:a ill OFFICE OF THE STAR, CIRARRERSBURG STREET, A FEW DOORS WEST OF Mu. FdRRY'S TAN-ERN.. - ADVERTISEiIIiENTS c o nspieum . sly inserted FOUR times for ONE DOLLAR per square—over thur times, TWENTY-FIVE eerrrs per square will be charged. ZiJ \ , , Y4 At 92 per annum, hear , e.:nrly In nollennee. 42a . -"Wiik senrriist Ilmorre eurich'd From nario*s getcdcus cult'd with cum" 7.17,117721La1. We 'meet as friends,—as friends we part, — TliVtlitterhirliTt - rund - gbm c-hretz - ; Thotigh they betray a conscious 'heart, Cannot its full emotions speak. 'Tis better thus 1 would not tear Away tho veil stiiVended there: Nor wish to read one thought above A sister's unimpassioned love. But I must think of other days, And other scenes to both so dear, When I could tell in artless lays, The tale thou didst not frown to hear; Of hopes that` center'd in thy form; or young affections, pure and warm, A heart, before unchain'd uud free, Then first and only bound to thee. Bow, like a meteor. of the night, Has Iled that: dream of happiness, And left a sad and chilling blight, On every good that comes to bless! Nor thine the limit! May joy-as bright As hope can paint, thy truth requite While I at 'Me alone repine, That severed thus thy path and mine. As friends we part—a full, and kind, And warn, farewell, my lips bestow; And may the hearts with thine entwiii'd, With thee the richest blessings know. For thee my best desires shall rise ; For me thy prayer ascend the,skies ; Ambeherisli'd kindness thus dispel The sorrows of this long la tewell. 'lt.el'A ',!1L1:'.1. ) , i):'..) From "The Club Book." T t7:17 0 77. la JOHN GAIT. "Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special ‘vundei."--7[.llAcarrn Many proverbial expressions are founded On experience. "The Unguarded Hour" is one of them; and it has bacon) ~ so coininon, that few of those' who ottcnest einplel, it are aware of the inystry to which it alludes. It conveys the.belielthat mankind are each proteked„by a supernatural guardian. It impkes'.t* that the angel at times quits his peat, mid that in the interim, "the un guarded hoiit'" the dei'enceless mortal is liable to be assailed by the insidious tempta tions of the universal adversary. IVhether this impressive thesis be an hypothesis, or an apocalypse, it baffles the human under standing. It cannot be rejected as altogeth er earthly and of mortal imagination, nor accepted as divine and of celestial descent. But it is not my present purpose to examine the evidence on either side; I have only to describe a series of seeming accidents, cal ' culated to enforce thedoctrine by the cir cumstances in which their advent took place and to 1 - Avaken at once solemnity, wonder and dread. "Many years ago," said a friend, when - detained by indisposition in a sinall village in Hungary, a discovery was one morning made, by which the superstition of the sim ple inhabitants was greatly excited. It had been a custmn from time immemorial when the j u d g crirtr-office--tfav€4l44l---througli--thag. country ,to dispense justice,' that as often as 1 he came to Panigstein, and I believe it was only once in a course of the cycle of the moon, every nineteen years, and at the change, that he held a free assize in the open air, near the 31 arty r's cross, an ancient - monument which stands alone oil the solitude - of the igoor, _at the _distance of.n.bowsliot or. more from the church. The cause of this venerable ceremony being held at that par ticular spot, was never satisfactorily explain ed, but it originated either in a prediction which had been delivered by the Martyr, or on some incident connected with his doom., On every occasion, when the Court was-held . at this spot; the inhabitants were sumin4ned, in the name, of heave'', to hearken to the list of offenders which ihemagistrate of the district openly placed in the hands of the judge, iid,,idl such as could bear witness to f".attgr !