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VOL. 3.
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Fashionable Tailoring
ESTABLISHMENT.
fm Would respectfully inform the citizens of
Stroudsburg and county generally, that he is
Istill exerting himself for their accommodation
at his stand, one door below the office of Wm.
Davis, Esq. on Elizabeth street, and has now
in his possession plates and diagrams of the
Very X,atest City Fashions;
from which he is enabled to cui all kinds of
gentlemen's wearing apparel in a manner that
cannot fail to please those who may wish to
dress in strict accordance with the prevailing
modes. For others whose tastes may not in
cline to the latest fashions, or whose ages may
suggest ideas of comfort rather than display, he
trusts he is equally well prepared; having had
the advantage of many years experience in the
difficult, yet not unsurmountable task of adapt
ing his work to the wishes of many and vari
ous persons. lie is prepared to supply orders
with promptness and despatch With his sin
cerest thanks for the patronage heretofore be
stowed upon him, he respectfully solicits its
continuance determined to neglect no means
of giving his customers full and ample satisfac
tion. AH kinds of cutting neatly executed at the
shortest notice, and in the most fashionable
stylo.
"September 14, 1842.
LUMBER! LUMBER-'! -
The subscribers have at their Mill situate
three miles from John Fleet's Tavern, which is
m the Drinker Pik and only half a mile from
Henry W. Drinker, Esq., a large and general
assortment of seasoned
White Pine Lumber
of the best qualit), which they offer at very low
prices. Purchasers would do well to call and
examine their assortment, it being from 5 to 10
miles nearer, and a much better road, than to
any other Mill in this section of country, where
a general assortment can be had.
PHILIP G. READING & Co.
September 21, 1842. 4m.
NOTICE.
1 Petitions for Discharge and Certificate under
T .1... !..! . T 1 I !...
.Moses Bross, Lumberman, Pike county.
Walter Buchanan, Tanner, do.
And Friday the 30ih day of Deccruher next, at
I 1 1 o'clock, a. m. is appointed -for the hearing
tliereor, before the said Court, sitting in Bank
f ruptcy, at the District Court Room, in tbo City
of Philadelphia, when and where the Creditors
of the said Petitioners, who have proved their
Debts, and all other; persons in interest, may
appear and show-cause, if -any they have why
such Discharge and Certificate should not be
granted.
FRAS. HOPKINSON,
Clerk of the District Court. .
Philadelphia, Oct. 5, 1842. 10.
NOTICE.
A Petition for Discharge and Certificate un
der the Bankrupt Law, has he.en filed by '
John Finch, Leather Manufacturer, Pike
county.
And Friday the 30th day of December, next at
11 o'clockr A. M. is appointed for the hearing
thereof, before the said Court, sitting in Bank
ruptcy, at the District Court Room,, in the Ci
tv of Philadelphia, when and where the Cred-
nors of the said Petitioner, who have proved
their Debts, and all other persons in interest,
nay appear and show cause, if any they have,
v.hy such Discharge.aud Certificate should not,
"be granted,
FRAS, HOPKINSON; '
Clerk of the District Court.
I hiladelphia, Oct. 8, 1841,0' " , ol.3.
The following stanzas, an Address to a Mum
my, at Belzoni's exhibition, were published
about twenty years since. Who is their au
thor, has not transpired, so far as I know.
They have, however, been attributed to Thom
as Campbell, author of the Pleasures of Hope.
Certainly they are worthy of his muse. Tbrey
would not dishonor the name of any bard, an
cient or modern.
Address to a Mummy, at Belzoni's
Exhibition.
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL, (SUPPOSED-)
And hast. thou walked about-how strange the story
In Thebes' streett three thousand years ago,
When the Memnonium was in all its glory
And time had not began to overthrow
Those temples, palaces and piles stupendous,
Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Speak, for thou long enough hast acted dummy;
Thou hast a tongue; come, let us hear its tone;
Thou'rt stand ing on thy legs above ground.Mummy,
Revisiting the grimpses of the moon,
Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures,
But with thy bones, and flesh, and limbs, and
features.
Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect,
To whom shall wo assign the Spynx's fame, -
Was Cleops or Cephrenes architect
Of either pyramid that bears his name?
Was Pompey'a pillar really a misnomer
Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer
Perchance that very hand, now pinioned flat,
Has hob-a-nob'd with Pharoah glass to glass,
Or drop'd a half peruiy in Homer's hat,
Or doffed tine own to let queen Dido pass,
Or held, at Solomon's own invitation,
A torch at the great temple's dedication.
I need not ask thee .if that hand when armed
Has any Roman soldier mauled and knuckled,
For thou wast dead, and buried, and embalmed;
Ere Romulu3 or Remis had been suckled;
Antiqity appears to have begun
Long after thy primeral race was run.
Perchance thou wen a Mason, and forbidden
By oath to tell the mysteries of thy trade;
Then say what secret melody was hidden
In Memnon's statue which at sunrise played
Perhaps thou wert a priest if so my struggles
Are vain, for priest-craft never owns its juggles.
Thou could'st develope, if that withered tongue
Would tell us what those sightless orbs have seen,
How the world looked, when it was fresh and young
And the great deluge still had left it green,
Or was it then, as now, that History's pages
Contained no records of its early ages!
Still silent, incommunicative elf,
Art sworn to secrecy! then keep thy vows
But prithee, tell me something of thyself,
Reveal the secrets of thy prison house
Since in the world of spirits thou hast slumbered,
What hasi thou seen; what strange adventures
numbered!
Since first thy form was in this box extended,
We have above ground seen some strange mu
tations ;
The Roman Empiie has.begun and ended,
New worlds have risen, we have lost old nations;
And countless Kings have into dust been humbled,
While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled
Did'st thou not hear the pother o'er thy head
When the great Persian conquerer, Cambyses,
Marched armies o'er thy tomb with thundering
tread,
O'erthrew Osirius, Oris, Apis, Isis,
And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder
When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder!
If the torrfb's secret's may not be confess'd,
The nature of thy private life unfold;
A heart has beat within that leathern breast,
And tears adown those dusky cheeks have rolled;
Have children climbed those knees and kissed that
face!
What was thy name and station, age and race!
Statue of flesh! immortal of the deadl
Imperishable type of evanescence)!
Posthumous man who quits't thy narrow bed
And standest undecayed within our presence;
Thou wilt hear nothing til' the judgment morning,
When the loud trump shall thrill thee with its
warning-!
Why should this worthless tegument endure
And its undying guest be lost forever!
Oh! be the soul embalmed in Christ and pure,
Redeemed and sanctified; that when they sever,
Though into dust the body may consume,
The deathless spirit in the skies may bloom.
The first White Child born in the V. States,
it is said, was -christetihd after the slate m
which she was bornf She was'graud-daughter
of the royal'governor. This was in August,
1537,. The child's name was Virginia Daro
Spontaneous Combustion of the Hu
man isody.
Mr. S. went to bed in apparent health, and
was found the next morning burnt to cinders, on
the floor of his bed-room. When he was dis
covered, a Vapor was issuing from the mouth
and nostrils; and those parts of the body, the
form of which was unaltered, on being handled,
immediately crumbled down. His shirt and
night cap were not injured. 1
Phis case happened in 1832. The man was
about forty years of age, and an inveterate dram
drinker, There are many instances on record
which the writer can mention. It is shown by
them that the human .body may be so impreg
nated with inflammable matter, (or gas,) as to
take fire spontaneously, or that in certain con
ditions, the Human body is capable" of genera
ting a gas, which, the moment it comes in con
tact with air, takes fire. The gas thus genera
ted is a compound of hydrogen and phosphorus.
I his combustion has happened to those who
are in the habit of using ardent spirits; that is,
to those whose bodies have become saturated
from excessive drinking of alcohol. It is not,
therefore, necessary, to apply a spark, or flame
to the body which is thus ignited; and only
those parts may badestroyed which present the
requisite proportion of phosphorus: accordingly
the clothes of the persons are not consumed.
