* mmm Richard’s indecent behaviour j--Welly soldiers oe —— Smp—————— FUE PATRIOT. v Broo rr SFL ATES, or EleqUence the soul, song charms the sense BL CLP ATLLEET LETS PLT ILE SETI LPL 8 pe 3 BELLEFONTE, Ju~g, 1823. iy + #3 ELS TRI SELECTED. eet 3 Cs Kp + ee BINES ADDRESSED TO A MOTHER CN THE DEATH OF TWO INFANTS. 0 By John Quincy Adams, Esq. Sure to the mansions of the blest, When infant innocence ascends, Some angel brighter than the rest The spotless spirit’s flight attends. On wings of ecstacy they rise Beyond where worlds material roll; Till some fair sister of the skies Receives the unpolluted soul, There at th’ Almighty Father’s hand, Nearest the throne of living light, The choirs of infant seraphs stand And dazzling shine, where all are bright. Chain’d for a dreary length of tears Down to these elements below, Some stain the sky-born spirit bears, Extracted from this world of wo. That unextinguishable beam, With dust united at our birth, Sheds a most dim discolout’d gleam, The more it lingers on (his earths Clos'd in this dark abode of clay, The stream of gloiy faintly burns; Not ungbscur’d the lucid ray To its own native fount returns. Bt when the Lord of mortal breaths “1+. srees his bounty to resume, And points the sileat shaft of death, Which speeds an infant to the tombs ‘No passion fierce, no low desire, Has quench’d the radiance of the flame: Back to its God the living fire Reverts unclouded as it came. ‘Oh Mary! be that solace thine, Let hope her healing charm impart, And soothe with melodies divine The anguish of a mother’s heart. Oh! think the darlings of thy love, Divested of this earthly clod, Amid unnumber’d saints above Bask in the bosom of their God, Of their short pilgrimage on earth Still tender images remain ; on Still, still they bless thee for their birth, Still filial gratitude retain. rf The days of pain, the nights of care, The bosom’s agonizing strife, ©. = The pangs which thou for them: didst. bear No ! they forget them not with lies Scarce could their germing thought conceive While in this vale of tears they dwelt, Scarce their fond sympathy relieve The suff’rance thou for them hast felt. But there the soul’s perennial flower Expands in never fading bloom Spurns at the grave’s poor transient hour, And shouts immertal from the tomb. No weak unform’d idea there Toils, the mere promise of a mind 5 The ude of intellect flows clear, Suong, fully unchanging and refin’d. Each anxious care, each rending sigh, That wrung for them the parcat’s breast, Dwells on remembrance in the sky, Amid the raptures of the best. O’er thee with looks of love they bend, For thee the Lord of life implore ; And oft from sainted bliss descend, Thy wounded quict to restore. Oft in the stillness of the night, Tey sinooth the pillow for thy bed ; Oft till the morn’s returning light Sill watchful hover o’er thy head: Hark! in such strains as saints employ They whisper to thy bosom, Peace; ‘Calm the perturbed heart to joy, And bid the streaming SOrTow ceasc. Then dry henceforth the bitter tear; Their part and thine wverted see 1 hon wert ther guardian angel here, They guardian angels now to thee. Sm ED 11 THE CARDS SPIRITUALIZED. One Richard Middleton a soldier, attended he rest of the regiment/No answer being made, he went to the hostler. divine service with t i. a churchin Glisgow, stead of pulling out a bible to find the parson’s text, spread a pack; This behavour was ob- of cards before binn served by the elergyman au company to which he belonged. ordered him to put up the cards, d serjeant of tb fusal conducte tthe secovd. The latte! and on his re d him after service, betore the 1 prefered a formal complaint of said the mayor, wha! excuse have you to offer It you cen make an apology it is well, if not you shall be severely punished.—Since your hono | | is so good, replied Richardyas to permit me to speak for myself, an’t please your worship, ! have been eight days on the march with the bare allowance of six-pence per dav, conse quently could not bave a bible or other good s|pook—on saying this, Richard drew out his pack of cards, and presenting one of the aces 'o the mayor, continued his address to the mag: isirate as follows :—When I see an ace, may it pleas your honor, it reminds me that there is cnly one God ; and when I look upon a two or| three, the former puts me in mind of the Fath! and Holy Ghost ;a four, of the four evangel ists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John ; a fives the five wise virgins who were ordered to trim) their lamps (there were ten indeed, but five your were foolish ; a six, that in six days God cre. ated heaven and earth; a seven, that on the sc™ oth day he rested from all that he had, made ; an eight, of the eight righteous persons. who were saved from the deluge, to wit : ‘No ah and his wife and three sous and three daugh- ters ; a nine, of the lepers cleansed by our sa. vour (there were ten, but one only offered! his tribute of thanks ;) aten, ot the ten com mandments. Richard then took the knave, placed it be-. side him, and passed on to the queen, on which he observed as follows : This queen reminds me of ‘the queen of Sheba, who came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom +f Solomon, as her companion the king does f the great king of heaven, and of king George! Well, returned the mayor you have given me a good description of all the cards except the knave. If your honor will not be angry with me, returned Richard, I can give you the same satisfaction on that as any in the pack No, said the mayor. Well, returned