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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.
.
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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
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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,
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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,
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NEW GOODS,e
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