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Green Mountain Patriot from Peacham, Vermont • 4

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cles. Neither ef them is mftketsd IP the: -f I I Parnaflian Rivulet. I on a terrace he vis fhea fhe RCjra went the reighbor followed fcm, funw.iei him ir. the fact, and brought him to his mailer, whora I Lid by this time joined, in hope of a fcene of which prorrifed to br invjfing. Conceive, what pafied in my mind, when on the complaint of the neighbor, 1 heard the mailer coldly order of his negroes to tie the pretended culprit to ladder, and give him a hundred ladies We were both of us Sruck with aitoatftroertt, that iinpiiied, pale, and Shuddering, while tae unhappy negro received the barbarous chartifemen in filence, we looked at one another without Befgf able to utter a (irgie word, and he who ordered, he who thus pvoiOied own crime en the blind inttru-mem of his will at oce tUe dailardly perpetrator and the unfeeling witrefs of the mofl: atncious inic'liee is here one of the iirik organs of the law, the pro'eetor of innocence Heavens'! if a pitifui rdpect for decorum fjrb ds roe to devete the nairie of this manlier to eternal infimy, let me at lead be permitted to hope, thai divine jof-ftice will hear the cries of the fufferer, and fooner or later accumulate on the tyrant's bead all the weight of its vengeance.

gratification ji mxuiy, mc ra.uiiti;;c-ntcnt of negligence and lazioefs. lu the divine works, there is no prtifufencfi, and there ought tr be none in ours. is bountiful but not wallcful Its blellogi are beftowed freely, but not Urifhty. We are to receive thena thankfully, and ufe hem frugally sot lofc litem by careleff-ntfs, nor fquanJer them away ia eruava-ttrtce. The man, who gitttra up what faeaven sires, and who fuffers riOt'iinn ta be Jed, will always have a supply.

He who receives not what is offered, or preserves rot whit is cil into bis funds, will always he in want My friend PoviJus is a profperous huf-bafldman. Kis crops of aod hay are plentiful his cattle are in heart, and his cows afford him butter and cheek in abundance. Some, who live near him, or farms as luge, and of nearly the lame bay half their brcid corn are deliituie of hay efery fpring, and from the iame number of cowi, have fcarcciy milk for their families. They wonder what is the milter. They (ay to Provides, there is a peculiar bleflingoit your huiban dry." No, fays be) there is no greater feieffing fent to me, thin to you.

Tne only difference is, I am always to receive and improve it. The fun (hints as warmly, and the rain falls as liberally on your fairaj, as on mine bat they will do you oo good, if you fow no feed in feafoa, or make no fence until the crop be deftroyei i prepare my fields well tow them early fence them effeetu-ally gather rty grain when it is ripe hade it before the rains have ruined it threlh it before the rats have eaten half of it and what I mean to fpare, I fell when I have a good market. I never fo confume my old (tores, at to reap my grain before it is ripe, or run fo much in debt for rum or any thing as to thrift for my creditors, when I ftould be preparing for another crop. I cut my grafs when it is in its proper date, and proportion my flock to ny fodder. I never destroy my grain or mowing grais by feeding them down in the fpring.

keep my cattle well and my oxen aic ftrong and my cows yield me plenty of milk. My wife in her department, ufes the fame ecoa- On HOPE. AMID the varying scenes of life, Where silent arc and nci'jy strife, The shining drama fill In this dirk valley drown'd in tears, Augmented by increasing years, Hop i'ghts her taper stilt. Although the sou! ride en the waves, Where danger swims, and terror laves, To fright the goddess Joy To save her fom the tock despair, Jftfe is her steady anchor there, Credulity the buoy. What though a deluge sink the ground, Nought but the sa be seen around, And nought but heav'n above Like Noah on the tide of grief, The mind soon finds a sweet relief, From Hope, her herald dove.

Should angry storm, or black'ning cloud, Jn darkness our horizon shroud, To cheat us of die light ever attire, ever nigh, Lifts the black bonnet from the sky, And drives away the night. Jf adverse winds, or eastern gale, Wide o'er the field of pleasure sail, Its blossoms gay deface Hope eager flics and turns the vane, Mild rephyra breathe, the flow'rs agaia Appear wkh native grace. Thus yhen the rx of mia'riet broke, Pair H'pc suiviv'J the etuel stroke, Catholicon most sure For all the plagues that reach the mind, And all the pains thr.t vex mar.kind, Herself 's a ready cure. diy iv ip.virs that a new fu'a rir.j -jpn ii new and that it bringa from th? Edd colors ur.keown to mortals. Every inik.it aids a new ftroke to the beatftiei nature at every ir.fknt the great wiic Jf the of beings adracs to rW 0 fsaM days 0 delicious What cnotion did that feries of nicliii which ft off-re J.

excite ii my foil -7 fpris I have this year bel'tld tfe'f ia all tiiy robes of beauty: a queror ovrrre ining the fields of and placing from your wreath the which weic embellish them thou di smpear in the valliej, they became meads thou didil appear oo the m.otmtiiHt aud the wild dtymc exhaled a thotifatii rfumes thou did.i arife to the air, tjil it with the feren ty thy fmiles. Tit loves crowded tp thy voice they darter evtiy where their arrows of flame, and lh earth caught the heat. Every thing was reproduced, every thing was embeiuihed. Such appeared the wo. Id, w-hte it arofc from chaos, in thofe fortunate monlems whea man, dazzled w.th the beauty hu abod? furprifed and fatisfied with his exiftence, feenstd to have ur.deritand ng only to knov, 2 heart only to dcliie, a foul only to fit! iiii bappintfs.