the sol- dier, the greatest knave I know, is the serjeant who brought me before you; I dont koow, re- plied the mayor, whether he be the greatest knave or not, but I am sure he is the greates: fool. The soldier then continued as follows : When I count the number of dots in a pack of cards, there are 365, so many days in the year. ’'The cards in a pack are 52, so many weeks there are in a year ; when I reckon how many tricks there are ina pack, I find there are 12, so many months there are in a year. So that his pack of cards is both bible, almanac and {prayer-book to me. The mayor called bis ser- vants, ordered them to entertain the soldie well, gave him a piece of money, and said he was the cleverest fellow he ever heard in his life. niegy TS ED CDSS A con THE DEAD ALIVE. The resurection men have adopted a new back to assit him ip caseof need. This was ac. cordingly dong, and Snatchers having refreshec drove off with the cart ; but they had not pro ceeded a hundred yards before they found the supposed dead man tumbling about, and stop. ped to remedy the inconvenience. On wking hold of him, one of the fellows observed, « Ise be curst if this here subject isnt warm :” ¢ Dam um, but he’s hot; ”—« and so would you too,” said the soldier, if you had come from where I have been.” This was enough ; the snatchers weve petrified, aud al most terrified to death ; buts soon as they re covered they set off, leaving the cart and horse in possession of the soldier and hostler, neither . . . } of which has since been owned. The body of i i ¥ vi | er and Son, and the latter of the’ Father, Son’ tye dead man wasin two days after restored to bis friends by whom it was missed from the grave. tenia I I CB) ST Creat WHIMSICAL CIRCUMSTANCE. worship may remember were wise and fivel [ye itis said, laughs at lock smiths—~ a fact) which is exemplified even in the history of rus- tic lovers, who where they dare not lift the latch for fear of awakening the go-d old man, not co. frequently contrive to pop their pullet heads and drag their brawney shoulders through wonder- fully small holes and wipnocks. But while the vertical mode of visiting the lasses is by no means uncommon in country houses, the zer pendicular is rather pew. Nevertheless, a deed of even this description was attempied at Whithorn on Tuesday last ; the hero being a sea-faring youth of the name of Palmer, and the heroine servant to a respectable innkeeper. The former, it appears had been making rather free with a can of grog, and despairing, perhaps of finding any other mode ofingress, he mount- ed to the top ofa two story house, and there endeavored to pounce upon his sweetheart, by throwing himself, sweep-like,down the chimney This it must be confessed, was rather a hazard ous experiment, and so our hero felt ; for when about midships as a sailor would say. he fairly stranded amidst stones, lime, smoke, and soot. nor could all his efforts ever again disentangle his carcase. For more than 2 hours be tugged and pulled, scratched and scrambled, being of course averse to expose himself to the ridicule of the whole town ; at length, however, the love of life faitly triumphed over the sense of shame, and roaring out as loud as dust and smoke would let him, be craved the forgivencss and besought the good offices of the inmat=s below. At first lis words sounded like a voice from the grave and terrified every one within the range of its wailings. In a few minutes the family were all astart ; some fearcd it was » thief and others fancied it was a ghost: one cried, ¢ Jamie, load the gun,” and another whis. pered, © O Jenny bring the bible.” At last colley dog set as dead at the mau in the & jam,” as ever pointer did at a partridge ; and after this discovery, the family sallied forth and alarmed the ncighbors A council of war was next held on the subject, at which some talked plan to prevent detection by dressing the bodies .hat they steal, so that if seen they appear sleep. A few days ago two of them coming from the country, stopped at a public house. about four miles from town, with the body of 2 man, whom, after violating the'grave, they dress. ed inthe uniform of a soldier.—While in the house taking refreshment, a scldier who was billeted there, went to the door to smoke his pipe, and curiosity having induced him to look into the cart, he perceived a soldier, as he sup posed, asleep, whom in the first instance he con ceived to be a deserter, and hailed him. « Hal mM loo comrade, where to Not receiving an an swer, he attempted to awake the corpse, ex claiming come my boy let us bave a drink.” and they examined the body, when the latter ex pressed his suspicion that the fellows whe were in the house, were «body snaichers,” cland be and the soldier beld a council of war a: to what steps they should pursue, when it wa agreed to convey the dead man into the stable and that the soldier should take his place it the cart, while the hostler would follow oa horse- of lighting a strong fire to force the intruder mounting to the top of the house, and pulling the man out with ropes.