1r 0 The whole art ok Govern.uknt consists in the aut of being honest. Jefferson. SM No. S? VOL. 4. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1843. , . ....iiiiiiuhi mi'iiiii Hj-MC-f-J 1 v rt PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCIXOCII & KOliLOCK. TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars un J a quarter, half yearly, and if not paid before the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those 'vho receive their rtarters or a carrier or stajie drivers employed by the proprie tors, will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editors. IDAdvcrtisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar: twenty-five cents jur every subsequent inscition larger ones in proportion. A lsber.il discount will be made to yearly advertisers. ID All letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. jots j?mmTm&. flaring a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental Type, we arc prepared to execute every des cription of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, JVotes, iSIank. Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms A.T THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffersonian Republican. Ireland and tlic Irish. The following is an exlraci of a letter from President Durbix to Dr. Sewall: No country has interested me more than Ire land. She is a problem in society yet to be solved. With a general destitution that has no parallel in Europe, she has increased in popu lation for the last fifty years in proportion much faster than any other European country; whilo at the same time, she has parted with millions of her children by enlistsments in the army and navy, and by emigration to tho colonies and foreign Stales. This fact of the rapid in crease of her population, with the general ab sence of the comfortable means of subsistence and residence, is dire'etly at variance with what has been considered a settled law in political economy, that the increase of population is in proportion to the means of subsistence. I pass ed through the length of the island, and made a little volume of notes and reasonings ; and ft nally came to this conclusion ; that the early marriages (girls generally marry at from four seen to seventeen) were owing, not to a natural improvidence of the Irish, but to the utter hopelessness of improving their condition pre paratory to marriage. Hence they follow the first sudden impulses of youthful passion in order to secure the longer continuance of plea- Mire which cannot be improved by delay. If ihe inquiry be, why cannot tney improve weir condition ? the answer is, the land is held mostly in large tracts by absentee proprietors, and the demand for it is so great, owing to the density of the population, and the rent is so high, (much higher in proportion than in England,) that the family can scarcely meet its payment while they live on potatoes. Of these last I believe ihey have a sufficiency ; and I was strongly inclined to jump to the conclusion that y.oljto diet is'favorable to the production, as well .m th. tintpnancn nf a numerous nnnulation. A I mw - - wia - I - I ' I satisfied myself that the miseries of Ireland ! ! not arise from tnisgorernment by ihe mother! country, but from an overgrown population ;' from large landed estates, divided up into ten-, ures of from half to ten or twenty acres, at ex orbitant rents ; from the absence of tho propri etors in England, to whom, the rent is sent to be spent in London, or in traveling on the Con tinent ; and to Catholicism, which, from iis very genius, is less friendly to improvement and' industry than Protestantism. This is evi dent by a comparison of the North and South of Ireland. To remove, therefore, the ills of Ireland, would require an exertion of the Gov ernment in the violation of vested rights, by compelling the division of large landed estates; and the common right of citizenship, by com pelling the proprietors to reside in the country, and improve it by the products of their estates. Large landed estates in entail and hereditary titles of nobility are the true .sources of the mis eries of Europe; yet the Irish are the most gay-."ipirited and cheerful people I have seen ; and both the population and the couniry, under a right policy and free system of government, for which they could be prepared in half a cen tury by a good system of public instruction, might bo made equal to any in the world. Tlic Wine-Glass. Who hath woe ? Who hath sorrow ? Who hath contentions? Who i hath wounds without cause? " Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine! They that go to seek mixed wine! Look not thou upon tho wine when it is redj -' when it giveih its ' COLOUR" IX THE , CUP when it mo.reih jiself . ;. thelast serpent nd tipgeth hkpncr. Parting Interview with .Emmet. The reader probably knows that Mr. Emmet was a celebrated lawyer and statesman in Ire land, and that he was unfortunately betrayed by his enemies, in an attempt to emancipate his countrymen from tyranny and oppression. He was therefore