i , ' niiM-i ii iih-TrnrrTTTTggitTriirrTTriM iiii iiiir m - - - 'jt The whole art op GuvihN'rinNT consists in the art or being honest. Jefferson and PnSlIabcrl STROUDSBURG, MONROJJ COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1840. No. 4. msPDnxcutui1 JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. . RMS. Two dollars per annum in advanceTwo dollars quarter, uaix ycany, ana ii not nam iciorc mc cna oi by a earner or stage drivers employed by the proprietor, naocrs papers discontinued until all; arrearages arc paid, except be mscrtel three weeks for one dollar : twenty-five cents u uuuuiu v in m.iui; ij i;u-i iy outuiuat;. . v v 7;. . "r.iT.j JOB PRfPHV. uicntai Typc-we arc'prcparcu to execute every ucs- -fiSr cnntion O! BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, .fee. POETKY. THE WIDOWS ONLY SON. BY H. F. GOULD. Sleep on my babe end in thy dream Thy father's face behold, Thr.t lu c again may warmly beam From eyes now dark and cold. ll.swoatcd fond embrace to give, " i To smile as once he smiled, " .Agam let all the futhor live, i- Hlt To L1ess his orpVwn child. --.v, r Thy mother fits those heavy hours To measure wff with sighs ; . r . . V. :.l , 1 m A"" .i o er me s qutcK-vnRjreu guhtksj To Jnx p with streaming eyes. F r nh ' our walking dreams, how fasti Their dearett vfcioRS fade, Or flee, and lbavc tbefr gtory cast Fcr ever into shade ! y Ard sull, the doting In every Weeding siring That grief hcsisnappcJI 'Wfoni apart, Fjiis yetwherewiHs to Otog ; And yet w hereon its hold t6ial.e With stronger double srasp Because of joys it'heW tb lireak, Ormcttwithhrits clasp. A blast hasproredthat in the sand 1 based my faiif ilfighjtowcr Tile Death haslaliT Ids rgiidins head On my new Eden bowed! And.now.crf (leader orptiaa bgjr.. : Sweet bud of hope, I see My Kpice f tifo, my tutrxro joy, a My all, wrapped up in thee. I fear to murmur in the car Of hiii who willed the Mow, And sent the Kins of Terrors here To lay thy father low. I askhis aid my grief Vj bear, Andlay, "Tl.y vtU be don,r That Tie--; ex will still in pity tpnrc The v.. .iv. 's only son. SELECT TASXS. HEREWARD, THE HUNTER. (ConeJudod.) ir dp. BoUotourt known, and f L14 f w ww - 4 C nrl,nt f .1 . . T"-l 11. fm-r-im ltf flCIlf v II II I 1 ir! I IIIfkT. 111LI1 iL 11U1 t-w 4twa a.w t - i i r . . : j r... 1.;.. it - i -i nnrrrjcitv. lie was. inaeeu, mat rare wvuuvwu lU jril mt'II, UVUII IJOIUV Ullll.vu, iJoumii A!iIl!nrtl n ikiimnti mnn Th'.'uph at this period, when the conqdest 1 1 fact but half accoulisiied, all Norman Uar.r.'s were tyrannical and grasping, and, it not . . ... itctuni y cruel, reckless, rtt loet, ot'bioodsljed, none 4ua;i Americ de Bottetourt for dread intensity V . . . - . 1 l.n ..u.m a te w hundred angels, wa ample cause for the - t 11; i : t 1 . r frcvrnolishuien:, or even youtii itself, was held -f lor tn WOIS injury UJ ucicnuicoer ia- ,. .. .... : ... !.: JC 1 f iy. Skilful, no loss than bravo, in figut, this sa- 1 1 t.-.J 1 I.I Cl I i- IV. ------- - - j iSriglr-iid ; liau constantly rocinvuu iresu nui, ueau - i . .1 . - 3 m i: f i ..... ... lni cfiU tlu wpallliinr !td tw )WI 1 1 - ' 7, " "v -' " - i' 1 -1 nML!l!n.u. It, lu.yi.ui. . . P UAA tichs. tt.u tiie jess cruwuuus ui insaiHs wi iiiwib- .. i l r ... lii es. Licentious as he wag avaricious when be ia-J p.issed already the mid-years of LManhood 1 nn- n lai ikM iwkr' t tflociw nrwl ovrvw f-ure to the scorching beat of summer, ami the kef-:i f. -"sis of winter, had ploughed a thousand tic , Vi-rming wrinkles on his harsh features, Ui'J ieu HIS uurjt litao tvitai s:vii ,iv arm cust o,i tiie lovely Alice de Yalittort an eyo of ' fierce desire. What wore the secret ii.iks, none knew, by which tlw face aad overruling pirit of iSir Americ had , tramHo44he -wlwk soui of.m&. rn.i.n n.mm. .i(Vi , nynf, aVj nn! A i nil'ava--, K i -1 orgraspinsiiirit jnowj Vicious, ra! his age, had yielded himself up altogether to the direction of his sterner neighbor, whom, even. ... i I I' 1 1.- 3I'1'1. . 