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DAY Jury 24.
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"MARRIED~On Thursday the 224
L jnstant, by the Rev. Mr. Steen, Mr.
|. ROBERT M: CONNELL, to Miss
NANCY REEVES, daughter of Mr.
jah Reeves, all of this Dorongh.
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8 On Tuesday last PENINA ES.
. SINGTON, aged three yeais, a child
tof Mr. Joseph Essington of Boggs
township in this county was drowned
© in attempting to cross the foot board
that passes over Spring Creek, nea
~ Miles’s Forge. What adds to this
| distressing cvent is, that it is the séc-
| ond child Mc. Essington has lost
at the very same place. Mr. Essing
ton and his wife were away from home
| at the time the distressing occurrence
took place, and on their arrival at
home beheld, not the blooming cheeks
‘and playful smiles, but the pale ema
; ciated corpse of their beloved infant,
« Happy infant early bless’d
~ Rest in peaceful slumber, rest;
Early rescued from the cares
Which increase with growing years.
No delights are wortlr thy stay,
Smiling as they seem and gay ;
Short and sickly are they ail
“Tardy trusted ¢’er they fall,
'
A All our gaiety is vain
All our laughter is put pain
Lasting only, and divine
Is an ivooceace like thine.”
?
- [After the manner of the Village
A Record.)
. PENNSYLVANIA INTELLIGENCER
* The PENNSYLVANIA INTELLIGEN-
¢ER is one of the best conducted po-
litical papers In the state. The orig:
‘inal paragraphs arc numcrous, and
Cowell written. Every one must see
that a spirited, and at the same time
{ prudent, paper, at the seat of Govern-
"ment, is deserving of support,and can-
L not fail to be uscful to the best inter-
“ests of the state: Those liberal poli-
i ticians who are able to add the trifling
| sum of five cents a week to their ex.
" penses, wo advise to enclose the first
“three dollar bill they get directed
| (postage paid) to :
Messrs. Mowry & CAMERON,
Editors of the Intelligencer,
13 Harrisburg, Pa.
and order the paper for gne year.
4 —
FOR THE PATRIOT.
ELEGY.
arbling songsters-of the peace-
ful grove,
Sinking in slumber, have forgot to
play— i
he braying herds which homewards
slowly move,
Ave silent preludes of the close of
day.
£8
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| The w
The sun glides slowly o’er the west-
i ern hill,
Aud dark’ning shades begin to dim
3 the sight ;
¥Tir’d nature sinks, the Lum of day is
3 stil,
And all combine to hail approaching
night.
ith pensive mind, I onward slowly
: move,
: While balmy nature round her
odours shed,
oward yon sacred solitary grove,
To view the silent mansions of the
dead.
| Here all is mu'e, each pulse of life is
still,
Nor howling ghost has yet appear’d
this way ;
| No voice is heard, except the YWhip-
poor: will,
Who sings her requiem to depart.
ing day.
That friendiess pauper, o'er whose
tutfless grave
No friendly 10s€s does (heir frag.
rance saed,
[Lies just as high in state as that rich
kpave ;
Zhere’s no fire-eminence among the
dead,
Virtue alone can lasting difference
make,
None else will e’er be known among
the dead ;
Time shall the proudest thrones ol
monarchs shake,
And wrest the laurels from thei
sinking head.
No doubt beneath this consecrated sod,
Are hearts once fir’d with every vir-
tuous aim ;
Feet which in virtue’s path bad firmly
trod——
Tongues once employ’d to shout a
Saviour’s name.
Without alloy they spent lif¢’s cheer:
ful day,
glit'ring toys ;
With holy zeal they trode the narrow
way,
To purer cli
sial joys.
es, and more substan-
Ah! time, what dreadful havoc hast
thou made—
Not our best trophies can thy force
withstand ;
The princely monument must sink and
fade,
It can’t resist thy maring, mould-
‘ring hand.
/
Egypt's proud pyramids with tow’ring
main,
(Those mournful ensigns of the
pride of man,)
Shall sweep with dreadful crash the
Jab’ving plain,
And sink to chaos at thy stern com-
mand.
”
With what quick pace our span of life
rolls on,
Year after year it slyly steals away ;
Where are the guardians of our youth ?
they’re gone,
And we must shortly lie as low as
they.
What gloomy thoughts assail me on
this spot,
Where oft I've wept to see the
mourner weep ;
Those friendly tears shall never be for-
got,
While i remember where my fa-
thers sleep.
Ah! why so silent those who once
were gay,
That friendly voice which oft assail-
ed my car,
With whom I talk’d the social hour
away,
They seem to know not that a friend
is here,
Alas! that voice I ne’er shall hear
agaln,
The gasping tomb has claim’d them
for its own ;
Life’s dream is past, they’ve bid adieu
to pain,
And I am left to suffer here alone
There they shall lie till Gabriel's
trump shall sound,
And from their mansions call the
slumb’riog dead ;
‘Midst shiring saints, O ! may they
then be found,
And peerless honour ever deck
their head.