—This they found no with legs 25 black and hlue as the element he had passed through. how he had got info such a scrape, he coolly replied,—¢ he had taken the wrong part;” an inswer which was deemed so unsatisfactory. that our hero was committed for ore day to the jail of Whithorn. punishment ; for, alter the horrible durance This in course, was no great from which he had been released, even the {black hole at Calcutta must ‘have appeared a perfect palace. Dumfries Courier, ~ ths ED I i IS NOT THIS A HOAX? Dr. Church is now at Birmingham, preparing his new Printing Press. The compositor hay only to set down at this curious piece of me. chanism as he would at a piano foite, and as he strikes the keys, the typ-s all fall irom the case into their proper places with a velocity upwards, like other climbing boys, brt the ma- heman happiness as Druvkenne:s, jority agreed on the more hnmane expedient of] easy task, but at last the culprit was uncased, When interrogated as tol that keeps pace with the most rapid speakans The form having been worked off ihe ype moyes into the melting pot from which it is ye. ‘arned re-cast in its orriginal siate, without diminution of material, and thence distiibu og into the casc quite new. One of these presses, placed at the bar of the House of Commons, would always insure a correct report ol the de- bate. Dr. Church the iaventor, 18 a unalive o Beston in New Loglend, London Paper, March 2, nnn £00 QD 1 De A dandy remarked one summer day, that the weather was so exce ssively hot, that when he put bis head isto a basin of water, it fairly boiled, received for reply, « Then, sir, you had calf's head soups, at very little expense.” pp PB An Irishman being about to sell a Lorse thag had but one eye ; on being told his defect he contended he was the better of thuty, aud he could prove it; on this they laid a wager, when Pat proved the propriety of his positon by stating that if he bad not one, be would have none. —h <> 7 EDr— Many have suppose dandyismto be a folly of modern date. By reference however to the works of the Simple Cobbler ol Agavam, ig will be found (hat the tribe existed in our sister city of Boston, more than a ceniury ago. With some quainness and evident indignation, the honest cobbler thug describes the candy of that dav’;-—¢ | look at bim as the very gizzard of 4 tale, the product of a quarter of a eypher, the epitorne of nothing, fitter to be kicked, {if he were of a kickable substance) than cither hone ered or humored.” emi SG OI Durirg the late war, it will be remembered, that a binody combat took place off the south ern part ot Nantucket, between the American privateer Neoufchatel, and the Loais of the British frigae Endymion. The wounded ‘of both parti 8 were landed at this place. Amang them were two messmates, one of whom bad his under jaw dreadfully shattered Ly a mus- wrist, as to render neccessary the :mputation of his hand. Scon atier the n.cessary surgical operations had been pet formed, they were ine vited to dine at a [riend’s house, where they were observed to stick to ‘each other with a pe- culiar tenacity, The company fell to ; bat our waimed heroes were respectively disabled from performing those manuel and wmaxilay exploits which were exhibiting around, Alter having conspicuously surveyed the scene without ay diffidence perhaps ow weighed tions—1lie with one flipper, thus sterniy, though with much point and bemour, addicssed his broken jiwed companion : I say, Jack, since you can't grind por carve and the land Iubbers aie all tucking the beet under their jackets, what say for splicing {—=If you'll cut jar me, i" chew for you. Nantucket Paper. ct ¢ CD DD GENERAL NASH. Gener:l Nash, in the Battle of Germantown, October 5th, 1777, was scvirely wounded in the thigh, the hone of which was shattered by a srape shot. While they were bearing bim® oft the field, a fiend coming up, begen to condole him on his situation, and asked him how be felt 3 « it is unmanly,” said the dying hero © to complain, but it is more “thal humaa rvature can beur-" , al 150 SF Es Ata time when DRUNKENMNESS snd the ove of strong liquors is deplored by the wise and the rood, we have thought we could act render a more acceptable service than by pre- ganting a picture of the consequences cf that linful vice. It 1s indeed the prolific mother of la thousaid erimes. Jt isa yawning und bots tomless grave into which millions of the hnmun lyace have fallen. War, Pestilince and Famine ‘have not been so destructive (0 human tite and ‘Ihe pic= ture we present is accient—but it is fell of trath 3 the coloring is vivid and the likeness 29 strong as it was a century and a holt ago. Would to God that these who are hastening down the precipiticus mountain of vice, would 'scad with attention this description of the road they are travelling, and the desolate country 10 which it conducts. If they will pot listen io the jvoice of man; if they will be deaf 10 the cries of bumaniiy and hear rot the wailings of kio~ dred, let them at least pause at the swiul des nunciations which have gone forth trom the pens of inspired wriicrs, | i | Democratic £ress. ent + + TAR —— A Frenchman beieg efflicted with the gout, was asked what difference (here was bLetween that and the rheumatismgy Ore very gre.t 'dfirance,” replied Monsienr, & spose vom take one vice, you put your finger in, you turn ide «crew til you bear him po Ionger~d ti rheumat's—den, "spose yo ‘give him one 2] more—dat is de gout.” ” ently SGD Ae Clerical Facetiousne s.— The noted Daniel Burgess, the non-conformist m preaching of Job’s “robe ot righicousness,™ said, « Il any of you would have a suit for a twelve month, let him repair to Monmouth street 3 if for Lis life time, let him apply to the Court of Chancery; but if for all crernicy, let lim put on the robe of iigeicousnens ” any A ket ball, and tho other was so wounded a the offer of .ssiatance liam the busy guests whos their inchinas™ i ter, ONCE a a i) - a . ¥ | : i 4 «. 4
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