si 'to i STROUDSBCJRG? MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2G, 1842. No. 471 it : i . i - , j i, ? PRINTED iiND PUBLISHED BY. ' ' THEODORE SCMOCKr.ric 1,1 TERMS Two dollars ner annum in advanceTwo dollars ?ind a quarter, half yearly, and if not paid before the end of the year,' Two dollars ana a ikui. i uue -vno receive meir papers bv a earner or stage unjjers einpigycu oj me propnc Tor. will'bc charred 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. . - No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at tne option ot tnc .uuor. 1X7 Advertisements not exceeding one square sixteen Jines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar: twenty-five cents for every subsequent inscition larger ones in proportion. A liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers. ID All letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a Writ of Venditioni Exponas to nie directed, will be exposed to public sale at ihe public house of John Meravine, in the township of Chesnuthill, in Monroe county, on Monday the 31st of January inst., al one o'clock r. m., the following described property, to wit: A certain messuage or tenement afld tract of land, situate in the' township of Chesnuthill and said county of Monroe, adjoining lands of Jo seph S. Tecl and lands of Hope and Company, containing 40 Acres, be the same more or less. The im provements are two-log. . . t Dwelling Houses one story high, one LOG BARN and a LOG STABLE, and an excellent SAW MILL in good running order with the appurtenances, &c. Seized and taken in execution as the property of Jolin Shitz, and to be sold by SAMUEL GUNSATJLES, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office Stroudsburg, January 5, 1842. ; SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a Writ of venditioni exponas is sued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Mon roe county, to me directed, will be exposed to public sale at the house of Joseph Tracii, in Hamilton township, in said County, on Wed nesday the 2d of February next, at one o'clock p. m., the following described property, to wit: A ceriain tract or piece of Land, situate in Hamilton township, in said County, adjoining lands of Joseph Trach, Rudolph Trach, Peter Kester and others, containing v . i be ihe same more or less, air cleared arid is an excellent piece of Meadow. Seized and taken in execution at the suit of John Gower, against Joseph Jones, and will be sold by SAMUJEL GUNSAULES,..Sheriff. Sheriff's Office St.rpudsburg, Jan. 5, 1842. SHERIFFS SALE. . Joseph AllcmuS) Charles Frantz and Mar garet his wife, Charles Alte mus, Thos. Altemus, Henry In the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe county. Altcmus, Jacob Brongguar- - dian of Nicholas Altcmus and Isadore Altcmus, and George 'Flight guardianiof -Russia Altemus .andiTenat nAllcmose. t. w .asJ". Proceedingsjin Jariuion 1 1 r Notice is -herebylgiven tha by virtue of an ! order of jhe.Court)f Common Pleas ofiIonroe county, made4th-8th,day of December A.I). .1841, thero wilbe sold on tlie premises in Hamilton, township, in said County on the first day-of'February next, at 12 oclock noon, the ' folio wing .described properly, viz: A certain tractof Xari'd situate partly 'in the township of Hamilton:and jiarfly in the town- - ship of Pocono, in saTd Court ly, abotmwo and a half miles west of Snydersville Beginning al a sione in a public tgad, thence by lands, of Con rad WoodIing,y.squih 51 1-2, west 12 perches ,to a.stpne, sotith-4 1-2, east 82 perches to a stonej-rthence by land of.Joseph Kinker, south gJJsg, west 101 perches to a stone, north 69, west:20 perches to a stone, thence by the ' -sarne andlands of Peter Woodling, north 38 1-2, 14K 1-2 Derches to a stone m the middle of a public road, thence along said road north f5 1-12, east 62, 2 perches north 88 perches, east 7G perches, south 52, 100 perches and thence south 85. 