in England in 1583 and died
+ in 1659 in Massachusetts, and wrote Latin Poetry and
+ Sermons. The earliest poetic volume written in this country
+ was by Anne Bradstreet, of Boston, born 1612, died 1672.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The author of these lines must have been one of the old school.
+
+ [_The following was paid for as an Advertisement._]
+
+ The folloing lines were Presented to A lat skull mistres in
+ this town by 4 of her skolers the morning after her mareg
+
+ MAY all Joiy and happiness Vait
+ To attend your nuptal stat
+ you our instructer and the Guid
+ of our early youth beside
+ as you Quit the plas
+ wich you fild with euery Gras.
+ Our Grateful Thanks are sure your due.
+ Except them thearfor from us fue.
+ Whos shur to you that pras is due.
+ Must euery sorro euery Cear be yourn
+ Forbid it Heauin and let it turn
+ to peas and Joiys next to diuin
+ Rise Glorious euery futer Sun
+ and Bless your days with Joiys as this has dun
+ let sorrows sese and Joiys tak plas
+ to briten euery futer day with equil Gras
+ and wen your cald from hence above
+ may you inioy your souors Loue
+ wee ever shall regrat our los
+ and yet with you wee all reioyss
+
+ _Essex Gazette,_ May 14, 1771.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston school-books in 1790.
+
+ The School Committee in Boston have ordered that the
+ following Books be used in the Reading Schools of that town,
+ viz.
+
+ The HOLY BIBLE;
+ WEBSTER's SPELLING-BOOK;
+ The Young Ladies' ACCIDENCE;
+ Webster's American SELECTION of Lessons in Reading and Speaking;
+ The CHILDREN'S FRIEND;
+ MORSE's GEOGRAPHY abridged; and
+ The NEWSPAPERS, occasionally.
+
+ _Salem Gazette._
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANECDOTE.
+
+ WHEN Oliver Cromwell first coined his money, an old cavalier
+ looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inscription on
+ one side, _God with us_; on the other side, _The
+ Commonwealth of England_. I see, said he, _God and the
+ Commonwealth are on different sides._
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ June 26, 1787.
+
+Two different ways of telling a story.
+
+ _Anecdote_. A CLERGYMAN, who in the Matrimonial Lottery had
+ drawn much worse than a _blank_, and, without the patience
+ of Socrates, had to encounter the turbulent spirit of
+ Xantippe, was interrupted in the middle of a _Curtain
+ Lecture_, by the arrival of a pair, requesting his
+ assistance to introduce them to the _blessed_ state of
+ Wedlock. The poor Priest, actuated at the moment by his own
+ feelings and particular _experience_, rather than a sense of
+ canonical duty, opened the book, and began: "_Man, that is
+ born of a Woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full
+ of trouble, &c., &c.,_" repeating the _burial_ service. The
+ astonished Bridegroom exclaimed, "Sir! Sir! you mistake, I
+ came here to be _married_, not _buried_!" "Well (replied the
+ Clergyman), if you insist on it, I am _obliged_ to marry
+ you--but believe me, my friend, you had _better_ be
+ _buried_."
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ March 12, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANECDOTE. It is doubtless recollected that Dean Swift,
+ though a great favorite among the ladies, was (no doubt for
+ good and substantial reasons) nevertheless a bachelor. His
+ opinion of the married state seemed to be not very much
+ exalted. On one occasion, he had been called upon to marry a
+ couple, and after getting them properly arranged, commenced
+ as follows: "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short
+ time to live, and is full of misery," &c. "My dear sir,"
+ interrupted the bridegroom, "you are reading the burial
+ service, instead of the matrimonial." "Never mind, friend,"
+ whispered the Dean, "_you had better be buried than
+ married_."
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ AN OPPOSITION.
+
+ Dryden and Otway lived opposite to each other in
+ Queen-street. Otway coming one night from the tavern,
+ chalked upon Dryden's door, _Here lives John Dryden, he is a
+ wit_. Dryden knew his hand writing, and next day chalked on
+ Otway's door, _Here lives Tom Otway, he is oppo-site._
+
+ _Essex Register,_ 1802.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Specimens of old time newspaper poetry.
+
+ To a LADY who admired dancing.
+
+ _MAY I presume in humble lays,
+ My dancing fair, thy steps to praise?
+ While this grand maxim I advance,
+ That all the world is but a dance,
+ That human-kind, both man and woman,
+ Do_ dance _is evident and common.
+ David himself, that God-like king,
+ We know could_ dance, _as well as_ sing.
+ _Folks who at court would keep their ground,
+ Must dance the year attendance round.
+ All nature is one_ ball, _we find:
+ The water dances to the wind;
+ The sea itself at night and noon
+ Rises and capers to the moon;
+ The moon around the earth does tread
+ A Cheshire round in buxom red;
+ The earth and planets round the sun_
+ Dance, _nor will their_ dance _be done
+ 'Till nature in one mass is blended;
+ Then we may say the_ ball _is ended._
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ July 29, 1788.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE FOUNT.
+
+ --> THE following--from the pen of a fair
+ correspondent--cannot be read without PLEASURE and
+ IMPROVEMENT.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LINES FOR A SCREEN._
+
+ TO BE WRITTEN BENEATH THE FIGURE OF "MINERVA HOLDING A CROWN
+ OF OLIVE."
+
+ Ah! lovely Ladies--while with care
+ Ye guard from harm your FACES fair;
+ While spreads the airy PARASOL
+ To shield you from the beams of SOL;
+ And many a FAN and VEIL and BLIND
+ Protect from each intrusive wind:--
+ And whilst ye deign to intervene
+ Twixt you and fire, the humble SCREEN!--
+ Oh! strive alike to guard your _hearts_
+ From VICE, and all her wily arts.
+ Your parasol let VIRTUE prove,
+ To ward th' attacks of _lawless_ love--
+ Prudence will prove a _screen_ to thee,
+ And let thy VEIL be MODESTY.
+ Attend my words, ye Fair, for know,
+ This _Crown_ shall grace the worthiest brow.
+
+ ORA.
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ July 27, 1814.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the_ GAZETTE _of the_ U. STATES.
+
+
+ IMPROMPTU.
+
+ _On seeing a young Lady darning Stockings._
+
+ ALONG the stocking's foot, with ease and grace
+ Your fingers, lovely Mira, when you move,
+ On them with eye admiring I will gaze,
+ And drink deep draughts of all resistless love.
+
+ Assume thy gloves, my most enchanting fair,
+ When next your stockings you begin to mend,
+ For though full white the hose, they yet appear
+ As saffron yellow, near thy lily hand.
+
+ As constant as your all obedient thread
+ Does thy bright needle's devious path pursue,
+ So does each thought of my poor brainless head
+ For ever dwell, divinest nymph, on you.
+
+ Oft as thy needles pierce the yielding hose,
+ So oft thy beauties pierce my yielding breast:
+ Oh then compassionate my deep felt woes,
+ And bid awhile the polish'd needle rest.
+
+ Or if one idle minute you disdain,
+ On me be exercis'd your mending art,
+ Yes, lovely maid, to ease of my pain,
+ Come, darn the hole that rankles in my heart.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ August 26, 1800.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE WHITE CLOVER.
+
+ BY A LADY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
+
+ THERE is a little perfum'd flower,
+ It well might grace the lovliest bower,
+ Yet poet never deign'd to sing
+ Of such a humble, rustic thing.
+ Nor is it strange, for it can show
+ Scarcely one tint of Iris' bow:
+ Nature, perchance, in careless hour,
+ With pencil dry, might paint the flower;
+ Yet instant blush'd, her fault to see,
+ So gave a double fragrancy;
+ Rich recompence for aught denied!
+ Who would not homely garb abide,
+ If gentlest soul were breathing there,
+ Blessings through all its little sphere?
+ Sweet flower! the lesson thou hast taught,
+ Shall check each proud, ambitious thought,
+ Teach me internal worth to prize,
+ Though found in lowliest, rudest guise.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ June 27, 1815.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _CASTALIAN FOUNT._
+
+ AMERICAN POETRY.
+
+ A FRAGMENT.
