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THE PATRIOT.
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BELLEFONTE, JULY 1821,
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~ From the Orthodox Churchman’s
Magazine,
On opening a Grave and
laying g hold of a Scull,
This p eacher, silent, yct severe,
Ir 3
Proclaims 1
Thou bike this emblem shal appear,
mortality to map 3
When time has measured out thy
§Dubs
Here hang the lips that once could
smile,
And heie was fix’d the oths of light.
E tnguisi’d now, corrupt and vile,
Suffused in cverlasiing might.
Gay friend here hung the list’ning ear,
That fed the soul with sense by
: sourd;
Here the loguacicus tongue, and here,
"The nuse on this d storted wound.
hea Si |
h y :
These all had converse with the soul :
Myst. tious work of Hoav’nly ski
Clay jo nd (o shiv, form’d an whole,
And quickei’d dust obey’d the will
call’d the life he pave
dust returned from whence ni
away ;
ama ;
rit left the s'iff' ning clay,
death dissolves the wond’rous
kine.
¥ty mortal ; hold and fice,
wi thy knowledge centres here;
g. like this, thy scalp shall be
worth the sordid Sexton’s care
ps a crown these temples hound
fore it subject nations bow’d;
w undistinguish«d in the ground
he beggar (ramples on the proud
Ul. all must pass ‘hs dreary road,
o dust and silence, cold and gloom
d rest in one obscure abode,
world==th:
Fhe dwelling of the
tomb,
O thou, whose gilt ’tis to bestow
Much more in virtee and in teoth;
QO, Icad wie through this vale of woe.
ris; eh: :
Thou stuff of age aud guide of youth
Bus
Because as thou alone can save :
rain mein this mortal hour,
1 And let me triumph, io thy pow’r,
A joyful victor o’cr the grave.
SHE DAXDY,
HE ONE.
From the London Courier,
THE AND THE
From the epiilogne to the new trad, dy
of Brutus, by John Howard Paine.
i
But bless me! what two non-d.s. pus
i
“IT hat she—a pile of ribbons, straw,
and feather !
: tog ther !
i
Her back a pillion, all a bone, and on it
A church-bell ? cradle ? tower ?—No
| faithy a bonnet !
Aye.and an actual woman in it, able.
[2 but her tongue, to make tha:
tower a Babel !
Ae for the he, the fellow non-de-
| SCIIptam
Wieace thet mockery of man
been shipt ?
has
Have Ross or Buchan brought him to
console
The quidnunces for the passage to the
| pole ?
Wile on her ic berg howls some
Greenland sqaaw,
Robu’d of her pretty monster till next
thaw !
{ Pais has the honor. « 4%!
8 oni”
gl la I
smell of Paris !
his
Mionpue its phrase,
the air, grace, shrug,
~~
Le
gave step its trip, his
ead its peruke, and his waist it
stays.
thing is contraband. Let's crus’
°
the trade;
Ladies, insist on’t--all is Best home-
made—
All British, from your shoe-tye to you:
fan,
Down to that tantalizing wretch call’
man !
Now for the compound creature: ~firs,
the wig,
With every frizzle struggling to look
big ;
On the roug’d check the fresh dy'd
whisker spread,
The thousandth way of dressing a
calf s head !
The ncckeloth next, where s:arch and
whale-boue vie.
Io make the slave a walking pillory !
The bolster’d bosom—Ah | ye envying
fair,
How little dream you of the stuff that’s
1
tiiere :
What straps, ropes, steel, the aching
1 bs compress,
i'o make the dandy « beautifully less 1”
I'hus fools, their final stake of folly
cast
By insiinct, to strait waistcoats come
at last ; :
Misjudginy Shakesfiear ! this escap ’d
thine eye,
For though the brains are out, the
1%
things won’t die
And now, farewell! But one word
for the Bard,
The smile of beauty is his best reward :
Then smile upon him, you, and you,
and you,
[ see the poet's cause is won— Adicu
* .« The time has been, that when
the brains were oul, the man would
die.”
®
From Hogg's Jacobite relics of Scot
land.
