i
From the Farmer's Weekly Museum.
*
" And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and
/aid, Let me, J pray thee, lift my fathfr atd mo
tber, and then / will fallow thee.
IN the reign of King Ahab, Elijah, the Tifh
bite, and the prophet, possessed a power, little short
of the regal. Saintly, charitable, wife, and prrfci
ent, he gained the affections, and suggested the
plant, 'of the Israelites. At that period, popular
belief was ftrongljr attached to prophecy, and po
pular applause surely would not only be acquired,
but merited by him, whose life wa» given to all the
<3utittt of benevolence. It seem«, that Elijah had
the strongest claims upon the attention, the grati
tude, and respeCt of his fellow-citizens. As a man,
as a prophet, he had filled up the measure of ufe
fnlnefs. The Zidonians, though proverbially " care
less and secure," had felt the cbaflifement .of the
ikies, which retained their dew, and their rain, and
the dusty and parched region, attefled the drought
of years. Among this supine race, the observing
prophet,-had recognized an individual, a wornjn of
Zarephath, " Looking well to the ways of' her
household," and providing food for her little son,
by the common calamity. Her signal
display of charity, at a time, when felfifhnefs would
aver, that charity itfelf must fail, induced the grate
ful Elijah to invoke miracles to her aid. The bar
rel and the cruse, which hunger had emptied, were
perennially supplied, and the darling child of the
widow, was reanimated, by the prayer of the pro
phet. Nor was this the only pafiage in his life, to
excite the wonder, or fecute the veneration, of his
people. H« had, r.rft by ridicule, a»d then by ex
periment, confounded the wotfhip of Baal, and ref
tdred the religion of she Jews. From that " little
cloud," which a servant could not, during seven at
tempts, behold and which at length, seemed mi
nutely rising from the sea, " like a man's hand,"
the enlightened eyes of Elijah could discern torrents
defcendingto "water, and revive the parched grounds
of paoiiyia, F.xnoOfj. to jibe i£--I»^cheL
a vindictive and powerful prineefs, the fugitive pro
phet seemed to be the peculiar care of Providtnce.
Ready to perish, under the scanty shade of the
mournful juniper, food was supplied bim by ange- :
licH hands, and a celestial voice vindicated to the
repining seer, the ways «f heaven.
This enumeration of the peculiarities of Elijah's
life and office, will not be deemed impertinent, by
those who, with the Preacher, trace the context,
and find the prophet by the fide of the yauthful
»fha. To him the reputation of the sage was
orious. He had heard his prophecies, he had
•ritneffed their completion. He saw the venerable
philosopher, inverted with the double power to
anoint a Syriack king, and a Jewish prophet. He
mufl havei conjeCtured, that the mysterious mantle
of his predeceflor, would soon secure to Elifha an
Elijah's praise. What powerful incitements to the
pride, to the ambition of a young and oblcure man.
How would an ordinary, how would a felfifh cha
racter have been engtoffed by vain speculations.
" How great, how wife, hov,' courted," he might
whisper, " shall 1 be, about to possess the faculties
of a pfophet, whose fame has been resounded
through Palfftine, andwhofe mighty works ajjgj?
mon.candidate for such an office, would have forgot
ten his connexions, his country, his duty, every
thing, but bimfelf. But Elifha was not fotiazzled
by the blaze of a prophet's glory, as to become be
wildered in the paths of duty. He remembered
the injunction from Mount Sinai, to honor the
more immediate authors of our being. He reflec
ted th3t his Parents ought t-o be apprised of the
new dignity of their son ; they would rejoice at his
prospeCts, they would shed their benediction. In-
Head, therefore, of instant compliance, the dutiful
EHfha pauses, refieft upon his beloved home, and
the aged couple at its fire fide, and makes the affec
tionate response in the text, " Let me-, I pray thee,
iifs my father and my mother, and then J will follow
thee.--Verily, Elifha, thou proved a good fort, -and
I love thee moie, $or iememberi-;g a Mother I '/-love,
than for all thy miracles. They may pass away,
but not one jot, nor one tittle of thy filial piety
(hall pass from remembrance. Divided Jordan, a
sweetened spring, and a miraculous gush of waters,
might own thy energy, but thy tender concern of
thy Parents, revealed thy heart. When hearing
thy pathetick tequeft, Let me lift my father aid
mother, the Cherub charities of life drew near, and
wept—and smiled !