+
+ _The following beautiful lines were written on the death of
+ a young lady in Pennsylvania, whose dissolution was
+ occasioned by her mistaking a poisonous mineral for the
+ flower of sulphur, and swallowing a spoonfull:_
+
+ THUS, o'er the tomb of what she held most dear,
+ The weeping muse no common sorrow pours;
+ No common anguish prompts the falling tear--
+ No common virtues those she now deplores.
+
+ Dear hapless girl, was there no saving power?
+ Where was your guardian angel--where your friend?
+ Could nought prevent the fatal destin'd hour?
+ Nor pitying Heaven would hear or succour lend.
+
+ Then, if nor Heaven _would_ hear--nor friends _could_ save,
+ Be still, my heart, nor breathe another sigh;
+ Drop the last tear upon her early grave,
+ And let it teach you--that _the best must die_.
+
+ --> _A few original favours from our poetick friends would
+ be very acceptable._
+
+ _Massachusetts Centinel,_ March 28, 1789.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the New York Daily Advertiser._
+
+ _The Sailor Boy._
+
+ Dark flew the scud along the wave,
+ And echoing thunders rend the sky;
+ All hands aloft! to meet the storm,
+ At midnight was the boatswain's cry.
+
+ On deck flew every gallant tar,
+ But one--bereft of ev'ry joy;
+ Within a hammock's narrow bound,
+ Lay stretch'd this hapless SAILOR BOY.
+
+ Once, when the Boatswain pip'd all hands,
+ The first was he, of all the crew,
+ On deck to spring--to trim the sail--
+ To steer--to reef--to furl or clue.
+
+ Now fell disease had seiz'd a form
+ Which nature cast in finest mould;
+ The midwatch bell now smote his heart,
+ His last, his dying knell it toll'd.
+
+ "O God!" he cried, and gasp'd for breath,
+ "Ere yet my soul shall cleave the skies,
+ "Are there no parents--brethren--near,
+ "To close, in death, my weary eyes?
+
+ "All hands aloft to brave the storm,
+ "I hear the wintry tempest roar;"
+ He rais'd his head to view the scene,
+ And backward fell, to rise no more.
+
+ The morning sun in splendour rose.
+ The gale was hush'd and still'd the wave;
+ The Sea-boy, far from all his friends,
+ Was plung'd into a wat'ry grave.
+
+ But He, who guards the Sea-boy's head,
+ He, who can save or can destroy,
+ Snatch'd up to Heav'n the purest soul
+ That e'er adorn'd a SAILOR BOY.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Oct. 29, 1805.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ EARLY RISING.
+
+ WIVES, _awake! unveil your eyes;
+ Sluggards, no more yawning;
+ See the Delphick god arise,
+ Bright Apollo dawning._
+
+ _Husbands, rouse at love's alarms,
+ Drowsy slumbers scorning;
+ Rovers, quit your favourite charms,
+ Up! behold, 'tis morning._
+
+ _Virgins fair, have at your hearts;
+ Hymen's torch is flaming;
+ Cupid whets his pointed darts,
+ And look! the rogue is aiming._
+
+ _Fair the bud of beauty blows,
+ Mellow sweets are palling;
+ Crown us with the virgin rose,
+ And so prevent its falling._
+
+ _See the charms that nature yields;_
+ Why _sleep away your duty?
+ Arise! the fragrance of the fields
+ Is friendly to your beauty._
+
+ _Lads, for shame! abed till now!
+ Forsake them, and be wiser;
+ There's health and pleasure, you'll allow,
+ In being an early riser._
+
+ _Bound with ivy, bound with vines,
+ Youth serenely passes;
+ Bacchus round our temples twines,
+ And sparkles in our glasses._
+
+ _No longer drown the mind in sleep;
+ But breathe the vernal air!
+ Our hours may thus improvement reap,
+ And who has any t' spare_?
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ May 17, 1788.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the New Monthly Magazine._
+
+ =On seeing a Tomb adorned with Angels weeping.=
+
+ Though sculptors, with mistaken art,
+ Place weeping Angels round the tomb;
+ Yet, when the good and great depart,
+ These shout to bear their conquerors home.
+
+ Glad they survey their labours o'er,
+ And hail them to their native skies;
+ Attend their passage to the shore,
+ And with their mounting spirits rise.
+
+ Britain may mourn her Patriot dead,
+ And pour her sorrows o'er his dust:
+ But streaming eyes, and drooping head,
+ Ill suit those guardians of the just.
+
+ Parents may shed a tender tear,
+ And friends indulge a parting groan;
+ If these in mimic form appear,
+ Such pious grief becomes the stone.
+
+ But if the wounded marble bear
+ Celestial forms to grace the urn,
+ Let triumph in their eyes appear,
+ Nor dare to make an angel mourn.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1819.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Varieties.
+
+ _Origin of the word_ DUN.--Dunny, in the provincial dialect
+ of several countries, signifies deaf: to dun, then, perhaps
+ may mean, to deafen with importunate demands. Some derive it
+ from the word _donnez_, which signifies _give_; but the true
+ original meaning of the word owes its birth to one Joe Dun,
+ a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active
+ and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb,
+ when a man refused to pay, "Why do you not _dun_ him?" that
+ is, Why do not you set _Dun_ to arrest him?--Hence it became
+ a cant-word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry
+ VII. Dun was also the general name of hangman, before that
+ of Jack-ketch.
+
+ And presently a halter got,
+ Made of the best strong hempen tear,
+ And e'er a cat could lick her ear,
+ Had tied it up with as much art,
+ As Dun himself could do for 's heart.
+
+ COTTON'S VIRGIL TRA. BOOK iv.
+
+ It is curious to observe that _Dun_, who, as we said before,
+ was _finisher of the law_ in the reign of Henry VII., had a
+ son, who became a bailiff--This bailiff having scraped some
+ money together, made his son an attorney, who changed the
+ name of _Dun_ to _Dunning_--the rest of the genealogy are
+ well known.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Aug. 29, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Biographical Correctness_.--As a specimen of the accurate
+ way in which Biographical Dictionaries are made up, the
+ Enquirer refers to Dr. Watkins' volume, in which he writes
+ down that John Adams "died in 1803."--And yet for 23 years
+ after this date, the old patriarch was living in health and
+ happiness. A still more ludicrous blunder appeared a few
+ years since in a French Biographical Dictionary, in which it
+ was stated that the now venerable John Jay, who yet lives
+ full of years and full of honors, was a Frenchman, who,
+ after having framed the Constitution of the State of
+ New-York, and witnessed the close of the American
+ revolution, returned to France--became a member of the
+ French Convention, and was finally brought to the
+ guillotine!--_N.Y. Com. Adv._
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Sept. 18, 1826.
+
+ The works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to
+ any but Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German,
+ just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of
+ his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled
+ him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went
+ to John Paul himself and asked him what was the meaning of
+ the mysterious passage.--John Paul's reply was very German
+ and characteristic: "My good friend," said he, "when I wrote
+ that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible
+ that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally
+ forgotten."
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Oct. 9, 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ORIGIN OF "FOOLSCAP" PAPER. It is known that Charles I. of
+ England, granted numerous monopolies for the support of his
+ government. Among others was the privilege of manufacturing
+ paper. The water mark of the finest sort was the royal arms
+ of England. The consumption of this article was great at
+ this time, and large fortunes were made by those who had
+ purchased the exclusive right to vend it. This, among other
+ monopolies, was set aside by the parliament that brought
+ Charles to the scaffold, and by way of showing their
+ contempt for the king, they ordered the royal arms to be
+ taken from the paper, and a fool, with his cap and bells, to
+ be substituted. It is now more than an hundred and
+ seventy-five years since the fool's cap and bells were taken
+ from the paper, but still, paper of the size which the Rump
+ Parliament ordered for the journals bears the name of the
+ water mark then ordered as an indignity to Charles.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A new version of "Yankee Doodle," from the "Salem Gazette,"
+ July, 1811.
+
+ YANKEY SONG.
+
+ [_The following song was composed a few years since by a
+ gentleman then one of the officers of the Salem regiment, to
+ be sung at the military celebration of the 4th of July. Its
+ wit and pleasantry continues it a favorite with the Yankies,
+ and it was again sung by the Military at Lynn Hotel, and by
+ the Federalists at Washington Hall, on the late
+ anniversary._]
+
+ I.
+
+ Yankey Doodle is the tune
+ Americans delight in;
+ 'Twill do to whistle, sing, or play,
+ And just the thing for fighting.
