J I tit i i rim i m i m 'mum fr The whole art of Government consists in the .art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL. 3. STROTJDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1842. No. 22. 4 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THEODORE SCHOCH. PF.RMS. Two dollars per annum m advance Two dollar I a quarter, half yearly, ana-li not paid before the end of vfiir.Two dollars and a half. Those 'vho receive thpir hers bv a carrier or stasc anvers employed bv the proDrin t will'be etiarced 7 1-2 cts. per year, extra. So papers discontinued until an arrearages are paid, except ne option 01 ine cunur. Ifbe inserted three weeks for one dollar: twenty-five cents Advertisements not exceeding one sauare r sue teen linns I every suosequeni inseiuoii larger ones in proportion. A feral discount will be made to yearly advertisers. bAlI letters addressed to the, Editor must be post paid. JOB PRINTING. ring a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental iype, we are prepared to execute every des cription of Sards Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, IsIaiiK Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffcrsoiiian Republican. WAYNE COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. LL Persons insuring in this company are members equally interested in its welfare Ind in the election of its officers. In order to become a member of this company id thereby be insured, the applicant gives a pre- aium note, the amount of which is in proportion the amount to be insured, and its degree of iazard, thus: If $1000 is to be mured, at 5 per 2nt., he gives his note for $50. If at 10 per cent. gives his note for S100, and in that proportion ar a greater or less sum, according to the rate of iazard, on which note he advances 6 per cent, and additional sum of SI 50 for survev and policy. le then becomes a member on the approval of j application and is insured for five years. I he aggregate of the premium notes constitutes the cash fund, chargable first, with the expenses, and lecond, with the losses of the Company; and Should it prove insufficient to pay both losses and expenses the money to meet the losses, (should iny occur) is borrowed agreeably to the act ol in corporation, and paid. An assessment is then lade to repay such loan upon the premium notes, i proportion to their respective amounts, and m no case to be made but once a year, notwithstanding several losses may happen. At the expiration of five years the note, it any ssessments have been made and paid, is given and the insured may renew his application. Policies may at any time be assigned or sur rendered and cancelled, and the premium notes jiven up, according to the by-laws of the Lom- jany. Jo more than three lourths ol the cash rvalue of any property will be insured, and all great hazards: such as Uolton factories, fowder LMills, Distilleries, Machine bhops, Manutactones for Printer s Ink, and all establishments of the i same class of hazards, are not insured upon any conditions whatever, and that no one risk is taken sover $5000, it is considered much more safe and iless expensive than in Stock companies, where r they insure large amounts and hazardous proper ly. . . STOGDELL STOKES, Agent. Stroudsburg, Monroe co., Dec. 15, 1841. Weak Backs! Weak Backs!! f 1,000,000 SOLD YEARLY. my Price only 12 cents a piece. JT Sherman's Poor Man's Plaster. The best strengthening plaster in the world, and a sovereign remedy for pains, or weakness in the back, loins, sides, breast, neck, limbs, joints, rheumatism, lumbago, &c. &c. Jos. W. Hozle, esq., who had been so afflicted with rheumatism, as to be unable to dress himself without assistance, was enabled after wearing one, only one night, to get up alone in the morning, put on his clothes, and call at our office with eyes beaming with joy, and his tongue pouring forth the gladness of his heart, at the sudden and signal ireiief he had received from this best of all reme .dies. Mr. David Williams, of Elizabethtown, N. J. an old Revolutionary Soldier, was so afflicted with .Rheumatism, that he could scarcely help himself .the.e Plasters entirely cured him. Thousands of .certificates might be given of their wonderful pro perties, but the fact of the enormous quantity sold, (must be the greatest evidence of their virtue. For sale at the Republican Office, by T. Schoch, iSoJe agent for Monroe county. may 11. BOARDING. Pleasant oms and good board may be had ?n a private family, on accommodating terms. Enquire .of MRS. SMITH. Stroudsburg, 3fay 4, 1842. BLANiCMORTGAGES . JFbr .sale at tluVofflce. . - ; Yankee Humor. The following capital Sonor. written bv John H. Warland, Esq. late Editor