Providence Patriot, Columbian Phenix

Ladies, don't be duped! beware of an imposter!

A person calling his name Hudson, passed through this place, on foot, and some six or eight miles above, called on a family, and thro' his remarkable powers of persuasion, after a courtship of nearly twenty-four hours, succeeded in gaining the consent of, a young miss about 19, to become his spouse-parents not objecting, the nuptials were celebrated.

The circumstances of this novel affair are enough to excite one's risible faculties, and at the same time teach a good lesson to those who, for pecuniary motives, will sacrifice higher considerations.

The impostor introduced himself to this family, who are respectable, as a nephew of the old folks from Massachusetts, possessing immense wealth and having at his command all the good things of this world-and so ingeniously tells the story, that his new acquaintances could not but believe he was the real Simon Pure.

He had come this great distance he said on purpose to see this young lady, and one great object of his marrying her was, to keep the wealth in their own family. He was for having furniture, beds and bedding sold, immediately, at vendue, when they would all start, for the land of promise together.

The next morning our hero starts his father-in-law for Tioga to procure an elegant carriage and grays which he said were in readiness for him. On his father's departure to accomplish this pleasing expedition, the new son starts on a route directly opposite, after borrowing $40 of his good mother to expend at the stores above, for necessaries, promising to replace the same after breaking one of his $100 bills.

As our readers would naturally suppose, the carriage, &c were not to be found, and on the father's return to his own habitation, his son-in-law was not there to explain the mystery! sad reverse, he was 'off'-A proper officer was immediately despatched after him.

He was found a few miles west of Covington, brought back, examined, and suffered to escape. We understand that he had made use of part of the borrowed money

Should our readers see a man about 40 years of age, 5 feet 5, dark complexion, wearing goggles, independent minded, glib tongued fellow, they will have some idea of our hero, who was last seen in this section, running in the woods, to avoid a sound flagellation threatened him by one of his new acquaintances.-Tioga Gaz.