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POL LRY.
YOUTH AND OLD AGE.
By St. GEmicE TuckER.
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Trav —-No friend, I make no use of
whiskey, or other ardent liquors ; but you
greatly mistake me—my cane is merely of
D ys of my youth ! ye have clided away ; white pine to support we in traveling
Hires of my youtn ! ye are frosted & grey ;
yos of my youth ! your keen sight is no
move ; :
Caceks of my youth! ye are furrow’d ail TR
ot} solemuly respect that veligious sect, for the
Suwength ol my youth ! all your vigor 1s great ood tiiey have doue and are daily
Tl pone; finy youth 1 your gay visions doing in cur moral world ; but I am highly
Thoughts o youth | y
arc Bown.
and as to a preacher, I am unworthy of
such a ame or such a calling.and as toa
disappointed here.
Cit.—Why—what—did’nt Task you free-
ly to drink whiskey with me?
Trav Yesterday being a very stormy
day, I would not travel, and continued at
the house in Franklin where I stopped the
pight before. The landlord in a friendly
manner banded me a file of newspapers
which I found were printed at Meadville,
almost in your immediate vicinity, and
{rom the moral and religious esseys which
enriched their columns, I formed pot the
unpleasing idea, that at the distance of
twenty miles from Franklin I should find a
Pays of my youth ! I wish not your recall 3
}iairs 0; my youth ! I'm content you should
iali 3 ,
Eyes of my youth! ye much evil have
seen §
Cheers of my youth! bathed
have been ; 3
$irength of my youth ! why lament your
decay ?
“Thoughts of my yeuth! ye have led me
astray.
in tears ye
“Days of my age ! ye will shortly be past;
Pains of my age ! yet awhile ye can last;
Joys of oy age | in wue wisdom delight 3
Eyes of my age! be religion your light;
Thoughts of my age! dread ye not the poyse resounding with horrid imprecatians,
Ho god pods e! be ve fixed on your and the dread name of the supreme God,
pes of my age . YO { :
Nod! %%% y °° handled with the same freedom, as that
. A gid a 4 13 : / 3
teem © emme——-+— 1 poisonous draught in your hand, which e =»
From the Crawford Messenger. | eryaies all the physical faculties, of the
wi Pirloguc Setwish 8 Haueder i @ Couns an, and drowns the finer feelings ol the
ry citizen. ¥
| Scene—A Zifling House.)
[Enter traveler with a pack on his back,
and a staff in band, ina room where a-
bout a dozen of men were drinking, ca-
sou} in infamy and ruin.
Cit.—Why one halfof your stuff I do
not understand—but about these Meadville
newspapers, all I ever knew or heard is,
that I heard our squire say that he once
took them a whole quarter of a year, and
that they cost him as much as would buy a
gallon of whiskey, and they never did him
rousing, &c.]
Praveller—Good day gentlemen : to
which of you stall I apply as the landlord ?
Citizen—1P’ll answer lo his name, our gs much good as to drink a gill-—for they
were filled with a mess of sober stuff, and
politics that he knew nothing about, and
told about people and things all over the
world, which our squire said was enough
to make a man crazy to think ofi
jardiord cennot be disturbed at present.
Trav.——isturbed 2 Why here is noise
sufficient to disturb a whole community
and awaken Echo in ber secluded cavern—
But my business here is that of the weary
eravelier, refreshment ; Repose, I fear is 7vgu. Unhappy people ! thus to jest
away your own happiness, and in the intox-
cating draught, shut up the bars of inform-
absent.
/ . ’
Cit. —Why, when you first came iny I d
methodist, I am’ not, though I highly and
Two or three years ago, an old dul fellow
came in about six mules from here, and
made a great ado with his praying and
preaching 3 aud where ever he went, he
wouid grumbie if a man only swore mode.
rately, or if a couple of weu got a litte
warm, aud took a few dry knocks together
and if a parcel of us would join on Sunday
and go to the tavern to diink instead of
hearing him pray and cry. Then the d—lI
was 10 pays and we and our squire woul!’nt
hear the last of it for three days-—-So we
one and all agreed 10 buy him out and send
him off—this we did, and now we have a
whiskey distillery on the same plantation.
Trav.—Deluded people! a traveller
would form a ready opinion of the moral
rectitude of your rulers, by the habits and
manners of the people! Who is that large
man, that lays asleep on that long bench,
among the din of confusion, with a bound
up hand and abruised face ? :
Cit.—-Who ? why that’s cur landlord and
a pute sociable fellow he is; aye, and as
stout a one as there is in the county ; why
mas he travelled two days journey te go to
fight black Dick, the bully of our lower
counties and whipped him too; since he
las lived mn these back woods, he has
smacked the biggest Indian in the Seneca
tribe——and he can swear with as great a
dash, as a lawyer can plead; but ’tother
day he met with a turnpike man who grain-
ed his face a little, and just upset ohe of his
hands in fui, but of such things our landlord
cares not a pin—he treats every traveller
to a glass of whiskey I assure you, and
drinks with him--shall 1 wake him ?
