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POETRY.
The .sky is blue, the sward is greeri,
The leaf upon the bough is seen,
The wind comes from the balmy west,
The little songster builds its nest,
The bee hums on from flower to flower,
Till twilight's dim and pensive hour;
The joyous year arrives; but when
Shall bye-past times come back again? '
I think on childhood's glowing years
How soft, how bright, the scene appears !
How calm, how cloudless, passed away,
The long, long, summer holiday!
I may not muse I must not dream -Too
beautiful these visions seem :
For earth and mortal men; but when
Shall bye-past times come back again?
I iirink of sunny eyes so soft,
Too deeply lelt, enjoyed too oft,
When through the bloomy fields I roved
With her, the earliest, dearest loved;
Around whose form I yet survey, "
In thought a bright celestial ray (
To present scenes denied: and when
Shall bye-past times come back again?
Alas! the world at distance seen
.4ppear'd all blissful and serene, ' - -An
Eden form'd to tempt the foot,- f
With crystal streams and golden fruit;
That world, when tried and trod, is found
A rocky waste, a thorny ground!
We then revert to youth; but when
Shall bye-past times come back again?
Accommodating. "How fay is it to Taun
ton?" "Why it's eight miles." "Eight devil's
why a man told ma a mile back, that it was on
ly six." "Well, seeing that you are an old
man, and your horse tired, and you seem impa
tient, we'll call il three.''
Breach of Promise. The N. O. Picayune, in
noticing a breach of promise case, has the fol
lowing very appropriate remark:
These breaches of marriage promise are vile
humbugs; we say it with all proper reverence
for womankind. She whose broken and bleed
ing heart can be mended by an application of
copper, can be no great shakes.
Prentice is of opinion that by a suitable ap
paratus, evory man may have the means con
stantly al hand of generating sufficient steam
from the moisture of his own body, to drive
him ahead like a locomotive.
The income of John Jacob Astor is about
two dollars and eighty-seven cents a minute, or
nearly five cents a second.
Truth. "How much happiness does the
old bachelor lose! No smiling angel stands at
the door to welcome him .as he returns, 'My
dear, are you come?' No lisping cherub climbs
his knee and in tones of love cries out 'Daddy,
give me thum thugar kitheth.
Three Abstractionists.
A member of Congress in-the debate relative
to the position to be occupied by the statue of
Washington in the capitol, having suggested
that it be placed in the corner of the rotunda,
Mr. Stanly of North Carolina, moved that a
committee consisting of three abstractionists, be
appointed to find out where the corner of a ro
tunda can be found. The idea is an excellent
one and suggests a very fitting occupation. An
abstractionist could not possibly be belter occu
pied .than in looking for the corner of a circle.
We should think he would find himself as much
in his element, as a trout in a shady stream, or
a fat negro sitting in the sun and fanning him
self witli a brickbat. North American.
When the celebrated George Buchanan was
in France, the JCing took him to view his pic
ture gallery. At length they stopped before a
picture representing the crucifixion. George
requested an explanation. ''That, sir,' said the
king, 'is our Saviour; the one on the right is the
Pope, and the one on the left is myself.' ' I
am much obliged to your majesty,' replied
George, 'for the information you have given me,
for though I have often heard that our Saviour
"was crucified between two thieves, I never
knew who they were before.'
England has now on the stocli3or prepar
ing, twenty-seven large steam vessels in .addi
tion ,J.o her presenaval fo .
STRO UDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1841.
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A CJrcat Recitation.
The following, from the N. 0. Crescent Ci
ty, is the best thing of the kind we ever read:
"The schoolmaster was in a great hurry he
had received a note from his dulcinea, and the
'geography class was disposed of in double
quick lime.
"Polynesia, where situated, what are the pro
ducts, the inhabitants, latitude and longitude,
&c. how bounded?" shrieked the littie peda
gogue, to a huge red-headed boy, whose face
bore the expression of a turkey's egg, with feet
like battering rams.
