ee man,” shoufed Parnelt. inpon THE PATRIOT. BELLEFONTE, Desember 10, . —— From the Columbian Observer. The bpec esi,” OF THE HOUSAT. ONIC. "A NEW-ENGLAND ROMANCE. “Author of the Wilderness. Ia ‘wols. 12 mo. New. York, LE. Bliss] ¥ White. 1823. "We have read this Romance with} annqualified approbation, aud a pleas | ure and interest seldom equalled in| © the perusal of similar woiks The plot is well conceived, and s'1ll better] executed ; the siory is well calculated to excite and protract anxious curics-| OR ANNALS ~~ { ity ; and the langnage and style neat, | appropriate, and ofica beauiiiul and] eloquent. tre of the For-| Ly thei thad dese « He turns/was so necessary for their mutual them !—Ile fires !—Qne ofjsalsty, shook the hand which Bradiey them has fallen ! But ah ! the othersibeld out 10 him, ia token of his remon- iron upon him—Heavens | what does/strance haviog given no offence, and the old man mean ? With his gun intobserved-— ais hand he has leaped the precipice I! % Take your own course in the mat. Push across ; alive or dead, we piostiter, Mr Biadley. ’Tis you who have take Lim up and protect him from principally achieved the victory ; and the savages !” ; {1 have, perhaps no right to iaterfere When they approached, they were With your mode of disposing of the astonished to see old Bradley, stand slain, which, after all can do them no ing and loading his gun under thejinjury.” shelter of a tree that grew almasy ¢ Spoken like a philosopher, by Ho- close to the water’s edie, a number of bomack +? cried Bradley— But, come the branches of which be had bioken!my fads | jet us to the canoe, and down in his falt.* tpush boldly for a swift voyage to the « Hailoo my boys cried he, as|>t. Lawrence.” i00p a3 he discerned Ephraim in the] Abott an hour afer their embarka- boat, #% Now for victory, - Land here. tion the spo went down, and, a stom Here are a couple of trees—~cexcelienijthreatening, they were obliged to look sheletr for three of us. Let the sava-lout for a place of shelter. They ac- 2ES now show themselves. Wejcordingly put ashore on the southern pepper them 1” je oi the river, and soon found an ex- Iu an instant Parpell and Ephbraimjcu vatlon amidst the rocky banks suffi were at their post. Dut v wireolent fur their purpose. Here, bav- not long there until four Indians, whot ing Supp upon part of the venison T - ! . ended by the ravine, appear-ithey bad brought from the Huron vii- i } 13 cli wii thov ad 2 Just as I sent 2 ball into the heart of Prom the New York Guzetle, Novem one of them. I fled, and thev lost mi der 11. a short time, during which I reicadec Mr. Ven Ransty the owner of tie and attempted to gain the river, fo!llamous horse ECLIPSE, Las an offer the purpose of crossing it so as tojof 2500 dollars for the use ol him, in get out of their reach. But I was ig- Kentucky, during the next season, uorant of the country, and came epouiwbhich «fice he will probably accept, a precipice which 1 could not descend juniess be receive here 40 subscrip. The savages there again discovereditions at 50 doliars each, before the me, and giving me chase, I becsmeifirst of December next, in which cine 50 hemmed ip that I was obliged tolhe will be kept near thie city, a8 take the jeap, which, my lads, I be- usual, : licve, somewhat ularmed you. Buy it was neck or nothiop. Aud now my| Sintrular marriage. A Me. Miller hearts of bickory !atPs right. IHughlaged 40, was lately married to a Mrs. Dradley stiil lives 10 torment the Cop-tlames, nat quite 15. by the Rev. Mr. perskins. Dut hush | what growling Richardson. All the partiss were of is that? A wild beast within here Hartford County, Maryland. Jt zp. by hombamack ! See the fiery eyes pears that Mr, Kichardson martied the of it burning like lamps! “fo youriatove Miller to his first wile, about guns, my brave fellows 1” thve years before the last org was That instant a second pair of blaz- bein; and she althoneh not 135 years ing eyes were sce, aud a louder audjof age, las now been ‘united in the more turrific growl heard. {holy bons of mattiomony no jess than ¢ ‘L'wo of them, by the devil I”? ex.