1-2, east 12 perches to the ;:place of beginning, containing ,, ' ' Acres and 43 Perches hethe same more or less. The improvements 'arc a good Frame otse, large Barn nearly new, Hbg-house, Shop and other out-buildings, a good proportion of said property is well im-orovedland:'- It being 4h'o same property which -the late Nicholas Ahemus, dec. and the above BIX mamed Charles Frantz, lately held as tenants in common. ' ' v The terms and .conditions of sale wjll be made known al The,fhne and, place of sale. j " SAM. .GUN.SAIJLES, Sheriff hejff's Oflice, Strpudsburg Jan. 5, 1842. C. W. PeWITT & BROTHER, Jvc. just re ceived a bale of superior BUFFALO ROBES. amLwiJl sell tliein s cheap as they can be pur chased in the City. Xll ki;idy)f produce ta-f K en i n .exchange for goods; H :J t . - MiifyrU,' Januray 1 2, ,1 9 124 ft 1 1 Recollections off an Actressi BY JIISS CHARLOTTE CUSHJIAN. Poor C- -! To all who knew him," there was something inexpressibly amusing in the sudden starts, and stealthy frightened glan-J ces, which so frequently drove the smile from his face even in moments of the most excitable hilarity. If you but laid a finger on his shoul der, ho would shiver like a criminal, when the deaih dealing sentence proceeds from the wear er b'f'ihe official ermine, and cast at you a look of ashy horror; the shutting to, or opening of a door, seemed to run along his nervous system with electric power to jar it, and a blufiish-look-ing personage, especially if sporting a stout cane, could never catch his eye. lhad often noticed these peculiarities, and as often laughed yet, somehow C was not the man to be made the subject of a jest. True, he was a miserable actor, but there was mind about him, and in any other calling he might have been happy and respected; but he seemed to have lost all confidence in himself, to have allowed the iron of some peculiar, and not-to-be-forgotten sorrow to crush his soul. He was not intemperate, had an even temper, and could even be gay; but his demon, what ever it was, was more than his. mind's master, so that he passed away al the age of three-and-thirty, literally broken-hearted, to his grave. I had always entertained a degree of warm respect for him, and during the latter stages of his illness, paid him those attentions which were demanded by his case, and were in my power to afford. He was touchingly grateful, and a few hours before his final denarturo. 1 handed me a roll of papers, which he termed his dying confession, bidding me do with it, as suited mc. To the dramatic acquaintances of the deceased, these posthumous remains wil A explain the singularities of one, who whatever may have been his eccentricities, had no glar ing faults. I feel lhat I could not better serve the author, than by transcribing accurately, and without mutilation, tne papers confided to my charge. Ihey run thus: The IJayer Beat. I die the victim of a bail-piece! I fervent ly trust that none of my readers have ever ex perienced, practicably, the terrors of this most iniquitous cog-wheel of the law. Would lhat I never had, or could forget what I suffered, for it has embittered my life, and brought the head of a score and thirteen years to a welcome grave. what you will ask is a bail-piece? Gel in debt be sued execution served pro cure bail to stay off the execution prove so unfortunate as not to be able, at the end of the time, to meet the debt, and seek safety in flight: lei-your bail find where you arc, and he will .get a slip of paper from the infernal I beir their pardon the legal powers, put it in his pocket, and armed by virtue of this same paper with the power of an Oriental Caliph, he will drag you into the district whence 3011 fled and immure your body in a common jail. Try it once, all who doubt, and my (lying word for it, no one who lives through the sufferings con sequent upon such a state of things, will try it a second time. 1 It matters not where he may find you, fish ing in the Kennebeck, or hunting buffalo on the prairies, Sundays, all days, in church, or in" bed, your doors triple-locked, ihe result is ihe same, lou have no city of refuge no day in which you can face with impunity the holder of a Bail-Piece. Like a stag at bay, your attempts at avoidance are unavailing. You but give notoriety to the matterby personal con cealment: you are a. rabid animal, as it were; all join with your persecutor, for they are men, and when did human naiure rise superior to the pleasure derived from ihe sight of a fellow's sufieririgs. The hunt is a game where ihe ter rors of ihe hunted are fresh incentives to the hunter. .Such is, in brief, for I love not jo dwell on the", materials out of which is composed the Bail-Piece.. Such the infamy of the