11 The whole art ok Government consists in the art or being honest, Jefferson. VOL. 2. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1841, ' No 1. 4 I 1 ' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THEOBORE SCHOOL TERMS. Two dollars ncr aiumm m advance Two dollart R".d a quarter, half yearly, and if not paid before the end of ine year, two dollars ana a nan. i uuse w uo receive nicir pa pers by a carrier or stage drivers employed by ike proprietor, will be clianrcd 37 1-2 cts. per year, ejetra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except IC7Advertiseincnts not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar : twenty-five cruls ior every 5uuc4ni-m nisei nun ; larger ones in proportion, liberal discount will be made to yearly advertiscu. 10AU letters addressed to the Editor must be poit paid. JOB PREVTEVCt. Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and craa uii-uiiu xpu, k are prepared to execute every ueg 1 enption of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms. Tbe Sabbatli Bell. low sweetly through the lengtliened dell, When wintry airs are mild and clear, lioats chiming up the Sabbath bell, In softened echoes to the ear! "Come, gentle neighbours, come away, M S o doth the welcome summons say; "Come, friends and kindred, 'tis the tune, " So seems to peal the Sabbath chime. one are the week's debasing cares, And worldly ways, and worldly will; Jnd earth itself an aspect wears Like heaven, so bright, so calm and still! Hark, how, by turns, each mellow note; Now low, now louder, seems to float, And falling, with the wind's decay, Like softest music, dies away! "ind now," it says, "where Heaven resorts, 2ome, with a meek and quiet mind; 0, worship in these earthly courts, :Jut leave your earth born thoughts behind." Dome, neighbours, while the sabbath bell ieals slowly up the winding dell, Come, friends and kindred let us share The pure and holy rapture there! The celebrated German dancer, Fanny Els scr, arrived at Charleston on the 14th ultimo; hr engagement there, is lo perform four nights it each week for four weeks, at $1000 per niht. This is something better than 'going it' fo eels. Pleasaixt. Very! The Michigan Whigs, Ming front Lenawee Co. in that State, says: Te snow is already above the tops of the houses! hxcy on us, what a time! landlords getting rh, and printers starving to death! Oh! dear, ware just gone!" igh Life.' A fashionable lady ob color, dvn East, wh gave a party the other evening, neived the following reply from one of the gitleman, to a note of invitation: Dinah owing to the woolferoxis oder, which d circumstance is likely to creato, you will dcuse any extendance ob dis nigger!" Pretty Fair. An Ohio editor, in recording tj career of a mad dog, says "We are geved to say that the rabid animal, before it culd be killed, seriously bit Dr. Haag and sev cil other dogs. Marriage tottery. ' A bachelor in Norfolk, Virginia, who has :ot the courage to propose himself to the la dies, publishes in the Beacon the following scheme. It is an old Freuch method of rais ng the wind: Brilliant Scheme! I propose myself as a prize in a lottery to be called the " Old Domin ion Marriage Lottery," to be drawn in the usual way. The tickets to be of various prices, iti .the following order: Young ladies of 18 to pay the smallest price, those of 20 higher, wid ow ladies much higher than young ladies of 25, and "old maids" I must here make a diyres sion by old maids I mean those young ladies who have felt the glow of fifty summers they will have to pay much higher than the wid ows. When $50,000 are raised, the lottery will be drawn, and the lucky holder of the lucky ticket is to marry rny own lucky salf, the prizs! if, after seeing me, she should be unwilling to en ter the hymeniai state, she can annul the con tract, by dividing th sum between us. f Is not this a glorious scheme! what can be nore rational ladies? Can any objection bo niscd against it? None whatever. I trust lien you will all, ladies enter into this " Bril hni Scheme" without delay v All communications will be thankfully at tnded to, left at the Post Office, and directed ti !irour sincere friend and humblo servant, SlNCEKITAS; ftrfolk,.Dec.,17th, 1840;,.,. . Historical Notes. ( Continued from our last.) In tho course of the difficulties which pro vailed between the red and white men, about tho occupation of the lands in the "Forks," it appears by a petition presented to the Assem bly from a man named Henry Webb, that "without any provocation by him given, he had lately been very much abused and wounded by the Indians, whereby he has suffered great ly, and by tho expense of his illness and loss ol time, is reduced to extreme poverty." Ten pounds were granted for his relief. At this treaty, in reply to a demand matte by Governor Thomas for satisfaction Canassaiego said, "that the Six Nations had made diligent inquiry into the all air, aud had found nut