I, i I, ,, . ,n. i.m , .i -- ddu-jww- I II I 1 n f I T ! i biiiViT. ; unit - The whole art ok Government consists in the art of reing honest. Jefferson. VOL. 3. STROUDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1842. No. 5. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THEODORE SCHOCH. TlKMS. i f GOllura lid annum ill iiuviiii: i nj uuuaid ,nArs hir ;i rarrinr or staue drivers emnloved bv the DroDric- t r. win do cnargea . i-z cus. pur yl-;, cAira. 0 papers UlSUUIUHiuuu unui m antai.ijjta Jiuu, t-vi-i-iJi. i i 'if nnuun ui i:ic l.uiiui. lUAareriiscnienis not cxuumg oi; Miunrc imakjcii imus; ..1 u- l ii-aaIfp fur Ann .1 - 1 1 n l- t t 'in t i A n.ntc J J f All I L Ll L i o iiuuiucouu lu till; uuuwi luuoh ui pvfc .TOSS PRINTING. mental rvpe, we are prepared 10 execute every ues cription of Jartls, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER " BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE JTeffcrsoman Republican. NOTICE. IB LIIC 11 U71U7 UUlu Llic uuij'to uj wm. vj Common Picas of Monroe county, now compo sing and holding the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for the said County. The Petition of James Johnson, of the town- trk y C f rw-liirrll tT villi rrntru! v sheweth: That he occupies a house in the ... t.tiiM.-ltin i- K i V? lii Ji orof npArQ nati neon dJU 11 V llill j U lilt 11 1IHJ lllUlUIUlb Ulll UWU tirl nrriinirid as a Public House of Entertain- mi- nn i is ut si rt) us ui cmmnuiii" iu kcc j ei mblic house therein. We tnerelore prays your ic House at the place aloresaid tor the ensuing 11411 . .Ill 11 Jfa., 1111 III (1 t . .1 1, . ,1! JAMES JOHNSON. We the subsenners, citizens of and residing m nornnr nrii inii L-nnw i n n nn op inr which license is prayed, and from its neighbor hood and situation believe it to be necessary for the accommodation of the public and enter- -n i 1 1 1 1 1 1 r. 1 1 1 in Nii;iTiinis z.i 1 1 1 1 r: nrs i n i iii-ii house should be licensed; And we further cer- 7 fx 1 Vlri t Wfi fsra nrenn o 1J t nrtA ittnll nnntminlnrl with James Johnson, the above petitioner, and that he is, and we know him to be of sood re- ute for honesty and temperance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers Timothy Madden, Je.sper Vliet, tr I II l III n III'llR. William Madden, Jeremiah Galrin, Dennis Murphy, Daniel Callighan, William Holmes, Samuel Warner. trick Galvin, Callighan, March 30, 1842. WAYNE COUNTY MUTUAL ?XSBRANCB COMPANY. 1 LL Persons lnsanng in this company are Jjl members equally interested in its welfare i -1 i r r . m In order to become a member of this company vJ thsreb' be insure !, the applicant gives a pre lum note, the amount of which is in proportion . 1 -I 1 cent . he gives his note for S5(J. If at 10 Der cent. i... ... i- .".mn i . i : . ji-i a jiiuawi ui icss sum, uucuruiu 10 me xaie ui hazard, on wh'ch note he advances 6 ner cent, and lie men uecomes a memuer on tne approval 01 his application and is insured for five years. The agrepatc of the premium notes constitutes the cash fund, chargable first, with the expenses, and second, with the losses of the Company; and sho ilJ it prove insufficient to pay both losses and ox ensts the money to meet the losses, (shouki any occur) is borrowed agreeably to the act of in corporation, and paid. An assessment is then made to repay such loan upon the premium notes, m proportion to their. respective amounts, and in no -as'1 to he made but once a year, notwithstanding :.::vcnil losses may happen. At the expiration of live years the note, if any 'icor-cemonio liivn tinnn mrirln JlllH Tiaicl. IS nrivnn IJJJ, mil i 1U UlbUIliU Illiiy lUIlcvv ma nj'juibaiiuu. V j 1 . 1 n . . nlnl!tnltnn l'Iicies tiny at anv time no assignea or sur- v. No more than three fourths ot the casn . - r J i. ..... , in "IJC UI U!y U1UJJCIIV Will UC illUltVJ, un tn ill i In I ll I ' 11 nt..nAAai for Printer's Ink. and all establishments of the same class of hazards, are not insured upon any conditions whatever, and that no one risk is talien over $5000, it is considered much more safe and .less expensive than in Stock companies, where i hey insure large amounts and hazardous proper ly. & 1 UUDELL STOKES, Agent. iroudsburg, Monroe co., Dec, 15, 184J, iVU POETRY. True asad IPalse Ambition. I would not wear the warrior's wreath ;' I would not court his crown; For love and virtue sink beneath His dark and vengeful frown. I would not seek my fame to build, In glory's dizzy height; v Her temple is with orphans filled ; Blood soils her sceptre bright. , I would not wear the diadem.. By folly prized so dear! ' ' For want and woe hath bought cachgerri,- And every pearl's a