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BELLEFONTE, May, 1824,
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THE ORPHAN BOY.
~ Alas 'T am an Orphan Boy,
Wich naught on earth to cheer my heart ;
No iather’s love, no mather’s joy,
Naor king nor kind to taks my part.
- My lodging is the cold, cold ground,
I eat the bread of charity ;
And when the kiss of love goes round,
There is no kiss, alas, for me.
Yet once I had a father dear,
A mother too, I wont to prize ;
With ready hand to wipe the tear,
i If chanc’d the transcient tear to rise,
But cause of tears was rarely found,
“For all my heart was youtl.ful glee,
And when the kiss of love went round,
"How sweet a kiss there was for me.
But ah ! there came a war they say
What is a war ? I cannot tell :
Bat drums and fifes did sweetly play,
And loudly rang our village bell.
30 truth it was a pretty sound
1 thought, nor could I hence foresee,
' That when the kiss of love went round,
There soon should be no kiss for me.
A scarlet coat my father took,
And swerd as bright as bright could be,
And feathers that so gaily look,
All in a shining cap had he.
Then how my little heart did bound !
Alas! I thought it fine to see—
“Wor dreampt tbat when the kiss went round,
“I here secon would be no kiss for me.
At length the bell again did ring,
. There was a victory they said ;
Twas hat my father said he'd bring,
Revyah ! it brought my father dead.
other shrick’d her heart was wo,
She clasped me to her trembling knee ;
© God ! that you may never know,
/ How wild a kiss she gave to me!
But once again—but once again,
“These lips a mother’s kisses felt;
That once again—that once again,
The tale a heart of stone would melt.
»'was when upon ber death-bed laid;
O Gud! O God ! that sight to see:
4 My child, my child,” she feebly said,
And gave a parting Kiss to me»
So now I am an Orphan Boy,
With naught below my heart to cheer ;
No mother’s love, nor father’s joy,
Nor kin, nor kind, to wipe the tear,
My lodging is the cold, cold ground,
I eat the bread of charity ;
And when the kiss of love goes round,
There is no kiss, alas, for me.
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HARP OF ZION.
Oh ! how art thou fallen, thou city of God !—
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L braip through those apertures.
He hath stricken the crown fiom thy brow with
his rod
On thy neck is the yoke~-on thy garment a
slain—
And the Lion of Judah hath bow’d to the chain!
The phial of wrath on thy forehead was pour’d :
Thou hast shrunk from the withering glance
of the Lord 3;
Like (he gourd of the Prophet, thy beauty is
gone,
And thy ceders are blasted on proud Lebanon !
Thy temples are ruins—thine altars o’erthrown ;
Ou the Hill of thy strength is the Infidel’s
throne ;
And the wreck of thy glory, where now it is
huri’d,
Is the scoff of the Gentiles : the scorn of the
world ! !
O turn thee, our God ! let thy mercy awaken,
And smile on thy Zion—deserted, forsaken !
Let the light of thy glory on Solyma burst,
And its lightaing-glance wither her foes to the
dust !
Oh Zion ! his smile shall dawn on thy night
Of sorrow and shame with a heavenly light,—
As the burst of the sun-beam comes over the
sea,
When the dark cloud has. past, and the thunder
storms flee,
FROM THE LIVERPIOL KALEIDESCOPE.
~The Diving Bell.
A Fragment
The strains of music grew fainter and fainter,
as the bell descended through the green fluid
which surrounded me : and I now began to ex-
perience that variety and intensity of feeling,
which I have so ofien seen desiribed by divers.
The first sensation wasa painful pressure upon
my ears, as ifa body of considerable power and
magnitude had been endeavoring to enter my
After a while,
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"the cavitit’s became expanded, and the pain was
ved ; bot as the bell sank, it was frequently
and as often exchanged for
descended above three or
he amazing weight of
relic
again renewed,
ease. 1 bad scarcely
four fathoms, when I felt t azi
the ocean, pressing upon, and gitding round my
head, like an iron Crown riveted fast to the
scull ; we force of which was s0 very tremen-
eid
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dous, that it was with difficulty that my senses
sxchanged for a species of restless agitation and
fand my limbs grew cold ; and, indeed, although
lustre.
