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ABout fiftecp wcrde of the surfed is aup- more necessary and better Rited to answer Special Court
pused to have fallen. The cavity left m fits end, than a society of young gentle . He Ts a!
the kill is of a circular form, the back part men ina respectable town in Connecticut ; AGREEABLY Sy the provisions, G1 an
of which presents a precipice neatly per-ione of the articles of whose constitution is,j2ct of assembly, passed the 15th day oi
pendicular of about 150 feet in hight ithat no member shall be permitted to mar March, 1816, a special Court of Come
Several of the trees which stood on the ry, under any circumstance, an illiterate] mon Pieas for Centec county, for the trial
side of the mountain yet remain in an e-{woman. And a rigid committee is ap- of all causes in which the hon. Jud re Wal-
rect posture, having been cared in that{pointed, consisting of three persons, pro- ker has been concerned as gounscl, or in
position on masses of the earth; the topsiioundly learned, whose business it is to personally interested, as ordered and ap=
of others are buried in the rulas, while examine whe qualifications of any female pointed by the hop. Judge C hapm'in to
their roots are iaised in the air. Thejcandidate tor matrimony, before she can bejsommune and be holden at Bellefonte, on
current of' the river being compleatly ob- admitted to connexion with any member of Monday the 20th day of Qctober next, of
structed, it has risen above the oppositeithat society. It is said that upwards of which all persons concerned will please th
bank , and 1s now forming a new chan- forty ladies, in the space of a year, have ake notice.
nel for a tonsiderable distance. moved, iv desparr, from that place to the
western country. This looks like improve:
ment, Parents will now begin to educate
their daughters
okt -
Eiblshments,
pret y large
that do *MNicoss an a
scale 3 also two banking
stitutions with a capital of nearly oue
niliiion ol dollars.
mr
Insti
Duane being asked upon a certain occa-
sion how he could lie so bare facedly, re-
plied—un able editor will always put the
enemy on a wrong scent. Yes rejoiued the
other, but you know that what youl publish.
ed this morning isa down right falsehuod.
A political paper, replied Duane; can ne-
Yer be carried on if the editor is gonfined
to wath. If | obtain the end, I shall pot
regard the means: and you know that ij
the end is obtained, the means are seldom
levked to Dem Press.
J. G. LOWREY, Prot’y.
Bellcfoute, Aug. 14.
Our advices from Amelia Island, are
up to the 20th uit. In consequence of re-
iutorcements not having arrived, Gen Ms
Gregor still remains on the island, place-
ing it in a posture of defence (hat will
warrant its security against any contin-
ency which may hereafter happen.
© ——
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
As a remarkable fulfilment of the pro-{ Strayed,or was stolen from the subscris
pbecy included in our Saviour’s lamentation {2% on he fest of this inst, a.$mall GRAY
over the approaching desolation of Jerusa MARE, about nine or ten years old. « Any
tem, ic is said that Titus pitched his tents] 2€rson who shall take her up, and give ng-
on the very spot where her destruction|tiCe to the owner so that he can set het
was predicted—near a rock on the west|a%2in, shall receive the above reward an
side of the Moun of Olives. Il reasonable charges.
| ~ DANIEL BOILEAU.
Bellefonte, Aug. 18, 1817.
“ General Heister 1s not in office nor
does he dele one,” 50 says the Aurora of
this moruing. Lhe facts are that gen
Heister is a member of Congress, and he
desires Lo be governor. tb.
In October 1816, Joseph Hester was c-
lected to conzress from the counties eo
Berks and Schuylkill, by an overwhelinin,
majority. It bore down all opposition. But
under what circumstances did he succoe:
at thattime ? he came from Washington
the spring before, under the most favorabic
mpressions. The odious compensation
law had just been passed and it was boast-
ingly asserted by the Aurora and other Io.
dependent papers, that Mr, Heister did not
only vote against the law, but that he actu-
ally refused to take move than six dollars a
day for his services.. To carry on the de-
or
oD
GREGORIAN SCRIP.
