TEitms or Tiir, AairnicAx." It. 1). MASSER, I PuBLisHrn !i JOSEPH EISEI.Y. S PiormTOR. H. It. .n.lSSEIt, Editor. Office in Cc nire '"SUttnlJit reivrof It. U. Ma' se'r's Store. THE" AMEKICAN""iiiVublisheJeTerjr8atur iday at TWO UOLLAKS per annum to be put J half yearly in advance No paper discontin ued till ill arrearages ate paid. No subscriptions received fur a less period than six mouths. All communication or leticia on business relating to the ollice, to insure attention, must bo POST PAID. From the Albany Paily Advertiser. THE SPKCTIIK COON. Air '"Cork Lrg.'' I'll sin? yon a son?, without any flam, In Ashland there lived a funny old man, Who every morning said ''lam The mighty chief of the Coonery Clan!" ltitoo, ralloo. ke. For several years this man was bent, On being elected President ; So in order to give his feelings vent, He swore ho would run, and at it he went, Ri too, &c. He mounted his nn; one bright summer's day, And cracked his whip, with "hurrah for Clay!'1 lie scoured along, and felt quite gay, Till he found his old racer was running away. Hi too, fcc. He rode along so joyful ami crank, While in his pocket his cash did clank ; But soon ofThis nag he was jerked with a yank, As lie run up a stump on the National Bank ! Ri too, &c. Old Dan he stood by, with a hearty roar, He laughed till his sides were aching sore ; Which made poor Harry so mad he swore, He'd never he served such a trick any more ! Ui too, &c. His high mettled racer lay in a swoon. Hut Henry could not give it up so soon ; Says he, I will sing them a different tune, So he swapped oil' his horse and mounted a coon. Ri too, &.c. lie scamped o'er hill, and dale, and plain, Thro' snow, hail, sleet, mud puddles and rain ; And when so weary, to rest he'd fain, The coon gave a scream, and was off again. Ri too, & t . He galloped along with a bound and a hop, Of speed he went ut the utmost top; llis lips with terror began to drop, For he found his coon he could'nt stop Ri too, &e. A cornfield now to yellowand bright, Appeared in view ; he tried to alight, He called to the coon with all his might. But in less than a minute he was out of sight . Ri too, &.c. He screamed aloud, '-Oh ye people dear : Come help nu oft", 1 feel so ipieer,"' But the natmhty coon he pricked up his ear, And scampered away like a young reindeer. Ri too, c . A Hickory tree now crossed their track, All shag-barked around so rugged and black, They never paused, but up it smack. Old Cooney streaked, with Clay on his back ! Ri too, &c. They run up as high as they could go, The wind with fury began to blow, And as they waved there to and fro. Poor Clay ! oh, dear ! he boked just so ' Ri too. As they were buffeting in the wind, An eagle came ho looked and grinned, Says he, you varmint, enough you've sinned, So the poor old coon he completely skinned, Ri too, &c The coon he died in wild despair, Says the Eagle, ''Old Harry, my boy, beware "' Away he flew but didn't we stare, To see Clay, like Absalom, caught by the hair. Ri too. kc. He died at last but every night, As the story goes I tell it right His skeleton all so ghastly and white, Rushes over the hills on a cooney sprite. Ri too, Alc. So Whiggies all, come over soon, And join our ranks, or hear your doom. For just as sure as the rising of the moon, You'll all have a ride on that ghost of a coon ' Ri too. i.t A Bold Witm.,. The late Lord fcllcnbo rough, when Lord Chief Justice, was once ad dressed by a witness with bo much effrontery that his lordship was for a moment struck dumb; and being afterwards asked why he did not punish the man, he replied "Sir, the fellow Completely confounded me ; hid impudence was sublime. A Tall 0.e. An old 6ailor told us the o ther day, that during one night, when he was Sailing on the Atlantic, the rain poured in such torrents that the ocean ruse ti inches. There is no mistake said lie, because the Captain kept a mark on the side of the vessel. A negro women hung herself, in New Or leans, some thne since. She attached a rope to the balustrade of the stairs, threw herself off, and died instantly. Gals whose minds have something odd in 'em, (tit seek relief by taking laudanum; And after all, 'tis not surprism' Forsaken gals should swallow pisin'. BUNBURY AMBfflCAN. AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL; Absolute acquiesccneo in the decisions of the Ily Itlasxcr & i:Ndy. A Court Scene In firorcln. We clip the following from an exchange pa per what one we do not now remember. It is as rich in all its elements nf fun as anything we have lately stumbled upon : A friend of mine lias recently returned from an excursion into the circuit of this State. Ho tells me while in the county of , lie strayed into the Court house, and w as present at an arraignment of a man by the nnme of Henry Day, who was charged with attempting to kill his wife. Day was a pnle little man, and the wife was a perfect behemoth. The indictment being read, the prisoner was asked to say whe ther he was "guilty or not guilty." He answered, "There's n mighty chance of lawyers' lies in the papers ; but some part is true. I did strike the old lady ; but she fit me powerfully first. She can swear equal to a little of anything, and her kicks are awful. I reckon what you sny about the devil moving me is pretty tolerably correct, seeing ns how she moved me. I have told you all I know 'bout the circumstances, Mister. I gin 'Squire Jones there a five dollar bill, and I allow he'll take it out for me." 'Squire Jones thereupon rose and said ho had a point of law to raise in this case which he thought conclusive. It was nn established rule of law, that man and wife were but one ; and he should like to know if a man could be punished for whipping himself ; he should he glad to hear what the solicitor gene ral had to say that. The solicitornl general an swered, that he thought his brother Jones had rorried the maxim a little too far; men had often been punished for heating their wives. If a man should ki;l his wife it would not be suicide. Mere 'Squire Jones interposed, and defied thesolicitor general to produce any authority to that effect. The solicitor general looked at "Green and Lumpin's Georgia Justice" for some minutes, and then observed that he could not find the authoiitirs just then, but ho was sure ho had seen the principle somewhere; and lie called on the yid'je to sustain him. In the en thusiasm of counsel on the point, they forgot to offer any evidence- os to the guilt or innocence of Day in the premises. The judge, likewise, being obvious of the fact, proceeded to charge the jury. He told them that man and wife were one. He remarked that in either event, the man was legally bound to suffer ; and there fore, c.ime as they would, Day was undoubtedly guilty. lie said he would not decide the ques tion whether if n man kill his wife it was mur der or suicide. He wns not prepared to ex press an opinion on that point ; it was n very delicate one, and he had no idea ot committing himself. (Some one hero observed that he was mighty fund of committing others.) He then called up the bailifl, a tremendous looking cracker, wearing a broad brim hat with crape, (I never saw a man south of latitude thirty-three that did not wear a white hat w ith crape,) and proceeded to admonish him that the jury were very much in the habit of coming in drunk with their verdict, and that if it happened in this case he would discharge the prisoner, and put the punishment upon him. The bailiff gave a significant glance at the judge, and replied that other people besides the jury came into court drunk, when some people were drunk them selves! The j'iry then retired and so did r.iy friend. The next day he returned and found matters in statu quit, except that Day and hi6 wife had mr.de up, and were discussing the merits of a cold fowl and a quart of beer, and now and then enterchanging kisses, despite the frowns and becks of the r fficcrs. The judge, clerk and she riff hud been up all night, and looked wolfish ; and the bailiff was seated on his white hat at the door of the jury mom, and this indicated that he had swallowed the concentrated venom of a thousand wildcats. The most awful curses, oaths and sounds proceeded Iron) the jury rooms; some were roaring like lions, sonic crying like children, mewing likecats, tie igl.ing like horses &c. At last a short consultation was held nt the jury-room between the foreman and the bai liff; whereupon the letter, putting his hat one sided on his head, came into the court room and uddressed the judge thus: ".Mister, Tom Jukes says the jury cant't agree about this here man ; and if you keep him (that is Tom Jukes) without grog any mote, he'll whip you on sight." The judge appealed to the bar if