of the CJaremont (N ix.) Jiagie, was sung at the Maverick House, Bos ton, on the 'Glorious Fourth' Uncle Sam's talk to his man John. Here, John, come here this minute Why! what the devil is in it; That you didn't take and sign it, That little Tariff Law 'Tis the best I ever saw In my coffers cash to dravv. , When I put you on my farm, sir, You know I told your marm, sir, That I feared you'd do me harm, sir, And make your master jaw! J. A. W. jaw, For I'll have it, if not the law. CHonus When ! raised you from your station, You know you were a poor relation If I'd give you a situation, Didn't you say you'd sign that law? Now, John, you've done it, haint you You precious little saint you! You're a pretty fellow, 'aint you, To set your will for law But not a fig or a straw Do you care for honor or law. You'd better be looking about, sir, For the moment your lease is out, sir, You'll feel, without any doubt, sir, The weight of this huge paw, P. A. W. paw, You'll have it if not the law. Chorus When I raised you from your station, &c. When I set black Dan to watch you, I hardly thought he would catch you, With a Loco-foco match, you! Among my hay and straw Instead of signing that law, The cash in my box to draw, The moment he turns his back, sir, You are peaking through the crack, sir, Or giving some one a whack, sir, Setting up your will for law F. L. A. W. flaw, You can't pick in the law. Chorus When I raised you from your station, &c. My Yankee lads away, sir, You're turning every day, sir, And bringing from Botany Bay, sir, New chaps unhung and taw They know my tariff law With hemp their necks will draw! My jennies no longer spinning My girls no money winning, My cotton fields beginning To make me curse and jaw, J. A. W. iaw, You said you'd sign that law. Chorus When I took you from your station, &c. You are ever mischief brewing, My faun is going to ruin, My workmen swearing and suing Because no cash they draw It makes them fret and jaw To think you wont sign that law, Of my farm you've sold the land, sir, Which I gave my boys in hand sir, And you pocket the rent as grand, sir, As if 1 hadn't a paw P. A. W. paw The hugest that ever you saw. Chorus When I took you from your station, &c. Why where did you go to school, John, That you think me such a fool, John, As the joost to let you rule, John, And make your will the law Why what a chap! haw! haw! You're as bright as Governor Daw! 1 took you to befriend you, But soon I back must send you, Without a recommend, you, You stupid Johnny Raw! Tl. A. W. raw I find you're not worth a straw. Chorus When I took you from your station, &c. Be packing up your duds, sir, I want to see ycu scud, sir, You've got me in the mud, sir, My team you cannot draw! Why didn't you sign that law! Such a coon I never saw! ; Next tiiue I'll have better luck, sir, I 've spoke to Old Kent uck, sir, To take my farm and chuck, sir, , You off among the straw, VJ-" With Iuq PAW ro,v 'JJL mm u .a. . fit r -7 He's thf. Chorus When I took you from your station,- Xou know you were a poor relation---- If I'd give you a situation, Didn't you say you'd sign that law Xate and Important from Florida. At the last dates, a scouting party had just returned to Black creek, "bloody wiih spurring, fiery red with haste." They report that ihey fell in, on the second day of their march, with a large field of corn, at which they were all in a maize, and went to work cutting and slashing; the enemy from ear to ca?. This at tack was particularly fatal to the officers of the opposing force a large number of kernels hav ing fallen victims to the voracity of our troops. The enemy were driven with great slaughter from hill to hill; and -wo understand that the commanding officer rewarded the bravery of several of the privates by creating them corn ets on the spot. If cucumber vines are occasionally sprinkled with a little sail and vinegar, at this season of tho year, 4hey will produco an excellent crop of pickles. r r From the New Orleans Picayune. ScUddin? under Bare Poles. There was a fine old General once, who hav ing spent most of his time in the field of Mars, knew very httlo about the camp of Cupid. He was one of those rough and honest spirits, often met with in his gallant profession, innocent as an infant of almost everything save high integ rity and indomitable bravery. Ho was nearly fifty years old, and his toils were over, when master Dan Cupid brought him acquainted with a Widow Wadman, in whose eye he began to. detect something that made him uneasy. Here was the result of his leisure. During his service in the army,he had nev er seen any thing worthy of particular notice in woman's eye. In fact he would scatcely have noticed