It is a fact communicate! by a genile-
man of the first respectability from} A collection of the death bed speeches
Charleston, S. C. that Sir Gregor M-Gre- [of men of distinction, could not fail to in-
gory when he was last at that place. in or-isgrmet. Louis XIV said to his attendants.
der to raise the wind, fell upon the scheme fw Jt is not so hard to die as I imagined.”
of issuing a quatily of scrip; something|« Now it is come,” exclaimed Sterne.
i: this style: To cvery person advancing{a Life, said the Marshall Sa«<¢, is a dream.
1000 dollars, & in the same proportion for} Mine has been a very fine onc—but it has
more, he gave a writing called a script,{veen short”. The great Saladin, Sultan of
transferable by delivery, by which he en-|Faypt, on his death bed, ordered that a
gaged to convey to the holder 2000 acresishroud should be carried on a spear and a
of Jand in Florida, when he should com-iherald proclaim, % Saladin, the conqueror
nto possession of it, or to repay thelof Asia, out ofall the fruits of his victories,
- ——
LAND FOR SALE.
Pursuant to the last Will and Testa-
ment of William Brown, late of the towne
ship of New Garden, in the county ot Ches.
ter, deceased, will be sold at public sale on
the premises, the Ist day of September
next, at 12 o'clock, several tracts of land
situate in Halfmoon township, Centre coun-
ception the following was written by Mr
teister, in answer to some enquities made
relative to his conduct on that occasion.
« Reading Sept. 7,1816.
% MP ew -— appears very anxious to
know exactly how much I did take of the
compeusation—=because I had suid I had
tett u considerable part behind, What
would he have done if he had been in my
place ? This we must only guess at ; so be
must guess too.
live titi the 3d of March, 1 wili then inform
my f:liow citizens how 1 have conducted
In this matter—not before then will my ac-
eount be closed.
JOSEPH HEISTER”
The reader will observe by this precious
morsel of disinterested patriotism, that Mi.
Heister admits, by implication, that he
had said he left a considerable part of his
That is he dnes not
compensation behind.
aeny that he did say 80. Now the truth is
he did actually receive, when congress
broke up, iv the spring of 1816, $1935 of
his salary exclusive of milage--so that in-
stead of receiving but six dollars as stated
by Mr. Duane, he pocketed at the rate of
$12 97] per diem, for doing—nothing
Duane koew this when he published the
falsehood ; but it was necessary to pave the
way for Mr. Heister’s nomination on the 4th
of March, by cheating the people into a be-
lick that hey Mr. Heister, was an honost
man, who would not sport with the people’s
money. J
But beside the duplicity and cunning of
the master, and the chicanery of the ser-
vant, there is another circumstroce, avising
out of this case deserving of notice and to
which the reader’s attention ‘is requested :
we mean the childish manner, in which
this letter is written. # What would he
have dope’ says Mr. Heister, if he had
been in my place ?-~This we must only
guess at! So he may guess t00.” Now
this was playing at push pins to some pur-
pose. By thus cozening his fellow citizens,
he got himself snugly fixed at Washington
once more.~~The letter proved 100, 1f oth-
er proof were wanting, that he is totally
destitute of talent. No man but of the
meanest capacityand of the most grovelling
disposition, could have written in the same
way. Every thing like dignity is lost in
his avarice for money and every candid scn-
timent is forgotton, In his anxiety tor pow-
ers Cumberland Reg.
From the Genesee (N. Y.) Farmer July 10
A Remarkable circumstance happened
cn the 30th ult. on the Genesee river,
about ten miles above this place. A part
of the land on the north bank has faiien
into and across the river so as compleaty
to change the course of the stream, whic!
was at that place about eight yards wile.
