relative of 1h secretary’su of “oy the appointment of both re by fw xf "pentlemen, This to 2 ; Was thurat ‘Upon iy by t he: opinion, ha thik ong ra § Lg, whiche _ Secretary of the Commonwealth. "Zo his Excellency Secretary of pthers, for Saanpum, 1s a near thg'commonwealh, and a few hae purpose of puttiig $200088 inte the pocket of Mr Foxgw are acquainted with the vo Hisap ‘pointiuent was uniyersa Kpecicd, and disappointment to himself was not greater than'it 1s to the pire “Those who arc wot acqueinted with: the corrupt ‘abuses which prevented the appointment so unl vevsally expected and for which your ex celicney was in effect pledged, may per haps attribute it ‘to teasoss affecting my brothers ‘reputdidon. Seif: delence -theve- {ore impels us to the cotirse which we ave taking, and from which no consideration can deter us I have written to Mr. Ell- maker apprising him ofall the circamstan- vicesy and shall svrite to all who took an in- erest in my brétlier’s application. I remain your excellency’s obedient bumble servant. JOHN WURTS. luded m: i ‘Letter from Jas. Harper jr. to the Gov. enor of Pennsylvania. )--Produced by the . » Wm. Findlay, Bsq. ~~ Philadelphia, 28th March 1818.) apd from his worth as a man and | was rejoiced to find that'h's wishes 0 be in a great measure wings’ apppointmen have | beard tohis d 3 : g disgraceful b which I think he is'now ashamed of My business . {orsakes the pure in heart, direct and guide you, is the fervant wish of your most obe- dient servant: is fo ‘JAMES HARPER, Junior. (To be Continuid.) ——p TD AP Interesting Ancedote. The public will probably have noticed the advertisement of Mr, SMALL, announc- ing the publication of the first volume of « Transactions of the historicgl and literary committee of the American Philosophical Society.” The greater part of this volume is an account of the / history, maAners arid customs of the Indian nations. who. once 1n- habited the Pennsylvania and the n<ighbor- ing States, by the Rev. Joho Hock ewedler, of Bothlehem. ¥fom this interesting vol ame, we ex ract the following anc cdotgy whi Wwe think cannot but gratify oar read- _ Sir-~In the course of the conversatiol I had with you in Harrisburg, you inform ed me that bad got vid of one unpl ant tark by Messrs. Jennings and ! agreeing to go into partbershipi tion business, and I was happy expectations confirmed after my B this place by both the gen selves. BE RR I further observed an part to coupl: the appli hinch as possible. Judg prise whenthe public he above named Ie Wasa Mystery -— But a day or two has.unravellcd it ; and for the honor of the party and of frinan natur: I could wish the subjzct buried ii eternal oblivion. [#0EE TET : 5, But this cannot be, it has already become almost a town. talk, and I have io doube will extend throughout tho state, if some. thing is not done to prevent it. : To bz plain sir, it is ascertained here beyond a doubt, that Mr. Lisle bas been appointed on condition that a Mr. Fox, (a near relation of Mr. Sergeant) shall receive a pensicn of 2000 dollars per annum from him under the ficiion of being a clerk or something else about the store. ~~ And has our government indeed reached that stage of corruption at which p'aces that should be the hgnerablie reward of mer it have become objects of traffic of bargain, and sale, and ara the claims of a family like the Messrs. Wart’s, to be sacrificed to such base cupidity ? T trust not every sen- timent of justice and honour cries aloud 4- gainst it, I cannot admit the idea, for onc moment -.8ir, that you have knowingly encouraged measures like these, You must have been impased upon and the persons whoever ther may be who have thus abused your confidence, deserve to be consigned to lasting oblivien. Some decisive measure On yout partis necessary to redeem your charaster from unmerited objoguy, now heapzd upon it : whatever is done must be done promptly as the Messrs. Wurt’s ave only Waiting to see what you will pursue whenundeceived, before they address a cir colar to those micnibers of the Leo :iture there; being . - . ‘ 1.3 ¥ { Jin fencing in his cornbeld,\1 observed to "| crable impression on my mind + T' membered it ever since, and I shall | érs—it occurs at page 318 of the volume. Ha — An D