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A TABLE, fhewing at one view the present Population of the AMERICAN STATES; being an Abstract

of the Return of the whole Number of Persons within the several Districts, divided into Classes according to an Act " Providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States.”

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Kentucky,

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Territory of the United States, south of the Ohio.

Grand Total,

POETRY.

ON MONEY.

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o Cives, cives, querenda pecunia primum est virtus post nummos.
Nesciis quo valeat nummus, quem præbeat ùsum.
Di'tibi divitias dederunt artemque fruendi.

O MONEY! much rever'd though fatal name,
You are a mark at which all mortals aim;
Object alone of universal love,

The great first cause the human mind to move;
Thy charms so brilliant captivate the soul,
And rule with tyranny from pole to pole;
By all thy kind afsistance is implor'd,
By all thy golden image is ador'd;

Patriots themselves who boast of being free,
The friends of liberty are slaves to thee.
Desire for money all mankind evince,
From the poor beggar to the sqand'ring prince!
Why metamorphos'd to a golden show'r
Did Jove descend to Danae's brazen tow'r?
Th' all-seeing thund'rer from above descried,
That gold will enter, where the god's denied.
Ye, who o'er haughty beauty would prevail,
Display your purse before you tell your tale;
With woman that will seldom plead in vain,
For who has most to give, is sure to gain.
What makes the ship unfurl her wanton sails?
Brave the rude billows, and the ruder gales?
Money! for thee the plows the deep, t'explore
The hidden treasures of a foreign fhore,
And bears her crew exulting far from home
In quest of thee in sultry climes to roam;
There, to a burning sun expose their health,
And this is offer'd in exchange for wealth.
What makes the soldier fond of war's alarms?
'Tis money! money rouses him to arms;
To take another's life, he risks his own,
Expecting plunder all his toils will crown.
What makes the lawyer's eloquence to shine?
The more convincing rhetoric of coin.
'Tis money makes the pious parson preach,
And doctrines which he does not follow teach.
What makes the poet tune harmonious lays?
To gild with useful money, useless bays.
For money doctors medicines compose,
Bring you to life, and bring it to a close.
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Many their conscience have for money sold,
And wretches hang because they sigh for gold.
But say can riches happiness bestow?
Hoary Experience will answer, No;
Ask the two greatest plagues of human life
And all will tell you money and a wife;
Which of the two 'tis doubtful is the worst,
For man with much of either is accursti
Money's to him the source of many woes,
He toils to gain it, and he fears to lose :
Its charms when once possession is attain'd,
With some, like beauty, have not long remained;
Subject to changing like that fading flow'r,
A friend for years, companion for an hour.

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Here you will say that man must happy be,
Who from this plaguy fiend's entirely free;
But want of money oft misfortunes brings,
Greater than those that from abundance springs.
Money! thro' all the world, you never can,
With all attractions, make a happy man;
What is thy use if you but tempt the heart,
And can no real benefit impart ?
Fortune! of this you are the fatal cause,
For money must obey, thy fickle laws!
Are you unjust, or partial? tell me which
Why make you this so poor, and that so rich
Why don't you fhew yourself a common friend,
And deal your favours with impartial hand ?
Had you but deign'd this world to equalise,
What happiness from thence you'd seen arise!
Had you but made the greatest treasure small,
In just proportions dealt their parts 'mong all,
Then mortal happiness had been secure,
And ev'ry one been rich where all were poor.
But since a diff'rent order you've decreed,
And sown unjustly this pernicious seed,
Teach man at least its proper use to know,
To make a friend of what is thought a foe;
Make him content tho' little he possefs,
Nor seek to make it more, or make it lefs;
Teach th' extravagant the art to spare,
Least poverty and want should bring despair;
Teach him who cannot all his fortune spend,
To give what's useless to a needy friend;
Teach the lone miser heaping heaps on heaps,
To see from such no benefit he reaps.
To all desirous happiness to reach,
To all this great instructive maxim teach,
That to do good's the use of being rich.

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SIR,

ON THE GOOSeberry Caterpillar.

To the Editor of the Bee.

As about this time annually, what may be called the gooseberry plague commences, I wish for your opinion, as well as that of the public, through the medium of your useful publication, what are thought, or from experience found, the best remedies against it.

What I mean is the green caterpillar, which so generally infests our gooseberry and currant bushes, and by devouring the leaves renders the fruit good for nothing.

As I apprehend the progrefs of that hurtful insect, (whose proper name I do not know,) may not be generally known, I fhall take the liberty of mentioning what has fallen under my observation. Some years ago I confined some of the caterpillars (full grown,) in a small box, with fresh leaves to feed on, had they inclined, but which they did not touch-their eating season being over; in a few days I found them in the chrysalis state, in a dirty black hufk or fhell, which I allowed to lie till the next season, when I found the perfect fly burst from their confinement, though dead; the time having not been exactly noticed of their reviving. This was the first time I knew the fly which produces this pest, and in case you have not made the like observation, I send you inclosed a female that species, as I find they have already begun their depredation. It will not probably get to you alive, but I hope so as you can give a description of it, and if it should be injured, (if wanted) more of them may be got and sent in some other mode of carriage. You will notice, the insect is remarkably small for the size of the caterpillar, and therefore not liable to be easily destroyed. In that state it is also pretty active on the wing, flying from leaf to leaf,

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