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From the National Advocate,
Domestic Economy.—Lhere are mo-
ments when serious reflection is a luxury
—when the gay and elastic spiri's, the
sportive fancy, the lively and exuberant 1m-
agination, delights to dwell on pensive sub.
jects—when thé gye pierces the mind and
the soul Ro'ds communion with the heart :
tien the trail tenure of existence, the help
less condition, the dependent state of mar
are scen and felt——then the monafeh,®th
leader, and all those ¢ dwessed in brici an-
thority,” shrink into equal stations, andare
sensible that afliction ‘and death reaches
alike the sovereign and the peasant.--
Whenever snch feelings steal o’er my mind,
1 do not wish to check them: they & come {as hard
like shadows,” and leave a soft yet melan-
choly trace behind, which tempers tha!
lively disposition which should be judicous
ly controlled, not effectually destroyed
Under the influence of such sober feclings,
1 was seated at my window last Sunday and
contemplated the concourse of peopic
which in every direction, was passing to
the several places of religious worship, as
the bells, « their iron tongues and brazen!
mouths,” called them to the fulfillment of
their sacred duty. What a noble and il
lustrious institution is that of Sabbath !
Millions of beings scattered over the globe ;
shunning, at the same moment, the alure-
ments of pleasure, the avidity of gain, the
habit of labor, and uniting in returning
thanks to the Disposer of all good for his
marifoidl blessings, and his paternal pro
tection. On this day, man disincumbers
himself of cave : all temporal concerns are
forgonien—all vexatious crosses aré no
longer remembered ; his wearied limbs
find repose, and all is sunshine around him
He who does not, at ‘proper times com-
mune with his God, loses a great temporal
luxury and hazards his cternal happiness:
sooner did they find a Bittle money in their |
by
A»: me, 1 think my family is as good as
pockets, than most of them began to des-
pise their substantial homcranade, coats,
manufactured by their wives and families,
‘he tow cloths, the linnens and the flannels,
%¢. made under their own roofs. They
mus! have your nice sleck and glossy su-
perfine broadcloths for themselves and
sons, and the like quality of calicoes, chint-|
zes, muslins, silks &c. for their wives and’
daughters The poot vied with theaxich in
xpensive dressing. For said one of them
Squire ’s or Col. ’s and I don’t
know why I an’t myscif; so Dil dress as
well as they : 1 must or be nothing tho’
We are in a free country ; and I work
as they. Fgbple thus bedizzen’d
and tricket cut in gewgaws, as was natoral
cnough, despised likewise their old fash-
oned and homely dwellings which bad
eiven them shelter in the days of their pov-
erty tho’ greatest independence. In this
too the poor and middling sort vied with
squires and judges, and colonels, and gens
crals, and lor ought I know, with the gov-
ernors too. . Most people now become em-
bairagsed by the building of fine houses
and expensive living; buc the sudden and
4 anexpected fall in the prices of
In Wheat fell
on.
@ he Patriot,
“To speak his thoughts, is every freeman’s right.
SATURDAY, ocToBER 16,
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OFFICIAL ELECTION
OF CENTRE COUNTY,
Senator,
John M Meens
William Wilsan
Assembly,
William Smyth
Patrick Cambridge
John Patton
Coroner,
James M Gee
Joseph Updegraff
acob Bollinger
John Bailey
Commissioner,
Matthew Ailison
James Forster
Auditor,
William Kerr
RETURNS
wT ©
CLEARFIELD COUNTY
produce brought on the crisis.
{rom two dollars and a half to one and
a quarter ;
many nore were cb 1iuW Ino
to gain somie relief from the difficulties into
which their own miserable extravagance
had placed them. But froma whence could
woucy be obtained to supply such univer-
sal want? The banks were the chief re-
fiance. The banks, which, which had til
then been no more that temporary aids to
commerce, apd were to appearance honest.
ly fulfilling every purpese lor which they
had been created, become the puddles 1
which the Farmers abd Mechanics were to
wash away their pecuniary sins; accord
You may be free in your religous opinions,
indifferent as to the strict performace of its,
dutics—you may philosephize on its inyste-|
ries, and coldly comply for form sake, with |
what morality requires :
than form or fashion, or sent
God requires of his creatures; and there
wre times when the most free and indiffer-
ent calls upon him for protection and sup-
port We may partly judge, from common
relations in life, how pleasing it is to be sin.