LOVE of COUNTRY. THE love of cur country is one of the noble ft paffiois that can warm and animate the human bread. It includes the iimited and particular afftclior.s to our parentst friends, ueijhboM, kllow citiienst and couiurymcn. it ought to diiccl and limit their more confiued and ptrncutr zc lions within their proper and natural bound, and never Jet them encroach on thofe facied and (ml regards we ows to the great public to which we belong. Wire we ioiicary Creatures detached from the uft of mankind, and withoul any capacity of comprejjtmchng a puttie i.iUnji, or without atfcetions, leading us to didrc and purlue it, it would be our duty to mind it, nor criminal to ne gieCt it.

iiut as we are part? ot the public lytiein, and are not only capable of ukioj in large view oftntereita, but by affections concerned with it, aud pry.wpt-ei to take a 'hare of its concerns, we arf imder the molf lasred to prolecute ita fecuritf aud welfare with the utmoit ardor, gfaecially in times of pubUc trial. AGRICULTURAL. On JSHES for MANURE. ASHES are commonly accounted a manure moll fuitable for lo and moid Sands. A cold and four (pot certainly needs more than ay other, but have found them to be gooi in all (oris of foil.

Wood afr.es is an excellent hmtrifhment for the roots of trees. T-'iey reftore to trees what been tik -n from them and tend at the fame to drive away certain infects which are hurtful to trees. Afhes of all kinds are a good ingredient in compoi't, which are kept under cover. Bot when they arc laid upon laad unmixed, they fhouii be fpread as evenly poffi'ole. They are thought to do better on the top of the furuce than buried in the foil for thitrt is nothing in them that will evaporate.

Their tendency is only downwards and their falts will foon fiok too low, if they are omv. She gathers up the fragments, and fuif.rs nothing to be loth What cannot be immediately applied to human ufe, (he ap- plies to fome other ufe, which ultimately turns to the benefit of the family. She cut! her pork in the barrel with attention, fo that one third of it is not reduced to morfels and fcraps, and thrown by for fbap fX the tM infL a NOTE of Vy Haad, givenby John Mills, jun. to Rillv Emi.rso, dated, Newbury, OSoher iKih, 1791, for Eighty Dollars, and Thirty Four Cents, on demand, with inte-rell on which were two Icveral endorfe-iWents. WboeTflf may fiod fiid Note, and vili return it tcthe (half receive h'rs thanks, and be rewarded for his trouble, All pe-fons are forbid purchriflng fiiid Natf as the (uWeriber ha? a fuHicicot difcbarga for the fame.

JOHN LLS, jutu 1 79. put under the furrace. If they are (ptead upon groun.l which has tender plants, it wuld be done jutt before a rain, which will dHolve and foften their acrimon for ten-dir plaits when live peaihci is dry, will be apt to iajured by them. Afh.es in their full llrengih are certainly befc for manure and they wdl nut be in full ftrength uftWs they be kept dry nor will it be eaiy to fpiead tliem proper f), they fhouid not be laid on lands long before there are roots to be nourished by them, left the rain rob them cf th ir Llts. A tew bufhcls on an acre air a good dielung for lands that are low and moiTy.

ihit aih-es from which lie has been drawn 'uvr no 'mall degree of virtue in them. Tlie earthy particles, are but little diminiihed and lonte of the faiine particles remain. A lundful of aihes, laid )un the roots of a hill of Indian is good to quicken its vegetation, but it Ihouki not much of it be in corner with the fiaiks. The time for g'ring corn tins drefling, is thought to be juft before the fecor.d or third hoing bt fome do it before the firfl and ever, bet-fore the plants are up. Like other tvp dreffings, it is of moil fervice when applied at the time when plant! need the grcatcit From the Eagls.

PROGRESS of REPORT. TTJJ EPORT is first a pigmy small, Jl. That shrewd and cautious, dares bat crawl. he whispers this, hints that, looks shy, Sneaks on, and squints, and learns to lie Gains as (he goes, grows bold and strong Nor Creeps through fear, a pigmy long. But soon we see the monster rise, Stride round, and swell to giant size With uplift hand and accent loud, Fright tnd amuse the astonish'd crowd Wake all the passions rouse to strife Neighbor with-neighbor, man with wife Tar sr.d derange the social spheres, And set whole cities by the ears.