tear. I would not heap the golden dust That sordid spirits crave : For every grain, (by penury curst) . v5. Is gathered from the grave. , . No let my wreath unsullied be My fame be virtuous youth ; 'St My wealth be kindness, charity; ' My diadem be truth. Scandal. "Now let it work. Mischief thou art afoot, Take what course thou wilt." The substance of the following is no fiction. In a neighboring village, whose inhabitants, like the people of Athens, were much given to 'either telling or hearing some new things,' lived Squire P a facetious, good sort of a body, whose jokes are even yet a matter of village record, and have been re-told through various editions, from folio down to duodecimo. Aunt Lizzy was Deacon Snip's wife's sister, a maiden about fifty. She went to all the meet ings kept a regtdar account of every birth, death and marriage, with their dates doctored the babies showed the young married ladies how to make soap, and when they had bad luck, made every child iu the hnuae sit cross-legged until the bad luck changed. In fine, she was a king of the Tillage factotum spent her lime in going from house to house, grinding out a grist of slander to 'ach, as occasion required, but always concluded with 'the way of trans gressors is hard; paor Miss A. or B., (as the case might be) I pity her from the bottom of my heart,' or some soothing reflection. Aunt Liz zy was very fond of asking strangers, and others, I without regard to time and place, 'the state of! their minds; how they enjoyed their minds,' ie. These questions were generally followed by a string of scandal which was calculated to de stroy the peace and happiness of some of her best friends; but she, like other narrators of this kind, considered such intellectual murder as either establishing her own fair reputation, or as the best mode of entertaining the village, and thereby rendering her society agreeable. One warm summer's afternoon, as the squire was sitting near the door srnokin j his pipe, aunt Lizzy was passing by with great speed, rumi nating on the news of the day, when the squire brought her suddenly to, as the sailors say,, by 'what's your hurry, auni Lizzy; walk in.' The old lady, who never wanted a second invitation, went into the office, and the lollowing dialogue soon commenced: 'Well, squire P , I've been thinking this forenoon, what a useful man jtou might be, if you would onlyleave ofi your light conversa tion, as the good book Says, and become a se rious man; you might be an ornament to both church and state, as our minister says.' 'Why, as to that, aunt Lizzy a cheerful coun tenance, I consider as the best index of a grate ful heart, and you know what the Bible says on that subject 'when ye fast, he not like the hyp ocrites, of a sad countenance,- but anoint thy head and wash thy face' (aunt Lizzy began to feel for her pocket handkerchief, for she was a taker of snuff,) 'that you appear not unto man too fast.' 'Now there, squire, that's just what told you see how you have the scripture at' your tongue's end; what a useful man you might be in our church, if you'd only be a doer as well as a hearer of the good word.' 'As to that, aunt Lizzy, I don't sc6 that your professors, as you call (hem,-are a whit belter than I am in private. I respect a sincere pro fession as much as any man, but I know enough of one that she is no belter than she should be.' At this inuendo, aunt Lizzy's little black eyes began to twinkle. She sat down beside the squire,- in order to speak in a lower lone, spread her handkerchief over her lap, and began to tap the cover of her snufl'box in true style; and all things being in readiness for a regular siege of candalum magnum,' she commenced her fire. 'Now, squire, I want to know who you mean the trollope, I did'nt like so many curls aboui her head when fchc told her experience.' The squire finding that curiosity was putting on iis boots, had no occasion to add spurs to the heels, for the old lady had one in her head that was worth two of them. Accordingly he had no peace until he consented to explain what he meant by the expression, 'in private,' this was a dear word with aunt Lizzy. Aunt Lizzy, will you take a bible oath that you will never communicate what I am about to tell you, to a lising being; that "you wjjl jieep it while you live as the most inviolable secret.' 'Yes, squire, I declare I won't never tell any hody nothinn about it as long as I breathe ihe breath of life; and I'll take a bible oath of it; there, sartin as 1 live before you or any ether magistrate in the whole county.' .Well, then, you know when I went to Bos ton a year ago?' 