—— (BP Pree
FOR THE PATRIOT.
If your correspondent, who is so un-
friendly to toasts and toast drinking, has a
particle of good humour in his composition,
he will be amused with a toast oflercd Dy
a Simon SALLADE, at the late celebra-
tion of the 4th of July at Harrisburg. It
consists of twenty lines of a sort of rhym,
al weeks of intense thought ; for indeed it
smells strongly of the lamp.
I would transcribe
which seems to have settled
mind, but, as T have no doubt he will see
. And on yon oak, within that sacred
pale,
The hooting Owl is sometimes heard
complain,
{ those whose nightly visits to the
vale,
Disturb the horrors of her gloomy
reign.
No tyrant’s veice spreads terror thro’
this place—
No petty despot sways his sceptre
here;
The fiown of power is scen in no one
fuce,
the day, I will only take the four middle
lines as a tolerable specimen of the whole:
« Of party strength some will loudly
boast,
General Jackson is the man,
Who knows both how
plan.”
The two last lines reminded me of
¢ Nancy Dauson is the plan,
Her father was a beggar man,”
except that ghe latter is perfectly correct
in metre and measure, whilst the former is
wanting in both.
does one featare show the signs
of fear.
\ Nor
Vs
7 ay
en 4
Nor had, nor wish’d to have, wealth’s§
the same Sinton who formerly represented tue marching to the martial music, and
' - - . “at : o T, &
Dauphin county in the state legislature if the mary military evclutions periorm
land was elected by the federalists, whol .a on that eventful day, would mos!
$7 ILS aoe he feeling d awak-
: certainly arouse Li€ ISClINgGS, anc avak
imore than probable tat he will be their, |
lcandidate at the coming election, especial)
only elect * MIX OF TALENT
n tn the patriotic breast, the lively
. : ng sensations that our forefathers fought
ly ashe has given evidence of wonderfull ) ei
|and bled for Liberty, and we, their ofl
ability !! os :
e/spring, ought tobe careful in fostering
I have no doubt my good friend, th
. ! . . :
¢ Farmer,’ is acquainted with an old gen- and preserving 1t pure and unsullied
tleman, whom we familiarly call Birry while tune endures
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1 well recollect that he was] | x
| The toast that was given by me,
lin honor of the bero of New Orleans,
the Practical Farmer no-
Hixtox.
called upon for a toast at a 4th of July cel-
ebrationj athe big spring adjoining Belle-
fonte. The old revolutionary veteran, 00 that day,
without much time for study, gave the'tices very particularly, It scems be
following, which I recommend to the at. uid pot find a toast in the whole
tention of the sweet singing Simon of Har | paper, or a person perhaps, that it
risburg :
¢ In Seventy-Six,
The year was fixed,
We were declared free-e-e;
With sword in hand,
Allover the land,
We fought for liberty-ye-ye;
And here 1s a toast,
s+ Tolhe gallant hoast,
Whp fought so nobly-ye-ye.”
I need not say that it was
with a¢clamations. When he arrived at
the third line, he no doubt appended the
ye-ye, llest he would want measure in every
third ohe following ; a hint which Simon tary act; oor
would answer his purpose to expatiate
so largely on as mine or myself. Not-
withstanding the officers of the day
have to bear a part of the burther,
yet it it is a sin, I am willing to take
it all upon myself Ido not wish the
conduct of the officers of the day, and
received
the whole of the company or compan:
ies degraded on account of the toast
It was my own volun.
did I think of giving
given by me.
take- \throngh. I'inding that General Jack-
successful in his “canvass for the Legisla’p 1 0 pencil and wrote the follow-
(ure next fall, (a very great probability,) 1.
(ing 3
recommend him to make application to
sweetly, immediately after his election to
the Preidency, to be appointed his Poet
Laureat:
And now to conclude, myself and a num-,
ber of my neighbors who were highly de. Now it scems this sanctified Farmer
la
need.
our habitations, when the following toast y
was drank in honor of the Bard of the East.!
¢ The Poet Laureat of Dauphin County.—
Lord Byron was a fool to him—
“Simon Sallade is the plan.
He wants to be an Ass-emblyman,
He carries a toast inevery hand,
And huzzas for General Jacksan —
3 cheers, 9 gunsts a groan—rTUNE. © Nan-
cy -Dauson.”
Bau DON QUIXOTTE.
