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I sew the. virtucus nati conterd
With life’s pnnumbered woes ;
And he was poor---withoat a friead---
Press’d by a tiiousand fogs.
Isaw the passion pliant slave
: ; in 3
In gullant wim and gay;
His cou:s¢ was plcasure’s placid wave,
His ufea summer’sday : 2
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And 1 was caught in folly’s snare,
And join’d her giddy train ;
But tound her soon the nurse of care,
And punishment and pain.
There surely is some guiding power,
+ Which rightly suffers Wrong,
Gives vice to bloom its littie hour,
But Virtue late and long.
Te
An axiom.
Two easy things will satisty mankind,
An easy fortune and an easy wind ;
But the one thing that gives a man con-
tent, :
Ts a good conscience fiom a hfe well
spent.
The desponding Negro.
ON Africa’s wide plains where the Lion
- DOW roaring,
With freedom stalks forth the vast desert
exploring,
I was dragged from my hut and enchain’d
as a slave,
In a dark floating dungion upon the salt
wave.
Touss’d on the wild main, 1 wildly despair-
ing, -
Burst my chains, 2ush’d on deck with my
eye balls glaring,
T=
vehien the dightniug’s dread blast struck
the lets of 4
2 gis, » " '
ABA Its giorous bright beams shut forever
aN ay.
.
The despeiler of man then his prospect
thus losing, -
Of gam by my sale, not a blind bargain
choosy, )
Asmy v
alue compared to my keeping was
ight,
Had me dush’d over board in the dead of
the night,
And bui for a bark tp
; then,
All my cares by th
Britania’s coast bound
at plunge, in the deep
had been drown’d then,
But by moon light descry’d. I was snatch’d
from the wave,
And Feiuctantly robu’d of a watery grave.
How dis istrous my fate freedom’ ETUUIK
tho’ 1 tread How,
Torn from home wide, children, and wand-
YW 1
tng for bread now.
While seas roi between us, which ne'er
can be cross’d,
And hope’s distant glimm’rings in dark-
ness are lost,
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But of minds {onl and fair ‘when the judge
; and the poud’rer,
Shall restore light and rest to the blind. and
the wand ver, :
The Europeans deep die may out rival the
gibe,
And the soul of an E hiope prove white as,
the snow.
un ,
Curious Circumstance.
: A gentleman from Boston relates the
WoLowiag singular affaiey, which |
2 : ne Says
happened just betore he left the
ut place 1—
A person had been tak-
ex aad co nmitted to prison
for passing counterfeit bills,
“ceased deposited in it.
&
Shortly afterwards a negro
‘was taken upforsome crime
and confined in the same
room, and was taken sick
in about a week and died.
Next day acoffin was provi-
ded, and the body of the de-
As
people of colour are com-
monly interred inthe evean-
ing by those of their own
conplexion, the coffin was
suffered to remain till
night in the room with the
money maker. After the
jailerand those who acecom-
panied him had left the
room he bethought himself
the present would be a most
favorable opportunity « to
escape, and thereby avoid
the punishment that await-
ed hun. The wicked do
not so much care what are
the means, if theyscan ac-
complish their designs.
Whenall was still and safe,
hetook the corps out of the
cofiin, and placed it in his
own hammock, got into it
himself, and turned lid
down careful as before. In
this situation he lay, anxi-
ously, yet fearfully waiting
the moment when he should.
be liberated from his loath-
sone confinement. In the -
evening the coffin was
taken and carried from the
.
"yo
prison by lourlusty negroes
appointed for that purpose,
and solemnly conveyed to
the burying ground. When
they arrived at the grave,
he coffin was set down with
great care, and one of them
was aboutto make a speech
upon the death of their
companton.--Scarcely had
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tho
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BLANKS,
Horse-bills,
And bills of other
.. deseriptions,
can be
&
NEATLY EXECUTED AT
THIS OFFICE.
FOR SALE,
One half of an undivided tract of patent-
ed (and, containing 418 acres, situate in
Spring township, Centre county, now in
the tenure of John Irwin. The land is well
timbered and of a tolerable quality. Any
person disposed to purchase, it is expected,
will view the premises« first. Terms of
gale made known by ‘the subscriber, whe
will make a good and sufficient title.