Ad. % Scating mysclifonce ypon 3 log, by the ide of an Indian, who was resdag himselt at that time agtively employed him that hie.must be very fond of working as I never seen him ding away his time, 45 is so common with the Indians: "The answer which he returned, made cop relate it%s neatly in his own words: sible. ; : ¥ « My friend |” said he,“ the the water ard the bids in the air the earth have taught me o work 5 examples 1 have been convinced o essity of labor ahd industry. Whe a young man Iloitercd a great ded doing nothing, just like the other who say that working is only for the nd the negroes, and that the fadiang realized by Mra d e : . {has been done in England ‘speak his thoughts, is every freeman's right.’ MONDAY, APRIL 19. ~ 7% "For the Patriot. Mr. Brindle, ib The story of the resuscitation, or if you picase the resurrection, of James Munks, is of woo serious a nature to be passed over; by a bare deninl of the fact, in a newspaper paragraph. A person from Bellefonte, it seems, declared to the editor of some kind of a publication near thestaic of New Yo k that be was seen alive after his execution. Now sir, this is proof positive ; and your assertion that he is not alive is only of the negative kind; and tfom the nature o things, as well as the provisions of the common law, one pouitive evidence coun- terbalances an hundred negatives. You assert that thousands of persons from this and the peighboring counties, who attended at the execution, saw him bung until he was dead : but this is no proof that he is not now alive. We have it from good authority, that no londer ago by the powers of Galvanisth, applied to his body by a Doctor. members resiored 6 over one of the dants; who wagaiding in the operations @pd the only thing that prevented his complete resuscitation was, that he had been Severely wounded, and thereby had lost his blood. Now, sir, who can teil that some student of this art, has “Inot tricd his skill upon the body of Munks, _{and succeeded; It is well known, we have of their own reels” several men of science in this place, and are all men of i t 10.do here; Whol interest? 35% Y wha should hinds hemp {90 hg a ly 7 HEROS; | Hud the thing happened ic. the oy Loni, 1Lwelidnot have ren worth io. James Munks received, no we lost no bloud, therefore this co impediment to his restorati |you will perliaps say a credible witnesses saw hin ; t also saw tb am een ordained for oth r purpeses, the deer, aud catch the beaver; ott oot. and such other animals, so happened; that while alr to the bank ofthe Susqu down pear the walter and casting my ey&on the wites cibly swruck, when 1 observed ipdus@fy the | feechgaiingns * He stones tog et ry to make secure their spawn, and all this labor they their mouth and'bodies without hands « Astonished as well as diverted; 1 hight ed my pipe, sat a while smoking and feok: yA ¢ from me raised a song which enticed me to look that way ; while I was trying to dis- tingwish who the songsier wis and catch it with my eyes, Ms mate, with as much grass as its bill could hold, passed close by me and {lev into a busn, where I perceived them together busy buliding their nest and singing as they went along. 1 entirely for- gouthat I was a hunting, aud in order to contemplate the objects 1 had bofore me. I saw the birds of tue gir and the fishes in the water working diligentiyand cheerfully and ali this without bands | [ihought it was strange «nd become lost in eomenmpiation Liooked at my ¢it, 1 saw two long arms, provided with bands and fingers besides, with joints that might be opencd and shut a: ing on when presently a little bird not fay nota single of bis sepulchre, that James fellow, and m-ght as cert his coffiu, and his grave as a German Baron; and as there we ¢ no walls to interpuse he might very readily, make nisescape through know ie wt woodsman. A Be these things as they may, the public mind is very much agitaied about this mat. this kint may be restored to life, and set at ven in bis grave. Their have been enqui- ries of late into matters of far less eounse- quence, and why not into this ¢ The Con. gress spent a considerable portion of their last session, cuquirivg into the way and manner by which the two Indian chiefs, « than last November, a man in Engiand who a dvertdfous yoith, who braved the yas killed, dead enough, was reanimated of the ocean to. Serve Bis Courtr motion that he kicked ad 1he 1! But b merit what they has! og inst them in €n~ yyaip ai our of NY rou nly burst open the woods, for he was a yery dexilervus gy ment, and how artfully each of (hey ry . . 