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ordinary
that their terror
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stay liad greatly alarmed them; andiyoungest daughter ; the other was foupd col.
was wonderfully weriaed)i the convent) ang a'most dead ; she rev slong
upon drawing up the bell, and finding my ac-{scenc of such ghominable wickedniss, as nk 8
quatic comrade, wlio leaped again iDlo the seal human pature shudder, and to which she, diky
over the vessels side, the moment be escaped her sister was about to fall a victim.
from tbe bell ; so thal they could scarcely dis-|
cern bis {orm.
the effect of my wound and voyage, followed ;'against the priests and the patriarch. ‘I'he ens-
and when I recovered my first care was to vis-'mies of the latter united to effect bis ruin, in
it the church of Lerwick, at once to offstjorder to share nis spoils, and he was suspended
thanks lor my own preservation, aid to erect alund deposed. The affair was removed to Rome,
stone to the memory of Harvey. 1 ne marks of in 1776, and the Society de Propaganda, on ex-
the sea-monsler’s leeth yet remain visible upon ammation, discovered the most infan
my arm, though the wound is healed ; and ike fof debauchery, and the most horrible crueities.
the impression which this adventure bus made Jt was proved that Hendra procured the death
upon my memory—they will evel be effaced. [of the nuns, sometimes to get possession of their
et GB CD properly, at others because they would not come |
[FROM VOLNEY'S TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND (ply with her desires : that this inlamous woman |
SYRIA. ] not only communicated, but even consecrajed
THE SINGULAR His TORY OF HENDIA jhe hosi, and said mass: that she had holes un-
A MARONITE GIRL. der herbed, by which perfumes were introduced
tended to keep off other fears, that some of them About the year 1755, there was 10 the neigh jat the moment she pretended to be in extacy,
might enter through the lower part of the div- borhood of the Jesuit Missionaries, a Maronitclund under the influence of the Holy Ghost ; that
ing bell, and attack me in my strong hold, where girl, pamed Hendia, whose extraordinary modclshe bad a faction that cried her up, and pubiislia
escape and opposition would be equally in vain. of life began to attract the attention of the peo jed that she was tae moiher of God returned up.
Occasionally I passed some marine produc-|ple. Sbe lasted, wore the hair-cloth, possesscdion earth, and a thousand other extravagancics.
lion, between a fish and a plant, which spread the gift of tears, and, ina word, bad all the ex-] Notwithstanding Lbs, she retained a party pow-
out into branches filled with inpumerablelterior of the ancicat beimits, and soon acquired{erful enough to prevent the severe punishment
mouths, and pevec ceasing motion. Now and a similar reputation. Every body considered|she merited : sbe has beea shut up in diffe rent
then I thought I heard a noise like music in the her as a model of piety, and many esteemed herjconvents, froin whence she has frequently esca-
deep ; but the contisual rushing, roaring, and!a saint. From such a reputation io mitacles thejped. In 1783; she was prescot at the visity-
washing of the current against ihe sides of the! transition is very easy, and 10 fact, iL was 5008 tion of Aniura, sod the brother of the Emir of
bell, prevented any thing like a distinct hearing ; reported that she wo: ked miracles. To Lave a ihe Druzes was desiious to give her her Hberiyy
only from thisf am convinced, that the ocean is pioper conception of the «ffucts of this report, Numbers s:ill believe in her saiciity ; and, bug
not a silent world. Sometimes the waters would) we must not loi get that the state ofm ns minds{or the accident of the traveler, ber grediess
seem deserted and vacant ; and then again there|in Lebanon, 1s nearly the same as in tue earlicsiienemics would not have doubted it. What
would rush by such shoals cf living beings ages. There weie ucithel infidels therefore, noijmust we think of reputations for piety wihea
pursuing each other either in sport or anger, wits, nor even doubters. tlendin availed her-fhey may depend on such trifling circumstances.
