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¥OR THE BELLEFONTE PATRIUT.
; A HYMN.
My God permit a worm thy grace to claim,
A helpless worm that holds bis all from thee,
Whose hopes all centre in thy peerless name,
For blessings here, and for eternity.
May no unhallow’d wish invade this heart,
Or aught unholy find admission here ;
Bid passion cease, bid every sin depart,
And may I serve thee with a filial fear.
In all my wand’rings through this world of woe,
Be thou my guide, my counsellor and friend ;
In virtue’s ways still onward may 1 go,
And reach the joys of glory mn the end.
*Tis thy blest presence that creates my bliss,
Possess’d of thee what can I want beside;
‘Fhe joys of earth how mcan compar’d with this,
To dwell securely in thy wounded side.
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May all my powers with sacred ardour rise,
And with creasing efforts tend to thee;
Nor ever weary till I gain the prize,
And jon the chorus of eternity.
Ob Yye blest scenes of permanent delight,
Where angels sing and pilgrims swell the
choir ;
With prospect high ye fill my ravish’d sight,
And gil my soul with sacred transports fire.
‘On those blest shores where saints immortal
reign,
Where beams the radiance of eternal day ;
Where tears haye ceas’d, where sorrows never
: pain, :
To Christ my King I'll endless homage pay.
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FROM THE AMERICAN SENTINEL,
NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
From a world of woods and wild,
Dark beneath the western skies,
How Columbia’s glory smiles !
See her towns and hamlets rise !
From a wilderness of shade,
Cultivated fields appear ;
In delightful charms array’d,
Cheering every cottage near,
Agriculture clothes the ground
With luxuriant attire ;
Scatters wealth and plenty round,
Makes the landscape bright and fair,
Commerce roils in ev’ry breeze,
Yabrics glitter bright and gay ;
Where the land was dark with trees,
Crowded marts their wealth display,
Arts extend their blissful aid,
As unnumbered structures rise,
And the cities newly made
Lift their mansions to the skies.
Science beams with light sublime,
Throws its lustre round the land,
Cheering all within our chime,
By her kind and fostering hands:
Where the sun with golden rays,
Beam’d upon the desert seas ;
And the undulating wave,
Lonely rippled ia the breeze.
Now upon the liquid plain,
Thronging ships and crafts abound ;
Cheering all our wide domain,
Spreading wealth and plenty round.
Whare ner Inndocapes W1IQ anu wWiao,
Lofiy mountains crawn’d with woods,
Loom majestic from the tide,
Lift their summits to the clouds :
There shall future vineyards grow,
There shall future bamlets rise ;
Orchards grace the mountain’s brow,
Breathe their fragrance to the skies.
Millions from ascending day,
Journeying tow’rds the setting sun ;
In Columbia’s bosom gay,
Find a happy peaceful home.
EAT TIER TS Ye
celebrated freebooter Fitz P
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such an annoyance, to the whigs during the;
memorable struggle for Liberty and Indepen-i
dence. As that statement 1s essentially incor-
rect, I beg you will do me the favor to publish)
the following faithful statement of that interest-|
ing occurrence, A Friend of Truth.
June 12, 1324.
On Sunday the 22d August 1778, about 5 P.
M. Fitz Patrick or Fitch, as he was generally
called, came to the house of Mr. Wm. M'Fee,
situated near Crum Creek, and pot far from
where the Strasburg road runs, about 10 mies
from Chester. Mr. and Mis. M'Fee and their
son Robert were seated at the tea table, their
daughter Jave being absent on a visit 10 a sick]
neighbor. Robert observed a man approaching
the house, being mounted and armed witha
rifle, a pair of pistols and a sword, and suppos.
ed him to be a soldier from the American Camp
he dismounted, came to the door and asked if
Mr. Wm. M:Fee lived there, he was answered
in the affiimative, he then walked in and ad-
dressed himself to Robert saying ¢ and you are
Capt. Robert M¢Fee 2” he replied « I am Rob
ert McFee.” «1am Capt Fiz Patrick,” said
Fitch, « Sir, said Capt. M<Fee, if you are Capt.