+
+ CHORUS.
+
+ _Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
+ Down outside--up the middle--
+ Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
+ _Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._
+
+ II.
+
+ Should Great Britain, Spain, or France
+ Wage war upon our shore, sir,
+ We'll lead them such a _woundy_ dance,
+ They'll find their toes are sore, sir.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ III.
+
+ Should a haughty foe expect
+ To give our boys a caning,
+ We _guess_ they'll find our boys have _larnt_
+ A _little bit_ of training.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ IV.
+
+ I'll wager now a _mug of flip_,
+ And bring it on the table,
+ Put Yankey boys aboard a ship,
+ To beat them they are able.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ V.
+
+ Then if they go to _argufy._
+ I _rather guess_ they'll find, too,
+ We've got a set of _tonguey blades_,
+ T'out talk 'em, if _they're mind to._
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VI.
+
+ America's a _dandy_ place;
+ The people are all brothers;
+ And when one's got a _pumpkin pye_,
+ He shares it with the others.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VII.
+
+ We work, and sleep, and pray, in peace--
+ By industry we thrive, sir;
+ And if a drone won't do his part,
+ We'll scout him from the hive, sir.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VIII.
+
+ And then, on _Independent Day_,
+ (And who's a better right to?)
+ We eat and drink, and sing and play,
+ And have a dance at night, too.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ IX.
+
+ Our girls are fair, our boys are tough,
+ Our old folks wise and healthy;
+ And when we've every thing we want,
+ We _count_ that we are wealthy.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ X.
+
+ We're _happy_, _free_, and _well to do_,
+ And cannot want for knowledge;
+ For, almost ev'ry mile or two,
+ You find a _school_ or _college._
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ XI.
+
+ The land we till is all our own;
+ Whate'er the price, we paid it;
+ Therefore we'll fight _till all is blue_,
+ Should any dare invade it.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ XII.
+
+ Since we're so bless'd, let's eat and drink
+ With thankfulness and gladness:
+ Should we kick o'er our cup of joy,
+ It would be _sartin_ madness.
+
+ CHORUS.
+
+ _Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
+ Down outside, up the middle--
+ Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
+ _Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Going snacks."
+
+ At the time of the plague in London, a noted body searcher
+ lived whose name was _Snacks_. His business increased so
+ fast that, finding he could not compass it, he offered to
+ any person who should join him in his hardened practice half
+ the profits; thus, those who joined him were said to go with
+ _Snacks_. Hence going _snacks_, or dividing the spoil.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1823.
+
+ _A Word omitted by Webster_. In a history of the second
+ parish of Beverly, published not long since, a vote passed
+ in 1776, to take measures to collect the "behindments" of
+ certain persons in the parish, is noticed. "Behindments"
+ meant arrearages.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1837.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following curious collection belonged to Mr. Samuel McIntire, the
+architect of the South Meeting-House in Salem, whose spire is
+acknowledged to be one of the best proportioned and handsomest in New
+England:
+
+ _FOR SALE,_
+
+ SUNDRY Articles belonging to the Estate of SAMUEL MCINTIRE,
+ deceased.--VIZ.
+
+ 1 elegant BARREL ORGAN, 6 feet high, 10 barrels; 1 Wind Chest of
+ an Organ;
+ ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, complete;
+ Paladio's Architecture, best kind;
+ 1 Ware's do.; 1 Paine's do.;
+ 2 vols. French Architecture;
+ 1 large Book Antient Statues, excellent;
+ Lock Hospital Collection of Music;
+ Handel's Messiah, in score;
+ Harmonia Sacra;
+ Magdalen Hymns; Massachusetts Compiler;
+ 1 excellent toned SPINNET;
+ 1 excellent VIOLIN and Case;
+ 1 eight day CLOCK, Mahogany Case;
+ 12 Prints of the Seasons;
+ 1 book Drawings of Ships;
+ 1 large Head of Washington;
+ Number of Busts of the Poets;
+ 2 Figures of Hercules, 2 feet high;
+ 1 Head of Franklin, and Pillar, for a Sign;
+ Composition Ornaments;
+ Number of Moulding Planes, and sundry other Articles. Apply to
+
+ ELIZABETH M'INTIRE, _Adm'x_.
+ or to SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE, _Att'y_.
+
+ N.B.--The Subscriber carries on CARVING as usual at the Shop
+ of the deceased, in Summer-Street, where he will be glad to
+ receive orders in that line. He returns thanks for past
+ favors.
+
+ April 30 [1811]. SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Many years ago there was published in Boston a small volume entitled
+"Eliza Wharton, the Coquette. By a Lady of Massachusetts." It consisted
+of a series of letters said to be founded on fact. A young woman died at
+the Bell Tavern in Danvers in 1788, whose gravestone a few years ago
+might be seen in the old Danvers (now Peabody) burial-ground. We copy
+from the "Salem Mercury" of July 29, 1788, the following account:--
+
+ Last Friday, a female stranger died at the Bell Tavern, in
+ Danvers; and on Sunday her remains were decently interred.
+ The circumstances relative to this woman are such as excite
+ curiosity and interest our feelings. She was brought to the
+ Bell in a chaise, from Watertown, as she said, by a young
+ man whom she had engaged for that purpose. After she had
+ alighted, and taken a trunk with her into the house, the
+ chaise immediately drove off. She remained at this inn till
+ her death, in expectation of the arrival of her husband,
+ whom she expected to come for her, and appeared anxious at
+ his delay. She was averse to being interrogated concerning
+ herself or connexions; and kept much retired to her chamber,
+ employed in needle-work, writing, &c. She said, however,
+ that she came from Westfield, in Connecticut; that her
+ parents lived in that State; that she had been married only
+ a few months; and, that her husband's name was Thomas
+ Walker;--but always carefully concealed her family name. Her
+ linen was all marked E.W. About a fortnight before her
+ death, she was brought to bed of a lifeless child. When
+ those who attended her apprehended her fate, they asked her,
+ whether she did not wish to see her friends: She answered,
+ that she was very desirous of seeing them. It was proposed
+ that she should send for them; to which she objected,
+ hoping in a short time to be able to go to them. From what
+ she said, and from other circumstances, it appeared probable
+ to those who attended her, that she belonged to some country
+ town in Connecticut: Her conversation, her writings and her
+ manners, bespoke the advantage of a respectable family &
+ good education. Her person was agreeable; her deportment,
+ amiable & engaging; and, though in a state of anxiety and
+ suspense, she preserved a cheerfulness, which seemed to be
+ not the effect of insensibility, but of a firm and patient
+ temper. She was supposed to be about 35 years old. Copies of
+ letters, of her writing, dated at Hartford, Springfield, and
+ other places, were left among her things.--This account is
+ given by the family in which she resided; and it is hoped
+ the publication of it will be a means of her friends'
+ ascertaining her fate.
+
+Elizabeth Whitman was the real name of the stranger, and the following
+was the inscription on the stone:--
+
+ "This humble stone, in Memory of Elizabeth Whitman, is
+ inscribed by her weeping friends, to whom she endeared
+ herself by uncommon tenderness and affection. Endowed with
+ superior genius and acquirements, she was still more
+ endeared by humility and benevolence. Let candour throw a
+ veil over her frailities, for great was her charity to
+ others.--She sustained the last painful scene far from
+ every friend, and exhibited an example of calm resignation.
+ Her departure was on the 25th of July, A.D. 1788, in the
+ 37th year of her age, and the tears of strangers watered her
+ grave."
+
+Although we recollect seeing the stone some years ago, when the whole
+inscription could be read, we visited the spot in April, 1885, and found
+only a small portion left,--a triangular piece, perhaps a foot and a
+half high on one side, at the bottom of which we could only make out:
+"A.D. 1788, ... the tears of strangers watered her grave." For years,
+young persons of a romantic turn of mind have visited the grave and
+chipped off small pieces of the freestone for relics. This modern habit
+of chipping monumental stones for relics is inexcusable; for it is not
+done by ignorant or otherwise lawless persons, but too often by the
+educated, who carry their mawkish sentiment to such an extreme as to
+deface and sometimes, as in the present case, entirely to ruin a
+monument. It is in vain to urge that this was only a stranger's stone,
+and that there were none to care. It was all the more an outrage, if
+there were no friends to protect it. We are glad to learn that there
+were people in the town who did what they could to prevent this
+sacrilege.
