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The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson,
VOL. 3.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 1842.
No. 20.
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POETRY.
The Farmer's Harvest Song;.
Ho! rouse ye lad! the morning breeze
Has swept the mist from the stream.
And afar on the hills, the towering trees
Are tipt with day's first beam.
The stars are gone the night has sped
And the lake has hailed the day ;
Arouse ye, then while the morn is red
Away to the fields away ?
To us no music sounds more sweet
Than the sharpening clang of the scythe ;
And echoing hills with gladness greet,
The song of the reaper blithe.
How pleasant to follow, with rake in hand,
The mower's devious way,
And scatter abroad with lightsome wand,
The green and pcrfttHwd hay.
Let the soldiers exoU tke pomp of war,
The king in his serf throned hall :
The freeborn farmor is happier far
Than kings and lords, and all.
His are no fields with carnage red,
And drenched with the blood of the slain;
But hills and vales o'er which is spread
A harvest of waving gram.
The summer sun, o'er valley and plain,
Has shed his genial ray,
Till smiling acres of golden grain B
Await the harvest day :
And into their borders we will fail
To carry the war 'to the knife,'
And eager, too, are the cradle and flail
To be wielded in the bloodless strife.
Then up, and away ; while the diamond dew
Bespangles the bending corn ;
And gaily the labor, the while we woo
The bracing breath of morn.
And under the shade of the beeches green
We'll rest at noon of day ;
Hurrah for the sickle and scythe eo keen
Away to the fields away away !
Bachelor's Hall
Bachelors hall! what a quare looking plac
:e it is
Kape me from sich all the days of my life!
ISure I think what a burning disgrace it is,
Niver at all to be gettin' a wife.
See the ould bachelor gloomy and sad enough,
Placing his tay kittle over the fire-
Soon tins it overt St. Patrick! he's mad enough
I (If he were present) to fight with the Squire.
Now, like a hog in a mortar-bed wallowing
Awkward enough, see him knading his dough!
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How be world favor his palate you know
!, takes, paw ami such grasy commodities
Kks a skfcts ler tle flr
Hu MfbMrd'ai a sie hotise ( Mtnto-J o&iuas,
TMaS iAm tad Reversed naifltbon beor
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MAtm. care, cf yvtsnct? f oa '
Ur.:' it t -m k. hh. Ut a o'.c vt a wan
Intr :n the rfght when ; giWbed
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Nt vtr a bit Is the bd irade at all.
He crapas Vk a tazfin mder his fcjvorw
Bad luck to tho picunr of -wcbelof's bll-
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Mechanics!
Allow not yourselves to be discouragcd--let
your motto bo onward, and rush through every
obstacle wmcn a irowniug lonunu iav """
in your path. Accomplibh eery thing which
you unaeriaKC, uui unuenaK.e uuiuiug wun.11 n
enlightened conscience will not approi'e. Hon
esty will procure what wealth, fame or knowl
edge cannot without it -happiness ! and if
vour nurnose is to fill the station with honor,
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which a kind Frovidence has marked out lor
you, never despair 11 occasionally uie ciouus ui
adversity lower over your neaas, anu your 101
appears cast with gloom. Though humble your
elation, forget not your duty to the world, to your
country, to your homes, to yourselves. Life is
made up of small items, and every item adds or
detracts from the world's welfare. I he hum
blest man in lhe universe, exerts an influence,
for good, or evil, which will tell throughout
eternity, and hence the importance of purity of
purpose, and integrity of conduct. "Be ture
you are right, then go ahead," is a maxim,
which contains more wisdom and rational
weaning, than its enterprising author, Crocket,
was probably aware of: and may be adopted
as a rule of life by all honest and industrious
mechanics. Ar. Y. Mechanic
r will'be charged 7 1-2 els. per year, extra.
vn naners discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except
The Tory Gallant.
A STORY OF THE REVOLUTION.
