The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest Jefferson. STROUDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1842 VOL. 3. No. 8. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THEODORE SCHOCII. rr, J 1 1 . V,Vnp two dollars and a hall, i ncise wnu receive mu. .- h-llt VPriV. illlU 11 HUl uum v.iu. ..." ...prsbvacarneror&uige uincisu.ni.ujw j --i- .-3ii k .himnrt 7 I." r.is. rcr vuai, uaiiu. o ntiyers uitcuiitiiiu o-- 5 trip ODUOn CI uie liuiiui. .. ,. , LJ-AUeiV'""" 1-11.:. . nontc . k mcnrtm Hirff WCCKS IOr OnC UUll.ll : l Kill. J - v." hircer ones m proportion. A : .i icmmt will be made" to yearly advertisers. 1L7AU letters addresseu to me t,uuur must y"- NOTICE. o the rionoraoie uie juo w ,u.- Common Picas, in and jor the county oj rme. The Petition of the subscriber, respectfully heweth: Thai he is desirous of obtaining a li- pnsp. for continuing a house of public entertain- . .. m ti niin i ri :i i in i :i iiiiv i i. 1111 i nt c. he ensuing year, ana respeemmy suucua im? If 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LI I 1 -,Ulllli (U 11111 IUJ . JUlilN -Li. UUiiJ. ilm snWrihers. inhabitants of Palmyra uainted with the above petitioner, anu uiui ue j a man of good repute lor Honesty anu tern II nrnvided with house room nd conveniences for the lodging and accommo- tTltlllL-C anu 1-J i - 1 . . ...II W ll..n aliuil ui bUiiii"';' unu ...... - ore reconnnenu mm us u. auauiu i'u 1 1 r ...11101110 nnrenn flip W. H. George, ?.. -r-, i i Jidwaru Afflmerman, Powell C. Killam, Calvin Pellei, Warren Kimble, Henry V. Edwards, Jonas K. Sutton, an iviuaui, L. Collins, ohn Decker, jses Bingham, M OI'IM 11 V lllllllT. Jdwin Bidwell, Charles McStraw, Thomas V. Taft. nril20, 18-12. NOTICE. ffl . T T T I I . j . - I . W t t. s I y- l T IT 1 Common Picas, in and jor the county oj riKe. The Petition of the subscriber, respectfully sheweih: That he is desirous to obtain a license . -I t loltc thD lirtn- fnr that t uui w w to THOMAS V. TAFT. We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town- inner, anu ceiuiv, iuai uic xnn i IIIMMUUIICU JO WUWWJUi t v vni nun "j tin i- 1 1 1 i if 1 m .- t i ii 11 u - km l k&iA ikii v 1 1 . 1 . ,1 nnirniimnnnr A - k - - w ohn Georse, Stephen Dimon, Cornelius Dimon, John B. Smith, Reuben Tuitle, Milton S. Kimble, George Smith, Lebbeus Bennet, Nelson B. Kirkendall, Moses Bingham, John B. Cole, Olio Kimble, Gurdon Pellel, Dan Killam, Henry L. Stearnes Heman N. Kimble, T T7-.ll Philip Dickaisson, H. I. Collinsj ! April 20, 1842. KOTICE. To the Honorable William Jessup, Esq., T President, and his Associate judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in and for Pike county. Thfi Piitinrinr. Daniel Decker, (if the township of Lackawaxen. humbly sheweih: That your petitioner hath a desire to keep a Ptibuc House ol Entertaintneni in tne nouse in whir h ln now livfis. fnr thp. term of one year, and prays your Honors to grant him a License for that purpose. DANIEL DUUlUiax. We the undersigned, being inhabitants of Lackawaxen township, in the county of Pike, do hereby ceriify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Decker, the above applicant, and do further state, thai he is of sober, moral char acter, honest and industrious, and that he is well provided with house room, stabling, &c. for the accommodation of travellers and strangers, and that it is necessary to have ihe above stand li censed, therefore pray your Honors to grant him a License for ihat purpose. Benjamin F. Holbert, Benjamin Holberi, Frederick Hope, Jacob Bonnell. u'-'ham F. Dutcher, C. R. Shimer, William J". Conkling, iManin Dietrich, Moses Brink, J. A Tineman, Abraham Shimer, Nathaniel Moor. I George Deterrich, James wnelirig, Apnl 13, 1842. A Sister's ILove. Beautiful is the love of a sister; the kiss that hath no guile, and no passion; the touch is pu rity, and bringeth peace, satisfaction to ihe heart, and no fever to the pulse. Beautiful is the love of a sister; it in moonlight on our path it-has lighi, but no heat; it is of heaven, and hed it peace upon the earth- POETEY. SPRING. BV J. O. ROCKWELL. Again upon the grateful earth, Thou mother of the flowers, The singing birds, the signing streams, The rainbow and the showers ; And what a gift is thine! thou makest A world to welcome thee ; And the mountains in their glory smile, And the wild and changeful sea. Thou gentle Spring the brooding sky Looks welcome all around : The moon looks down with a milder eye, And the stars with joy abound ; And the clouds come up with softer glow, Up to the Zenith blown, And float in pride o'er the Earth below, Like banners o'er a throne. Thou smiling Spring ! again thy praise. Is on the lip