" Pollykneeshia is an independent group of
islands in the anterior of the desert of Saraharra,
on the coast of Cornwall. Its products is bil
in' springs, cucumbers, tortoise shells, caniballs,
and sometimes women and children. The in
habitants is for the most part Kalmuc Tartars,
and 'tothers is Shakers and Injuns. Latitude
and longitude is ditto. It is bounded on all
sides by the Chinese wall, 'which was erected
to prevent the nocturnal visits of the equator
into the Caspian sea, and on the South by the
Spareribbean ishsmushes, and the promonto
ries which is uncommonly kivered at high wa
ter mark with Shetland ponies and ether ani
mals of the same class. The religion is like
the producks, intolerance and idle worship.
Willasja Peisai.
A man is said to be now living in Bucks
county, Pa. by the name of Preston, whose
grandmother died in the year 1774 and saw
William Penn when he first landed at or near
where Philadelphia now stands. He stated
thatjhis grandmother informed him that when the
ship in which Gov. Penn sailed came up the
Nehsamahony, on his arrival he was met by
the Indians, and the masts struck the trees of
Pevede's hill, at the (present) Navy Yard. She
said that the white people had prepared the
best entertainment they could for the Governor
and his family; the Indians had done the same.
W:IliamPenn walked with the Indians and sat
down with them on the ground, and ate with
them roasted acorns and hominy, that pleased
them so much that thev began so show him
how they could hop and jump, that Win. Penn
stepped up and beat them all. Such wise com
plaisance won and secured their friendship and
affection for him during his life. Amcr. Mag
azine 1S35.
A Hard Case.
The Rochester Democrat states that Mr. Eli
jah Shaw, aged 70 years, who fought the bat
tles of his country against three nations, is now
in the Poor House within two miles of Roches
ter. He was on board the Constellation when
she captured the French frigate L'Insuj;gent in
1800. In 1S03 he was on board the frigate
Philadelphia, at the time of her capture off the
harbor of Tripoli, and suffered nine months im
prisonment. He was on board the frigate Uni
ted States when shecaptured the Macedonian,
and the President, at the time of her capture
by a British squadron. After the peace, he
sailed under Commodore Decatur up the Aled
iterrancan, to chastise the Barbary powers.
This being done, he sailed with Commodore
Porter in the squadron thai so effectually de:
stroyed a gang of lawless pirates.
The ToEibigbee Sliver on Fire.
The Mobile Journal says: While J. M. Coo
per was prosecuting the removal of McGrew's
Shoals, after boreing to the depth of 375 feet,
his augur suddenly dropped and eniirely dis
appeared. In the space of several moments a
deep hollow sound was heard, resembling the
noise of distant thunder, from the chasm below,
and at the same instant gushed forth from the
shaft thus made clear, transparent, oleaginous
substance or liquid, which boils up very simi
lar to the effervescence of a boiling pot; and
which owing to the sluggishness of the current,
has gradually diffused itself over the whole sur
face of the river. A quantity has been col
lected, and upon application of fire, it is found
to burn equal to the purest sperm oil.
To gratify curiosity and make further tests,
fire has been applied to the oil on the water,
and the whole surface of ihe river is now burn
ing, emitting a flame of most beautiful appear
ance, about six inches high, and has already
extended about half way down to Fort Stod
dart; the reflection of which upon the horizon
at night, presents a most sublime spectacle, far
surpassing in grandeur and beauty of appearance
the aurora borealis.
Something Worth knowing. Twenty of the
Members of the Convention, which framed the
Constitution of the United States, were Mem
bers of Congress when the act establishing the
first Bank of the United States was passed, and
only six of them voted against it. In the De
bale on its passage, Elbridge Gerry, who had
been a Member of the Convention, declared
that "he thought Congress were as competent to
establish a National Bank, as cither House was
to adjourn from day to day?
A prominent Democrat; Vice President un
der Madison. : yw' . '
Alum will cure thesbjte.of aijalie.n-
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Good SSooIvS. V
A young man who has a fondness for books,
or taste for the work of nature and art, is not
only preparing to appear with honor and use
fulness as a member of society, but is secured
from a thousand temptations and evils lb which
he would otherwise be exposed. He knows
what to do with his leisure time. It does not
hang heavily on his hands. He has no induce
ment to resort to bad company, or the haunts
of dissipation and vice; lie has higher and no
bler sources of enjoyment in himself. At plea
sure he can call around him the best of compa
ny the wisest and greatest men of every age
and country and feast his mind with the rich
stores of knowledge which they spread before
him. A lover of good books can never be in
want of good society, nor in much danger of
seeking enjoyment in the low pleasures of sen
suality and vice.