Fitz Patrick sit down and take a cup of tea with
us-” « No,” he answered, and swore violently
he would neither eat nor drink, por leave the
house, until they were not worth a groat; and
said that he was going about levying contribu-
tions from the d———d rebels, and that he must
pay him one hundred and fifty pounds.
He then proceeded to rifle his person of what-
ever took his fancy, among which was a pair of
shoes with silver buckles on them. Ie pulled
his own off and put oo the other pair, leaving
them down at the beel ; the shoes appeared to be
rather small for him ; be then laid his old shoes
outside of the door.— While Fitch was engaged
plandering the Captain, he, unobservedy by
Fitch, threw the key of his chest and some pa-
per money behind the door, which his mother
perceiving picked up the key and hastening up
stairs, unlocked the chest and hid the money in
the garret under some wheat. Fitch very soon
missed her and presented his pistol to Capt,
M¢Fee’s breast threatened him with instant
death if his mother did not return immediately.
M:Fee called his mother and she returned im-
mediately, likewise a hired woman named Sarah
Walker who was sitting up stairs reading.
Mrs. M¢Fee returned the key to her son the
first opportunity. Fitch next ordered them all
up stairs, and as they were proceeding from the
kitchen to the stairs, he observed Capt. MFee’s
rifile which he took and snapped, and then
threw it out of the door saying, lay there till you
are wanted. At the foot of the stairs old Mr.
M’Fee tried to dissuade Fitch from his purpose
but he swore vehemently and placing the poin
of his sword against his breast, threatened to
They all went up stairs, Fitch ordered Capt
MF ee to unlock his chest and get out the mo=
ney he had demanded; M:l'ce replied, how
can you expect $0 young a man as me to have so
much money ? Fitch persisted in his demands,
Capt. M:Fee opened the chest and requested
Fitch to search it himself, which he did and not
finding any money was much chagrined and
sware that he was his prisoner, as he hadno
money, he must go a campaign along with
him, and ordered him to provide a horse and
clothes. Capt. MFee replied, that he bad
clothes on sufficient for the season but did not
know how long his campaign might last. Fitch
said it would be a long and severe one.
Capt. M'Fee now resolved that he would not
leave the house alive. Fitch laid his arms on
the bed by his side, except a pistol he held in
bis right hand, he then ordered Capt. M¢Feg,
his father and mother, to stand in a row on his
right band, in the order stated, and Sarah Walk.
er was standing at a shor distance from him in
front, Fitch then raised his foot on the bedstead
in order to fix the shoe, which was down at the
heel, properly on his foot. Capt. M¢tFee who
was a strong athletic man, embraced this favor.
able moment ; giving Sarah Walker the signa)
to seize the pistol ; he instantly grappled him
round the body and arms and Sarah rasped" e
pistol almost the same moment. Fitch attempt.
ed to discharge it but missed fire, and she final-
ly'succeeded in forcing it out of his hand, and
in the struggle had one of her fingers cut very
severely by the lock of the pistol. Capt, M¢Fee
now succeeded in throwing him down and for-
tunately gotthe other pistol off the bed. Fitch
told him he must be bound and delivered over
to the proper authority to receive the punish.
ment he merited,
run him through if he did not obey instantly.)
consequently it was 8 or 9 o'clock before any
assistance came, Mr. Phineas Massey was the
first man who came, Messts. Joseph Black,
Mordecai Massey, M. Chancys Esq. and others,
whose names are not recoliected, came also to
guard Fitch. Capt. M:Fee now laid bimseil
down in ao adjoining chamber to rest himself
from the fatigues ol the evening. Some time
after it was discovered that ich’s arms were
disengaged from the ropes, and the voung wo-
man sitting on the bed was strongly suspected
of being instrumental in Jooscaing them. Fitch
was soon bound again, and one of the persons
engaged in tying him drew the rope so tight as
to give him pain ; he begged they would make
them more easy, and said he was sure that Cap!
