The whole art ok Government consists in the art op being honest. Jefferson. STRO UDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1841. No 14 VOL. 2. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THEODORE SCHOOL TERMS. Two dollars per annum m advice-Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly.-and if iiot paid before the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive tieir paoeti by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie tor, will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. . i. " li.iiail until nil ttrrfar:iiTvi nro Timii-pvp.i'nt ixo papers uiscuuwiu. j r- at the option of the Editor. will be inserted three weeksfor one dollar . twenty-five cents for everv5ubsequent insertion; larger ones in proportion. A liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers. ' rCAll letters aaaressea to tne suitor must De posi paiu PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and omu irtfliiMl Tl ttt xo flPA nyrtnViVl tA nvi?HTft I'll1 Tv QKii cription of i Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, afotcfc, ! Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BIiAjVKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable term( POETRY. A Kurrali Song. JOHN BANKS 's the bov to rule the State Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! To make all crooked things come straight Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurram! He'll give the Locos a tarnal switchen ' When he begins "to clear de kitchen" 1 Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! "Poor Davy's acts most clearly prove j Hurrah! i:c. For the "dear people" he has no love, j Hurrah! tzc. When his power was about to suffer diminution, He vetoed the bill by the Old Constitution, ! Hurrah! he. His numerous pardons and vetoes, i Hurrah! &c. Have given his party its death blows, ! Hurrah! &c. i And he will find by next October i His day of grace will then be over, Hurrah! f&c. His party ripe for spoils and plunder. Hurrah!! &c. Destroyed our currency and no wonder, Hurrah!, &c. Let's turn him out as we did Van Burcn, . Or else the State will be brought to ruin, Hurrai! &c. Log Cabin boys of the land of Penn ! Hurrah! Rouse up once more and act like men, Hurrah! &c. &c. Gird on your armor, close your ranks, Fight for your country and JOHN BANKS! Hurrah! &c Pcacli Trees. A gentleman in Pennsylvania took the fol lowing method to preserve neach trees from being injured by worms, caterpillars, &e. He O A rlfnrpfl nwnv ihf ernm that issues out of the tree affected by the worm, strewed a little brim-1 stone around tne root, anu covered u witn nne . mould that it might not blow away, so that the j gum might operate through it, and cause the j brimstone to fumigate which destroyed the worms. A pound of brimstone is sufficient for j nearly 200 trees. J The writer has lately heard that an accident has discovered a remedy against the Peach J destroyer. A poor woman who had cultivated some peach trees in her little garden which she rented, being forced to go out by her landlord, designed to deprive him of her fruit trees, she took a kettle of boiling water and poured the contents on the root of each, with a view to kill the trees by scalding, but instead of scalding the trees, she scalded the worms and made the trees thrive. The Bcmfttus of FresadecatKarrisois. We learn from Col. Todd, says the Shelby, Ky. News, "that on his way to his residence in this county laot week, he, in performance of a sacred duty, called upon the venerable widow of our lamented deceased President. While there, ho vas invited by that lady to a consultation with herself and only remaining i . i : r . 1 of'l.Vr riUtin.niisliPrl iic! helmed husband the Mm, as to the ultimate oe poMiory t " inuu)ii "rent and rond Prfidoiit. It was determined at this consultation to remove the remains im mediately to North Bend, to bo desposited upon a beautiful and natural mound, where the mon ument may bo seen several miles up a?id down i he Ohio river. There, the traveller of distant ages will be refreshed by a visit to the tomb of the warrior, who was never defeated; of the patriot, w&o died poor; and the statesman, who, from the -proud height of President, 'fell like a . star struck jrom its sphere, covered with glory .and renoyat.' " .Wm. j$jis0tiritns forS.cnator in Tennessee. A tetter from President Tyler. The following, from the National Intelligen cer, is in reply to a letter from James Brooks, Esq. forwarding the flag that was in the midst of the thickest of the strife at the hattlo of Tip pecanoe: THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY. TO J ASICS BROOKS, ESQ. Washington, May 4, 1841. "Tho flag which was in the midst and thick est of the strife," and