« In the rising
Cumberfand’s dragoons was hur yme
.hrough Nithsdale 10 search of rebels
fungry and fiagaed, they called at a
ne widow’: house and demanded re
sm ut. Horson a lad of six.e
essed themafe lang kale and butter,
nd the good woman brought nes
nik, which s e told them was all he:
«00k. One of the party enquired
vith seeming Kindness now she lived
“indeed” guoth she, ¢ the cow and the
k le yard, wi’ Gad’s blessiag, a’ my
mailen’ He arose and with his sabi
sitled the cow and destroyed all the
kale. The poor woman was thrown}
upon the world and died of a broken
heart ; the disconsolate yo uth her son,
wande rod away beyond the inquiry of
friends or the search of comp ssion
fn the continental war, when the Brit.
ish army h:d gained a great and signal
victory, che soldie'y were making mer-
I
(ey with wine and recounting thelr ex
hon A'dragoon roared out, ¢ 1 once
tarved a Scotch witch in Nithsdale
I killed her cow and destroyed her
gress; but,” add 'd he, ¢she could
tive for all that on her God as she said
Ant doa you ve it 2 cried a soldier,
ating up. ¢ do :'t you rue it > «Rue
what said hey ¢ auch like that!’
« Then by my God” cried the youth
msheathing his sword, ¢ that woman
was my mother ! Draw, yoa biual
vitlain, draw.” They fought.” The
you h passed h's sword twice thrlo
he dragoon’s body, and while he
urned him over on the throes of death,
xelarmed.—s Aad you rued it, you
S.
Ss!
rye
God I”?
WRENS LEARNING TO SING
A wren built her nest in a box, so
sitated that a family had an opportu
ity of observing the mother bird
structing the young ones in the art of]
sing'ng peculiar to the species. She
fixed herself on one side of the open
ing in the box directly before her
young, and began by singing aver her
One of
the young ones then a'tempted t) inti
mate her.
whole sonx very distinctly.
After proceeding through
a few notes, its voice broke,
lost the tune.
and 1t
The mother immedi
ately recommenczd where the young
“lone had lailed, and went very distinctly
through with the remainder. The
voung bird rnade a second attempt,
commencing where it ceased before,
and continuing the song as long as i
was able, 2nd when the note was agaiy
stopped and completed it
Then the young one resumed the
disued
of 1745, a party of
shold have auly been fiunished by your|®
n-iof Nuremberger, has
lost, the motherbegan anew where il{33
mother sang over the whole series of
notes a second time with great precis.
wn; and a second of the young at-
tempted to follow her. The wren pur:
the ‘same eourse with this as
with the first ; and so with the third
nd fourth. It sometimes happened
that the young one would lose the.
une three, four or more idmes in the
same attempt; in which case the
mother uniformly began where they
ceased, and sung the remaining notes ;
and when cach lad completed the trial
she repeated the whole strain, Som:
mes two of the young commenced
together. The mother observed the
sme conduct towards them,
This was repeated
a5 when
one sang alone.
day after day, and several tmcs lo a
day.
ET —
FEMALE HEROISM.
A few weeks since, two young ladies
were left by their parents in the care
ofa country house, a lew miles from
Abingdon, Eoglaid, together with two
maid-servants and a.footboy. They
telling them the house was on fire;
they instantly rose, called the maids
and got buckets. The fire being in
accessible to the water, onc of the
sisters fell to wark with a pick axe to
batter down the wall of the drawing
lroom to put it out ; the other threw a
pelisse over her night clothes, went
into the stable, saddled a cart-horse.
took the footboy behind her, and, pro-
vided with a dioner bell, rode off ring-
ing and screaming for essistance at
the public-hoise and parsonage, till
she roused all the neighbors, who
came with buckets, and extinguished
the fire, which had been prevented
from extending the exertions of he:
ister. The insurance office were so
leas d with the astonishing conduct
f these youag Jadies, that they replac-
d every thing in the handsomest
manner, even to the pelisse.
d-licate and accomplished gitls of 18
and 20.