convicted of the crime of treason, and sentenced to be executed. His speech befote his judges and accusers is considered most pointed and eloquent. The evening before his death, whilo ihe workmen wero busy with the scaffold, a young lady was ushered inio the dungeon. It was the girl whom he so fondly loved, and who had now come to bid him her eternal farewell. He was leaning, in a melancholy mood, against the window frame of his prison, and the heavy clankjng of his chains smote dismally on her heart. The interview was bitterly affecting and melted even the callous soul of the gaoler. As for Emmet himself, he wept and spoke little, but us he pressed his beloved in silence to his bosom, his countenance betrayed his emotions. In a low voice, half choaked by anguish, he besought her' not to forget him ; ho reminded her of their former happiness, of tho long-past days of their childhood, and concluded by re questing her sometimes to visit tho scenes where then; infancy was spent, and though the world might repeat his namo with scorn, to cling to his memory with affection. At this very instant, tho evening bell pealed from the neighbouring church. Emmet started at the sound , and as he felt that this was the last time he should ever hear its dismal echoes, he folded his beloved still closer to his heart, and bent over her sinking form with eyes streaming with affection. The turnkey entered at the moment ; ashamed of his weakness, he dashed the rising drop from his eye, and a frown again lowered on his countenance. The man mean while approached to tear the lady from his em braces. Overpowered by his feelings, he could make, no resistance ; but as he gloomily releas ed her from his hold, gave her a little minia ture of himself, and with this parting token of attachment, imprinted the last kisses of a dying man upon her lips. On gaining the door, she turned round as if to gaze once more on the object of her widowed love. He caught her eye as she retired, it was but for a moment; the dungeon door swung back again upon, its hinges, and as it closed after her informed him too surely, that they had met for the last time upon earth. Examination at Trinity College, Cambridge, Ei.gSatiiL Dr. Tyng, of Philadelphia, gives the follow ing description of an examination, a part of which he witnessed ; Monday was the first day of the examina tion of Trinity College. 1 attended it for some lime with Mr. C. The large hall was filled with the students, all seated at the dinner la Mies in perfect silence. There were about 400 Drescnt. The examination is entirely in wri- . ... ttiip. i hev are allowed no nooks, but ex- O V animation papers of various kinds are printed and prepared for them, and given to them upon the spot. 'Ihey are required, with pen and paper, to furnish, in a given time, the adequate translation or solution, without any assistance whatsoever. It is a severe but fair trial of knowledge and mental strength. They seemed intently engaged in their work not a sound was to be heard in the hall. At the upper ta ble sat the examiners in their square caps, and as each appointed hour arrived, the papers were delivered up to them. The examination of the papers is a work for subsequent, ptivate hours. The rank and character of scholarship is then assigned ; and if the returns are wholly unsatisfactory, the familiar college epithet is, the man is 'plucked.' The trial was a(very se vere one : long passages of the Greek Trage dies were to be translated into Lngltsh prose- others into English verse equally long extracts of English poetry were to be translated into Latin Lyrics : others into Greek Iambics ; passages from Plato to be translated into En glish, and English prose to be translated into Greek. English prose to be translated into the Greek of Herodotus, of Xcnophon, or Longt nus. Then in Geometry and Mathematics, the trials were equally severe. Ail these were to be done by young men without the aid of books of any kind wholly irom ttieir actual Knowl edge and memory, in the course of the few hours they were seated together in the hall." Qnaker Wit. A pert vouns upstart, while riding- in a stage was attempting to ridicule the Bibleand rudely accosting an aged Quaker at his sido on me great improbability that the stone from David's slina should have killed Go'iiah, said to him, What do vou think about it old daddy-?' 'Ithink, . . . . . i it friend.' rep led the quaker. 