CE OF THE STAR, "BURG STREET, A 'FEW DOORS 'OF MR. FORICY'S TAVERN. .ADVERTISE3MNTS • - .10 , - ettously inaorted FOUR Limes for ONE 1001,4Viiir square—ovor four t i in es, TWENTY-FIT' o . olpeor square will be chdrged. — 2 . • ♦t Viper snnnnt, httlftyearlyin advance. `QfSi~ C~~L3u~s`ii!~o With omeetest flowers enrich'ds From various gardens cull'd with care." CAMILA= lu2er-..11:17C% BY PARK BENJAMIN, if:sq It is a puro and blesied hour— The sky hangs beautiful and mild Above the waves—the rocks that tower Along yon,steep, so grey and wild, Seen► altars, which in ages gone, Mankind hath poured their incense on, And through those boundless fielde of air Sent forth a solemn - voice of prayer. Bright clouds inlaid %.:th hues of gold, Floats o'er the horizon's waveless blue, As though each wreathed and veiling fbid An angel's form was gleaming through— From his sapphire homo above To give one holy look of love, And think that what is brightness hero, Would fade in light of his own sphere. Around one vast and glorious shrine, All living things of naturo bow— While breathings ,pro and thoughts divine Devotion's wing Is.. wafted now— And bower and stream and forest dim In gladness pourtheir morning hymn: For earth through all her realms is blest With 990i:Attbroiten Sabbath rest! EilDm'7 . Li\ui's,:!igJ. •My Granamitteewiurgirey: - THE LAW-SUIT. met!" I exclaimed, joyously, as I red my old friend, Charles Morton, tfix.tind sheet, 4 why, Charles; *MA, , rur !hippy countenance recalls the s of youth and merriment!" • ,:ed a happy countenance?" , - aske&alter a hearty shale, he withch, from mine, and he utter -- ed the '14440 such an accent of bitter heart-brokentieeliatl involuntarily paused to look on hint,...l.liere were still the same tine featuresdegye, aquiline nose, and lofty brci, whiChhatliwon for hint in his youth the appellatiottpf the "handsome Mor ton," but care had paled his cheek, and 'af- . ter I had gazed at him for a: mornelfl o l al most imagined that it had bowed his tall and graceful figure. "Charles," I uttered painfully, "you are ill." "Ye / tiqny friend'," replied Morton with mournful earnestness, "I am indeed ill— sick at heart—a disease which knows no remedy." I asked the cause of his nnhappiness. He felt that the question _ was one of frendship, not curiosity, and lie told me of his soi,row like a man who had the miserable sairgtac tion of feeling that aithough unfortudate, he was not degraded. He was an orphan, dependent on a rich and parsimonious relative. On leaving col lege, he had induced the only daughter of a wealthy baronet to elope with hint, and- her father had resented the action even to his death hour. Morton's uncle, with the ca price incident on avarice, bequeathed to him but a poor pittance, almost inadequate to the support of nature, and thus Charles, in a few short months, beheld the woman of his heart it I annuity, and dispute the will of the lady's father. "I have done it," concluded Morton in hollow tone, "I have become the victim of a law-suit. Alicia and my boy are the sacrifices of my credulity—but till to day I madly clung to a hope, Wild and chi merical enough to satisfy_ the raving-fa+ of a lunatic—and today, one more merci - ftd third - his .-- fe Hems - OH' me there'''''''''' . hope. In a few hours the fiat goes forth; and I am taught that utter ruin will be the result. For mySelf I care not—but bred in affluence, the chilkl of luxury and in dulgerice"—and he smote his brow, and trembled with the excess of his emotion., ' "Do not despair while even a shadow of trust remains," I urged gently. "Charles, for Alicia's fake, for your son's, you roust hope on; let t return 'to your wife, if you are thus moved, what must be her sutler ings A flush of the deepest crimson overspread the countenance of Morton, then, he himself directed my attention to it, as he exclaimea bitterly: "Do you not see how in impotent pride rushes to arms, when a friend would look on the wretclimlnesss that will ere long be food for, the cold eye ofan undiitymi l Worldi and yet—" and he held me back a moment, and the glow of memory brightened his countenance and flashed in his dark eyes:' "You will not see Alicia'as I have seen her' —as she once was; as