POETRY.
From the Troy Gazette,
Vain are the Pleasures of this life,
And fleeting are its fancied joys ;
Tumultuous scenes of endless strife,
Mere childish toys.
Man secks blest happiness in vain,
‘The phantom from his presence flies,
He lives in sérrow and in pain
The sufferer dies.
X'1i seek dim silence and the shade,
To man’s rude footsteps long a stranger,
With contemplation, pensive maid,
A boundless ranger.
See 1-_Life is but a cheerless road,
Where shall we find its boasted treasures ? ?
Peace! lead me to thy blest abode,
Wherears thy pleasures
Pleasure is but a painted toy,
And Life’s a boundless sea of trouble, i,
Friendship’ s a gilded name—and jy
Art thou, in youth’s del ve m n
By transient scenes of bliss beg
Art thou on gilded pinions borne,
Sweet Fancy’ 5 hth
Let glory, sad experience teach
Peace dwells not in this vale of tears}
Ere life’s meridian we resch :
ie Gisappesid,
Life's fragile rk may Smontly. glide
“While wafted by propitious gales ;
¥And with the swelling, silver tide
She swiftly sails.
But soon of tending storms the sporty
When overwhelming tempests rise,
The tenant finds no shelt’ring port,
But sinks and dies.
See Merit at Misfortune’s side,
Unshelter’d from the tempest, roam;
While Folly, Ignoratice and Pride,
Each find a home,
Virtue, the good man’s polar star;
In penury’s low vale resides ;
‘While vice, in splendor’s golden car,
t Triuniphant rides.
See Industry, with visage mild,
Struggling against rude Fortune’s frown 3
In vain=-behold ! misfertune’s child
Sinks breathless down.
From compéterice t6 fortune hurl’d,
And doom’d to hopeless poverty ;
1°11 point a sordid, selfish world
To worth and thee,
The child of misery and we,
I’ve seen thee charitably seek—
Seen sensibility’ s soft glow
Diffuse thy cheek.
“Those cheeks now furrowed by despair,
Disease’s sallow paleness borrow,
A prey to Ife-consuming care,
And gloomy sorrow.
And my sad checker’d life discloses
“The ills to which frail man is born,
1 too have gather’d life’s wild roses
And felt their thorn,
1.ife’s cheerless winter I contrast
With youthful spring, serene and pleasant ;
Thus tho’ sweet memory gilds the past,
It damps the present,
Stranger ! wherever and whoe’er theu art,
fs some fair nymph by thee ader’d ?
Does beatity hold thy tender heart,
‘With silken chord.
And doth she tenderly receive thee,
{ And press the in her circling arms ?
Ah! fly the syren—she’ll deceive thee)
Ah ! fly her charms.
{For doth she tender passions ~Y
{Doth she awaken soft desires;
Still fly ; she never feels (hy love
That she inspires.
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{ Love is a false, bewildering fame,
{ Aud lite’s a boundless sea of trouble 3
Friendship is but a gilded name,
Pleasure’s a bubble.
Stranger ! let sad experience teach
Bliss dwells not in this vale of tears ;
Ere lite’s meridian we reach,
It disappears.
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COGITATIONS
On seeing the grave of a Shoemaker,
“This is the ast of man! his final end!
ho Alas poor soul, his morning hopes were
P, glorious, but stern fate measured his hours
of comfort and he tell—Though Chatham's;
ge all he mourned, he yet was Fored. Pati-§
ent in suffering, but when insult cahie, he
Pressed to the earth he s40’d no vik
rage, but gave his blessings and kis p
to booz, Pilgrim ! DO tassels wave
a 4 his bier, though upon nature’s lap h
{stone rests ! Death to the linings o
ne sewed a destroying seam! Hi
3 peated hegs, the pinchers of verge
ling with indicative zeal, and thou
were ever going not able to kop a
gave up his soul, ed on Has gray
scribed: ZEN
Worth makes the WE, de ont of t 1
All else we find butleather and pr un
Al
We have seldom seen a wife adve
in a more affectionate manner than the fol-|
lowing :
NOTICE—Fourteen yesrs ago 1 took to]
wife with Patience, of the Trise of Doan; as
we were both of African origin, and of a
deep jetty black, it never entered my
head that my wife would have Patietice: to
listen to the persuasions of 2 swarthy In|
of my family began tobe disturbed by one
Jim of that race, and at length Patience
oliowed him, carrying with them the main
part of my estate, viz: bed and bedding}
great and little wheel, bed cord, rR
pot and spider. I have since been active
in endeavoring to regain her affections to"
gether with my property. 1 have bought
a Shawl of beautiful colors to terapt her}
I have pified to her, but she would not}
dance ; I have mourned with her, and she
would not weep, and finally am persuaded
that she will never be restored to me ; and
therefore, to save the wreck of my estate,
trusting said Patience on my account, as I
will pay no debts of her contracting after
this date.
HENRY JACKSON.
Wethersfield, (Con. ) May 25, 1818.
Instructions Jor fine Gentler
Whenever you fail mn conyel’satie.. to
amuse the company, begin to laugh most
immoderately ; thereby you will command
the attention of the spectators.
If any gentleman should tell a remarka-
ole good story, never laugh, but immediate.
ly tell another story yourself, and then
laugh as much and a8 loud as you please.
Wherever you go, be détermined to find
fault with every thing; thereby you will
Prove yourself a man of consequence.