ER —
speak parables. I will appeal to the
generosity of any’ reflecting impartial
good man, if the comparison has any
thing like profanation or blasphemy in
it. View the matter and weigh it in a
temporal sense, and then if you are not
acquainted with the public character
of Gengral Jackson, make yourself so,
and see if he has not at all times when
we had need of him in his official ca-
pacity, been ready and willing to face
¥OR THE PATRIOT.
« To hear an open slander is a CURSE,
But not to find an answer still is worse ;
Vice oft is hid in virtue’s fair disguise,
And in her borrowed form escapes en-
quiring eyes.”
The celebration of the 4th of July,
is unquestionably a duty of grateful
respect we Owe to our ever to be re-iseems he proved successful.
membered heroes and sages of thelable, with the help of Disine Prov
revolution; and by assembling togeth- dence, to go oo to the field of glory
~l-
Ung
the invading foe, and, firm as a ro
stood undaunted amidst the roar of
thundering cannon and against the
‘pointed steel of the cnemy ; and it
IIe was
1-
er in a sociable peaceable manner,
should give praise to their memory, Wash
the glorious day of LIBERTY. OD i
that auspicious occasion, according to
the custom of our forcfathers, it is
necessary to have a wholesome repast,
amuse and regale ourselves, sitting
onder the glorious ree of Liberty,
and making our hearts glad.
patriot, the father and saviour of his
degraded indeed ; we must have fallen
from that blessed station, which they,
by their eroop, had placed us in, and
deserved
would wish to inflict on us. Rut
thanks be to the Supreme Ruler of
« There is a time for every thing,
A time to dance, a time to sing,
A time to gather stones, and yea,
A time to cast those stones away.”
I bave just been amusing myself.
after reaping hard yesterday and the
day before, by reading apiece in the
Patriot of the 19th instant, signed ¢¢ A
all things, he has given us the victory,
We are yet a free and independent.
nation ; and may we, as sojourncrs in,
this land of Liberty, be always rcady!
Salladd, of Harrisburg would do well 10 one, till after the general list was gouc]
{ & 4 . ! .
If the sweet singing Simon should not be o hag not heen honored in that way,
General Jackson, whose praises he singsso| General Andrew Jackson, the Hero/Independesce of our much beloved
‘of New Orleans—>May we draw nearicountiy.
‘to him, as children to a father who isievery heart dilates with extatic pleas-
ble and ready to help us in time of
lighted with the poetical effusions of Bard takes every thing in a spiritual Light, ness, inhabited by beasts of prey, and
Sallade, repaired to a spring convenient 10 o1herwise thinks I am inspired or (hat
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|e’er returns,” we have descendants
weland renown. Suffice it to say, that
ington when toasted was ever their ancesior,
and bless the day that made Us FRET, gi010d the 1morTAL, the gloriousi8reat measure, indebted for that jm
country. And if we dare not use the,
language of our fathers, we must bej Wise for a variety of improvements,
the punishment tyrants’
(of nations, in celebrating the most
Fors
avo
leitizzons, 2nd by so doing gel his
vite candidate elected.
1 shall say no more on this subject?
I have already said enough to convince
any unprejudiced impartial man, that
my motives, in giving this toast; were
pure, This is the first 1 ever wroil§
for a public journal and TI firmly be-
tieve it willbe the last—on this sub-
ject, at least. One word to the Far-.
ner belore we parts The next time
dd
you appear belore the public, throw off
the mask which hides you from theip
observation; and appear "before the
world «in all the nakedness of your
native deformitys’
THOMAS HASTINGS, Jr.
rnb are
The Committee of arrangement
handed us, tor publication, the follow
ng ;
ORATIDH,
Delivered by Major JOHN C. COV
EKLY, at the celebration of the fora
ty-eighth Anniversary of the Ameri.
can Independence, to a number of
the Citizens of Potter township, at
Potter’s Mills, in this County, on the
5th inst. ;
'rienps & Fernow Crrizens,
At the base of Tusscy
Mountain, whose grand and majestic
summit o’er-shadows the stupendous
brick mansion, in which we are now
assembled to celebrate the 48th Anni-
versary of the blessed sovereignty and
Lvery eye beams with joy,
ure, in being permitied, once more, 10
resound the pame of LIBERTY AnD
INDEPENDENCE. This place, bat a
Jfcw years since, was a howling wildee- |
a race of men destitute of that pelish- |
ed refinement which renders life a~
greeable ; but, on tlie coutrary, they
were as ficrce and barbarous as the
prowling Tiger that inhabited the
mauntain. Here permit me to drop
a word of tribute and respect, to the
igreat and worthy Revolutionary Gems |
eral, whose name, with pride, ove =
township bears. He, aided by other |
worthy men, bss caused our townshipy
to % blossom like the rose.” The para
den of Eden scarce exhibited a mote
delightiul scene, than does'our coun-
try for many miles around. Diversified
with rich toliage, and fruits of every
description, the fields represent gar
dens prolific, and spontaneous; an
society is fostered equal to the mos
Lfolished countrice of Hurcfie, Als
{hough the General’s Jips are sealed in
‘perpetual silence, and he has « gone to
ithat bourn from whence no traveller
from him, who possess all the econn-
Any, Industry, and spirit of improves
ment, which they so justly mherit of
To them we are, ina
portant improvement, so beneficial 10
the state, entitled the « Centre and
Kishacoquillas Turnpike Road 3” like-
planned and executed entirely at their
own expense, which adds greatly to
the beauty, interest, and convenicice,
of the commniunity at large.
