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PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.
We alluded a few days ago, to the state
of parties in Pennsylvania ; more particu-
Jarly to the parties of Philadeiphia.—The;
were four; but an amon having takerd
place between the Democrats of the Old
and the New School parties there, are,
whilst we are writing, reduced to ‘hree.
As there is nothing more important to
occupy public attention at present, 1t may
not be yninieresting to dwell for a momen:
onthe history of the political parties of
that respectable commonwealth.
The birst modern trinmph of republican-
ism in Pennsylvania was effected by the
election of Thomas M’Kean to the office
oi Governor. That Gentieman ruled the
state for nine years. The last three years
of his sway, however, were marked by the
inveterate hostility of the party of which
the Aurora is the organ. ‘I'he Aurora had
indeed, opposed the final election of Gov-
ernor M’ Kean, but without success.
Simon Snyder succeeded Thomas M’
Kean. Tue party of the Aurora had, pre
viously, evinced a degree of friendliness to
Mr. Snyder ; but soon fell into épposition ;
which continued throughout Governor Sny-
der’s period of nine years.
When Governor Snyder was first propos-
‘ed for the office, it would appear that his
triends suspected the fidelity of the Aurora-
ists ; and as a check, or bridle, they plant-
ed Mr. Binns, with the Democratic Press,
alongside Mr. Duane. For a short time
these two agreed very well—that is, while
the shout was « fong live the Aurora and
the Democratic Press.” But when the
cry put the Press first and the Aurora last,
Mr, Duane became restless ; an open, and
scemingly a deadly, quarrel took place
between bimself and Mr, Binns. This
feud continued down to the union spoken of
in the commencement of this article.
Governor Snyder having run his coarse,
William Findlay became the Governor of
Pennsylvania. Cotemporaneously with his
elevation to the Governoy’s chair, a news.
paper called the Franklin Gazette was es
tablished at Philadelphia. It would seem
trora this, that the Democratic Press was
doomed to experience the same fate as the
Aurora. Mr. Binns, the editor of the Press
Lizd been an advocate for Governor Find
lay’s election; but the Franklin Gazette
interposing, and being more in favor with
the governors friends, the Press has taken
new ground, abandoned Gov. Findlay, and
threatened to bring forward Mr. Spyder in
as
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smwmesey nia to decide In this affuir. Fop ourselves
goa
ve shall close these observations with one
question. ~ The Aurore bas ja thousand
umes denounced alledged igtrigues and
a FEE
with him of his back. One oman and as
child were drowned ; I am pot certain, but
nelieve her to bea Mis. James, a Platts:
burg girl, who has a mother liviag in your
cen ee eee ee te
(@he Patriot,
neighborhood. This accident is peculiarly
antoriunate For Capt B. who had a yeat’s
groceries und stores on board, and 1 under-
stand most of the clothing of his family ;
as he expected 10 join soon, when he land
corruptions as prevailing at the city of
Washington. Can. it find, 1 uli the politi-
cal ‘proceedings which have taken place
it the metrogohs of the Union, a solithry
cident to match the recent axion at Phil :
adelplia’? i ed at Franklin he took a change of clothes
The + Report of the Select commitiee” with him. These ave the lust accounts
ot the Unionists, contains some sound pol {from the troops. For my own part I have
wical remarks; which are notbing thejliule to relate : my health is indi ®erent, as
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worse from thelr having been boregwed atjis that of my family ! yet in that we are
large from the thoughts of the celebrated icomparatively favored, ior almost cvery
+ Crists.” 'ward this season is ill of the fever of the
‘The Republicans attached to Gov. Find-) country —in some instances whole families.
to thie union, on different my opinions relative tu the comparative ad
Without any open, agreement! vantages ol this and your couniry, but at
_oalesce. They dislike each other, it is!ing justice to the subject ; let i suflice tha:
rue ; but they dislike the unionists more. {my opinion 18 decidedly in favor of yours :
Sah : ¢s, a poor main cai easier better his con:
* The following is the Resolution alludedidition ; the superior advantages of this
It, among others, was offered byjcountry ewmist only in the dreawas of discon-
WJ. Duane,and unanimously adopted. jtented visionaries, or in tie Mmusrepresenia
Binns, was present. ¢ ! 3 :
(lpriacipal points which have been urged iu
re 2 | are, its fine climate; the fcrtility
that provision of the constitution, which © soil; and the cheapness of land.
. re winters are not so loug and tedi
oe i : a Li jirne the winters @ g
al may fill the office of goysnor: thavaiy as with you ; but on the other hand.
