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Mirror of the 1 imes , & General Advertiser , < With friendly hand we hold the glass, To all, promiscuous as they pass ; If the fantastic form offend, We make it not, but would amend.' Should folly here her likeness view, We fret not that the Miuror's true ; V Ol.. 5. Mo. 44.2. Printed at the Franklin Press, Wednesdays 1$ Saturdays, by James Wii.son. Sign of Shakespear, Market-Street, Wilmington, Delaware. * ' Intelligence, Essays, Communications, Stc. (post-pa.o) will be gratefully received,and promptly attended to.—Advertisements inserted on the most moderate terms. S A T U RD A Y, 25 th February» 1804. [two dollars in advance.] [four dollars a-year.] an p fnbfcriber feels grateful tor the I . 1LÎ"— ... fJw]-«w f,e of passengers must be paid at the place of start ' 'I lie trouble and inconvenience, ot opening '""ill accounts, as well as the losses he has sustain. has obliged him to establish the f.,rpg.*injf as a general rule, ** which he hope» no reasonable per *un whl be offkiwlod. I ISRAEL PUSEY. 440 4 17th F^b. Extract from the Minutes Of the A.-ricultural Assoc a'ion, held agreeably to public notice, at Mrs. Huggins' 1 avern, Wilmington, Del . Deb. 8 , 18.14. Number of gentlemen having met, ■as chosen Chairman, and A Henry Latimer, William Young, Secretary: It was then unammouS.lv agreed, to enter into an ml Association. Dr James Tilton, Jacob .1 William Yming, were ipp 'inted a Com a draft uf a constitution to he laid Agricult Broom a mince to pieparc before the next meeting. . . l'he secretary ..vas enjoined to continue the mvi tation, to all persons disposed to unite with and to mote the objects of the Association. Adjourned, to meet again at Mrs Huggins on the A Wednesday of March, a- 2 o'clock r. M. Published by order of the Association. WILLIAM YOUNG, Sec. I P r 440 8 *i lu oV.cnbets intending to decline die GHOCRRY business, off -r for sale their present stock of Goods, comprising a general as sart ment. A considerable part of those goo s were purchased for cash and will bs sold on the must rea teaalile Tiff 1 dispose of the lease of the Still gether with ail ill ah i'hey House they at present occupy, >urit 11 s necessary ior the distillation ol Kum Whisky. Apply to ar V ANDEVER fc TEST. 44 0 4 Wilmington, 18th Feb. To Let, for one or more we«-*, A Three Story Brick H O U S E, ELI. calculated h r a Siore, the ill answer any kind of »dations for a w being Urge business. Th.-ienteg-odac.com fanult, being five rooms and a good kitchen, with a cellar under 'he whole. The situation is very pica sum and heaWiy, the stand tor business is one of the first in the Borough, being 0 « High street, 4 doors from tire Hank of Delaware, and opposite the old F<>r further information en FHANCIS O'DANIEL. 8. ' roo ket house. uplier nu quite of Wilmington Fob 44» 9 a all ty it . 7 .v APTHFKTICF To the Printing Ilulinefs will be taken made at James W lu ifimmedta-f appl «on's Printing-office mon is A .; ; fc Oil TEMPLE or APOLLO. .fithe Muse "Hung with the choicest laurels And studed with the brightest gems." SUCH THINGS WERE. SCENES of my youth ! ye once were tloar, Though sadly I your chai ms survey ; l once was wont to linger here, From early dawn to closing day. Scenes of my you h ! paie sorrow fling» A shade o'er all yt ur beauties now. And r 0 hs the moments of their wing*, That scatter pleasure as they flow. While s.ill, to heighten KeiUiftijn tells me—Such things were« care, J Tvrashere a tender father strove •w ; To keep my happiness Î smil'd beneath a mothers love, Who soft compassion ever knew'. Id them the virtues all combin'd, On them I cou'd with faith rely, To them my heart and soul were join'd. By mild affeflion's primal tie ; Who smile in heaven, exempt from car«, Whilst I remember—Such thing* were. 'Twai here, vi-liere calm anil tram quit rest O'er pays the peasant for his toil, That first in blessings I was blest With glowing friendship's open smile* My friend, far distant doom'd to roam, Now braves the fury of the seas *, Ht Bed his peaceful, happy home, Hi* little fortune to increase; While bleeds afresh the wound of care, .When I remember— Stich things were. *Twäs here, e'en in this bloomy grove, I fondly gaz'd an Laura'S charms, Who blu.hing own'd a mutual love, And sigh'd responsive Though hard the soul conflicting strife, Yet Fate, the cruel Tyrant, bore Far from my sight the charm of life, ThtUvely maid whom 1 ad#re : 'Twou'd ease my soul of all my care, Could 1 forget that—Such things were. Here first I saw the morn appear Of guiltless pleasure's shining day j 1 met the dazzling brightness here, Utft mark'd the »oft declining rayv my arms. Beheld the skies, whose streaming l.ght, ^üüttesir if in is to is Till death, in pity, eud my care I must remember—Such things were. From tbe Nao~York Weekly Muteunt. FAME of Mary* conquest* brought The God of Loye her charms to view. To wound th'unwary maid he thought, But *oon became her conquest too. He dropM, half drawn, his feeble bow, He look'd, he rav'd and sighing pin'd. And wish'd, in vain, he had been now, As painters falsely draw him—blind. Disarm'd he to his mother flew, Help ! Venus, help thy wretched ton. My sad condition thou may'at view, For Love himself'*, ala* ! undone. To Cupid now, no lovers prayer Shall !»e address'd in suppliant sigh*, Mv darts are gone, hut oh ! beware, Fond mortals ! of my Mary's eyes. VJ TUFTY. SENSIBILITY.