Law, re taining, as it does even yet, a means of oppres sion worthy of the Court of the Spanish Fer dinand, or the days of Titus Oates, but all un worthy of the people and the age presumed to gavem. by the spirit of equal rights. It has unmanned me. 1 never see a man with a stick, lhat my blood does not freeze in the arterios; I never hear a rougher slep than ordinary, with out gathering my feet for flight; a tap on the shoulder makes my heart sink.. away like a snow-ball. 1 am womaii-Jiearled. I am a mur dered man, I repeat it. The law has destroyed me,' through the instrumentaliiy of a bail-piece. Well, to my confession. I was in Philadel phia, during the fall and winter of 1835. I went there to solicit an engagement at the jTjheatrOi The manager proved inexorabje. He told me, what 1 knew, that I was a very indif ferent actor, and th.it he had more "small peo ple" alredy than he knew what to do with not knowing what else lo do, I resolved to wait, as hundreds of others have done bd'forc me, and as hundreds more will, even nrito ihe end of time in the vain hope, that fale would cease persecuting me, and agleam of sunshine, up matter how insignificanl, rclievei.thp gloom of myforUines, So; 1- Availfid-but; .there ,came npthin. Funds J. had none, and I was ,spon to endure in reality, what I had all along dread ed in perspective, the freezing looks of mine host of the. Black Bear, together with the con sequent decay of my intimacy with "his boar ders. The storm grew ; blackened, burst in the shape of a capias, in which I was requested forthwith lo accompany Timothy Tipstaff, and before Alderman. Alwise show cause, if I had any, why I should not pay Benjamin Boniface a ceriain sum not exceeding one hnndred dol lars.1 1 was ofcour.se hurried into the pies ence of magistracy. At once admitting the claimit would have served no purpose to de ny it, I' found all appeals for furiher grace in vain forrI did plead most pileously and the said Timothy was empowered to hold my per son in the name of the Commonwealth, until 1 handed overj as saiisfnciion for the suit of Boni face and the costs accruing thereon, the sum of twenty-six dollars and forty-one cents. If the amount had been forty ihousand,-the hopeless ness of my situation would have been the same. I had not the smallest coin of the country, and knew not where to raise one. What to do I knew not, could not conjecture. Dim presages of prisons old stories of jail-rules and the Bas tile were before me, so that when Tipstaff re quested mo lotaccompany him, I complied me chanically, although 1 fully noticed lhat the di rection he look was prison-ward. A thought,; as 1 then imagined, a most hap py one at lhat moment, entered my brain. I would seek a. friend to hail me! I imparled my views to the officer. He shook his head increduously, but the tender of a ring it was my mother's dying gift her all: '---excited the sympathies of the fellow (ho took the bribe though,) and I essayed a task which they who have never tried know nothing about even in conjecture. I appealed to one, then another, a third and fourth; but when I was about re linquishing ihe business in despair, the image of. Bob. Bennett, my ancient, my old. school fellow, and most particular chum, came over my mind s eye like a flash of ethenal charily to ihe soul in purgatory. I started for his cham ber Tinstaff was too nolite lo leave me. Bob was fortunately at homu. I communicated my errand the jaw of my most particular friend fell, and a change came over him of most per ceptible import. But I succeeded! Oh! how has the remembrance of the humiliating tone I ihen assumed clogged my memory even till now still, I succeeded, and in due time the name of Bennett appeared on the docket of the Justice, as special bail in the case of Boniface vs. C , and I found three monthly links added to ihe chain of personal freedom. I remained two months of ibis time in the city, but as yet could find no employment, liv ing, chameleon-like, and enduring the haunting enquiries, of Bennett, as to whether I was cer tain of meeting the claim for which he stood responsible. I answered him for a time as well as I could, but when there remained but thirty days of ihe period of grace still before mc, I could endure it no longer, and disguises are over now I resolved to quit