this was not a contempt of court and "Green and Lumpkin's Georgia Justice" having been consulted, it was filially decided that it was a threat addressed to the judge as a private individual, and was to "whip him on right," and not on the bench ; it was not, under the free and enlightened and de mocratic principles of Georgia lcgis!afi.in, a contempt of court. This being settled, tho judge directed the bailifl to say to Tom Jakes, the fore man, "the jury bhould agree if they staid there through eternity." The bailiff retired, and so did my friend but he give it as hit opinion, from the Irnme of mind in which he left all par ties, the juries and bailiffsare still there. Why is a practicing magistrate, like an intem perate one Because he frequently leaves the Unch. for the rW majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which Sunbury, Northumberland Co. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. OF HENRY A. MUHLEXnKKC. The name of Mi'in.KNBnRo is so intimately connected with our provincial and fevolutionary history, that a brief account of the distinguished heads of this steadfast Democratic family, will not be an unacceptable introduction to a short outline of the life and chnracter of tha individu al whom the Democratic party of Pennsylva nia have selected as their candidate for Govern or at tho ensuing general election. The grandfather of Mr. Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Senior of the Lutheran Ministerain of North Americn, was born in the free city of Eimbeck, now in the Kingdom of ll.mover, Germany, September 0, 17 11, of which city his father, Nicholas M. Muhlenberg, was permanent Chief Burrjoss. He was educated at the Universities of Gnttingpti ni.d Hallo.nnd was ordained ot Leipsic as a clergyman of the Lutheran church. In the year 1711 ho received a call from the Lutheran congregation of Phil adelphio, New Providence or Trnppe, nnd New Hanover, or Swamp, in what is now Montgom ery county. Accepting the call he visited Han over, proceeded through Ilol'and to Indnn, where, after remaining a few months, he embar ked for America. He arrived nt Philadelphia, November 25, 1712, after a very long and bois terous passage, the vessel having been driven into Charleston by stress of weather. lie found his congregation small and in no flourishing condition. That at Philadelphia had no church, nnd consisted of about 100 heads of families that at the Trnppe was about half as large, and was alsi without a church, and that nt New Hanover or Swamp had an un finished block church, nnd numbered nbuut 150 heads of families. Of these congregations he immediately took charge, pleaching in them al ternately, and residing sometimes in Philadel phia, nnd eometirr.es at the Trappe, at which latter place he died in 177, in the 77lh year of his age. Whilst under his charge, nnd principally by his exertions, the Lutheran Church in Fifth st., above Arch, was founded, and consecrated 11th June, 1713, by the nnme of St. Michael's church which venerable edifice is still standing. In 17GG the foundation of Zion's Church in Fourth street, above Arch, was laid, and it was consid ered at that time one of the largest and hand somest churches in North America. In 1715, he intermarried with Antn Maria, daughter of C. 1. Conrad Weiser, a highly es teemed Indian Interpreter, whose influence over them was unbounded, whose name is famous in the early annals of Pennsylvania, and whose valuable services and high character are now a matter ol history. Conrad Weiser was brought to New York, from Germany, by his father in the year 1710, being then in the 13th year of his age. In the year 1713 they settled in Sehohaire county, N. Y., on what was then called Queen Anne's bounty lands, in the midst of the Indians, w ith whom Conrad soon became a favorite. He was n iturabzed as an adopted son of the Six Nations with wlmsn language he beennie perfectly fa miliar, which enabled him to render many im portant services not only to the German colony nt Sehohaire, bat to the constituted au:!io'ities ofNew York. Some difficulties occurring in regard to their title to their land., Conrad Weiser, with a number cf ethers, left Scholia in?, and were brought by Indian gu iles on raf dow n the Suxqu. hnnnu to the neighborhood of where llarrisburg is now located, from whence they proceeded to the Tulpehocken creek and its