whether a woman had three eyes in her head or only one; for no matter where his own eyes were, his thoughts were ever among "guns, and drums, and wounds," and love was a thing that lived in his memory just as he remembered once reading a visionary story book called the "Arabian Nights Enter tainments," when a boy. Well, the General had settled down into an amiable gentlemanly old fellow, living alone, with comfortable wealth around him, and hav ing little to do save now and then to entertain an old comrade in arms, which companionship afforded opportunity for him to "fight his battles o er again. But alas, over this calm evening of the old General's day, a deal of perplexity was doomed to fall, and he soon found himself in troubled waters, the depth of which he could by no means understand. He floundered about like a caged rat under a pump, and such another melancholy fish out of water never swallowed the bait, hook and all, of the angling God of Love. The poor General! We must give him a name or we can't tell the story, and the best name for such a story, to be found in tale or history, is "Uncle Toby." Poor General Uncle Toby debated ab stractedly in great distraction about his new po sition, and never had siege or campaign given him such perplexity before. At length, however, the blunt honesty of his disposition rose uppermost among his conflict ing plans, and his course was chosen. At school he had once studied "Othello's Defence," to recite at an exhibition, but made a gfeaEtfail ure; and he now recollected that this, "defence" was very much like what he wanted to say. He got the book immediately, found the passage, clapped on his hat with a determined air, and posted off to the Widow Wadman with Shaks peare under his arm. "Madam," said General Uncle Toby, opening his book at the marked place, with the solemni ty of a special pleader at the bar "Madam "Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the set phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years pith; Till now, some nine years wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field; A little of this great world can I speak, " More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And therefore" - Here the General closed the book, wiped his forehead, looked up at the ceiling, and said with a spasmodic gasp "7 want to get 7narricd!" The widow laughed for ten minutes by the watch, before she could utter a syllable, and then said, with the precious tears on her good natured cheeks "And who is it that you want to marry, General?" "Fow" exclaimed uncle Toby, flourishing his sword arm in the air, and assuming a mili tary attitude of defiance as if he expected an assault from the widow immediately. Will you kill me if I marry you" said the widow, with a merry twinkle in her eye. "No madam, replied Uncle I ohy, m a most serious and deprecating tone, as if to assure her that such an idea never entered his head. "Well, then, I guess. I'll marry you'," said the widow. "Thank you, ma'am" said Toby; "but one thing I'm bound to tell you of, ma'am wear a wts: The widow started, remained silent nient, and then went off into a longer, a mo louder and merrier laugh than she had indulged in be fore; at the end of which she drew her seat nearer the General, gravely laid her hand upon his head, gently lifting his wig off, and placed it upon the table! Uncle Toby had never known fear in hot battle, but he now felt a most decisive inclina tion to run away. The widow laughed again, as though she would never stop, and tho Gen eral was just about to chip hia hat upon his de nuded head and bolt, when the facetious lady placed her hand upon his arm and detained him. She then deliberately raised her other hand to her own head with a sort of military precision, xecuted a rapid manmvre with her five fingers, pulled off her whole head of fine, glossy hair, and placed it upon the table beside tho Gener al's, remaining seated with luducrous gravity in front of her accepted lover, quite bald! As may he expected, Uncle Toby now laugh ed long with the widow, and they grew so mer ry over the affair, that the maid servant peeped through (he key hole at the noise, and saw the old couple dancing a jig and bobbing their bald pales at each other, like a pair of Chinese man- darins. So the two very shortly "laid their heads together" upon fhe pillow of matrimony, and went hand in hand through life Scudding under bare poles, Sflie Kattlesnabe. Incredible Story relating; to its Poison. To give you some idea of the long time this poison retains its property, I shall relate a cu rious, but well authenticated series of facts which took place in a central district of the, State of Pennsylvania, some