. THE PATRIOT, | lage of Mid Gotham, there dwelt in the time wr rs COL i PH pT SIT TIESTO DTES Mcquence the soul, song charms the sense ; BG FIT DLT LEE ELT LESTE LLL ELSES LT BELLEFONTE, Jung, 1823. tie I 7 TD Re x SELECTED. ial | $n Xs Kur © + Rie Another silver chord 1s broken, and although she harp gives footh but a jariing sound, it may perhaps be found in anision with sorrow, and waken in some other breast an accogding, though sefter and a sweeter vibration. TO THE DEPARTED. Lips I have kissed, ye are faded and cold : Hands I bave press’d you are covered with mould : Form I have clasp’d, thou art crumbling away ¢ And soon in your bosom the weeper will lay. Friends of my youth, I have wilness’d your bloom : ; Shades of the dead, I have wept at your tomb : thee ; But who will ¢’er gather a garland for me? Friends of my youth, ye are hasting away, Grave is there room in the chamber of clay ; Ye who have thither so hastily fied Say, is there room in the green-curtain’d bed 2 Dreams of may youth, ye are faded and gone ; Mists of the vale, ye nave clouded the moru ; Death, will your vapours incessantly roil ? Aad lite, must it pass in the night of the soul? ‘Souls of the blest from the mansions of day Look on the pilgrim and lighten his wey : Wing your swift flight to the death prepar’d bed, With visions of glory te circle his head. Stars, ye are thick, in the pathway of light. Visions of bliss, ye are banishing night ¢ * Pilgtim, arise, for the journey you tread Is leading \e regions whence sorrow has fled. Buds of the spring, ye are blasted and dead, Leaves of the summer, your beauty has fled § » Winter of grief, from the night of the tomb, The Pole-star, Religion, will scatter the gloom. ED LL LIED IIPS CEE—— From the Petersburg Intelligencer. THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. THERE was a day-—but it has gone, That day was io life’s early morn— When pleasing hopes were brightly gleaming And pleasures sweet were on me streaming ‘hen nought of sorrow I was dreaming, And parent's smiles were on me Streaming, "Each mowent bliss, with nought between it, That day has beenemand 2 have scen its There was a day<~when I could smiley And pleasure’s idle hour beguile— ~ When neler a thought was to distress me, When ne'er a thought was to oppress me, When friends and kindred all did bless me, And oft with rapture did caress me, When for me pain’d—they would not own it, That day has been—and I have known ic! w There was a day—the day of love— When tender passion did me move ; Till my false mistress from me turoed, And her deception I discerned, When love’s soft flame no longer burned, And ne’er to trust them more I learned, The path of love—what snares beset it. That day has been~-and I regret it! There was a day—when fortune smil’d, And competence each care beguil’dy When nought for future 1 was caring, No future woes or ills was fearing, And each soft brecze was quite endearing, That me to fleasure’s port was steering— Ah ! sweet that day—memory cheers it, That day has been—and thought endears it ! There was a day-=and I shall telly (While sorrows keen my heart shall swell) { had a friend who ne’cr deceived me, I lov’d that friend and he believ’d me, But of that friend his Death bereav’d me, Oh! at that stroke, had he too cleav’d me, It op’d a wound—and “time can’t heal it, That day has been—and still I feel it! These days have been—but they’re no more, My hours of bliss have all past o’er, For now has come the day of mourning, When Fortune, dark, is on me frowning, And care each pleasing thought is drowning, With hopeless woe, my mis’ty crdwning— No pathis left for me to flee it, "This day has been—=and sull I sce it ! The day may come when hope again Shall smile and soothe the keenest pain When dry shail be each tear of sorrow, And care my cheeks no longer furrow, When each new thought some zest shall bor- TOW, To cheer those scenes which come to morrow, And friendship’s tie=—chance may renew it, That doy~—may come—and shall I view it. THE STRANGER. tnitit ED EDS Fes THE DANDY. st To this nichts masqueradey” quoth Dick, « By pleqsure I am becken’d ; And think 'twould be a pleasant trick To go as Charles the Second. 