The Wreath. EXTRACT. FROM THE PORT FOLIO. VIRTU E. O VIRTUE, source of every heartfelt joy, May raise our rank, and bid the mean be great, From the whiten'd hawthorn bushes, Milky lambkins, harmless sporting, Music sweetly round us flowing, Thus in Eden's blissful station, Swell'd the universal theme, Diversity. THE HANGMAN OUTWITTED. A man convicted at the late Surry Afsizes, for ftealing pewter pots, was fentenced to be publicly whipped from the prif. on gate in Horfemonger lane, through the borough, and back again. Having no money to fee the hangman to foften the lafh of juftice, he at last hit upon an exAt Beauty's dazzling throne they bend the suppli pedient. In the prifon there were feveral ant knee." Vain Beauty, know, that thou must soon be laid THE MONTH OF MAY. Fovis omnia plena.VIRGIL. BRIGHT in verdure gaily smiling, Nature all her charms discloses, door with a muff and tippet-the child ne- A perfon who had adopted the illicit practice of robbing on the high road, being well armed, met a gentleman in a bye way prefented a pistol to his breaft, (and exclaimed with an oath) deliver your money, or if you don't!-What if I dont? replied the gentleman.-Why then d-n me, you'll let it alone, and with that walked away from him. A country fellow, who had just come into the city gaping into every fhop be came to, at last looking into a scrivner's office, where feeing only one man fiting at a defk, could not imagine what commodity was fold there. He calls to the clerk, "Pray Sir what do you fell here ?""Log. erheads, replied the clerk-"You have an excellent trade then" replied the countryman, "for I fee you have but one left." TERMS OF THE BALANCE, To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and Fifty To those who receive them by mail, Two Dolars, payable in advance. To those who take their papers at the office, in bundles, or otherwise, a deduction from the city price will be made. A handsome Title Page and Table of Contents will accompany the last number of the volume. Advertisements inserted in a handsome and con nies the Balance. NOTE. The first and second Volumes of the Balance, may be had on the following terms half quartern gin measures, the tops of Original. HUDSON, (New-YORK) TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1804. Hither the products of your closet-labors, bring, FOR THE BALANCE. "They imagine themselves politicians, and they are only knaves" MR. EDITOR, THERE HERE is a clafs of citizens among us, who have very much mistaken their own characters. I know not how they have fo deceived themfelves, unlefs it has been done by their conftant attempts to deceive others. I once knew an old fellow who would tell a ridiculous story until he actually believed it himself; and perhaps this is precifely the cafe with the gentry of whom I am now fpeaking. They have told the people fo often that they are politicians, that they have almoft forgotten they are only knaves. They have fet a gull-trap to catch others, and have themfelves been the first to poke their heads into it. It might be of infinite ufe to the characters here mentioned, to hold up to them a mirror, in which they might view themfelves at full length. This would at once remove the delufion by which they are blinded, and enable them to difcriminate between a politician and a knave.-1 would myself prefent them with fuch a mirror, did I feel adequate to the task: But I am fo little acquainted with political affairs, and public characters, that I fhould but half execute the work, were 1 to undertake. I feldom engage in politics; and whenever I do, I act with great cau tion, least I fhould, like fome of my ac- pied, with the diffentions of the Federalifts and the Democrats, that they have overlooked the aggrandizement of the Southern States, and their accumulation of power. Even the purchafe of Louisiana at an immenfe price, for the fole purpose of adding to the Southern interest, seems to have excited little emotion among us. The curious have been amufed with the tales of "falt mountains" and "falt rivers," of "mines of platina" and "rocks of native filver;" while the indolent regard but little the future, and lefs the burthens they may now throw upon their posterity. Distracted by our internal diffentions, which we owe to the artifices of our enemies, we have purfued a fhadow that mocks our refentment. It is not that the I really wish, Mr. Editor, that fome ready writer, who is well acquainted with public characters, would employ a little leifure time in fketching a gallery of portraits, for the ufe of the people. Our politicians appear before us, fo muffled up in cloaks and Spencers, that we are daily cheated by falfe appearances. We know not who are knaves, or who are honeft men. How I fhould delight to fee all our politicians naked and unmasked! fome white, and unstained--others as fpotpure ted as leopards. I would have no refpe&t to perfons in this exhibition. I would begin with old governors and