+Fgarding . them were commanded to emilif forward and do so. "Although then but in shattered. health, this reniarlable ceremony, which chanced while I was at Panigstein, induced me to be present -among the crowd of spectators when the judge was expected to arrive. The day was ,gray and silent; the sun was not invisi ble, but l*s dim orb hung in the firmanent with au-obscure lack lustre sickliness; and all the landscape, and every living thing, seemed overcast and dejected. The en signs of judgment which marked the place .' of administration added to the solemnity of . the scene, and the magistrate, to augment the gloom, had ordered a lofty new and black gallows to be raised at a little distance from where, the benches and table for the ,court had beim constructed.. . • ' , "Among other impressive customs eon ' masted with the free assize, is one of unknown antiquity. The magistrate, in preparin ,, the list of offenders for the judge, is. not al lowed to divulge to any person the names of tl)e crimfhals intended to be accitsed;. and it . isalleg i ed, that this has a religious influence 0 the morals of the people, tiVone_being a - re how his conduct may have been noted; iti of what he may lie found charged with ilhe-list. The crisis id, in consequence, ' I V aweul to all. ,On the occasion when I ::thore it was not anticipated , that 101 - , p 'culur crime would, be . divulged ; and it w t w k tliontrht rather oddAhat the ma4istra t' to c''' , : ... c. , . . . .. . . . . _ • -.. :::,..HE -- :_...i .. 74 . 5..-.::. ..-.A ... , ...i• „ . .... ~ - 9 . . • - Altiel - -"-ii , - . .. .. abfaitto - County republican DUC IT AMOR ATR I 4 -1;; piton ESs E cjv LOVE OF MY OW NTIO7 1,1;A DS Mk: TO NTAGEirr irY FELLOW-CITIZFXS.” o2Balzezaz3v:aao ak:LL te4f4z&LD,2:rz o uahypv&axSa o ..aawQ should have ordered the gallows to be erect -61; • indeed, in the opinion of the people; the calendar was clear, so peaceful and free from .all violence had been the county from the former assize nineteen years previous. "The magistrate I knew very %Yell; he has sometimes invited me to his - tense; was a -fr :eat-in--fr , eat-esteet 4 ri-With--014-41.441-141- t- tn diate villagers. From small 1ie.„.,-iiiiiings lw had raised an ample fortune,- was Cinied flu; the strictest integrity, and distiie for great benevolence and holy purity of life. It was thought by many that there was a de gree of all'ectation in his singular piety, tier in his Naiiith he had been les,r austere, and he had put on his sanctity somewhat sudden ly, in consequence olan event which, though distressing in itself, could not be said to . af feet him're Than any other in the town.. e .....a., "It wi s • ^murder committed niwiteen years before the very morniii , when the as size was held. - No trite 3 of the assassin had been discovered, and that ciicumstance, to get her with the worth of the victim had pro (laced a strong impression .- on every one; but -on _none more than this magistrate, whose litithful servant the victim had lon', been. The crime was yet eis, fin the man was poor, and it excited unikedsal ,-surpAse that one Who 10 il • vi oondition had been so much respected should ever have provoked a doom so sudden - and inexplicable. Time had greatly mitigated the recollection of the occurrence; it Was almost fbiarot.k.li by every body but the widow told the chari table master, who, with his family, constant ly endeavored to sawn, with unavailing sy in pa t liv, her !rliei. She, however, , became old mid crazed, and when pointed out to me was a spectacle' of exti.enie -misery. S:ie was standing trar the Martyr's cros, , ,against which, owing to my weakness, I was then leaninfr, and perusing the gromal, 1 observ edoher eyes vividly glancing with supernat , . :, , , ....,.„,.,. Iv: a •v•lgi lane*. S,iu was as soineth iltif-- wi al an'il fieyce, ready t-) leap npon its 12.);!:i,k;,,,and . ~ watchinir for the moment. But I 'llittiltiaa much time to notice her, fir the sound..of trumpets proclaimed the approach of' tile magistrate, attended by hisotlicers, and soon after a movement in I . lle Dillibtlide ins.) il.l - the COD - ling Or the judge. 'Wiwn he had taken his seat on thr! ju dicial 'bench, and the lawyers had pl ici!il themselves at the table, and the trinnpet sounded a solemn peal three times, awl the magistrate, with a roll in his hand, advanced. At the same instant. the widow rushed, with a shriek like the oracular Pythia in her ec stacy, and placed herself at the side of the mag,istrato, as he presented the roll to the judge. The multitude was silent, and I felt as if the fune,tions of my breathing were stopped. "The judge rose, and standing up, unroll the paper, which, with an audible voice, and religious thankfulness, he declared was dear. " 'No, no,' cried the iinpas=ioned and ve• hement widow, 'it-is not so, has not my hu, , hand's death.' "'True exclaimed the mfigistrate i 4 l had forgotten it, the deed was done so long ago, could