2 Tom was for repartee athirsty And thus to Richard said = | * & You'd better go as Charles the Firat; (4 Ni 8 a & Eg 5 - A TALE OF THE REVOLUTION. About twenty miles froma the beautiful vil of the American Revolution, Henry M and Horatia H Henry was fighting for the independence o! of Great Britain. ich, who commanded a company of about one hundred men, and with his parent was engaged in the great cause of the revolution. der the direction of bis father, Horatio, was striving to quell the rising spirit of liberty thal was breaking forth in America. Many were murdes and deeds of horror that were commit ted in those days ; the peacclal inhubitant thal would lie dewn with pleasant piospects before him would rise no more, The trusty rifle was ‘placed by the bed side, and the report of it wa. Tomb, I have wreaths, were they worthy of) : RL ? 2 often heard in the still hour of midnight, and Jicse were emphatically styled ¢ Lhe times that tried the patriots soul.” Yet amid all this struggle, there was one hitle spot where contentment reigned 5 where sweet peace drove faraway the noise and tui- moil of war— it was the cottage of Glenwarsing’ <ituated in a grove of populars. Its inmates were an old lady and her daughter: The hus and parent were slain during the French war, at the bloody battle with the French and In: dians, near Fort Du Quesne, under the unfor- tunate General Braddock, and where the cool intrepidity of Washington first shewed itsell The old lady had passed the meridian of life; but the daughter, like the ficst rose of May was just expanding. Matilda, though not remark ably handsome, was a girl of sweet disposition and engaging manners ; a spell hung round her which never failed to excite the admiration, and secure the esteem of all who saw her, and something of its magic influence was connected with every thing she said or did. The land: west, no eye could behold without admiration, to the north and south extended a pleas.nt vale ; a purling brook rose by the door and bent its serpentine course through the meadows, till it terminated in a ‘beautiful lake, that lay before the eye a pure unbroken mirror. Caleb and John had been school boys togeth- y two powerful rivals’ America ; Horatio to maintain the monarchy Heary had 2 son named Ca- John, un- scape from the cottage was sublime and beauti’] ful—the towering hills that rose on the east &. {knowing friends of Wall street, at which habitants had collected together, and had done much regret, and concluded uvgon j h ; . : ars all that humanity could do. He grasped hisfmeans than he had before used to bring his — ’ sword, and over the murdered body he vowed|to better subjection. The next Sabbaths hn : : Ne that he would. perish in the attempt, or herconfined him to his house and proceeded t 2 murderer should die, a us Ep Rin ; nl ie, and then rushed from the{church with the rest of bis family, —— O=- house ; the mother ran to restrain bim, but helhis wife, two daughters, and bis old negro : was far away bending his course up the biljjsey : the service being nearly hall pei formed * ’ - . | with the velocity of a deer : he stopped to view, as : Y PP |and the pastor speaking with much freveucy to the beautics of the rising sun, that the eveuing his crouded salience, bis vdlopwasiaiat Gites before he had anticipated with pleasure—th€ drowned by a sudden and wemendous burst of desire of revenge was visible on bis a from ali pastel 16. chuteh, winch - iy Oe ance, as he raised his horn and blew the blast! confounded him : «« 3lirill and long” —it echoed and re-echoed; tilll This langhter was occasioned by the sutlden the sou chi is i Fly; . sound Was lost behind the distant hills entrance of bis favourite ok His troops were soon around him-—be raised! y; : i a— ed! 1; ) a : . {himsell next the pulpit door, iu toll view of the nimself upon his horse, told them of his lossy. 4 a ; i audience ; he now eppeared decorated wn an old of the murder that had been commitied, and { (taste, which occasicaed such’ es : gown aad wig, powdered and tied on with much asked them if they would follow their leader to i loud peals of he answer was unan- i... : fe A was unan- jauphier, that he with difficulty obtained an 1 p a 68 1 ap y . 1: Lil . a. - ous, we will conquer or we will die. explanation in ten minutes. Old Toaey: ‘whe The parties were soon iu sig f ea othe’ seeme . i . parti€s were soon iu sight o ch othe seemed to be more ina state of reserve than any ¢ victory or to death” and rushed together—ibe capiains met other, cried out from the gallery in wreat cas D> ’ N N ht i o 5) Y a There seemed to be a pause among the sol- nestness, « Massa, Massa | ony ‘you leo at ous The peared to nerve the arm of Caleb, for 5000 his parson on opening the pulpit door, the old dog dicrs while their leaders fought, Justice ap” Tray, den you see what make dem {aff !