POETRY. els ¢ ' JULIA’S GRAVE. : CUNNINGHAM. . Wanc—Lacax \VaTer, &e briery biclds, whare roses blaw, Y: duwery fells an’ sunny braes, Wh ise scrogzie bosoms fuster’da’ The pleasuces 0’ my youthlu’ days; “A nang you leafy simmer clacs And blushin’ blooms the z:phyr flies, Bynes winze awa, and wanton pays Around the grave were Julia lies Mae mair your benny birken bowers, Your streamlets fair and woodlands gay, Can cheer the weary winged hours, ~ As uptheglenl joyless stray: Fora’ my hopes hae flown away, ) And, when they veach’d their native skies, $.eft me amid the world o” away, To weet the grave whare Julia liege $: isua beauty’s fairest bloom, It isna maiden charms counsign’d, d hurried to an early tomb, That wriugs my heart and clouds my mind ; ; Put sparkling wit and sense refin dy And spotless truth without disguise, akes me with sighs enrich the wind ¥ lat fana the grave whare Julia lies. er — + S———— STANZAS. T, MOORE, ESQ. Yon wenrie | wretches sink to sleep, How heavenly soft their stumbers he, ow sweet is death, to those who weep, To thess, who weep and long to die, 4 ae Baw yout he soft Where 8pw’rets breast ? “ *Tis there T wish to lay my had, *Tis there I wish to sleep at rests and grassy bed deck the green earth’s Oh ! lot not tears embalm my tomb, * None but the dews of twilight givens. . Oh | let not sighs disturb the gicoms - Nome but whispering winds of keaven. THE CONTRAST. Pow lively ave the Roses hues, |, When men its op’ning bloony-displays, WW iian spangled with celestial dews, ; It meets the early flovist’y pazes Put far wove lively are the ii bs that glow, ~ And o'er Maria’s cheeks thelr radiance throw, . - Mow rich the pure nectareous bliss, The honey siecling pirate tastes, s macer tor the blushing Kiss, : From leaf to icaf he trembling hastes Put far nore pure, more lasting joy he reaps, SNELL Who tastes all pleasure on Maria’s lips. Securely Nature round the Rose, Has pisc’d a thorn entangled guard, Whilst Venus gainst Maria’s foes, An host of Cupids has, prepar’d : 3+ io your hand you fear the thorny smart, Maria shun—her Cupids wound the heart. i FUE REWSPAPER TO ITS READ: : (ExTRACTED.) Those who expect me to march at all times with e tragedy stride, so measur- ed and so solemn, are not yet aequainted with me It is ‘my business to ge the rounds of the town ear- 1y every Saturday and to hid « good morning” to those who please to make “me welcome: Now it is fully to be very formal a- bout the matter. _ 1. come to tell you the news wha has happened abroad and and if there is nothing special, I tell you ef home ; a pleasant tory; a moral JAMES ROSS. falc; or give you a relig CONDITIONS. ous essay ; taking eare aly ways be laferm you who |me no man was ever poor- ge i Some look a little sour and pretend that the times afford to take me. nonsense! But the same men will call into a groce- ry, and spend twelve and an half cents without think- ing of it, and that is twice as much as I cost. Now it isa pity if I am not of as much gratification and use to afamily as two bottle of beer, or a glass of brand) which’are gone before you can say Jack Robison and the wife and children have no good of them. Believe er for taking a newspaper But [ have many a call to make ;.good morning, - Remains of Extinct Anl- mals. The region for a hundred miles, oi thereabout, around Now York city, 1s ons The fessil remains of eight or nine ani mals, not tow supposed to be alivey have been rats d from its soil. Our protesso of narural histery, Dr. Mitchell, has pro nounced oa th: extinct mastadon, clephant, crocodile, and thinocerasy whose teeth, and bones, and skeletons have been disniteries in this vicinity within a few ‘years; races of huge creatures, of whom not 2,1 individ- ual is known to be alive a: this day. Hu has given a similar opinion on the belmites spitulas, oysiers, and other relics of marine ‘animals, raised from the strata decp be- {neath the surface ; all of ‘hem vesuges of families that exist no more. In these res pects New York is more curiously siwat- ed than Loudon. Rome does not exceed it. NAT ADY. ROSYS GREEK GRAMMAR. rp uihp ‘ 3 N O real proficient in the Greek Lan- guage Deeds to be intormed of the mmpdr tance of having the ives of the Greek Gram rr in Lad. The student, who can construe, parse, and write Latin well, enters with peculiar advantage om the study of the Greek Lan- guage. Erg