- ~ "P'OKTRV. '" The Gloom oi Autumn. HAIL, v. %hfng Ions of forrow, View with me autumnal glopra ; Lc::: : f.ctfS thence your fate to-monoW, Ccad—pe-Jj^ laid in the romb* Set ali nature, fading, dying, S:;'t,: all things ix-tn 10 mourn : tilSc ffi m vtgytttitfri flying, BuBgft'tq mind tlie mould Ving urn. Oft grrav autumn's tempeft rifing Mikes the lofty fort-it rmd ; Sc< ae« of nature ! how fiirpiiuiig 1 Read in n&ttire nature's God ! ' ■< our Sovereign, fok Creator, Lmkm eternal in the fl:y, Whi e we, mortals, yield to nature, Bloom a vvlij'k-, then fade and die. Nations die by diead Belfona, Toe eflrag'd tyrannic kings ; Jul} like plants, in pal^ Pomona, Fail to rile in future ipriugs. Mournful feenes, when vegetation Dies by froft, or worms devour ; Doubly mournful when n nation Dies by ntighb'ring nations' power. ■ Death and war my mind ceprefTes-— Autumn /how* me my decny ; Brings to mind my pall dlitreffcs, Warns me of my dying day. Autumn gives.me melancholy, Strikes dejedlon through my foul 5 While I mourn my iormcr folly* Waves of fonow o'ci me roll* l^o ! 1 hear the air /efounding With expiring infettc' cries ; Ah ! their mourns to me are wounding Emblems of mir agtd fires 1 Hollow wmus about me roaring, Noify waters round me rife ; Whiie I fit my fate deploring, Tears fall dreaming from my eyes. What care? I for autumn's treafures Since I know no earthly joy ; Lona I've loft all youthful pleafures, Tim^KJuft youth and health deftroyj Pleafures once 1 fondly courted, bhav'd each bh'fs that youth tcftowSj But to fee how then I fported Now embitters all my woes. A^e and for row fince have blafred Ev'ry youthful, pleafing dream ; O^.V' ' v ag& m'tft youth eontialfed, 0 how fliort tlieir glories feem ! As the annual froils ate cropping Leaves and tendrils from the trees, i8o my f. finds are yearly dropping Through old a^e, or due diieafei Forfeier friends, O how I fought them ! ^j:iit to ch'.er my drooping mind ; j' ■.: they're £< ne, like !< tves n autumir, Driv'n before ti;e dreary wind. When a lew more year, I've walled, When 2 few wore fptings are o'er. When 3 few more griefs I've tatted 1 (hall fall, to rife no .more f Fau my fun of life's declining, Soon will fet in endiefs night ; Bvt my hopes, pure and refining, Reft in future life and light. Ceafe this fearing, tremb'ling, fighing, Death will break the fallen gloom ^ Soon my (pin's, fltitt'ring, flying, Mud be borne beyond the tomb. DIVERSITY. t he goo lllnnqsnfr.roainJtol'Cir the evils iniepaia- 1 I'uch as are merely tw y. lace, a genteel air and figure, charming voice, ready docunofc quieknefs of wit—however attra?- ■ tl tion/prudcucc, integrity, beneve lence, together with th ]■><* f-rafri ni' fioilieiti af e- fweat ef his brow. The Almighty Difpofer or vents has fo mixed the ingredients [uickneli or v/u-nowevei «u« tf m that n0 one is ivx-arepoorfabftitutesrorfounA »™• .j ^ riches from the enfe, cultivated by u etui edtic - «enij» ^ nQ ons is prevented THE sage. " Thou," faid Mirvan to the t^ n0\\^e(3phiIofopl.er,Tahika/«wl>o knoweft all things, tell mc, I pray, what Avail I do to attain wifdom ? <■< You ice," anfwered the phi- ofopher, " yon blind man, how ie walks ainidft the crowd with the help of his ftarT; he maketh fare of nothing till he hath touch- ed it \ you fee him ; why alky,* then what you ought to do? Yon J e refiduB of the train «*i of domeitic virtues evils of it, and no one is prev by his poverty from partaking of fome of its plea&resb ^ - -nr m^^-cd felicity 11 The oueftion, then, for every henv^w fete. Such an ue- mm to afk hnnielf, is, ihall 1 be He marine happy? If his conduct has been fuch as he can reconcile to his own confeience, the anfwer will bewn the aiiirmative; if the anfwer fhould be in the negative, he liill has it in his power by a line of con¬ duct the reverfe of what he has have th example bexor, eyes n >* E th reafonable expectation