she will be'no more!" This vision of present wretchedness darken ed the tablet of memory, and witlran expres sion of subdued feeling, ho led me in silence to an obscure street, and finally to his miser able.logging,, the creaking stairs gave notice of our approach to the young and heart- - stricken wife; ztbd on our entrance, her eye. at once eagerly sought and rested on her husband. Fair and bcatikas the Mal dan houri; thpe was a..enst. of .ThoUght upon her fair.face, that pictured to, the litart . the deprecating sadness of the recording angel 'when noting down-the tresspasses of man, - her dresS Was,homely, even to Wretchedness,. but and dress availed , to such a face, • and form? ' The long braids of ,raven 'hair that pressed her forehead, were , lost \ -beneailf a clone cap • of the pu est white; her - child pia* at her knee, p r and rosy, 'uncon-, aciotas of: present :.t. Woe,. and thoughtlela .:*-those lecOme. ' . ever did I bow ail low . . . . . ' . .1.. . —, . . , a . l— IP . . . . . . . IIL • A_ . . a. q I MO eattittti tpublican attiter. RUC IrAMO R P Alit I • PROD ENS VIB118"TitE LOVE OF MY COUNTRY LEADS ME TO BE OF ADVANTADF. TO MY FRLLOW-CITIZENS. I before a titled beauty on a first meeting, as I did before the wife of 31orton! On our en trance, Charles had thrown himself upon a chair, and with his thee buried in his hands; sobbed • aloud. Alicia was beside him; her white arms encircled his neck; her lips press ed his brow; I was timgotten! At length Morton raised his head; and his eye fell on me as I stood in the centre of the apartment. "Alicia, speak to him," he mur mured in an unearthly tone, ''our own sor rows are enough, why ; should we . spread their pestilence abroad?" She;approached me, and at the moment Norton's child play fully clung at his knees--hurriedly he grasp ed the little innocent, and raising him up at arms' length, lie exclaimed: "Charles, un happy victim of a lather's weakness—vou are a beggar!" Pleased with the rapidity of the motion, and the emphatic accepts of his father, the import of which he guessed not, the child laughed gaily in his face.-- Morton could not hear i,his, in a frenzy of e motion he would have rushed from the room, Alicia, like his .guardian angel, held him back. She had not shed a tear, her bosom heaved wildly, and her, check was deadly pale, but still she spoke with fearful calm ness. "Alicia," said the unhappy Charles, as ulflued,4)y-the violence of his own emotiou, he remained pa , :sionately in her embrace, "why do you cling to me! have I not drawn the world's scorn down upon your "It' the world indeed scorn us, my love," Said the piiing wife; tenderly, "let us be every thing to each other, and the sting will be unfelt." At this moment, a quick step vas heard upon tile stairs; the - dom:#l6. - rd - to'llm sure of a heavy hand; %cull a smile of lamest joy upon his countenance, a man in a mean habit - enter - all - he room. "You have gained your eause„Nlr. Morton," he uttered hasti ly—and I heard no more. A. wild laugh lairst•from the lips of Charles, and he strain ed the senseless term of his wife to his breast -with frightful violciii e. I was slowly sauntering in Pall Mall, but three days ago, when, from the window ()fa handsome chariot, a fair hand motioned my approach. For a moment I looked incredu lously at the loftly brow, kissed at intervals by a superb, snow-white plume, at the raven hair hanging in glossy and luxuriant ringlets, at the mild dark eyes; gleeming with:tem pered_ brightness, but, in the next instant, a large tear swelled in-them. I was in doubt no longer—it was Alicia; and as I extended my hand, her boy twined his little fingers around mine; and I drew my hat over my eyes to conceal my weakness. :t;: : ATTEMPT 'l'o STEAL THE REMAINS OF WASILINCTON.