+
+The following account of this unfortunate lady we take from Hanson's
+"History of Danvers:"--
+
+ "Elizabeth Whitman came from a very respectable family in
+ Connecticut, where her father was a clergyman. She was
+ possessed of an ardent poetical temperament, an inordinate
+ love of praise, and was gifted with the natural endowment of
+ beauty and perfect grace, while she was accomplished with
+ those refinements which education can bestow. She was lovely
+ beyond words. But her natural amiabilities were warped and
+ perverted by reading great numbers of romances, to the
+ exclusion of almost all other reading. She formed her idea
+ of men by the exaggerated standards she saw in the books to
+ which she resorted; and thus when she looked around her she
+ saw no one who realized her ideal. She subsequently became
+ intimate with a lawyer, said to be the Honourable (?) Judge
+ Pierpont Edwards."
+
+We next hear of her in Danvers, "where the novelty of her situation,"
+continues Hanson, "and her attractive beauty and manners during her
+short sojourn, caused the entire village and many from the neighboring
+towns to attend her funeral. A few weeks after her burial, an unknown
+hand erected the gravestone with its eloquent inscription." The stone is
+evidently Connecticut sandstone or freestone. Mr. Hanson says of the
+volume "Eliza Wharton": "The catchpenny volume of letters which pretend
+to give her history has but the figments of the imagination of its
+authoress to recommend it."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Picture of the old Bell Tavern in Danvers. From the "Salem Gazette,"
+January, 1781.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _Danvers, Jan. 1781._
+
+ Just published,
+ And to be SOLD by
+ E. RUSSELL,
+ at his Printing-Office,
+ near the Bell-Tavern;
+
+ _The Second Edition of
+ Russell's_ American ALMANACK,
+
+ For the Year of our Redemption, 1781.
+
+ Being First after Leap Year; and Fifth Year of Independency.
+ Fitted for the Meridian of Boston, N. E. Lat. 42: 25 N.
+ Wherein may be found all Things necessary for this Work.
+
+ To which is added, a Declaration of the Rights of the
+ Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, extracted
+ from the Frame of Government; and a List of the Chief
+ Officers of Government, which is thought necessary to be
+ possessed by every Freeman in this Commonwealth.
+
+ Calculated by that curious and accurate Astronomer, BENJAMIN
+ WEST, Esq; of Providence, State of Rhode-Island.
+
+ _At the same Place may also be had, just published;_
+
+ The Remarkable Captivity and Redemption of
+
+ ELIZABETH HANSON,
+
+ Wife of Mr. _John Hanson_ of _Knoxmarsh_ at _Kecheachy_, in
+ _Dover_ Township, who was taken Captive with her Children
+ and Maid-Servant, by the _Indians_ in _New-England_, in the
+ Year 1724.
+
+ IN WHICH ARE INSERTED
+
+ Sundry remarkable Preservations, Providences, and Marks of
+ Care and Kindness of Providence over her and her Children,
+ worthy to be remembered.
+
+ _The Substance of which was taken from her own Mouth, and
+ now published for general Service._
+
+ THE THIRD EDITION,
+
+ Also, an entertaining Narrative of the cruel and barbarous
+ Treatment and extreme Sufferings of
+
+ Mr. JOHN DODGE,
+
+ During his Captivity of many Months among the _British_, at
+ _Detroit_.
+
+ IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,
+
+ A particular Detail of the Sufferings of a Virginian, who
+ died in their Hands.
+
+ _Written by himself; and now published to satisfy the
+ Curiosity of every one throughout the_ United States.
+
+ THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+ *** All the above Books, with a Variety of other small
+ Books, &c. will be sold to Shop keepers, Travelling-Traders,
+ &c. at the very lowest Rate, if they purchase by the
+ Hundred, Groce or Dozen.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In these sceptical and agnostic days it may sound a little strange, and
+perhaps to some seem quite absurd, that the authorities of Harvard in
+1791 felt obliged publicly to deny that Gibbon's History was used as a
+text-book at the University. But with the exception perhaps of Tom
+Paine, no one in this country had then ventured to assail the literal
+interpretation of the Scriptures. Probably the masses of the people
+then believed that "Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still,
+and they obeyed him," that Jonah was swallowed by the whale, and that
+
+ "In Adam's fall,
+ We sinned all."
+
+Of course there were exceptions. Therefore, although Gibbon might be an
+able writer, it was not safe for young men to study his works, simply
+because he had thrown doubt or derision on the Christian miracles. So
+when it was reported that a growing liberality of sentiment was being
+manifested at Cambridge, and that Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" was to be
+used, doubtless no little excitement was roused; and hence the notice.
+Before this time doubts concerning many cherished doctrines had been
+openly expressed in Boston, Cambridge, Salem, and other places; but
+Gibbon had rejected and attacked the whole Christian system as false,
+which was a very different matter.
+
+ _For the CENTINEL._
+
+ MR. RUSSELL,
+
+ A WRITER in the CENTINEL of the last _Saturday_, under the
+ signature of _Christianus_, says, "that an abridgment of
+ GIBBON'S history (if his information be true) is directed
+ to make a part of the studies of the young gentlemen at our
+ University." I now beg leave, through the channel of your
+ paper, to acquaint that writer, as also the publick, that
+ his information is _not true_. The system taught is MILLOT'S
+ _Elements_ of _General History, ancient and modern_, and
+ GIBBON'S history was never thought of for the purpose.
+
+ JOSEPH WILLARD, _President._
+ _Cambridge, Nov._ 14, 1791.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE CHOLERA.--It is worthy of remark that the word occurs in
+ two passages of the Bible, both in Ecclesiasticus, and both
+ places in connexion with directions and exhortations to a
+ sober temperate mode of living, which is still recommended
+ as the best preservative against this disorder.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1832.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The character of Boston ladies in 1788 is set forth in a letter in the
+"Herald of Freedom." The writer gives his observations on the error of
+committing children too much to the care of nurses; also makes reference
+to teaching the catechism, etc., showing the value of early religious
+training. There can be no doubt, we think, that the old methods were in
+some respects superior to the present, where in many cases young
+children are left to Sunday-school teachers, or, as is often the case,
+receive no religious instruction whatever, for fear, as we have often
+heard it stated, that they might imbibe some false doctrinal notions at
+an age when the deepest impressions are made.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _For the_ HERALD _of_ FREEDOM.
+
+ LETTER IX.
+
+ DEAR PIERRE,
+
+ No moments glide away more agreeably than those that are
+ employed in writing to a friend. Happy am I in having
+ frequent opportunities of exhibiting my sentiments to you,
+ and in return receiving yours, which palliates in some
+ degree, the sorrow our separation occasions.----The glaring
+ absurdities of the dress of the Boston ladies, occupied the
+ greatest part of my two last letters. It is but just to say
+ something of their more laudable qualities; amongst which,
+ maternal affection deservedly claims precedence.--The
+ barbarous customs of Europe, in this particular, have not as
+ yet, and I hope never will be, practised here. Mothers in
+ this country are so much attached to their tender offspring,
+ as to forego all the pleasures of life (or rather what are
+ so termed in Europe) in attending to their nurture, from
+ which they derive the most superlative of all enjoyments,
+ the heart-felt satisfaction of having done their duty to
+ their God and country, in giving robust, healthy and
+ virtuous citizens to the State. The effeminacy of exotic
+ fashion has not at present extended its pernicious influence
+ so far as to induce them to commit the rearing of their
+ children to mercenary nurses, who are sometimes the very
+ dregs of a people; and whose vicious habits of taking a drop
+ of the _good creature to drown sorrow_, does not promise
+ redundancy of health and vigour to those suckled by them--on
+ the contrary, children thus unnaturally thrown from the arms
+ of a parent into those of a nurse, are, almost without
+ exception, weak and puny; of irrascible tempers and vicious
+ inclinations.--Nor does the attention of the ladies expire
+ with the infancy of their children--they still are unwearied
+ in instructing them as they increase in years, and
+ assiduously endeavour to inculcate principles of virtue into
+ their young minds at a time when they are most liable to
+ make a deep impression--to accomplish which, they never fail
+ to teach them the catechism, Lord's prayer, &c. &c. all of
+ which they oblige them to learn, because they are perfectly
+ adapted to their comprehension, though many parts of the
+ catechism are altogether incomprehensible to most
+ adults.--Yet this is not strange to those who credit the
+ scriptures; nor does it appear the least inconsistent--for
+ there it says, "God hath chosen the foolish things of this
+ world to confound the wise."--Therefore, the wonder that
+ children should be able to _understand_ that, which is the
+ _foundation_ of all polemical divinity, vanishes, when we
+ try it by the touchstone of scripture, which is the
+ criterion by which we ought to judge.--When they are thus
+ instructed in the rudiments of virtue, they are seldom known
+ to apostatize; so that for a native to become dissolute and
+ abandoned, is very rare.--Indeed they have characters of
+ this kind who emigrate from old countries; but they soon
+ find employment for such gentry, by obliging them to labour
+ for the publick good, and "work out their salvation by the
+ sweat of their brow."--Thus the community is not only
+ delivered from such pests, but experience beneficial effects
+ from their confinement. Knavery, though rarely found in a
+ native, is not entirely extirpated from the breasts of some
+ among them.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Remarkable instances of longevity.