The land on the south side of the river
was level for some distance ; on the nord,
there rose a very bigh and steep bill.
commencing about 20 or 30 feet from
the edye of the bank. Along the interme-
diate space a road passed, the level of
which vas not more than six or eight
feet above that of the water. In the af.
terpoon of the day above mentioned, about
halt an acre of the bank fell into the riv-
cer. About half past ten o'clock at night
the people in the neighborhood were
suddenly alarmed by a tremendious noise
from the bill accompanied by the javing
of the houses. Upon going immediate
out they discovered huge masses of th:
mountain tumbling from above into the riy
ety and dashing the water to a great hight.
n
v
If God wili permit me to
sum so advanced, with interest. It was
hardly to be expected this scheme would
tike, but, however strange it may seem, he
obtained no less a sum from the credulous
Charleeioniaus than 160,000 dollars; 60,
000 more of the Georgians, and unless re-
ports misrepresents the truth, some of the
script has even found its way to New York.
S———
- SOMETHING SINGULAR.
Stiles, in his True American, lately
published an account of two meetings
one of which was said to have been held
at Milton, Northumberland county, at
which the friends of Heister outnumbered
the friends of Findlay two to one—the oth-
cr was held at New Berlin, Union County,
at which Stiles says there were present 401
for Heister and only 57 for Findlay | Bat
the curiosity of the thing is, he very ap-|
propriately heads both his statem nts
giving the LIE indirect terms to his own
assertions, Now be it known that no
such meeting was ever held in the town of
Mijton ! And we state on the authority of
the Miltonian that at the New Beilin
meeting there were just sixteen persons o:
all discriptions, present and no more
Such is the veracity of Thomas T. Stiles!
Citizens, what think ye of it? Can that
cause be honest which requires to be
supported by such means? Can men bc
believed in any statement who thus outrage
truth and decency to bolster up the views
of a corrupt faction ?
Sus, Dem.
Norfolk, (Vir ) August 4.
A sanguipary deed was perpetrated yes
terday, by a negro man slave, who after
cutting the throat of his wife, committed
the same horrid act upon himself. The
wounds he inflicted on the woman, were se-
vere and ghastly, but not mortal : she still
survives, and it is thought will recover.
His own wounds are slight, as it appears
that he did not relish the operation very
well on a trial of it upon himself. A fit of
jealousy is said to have moved this modern
Othello to attempt the life of his « dingy
Desdemona ;” and probably it did not re-
quire the insidious artifices of an Iago to
conjure up the « greeneyed monster” in
his basom.
AWFUL OCCURRENCE.
Lexington, ( Ky.) July 22.
On Sunday last, two respectable ladies
were Killed by lightning in the Presbyterian
meeting house in this town—Mrs Eleanor
MCullough and Mrs. Jane Lucket. This
truly afflicting dispensation ot Pravidenc:
happened during divine worship—the
scene of distress and confusion among the
congregation, can scarcely beimagined.
EGYPT.
“ At Cairo they have experienced a cir
cumstance not remembered by the oldes
Egyptian—four days of successive torrents
of rain, which had ‘nearly destroyed whol«
villages. The houses having been buil
of unbaked clay, scarcely a dwelling esca-
ped without injury, and had the rain con-
Unued a few days longer, all the city of Cai-
"0 self, must inevitably have been washer!
iway.”
ell | LI—
FEMALE EDUCATION.
Among the many associations for th
oromotion of the geaeral good in this coun
ys there is no one which strikes me, as)
3
tstanding between the American and British
jgovernments, that neither power shall re-
{tain more than two revenue cutters of two
with the words «4 Thumper’ —ihus{
{months of June or July of 1815, as I have
carries with him only this shroud.”
—— !
NAVAL FORCE ON THE LAKES.
It has been published, that the British
are dismantling their vessels upon the
akes. This, we learn fiom good authori-
Ly, 1s in pursuance of a mutual good under-
guns cach, on either lake, in service ; and
that 6 months notice shall be given by eith-
er, of an intention to augment this force.