1 shail now call your attention to
another, and not less important sub-
ject : ;
Among ali civilized nations, in eve-
ry age of the woild, the foundation of |
states, and the esiabl'shment of reli-
gious systems, have been the subject
of annual festivity, and public demons
stratiens of joy. This general consent
which, Ihave nodoubt, cost Simon sever-
the whole for the
special use of my friend * The Farmer,”
as 1 do believe it would scatter the clouds
of hostility to 4th of July celebrations
upon his
it published in some of the newspapers of
But here we have a prouder, nobler toast,
FARMER.” Tbe writer of this piece
does not style himself a scribe or phar.
ice, but either in reality or affected.
yy a true christian and a farmer ; and
1 good industrious one be must be,
when he can spare time to study out
so fine a specimen of his natural and
acquired abilities in the midst of har-
vest. I am iuclined to believe his
harvest is but Jight,and very easily
hauled in.
The christian feelings of this noble
Farmer seems to be terribly mortified,
& in his frantic illusion breathes forti
a spirit of prayer, that the Great
FIRST CAUSE would so dispose the
hearts of his countrymen, as to dis-
countenance such gross profanation
and blasphemy, and work a reforma-
to fight and to] } ‘1 i
8 ithe vile practice of celebrating out from 1
national independence by rioting anc
tion that would cut vp by the roots!
| amount of this Aofie full christian’s
and willing to defend those privileges distinguished periods of their history,
which Heaven has bestowed on us, 15 00 Iiconsiderable evidence of the
propriety of the custom. These anni-
\versary festivals have a very powerful
influence In eokindling a flame of na-
ional ardot ; which, without them, is
lod, does not speak in he aie tobe txinguished, in the per.
§% : petual round of private occupations.
language of a true follower of Christ, Uhey call to mind the virtues of the
statesmen, who bave, by their wisdom,
: 2 directed empires, and founded systems
the remains of a religious education of law ; likewise the sufierings of be
which I bad received,and is the last. 0 whe their skill, couiage, Vi
y el ; ctermined bravery, have supporte
of it I have to spare.” 1 rather think ang defended a I shall re cite
it would bave been Lis bounden duty, you to the Honoratles Samuel Adams,
as a christian, to have come to me, Join Adams John Barncock, Benjamin
eo ; RATED ‘ranklin, Thomas Jcfierson, James
or all of us that he styles SCOFFERS Madison, James Bowdoin, Treat Payne
of RELIGION, in a private and Edward Rutledge, Matthew Tilgh-
friendly manner, and ex postulated with Man, &c. &c. men, whose wisdom and
integrity as statesmen, bid defiance to
Si the world. I must likewise call your.
jand try to make us sensibie ofcurer- attention to the FATHER OF OUR COUN -
{ror in some measure, and then per- TRY. the great immortal General
George Washington, whose achieve-
ments during the revolution, and af-
terwards as President of the United
States, have gained bim an imperisha-
‘ble narne. Not forgeting Generals
and which bave been so gallantly de-
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fended by cur predecessors,
Now this Farmer, if I may be per-
r
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mitted to ju
when hc says hc supposes «it to be
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vi
or
end admonish us to do better in future,
‘haps some good might have resulted
But I believe the whole
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excess. i i ] i Sei
CXCess Now if there had been riot-jobject was this : Seeing, no doubt,
ing or excess, or any disorderly con | my name ip the Patriot as a candidate
Warren, Wooster, Greene, Monigon -
ery, Potter, Putnam, Gates, Brown,
This Simon Sallade, whose muse has
| made such a dreadful attack upon him, is
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duct whatever at our late celebration | for Sheriff, he thinks his
it is not within my knowledge, nor dic gious sentiments,
i! see any thing of the kind.
: It was z{ scrap, might have a tendency to lessen
solemn and affecting procession ; anc me in the
truly reli- Jackson, and the adopied son of Wash
ington, the Marquis de la Payette, the
great friend of America, and ove
‘whom we so justly adore. This pos-
expressed im the
estimation of my fellow- terity are stimulated to imsitale thee