MISCELLANY m0: CD Os A TEA PARTY. | W—— WHEN the party commences, all starch’d and all glum, = They talk of the weather, their corns, or sit mum : gore a They will tell of ribbons, of Cambric, of a lace, How cheap they were sold—and will tell you the place. Ro T hey discourse of their colds, and they hem and they cough, = And complain of their servants to pass the time off. b But Tea, that enlivener of wit and of soul, ‘More loquacious by far than the drafts of a2" bowl, - Soon loosens the tongue and enlivens the ; ind, § i k And oi B regntici eyes to the faults of mankind. - Jtbrings on the tapis their neighbor’s defects, The faults of their friends, or their wilful neglects ; Reminds them of many a good natured tale, About those who are stylish and those who are frail, Sl Till the sweet tempered ‘dames are con- verted by tea, : f Into character manglers—Gunatkophagi. In harmless chit chat an acquaintance they ‘Toast, And serve up a friend, as they serve up a toast. Some gentle fauz fas, or some female mistake, Is like sweet meats delicious, or relish’d as cake. | A bit of broad scandle is like a dry crust, dt would stick in the throat, so they butter it first ' TEA <r With alittle affected good nature, and cry No body regrets the thing deeper than I. Ah, ladies and was it by Heaven designed Thatye should be merciful loving and kind ! Did it form you like angels and send you } below, ey To prophecy peace, and bid charity flow | And have you thus left your primeval es: tate, eptdiin 4 And wander’d so widely; so strangelyof late; Alas | the sad cause I too plainly can see, The evils have all came upon you thro’ Zea Cursed weed, that can make our fair spi- rits resign, . Their character mild of _ their mission diving, That can blot from their bosoms that tens derness true, Which from female to female forever is due. Oh how nice is their texture, how fra- gile the frame Of that delicate frame, a female’s fair fame ! ~3Tis the sensitive plant, it recoils from the breath, And shrinks from the touch as if pregnant with death, ) How often, how often has innocence sigh’d, Has beauty been reft of its honor; its pride, Has virtue, though pure as angel of light, Been painted as dark as a demon at night ; All offered up victims—an auto de fe. At the gloomy cabals, the dark orgies ¢ Tea. : If Tin the remnant that’s left me of life, Am to suffer the torments of slanderous strife, Let me fall, I implore, in the slang whang- er’s claw, Where the evilis open, and subject to laws Not nibbled, and mumbled and put to the rack. By the sly undermining oftea party clack: Permit me I suffer a news-paper roasting, Butspare me! oh spare me, a tea table toasting. From Bennett's Letters. moment of Tecumselr's fall the enemy gave | If you are an early riser, you may find way. which secured him from the reach of time for any thing. It is amazing how their tomahawks; he was wounded in five much is gained by lopping off an hour ¥ places; he received three shots in the right two from indulgence in the morning, Nor thigh, and three in the left arm. Six A-l 1s the mere saving of time the only advan- mericans and 22 Indians fell within 20 yards. tage. Our spirits are more lively, and our ofthe spot where Teeumseh was killed, and | faculties are more awake. " ¢he trains of blood almost covered the Ido not know a practice which I should ground. more recommend, whether devotion, health teen 1133 GED 1 See beauty, or the improvment of the minds New York, Fen. 24, were the objects in view. How cheerful Successrul Recaurtine.