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"o find one virtue in thee noxious weed, ne single excellence, were hard indeed ; ut to describe the misery thou hast wrought, Ltd nameless woes upon creation brought, Consuming health and life from hour to hour, Come not within the scope of human power. Oa! may a blight destroy thee deadly flower. ODE BV REV. JOHN PIERPONT. Tune Slow. In Eden's green retreats, A water-brook that played Between soft mossy seats Beneath a plain-tree's shade, Whose rustling leaves Danced o'er its brink-r-Was Adam's drink, And also Eve's Beside the parent spring Of that young biook, the pair Their morning chant would sing, And Eve, to dress her hair, Kneel on the gruss That fringed its side, And m.ike its tide Her looking-glass. ,-And when the man of God - From Egypt led his flock, They thirsted, and his rod . Smote the Arabian rock, And forth a rill Of water gushed, , , And on they rushed And drank their fill. Would Eden thus have smiled ilaa wine to Eden cornel Would Horeb's parching wild Have been refreshed with rum! Ai.d had Eve's hair Been dressed in gin, Would she have been Reflected fair! Had Moses built a still, And dealt out to that host, To ever man his gill, And pledged him in a toast, How laige a band Of Israel's sons Had laid their bones In Canaan's land "Sweet fields beyond'" death's flood, "Stand dressed in living green," For from the throne of God To freshen all the scene, t A river roils Wheie all who will May come and All Their crystal bowls. If Eden strength and bloom Cold Water thus hath gjvenj. -. If, e'en beyond the tomb It is the drink of heaven, . : Are not good wells, ;' - And crystal springs The very things For our HOTELS ! Something for the Tcinptcraricd Cause. The following was read recently at a meet' ing held in Wheeling. Ya. It was received a Mi great enthusiasm: THK DRUNKARD'S FAKEWKLLTO HIS F.OhlT. 'Farewell, landlords, farewell, Jerry; Farewell, brandy, wine, and Sherry; Farewell, horrors and hlue'devils; Farewell, dens of midnight revels; Farewell, shoes that have no soles on; Farewell, fires that have no coals tin; Farewell, sots and all sot feeders; Farewell, rogues and all thief-breeders; Farewell, cupboards that have no ment in; Farewell, clnir that have no seats in; Farewell, children with dry faces; Farewell, n those pop-shop races; Farewell, landlords and your spousos; Farewell, jidijrs and your houses; "Farewell, tn your noise and rabble; Farewell, to yur foolish gabble; Farewell, swash, and all swash venders; Farewell, bums, and all bum senders; Farewell, pockets hat are empty; Farewell, landlords, you have plenty. STROUDSB URG. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. John Thompson, Esq. of Pu'keepsie, offered ihe following resolution: "That the growing disposition manifested of late to use the Bible as a reading hook in Common Schools, is an auspicious omen to our country." After a brilliant exordium Mr. Thompson said : We are to contemplate these interests in their connexion with the voting; and the youth not oft Asia, or Europe, hut of our own land. Our children! Ah! how the soul swells when they come before it; our laughing children, with hearts ail joy, and hope, and sunshine. The father relaxes his care-worn brow when he looks upon his son, who is to bear his honora ble name to coming ages. The mother, how she cherishes in her heart of hearts her chil dren; she "who made her breast the pillow of their infancy, who watched above their couch with vigilant, fund, never-ceasing love." No eflbrt is too great, and no obstacle too appalling fur parental affection; and many a parent who h,ur not to thn nnthnritv of Rod. vet desires thathis children may own and acknowledge ! "P0!"1 ,0. both ihe demands 1 he young him; and when the parental heart is renovated. ' ,,ul recf vcs ,I,e f laments ! upon how importtmatelv will it hang over the mercv lru,l and generously confides until deception seat, and prav tha't God would bo the God orit's "? P101' or condemnation wakens unbe olfspring. There is nothing selfish or sordid, hf .JJ D,v",c ahlr,,0' auflicicnt for in the ordinary gratitude of the Christian heart. ' ,whfl 13 h,8 ,han reaf )n ad f thc rest Vs It is not simply the grateful remembrance or J laI d P he comprehension of a.l the inqm personal enjoyments and favors; but it rises tn-1 r,nS- .iW has ,he r;earch ofr,he nerces to life and energy as the unstinted waves of the investigation, ever lighted upon a fact to con r:..: i ..,.t. ....... . ..r..i,i ' tradtct a declaration, or even intimation of the LHlliu Uf lit; wicinji; cue -tern m uiinuu vtiiiiui pmiua, ,1 i,in I upon which their munificence can