ENOCH PASSMORE.
Deagember 15 18 4,
« Loents 0° the War”?
Much complaint and dissatisfaction
seemed to prevail among many of the sub-
sciibers to this work, on account of the de-
tention of the books, before they came to
haod ; but since that, little or no inquiry
bas been made about them. The publish-
er has beet ata very great expense in the
priiting of them, and expects to be remu-
neraied in bo other way than by their sale s
itis therefore, hoped, that those who have
been so generdus as to subscribe, will call
for their respective copies, and take thera 3
and after that, fay for them.
: : Office Amer. Pat.
LEGISLATIVE REGISTER
any of our subscribers have expressed
M
‘adesive to see a regular narrative of pro-
ceedings, mn our state legislature. For the
imformation of such persons, and of the
pubii. in IR we give information;
that a capable hand has been employed for
that purpose jand that the legislative pros
ceedings will He weekly, and faith fuljy re-
gistered in the Chronicle, Three or four
columas oi cvery sheet will be devoted
wo that deparunent—To give the debates
at iength is not the intention. If however,
debates on general and important points de
take piace, some of the speeches wiil be
give in full.
he editor invites such as wish to have
the legislative proceedings, to attend to it
early that there may be po breach in the
narrative. Subscriptions for the Chronicle
will be taken for 4 months, at 75cts. to be
paid in advance. :
Harrisburg Chron.
Lliladphia, Sept. 1814,
PROPOSAL,
er WILLIAM M’CARTY,
FOR PUBLISHING
A
NARRATIVE
OF THE
@AMPAIGN IN RUSSIA,
"DURING THE YEAR
1812.
BY SIR ROBERT KER PORTER.
TERMS.
i, ve sword The octavo copy | embellished with a
he tine to utler one word gi. ocrav? cohy | emoctin on a
nt, th a*l; i 1 ee Three Dollars : the ; Kau YOUSOFF, and
wii Te ¥ : »
pelore the'lid of the coffin Fresrat Tin wo | ie
flew open, and the money-
maker jumped out and
madelds escape; while the
poor negroes affrighted al-
most to distraction, ran
with great violence inevery
direcilon, screaming, «de
debi) | de debil! de debil i?
= 1'he mistake was not dis-
red uutil the next day,
Xr
LS
Co
and Yhe person Las notbeen
heard of since.
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RnR’ A « F/ %
W A i 9 2 . i)
IMMEDIATELY, two or three Jouvm-
NEYMEN TavLors,t0 whom ZENETOUS Wa~
ges and constant employment will be Tver
by HENRY STRW SRT,
wo November 3, 18 bb
=.
be afforded to sub- | full shee cach ) ‘ex-
¥crilbiers, an a large | hibiting the advance
duodecim, volumn of | uf the French arnly
near 400 pages, ar | to Moscow, and its re
One Dllar and Fif- | treat ther from.
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and One Dollar and encouragement offer,
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The work will be |
a ...
True «Narrative of the Campaign in
Russia, during the year 1812,” has desery-
€dy received tue highest encomiums fiom
different Reviewers. We copy the follow
lug from the account of the crossing of tue
iscrezina by the French, in their retreat
fron Russia.
“Two bridges had been completed, the
ene near © tubgnzy, and the other near Ves
seiovo. Here, indeed, was Napoleon.
The opposite shore was Zebmino. The
instant the work was passable, the impa-
vient Lmpuror of the French ordered over
a sufficient number of his guards to render
Wwic way tolerable safe from immediate
molestation : and the moment that was as-
certained he followed with his suit aud prin-
wpe! gencrals ; a promiscuors crowd of
Roh Gon a a i
Asoldices pressing after hin. The
for precedence in the moment of escape.