—We intend- and how animated are the meditatiens of the ed yesterday, but for got, to copy from morning | What a delightful bloom flush- the evening post on Tuesday, a note of the es into the cheek from its balmy exhala= | occ ore 1 Tos attended the recruiting tions | What an unspeakable cheerfulness (ioc i this city since the last act for glides into the soul, from hearing the devo-x r.sing the bounty on enlistments. Such tional matins of the lark, and beholding the great numbers have joined the standard of new-born scenery of nature! How necessiy (pei country, that a number of officers have ry is such a regimen to preserve the sweet coq their quota already and the post ness of complexion & breath, which are the says, that three have closed their rendez» very escence and perfume of beauty. When 0 oo io cvedent that men enough are people think of accounting to God for the 0 (pe had for the money. And should talents they have received, they overlook there be any complaint of the want of mo- the hours which are lost in morning sloth, ney, as there formerly was for the want of and unreasonable indulgence. men, We trust the deficiency will be prompt- I have inured myself for many years to ly supplied by government from the re the habit of early rising. In the Spring (io eo put in their hands. Recruits are months of April and May particularly, I ising here for the following different grudge every moment that is wasted after corps: viz. 6th regiment infantry, 41st do. five. I consider itas a rade neglect to 4 3d artillery, Com Lewis’s flotilla, and Com. those sweets which open to salute me. And M’Donnough’s squadron on lake Cham- X always find so much more deducted from plain, (and perhaps some not recollected,) the firmness of my health, and the vigor besides the privateer York, and a number of my understanding. of letters of marque fitting for sea. — GD $I CoLUMBIAN. »n are +1 GEE | Marcu 8. Fl — LD From the Baltimore Register. RECRULING. —===We hear from all quar- ters of the brilliant success that has a.tend- ed the recruting service, under the new Jaw ; and be.icve as many men as are de- Sired will be ubtained, by the time that we The brave Col. Jonxsown, who comman» ded the Mounted regiment at the defeat of : Proctor, and was so scverercly woundey arrived in this city yesterday, and took his seat as a Representative from Kentucky, Although he recetved several wounds in . various parts of his body, it gives us great hall wank therm, pleasure to state that his general healthis ~~ P#78inia malitia—Return for the year 1 i 1813. perfectly re-established, and he has the : : happy prospect of entirely recovering the Infantry, iycluding officers 68,330 use of his left arm and hand, which were Cavalry: do. do. 5,217 much shattered Artillery, 2,254 al strengt 75,801 DEATH OF TECUMTFH, Tgeat strength ) We extract the following (says the far. BR oP OS AL S, mer’s register, of Troy,) from a 1 entitled—«Views of the Cempaigns of the Northern Army. ¢.” written by Mr. Same By Jacos Exper, of Harrisburg, Pa. Lor publishing by subscription, a new Work ENTITLED uel R. Brown, and just issued from this = yp EVENTS OF THE WAR, - office. This extract is from the narrative Between the United States of America and of the British and Indian armies at the Mo. Great Britain... during the years 1813 ravian town, on the 5th Oct. last. Mr. and 1814. Brown was a volunteer in Col. Johnson's BAP rT corps of mounted riflemen, at the time the CONDITIONS: events be speaks of, took place. Thegrea- | qq work will be executed on a hands ter part of the work is the result of actual some new pica type, and good paper. observation: pt 2. The price to subscribers will be One Dollar—to contain upwards of 200 pages, octavo, handsomely bound and letter- ous. Col. Johnson who commanded on gq. that flank'of his regiment, received a terri 3. Those who procure 12 Subscribers, ble fire from the Indians, which they kept who become responsible for the money, fi . Th C | Sealine shall be intitled to one copy gratis. EP lor Some Simei So Ion jmost mall *¥ The work is now in the press, and will Iy led the head of his collomn into the hot- ,, ready for delivery in a few weeks. test of the enemy’s fire, and was personal- November 25, 1813. ly opposed by Tecmseh. At thispoint a *_ * Subscriptionsreceived at this office. condensed mass of savages had collected. - Yet regardless of danger, he rushed TUSSEY FURNACE, into the midst of them-—so thick were the . ‘ wil roa i ! 