-It is said, that, several years ago, some foreigners meditated stealing the remains of Washington, and that a gardener in the employment of the late Judge NVash ingt,m, did carry away from the tomb at Mount Vernon, the coffin which he supposed to contain the remains, intending to take them to England, for exhibition._ Thecollin IThweyer, was that oTEaWrence Washington, a4444--wits---fottrtdritfierir fc w ddysj - bushes on the Bank of the Potomac. The-Philadelphia Post, of , Saturday last, says :—A colored girl, named Catharine Smith, alias White, was brought before the Mayor on• Monday morning, on a charge of 4ollorticirtt7nd afre - r - drieiiiiiiiiitfon, com mitted to prison to await her trial. The in faidwas fouiid by the lady with whom Cath twine resided, tinder a Chair_cushion, by the weight of which it had been suffocated. A.late New Orleans paper says—"A pas senger on board of a steamboat which passod Shippingsport, said that it would have been imPossible to see where the town was, had he not seen the smoke issuing from the tops of the chimneys that, where peeping just a bove the water's surface. The Richmond Whig says—" The senate have rejected (18 to 14,) the bill appropria ifikg $30,000 the present year, and $90,000 the next, to deporting tree negroes to Africa. The clause which made provision for deport ing such slaves as were liberated without the means being furnished by the liberator for their trans ortation, being stricken from the bill, , vestern vote wqs generally cast against it. Consequently, all things relating to the frec negroes, except in so far a change may be edected by the Police Bill, remain in statu quo ante helium. All goes for noth ing, a ludicrous fina le, all things considered." - A mveting of the inhabitants of the BO rough of Huntingdon, Pa. on the 3d instant, passed resolutions, severely censuring Gov. 'Wolf,for pardoning apertain John AV Laugh „convicted at a late. Court foi• gambling,. and sentenced to fine and imprisonnient. .Mrs. Royal has a play on the'anvil,. to be called the c 4 Cabinet;" it will soon be ready -far the stage. If Mrs. Royal haS i made the late - @abinet her theme, we think she has found a prolific subject—though, to borrow a phrase —it is a subject rather for comedy than tragedy: The Beilitfont Patriot, of the first instant, ~„ poteon wap -taken, and had 'leen corrimittecrto•tho jailof this county, 6r/ a Char:ei .of kink,'einnii-o4saed . Maftt of 02‘2tTlxaravzila, reao teviatazulaz, altilaNat sys, wins. Stone Valley, Huntingdon county. , We are not acquainted with the grounds ofsuspicion which have at►thorised his commitment for trial. It has been said that the hat, wick. handkerchief and glove of Nlail;!t have been found, and they were very bloody, hut not the body. The deed, if done, must have been perpetrated in the seven mountains. The Anti-Masons of Massachusetts, are about to take bold ground in politics t Ir the ensuing gubernatorial contest. '('het• have now a daily Journal at Boston which is con ducted with ability and zeal; and cannot but aid greatly in disseminating if not in incul cating their doctrines. It is said, moreover, that Governor Lincoln awl Lieutenant Gov ernor Winthrop, both intend to evade the ensuing contest, resigning as candidates, awl thus there being all new men in the field, the issue will be more doubtf i d.— There will be three candidatea as at the lust eleetiou—a Jackson candidate, a Na tional Republican, and au Anti-Masonic. BieknelPs Reporter. Another Anti-Masonic newspaper is about to be estalkshed at Reading.—ph id. The Binghampton (Broome co.) Courier says--We are inthrtned that an old gentle. man is now confined in the jail of this village fn. a debt of sonic 25 dollars, who is in his 99th year. An oil main, G loncester,F,nglanil, about to fail in business, secreted three barrels of spirits of Turpentine in a pond. Some o his neigh hors, learning the circumstance, contrived to bore luil - es in thelcasks, that the turpentine (night escape, anal when it had well leaked out, and covered a large surface of the pond they set it on tire. A faint imi tation oetti - J,Viining lake, and a warning to dishonest oil men. Six hundred and thirty:one dollars and thirty-five cents were presented to the fire de partment fund in New York, as the nett pro. ceeds of a ball at the Bowery theatre. TIM money ,js expended ,in aiding the widows , and Orpbanf 'firemen. Mr. Chester, the Attorney for the Mission aries, has proceeded to Georgia, with a copy of the record and judgment in the Supreme Court, expecting to arrive before the adjOu rn mein of the Court by - Whom the - M issiona.