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