An important and monitary corollary from these
facts is, that habitual drunkards have a much
slenderer hold on life than temperate men.
N. E. Puritan.
Carlyle's Description of War.
What, speaking in quite unofficial language,
is the net purport and upshot of war? To my
own knowledge, for example, there dwell and
toil, m the British village of Dumdrudge, usual
ly some five hundred souls. From these, by
certain 'natural enemies of the French, there
arc successively selected, during the French
war, say thirty able bodied men. Dumdrudge,
at her own expense, has suckled and nursed
them; she has, not without difficulty and sorrow,
fed them up to manhood, and even trained them
up to crafts, so that one can weave, another
build, another hammer, and the weakest can
stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Never
theless, amid such weeping and swearing, they
are selected; all dressed in red, and shipped
away, at the public charges, some two thousand
miles, or say only to the south of cspain, and
fed there till wanted. And now, to that same
spot, in the. south of Spain, are thirty .similar
French artizans, from a French Dumdrudge, in
like manner vending; till at length, after infinite
effort, the two parties come into actual juxtapo
sition; and thirty stand fronting thirty, each with
a gun in his hand. Straightway the word
'Fire!' is given, and they blow the souls put of
one another; and in place of sixty brisk, uselul
craftsmen, the world has sixty dead curcasses,
which it must bury, and anew shed tears for.
Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the devil
is, not the smallest! They lived far enough
apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so
wide a universe, there was even, unconsciously,
by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between
them. How then? Simpletons! their cover
nors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one
another, had the cunning to mane these poor
blockheads shoot. Alas, so it is in Deutschland,
and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old,
'what devilry soever kings do, the Greeks must
pay the piper!
In that fiction of the English Smollet,
true the final cessation of war is perhaps
phetically shadowed forth, where the two
it is
pro
nat
ural enemies in person take each a tobacco pipe,
filled with brimstone, light the same, and smo
in one another's faces till the weaker gives in.
But from such predicted peace-era what blood
tilled trenches and contentious centuries may
still divide us!
Discovery of Large Bones.
A discovery of bones of the defunct Mastedon
has recently been made at a lick, about two
miles Irom Warsaw, Mo., wnicn exceed in
number and size, any yet discovered. The
bones were found two or three feet below the
surface, imbedded in a black gravel. The num
ber of different heads found amounts to seven
ty or eighty, and the large amount of detached
teelh shows that a greater number of these
monsters have found a common grave in this
basin. The skeletons of various species of an
imals are fouml deposited in this basin, as the
buffalo, elk, deer,-&c.
New-Fashioned Potatoes.
A new snccius of the potatoe plant has just
been imnorted from South America. Tho fruit
grows on vines, like pumpkins, and will do to
make handsome arbors; a 6ingle seed polatoe
beinrr sufficient to cover a verandah. The
beauty of this above ground vegetable is, that
you can pick out the finest potatoes without
damaging the plants, and leave the "smai: po
tatoes" to grow bigger.
Bleeding at the Nose. M. Negrier slates,
that the hemorrhaae-may he almost mstantano
ously checked by raising the arm on the same
side as that of the nostril from which the blood
flows.
Curious Appearance of the Earth.
Clayton recently made a successful ascen
sion in a balloon from Columbus, Ohio. Among
the remarks of his journal of the aerial trip, we
were struck by the following:
"From the questions that I am frequently
.asked, an idea seems to exist with many that
aeronauts lose sight of the earth when at great
heights. This is a mistake; they never dp, ex
cept when clouds intervene, or night appears.
On the contrary, the earth is always like an inv
menae concave map, painted different colours,
which designate not the different townships or
counties, as the colouring of maps generally do,
but the various products of the soil. That the
earth, which in reality is convex, should appear
to the aeronaut to be concave, may at first seem
strange to many, but a moment's reflection will
render it clear. His horizon is frequently up
wards of a hundred miles from him. Draw a
right-angled triangle, and make the base line
fifty or sixty times as long as the perpendicular,
the hypothenuse and base will then be nearly
in the same ltne. J he horizon appears to the
aeronaut to bo on a perfect level with the car of
the balloon; but the part of the earth directly un
derneath him seems at a great distance from
him, consequently the whole surface of the
scene must appear concave.'