branches, where a new settlement was form ed, in w hich many of their descendants still re side. During this journey he first met Wil liam Penn ; ho was afterwards appointed by him confidential interpreter and special mes senger of tho Province among the Indian, and wns present, assisting in negotiating nearly ail the most important treaties between the pro prietary government and the Indian tribe?,. For the purpose he made many j. uinics to Sha mokin, Onondago, the Ohio, &c, and wns at that tune probably the only white man who could have passed through these countries with safety. In 1755 be was appointed Colonel of a regiment ot provincial troops w ith the com maud of the chain of forts from Fort Augusta at Sunbury, to the Maryland tine. He also acted for ninny years as a judge, thus render ing himself extremely useful r.ot only to ll.e government hut to the people. He was much beloved by the Indians, who, for many years after his death, w ere in the habit ot making vi sits of affectionate remembrance to his grave. During the long course of Dr. Muhlenberg's ministry, he was considered the father of the Lutheran Church in America, and styled the "Father of the Germans." lie visited the mass of the German congregations, not only in the interior of this State as they were tbiined.but repeatedly went to Maryland, New Jersy, N. York, South Carolina and Georgia, fbrthepur- pose of heuling breaches, and doing good spirit- i unity and temporally to all, but parliculaily to there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle Ia. Saturday, August it, is II. the Germans and their descendants. Besides being master of the learned languages, he spoko German, English, Low Dutch, French and Swe dish with facility, and wos thus able greatly to enlarge the sphere of his usefulness. When the revolutionary struggle commenced, he, ai well as his three sons, then grown to mnn hood, took a most decided stand on the side of liberty nnd independence, nnd their influence over tho German population was freely used, and was, nodouht, greatly instniment.il in caus ing them tosupport the cause of the revolution with great zeal nnd vigor. This was well known tothe British nnd Hessian officers, who were lavish of their threats of violence towards nil the family. 11'? writes in his manuscript journal of 1773 "The name of Muhlenberg is greatly disliked nnd abused by the Hessian and British officers in Philadelphia, and they threat en prison, tortures and death ns soon at they can lay hands upon me." When Pennsylvania wns the theatre nt war in 1777 9, he resided nt the Trnppe, 20 miles from the city, where his house wns continually filled with fugitives, sick, wounded nnd hungry, nnd none ever left it w ith out relief and consolation. He received many warnings, nnd was often entreated to remove farther from the scene! of war, nnd notwith standing several threats of a visit from the ene my, who sometimes nppronched within six or eight miles, he always refused, saying that he was of more use than he could be nt a greater distance, nnd would trust to Providence: for pro tection in the cause of humanity and his conn-,r'- Alter a long career of usefulness he expired at the Trappe, greatly lamented, not only by his own family, but by a large circle of friends, scattered throughout the United States. He left three sons Peter, Frederick and Henry. Peter Muhlenberg, the eldest, wns home nt the Trappe, in Montgomery county. Pennsyl vania, October 1, 1710. In the 10th year of his ago, lies wns sent to Germany, w ith his two younger brothers, to complete his education The strict discipline, however, of the school where the boys were placed, preparatory to their entering the I'tuversi'y cf Halle, suited neither his temper nor his habits. Being found iinmanngeable, he was sent to Hanover, where meeting with a British colonel, whom he had frequently seen at his lather's house in Phila delphia, ho was induced to take him back with him to Amer.ca us his secretary. His father now took charge of his education, and hnvinir nrervi r..d Iiim lir tlm mii.il.f a . . r , , ,. ' , was sent to England, and in rompnnv w ith the . , ..... , . ,, , ' i Into Bishop lute, ordained by the Bishops of, Iuulon and Il!v in the spring of 1772; the. ,.,,,", ' .. . i Swedish Lutheran Church, tor which he wns' , . . , . . , ,. , , destined, having retained bishops m the- rotor- ' , , ' , mntioti, nnd ahvnvs required their clergyman . . , 1 ,. rJ oi ire uioiiineu uv one, i pen nis reiurn lie was stationed for a shoit time hi New Geriimitown in New Jersey; from thence he rrmovo.l to' Dimmer count v. f.u.w Shenandoi.hl V.r..i..in. ! .x -7 , w here he had chnrijo of several large roioTO- eati.