was committed to your care on the Tippecanoe battle-ground by th surviving soldiers of that memorable field, and which they commanded you to bear to this me tropolis as a speaking emblem of the valor of their old commander, and ol the perils lie had undergone, has been delivered over to my hands. and will be placed by me among the honored trophies of the Republic. The account which was given me some years ago, by the gallant Ensign now no more, who upheld that banner! class in the community? amid the perils of the fight, had prepared me to The sons of American citizens must be edu expect to see it as it is, gashed by the toma-, cated for gentlemen. They must not learn a hawk and rent by balls. That Ensign alone, i trade, or an art upon which they can always of all the officers, with but twenty men of the I depend for a respectable living. This would gallant company over which, when the sun j be to lower rather than to raise them in the went down, that flag so proudly waved, survived ' scale of public opinion hence it is thai thou to tell in the morning of the hazards of that tor-1 sands of boys are crowded into tho "learned nble night, rrom that brave soldier, who al terwards held his place in the hearts of the peo ple of Indiana, I learned properly to appreciate the fearless bearing and noble conduct of the patriotic'citizen who has so recently exchanged this earthly tabernacle of clay for one ihat en- dureth forever. Death' is the common heritage of all mankind; but so to live as that the dark ness of tho grave shall not obscure our names, and that they be placed in close association with the names of the great and good who have gone before and who are lo come after us, makes death a consummation rather to be wish ed lhan feared, and throws a light of glory over the grave. Such, now, is the condition of "tho old commander" into whose hands, when you received this flag, you so joyously anticipated its delivery. His deeds are now " enrolled in the Capitol," and this banner shall be preserved as a memorial of a battle well fought, and of a 5ictory most nobly won. , I nrav vou. sir. to accent assurances of mv great respect. , JOHN TYLER. . Small Birds Great Blessings. I wish our intelligent farmers could be awakened to the importance of preserving robins, and other small birds, as a means of aiding in their work. The inhumanity which suffers every lazy lub hnr of a bov. who can lest an old kind's arm over a stone wall, to kill or frighten every poor j Then why should the almost universal effort linnet that sings in the fields, and every robin-1 to disgrace those professions, by a simultane red breast tluu dares eat an unripe cherry, andous rush into other ranks, any longer prevail? save a child from the dysentery, is a short- J Belterinfinitely better would it bethat our sighted piece of selfishne'ss. These harmless athletic, and hardy youth should shoulder the birds live upon grubs and other worms, and in-1 axe and away to the forests than by a false sects, and the slight inroads they make upon j estimate of true respectability, they should be the fanner's crops arc repaid, an hundred fold, bv the protection they afford, against a thous and destroyers. These birds, if not frightened, will become so tame as to porch on the hand, ... . . . , or light on the plough as it turns over the mr- No nod farmer should fail to teach his row boys to spnre and cherish these harmless and imuu luueiui n&iiduis u ms m;iu.- mm uimiuo. Liko the good man in one of our Western towns, who plead so earnestly for the poor crows, in our Legislature a few years since, I would enforce ihe legal penalties for trespass, against any one who shut them on my land. The crows, too, nature's living mouse traps, instead of being a tame, almost domestic bird, as in some other countries.- where tanners have been taught their value by long experience, have been frightened into mean pilferers of Unwed corn-hills! A good crow is worth a bushel of wheat or other grain, to the acre, and sometimes ten ! A Knowledge ot ornithology, and not penal laws, i what our farmers and their sons need to induce them to regard their true iuteiests in this matter. The Farmers of Farminchamj Mass. Held a meeting recently to talk over matters touching farm-stocks, &c In the course of the discussion, Capt. E. Wheeler said he could make twenty loads of manure and more from one horse and one hog he thought there was manure enough in town if we would take care of it and use it properly, to mako every field rich. He was astonished to sec so many peo b!e lav their manures by the road side-as if : ihrv feared it would injure their fields if it was; suffered to cover up anv part of them. In ref- erence to lice on cattle, Colonel Fiske thought that