In the Revolutionary War, while ihe British
forces were in possession of the city of New
York, a young English officer rode up to an inn
which he had been credibly informed was tinc
tured with Toryism, although it-was forty miles
distant from the city. He rode a beautiful horse
that seemed perfectly trained to his service, and
his dress was neat and trimmed to an unusual
degree. What with a regular face and fair
complexion, a red coat cut and trimmed as if it
were but a day old, bufFsmall clothes and boots
in the military style, and a snow white plume
that nodded over his brow, he was an object to
entrap a whole coterie of damsels, and to bring
every man to bay, Whig or Tory, long enough
to get "one look at him.
him. He dismounted,
gave his norse to a nosuer, ana steppeu upon
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ine piauunii.
j ue lanuioru was a siouny ouiu man, .laving
high cheek bones and a rather large mouth; but
thfse marks of phisiognomy which might indi-Jfwf
ii-1. b f v "
caie a cnoienc anu sensual cnaracier, were op-
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his sma b ue eyes a trait that would inrzxv
an entire stranger who would stake Hit pur?
fee hit pur
upon a conjecture respecting his real okaraott r
1 He saw at once that the 5tr.ii.gtr fully
j awaro of his own importance as a Brt.h offi-
! ccr, ai.d treated utm accordingly. ' i: officer,
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,u,n , h l.r, hMnA. 'Rr,n an-1
ious," as ho afterwards said, "to pass a few days!
in this charming hamlet, and to ascertain those ;
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particulars in regard to the fairer portion of its
population, which every gallant is bound to note
upon the tablet of his re-col-lec-tion.
"Ha, Landlord," said he as he caught a slight
glimpse of his host.
"Your servant, Sir!" was the host-like reply.
Wo ought to have mentioned our landlord's name
before, but wo hato interlining; so, here it is,
Eliakim Ruggles.
"I think il probable, landlord," said the offi
cer, "that I can find ac-com-mo-da-tion within
your house for a transient visit a few days
you understand me."
"Ay, ay, Sir, as long as your honor pleases."
"And give your eye landlord, to that Becepha
lus of mine you understand me."
"Ay, ay, your honor. Jack!"
"Here, Sir," cried a red-headed urchin of the
landlord's.
"Show this gentleman to the best room."
"Ay, ay, Sir!" cried the little Ruggles, who
had caught his father's phrases. The officer
was accommodated. It was early in the after
noon that he arrived there, and after tea ho took
a short ride for the nurnose of looking at the
m luun
villane. and "narticularlv" he said, "in order
that he might obtain a glimpse of the surround-
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i ing scenery from the hill yonder. lie had
I written his name on tho Tavorn Register, and
' there it was in a wonderful flourish and parade
'On returning to the inn he seated himself upon
'the platform where the landlord and a few tav-
otn loungers were collected as usual at sunset
11 hardly had a chance" said the landlord,
I "to ask you the news, Sir, I supposo there's
something stirring."
"Why, indeed," replied lhe officer, slapping
j,js srnaj cJ0thcs with his glove, "lhe rebels
talk as loud as crcr, but pon honor wo have too
Wale to do in the way of our profession you
un)ersiad me "
iy, lir, H Ytrl a afecnought I suppose."
Ble m-'' w? Ile kux-a-ri-ous-ly in the city.
TW xibdi h-2 weaken us more than their fa
ther a4 LfcaiMU and brothers you under
stand me. We he balls and parties, and par
lies and bath It would be refreshing, pon
honor, hi bete a little fighting as well as dan-
"
ting
"Yom aro too young, Sir, I sposo, to have
8cen a great deal of hard service."
. nQ meim landlord. I was at Lexing-
i0n indeed I was so early in the war as that,
1 j sj-oujd j,avo tone something there had it not
been for tho sly and very unsoldicr like habits
of the rebels; you understand me. I have had
five horses shot under me leaped four six-bar
fences iu3t ahead of a bullet shot twenty-one
' men, stabbed eleven, all standing hand to hand
; indeed I have." Here the
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is were
- wi(h wonaer and curiosity,
gapping Wlin, wonaer anu cm many, ui ivjr.
Ruggles maintained 111s grave, auuious pnisiog
nomy. "Why at a skirmish near Boston," contin
ued the Captain, "I was taken prisoner, but the
scales were turned I saw a stout regiment of
ours not far ofl; knocked ono guard down, brush
ed by another run a gauntlet along a sharp fire
of musketry swam a strong current, and mount
ed Bucephalus at the head of my own gallant
com-pa-ny; indeed I did landlord you under
stand me."
Not long after this, Capt. Fudge called the
landlord aside, and after some conversation was
heard to say, "You will procure me, landlord,
the privilege of paying, my respects to Miss
as wa have said, had been informed that the i au it"S" ' jp",,C.pi nn lhe around
landlord was at heart a Tory, although the visit, he nd the huiMurd aware a nd basket and bo
U'Mm.m ofir. vUhrrP" l itimn-urlpnifnrlofthe character of his dosigna teardt Miss "I-orwara march,' cried the corporal as ms
Wheeler, although her father is, you say, a
Whig?"
