from the FashS«« CB-MttnctK.
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A FRAG MEN 1".
" TT is contentment, not
X l-icbes," (aid he " that
makes a pei sou happy. Poor and
content, said the Poet, is rich e
nough." Ah ! ftid I, the Poet might
fay 10, or at least a person who bore
the name of a Poet might—but that
he was really a Poet, 1 deny. Po
verty has always been an unwelcome
attendant on good Poets, and it
plainly appears from t he ab«ve quo
tation from your would be Poet,
that he never expei ienced poverty ;
if he lud. be must have known that
it is jmpoflible for a man to be con
tent ed," when he is cold and hungry,
or when he has a beloved wife anil
children in a llarving condition,and
nothing where wit h to fill their bel
lies.—At that inftaut a rap, rap, rap
at the door. .Come in, said I.
Good morning, said my neighboui
S ,in a tone of voice Co very low
and dirge like, that I tho't nothing
less than his wife or eldest son was
dead. Good morning, said I.—
".Would you go over and help me
flcin my cow," said he, in the fame
key that he had bid me good morn
ing. — Your cow i.said 1, is your cow
dead! Yes, fir, said he, ffie got in
the mire latt night and is dead .— I
will go and help yon, laid 1, he
turned his back and went out.
Alas, poor Yorick ! said 1. not that
the death of this poor bead boreany
similitude to that ot Y orick, but that
sentence is so imprefTed on my mind,
that when I fee any petfon in dtf
tress I immediately exclaim, alas,
poor Yorick !— I will alter < l,e '«"•
tence iu the present cafe- Alas!
paor beast !—lf I had not forfaken
my mnfe 1 would write thyepitaph
tllou art gone —and whither no mor
tal can tell ; but the poor babes,
who expe«sted support from thy
teats, are still left to mourn thy un
timely fate. —It is for these p«or
babes I lament —Their lather has
not another cow.—Where \>ill he
get tnilk to feed them? Can i his
man feel contented ! —Ah ! Poverty,
" thou art a birter draught, this 1
know by experience, lor 1 have tact
ed thy very dregs.— Ye lons of af
fluence, remember the poor—consi
der that it is very probable that
your children will feel the pangs of
poverty, if yon should efcape-—coti
fider this, and lend the poor the
comforts of life, that ihe Great
Giver of all good things, may lend
them to your children. A. Z.
NEW-Haven, Julj 31.
ON the 25tl inflant died at bis
house in this city, the honorable
Roger Sherman, E(q. Senator of
the United States —He was taken
ill about the middle of May lad, and
from that time declined 1 ill his
death. His physician fuppoled his
d Harder to be seated in his liver.—
He was born at Newtown in MaU'a
chufetts, April 19, 172t. As he was
Hot favored with an education an
fwejable to his genius, his improve
■nents and the honors to which he
aitaine*d, were wholly from hisown
abilities. His father died when he
was but nineteen, and in the ,care
of his mother and of a large family
of brothers and fillers, he exhibited
unwfual filial piety and fraternal af
fection. He came to this then co
lony of Connecticut when he was of
the age of twenty-two, and at the
age of twenty-four was appointed
fui veyor of lands for the county in
whiffh he lived. From that lime he
was conllantly employed in public
btrfinets, and ftiftained the various
offices of a Jtiftice of the Pcace, a
Keprefewative in the General As
sembly, a Juflicc of the Court of
Common Pleas, an Afiillatit, si Judge
of the Superior Court of the State,
Mayor of the City, a Representative
of the State in Congress, and a Se
nator of the United States. He was
a member of the firfl Congress in
1774, was •present and signed the
glorious act of Independence in
1776, and invariably continued a
member of Congress from its firfl
exigence till his death, whenever
the law requiring a rotation in the
repvefentation admitted it.
It is worthy of reniaik, thai tho
lie futlained b> many otfic'ts in ilie
civil government both ol the State
ami of the I'nited States, to all
which he was promoted by the free
fuffrages i>{ his fellow citizeiu>, and
iu moil oi « hich he cauld not, with
out a new election, continue longer
than a year, and in the reft not lon
ger than two, three or four years ;
and although for all those offices
there were, as there always are in
popvlar governments, many compe
titors at every ele» the «(' ,
Rations wiiicti may be required the ufc t
the United States, from the Hi it day ot Januaiy
to thethuty.fi ft day of Dtccmbtr 1794, bum
day* inciuhve, at the places, and wtilwn ttic
dittn&s heicaftcr mentioned, vi 7
1. At any place or place* betwixt York-To«vn
and Carlisle, in the (tate ot jVnnlylv mia, and
Pittfb«rgh,&at Putfhurgh,Yoi JWoVufiCatliflfi,
e. At any place or place* Cro»n Pialontgh t**
the mouth of Big Braver Ctctk, and, at the mouth
of Big Beaver CrCck.