be expended": -...l ....., u ..r- ,l. vn.uli of ...r : country, our cntiuren L II .1 T l: !...! . j"-- i snaw not mis leeitug nuu :s.rtti n,fl nnccn ? IT nrlv: ihi Ri!llf Hllfl tnnw nr ,!. v. w shall tP.neh ,t , r children, i ,i,o ,,u r;.L ., a,i wtw. li. ,w ; ihp house and by the wayside; and this no i&ss be-' M.i.s ii is ihn rnmman.1 i,f Rod . ll.an-diclale ! of nature. Natural reason impels us to warn 1 r nff.nrlnn In ,,,,1,1 lU- ovil -,,,,1 pl,n(K I h good; and man, wherever found, and in almost ! i ,i , , i - I , ' , j i l hi cnirititn not Mr n nn r a ? c 1 ri o inI r nnm M u a i ; ,. : . ,i. '...,1 r' ortfaA n9? nnnoii'MruH f t instil 1 ft t 1 no mitlfl nl , - & - .1 I , r i , ' which his own feelings were directed. The ! Greek, the Turk, the Hebrew, and the Roman, , r ,1 commenced their religions instruction from the u , ; - j , , cradlc, and in the synagogue and temple; in ,i ,1 " ,,, , . . ,i, ' lh urtwe frit r nn llio nprii!rniv hv n . u....i :.. .t i' .i... li.J: .i..i ! :t r ,u r ;.t, t ,t . ii Sir, n is a Irite remark, and vet no ess true, i principles of their faith, both nv preeppt and1 , ' , . , - , , i i Lxample, brought to bear upon the intellect and 1 'hat that education which has respect only to ; morals of the voung; and while Christian prin-i!hc Iccuial powers, leaves more than halfj ciples had their ea?lv vigor and integrity under I xK w;ork mi,,m,c' . 1 ht! mosl dar,.n. and flam th inn. ,r,ul .,ir;,.e i?r,mn,;i'beU against all law, human and dirmc, have r r ,i . i " 1 1 j .1..: i nl Jjttther, and the no less blessed revolution1 -l,;..t, i?.,l P,m,nniSn, ..,, PU-mM.,,!. r,h ! these same phtloxmhic practices were adhered , ua" v" u"" ucu' ;,s vu as l".B "' to with a fidehtv which evinced their defence ! Panded a" I,,arRed or ,he ",a,l,h m,t I to Divine authority, and their appreciation of! m.,l,,!'- ErI; ai,d instant familiarity with the j the religion they believed. And many districts 1 D1shlfi a;npl'ales this training and nothing ; of our own land, and in our schools of primary ! w, d" lf we ;'l!giccl lhc training of j instruction, has the Bible h5,n placed in the h young for heaven, the Prince of the Power I ........ X -J... ..,.., ...ww... "','.- , , . - I ... .. , . .1 I hands of the voung, that their opening minds : might come in contact with the elevating and ' purifying influences which a, a fact it ever! sheds over all who become acquainted with its i JrilIns j Sir,' our resolution regardB this disposition to ! use the Bible in common schools as growing! and increasing. And why bhould it not be so? What book like the Bible to mould the charac-1 ter of the voung? What, intellectually, can sop" the mysteries of Cabalistic lore! the Greek, exalt the mind, and chasten yet enrich the im agination, lf the young soul dilates over the pages of Milton, and revels among "hid superb and glorious imaginings, how shall it not ex pand and glow when it rises to the source whence the blind poet drew his inspiration? If the bounding spirit is mellowed and subdued, when on the pictured page of Young, he meets a the august and solemn shades of Death, Judg- ment and Eternity, and estimates the linscl glo ries of earth, and more the substantial realities of heaven, as he stands with the complainer above the sepulchre of departed generations, where" lhe "gray hairs of the mourner become touched with the halo of the prophet;" shall it not moTc deeply appreciate these things, when they rneel hint in every living line of the sacred Record? Do the young seek after wealth as the chief good, when ihey see the glittering god so idolized by the multitude? Here Dives stands before him in purple and fine linen, and there lifts up his eyes in torment. Is he ambi tious of fame? True, his experience may fur nish the corrective, when on the scene of their labors, and the theatre of their triumphs, the memory of the mightiest so soon perishes from remembrance when he visits scenes redolent of genius. When he treads ihe shores of Lake Leman, once the abodes of Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Byron, "gigantic minds that sought by dangerous palhs a road to fame;" and well may he ask, where are they? what now avails their renown? Alas! the Swiss peas;rttt treads the bowers they trod, unconscious that they ever lived; and the boorish fisherman casts his net in Leman's crystal waters, all unmindful of its consecration by the poet's lyre. Above the crag of the Neapolitan sleep, tow MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1842. TESMSXEaSTT ers the tomb of Virgil; but even there the vine dresser carols a lay in a barbarous accent, that would have grated on the ear