of streams; And the water-falls loud anthems raise, By day, and in their dreams, The lakes that glitter on the plain; Sing with the stirring breeze ; And the voice of welcome sounds again From the surge upon the seas. Adorning Spring! the earth to thee Spreads out its hidden love ; The ivy climbs the cedar-tree, The tallest in the grove ; And on the moss-grown rock, the rose Is opening to the Sun, And the forest trees are putting forth Their green leaves, one by one. As thou to earth, so to the soul Shall after glories be, When the grave's winter yields control, And the spirit's wings are free; And then as yonder opening flower Smiles to the smiling sun, Be mine the fate to smile in Heaven When my weary race is run. A Quiet Family. A deaf and dumb lady nnd gentleman were recently married at iew Orleans. Thev will have a quite house of it, especially if the babies take after their unfor tunate parents. Florida News! Highly important ! ! Ma chine Poetry. Hurrah for our lads of the sabre and trigger, In history's pages they'll make a greafggcr, No heroes on record were braver or bigger, They've captured three children, two squaws and a nigger : Dutcli Justice. Justice Bnsoner! be you guildy or not guildy? Prisoner Guilty, your worship. Justice Sigs monts in der hause of correc tion. Tudder brisoner. Pe you guildy or not guildy.' Prisoner Not guilty. Justice Den vat der dtiyvel did you come hp fnr? Go 'nout vour nusiness! Court's nop! Shentlemen, let's go over to Ike Heger man's mul dnkft sninediiifT warm for dc stom ach's sake! 'I see ihe villain in your face,' said a wes tern Judge to an Irish prisoner at the bar. ' May'l please your worship,' replied Pat, 'lhat musl be a personal rejlectwn sure. Flying Artillery. Every old settler of Texas is familiar wit the name of Martin do Leon, Empressario of d Leon's Coloiiv, and founder of the town of Vic toria. In the early settlement of his colony, the Indians became very troublesome, and after some reflection, the fruitful mind ol the Empres sario hit upon the following ingenious expedient A small piece of cannon was firmly lashed to ihe back of a stout mule, by way ol a gun car riage. Before venturing into the field wilh this newly invented apparatus, it was thought best to test its utility, and accordingly, in presence of the members of tho Ayuntamieulo and prin cipal citizens of Victoria, the experiment was made. At the first fire, the mule was knocked heelsjKcr head, without, however, rceiving any seriSP injury: The mule, however, was not to bTfooled a second time for with a sagacity worthy a nobler animal he cautiously braced himself sufficiently to withstand ihe shock. Whether the invention was actually used against the Indians, history saith not. A Hard Case. "Wall, there's a row over to our house," "What on airth's the matter you little sarpint?" "Why dad's drunk, mother's dead, tho old sow has got calf puss is playing the fiddle, the rats dancing in a trap. Sal's got married and run away with all the spoons, Peie has swallowed a pine plank, and Luke's looked at the Aurora Borax till he's got the delilriuin traingies. That ain't all nuther." "What else upon airth!" "Rose split the batter pot and broke the pancakes, and one of the Maltese kit lens ot her head into the molasses c.up; and conldu't git it ou'i and I'm pesty hungry-Thai's flat as a flat flatiron " Worlt for tlic IfloaitEa - of April. Fences. Repairing and putting in complete order every fence on the farm, aud particularly road and division fences, is one of the lirst ana most essential of Spring labors. If it has noi )een done in March, don l neglect n m April. Common rail fences are best, secured at the tops by caps. Slakes of durable materials so placed will keep the fence in its place for years. Plouohmsr. U will prove injurious to a soil to plough it when so wet as to smooih over and render compact Hie surlace moved uy me mi- plement, as it dries into a Kind ol unburni nncu, atal to all hopes of a good crop uniil again pul verized by frost. Clay soils, and those un- drained, are most apt to sufler from this cause. which locks up all manures and renders ihe mrt consolidated impervious to atmospheric agency. JLoamy orsanuy suns may e piuugu- ed without danger ol being renucied compact. Sprint? Grain. As a general rule, the far mer will find it to his advantage to put in his Spring grain, such as wheat, barley, oats, &c, i V. r r..m lir llllffl Cir tliplr rp. ception. The grain from early sown crops, ; ,"4'' ' V " ;tv 7 when properly put in, is always more valuable j he enjoyed his warlike propensities in security, .han from later ones ; being belter filled, heav-1 At length he published an ar.icle more