The duty implied in the text, is acknowledged
by all, but I fear is felt, except by few. The ha
bit of domeftieiting with parents, during our in
fancy and childhood, induces a mechanical affecti
on, and an obedience of eourfe. But when the
calls of bofinefs urge us from home, the world ope
rates as an opiate, and benumbs every filial fenfati
on. We leave.it to the nurse to talk of the cradle,
and the endearments of a mother* and to the ftew
frd to compute the sums ihat a father's indulgence
has given, without reflecting upon the gentle offi
ces of the one parent, or the bounty of the other.
But reflection will convince any man that, general
ly speaking, he never fouud falter friends, than his
parents. Mutual interefl, natural affeCtion, and
long habit, all ft em to conspire to bind parents and
progeny in the union. Nor is it a small debt
we owe to them for twenty one years service. LifI*,1*,
its means, and Education, these are the important
items of their accompts against us, and /hail we
carefefsly forget the obligation :
When'cbildren are in their full (Irength, parents
are commonly advanced in age. " Age hath pains
to footb," and who so proper to practice " lenient
arts, make languor smile, and smooth the bed of
• death," as a daaghter, or a son ? What fervicc i
cote grateful, whftduty more clear i
The amiable son of Sirach knew this truth i
well. I can add nothing to his fanftion, his ener
gy, or his tendernefc. " He that honoreth his
mother, is as one that layeth up treafarc—and the
relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten. In
the day of affliction it shall be remembered ; thy
fins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm
weather, ' >
Tbs lay packer.
From the Farmers Weekly Mufe-im.
F From lie Stop of Mejfrs, COLON c* SPvNDEE.
, The Runner, or Indjan 1 At.s.
d [Of Savage Nations the polifiied European, and even
American, fpeaki with contempt. We rcfort t(>
them for examples of the Werner passion*, unconsci
ous that we too hate, and we revenge, bul in the
i- silken garb of ervilmatior. ! It 7 luch a ijove.ty
■» could be found, as a Creek or Cherokee Prejs, m
■ Indian Editor might publiii a paper like the follow
" > n g : 3
advertisement.
ir MONS. BELLISLE, Hairdresser, Complec
tioniit, and Perfumer, from Efquimeaux, at the
'* Talapoofa, dresses young men's heads for the War
Dance, with or without Snakes and Feathers ; he
is matter of the Cherokee cut, the Mufkogee braid,
'* and the ChoCtaw twist. He paints faces to adrr.i
' ration, with his genuine crow blacking; he raifes_
the cheek bones, and affords the true rattlesnake
call to the eyes ; he gives to the mod fquaw-faced
c young man, thai! horrid manly look so frightful to
the enemy, and so pleasing to the young women.
1 He ha?, at great expense, procured the genuine
* Hottentot, Caffrean Pease Bladder, from the Cape
* of Good Hope.
r N. B. Monf. Bellifle was body Hairdresser to
! Little Billy.
' Vermillion, Red and Yellow Ochre, Lampblack
and etherr Cofmeticks; Deer's leg Oil, Efqui,
meaux Blubber, Bear's Grease, and other perfu
mery, wholesale and retail.
e Extraß from the IVhite Men's Puilie Talk. From
the great Council Tout, on the Sehtyliill.
3 "The Old Beggar, who- was found starved to
» death, on a dunghill, in this city, proves to have
- been a soldier, who served with reputation, during
- the whole war, in the late continental army.''
E " The body of a young woman -.vat found in the
- water, near a wharf in this city, with her throat
cut from ear to carj By other marks of violence
' on the corpse, it appearst that this unfortunate
s young person had been firft ravished, by some
s villain."
from our brethren of St. Tammany, at Ktw-Tork.