|thiee umes. claimed Bradley. Lads be cool, aud; mind your hits This is damped woik| BK ee § Orne r X- Elkton Press. —— a Khe time apd scene chosen by the led at the point of the promontory cuipilage, Bradley related the incidents Author of (bis work, is more adapted iq fuw yard; distan ® “lthat had brought him to that quarter to pve foe cope to the true spirit of] «Sy ly,” eried Bradley, with “the!of the county, Romance; fan any which perhapsiiiechnical and satisfied tone in which] ¢ Eversmce the war broke out,” our country affords. The middie ofl wageoner ‘encourages his horses [said hie, © I have of conse been prei- the sevenicenth centpry, found. the! That moment his pun went off, andy lodustrious in my occupaticn 3 and wiids of Aserica, savage desolate, and an Indian rolled iO the tiver—thel ay store of scalps has more than uncultivated. Cultivauon was chiefly next, Parnell abd Epliraim also fired, trebled 1's number. As forthe saints i Jimid to the Atlantic borders ; and land two more followed their red broth aud psalm singers of New Haven. | Indian wars and depredations keptlop, The other Indian fled, but oid]who would some years ago, if they ‘the scitlers in a constent stute of a-igradiev pursued, and, with an aim{had dared, have banged me, first { larm, terror, and excitement. It was) 1 + 1 Ar eal Y of the others. hati lodged instantly in its brain. ‘ell, without farther struggle, a dead brave mass, upon Bradley, overturn } worse than dealing with savages.” | That moment one of the bassts, af huge panther, made a spriog upon’ Bradlzy, who was rather mm advance It was ton to tak: sure aim ; but the muzzie of his 0 + ary a } Lal ory Ht accidentally struck between the plar- destruction of the Cs nr eyes of the assatling ammal, and a (he bay below, Jt ing him ! 1 iy its weight upen the ground. 1 be other panther now darted for-) BYPGCHONDRIAC, A farmer residing at Ficld’s Pointy (says a Providence paper,) unluckily had at spouse, w bjict to splenatic effections, which ficquently filed her cranium with odd concers At the ee frigate in bard,a wan of anbouuded patriotism, wus one of the fellows who followed the gals fant Mr. John Brown, in ther expedis Lion agian:t the wessel 3 leaving his wie una ‘compeicd, but by her liitie pay edi 3 a Lt ’ } a t Her us i \ - it that never missed, brought him down{an Indian-killer, and then for a wiz a time fraught with romantic adven from the height to which he had ward in aid of iis companion; butbrood of chubby children. During Jradley was shiclded from its fangs by the abieoce of the b a band, she was the dead carcass which covered him visited by ene of hep hy puchondriacat Parnell and Ephraim both fired at it,i6its, and concctied herself to tbe a but ncither of the wounds they wade!gooss, dete: mingd to Lave a selling. were mortal, and the infuriated animal] Acco:dingly she budt a nest, in the would have rushed forward, apd torn'celiar, pa gr a quantity of eggs on them to pieces, had not Bradley seiz-{which ehe located herself with every a ard, why, they now call" me a hero. dures, tragical catasironhes, and dis: lclambered up the side of the ravine, {and have more thay vice furnished me strong events. Log soene of bis sio- «Glorious, my lads ! glorious” ex- {With a handsome supply of powder <qually favearabls 0 the deep claimed the old warrior, to Parneliiand ball. But a fp for their kindness : A ‘of the work. "The Housaton-land Ephraim, 8s they came forward to}! know its value, Mr. Parnell, Their ic, or the southern portion of Con-ltie place where he stood. « Butjown dear Wicrests are at the bot © pecticut, was at that period the seat|ihere is a Jebuzite yet remaming [Loin of it. of superstition, bigotry, paritannical{Stand close——we shall soon see him. « But no matter ; 1 wili pass over . i vd : JE 5 auc canty 2nd religious persecutions The wound headsef Cromwell, expatriaied | “from their native soil, ianoculated Loobec cut with the most bitter ve- om of their ignorant prejudices, uperstitious passions. Texts & parables in the mids of the ignorant, fornished motives for the Dblackest crimes, “and justifications for. the Orsi enormiiies. Such a scen¢ and ‘sucha period afforded exuberant and fertile materials to a writer of Dr -M’Henry's taste, judgment, and im agination ; witk powers to create and combine, 2s perfetly and as readily as he can embellish and amplify. From the evidence before us in this work, we have additional reason to Believe, that our native history and scenes, furnish us with the materials for romance, equal to any country ol “Europe; and that we require nothing but adequate public patronage for A merican productions, to incite genius "to explore the latent treasures of our own country, and give ‘ a local babi- tation and a name” to what is nove: dreamed of, nor supposed to exist, ti) it is produced belore us in a tangible aod visible shape. We want nothing but a proper