of the fvlantuan bard; and 'neath the rosy skies, and in the smi lingf alleys of his native land, tin; piping of the Lazzaroni has succeeded to the departed music of his song. But the Bible is crowded with instances of poets, warriors, kings and philosophers, whose warning history it there engraved as with the joint of a diamond in a tablet of adamant. Does he need to be prepared fur patience under wrong and forgiveness of instill; there David, the Lord's anointed, flies before his enemy and refuses retaliation, while the deep glens and lonely mountains of Judea echoed to the tones of his melodious harp, and many a sorrow sha ded his brow ere it Has fitted for the crown. It has been asserted that all religious feelings rest upon one of two grounds: that of authority, or conviction; that the heart either hows to the one or yields the other. That of the Bible rests upon both. It has truth Jor reason, and truth '. r l .t. .!-.: i i aoovc reason; ana me uusuputsucateu nean re- - . -sacre(1 R'ord. I rue, we have often heard the I chlIck U of anticipated triumph as geology pet. eiraieu me uarin, nr asumiomv uie ueuvuns, ii in .i i . , j. ..fp.i i.i I 1C Vtllll liAIJCLIilllUH lllill U VU K 111 'Jll IWIlilU . . . contradict his Word, ueoiogy, skeptical ue- olgy traversed the bed of the river, and went mo ,he ltssure of the rock: but Geology return- ed a j'ever; for from the dim aisles of the mo,,ll,a,n Carern a,,d Peaks f 1 ,e mountain summit she brought in her hands the 1,11 J ' tiny shells of the deep, or the mammoth bones of the huge Leviathan. Astronomy, skeptical ,ne h"Se Leviaihan. Astronomy, skeptical Astronomy, turned her telescopic gaze upon the I Astronomy, turned her telescopic gaze upon the 'heavens to track the radiant orbs that ight up 1 C3 1 the far off immensity. And Astronomy return- J cd a be lever; for every where, amid suns and; s-stein9; 8.he sa lhe lrJcfr' "f ,he Dlvmo flM: 8", ad lhe evidence or the D.vine eve: and thus have all the discoveries of art and science , , , e ,. acted as too exponent and witnesses ol rcli- , ,. 1 .... , , . , gion. bha not our children know this, and s know it eaily and well? lowered in mind above the -common stature of , . ., , . -"fir fellows. J he moral powers must be 0,r A,r lral,,s ,nyl f ? ow- f . Pr(;ce,ss f ed"n js ; constantly going on, which looks t!,c W !,,.,hf ""P.11""' or ll,c aS"y of lhe Uil )"uch sl,alll11 be? . . . Mr. 1 hompson then spoke at some length ol !he soc,al d political hearings of the subject, bul m,r ,,m,ts forb,d Us 10 ,oll,nv h,,n' Slr our resolution speaks of omens. The Chaldean read them in the stars! the Egyptian, in the responses of the Oracle! and the Roman, in the flight of birds, and the entrails of slaugh tered victims! and now, the home of the Magian sage, he who gave tho elements of astronomy to the world, is the howling desert, where the lion roams and the Satvr dunces. The philosophy of Plato is unknown in the home of its first promulgation. Desolation i a ' stalks hideously over broken shaft and moulder ing column, and worse than all he bows to the sceptre of a foreign king, whose Bavarian ban ner flotits the sky, above the very ashes of Thcmistocles; The Roman the fire consumed his dwelling, and the sword of the barbarian drank his blood, and over the grave of Roman valor settled a thousand years of night which is lifted but to show a race of supine and effem inate figures, stealing round the crumbling mon uments of ancestral achievement, and battening on a heritage of fraud and licentiousness. West ward the star of empire took its way, and u;e look for omens here! (lo the Bible) and wotildthe Greek look here, and the mournful genius of that cradle of art nnd song, might yet rise from the dust and stand revealed in as pure a light as circled the eloquent Paul, when with' out stretched hands and burning zeal he preached Jesus and the resutrection, in the Mars Hill of her own haughty Athens. Would Egypt look here she might lear from the faco of her Isis, the veil dark and inscrutable, whioh ages of ig norance and crime have let fall upon his gigan tic wonders; and lift to heaven the song of de liverance, as the cross of Christ glittering in the sunbeam from the summit of her mountain pyramids. Would Italy but look here, and a spir itual leprosy would lay at once upon all the do ings of the Vatican. Panal Bulls would ihun- der in vain, the Genius of Liberty would pour new life-blood through her veins, and nervr, her heart with the stirring memories of departed virtue. May our country never look elsewhere; may she ever cherish in the hearts of her citi zens from the earliest infancy tu inaturest age, the