- ries were tried and sentenced. In the re tnarks;of the Chief Justice and Judge Mc- Lean; it intimated that on the strict en forcement of the decision might depend the questidn of the Court's' ever re-assembling. Mrs. Royal! has taken sides with Georgia, and against the Supreme Court! The atlitir is therefore all over with the Missionaries ! ! Allitteration of 1 1 for Polities.—Proprie tors of Parliament, plunderers of the public purse, protected by Peers and prelates, will be preventedirom_pillaging and pea:scenting the people, by a patriot Prince's prero:,ative 1110thgg pe rSoi Sit pure piney es whose preponderance will have power- to purity Parliament and protect the public from the pampered pensioners, partician pick-pockets, and prostitutes, who prey on its prOperty, and whose prigligate practices are proclaimed by the,press. Sttmley, the Secretary for Ireland, ' lately .4tafdrtin Parliament that, in 1831, the total .pdinilOon, of the Emerald' was 7,734,000,1 ndA that the increase since 1831 had been at the rate of about thirteen and an half a mile. The South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, closed its ses• sion at Darlington, S. C., on the 31st of.lan nary. Bishop Bedding presided. There were 7 preachers admitted on trial-5 con tinued on trial-6 admitted into full con nection-2jordained deacons, and 16 elders. There wasAeported from the circuits and stations within the, bounds of the Conference, an increase of more than 2,300 members, during the past year. The. comet has already been seen at Gibraltar: A letter received in tondon states: "a considerable portion of the tail of the comet was visible to the inhabitants of these parts. Thqcomet"itsell was seen, but its direction was round to be noitherly, so that we may soon expect the celvfial visiter. • We understand that Gen. JACKSON, (the President of the United States) completed the sixty-fifth year of his age on Wednes day the r4th instant. It is stated positively that the "celebrated George Kremer" moans to vote, dead or alive, for the Hon. William Wilkins iurVice. President. This will be sad news for the Globe. The New Oyleans Bee cot - the 28th; ult. says, That all the smaller tributaries of -the 11.1ississippi, in the upper part of Louisiana, have overflowed theit banksv the planters haves turned out all their force to sedurp the levers, antb p prevent breaches from being made by tlcelwaters. The same paper adil ses.theiinhabitantigf the bank of the. river, . to look to he stren.4 het n. ments againSt inundation. 'Besides this real eminent danger," says the Bee, "the inhabitants of the interior are palsied swith the dread of' the comet; he aberrations of which are to 'unsphere this firm*set eartlj; We are told that in the fulness of their cre dulity, some of the oldest inhabitants have shut themselves up in their .dwellings, in hourly expectance of his unwelcome wan. d(!rer, which has been sent on a minion of desolation. Curious Su pc; scription.—A letter, with the following direction, was lately received at the Pottsville, (Pa.) Post Oflicec—Miss Jane Williams, Cousin of John Owen's wife, Pottsville—Near PhiladOphia, four miles from New Castle, Schuylkill county 4 in North America, in the United States. A case of vial•practice was recently de, sided at Litchfield, Connecticut, in which it young physician, for having inoculated a female just below the elbow joint, wounded a nerve, and effecting an incurable injury, was tined tbur hundred dollars. Another unfortunate occurrence may be added to the list that carelessness daily spread4etae us, as a warning. A inen,,by the name 'of Jacobs Sellers, living in the neighborhood of Svhellsburg, Bedford co., Pa., was shot by his son, who was amusing himself by snapping percussion caps, on a gun supposed not to be - , harged. --The-hall entered his shoulder and lodged in his breast. So far as we havebeen able to ascertain the wound is considered very dangerous.- - On the Ist,inst. in a trap which had been set in Sherburne, Mass. for a. supposed fox, a huge wild cat was found caught by one of hig toes: He was shot, and found to mea sure three feet in length, and to weigh twen ty-one pounds. No animal of that kind has been killed in Sherburne for fitly years. In Connecticut, - the number of permanent residents unable to read, (exclusive of mi nors) is estimated at thirty only I Oliver Wolcott, who is now 71 years of age, is the only surviving member of Wash. ington's Cabinet. He succeeded Alexan der Hamilton in the Treasury Department. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.—Saville. - E.;`1 . 10o OUR C,41.4 4 1.1111,1TES : INFERIOR TO NONE-LESS OBJECTIONABLE THAN ANT-AND ('REFERABLE TO ALL. Before the Baltimore Convention, it was frequently predicted by our opponents, that we should be unable to obtain candidates for the offices of President and Vice President, of such talents aild standing in the nation as would claim the respect and confidence of the peeple. _That .Convention._ has. passAdy. and the names of WILLIAM WIRT and AMO.Y. ,I.llAhca a e beibre life — nation - Twit • names of the candidates of our party for the above mentioned stations. Aro they quali fied for them? Of Mr. WIRT, it is needless to say much. He has long been before the public in a highly responsible - station and has long been known as one of the ablest_civilians, most accomplished statesman and most elegant scholars of the country. For twelve. years, con mtencing with - Mr. Monroe's elevation to the Presidency, he has made one of the A merican caliinet as Attorney General of the United States. During this period has been begun and 'perfected that system' of policy which has raised the nation to the highest pitch of prosperity—which has filled 'its treasury to overflowing—has extinguished a l great national debt--has called fbrth the la tent resources of the country and brought into vigorous exercise the slumbering ener gies of a great and intelligent people—has filled the land with the songs of plenty and the shouts of industry; and, in short, has, as if by cue han tient, erected villages and cities where, bh short time since nodded the so lemn forest; and mingled the voice of enter prise uid civilization even with the rudeness and flaunts of savage life. Mr. WIRT may be reckoned among the fathers of this system —he has, indeed, became identified with it. As at jurist, he ranks among the first of the country 'and the age. As an advocate, he has scarcely a rival. His eloquence . is of the most impassioned, chaste and power ful character; convincing by the force of the reasoning and the clearness of the de- ductions—elevating by the purity and lof tiness of the cohception and the rhetoric— pleasing by the - beauty, harmony and etc , fiance of the periods; and mastering by a siugidar concentration of all those striking characteristics which convict, delight and lead captive the judgment and imagination • of the auditor. As fx i scholar, he is, per. haps, second to no one. His lire of Patrick Henry, together with his Old Backelm and Brititti,,Spy have done as much, with out doubt, to elevate and establish the lit - eratur— eof thisicountry, iii - any other works. Some indeed of the latter.are hardly parts, I. surpaispd by any thing in the language. Of , such &candidate arty party , ',,in:ight, be prond., es*ially •i'vben,, .in connexion. , with such , rerntS--Two l)ow:Att's per annum:* paygble half-yearly in advance. No sub- scriptions taken for less than six months,and none discontinued unlll all utraarages are* paid, A failure to notify a discontinuance, will be considered a few engagement tutcl, the papei forwarded",accordingly. 0 '2 ' I :IIQQvV . ( 00 4:0.14 'Whole Number, 103. the greatest purity of character in every re lation in life-4n the public and private sta tion and in the social and domestic circle. How much, moreover, is -the brightness of his fame, in the latter respect, heightened by the contrast which it exhibits to that of ilia I competitors! Mr. ELLMARER, our candidate for Vice; President, is not so extensively and promin• ently known, He is, however, in his native State, and in the nation, very far from being obscure or undistinguished. He is'yet in the very primooflife, being only about forty• live years of age. He has, notwithstanding, won - his way to an eminence, as a politician, jurist and a statesman, which is a sure evi., deuce' of the superior order of his talents and extensiveness of his acquirements. He iser roan of deep and