thrget the unguarded hour "The words were repeated by every voice I believe, in the multitmle in succeSsion, tind the sound was fearful. "file unguarded hour?' said the judge to himself, looking to wards tho magistrate calmly; as if foe pies. tioniaul scarcely more ineaninu• than w!;:m uttered in echo by. the crowd— "'Yes,' cried the widow aloud, 'his guar dian angel was then away;' and she—nhclu ded, by acciNing the magistrate, her own benetiictor, and the gracious master of the deceased husband, as the murdorer. " 'She has been long, almost ever since the fittal event, in a state of' insanity," said the magistrate,to the judge; and turning to his officers, bade them take the helpless creature away. " will not go—l will have justice,' she exclaimed, wrestling with the officers, as they attempted to remove her. The crowil remained as-if frozen into silence. "'Good woman,' said the judge compas sionately, 'you know not what you say.' " do, Ido ; let me be heard,' was the wild reply; and the multitude,in the same in stant cried out, 'let her be hear - d, let her be heard !' • "This is a vexatious busines,' said the judge ,to the Magistrate, 'for the charter by .which the assize is held at this place obliges me to receive the.charge, and I . cannot de part from its ordinances, nor is her evident insanity a valid reason to reject the accusa tion. Good Woman why. do you persist in this extmtvagance—there is co evidence to sustain the charge ?' " 'There is, if you will fistful,' she impa tiently again cried, and with earnest ges-, tures - and surprising eloquence endeavore(l, innumerable coincidences: that she had remarked' in the conduct of the magistrate, to stow the grounds of her suspicion. "During the Whole time . that she contin ued, speaking, the spectators listened with the greediest cars,tind before she had finish ed her impassioned appeal, it was manifest ,that they were all, convinced that the ma gistrate was indeed the murilerer. The ju'age listened to:all she said with. intense attention, but the - accused maintaPned his wanton equanimity.. was astonished that, he. could' do so, for'serhe of her reasons the' .14.1i'otn piobabili“: , %yew dike most tottch- ing and pathetic kind; doubtless all she said was void of evidAce: still, however, it was feefully impressive, and .I could, not myself .ivithstand its eßergy. When she had rath er'"exhausted her strength than finished 'what she .had 'to say, the judge replied r-44tZcIa' ean-,hayi tr-gl to conceal fronetaich vigilance—this'is thy work ndCOMA ktr possihilitiesof human law!--There is reason, according to the charter, that a regular trial should lie proceeded with, and therefore let the indict ment be prepared.' "The feelings of the multitude were exci ted to-the utmost, and took utterance in a loud shout, not of joy or of gladness, but a deep, olemn, and awful sound, whose rni, , ..;ht and majesty were pOrtentiouslv increased by tine distant low hollow echo (nine hills. The accused stoat] a statue or consLEllat ion !Or a moment. I looked at him with MM.:- cribabie emotion, hut the paleness which overspread his complextion vanished, and he appeared as serene and as self-collected as heihre. 'llhile the papers were being written I o')served"the jtulge speakingeto the poor ‘vo ttnd I heard Innt .sympathizint.dv en quire respecting the are of her husband, his gcliOzAl appearance and the manner in which 11C \MS drossect; to which she !rave brief' but distinct iiiis‘‘ , •rs, as *lithe living prcseoce of the nurdered man had been seen nc!ualk- Irre her. She was, however, inwatient at the judge's questions, and ,;oiswered him peevishly, for7,lting the respect due to his di:rnitv; indt4td, the (uestiot:s, at the time, seente.d to nilt frivolous; 1 could not discern their propriety nor why so grave ati uhlic e!, the representative of' the emperor and the kintr, so far lose all coasciousness of the place and the occasi tit, as to speak to !wt . in the manner he was done , . lfeaskel4, for exathple, the coiort)l . he'r hn Mai and she answereti Hail:, anti that he wore iiiS Cap gallantly dolltd; then, after some other itiquirief4-a.*:,4,o*tificant, he spoke of his coat tuid the etilOi"Ol' it, but she lost tem per: and afle.t• telling him it was blue, and his vest was Iv], inti`'nat vl 11011 would not prolte her wounded remembrance with mat te:; i.