Philadelphia, and in some remote village hide my person and suf ferings from. the fangs and sneers of mankind. I quitted the cily, and pursued my way to Beth lehem; but I did not feel myself safe there, nor. at Easlon ; so following the windings of the Delaware, I arrived at last al Stroudsburg, a primitirc settlement, half Quaker and half lies- sian. o embowered among me oases 01 me Kiitatinny, and remote from all connexion wilh iho great world, that -I felt certain 'of remaining here free from all molestation. I was so fortunate as to secure a school. The compensation, sixteen dollars a month and "found," was to me the revenue of the Roths childs, and 1 could have enjoyed a happiness as unalloyed, in that simple spot as ever filled the bosom of the owner-of a city's rental. But it was not to be. ' I had scarce been five weeks in my new location, when, on rising ono morning lo make afire in my school room the month was January and vhile has tening to ihe farther end of (he villiage for lhat purpose, I was accosted by a mechanic, who notwithstanding lie bore but an indifferent rep utation, was nevertheless a man of a wanh heart, warmer a thousand fold than Ihe souls of those that railed at him. " lie noded to me significantly, and.drew rife aside, where wo could converse unobserved. I had a presage of what was (o follow. It appeared lhat he had entered the village tavern that momtng, to gel his bitter, as he said ; and while there, Jicovorhcard a dialogue! between ihe landlord who;'was my " very particular friend" bye the bye, and a siaugcr, from which he gathered enough, although they let him not into the full pariitiulars, to justify the belief lhat some evil was rne.dilatgd against my person. I asked a description of the stranger. It . -r-i ..1 1 11 .1 . 1. M.i- was liot). iienneit j oy an uim is . nomine was i ,anu my jniormam, wno, poor ieuow, had been tried in. the law's lurnaco imall its gra- lalions of temperature, from iho browning op erations ol summons's, capiases, juoginenis, ind what not, up U) ihe roasting invasions of -n ,. . " l ie executions, b.,jr.;.ana.-incarccraiHHi.in nan the prisons in ihogoinmoilweaUhj Oiyiinforjiiant,, I say, hinted, iliaurom penain,orapuiar expres sions, it must boijt ;.Buil-piecBrr-A haiL-tHIEcd! 1 knew nothing of th nature of such ah Instrument; but the other went on to show its power, with such horrible fidelity of detail, until like Niobe, I could only gaze at him with a look of unut terable wretchedness. I asked him what I ought to do. He counselled me to go quietly back1 to my residence pack up a "few necessa ries, then make for the- adjacent country, and remain quiet for a few days, until the stranger left, or the term of virtue in the power he held expired. - I a'cfeil on'thc hint, and stole back lb the dwelling, but not so secretly but that, jusl as I was entering, I saw ihe brute of a tavern-keeper watching me from Ms door sill, while over his shoulder peered a face that 1 knew' at a glance to belong to my friend Bcnneis. I hastened forthwith' 10 my apartment, cram med a change of linen into my hat, some other wearables into my pockets, and was proceed ing down stairs, when .rap came a full com plement of knuckles against the door, caus ing me very near to tumble down a flight of eighteen or twenty steps. The servant an swered the summons, which proved nothing more than a rcques't that I would call at the tavern on my way to he 'school-house.1 " Rich idea that,'' thought I, 11 I'll see you in Halifax first," and wilh 'shiveYmg leelh I strained' out, ""we met ; 'twas in a crowd; all eyes were upon me." I next proceeded lo take a survey of my po sition. . The cursed tavern flaukedT bolh the front and rear entrances of the dwelling, so that escape from either of these avenues was out of the question, unless I pleased to make a run of it, with the certainty of "immediate capture. I at once called a council of war, consisting of the lady of the house and her daughters. ' They were members' of the sqcTely of" Friends, and had an idea lhat all forms of law had something to do with'Miliua fines. They proposed sundry schemes, all of which were rejected as unfeasi ble, until we hit upon one, which sounded fair and plausible. The dwelling gabled, so lo speak, at a facial angle of about fifteen degrees towards the groggery