_itated his comrade to destruction, that
Che
h She 33
was hardly cleared of his weight and that A
his chosen SonipaRions, hen the rush of oy
fugatives redoubled. No order cotid be _
$ept with the hordes that poured towards =
418 passage lor escape and hic, for the Rus-
sins welc in their sear j the Wunder of
Vigtensten was rolling over their beads, — :
No pen can describe the confusion and hor-
ror of the scenes which eusued. The
French army bad lostits rear guard, and
they found thems: ives at once exposed to
ail the operations of the ven, ui, enemys
Ou the right and ou the elk tlie wus he
€scape ; Cannon, bayonets, ahd sabres ICH ~ J
aced them op every side ; certain @bath
was on their rear ; 1 their trout alone wis
there any hope ol safety ; and, trantic with ©
the desparate alternative, thousands upoa
thousands Hew towards tue Boreziudy sui
plungluy to the river, but most 3
thelr steps to the newly cons ructed bildg-
es, which seemed to otfer théin a pease
from their enemies. Misery had log dis=
organized the French army, and in wie
present dismay no voice of order was neard;
the tumult was tremendous, was destruc=
tive of cach other, as the despairing
wretches pressed forward and struggied
3
« Vigtenstein stood in horror, viewing
this chaos of human misery ; to clost'it at
ence in dcath,or in capitulation was the
wish of his brave heart ; but the enemy
was frantic; nothing could be ‘heard’ but
the ' oar of canon and the cries of despair,
The wounded and the dying covered the
‘surface of the ground; the survivors rushed |
in wild fury upon thew affvighted comrades
on the bridges. They could not penetrate,
but only press upon a crowd at the nearcst
extremity ; for the whole bodies of. these
passages were so filled with desperate tu-
gatlves that they crushed on each other to
suffocation and to death. Trains of artilie=
ry; baggage, cavalry, and waggous of all
Kinds, being intermixed and driven peti=
mull to one pomt, hundreds of huigan bee A
ns were trodden down, trampicd on, torn
and mashed to peces.” Officers and sol-
diers were mingied in one mass 3 seit pres- i
ervation was the only stimulus, and seit :
ng that, many a despairing wretch precipa | «
- §
might find his plaee on the bridge. Thos
sands fell into the fiver, thousands threw
themsives in the hideous steam, hopiag to
save themselves by swimming, but in afew
muiutes they were jammed amudst the
biocks ofice which roiled aiong irs’ land,
and either killed"in the concusion or frozen |
to death by the extremity of the cold The
air resounded with the yelis and shrieks {it%
was something more horrible than cries) of
the dying, wounded, and drowning’? but
they were only heard at intervals, for one
eontinued roar seemed to’ fill the heaveus,
ef the {ussian artillery pouring its floods
el deathful retribution on the heads of the
desolators of this ~ountry. Welcome indeed
wore the deaths it sent ; few were nis pangs
who fell by the bail or the sabre, compared
wih hia torte whe lay mangled beneath
the crowding feet of is conwades, who CXe
pired amid the crashing horrors of a world
ofice. Bnt the despair of these fated
wretches was uot yetcomplete. Fhe head
which had planned all these evils might yet
be a.nongst them : and the bridges, groan.
ing beneath the weight of their loads, were
to be fired ! The deed was done ; and sill
crowd upon crowd continued to press cach
other forward choaking up the passage ae
mid bursting flames, scorched and (rozim
at the same stant, till at length the whole
sunk with a death-like noise into the bosom
of Berezina ,’ A
g7> Subscriptions will be - received at
this Office. :
STRAY.
STRAYED away from the pasture of
the subscriber some time in August last &
atwoyearsoid wl ;
BRINDLED HEIFFER.
Any p rson taking her up, and giving ins
formation therect to the ewner, shall 5
be Iiberally rewarded. :
WILLIAM RIDDEL.
Nev. 98, 1814 : .
SIX CENTS REWARD,
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RANAWAY from the subscriber, hivin
in Bald Eagle Township, Centre County,
on the 6th of Oclaber,an Indenced appre: =
tice named, : x
JOHN SWARTS, § rel
about five feet four inches high, had on
when he went away, a homespun drab route i
dabout coatand waistcodt, course tow trows
sci's, and small fur hat; talks Dutch, and v4
tollerable Englsh ; a great tonacco chewer
and Smoker. Whoever takes up said Run- wa of
away and brings him back to me, shall 3
ceive the above reward,but no charges paid. "|
HUGH WHITE,
Bald Eagle, Nov. 12,1814.
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A quantity of BLANK EXECHUTI
QINS for selc at tis Offiec.