eee of circumstances, it is absolutely im-jand reached this place last even'ng — field with a premeditate determiaation ATRIOT WEDNESDAY, August. mip I Se ee i The long talkcd-of war between i Russia and Turkey appears to have L ended. The emperor of Russia is | marching his troops homewards. 1 nt § en CoMMUNICATED, - Mr. Editor, Permit me to return “cere thanks to my fellow citizen of Clea field, fir his confidence brsiowed & my sin- in me, in his recommendaioly totice I shall make known my political principles by the next Avgust court, either in per as a candidate for Assembly. possibie to decide what would have] happened, as to some evens, if the| slightest disturbance had taken place ia the march of those that preceded hem. Ita arivate gentieman in Che- shire, about the year 1730, had not been overturned in his carriage, it is extremely probable that America at this time would have been a depend- aut colony of England This country sentleman bappened to be Augustus Washington, esq. who was thrown in to the company of a lady who after- wards becume his wife, emigrated to Ameiica with him, and In the year 1732, in Virginia, became the envied mother of George Washington the great, EP — Eram the Baltimore Morning Chron 1 ‘ Pawn Lieutenant Perry. | There is something peculiarly af | fecting in the premature death ot ris- ing worth——th2 bicom on the cheek. ‘ses. Che first cay carried us over the plains round Rome, by the hii and lake of Albano to Velletrt. The scenery, all ‘he way, is magnificent, and the ruins f An. lent edifices numerous. To 4 scholar, who loves Virgil, nothing can be more in efesting than this tract of couniry : "Tis the scene of the las books of the Aneid which the travel ler has constantly within view. Vel. fletri lies among the last hills of the chain, which comes from the West, and commands a magnificent prospect of the Pontine marshes and the moun- taivs which sci a bound to them.— Those disinat and unwholesome marsh- es we crossed on the second day of our journey. They are twenty four mils long ; and the road, built over then at great expense, runs in as straight a line as a swryeyor can draw, No cue can remain in safety in the vi- cinity of the marshes: the whole is desolate and uninhabited, and jcfi toa few herds of catile and troops of hor- 1 t fell whcitiz 2 1x : the pahlic offi- es have been converted oto manu- actories for libels upon the mtelligent, honesty, and meritorious : the execu- ing his wie for some time. We pre-itive chair, instend of bemg the bright sume that these circumstances, if cor jest ornament of our system, is the oh rectly represented, will go far, in the lject of universal contempt and idicules vstimation of a jury, towards ex'enua. persecution has been the uniform and (ing the crime which has been com jimmuigable characterisiic of a cal. mitted. The perpetrator had not beenjnet whieh, emecying from the fermen found or imprisoned at the latest datejtations of discordant fac ions, and aji- from the village of Kittaning. parently conscious of the shoriness of — its power, labours to accomplish the WASHINGTON’S ANCESTORS [greatest possible degree of mischief in In the complicated and marvelous{a given tune in a word, federihism of machinery of circumstances, it is ab jthe most odious character, prolonging solutely impossible tordccide whatja reign of terror upon the principles, would have happened, as to somefand with the advocates, of the Harify d events, if the slightest disturbance hadjconvention, has, hike a vampire, fase taken place, in the march of those that{ten d iiself upon oar prostrated, nreceded them. We may observe aj though stil allpowe: ful democracy. iitle dirty wheel of brass, spinumngl 1 by the pledge and promises and round upon its greasy axle, and the perpetual protestations oi Joseph Hies- result is that in another apartmen', ‘er aid his allies, sim republicans not many yards disance from it, a were lulled nto a favai deluion, it has beautiful piece of silk issues, from a passed away, as his conduct incapacily a # to quarrel with Macaninsh, and tha 8 ’ “ L7 the iatter patiently suficred the scut rilous language of the other concern fa : and the lustre in the eye, indicale long son or by publication in the Bellefonte Patriot, I shall then briefly state, what qualifications I ought to possess, and what course ol exalted traits of character are disclos. ed, does fancy fill up the imaginary sphere allotied to oid age, with splen dor and glery. We behold, tn imag ination this energy of character, ex: panding, enlargitug, and biightening think, a man du'y he ought to pursue, to discharge ute, and in proportion as caily and] faithfully, the power delegated to him, with advantage to his constituents.