principles of the Bible. May her policy, legislation, institutions and manners ever be saturated as now with the spirit which the' Bi ble breathes and then whatever solemn and trying destiny is yet before her; through what ever fiery ordeal she may yet be called to pass, she will not palsy by contact with the superan nuated errors of the false prophet, or wither in the rank steam of her corrupted breath she will never sink down, guilty and atheistic, crim soned with the stains of foreign or fraternal blood; but if in the lapse of ages, the stars and stripes must go out to make way in earth's drama fur some higher purpose of Jehuviih, they will not be lost in the din of arms or the san guinary terrors of the battle field; but borne aloft by some angel hand, they will glitter with an added radiance until they melt away into the light of heaven. The Mouse in ILiquor. Mr. Smith, the reformed drunkard from Lou don, apologised for much of the folly of drunk ards' by the following story of the Cat and the Mouse: A mouse ranging about a brewery happening lo fall into one of the vats of beer, was in im minent danger of drowning, and appealed to a cat to help him out. The cat replied it is a foolish request, for as soon as I get you out 1 shall eat you. The mouse piteously replied, that fate would be better than to be. drowned in , beer. The cat lifted him out, but the fumes of beer caused pussy to sneeze ; the mouse took refuge in his hole. The cat called upon mouy to come out "You rascal, did you not promise that I should eat you?" "Ah!" replied mousy, "but you know I was in liquor at the time." If none would say or do foolish things, Or fall a proy to their great adversary, let them take care never to get in liquor. We are willing now to receive this apology from the reformed drunkards for much of their course, which has been so foolish and destructive. Warniiigf to Uiitiiitifu! Husbaml.s. A farmer in Bristol county, named Lumbem, was very neglectful in preparing fuel to cook dinner with; he would leave the house early in the morning, seldom splitting wood sufficient to bring his dinner to a suitable) Mate for mas tication. His better half, tired of wielding the axe, and finding expostulations of no avail, de termined to administer a practical rebuke. One morning before leaving home, old Luin bem told his wife he wished her to cook a piece of salt beef for dinner. 'If you will split some wood I'll cook any thing you want,' re plied his spouse. '1 can't stop to split wood, I've something else to do,' satdine larmer'you , mtiit boil the meat the best way you can.' Off: tramped the farmer, leaving his wile to cook dinner as best she might. Dinner came round, and with it came the farmer also, as ravenous as a shark. Seating himself at the table, and taking a hearty draught of cider, he seized a knife, and gave it a few touches upon the stool Becoming impatient, he cried out, 'Come, where's the meat, I'm as hungry as a wolf.' His wife brought the meal and accompaniments, and set them before htm. With astonishment strongly depicted upon his sun -brow visage, he loudly vociferated 'what in the uame of pan cakes and watered milk does this ero mean7 Why did'nt you boil that are meat?' 'You told me to cook dinner the best way I could, and after looking at thb fire place and the uncut wood, 1 put it in tho warmest place I could find, in the corner of tho yard next the barn, where the sun has shone upon it dreadful strong.' Farmer Lumbem replied not to his helpmate, but taking some bread and cheese he left the house, inwardly resolviug'never to leave his dame, without preparing sufficient wood for all culinary purposes at least. A utci Ropiiig-iBK Gainc Der Deutsche tells a good thing about a fel low who went into a grocery store and called for a quart of molasses. The molasses was brought,- and the purchaser demanded to have it poured into his hat. Tho grocer's clerk off ered to lend him a measure, but no the pur chaser insisted upon having it put into his hat, at the same lime laying down a piece of money which required change. The shopman, much wondering at so odd i whim.hesiiiated no lon ger, but doused the molasses into his custom er's old half and then pulled out his money drawer lo make change, 1 n a twinkling the rascally purchaser dropped the hat on lhe young grocer's head, grabbed all the money within his reach, coolly put the grocer's good hat on his own head, and walked off whistling, while the shopkeeper was blinding, choking and smother ing in a bath of molasses. Jack, your wife is not so pensive as she used to be.' 