The blue yarn Stockings.
When Dr. Franklin was rece.ived at the
French court as American minister, he felt
some scruples of conscience in complying with
their fashions as to his dress. "Ho hoped," he
said to the minister, "that as he was himself a
very plain man, and represented a plain repub
lican people, the king would indulge his desire
to appear at court in his usual dress. Indepen
dent of this, the season of the year he said ren
dered the change from yarn stockings to fine
silk somewhat dangerous.
The French minister made him a bow, but
said, that the fashion was too sacred a thing for
him to meadle with, but he would do himsell
the honor to mention it to his Majesty.
t
The king smiled, and returned word that Dr.
Franklin was welcome to appear at court in
any dress he pleased. In spite of that delicate
respect for strangers, for which the French are
so remarkable, the courtiers could not help sta
ring at first, at Dr. Franklin's quaker-like dress,
and. especially at his "blue yarn stockings"
But it soon appeared that he had been intro
duced upon this splendid theatre only to demon
strate that great genius like true beauty, "needs
not the aid of foreign ornament. I he court
was so dazzled with the brilliancy of his mind
that they never looked at his stockings. And
while many other ministers who figured in the
gaudy fashions of the day are now forgotten,
the name of Dr. Franklin is still mentioned fn
Paris with all thg. ardor of the most affectionate
enthusiasm.
Useful Recipes
TOTATOE GLUE OR PAINT.
Take a pound of potatoes, peel and boil them,
pound them while they are hot in three or four
pounds of boiling water; pass them through a
hair sieve; afterwards add to them two pounds
of good chalk, very finely powdered, previously
mixed with four pounds of water, and stir them
both together. The result will be a species of
glue or starch, capable of receiving every sort
of coloring matter, even of powdering charcoal,
of brick or lamp black, which may be employed
as an economical means of painting door posts,
walls, pailings, and other parts of buildings ex
posed to tho action ol tho air.
PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITION.
For a composition for coloring and preserv
in" nates, roofs, and limber generally, from the
weather, melt twelve ounces of rosin in an iron
pot or kettle, add three gallons of train oil, and
three or four rolls of brimstone; when they are
melted and become thin, add as-much Spanish
hrmvn for red or vollow ochre, or any other
color you like, ground as usual with oil,) as will
give the whole, the shade wanted. Then lay
it on with a brush as hot and as thin as you
can. Some days after the first coat is dried,
lay on a second. It is well ascertained that
this will preserve plank for years, and prevent
the weather from driving tnrougn oncis wor.
HOW TO HAVE A SHARP RAZOR.
Take a straD of thick harness leather, the
si vnn want for a strap, and fasten it at each
end unon a piece of wood, then rub upon its
surface a piece of tin, (any tin dish will do)
until it is smooth. Strap your razor upon this,
and you will find it worth all the patent straps
that evor were invented.
An excellent and cheap paint for rough wood
work, is made out of six pounds of melted pitch,
one pint linseed oil, and one pint ol brick-dust
or yellow ochre.
Nails are prevented from rusting by heating
them and dropping them wnito noi in on.
.There are in the United Slates 17,181
sano persons ; and the estimated number o
those who become so annually, is 5,719. ,
Farmers and Politics.
The following is an extract from a letter to
the editors of the Washington Globe.
Ridge-Farm, Vermilion co., Illinois,
November 14, 1642. S
Messrs. Blair and Rives: Enclosed I
send you a two-dollar Indiana bill, for which I
want theCongressional Globe and Appendix
during the ensuing session of Congress. 1 re
ceived your Prospectus, and have shown it o
my neighbors, but they have all made the excusu
of hard times; several, have said, "I-would hkt
to hare the papers, but I have not the money."