§l . this kind. "In the me - an time the, mag,istrate was en gaged with an advocate who was pertbctly convinced, and so eNpres , :ed himself, that the trial would soon he .safely over. Alto. gkher the scene WIN most singular, hut the passion of the crowd was become appalling, and I was f.arllll lest the magistrate should be made the victim ofsoaie outrage. Him self calm, and certain that no evidence could him, he was yet, visible disturbed: and I saw him once Or twice start, and `slitulder, 00 donlit amazed that Arch a delirious act:u s:it ion should have bee.: SU strangely imagin ed against hill). • "Wlicin all th - requisite limns wore coin xletod, he was directed to place himself at _ •- j the bar; and the uil[re accoaillg to the char ter, called him by !Ernie to answer to God, who was there present for the crime of which he was accused. At that moment, and be -foTc.thernixtd-ruptv-,—tre—AiliFiTiilMlTTlTip and golden ray upon the &forehead of the judge, and made it shine as if it had been crowned with a halo. All the spectators were witnesses to this glorious symbol; and I could scarcely control my trembling Ihnbs, so much did it shake my whole frame. "The accused was evidently affected, tan he- hatt-suciNinastery of hirn3elf, - .that - lie answered with firmness, "NoT Guminr." "A. pause of sometime ensued, and then the widow was requested to come for Ward with her evidence. She advanced ; and sud denly cried, '1 have hut these tears.." "frl.'he advocate with whom the accused had been consulting rose, and animadverting on the insanity of the charge, demanded an acquittal. " 'Stop,' said the judge, solemnly, 'the order and-provisions of the charter have not yet been.fultilled,-.---bid the trumpets Sound thrice.' "'The-silence of the multitude was dread ful; the trumpets sounded, and the judge ri sing from his seat, reverentially uncovered his hoary head, mid said with a vtice of the lowliest humility, "'Heaven send forth thy witness.' "I looked at the dismayed prisoner ; he ;Was pale, but serene. The judge then re stimed.his seat, and the adVocate again rose ; "'I demand,' sal(' , he, 'the acquittal of the accused.' "Another, short pause ensued ; and the itidge;.rising, cast his sight to a distance, and said, " 'Make way for the witness.', "'What % . vitnessi" cried the prisoner, in visible trepidation. "Mtt man in the blue-coat—he with his cep on the one side—mako way for him —he with the red waistcoat!' " 'lt is himself that comes,' cried the wid ow with an exulting shout, and all the spec tators looked, back towards , the spot where they expected to behold the witness, but they saw no 'one ; and when they had again tail ed their eyes to the bar, the accused had fainted.' This confirmed the-amazed spec taters, 'and the judgeskrieeled dowix With de ,Yotion, • and, raising his '''hands to heaven, • prayed and 'kida-lint - nage te divine justice. The wretched .4;16 Etti udtwas lett, l ving op-the ground,"k all resent at the lame moment .ittlicoveied titejt• li"ads, and witb lear,;.101;1 : n.nr+ awe joined in worship with the judge: A more affecting scene was never' witnessed; and when the adoration was ended the guilty man awaked front his trance, rose and con fessed the crime. " seek not mercy;; fiatd he 'I have en joyed it too long, vet my olliaice is not (Cm a— --- blow; — blow; Yes, the hand of heaven is too visible, here, that 1 dare not ask reiniz;sion, even if my hid den misery were not pimishinent enough,— there, take me,—be now no More del4.v. The gallows is reads , and mercy dare not in this place contend with justice.. ' Pleasure is a shadow; wealth is vanity ; and power p i alo but knowledge is cx tatic enjoyrheiii-i-perrennial in fame, unlim ited in space, and infinite in ilitration. . . . In the performance of its sacred ofli. ces, it fiat:, no danger—spares no expense— omits no exertion. It stales the mountain-, looks into the volcano—dives into the ocean --perihrates the Cat th—winirs its flight into the skies--encircles the globe—explores sea and laud—contemplates the distatit-v -ines the nnnute—cOmprehends the great ascends to the sublime :—No place too re mote ar its grasp—no heavens too exalted for its reach. LOVE vs. TALENT.