Zrav —No. The character you give of
him makes me prefer seeing him asleep ~~
But my soul weeps with Ycommisseration
for the danger of his inexperienced children
and those of the surrounding neighborhood.
If this is the direct road to Bellefonte, tell
me how far is it to the next house ?
Cit ~~Why nine miles, and you cannot
resch there before dark— Beside our woods
abound with wolves, bears and panthers.
Trav.--1 fear nothing from them. No
»
drown all Within fhe chalice of intemper-
ance, and immolate yourselves on the un-
hallowed aller of impe y and wretcheduess,
God
awaken you with a lively scene of your
Farewell | may the of forbearance
dangerous situation, and bring you seriously
wo reflect upon what you have now heard,
by way ot r<pioof, from an voworthy
YEOMAN,
Venango county, Dec. 31, 1819.
At Bennington battle, General Starks is
said to have addressed his soldiers in the
following laconic terms: « Here we are,
and there they are! Now boys! if we don’t
bone them, they’il bone us.”
Three gentlernen being at a tavern,
whose pames were More, Strange and
Wright: said the last there is but ove ras-
cal in company and that 18 Strange ! Yeg
answered Strange there is one More : Ay,
said More that’s Wight.
An English sailor went to see a juggler
exhibit his tricks.
auantity of gunpowder in the apartment
beneath, which took fire and blew up the
house,
There happened tobe a
The sailor was thrown into a gar-
den behind, where he fell without being
hurt, He stretched his arms and legs, got
up, shook himself, rubbed his eyes, ang
then cried out, conceiving what had hap-
pened to be only a part of the performance,
¢ d--n the fellow, I wonder what he will
do next.”
oss
Some time before the breaking up of the
British head-quartersat Cambray, an Irish
soldier a private ia the 23d regiment of foot
was convigied of shooting at, and robbing a
French peasant and was in consequence
sentenced to be hanged. On arriving at
the place of execution, he addressed the
spectators in a stentorian voice as follows—
¢ Bad luck to the duke of Wellington ! he’s
no Irishman’s friend any way, I have killed
many a seore of Frenchmen by his orders,
and when I just took it in my head to kill
ation, and open the sluiceways of vice and beasts of the lorest are as savage as man
concomitant misery for yourselves and when left to the torrent of his own corrupt
your deplorable offspring. Bat this being passions « and = depraved lust. Oh, my
Saturday, I would like to know if you have iriends,how I mourn for your eternal wel-
any Sabbath meetings here. five ; seated here in a beautiful fertile
Cit.—By that I ’spose you mean these country, blessed with wise and liberal laws,
praying and preaching meetings. But I and the means of both temporal and spirit-
i as how you was one of our good
i y : oue upon my own account, by the powers
he has tucked me up for it!”
sound fellows, by carrying that shillala in
your fist ; but by your whining and slaunts,
1'd guess may be you were only a Metho»
dist preacher, whoare always finding faults
#
Rather avoid the vices you are natu-
with folks, if even they meet together and rally inclined to, than aim at those excel
spend two or three days out of a whole
Jencies and pgriections which you were
Jong month, to drink and have fun at the
cau tell you of better things than that-- ual improvement within your grasp; you never made for.
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RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
: OF CLEARFIELD COUNTY FOR THE YEAR 1819.
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Dr. Samuel Fulton, treasurer of Clearfield county, in account with the said county, commencing from
the 2d. day of February 1819, and endingon the 4th day of January 1820.
Cr.
To Cash received on Unseated Lands {By Cash paid road viewers
do Election expences
do Court House expences
do Viewing ditto
do Assessors wages
do Exonerations to collectors
do County auditors
do Wolt and panther orders
do Office rent
do Late treasurer
do Printing expenses
do Commissionsrs wages
co Clerk ol Sessions : beh
do Viewers of the state road from Andersons creek to Kittaning
do Clerk tothe Commissioners :
do = Treasurers salary, including expenses 4nd compensation go-
ing to Philadelphia, &c.
In the case of the commonwealth vs. Keagy
Attorneys fees as counsel to the commissioners
Supervisors orders 1
98
80
6
19
15
12
72
20
do of Arthur Belly former treasuter
do on redemption of sales
do paid by David Ferguson for Joseph Wiley dec.
do received of John Barefield, collector of Gibson township
do of Alexander Read, jr. of Lawrence township 67
19
do Isaac Rickets of Becaria townships 82 19 25
23
do 30
J. F. W. Schnars of Covington township 12 00
do Abel Benton of Bidford township 56 or
99
00
2
®3712 94
235
295
15
10
2189
do David Wall, of Pike township do
do
do
187
~
2?
Balance in favor of the treasurer 235
LlE™N
$3712 94
sn —
By balance in favor of the treasurer
Having examined the account of Samuel Fulton; Treasurer of Clearfield county, and find a balance in favor of the said treasurer of Two Hundred and thirty-Gve ~ ]
dollars and thiity-onecents : Given under and our hands the 4th day of Janwary 1820.
ROBERT ROSS,
MATTHEW OGDEN,
GREENWOOD BELL,
Commissioners.
Atrest—JOSEPH BOONE, Clerk.