+
+ LONGEVITY. Mafeus, who wrote the history of the Indies,
+ which has always been a model of veracity as well as elegant
+ composition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Numas de
+ Cugna, who died 1566, at the age of 370. He was a man of
+ great simplicity and quite illiterate; but of so extensive a
+ memory, that he was a kind of living chronicle, relating
+ distinctly and exactly what had happened within his
+ knowledge in the compass of his life, together with all the
+ circumstances attending it. He had four new sets of teeth;
+ and the color of his hair and beard had been very
+ frequently changed from black to grey, and from grey to
+ black. He asserted that in the course of his life, he had
+ 700 wives, some of whom had died, and the others he had put
+ away. The first century of his life passed in idolatry, from
+ which he was converted to Mahometanism, which he continued
+ to profess to his death.--The account is also confirmed by
+ another Portuguese author, Ferdinand Lopez Casteguedo, who
+ was historiographer royal.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Feb. 22, 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON, May 28.
+
+ _Remarkable Instances of Longevity in Europe._
+
+ THOMAS PARRE, of Shropshire, died on the 16th of November,
+ 1635, aged 152.
+
+ James Bowes, of Killinworth, in Shropshire, died the 15th of
+ August, 1656, aged 152.
+
+ Anonymous, of Yorkshire, aged 140, and his son, aged 100,
+ were both living, and attended to give evidence at York
+ Assize, in 1664.
+
+ F. Sagar, of Lancashire, died in January, 1668, aged 112.
+
+ Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, died on the 8th of December,
+ 1670, aged 169.
+
+ Robert Montgomery, of Yorkshire, was living in 1670, aged
+ 126.
+
+ Countess of Desmond, Ireland, aged 140.
+
+ Mr. Ecleston, of Ireland, died 1691, aged 143.
+
+ Mr. Lawrence, of Scotland, living, aged 140.
+
+ Mary Gore, born at Collinworth, in Yorkshire, lived 100
+ years in Ireland, and died at Dublin in 1727, aged 125.
+
+ Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died about 1748, aged 137.
+
+ Simon Sack, of Trionia, died on the 30th of May, 1761, aged
+ 141.
+
+ Col. Thomas Winsloe, of Ireland, died on the 12th of August,
+ 1766, aged 156.
+
+ Francis Consist, of Yorkshire, died in January, 1768, aged
+ 150.
+
+ Francis Bons, of France, died on the 6th of February, 1769,
+ aged 124.
+
+ Christopher Jacob Drakenberg, of Norway, a boatswain in the
+ Danish navy, died on the 24th of June, 1770, aged 146.
+
+ Margaret Forster, of Cumberland, aged 136.
+
+ Gen. Oglethorpe died in August last, aged 103.
+
+ A goldsmith, of France, died in June, 1776, aged 140.
+
+ Mary Yates, of Shropshire, died in 1776, aged 128.
+
+ John Brookley, of Devonshire, living in 1777, aged 134.
+
+ Miss Ellis, daughter of Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died in 1781,
+ aged 104.
+
+ Mr. Froome, of Holms-Chapel, in Cheshire, died in May last,
+ aged 125.
+
+ Mary M'Donald, county of Down, in Ireland, died on the 16th
+ of June last, aged 118.
+
+ Mary Cameron, of Invernessshire, in Scotland, died in July
+ last, aged 130.
+
+ Miss Ellis, of Richmond, in Surrey, living on the 16th of
+ August last, aged 105.
+
+ Mr. Rowe, at Nutwell-House, in Scotland, died in August
+ last, aged 106.
+
+ Donald McKeen, of Argyleshire, in Scotland, died in
+ September last, aged 109.
+
+ John Button, of Liverpool, died on the 18th of November
+ last, the oldest burgess of that borough upon record; he
+ lived in six reigns, being born in the reign of James II.
+
+ Mr. Smith, a farmer, at Dolver, in Montgomeryshire, died in
+ November last, aged 103: He was never known to drink any
+ thing but buttermilk.
+
+ John Follart, woolcomber, at Norney, near the city of
+ Exeter, living and in good health on the 30th of November
+ last, aged 121; he works still at his business, and retains
+ his faculties.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
+
+ _Instances of Longevity in America._
+
+ In South-America there was said, in the year 1785, to be a
+ negro woman living, aged about 175; she remembered her first
+ master, who died in 1615, and that he gave her away with
+ some other property towards sounding a school.
+
+ Some years ago there was living in Virginia, a native of
+ Ireland, who at the age of 109, was able to work at the
+ taylor's trade without spectacles; and what renders this
+ case more remarkable, he was naturally very intemperate, and
+ would get drunk as often as he could get liquor.
+
+ In the year 1776, died one Mr. Payne, in Fairfax, Virginia,
+ upwards of 100 years of age.
+
+ Died, November, 1782, in this city, Mr. Edward Drinker,
+ almost 102, being born December 24, 1680, in Philadelphia.
+
+ In the year 1782, there was living, near this city (and
+ perhaps may be still living) a healthy negro woman, able to
+ walk several miles in a day, and wash clothes, who was then,
+ as near as she could tell, about 103.----She remembers her
+ being brought to this city before any houses were built
+ here.
+
+ Died last summer, in New-York, Mrs. Slock, aged 108 years
+ and one half.
+
+ Last winter died at Jones's creek, a branch of Pee Dee, in
+ North-Carolina, Mr. Mathew Bayley, aged 136: he was baptised
+ when 134 years old; had good eye sight, strength of body and
+ mind until his death.
+
+ There was a woman living last winter, in Uxbridge, state of
+ Massachusetts, of the name of Aldrich, and likely to live
+ many years, who has 12 children, all living, and has lived
+ till 25 of the fifth generation are born, the eldest of
+ which is more than eleven years of age.
+
+ Died on Tuesday the 1st inst. at Hudson, in New-York, Mrs.
+ Christina de Lametter, in the 94th year of her age. She died
+ merely of old age, without any kind of disease or fever; but
+ descended very slowly and patiently to the bottom of the
+ hill of life. She was a woman, who, through life, has been
+ remarkable for her silent resignation to the divine will.
+ What renders the last part of her life remarkable, is, that
+ she lived 39 days without any sustenance whatever, except
+ about two spoonfuls of wine with water daily; the vital
+ motions and functions being so near a cessation, that the
+ solids needed no reparation; yet she retained all her senses
+ to the last moment.
+
+ In the year 1774, died at Danvers, in Massachusetts, Mr.
+ ---- Nelson, aged 106 years.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8.
+
+ A widow lately died near Landscrone, aged 118 years. She
+ continued to get a livelihood by spinning till she was 116.
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ Nov. 25, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ DINNER IN "OLD TIMES."
+
+It was an old custom in New England to begin dinner with pudding instead
+of soup. Many persons of the last generation may remember, as the writer
+distinctly does, seeing old people who still adhered to this practice as
+late certainly as from 1850 to 1860. The writer was once at a dinner
+where all the family began with soup except the father, a gentleman of
+the old school, who had a piece cut from a fresh-baked plum-pudding. He
+remarked to the company that such had always been his practice; and so
+he excused himself for keeping to his own fashion of dining. The custom
+of eating pudding before meat is still very common in Yorkshire,
+England. The following extract from a Boston paper of 1819 shows that
+John Adams, in 1817, kept up the old style of dinner, which, as might
+perhaps be imagined, was not confined to the common people, so called.