cerely and truly pious in our orisons. We
hail the fiend who has served us with
gratitude——we gaze upon oul companion in
in ite with affection—we feel towards chil-
dren and relations the sentiments of love
and kindness : but how strongly combined
should all those f elings be when address-
ing the fountain of life—the disposer of
goot— the merciful, indulgent and omnip-
but there is more,
iment which
chanics bank &ec.
ingly the capitals of many of the old banks
were enlarged, and the paper vastly in-
creased in quantity. New banks were
erected with popular pames ; as Farmers
bank, Mechanic’s bank, Farmers and Me-
But all would not do,
fon it was soon evident shat no monied man
would lend money while he coald lay it
out to greater advantage in another way ;
usury was the consequence and few of the
borrowers found any other relict than a
short deiay of their ruin.
Launcenor WRONGHEAD.
—
Some persons appear tobe delighted at
the prospect of the successot the band of
adfenturers who Lave gone over nto the
Province of Texes in hostile arvay ; consid
ering them us pionevrs to the Gold and
otent God. Not with the shouts of fanata
cism, or the fretful menaces of temporal]
Silver mines of Mexico. Were this to be
the certain resuit of their enterprize, it
anthority-—not as dealing damnation to one | would not recommend it to our favor.—
se¢t and blessings to others-—not as crush-
ing one portion of his creation and elevat-
ing another : but as a Just and righteous
God whom you fear to offend—whom you
approach with the confidence of a pure
heart—whom you call upon for salvation
and blessings with that freedom which
arises from an unsullied conscience. This
is indeed a luxury ; and those in the gay
throng; who think only of dvess fashion,
and of folly instead of encouraging and ma-
turing pious reflecions, while in a place of
worship, loses sight of the greatobject aud
end of religwn, There is nothing 1a reli-
gion which is repulsive to human nature ;
it is alike foreign from the gloomy air of
the monastry or the fastideous injunctions
of the bigot: religion 1s ever cheerful iu
its parity, and there is nothing appalling in
its sacred character. Should we not then
encourage it 2 Should we wait until the
hour of tribulation arrives ? should we for-
get our God until affliction. warns us of our
helpless condition ?—No=—=1In our prosper-
ity, let us be gracetul—in our adversity,
resigned : gvatelully receiving the good
Cand ill with which our lives are chequered
These sentiments were awakened by the
sight of a crowded population hastening to
church on Sunday. I foliowed in imagina-
tion, the various sects, having one object in
fiew—1I listened to the prayer of the pious
prelate—I dwelt with pleasure on the dis.
ho
ie
course of the able Theologian—I saw the:
Priest heave high 1a air acd marked the
curling smoke of Frankincense hovering
over the alter : the full swell of the deep
toned organ, reverbating through the pet-
ted root, burst on the ear—the hymn of the
choristers floated through the aisles, and
even the angels and cherubims jomed thelr
voices in sacred harmony of praise and de-
votion, while, with one voice, the malti-
tude cried aloud, % Our Father which art
in heaven, Aeliowed be thy name.”
HOWARD.
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From the Western Shy.
About the year 1792 or 3 the price of
wheat rose from 75 cents to a dollar, or a
Jittle over. It was thentfiat the farmers,
forthe first time ater the revolution, be:
Zan to grow rich. They poured in thew
prodiuge to market, aad enlarged their cal:
dalations to raise more. Sil the price of
produce ghntinucd lo increase. But no
Ty
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{ There is within the present limits of the
{ United States soil to produce all the means
tof subsistence and clothing ; and in our
hills and mountains are enough for making
‘all the implements of agriculture, com-
{fnerce, and manufactures, We want not
ithe mines of Mexico. We had much
rather purchase their products, with the
‘fruits of the more gaintal and less laborious
occupations of our people, and by this in-
tercourse afford new employment to our
pavigation, As for territory we have
enough, if not to spare in that direction :
and we believe it would be fortunate for
us if an Impassible barrier could be erected
on the line of demarcation established by
the Treaty vecently concluded (we wish
we could say raufied) with Spain.
ah Nat Int.