sand or fine loam splinkled over their backs and their heads would destroy the lice, cattle seemed aware of this, and they were often found pawing up dirt and laying it handsomely on their own backs ; when ihoir heads itch they scratch them in a sand bank. . Hens also wallow in the dust and ashes to kill tho lice that have found a harbor in their feathers It seemed to be the general opinion that fine dust of any kind, as well as dry ashes, will kill thc&e vermin on cattle and on fowls. Parents and tlieir Sons. 11 V. EZRA HOLDE.V. We think there is one radical error in Amer ican society, viz: a universal disposition to un derrate the mechanical profession, when con trasted with what are termed the "learned pro fession," and with almost all other avocations. Does tho rich" and respectable mechanic ' the artisan the architect he who rears our public and private edifices the builders of our ships, and the constructors of canals and rail ways, nevor permit a course of conduct in him self which goes directly aray from the respec tability of the profession by which he has gain ed all that he possessed! When he comes to decide upon the business his sons shall pursue is it not often the case that an overweening disposition is displayed to make them.IaWyeis, doctors merchants anything but to bring them up to the respectable calling of their parents? And let us ask, is not the same true of everv professions," and " behind counters," to be come in the end, genteel drones, living upon the products of other men's labor rather than relying on their own hands for a good and re spectable livelihood. We repeat, it is the wrong estimate of the comparative respectability ol the oinerent pur suits, that causes so dangerous an error. We would not stifle genius nor deride learning nor do we entertain the least disrespect to any profession but we would have our sons taught to believe and made to feel that it is far more honorable to learn some handicraft, by the prac tice of which they can live in independence and honor lhan to be crowded into the always overflowing ranks of "professions," which will not vield them bread and but too often lead to the entire prostration of the better feelings of j the human heartin low cunning, duplicity and knavery. Who arc the props and pillars of our public edifice? Who are the bone and muscle of so- ' ciety? We say, the mechanics and husband- j ! men of the land. From the ranks of these two, ! j have sprung statesmen, philosophers, and sages, who have iett imperishable lustre upon the age in which they have lived. If the amount of useful attainments could be correctly estima ted, we entertain no doubt, that the ranks of the intelligent mechanics and agriculturists would t carry ott the palm by immense majorities. thrust into wrong channels, to disease society,- and weaken the body politic. There they might live in the nobility of nature cultivate their own fields, and slumber beneath their own cottage; and perhaps become the founders of ! new communities of moral, physical, and intel- lectual giants Yairliee Ingenuity. In the course of his lecture on Tuesday eve ning, before tho Mercantile Library Associa tion, Mr. Latrobe related the following incident. While crossing, in the stage, one of the vast western prairies, far ahead on the black line which marked the road, was discovered an ob ject which, from the distance, could not be made out. On their near approach, it was dis covered to be one of those vehicles known as a Yankee pedlar's wagon. The owner of the concern had met with a sad accident. He had broken both an axle-tree and a shaft of his col ored and curtained wagon. The first he had repaired with a rope, but that done, every inch of the rop6 was exhausted. Miles from a tree, or even a bush of any kind, from which to cut a temporary shaft, here was a dilemma, truly. But the man was equal to it. He had a tin drinking cup, a hammer, some nails, and a pair of tailor's shears. When the stage came up, and slopped, the man was found busily em ployed in cutting up the cup into stripSj having first broken out the bottom, knocked off the handle, and unrolled and flattened out the cyl inder of tin that formed the body of the cup. 1 The curious passengers looked on while th Yankee pediur piocecdod to lay the two bro- ken ends of ihe shall together, which, fortu nately, had been broken obliquely. He then wrapped around them the strips of tin and nailed the ends fast. This done, he tried the shaft, and found it strong. As he hitched in his horse, he looked up to the wondering passen gers in the stage coach, and with a quiet smile of satisfaction, and remarked, "I guess this is the first time in those parts, that a broken shaft was mended wilh a tin cup!" How the pas