—A moral writer, in a very flaming article about beauty and the tender passion, says, "a man oftalonts spurns the idea of stratagem to obtain the atlbetions of a woman, that he will not sacrifice his li. , elings or his good sense to the degrading resort of hypocrisy, but will at once avow his love," &c. Without pretending to un derstand one half of this eloquence, we hum py conceive that a man of talents is not par ticularly apt to show his good sense on such occasions :—he generally cuts twice as many . dihtlsical capers as ordinary men. -It is the prondest triumph of the "urchin of the bow and quiver," that lie makes a man of sense a fool. SECON - D MAnirrAcEs.—On the sultject of second marriages, the Boston Statesman of a late date, has the liAlowinol—How rare is the tidieity of a second marriage, wheiS eith er party has any children by-the first. Step fathers and step mothers too often trample upon the rights of those who are not. the or. spring of theic love, but only the objects of their care. Parental regard can only ariso from filial love, where there is no regard there is no obedience; and where there is no obedience there can be no love, between pa. rents and...children. Ifa woman is left with a family of children, she seldom desires to marry—she is too wise to desire it; but v.ben a man is left with a . farnily, he is often fool enough to =nix, and' generally lives long enotiA to repent it. We oficn see women left without any fhrtune, bring up a large family, usefully, decently and- respectably; and often see a man, possessed of a large fortune, take a new rib—so-61.001;0 - d it can'. not lie still—make his house a bedlam, and his former children vagabonds. A correspondent of' the same timer thinks siTuret ot sufficient importance to arrest Legislative attention, with,a view of abolish ing this practice. He remarks that not a sin gle instance of a second marriage proving as happy as the first, has ever Come under his notice; and that he knows of more than fifty cases of second marriages which have brut] it misery upon the oft'spring of the first. DI:ATM—It is doubtless hard to die; hut it is agreeable to hope we shall not live here forever, and that a better life will put an end to the troubles of thug.. If we'were offered immortality on earth, who is there would accept SO melancholy a gift? What resou*, what hope, what consolation would then be left us against the rigour offortune, and the injustice of man? R1r;71%-A preacher being requested to 'perform the last sal offices a young wo: man at the.poinSf death; pressed her to be lieve that flesh rind blood could not.enter the kingdom of Heaven. Then lam safe, said she, for I am nothing but skin and bone! ME USE or A TEA-linrri.n.—;A scho lar who was reading at night heard a: thief breaking through the Avail of his house. Happening to have a tea-kettle of boiling. water before the fire, be took it up, acid plaeing' himself by the side of the wall, wai ted for the -thief. The vole being made, a man thrust his feet through; when the scho lar immediately seized them, and began to bathe them with boiling water. The thief screamed and sued for mercy ; but the seho.. lar replied' very gravely, "Stop till 1 have emptied my tea-kettle." • A LONG TEXT.-A clergyman was once going tolireach upon the text ofthe Stimari tan woman; and after reading it, he said, "Do not wonder, my beloved; that the 'text is so long, for it i 6 a woman that,,ipeaks." A conceited coxcomb once asked a bar her's boy: "bid you ever shave a monkey?' "Why no, sir (replied the boy,) hut ify(fiu wilt please to sit,down, I will try.". IThe follo*Mg toast was given at .thelate tpitle show dinner in Coneord:,"Qld Bach ,clors and, OW 3lnids, a coltset; may they Lt:V.; toget4ero'''l, y; ! . . lierin,s—Tw w o"DoAss per a- ) nntinv.... payahle lialtlyearly in advance. Noab scriptiona taken forless.than six months, and !1143ne discontinued until all arrearges are . aid 1 —A failure to , notify a discontinuance, will be considered a new engagement and th, paper for Warded accordingly. OM 1% 4 4111i0 94 64- 6)-- G,0 4 0,0;11 1.6 41111 Apa Whole Number, 98. „ S(jPREMACV OF THE LAWS.” We now start for natinnal campaign. The local interest is over for this year, and anti-masont.y is set far enutigh.allead to bring a full and final Irwin th wilhin our reach if we are active and vigi ant. Ilways be it remembered, that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." To establish the surnE -31.1eV OF LAIVi;', we now start for the election of WILLIAm WII2T. The supre macy of the laws! . Who could have believ ed that it would ever have been necessary, in our republic to organize a political party for this object. Who could have believed that any party could look off