appreciation of Ameri- can productions, in order to place ue Lona level with Europe, in Letzers a t well as arms, The American Sol. L diers, and Naval cofficars, have thei | pay—and they fight and conquer, a © becomes them. But the American “Auntbor is doemed to starvatiop, as “well as disgrace, and yet 1s ‘censured, because he does not spend his las “breath, in e¢forts to amuse or enlight- en a world who regard him with cold indifference, and ungratefully sneer at his labours, without €ven going intoa scrutiny of the merits of his produc- tons, : An outline of the story of the & Spee- tre of the Loresty,” as it would neces- sarily be very imperfect, would not wuch tend either to excite or allay curiosity. We shall, therefore, con- clude this brief notice of what we es- “3 Be teem one of the best American pre Bradley has bad his own way, these threatened to fire if he made avy noise lan ductions of the kind—one, which the ieighteen years past, in spite of bo Author of Logan might envy, The two young men siood close, many a peat and glorious job, in which Lyand a few fearless boys gave the blood ¢f the heathen to manure the earth, and their flesh to fatten the woives and panthers. I will tell thee, my stripling. They happened, a few weeks since, fo give rather hot work to a party of us. We ware only eight in number, and, for anght 1 koow, they might have been ten times that many. But the worst of it was, we were fatigued, and at least one ball of us asleep, wheo they came upon us They killed, ory, at least, disabled half a dozen of us, I believe, at tie first onset. “They missed me, however. ] Not being able to discover any thing, shot one of them thro’ the bady, and satisfactory from bis first station, thefimmediately darted behind a rock that anxious Indian ventured te descend W2s near me and torning the angle of for some distance. But bis fears pre.(a small Lill, kept running for a tew vailling over every other feeling, he Minules unseenyand then ascended te soon paused, and after a short deliber-{aR eminence, on which 1 threw my. stien, turned to fly from the danger- self upon the ground, among the ous ground. That wustant his walch-brush-wood, and walched their mo {ul foc’s wnerring weapon went off,{lions, and he fell lifeless, a bail baviox pen-i “1 knew them to be a party of Ho- trated his brain and scattered it onitons. I saw them scalping the haif the spot. tdozenof my friends they had kilied, ander cover of the overhanging pre- cipice, as directed, while Bradley, bav- ing again loaded his piece, crouched behind a large fallen fragment of rock, from whence he kept an eye like a Lynx up the whole length of the rav- ne. In a short time, the remaining sav- age, wisbing to ascertain the fate of 1s companions, ventured cautiously and timidiy te look over the brow of the ridge that overtopned the ravine. “ He is too far off yet,” muttered Bradiey—¢ Keep quict—-keep quiet, {ads—the Philistine may coms nears er » 0 -“ mals. ‘pot arms and Icgs bruized by the ed ene of its hinder legs and’ held it'mark of iriatibility, discernable in a Se Ivy firmly to the spot. “ Plunge your (goose, during the process of sitting. | On the return of the husband, be, to 3 daggers into i . 3 wl : 3 > : beart instantly, my lads,” cried« Brad- to his astonishment’, found his wile ley, ¢ or it will trample me to death.” [halisobscribing 1o the rites end cere- Parnell hastencd to ebey, but the monics cbserved by thie goote of the panther caught him, and threw himiinteresting season of incubation ; pres dows ; and its distended jaws would ferring the luck ef ¢mbiyo goslins, have immediately fixed themselves inlto the rundy faces of a numercus pro- his neck, bad he not with wonderfeligeny, He protested in vain against presence of mind, dexterously plunged ber conduct ; he solicited, puisuaded his dagger into the animal’s mouth, soland impiored to no purpose, lor she forcibly that it perforated one of thelieplied to bis cxposwiations ond en- palate bones and stuck there, Eph-ftrcaties with a cakle and a fusing of raim’s weapon, however, soon decided ber petticoats. A phys'cien was the contest, for 3t reached the ani-fsent for who informed he unbeppy mal’s heart, who that moment fell, and{hushand that the mulady of his wife, expired by the side of its companton.iwould not yicld to the must poweifut ¢ Well dome, Ephraim shoutedinostrums. But, said he, if sue pos- Bradlev. ¢ All’s well, if Parnell’ be{sesses any article for which she has not killed,” continued he, extricatinglinestimabtle