Do you wish to be in love? Visit your
bristled up and waxed in honest wrath. — a la
your bottle. Spirits give spirits—e—DMake
a dying speech ; thump your breast ; flour-
ish your handkerchief; and present a pistol.
If she is not moved at this, I'll give you
leave to shoot yourself.
Whevever you are in company with Ila-
dies, endeavor to show your learning. Use
as many hard words sud learned phrases as
possible j it will excite great admiration.
Should the conversation happen to ge!
beyond your depthyand you be pressed for
a remark or a reply, sct up an affected
cough ora sneeze ; and then say, « Damme,
I forgot what I was going to speak.’
Another Swinish accident.—As a young
gentleman was on his way home to dinner
yesterday, 2 large sow at the corner of
Broadway and Thames street, unluckily run
"her nose full tilt between his legs, took
him fairly upon her back aud redlly gallop-
ed off some yards, when giving a sudden
grunt she pitched him sprawling on his
back into the middle of the street, to the
no small amusement of several byestanders:
We are bappy to learn he sustained no in-
jury other than ruining a pair of small
lclothes. N. York Post.
TO DESTROY BED BUGS.
Take two ounces of qiticksilver and the
whites of two eggs, and so in this ratio for
jer or smaller quantity. Beat the
dian, Not long ago, however, the peace|
I herby forbid all persons harboring or|
be supplied on the most reasonable terms.
He flatters himself that by punctuality to
business, and keeping on hand a quantity
of the best Segars, to merit the. patronage
of a generous public.
William Ward.
Bite July 20, 1818.
"LAWS.
| he Quota for Centre and Clearfield
counties, of the Laws passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature of Pennsylvania,
came to hand this day, to be delivered to
the different officers entitled to copies there-
of ; all of whom will please to apply per-
sonally, as receipts are to be taken on their
delivery.
John Rankin, Prof’ y.
Prothonotary’s Office,
Bellefonte, July 20, 1818.
N. B. The Journals of the same session
of the Legislature, are also received
at the Commissioners’ Office. Also, one
box for the Commissioners of Clearfield
county, containing the Journals, &c. and
are ready for distribution. :
WANTED.
One or two apprentices will be taken to
the
Tailoring Business,
subscriber. Boys from ten to thirteen
years of age will be preferred.
Andrew Stewart.
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20 Dollars Reward,
the subscriber
P don Mill,
on Friday the 10th inst a bri 1
Sorrel Horse, 8
one hind foot white, his back rubbed with
the saddle. Whoever takes up the horse
10 dollars tor the horse alone.
John M “Donald,
THE Books for receiving ied
Centre county, at the house of John Rap-
kin, on Tuesday the first day of September
the purpose of receiving subscriptions (o
the stock in the
pan Ys
At which time and place one or more of
tiend and keep open said hooks as directed 4
by an act of the Legislature, passed the
the Governor to incorporate a Company for
the purpose of making and erecting a
A f STRAYED or stolen from
2 Noe Furnace, Fran
fifteen & an half hands high, shod all round, 2
and thiefshall have the above reward, or
July 23, 1818,
will be opened in the borough of Bellefonte,
next; at ten o'clock, A. M. of said day, for
Clark’s Lerry Bridge Com- 3
‘he Commissioners for Centre county, will |
23d day ot March, A. D. 1818, authorising
BRIDGE
Over the River Susquehanna, in the coune
Cooney store ketpbes. and Hom can |:
the done.
if immediate application be made to the
ties of Dauphin and Cunberiand, at or
ear Clark’ 8 Ferry.
JAMES POTTER,
~ JOHN RANKIN,
JOHN IRVINE,
vite, it 29, 1818.
5 ( itors Take Notces a
AT 1 have applied to to the Court of
on Pleas of the county of Centre;
the benefit of the several acts of a
Coantd ;
oor Cen
tre Coys
ls sembly, passed | for the relief of inlsolvent
debtors, and ‘the Court have appointef
| Monday the 24th day of August to hear m
and my creditors, at the Court Hot
Bellefonte.
A - Henry Ba
hips hs duty de : P
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AP Lh
WHEREAS tbs honorable cH Axl
HUSTON, President of the
Common Pleas in the ah judicial district
composed of the counties of Centre, Hund
{tingdon, Mifflin and Bedford, and the hon.
James Potter and Adam Hurper, judges of &
the said court in Centre county, haveissu
edtheir precept bearing date the {7th day |
of July, 1818, to me directed, for holding
a court of
Oyer and Terminer and
General Jail Delivery,
in the Town of Bellefonte, for the coun-
ty of Centre, on the fourth Monday of Au-
gust next, being the 24th dey thereof.
NOTICE 1S THEREFORE HEREBY GIVEN
to the coroner, the justices of the peace
and constables of the said county of Cen-
tre, that they be then and there in their
proper persons at ten o'clock in the fore:
noon of said day, with their records, ine’
quisitions and remembrances, to do those
things which to their offices appertain to
And those who are bound by
recogni zances to prosecute rgainst the pris
soners that are or shall be in the jail of ithe
county of Centre, are to be then and there
to prosecute against them as shallbe just.
Dated at Bellefonte, the 19th day
of July, in the year of our Lord 2
one thousand cight hundred and
eighteen, and in the forty-third
year of the independence of
United States of America. 3
Wm. Alexander,
mistress when you have drank freely of
Bellefonte) August 6, 1818.
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