new govern. || adminiftration of Mr. Jefferfon is really ors; and from them proceed down the inclined to Democracy-No, Sir; his fuwhole ranks, from our judges, juftices and preme power in Louifiana-the withholdlegiflators, to fheriffs, furrogates, diftricting the Treaty with Spain from the Senate attornies and coroners. All, all of them fhould be up to view, without a fingle patch to cover their deformity. Adieu, for the prefent, Mr. Editor. Selc&ed. for two years-his difpofal of the public money without any approbation by Congrefs-his appointment of officers without the confent of the Senate-his admitting foreigners into the national councils-his flatteries to Bonaparté-all prove that Mr. Jefferson can fcarcely be confidered, either in principle or conduct, a fincere Democrat. The import of this title for, bids us to connect it with his character. But by his pretenfions he has gained every obje&t which Virginia and her Southern allies wifhed for. He has brought to cooperate with him, in the Northern States, all the enthufiaftics of a good caufe, and all the levelling, blood-thirfly ruffians of a bad one. The herd of foreign renegadoes echo his fuccefs, and his triumphal car, drawn by a million of enflaved Nethe Chesapeake have been fo much cccu groes, drive over the necks of those who FROM THE REPERTORY. THE NEW.ENGLAND MAN. No. I. "Blow ye the Trumpet in Zion." SIR, THE Citizens of the States North of --- ath? Are the States from common Northern intereft. The mock to the river St. Croix, to adminiftration of Mr. Jefferfon and his ellites of Virginia? The friends of the South, will then crumble reprefentatives yield with away fafter than the mouldering monuto the current that carries ments of the Capitol. Let therefore the as they recede from their difinterefted an.ong our Federal and Dety fee in filent despair our mocratic Republicans, lay afide their fatal nk under the horizon. diffentions, which have ferved no purpose preffive eloquence of Da- but the purpofe of their enemies. We Even Mr. Grifwold ap- fhall then be able to fix a juft BALANCE by his continued efforts. of POWER in the United States, and no private refentments to grat- longer realize the table of the Serpent, a fando temperet a lacry-whofe head is directed by his Tail. There was not found one fs, when that fatal alteranflitution was conjured up, pirit to bring forward an awhich the ariftocratical inSouthern ftates fhould be which their millions of neald ceafe to be reprelented Is there any thing more 1 the abuse of the British han this mockery of reprere the rotten boroughs of e infamous than our negro Why should their flaves be Editor's Closet. "NATIONAL JUBILEE,' OR LOUISIANA FESTIVA L. denied the right of fuffrage, to our horfes and oxen ?principle adopted in all rehe reprefentatives are always e people reprefented. Let e at least, their members in egroes. Will Mr. Jefferfon rtainly no fcruples, when he "The editor of the Aurora has presenauch the wife of a friend, or reditor, or recompence a flatted the good people of thefe United States with an inflated, bombaflic, and abfurd rid of an enemy, will he make objections? or are we to be-fort of a thing, for we know of no fpe The following article appeared in the United States' Gazette, of the 8th inst. We republish it at this time, as an appropriate introduction to the accounts which are annexed to it. count of the French traveller er States, who mentions that nter would have no objection h a flave, he would disdain to the fame table. will come when a foreign nenace this country. Perhaps ot far off; for the people are , and the government pufillanh to invite an Invader. How hen be protected ?-By the ates? Take away thofe whites main to watch over the Slaves ny will their be, to act against -Officers enough ?—Yes, the feat of our privileged orders. s?as before, in the yeomanry hern States. Who fought the dependence? Who freed Virhe Carolinas from the British naided by their flaves? It was the North-the now defined e South. But I will not def. purchase of Louisiana at exmillions of dollars for the augof the Southern intereft, muft cific name by which to defignate it, been opierved, "To celebrate the is propofed, that a gre throughout the nation. "When great nation be acknowledged, or to be deprecated, it h of our country to call the one cafe, to offe Heaven for the mercies or, in the other, with to implore the Deity to pending calamity. Su ple have uniformly be the chief magiftrate of the joint recommenda of different denomina flates. The propriety man of common dece But the people of the called upon by Willi femble, not indeed to fion of the punishment infidelity, impiety, an perfecutions, flanders, to return thanks to the for the bleffings we are but "that a great natio throughout the Union May, to celebrate the a ifiana." ! ! ! "On the real valu tion of this territory t deem it wholly unnecel remarks at this time.purpose it is of no imp was expedient to pay money for what we have It is fufficiently degrad character that the peop fhould be bound to obej ing to them in the fo pears. An order has William Duane, that fhould leave his field, fhop, the lawyer his off eyman his fudy, to all Paddy has illued his pr ing the attendance of 66 66 throughout the uniq Whigs of 76," to hol fefliva!," to celebrate Louifiana."