muic eve: P rove the parent of diiappoint. If you think your bii<fe an angel, or that the man who gives you his hand in marriagg v/ill through life acl the psrt of ? hero in romance, a few years, per¬ haps a few months or weeks, wil] fhew you your miftake ; -and the never failing diiappolntmenc of long as his conduct deferves it, at fuch romantic expectations tends leaf! to the civility of his fellow- to produce coldneis, alienation, and bitternefi of mind. The An- Reafon may be compared to the fun, of which the light is cenftaat, uniform, and lading ; and fancy to a meteor, of bright, but trariii- tory luftre, irregular in its motion, and delufive in its direcT;ion.- Fly him firil of all, who is " no body's enemy but his own." practifed, to atone^ in a degree* for pail errors, and is entitled as * <W*>.-J jv^Vt • • citizens. els c;n° geis ** neither marry nor are giv¬ en in marriage ;" this kind of contract and relation is between mere mortals, who at beft have fome failings which toil be over¬ looked or patiently borne5; As before marriage you cannot be too critical, afterwards you can Hardly be too candid in your judg¬ ment of each other. If you find fome unexpected flaws in temper, or foibles in character, ailiduoufiy endeavor to cure them, notbyre- preaches, but by all the winning arts of prudence and benevolence : or if they fhould prove incurable, bear them as much as poffible with good humor. Mean while look fteadfafthr and cheerfully on thr bright fiae of character ; and fee whether the good qualities do not balance or even outweigh the faul¬ ty one". Your wife perhaps is p'eeviih iti her temper, and fome- times fcolds ; but if fhe is neat, ir.duitrious, frugal, faithful to all your interefts, you have more caufe for felf-congratulation than for itmrmurinr*.—Perhaps vour hufband rs haltv and choleri j when he ufes paffionate exprefllons toward you, let not the law of kindnefs depart from your tongue, but requite them with mild and foothing words ; if you be yoked with a fool, an habitual drunkard, or an unfeeling brute, all this will not avail, but if your hufband be a man of underftanding and fenfi- bility of heart, by patience and good humor on your part, you Story of a remarkable Beggar. A Beggar, to ail appearance maimed and miferable, though in reality a hale fellow, but rather in¬ clined to lazinefs, took his ftj on Alderfgate , ftreet, London, where he afked charity from all paffengers' for many years.—There was fomething fo winning in the fellow's addrefs, that he was rare* y unfuccefsful in procuring fome- thinj; from the palfers by. Among others, oiie gentleman, a humane merchant,- who' paffed every day through that ftreet, cqnfhmly and without failure every morn ictn& i*eS tearing tne7 dttMW wiiine, gave fome irnall matter Atlafttlie merchant difappeared and was not feen in the ftreet for feveraJ months. After a while the beff^ar happened to fall m with hi?Sid beiiefacTof, ibeflfed rather thabbily. He immediately enqui¬ red the caufe of his net having walked his wonted way for fo long a. time. Ah ! Mr. -Lazarus, faid the merchant, I met with fomelof- fes at lea ; my veflels were taken ; my credit was gone, and I no lon¬ ger would come your way. Sir laid the begg:>r, how much monej would fet you afloat again ? Why, Lazarus, I believe about one thou- (and pounds might put me for¬ ward again in a fmali way. The beggar inftantly flepped into an adjacent houfe, and brought out a parcel of notes to that amount. A fellow who. loved laughing better than his meat, put a num¬ ber of rams' horns info a baffcet, and went up and clown the ftreetii at the weft end of London, crying " New fruit, new fruit, bo /" as Ecud as he ccmld bawl Lord fen-y hearing the rioife., put life head our of his drawing-room window, and afked the felicvv to (hew him hti fruit; which having looked at, he Hiked M.M ifhewasnot afliair«ed thus to difturb a quiet neighbor- hood ; for "who thcdcviV' fays the Peer, u do ydn think will bay horns ?" a Weil, mailer," replied the fellow, " do' not put yourfelf in a paffion \ though you are prcn- ded, I may meet with ot/ur »/evi tbtti arc noK 5? 