JSoveX ExMMlioaiu
The New York Sun, in its notice of the pro
ceedings of the Medical College of the Uni
versity of New York, mentions the following
singular case :
A young man, twenty-five years old, was
then introduced and seated in a chair. At the
request of a professor he laid open his bosom,
when there were exposed to view a pair of
perfectly forrnod breasts, precisely like thbse of
the female subject at the age of twenty' years.
In all other respects the young man was natu
rally constituted. His head, face and propor
tions were of a decided masculine stamp; but
in this one peculiarity, he differed nothing from
a young woman. He betrayed something like
maiden timidity at this public exposure, and as
soon as his caseload been elucidated withdrew
from observation.
Secret Weapons Prohibited. The City
Council of Tallah'asse have passed an ordinance
by which a fine of two hundred dollars is inflicted
upon any person who may bo found wearing se
cret weapons, such as pistols, bowie-knives,
dirks, Szc. It is to be hoped that the fine will
be enforced, and the cowardly practice, which
leads to so many murders, be entirely sup
pressed.
Letters from Geneva, N.Y. mention the death
of Gideon Lee, Esq. formerly Mayor ofNew-
l ork. He retired a few years since, with an
ample fortune, to enjoy the peace and quiet of
a residence near Seneca Lake.
Multiply the figure 9 by any other single
figure, and the two figures composing the pro
duct, added together, will make 9. Thus 9 mul
tiplied by 4 make 36, which two figures added
together make 9, and so on with all other fig:
ures.
Fo Cure a Barn.
-"A Lady," in the Knoxvillo Register, gives
the following recipe for a burn:
"Scarce a month passes away but we read
or hear of some accident caused by fire. I
send you the following recipe for a burn, be
lieving that if it were generally known much
suffering might be alleviated. Take a table-
spoonfuloflardjialfa table-spoonful of spirits of
turpentine, and a piece of rosin as big as a hick
ory nut, and simmer them together till melted. It
makes a salve, which; when cold, may be applied
to a linen cloth and laid over the bum. If imme
diately wanted, spread it on the cloth as soon as
melted it will very soon cool. I have seen it
applied after corroding effects of chemical poi
sons, after a foot has been burnt by boiling su
gar, after severe scalds, and in every case the
sufferer obtained perfect ease in, ten or fifteen
minutes after it was used- It may be applied
two or three times a day, or as often as the
cloth becomes, dry."
Stifle.
The following, receipt for curing this disease
is given by a correspondent of the Cultivator.
He says he has sold the receipt for many dol
lars, and with it cured many horses:
"A handful of sumack bark, and a handful of
white oak burk, boiled in a gallon of water
down to two quarts; bathe the stifle with this
solution twice a day four days; then put on a
salve made of the white of an egg and rosin,
and bathe the same in with a hot shovel,, two
or three times and the horse is cured.
Receipt, for a permanent white wash for
buijdings, fences &c.
Take 1 bushel of liuic; 5 lbs, brown sugar; .2
lbs. alum; 1 pint of fino salt and a sufficient
quantity of cold water to make it mix like a
common white wash, stir it well, and let it stand
Over night; apply this mixture with a brush, and
give the fence or building two coats thereof it
will get as hard as a stone.
KLcnluelty. t , , ,
The Frankfort Commonwealth states that the
House of Representatives in that Stale will con
tain 77 Whigs and 23 Loco Focos, and the
Senate will bo composed of 29 supporters and
9 opponents of the Administration, thus giving
a clear Whig majority on joint ballot of 74.
I, 11 111,1 wMIiimlMTO
Dow' ermon.
At the request of " Henrietta" I will preach
upon this occasion from the following text:
A wife, like echo, should be true,
To speak when she is spoken to;
But not echo, still be heard
Contending for the final word.