3 For Rent: Indians at this time, that several might THE whole of which aiall- bo wit. 1 have touched him with their rifles. He complete repair. Possession given at any rode a white horse, and was known to be time after the first of March, next. For an officer of rank—a shower of balls was terms apply to discharged at him—some took affectehis horse was shot under him--his clothes, his saddle, his pe were pierced with bul. tv lets- At the moment his horse fell, Te- . DISSOLUTION. cumseh rushed towards him with uplifted The firm of Mussena and Pattersan is tomahawk, to give the fatal stroke, but hig this day disselved by mutual consent, All ; a a co him i. Persensindepted to said firm are request- prsence of mind did not forsake him In ed to call on Lyon Mussena, and Sette this perilous predicament-<he drew a P1s- their accounts without delay. « On the left the contest was more seri- WILLIAM PATTON. Bellcfonte, Feb. 1st. 1814. tol from his holsters, and laid his daring op. L. MUSSENA. ponent dead at his feet. He was unable W, i. PATTERSON. : 3 Aaronsburg, March 16, 1814. to do more, the loss of blood deprived him N. B. The store will be eontinued by of strength to stand. Fortunately at the A. M. busine ters Mmself that fom an ag. 5 +N oi 4 A 8 Lr Swe % A VANDYRKE, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends 5. | the public in genenly that he tends cot. mening the Saddls and Harness pgp jess by the fist day of : Pri pext ie borough of Bellefouc, at the COrIaP Market and Min Streets, immediately oppasite Mr. Alexmder’s tavery, He flac, ution to busis spand the supeior quality of his work rit a share of ie pulic } Ga Patronage, P.S. All orders will be thankfully re. ceived and punctudly attended to, : Bellefonte, Marg 19, 1814, A ie ils lini, TAYLOR ad LADY’s HABIT J TAKER, Late frm Lhiladetphia ) RESPECTFULLY infoms the inhabis tants of Bellefontiand its vicinity, that Le purpose carrying on the above business in Bellefonte, at te House of R. T. Stew. art, Esq He flaer himself that from hie attentionfto businss, and his former expe- rience, that he wl give general satisfac. tion. 3 gi $ NOTICE, ALL persons idebted to the estate of Mc. Ww m. M<«Clure, ite of Spring Township. Centre County, de. are requested to come. * forward immedtely, and discharge the same ; and thosdaving demands, against said estate, willslease to bring them for. ward properly acsted for settlement bes fore the figst dap f July next. : RIT. STEWART, Admr ice, Masi oth, 1814. A : rnin, - JR a ad lding from Bellefonte to Mr. Johnstons tarrn, a handsome Sword Cane. Afly pers finding, and leaving it at the office of thAmerican Patriet, shall be liberallyewared, bo ff Bellefonte, Mah 6, 1814. 3 3 i ae ‘ DER REDLIAE REGISTRATOR $7 A Gerna paper, under the above title, is now pegurly published at the of. fice of the ¢ Brain Repository’ in Cham- bersburg, ev@y uesday morning, and im- mediately forwvaed with the Repository through this dofly, and by the different mails, as direct®-Nearly the whole cone tents of this is weekly translated from the latestn@lish papers. And from nage already received; receiving) those wha to publish, will find it Chambersbily 37> Substi office. j nuary 1814, s will be taken at this OF LAND svalley, Haynes town: ship, in the anty bf Centre, and on the main road Ming} from Pennsvalicy te Brush-valley contdining one hundred and fifty acres, ty ofwhich are cleared and under good fee. There is running through the premises streal of water sufficiently large for turag a Filling Mill o Carding Machine. ‘ie plade is suitably situated for a Mechas of ang kind, beingdin a po- pulous partf the country. Fol further particulars euire of ¢s Dundan, Esq. Aaronsburg ®t the s@bscriber | ing a Bellefonte. : ELL. N. B. Thplace is about twomiks from Mr. Duncai' Upper Mill and within five of Aarousbu. There has been 4 tavern kept upon ti premises, RAGS, THE Khest price will be gen fo: clean Line and €otton RAGS, ir Grrice. TET —— 'UBLISHED, BY HMILTON ¢&& MOOR Ix Cerre County, BELLEF§T 5, Prrurdiately eppesite the SITUATh P
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