-n.-., until the tall of 177 J, w h.-u, at the so licitation uf Gen. Washington, with whom for several ysars previous hi; had been iiitnn iteiv acquainted, he accepted the commission of coo nel of the hih Virginia regiment on the conti nental eslahl fchment. The following anecdote is tohl of him ; After the teceipt of Ins com inis.sien, he preached a fir.uvel! sermon, in the Course of w hich he told Ins congregation that "there was a time for all things, a time to preaeh and a ti;re to f ghf, nivl that now was tho time to fight." After which 1:2 descended from the pulpit, dismissed the congrrrnl:or, put on his nn if inn, mid going to the church door, ordered t:e drums to beat f,,r recruits. Known as an ardent whig, bp hud been per secuted by the lories, tut he wis therefore the more e-teeuie.i by the people whom he hud before this '1ni(j represented in th; Virginia House of Delegates. B.-ing greatly beloved nej enj .ying genera! confM. nee throughout the whole of Western Virginia, he found no diffi- cu'.ly in fili.ug his regiment, with wli cli he j Presidential election following the resignation immediately marched for the pii.tertion of ( of W .sliii'ton, !.e was an elector from Penn Charleston, S. C. At the battle of Si. linau's j sy'vnoa, ai d voted fir Thomas Jefferson, Island, June US, 1770, and during the whole of j whose warm p-rsutial nnd political friend he the trying campaigns in Georgia and South ! Cnru!i:n, he acted a biave and distinguished j When toe great puty contest occurred in nan. enuring every ijti.'iie ami ii.-privnt ion incident to suh a campaign with !us soldieis, he became a favorite Willi them, who i.lways readily followed him in any during and ha zardous enlcrpritc. On the 21st February, 1777.be vas promot ed by Congress lo the rank ot Brigadier Gene ral. September 1 1, 1777, he took part in the battle of Brandy wine, where his brigade nnd llmtofGen. Weeden formed Wayne's division, which lifter the day began to go against tho A mericans, sustained tho front of the battle. At the battle of Germantown, Oct. 1, 1777, his bri gade penetrated farthest into the town, and con sequently suffered more severely than any o ther. After a retreat Imd been ordered, he commanded the rear guard which covered the retreat cf tho kit w inj. During thm retreat, and immediate parent of despotism. Jarrsaso. Vol. 4 o. IT IT hole No, 03. overcome with fatigue, having for two days and a night been almost constantly on horseback nnd without sleep, ho eat dozing on his horse. From this condition he was aroused by the singing ofa ball past his head nnd the cry "pick ofl thtit officer on tho white horse." While Captain I Iubley, of Lancaster, nnd some of his men were pull ng down a fence which the General's tired horso was unnble to leap, he drew a pistol, and turning in the saddle, saw a young officer who had tired at him, person ally, engnged in re-loading his musket. Tak ing deliberate aim with his pistol, he fired and blew out his brains. The General wos afterwards heard tosay, that he regretted the death he was obliged to inflict, as the officer wasnn uncommonly fine looking man. He was a tho hard fought battle on the plains of Monmouth, Juno 2?, 1773 ; and at the storming of Stony Point he commanded the re. serve. Gen. Wayne in his letter to General Washington says : "Previous to the attack I had drawn Gen. Muhlenberg into my rear, w ho took post on the opposite side of the march, in readiness, cither to support us or covcra re treat in ease of accident ; nnd I have not. the least doubt of his faithfully and gallantly effect ing either, hail there been occasion for it." During Leslie's incursion into Virginia, 17S0, Gen. Muhlenberg held the chief corr.mnnd of tho American forces, and ho acted under the commsnd of Baron Steuben during the subse quent invasion of the same State by Arnold and Philips in 170 SI. When Cornwallis march ed into Virginia in 17S1, Gen. Muhlenberg was second in command to Ijifayctte, and shar ed with him the dangers and responsibilities, and nlso the glory