" Yesterday was executed in this city, seven men
: for forgery, three for perjury, and ten for horse
- 'stealing. As these fights are common, few per
: sons attended.
" We hear from Black River, North Carolina,
a that on Sunday, the day dedicated by white tn
( to the Great Spirit of Love, a set battle was
, fought, for forty-oue guineas, between Sawney
1 Mac Broughton, and Frank ap Dowfc, to the in
s finite diveifion of a numerous collection of gentle
-1 men and ladies. Broughton, with inconceivable
: dexterity, broke the jaw-bone of Dowse, and the
> odds were in his favour for twenty minutes, whea
: Dowse gouged both the eyes of Broughton from
: their sockets, which decided the battle. The ,
l parties shook hands, and drank a quart of whiikey
: together, to shew that they had no malice at t
. heart."
Front Charlejton, South-Carolina. (
t " Lad Sunday evening, a duel was fought in
s this city, between Col. Carte and Lieut. Tierce, (
1 in which ihe latter was dangerously wounded, and
1 f-lr-n—■ '.iviiii i * fc If i* 'V"i 1 ■' J 1 1 * tT 1 ' ' -]
. tilt hart, i hele gentlemen were particular friend*. !
. The dispute arofc about the charafler of an aCtrefs.
- The panics seemed inclined to adjust this difference '
1 amicably, bu: the rigid laws of honour prevented. •
. Tbey shook hands before they fired. The Col.
I has left a widow and five small children to lament
his loss, which is the more inconfslable as they de
pended entirely their deceased parent for their 1
education and support—But the seconds fay, this (
i affair was conducted according to the Jlrtdtfl rules
of HONOUR.
From*e-ver tie Great Pond.
" The young Sachem of the Bul; tribe, over
'he Great Lake, owes seven beavers' (kins. His
father, the Mad Bull, has offered to pay his debts,
if the Bull Nation will give hira from their hunt
ing flock, two beaver's skins every twelve moons,
until the fun and moon shall be funk io the swamp f
without boiders."
" We hear from Franee, that our ancient bro
thers, the French, the friends of the Hurons,
have tomahawked their chief Sachem and hit
Sqii3w, ard half starved the royal papoofei. They "
have scalped and tomahawked more men, women
and chilcjren, than are in the Chickafaw, ChaCtaw,
Creek, MilTouri, and Five Nations, and ail of thjir
own tribe. It ij said they made great canoes, and f:
bound their brethren, their filters, and their infants, ft
with moose thongs, and then funk them in the n- tl
ver, without allowing them time to sing their death ei
song." v
Great Spirit ! Those who give these accounts of ir
themselves in their public talks, are the people who a:
call thy red children barbarians and savages. rr
[Indian Editor. 1 ei
Shucwegee, who visited the Great Wigwam in a;
Philadelphia, twenty and sixteen mooos ago, fay la
n- U B°V n, I e ' 8 * f olr,n,on 'r believed, that the al
Big Book of the white men teaches them all that d
deceit, cruelty and ferocity, which they exercise v<
one towards another; but that in one talk of it y
they arc expressly commanded Co love one another, o
and even to love their enemies. Tho' we appre- fc
hend from the white men's doings, that Shucwcgee, tl
net well undemanding their tongue, mufl have k
mistaken this talk. No-No— Doubtless their Biz tl
Book tells them to deceive, hate, gouge, scalp, g .
tomahawk, and murder each other. ft
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THE MONITOR. . u
ma "' 85 white - fay, was d
' : beeaufe he was made of red earth,
he was a red man. You, who are nearest to hirr at
in co«our, are mod excellent among his children. r<
Do you aCt with th«- spirit of red men. The n,
wnite men, who have been adopted among us, must fc
not let the white of their faces fink into their j*
livers; but shew the tribes, that ity. pcffible for a rc
white fkia to cover an Indian spirit. 0 ,
"fWBLIC SALE,
ia k« fijldj by pine knot, twenty pil« c f muf.