!! Now, the climax of impuden any thing have been wi has been but a few yea and who efcaped from t countries to inftruct us duties, it now appears t mation. By what auth upon you to rejoice? your will? and are you Tummons? Have you ployments for that day for your felves and fair not feen enough of th Festivals in France? In fhort will not the 12th of May be fpent more fatisfactorily to yourselves, and far more honorably to your country, by the faithful performance of your accustomed duties, than by wafting it in idlenefs, drunkennefs, gluttony and riot ?" Our Hudson Democrats, prompt to obey the com mands of such shining patriots as Captain STRAD DLEPOLE and Captain DAGGERMAN (as Duane and Cheetham have been humorously nicknamed by the editor of the Evening Post) made arrangements at an early day, to celebrate the glorious event' of the cession of Louisiana. Ambrose Spencer's neph ew, like William Mooney of New-York, published his Notice,' and the two 'esqrs' opened their books to receive the names of such as wished to partake of the festival. At length the glorious and happy' day arrived; and the Bee has told us a pom. pous story about the business. The insect says, the republicans of this city and vicinity partook of a festival,' &c. We have been informed that every nook and corner of the county was raked to make up a jolly company, and after all, the whole number that partook, was less than sixty. Now, we presume that this is not meant to be understood as the republican strength of the county. The elec. tion i.self tells better than this. There are two or three ways, however, that the thing may be accounted for. Perhaps some people who vote the democratic ticket, have not threats wide enough to swallow fifteen millions of dollars, if never 30 highly seasoned with mountain salt Perhaps others who are persuaded to vote that ticket, have a better use for their money, than to squander it in eating, drinking and rioting. Perhaps others again (unfortunate wights) who were familiarly taken by the hand on election days, were deemed too low to gormandize and get drunk with the better sort So, it is almoft needless to enquire why the company was so small, or why the procession cut such a droll figure. The insect next says, The day was ushered in by a dif charge of eighteen rounds from Captain Jenkins's artillery, and the other ufual demonstrations of joy." THE DAY must certainly be much obliged to Captain Jenkins's artillery, for this handsome and modest ushering in. But what were those other demonstrations of joy,' of which we are told I am informed, the bell tolled most dolefully; but I consider this to be rather a whimsical demonstration of joy. "At noon another federal falute was fired from Windmill-hill." This is all in character. In such Quixotic expe. ditions, windmills generally hold a conspicuous place. For this exploit, Capt. Don Quixote justly deserves the title of Knight of the Winamill. The insect winds up his paragraph in such a com ical manner, that it is pretty difficult to understand it. However, we will give it verbatim, and the reader must explain it as well as he can. We cannot believe one word of this. It is impossible that a company of men could open their gullets so wide as to swallow toasts, intermingled with songs, and attended with a gun each.' It must be a fib. If we had been told that John C. Hoge. boom, and all the rest of the company, swallowed one gun, we might have believed it; but it is incredible, that a gun was swallowed at every toast, We must be greater gulls than the democrats themselves, to give credit to such a mammoth of a story. Next follow the toasts; and Holt, at the close of the first, takes care to tell us that cheers were o mitted. No wonder if every democrat had swallowed a gun, it may be supposed that little cheering could be expected. However, this is as great a fib as the former: For there was such a cheering and bawling that every sober citizen in the vicinity of the Coffee House, was nearly distracted with the noise. More of the Festival, or mistakes of a day. A day or two previous to the 12th of May, the shipping in the harbour of New-York, displayed the usual signal of mourning (colours half-mast high) on account of the death of a master pilot. When the festival day arrived, a few ships were d essed at sun-rise; but by carelessness or design a very large American flag appeared at half mast. This signal was supposed to announce some melancholy event, and before ten o'clock almost every ship in the harbor, was dressed in mourning. At this time, two sailors who were keeping it up on shore, strolled to the wharf, where a brother tar anxiously enquired, who was dead, "Oh, damme, Jack, nobody dead," replied one of them, "all the people are rejoicing for Louisiana.”