This gave them a view of three sides of it, while the extreme gable overlooked a,valley which, was formed imme diately under its windows, and reached away towards the hills something like two miles. Here it terminated al ihe base of the mountain, on the level of which numerous farm houses were scattered. It was a leap of five feet from the sill to the brim of the valley. . Solat once started, leaving my amiable friends at the grog shop (they had now increased to a dozen 0; more) awaiting with commendable paiien'cc, ! - 1 T . t I my presence among mem. 11 may do pre sumed that I tarried not on my way, nor did I pause until safe at the farther termination of the gorge. I felt so far secure as to look around with a view to my further guidance. In' so do ing, 1 noticed a small tenement, the owner of which was a transient acquaintance. It was. tolerably cold in the morning air, so I hastened thither with the double intention of warming my limbs and asking his adu'ee. There were none of the. family at home except his daughter, a girl of about eighteen, who ev idently regarded my movements, for 1 stood but .upon indifferent ceremony with much sus picion, 'halting between the belief that I was tipsy or. insane, or a. fi litile o' bolli." I in quired at what time She .looked for a return, of her Jalher, and in answer lo her reply that it might be in an hour of riiorc, I expressed, my intention of Ye main ing umil he did,;she dvinced nbismall degree of .embarrassment ' evidently wishing that I would be ofT at onco. L4tept my ground, however, and well was it for me.i j did so, for scarce ten minutes elapsed befdro Bennett and a village catch-pole swept past a bloody wilh spurring, fiery hot withf Jiastc," evidently having gqtoh ihe right track.1 The owner of the dwelling shortly came in, and I,,expjained the .facts of my position. He proved" what I thought. he would, true as steel. The pursuing party returned after an hour's in effectual sea'rch,' and stopped with-Badger; so was my host named. He, painted to aside room iiito which 1 retreated, while he quietly smoked Tiis pipe by the fire, as' though so em ployed for some time. I at first erttertame'd sonie: doubts misfortune has made me "a. sad sceptic oh the subject of human, of at least man's virtue; but how were thess doubts stenglhened, when I heard him.' after uf prosy conversation with Bormeit aa to the grounds of his pursuit, ask him. what sum he would give to have me iq his power. The iatter na med a, price equal, lo half of my indebtedness, after which there was an ominous pause, and I gave myself up as sold. My fsars however, were soon removed, fbr Badger expressed ut ter ignorance of my whereabouts ; (Heaven will forgive the falsehood, it was perpetrated in the cause of distressed humanity !) assured tlio catch-polo that I had not passed by (ibid was true enough,!) and then turning quietly lo Bennett, he poured out a string of bitter in vecliVe, the rude eloquence and stinging force of which, I have rarely heard equalled. He call ed hi m e ve ry t h in g b ut a g e n tl fcrhari , a qd , tlj e p pinl.igster'nly to thp entrance ordered, hun to, passu(iut,, lesl he should,, fprgej, in his, detes tation of the mani.hunter,ihe respect dueeven to such a reptile while under his roof. Abash' edby the violence of the honest hearted fellow, the subject of it retired with his companion, t resisted the entreaties of this nAble' mlmled cottager to remain with him, and proceeded to scale the mountain, which effected, I had my choice of a score of farmer's residences spread along the area before me'. Selectingone which, from ihe neatness thai characterized its- out ward appearance; arid ihe solitariness of iw site, bespoke honesty -within and littles likeli hood to attract snspicidh;!I'gaiiied the duor, and solicited permission to rest awhile within. A cheerful welcome, was given and taking a. chair, I quickly learned this was-t lie abode of -a wid ow lady and four daughters the latter busily engaged in spinning, yet communicative ami lady-like in their general demeanor I laid ny case before them; and found what rnaireverha when trusting to the sympathy of dlar and' in nocent women.. A mbthcr'eouhl not have hew kinder, a sister's love exercised itself not in ministry more soothing, yet imobtrlu'ive. JitC bless