3. At any place or places from the find mouth
to the upper talis ot the (aid Big Bwver, aud at
the uppei falls.
4. A' any place or from the (aid upper
falls, lo Mabonjng, and at M. honwtg.
in bot I JefFerfon
to the field ot a&ion.of the 4th. «t Novembei,
1791, and at the said si Id ot attiou.
14. At any place or places f«om the said fielcj
of attion to the Miami Villages.
Miami Villages.
15. At any place or places from the said Mi
ami Villages to the falls of the Miami uver,
which empties tnco L*ake £'ie, and 31 the said
falls, and from thence to its mouth, arid at US
inouih. •
16. At any plate or places from the mouth of
the said Miami river ol lyio. to Sandusky
Lake, and at Sandufky Lake.
ij. At any place or places from the said San
dufky. Lake, to the mouth oiiho liver Cayahoga.
*8» At any ptacc orpU?ts f»om t-he mouth of
the laid river Cayabog* to Pfefquq Iflc, aj>4 at
Prefque Ifli'i
19 At any place or places from Prefque He
to, the ftrcam running into Lake Erie Iron* to
wards tlie Jadaghquf And thence over to
and at the laid Jsdaghque Lake v and thence
the A'lcghany river to Fort Franklin.
20. At any place or places tiom Prefque I fie
to Le Beuf, aud at Le Bout
21. At any place or places frovn Le fecnf to
Fort Franklin, an<2 at Fort Frar.klin, and
thcnce to Piufburgh.
22. At any place or places from the rapidsof
. the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabafh river, and
from the mouth ot the f»td WaMb river to th«
mouth of the l iver Ohio.
23 At any placc or places on the East fide of
the fiver Miffiflippi, from the moUth ol the Ohio
river, to the mouth ol the Illinois river.
64. Ai »ay place or places ttom tile mouth of
the ia d Wabafh riyer up to FoU Knox, and at
Fort Knox,
25. At any jjlacf or places from Fort Knox up
the (aid Wabaiti to Ouitianon, ami at Ouittanon.
26. Art a«v place or pi aces from Ouiuanon,
up ibe laid Wabalh,.to the hi ad navigation of a
branch thereof called Little RVver, and at tjje
said head navigation of Little R-vei.
27. As any place or places from the fald
navigation of Little River over to the Miami Vil
lage.
28. At *n,y place or places frojn the month of
the rvver Tentflee to OcCochappo or Bear Creek,
on the said fiver, vncluftvely
29. At any place or places from the mouth of
the river Cumberland to Nafl&ville, on the said
river, and at Nashville..
30- And at any place or places within thirty
m ics ol said to the Southward, West
ward or Northward thereof.
Should any rations be required at a-ny places,
or within other diftris>, not fpecified in thrfe
proposals, the price of the fame to be hereafter
agreed on betwixt the public and the cdntraftor.
The lations to be fupplicd are to consist of the
following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or ft »ur,
One pound ot beef, or £ of a pound of pork,
One quavt of fait, )
Mwo quarts of vinegar, ( IQO fatio()S .
Iwo pounds ot soap, f
One pound of candles, )
The rations are to be furniHied in such quanti«
ties as that there ftiall at all time.", during the said
term, be fuffceient lor the consumption of the
troops at each of the said pofti, for the space 0} al
leafi 3 months ih advance, in Rood an< * whole
some provisions, if the fame fliall be required.^
It is to bt understood in each cafe,that all loile:
fullained by the depredations of the enemy, or bj
means of the troops or the United Stales*, shall b<
paid for at the pi iccs of the articles captured o
destroyed, on the depositions of two or mor<
creditable characters, and the ceitifkate of •
commiflioned officer, ascertaining the eircuin
fiances of 1 he lo(s, and the amount of the articlc
for which compenlation is claimed.
The contract for the above supplies will b
made cither for one or tor two years,"Mn*a
appear eligible. J*ejfon% disposed to .contra*
will therefore confine their offers to one year, n
they may make their proportions foas to admi
an elc&ion ol the term of two years.
The offers may comprise all the places whtc
have been fpecified, or a part of them only-