severe ier, and of a liner quality in other respects. It ! and cutting against malleasance in office, than suffers less, also, from' the injurious effects of j any that had preceded it. In fact, though point our dry summers, by which the later sown is ed at no one individual in particular, it was a J . . prematurely ripened. The pea 1 one of the crops which should be j put in as early as ossible, particularly if in- i tended lo be followec by wlieat. J tie grounti , for this crop should be in good condition, and not too heavily manured, but such as would Ue suitable for a wheat crop. . . it! Manures may now be drawn upon the fields for the crops to which they should be given. These should be corn, potatoes, and other roots, ail of which will bear high manuring ; while H 7 1 ... . . the manure is applied to the grains directly, j he product is very apt to be ntore straw than I K.i TWn isJcolv any one Thing in ! wi.,. - " j , which farmers are more deficient than in the , management of manures. A compost mace ol ; am ".ai o. r- - ' - - wo thirds swamp muck and oni third stable him before. The wrath of the visitor rose 10 manure, fermented together, makes a manure fever heal, and from being so bug restrained, as valuable, and produces as good a crop of boiled over with double fury He gave the cd hay, grain, and ol, as if stable manure alone nor his choice, either to publish a humble, a "a b"w" ' , I ,m , . roMiilnlinii. or a llovirincr on was used: yet how lew there are wno ever "j uu..u . -j co a used a load of muck to enrich their lands, when he spot. Either alternative was wormwood, perhaps they have thousands of loads on their but what could he do? The enraged office S?.mi es. Stable or barn yard manures, when j holder was .twice Ins size and . one blow put unfermented upon land, should be covered, j lhat the earth may' absorb the fertilizing gases evolved during the process of decomposition.- i If they are made into compost with muck or Squire made an excuse .u -i w t vegetable earth, and decomposed in thai state, ing office, with a promise that he would be back they will be sufficiently incorporated if spread in season to sign ,r as soon as it u-as finished, on ihe surface and mixed with such earth with ! S. had gone hardly fifty rods when he en harrow. Compost manures are the most prop-1 countered a man who enquired where Squire er for top dressing and renovating pastures or S's office was, and if he was at home. Sus meadows, where ploughing cannot be well peeling that he, too, was on the same errand as adopted; but its application should be accompa- the other visitor, he pointed to tho office, and nied with fresh seeding, and a thorough har- j told him he would find tho editor wiihin, wn rowin". I ti'g mosl abusive article against office-holders. Potatoes require a loamv soil; one abounding This was enough. The eyes of the new corn in vegetable mailer, and moist rather than dry. cr flashed fire. He rushed into the office and Gen. Barnum, who has raised greater crops of j assailed the stranger with ihe epilhels, "liar, potatoes than perhaps any other man in the ! "scoundrel," ''coward," and told him he . would United States, attributes much of his success to ! teach him what to write. The gentleman sup his not disturbing the plants in hilling after ihe; posing it was some bully, sent there by the ed iio r., ii,n n, wrc hpirin m fnrm-his method i imr snranc to his feel, and a fight ensued, thai of performing that operation being to bring rich earth in a horse carl, the wheels of which pass between the rows, and from tins dropping a shovel full upon each hill. This furnishes a bed of rich, fresh earth for the tubers, and avoids all interference with the roots. The Kitchen Garden will require much atten tion this month; as all plants which arc not lia ble to spring frosts should now bo set out or sown. By beginning in season, we may secure two or three crops of many valuable vegetables in a single season. Salads, radishes, potatoes, n.iKi Art- m:iv niutf hn nlauted or sown. The earliest varieiies of each should of course be j selected for ihe first plaining. Asparagus and strawberry beds should be cleaned off, dug ovflr, and manurod. None but compost ma nures of the best kind should be used for such purposes. Cure for Scalsls or CSurns. The following is declared to be an infallible remedy for scalds or burns: Take soot from a chimney vhere wood is burned, rub ii fine, and mix one part sool to three pans, or nearly so, of hog's lard, fresh butter, or any kind of fresh grease, thai is not salted, spread this on linen or niuslnij'or any cotton cloth for easier or more perfect adaptation. In very extensive burns or