In this arrangement the interest of the
two are mutually promoted--and many oc-
casions of collision and jealousy avoided.
it saves a great expense to both, and is, be-
sides, an evidence of confidence ard good
will whicliit is the interest of both to pro-
mote.
Stray Cow.
CAME to the plantation of the subscri-
ber living in. Bald Bag township, Centre
county, some time in May last, a small red
Cow, with a white face, and a piece off one
of her ears. No other marks recollected,
The owner by proviug property aud paying
charges may take her away.
: PHILIP WALKER.
Bald Eagle, Aug. 25th, 1817.
CAUTION.
~All persons aré cautioned from purchass
ing a due bill for some where about $400
given Dy me to John Patterson, either in the
already paid it,and will not pay it again
anless compelled by law.
¢ PHILIP WALKER.
Bald Eagle, Aug 25, 1817.
Creditors take notice,
Thatwe have applied to the Court of
Common Pleas of the county of Centre
for the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and
the court have appointed Wednesday the
17th day of September next, at the Court
house in'Belletonte, for a hearing of us and
our Creditors, when and where you may
attend if you thik proper.
BYARD ERNEST,
PHILIP TAYLOR,
GATLIF THOMAS.
Bellofente Jail, Aug. 26,1816.
en
For Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale a valna-
dle Ove Bank, well opened, only about
500 loads have yet been taken out. The
ore 1s of an excellent quality, and is sup.
posed to be almost inexhaustable. From
one to ten acres of Jand will be sold with it,
as may best suit the purchaser. For terms
of sale apply to the subscriber living near
the p.operty.
JOSIAH L AMBORN.
Patton township, Ang 26, 1817.
WANT.
The subscriber wishes to empioy two o:
;enerous wages and constant employment
vill be given. None but good workmen
wed apply.
JAMES HEMPHILL.
Bellefonte; Aug. 18, 1817.
ty
Containing 2
ed by lands of Henry Yoder, Isaac Moore
and others,
hrec Journeymen Shoemakers, io whon BLANKS,
TRACT NO I.
40 acres, more or leds, bound-
NO II.
Containing 227 acres, more or less, bouns
ded by lands of Thomas Moore, Joseph
Haggerty and others.
NO. ITI.
Containing 16! acres, more or less, boun-
ded by lands of John Spencer a
nd others.
\
NO.IV
Containing 65 acres, more or less, bounded
by lands of John Spencer and others.
Due dttendance will be given by
Jesse Sharp,
Executor,
ANDREW STEWART,
TAILOR,
Acquaints his friends and the publig
generally that he has removed to the
house in which Mr. Robert Hayes lately
resided, near to Mr. R. & W. STEW-
ART’S Store? and carries on the
Tailoring Busigess,
in the shop formerly occupied by Samuel
Halfmoon township,
July 31, 1817.
— 1 Bard.
Gentlemen favoring him with their
custom may tely upon every attention
being paid to their orders.
No pains will be spared to accommor
date those'who may think proper to em-
ploy him, with the newest Philadelphia
fashions.
Beliefonte March 3
Lt
I.
To Iron Masters.
Ax experienced Founder, now out of,
employment, wishes a sitnation af some
Furnace. Sufficient recommendation as
to his capability can be had. Letters ade
dressed to the subscriber in Bellefonte, Pad
will be punctually attended 1,
CHRIST, WINKELMAN.
February 17.
Caution
All persons are hereby cautioned from
trusting my wite Magdalena, as [ amde-»
termined to pay no debts of her contrast
ing after this date.
Henry Lehman.
May 29th, 1817.
Notice.
The subscriber intending shortly to
leave this place, earnestly requests all
those indebted to him, to come forward
and make payment with as little delay as
Journey men shoemake-s possible.
Israel Gartner.,
Bellefonte, July 7,1817.
HANDBILLS,
BILLS, &c EXECU IED AT THIS
OFFICE, A. ESONARZLY. AND AT
THE SHORTEST RQ1 IC Te.
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