them! one and all. Heaven bless 'it", sex, for never iri all my wamlerinsv and ihev have proved wide and various, have I ever had cause to repent in trusting my dearest .wishes, or more oppressive cares to influencing tender ness of the sex. Men have looked cold have defrauded, oppressed and betrayed me, but woman has at all times, under all circurjisitanccs, been my nurse, my solace; and my friend. To return. I sojourned with these interesting friends nine days, happy to be domesticated with a circle so delighful, but the miserable prey of a thousand fears. Every traveller on the high road was mag nified by my suspicious fancy into .the dreaded holder Of the haunting bail-piecel Every sound at night was deemed the footstep of a. lurking bailiff. My slumbers were fevered with sickening fears of capture and ixicarceration; my food was tasteless. In short, I was utterly, hopelessly mis erable on the evening of the ninth day, I Stole in to Stroudsburg. I had no fear of Bennett, for the period of his power must surely have expired by this time, but 1 brooked not to encounter the sneer ing townsman. Intending only to say "God bless you," to my former hostess, and then cast myself on the waves of the repelling world. I gained the steps before the door and knocked. The key turned for admittance, and my hand was upon the knob, when a pressure on my shoulder, a "not so fast" caused me to turn and confront the sneering" triumphant gaze, and the mastering grasp of Ben nett The bail peace would have expired at twelve o'clock IT WAS NOW fISE. " Enough ! They who wih to know the result will find it shadoxved forth in the Philadelphia Journals of July of the same year. It will bq seen therein, that at that time Ralph C Comedian, made application from the vrison. to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, as an Insolvent Uebtor, praying the ben efit' of the laws in such cases made and pro.vided. Neither German nor En&Iisfi. Copy of an advertisement at Charleston, S. C, for a stray horse : " He is run away again, mine little black horse 1 rite him two tays in te middle de rifie and ven ho not vill see shumting he shumps as ifthedivel was int, and he trown me town, I not have such fall since before I was bornt. I buy him top on Jacob Shintel Clyroer, he hav five white feat be fore, mit von black snip on his nose, von eye vill look blue like glass. He is branded mit John Keisler -Stranger, 'on his behind side of Ilis tale. Whoever vill take up de said horse, and bring him to top of mine house near Congaree, shall pay me two dollars reward, and if dey will not bring me mine horse agen, I vill putjde sure the law In force against all the peoples. . . Pan of sC5ravy. ! Ba-a-a !" shrieks a half naked infant of about eighteen months old.' " ' "What's-the matter with' mamma's 'thweet yiu tlo '"ducky!" says its affectionate'-motrWr, while she presses it to her bosom, and the ybunsarrjmt in return digs its talons into her facet .1 ' h r '.'La den Missis, 1 knows, what little jnassa Jim wants," exclaims the cherub's negro nurses?, ."You black hussey ! why don't you, te m'e thenl" and the infuriated mother gives i)inah a douse in the chops with her shxfeV ' ' '"" ' " ' - "Why, he wants to put his ftrtt frdat thtr pan ob gravy, what's coolin on harf!" whimpers the unfortunate blackuy . i i c v "Well, and why don't you-bring it here, Ton aggravating nigger you, replies, the mother of" the bawling younsr onei r , Jhnali brings ihe, gravy, and little . Jim put his feet in. the pan, dashing the ,milvvarm grease about his sweet plumpy little shanksto the infi nite amusement ofhh) mother,' who tenderly ex claimed '" " "Did mommo's yettle DimmV- want; to put his teeny-weeny footsey's in the gravy.- It shall play in uie pan as mucn as it cnosey-wooses, and then it shall have its po.oty red trock on, and gq and see Its pappy-yappv!" . "Are you foiid ' Qf-ionguesir;.," ihr getlcman holding his. hands over'his ears.7 "t was always fond "of to'ncue, madam.'and T like it excellent: Jen I'espritai' " Said Stiggins to his'wife one?d ' We've nothing left to'&tV ?day, 'tM If things go on in this queer way, . v We shan't make both ends meet " s : The dame replied, in words discreet? ' ;r,r"Wer not so baldly fed, MM? . o luti uiiiKU uul uiit: uiiu meai i 41$ mako the other bread "237- 'L.