the Indian, who broke Webb's jawbone. Ho lived near Esopus, aud had been examined, and severely reproved and they hoped, as Webb had recovered, the Governor would not press for any further pun ishment." The provincial authorities having oeen so successitu in obtaining their ends, m regard to tho disputed lands did not persist in their demands, but let the matter drop. It is now nearly a century, since the Dela- wares abandoned their rights to tho country, rom wnicn mey wore compelled to remove by the arbitrary commands of power, though many amine sun remained on portions ol tracts un settled or unsurveyed others would occasion ally come from their new homes, to revisit the scenes of their youth, and observe with melan choly interest the changes which were occur ring in the land of their lathers this practice was continued until tho revolutionary war and within the recollection of several persons still iving in this vicinity there exist but few re mains of the aborigines at this day the most distinct is probably a burial ground on the high and directly opposite tho lower part of "Shaw nee Island" it is now covered with trees of a vigorous growth, though tho mounds and cav- UGB may still be traced 1 he site of the pres ent town of Easton was occupied for several years by Indians alter tho treaty of 142, pro bably owing to the circumstance, that the land n its vicinity was not immediately offered for iiale by ihe Penns, who were well aware of its eligible situation for a town, and thought, it more acantageous to their interests, to have tbe coantrv around settled, before bringing it into tho market. It was hore, that tho cele brated missionary David Braiuerd look up his abode, for the purpose of preaching the gospel among the heathen. A beautiful account of his self-devotion, his religious zeal, his untiring pa tience under difficulties arising from his wretch ed health, and the slight success, which at tended his first efforts, in converting the Indi ans to Christianity, may be gathered from his published "journal of the rise and progress of a remarkable work of grace among a uumber of Indians in Pennsylvania." He was in tho 26th year of his age, when he set out on horseback from his native place Haddam, Connecticut, to tho then savage wilds of the " Forks." The first Sabbath of his jour ney was spent among somo German and Irish people, about 12 miles from his placo of des tination. He was for somo time almost dis couraged at the prospect, of conversion, and says, that "midnight itself was not so dark." I give an extract from his journal, from which we may see, the temper of the people, to whom he hoped to bo a messenger of salvation, and the mode of reasoning employed by them, to reject his labours. May 10tht 1744. "I met with a number of Indians at Minisinks I spent some timo with them, and first addressed their chief in a friend ly manner, expressing my desire to instruct them in Chrisiianity-'-at which he laughed, turned his back upon mo, and went away af tor some time I followed him into a house and renewed my discourse--but ho declined talk ing and left the affair to another, who appeared to bo a rational man. He began and talked vry warmly for a quarter of an hour, and en quired, why I desired the Indians to' be chris liana seeing, the Christians were so much worse than the Indians in their present state tho Christians would both lio, and steal and drink worso than the Indians. It was they, first taught the Indians to drink and they stole from one another to that degree, that their ru lers were obliged to hang them for it: that was not sufficient to deter them from the practice but the Indians he added were none of them ever hanged for stealing, and yet they did not steal half so much, and ho supposed if the In dians should become Christians, they would men ne aDout as oau as these and thereupon he said, they would live as their fathers lived, and go where their fathers were, when ihev died. I then joined with them, in condemning tho ill conduct of some who are called Chris tians, told him, they were not Christians in heart, that I hated such wicked practices, and did not desire the Indiana to become such as these and when he appeared calmer, I asked him if ho was willing I should come and see them again he replied, ho should be willing to seo me "again as a friend, if I would not desire thorn to become ChristiansI then bade them farewell and prosecuted my journey to Sauk hauwotung (within the Forks of Delaware.)" Ho mentions frequently, that most of the In dians who formerly lived here are dispersed, and have removed to places further back in jhc country at .Kauksesauking 30 miles west of the "Forks," ho was suspected by some, of in tending mischief to lhem as they asserted the whites had abused aud defrauded them of their lands. Among the greatest difficulties in his way, was tho slavish fear in which the Indians, held their Powows, who kept them in subjec