They are
Si
The town of Zurich in Switzerland
was thrown into the greatest distres
oi the 7th of May last by a deplorable
A company consisting of 16
married and single ladics, embarked
on the Liamath, to proceed to Dicta-
village, for the
avent.
tion, a neighboring
purpose of administering comfort, and
contributing their mite to the subscrip-
tion for the bensfit of the sufferers tn
‘be late destructive fite, which con-
sumed nearly the whole village. Aun
imprudent young man, who joined the
company, amused himself by making
he boat roll from side to side, and ter-
ified some of the ladies so much as
to make them quit their positions, and
The conse-
1
.
lay hold of one another.
tune and finished it. This done, the
were roused in the night by the boy’s |"
‘|sooner gone than Swartz: with a
‘a mire, his wit or I 8 work.’
pint tumbler, and fill it with gas in
20 seconds.
a
J. SWARTZ.
This famous German painter, hav-
ing engaged to execute a roof piece]
ina public town hall, and to paint by|
the day, grew exceedingly negligent,
so that the magistrates and overseers
of the work were frequently obliged to
hunt him out of the tavern. Sceing
he could no. d ink in quiet, he the next
morning stuffed a pair of stockings
and shoes, corresponding with those
that he wore, hung them down be
he sat
(wix. the staging, where
noved them a little once of
work, re
twee a day, and took them down a
noon and night ! and by means of th
deception drank a whole riunight to
pr:
in twice
bets vy
gather, the inn-keeper er
the plot. The officers
a day to look at him and seeing ap r
oflegs hanging down suspected noth
ing, but greatly extolled conveit
Swartz as the most laborious and con:
came
nad once firis' ed an admirable paint
ing of our Saviour’s Passion, on a larg
scale, and in oil colours. Cardina
B was so pleased with it that
resolved to bring the Pope to sce i
Swartz knew the day and determined
to puta trick on the Pope and Ca
dinal ; painted over the oil in fine wa-
ter colours, the twelve disciples atsup
per; bat altogether by the ears, Jike
Lapithes & Centaurs. At the time ap
pointed the Pope and Cardinal came
to see the picture. Swariz conduct
ed them to the room where it hung ;
they stood amozed and thought the
painter mad. At length says the Car.
dinal, ¢ Idiot, dost thou call this a pas
sion 2’ ¢ Certamnly I do,’ said Swarig
¢ But, veplied the card nal, show mie
the picture [ saw when last here’
« This is it,’ says Swartz, * for I have
no other finished in the house.” The
Cardinal angrily denied 1t was the
same ; Swariz unwilling to carry the
joke any farther, requested that they
would retire a few moments out of his
They did so; and were no
room.’
sponge and warm water, immediately
obliterated the whole history in water
colours !—Then introducing the Pope
and Cardinal, he presented a mos!
beautiful picture of our Saviour's Pas-
sion. They stood = astonished, ana
thought Swartz a necromancer. At
last the painter explained the mystery ;
hey did not know which must to
———
NorroLk, July 2.
SUSPICIOUS AF
FAIR.
ANOTHER
There appears to have been a prov-
quence was that the boat upset, and
the whole company were immersed in
the wa.er, and only one of the whole
wus saved, This lamentab’e event has
covered the town wi'h mourning.
Sm—
From the New York American.
DISCOVERY —Mr. Leinberger’|
resolved
problem of giving a horizontal direc
tion to balloons, and offers to make a
journey from Nuremberg in that con
veyance, as soon as the royal society
of London shall have guaranteed the
nav ant of 20,000 offered as a pred
um for the discovery.
the!
Barston, July 4.
The Washington Fountain, in this
village, noticed last week, continues 10
foam with a surcharge of fixed air, or
carbonic acid gas, emitting it in far
greater quantities than ever before and
attracting the notice it so eminent y
»
.
merits. The tube through which i
- -~
rises from the bowels of the earth, i:
feet in length, and the emission of
place the water in an inverted half
{agents #ould load the brig without de-
this gas is so copious that 1t will dis-
scientious painter in the world. Swaris],
and then as the old Chronicles say,|
|
From the Berks Journal.
OF all animals, Mn is the mostim-
proved by being taught.
ference is, that most pains will be be.
