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TO-MORROW.
Gr—It may or may uot 6¢ so.
WITH what caution to-morrow conceals
its aftalrs,
Whether big with good fortune or no ;
Moo is lu’d by the butterfly aspeet it wears
V¥ atic Jt may, or it may not be so.
TW cre its secrets unfolded, how soon should
we pe
But its secrets we never must know ;
I'or Faney’s fair paintings are hope’s richest
mines
While it may or it may not be so.
{Vill the poor tar leave his home, and
brave, hopeless of gain, lL
Seas and tempest, both pregnant with
WOE, s
He will not---but he will, if a prospect re-
HE nin,
"That it may or it may not be so.
The coy little miss would be free {fom
restraint,
Were she sure she unmarried must go,
WW io can flatter, sigh, ogle, coquet or paint,
While it may, or it may not be so.
The maiden of forty with bugles would
shine,
Could she hawk some young fopling or
beau :
But her dimples, turn’d rinkies compel
her to pine,
While it may, or it may not be 30,
As long as to-morrow keeps onc day a-head,
“I Greenland’s a stranger to snow,
Tair praspects will hang on as brittle a
tiwroad,
As it may, or it may net be so
GENIUS, WITHOUT MORRALITY.
————Talents, angel bright,
If wanting worth, ave shining instruments
Ia false, ambitious hands, to finish faults
I{iustriovs, and give infamy renown.
Brim
CHRISTIANITY.
"To correct a habit, to control an inclina-
tio, to calm the temper, to guard the
thew hts, to take up a cross of self-denial,
to make sactifices of pleasure to duty ;
these, O 1 Christianity | are the trophtes
of thy renown ; these the labors thou hast
promised to reward.
: ee
HOW TO PLEASE iN CONVERSA
TION.
None of the desires dictated by vanity is
mote general, or less blameable, than that
of being distinguished for the arts of convers
sation. Other accomplishments may be
possussed without opportunity of exerting
"\ them, or wanted without danger thie the
defect can often be remarked ; but as no
nian ¢an live otherwise than in hermitage,
without hourly pleasure or vexation, from
"| the fondness or neglect of those about him,
the taculiy of giving pleasure is of continual
use. Few are more frequently envied than
thos: who have the power of forcing atten-
tio: wherever they come. whose entrance
is cousidered as a promise of felicityyand
whose departure is tamented, like the re-
cess of the sun from northern climates, as 5
pr. ation of ail that enlivens fancy or in-
Spires gaiety. : ;
It is apparent that to excellence in this
valuzbie art, some, peculiar qualifications
are necessary ; for every man's experience
will inform him, that the pleasure which
men ave able to give in conversation holds
no stated proportion to their virtue. ‘Many
find their way to the wablesand the parties
of tose who never consider them as of the
feast importance inany other place; we.
have all, at one time or other, been’ content
to love those whom we could not esteem, &
been persuaded to try the dangerous expe.
timent of admitting him for a companion
whom we know to be too ignorant lor
counsellor, and too
friend.
He that would picase must rarely aim
such excelience as depresses his hearers
a
treacherous for.
at
in
thelr opinicn, or debars taem fromthe hope
of contributing reciprocally to the entertain-
ment of the company. Merviment extort-
“ed by sallics of imagination, sprightliness of
vemark. pr quitkness of reply. is too often
what the Lating ei, the Sardingan laugh-
7
aw
For this yesson no style of conversation is
more extensively acceptable than the nar-
rative, He who has ‘storsd his memory
with shght anecdotes, private incidents, &
personal peculiarities, seldom fails to find
his audience fayourable. Almost ewcry
man listens with eagerness to extemporary
history ; for aimost every man has some re-
al or imaginary connection with a ceiebra-
ted character, sone desire to advance or
oppose a rising name. Vanity often co-op.
crates with curiosity. He that is a hearer
in one place qualifies himself to become a
speaker in another ; for tho’ he cannot com
prehend a series of argument, or transporg
the volatile spirit of wit without evapora-
tion, yet he thinks himself able to ‘treasure
up the various incidents of a story, and plea-
ses his hopes with the information which he
shall give to some inferior society.
Narratives are for the most part heard
without envy, because they are not suppo-
sed to imply any intellectual qualities above
the common rate. To be acquainted with
facts not yet echoed by plebian mouths,
may happen to one man as well as to anoth-
er, and to velate them when they are known,
has in appearance so verry little difficulty,
that every one concludes himself equal to
the task: RAMBLER.
JUSTICE, ITS NATURE AND REAL
IMPORT DEFINED.
Mankind in general are not sufficiently
aquainted with the import of the word jus-
tice : itis commonly believed to consist
only 1n a periormance of those duties to
which the laws of society can oblige us.—
This, I aliow, is sometimes the import of
the word, and in tais sense justice is distin-
guished from equity ; but there isa justice
still more extensive, and which can be
shewn to embrace all the virtues united.