tion, by mfeans of their wild and barbarous su perstitions. Brainerd openly defied these men. leiung them to do their worst to injure him then he showed the Indians, that though he had challenged and provoked these great Sor cerer, they had not nower to harm a hair of his head but their credulity was not to be overcome Heckewelder tells us, he saw a public experiment made upon a friend, who in like manner defied their enchanters, after try ing all kinds of incantations to work upon his fears, but without success, the Powows de clared, that their charms had not the usual ef fect upon him because he eat so much salt with his meat and tho implicit faith of tho tribe was not shakon. Brainerd made several journies to the Sus quehanna, encamping at night in the woods and suffering tho groatesl hardships. Notwithstand ing his zeal and perseverance, nearly a year elapsed, before any indication appeared, lhat success would attend his efforts. I give some oxtracts from his "journal." July 14th 1745. Lords Day Discoursed to the Indians here several of whom appeared concerned, so that they wept much of tho whole time of dinner service afterwards discoursed to a number of the white people then present. "July 2Jat. Preached to the Indians first, then to a number of white people present, and in the afternoon to the Indians again. Divine truth seemed to make very considerable impres sion upon several of them, and caused their tears to flow freely--afterwards I baptized my interpreter and his wife, who were the first 1 baptized among the Indians when I first em ployed him in the beginning of the summer of '44, he was well fitted for hi3 work in rcard of his acquaintance with the Delaware and English language, as well as with tho manners of both nations, but seemed to have little or no impression of religion upon bis mind, and in that respect, was very unfit. Ho indeed he-j haved soberly after I employed him (although! iitrnuu, iiu uuii ueen a naru anniior.j wis name is Moses f Taiamy, is about 50 years of age, and I trust will, yet be a blessing lo tho other Indians." "February 18th 1746. I preached to an assembly op! Irish people, near 15 miles dis tant from my residence. February 20th Preached to a small assembly of High Dutch, who had seldom heard the Gospel preached, ano were (.some ot them at least) very ignorant. They requested mo to tarry with them or to como again to preach to thorn. Feb. 29th- Preached lo a number of people, many of them, Low Dutch several of the before-mentioned Germans attended the service though 8 or 10 miles distant from their houses. He found it extremely difficult to brino- tho Indians to any right understanding of the doc trines ho endeavored to teach; they had their own religious ideas, believing in the Great Spirit, and a future state of rewards and pun ishments beyond their rude conceptions of those things they could hardly bo made to go. It was next to impossible to bring them to any rational conviction, that they wero sinners by nature, and that their hearts were corrupt aud sinful: they could not conceive of being a sin ner, without having done wrong. It was ex tremely difficult to give them any just notion of the undertaking of Christ in behall of sinners of hi sufferm? and rlvinf in their room ntwl stead, in order to atone for their sins, and of 0 -m. 0 . their being justified by his righloousness im parted to them, they could not conceive, why God might not forgive, nor if all deserved to suffer, what justice there was in one suffering lor the whole many other questions were pro posed to him, to which he found it hard to mako any satisfactory reply Such for example as this. How tho Indians came to be dark colored, if they descended, from the same pa rents with the white men and how it hap pened, that supposing all to have come from one place, tho Indians only should have re moved lo this country, and all the white men remained behind. The manners of the Indians also presented a serious obstacle to a mission ary educated in ihe refinements of civilized life. To go and talk with them, in thoir hou ses filled as they were with smoke aud cinders, and disgusting with all manner of filth, gave him sick head- aches and other disordora. The children would cry at pleasure when ho was speaking, and their mothers would lake no pains to quiet them. Some would bo playing with their dogs, others attending to some house hold business, Avithout the least regard to him; Now Snucon township. TTat's Gun on the lllu Mount sin derives its nni fmm Mn. fcs Tntamy, who in iho buutuig ecaion, occupied n cabin on the south Fjdn. f JTho Irish settlomont now Allen township. and this not out of disrespect, but only because they had never been trained to better manners. These things often oppressed him so much, that he gave over in despair, believing that it would not be possible for him, ever to address the In dians again. Such were a few of the difficul ties he had to