My hearers a wife is not only a choice piece
of furniture, but a useful article for domestic
purposes. She can darn stockings, mend breech
es, keep all the apartments of a man's hearth in
order, and twine for him garlands of tenderness
to bedeck his connubial bower. She is the
very marrow of comfort the principle tributa
ry to the silvery stream of happiness the foun
dation of joy a lump of the pure gold of love,
refined in the crucible of Hymen. I would
earnestly advise all my young male friends; who
wander along the dark avenues of celibacy with
no such bright star as woman to guide their er
ring steps, to enter immediately upon the bloom
ing lawns of matrimony, and bask in the sun
shine of a fond wife's affections even as
'snakes quit their tenebrous dens, and lie oiit to
warm beneath the congenial rays of a vernal
sun. But, my friends, you mustn't let your bet
ter judgement be kidnapped by the allurements
of beauty; for beauty is a flower that fades in
the noontide of life, and blossoms no more.
The bright jewel pertaining to woman is not
worn upon her finger neither does it glitter
upon her bracelet. No; it lies buried in the
casket of her mind. It is there that you shall
seek for those precious gems which adorn the
female character, and give to a woman all the
attributes that belong to an angel :minus the
wings and a diadem of perfect holiness.
My dear young friends! 1 hope you will
not be misguided in your search after those
qualifications and natural disposition which a
wife ought to possess. She should, of course,
be submissive to the husband, inasmuch as the
husband ought to be as mild towards her as the
balmy breath of May to the rose. Her bosom
should be a peaceful lake of love, surrounded
by the high hill of forbearance, over which the
gales of passion may never ruffle its placid sur
face. She should, like an echo, always be
ready to speak when spoken to by her bigger
and more substantial half, and yet she should
not like an echo be ever contending for the last
word, for she ought to know that perverseness
in a wife always presents a worse appearance
than it does in the husband, even as a fly speck
marreth the beauty of a white cambric more
than doth an ink spot the comeliness of a black
broad-cloak. She ought also to be aware that
the obstinacy of the man genus is likened unto
the bristle of a hog's back; which being stroked
from the head towards the tail, appear smooth
and delicate; but when manipulated from lliG
tail towards the .head, are found to be as rough
and obtrusive as the prickets that surround the
prison house of endless torment.
0, my beloved hearers! I hope and trust
that all you masculines who bear the conjugal
yoke have made good selections from the fe
male creation, to help you drag tho plough ofj
care over the stubbles of such a barren exis
tence as is allotted to man. I know some
wives whose incorrigibleness is enough to wor
ry the patience of a mile-stone, whose indefat
igable exertions in tho case of mischief are
worthy of a scholastic monkey with a fearful
concussion when touched by the last spark of
reproof. They draw their social talk altogeth
er loo strong for weak constitution?, and throw
too much salt in their husband's porridge.
They want to wear the breeches, whether they
will fit or not. They set their lords to peeling
potatoes whilo they go out and chop wood,
which the God of nature never intended should
be subjected to the control of women. Oh, this
doesn't any more accord with my ideas of what
female worth should consist than does the toll
ing of a funeral knell with the merry notes of
Yankee Doodle! A wife who assumes too
much, who will have her own notions gratified
always who will raise flames of disputo upon
trilling occasions, and persist in heaping on fu
el to the last is worse than no wife at rA.
When Heaven first saw fit to work up sorr-iO of
its choicest materials into tho delicate firure of
a woman, and placed her in the heririta"e of
lonely man, it was intended that she should be
to him a helpmate a choerCul companiona
turtle dove that he should press to his bosom in
the fondness of affection, and shelter from the
cold storms of want; that he should dress the
garden of his heart with, the perennial flowers
of por.ee water them with tenderness, and
strew his bed with roses of reciprocal love.
For all which she should be, in a degree of
submission, and never let tho tonguo do damage
to those fine spun qualities which should ever
be her pride and her boast.
My friends--to find a good wife in these days
of foolery and fashion is liko seeking pearls in
an ocean of oyster shells; but if you are lucky
enough to find ono, hang, on to her like hemp;
for she is a rich treasure as ever existed in the
imagination of an enthusiast. Cherish her, pro
tect and love her; and you will find but few
barren spots between tho altar and the grave.
And you young maids; who are now delight
ing in the joyful anticipatiqns of one day becoming-happy
brides! I wanuyou to conduct
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yourselves properly lest your blooming hopes
be suddenly overspread with the moss of mor
tification, and you be destined to go shining
down to the tomb, unwooed, uncourled and un
wed. May you all, whether single or marriedy
endeavor to live on such terms with ono ano
ther that the triune ioys of Friendship, Love
an
u iiappniuss may wait un you to me conniies
of eternity.