- "For Louis XVIII!" exclaimed Jack-"why I heard as how he was crown'd; but I didn't think that republicans would rejcice at that."-"No, no,-'tis no such thing," rejoined the third" they are rejoicing for Lewis the new gov. ernor!" A VALUABLE PAPER. No paper ftands higher in the estimation of the public than the CHARLESTON COURIER; but its being published daily, has As to the toasts, they are dull and insipid enough in all conscience. In one of them George Clinton is toasted as our future vice-president.' If our democrats will wait patiently a few weeks, their masters will inform them that De Witt, and not George prevented its extenfive circulation in the is to be our future vice president.'Another of the toasts is left incomplete. I have therefore taken the liberty to fill up the blanks. AT NEW-YORK, The procession, on the above-mentioned day, is declared, by the editor of the Evening Post, to have been the shabbiest ever seen in that city on any occasion." Cheetham says that several societies joined the procession. This is denied in the Post. He says, too. Bells in the city rang." Mr. Coleman allows him to be correct in this, and adds-"'Tis true, the Brick Meeting-House and Jail bells rang, and perhaps the State-Prison bell." Cheetham concludes by asserting that "there was a very general suspension of business." Mr. Coleman, in reply remarks, "To publish a falshood which requires at least a contradiction to refute it, is not out of this fellow's ordinary track; but to publish a lie that every man who reads it must know to be a lie, requires the impudence of the devil himself.". The editor of this paper having been at New-York, at the time, knows Cheetham's assertion to be wholly false. A humorous and accurate account of the proceed"The company fat down at two, Johnings at New York, appears in the Evening Post, C. Hogeboom, Efq. at the head of the ta and shall be attended to next week northern quarter of the union. We are therefore happy to announce that a country paper, containing all the intelligence and editorial matter of the COURIER, is to be commenced in the month of September next, and to be published twice a week.Price five dollars per annum, payable in advance. Subfcriptions will be received at the Balance-office, by H. CROSWELL. Readers will obferve, in the Balance Advertifer of this day, notice of a piece of villainy, of a fpecies almoft without a parallel; and we are informed that feveral other acts of the kind have been perpetrated that not only cows, but other beasts have been maimed in a fhocking Mr. Paddock offers a generous reward for the detection of the brutish monfters who committed thefe a&ts; and it is prefumed that every magiftrate, peace officer and good citizen, will feel it a du-. ty to affift in bringing the wretches to punMay 22. manner. ifhmeat. CORRESPONDENCE. A TATTLER,' will see the propriety of withold ing his communication from the public. We regret that it does not "prove to be applicable.”, - Agricultural. EXTRACT. FROM THE REPOSITORY. SUBSTITUTE FOR HAY. THE HE alarming want of hay in many parts of Maine a little retired from the fea, makes it neceffary to recollect how cattle were formerly fupplied in winter, upon new farms in this District. Browfe from various hard wood trees and hemlocks, in thofe times frequently preferved their store cattle and fometimes their work cattle, through the latter parts of the winter, with the aid of falt. Paths were made through the fnow to trees cut down for this or for other purposes; and by the addition of Indian corn or meal it will anfwer for working cattle. Indian corn will alone fupport horfes. To fhew the ufe of corn, we must remember that a ton of hay (or 20 hundreds) will be only double the weight of 20 bushels of corn, at 56 pounds (or half a long hundred) the bufhel. But the 20 bushels of corn will not, at prefent prices, be fo dear as the ton of hay; and yet the corn will be more nourishing, as well as more easily obtained, fince it may be imported, and can more eafily be carried about by being half the weight and of little bulk. But corn must not be given whole to cattle; for they will not digeft readily, as may be feen by infpecting their manure. It must be ground more or lefs; which multiplies its farfaces and lef fons its bulk, as well as cracks its fhell. If made into bread, it will be farther advanced towards digeftion by means of heat; and the fame if boiled, provided the cattle will eat it, which in time of diftrefs, they may perhaps foon be made to do. It ought to be the bufinefs of the females in a farmer's family to make the corn when ground and cooked, palatable to the cattle, for it has been found that the French cav. alry do with two thirds of the oats when fmoaked 24 hours, which are neceffary, if given dry. As to browfe, the