— And also the evidences of a man’s being a good patriot and democrat If my views meet the approbation of the citizens of Centre and Clearfield counties, I shall be thankful to them for their support. LTER A. KARTHAUS ——— CANTON The ship Addison, ar- rived yesterday, in 126 days from Can ton, reports that the British shippiag hod returned to that port, and that the trade had been resumed as before the late disturbances took place. By mu- tual agreenien’, all their differences were to be referred to tie two gov- ernmeunts for settlement, —— I — Mr. Printer. 1 have observed that a gentleman, who signs himself¢ A Clea ficider,” 10 your last paper recommends Mr. vith every revoving year. In the widst of this glittering track, while the eye is reveling on the spectacie, a sable shadow talls, and biots the shin- ing surface fo ever: it then resembles a strong snd progressive blaze of light suddenly passing into a cloud. Such were the thoughts that occupied ous mind, wien we read the recent pre mature and lamented death of James A. Perry, of the United States’ ship of war Fraoklin, son of the late Christo pher Raymond Perry, Esq of Riod: L1slaid, and bother to the commodore At tie early age of ten years, did this gallant boy enter the naval service of bis country, in the character of a mid- sh:pman, Despising the follies, the frscinations, the alurements and the temptations of youth, be saw in his country’s glory something more fas cinating and attractive, and cousentcd to envoli his pame among the candid. ates tor fame, On the 13th of Sep- teraber, 1813, he had completed his twe!fth year, and we now behold this boy wn the character of a midshipman, engaged with his brother Ouiver H Periy, 10 the memorable battle o: P. A Karthaus to the cit'z:os of Cen. | tre and Clearfield counties, as a fit! person to 1epressut them in our state legisature. Tris not for me to cons, t= dict a syllable of all that has been, sail, as to the comprtency and qualifi- cations of Mr. Karthaus ; nor what hasiihis young wartior, pertormin#®all his been said to recommend him to the] snocial favor of the people. Indeed Ijintrepidity worthy of riper years. I am clad to hear that Mr. Kasthaus/ls unnccessary to dwell on the resul was a fricnd to his country ** in the hour of her peril,” and felicitale myself] that he is a « democrat,’ and resides in our district, I hesitatk not to say thai f Mr. Karthaus is the candidate of the d-mocratic party, te which he is said to belong, nominated by the dele- 5 . 3 the purpose. I will vote for bim, and use every honorable exertion to pro- mote his election; but my reverence for this method of womination which tends io noite the party whose princi. y 2? ) 518%, who wi 1 no doubt assemble for jder the command of the lamented Lake Erie. He served in that en- gagement on board the Lawrence ; she resembled a siaughter house more than a ship of war; every gun was dis- mounted— while in the midst of this agitating spectacle, was to be seen duties with a calmness, for.itude and of that battle—it has pow become a briliiant period in American history and at the name of Erie, the hear: swells with the proudest and the fond est recollections. At the commence ment of the year 1815, this arden: youth embarked in the squadron, un Decatur, destined for Algiers. On the return of part of that squadron, he continued in the Mediterranean; for nearly the space of five years, At the age of seventeen, he had manifested sc much skill, fortitude avd intrepidity, ples [ houor, will nol permit me to do any thing else than support the regu: Jar ticket. : As itis understood that Mr. Smyth, out former member declines another nomination Iwonid advise Mr. Kart.\solicited aud obtained ordrrs to join hats or his friends to submit his clatns to the dcmocratic delegates ;and 1 doubt not but his chance of nomination will be as good as any othess, land such. devotion to the naval service of his country, that he wus promoted to a lieutenancy no the navy. When the Frarklin was fitted lor service, he that ship. As his sphere of duty en (larged, be sought every opportunity ito qualify himselt for its peiformance, I:jand he seems to have regarded every : . ~ de nt uns pe his favourite e oucht to be the wish of every demo-moment unspent on his favourite ele crat to have unexceptionable ters for their candidates, and I pre- sume the de egates will most tully con- s der this before they fix upon any ong, and with a full reliance upon their onod sense and devotion to democratic men and measures, I promise for my own part unqualified submission to their determinaiion. A DEMOCRAT. ~ “ Mr. Editor, [ observe that Mr, Korthaus is brought inte view as a candidate for the Assembly. Iam acquainted with Mv. Karthaus, and know him to be a man of honor, honesty and integrity.