M¢Fee would not suffer them to treat bim so,
they refused to loosen them. He then told
Miss Jane to call her brother, which she did,
he came and said that Fitch should not be abus-
ed, but must be bound, and made his ropes more
easy. About 11 P.M. a gun was fired atthe
window, where my informant was sitting, but no
one was injured, conjecture supposed it to have
been fired by Fitct’s aid, Dougherty, search was
immediately made, but the person fled and lef
behind a sword, which Fitch had formerly taken
from ap officer. About 2 A. M. next morning
the guard arrived from the American Camp
took the prisoner in charge and conveyed him
to a place of safety ; some time after he was tri
ed and executed.
Fitch had declared he never would be taken
by one man. While in the house of Mr. M:Fee
he said the world should not say that he was ta-
ken Ly a man but by a woman ; hence a report
was spread abroad that Fitch was taken by Sa
rah Welker, and she availed herself of the fa.
vorable impression which this report caused,
and travelied about the country and received
considerable sums of money from the Whigs as
a reward for her courage.
The deughter of Mr. M:Fee is now living,
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tagonists were unable to continue the contest,
ick, who wag miles before he could meet with any friends, combatants—but {rom the wounds of the twa
Marvins the contest would scon have tetinitw:
ed.—The doctor bad now sufficiently recovered
o cry aloud for aid ; the call was heard by &
Mr. Franklin, who bastened to the field, which
by this time presented a frightfel aspect Mrat
Franklin seeing the fate of his predecessors, and
inwilling to oppose force by force, had tecourse
o stratagem. To effect Lis object he insulted
the bear by using his arms for legs, and on alii
fours made circuitous routs around the fieid ast
This the bear discovered, and as his an
re accepted the invitation and advanced towardat
Franklin. Tbis was what he wished, and well®
knowing that two legs would better serve hima!
for flight than four, he raised bimself erect and’
fled ;——but the race of the bear was short, foe
the doctor, while under his custody, bad so ine
dustriously plied his knife, that he made a deep s
incision in the breast of the bear, through which
his hearts blood flowed slowly but surely. The
bear after running a few rods in the full anuci=t
pation of viciory, fell covered with honorable
wounds, Thisthe fugitive did not perceive, bes
ng too anxious for his own safety to look behind
him, (F
| Pop Sith wings to fect and he fed witles
‘he speed cf the wind, nor did he stop ve bad
con Ah a mile. Sn
out of breath, he was unable to answer (he nteps
rogations of his friends, in whom his sudden att i=
val aud singular appearance had excited much
alarm... Having ot length regained the power
of utterance, he shouted «a Bear, a Bear!
“ what of a bear,” they exclaimed ; © a bear bas
killed four or five men.” « What ! why! who :
are hey I they rejoined. % Doctor Foot, old
Mr. Marvin, Elisha and myself are all dead and
gone,” replied the affiighied man.
——p Sar le OF Cmm———
HANGED—OR NOT HANGED --OR
PROVINCIAL VERACITY.
TO THE IRISH CBSERVER.
and is highly respected and esteemed by all who
have the pleasure of her acquaintance. The,
whole statement is received fiom a near relative,
of Capt. MiFee, who was an eye witness to,
most of the transactions, and had the best op-|
portunity of being correctly informed of every
circumstance relative to the capture ot Fitch.
It is published in order to remove the erroneous
impressions which the publication alluded to, in
in the Village Record is calculated to produce ;
namely, that he was betrayed by his mistress,
into the bands of armed men, whom she had
concealed in her house ; as one error often be.
gets others, it is desirable that out of respect for
the feelings of the surviving friends of Mr,
M¢Fee’s family, that the error should be correct.
ed, and that the respectab’e editor ofthe Village
Record, be pleased to publish the above in his
paper.
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From the Oxford Gazette,
ANECDOTE OF THE BEAR.