Strange is her form. She runs or flics With spreading wings set full of eves Set full of ears her monstrous head Of mouths, and that talk one dead. She watches, liflens, day and night, rieas'd nothing less with wrong than right liears, conjure, rents her motley tales, Harangues, puffs, libels, slanders, rails And where permitted most to dwell, Renders the neighborhood a hell. greafe. Her dairy (he attend with care, and her cheefe is not half deilroyed by maggots.

When rn -kes her bread, (he does not let it (land until it is too four to be tiU en or leave it in the oven, until it is reduced to a coal, and then throw it to hogs. She knows how to time her vitiiSt She mends her children's clothes, before they are tattered to rags. She makes every thing, which the handles, go as far as it can. Nothing is loit in her hands. Thus we manage our affairs.

We ad in concert, often advning, but never oppoling each ether. If there comes a blcfTing, we have the benetit of it. Ufe the fame economy and induftry within doors and withou', and you will have your (hare of the common b'eff-ings, and tind that Providence is more im TAKE NOTICE partial than you (eem to imagine. quantity of nouiiihment. fhil hanens in Indian corn when the plants aie jult going to Send out ears and ipmdles.

1 nM-ar. RESIGNATION. MY sickly Spouse, with many a sigli, Oft tells me Billy, I shall die 1 griev'd but strait, Tis bootless, to contend with Fate So Resignation to Heav'ns' will, Prrpar'd me for succeeding ill 'Twas well it did for on my life, Twa3 Heav'n's will to spaie my wife. Mifccllanies. A.

Subfcroer are informed that their Fotft arid Accounts MUS be fettled twe-n this and the firit of Decemhr next if not (tittlcd. thfj will be put into the handa of an Attorney to collect. JOHN MASSEY. N. B.

Whi-at, or any other kind of Grain, will he received in payment Ptiicbam, zftth 0 Sober, 179S. JOSEPH PEARSON, 7k INFORMS his old CuiWers, and the Public in general, that he baa new CLOTHING MILL, ner Usos St 8 rill' Efcj. in Burnet, where be W'H Draft Cloth, ia the belt mannar, and with the utoaolt difpatch. Ccnflsot attendance gien, and t7Try favor gratefally ac V.nowledgcd. Thofe who prefer fending to hit mil! in Hvotrbill, may be nceommodated, and tbek woik reafonably executed.

Oiloler iH, 1798. T) ROKE into the enclofure of the fubferiber, a few weeks fince, fpeckted STEER, one year old lail fpring The owner is defired to psuve prtpcrtyoi pay charges, ar.d take him away. JOHN W. CHANDLER. 16, 1798.

REFINED CRUELTY. From WmpifenU Voyage to St. Domingo, in fgOt Jtnee the Revolution. A ADY whom I have (een, a young lady and one of the handfomelr. in the illar.d, gave a grand dinner.

Furious at feeing a difh of paltry brought to the table overdone, Ih: ordered her negro cook to be feized, and thrown into the oven yet glowing with heat. And this horrible Margrera, whofe name we fupprefs out of refpedt to her family this infernal fiend whom public execration ought to drive wun every mark of abhorrence from foeieiy this worthy rival of the too famous Chaje-ron is followed, and admired, for (lie is rich and beautiful The day after my return, I was walking before the cafa cf a abutter with one of his neighbors, when we overheard him bid a negro go into the enclofure of this very neighbor, pull up two young trees, which he pointed out to him, and replant them AfyanUr of St. Domingo, in thtft dr-cumflancety feeing the htat jhrivel and draw vpen the hps nf the unhappy ne-ro, exclaimed in a fury, the rafral laughs CLIMATE of GREECE. Defsriled hy tbi A'Ae IVa thslimy.) XN this happy climate, the fpring is like the morning of a fine day one enjoys the benefits wh.ch it brinrs, and thole which it promifes. The rays of the fun arc not ob-fcured by thick vapors they ate not irritated by the burning apert of the dog flar.

They give a light, pure, unalterable, wrfiich repoiea foftly up ail o'ljeAs With fuch light the gods crowned on Olympus. When the day appears above the horizon, the trees move their new born leaves the banks of relound the fong of birds and the echoes of Hymettus the found of ruftic reeds. When it is abo'jj to be extinguilhed, the fky is vejhd with glancing cloudi and the nymphs of trace, with timid (ftp, their light dances on the turf. But (oon morning returns, and then we regret not the (relhdtls o( the lad night, nor the fplendor of the former ECONOMY ILLUSTRATED. Gather up tit fragments, that nothing be WAS a family order, given after a plentiful meal, by one who could inflantly command a fupply of bread.

The power of Providence is cxercifed with the lame wife economy, as the power of mira Printed at A A Mt Vermont, by FARLEY iff 0 By whom ADVERTISEMENTS and SUBSCRIPnONSarc received. The Price of ibis Paper is Okk Doha and Curt, delivered at 0. Ajavaa i tnsitrri not execedirg tftstht Lines, arc kiferwd Three Wttk: for SsrsNrr Ftrt ClUVl. Lf.rger Advcrtifemenu at a Pnte PrcporiBoaMu PRINTiNU, its variow biandtes, prformcd wiuh acitfleia. dispatch, and a medic tinm..

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