1 .'S wmic ne tremoiingiy oueyeu ins snguvest riianaaw,' he did not even feign to honor, much less to es: Her absolute' reluctance to the marriage, na' her utter hatred of the man, had been, for months, the topic of almost universal conversation; for so widely had the fame of her unrivalled charms been circulated, that in that age of chivalry and gene rous adventure numerous were the young and gal lant cavaliers who would have deemed it no slight privilege to be permitted to adopt the colors of the lovely Alice at tilt or tournament ; and whom not even the fierce jealousy and savage prowess of her avowod admirer, could deter from offering at the' beauty's footstool, the tribute of dtp553miration. All their endeavors were, however, vain; and when it was discovered that the bright damsel, though she had eyes to glance, and lips to smile at times upon some favored gallant, had yet no heart to yield or if she had, possessed not the poor op tion to bestow it where she'plea'sed when it was seen that if she caught the dark eye of Sir Americ gazing on her unwonted merriment, she broke off like a guilty thing detected in commission of some desperate offence, and voluntarily, as it would seem, submitted herself to his imperious will men cease to striveorthat return of courtesy, at least, if not affection7"which, .while it could be sought for only at considerable riskit seemed impossible to gain. Such hacLbcen, for many months,, the state of matters between the lady, and her lover, if lover it be right to term him, who had no mood of gaiety or soitnoss, cvemior a moment s space wnojiever fferqjLany admiration, never showed any' kind nosSjgiever feigned any courtesy, much less affec tion. Such, then, for months, had been the state of matters, when it was suddenly announced that n a near-appointed day, Alice would be surren dered by her father into the hands of Sir Americ ; for uro purpose, it was understood, of being under -his1 protection conducted in all honor to a well tiknown and celebrated nunnery of Yorkshire, the abbess of which was sister to the puissant Baron there to remain till such time as she sliouUl sub- fajtffierself with no more. of reluctance or delay toj I-li" 1 ? 1-1- - - 1 1 ixne mgu uesuny vriiicn awajica iter Thc route -ny- wmcn mcy -must prlDCSTSUr la?, Tora space,' a!onr the outskirts of the desolate and dreaded tract of fen and forrest, which was in those days tenanted so wildly by the unconquered Saxons : I and as Sir Americ's name was hated by these sa- Tage forresters with no small or unmerited degree of detestation, it had been daenied advisable to travel northward with a powerful and well-armed escort more, perhaps, as a matter of precaution, than of necessity, for, although, since they had been led by Hereward, the Saxons had increased amazingly in boldness although they had in ma ny instances surprised, and pitilessly slaughtered tliose of their oppressors whom they found wan dering alone, or with but slight attendance, in pur suit of the wooaland game among their perilous' fastnesses they had not yet attained to such a pitch of absolute audacity as would have prompted them to attack men-at-arms, equipped in complete panoply of war, and on tlieir guard no less against the hidden ambush, than the bold front of violence. It had bean Americ's intention to pass the dan gerous morass, in which, if any where, he might ! nrnfld tn m.t vvit'i intprriintinti- nf n miif firsrlifir , i . i .i v. Twn nf t!if hm! nf Ii'k triiin hail fnllf'n lamfi nn. . r on ljuvroute, and much time had elapsed before he hMboen able to replace them; still, he had ' hoped to pass before the sun should set. and -i r , , 3 j l : . .1- ; mererore nau prestswi oiiwaxo, navi, m uuwi.iiu allerative but so to do; for after he had lel't Cam bridge, which was already uules behind him, there was no hostelry or even cottage on "the road, wherein it woukl have been advisable, or even pos sible, to pass the hours of darkness. It was, then, ir. no placid mood that Americ de Bottetourt saw the sun gradually sinking behind the tall trees, which now fringed on every side the darkening horizon; and little was his hope of ma- ; king good his passege without blows and blood shed; for he was not unconscious of the bold valor of the Saxon outlaw, nor of the deadly cause he had for waging war against himself, especially, as the most hated individual of a detested race. Drawing up, therefore, his small band according to the method most approved in those days of in cipient discipline, he clasped his vizor, felt that his ponderous sword was ready to his graBp, and advanced, not