with the most cold blooded indifrerence, and we must add with absolute connivance, and see justics trampled upon and exiled from her own sanctuary. Be it so. Those who have read the history of .the western' trials, and' the trials Of.. Washington county, and the absolute refusal of our government to inter fere when legitimately called upon, have seen masonry and the ruling party blended together, either tor or AGAINST law, as may best subserye their ends. Those who have not read must do so now, for the ion will certainly_be all engrossing. the' "infected anCrier, - nor the New York, nor the whole northern sta can longer•be the bounds oftinti-masonry: The question_is going before the. nation, : and the citizent of the United States must each sit in judgment upon the matter be,. tween masonic domination and the wr MACY OF THE LAWS.—Elucidator. From the Norristown Free Press.. VIEWS. OF THE MORALS OF POLITICS, • From one of the old-fashioned school of patriotism, or pure republiCans. "We are Republicans when we neither live nor act, nor undertake any thing, nor choose a profession or situation, nor settle is life, except for the public good. "We are republicans, when, from love of the public, we endeavour, by example . as well as precept, 'to stimulate our children to., active beneficence; and seek to render therm useful to others, by turning; their atteritiont to such pursuits as are likely to increase tic public prosperity. "We are republicans when we endeavour to imbue the minds of our children with the' love of science, and with such knowledge as may be likely, in mature life, to make them; usefill in the stations they may be called to occupy; and when we teach them lo "love their neighbors as themselves." "Lastly, we are republicans, when we preserve our children from that self-interest - ed spirit, which, nt the present day, seems to have gained more ascendency than love over a nation, whose people have, notwith standing, reason to regard each other, and to love each other as brethren, but the great er part of whom, care only for themselves, and look only for the public good when they compelled to do so, Far fi•onl'us be this spirit! It is as anti-republican as it is • ati:chri *ln." These sent iments, from the pen of an able' hand in Germany, in 1794, and addressed to, the younger inhabitant, are worthy of a. niche in every newspaper on our Continent. Read and remember *lay be subjoined; to the youth And 'not to them only, in the. Uni ted States. Pure 'iepublicanism, is of rarer existence than some Noisy demagogues Oho are driven on, ward by their hope of promotion are fond of bein g stlyed republicans. Are' they such ? fitr from it—Pro prirata re, not pro re pub liea, is 'their true motto:, They have their own advancement uppermost in their eye, and the state may sink or swim provided they can gain their aims. A man to be a republican must be a good man, if the fOrmer definitions'are correct. A selfish, narrpw.hearted, heated partizan cannot be a republican. He is a tyrant, a despot, an enemy to the welfare and aflvanc,e -ment to any but himself: • Afriend to Repablie as explained above. The prospect for Mr. Clay's election to the presidency is .Mterly hopeless. The New England States—Massachusetts,.llon necticut, and Rhode Island—Delaware, five votes in Maryland—abd Louisiana—in all 40 votes—are - all that he can Calculate up on; with even reasonable probability and as surance. .Yet, with such prospects, Mr. clay is willing, for the mere gratification of his vanity, to be held up as a candidate be fore the nation. Is it generous, to ask of his friends the sacrifice of waging a • vision ary conflict.? Is it Magnanimous, to permit: them to toil on ineflectually in the ranks of a hopeleSs minority ? And it may be asked, is it politic for himself Ad accumulate defeat —to tempt a certain,,lnevitable-r-ignomiiti ous, overthrow?—Cin. Rep.. 1 MESSRS. ,CLAY AND WlP.T.—dome of lylr Clay's partizans are flattering, themselves that Mr Wirt will be. withdrawn. They , deceive ,themseliea greatly. It would not be „a very 'unwise bet ; that Mr Wires_aggre. gate vote, With the people, of the • llnitedof i U States ? will exceed . that oceMr, Play: A. vast puinherefpgesOnft,i4iffOrquttist* them boat politiCally,Vill for Mr. • as a man t)f . seundqr Itidgrifient, greater learn,' •, ing, virttty • ts ; '(..) s .l . 'a'iql:ri.l.?.x , l
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