sengers in the stage coach laughed, the lectur er did not say; but their merriment may bo easily Imagined. Bait. Sun. A 5wel Qriaslaccl. " I have no stomach for the fight to-day." A very laughable occurrence happened the other day in Paris, which may aflbrd a good hint to the managers of aflairs of honor. Two law students living in a hotel in the Rue St. Dominique d'Enfer, quarrelled one day after dinner, and agreed to settle the differences at the point of ihe sword choosing two students of medicine living in the same hotel, as their seconds. On the following morning all the parties met in the chamber of one of the sec onds, who insisted, before they proceeded to business, that the principals should taste a bot tle of prime Chablis, which he produced. Af ter a little hesitation, and being assured by their friends that it was not intended to hinder the meeting, the combatants finished the bottle, which was pronounced excellent. Ten min utes after they mounted a public conveyance, and in a short time had arrived at the field of arms. The ground was soon chosen, swords measured, and the two champions were eh garde, when one of them, suddenly clapping his hands to his stomach, and betraying by his countenance a strong internal motion, aban doned his ground and rushed to a neighboring thicket where he experienced one of the least agreeable concomitants of a soa voyage. In a few minutes, however, he appeared to grow better, and returned to his place, and prepared to commence the combat, when his adversary, seized by a similar indisposition, was obliged to drop his sword, and take refuge in the thick et. The latter, like the other, returned short ly to the ground. The swords were gain drawn, and the blades crossed, when alas! for the dignity of the duel, the antagonists were compelled by mutual consent to desist and re tire, where they might in secret relieve their bosoms of the "perilous stuff" which their wag gish friends had administered to them in' the bottle of Chablis on which they had been re waled, and who nOw witnessed the doleful sit uation of the valorous heroes with shbuts of laughter. The results riiay be anticipated. Each of the combatants returned to their hotel "a wiser and a sadder man" than he had left in the morning, fully satisfied that honor stands no change agaiiist tartar emetic. Power Emaxmation.' An honest New England Farmer started one very cold day in winter with his sled and oxen into the forest, a half a mile from home, for the purpose of chopping a load of wood. Having felled the tree, he drove the team alongside and commenend chopping it up. By an un lucky hit he brought the whole bit of the axe across his foot with a sideling stroke. The immense gash so alarmed him as nearly to de priv6 him of all his strength. He felt the warm blood filling his shoe. With great diffi culty he succeeded in rolling himself on the sled and started his oxen for home. As soon as he reached the door he called eagarly for help. His terrified wife, and daughter with much effort lifted him into the house, aa he was wholly unable to help himself, saying his foot was nearly severed from his leg. He was laid carefully on the bed, groaning all the while bitterly. His wife hastily prepared a dressing, and rrmoved the shoe and sock, expecting to see the desperate wound, when lo ! the skin was not even broken. Before going out in the morning he had wrapped his feet in red flannel to protect them from the cold : the gash laid this open to view, and he thought it flesh and blood. His reason not correcting the mistake, all the pain and loss of power sustains a real wound, followed. Man often suffers more from immaginary evils than from real ones. If I possessed tho most valuable things in the world, and were about to will them away, tho following would bo my plan of distribution. I would will to the whole world truth and friendship, which are very scarce. I would give an additional porlion of truth to editors and lawyers, traders and merchants. 1 would give the physicians, skill and learn ing. To clergymen, disinterested piety. To lawyers, merchants, brokers, public offi cers, &c; honesty. To old women, short tongues and legs To young women, common sense, waists and natural feet. To servants, obedience and honesty. To masters, humanity. To farmers, punctuality and sobriety. To old men, preparation for death. large To young aprouti, or dandies, good sense, littln cash, and hard work. To old maids, good tempers, little talk, and suitable husbands. To old bachelors, a lovo for virtue, children and wives. The above wc clip from an exchange paper, without knowing to whom the authorship is at tributable. Whoever it may have buen, we are sorry he did not write a codicil to the will and bequeath to all newspaper subscribers a dispo sition to pay in advance, or at least not to take a paper for a year or two, and then run away without paying for U- A Uiaiogne. The Printer has assumed the duties of edi tor, he sits at his table just finished an "edi torial," and is m the act of opening a news pit per. Enter Mr. A. in apparent haste. Mr. A. Gcod morning Mr. Printer I am m a hurry. I see bv your last paper, that vou ar in want of money; I make it a point to pay the Printer punctually. Printer. So we have found you, sir .hoefel. liko a thousand Mich patrons: or call wa.