« ken, twenty bundles »f pifct»> twei •} of
•treat war horses, twenty heap* 0 camp kettles—
f taken at t!tc fight of the Mianfis, frovn the great
wWite runner, St. C—r, with a crtrious- crutch,
•n supposed to belong to some Great Captain ; ado
one bat horse, taken one day's journey, from the
:i * cimo of the flaming warrior Wayne.
Ie
BEN. SCALFUM,
Manufa&urer, from England, at Lake Erie,
near the Miamis, makes and fells cutioes, scalping
knives, and tomahawks, and has on hand a large
quantity of biimftune matches, and seasoned pine
ie knots, for the tormenting of prisoners.
ir N.*B. Wanted, a young lad of good disposition,
ie as an apprentice. '
OBITUARY. >
rs Gone to the world of Spirits, TalotheJke; he
e was a great Cherokee wnnor, had twenty scalps j
d in his wigwam, 1 and the cup he diank his black
o drifck from, was' the feell of a chief. His wife
r. has dreamed twice that ihe has coaverfed with him, .
e and is soon, therefore, to go to him ; his wolf dog
,c was sent to him yesterday.
Also, at Tulcorara, Fox Feet, the great hunter ;
o" he killed more Wauppanaaghs, than Fcenchmen
have Frenchmen; he would dive the falls and |
catch a salmon ; he changed the religion cf his fa
il ther because the Je-fuit Powwow told him that St.
i. Peter, his chief Sachem, was a good filherman, j
and would teach him to take mummychog in the
lakes of the moon. 1
n 1
MARRIAGE.
0 Yesterday deposited fciver3 of the lite oak,
e Ouabi, the son of the white chief, ind Azakia, '
5 the daughter of Ouabi the big warrior, who raa- 1
ny moons ago ru(hed into the land of Spirits, to '
e ' demand of the Great Man, why he was not before <
1 called to bis feat beyond the woods anp waters. t
e \
« BOMFSTIC TALK.
e Last moon, a party of the big knife, of fifty r
— young men, cape •» SfaWfl—--unit- '
-tflf WT"a!rbl3 man, his iquaw, three young wo- '
men, and four children, and barbarously murdered -
n them. c
Yesterday thirty white warriors, supposed to be *
Yankees, by their trail of Molafles, Hole two horses 1
from the banks of the Chataluithe. Same day, c
they got an ®ld Cherokee drunk, and stole his
n beaxr pack. 1
s Last moon, Natewego delivered an Elegant, v
» Spirieid Talk, or Oration, in commemoration of •
the Bloody Majfacrt at Wyoming.
It is said, that at the grand council of the Mif
e fouri, a Shawanefe chief proposed to fend a large '•
c nnmber of eanoes to take possession of a ceitain j
a savage Isle in the Great Lake, called. Rhode-Island,
" to bring away some of the inhabitants, to learn (
e them their language, and then fend them some *-
T warriors to civilize them, and some powwows to ®
1 teach them the true religion. f
When the white prisoners, taken at St. Joseph, I
were carried among the men of the Bear Nation,
1 they would not allow them to be in the fame tank
of man with themfelvcs. Doubtless, said,, they,
j their ancestors were red men, as we all came from j
j on? crijnrnqn (lock : but these creatures are whueo_ _
_ c■ °y ciieafe, like the decayTngTeavcs of the wood?.
T hey therefore painted them with red earth and £
: coali, to make their appearance supportable to the
young men and women.
| Pulljbtd at Taiapo»sa—One firing of IVam fun K
for twelve Motnt, and one Talk each Moon. "
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' GAZETTE of UNITED STATES, d
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PHILADELPHIA-. t\
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2J. tl
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CO NT/A VAT 10X OF m
Foreign Jntelligence. ll
Reived by the flip Light-Horse, from Brijlol. £
[The MowW i, the ; n the London
C L;I, f ° { ? Cn ; I*"** » account of
defeat of a div:CoD of his army under Lepeivie
Our readers w.ll perceive that it varies in some particu- fci
lars from the tranfladdo before published.? f„
of the s ambrl and MEVSE. t
The General in Chirf, Jousdan, to the Exe- t.r
cutive Directory.
" Quarters, Mont. batier, June 17.