s Not only the rules more concisely ex- press in the Latin than in the Euglish; 1it the best scholiasts, Commentators and Grammayinns of the Greek. langudge have generally writen in Latin’; and the student, who has become a proficient in Latin, will acquire the knowledge of the Greek with much more facility and accuracy than he who, witliout such a previous knowledge, applies to it merely with Enghsh ules : the former, whilst he is studying the Greek Grammar by Latin rules, is, at the same tine, improving the knowledge of the lat. in, the Greck Grammaa in Latin being a he studies the Greek by an English Greek Grammar, cannot. ‘possibly do this ;. itis unnecessary to state how important a knowledge of both Greek and Latin isto’ a liberal education. Ew ax The editor has used in the first edition snd will continue to use in this, his. best cideavors to render it both concise amd comprehensive ; his chief aim being to en» able the student’ te pronounce, resolve ir }.. ood Latin, and parsc the Greek with pre- cision and critical accuracy. He exalts in the, recoliection that the first edition has for a considerable time been used in the Jersey College, the Chambersburg and New Ark, [Del] Aca demies, and others reputable seminarii s, where itis studied with superior appro- bation. : Application (post paid) may be had to ‘he editor in Philadelphia, North Fourth street No. 44. it will be printed on as good’ type and pa sac, well why “yl * [has good things to sell, de. Fhe eustamery afewanioe WT be given to are so hard that they can’t} What| of the most remarkable upon the globe =} It is equal to Pars. {mos excellent classic book: the latter as wiper as the former edition of the samo} Lo SRSaG sd | Booksellers and Teachers who subsciib: for 8,12, 50, 100 or more cepics. Th wo k will be putto press 8s sovon as i sutiicient number of subscribers are ob tained. ? Subsciiptions wiil be received by Joh Mont; omery, Ajtorney General jgRober Milter, merchant ; Col. James Calhoun John Purviance, attorney at law; the Revd S. Knox, provost, and Ane Revd Wm, Sinclair, vice provost of Baltimors College, Messrs. Coale and Maxwell { printers Baldmore ; by the Revd DD. Denny, rector of the Chambersburg Fisher, Esq: s. Harrisburg 3 Wm. Ham. ilten, Lancaster, and by Mr. Thomas Dobson, Mr E. Bronson, and Mu M. Carcy, Philadelphia. 7Y4SCAPED from the Jail of Centre ~ounty, where he was confined under sen tence of the Court for a criminal offence, oi: Fiiday cvening the 13th ofthis inst. a mu: of the name of DANIEL CHIP MAN, abeut five feet ten inches high, thick se of sullin aspect, fair «complexion, anc about 27 years of age. He had on whey he made his escape, a long drab surtout | O her clothing not remarkable He i w.pposed to bave made his way toward: Birmingham, Huntingdon county, having been employed previously to his imprison ment, in that place, at the nailing business The above reward will be paid if brought to the Jail of the county from which he es caped, together with all reasonable charges Wm. Alexander, o Sheriff ‘Bellefonte, Dec. 18, 18186. LOST. Was lost some time in Apri last, a ven pounds, considerably battered on the dle. Any person haying possession of the same, and leaving it at the office of the A merican Patriot shall be rewarded for his urouble, and receive the thanks of the own- or Lycoming & Potter TURNPIKE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, YE IHAT pursuant to the provisions con- tained in an act passed at the las: entitled # Anact to enable the governos to incorporate a company for making an artificial road trom Jersey Shore, in the county’ of Lycoming, to- Couderspori in the county of Potter,” books will be opened by the undersigned, commissioners named in the said act, at the office of George Vaux, No 39 south 4th street i the city of Philadelphiay on the second day of December next, at ten o’clock AM. for the purpose of reciving subscriptions milar books will be also opened at the game time and for the same purpose in Northumberland county at the house of Thomas Gaskins, in the town of Nor- thumberland ; and in Lycoming county, at the house .of James Cummings, in the borough of Williamsport, : house of James Collins, in the town of Jersey Shore. JOHN KEATING, THOMAS STEWARDSON "GEORGE VAUX, ! J.P. De GRUCHY, - JOHN BOYD, ... HUGH WHITE, JAMES COLLINS, THOMAS M: CLINTOCK SAMUEL STEWART, MMISSIONERS. a cos ~ ROBERT M’CLURE, . ...