+
+In "old times" it was customary to say to children, "Those who eat the
+most pudding shall have the most meat."
+
+ _Extract from the "Narrative of a Journey of 5000 miles
+ through the Eastern and Western States of America," in
+ 1817.--By Henry B. Fearon, an Englishman._
+
+ PRESIDENT ADAMS.
+
+ The ex-president is a handsome old gentleman of eighty-four;
+ his lady is seventy-six: she has the reputation of superior
+ talents, and great literary acquirements. I was not
+ perfectly a stranger here, as a few days previous to this I
+ had received the honor of an hospitable reception at their
+ mansion. Upon the present occasion the minister (the day
+ being Sunday) was of the dinner party. As a table of a
+ "_late king_" may amuse some of you, take the following
+ particulars:--first course, a pudding made of Indian corn,
+ molasses and butter;--second, veal, bacon, neck of mutton,
+ potatoes, cabbages, carrots, and Indian beans; Madeira wine,
+ of which each drank two glasses. We sat down to dinner at
+ one o'clock; at two, nearly all went a second time to
+ church. For tea, we had pound cake, sweet bread and butter,
+ and bread made of Indian corn and rye, similar to our brown
+ home-made. Tea was brought from the kitchen, and handed
+ round by a neat white servant girl.
+
+ The establishment of this political patriarch consists of a
+ house two stories high, containing, I believe, eight rooms;
+ of two men and three maid servants; three horses and a plain
+ carriage. How great is the contrast between this individual,
+ a man of knowledge and information--without pomp, parade,
+ vitious and expensive establishments, as compared with the
+ costly trappings, the depraved characters, and the
+ profligate expenditure of ---- House, and ----! What a
+ lesson _in this_ does America teach! There are now in this
+ land no less than three Cincinnati!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Hogs in New York streets.
+
+ Yesterday forenoon, while in Broadway, we witnessed another
+ instance of the impropriety of suffering Hogs to run at
+ large in our streets. A highly respectable and most worthy
+ young lady, was literally run down by a large Hog that was
+ pursued by a dog. In her fall, her breast struck the curb
+ stone, and she was considerably injured. After she had
+ partially recovered, the gentleman at whose store she had
+ made some purchases, kindly conveyed her to her father's
+ house in a carriage. The reader may easily imagine the
+ distressing effect produced on the mind of a fond parent, at
+ the sight of a darling child, whose pale cheeks plainly
+ indicated her situation. --> _What would not the citizens of
+ Boston say of their Police, if Hogs were permitted to run
+ loose in the streets_?
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ Boston [1817].
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ English blunders about America in 1802.
+
+ _From the_ (Newyork) EVENING POST.
+
+ SPECIMENS _of the_ IGNORANCE _and_ BLUNDERS _of_ English
+ Geographers, Tourists, _&c. &c. with respect to_ AMERICA.
+
+ THE Rev. R. Turner, who has published a book called
+ Classical Geography, gives the following account of the
+ cities of Philadelphia and Newyork. "Philadelphia, (says he)
+ is the finest and _best situated_ city in America,
+ containing _thirty thousand_ houses and one hundred and
+ twenty thousand inhabitants, who are mostly
+ quakers!!!"--"Newyork contains three thousand houses and
+ twelve thousand inhabitants!"
+
+ Another book, intitled Guthrie's improved Geography, after
+ setting forth in the preface that their (the Editors)
+ relation of America, will be found both satisfactory and
+ complete, as they have not only carefully examined the works
+ of the celebrated Morse, but likewise applied to several
+ other authentic sources, which have enabled them to give the
+ best information in the most satisfactory manner, states
+ that "the city of Newyork contains five thousand
+ inhabitants, chiefly of Dutch extraction." Here is pretty
+ strong evidence of the diligence of these London bookmakers,
+ as to applying to the most authentic sources of information,
+ as they profess to have done. An imposition of this kind in
+ any American publication, would afford a fine opportunity
+ for an English Reviewer to rail against our national
+ honesty.
+
+ The very last edition of Guthrie's original work, describing
+ the river Hudson, states that this river is navigable to
+ Albany, which is "_six hundred miles from Newyork_."
+
+ An English Tourist, whose name is not just now recollected,
+ has published a volume of his travels through the United
+ States, in which he speaks particularly of the orderly
+ manner in which Elections are conducted in the city of
+ Newyork. "On the appointed day, says he, all the citizens
+ take care to be at home at a certain hour, at which time the
+ inspectors of the election go through the city with ballot
+ boxes in their hands, and call at every door for votes,
+ whereupon the citizens step to their doors and deposit
+ their ballots in these same small boxes, which are
+ straightway carried to the City Hall; the votes are there
+ examined, and thus the election is determined in a few
+ hours, without uproar or inconvenience!!!"
+
+ An English Editor of a work, called the _German Museum_, in
+ his translation of some memoirs of Major Andre, records,
+ that this unfortunate officer was taken and hanged "_at the
+ west point of America_."
+
+ A London paper some time ago made mention of certain
+ improvements which were taking place in Newyork, with a view
+ to promote the health of the city, and observed that our
+ corporation were erecting a range of permanent wharves on
+ one side of the city, which were to extend from Corlear's
+ Hook to the Battery _along the Delaware River_!
+
+ Some notice shall be taken hereafter of the
+ misrepresentations and falsehoods of Laincourt, Weld, Bulow,
+ and a number of others, relative to the United States.
+
+ _An_ AMERICAN.
+ _Worcester Spy._
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SECRET LOVE.
+
+ _From a very rare volume of old Poetry._
+
+ The fountaines smoake, and yet no flame they shewe;
+ Starres shine all night though undeserned by daye;
+ And trees do spring yet are not seen to growe;
+ And shadowes move although they seem to staye;
+ In winters woe is buried summers bliss,
+ And love loves most, when love most secret is.
+
+ The stillest streame descries the greatest deepe;
+ The clearest skye is subject to a shower;
+ Conceit's most sweete, when as it seems to sleepe;
+ And fairest dayes do in the morning lower:
+ The silent groves, sweete nymphes theye cannot misse,
+ For love loves most, when love most secret is.
+
+ The rarest jewels hidden virtue yield.
+ The sweete of traffique is a secret game;
+ The yeere once old doth show a barren field
+ And plants seeme dead, and yet they spring again.
+ Cupid is blind; the reason why, is this,
+ Love loveth most, when love most secret is.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1827.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _George the Fourth_.--The attributes of this potentate, who
+ was the most popular monarch England has had for many years,
+ are thus severely described, by Thomas Jefferson in his
+ correspondence of 1789.
+
+ "He has not a single element of mathematics, of natural and
+ moral philosophy, or of any other science on earth, nor has
+ the society he kept been such as to supply the void of
+ education. It has been that of the lowest, the most
+ illiterate and profligate persons of the kingdom without
+ choice of rank or mind & with whom the subjects of
+ conversation are only horses, drinking matches, bawdy
+ houses, and in terms the most vulgar. The young nobility,
+ who begin by associating with him, soon leave him disgusted
+ with the insupportable profligacy of his society; and Mr.
+ Fox, who has been supposed his favorite, and not over nice
+ in the choice of his company, would never keep his company
+ habitually.
+
+ "He has not a single idea of justice, morality, religion or
+ of the rights of men, or any anxiety for the opinion of the
+ world. He carries that indifference to fame so far, that he
+ would probably not be hurt were he to lose his throne,
+ provided he could be assured of always having meat, drink,
+ horses & women."
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Aug. 26, 1830.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+President Stiles of Yale College on the public revenue.
+
+ _Extract from President STILES's Election Sermon._
+
+
+ BUT I pass on to another subject in which the welfare of a
+ community is deeply concerned, I mean the publick
+ _revenues_. National character and national faith depend on
+ these. Every people, every large community is able to
+ furnish a revenue adequate to the exigences of government.