1 haje the honor to inform you that what I fore- ,'t,
jaw, has happened The enemy,after having recalled m,
rom the left to ,h. right bank of the Rhine almost
the whole ef their force;, the Aich-duke having 1
ercreafed his army by some from that of
rm L k? r a " ?Cd ,0 the Lah " ith rauch
more considerable forccs than I could colled there : an
and profiung by their advantage in bei 9 g able to f
move wuh greater expedition shan I, thfy aSnd" t
ed the Upper Lahn, so that when I ordered the ' ,
advanced guard to p ,f s i t 0 n the 15th, by P
9? Cral Lcfebv ", who coa.raar.ded it, was rl
did'ro't h ya f ftr ° ng iorpS " Th ' S br " e General ?v
did rot choose to ret.re w. hout fighting, and a
T ery bn(k , ensued, of which give'
y outhedetad. ] will immediately fend you I refou
of this engagement, in which the enemy, although
Z r S O°Tf ,h3R GenCra ' - riv
than he. Our loss may amount to 250 or .300 men vis
tf a ' ft W ° ,lnde C 'n d pnlot,erS - ' The ""mber of th<
the last « very small, and we hste made a 1
ft PkcCS ° f Cannon rc m?iine(l in ihc
be pcOeffon of the enemy, who attacked the bat
impetuofity ; but who did Hot
attacker Z nt WOU,d , r : ot J have me frcm
attack,ng the enemy th„ day, a, the army had ai- pr«
z ' : SX.'Sj; .5
will T' r (o " mo,row to Ccblentx, Where I w
«• fad you iht particlar,, 3c d y=u G s
s
sof the.difpcfitions I have made. It is cot pof,
t — blc for me to write to you at greater ler.gth to-dav.
real "JOURDAN."'
:ck, St. Cloud, the magnificent palace of the unfor.
also tunate Queen of France, and ail the parks and roy.
the il domain, is to be fold under a National Cor.vcn.
lion title, for the trifling fom of 5,006!. ttcrlin- •
the palace alone cost 500,000!. in building, 3 nd the
parks and other deraenfe lands amount at Jtail t0
rie, 4,000 acrcs!
; nf r DIVORCES.
rgr An account has ju2 been publithed in Paris »f
line the divorces which have taken place in the caoi i|
for the last fifteen months. They amount to 5,994,
on, of which 3,870 were demanded by the Ladir.,
, and 2,124 by the Gentlemen ! —lt nogrcjt
honor on the good citizens of Paris, that the num
ber of Ladymakonleais ftouid be in the proportion
he of near two to one, and this notwithflaading the
ilpj scarcity occasioned by the -war !
jck A Proclamation of the F'ench General in Chief
rife in Italy orders the tailors of Milan to make 12,000
im, jackets, aHd 10,000 pantaloons for the French
log soldiers ; and the municipality of that to#n to
furnifh 12,500 ells of white cloth. 13,750 ells of
er; linen, 20,000 (hirts, 10,090 pair of (hoes, j,ooo
len pair of spatter-dashes, 2,000 hats, 2,000 ells of
ind green cloth, &c. icc. for the Republican army,
fa- These requisitions are in an trxa& conformity with
St. the Revolutionary System. "To rob those who
an, possess something, for th« benefit of those who
the have nothing." Should the application of this
principle become more genera!, there certainly caa
remain no Sans-Culottes in Europe.
LONDON, June 7.
jk, Althaugh the rapidity with which the French
:ia, have improved their advantages in Italy, be trsly
aa . alarming, and those advantages themfrlves truly
to formidable ; yet to those who have read the biftory
3re of the Wars waged by the French Kings, Charles
the VIIIth, and Louis the X,llth, is Italy, they
will aflprd no ground for despair.
The Alps, like the Rhine, have never yet been
ftv repalTed by the French, without a diminution of
-A»«f«j-greaTfy TUB re ttrcn equivalent fo~anyadvan
,o- tagc obtained by the pafiage. Whether the efta.