twelve or fifteen years ago. A farmer was so slightly bit through the boot by a rattlesnake, as he was walking to view bis ripening corn fields, that the pain felt was thought by him to have been the scratch of a thorn, not having seen or heard the reptile. Upon his return home, he felt on a sudden, vi olently sick at the stomach, vomited with great pain and died within a few hours. Twelve months after this, the eldest son, who had taken his father's boots, put them on, and went to church at some distance. On his going to bed that night, whilst drawing off his boots, he fell slightly scratched on the leg, but merely mentioned it to his wife, and rubbed the place with his hand. In a few hours afterwards, he was awakened by violent pains, complained of a general giddiness, fainted frequently, and ex pired before any succour could be applied with success; the cause of his illness being also quite a mystery. In the course of time his effects were sold, and a second brother, through filial affection, purchased the boots, and if I remember rightly, put them on about two yean after. As he drew them off, he felt a scratch, and complained of it, when the widowed sister, being present, recol lected that the same pain had been fell by her husband on the like occasion. The youth suf fered and died in the same way that his father and brother died before him. These repeated and singular deaths being rumored in the country, a medical gentleman called upon the friends of the deceased, to in quire into the particulars, and at once pronoun ced their deaths to have been occasioned by venom. The boots that had been the cause of complaint were brought to him, when he cut one of them open with care, and discovered the extreme point of the fang of a rattlesnake issu ing from the leather, and assured the people thai this had done all the mischief, To prove this satisfactorily, he scratched with it the nose of a dog, and the dog died in a few hours, from the poisonous effects it was still able to convey. In conformation of these facts, I have been told by native Americans, that arrows, dipped in rattlesnake venom, would carry death for ages after. Audubon's Notes on the Rattlesnake. "'Tis said that Absence Conquers Love" bul there is not a word of truth in it if we can be lieve there is any sincerity in the following let ter from a "Down East gal" to her lover in this State. Read and judge for yourselves: Pettinoilltown, June tu, 1842. Deer Josicr Ii's now a goin on three long and dreery years sens you've beert out there in Lucyanna among Injuns, muskeeters, yaller fever and other heathens, and I really du be lecve I shall have to cum out and see you if you don't cum and see me I can't stand it much longer no how. I shouldn't know you was in the land of the living at all if it wasn't for the newspapers you sumtimes send to me they don't do a bit of good, only I don't want you to stop sendin on 'em. Now you must cum home this summer and ease my mind, 'cause Liddy Bigerlow is goin to gil married in Orgust and I olwers said I should be married fust. I would send out sum shirts and a pair ofnankeen trow- sers I ve been a makin for you, only there a no chance. You haint forgot that airly apple tree right behind the barn, have you? It hangs this year fuller than ever, and they'll be as meller as. meal in about six weeks jest about the time yduafriyc. Your afleckshunate Ruth Pettinoill. P. S. There's been grate changes here. Our old cider mill is tore down and they're bil- din a new one, besides we've dismiss'd our min ister and Nancy Tuttle has married Jack Stairns. You can't have no ideer what changes there has been, and in addition we have already com menced fatnin the old gobler agin you gil hum. P. and tu S's. However, my love for you hangs on jest the sauKJ, and thoy say tho trout bite this year better than ever. This I know will be gpod news for you. So no more ai present only thai Jerushy Goodin has got a baby the very pictur of its fa ther. -R. P. N. 0. Picayune. Pickle Visiegar. A friend writes us, a "lady in Orange sent mo a nice pot of pickles, last winter, tho 'ine- gar is particularly good, and as she has sent me the recetpe, I hand it over to the readers ot the Planter." Ten gallons of watef, one gal lon whiskey, one gallon molasses, one pint yeast; pui all together in a warm situation the first warm weather in June, anu in six weeks it will be ready for use. ' Put a sheet of fool scap paper in the vessel. Southern Planter. From the Bucks County Intelligencer. Our Country. The true friend of his country and its institu tions, must .at the present time feel a deep in terest for its welfare. Al peace with all ihc world, our land teeming with