scalds, the cloths should be torn into stripes bo fore pulling over the scald. Let the romedy bo freely and fully applied, so as to perfectly coy er all the burnt part No other application is required until the paiieni is well, except to ap ply fresh applications of the soot and lard, &c. In steamboat explosions, this remedy can in nearly all cases be at once applied, and if done, many valuable lives will be saved, and a vast amount of suffering alleviated. Concise. A travollor, writing from the coast of Africa says: "Tho people'dio veiy fast, Hrl ihe shnen have remaikablv long tails." , . Flogging an Editor About twenty-five years ago, when a certain Western Slate (which we shall not name) was a terrilory, and with few inhabitants, a young lawyer from one of the old States emigrated thither, and settled in the county of K. He succeeded admirably in his profession, and rose ranidlv in oomilar favor. He had been thero nearly iwo years, when he induced a printer to come on and print for him a weekly paper, of which he was editor and proprietor. Squire S. was much pleased, for a while, wilh editing a paper. He was a man of very small stature, and he used the editorial "WE" as frequently as if there were a dozen of him, and each as big as Daniel Lambert or the Kentucky Giant. Strange to say, there was at that lime, men in oflice who were not a particle more honest than they should be; a thing which probably never happened before, and never will again. Squire S. felt all the patriotism of a son of '76, and poured out grape shot and canister against public abuses. This soon stirred a hornet's nest about his ears, but as there was no other i .i tlm itppitnrtT T n nv .i n"ic Tin rpnlr nnrt " Some three or four days afterwards, he was silting alone in his editorial office, which was about a quarter-01 a mue irui.i me jjuiuiug a lablishment, his pen was busy with a paragraph, when his door was opened without much cere mony, and in sialked a man full six feet in his stockings. He asked, "are you S., the editor of this paper?" Thinking he had found a new natron the little man, with one of his blandest :i . iKa n irmohvo I no clrrm- 1 ------ smn? ansu " gcr uouuer ue.y uicw m - .1- per from his pocket and pointing to the article against rogues in office, told the affrighted edi- , . :....,,Ja,l ir him If wns in or u ai .c..u-u. ... could quamy nun lor ai. uum.-.y agreed to retract and as his nsi or insisted upon writing it himsell, he sat do yr to he task. j beat the Kilkenny cais all nolloty. 1 lie taoie j was upset and smashed into kindling woodthe contents of a large jug of ink stood in puddles on the floor the chairs had their legs and backs broken beyond the skill of surgery to cure ihem. This seemed only to inspire the com batants with still greater fury. Blow followed blow, wilh the rapidity of lightning, and the force of a sledge-hammer. First one was kick ing on thclfloor and then the other -each ta kinu it in turn, pretty equally. The ink on the floor found iis way to their faces, till both of ihem cut the most ludicrous figure imaginable. The noise and uproar was tremendous. The neighbors ran to the door and exclaimed with astonishment, that two negroes were fighting in Squire S's. oflice. None dared separate mem. At len" lb, completely exhausted, and pounded to a jelly, they ceased fighting. Tho circum stances of the case became known, and the next day, hardly able to sit on horseback, their heads bound up, they siarlcd homeward, con vinced that they had obtained very little satis faction from their attempt to Jlog an editor. A Female Vil!aj?e. Tho following account appears in the Augs burg Gazette; "The village of Madane, which is about sixty English miles from Rustchuck.in Wallachia, offers at tho present moment a cu rious ethnographical singularity, having been inhabited by women only for the last thirty years. At one poriod this female population amounted to 2,000. The ladies did not live as warriors, like tho Amazons of old, but avoid ed all intercourse with them, and drove away from their territories all who appeared with matrimonial intentions. This anti-social settle ment is now supposed to be on the decline; at least, no more lecruits are made from the dis appointed or the love crossed, aud tho mombers of the population are rapidly decreasing. These women are nearly a.ll Mahometans." TeiuperaMce Anecdote. At a meeting of teetotallers the other even ing, held in Souihwark, the following some what ludicrous tale was told by one of the speakers. "A moderate drinker had embarked on board of a vessel on an excursion on the Chesapeake Bay, but before he started he filled his (pocket pistol" wilh real Cogniac. After