I live in the country, and my neighbors are all
it - . r
yes, all larmera, and you have no idea ot
the poverty of the farmers of Illinois. Allow
me to tell vou what labor it wiU'cost me to pay
you for the Congressional Globe and Appendix.
Our most profitable business is raising Wheat
which we carry in wagons one hundred and
forly miles to Chicago, and there sell it for 40
cts. per bush. A good two horse team will
draw twenty bushels and feed for the journey,
and thus we go to market; camp out and cook
our own food. A load will bring eight dollars:
we make a trip in two weeks. "Truly you havo
a hard row to hoe," you will say; "why don't
you sell your wheat nearer home!" Allow me
to tell you that you could not cash a bushel -iff
wheat in Vermillion county for 2o cents; m
that to raise two dollars, it would require eight
bushels of wheal the product of half an aero,
and a week's labor; or, to raise that sum fraua
pork, you must sell two hundred pounds.
Is this the point to which vou politicians
would merge the peoplel and will you claim to
be one of us? Can you have a taste for a far
mer's life, and be denied the luxury of reading.
the news? Can vou promise.us anything better?
will the triumphs of Democracy produce a but-
tei state of things? Did you ever ask yourself
the question?
Well may the honest correspondent of the
Globe ask this question Will the triumphs of
Democracy produce u better slate of things?
Democracy, so called, has been triumphant
since 1828, and what has it done? Beggared.
and disgraced the country. When will the
hard working millions properly understand tho
political questions presented for their consider
ation and decision? What amount of rueful ex
perience will teach them that the demagogues
who have led them by the nose for fourteen
years, hare no claim to the dignity of democrats?
If their success last two years longer, we shall
despair of any reform until another, a better ed
ucated and more enlightened generation shall,
control the ballot boxes. This may be the on
ly hope of effectually ridding the country of
this spurious democracy. North American.
The Xjate John Vanghan.
The subjoined letter of advice to a young
I, i? i t i
man, written oy mat exceneni muiviauai anu
philanthropist, the late Mr. Vaughan, is well
worthy of being republished in every paper in
the Union.
" Philadelphia, 23d June, 1S38.
"Dear Sir: I have received your letter re
questing me to reduce to writing a few rules of
conduct which i had suggested m conversation,
J I
as a means to secure menus, aim insuie tun
stant employment. They are not many, but
must be rigidly adhered to.
"Ascertain clearly the duties required, and
the manner your emphryer may wish them to
bo performed, and perform them to the best of
your abilities.
Bo punctual m your attendance, rather ocjore
tho time than afterwards.
"Never slight your business, Jorget or neglect
orders given. When business presses, never
require indulgence, but rather suffer somo in
convenience than retard what ought to be done.
Take an interest in what concerns your. em
ployer, as if your own interest was at slake,
and thus inspire confidence and reliance upon
you. iever require iu ub.iuukuu unci, mo
great object is to let your employer tninK mai
comDlete reliance may be placed on you. Do
your business quietly, but steadily, nor allow
your attention to be taken off by conversation
with those about you. Be civil and Kina ui
those about you, and treat all with good humor.
Should any difference arise, avoid giving a has
ty answer. '
"Dr. Priestly, who had oxcitaoie iecungs.
when he found them roused, counted ten ur
twenty before he replied, which gave time for
reflection, and for subduing any hasty effusions
of temper. These may be forgiven, b.ut are not
forgotten, and destroy all harmony. 1 say
nothing aooui integrity aim yuuu umiui wn
duct, and a strict adherance to truth tVcse
must, of course, uniformly govern you.: conduct.
Never talk of the affairs or bigness of your
employer that must be Ic. to himself. Neve?
forget messages left: fciake memorandums for
the purpose of lading him, on all occasions, be
informed of vWt has been given to you to com
municate. In all money matters, bo strictly
punctuah If, upon reflection, vou should bu
convinced that you had done wrong,'uever bi
ashamed to apologise for it.
"Mind these rules, and friends willr never be
wanting. , JOHN VAUGHAN
"Mr. W. T. D., PhilacU" . -
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