Justice may be defined, that virtue which
impels us to give to every person what is
his due: In this extended sense of the
word, it comprehends the practice of eve-
ry virtue which reason prescribes, or soci-
ety should expect. Our duty to our Maker,
to each other, and to ourselves, are fully
answered, if we give them what we owe
them. Thus. justice,properly speaking, is
the only virtue : and all the rest have their
origin in it. .
The qualities of candour, fortitude, chari-:
ty, and generosity, for instance, are not ' in
their own nature virtues ; and, if ever they
deserve the title, it is'owing only to justice,
which impels and directs them. \Vithout
such - a moderator, candour might become
indiscretion, fortitude obstinacy, charity im-
prudence, and generosity mistaken profus
ion, 3 Ne ¥ oh
A disinterested action, if it be not con-
ducted by justice; isyat bests, mdifficrent in
its nature, and not unfrequently. even turns
to vice. The expences of society, of pres.
ents, of entertainments, and the other helps
to cheerfulness, are actions merely indiffer-
ent, when not repug nant to a better method
of disposing of our superfluities ; but they
become vicious when they obstruct or ex-
haust our abilities from a more virtuous dis-
position of our circumstances:
True generosity is a duty as indispensa-
bly necessary as those imposed on us by
law. Itis a rule imposed on us by reason,
which should be the sovereign law of a ra-
tional being. But this generosity does not
consistin obeying every impulse of humani-
‘ty, in following blind passion for our guide,
,and impairing our circumstances by pres-
ent benefactions, so as to render us incapa-
ble of future ones.
pe ph
iy
THE creditors of Thomas Barlow, late
-
of Philipsburg, i the county of Centre, an
insolvent debtor ; and also the creditors of
the partnership of « Barlow and Feltwell,”
of the same place, are requested to exhibit
their accounts and demands against said in-
solvent debtor and partnership, to the sub-
scriber at Laurel Spring Paper Mill, Hunt-
ingdon county, or at the office of William
Petriken, Esg. in Bellefonte, on or before
the twenty ninth day of November next, as
a dividend will be made and @eclared on
that day. Ch
CHARLES CADWALLADER.
; Assignee of T. Barlow,
and
Barlow & Feltwell,
Insolvent debtor.
August 23. :
BLANKS FOR'SALE
AT THIS OFFICE.
CY
x rH Nofin
TAVERNSTAND
Where the subscriber now lives, situate
in‘the'town of Newry, Huntingdon county,
‘on which are erected a lage two Story Log
Divelling House, 50 by 36 icely neatly eas
therboarded and painted white. The house
18 finished in the neatest mabe, a room of
‘which is now occupicd as a Store ; to which
¥
is attached, a good Kitchen, aud a well of
excellent water in the yai d Ou the pren-
ses there are a neat Qae Story Log building
which has been occupied as a Distillery,a
good Stable, and a large frame Shed, 50 feet
m length. : ws :
ALSO,
A large two story Log House, 36 by 50
feet, situate in said town, opposite the above
property, to which is attached a large frame
Kitchen, making a front of nearly 80 feet in
length, with good Stabling; this house
is also well calculated for public Lusi
ness. | :
BENJAMIN WRIGHT.
July 5, 1814.
cn —
THOSE Gentlemen who have became sub-
scribers to the Work Entitled: « Events of
the War” lately published at Harrisburg,
are requested to call fortheir books, as they
are now at this office ready for delivery.
LAND AGENCY.
THE subscriber will attend to the busi-
ness of a Land Agent in the borough of Har-
risburg. Those wishing to procure patents
or copies from any of the public offices
will find their business -executed with
promptness. hd.)
ALEXANDER GRAYDON, Junr.
HARRISBURG, AUG. 14 1814.
— a aa’
DISSOLUTION or PARTNERSHIP.
THE partnership of Tho Beatty & co. is
thisday dissolved by mutual consent. The
Books and Papers belonging to the said
firm are left in the care of Elisha Moore,
Esq. in Bellefonte, who is authorised to re-
ceive all monies due. Persons indebted
are requested to call and make payment.
~ WILLIAM BEATTY.
THOMAS BEATTY
Bellefonte, May 28th, 1814.
ann 15n*8we.
An Ordinance, to extend ell ordinances here-
tofore frassed by the Town Council oj the
Borough of Bellcfonte to the town of
Smithfield, and other fiurfroses.