'Yes, squire, and know who went with you, too, Susan R. and Dolly T. and her sister Pru dence.' 'None of your buts, aquire, out with it; if folks will act so a trollope.' 'But aunt Lizzy I am afraid you will bring me into a scrape.' 'I've told you over and over again, that no body shall know nothing about it, .and your wife knows I ain't leaky.' 'My wife? I wouldn't have her to know what I was going to say, for the world; why aunt Lizzy, if she should know it ' 'Well don't be afraid, squire; once for all, I'll take an oath that no living critter shan't never, as long as I live, know a lisp on't.' 'Well, then, if you must know it I slept with one of ihe likeliest of your young church members nearly half the way up?' Aunt Lizzy drew in a long breath, shut up her snuffbox and put it in her pocket, mutter ing to herself "The likeliest of our church members! I thought it was Susan B. Likeliest! this comes of being flattered a trollope. Well, one thing I know the way of transgressors is hard but I hope you'll never tell nobody on't, squire, for sartin as the world, if such a thing should be known, our church would be scattered abroad like sheep without a shepherd." In a few minutes aunt Lizzy took her depar- tcre, giving the squire another caution and a sly wink, as she said good bye. It was not many days before squire P , received a very polite note from parson G , requesting him to attend a meeting'of ihe church, iu the south conference room, in order to settle some difficulties with one of the church mem bers, who in order to clear up her character re quested squire P , to bo present The parson was a very worthy man, knew the frailty of some of the "weak sisters," as aunt Lizzy called them, and as he was a particular friend of squire P 's, requested him to say nothing of it to his wife; but the squire took the hint, and tellinj; his wife there was a parish meeting, requested her to be ready by two o'clock, and he would call for her. Accordingly the hour of the meeting came; the whole village flocked to the room and all eyes were alternately on the squire and Susey B. Mr. P. stared, and Susey looked as though she had been crying a fortnight. The parson, with softened tone, and in as delicate manner as possible, stated the story about Susan B. which he observed was in every body's mouth, and which he did not himself believe a word of and squire P. being called upon to stand as witness, after painting in lively colors (he evils of slander with which their village had become infested, and particularly the church, called on aunt Lizzy, in the presenco of ihe whole meet ing, and before the church, to come out and make acknowledgement for violating a bible oath! Aunt Lizzy's excuse was that she only told deacon S's wife on't, and she took an oath that she would never tell nobody else on't. Deacon S's wife had, it appears, sworn Rogers to hi.? sisters, never to tell nobody of the mat ter, but it went through tho whole church, and thence through the whole village. The squire then acknowledged before the meeting that ho had, as he told aunt Lizzy, slept with a church member half the way up to Boston, and that he believed her to be the like-, liebt of their members, inasmuch as she would never bear or retail slanders. All eyes were now alternately on Susey B. and squire P's wife. Aunt Lizzy enjoyed a diabolical triumph, which the squire no sooner perceived than he finished the sentence, by declaring that the mem ber to whom he alluded was his own lawful wife! Aunt Lizzy drew in her head under a large bonnet as a turtlo does under his shell, and marched away into one corner of the room, like a dog that had been killing sheep. Tho squire, as usual, bursi into a fit of laughter, from which his wife, Susan B., and even the parson, could not refrain from joining and parson G af terwards acknowledged that squire P had given the death blow to scandal in the village, which all his preaching could not have done. Bcmslioia of a Bousici. The following definition of a bonnet, by a wag is very good: A protection for the back part of a lady's head a something designed to keep her hair up, and to show the fine outlines of a beautiful forehead. A frail casket, in which a dazzling jewel is ouly one-third concealed, A amly. 'No one would take you to be whnt you arc said an old fashioned gentleman a day or two ugo, to a dandy who had more hair than brains. 'Why V was tho immediate return. 