§ ol A tA " - 16] 4 ne hint eo
: : + the summer bas no beauties ; never have |
may, after having passed three years out of] a :
Ne agal Gt ¢ ch re-elec- . :
office, be again elected, aud such re-e Lenly evening as I have often enjoyed ‘sit-
guid be : Ҥ line in my porch by the bank of the Saranac.
constitution, inconsistent with the scupdes 54 Ya
iuc axims, and pernicious in exam-! :
political maxims, and pera RAI. loses apon a debilitated frame, overcome
ple and tendency ; because, winlst the in-
.¢ of the governor shall continue to be; ; : . .
Buence of the governor shall continde to continuance of oppressive heat ; ihe atmos
: {where 15 pale abd sickly. + Since hy arrival
dency to abuse it, the termy for which that phere 15'] 2 7
ficer 7 serve, ought to be abridged: oN s
officer may tye; BE! be abridy i for a while 1 bore up under ity but at last’ J
have vielded to the influence of the climate
went of the honors and emoluments of such; y! 3
a station for nine or even six years 1s as; , : Sr
a station for n Mar ) col As to the suy Criority o1 the soll it may
ample a token of public regard as can withj ; .
% 3s ' {that of New-York, but the difference
consistency accepted by a citizen anxious,
for its duration: brcause, experience has'. . ; ;
0 3 S2pe it is possible there may bea few acres of
; ...-_ Hand which yi€id 80 bushels of corn to the
years, however obnoxious he may within, 3 y=
[homas Paine, in the fist number of hisiindividual who has arrived from the east-
mindstrationy aud wee Federalists,) «I would have made an essdy to give you
the probability is that they wili likewise present I do not feel m, seif capable of do-
Like causes produce like effects, a vich man there can beter cnjoy his rich.
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tions of interested iand speculators. The
Eesolved, That we highly approve oti’ ~*~
{ILS Tayo,
i hd It is
init the term for which the same 1naiviiu-,
oi | OOS
though a person, who served kine yeais
iseen, or do 1 expect to see one such heay
tion would be repugnant to the spirit ot the)
{The ising sun has no charms—the evening
‘with weariness and lassitude from the long
$0 CuOrmous as 0 cause a perpetuaj ten-
‘here the weather has been uniformly bot;
rather than extended: because, the enjoy-
{and become as lazy as a native.
i 3 : .. inossibly in the ‘agpregate be better than
propriety be given by a republic, or, with I A
{1s by #io means so great as is represented ;
proved, that an individual elected for three)
that time have become, can so cntrench! :
: cot } ito the whole country; but from the best
himself with power aud patronage, as to}. foriationd con chiar the very best: Jaud
i : . or . rm an o / |
render bis expulsion difficult if pot im-! Bio pri y
ynacticable : and although such an evil may :
¢ : ds 2 ) ‘and there is a good deal that does not pro
not be apprehended, it is a duty to guard!
RT anu E ‘duce forty. It must also be observed that
agairstits existence at a more unhappy pe-| oi OF AR aa
the grain of this country of every descrip
acre, and these lew have given a character
‘does not average 60 bushels to the acre,
*To speak his thoughts, is every freeman’s righ,
: en.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
SINGULAR.
A gentleman in the neighborhood of
his town, having three snakes viz -4
Rattlesnake, a Black Viper, and a Spotted
Vifier yc onfined in a cage, with the intent to
take them with him to a fareign share,
caught a mouse and put it alive into the
cage, to serve the snakes for food, belore
cntering into a torpid state. ‘The mouse
gave evident symptoms of fear, when fire
putin : but judge of the astonishment of
the gentleman, on finding, a short time af.
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eaten, had actually devoured” the sported
Vifier—having decapitated it as adroitly,
wd as completely as if it bad undergéne
«he operation ot a French gullotine |!
Pbis is the more singular, from the cirs
cumstance of there having been wheat,
meat, &e. in the cage, to keep the mouse
‘in existence, until some one of the snakes
chose to make a meal of it : but it appears
hat the oiter has been bitten, and the
~harmer charmed.
—— § Orns.
The noted DAVID LEWIS, with his
accomplices in the late robbery of My,
W Clelland, escaped from Bedford jail, by
the aid of two negroes, confined in the
same prison. We are happy to learn, how-
ever, they have all been retaken, aficr a
close and active pursuit, and we unders
stand, are now confined in Cuambershorgh,
Fravklin county, jail ; whither they have
been removed for safe keeping. Aid
The following communication having
been m.shaid, rendefed its appearance
sooner impracticable.