In the year 1797, the following singular ren-
contre occurred in the town of New- Berlin,
in Chenango county, between four men a dog,
and a bear ;:—A huge bear was prowling near
the residence of the late Doctor Foot, and with
an appetite sharply sct for pork, suddenly en-
closed within his warm embrace a wandering
swine of the doctor’s whose lamentable cris
soen informed him that an enemy had invaded
his possessions. The doctor, like a true hero of
that day, flew to arms, acd hied to the battle
field in, detence of his rights. Well equipt,
with tresty rifle and 2ided by his dog he advan-
ced boldly to the combat, determised to force
Bruin to resign his ill gotten spoil, or perish in
the attempt. Bruin however, was not the least
daunted by the martial appearance of this son ol
Esculapius, and regardless of priority of claim,
like another species of half his understanding
thought power conferred right and that possess:
ion was a sufficient excuse for exercising it, and
determined to defend himself and his prey
Sir—A paper cailcd the LivMerick CHnog-
ICLE, which ‘was rectlied in the county of Cork
on the 10th of Aprils stating that I wag hang pe
ed on that day, which was the cause of arent
grief and other inconvenience to my relations, :
the (Sullivans, in that county. Now this is to
request that your Worship would be so goad as
to allow me to say, contrary to any thing that the :
Limerick Chronicle may allege 10 that ¢flecty
that I am not hanged, nor was not hanged upon
that day ; for I am stil] alive and well, thank God
~though the Chronicle was 50 goed as to give
my dying declaration, pb
Now, Sir, further to prove that I zm alive,
beg your pardon to state that the paper, us I 5
am told, which gave an account of my execution fy
at two o'clock, was printed at ¢leven the same
day,and this, I think, is fuil confirmation of the |
fact of my being alive, seeing that the gentlemen :
of the Chren'cle newspaper could nat know at’
eleven what ook place at iwo.
So, Sir, your humble servant, to command,
THOMAS O’SULLIVAN.
County Geol, Limerick, April 30, 1824, fi
Nota bone, my first cousin, Morty O—meeay®
went into mourning, and Judy, my aunt's sister,
was murthered with the grief. See what comes
of false news, Sir. g
ma $B CB Se
A Scotchman giving cvidence at the bar of
the house of lords in the affair of Captain Porte-
us, and telling of the varicty of shots which
were fired upon that unhappy occasion ; he was
asked by the Duke ot Newcastle, whut kind of
shot it was 7 « Why,” says the man in bis broad
dialect, “such as they shoot /uols with ,and the
like.’—¢ What kind of fools 27 says the duke,
smiling at the word, ¢ Why, my lord, dukes;
and such kind of fools.”
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Some caution is requisite in passing our ¢pins
ion on strangers, a caution, however, which few
of us adopt. At a public levee at the court of
St. James, a gentleman said to Lord Chester
fields ¢¢ pray, my lord who is that tall, awkward
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against the demand of his adversary.
The doctor, however, without attempting any
pegociation, or making any declaration of war
by a well directed fire, delivered the leaden!
messengers, in such a manner as carried con-|
viclion so near his heart, that an instantaneous
and sincere repentance of his felonious practices
was wrought in him. Bruin resigned his prey
and beat up a retreat, but Lion, obeying his mas.
er’s beck, commenced so severe an attack upon
his rear guard that he compelled his adversary
to right about face and form anew his line of bat-|
for quarters. The doctor now sceing the dan-
ger of his friend, advanced to his relief, and so
faithfully did he apply his musket to the front
woman yonder 2” ¢ That lady, sir,” replied
Lord C. ¢ is—my sister,” The genileman
reddened with cor fusion and stammered out ¢ no
no, my lord, I beg your pardon; I mean that
very ugly woman who stands next to the Queen.”
« That lady, sir,” answered Lord C. calmly—
« that lady, sir, is—MY WIFE.”
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ANECDOTE.
A lady once asked a minister if she might not.
pay attention to dress and fasion, without being
being exhausted made no further resistance, itle. The conflict was long and terrible, but proud. « Madam, (replied the minister) wihgn-
but frequently and earnestly begged the Captain superior strength at last overpowered the faith-jever you see tne tail of the
to blow his brains out ; he would net do it and ful dog, and he fell ; and in piteous tones cried you may be sure the fox is there also
fox out of tne bole,
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THE BEAVER.