4 an, aged in Uying to out-wit the other jj, cas vassing for the appointments ; and thy, there were only about 40 or 50 applicants for 7 places : each of whose merits transcended all the others. They particularly ered that a certain very patriotic youn man was shuflled out, some how or oy who had served his country faithfully England during the late war: to which place he transported himself, by the ad. vice of his friends, for his own benefit ang discoy- advantage, and to be out of harms way ; and frem which he returned home when the. war was over, to enjoy the salubrioug air of his native land ; and to share jy its gifts and blessings. He finding that the Euglish atinospiicre, now. that peace wah restored, was ofino more use to brace hig nervous systems To this young patriop it seems, the governor preferred an elderly od (man, who had a wife and family, ang Wh had remained me piag in the country, ii served it there during the wae, witlioug Ae ny view to personal advariiage 5 and had nothing to reccommend him but hye he was au honest man and a unifory, republi. can ; notwithstanding he had livea tidy years, perhaps ali his fe in the City of Pitts adclphia. “Eheappointment of suck per son in preference tothe young, § righ. athe dangers country, by Ses Siving himuelly was considered by. iin. ar So completely was his!ayj 2 SIIGEed by’ hins-and alt bis ricndgjas an act of great inp atitude: errence was that it eould only have been procured: by corrtption. This [Matic was thought well worthy of a legis ao gg: “ABE pera wen, Spegidly as the parties concerns Were city a habitants of the metrop- obs, ich (ds so tvich with staunche Stern, democrgtic republicans ; who one pe and icgisiators saith, PAncipie according to ther & icing, for theve the people are not ‘much Rican. to the ‘sucedss of the party, be their claims; on the score of party ay, we conceive Cent il Claigies YW not ofl utidpab ut ‘we have " i ya b i Coun make SE pi A) AS Lo Te 0 dd iste esting subject. actor of the $hériff, Gis of uch agliaie L-! court and of onr whole €oiipt ter, and. public justice demands that It ged. The admusistration ofp should be enquired inte It &@ criminal of tice and iodividug safety is porta ACLCE ‘this ali important questigh. ¥ ‘be fully taken. and fH large through the world, no man is safe €~ fire Lave an enquiry, andie that the world ma be really dead 0895 worth while to han: ‘tors hereafter: for if 8 there can be no depg: who from the knowledge of the high si I-{pieasure. 1 could, when [ipicased, take Ing of the famly have interested themsel: €s up any thing with these hands, hold it fast in their favor and through them to such oth lor fet 1t loose, and carry it along with me who had employed themselves in murder-i ny other attempt to kil ing our peopie lor a numberof years, and ing. But it wil not do {two British renagadoes, who had been aid. quiry until the Assembly Jandy ian - ¢ for a (n- de y ‘they h €rs as may fecl an interestin the pure ad. minstration of the laws of the state. They ndghuipablelind astry in whatever they un- derlakey and have declared that if the fore- going transactions are carried into effect Spare no pains or trouble to bring the subject before the next legislature, Amongst those who have interested themselves in their favor they reckon the gsneaker Davidson, Dearth, Stewart, Hill, Turst; Hays and Houston; should these gentlemen be induced to take up the sub. & ject (and when Rnown to them I do not see how they can ayoid it) I dread the conse sQuences not only to yourselt but to the par: y thronghout the state. Already some of our friends are alarmed at the effect this affair will produce on the public mind when held forth under the calumny of our enemies. ~ Feovsideér yon sir, standing on the brink | ol aiprevipice, and that otic wrong ster may ruin you forever ; and putthe government _ of the state into the bands of our enemies. Your kind attention to my remarks