For ghe Patriot,
Among the various means of improve.
ment which are now common, Sabbath
schools hold a pre-eminent station. Youth
is the proper season for cultivating the
mind. Impressions: then male become
lasting. | This is the period of lite whith
is most free from the perplexing cares OF
the world ; over which the contaminating
influence of cvil practice has not far ex
tended. The scason of youth being past,
the trials and difficulties of manhoud com
mence. An Increase of years bring an in.
terwards, that the mouse, instead of being: '
the most distinguished patriots of our coun -}
“tod, should such arrive : because, someof . © .
tion is of loose texture and does not weighso
opposition to him.
We now approach the elements of the
Unien mentioned above.
The Aurara is the enemy of Gov. Find.
lay. The Democratic Press is also his
enemy. —But the editors of these two news-
papers are likewise the enemies of each
other, Mark, now, the chemical proper:
ties of the passions under these circum
starces.
Left to themselves, Messrs, Duane and
Binns would repulse cach other !
Add to their own peculiar hatreds, how:
ever, their disiike of Governor Findlay, and
the repulsion is changed to attraction —
They unite in repulsion of Governor Find-
lay and tus friends. Hence the union.
"This union, however, is not positive, but
conditional. The conditions, as far as they
appear, are evidently such as dicate a
mixture of suspicion with the other ingre-
dients of the Union. On the tickets of
candidates which is to be supported by the
coalition, appear the names of the Messrs.
Duanes—father and son. Mr. Binns bas
the names of his particular friends on the
same ticket without doubt. We think we
recognise at least ane of them Mz. Jo-
siah Randall. Mr. Binns himself keeps in
the back ground ; having, it must be un-
derstood, committed himself to adhere to
the ticket. The Aurora, tevertheless,
appears to have required still further se.
curity. The Democratic Press is decided-
ly friendly to Governor Snyder. The
Aurora dislikes him. A meeting of the
United Parties took place in the State
Xouse at Philadelphia on the 5th instant.
At the very beginning of business In this
meeting, the younger Mr, Duane brought
forward a string of resolutions, with some
introductory observations, which were a-
dopted. One of these resolutions decla-
red that Shimon Snyder ought not again to
be elected Governor of Pennsylvania®
This, we should think, could not have been
pleasing to My Binns. Yet he was silent,
Perhaps, like the family of Ravenswood,
in the « Bride of Lammermoor,” he dides
fitg time.
in
here to speak of
They must be
It is not our purpose
the motives of this Union.
suflicier.tly obvious to every reader- We
feel usauved that the coalition cannot last
long. Euher twiumph or defeat will dis
solve it. In the eveut of a triumph, a re-
pulsive squabble for precedence will arise,
productive of an open rupture. In case
of a defeat, the parties will not be necess-
ary to each other. They could experience
nothing worse than defeatif they stood a-
lone. They will, therefore, undoubtedly
genarate.
3. is for the good people
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of Pennsylva-
try have voluntarily given to their sncces-
sors in office a glorious example of mode-
ration in the use ol power; an example
that has secured the gratityde of their coun-
try to the one, and deserves. an hallowed
observance from the other: and, because,
there cannot be any reasonable excuse for
the re-election of a person, who has alrea-
dy served, nine or even six, years ; unless;
indeed Pennsylvania should have but one
citizen capable and deserving of the station
of governor—an anticipation, it is believed,
that can never be realized; and an infer-
ence so degrading that the slightest pre-
text for it ought to be shunned like dis-
honor. :
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Missouri Expedition.
Extract of a letter from an officer of the
6h regiment to a gentleman in Plattsburg
dated
Bellefontaine, August 11.
“ Dear Sir—I think I informed you in
my last ol the departure of the regiment in
4 keel boats, and three steam boats on the
4th and 5th of July.
« July 25th.— By dan arrival fromr above
we heard that Major Ketchum had been
very nigh losing his boat by running on a
sawyer : she filled with water and spoiled
bis provisions ; no lives were lost. Mrs
Ketchum and ber children made their es-
cape in the skiff. ;
« July 30th.—Learned by a letter from
Coli Atkinson, that the kecl boats passed
Fraokhin (about 2000 miles up) on the 23d
inst. The steam boat Expedition arrived
there on the samé€ day, but had burst her
boiler and could not proceed ; the Jeffur-
son and Johnson «were far im the rear.—
Capt. Boardman being dangerously ili of a
fever, was landed with his lady & daughter
at Franklin. His boat proceeded under
Captain Livingston. About this time cor
poral M’Daniel and two soldiers of the late
Clarke’s company were drowned ; and
since, four more have shared the same fate
« August 7.—By a letter from Col. At-
kinson dated at Frankiin—Ie&red that the
Expedition was sull there ot the 2d inst
repairing damages ; the other two still be-
low, and the Col. exptessed strong doubts
whether they will ever reach there.
« August 8th.—By an exptéss from above
we were informed ot the total loss of cept.