without something of unvvonteJ tre pidation, at a hard trot into the perilous dofile. -Already was above one half of its length safely passed ; and already had Sir Americ begun to deem the apprehension, ho had of late entertained, causeless, and all unworthy of himself whon from hi rear, wildly re-ochoed from the thick-set stems of a dim grove which he had just cleared, without l-oaring sound or seeing sigltt that could have led him to suspect the presence of a living being, there ,roeo a Joud yell, succeeded instantly by the quick iclang.of axes,;and.ereui-momenthad elaped by the initromenddus crash of falling timber, ocarce Jiad Sir Americ paused ro listen to the unusual andjUn welcome sound, before the keen and crafty veteran Mom in consideration of those very qualities!) he had annomtcd to brinir un his rear, dashed uruit a liard gallop to his side. 'Wo shall bo sut upon, sir, instantly,' he ciwd, the moment he was near enough to suffehis words to be audible. 'Theie be a score oriiwo of Saxon varlets down in the thicket yonderjand they have felled some three or four tall trees across the causeway. Retreat is hopeless !' . 'Retreat!' echoed the haughty Baron Who would retreat before a Saxon! forward, brave hearts, and if the dogs find heart to shew them selves, 'fore God and our Lady, but we willpin them to the earth with our good lances. Ori.jar- chcrs, and look sharp let not a villain showlhis head above these cursed bushes, but mark ittwuh a cloth-yard airow. Forward! St. Gcnevivefor Americ !' 'J Sucli were the words with which the Norman, adopting the array which has been hcretoforele scribed, dashed onward while from behind, near er at every instant, and more near, rang the Wild whoops and yells which had in the first instate announced the presence of the enemy. ' Damain, they be behind us yet,' ho said, all dressing himself in a whisper to the veteran 'squire who rode beside his rein ' behind us all. Bc shrew me, but I think we shall outstrip them! , 'Look! look! Sir Americ,' shouted the". old - v 'squire, almost in the selfsame instant, pointing with his long lance toward the ash-trees of wlush Hereward had spoken. Look ! my good lordSa chain. Yon ash is half cut through if it fail le are lost.' Even as he spoke, the chain which up to this time had sustained the mighty tree, swung free-p the branches swayed and cracked, and the gigan tic trunk groaned, as it reeled and tottered to and. fro. ft 'On, archers!' shouted Americ- for your lives; get past yon ash-tree into the If'ji 1110,1 darGSt' figUt Whh a de on! for your lives and shoot your defe, rjSven judge betwixt us,' Hereward hissed .t, or -ive are but lost men!' c hfltwnan his teeth, close-set. and launched his se- glade- licbt. or ive fire but Inst man !' Then fiom.-tiiieUKv- ixrUassjirtsroso.ioilal loud, the same portentous yell, which had alarmed "tnenvironrtKe rear; while, nearer still'and nearer, on every side it was repeated, showing that now they were entirely surrounded ; and fast and fre quent might be hcaid the ringing clatter of the axes, and the stem voice of Hereward urging the outlaws to their toil. Instant, as Americ spoke, the archers dashed their spurs into their chargers' flanks, and sped at a pace actually fearful along the rough and broken causeway, driving at every j stroke the mud and slime high into air behind j them If they might but succeed in passing, ere i the large tree should fall, it was most probable that the .whole party would escape ; for, cutting on the causeway at right angels, not half an arrow-flight beyond the thicket, an open glade extended with firm soil and good footing quite to the rear of the Saxons; so that, the angle gained, the alleys of the Norman archery would have commanded their position, and rendered it impossible for them to carry their annoyance farther. On they went, gal lantly and fast scattering, however, as one horse outstripped the other with their long-bows alrea dy bent, and arrows notched upon the string. Fearful, indeed it was a fearful moment the mighty ash-tree rocked and creaked audibly one archer has already passed it lo ! he has halted rcised his bow to his eye that twang has rung the knell of one of the assailants St. Genevive, St. Genevive, for Americ!' The second reaches it even now his charger goaded