agricultural and mineral wealth, and our population industrious and enterprising, we are, as a nation and a peo ple, on the verge of ruin. Is it the fault of our system of Government, or Constitution? No, for it lias always bceu considered, and is to this;day; a model of Gov ernment, and the perfection of constitutions. Does the fault rest on the people? Assuredly not. 1 leave it to every discerning mind, let him be Whig or Democrat, Tyler man br loeir foco, if these things are not true,' and let him look around and devise means for our regenera tion. He will naturally look back a few years to the presidential term of the talented i. Q. Adani3, and he will see that the country was at that time in a slate of perfect prosperity. Com merce, agriculture, and manufactures were flour ishing, and the people were prosperous and happy money was plenty, (and it would pass.) National and State Legislatures met, passed laws, they were approved, and they adjourned there were no bankruptcy or slay laws, for they were not needed. But like the old wo man and her goose, the people were not satis fied with the golden eggs, the axe was laid at the root of the tree, and its branches and leave have been withering ever since. "No one that has a proper view-of these things, whose eyes are not filled with tho dust of party spirit, can see otherwise. At that time, we had a Nation al Bank and a protective Tariff, and until those two important laws are again passed, wo shall have distress in all its various forms. 1 will not at present go into a review of the cause of the present state of things, they are well known. We must look at effect, and laying all party spirit aside, look at the condition of the coun try during the administration of J. Q. Adams, contrast it with the present, and draw your own conclusions. For my part, 1 have always been a Democrat, and supported the regular Jackson and Van Buren ticket, but the- time has come to open ones eyes; and when distress comes home, stares his neighbor in the face, and stalks through-the length and breadth of the Jand, it is lime to look al causes, judge of effects, and de vise a remedv. ..A DEMOCRAT. Plumstead, July 21, 1843'. . . The State Tax. ' The following is a copy of the official returns of taxes assessed in the fall of 1841', inT the several counties of the State of Pennsylvania, for the use of the Commonwealth: Adams, $6,101,88; Alleghany, 17,507,51; Armstrong, -2,303,73; Beaver, 5,228,79; Bed ford, 4,1 19,29; Berks, 27,7G9,86; Bradford, ; Bucks, 25,477,87; Butler, 2,S20,49; Cambria, 1,063,39; Centre, 0,289,56; Chester, 25,336,16; Clarion, 1,406,9S, Clinton, 1,850,15; Clear field, 1,251,96; Columbia, 7,312,10; Crawford, 3,005,13; Cumberland, 15,145,57; Dauphin, 13,146,85; Delaware, 9,927,62; Erie, 4,4 18,73, Fayette, 6,400,49; Franklin, 14,018,24; Greene 2,564,42; Huntingdon, 11,528,78; Indiana, 2, 454,12; Jefferson, 1,075,16; Juniata, 3,022,64; Lancaiter, 46,615,31? Lebanon, 12,770,39; Le high, 13,947,89; Luzerne, 3,529,28; Lycoming, 7,033,21; M'Kean, 535,56; Mercer.-So; Mifflin, ; Monroe, 2,084,07; Montgomery, 27,285,41; Northampton, 17,23tr,17 Northum berland, 5,611,13; Perry, 3,854,77; Philadel phia city and county, 210,435,98; Pike, 899,83; Potter, 050,07; Schuylkill, 8,015,00; Somerset, 1,535,89; Susquehanna, 2,980,77; Tioga, , 425,90; Union, 8,814,72; Venango, 1,459,03; Warren, 1,012,70; Washington, 9,720,40; Wayne, 1,493,16; Wostmoreland, 7,240,76; York, 12,250,17. Harrisburg Telegraph. Destructive Shell. A weapon of the most destructive character has lately been invented by an American resi dent in England, and the model sent to this country to bo submitted to tho United States Government for their purchase or approval. The principles of its destructability have not been divulged, nor will they probably be if our government purchases the exclusive right. It is represented to be. an "infernal machine" ol the first water, not onjy scattering destruction where it strikes, but cutting andislashingas v proceeds, with two-edged teeth and cutters. The model is in the hands of an intelligent en gineer, who will shortly proceed to Washing ton on the subject. The Washington .Evening Index wants m know the value ofsoventy farge pieces of chalk Let's see as five-fifths of a smokecurl comes to just thirty-three and a third of a pocket full of rocks, so must seventy large pieces of chalk amount to several times over and above small potatoes. That's it: A mixture( of ground glass and tho juice of pebble stones is a cure for the blue devils; and no man is ever visited with night mare, who sleeps with the great loe of his righi foot Tn.his left ear. mm mmfm
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