Boardman’s boat, with all her loading, con-
sisting of public stores, arms accoutrements
provisions and officers baggage, near the
mouth of Grand River, on Friday the 30th
uit.
Capt. Board man’s son was saved by and six children
much, or produce so much flour by one
{fourth as that of more northern
1s not so sweet. y
will not buy a coat.”
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SHOCKING CALAMITY.
On the evening of the 13th instant, the
wife and six children of Jacob Za:tman,
of Upper Mahanoy, and his niece about 20
years of age, of the name of Neighart, weve
burnt to death in the flames of his house !
This destruction of life and property - was
attended with the strangest circmstances of
which we have ever heard any example.
The family were nearly all awake; Mr
Zartman himself lay asleep in the kitchen
with one of the children. A girl topped a
light, and using no snuflfers, threw the top
among some tow with which they were
working in the adjeining room; the tow
blazed up and instead of running out to the
climates,
fand I have no hesitation in affirming that it
The advantages of procuring land cheap
no longer exists, except in seme remote
district, whete the produce ol twe acres
crease of cares, and too oficn an increase
of crimes, until old age overpowred by the
load, sinks into the grave. It is best that
children be early instructed in those things
which are of the greatest importance ts
them.
virtue and piety, as affording the surest
ground of human felicity. Sabbath schools,
when well conducted, are admirably adapt-
cd to this purpose. Itis the duty of all
who are engaged in them, to instruct, with
great care, the children committed to their
charge, in the essential truths of the Bible.
It is not sufficient that they teach their
scholars to read well. This 1s good so far
as it goes. But as the soul is more valua-
ble than the body; and eternal happiness
than that of life : so more attention shoul el
be devoted to wstruct them in the way of
salvation.
The hllowing 15 a statement of the im-
provement made, hy a class of boys, In the
last year, at the Bellefonte Sunday school.
The class consisted of about twelve schol-
ars, The greatest number was siileens
and the least eight. Five thousand, one
kitchen or through the windows, they ran
up stairs and staid there until the flames
surrounded them. Even there they might
have escaped by the windows, or by merely
running dewn the kitchen stairs, bat so far
from attempting this, two of them hung
fast to aigirl, fo prevent het escape; so that
it was with extreme difficulty she disengag-
ed herself jumped out of a window and sav-
ed her life. Zartman stood ata cherry trec
immovable, and when his neighbor attem pi-
ed to extinguish the first spark which
caught his large barn, full of grain, Zartman
like a maniac, seized and held him fast in
his arms, until the flames had there also
become unconquerable. The bones were
all found together ina corner, and some of
the internal parts, including a heart uncon:
sumed.
Such is the dreadful detail we have re-
ceived ; we have no reason to doubt its sub-
stantial correctness. Was ever such a la-
mentable and unaccountable transaction ex-
hibited ? ; Sunbury Times,
a
: Bedford (Pa. ) Oct 7.
Yesterday morning, Mr. Patrick M’
Murphy Innkeeper, of this borough, put a
period to his existence, by shooting himself
through the body with a pistol. He had
been subject to fits of insanity, for some
time past, occasioned it is supposed, by pe-
cuniary embarrassment. The deceased
was ever esteemed as an effeciionate bhus-
band, an indulgent father, and a kind heart
ed and obliging neighbor. He was m the
139th year of his age, and has left a wife
to lament his untimely
the intrepidity of a soldier who swam ashore death.
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tila
{bundred and ninety verses of scripture,
were committed in that time. Mauy of
the class know the Assembly’s shorter
catechism tolerably well, and the rest are
well advanced. One of the boys commitied
to memory more than 1800 verses; an-
other 1097 ; and the rest in the following
order :— 648, 554, 365, 319, 214. 196,
182, 167, 127, 121, 81, 635, 48, 40 --
Many attended who were Jate in joining the
class, and seme who had not much times
In the other classes, I cannot say certainly
what improvement has been made. Ope
boy who has made considerable advance=
ment ip the study of the Greek and Lan
languages, committed 663 verses since the
commencement of the school. A black
man, who has atiended pretty regular, has
learned to read, and appears anxious to
improve. One of the gitls has committed
24 chapters, 10 hymns, and the whole of
Emerson’s doctri and hisiorical cate=
chism. Two or three others have made
aearly the same improvement. Many have
made good advances, of whom 1t 15 HRPOS=
sible to give a particular account. We
hope that they will continue to do $0.
The present number of scholars is between
60 and 90. About seveniy-five attend con-
stantly. The support of any sabbath school
requires the steady co-operation of parents,
and the greatest fidelity of teachers.
R. BAIRD.
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The second Monday in January next is
fixed by the President, for the public sale of
the lands belonging to the United States,
to be held at €hahawba.
Their minds should ba inclined to
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