+ But this is a most difficult subject; and what the happiest
+ method of raising it, is uncertain. One thing is certain,
+ that however in most kingdoms and empires the people are
+ taxed at the will of the prince, yet in _America_, the
+ people tax themselves, and _therefore cannot tax themselves
+ beyond their abilities_. But whether the power of taxing be
+ in an absolute monarchy, a power independent of the people,
+ or in a body elected by the people, one great error has, I
+ apprehend, entered into the system of Revenue and Finance in
+ almost all nations, viz. restricting the collection to
+ money. Two or three millions can more easily be raised in
+ produce, than one million in money. This collected and
+ deposited in stores and magazines, would, by bills drawn
+ upon these stores, answer all the expenditures of war and
+ peace. In one country it has been tried with success for
+ ages; I mean in _China_, the wisest empire the sun hath ever
+ shined upon. And here, if I recollect aright, not a tenth of
+ the Imperial revenues hath been collected in money. In rice,
+ wheat and millet only are collected 40 millions of sacks, of
+ one hundred and twenty pounds each, equal to 80 million
+ bushels; in raw and wrought silk one million pounds. The
+ rest is taken in salt, wines, cotton, and other fruits of
+ labour and industry, at a certain ratio per cent. and
+ deposited in stores over all the empire. The perishable
+ commodities are immediately sold, and the Mandarins and army
+ are paid by bills on these magazines. In no part of the
+ world are the inhabitants less oppressed than there.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 29, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Religiously Inclined_.--A gentleman perceiving a fellow
+ leaning against the front of St. Paul's church yesterday,
+ who was unable to stand without some such support, asked him
+ if he was going to join the church. 'No,' replied
+ Bottlenose, 'not edzactly to jine, but I'm only
+ lean--leanin'--that way.'
+
+ _New Era_ [1837].
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Meaning of the word.
+
+ GENTLEMEN. How the signification of words alter in the
+ course of a century. There was a time when all persons in
+ England, below the rank of an _Esquire_, were divided into
+ _Gentlemen_, Yeomen and _Rascals_. The former word is now
+ used to signify the individuals of the first order--those
+ whom you would take by the hand in the street, and sup with
+ of an evening. The second term retains pretty nearly its
+ original meaning. But to make an application of the latter
+ appellative at this time, would operate as an invitation to
+ be knocked down. 'Gentlemen,' is used in opposition among
+ the old chronicles to 'simple man,' and neither in any very
+ exalted sense. It is on record, that the French Princess, De
+ La Roche Sur Yon, receiving a sharp reply from a Knight, to
+ whom she gave the epithet of '_Gentilhomme_,' was told by
+ the King, to whom she complained, that she deserved all she
+ got, for so offending, herself, in the first instance. The
+ lower people in England were commonly '_the
+ Rascality_'--equivalent to the '_Canaille_' of the French,
+ or our own significant _Rabble_ of the present day.
+
+ In what sense do they use the word 'Gentlemen' in
+ Congress--Eh?--_Charleston Gaz._
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ April 3, 1820.
+
+ _Professional_ ANECDOTE _of Dr._ FRANKLIN.
+
+ WHEN he came to Philadelphia, in 1723, he was first employed
+ by one Keimer, an eccentric genius, as a pressman, for he
+ was then printing an elegy of his own composition, on the
+ death of Aisquila Rose--and as he had but one small font of
+ types, and used no copy, but composed the elegy in the
+ press, he could not employ him in the composition. Keimer
+ was a visionary, whose mind was frequently elevated above
+ the little concerns of life, and consequently very subject
+ to make mistakes, which he seldom took the pains to correct.
+ Franklin had frequently reasoned with him upon the
+ importance of accuracy in his profession, but in vain. His
+ fertile head however soon furnished him with an opportunity
+ to second his arguments by proof.--They soon after undertook
+ an impression of a primer that had been lately published in
+ New-England.--Franklin overlooked the piece; and when his
+ master had set the following couplet--
+
+ When the last trumpet soundeth,
+ We shall not all die,
+ But we shall all be _changed_
+ In the twinkling of an eye,
+
+ He privately removed the letter _c_, and it was printed
+ off--
+
+ When the last trumpet soundeth,
+ We shall not all die,
+ But we shall all be _hanged_
+ In the twinkling of an eye.
+
+ _Herald of Freedom,_ June 23, 1790.
+
+ _SURNAMES._
+
+ In the Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday, August 1, 1772, is
+ an advertisement said to have been taken from the Canterbury
+ Journal, which beggars the list of surnames lately
+ enumerated:
+
+ "Mary Scaredevil, widow of the late William Scaredevil, of
+ Maidstone, does, by the assistance of the Almighty, intend
+ to carry on the business of Whitesmith, and hopes for the
+ favors and recommendations of the gentlemen and ladies whom
+ the late William Scaredevil had the pleasure to serve, which
+ will be gratefully acknowledged by their most humble
+ servant,
+
+ MARY SCAREDEVIL."
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Nov., 1805.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Launching of the "Grand Turk."
+
+ Thursday last being a very pleasant day, great numbers of
+ people assembled to see the launching of the large and
+ beautiful ship from Mr. DERBY'S wharf. They were, however,
+ disappointed in the pleasure they expected, by her stopping
+ when she had run about half her length: and all the efforts
+ which could be made were ineffectual in getting her off at
+ that time: the next day, however, with the aid of proper
+ apparatus, and the assistance of the people assembled, she
+ was again put in motion, and gained the water.--The name of
+ _The Grand Turk_ is revived in this ship, heretofore borne
+ by a ship belonging to Mr. DERBY, remarkably successful as a
+ privateer in the late war, and which was some time since
+ sold in India.
+
+ The ingenious Mr. ENOS BRIGGS, from the North River, was the
+ master-builder of the new ship Grand Turk.
+
+
+ A CARD.
+
+ _Mr._ E.H. DERBY _requests his fellow-townsmen and others,
+ to accept his sincere thanks for their ready and unwearied
+ exertions to enable him to complete the launching of his
+ Ship._ MAY 21.
+
+
+ Mr. CUSHING,
+
+ The following lines were addressed to the Ship GRAND TURK,
+ while launching. They are at your service.
+
+ Your's, Z.
+
+ _The swelling waves roll joyfully along,
+ To greet thee, welcome to the azure main;
+ The gaping multitude in anxious throng,
+ Their ardent--vacant--tumult--scarce restrain._
+
+ _Slow o'er the lubrick ways--immense--you move,
+ High o'er the stern your flowing honours stand,
+ In distant climes, on unknown seas to prove
+ The matchless glory of your native land._
+
+ _For thee--the lofty Cedar nods alone,
+ The sturdy Oak its honours lopp'd deplores,
+ The forest mourns its tallest beauties gone
+ To waft Columbian treasure--to the Indian shores._
+
+ _Doom'd to resist the rage of warring waves,
+ Whilst rushing winds impel your foaming way:
+ The firm built sides their utmost fury brave.
+ The tempest mock--and in the whirlwind play._
+
+ _Safe may you reach your distant--destin'd port,
+ Nor rocks--nor treach'rous sands--oppose your fame,
+ May gentle winds your swelling topsails court,
+ And thousands shout you welcome home again._
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ May 24, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The oldest person who had lived in Salem up to 1791.
+
+ On Friday last, the venerable Mr. JOHN SYMONDS, of this
+ town, entered the _one hundredth year of his age_. He is the
+ only male person who has arrived at that great age, from the
+ first settlement of the town by the English in 1629 to this
+ day.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Irish Litany.
+
+ DUBLIN, May 11.
+
+ _To the Printers of the_ Rights _of_ Irishmen.
+
+ GENTLEMEN,
+
+ I am enabled by an invisible power to communicate to you, a
+ Litany sanctioned by me, and to be adopted by the
+ professors of the patriotic religion of Ireland; a Litany
+ which breathes the spirit of that freedom which I professed
+ when on earth, and has been here on eternal record; if its
+ principle and doctrine tend to enlighten and emancipate your
+ country, it will add (if possible) to that indescribable
+ happiness enjoyed by him, whom, without vanity, I may now
+ call the virtuous and patriotic
+
+ MIRABEAU.
+
+ _Elysium, 5th Feb._ 1792.
+
+ _THE LITANY._
+
+ 1st. Let there be a free, equal, and general representation
+ of your people in Parliament.
+
+ And all the people shall say amen.