to his fulispecd is springing past the butt he is safe and the third close behind! Noi no ! a louder, deeper groan of the huge tree! and down, down it came, thundering to the earth ! Heaven, what a fearful sight ; ' even as it fell, tho hapless Norman who rode second, dashed into the dread space, and on the instant, horse and man "were crusned by the re sistless weight into one shapeless mass of quiver ing and gory carnage ; the third man close to the ruin, had yet the time to note it, and with a despe rate effort succeeded in arresting the speed of his horse ; and low he stood, the noble animal quiv princr in ftvp.rv Hmb with terror, its head curbed to its very chest by the strong rider, who, unmoved, even by that fearful peril, watched with steady eye for the appearance of a foeman. Not long did he wait, for, ere the echoes of that thundering shock had passed away ; cheerily shouting to his comrades, Hereward sprang upon the fragment of the tree, which yet stood upright in the ground, as if to overlook the field. ' Down with another tree, my men ! One more, he shouted, ' and they are ours, beyond hope of rescue.' . . . . The moment he appeared, tho arrow whistled from the bowstring of tho Norman, but whether it was that his nerves were shaken by the appalling si'dit he had that instant witnessed, or that the Saxon, as men said, of a truth, bore a charmed life, the shaft sung past his head, and, quivering, stood fixed in arhard behind him, buried al- most to jflR,crry England !' shouted tho outlaw in rcurffnd without pausing even to take aim hurled the short boar-spear which he held in his riht hand, against the archer. Hurling through the air,'it smote him at the junction of the roret with the breastplate, and driven with resist iress3 force, pierced through and the neck, and hurl- ed him headlong from his saddle, a dead man ere ! he touched the earth. Atstho same point of time, the clatter ot the hoots ot the third archer who had passed the tree, and in whom all their hopes of safety were now vested, might be heard, telling of his flight and their abandonment. They were entrapped almost beyond hope of redemption or resistance! Before them and be hind, the road was barred by masses of felled tim bor, which hours of labor would hardly suffice to remove on thtir right hand a deep and fordless rivulet, with its banks guarded by the ambushed Saxons, and on their left, a dark impassable mo ras. Yet, still in this extremity, Sir Americ dis played his wonted gallantry and conduct. 'Down with your lances !' he exclaimed, ' there be no use of them ! Out axes, and dismount ! You, Da main,' he continued, with Lancelot and Raoul, how away at yon timber as you best may, to clear a path we, with God's aid, will gard ye !' Dcwn irom their saddles sprang the men-at-arms, and in the face of dreadful odds, went stea dily, and even cheerfully, about their work. The light-armed spearmen clustered about the person of their leader, who, with his long two-handed sword unsheathed, sat perfectly unmoved on his tall war-horse. The two remaining archers had fallen back with' the females to that side of the causeway nearest the morass, atid" therefore least exposed to instant peril. But the plot thickened ; for the instant the first blow fell upon the timber, a dozen Saxons showed themselves on the farther side, and with their bills and boar-spears, com menced so violent an assault upon the men-at arms, as checked entirely their progress. At the same instant, Hereward stepped forward with a iavelin in his ricrht hand, and his huge gisarmc in his left beyond the bushes of the thicket directly in the lace of Americ ; while hall a score, aUeast, 'of hisrudc followers, half-armed, and utterly un disciplined, but hardy, bold, and goaued into fury by unnumbered wrongs, appeared behind him. ' Sir Americ de Bottetourt,' exclaimed tht. Sax on, as he saw his foeman, using the lingua franca, then the sole medium of communication between the hostile- races, ' this day your hour is come ! 'Twas this night, seven years ' ' It was,' replied the Norman, interrupting him, ' this very night, seven years agone, that this hand slew each living dog of your accursed race, save "thyself, only, who escaped me then, but to fill up 'on, archer$fmy triumphs now. Come forth! and meet thy i)Ctwcen his Jeeth, close-set, and launched his se cond jYeWdull4UJaicpeai&Y however, his aim was less true, than before, for grazing xittr tiiigu jr-i:i3- enemy, mtruorri-sjjear pieiced demi pique and housing ot tiie JNonnan s. charger, bearing him earthward in the agonies of death. 