encounter, and these were in creased a thousand fold by the agency of while mcn nol only by the infamy which their frauds and extortions associated with the name of Christians in the minds of the Indians, but by the direct resistance which they offered to ele vating a race, whom they considered as their prey. So it has always been, on the frontiers, with the vhites all that is vile in them, is brought out in bold relief, aud they are apt to be strangers to common humanity and shame. He gives a minute account of his difficulties and discouragements which it is necessary to know, in order to do justice to his strength of heart. The Indians were a spiritless and va cant race, except when under the influence of some strong excitement, at such times, they thought and acted with energy and decision, while at others-, they were wholly destitute of animation. In addition to his preaching, which did little more than call their attention to the subject, he was obliged to catechise and con verso with them day after dav. He was ex pected to arrange all their difficulties, to pro vide for iheir wants and to attend to their af fairs of every description. It may easily be conceived, that while he was compelled to bear this burden, and at the same time to ride 4000 miles a year, for the necessary purpose of his mission, his duties were quite as exien- sivo as one man can be expected to do. His declining health compelled him in April 1747, to leave the Forks of Delaware and return to New England, where he died October 9th of tho same year. The principal building of La Fayette College at Easton is called " Brainerd Hall," after this devoted servant of God. A C2;aper cr IcToussg I-Suslbasadg. Walking the other day with a valued friend who had been confined a week or two by sick ness to his room, he remarked that a husband might learn a good lesson by b c i 3emg confined r n - having in this occasionally to his house, by ha o 0 way an opportunity of witnessing the cares and never ending toils of his wife, whose burthen, and 'duties and patient endurance he might never otherwise have understood. There is a great deal in this thought perhaps enough for an "editorial." Men, especially young men, are called by their business during the day mostly away from home, returning only at the hours for meals; and as ihey then see nearly the same routine of duty, they begin to think it is their own lot to perform all the drudgery, and to be exercised with all the weight and care of responsibility. But such a man has got a very wrong view of the case; he needs an op portunity for more extended observation, and it is perhaps for this very reason that a kind Prov idence arrests him by sickness, that he may1 I learn in pain what he would fail to observe i'n health. We have seen recently a rrood many things said in- the papers to wives, especially to young wives, exposing their faults, perhaps magnifying them, and expounding to them in ono of the kindest terms, their duty and the offices pertaining lo a woman's sphere. Now, wo believe lhat wives, as a whole, arc really better than they are generally admitted lo be. We doubt if there can be found a large number of wives who are disncreeablv and neslicent. without some palpable coldness or short com ing on the part of their husbands. So far as we have had an opportunity for observation, j tney arc lar more devoted and laithtut than those who style themselves thoir lords, and who, by the customs of society, have other and generally more pleasant and varied duties to perform. We protest, then against these lec tures so often, and so obtrusively addressed to the ladies, aud insist upon it that they must most of them have been written by some fus ty bachelors who knew no better, or by some inconsiderate husbands who deserve to have been old bachelors to the end of their lives. But is there nothing to be said on the other side? Are husbands so generally the perfect, amiable, injured beings, they are so often rtp resented? Men sometimes decktro that their wives' extravagances have picked their pockets; that their never ceasing toncues have robbed them of their peace, and their general disagree ableness has driven them to the tavorn and gam ing table; but this is generally the wicked ex cuso for a most wicked life on their own part. The fact is, men often lose their interest in their homes by their own neglect to make their homes interesting and pleasant. It should never be forgotten that the wife has her rights as sa cred after marriage as before and a good hus band's devotion to the wife after marriage will concede to her quilo as much attention as his gallantry did whilo a lover. If it is otherwise, he most generally is at fault. lake a few examples. Before marriago a young man would feel sonje delicacy abott ac cepting an invitation to spend an evening in company whoro his lady love had not been in vited. After marriage is ho always as particu lar? Durincr his