—A Fragment. Not that aff«£l«d {luff which fereams at the light uf a fpieler, ur taints at the agonie» of a dying fly , and yet cm fpurn a beggar from the door, or treat an aged parent with neglect !—l)«lia has too much good frnfe, too much greatnefs of foul, to play off l'ucli frightful diftortion of features, and fur.h pitiful debility of mind, through an equally pitiful affedlati on. No ; (he has the feniibility of a heart naturally tender and exquifitelg benevo lent. Her foft melting eye belpeaks a foul that is united to all around her, and ready, W'th a filler's feeling, to mingle their joys and furrows. It flte confers a favor, it is with an air of fatisfaélion that more than doubles its worth. And if o bligcd to deny, it appears to give her fuch generous diftrtls, that you cannot but love the poor girl, and feel yourfelf her debtor- When we have feen her at a iingle word from her mother, fly to he harpfichord, and play with as much fpirii as i'ome others would exert to pleai'e a young lover—or, when we have leen her, beautiful as an angel, kneeling by her gouty father, with all the ten dernefs of a young bride, helping him with his {line—or, when we have feen her 111 high fpirits, and the fined chat, all a; once turn furious and filent on hearing the breath of Hander ; we have of a a lu fc Oil hearing ; we fell that if there be any one grace which more lovely than another makes a young woman look like an angel, it is a fenfibili ty like Delia's. This fwett fympathy with the pleasures and pains of others ; this lively exprefiion of joy at feeing her acquaintance ; this amiable benevolence (hining, I like to have faid fpeaking, in the countenance, is more than beautiful, it is beauty hielt. L can make a home ly woman handl'omc, and a handtonie wo angel. It is beauty in hand and beauty in reverfion j it inlures that ten dernels in the future wife, which kindles the lover's flame to rapture ; it infures the datifulnefs in the daughter, which caules the parent, with weeping joy, to biefs his God for fuch a child ; and it in fures that eompaffion in the miftreis and in the mother, which fweetena every du ty of domeftic life, and renders our fami lies the nurleries of all thole gentle vir that adorn and biefs mankind. vc man an tues (S> Invention Discoveries , and Improvement 3» The fubferibers, having let up the Salt works, in Dorchefter, Ma IT. upon the new invented mode, think it proper, for the gene ral flood of individuals and the public, to give fome brief account of the improvement*. I hofc ho have feen, and catefully looked into them, are agreed, they muft be of great uttlity. Evaporation, is the chief though not the only nbjeß improved upon, The water is brought into troughs, elevated to whatever height the owner may chooie ; and from them, brought down upon the face of the refleßors, which (land over inclined planes, or platforms. The water ts carried down by elects, which are alft' refleßors, which convey it forwards, and backwards, the face of the large refleßors, until it be brought down tethe head of the platforms, which it is conveyed, again by clccts backwards and forwards ^the w over 1 over j until it runs little rivulets feeing »bout j inch and an half feparated) until it travetfes the whole furface, from which it is condußed irto Vats, and carried back again by pumps into the troughs, if not diffidently pickled ; and then carried again over the face of the refleßors, and plat forms, as before. The refleßors are »ifo the roofs, which are much lefs coftly than thofe in the evaporation, anfwcr a moft important purpofe. When the water is pickled, it alfo ftands, under refleßors, and tenfes, if any choofe to improve the latter, which doubt lefs, will very foon chryftalize the brine. An hundred feet in this way, it is believed, will much exceed a thoufand in the former. What is an agreeable confideralion is, much of the works in the old way may be added to thefe, to thé very great profit of the owners, becaule the chief of their works are vats and roofs, the latter of which only are loft. However, the advantage arifing from the cheapnefs of the roofs in the new invention, and thefe be ing turned into refleßors, will a great deal more than repay the damage.—One hundred feet, prepared for pickling the water, will vet y foon prepare great quantities to be put into the lait rooms or vats, in which the fait is made ; and hence at comparatively a very imail cxpence of time, muchgreater quaritities of fait, can be produced, than ever have been befoie. Thofe who wifh to go into fait mak ing, may here be let into a full underftanding of the mode. We have not made the trial, but the above is our opinion, aad the opinion uf all who have attended to the proeefs. JAMES ROBINSON. EDWARD ROBINSON. AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. Some very extraordinary flruflores have lately been diicovered on the banks of the Little Miami river, llate of Ohio, They confift of (trudtureg bearing every evidencu ofan acquaintance with the arts of civilization and of fcience, and from their great extent leave little room for enquiry as to the ancient ftate of this continent, which lets afide all former hypothefis. Thele works, confidered as military fortifications, are not