1 Callest thou this fair fight' shouted the now infuriated Baron, ' callest thou this fair fight then will we drive you from your 'vantage 1 Gil bert, thy light-armed hobbler hath cleared abroad er trench than that before thee ; over, and charge the dog there is, I trow, good footing !' Without one word, the young and daring spear man spurred his horse at the fearful leap ; the fiery charger faced it gallantly, but in the very act of springing, the treacherous footing failed, and, though he made a noble effort, his fore-feet barely reached the farther brink, while his hind quarters wore engulfed in the tenacious quagmire ; the ri der struggled up for a moment from the miry ditch, but it was only for a moment ; the ponderous axe of Hereward fell like a thunderbolt upon his head piece, and crushed the very skull beneath it. 'St. George! St. George for merry England !' and planting one foot firmly on the back of the ex hausted horse, Heroward sprang across the stream let, followed by all his dauntless comrades, and was assailed immediately by Americ. The fray was ended in ten seconds between the vassals of the Norman and the impetuous outlaws, who caring for neither wounds nor death, bore them down to the ground by the mere weight of num bers, and unmercifully slew them to the last man. Not so, however, nor so rapidly, was the en counter ended between the Norman Baron and Hereward, the Hunter. Both men of power and muscular strength almost unrivalled, both anima ted by unusual fury, one fighting for his life, the other, dearer to him than life, for vengeance, they struggled long and desperately. Many and dan gerous wounds were interchanged, before Americ's two-handed sword was shivered to the hilt, and himself beaten to his knee by one blow of the Saxon gisarmc. ' Not so !' cried Hereward, ' not so ! with wea pons in thy hand shalt thou die, Savage Norman ! Thou shalt not boast in Hell that Hereward was cowardly avenged ; give him an axe, good Elbert!' His orders were obeyed without dispute, tho' evidently with reluctance, and armed anew by his foe's mercy or contempt, Americ renewed the combat. Not long, however, did it now last, for less accustomed to the bill than the sword, Americ failed to parry the third blow, which, glancing from his head-piece, clove deep into his shoulder, and was immediately succeeded by a fourth, which crushed the helmet like a nutshell, and laid the tyrant at the feet of the avenger, a quivering and lifeless corpse. The last rays of the sun barely sufficed for the conclusion of the fierce encounter, but the pale moon was gleaming through the forest, before the outlaws, with the lady and her female followers, their honorable captives, and treated with due ho nor, turned to the shelter of their woodland fast ness, leaving, as Hereward liad boasted, to tho ra ven and the fox, the bodies of their vanquished conquerors. An ugly stick of a bachelor, in-discoursing of matrimony, remarked that the frogs in iEsop were extremely wiso ; they had a great mind for some" water, but they would not leap into tho well, because they could not leap out. Keep your eyes open before marriago half shut after. Music of Winter. I love to listen to the falling of the snow. You may teniperyour heart to the serenest mood by its low murmur. It i3 that kind of music that only intrudes upon your ear when your thoughts come languidly. You need not hear it if your mind is not idle. It re alises my dream of another world, whcr,e music is intuitive like a thought and conies only when it is remembered. And the frost, too'has'a melodious miustrelsy. You will hear its crystals shoot in the dead of a clear night as if the moonbeams were splin tering like arrows on the earth ; and you listen to it the more earnestly, that it is the going on of one of the most cunning and befantiful of Na ture's, deep mysteries. I know nothing so won derful as the shooting of crystal. God has hid den its principles, as yet from the inquisitive eye of the philosopher, and wc Must bo content