™ foc lay senseless upon the field ; his sword told immediately ascended to bim, and was so pres that the murderer was slain, for it was crimson fuse with his caresses, that the pastar could ed with blood—he turned from the field, leav’|scarcely distaiss his congregation. ing his soldiers to pursu¢ the viclory, and rc- ta © —— pro- cession was formed, he followed as a mouyaer, Poaching, had bis gun taken from him by a jus- to the grave—the bloody sword was buried bye? of the peace. the side of the coffin, and when the people re: Pate enough to be informed against for sedition, turned home, be lingered behind. He wander It S2ying be wished Bonaparie would land in ed to the grave, day after day, and 1c to the, Yorkshire. Being brought before tic bench of turned to the house. V¥hen the funcral An bonest Yorkshirctnan amusing hireself in Soon after, he was wunfortu- passing stranger the true love of Matilda. magistrates of which the aforesard justice was Grief like his could not last loog, and the last Chairman, he acknowledged the words ; % bur,” painful tribute was paid, by conducting bim to, 831d hie, “my reasons for saying so was, that I thought your worship would cate Ais gun from hime. the silent grave. I have since wandered to the church yard, while the roses were yet bloom: iis SED CD # tiie A gentleman of the bar, in a neighboring county, In easy circumstances, and pretty good practice, had rendered himself somewhat res watkable, by his attempts 10 the way of matri- monial speculation. A maiden somewhat ad- vanced in years, residing some miles distant, in the neighbor houd, hearlag of this lawyer's ulaling propensity ~=that his characier was un- excepionables and his situation in life wolerabiy goodemresolved upon making bim hee kashan She pretended suddenly to bg taken very ill, a sent for the man of the law to draw her wil, ; jie atterded for that purposé. By ber will she cecdingly angry. A tight fellow brought intoldevised 10, 0001. in bank stock, to be divided {between her 1hree cousins, some thousands in ipg around—the twining ivy was linked togeth- er over the spot where they reéposced, as if to unite in the grave those whom death had sep: crated on earths its of CD A PAINTED HORSE. A hoax has been played off on one of our we koow not whether to laugh heartily, or be ex: y whe always Placed Jthat was yet tinged with the rays ol the setting . this celebrated street, a beautiful spotied pone er, and both had made claims to the hand of] : P poney Matilda A ; but a decided preference had always been given to Caleb, and had only waited forsale. The horse resembled a leopard, in the, richness and variety of spots, and attracted uni- , versal attention. fle was purchased by a mem. for the report of successtul or unsuccessful war, ; : ber of our honorable board of brokers, who hay. to be heard no more, for the consummation: ol : : : . {ing made a lucky hit that day was io good spin their wishes. Loversare always hasty’; but by the protracted length of the war, aided by he entreaty of friends, the wedding day was a: last appointed. Thisis what John bad long wished for, that he might the more honorably accomplish his resolution, under garb of war. its, and gave a good price for the avimai, whe was soon caparisoned 3 and his new master, with whip in hand, caotered him out on tl third avenue,and gallopped him back. I'he borse performed exceedingly well ; and . ios ie _ {was in a foam when he returned to the cit There was the lurking spirit of a villain within I: his breast, for he had determined that Caleb & Matilda waited an opportunity to put bis wicked deter when lo, and behold | as the sweat oozed from 'his flanks and the pores of his skin, the spots should never be married, and only Lh disappeared and were washed away. Nan. ; : : “horse had been fainted for the furficse 24 minatien into execution.