5 7 ,, Some travellers in :u m ul ro'i " auycnig-'wnom were a lady and an Irifhman, enjoying a nap towards the opening of naming, a fuddea noife difturbed the repofe of hon- eft Thady, who, on enquiring what was the matter, was anfwered,, fome rufiians were robbing the mail: that they may do, replied • Thady ; but (throwing his arms around the lady) they fhall never plunder the £c-ma/e. A Mr. Wyman, who was filmed for nothing bur fiupidity and in¬ dolence, as he was going from home one day, was deflrecf by hus¬ wife, not to be gone fo much— a She was afraid to be left alone." -^ci Poh," faid he, » Nambt is nev* cr in danger." " I know that," laid fh-e, " but Naught's wife is." and fmooth the afperities of his mind. Ever prize the chain of domefic Ruw to prevent Ihuelting-Houfes from being Haunted* MANY people whole clrcum- ftances migrht enable them to en- O joy even more than common por- friendfhip as the choiceit of all your tion of dorncftic felicity, are ren- houfehold furniture ; frequently dered miferable by reafbn of their examine every link ; if any fliould fioufes being kmmtei* A fiend of grow weak, ftrengrhen it ; flbould moft frightful afpect, enters even any liappen to gather ruft, bur- their bolted doors, ftalks through nifh it until its luftre be fully re- their kitchens, parlors and bed- ftored :~So will you fhun the chambers, making frightful noif- es—fometimes hoarfe, fometimes flirili—overturning the chairs, ta¬ bles, crockery, &c. and throwing every thing into confufion.—The There, fir, faid he, take the re- will be able to calm the tempelt ward of ; former charity to- warcis me. If you can ever repay me, it is well; if not you muft not trouble your head about the mat¬ ter, your trade may turn out un¬ fuccefsful, but I can always beg. A gentleman having a pad thaf ftarted and broke his wife's neck, a neighboring Tquire told him her wHhed to purehafe him for his wife to- ride upon. " No, fays the other, I fhall not fell the little fel- —000§00 0 low, becaufe I intend to marry a- gain myfelf." RATES OF ADVERTISING. CONTENTMENT, living in an haunted houfe. name of this foul fiend is Domeftic* fee the variety of purfuits that en- • Dijcord f and it is of that fpecies gage th we are led to afk the queftion, in what does true happinefs confift ? The anfwer readily prefents itfelf of demons which when once hav¬ ing obtained ftrong poffeflion, is altnoft impoffible to be caft out.__ Therefore I fhall propofe means to prevent the evil, rather than rem¬ edies for its inveterate ft age of ex- " See (faid Achmet, pointing to . . . _ r a river in which feveral younff grievous calamity of many, that or fWans were eagerly fwimming af- ,^_ a ter their own fhadows in -the< fo/t iffown, itream) thofe filly birds imitate mankind ; they are in purfuit of that which their own motion puts in f, . £ ,. , to %i!t > behold others that have ^ attention of mankind, tired themielves with their unne- ceflary labor, and fitting ftill, are' m the poffeflion of what their ut¬ most endeavors could never Rave HAPPINESS. When we look around us and Adwtifements not exceeding t-zvclve /7;w-, will be hferted three weeks fat 41. and cont'vw eel a further time at id. pin- line for each infer* tion. ' 'Larger advertifctnents, &d. per line fir t%$ and 1 d. per l:;:ej'vr each coniiru at 1 on. *#* Athertifements not othcrivifc direSc-, tuillbe continued till forbid. Printed and PuWtshcd Br STEPHEN MILES, A few doors Halt of Waukkk's Hotel. Price fifteen jhillitys per ann. — $s. in < •' • " ' 5-r. infix months, and £jr. at the ffldtjfh year—Exdnfive of poflage. cv 'i«-' *un C BLink Mver Cards,} fonMilh,W hnndjlnrly fiitsuteti tttjburt i' •"