"All right, sir," replied the landlord.
The fact was, our captain, in his ride had
caught a glimpse of a young lady who was the
daughter of a Mr. Wheeler, in the neighborhood
of the tavern. Ho applied to the landlord for
his assistance in obtaining nn introduction to
the family, although he almost despaired of over
coming the obstacles which the Whigism of the
father would probably throw in the way of an
intimate acquaintance with his daughter. The
constant recollection which the captain had of
his own personal beauty, and his power over
the sex, prevented any doubt in his mind as to
his success in the subsequent points, provided
he could ome obtain an opportunity of employ
ing his address.
At this time a small detachment of American
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laoo. and this circuinsianco tlio landlord well I
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knew. Captain FudSc however was not
of ! and ,fho liad bfen U J
. .! unnn his own imnn which he hail lufi a 1
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hxy fuilo fT, hW ) fw uflicors who were ;
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Tm inHM!i rci;"J ; a iu-m m
h!Hlucw. I Mm (taM bu; t.H.rfJv
aim!. uJiiu A-mwliinr ut Jm&imI Imc '
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ruin re mvoiiinuiauM vnv , , -nw
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ed o the suiicr a manifest advantage to his pur-,
Pose- His scheme was confided only to the
kn&M, Mr. Ruggles. One or two shrewd
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special interest between ihem, but these had no
other reason for it than their having noticed in
the conversation beiwen them a slight and mo-
mentarv shade nass over tho usually hard and
t : r -. nr !. 1-..,1lr.r"l liL-n ilm
shadows of a cloud driven before the wind over
a field of wheat. Meanwhile he had left the
village for a day or two upon what business
was not known to the Captain and on his re
turn he hastened his guest's schemes to their
consummation. The details were entrusted to
his care, and he arranged them with Miss
Wheeler to her satisfaction and to lhe Captain's,
so far as he was aware of them.
The shop of Mr. Wheeler formed a part of
his house, and stood upon a corner, so that the
windows of both looked upon a street. In the
second story of the shop there was a door for
taking in goods, placed between two windows,
and over this door a beam projected, with a
rope and pully, for the purpose of raising heavy
burthens. The captain rightly thought it im
possible to ohtain the sanction of the father to
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'isnes wn,cn e "au " 1 u,.uul l
entertained in common with himself, and had
therefore delicately hinted to her, after he
thought himself sufficiently master of her heart,
the plan of admitting him by means of the pully
and a basket into the tipper part oi tne store
and then to her chamber. He was not sur-
I P"sed, when, after some becoming maidenly
j hesitation , she intimated her assent to his pro-
nosal: for he had endeavored to secure the in
tercession of the landlord in his favOr, and his
own attractions of themselves, without the col
ored eulogium of his host, he thought sufficient
to secure Ins success. He had concealed it
from her father, yet Iib wondered that the stern
whig should have so civilly tolerated his fre
quent visits at his house.
The night came. Beneath tho beam stood
Captain Fudge, and he deposited himself in the
basket. High above him was the door of his
flushed expectations, standing half open, and
partially disclosing tho figure of his "conqueror
and victim." He cast upward one delightful
look, twiched the rope, and the basket mounted.
It is at the beam thero is but a step to the door
he raised himself to take it but the door is
closed the rope is firm!
"Pon honor," muttered tho Captain, "If it
were not a fine evening this would be un-for-tu-nate!
I would not wail but 1 must though.
Cut it no, no what a tumble! Stay here all
night, pon honor! My dear!" he continued, rai
sing his tone so as to be heard at tho door, "my
dear ju3t open the door you understand me."
He stooped in tho basket to rest himself; cast
ing anxious looks in every direction to devise
some escape, but in vain.
A cloud came over tlio nloon and brought
others in its train. A few big drops of lain pat
tered on the basket. The. Captain would have
rescued his plume from the misfortune of being
wet, but he could not hide it, and it soon drop
ped as the rain began to beat upon it, and upon
ihe unfortunate gallant whose "curly head" it
adorned.
"How it docs rain!" muttered tho noighbors
to themselves, or to their spouses, as they lay
011 their comfortable beds and heard the reviving
sound. "How it does rain!" thought the unfor
tunate Captain. Well was it for him that the
basket had that excellent quality which the
Irishman in the canal ascribed to his bools
that of "letting the water out as fast as they let
it in."
1 1 . a-- . r ' t -I I. . it. mno!'t' flin rnnn nnrfPfl.