Sec. I. ‘Be it ordained and enacted by
the Town Council of the Borough af Belle~
Jonteyand.it is hereby ordained and enacred’
by the authority of the samey "That from and:
after the due promulgation of this Ordi-:
nance, all ordinances heretofore passcd by
: the Town Council of the said Borough, that:
are now in force be, and the same are here--
by extended to the town of Smithfield, and
the other parts of Spring creek township,
that “were annexed to the said Borough, by
an act of the Legislature, at their last ses-
sion. 4% © od :
Sec. 2. And be it ordained, That, that
part of all ordinances heretofore pagsed by
the said Town Council, making it the duty
of the first named of the Council to act in
a-judicial capacity, in the absence ina-
bility to act, or otherwise, of the burgess, be
and the same is hereby repealed. Passed
into anordinance July i5, 1814.
3
ANDREW GREGG,
ELISHA MOORE,
CONSTANS CURTIN,
INO. RANKIN,
JOS. MILES,
JAS STEEL,
EVAN MILES.
Attest~=Evrisar Moore, Clk
“JI2UNOY
" SPECIAL COURT
—
Agreably to the provisions of an Act of
Assembly, passed the 28th March, 1814,
entitled, « An Act authorizing the holding ot
Special'Courts in the Counties o { Hunting
don, Mifflinand Centre,” they reside wo
the eight judicial district (the Hon. Sern
CuArMAN,) has appointed a Special Court,
tobe held in Centre County, on Monday the
10th day of October next, and to: continue
one week ; for the trial of all causes, now
pending in the Common Pleas of Centre
County, in which the Hon. Judoe Walker is
concerned in interest, or was of council be-
tore his appointment.
J. G. LOWREY, Pret.
Jellefonte, August 6, 1814,
>
RB EAS the subscriber gaye ¥
Y avid Storm, two notes of ong han-
dred and ninety pounds cach; the first pay~
able 1st of April 1815; the other Ist of
April 1816; and eight other notes of one
hundred pounds each : the first payable 1st.
of April 1817, and one each succeeding |
year; and one other note of one hundred
TA a
®
J ii “
anditwenty five pounds, payuble first of As
pril 1825+ ‘Thisis therefore to forewarn all
persons from taking an assignment on said
notes. said Storm not having complied with
his engagements. od 3
HENRY. YOTTER.
Beilefonte, Sept. i7 , 1814.
Causes for trial at the Special Court o.
Common Pleas Centre county, October
10, 1814. yioes?
Les. of Lauman’s Ex’is
US
T. Thomas.
Les. of Jos. Lamborn
VE.
H. Hartzock,
Les. Lauman’s Ex’ps.
V8.
Ramcy & Stratton
Les. of M. T. Simpson
vs.
Jackson'& Kinter,
Same Same,
Les of James Packer
v8,
R. Gunsalus
Les. of R. Gunsalus
v3.
Hoover and Beixier,
Les of Lauman’s Ex’s
vs.
Jacob Houser,
Les. of John Ashley
; vs.
George Reynolds,
Jacob Fouser
Us.
Martin Steel,
Same vse Same,
Les. of Richard Wistar
Vs
Ross and M:Kee, .
Same vs. Jno. Harbinsgn,
Duncan'and Walker
CTI
Jacob Meese,
Les. of D. Harris, jum.
iii v8.
Wiiliam Monks,
Les. of James Potter
oe.
R. Pennington,
Les of Danici Swytzer
Ts.
J. Meese and al.
Philip: Benner
' vs.
Jacob Houser and al.
Duncan and Tngersel’
V8.
Daniel Turner.
Same vs. Samey
Letitia Nailor and al.
Us.
J. Hutton and al.
G. Robinson, jun.
TVS
John Neal,
vs.
Cy § Gs py = ;
A
TO WOOD CUTTERS. i
THE subscriber at Hope . Furnace, in
Mifllin County, will five half a doijar (in
cash) per cord, for any number of cords any
person may put up from this time till the.
firstof December next—The cash will be
paid as soon as 50 or 100 cords may be put
b)
up, at the option of the ‘person cutting and.
putting it up~The wood is on good ground,
stands thick ; and is generally young thriv-
ing rock-oak, with a little white-oak and
black-oak----Provisions will be furnished at
as low rate, if not lower, than at the iron
works in Centre County----Any company of
wood choppers contr: gos for six or seven
hundred cords or any Torther quantity they
‘may pleace, shall receive a handsome com-
pensatica :
WM. W. LAIRD.
Hore 'ur~NACE, Ave. 22, 1814
Hes QM.
MILITIA TAKE NOTICE!
The Pay-master will attend at Bellefonte on
Monday the 17th day ot October next, to
day the Militia who served a six mouths
“tour of duty under Colonel Rees Hill, the
additional pay allowed by the State of Penn-
sylvania.
Commanding officers of companies are
regucsted to present their Rolls certified on
Hoocur, and countersigned by the Col,
September 1, 1814,