— But, since he has become a candid. te for office, it is rumoured that he was one of those concerned in the BAL- TIMORE MOR. I would like to have some info: mation on this subject. I am aware that it is only when a man hecomes a candidate for office faults are fished for; and from this cause I am far from giving credit to every idle tale, told of those wio are brought before the public for pubic favor. I wish you to give this publici- ty, in. order that My Karthaus may have a chance to rebut tbe charge, THE SPIRAT OF LINGAN Sl & Q— From a l:te British Publication. Washing ows Ancestor’s—In the iclaed and mat yclleus machinery charac-iment, as so much time thrown away ; the naval service was a pleasure po less than a duty, as an honorable testi- mony of the absorbing iuterest that he felt in hi profession, we record the fact that from the age of eleven years until the time of his death, he was nev. er out of active employment, We be- hold youthful zcal and ente prise, chas- tened, cisciplined, invigorated and en- larged by active employment, and we behold the magnavimous adventurer tat the age of twen'y-one, in all the en jergy of youth, and in full possession ot tall those nubile feelings that spire to thigh ard bercic action, We contem- ‘plate this spectacle, and in a moment 1 vanishes from the eye. The shadows jof death gather around the briliam hight, and we see nothing but a desert 'shore—the rolling suif and a lifeless covpse under the biliow. It may be mentioned as a thing per- { that his Daps unexampled, at least in American i history, that young Perty was preseat- ed by Congress with a sword at the |age of twelve years. He bore this honorable testimonial of his country’s gratitude, for his gallant conduct a the battle of Erie. A —— Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in Europie, dated, . Narres, Feb. 19, 1822, _ % The journey trom Rome to Naples is of the highest interest. 1 left the * eternal city’ last Friday, the (th be | >Tis a sad sight enon ch, for there were once cities hiere. A single hut, here aud there, serves as an inn: the one at-which we stopped still bers the name of the Three Taverns, and near it the ruips of Forum of Appii have been discovered, Horace speaks of having slept there, on his journey to Biun- dusiuvm ; and this citcomstance gives the spot an interest. A much great. er interest is inspired by remienibering the company of early Christians who ame to this spot from Rome, when ‘huey heard that Paul was coming. — ‘ When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as tar as Appii Forum wd thie Three Taverns, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.” In crossing the Pontine marshes you may be sure to have crossert the path of the apostie : where- as in Rome all the traditions respect- ing him re dubious—they show his piison and h's ¢ hited house,” but peith- er the one nor the other can be saus- factorily fixed.” — § Cn Leland. The distresscs of 1his hapless king- hut by no means rejieved © A letter it Farmbill, June 1, states, (hat they nave at present upwards of 2000 souls who hive scarcely a potatos to ea’ * The English, says the author, are be- naving nobly, and if it was not for them hundreds and hundreds would die of aunger ; it has ajready produced a s00d deal of disease, and will, I fear be the cause of much more. We have still three monihs before the next Crop #1 be of much use, and a terrible ume we shall have of it.? A lady residing in the county of Mayo presents her correspondent with the following picture of human mis ry 3 ¢ Powerful necessity forces me to write to you, 0 lay before you the awlul circumstances in which a justly iacenscd God has scen fit to plunge this miserable country ; and to im plore you, by every motive of pity for perishing thousands, by every feeling which would make you desire to avert the cominission of the atuocities to which the desperadion of famine wil lead, and by your affection for me, placed in circumstances of the ntmost danger, from the pestilential diseases, which living on the baif putrificd car- cases and cows and horses ‘must iney- itably produce in the fam shing wretch- es around me, 10 be thence communi- cated to the healthy and comparative- ly rich ; by all these considerations and more than all, by the diclates of your own generous besom, I conjure you to try to interest your friends and the religious public on behalf of the perishing Irish. Matters have at las come to a crisis : indeed hundreds who never wanted before are now starving.’ Some idea of the extreme distress to which the peasantry are reduced! may be formed from the facts, tha in| rhe town of Galway, a number of wo-| men are daily employed in drawing down turf from th. bogs in the neigh bottood of the town on their backs. For as great a load as they are capa- ble of carrying, they obtain but one penny half-penuy ; and 1n oder to. ob- tain this scanty pittance to sustain ife, they periorm a journey of six miles narefooted, under & burning sun. .0om rivalling in its hues the tints ol the rainbow ; there are myriads of events in our lives the distance be- tween which was much greater than that between this wheel, and the rib hon, but where the connexion had been much more close. Ifa private coun he year and fcderalisin have developed theme se'ves No democrat adheres to tia enor. The same spit which led them to place 100 generous confidence in all that was told them, piomp.s them now that the mask is down. ww vent their scorn and indignation. Had he bcen what they expecied, they lom have been partially mitigated, teentleman in Cheshire abou {4 {seventeen hundred and thirty had not I might have justificd themselves: bee . . - . Ina {> lv "hp rroa 1 vy {been overturned in his carriage, it is 128 counlessealy the reverse, their own lexiremely probable that America, in. Consistincy and honor require that they should now opoose as zeulously is:ead of being a free repablic at this : imoment, would have continued a de- 25 they have hee ok ire supported. pendent colony of England, This Apostacy, always Lruiifol th expedia ‘country gentieman haprened to bg €0ts to distract those whom it hus dee | Avgnstus WW ashington, Esquire, who seried, willy no doubt assume the nana twas thus acc duntally thiown into the aud em loy the bguage of democra- ‘company of a lady who afterwards be. cy. Eminenty ridiculous as it must came his wife, who cmigrated with'8¢cm to the “reflcctng, somé of wha thim to America. and in the year sey. SUPPOTIC!S, abetiors aud pans zynists of enteen hundred and thirty two, be. J950PD Hester affect a desire to be \came the envied mother to George esteemed tepublicans, Against poli Washington the great. ical hyt ocrisy 3 aeatnst these Januse § faced beings, who are what the y caus THE INTREPID HAIRDRESSER. no: bear ov ve called, and siyle theme From a late Irish Papier. sclves whacthey fs thy in veo! A hair dresser, who lives in Water !'Y @F¢ not, it 1s our duiy to take every street Newry, afier having made a li- P'OPCr precaution. Fiic language of bation to Bacchus, imagined that he Gemocracy should be plain ntretnivos was to be hanged, and that the officers 2h unvarnished 3 Ms votatles without of justice were entering Lis house to disguise or affcciation ; 1's career, lcarry him to exccuticn. Under this ¥ect avd inflexible. The people’s sirange impression, he contrived to gor 500d CONSHLULES cu polar star. With on the roof of his habitation, along @0 €5€ perseveringly Lent on that, uns which he darted With the velocity of ajivericd by whe false lights of scifish hunted squirrel. From his own roofj™ef we cannot Lil to trivanpi. He Was seen to be running over scve- £. Gaz. ral other roofs, now and then pausing when be came to a ch.muney ; and ei ther peeping into a fuanel, like a mag ey OU (ie —— tae Irom the Norfolk Beacon, July 2%. I'he United States bi ig Spark, cape to bis imaginary pursuers, like a bare|}' 0" Havana, anchored in How pion when she catches the tones of the dig-| Roads yesterday moining. Irom the tant bugles. Meanwhile several of Same souice we learn that the Spa bis neighbors collected together, any. |'a% made no ious to secure the man, and prevent |C'"15€ and is coming up here for sup- his expected fall. He saw them, wis. DAES, Lhe officers and crew of the took them for bailiffs, and havin: pan Hornet were in good health when she rapidly along the roof of Mr Wall «cet sited from Havana, I he U.S. tit stores, and proceeded to that of Mr. Macedonian, captain Biddle, John Quinn's stores, till he came to V8 expected to return to Havana, the gable, from