penetrating sagacity—rea. dy and discriminating in his conceptions, and prompt and decided in action. He - is, filet, one of those kind of men who are al. ways equal to the emergency however great' it may he—one, the resources of whose= mind are only fully known when called forth by the magnitude of the duty to be perform. ed. In his feelings he is generous, patrici• tic and independent. In ; , I_= arson he is dignified and conantandinV,•A . ment;affable t _geitieiikeily and ing—in his life' and --- charecter, Such is the man whoM the anti.MaitiOnW tv present for the office of Vice Prat; 'en `. one who will not suffer in comparison Wit any other who may be presentedforth •; .• station. That our remarks may not seem to be tut. aggerated, and to have been made at ran. (loin, •we subjoin the following brief sketch of his public life which has been politely fur nishtd us by a gentleman in Pennsylvania, who is intimately acquainted with Mr. EH maker, and who has the means of knowing it to he-correct. Some other accounts dint public services have embraced slight hale. curacies. AMOS ELLMAKER, the Anti-Masonic can. didate for the office of Vice-President or the United States, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1787. He finished his education at Princeton College, in New-Jersey, and graduated in 1805. Having studied law for one year In Lan• caster, attended the law-lectures of Judge Reeve and Mr. Geoid, in Litchfield, Conn• for one year, and on his return studied one year in Harrisburg, he in 1808 commen• ced the practice of law at Harrisburg... He He was a member of the House of Rep% resentatives of. Pennsylvania, during the session of 1812-13, and 1813.14, from Date' phin County. In the fall of 1814, while with the Penn. sylvania volunteers and militia at Balt/. mare ; in the capacity of aid of Gan. Fors. ter, he was elected a member of Congress, by the Counties of Dauphin ; Lebanon and Lancaster. In the spring of 1815, before the twits of the time for taking . his seat, os a. membe_ - Govert or Snyder, Presiclentludo?.--of—the-Judiei------ District, composed of the Counties of Da phin, Lebanon and Schuylkill. In the full of 1816, he was appOinted Governor Snyder iktterney General of' Pennsylvania; and the appointment waa renewed by Governor Findlay, (who site.' ceeded Goir. Snyder in 1817,) and wait held till the summer of 1819. In 1821, he removed to the eity - of - Lan.. caster. In the spring Of 1828, he was ap. pointed by Gov. Shulze Attorney Genera/ of Pennsylvania, and held the office till the summer of 1829. He has at different periods of his- life, twice declined the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth; and . twice that. of Judge of the Supreme Court of Penney!. v ania.—pliddlebury,Vermont,Free Press. The prospects of Anti-Masonry werer never so encouraging as they are at present. The freemen of the country are every whese awaking to the importance- of abol , ishing an institution which under the guise of charity and benevolence exerts a tremor)s dous political power, and enables its votaries; to set the laws at, defiance. In our own ,State the Masonic party are alarmed. They feel that the sceptre is about departing- from them. Hence .the various schetnee engendered by the fraternity,lo - the people, and defeat Ritner. A skeleton of a party, which has assumed-the high sound- - ing title of National Republican g composed of about 10,000 Clay Masons and Jacks, will hold a convention in May next, to nom. inate a candidate fi)r Governor. This force is the corps de reserve of the Jackson Ma- sonic party. They KNOW that Pennsylvae nia will elect an Anti-Masonic governor at the coming election, unless some extraor dinary eilbrts on their part are made. So the nationals, their "friends in needy" wilt • nominate a candid* fin' . Governor, who they expect will receive the votes of many who would otherwise vote , (op Ritneri While the votes of those. within the Influence the cable-toW wilt begiven s to Weir Eren then the advocates or Masonry be de- , --- rented. Witt, Ellmakeveis Ritner\willikreeto all before them.-.—[Norristoton* P4Pc- Press. . . 4 Thooe' who up* -riniddY - find is 04:4
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