that their course-was too rapid for the eye to. self of this enthusiasm for the complenon of Ler mea 5G i Ng C—e
discern their forms. Once or twice, indeed, Lidesigns ; and, immitating the couduct of ber THE PEASANT AND HIS HOG.
hought there appeared somewhat like a bu-|predecessors in the same carect, she wished to In a county viiage there was a laborer who
man figure covered with scales of a silvery become the foundress of a pow order, In vamjki led Lis hog 5 and as at was the custom 2a
green, but the image was too swiftly gone for docs the human heart endeavor to conceal lis{thesc cases to send pieces of the meat, sdusa-
me tospeak with certainty ; added to which, the passions, they are invariably thie same : nor doesiges, black puddings, liver, &c. to all the ueign-
optical illusion occasioned by the waters might the conqueror differ from he monk ; both arejbors, our peasan’, who alicady had received in-
have deceived me. At length, at the depth of alike actuated by ambition and lust of power; nunserable presents of tns kind, and who found
seventy fathoms, the bell resed on the basin of and the pride of pre-eminence displays useltlif he adhered to this cusiom, that he shou'd
the sea ; and it may be imagined only what were even in the cxcess of humility. To build thefhave nothing lelt for himseit. Coofiding 1a cnz.
my feelings at that moment. I was more than couvent, morcy was necessaiy s the foundicssiof his neighbers, told him, « 1 have kiited mg
four hundred feet below the ocean! in a fraii solicited the pious chariy of her foliowers,jhog,and if I should send a picce to all frei
machine of wood, bepending upon a few ropes ; whose contributions were $0 abundeut as to ena- (whom 1 have received, there wiil be nothing!
and in a world which seams to bethe principal ble her, in a few ycars, 10 erect two vast stone left for myseif——now [ pray you advise me what
abode of the most terrific monsters ! I cannot, houses, which could pot bave cost less thanlis best to be done 2° To which bis neighbor
however, even at this distant period, trust my 120,000 livres (5000 pounds ) They arc calied vepiled, ** Were I in your cose, I woud haeg
recollection with the madening subject; and the Kourkety and arc situaied on the ridge of ajup my hog at my open window for the greater
therefore 1 hasten forward with my tale. The hill, to the north-west of Antoura, having tothelpart of the night, and the next day I would til
bed of the deep is in itself a fair and beautiful west a view of the sea, which 1s very near,asdievery body it was stolen—-by this means
sand, on which are placed rocks that seem (0 an exieosive prospect to the south, us far as the should be excused fiom making presents.”
glow with a metallic lustre of various colors, road of Bairgut, which is four leagues Aistant.] The Jaborer; much pleased at his friend's ads
on which is to be seen many a fair and living. The Kourket soon filled with monks and nuns.|Vice, returned home and put It in preclice.
tree of silvery whiteness, in constant motion, Tlie patriarch for the time being was Director-{The giver of this friendly advice, not fatiog la
while shells of all kinds and hues are scatiered General, and other employments, of various/profit by the darkness of the night, scizcd ite
over them. The view is indeed a landscape, kinds, were conferred on the different pricsis|bog and carried it home. How astonished was
the most wild and magical that can be ima-!and candidates, to whom one¢ of these housecs/the peasant, when early in the morning he found,
gined ; and although they really want the arii- was allotted. Every thing succeeded as well asinothing of his hog ! He raved at bis neighbors
ficial erections of man, yet are the rocks shiver- could bave been wished ; it is true hat many ofjinvention which be bad the evening before sa
ed and hollowed out into the form of temples, the nuus died, but this was imputed to the alr, uch appioved of. | He sailicd out to give ths
domes, pinnacles, minarets,and palaces; upon and the real cause was not easy Lo be discovered. glarm, and ihe first he met was 03s friendly ads
which there is a continual movement of the'sea. Hendia bad reigned over her little kingdom sear viser, (0 whom be related the whole affair, sage
When I arrived at this place, the painful sensa- twenty years, wheo an unforeseen accident threw ing, © Ob, teighbor, what do you think -——they
tions which I had experienced in my voyage every thing 1010 confusion. A factor travelling have swlei my hog 17 « There, tere, (ays
tad left me; I could breathe fireely, and upon from Damascus to Baitout, ib the summer, was his neighbor) that’s right—stand (0 it-=mjou
viewing the beautiful objects around me, I be- overtaken by night near this convent : the gates/miust tell the same to eveiy one you Meel—ii-