So misht it be.
DOWJr,
3Lws off Pennsylvania,
PiixxpA Sexxinn nil fMl "
A Further Supplement to an act entitled 'Aft
Act for acknowledging and recording d'eedsV'
See pamphl'pt laws, page 106. "
Sec. 1. Beit enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and
it .is hereby enacted by the authority ofjihe
same, That it shall be the duty of all persons
who claim any lands or tenements in this Com
monwealth under or by virtue of any deeds of
conveyances, bearing date previously to the act
of eighteenth March, Anno Domini, one thous
and seven hundred and seventy-five-, to which
this is a supplement, to have the same recorded
in the proper county, in the manner now pro
vided by law, within two years from the datd
hereof.
Sec. 2. No such deed which shall remain
Unrecorded as aforesaid, for the said term,, of
two years, shall be permitted to be given in ev
idence in any of the courts of this Common
wealth, unless proven or acknowledged accord
ing to the act to which this is a supplement of
unless proven in the manner in which other
instruments of writing are proven, by subscrV
bing witnesses or proof of hand writing, or tin-,
less the actual possession of the land has acr
companied the said deed.
Sec. 3. All such deeds remaining unrecord-j
ed for the said term of two years as aforesaidj
shall be adjudged fraudulent and void against
any subsequent bona fide purchaser or mortgage
for valuable consideration, without notice.
A Snalte Storj";
The Danville Democrat says: that " Some
time since a couple of gentlemen of Catawjssa?
named Isaac Breech and JaGob B. Moyerj
made a short excursion to the Cattawissa moun
tain, and whilo gathering some huckleberries?
they aroused a rattlesnake, which afterwards
proved to be nearly three feet in length, having
19 rattles. While they were in the act of kil
ling the monster, he gave the usual sign with
his rattle; in a moment the whole neighborhood
responded to the call; and on looking around
they found themselves to be in the midst of a;
den of rattlesnakes, all ready for the contest
Nothing daunted, however, they coir-.menced;
the work of destruction, and in a sliort time
cleared the field, having killed 29 rattlesnakes,
varying in size from three feet to one half, and
having rattles from 19 down to thvee. Among
them was a very large cobra capello, common
ly called copperhead, which is particularly fear
ed for its venomous bite. A remarkable cir
cumstance is that everyone of the reptiles was
blind, which; it is said, is always the case in
the month of August."
Wo should think, th?it in rx country so full of
snakes as the mountain of Catawissa seems to
be, the inhabitants would at least know their
names. Who ever head of a cobra capcllo in
this part of the world, and who is it that be
lieves the bite of a copperhead to be more ven
omous than that of a rattlesnake? Lan. Union.
A Philadelphia Quaker. A certain 'Friend''
whom w very- well know was recently af a
distant place of summer resort. He stepped
into the Post Office ono morning, and while
there, thei Postmaster asked him if he knew any
English people staying at the hotel. 'Why
does thee ask?' said the Quaker. 'Because'
s.ai'a the Postmaster, 'here are half a dozen let
ters directed to England by the next steamer,
and as the postage to Boston is not paid I can
not send them. If I cannot find the writers of
them, they will bo forwarded lo the dead letter
oflice'in Washington.' Our 'Friend' looked at
tho letters. They were all double, and he re
marked 'they appear to be family letters, and
no doubt will bo most welcome if received, or
may cause great anxiety if they should hot be:.'
'I cannot help it,' said the Postmaster. 'Well,
I can, if thee cannot; what is the postage!'
For six double letters three dollars.1 'Well
here is tho money; thee will please mark the
letters 'paid,' and send thorn to Boston.' And
with this injunction, the Philadelphia Quaker
left the Post Office his pockets not quite so
heavy as when he entered, but his heart, we
are sure, a great deal lighter. N. Y. Gazette:
Religious Statistics. Tho number of Bap
tists in the United States is estimated to be 4;
000,000; Methodist, 3,000,000; Presbyterians,
2,000,000; Friends, 220,000; Roman Catho
lics, 1,300,000; Episcopalians, 1,000,000.
Inhabitants Wanted. Tho legislature of Ar
kansas hasjrasseda law offering a quarter sec
tion of land as a bounty to each settler coining
into the State. Some of the best land in the
state is offered for their selection. s?
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