confined to one po fition, nor to that rude uniformity which diftinguiflies the worlcs of unrefined 11a lions. The principal courfe of Fortifications which are fituated a few miles from the Ohio, are compoled of a number of fquarss and oblong communications, adapted to and oblong communications, adapted to the pofition of the ground -, feveral rifing bank* and hills arc chofen as points of defence : and circular as well as redlan ftru&ures prefent themfelves ; of gular which are eonne&ed by long chains of works—of various lengths from half a mile to a mile. It is remarkable that the communica tion is prelerved and fallyports open co red by interior breaft works, adjoining the neighboring springs ; the ildea of the hills form a natural talus or glacis to the genera! range of the works, and a covert way is cut frern each of the fallyports to the fpritios. In one point where thare is a fprlng fomewhat diftanc-from the main fortrefa, a fmall fortrefs appears _the fize of the greater may be concei ved by that of the lefs which ferma a pa rallelogram of 66a—bv 33X feet. The fides of fome of the fquares are from 1000 to aooo feet. And one of the comm» nications exteuds to the diftance of a8Ö4 [ vc feet. One of thu moft extraordinary of the difeoveries of thefe antiquities, is what 11 a turnpike road, formed of ftone, which iffues from one of th. fallyposts of the greater fortification mora than ao feet wide and has been traced to the ex tent of three miles from the works, in good order. Twenty miles above the greater for tification on the fame river is another (eries of works, upon fimilar principles. There are no ditches to any, but great ingenuity is perceptible in the choice ol pofitions and the application of art to the line of apparent defente. A Mr. Ludlow found in one of the works an iron ball of 70 pound* weight, which has thrown great difficulty in the way of enquiry, advenlitioufly placed there ? Or does it belong to the ancient works Î vve ci ; it May it not have been Aurora* LITERN« Y. Propofals will fhortly be iffued from the in Philadelphia, office of the Repolicnry for printing by lubfeription, An Essay ait tbe Slavery and Commerce of tbe Human Species , particularly tbe African, tranf leted from the Latin differtation of th* Rev. Thomas Clarkson, A. M. which was honored with the firft prize in the U niverfity of Cambridge for the year 1785 ; with additions : " Ncque premendo alium me extulifie vclim."—This work is writ ten in a ftyle of elegance which recom mends it to the polite reader, and is repleto with arguments which will render it inter efting to the friends of humanity. >:o®o©o®o:' (BY AUTHORITY.) AN ACT Making appropriations for the fupport of the military eftabiilhment of the U nited States, in the year one thouland eight hundred and four. BE it enabled, by tbe Senate and House of Representatives ej tbe United States of America , in Congress assembled, That: for defraying the expenfe of the milita eftablilhment of the United States, for the year one thoufand eight hundred and four, for the Indian department, and for the expenfe of fortifications, arfenals, and armories, the following ry magazines fums be, and the lame hereby, are rci'pec tively appropriated, that is to fay ; For the pay of the army of the U 11 ted States three hundred and one thou fand four hundred and feventy fix dol lars : For forage four thoufand and fifty fix dollars : For the fubfulence of the officers of the army and corps of engineers twenty eight thoufand and eighty two dollars and eighty three cents and one half of a cent : For the fubfiflence of non-commilfi. oned officers, muficians and privates hundred and fixty three thoufand one eight hundred and thirty nine dollars and thirty feven cents and one half of a cent : For cloathing, eighty thoufand dol lars : F®r bounties and premiums, fourteen thoufand dollars : For the medical and hofpital depart ment, ten thoufand dollars : For camp equipage, fuel, tools, expenfe of tranfportation and other contingent expenfes of the war department, feventy one thoufand dollars : For fortifications, arfenals, magazines, and armories, one hundred and nine thou land eight hundred and ninety fix dollars and eighty eight cents : For purchalmg maps, plans, books, and inftruments for the war department and military academy, one thouland dol lars : For the Indian department,feventy five thoufand five hundred dollars : Sec. %. And be it further enabled, That the feveral appropriations, herein before made, {hall be paid anddilcharg ed firlt out of any balance remaining un expended of former appropriations for the fupport of the military ellablifiiment, and [ fecondly, out of any monies in the trealu ry, not otherwife appropriated. NATHl. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro-temporc. February 10, 1804. Approved, it TH : JEFFERSON. SENATE of the U.-STATES. Debate on the Amendment of the Constitution. December 2. Mr. Taylor's Speech — concluded. Sir, tbe endeavor to excite a national jealoufy againft tbe idea of amending the conftuution, is in my view, infinitely mot c dangerou* and alarming, than even the at tempt to marfltal dates againft fiatss. The gsntleman from ConneéUcut, (Mr. Tracey) has twice pronounced with great emphafis " man ts manf and at tempted to make inferences againit ail attempt* to amend otu conftitution, ft eta