gan to think that the ocean world was indeed were shat, the hour unseasonable ; and as be didisist upon it, and they will all believe you™
as delightful as the poets and water spirits bad rot wish 10 give any trouble, he contented him The peasant soon began to swear, and (0 pro-
described it to be.—But after emerging from self with a bed of straw, and laid himsell dowp{test by all the saints, that he was not Ina Joke,
the bell I saw many a sight that filled me with in (he outer court, wailing the return of day.{but that bis bog was absolutely gone. 1be
terror. The rocks were interspersed with the He had enly slept a few hours, when a sudden stronger he was in his expressions of grief and
half devoured corses of those lost in the wreck, noise of deors end bolts awakened him. = From|rage, the more fervently did bis neighbor tell
on which the fisnes were still feeding : while one of the doors came out thrice women, wih him, «thas right, my friend—stand to {in
thousands of whitening bones and skeletons lay spades and shovels in their bands : who were that’s the only method to make your neighbors
scattered about, some rested on the outstretch- followed by two men bearing a loug white bun- believe it—and then, irom sympathy, those you
ed arms of the giant polypus which had fed on dle, which appeared very beavy. They pro have received of, will dispense With your pices
then, and others in the dreadful opening made ceeded towards an adjoining p.ece of ground, ent pe
by the shell of the enormous clump fish. The full of stones and rubbish, where the men de-|
packages, jewels, gold, anchors, and fragments posited their load, dug a bole, into which they! Two Irish rusiics finding a large cask that
of wrecks, which appeared strewed about, were put it, and, covering it with earth, trod it down was cast ashore from the wreck of a ship and
innumerable ; but my respiration vow becoming wiih their feet, after which they all returned to naturally thinking 1 contained the dear usQue=
difficult, from the agitation produced by so ter- the houses ‘The sight of mea with buns, and baugh but which really contained gun-powdeiy °
ible, yet sublime a spectacle, 1 turned from it to (his bur dle thus mysteriously buried by night, were gyealdy puzzled how to get at the ¢nviable
search for the body of my friend. After a long, could not but furnish matter of reflection to the treasure. At length it was resolved to use a
dangerous, and almost hopeless examination, I traveller. Astonishmentat fi st kept him silent, hot piece of iron for that purposs—as might be
discovered in a cave, some distance from the div- but to this, anxiety and £ ar soon succeeded jhe expected, the one who bored the cask was throva
ing bell, sull dressed as when I last saw him, therefore, hasuly set off fur Bairout at break of aloft into the air by the explosion of the powder.
but blue, swoln and lived. day. In this town hg was acquainted with a Lhe other sceing his conipanion fying in the
I raised the body in my arms, and taking one merchant, who, some months before, had placed airy as he thought with the cask of whiskey, ex«
hand, drew from it a seal ring, with an aqua-ma- two of his daughters in the Kourket, with a por-| Claimed with great sang Sfrad—by St, Pati
rine stone, which well preserves the memory of tion of about 400 “pounds. He went in search if you do not come down and give me a share, L
my friend’s death, and my own hazards in ob- of him, still hesitating, yet burning with impa- shall inform the excisemag.
taining it ; and since I first put it eh, neither tience to relate his adveniare. They seated rel CO EE Bt
force nor any other method will draw it off. themselves cross-legged, the long pipe was. A good wife should be like three things 3
When I had done this, I looked the Corpse lighted, and coffee brought. The merchant Which three things she should not be Tike.
steadily in the face, and still bolding it by the then proceeded to inquire of bis visitor concern- 1st. She should be like a spall, to kecp
right hand, said, « George Harvey, the pledge ing his journey, who answered, he had passed Within her house ; but she should not bo hike
of Raymond Mortlake is redeemed ;”’—when, to the night near the Kourket. This produced snail to carry all she has upon her back,
my surprise, yet not to my terror, methought fresh quesiions, to which be replied by further 2d. She should be like an echo, 10 epcak
the eyes opened and gazed fervently upon mae, particulars, and at length, no longer able to con- when spoken to ; but she should not be like an
while a smile seemed to play around the mouth, tain himself, whispered to his host what he bad echo aiways to have the last word.