days of courtship his callantrv would demand that he should make himself agreeable to her; after marriage it often happens thst he thinks more of being agreeable to him self. How ofien it happens that married men, after having been away from home the livelong day, during which the wife has toiled at her du lies, go at evening again to someplace of amuse ment, and leave her to toil on alone, unchcere d and unhappy. How often it happens that her kindest offices pass unobserved and unreward ed even by a smile and her best efforts' are condemned by the fault-finding husband. How often it happens, oven when the evening is spsnt at home, that it is employed in silent reading, or some other way lhat does not recognize the wife's right to share in the enjoyments even of the fireside. Look, ye husbands, a moment, and remem ber what your wife was when you took her, not from compulsion but from your own choice; a choice based, probably, on what you then consider her superiority to all others. She was young perhaps the idol of a happy home; she was gay and blithe as a lark, and the brothers and shters at her father's fireside cherished her as an object of endearment. 5Tet she left all to join her destiny with yours; to make your home happy, and to do all that woman's love could prompt, and woman's ingenuity could de vise to meet your wishes and lighten the bur dens which might press upon you in your pil grimage. Sh, of course, had her expectations too. She could not rntertain feelings which promised so much, without forming some idea of reciprocation on your part, and she did ex pect you would after marrtaue perform those kind ofhce.-s of which you were so lavish in ths j days of betrothment. She became your wife! 1 left her own home for yours burst aunder, as it were, the bands of love which had bound her to her father's firride, and sought no other boon than your affections; left, it may tie, the ease and delicacy of a home of indulgence and now, what must be her feelings if aha gradually awakes to the consciousness that you love her less than before; that your eve nings are spent abroad, that you only cuine home at all to satisfy the demands of your hun 1 2er, and to find a resting place for vonr head I , ' ,- "Jut ; when weary, or a nurse lor your sick chamber . ,. , , 1 iv ion HiCf;iPf when diseased! Why did she leave the bright hearth of her youthful days? Why did you ask her to givo up the enjoyment of a happy home? was it sim ply to darn your stockings, mend your clothes, take care of your children, and watch over your sick bed? was it simply to conduce to your own comfort? Or was there some understanding that she was to be made happy in her connec tion with the man she had dared to love. Nor is it a sufficient answer that you reply that you give her a home; that you feed and clothe her. You do this for your help; you woulddo it for an indifferent housekeeper. She is your wife, and unless you attend to her wants, and in some way answer the reasonable expec tations you raised by your attentions before mar- I riaf t yS " -T -W m r ffr ' !,nrt hpr honrl viinL liitn iner.aimlifv hit! if !lii be so, think well who is the cause of it. Wo repeat it, very few women make indifferent wives, whose feelings have not met with somo outward shock by the indifference or thought lessness of their husbands. It is our candid opinion that in a large majority of the instances of domestic misery the man is the aggressor. N. Y. Mirror. Si.vgular Remedy. We find in a French Journal the account of the cure of a case of i Hydrophobia by a large quantity ot vinegar ministered to the patient by mistake. Count Lcosian, a physician of Padue, hearing of the case, exhibited the same remedy in a very vio lent case, and Micceeded in effecting a per fect cure. Rather Severe. A young buck of the soap lock order, who wore an unshaven face, be cause, as he said it looked 'foreign,' lately ac costed a Yankee at one of our hotels, as fol lows: I say, fellow, some individuals .think I am a Frenchman, and some take me for an Elalyene; now, what do you think that I ain?' 'I think you are a darned fool, replied Jona than. An English paper says that in the reign-of Charles I., the Mayor of Norwich actually sent a man to prison for saying that the Prince of Wales was born without a shirt to his ba,ek;, Tight Lacing. We onco saw a lady lacW! so tight that, while stooping to pick up a pi.n her stays gave way and she turned threo sqt erscts in consequence. Small Bills. A, man in New Jersey' nanwtl Bills, has been presented by his wife with threw littlo Bills. - A Distinction. A friend overtaking Shu ter one day in the street, said to him, Why, Ned, arc you .not ashamed to walk the streats with twenty holes in your stockings ? why dont you get them mended?" "I am abovo it," replied Ned, M for a hole is tho qccidenttf tli4 day but a dam is premeditated poverty " an V
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