ART “YR 7 Ao0 » iq I Rr etl CHD P— From the Charleston Co «0 thar T'awer THE ow painfully pleasing uit. as in. months fast.” FAMILY BIBLE. 3¢ the fond recollection Of youtbiul connexions and innocentjoy ; When blest with parential advice & affec- tion, Sucrounded with mercies, with peace from on high, 1 sull view the chairs of my sire and my mother, The seats of their offspring as rang’d on each hand; And that richest of books, which excell’d every other, The fur ‘The old fashian’d Bible, the dear Bible, The Family Bible whicl nily Bible which lay on the stand. blessed 1 lay on the stand. T'1 at Bible the volume of God's At morn delight, the Alon, inspiration, and at evening could yield us And nray’r of our sire was a sweetan- Our Hy: mns of Thanksgiving with. ‘Hatmo- wee the father’s and lost forever !—Is the charm irresista:| ble ? Does the malady admit no cure ? Is invevitable { Can nothing the calamity be done by masons to preventit? Yes. Let them beware that they never counten- ance or indulge an intemperate brother.— Let them administer correction with the hand of friendship. = Let the admonition be honest, [aithful and seasonable. To provide against possible danger, let them often try the experiment upon themselves, to discov- er the first symptoms of the contagion. They will 0a pardon my zeal, furit is in the cause of humanity. 1 am pleading for the disconsolate mother—the hapless orphan and the broken hearted and distracted wife. I come with the tears of disappointed love and the anguish of the wounded heart, 1 plead in the name and behalf of suffering | virtue, neglected and abandoned for revel and riot. 1 imagine I hear a voice fiom the dark and dismal mansions of the dead saying, ¢O ye sens of dissipation and excess! ye prodigals who wanton with the gifts of bounteous Provi- riot and dence i come and beheld the companions ol your revels, the victims of your folly. pride and mother’s joy, spatched from their embrace and hurried headlong to ‘an untimely tomb. See the ny swelling, m trom the hearty of a “family | Al we hye , Lands If rais’d us from the earth to that rap-! turous. dwelling, Bible that Described in “the lay on the } stand, The old fushion’d Bible the dear blessed Bible, "The Family Bible, which lay on the stand. . 13 Ye scenes of tranquili ed, My hope’s y, long have we part. almost gone=—-and my parents no 1 ix UL Ore) ‘ow and sadness, I live broken heart nder unknown on a far distant Yet how can I doubt a dear Saviowm’s pro- tection Ferd of gifts from his bountiful > with patience receive his cor- nk of the Bible, that lay on the The old 3) DLE fessed hion’d Bible, the dear b Family Bible, that lay on the stand. EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS. flower of youth and. beauty shedding iis fragrance and displaying its glory ; bat ere the morning dew has escaped on the breeze it weakens and dies. Here the sickens, object of virtuous affection ; where the premise of connubial bliss ; this the hope ot his country, and that the encouragement and consolation of religion——all poisened by intemperance ; all doomed to prema ture and disgraceful death.’—Look at these and be admonished.” prem, From the Western Citizen, ORIGINAL ANECDOTE, About the 10th ¢f June 18 10, at 2.0 ‘clock in the morning, while Col. R. M. Johnsons Regiment was encamped on the Peninsula below fort Wayne, in a beautiful grass plain, some of the horses that had passed the line of sentinels and got some distance Qt ¥ up the St, Joseph, became alarmed and nping Inté ‘camp in. great fright. This alarmed all ‘the horses in the regiment, which united in a so- id column witliin the lines, and took three courses round the camp.” It would seem almost incredible, but it’ is a fact; they appeared pot to cover more than about 40 by 60 yards of ground, and yet their num- ber was abdut 600 ~The Moon shone at the fully the camp was an open plain, and » Jous HorMEes; be- | doe Viaine,) on the anniversary of the nativi-| 3 of toha the 1 § | po ‘ i $ Femparance is 4 masonic virtue, anu Tet it be held in everlasting remembrance, that iru intemperance is a most fatal and. des- ctive vice. The temptations and delu- sions of the adversary of our peace, the tréacherous aris by which it flatters us “from the paths of rectitude, and the syren sotg, by which it lures us into its foul “em. ¥ 1.9] ‘ess the powers of description by ptivates the ace, suppt The cursed, fascinating fatal charm ct y hich heart and it binds the faculties, ca perverts and paralizes the under- ! 