'Because J hoy cap'l itae vour ears,' Culture of Mustard. Permit me to call the attention of farmers to the cultivation of mustard seed. I believe it is not generally known how large a quantity of this seed is annually consumed. It is import ed from Holland and the more southern parts of Europe, and s'old in our Atlantic markets at from three to four dollars per bushel. It is also raised in England and manufactured for the table, in which state it is exported to this coun try in large quantities. I believe that farmers who have soils suited to the growth of this seed will find it much more profitable than any other crop. It requires a rich, clean, moist soil; should be sowed about the time of other spring grains. Four quarts of brown seed will slock an acre sown broad-cast. It is sometimes sown in drills and hand hoed. It usually ri pens quite uneven, and should be cut when it is sufficiently green to prevent waste by shelling, and stacked upon canvass, the top being thatch ed wiih straw to protect it from the weather. It should remain in this situation till it is thoroughly cured. By this treatment, the un ripe seeds will be sufficiently nourished by the stalk to render them rjlumD and sound. H i A should be threshed upon canvass, as there would be considerable waste bv removing it to a threshing floor. Particular pains should be taken in cleaning the seed. It will ordinarily yield from ten to twenty bushels per acre. Several individuals in the town ot UenmarK, Lewis county' N. Y. raised small patches last season which yielded at the rate of twenty bushels ner acre. Messrs French & Davis, mustard manufacturers of this city, offer to con tract with farmers for what ihey can raise at S3.50 ner bushel for brown seed.. The yel- low seed is less valuable for manufacturing purposes. For this description of the culture of mustard seed I am principally indebted to interviews with English farmers and mustard manufacturers. N. R. French. Albany, 1842. Cultivator. Iniportaut to Farmers. Hart Massev. Esa of this village, took a small portion of the seed corn with which he planted . .... a field, and soaked it in a solution ot salt ntire, commonly called salt-petre, and planted five rows with the seed thus prepared. Now for the result : The fire rows planted with corn prepared with salt-petre, yielded more than 25 rows planted without any preparation. The five rows were untouched by the worms, while the remainder of the field suffered severely by their depredations. We should judge that not one kernel, saturated with salt-petre, was touched, while .almost every hill in the adjoin ing row suffered severely. No one who will examine the field can doubt the efficacy of the preparation.- He will bo astonished at the striking difference between the five rows and the lemainder of the field. Here is a simnle fact, which if seasonably known would have saved many thousands of dollars to the farmers ot this county atone, m the article of corn; It is a fact which should be universally known, and is, in all probability, one of the greatest discoveries of modern times in the much neglected science of agriculture. At all events, the experiment should be exten sively tested, as the results are deemed certain, while the expense is comparatively nothing. Mr. M. also stated as to the result of another experiment tried upon one of his apple trees last spring. It is a fine, thrifty, healthy free, about twenty-five or thirty years old, but has never in any ono year produced over about two bushels of apples; While in blossom last Spring, he ascended the tree and sprinkled plas ter freely on the blossoms, and the result is, that it will this season yield twenty bushels of apples. Now if the plaster will prevent the blast.it is a discovery of great importance Mr. M. was led to make the experiment by read ing an account of trees adjoining a meadow where the plaster had been sown ai a time when there was a light breeze in the direction of the orchard, tho trees contiguous to the meadow bearing well, while the others produc ed no fruit. Watertown Standard. iliffliways and Byway. We again remind all makers and menders of highways that gravel is the only material which will repay the labor of carting or of scraping on to the roads. Highway surveyors who wish merely to make a show of doing something may throw on sand or miry mailer from the gutters; but he who would be serviceable to the public must lake a different course. Gravel may often be dug and removed in March at half the expense which will be re quired in May or June. And tho earlier in the season the better, for the road then becomes hard before another winter. It is miserable policy to lay out much labor on highways in autumn. Ploughman. ' John are vou a good boy V 1 Yes, I spose, 1 is one of the kinds o' goods. Mother used to say there was two kinds -the goods for some thing and tho goods for nothing. I