buds are now fwelling taft, and afford abundance of it. Leaves alfo in a few weeks will appear, and then the cattle may be turned into the woods. Some are fearful that they hill defroy their woods by this means; and if the woods are young, and defigned to be preferved, the fear may be juft; but where is the use of preferving infant trees in full grown woods deftined foon to be cut down for timber, fuel, or clearing the land. In fuch cases ten or twenty acres may be fenced off, where there are fprings, and the cattle be turned out in the leafon of the leaf; If the temptation of a little falt or meal given occa fionly, will not keep them from wander. ing. This may be a conftant establishment, to fave spring pafturage, till the grafs fhall have a little grown. At the prefent moment, fomething is indifpenfi. ble; for many cattle are dying, more will immediately fuffer, and famine is a general preparation for contagious and other dif eafes. Hallowell, March 20. ACCUSTOM yourlelf to speak natur. ally, pertinently, and rationally, on all fut jects, and you will foon learn to think fo on the beft; efpecially if you often converfe with thofe perfons that fpeak, and those authors that write in that manner. kind of contemplations. Because the knowledge it thereby acquires, is of all others the excellent knowledge; and both in regard of its object and its end; the object of it being GOD, and the end of it eternal hap pinefs. The great end of religion is to make us like God, and to conduct us to the enjoyment of him. And whatever hath not this plain tendency, and efpecially if it have a contrary, men may call religion (if they please) but they cannot call it out of its name. And whatever is called religious knowl edge, if it does not direct us in the way to this end, is not religious knowledge; but fomething elfe falfely fo called. fome are unhappily accustomed to such an abufe of words and understanding, as not only to call, but to think thofe things reli. gious, which are quite the reverse of it, and thofe notions religious knowledge, which lead them the fartheft from it. And The fincerity of a true religious princi. ple, cannot be better known, than by the readiness with which the thoughts advert to God, and the pleafure with which they are employed in devout exercifes. And though a perfon may not always be fo well pleafed with hearing religious things talked of by others, whofe different tafte, fentiments, or manner of expreffion may have fomething difagrecable; yet if he have no inclination to think of them him. felf, or to converfe with himfelf about them, he hath great reafon to fufpect that his heart is not right with God. But if he frequently and delightfully exercife his mind in divine contemplations, it will not only be a good mark of his fincerity, but will habitually difpofe it for the reception of the best and most useful thoughts, and fit it for the nobleft entertainments. Such a regulation and right management of your thoughts and rational powers, will be of great and general advanknowledge, and a good guard against the tage to you, in the purfuit of youthful Upon the whole then, it is of as great levities and frantic fallies of the imagina. thoughts he entertains as what company he knowledge, and a good guard against the importance for a man to take heed what tion. Nor will you be fenfible of any keeps; for they have the fame ellect updifadvantage attending it, excepting one, on the mind. Bad thoughts are as infecviz. its making you more fenfible of the tions as bad company; and good thoughts weakness and ignorance of others who folace, inftruct, and entertain the mind, are often talking in a random, inconfe-like good company. And this is one great quential manner; and whom it may often advantage of retirement; that a man may quential manner; and whom it may often be more prudent to bear with, than con- choofe what company he pleafes from tradit. But the vaft benefit this method within himfelf. will be of in tracing out truth, and detecting error, and the fatisfaction it will give you in the cool and regular exercifes of felf employment, and in the retaining, purfuing, and improving good and ufetul thoughts, will more than compenfate that petty difadvantage. As in the world we oftener light into bad company than geod, fo in folitude, we are oftener troubled with impertinent and unprofitable thoughts, than entertained with agr reeable and ufeful ones. And a min that hath fo far loft the command of himfelf, as to lie at the me.cy of every foolish and vexing thought, is much in the fame fituation as a hot, whole house is open to all comers; whom, though ever fo noify, rude and troublesome, he cannot get It is certain the mind cannot be more rid of; but with this difference, that the nobly and ufefully employed than in fuch, latter has fome :ecompense for his trou 2. It we would have the mind furnished and entertained with good thoughts, we must inure it to religious and moral fubjects. |