-.ANDW. D. HEPBURN," October 18, 1816+ - is ' Bellefonte Academy. UBLIC notice is hereby given, that the: Bellefonte Acadenity in Centre county is reorganized, and open for the re- ception of scholars. The trustees have en’ caged Mr. M. Chamberlain, lately from Dartmouth College, (Newhampshire) as a teacher; a gentleman of respectability, and highly qualified. In this seminary will be taught, the Greek and Latin languages. English grammar, Geography, and the dif- feremt branches of the mathematitks By order of the Board of Trustees. J. G. Lowrey, President for the mulady, in the most sate offecwual way 3 Academy ; William Graydon and Geo | PRY a tually curing near one hundred persons in this ity, of the most dreadful of all maladies, yo Fifty Dollars | REWARD. hundreds o ot Philadelphia, { t SMALL AXE, weighing about six or sc | ~2ad, and having but a very indifferent hau- | ses: ion ‘of the legislatare of Pennsylvania. for the stock of the said company. Sip and at the # Aka rr “ Interesting Biccavery Te thoes who &1¢ 30 wifuriunieie elicited a y » CANCERS, panily excite them to mguire and die cct where they may obtain a perfect cure » cas y and 3 \ . Y : Lottor Grigog ; Eo Wa No 277 North Second Street Philadelphia, : . i » ha Confident tha this re; J others that- have ever been is : i others that haye evel been i practice, hinks it his Guly {o make 0 KD0Wwn to the sublic, that he has succeeded in effec Hedy is superior te he CANCER, within the las iy of whome had despared of ever oby aininge a cure, some of whom had been altended mm the Alms House and Hospital of thig place,” without success and nowe tectually ‘curcde— are ofp By the afflicted’s Fu ble serwane, Daniel Griggs. N. B. Reference can be had of some £4) ithe most respectable citizeng B77 All editors of papers in this state vill please fnsert the above once a wechy or three months, and send their acceunts or payment as above. All Lditors in the United States wild susserve the cause of humanity by giving the above a few insertions in their respeay live papers. : September 5, 18186. STRAY HORSL, : Y TAS taken up by the subscribe y: the 12th of September, inst. a BAY HORSE with a staron his fordhead, supe posed to be about 14 years of age. The rwner gs desired to come and prove propegs vy pay charges and take him away. JOHN PATTERSOM, Spring township, Sefit. 20 ———— —— : Caution! ¥ THEREAS my wife Sarak hath Ye 7, ¥ my bed and board without any jusk caifbe; this is therefore to forewarn all per sons from trusting her on my acount, as B am determined not %o ‘pay any debts of hes contracting after this date, unless compels. icd by law. As some of my children have absconded with her; all persons, therelorey {are hereby forbid harboring them at theie perilyas I am determined to prosccute ang who shall do so as far as the limits of the law will admit. .# pagt eT ISAAC PARSONR Aug: 26, 1816. ~~ Dissolutien of Partnership. The partnership of Patton and Mitchell kas, by mutual consent, be en this day diss golved. Those indebted to said firm are requested to make, immediate payment te Samuel Patton, who is authorised to reg ceive ail debts due the same, : Samuel Patton, John Mitchell BrrrrronTr, Oct. 12, 18186, ” p Be » pH DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP, s h-| a + 7 4 2 HE partnership of George and Aw thur Smith is this day dissolved by mutue al consent, of which: circumstance, all cons’ cerned will please to take notice Those {indebted to said firm, are requested te make payment to George Sniith, and these |naving demands are hereby notified ment of the same. GEORG SMITH, ~~ ARTHUR SMITHe December 6, 1815. a ANDREW STEWART, 3 sPECTFULLY inform his flondk and the public ir. general, that he has commenced the Tailoring business in ene of the rooms of the house now oceupied by Joseph Updegraff, Tnkeeper, where all ore ders in the line of his profession will be gladly accepted and expeditiously execuw ed. 4 : r Having worked in the first shops in this state, he flatters himself, from hie experience, to bs able 0 please kis gus tomers. His work shall be dome in the , ook to him for pay terms. Deg fame, opt. 2, 1816. £ $i Briumeenwa, day a ng & 3 pL Le AND to those whose feelings of hag” ; £2 years mae » neatest style, and on the most ressenghldr - Fork
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