2 . {forced their passage through i pannels of fence, the scene awlully sublime. They atlength the lines; oversel several tents, carried away several passed off through the : .1 woods, and were in a few minutes, out of oS »i hearin 1g of the loudest bells “that belonged to the Regiment. The next day was speny in collecting them, some of which were found ten or twelve miles from the camp, never found; This alarming flight of the horses of that regiment injured them more than mies. could have been supposed for they had run {so long in such a compact body that very few had escaped without being lamed, hav- standing, is a matter of the t < ¥ gonis) rofoundest as- iment. Before the danger is discov- ercd escape is hopeless, and the Floating victim hrretrievably lost. gently 3 - . ~ cown a smooth and delightful current; to- wards the brick of a he sees no necessity of resisting its perceives not its increase, nor fellacts a he is approaching the danger. Every mo- ment the power and inclination to resist di niinish; while the danger #8 increased. AAG dashit tremblin “1 it DECOLICS approaches, perceives - the Bears the roaring and feels the The ~ i RE Cy ors 1g oOo © rrent ds accelerated, 1r- resistable, hie: is hurried to the brinks the guyss yawns, he 1s swallowed mw the vortex i i i willing | tremendous cataract, ing their hind fect cut by the shoes of those that crowded on them. The writer of this was an offi of the cet | guard and thenon d uty. i { clear and calm, the A The night being moon rolling in full splendor, the flight of ihe horses which re embled distant ‘under the e Ind encampment being paved idea of an im- nediate attack from the and the ans, Bron of our with the bones of former warriors all com eu? 1 in i | bined to furnish one of those awfully sub- lime Might Scenes that beggar all descrip- | tion. A similar flight of the horses took place : 2c ane. after ti aoa about the 22d of June, alter the fegimeny { rrived at fort Meigs. i although pursued above 20 | bout three hundred acres more » V: aluable Real Est: ate fori¥ August next, the sale will be continued C | Sale By order of the Orphans’ Court of Centre County, WILL BE SOLD, AT public vendue, at the house of Evan Miles, in the Borough of Bellefonte, on Monday the fourteenth day of August next, the following described property, be- ing parc of the real estate that was of John Dunlop, late of Spring township, in said county, deceased : Two tracts of land adjoining each other containing about six hundred acres, morc or less, situate in Saying township, in the sa1d county, adjoining the Borough of Bellefonte, lands of James Harris, an Philip Benner ; being the residuary pafts of two tracts surveyed in pursuance of warrants granted to Willian Bull. Two other sma: tracts, adjoining the Moore and T homas together first s:ated lands, containing a- bout seventy nine acres, more or less (as purchased from James Harris by the said Jolin Dunlop, in his life time, by agree- ment in writing bearing date the 5th day of May A.D. 1808.) On the first men- tioned lands is erected a XN] N FORGE, which is now in operation—also Dwelling houses, stables and other improvements. Three other tracts, or parts of tracts, land, adjoining each other, situated in Spring township, containing “together - a bout six hundred ana fourteen acres more or less ; two tracts, part thereof, being sur veyed in pursuance of watrants granted to ahd part thereof (about 14 acres) being. part Uriah Wogolman, and Lindsay Coats, of a larger tract surveyed in pursuance of a warrant granted to George Jivans. On these lands are erected a FURNACE, D welling houses, and other valuable im provements. | { until the August court. TERMS OF SALE~-One third pary of the purchase money to be paid when the sale 1s confirmed and the