having sailed on the salt water for some lime, and conversing on various topics wilh the cap tain, male, and the rest of the company, the subject of temperance was broached. He found he was surrounded in the cabin by temperance men, but was unable to talk about the cause; his throat was dry; he had already began to spit "lip'nybits." Excusing himself, he went on deck', and looking carefully all around, he got behind a cask; drew forth his pistol, pop went the cork, bubble, bubble went the liquor;' but his conscience checked him. Looking round among the crew, who were all Hack, he accosted one of them, saying "here. Sam," handing him the flask " "What's dai, massa?" "Someihiug to wet your whistle, Sam, its real Cogniac." "Ha! go 'long now, massa, don't fool dis nigger, no how, he's had snake in his hat too of'en he's jined ihe temp'rance society now." Our hero tried another and another, but wilh the same success; "he could'nl fool none of ihe darkies, no how." At length finding all solicitation in vain, he threw the bottle overboard, and when he returned to Baltimore, his native city, h joined our society, and ha has just been ad dressing you." Here the orator sat down amidst the hearty cheers of the social and lens perance meeting. "IVIiy may not I too? " Father," said a young man once, to a pa triarch of the mountains, who is still living, (af ter being told that he musl noi go wilh half a dozen idle fellows, who had come lo invite him) "father, why is it that you deny me those privileges which other parents grant so readily to their sons of my own age?" "David," said the father, after lifting up and, leaning his head upon the lop of the hoe handle, "I have lived much longer in the world than you have, and I see dangers which you little suspect. These young men are in a bad way. Such habits of idleness and this going about to frolics and horse races will ruin ihem. You will see, if you live, that some of them will get into tho State's Prison, by and by, and it is well if they do not come to the gallows. These are my reasons for wishing you to have noihing to do with ihem." David was satisfied. Years rolled away. Those young men soon spent their pat- rimonvt aud fell into dissipated habits. From step lo step they went on, till the prediction of the patriarch was literally fulfilled. Two or three of them were sent to the State's Prison, and one al least, was hanged. Dr. Humphrey. Important Uecision. The following account of a discision at tho late term of the Supreme Court of the United States, we have received from the highest ati thority. It is important to assessors of taxes, and to public officers of the United Stales. At the last term of the Supreme Court of the United Slates, at Washington,(1842,) an im portant question was decided respecting the power of the Slate Government to tax the pay, salary, and official emoluments of the officers of the United States. It was decided by tho Court that the State Governments possessed no such power; and thai it was an unconstitutional exercise of authority, and equivalent to a tax on the means and instruments of carrying into ef fect the Constitution of the United Stales. The case was Dobbins v. the Commissioners of Erie county, and it arose in Pennsylvania, under the following circumstances. The Ssato had by law authorized a tax upon the. official pay, salaries, and emoluments of all officers. Dobbins was the commander ofarevenuo cutter, in the service of the United States, upon the Eric station; and he was taxed for his pay and emoluments and profits of office, as such an officer, by the commissioners of Erie Coun ty, and ho paid the same. A suit was there fore brought by him lo recover back the money in the Stale Court; and the facts being argued, the Supreme Court of the State decided that Dobbins was liable for the tax, and gave judg ment against him accordingly. A writ of error was thereupon brought in the Supreme Court of the United States (by tho directiou of iho Nathional Governmcut, as it was understood) and tho Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decison of the State Court, an I awarded judgment in favor of Dobbins, hoUuti: ihe taxing of a United Stales officer for In official pay and emoluments by a State lu unconstitutional and void. Ifyaur wife elopes with your neighbor, be thankful that you arc rid of a woman of such principles--and pity, as you must, the man who is obliged to lake cure of her. Don't cry your eyes out, but look around for some other fair one, to whom to unite yourself, thus proving to the world you can tnko the ups end downs of life quito easy. Devotion strengthens families.
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