guess 1 belongs to tho goods for nothing.' A batch of fifty four new lawyers wore turned loose upon tho world tho other day in N. York. Fruit Trees. Th season for transnlautinjr fruit trees being" now near, it behooves those who are not amply supplied, both as 10 quantity and quality, to be stir themselves in this important mauer. . . - . k Cj Be careful in planting togtvo tne trees a i.ur chance for life and health by digging the holes in which they arc to be set wide and large, so that they may be surrounded by loose earth, ihnt can he oasilv nenetrated by the lender fibres of the roots which are to convey nourish- ment for their sustenance and growtn. a ire properly planted will grow as much in five years as one carelessly and badly set in will in ten; and often the chance of survivorship is dependent on slight circumstances. An excellent plan for preventing young fruit trees from becoming hide-bound and mossy, and for promoting their health and growth, is to take a bucket of soft soap, and to apply it with a brush to the stem or trunk, from top to bottom; this cleanses the bark, destroys worms or the eggs of insects; and the soap, becoming di solved by rains, decends to the root and caus es the tree to grow vigorously. A boy cut make this wholesome application t several hundred trees in a few hours. If sofi soap was applied to peach trees in the early part of April, to remove or destroy any eggs or worms that might have been deposited in the autumn, and again in the early part of June, when the insects is supposed to' begin its summer depos ites of eggs, it is believed we should hear less of tho destruction of peach trees by worms. But the application should not be suspended for a single season, on the supposition thai the enemy had relaxed in his hostility. Frs'arme Cabinet. Things that we Dislike. To see a young lad running along the street smoking a 'long uir!e., To see a person come in church when the service is half concluded. To see a member of the temperance society frequently taking a glass of brandy for 'a pain in the side.' To see a dandy's pantaloons strapped down so tight thai he cannot bend his knee. To see a lady's hat so small that you can get but one face in it ai a time. To be compelled to listen to a nightly sere nade from our neigebor's cats. And above all things we dislike To see a woman stop tof take a pinch of snuff while she is kneading bread. A Country School. " Bible dictionary class, come up," said our schoolmaster. " Who was Lot's wife ?" "The pillow of salt wot Moses laid his bead on when he went up Mount Sinai to offer his son Isaac up, coz he had no sheep but himself to do otherwise." " What is said about Jonah ?" "Jonah swallowEd a whale, and was vom ycked up the third day, with a passel of gourd seed, which he gave to the Queen of Shebe for mending his trowers, which he burst in strainin' to get out of the lion's den, where Daniel had been eatin' Pulse and Pease's Candy." What word of ten letters can be spelled with five 1 X P D N C (expediency.) Obadiali Stuck. "What do you ask for this article?" said Oha diah, to a modest young Miss in one of our shops. . "Fifteen shillings, sir it's a superb article. "You are a little dear, are you not?" said Obadiah. "Why all the young men tell me so,' she re plied, dropping her eyes and blushing. Obadi ah came straight away. Dandies. There are some fools in tho world who, after a long incubation, will halch out from a hot-bed of pride a sickly brood of fuzzy ideas,- and then go struiting along tho path of pomposity with all the self importance of a speckled hen with a black chicken. I have an antipathy to such people. They are mere walking sticks for female flirts orna mented with brass heads, did I say? No! their caputs are onfy half ripe musk melons, with ouly thick rinds, and all hollow inside, containing the seeds of foolishness, swimming about with a vast quantity of sap. Tinkered up with broadcloth, finger rings, safety chains, soft solder, vanity, and impudence, they are no more men than a plated teaspoon is solid sil ver! I detest a dandy as"a cat does a wet iiwr.Do w jr. A Puzzler. When a very eminent special pleader was asked by a country gentleman if he considered that his son was likely to succeed as a special pleader, he replied, "Pray, sir, can. your son eat sawdust without butler?" A Bright Child. 'Father, I do wish you would send for the doctor.' 'Why so, my child, are you sick?' 'No, I ain't exactly sick.' 'Then why do you want the doctor? 'Cause, I want he should come and feel of my pulse, and tell mo whether Pmtvred'or lazy'
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