—T hat epportunity pre. | fs / rd Jo ih |to cheat the knowing ones of Wall strect, anc seated itself : The morning previous to the . . “ . {he stood by the door atter the ride, i is orig- one appointed for the marriage, Caleb and his} od by I ,in his orig : inal dirty grey and yellow, ¢ redeemed, re nis men were called away on an expedition! yg : y y : x ’ gen . Bra, : . erated and diaenthralled. against their enetnies, that occupied the day. : Some fellow from the © upive ) At the foot of the hill Caleb dismissed the com. oe ci 0 Tom niversal yankee : nation,” a maker of wooden nutmegs, has play pany, with the order to collect at the sound of} ! x : ; £55 play : ed off this hoax; itis quite ¢ prime bang up ;”, but if any of our “a catch him, we shal 4 Ly “ s fair in stocks,” as my his horn, and then walked slowly towards its summit. He stopped to survey the landscape shave him close. i. Y. Nat. Advocate. tp SCD Ee COMICAL EVENT. A worthy clergyman belonging toa parish ir . : : friend Coleman says. sun, and pleasent ideas were mingled with the prospect, that, when the earth should again be enlivened with the bright majesty of day; he should be united to all that would render life] ig. England had the misfortune to bave a sor .weet.— With such thoughts his mind was ec’ of a flighty and wild disposition ; although ma. 'cupied, when he arrived at the summit of the! ny were the pious admonitions of the virtuous ihill 3 but, instead of the once lovely cottage, be father to bring bis son’s remissness into subor- could discover naught buta heap of ruins, and dination with his own, be had to lament, tha: the smoke yet ascended from it and was born bis injunctions and assiduous endeavors were along by the southern breeze, rose higher and fruitless, and far from being productive of the higher til] it mingled with the blue mists of the| desired end. His son’s heart was so averse to solemnity evening. At the nearest neighbor’s he found! the lifeless corpse of Matilda, and from the mo-{that he could not contain himself at the time o! ther he learned that John and his party had] Worship, and he was often so overstocked wit! frivolity and mischieyous humour, that his fa enquity into ber real circumstances. bonds and notes 10 a niece; and a vast landed estate 10 a favorite nephew—The will Leing finished, she gave the lawyer a very tibaal lee, and enjoined secrecy upon him for some pre- tended purposes, thus precluding him from an Need | mention the result 2 In a fortnight the lady thouglt proper to be again i¢stored to health, The lawyer callcdto congratulate her on her restoration, begged permission to visit ber, which was politely given. After a short conrt- ship, the desired offer was wade. The bare gain was concluded apd ratified by the priest. Fhe lawyers whoic estate by his wife, consists of sixty-five dollars ! N.Y. Pitan. lig 2S Eis MAJ LONG’S NARRATIVE. The subjoined anecdote illustrates a species of « scandalous speculation” practised by am individual under the authority of a law of Lou- 1siana, passed in 1805, authorising 2 claim to one section of land in favor of any perscn who should bave actually made improvements theres on previous to the year 1804. “ The ime hoving expired for the establishe ment of a right, agrecably to the spisit of the law, be took with b'm two witne ses to the fas votite spotyon which be wished to csiablish brs clatm, and in their presence marked (we trees, standing on opposite sides of a spring, cone with the figures 1803, and the other 1804, and placed a stalk of growing corn in the «pring. Fe thea brought the witnesses before the commissioners, who upon their declaration that they had seen corn growing at the place specified, in the spring between 1803 aud 1804, admitted the claim of the applicant, and gave hi a ule to to the land” See Vol I. p. 51. es =~ Ra ava CONSOLATION. A poor Dervise, whose fect were necked for want of shoes, made a pilgrimaze to Macca, cursing his unhappy fate and accusing heaven of crushiy. When he arrived at theigate of the grand mosque of Coula, he perceived a pucr man who bad by some accident lost both his feet. The sight of a man more unforenay than himself afforded bim conseclaiion, and yinced him that the distress was greater to be without feet than without shoes. A person called upon a comb maker, whe was then at work, to let him know he was drawn for the mulitia ; « I don’t care” answered the comb-maker, « I sm too young for sers vice.” T'00 young and zbout thirly © What do you mean 2 « No matter for that™ rejoineg, been there, abused the old lady, murdered the La x | or hite ang 0 of BN) 3 Or ho ar 31 3 oladaast 2 ~ .. - ed the comb-maker, ¢ 1 can swear that k a me NL ; fori —e a i
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