- fir tended of course, for those who are not punctmtk A. Right all right, sir; please make up my bill to this dale, and here's a five dollar bill un the Lincoln bank hand me the change. Pr. But, friend A. do you wih to discon tinue? A. Whv ves, I think I must. My bill for papers is quite large 1 take no less than 7 or S papers I must economize a little; nnd be sides, I don't seem to need a political paper at present loco focoism will hardly need much attention for two or three years, it ia so shock ingly used up in our section, we can scarcafy find one for seed. Pr. AHow me to inquire, friend, if all your papers are political. A. No three of them belong to this class, and then I have one large family paper from Philadelphia, two from New York, and one . from Boston. Pr. Allow me to inquire still further, which class of these papers, you intend to curtail. A. Why, I think I must stop the political papers, of course, theothers contain twice or three times the reading. Pr. Now, friend, the people of this country have accomplished a great victor' over the pre vailing corruptions of an unprincipled adminis tration, will you be so kind as to inform me how the people were enable to concentrate aud.car ry forward all their operations to secure -this triumph, and, even how it bocame so generally known, that the causes had existence which de manded this triumph? A. This is a plain case it was through tlie agency of the public press here was th gre.t lever after all! Pr. True! but the press is of two cla-jf was it your neutral family paper, or yuttt faith ful political journals, that sounded the -lbim, and so zealously pointed out the dangers? A. There is something in this, 1 -ouf&$. Our political papers are most necessary af;er all. I feel obliged for the hint. You may keep tni change, and here is another dollar you may aikl to it. 1 must be going now, but in a few dty.s 1 will send you three or four now subscriber! Exit Mr. A. Queer Estate for a Preacher to Leave. A preacher who recently died up the Red Rivor country, is said, by some of the papers, to have left the fallowing singular effects: a bible, two dollars, a bowie knife, a psalm book, a pack of cards somewhat used, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro gress nearly new, a pocket flask or "tickler," a collection of sacred music, a quarter nag, with saddle and bridle, a pair of pistols, and a copy of Hoyle's Games. Queer fellows some of those preachers of the far southwest. Wtoman Woman, says Matthew Henry, was made of the rib out of the side of Adam; no: ntade out of his head, to top him not out of hi feet, to be trampled upon by him but out of his side to be equal wilh him; under his arm, to bo protected; and near to his heart, to be beloved. Freedom. Two such contradictory things as external and internal happiness are not easi ly brought into harmony. A man must not1 in sist upon making himself happy by force. We must choose between the two. Will we throw ourselves on the world, or will wo maintain our own character? We have this choice this is our freedom of the will beyond this belongs to God. Clearness of intellectual perception, pu rity, and, if possible, strength of will, is our problem, and our only happiness. To all else we may laugh weep pray. A Corkscrew Directton. ' Come up. to; mv rnnm. T want to see VOU.' " Where is yocr room V 1 In St. Charles Exchange.' f . Well, I bolievo there arc several roomni that house how shall I go to get to yours!' Come right in and turn round left come one pair of stairs, turn round left again. rwi. forward, come up, turn round, como up two part of stairs, turn round thrte tunes, come lot watt 'and knock at the door.' Stop don t you think 1 could get Hie? quicker if 1 was to go down the middle and again, cross over, turn TOtmd, forward two, uW a-dos, Indian file, promenade, shake a stiV. cut a slick, fiddle-stick, dance around two par of partners, and so follow my nosoT 4 No, no, just follow my direction, and you It bo sure lo find me.' Tho United States mint, at New Orrwu . has not done work enough for the last Ob ; i months, to nay iu expenses.
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