value, bring it to me, and Oy 1a will underiake to remove or at Jeast A China bowl, ¢1 have only had the coat torn off which the Judy had himself from beneath the dead anf ipathate her d.soider, bh received fom my shoulders,” said Parnell, rising her mother 2t the celebration of her from the ground. But I fear that yorlouptials, was produced, with an assue must be severely hert.” s on earth, she «I have jer Irance that of all thing ouly,” replied Bradley,ivalued it most highly. The physician tock it, went to the no « Huzza! the victory is now com- and, at {the same time, binding the plate,” exclaimed Bradley, « Let usihands of that unfortunate young sprig spoil the Heathen of their arms, and (of mine behind his back. ihien for the cance, my lads—it is the} * God be thanked, Ephraim is living, sasiost way of travelling down stream.” yet sai¢ I; a chance may turn wp, to! But besides the arms of the Iadi.'vescue him. I will, at any rate, dog ins; Biadiey also {ook care to secure tie sayages, if I should follow them) thelr scalps, in spite of the remon- {0 the earth’s end, while he isin their strances of Parnell, who observed— (power; and if they attempt to torsure “1t is an unnecessary and erael or destioy him, 1 may make some of practice to mangle the slain ; and, them to smait for it. should think, is too close an imitation] * Well! so bappened that, for of our barbarous enemies, to be fol-ithe space of three weeks, I cond make lowed by christians” Inothing ef them. Wether they sus: «Psha!l youth,” cried Bradley. pecied that I was on toe watch, 1 «If it were vot lor spoiling a good] cannot tell, but they kept too closely soldier, 1 should like you to “turn together for me to hurt them. A: preacher. You have an excellent length one fellow lagged ope day. al koackat the cant, lad ! But you havellitile behind the party. 1 durst not] paid for your learning-—you have sery-|{$D00t him, for fear of alarming the ed an apprenticeship to the trade of rest; but I ran upon bim unawares, spirit-groaning —and I excuse you, for aud knocking bim down, lhicld the you hancle a musket well, But Haugh muzzie of my gun to his heart. th He could speak some Foglish, and! andiclergy and jurymen ; and—give me understood me. I inquired what bis! fey even the Great Unknown not blushisour hand, boy——he cannot now be put Companions intended to do with their to have written. well drawo picture of the Warriors’ sod Hunters’ mode of life : « They pushed to the side of the river most distant from that on which the Sting had taken place ; but they The following is a off it, by the sqeamishness of a strip. Prisoner, and wasinformed that be had dead weight of these clumsy brutes, celler, snd ordered her to rise. She whom we naw, thank Heaven, sent tolcackicd, and rusted her petticoats, perdition for their inhospitality.| eaid the doctor Could they not have aliowed usisor this sow] Twill shiver in tep thous the shelter of theirroof forone night ?/sand picces.”” She cackled more ve- But damn them, they are no better hernently—he drew back his arm and than the ravages in their dispositions. {aimed at the wall, “Viliian ¢ We have now taken forcible pos {break it it you dare,” she cxclaimed, session. of their habitation,” said Parnel and siartine from the Dest, wrest 9 ¢ But T wonder they did not endear {from the Taws of destruction the bowl or {0 expel us at our first totrusion’fwtich she niized so highly, and which ——— happily affected ber cure. | She lived A singular alercation has takes rhaliv years afterwards, exempt {rom place in the papers of New Orleans he «ffl ¢ ion ich so long! rendered in which one party charges the other}jer early life miserable, aud anvually with endeavoring to form an interes: and libations to the inimical to the permanency of the bowl! United Siates, and with 2 determing: tion to establish the throne of Lou! XVIillth in that country. — D § Bt ’ » «Rise instantly, 1 L siene gw} off-red sacr.fices wonder orkl ' " ¥ . na Alexandria, D.C. Get 29, A man, a shfemaker by profession, in a state of inebiistion {ell into ths river on Tuesday last, from off 2a vessel lying at central wharf, and was 2rown= =:d.. Poor fellow ! notwithstanding the many soles be had a-mended in this world, old cobbling death bas de prived im of his a/l. It is hoped, however, A curious story is in circulation d 15 pretty generally credited — Two men went into a grocery store, @ evenings ago, which is kept by an elderly wonf®n in south eleventh street, and regnested permission to 3 » ling. been adopted into the family of one of ‘their chiefs, and that 1v, hi >, toi vt » and that consequently, his arpell, e ry: : Parnell, perceiving that moralising life was ia no danger, to such an auditor would be literally, « It is not in my nature fo spare to cast pear for 23 at! 