—
A Dublin paper of July last contains a
‘speech of Mr. Coppinger on Catholic eman-
|cipation, at a late general aggregate meet-
‘ing in Ireland, wheiein he says i——« Wil]
the enemies of conciliation never reflect on
Ithe mischievous consequences of perpetu-
tating religious discord and disunion 2 Will
they suil persevere in outraging the feel-
ings of a brave and gallant people 2 Will
they never learn to cuitivate peaee and har-
mony?! Do they want an example of the
blessings of toleration ? Let them look at
Amgrica—that highly spirited and enlight-
ened ‘natior: ; renowned in arts, arms and
commerce ; whose fame is spread in every
quarter of the globe ; ‘whose hospitable
shores, ever ready to receive the perse
cuted and oppressed, afford a sure asylum
to the ill fated victims of despotism? let
them look at America, and say, to what is
her present greatness and renown to be at-
tributed, but to the happy: constitution
which ghe enjoys; a constitution which.
instead of making religion serve as a pre-
text for prosecution ; instead of upholding
revolung tests and declarations, grants un-
bounded liberty of conscience to all, and
knows ne other distinctions but those which
merit and patriotism ensure.”
rE
President Beyer of Hayti, has presente
500/. sterling to the Wesleyan Methodis:
Missionary Society. Buch an example of
munificence in a sor of Africa deserves the
imitation of Princes in more favored na
many ere ruined by it, and |
lied to borrow in order| yWiniam Wilson
Senatar,
John M’Meeins
Assembly,
William Smyth
Patrick Cambridge
John Patton
Coroner,
James M'Gee
Joseph Updegraff
Jacob Bollinger
John Bailey
Commissioner,
3. Bel 3
Alexander Reed
William Cree,
Auditor,
Libeous Luther
el § Pera.
The following are the returns for Sena
tory so tar as received, from Lycoming
county.
Suoo WW
—"UOS[I AA
206
205
158
65
634
¥o
Muncy,
Williamsport,
Jeisey-Shore,
Dunnsburg,
AD
® wo
180
66
761
Gh Tred
Appointment by the Governor,
Lansing’ Wetmore, Prothonotary, Regis-
ter and Recorder, and Clerk of the several
courts in the county of Warren, lately or:
ganized for judicial purposes.
i A
The President of the United States has
returned to the seat of government, from
his farm in Virginia. The heads of de-
partments are to assemble about the 25th of
October,
ntl D Cn
Military Bounty Lands.— An agent who
advertises to transact business relative to
lands in the states of Illinois dnd Missouri,
gives the following information, which may
possibly be interesting to some of our read-
ers, viz.
“ Deeds for lands in Illinois must bére-
corded. within twelve months, and in the
Missouri within ¢/rce months after exccu-
tion in the counties where the lands lie.
* Lands upon which the taxes are not
paid, prior to the [first of October in the
lilinois, are sulject to treble taxes and
sale; Those in Missouri, if not paid by
the first of November, ave liable to be sold.”
STS § En 3
From Spain--The Latest.—By the ar-
rival of the Fanny, we have accounts from
Cadiz to the 28th August, at which time’ it
was not known that the Florida Treaty was
ratified by the king Ferdinand. The six
months allowed for its ratification by the
Spanish government, it will be recollected,
expired on the 26th August. It was very
sickly at Cadiz, when the Fanny sailed.
Phil. Gaz.
— 4 We
Letters from Cadiz, dated 28th August,
represent, that the yellow fever had bro-
ken out at Islay, a large town, about 8
miles from Cadiz, and that apprehensions
were entertained of its reaching Cadiz. —
The intubitants were generally removing,
and all business was ata stand. Numerous
bodies of troops were inthe neighborhood, of
Cadiz, and it was sipposed they would be
embarked from some other peint, Noth:
ig is said of the treaty in these letters.
Other letters from Cadiz state, that the
merchants of that place were debarred
making shipments in American vessels on
account of the uncertainty of the treaty be-
ing ratified. ibid.
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It 1s sad that brevet major general E
W. Ripley has tendered to the government
the resignation of his commission of a bri-
LOIS,
States, with the intention of devoting his
attention to civil pursuits. Nat. Intel.
—— 4 Wen
The Steam Ship Savannah, on he
sage from Liverpool to St. Peters
passed Elsineur August 13,
Forma pa
It is reported says the Boston Palladium
that a duel wus fought between a lieuten-
wnt of the navy and a lieutenant of marines
in which one was killed, or badly wounded
and the other unhurt. ; =
ret pes
We learn from Springfield, Clarke Couns
ty, (Obio) thata Silver Mime, has been
discovered in the neighborhood of Mecha.