+
+ 2d. Let there be a reform of your church, an abolition of
+ tithes, and let each sect maintain its own pastor.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 3d. Let the people of my terrestrial country be an example
+ to your people, and let their freedom be your freedom.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 4th. Let the fetters which the nobles of your land have
+ forged, be broken asunder; and let those who earn,
+ distribute the bread of Ireland.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 5th. Let each man freely worship God according to the
+ dictates of his conscience.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 6th. Let christians be philosophers, and let philosophers be
+ christians.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 7th. Let the rich few no longer be supported by taxes on the
+ many and unrepresented poor.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 8th. Let all the sons of Hibernia be free--yea, even as free
+ as the negroes[D] of Africa.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 9th. Let truth never be deemed a libel, and let the Liberty
+ of your Press be extended.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 10th. Let the noble (tho enlisted) sons of Ireland never
+ become the hired assassins of their countrymen.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 11th. Let the army which eats the bread of Ireland, be her
+ guardian and protector, and not the base invader of her
+ rights and liberties.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 12th. Let him who first proposed a mortgage on the revenues
+ of Ireland, be accursed in the annals of your country.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 13th. Let yourselves no longer be the slaves of religion, or
+ sect, or party, but the united sons of freedom and
+ philosophy.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 14th. Let the majesty of your king reflect the majesty of
+ your people.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ _Mirabeau scripsit._
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ 1792.
+
+ [D] Vide Wilberforce on the emancipation of the slaves.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston School of Fashion in 1807.
+
+ Robert Smallpeace,
+
+ _At his_ DRESSING ACADEMY, _and_ SCHOOL _of_ FASHION, _in_
+ MILK STREET, _opposite the South door of the_ Old South,
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ REMINDS the Sons and Daughters of Fashion and Beauty, that
+ tho' they may possess every latent excellence, yet they
+ require the improving hand of ART, like _rough_ diamonds, to
+ obtain the polish and brilliancy of the _first water_. What
+ is elegance of form or contour of beauty without
+ improvement? like "a light hid under a bushel," or whatever
+ can be conceived to be _most unlike_:--And it is a
+ lamentable fact, that
+
+ _Full many a mind is rear'd with toil and care,
+ To waste its worth--by_ SLOV'NLINESS _in_ HAIR.
+
+ The _tailor_, or _milliner_, may encase us with taste and
+ elegance; the _dancing master_ teach us the steps of ease
+ and dignity; the _musician_ instruct us in our throats and
+ fingers; and the _preceptor_ may inform our minds; and yet,
+ with all these _accomplishments_, can we even be PASSABLE,
+ if the _highest_ accomplishment of all be neglected? and the
+ HEAD be left to its own "disorder worse confounded,"
+ exhibiting a "_paltry crown of mud and straw_," placed upon
+ an "_edifice of ivory and gold_!"--and further--
+
+ _What though the_ EYE _voluptuous roll,_
+ _The_ FORM _possess each heavenly grace_;
+ _Say, can they_ ANY HEART _control,_
+ _Draw_ FRIENDSHIP _near--bid_ LOVE _take place,_
+ _'Till_ SMALLPEACE _touch them_!--he _whose trade is,_
+ _T' make_ Gods _of_ Men--_and_ Goddesses _of_ Ladies!
+
+ --> SMALLPEACE has elegant apartments for Ladies and
+ Gentlemen; and will be found constantly at "the post of
+ honour," and attendance, to wait upon them.
+
+ Oct. 17 [1807].
+ _Columbian Centinel._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The novels of 1833; from the "Salem Observer," July 13.
+
+ The decidedly bad moral tendency of some of the most popular
+ novels of the times is forcibly depicted in a magazine
+ recently established in England, by two of the sons of
+ William Cobbett, in the following language:--
+
+ "Would you seduce a wife? Falkland shall teach you to do it
+ with gravity and dignity. Would you murder? Eugene Aram
+ shall show you its necessity for the public advantage. Would
+ you rob? Paul Clifford shall convince you of the injustice
+ of security, and of the abominableness of the safety of a
+ purse on a moonlight night.--Would you eat? Turn to Harry
+ Bertram and Dandy Dinmont to the round of beef. Would you
+ drink? Friar Tuck is the jolliest of companions. Would you
+ dance, dress, and drawl? Pelham shall take you into tuition.
+ Would you lie, fawn, and flatter? Andrew Wylie shall
+ instruct you to crawl upward, without the slime betraying
+ your path. Would you yawn, doze, sleep, or dream? Cloudesly
+ shall do it for you, for the space of the first volume."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THOMAS MOORE.
+
+ Hostile feelings to the Americans having been imputed to the
+ poet MOORE in the first number of the (London) Westminster
+ Review, the following paragraph appeared in the London Times
+ of the 4th Feb., 1824.
+
+ "In the first number of the Westminster Review, just
+ published, there is an article upon a late work of Mr.
+ Moore's, in which the writer says, 'Mr. Moore has resided in
+ America, and, we understand, speaks of the Americans with
+ unbounded dislike and contempt.' In this assertion we can
+ confidently state, the writer is entirely mistaken. Whatever
+ opinions Mr. Moore may have hastily formed, when a very
+ young man, with respect to the character and institutions of
+ the Americans, we know that he has long since learned to
+ correct them, and to feel towards that people all the
+ admiration and respect which the noble example they set to
+ the other nations of the world demands."
+
+ _Boston Telegraph,_ 1824.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Salem Gazette," Sept. 6, 1811.
+
+ Aiken's blood-letting Sermon
+
+ _for sale by Cushing & Appleton._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Boston Transcript," Dec., 1834.
+
+ OLD TIMES.--Mr. Thatcher stated, in his Lecture before the
+ Boston Lyceum, that the Old Latin School in this City was
+ commenced two hundred years ago, according to the records of
+ the Town, which begin at the same year. For a long time it
+ was the only school; and there was no writing school among
+ us until November, 1684, (just 150 years since.) Master
+ Cheever presided over the Latin 38 years, till he died at
+ 93. He was the teacher of two of the Mathers, and the second
+ Doctor said of him in an obituary essay, with his own
+ peculiar felicity, that
+
+ ----to vast age he grew,
+ _Till Time's scythe waiting for him rusty grew._
+
+ Lovell was his second successor, and held on 92 years, till
+ in 1776 he left the town a Loyalist. The old gentleman had a
+ house furnished for him in School street, and a garden that
+ reached nearly to Court street, which his best boys were
+ allowed to till; and they had also the privilege as a reward
+ of merit of sawing his wood and bottling his cider.--The
+ Lecturer remarked that this was the first manual labor
+ school he had heard of.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A quotation from Scripture.
+
+ "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
+ hired."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Salem Observer," 1840.
+
+ LITERARY CURIOSITY. The following letter was written by a
+ young gentleman to his "lady love," under the direction and
+ eye of a rigid old father. The understanding, however,
+ between the lovers, was, that she should read only every
+ other line, beginning with the first. Love is full of
+ expedients.
+
+ MADAM,--
+
+ The great love I have hitherto expressed for you
+ _is false, and I find that my indifference, toward you_
+ increases daily; the more I see of you, the more
+ _you appear in my eyes an object of contempt._--
+ I feel myself every way disposed and determined to
+ _hate you. Believe me, I never had an intention to_
+ offer you my hand. Our last conversation has
+ _left a tedious insipidity, which has by no means_
+ given me the most exalted idea of your character;
+ _your temper would make me extremely unhappy,_
+ and if we are united, I shall experience nothing but
+ _the hatred of my parents, added to their everlasting dis-_
+ pleasure in living with you. I have, indeed, a heart
+ _to bestow, but I do not wish you to imagine it is_
+ at your service; I could not give it to any one more
+ _inconsistent and capricious than yourself, and less_
+ capable to do honor to my choice and to my family.--
+ _Yes, Madam, I trust you will be persuaded that_
+ I speak sincerely; and you will do me a favor
+ _to avoid me. I shall excuse your taking the trouble_
+ to answer this. Your letters are always full of
+ _impertinence, and you have not the least shadow of_
+ wit or good sense. Adieu! Adieu! believe me, I am
+ _so averse to you that it is impossible for me ever to be_
+ your affectionate friend and ardent lover.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Transcriber's note:
+ Text version
+ *** Represents Inverted Asterism
+ --> Represents Right Index
+
+
+
+
+
+
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