- e d blifhrtient of a Republic in the Milanese, and the
diffufion of their mad principles of Democracy, ia
t, e which they seem to be busily employed, will make
f es the modern French more fuecefsful than their Aa.
ceftors, remains to be proved.
hig The attempt to murder Sir Alan Gardner, ot»
Friday night, is another proof"of the great refpeft
r.t, which the Jacobin Party entertain for the freedom
of sf Election. Sun 1
if. PORTSMOUTH, June 6.
ge The following Ships are ordered on a cruize, viz.
lin London/ 8 j Vice Admiral J. Colboys,
id, \ Captain E. Griffith,
rn Queen Charlotte, no Captain Sir A. S Douglas,
ne Calar, 80 Captain C. E. Nugent. r
t 0 Mars, 74, Captain Sir C. Cotton, •
Marlborough, 74 Captain H. Nichollj.
h, Bellerophon, 74 Captain J. Loring.
n, Niger, 32 Captain E. J. Foote,
ik Sailed the Rattler on a cruize. <
y, Admiral JJligh is going to sea with the
™ Brunfwkk, 74 {c. C p
1,, Alexander, 74 Capt. A. Philip, '
,d Adventure, 44 Capt. W. G. Rutherford.
DOVER, Juae6.
Thursday evening His Majesty's Shop the
m Racoon, Capt. Roe, fell in, about sis o'clock, ivirfc
two large French Gun boats,convoying five fail of
m Dutch ivferchantmen from Oftend to Flushing \an
- engagement ensued, and continued till half pa*
). eight o clock, when the Gun-bqats and three of the
Canvoy returned to Oilend, and escaped ; the other
two were captured by the Racoon, and arrived in
the Downs yesterday. It is thought the Enetny'j
Gun-boats muit have fuffered very severely in their
men, as the Racoon's guns were ©bfcrved to rake
them sure and aft. The Racoon had one man
wounded, and Capt. Roe received a violent coeiu
fioa on his arm,
I
of _ VIENNA, May 17.
e. eight o'clock this morning, the Traitor Tsuf.
1- ferer received his sentence in public, before the pri
!°n of the Etat Major. |-Je was condemned, ac_
cording to the Military law, to be degraded from
his~Nobili:y, and afterwards hanged. He at firft
appeared very much unconcerned ; but when the
Auditor (as is the cuitom) broke the Staff, and
threw the two pieces at his feet, he began to tretn
£ ble, an£ was so mueh agitated, that he was obliged
to be fupportefd in returning to prison. The exe
-5 cution is fixed for the day after to-morrow, at eight
.o'clock in the morning.
T^ e Infant Child of Lady Jersey died fad week
' anc iuch is the grief of the Countess on this me
jancholy occafioß, that her own hoiife has become"
int /:erable to her, and /he has therefore left it to
e pay a visit to her daughter, Lady Ann Lambton,
m Berkely.fquare. Indeed, so exquisite is her fen
fibihty, that it is confidently said, it* will be necessa
ry for her to visit l.ifbon,in order to repair the ra»
® , vages which this fhoek has made an her health,
t - LEGHORN, May 6. *
1 . e 3®'* l °f last month an English Frigate sr.
e rived here, with foui French vefTcls laden with pro
, visions and Military equipage, which fce topk ia
i trie road of Vado. Tliejfi.tpublican Troops fired
son the Frigate, which answered with grap^
1 Ihot.
FRONTIERS OF ITALY, May iS.
t it was on the iuh, as we have before stated,
' that the advanced guard of the French army arri
ve.d at Milan. A deputation of the Municipality,
1 with the Archbishop at their head, were sent to
- present the keys of the town to General Ma3ens (
commanded this advanced guard. The foi.
e lowing day, the tiee of liberty was planted in the
Square of the Cathedral j the Imperial »rms were
J taken down, and the Inhabitants engaged to wear
1 t«e i>atio»al Cockade. On the and 13th,
t more French troops arrived, and the Castle was in
vetted; The Garrison is iSso'flrong, and very
"eH provided with and ammunition,
1 ; Geneial Maffen* haricg iiuatacatd it, reccired i
4