which he jumped, with|308t 1st of August, She lost & of dauntless intrepidity, upon an adjacent her crew before she lett Havana. dwelling house, a descent of about] -_— etght feet, imagining no do bt that it) Lrom the New York American, July 29 was neck or nothing with him. From] GRELCE. thence he proceeded (0 Mr. Smith's | he affairs of the Greeks are reprea roof, where he stripped a portion of sen‘ed to be less prosperous than heres the chimoey of bricks, and squeezed tofore, although ey have gamed ans himself into one of the funnels, peliedty her victoly at sea over the Turks, the people who wished to secure himy) i haint two ships of he line, two with these missiles, as Jong 4s his sup-lp, igales, one corvette, thrée brigs aid py lasted. In this situation he wusjp, 2. gun boats. The Turks havs seized. secured with ropes. and lower | 7 several villages: and. tha ed down to an immense multitude of Greeks, complying with thi wishes of the market people, who were gazing. cir wives and davghicrs, have ims with astonishment at the gambols of gait cap'ui és during - the hairdresser. S— § E—— STATE AFFAIRS. A cordial union of all sound demo crats, in determined opposition 10 the administration by which Pennsylvanis is now disgraced, cannot but be es teemed “ a consummation most de. voutly to be wished.” No man of any sensibility and patriotism cin perceive the extent to which our state 1s des poiled and degraded by its present red. cral rulers, without cheerfully sacrific-| ing bis personal views or feclings, in the solemn effort to redeem and vein-| state her, As the pericd of election approach. es, the importance of our duties to th commonwealth, and to the republica party, becomes the more striking — The wisdom and energy of the jarge majority in the legislature, during th * MURDER.—An affray took place 'n Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, ou the eighth insanity, between John! Macaniosh jr. and William Russell,! who were brothers-in-law, in which! Russel was killed. They were reap- ling together in the same grainficld, \with other persons. Russel abused he wife ol Macaninsh, calling her by, {several cdious names, and persisting iin that sort of language, notwithstand-| ing the repeated warnings of the in- sulied husband 10 bim uot to do sol {At length Macaninsh was provoked tof [yike him ; @ scuffle ensued, in which Russell rece d several blows, which termined hig existence. It would seem fiom a} ULB » AY [ ] - last winter, achieved much good, anc prevented more evil. As the only resort left for the pre servation of our prosperity and the security offour ipstitutions we m labor again to procure a democratic preponderance in that body. The wealth «f the people has been lavish: ty wasted : (he fundamental principle: of the constitntion have been wanton! outraged : banks have been gified wit! the product of taxes barshiy and vo necessarily imposed : Lieicheron combinations of distinct departmen of government have been arifully a iempted : men who denied their con try in is hour of danger have bec IT us i i atcment made by Johnlelevated to stations whence they in |cue 'y molatcd them with their own hard, that they might uot be violated by the barbarians. Ten thousand women and children were, it ds said, ately old as slaves at 10 and 15 piasties a head ! EP. From the Buffuloe Journal, July 16. A company of English emigrants, consisting of about thirty souls. arrive ed here last week from Qiicbec, on their way to join the Engiish colo vy Planted by Mr. Birbeck, in Hinois.— Piiey have with them young cate, hogs, geese, &e. which they have brought with them from England. The whole company is in good healthy and high spirits. These people came ui as cinigrants to the Canadas, and oy landing at Quebee, have helped 10 swell the lists of ¢ emigrants to tla provinces,’ that have been published, from time to time, in that city. Huna dreds find their way across Lake One tario to the United States, every year, in the same manner, while hoy est Jolin Bull supposes them snugly quartered 1a bis American dom ios. S—— W—— From the New York Gazette, We regret to learn vat Mp. D Holmes, a promising yOULE man “Bing 10 the sisip Alexard. i inst overboard og the 27H while in the act of wate, wge from this port 1o Gat wa m Liverpool. Tie medistely lowered, an(y rion made to save » pye nto a marrow bone, or listening] 30 Elon, from a cruise, and 6 days § - y was of May, : “A drawinr a bucket The ship was on her pasa
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