of that campaign. In the battle of Green Sprincr, July f, 1761, when the Pennsylvania line, under Gen. Wayne, fell in to condition, by a forced march of several miles, Gen. Muhlenberg threw himself, without order between the enemy and the disordered Ameri cans, nnd thus saved the Pennsylvania troops from a total defeat. At the glorious siege of Yorktown, he com manded the First Brigade of Light Infantry, which stormed the British redoubts, an action which placed him among the most conspicuous heroes oflhe revolution. Col. Alexander Ham ilton commanding ono ot the regiments of that brigade, received the principal honor, which, strictly spenking, belonged to the General, whoe modesty and easy disposition caused him I to ncquie-ce in the report made of that nffiir. ! llis portrait occupies a place in the picture by Trumbull of tlie surrender of Lord Conwalli.i, . . , . , . new in tue rotunda o! the Carntti! nt U ashing- ( ' n . , , . , I lo continued in service to the entire close r,, . . . . , , o! the war, and was promoted to tho rank of ., r. , , r .. ,. . , , Major General before the nrmy was disbanded, . ,, , v, . , ... tol. Mmroe afterwards President of the U- . . ';ue s, was one of his aides-de-ca mp. noer tie old constitution ot I'ennsy Ivanm, fr"'n l' Frr.nklin was President of theS'nte, he w as Vice President. In 17Sa, do wns elected by geiiernl ticket to the tirst Co. Cittr..ss, to serve as n member from Pennsylva n;a from the 1th of March, 170, to 1791. On the 02 d June, 179, in conjunction with Madi son and tl.e other fptiMicans, he voted in ff. vor t f the amendment to the law constituting the State Department, which amendment pro vided that the Secretary should be removable by th Pre.-ident ttl0no. Tho passage of this resolution settl.-.l )C disputed question, wheth er the See,jte nl, a rj2lt j0 participate in re-mov-Js. from office ns well na in appoinments, arid afforded the friends of General Jackson a satisfactory precedent In justify his removal of the Secretary of the Treasury from office. In lliis Congress the question 'w hat title shall be given to the Piesid. nt ?' was agitated Gen. Muhlenberg stren.iou.-ly opposed the granting of any tit'es of honor whatsoever. In 1793, he w as e!e;te, a member of the 3d Collar. s- and in 1799, a member of the 6th Congress liom .Mi,r,tgome ry county, and in the . renn-v i vauia, in iweeu .mciv.hii ana i;o-.s, lor the gubernatorial chair (lv which the Imes be Ui'. n the Democratic and Federal p.trtits wen distinctly drawn,) Gen. Muhleiilerg look a firm and decided stand with the Democrats, and was piaced at the head of the Democratic State Central Committee, composed of Thomas Lei per, Joseph Hiester, Michaicl Lieb, S. Miles, Alexander J. Ialns and others. It was at the time freely admitted that his exertions had made McKean Governor. The election of Mc Kean, after a moit severe and bitter contest, was a gre'tt triumph to the Democrats, and as sisted materially in afterward electing Jeffer son to the Presidency. In the Presidential election of 1S01, the elec toral vo'cs for President and Vice President wcie divided, and Jefferson and Burr, the De- TRICES OF ADVIXITISIXG. I sqnara I insertion, . . . fO 60 1 dr a do - .0 75 1 do 3 d, . . . I 00 Evt-ry subsequent insertion, 0 2.r Yearly A Jrertisernents : one column, f 25 s half column, 1 1 8, throe squares, $12; two squares, f 9 ; one square, fS. Half-yearly: one column, f A H ; half column, $12 ; three squares, f 3 ; two (quditi, fS; one square, $3 50. . t Advertisements left without directions aa la the lenqth of lime they ire lo be published, will ! continued until ordered out, and charged accord ingly. Cj'Pixtoen lines make a square. 1-iJI . .. .1. .ii.. nil. i . M mocrslic candidates, having a mnjority anJ be ing equal, it remained for tho House of Repre sentatives to choose between them. Burr threw himself into the arms of the Federalists, on condition that they made him President ; there wero 35 bnHottings with the same result, until some of Burr's friends becoming alatmeJ, gave way, and on the 3Gth ballot, Jeffersou was e lected President. Gen. Mnhlotiberg, as one of tho representatives from Pennsylvania, voted for Jefferson on every hallot. In the winter of 101, he was elected a Uni ted Slates Senator from Pennsylvania, to serva from the 4th of March, 1501. In July follow ing he'resigned this