'e 9.8 st pe 271s before swine, and not’ Indian. My heart would never wishing to distorb the harmony which put a barrel inio her store for a few hours. The men not returning, and! the store becoming rather tainted the barrel was broken open, and a dead neero was found in the ves:el with his is now provided with better guar- ters, than his last in this world, Herald. Sc gimme fy At a late exhibition the di- - In GOCT soon perceived that they were not the object at which it had been direct- td. Five or six savages appeared forgive me if I did. I would ratherisix dollars in his hand, which have AE A {spare a-r#lilesnake. I plunged wy giice been appropriated ta bury him * Ap incident, similar to this, in al-‘dagger into the fellow's heart, took Tao (Den. Press. ~ chasing a man, wio ran at fall Bight {most all its particulars, is stated to his scalp, aod left him. A 3 {along the edge of the precipice to alhave taken place, in 1793,at M’Kee’s| « In three or four days after this place where it made an acute angle Rocks, on the Ohic, a few miles belowlzfair the party reached the Huron with the side of a deep ravine, forming |Pittsherg From the top of one of village. 1 hovered round it Lut for 2n abrupt peak at a fearful heightithese rocks, nearly two hundred feetjone night. They assembled the nex:!siding near Mosticelis, recently sho above the surface of the water, high, Draddy, a celebrated Indian- day on an adjoining. bill: to perform! his overseer in the breast and killed! “It is my farther I” cried Ephraim, hunter, was compelied to leap, to save some of their barbarous cerémonies, him. He was taken shortly after and| God el mercy | his enemies will des- [himself from a band of savase purse-'suppose. I watched there for an op- carried to the corpse, several persons! troy bim at Jest. He hos beea infers, who had there cnciosed him on'portunity to destroy some of their among the bystanders then tonched i |°€ , scarch of me, unfortunate man! and fall sides, except next the precipice, stragglers. But ab lle cf but the wound being hard and dry no . they Lave now bemmed him in where standing on ‘the edge of which, inthe day their assembly suddenly brokeiblond anpeared : MF IHaipon w ® there is no possibility of bis escap I” lshelter of a tree, be for come time, up, and they all ran tack to the vil-lthen told to touch the bndy—he did so 3 ¢- Let us basten to his assistance,” {with his loaded vif, kept them at bay, lage, I perceived that seme alarmiahd the blood gushed . eried Parnell, pushing vound the headfss a lion would a band of mastifls. bad taken place. The warriors seiz-{as if it had Leen just {of the canoe: At last, having fired and killed one of ed their arms, and dividing into small was dene in the faith of the commaria 0 «Ah ™weshall be too late,” return-ithem, the o! bers, now sure of their parties, raised the cry of pursuit, rand!superctiton that the murderer's tec! !Cazy ed Ephraim. « See ! he is already atprey. rushed upon him, when, to their set off in efferent directions. I iol {will always cause the wound of, ki {ithe edge of that beadjand, and now jastonis ment, he leaped the precipice, lowed ope party that came own on{victim to blecd. Superstition in even ~ can run peither way. Oh ! Heavenland was, ina few minutes, scen in the bank of the riy r, and beiore nigh: pe is cangereuns,and is always ; protect him; he is "now at a stand.) safety, on the other side of the river. I killed two ok them, witbout bemgisad ordeal hy which to determin: Gb ! Parnell! Parpeli 1? 4 Fbe place 1s called ¢ Braddy’s Leap,” discovered. © . * jguilt of icrucenes. soto # Courage | see he spirit of he ald iia Liilg bl Sms EE th wv i rection of the Acvicnltural Society, at 2elinn « Ag Schohaire, N, Y. a woman presented fapt dauchters that she had at one birth, There was ho premium sizblished, but a small number of hachelors presented ber with £5 each, making no ahanasome purse, . v > » The case ol the good jady won! perhaps come with mote propriety of the Manu- | ciety U. §, Gaz, 3 — three In 4 MURDER. A ‘man by.ahe name of Herron, re Ey c : nn a 3 8 under the cognizance a 2 as i«< ’ ret ——l We—— re asl Fromahe Huntsville Republican. 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