\cksburg, in_that stag “The Picpricior ig
sald to be a poor man, and made the (js.
covery by digaing a well on his premises,
I'ne ore is represented as pure, and th
quantity great. i
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ER Bonnin
In the ship Ann, Crocker, which sailed
this forenoon for Liverpool, went ope b=
died passengers, all foreigners, whe had
recently emigrated to this country, byt yy
ible to find employment, are returpip
their native homes. 8
Salied the ship Hector, Gillender
Liverpool, In her went :
Wm. Cobbet and family.
: rer CD ee
Copiy of a letter from a gentleman in Chili
cothe Ohio, to his friend in Baltimore dais
ed Sefitember 17, 1819.
“ Dear Sin. —The Jaw of this state 2
gainst the Wnited -States Bank, in this
town, was carried into strict execution to
day. A person deputized by the avditop |
entered the branch and demanded the tag
of fifty thousand dollars——whicii stm being
3 for
Passengers, My,
N.Y. liafier,
Al
Sa
>lretused he proceeded to the vault; and
swept all that could be found, and had i» +
taken off and deposited in the Bank of
Chilicothe. © The Circuit Court which hag
been sitting and adjourned last evening,
had granted an injunction The Branch
Bank, it is probable, will be shut up for a
time.”
The officer who executed the law of the
state of Ohio on the Branch Bank, tool
from its vaults 20,000 dollars in specie, and
180,000 dollars m notes. Finding that ha
had carried away more than was required
by the law under which he acted, he re«
turned to the bank and tendered the sure
plus, which was refused. The bank ime
mediately served upon him a writ of injunce
tion to stay waste, that is, that the money
should not be disposed of so that the branch,
in case of recovery at law, could not be re-
muncrated.
We understand that the whole of the
circumstances of this extraordivary p
i pe
|ceeding have been laid belore the Preside
of the United States. Lhil. Gaz.
ani Spin
DARING ROBBERY.
A rcbbery of the most daring natare was ©
commited on Sunday last in Bedford couns +
ty. A M’Farland a merchant of Pittsburg
on his road to Philadelphia, was stopped =
by David Lewis, the celebrated counterfeit«*
er, and two other villians, and robbed of"
$1500. They took Mr. M’I'arland into
the woods and detained him {rom nine
o'clock in the morning til 4 in the alter-
noon. [t is said Lewis's associates wished
to kill M’Fariand, but by Lewis’s inter«
ference they were prevented. The alarm
was immediately raised and several gentle-
men went in pursuit and last night the vil
lians were caught at a house about two
miles below this town, and this morning
sent off under a strong guard for Bedlord.
Nearly all the money has been given up.
An instance of the daring disposition of
Lewis came within our own obscrvalion.
Last night, while surrounded by a number
of persons, he by some means got a loaded
pistol which was lying in the room, and un=
observed got to the outer door when ha
called aloud and sprang off. The house
was quickly cleared, and he was caught—
He svapped his pistol in the face of his °
pursuers, and when caught and overpow= |
ered he cocked and snapped again. Vergy
fortunately the pistol missed five.
Juniata Gaz,
Wonderful story ~The following ex
tract of a letter is copied from the Quebec
Gazette of the 23d of Sept. The same
contains an advertisemeit, stating, that the
two extraordinary eggs (mentioned in the
letter) had been brought to Quebec, and
were to be exhibited at the Union Hotel
on the following day from 10 o’clock un ul
4. Price of admission, half a dollar.
WONDERFUL EGGS. .:
Extract of a letter from River Ouclle, ‘da«
ted 18th Sept.
In the afternoon of the 12th of August /
last, a young girl, 11 years old, named
Marie Danjou, being employed in feeding 3
the poultry belonging to Henry. Boucher,
of the parish of River Ouelie, with whora
she lives, noticed the Cock ill treating on
of the hens, and gave him a kick, having a
ithe same time in her hand a stick to keep
him off. At this moment another of the
rens (which she calls Huppe for cach of
them has a name,) seemed to take part with
gadier general in the army of the United ihe Cock, flew furiously on the back of ihe