situation. In January 1S00, ho was appointed by Presi lent Jefferson, Su pervisor of the Revenue for the district, of Penn sylvania, and in the year following lie wasmnde Collector of the port of Philadelphia, in w hich office he remained until his death, which took place, Oct. 1, 1S07, in the Gist year of his age, at his country seat in the vicinity of Gray's Fer ry. Ilia death was caused by the i fleets of tha fatigue and exposure which ho suffered during his southern campaigns. He is buried at tha Trappe in Montgomery county. In 1797, he was elected President of tho German Society of Pl.ila.le'phio, and it is be lieved that he wns annually rc-elccted during his life. He was tall in person, moderately stout, ve ry active cf body nnd of undaunted bravery. His coolness uinl determination, combined with, his excellent judgment, niad-j him one of tha men in whom Gen. Washington during the waC relied for success, nnd on whom, from his pre vious hnowk-dgc of him, he knew he could de pend. He was modest in regard to hia own ac tions and claims, and always careless in assert, ing them. Tver u stern democrat, he was un hesitating nnd undeviating in his opposition to all nristocrctic measures. He wa6 easy nnd popular in his manners, having always retained thcfruiikness ofa soldier. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg was tho second son of Dr. Ii. M. Muhlenberg, and was horn at the Trappe, in Montgomery county, on the 2d of June, 1750. He accompanied his bro thers to Germany, and was educated nt the u niversity of Halle, in Saxony, being intended for tho church. After orJir.ation he returned to America, and was stationed for some time nt SlinefuTstown, in Lobannn county. From thence ho removed to the city of New Yuil;, where he remained ns a Lutheran clergyman until the B.-i'ls'i were about c n'ering the ci!) Having w'.'U his father mid hr.itl.ers been at ardi'iit supplier of the American caiii.e, he cal culated on nnltreatment should he fall into the hands of th'i enemy, lie therefore removed to the Swamp, in Mont .Mint ry county, where he remained n few years. In 1779 he was elected by t,e Stito Legis lature ene 3f tin; I). levies to represent Penn sylvania in the Continental Congress. The ne.t year he was again elected lo hij hoiiorabl; post. In 17r7 he was tent as a delegate? from Mont gomery county to the State Convention, which was assembled to Consider the new Teller,.' Constitution. The Convention elected him in President, and he voted for the ratification ef the Constitution oflhe Un.'eJ Staten. In December 17S"', Pennsylvania elected him a member of the f:rsl Congress under the new Constitution. There was however no quorum present until April 1, 17--9, when he was cho sen Steaki n. He was elected to the second, third and fourth Congresses, and served agin as Speaker during the third Congress. lie was considered as ono of tho most usefil, active and leading members of the House du ring the period he was & member, as the j 'ur nals of that peiiod will show. Near tlm c!oe of Gov. Mifflin's period of service, bo was appointed Register oflhe Land Offieo of Pennsylvania, an office which he held at the time of his death, which took place in j Lancaster, in the year 1P2. Henry Lrne-tns Muhlenberg, the youngest of the three brothers, was sent at an enr'y aga to Europe to he educated. Alter having been kept somo yearn at a prepiritery school, he en tered t':e university of Halle. On the com pletion i f his sti'd.es he also was drdnined as a minister in the Lutheran church, and on his re turn became his father's, adjunct in '.ho Phila delphia congregations, where he remained un t 1 the Bri'iish entered ihr city. Distinguished w ith the w hole f.im.ly as an ardent Whig, ha was threatened with a halter, and found him self obliged tn fly st the approach of the enemy. Leaving the city disguised in a blanket coat, with a ride on his shoulder, be had niarty fallen into the lunds of tho enemy through the tread. - eryofntory inn keeper, who advised him to take the road tpou w hich the Brit.sh were a proaching. Warned however in lime ly w hig inmate of the house, he effected hih t cape and reached tho Swamp ing.'l. ty. I cling the want of employment am! books, at th.s plice, he devoted hursell' lo the study -t' niliiiu! bintory, mineralogy and Many,1 ut
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