when at Harrisburg, has induced me to take the ; liberty of writing to you. I have not an ab- Jet to aceompiish other than to serve you ‘and the party. = With Mr, Fox I am not acqurinted, nor #3 it an object to be desired, as far as I car farhs Me. Lisle I am acquained with, are men of integrity, talents firmness, and | f tas [ walked [I observed morcover that 1 Had a stvorg body capable of bearing fatigue fatd supped by two slout legs, with which i coud clunb to the top of the high mountains aud descend at pleasure into the vallics “ And is it possibie, said I; that a being so furmed as Lam, was created to live ip iilenessy while the birds, whe have no hands, and nothing but their litle bilis to help them, work with cheerfulness and without being told to doso. Has then the Great Creator of mon, and of alt living crea- tures, given me all these limbs for no pur- pose 2 It cannot be; I wit'try to go to work 1did so, and went away from the vilidge to a spot of good lau, bulltd cabin, cuclosed ground, planted corn, and raised cattie. Ever since that time, I have erjoy ¢d a good appetite and sound sleep ? while the others spend their nights in. dancing and are suffering with hunger, 1 live In plenty ; I keep Horses; Cows, Hogs and Fowls; Iam happy. Sce! my friend ; the birds and fishes have brought ms to reflec- tion, and taught me to work.” *Sun Fish. .————— Highrst Point of Wisdom, MN acdoratin [ Try . Moderation of passions, judgraent of counsel, and dextenty in affairs, are the ing, abetting and assisting them, came by their death, within the dominions of his most Catholic majesty, The result ot which enquiry, was, that they found they were killed by the orders of General Jack- son; as many more British and Indian warriors and incendiaries, had been belore, and all this was as well known before as after the enquiry. Now, it is surely of more importance to enquire how one of our citi- zens, (lor James Munks was a natural born! citizen) came by his death, within cur own dominions, or whether he be really dead or not. It would be a carious anomaly for a peison to be dead in law and alive in fact. Or, as civilians would say, 0 be dead de jure and alive de facto. - We have many de jure and de facto contradictions, but none 10 equal this. 3 . The Legislature of our own state, spent 1 considerable part of the winter, enquiring how the vendue criers in Philadelphia, and heir clerks, were appointed ; and wha were the nature and emoluments of the trade. The result was, that, with grea depth of research, they discovered the am- unt of the wages of all the servants of the establishment, from the stage clerk, down through all the giades and orders to the porter. They also discovered, how the ar- ;angements ol the vendue shops are made ; and what great claims the several eandi- dates had upon public patronage ; and how most prominent Paris of wisdoge el nexi ter, ih it ten before next December, cation, then be made to ‘(lie go stanly, requesting him fo feop: cial meeting of the legisiature, aday as possicley and when r appoint a special cdinmittee, it shail be to ‘gepair to James Muanks'was vuried : Let them, then aud there, scarch for the body; and i found it will certainly be firima facia evidence that he is not alive. If net found, then it whl be presumptive evidence that he is alive : althobgh not positive evidence, for his body might have been stolen asay’ by mght, by doctors, or some of his [riends. The commitiee will be the legal and con- stitutional Judges of these matters; but they ought to have the best evidence, that the nature of the case will admit of, which is that of their own senses, nam: ly, hear- ing seeing, smelling, touching and 13sting, when this can be obtained; which it can be in the present case. Itis to be hoped the editors who published the story of his ressurrection will attend and satisfy themselves as to how the fact is, particu- larly the Towanda editor who started the story. To empower the committee to send ‘or persons and papers is a matter of cous se; and 1 hope they will send for the projes- sional gentleman hangman of Cumberlangg: well each of them were entitled to prefer- County, who was so obliging as to travel ame SA
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