'No, fthe'a left off, and turned expensive. No. 13. Elijriilcen Years Old. There is a period in the life of every young man over which to pass safely, requires the most skilful navigation. To double this point is more dangerous to the moral character, than for a navigator to double Cape Horn.' The whirlpool of pride and the qiiirksand.i of self conceit yawn upon them, aiid are to the young man what Srylla and Charybdis were to the ancients. This period is from sixepn to ihvi tnv one years of age, and during this time a vu ij man is subject to what is commonly allttl ''i eighteen years old feuer,' though owing tn the precocity of some, they are attacked n e.ulv as sixteen. The effects of the disease are al together different from thoe morbid complain:-.' to which the human sy-tem i subject in stead of wasting away, it produces a general in flrition of the intellect, if I may mi ;xpres- it, which renders the subject more. like a bladder filled with wind, than a rational being. Important 3T. IS. A young Miss, it: writing to her hivrr, ail adjoining couiuy, to this city, seems n n forgotten to say something about home a (Furs, and after scaling tip her letter, breaks it open to add the following : N. B. 1 break this letter open to let you know that our calf runs after folks. P. S. So no more at present, only her horns ain't large enough to hurt aily body, if she war to butt 'em. A student in one of our colleges, on his way" home during vacation, stopped for the night at a tavern in the country. Alighting -from his g'g, he gave the following very clear and order to the ostler: "Boy, extricate that quadruped fiom the vehicle, stabulate him. donate him an adequate supply of nutrioiis aliment, ami when the Aurora of morn shall again illuminate the oriental horizon, 1 will award you a pei -notary compensation fur your :i:tiable hospitality .' Selecting Cabbage Pa;it5. A correspondent of the New tene-re Fif mer advises those, who on a rainy day, t ik from a bed of Cabbage plant", -'"inn fur im planting, to select the blur, shnrt legged on?s because the long legged 'onrsntti mostly sculltunt and won't have any heads i A Sharper Served siti A man the other day got a crowd ofcoun'ry men around him near Uie. old market, and at tempted to 'surprise the natives' by a few heights of hand. After acco!ttp!t.hin ? i ffjt or two, and winning some bets. lie toM i u- o: the spectator, a tall, raw looking lel'ow. h:: he could turn a nine-pence into a dollar, if he could be furnished with one. 'file spectator out with his leather punch, handed the exhibi tor a nine- pence, which the latter readily, ap parently, converted into a silver dollar and han ded ii to the spectator to examine. The coun tryman, on receiving the dollar took off his hat and made ;t low bow to the exhibitor, exclaim ed, 'Welli I'll be darned if you ha'ni dune it;" and then pulling the dollar into the puueh from which he had taken the nine-pence, he added, "lui you a'int a going to to turn it back into a nine-pence, no how." Providence Chron. Slander. It is a poor soul that cannot hear slander. No decent man can get alung without it at least none who are engaged in the business pursuits of life. Have you had a had fellow in your employment, and discharge him he goes round and slanders you; refuse another some very modrst boon which he haft askd, he goes rotind and slanders yoU let your conduct bo such as to create the envy of another he gne- round and slanders J'ou. In fine, we would not give a cent for a person who is nut slandered; it shows that he is either a milk-sup ur ii Fool. No no earn a had name by a bad felltiw, (and you can easily do so by correct conduct,) tt is the only way to prove that you are entitled to a gOod one. Portland Mc, Tribune. Absurdities. It is very ahmird for a per son to suppose, that in this world he will meet with no injustice It is absurd to think that all beautiful women will make gdod wives. It is absurd in expect decency of a foul, or brains of a dandy, U is absurd to think of passing through life wiihnut adversities, or that lobsters will not turn red after hiring boiled. It is absurd to expect a re'ttm of good fur evil, or to hope for assistance from a relation. It ',s absurd to think of acquiring a reputa tion for honesty, and, at the same time cheat your neighbor. That Beats the JBugg, The Crescent City tells of an artist who painied a mouse so naturally, that when a cat happened to enter the room it started from the canvass with its tail at half-mast, and in Us fright, jumped down the painter's throat, that being the nearest hole it found open. They have introduced cut granite curbstonei in the borough pf Harrisburj.
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