1 were contmucu ncariva wcck. wiwi wn. scr.m- 1. amain, tu.:u uui 1un.1-.onu5 .
It is just morningt and the topers are abroad,
and they who rise early for better reasons.
"Look there!" cried one, "whats that basket
there for with a feather in it?" The poor Cap
tain heard a sound and lifted up his head.
"What under heaven," said another, "is that
fellow about tin aloft in a basket at this time a
dav?" A crowd is collected about him, and at
length landlord Ruggles appears.
"Landlord! you rascal what did you leave
mo Vmrn fit r? Imt iiim o-At me down and 1 11 not
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hurt vou for it!" "Hurt me!" cried the land
lord, "only think now, calling me a rascal; a
man strung up in a basket along side of a house,
blackguarding! Forward march, men!"
Upon this a file of soldiers belonging to the
American detachment, wheeled round the cor
ner 3nd surrounded the spot. Captain Fudge
trnmhlprl frnm head to foot, and beeeed the
, . , . , said lhe
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landIord---"Captain Fudge, who has shot twen
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ty-one men and e9l
six-bar fences just ahead of a buu"
srniinllet alone a sharp fire Ol musquetrv anu
r i i . ... ua r u;a onllnnt
mounted Bucephalus at the head of his gallant
.nmtinv rpnllv nfr.iifl to iumo iiltcen ieet:
r," -r-vj j - mriv wpi
II. ! nn in vnnr IppI tnr VOU ITlaV aS WCU
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come down ai once; 1 uuu a guuu ua-
uiL'ser in the old French war, so saying, ne
took a nun from a soldier, and the i ory Cap
tai,, tin ivjia nlinnt 10 nrolest. was cut short
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lodged a prisoner m the American camp
A Story of Olden Time.
By a statute law of the Slate of New York,
from December to April, all persons were pro
hibited from killing deer under a penally of ten
dollars, half the fine going to the complainant,
and in default of payment, ten lashes upon the
! naked back.
A Yankee passing through the State of Mew
York, near Albany, in the raonlh of January,
observed a young Dutchman, from his barn
door, squinting over his shovel at a deer about
thirtv paces from him, and soliloquizing thus:
"Mine Cot! if I had mine cun hero, and it
was not for ihe law, I would have some leer
for mine tinner."
Tho Yankee had a rifle with him, and im
mediately shot the deer, and threw his rifle into
the snow, unobserved by lhe Dutchman, and
running up to him, said:
"Ah, my good fellow, you have been killing
a deer--for 1 saw you you shot him with your
"shovel."
The Dutchman replied
" Mine Cot!l did not tink mine shovel was
1-.-Jwl T .l.rl unt link it would PO X)ff. 1 not-
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ei knew it to go off before."
" Well," said the Yrankee, " you have killed
the deer, and I will go to the Justice and -complain
of you, and make you pay your fine un
less you givo me. the skin and two dollars'
" Vail, though I didn't link mine old shovel
Would go off, dat is better den pay ten dollars."
So the bargain was concluded: tho Yankee
receiving the skin and two dollars, left the
Dutchman to take care of his venison.
While the Dutchman was taking care of tho
venison, and before he had put it out of the
way, another Dutchman came Up, and threatv
cned to complain, upon which Hans, the Shovel
Shooter, related all that had passed between
himself and the Yankee.
Brcacli of Trust
Dr. John Mitcheltree, of Mnrcer county
Pennsylvania, indicted for a forgery upon Jas.
and Hugh McConnell, of tho same place, of a
judgment note for the sum of $5,778, has been
acquitted. The facts elicited upon the trial,
were as follows: M'Connells furnished the de
fendant with their signatures upon a blank piece
of paper, upon which he was to write- a note
for 1,500 or $2,000, to be discounted at the
Western Reserve Bank; instead of doing so,
Dr M. wrote v. judgment note for $5,778, above
their signature. This was admitted by tho
counself for tho defendant, who contended that
iho facts proved amounted only to a breach or
trust; and, however fraudulent the transaction
may have been, it was not forgery in the eye of
the law. The judge laid down the law as sta
ted by tho defendant's counstsl, and tho jury
made up a verdict of "not guilty."
Anecdote of FranltliiJ.
At one time tho rich merchants and profes
sional men in Philadelphia, proposed to form
themselves into a social circle, Irom which all
mechanics were to be excluded. Tho paper
drawn up for this purposo was presented to Dr.