The just in.
stowed, where the best fruits will be
produced by it. We ave delighted
[to see dogs ov bears dance to hear
‘Parrots chatter, and how a pig can
spell. We throng, cash in haud to
sce Lions, Wildcats, and all strange
sights. It would be very little hofiora
ible to human nature, if there were
any great town in our happy country,
where shows o/ the sort a
rainful ;
housands yearly ;
Huded to are
where rope dancing cosis
and not a single
Free school is provided for the Chil-
‘ven of the poor. If ous duty cost as
nuch as our folly, there would be a
setter excuse for our not discharging
tf
.
But the trathis, we are taxed lg
Himes more,
wid of Vice, than would be sufficient
o hire wisdom and Virtue to keep
school for our children.
by our love of wonder
Nothitg is cheaper in proportion to
tts value than education : and yet it is
he charge that fightens us, The
children if weil taught, wili make am-
ple retribution to the Siate for what
their teaching has cost. It is scarcely
wssible to calculate by what means or
in how many ways, this will be dope:
Ven, well taught will learn more than
or
ynorant men ; Skill will be as gainful
i$ hard work. Such mon, 100, will be
more enterprising. The wind expand-
ed by knowledge, will trust more to its
wn powers ; though at first it can-
wot creepy it will learn to fly; the
io ber it mounts the wider Hs pros
pcs; till, at laut, the world and all
its means of happin ss, are brought
wi hn its reach, Politically speaking
h. fallen state of man 18° ignorance. —
The world is yet to be gained by him.
ofall the countiics on earth, America
is in the best condition to regenerate
man by education.
mar rn.
CHOICE OF A WIE,
AT ask not beauty~"tis a gleam
That tints the morning sky !
[ ask not Farning "tis a sircam
That glides unheeded by !
[ ask pot wit—"tig a flash
That oft blinds reasons eye ;
[ ask not gold—"us glittering trash
That causes man a sigh:
I ask good sense, a taste refined,
Candour with prudence® blended 3
A feeling hearty a virtuons mind,
With charity attended |
From Sir Sumuel Moreland’s Perne-
tual Almanac, Riady Reckoner and
Gardener, published in the reign of
Queen Anne. ’
DIRECTIONS RELATING TO
THE PURCHASING OF LAND.
« First see the land, which thou ine
tcnd’st to buy
Withiu the seller’s title clear to lie 3
And that no woman to it doth lay
cial :
the circum
stance of the arrival at this port of
idential interference in
the brig Rose-in Bloom, pnt in, in dis-
tress, from Philadelphia for New Or.
leans: On enquiring of captain Smith
of the particulars of her passage, &c.
it came out that she is owned by Dan-
lirl Scull and E. I. Hollingshead, of
Philadelphia, the same persons who
were the owners and shippers of the
sloop Norfolk. Captain Smith never
had any previous acquaintance with
either of the persons, but states, that
they observed to him when he took
charge, that he was to proceed to New
Orleans where they had sent fund: by
the slaofp Norfolk, and where thei
tention, and give him his instructions.
Suffice it to say, that whatever ob-
ject these shippers had in’ view, and
however extensive may have been the
ramifications which they had planned
to carry on their villainous designs,
they certainly are partially frustrated ;
and it isnot a little singular that th,
port of Norlelk should bring up by
accident their (wo vessels to bear, as It
were against against them:
By dowry, jonyture, or some other
name
That may it cumber.
or free
The tenure stand, and that from each
feoff-e
It be refeased : That th’ seller be so
old,
That he may lav ful sell, thou lawful
hold :
Have special care that it not mortgag-
el be,
Nor be entayled on posterity
Then at it stand in statuie, bourd or
no,
Be well advis’d what
mast go,
What custom service bath been done
of old,
By Hass who formerly the same did
wold
And re wedded woman put to. sale,
Deal not with her, unless she bring
her male;
[hy bargain being made and all this
doze,
Have special care to make thy charter
run
For that beyond thy life securely binds.
Those hings foreknown and done you
may prevent
Those things rash buyers often times
repent.
And yet when you have done all that
you can
[fyou’il be sure, deal wih an honest
man,”
Know ifbound
quit-rent out