to gaze on its exquisite, beauty and listen in mute wonder to the noise bf.its yisable work manship. It is too fine a knowledge for us. We shall comprehend it'when we luiow.ho'.v the morninjj stars sang together. You would hardly look for music in thfe drea riness of early winter. But before tho keener frost sets in, and while the warm winds are yet stealing back occasionally,like regrets of the de parted summer, there will come soft rain or a heavy mist, and, when the north wind returns, there will be crops suspended like ear-ring jew els between the filaments of the cedar tassels, and in the feathery edges of the dark green hemlocks, and, if the clearing up is not followed by a heavy windthey will he frozen in their pla ces like well set gems. Tho next morning tho warm sun comes, and by the middle of the calm dazzling forenoon, they are loosened from tho close touch which sustained them, and will drop, at the slightest motion. If you go along on the south side of ths wood at that hour you will hear music. The dry foliage of the sum mer's shedding, is scatterd over the ground, and the round hard drops ring out clearly and distinctly as they are shaken down with tho stirring of the breeze. It is something like tho running of deep and rapid water, only more fit ful and merrier ; but to him who goes out in na- ture with his heart open it is a pleasantsjm.usic; '"and, in contrastiwitn? the stem characlcrrFthe uacou, tl-oiiglilfu. Winter has many other sounds that give pica sure to the seeker for hidden sweetness ; but they are too rare and accidental to be described distinctly. The brooks have a sullen and muf fled niurmur under the frozen surface ; the ice in the distant river heaves up with the swell of the currei.t, and falls again to the bank with a prolonged echo, and the woodman's axe rings cheerfully out from the bosom of the unrobed forest. These are, at-best however, but mel ancholy sounds ; they but drive in the heart upon itself. I believe il is so ordered in God's wisdom. CITY OF BOSTON. The following beautiful and eloquont notice of the ancient capital of Massachusetts is ex traded from the inaugural address of Jonathan Chapman, Esq., Mayor of Boston, delivered on the organization of the Municipal government, Jan. G, 1840 : " First among tho foremost in achieving that freedom without which there can be'no real pro gress, she has never been found wanting in any enterprise that could socure or adorn it. The simple but eternal truths, written, as it were upon her everlasting hills, in the blood of her stern, but pious ancestors ; that industry is better than a fertile soil an intelligent popu lation than the softest climate religion and vir tue than mines of gold havo not yet been for gotten. Guided by these truths as by the lights of heaven, and blessed by the smiles of a be nignant Providence, she has steadily and healthily advanced in size, numbers, and wealth. The skill of her mechanics, the enter prize of her merchants, and tho high and hon orable character of her citizenafigenerally have given her no mean station amongithocities of tho world. Every interest essential to herell being as a community has been liberally assum ed andgenerously provided for at the public charge. Churches and school houses are her most numerous and cherished monuments. Neat ness, quietness, and general good order havc& marked her character, and in all the points thwf are worthy of a true ambition, she has estabht ed and maintains, both at home and abroad, ar putation which is no honorable passport for her children through the civilized world. Cooking potatoes. 'When you boil potatoes for dinner pare enough for dinner and breakfast; throw a little salt into the water in which they are boiled, and when done, pour out the water carefully, and let the potatoes stand by tho lire a few minutes. You will find them much bet ter than when boiled in the common way with out paring. Take what are left at dinner, and, mash them whilo wary, adding a little cream aad salt; then put thorn In a bako pin, and in the morning you have only to set tho pan in tho stove, or before a brisk' firo for a few minutes. You will find them excellent. Some peopla use butter instead of cream, but the genuine, ar ticle is prepared by the latter. Ask, Gra hamitos. Gennsssw Fameru