and the hand I fancied returned my pressure. seen. The merchant was greatly surprised; 3d. She should be like a town clock, always
At this moment I discovered that a sea mon- the circumstance of burying tbe bundic alarm- to keep ume and regularity ; but she should nes
ster, consisting of a huge misshapen mass of ed him : and the more he considered it, the more be like a townclock, to speak so loud that all the
scaly flesh, somewhat resembling a man, had his uneasiness increased, He knew that one of town may licar her.
fastened his long teeth on the body of my friend his daughters was ill, and could not but remark! e—
—1 caught up a larger piece of wreck that lay that 2 great maoy puis died. Tormented with - He who will avenge cvery affront mcans lo
near me, and with one biow laid (he monster these thoughts, be knows not how either to ad- die carly.
level and powerless ; whilst I hastened to secure mit or reject Lhe dismal suspicions they occasion;
a burial for the corpse, by dropping it inio one he mounts his horse, and accompanied by a
of the many springs which gush from the bot- fiiend, they repair together to the convent, where
tom of the sea; whese strength is such 3s to he asks to see his daughters.—He is told they
terrify all the inbabitants of the deep. are sick : he insists they shall be brought to
This was scarcely effected, with a very brief him; this is angrily refused; and the more he
farewell, when the monster having recovered, persists, the more peremptory i the refusal, wil
returned and fixed his tusks on my right arm. his suspicions are converted into certainty,
With a rapidity of motion that I have olten Leaving the convent in an agony of despair, he
since wondered and shuddered at, I regained went to Dair.el- Kamar, and laid ail the circum-
the bell, and with my terrible companion, enter- stances before Saad Kiaya, or Prince Yousef,
ed it,and gave the signal to be drawn up. chief of the mountain The Kiaya was greatly
Whether it were the lass of blood from the deep astonished, and oidered a body of horse to ac-
wound given me by the water fiend, or the ef company him, and, if refused admission, to force
fect of rising, I know not, but my head scem-'the convent. The Cadi tock part with the mers
ed to be going upwards from my body. I soon chant, and the affair was referred to the law.
became senseless ; and recovered not until 1 The ground where the bundle had been buried
found myself in 2 hammock on board the Sea-!was cpened, and a dead body found, which the
were preserved, This painlul feeling was then
excitement, which might not entirely be ihe ef-
fect of my sicwation aud extraordinary voyage,
bat might partly arise from some recollection of
the eminent danger in which I was placed. A
kind of langour, which increased aimost to faiot-
ng, now overcome me ; the blood left my face,
[ was supplied with air, by a continual exchange
of the barrels from above, life seemed on the
point of departing. In the course of my voyage.
| frequently looked out upon the waters, which
of themselves piesent nothing but a clear green
fluid ; but frequently there came rushing by the
bells, fishes of extiacrdinary forms and magni-
tude, some of the most beautiful colors and ap-
pearance, and others armed with dreadful teeth,
stings, and fangs, with scales and eyes of a fiery
I felt a constant dread which perhaps
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FROM THE FRANKLIN REPUBLICAN,
HIRO>1IC.
A round the immortal hero’s head,
N ever dying laurcls spread;
D eathless is thy mighty name,
R ecorded onthe page of fame;
LE nvy’s shafts in vain assail’d
W here Britain’s mighty thunder fail’d.
J oyous day* propitious bour, .
A rray’d in greatness, arn’d with pow's,
C oiumbia’s ciuef iti triumph rose,
K ingly tyrants to oppose ; :
S ee tne Hero's epsanguin’d plaia
O verstrewed with heeps of slain,
N ¢’er, proud Britian, boast again i
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tended saint being seized, acted ber part with AY
A long and dangerous iiloess, firmness, and a prosecuiion was commenced
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