The following anecdote of the beaver, is taken
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Mr M‘Fee’s servant mannamed David Cun-'and flank of Bruin that he loosed the dog from'from Franklin’s Narrative of the shores of the
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Frembling with terror, and!
ningham now entered, aml Capt. M:Fee order-|his embrace but imniediately seized the doctor|Polar Sea, recently pubiighed :—¢ One day, a
ed him to go and procure ropes to tie Fitch, laid him on the ground and took a position over|gentleman, long resident in this country, espied
when he, and Mrs. M‘Fee went and broughtihim. The doctor thought this an insult too flag- five young beavers sporting in the water, lezp-
some, and while Mrs. M Fee was engaged ty-jrant to be quietly submitted to and with nil des- ing upon the tree, pushing one another off and
ing his feet Fitch kicked her severely'in the sidejperandum for his motto immediately drew a'playing a thousand interesting tricks. He ap-
when her son charged him pot to do it again orjpocket knife, being unfortunately destitute of proached, softly under cover ol the bushes, and
he must abide by the consequences, Afterjother side arms, and commenced a surgical op- prepared to fire upon the unsuspecting crea«
Fitch was bound securely, David Cunningham cration on the breast of the bear intending, we|tures; but a nearer appreach discovered to him
was ordered to catch a horse in the field andjpresume, to exiract the siuggs of lead which he such a similitude betwixt their gestures and
proceed immediately to inform the whigs, livingihad lodged there. {the infantile carresses of bis own children, that
nearest to them, of the occurrence, to come andj At this period the noise of battle and the din ‘he threw aside his gun This gentleman’s feei-
assist in guarding the prisoner, and to procced|of arms, loud as the thunder of conflicting ele- ings are to be envied, but few traders in fur
to the American camp to obtain a guard to takejments or the last peal of heavens artillery, was would have acted so feelingly.
charge of Fitch. About this time Sarah Walk.'heard by Mr. Marvin and his son Elisha, who) DT C—
er ran off to bring home Miss Jane M¢Fee, who'came at full speed to reinforce the doctor; but! A doctor advertised an infallible cure for
she met on ber way home.
Here may Freedom’s Temple stand,
Spreading light and truth sublime,
Cheer the earth’s remotest land,
Brighten ev’ry distant chime.
While the nations of the earth,
Marshal’d by despotic ire;
Fuil of foul, malicious wrath,
Clothe their land with blood and fire.
Here may peace with olive wand,
Cheer the lab’rer at his toil ;
' As he views bis native land,
‘As he tilis his native soil.
On returning they without any arms except those which nature had deafness and blindness.—The deat (he says)
met a young man and a young woinan walkipg furnished them. Iil prepared for the con- may hear of him at a house ie Difly-street,
together and informed them of what kad taken flict as ihey were, they seized the bear and re-| where the blind may see him from ten ia the
place : curiosity induced them to go along and lieved the doctor who was nearly extaston jRenio till three in the 2fierncon.
see Fitch. The young woman seemed to pity Bat this son ofthe forest bad strength to which a
him very much, he was lying on the bed, and the human arm is a stranger renewed the ac.| A preacher, who had been a printer, observ-
she seated herself on the bed near his head, car-|tion with redoubled force, and at one fell vlow,in the usval harangue, that youth might be com-
Jim Fitz Patrick. : essed him and combed his hair. Fitch com. prostrated his new opponents. Here again the pared to a comma, manhood (0 a semic
: 2 plaining of feeling chilly a cover was thrown battle thickened, and was fought with fury bor-jage to a colon, to which death puts 2
In the Village Record of last month, ina let-lover him. jdering on desperation; the struggle was Jorg! ements £6. © DG Den
ter on the history of Chester County is a state-f Mr. M<Fee’s nearest neighbours were all To-'and doubtiul—victory, for some time, alternately) It no diminution :
Here may union, peace and love,
Fill the measure of our bliss;
And the God who rules above,
Deign to guard our happiness.
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