Franklin for his signature. On examining its
contents he remarked that he could not con
sent to unite his name, inasmuch as by exclu
ding mechanics from their circle, they had ex
cluded God Almighty, who was the greatest
mechanic in the universe !
" Bov, what is your name" "Robert, sir."
" Yes. that is your Christian name, but what is
your.other name." "Bob, sir.
A Hard Party.
A western lawyer, who was endeavoring to
clear a notorious gambler from an indictment
for keeping a faro table, declared to the jury
that if they convicted his client, they would be
bound in law to convict both himself and the
judge, as they were both "aiding and a betting"
at the game when the arrest was mauei in
consequence of this the jury hung, fur one half
were in favor of convicting judge and lawyer
with the prisoner, but the other half could not
agree, as ihey would thereby have convicted
themselves, having been busily engaged at lhe
faro table at time.
K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. Kellup
Kushing, Kernel of the Kitchen Kabinet.'ICani
Kome the Kaptains Kause over Kongress of
the Kountry. Boston Mail.
Amid the whirlwind's ternffic blast; ihe light
ning's blinding flash, and the dread roar of the.
mighty cataract, what must tho murderer feet
when he beholds his bloody and expiring vic
tim jump up and bite his back.
If you would like a tune or two at dinner, tell
your wife she is not so handsome as the lady
across the way.
Says Bill to Jack, "how many legs would a
calf have, calling the tail one?" tfive," an
swered Jack. "No, wouldn't neither," say
Bill, "because calling the tail one leg wouldn't
make it so would it?" Jack mizzled.
A very ugly man, who was a great horticul
turist, being found by a visiter perched up in a
cherry tree, his friend exclaimed, "No wonder,
Phillip, that you have the finest fruit in the
country for you are not only your own garden
er, butj egad, your own scare-crow too."
At one of our fashionable, watering places, re
cently happened a self-important foreigner, who,
upon hearing the dinner bell rung at half past 3
o'clock, exclaimed "Is it possible you dine at
this early hour in this country? Why, I have
not been used to dining till 7 or 8 o'clock in
London." "Our second table folks dine hero
very late also," was the reply of a Yankee.
Washington.
It is staled as a singular coincidence in the
death of this great and good man, that he drew
his last breath in the last hour in the last day
of the last week in tho last month of the yearj
and in the last year of the century, viz:. Satur
day night, 12 o'clock, December 31, 1799.
"Remember your last end!" said a pious gen
tleman to a drunken cobbler.
"I do," said iho cobbler; "my wax end just
went for a cigar and my last I have given for
a toddy-.
"That bfeats me out," as tho chunlc of iron
said to the blacksmith's hammer.
It is stated that at the late " Settling I)ay"
at Taltersall's in London, after the Derby, slakes
at the Epsom Races, the Rev. Mr. Prettymanj
a clergyman, was (ound to be a defaulter up
wardsof $20,000. A. pretty man, truly!
Absurdities
.For a dahdy to wear his pantaloons so tight
that he is obliged to take a portion of Brand
reth's pills to "work them off."
For the people to look into an almanac to see
if there is to be a snow stcrm on the coming
fourth of July.
To suppose that ducks and geese are in favor
of umbrellas and overshoes, or that poultry can
be fatted on hickory shoe-pegs.
To suppose that any common man can swal
low the granite hills of New Hampshire with
out their being thoroughly greased.
Composition of Various Alloys
Bell metal is composed of two parts of cop
per and one of tin. Brass is composed of two
parts of copper to one of zinc; or copper and
calamine, (an ore of zinc,) equal quantities.
Pinchback consisis of from five to ten parts
copper and one of zinc. Gun metal, nine parts
copper and one of tin. Tomback, sixteen parts
copper, one part zinc and one of tin. The
composition of pewter is seven pounds of tin,
ono of lead, four ounces of copper and two of
zinc. Thai of typemetal is nine pans lead, two
parts antimony and one bismuth. Solder, two
parts of lead with one of tin. Queen's metal,
nine parts of tin, one of bismuth, one of antimo
ny, and ohe of lead. Jewel gold is compose!
of twenty-firo parts gold, four parts silver, anJ
seven parts fine copper. In forniixig metalic
compounds or alloys, it is proper to melt ?;uch
of the ingredients as are the least fusible first,
and afterwards tho others stirring them briskly
till they are thoroughly commixed.
"Well, it's of no use talking,' as the lad said
to his deaf daddy.
It is considered a gross impropriety for a
man to snore so loud in church, as to awaken
the rest of the congregation, '' . ' i'