deed or deeda ¢xecuted; and the residue in two equal yearly payments. Due attendance will he given by John G. Lowrey, and Charles Huston, administrators. ~ By the Court. Certified by Wa. PETRIKIN, Bellcfonteg July 12, 1820. Clk. 0. ©, Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of a writ of Fi. Fa. tome d% rected, there will be sold on the eigth day of August next, at Whitehall in Fergus, on township, the following property, viz. a Store of Goads, consisting of cloths, lin, ens, calico, musing, stuffs, hats, and Gros ceries, and many other articles too numer. ous to insert— Also wheat and rye in the the sheaf; and two horses. Taken in exe ccution as the property of Sumuel Park. John Mitchel, SKA. Sheriff’s Office rane] July 12,1820, T . ~ Notice to Collectors. Suits will be brought against all delin. quents who do not pay off the balance due on their several Duplicates, including 1819 a SRY IP Sp tn GS, i 0 {on or before the 15th day of August next, as longer induigence cannot possibly be given ; and itis expected that the Cols lectors for the present year will at least pay the one half due on their duplicates at the August court. Wr. ALEXANDER, Bell fuse, July 12, 1820. Treasurer, NOTICE Y 0 THE managers of the Bellefonte and Philipsburg turnpike road company, will meet at the office of T, Buinside, in the A certain body of land containing about eleven hundred acres, more or less, situat ed in Spring and Walker townphips, sur. veyed in pursuance of warrants granted to James Harris, Samuel Milliken, Samued Miles, and Jolin Dunlop. is an On these lands Ore Bank, commonly called « Gatesburg Ore Bank.” One other tract of Land containing a- bout four hundred and seven or less, surveyed in pursuance of a war- rant granted to Ann Patton, situated in| Spring township, adjoining lands of Thom- | as M’Ciciland, Philip Benner, and oth- ers. S One other tract, adjoining the last men. |’ tioned tract, containing about one hundred | : { and forty acres more or less ; being part| of a larger tract surveyed in pursuance ol a warrant granted to Joseph Evans. { up the St. Joseph, and about 20 or 25 were One other tract of land containing a- or less, r surveyed in pursuance ofa warrant ¢ Miller, adjoining gran ed to Henry situated in Spring township, Nittany mountain, and lands of George Meiss, and others. One other tract of land containing about two hundred and fifty five acres more or less, surveyed in pursuance of a warrant granted to John Moore, adjoining Nittany mountain, lands of Robert Gorden, and NR otners. Aiso three adjoining tracts of land, eac! of them containing about four hundred & hirty acres and allowance, surveyed in pursuance of warrants granted to James Lindsey, Jol the west side of Spring creek, adjoining ‘ands of the heirs of Thomas Billington, the heirs of Col. Samuel Miles, and oth- v I's 5 Ifib James Ferguson, and John \nston, situated in Spring township, on £8 aid lands are not sold on the 14th Borough of Bellefonte, on Friday the 21st, instant, at 3 o'clock P. M, By order of the President, P. CAMBRIDGE, Sec'ry. . July 13, 1820. Will be sold, at private Sale, A valuable tract of wood land, situated in Howard township, Centre ¥ y Lentre ¢« de} acres more | I county, a - Joining lands of Isase M’Kinuey, and Mie chacl Mcese, late the estate of James | Packer, sr. deceased. TERMS will be made known on application to Amos Packer, July 7, 1820. A GOOD BARGAIN, MAY be had of a tract of land in Potter township, Centre county, adjoining lands of Andrew Gregg, esq. formerly the prop= {erty of Adam Reynolds, dec’d, and now in the tenure of David Wasson, contains The land is of a good quality, and in good res ing upwards of two hundred acres. pair. Any person wishing to purchase may know the terms by applying to either ul the subscribers. JAMES POTTER, W. H. PATTERSON. W. 1. FORBIA. July 8, 1820, a —— — HAMMOND & PAGE HAVE just received a large and hand- | some assortment of : at their Store in Bellefonte : 3 which they will sell on the most reasonable terms for Cash or country produc CC une 31; 1820, ge — —————CI oh ¢ NEW GOODS,e hry
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