'that David .wouiu havo found no difficulty at all in killing Goliah, if .his head was as soft as thine. An extravagant blade, was told that he re sembled the prodigal son. "No" replied he, " dievr.fdwiner" -"A gwid reason" retorted the other, u.the;dcvil wouhl noi trust you to foed On My. Miller's End of the World. Let Mr. Miller lecture, preach and pray. How in Eighteen hundred and forty-three The earth shall be destroyed without delay : Well then we'll see. For my part Miller cannot frighten me. By preaching of millennium and fire ; Can I believe him 1 no, not I you see. He's such a liar. Talk not to me of all such flimsy stuff, Whiston and Stiefel preach'd such things before, Well now! such preaching is but empty-puff, And nothing more ! I wonder if he made cnlculotions With scale, dividers, and theodolite If so, he must have tak'n many stations, -To have it right. Then sec what calculations Stiefel made In fifteen hundred and thirty three He said, all things through flames of fire shall wade; But where are we 1 Why on the earth, of course, and still we live And Miller-he must prophesy anew To all mankind. Certain he must believo The Bible's true. Now, once for instance let us reason free--- And to the bible let us now refer ; It's pages carefully peruse and see If he does err. In thirteenth chapter of St. Mark we read, Where Christ himself most solemnly proclaims, That none shall know the hour when God will speed His dreadful flames ! If we admit this volume to be true, And take it for our guide whilst hero below; Then Miller must receive that homage due r rom friend and foe ! To me his preach is all bagalille On his bare-back he now deserves the rod For making fools of many very well, He's not my God ! Why should God reveal to him secret things, More than he should to angels, or his Son! If this be true, no truth the Bible brings I o any one. II. C M. Westfall, April 3rd, 1813. A good Marksman. rt a squirrel he fired, near the top of a tree, The squirrel ran up, crying " chec, chee, chee, chee," While he by the gun was kicked heels over head ; And thought, for a moment, he surely was dead ; But hearing and seems the squirrel, he lour.d He' was not; so he bawled as he lay on the ground, " Mr. Squirrel, you could neither " chec," nor run, Had you been like myseii, at this end oitne gun:- Shocking Accident on Hie Concord KaiSroad A soulless Victim of a soulless Corporation. On Saturdav last, (savs Hills N. H. Patriot, Concord.1 as the upward train of cars due here at 11 o'clock, A. M. were proceeding at a rap id rate between Goffs Falls Bridge and Man chester, a man was discovered lying upon tne track in such a manner that while his head barely projected across one of the rails, his neck av immediately upon. l he engineer aimosi instantaneously reversed the steam of the loco- motive; but the cars had come so near that tne hrenks were not effectually applied until the train had passed over the unfortunate individu- al, and, shocking to relate, tho neau was com pletely severed from the body, and rolled over . - - - mi . . upon the outside ol the road, l ne tram was brought up after proceeding about three rods. The engineer, paralyzed with fright, remained upon the engine unable to move. The news of the accident spread like wild-firo among the passengers; many were so frightened that they were unable to leave their seats, wnno otuers were almost in an instant upon ihe spot where ihe tragedy occurred. . The mutilated body was removed from the track and placed upon the snow bank. Life was extinct, and the unfor tunate sufferer, consequently, beyond the reach of medical skill. One of the passengers picked up the head another discovered blood upon ihe track, and several proposed to send imme diately for a Coroner, when it was discovered that the body was only a man of straw. The person who had picked up the head came to his senses, and found that he was holding a large red cabbage, of which the blood which had been discovered upon the track proved to be the juice. A bystander happening to recollect that it was the first day of April, ihe mystery was explained the passengers resumed their scats, the .train was again put in motion, and arrived here at the usual time. " I would advise you to put your head in a dye-tub, it's rather red," said a joker to a sandy headed girl, In return, sir, I would advise you to put your head inlo an oven, it's rather soft," was the reply.; A woman was up for trial in Baltimore, for having whipped a Dutchman; and the Dutch man, in lestifvin!? to the facts, said, with the tone and air of an injured Innocent, "Mishter Shquiro di'sh here woman, mil ihrec other four wotnana mora. whip ;me-vary nicu-ane uiu. i&ebaling Society. j 'I move the question be read.' Secretary reads ' Which is the truest science, mesmer ism or phrenology?" Mr. President, ihe ques tion has neither negative or affirmative.' Pres ident No matter Dr. Jiggsfor mesmerism Capt. Jewkes for phrenology.' Mr. Stum per I u-ould ask, Mr. President, if the ques tion does not intrench itself against the consti tution. We are not to discuss religion nor politics in this society; now, free knowledge is a sectarian pint, and if we are a'goin to dis cuss that, 1 shall withdraw from this society.' President ' The word has a different meaning in the question, and has allusion lo the protub cranic devil-opments of the cranny-urn.' Suunp " All this aro outer of order ; there ain't no question afore the meetin.' President ' Dr. Jtggs, will you open V Dr. Jiggs "Mr.. Presi dent: I have not entered these walls this eve ning, prepared to speak on this question; I ur-rah am ur-rah m favor of "mesmerism as I understand It. Mesmerism is a kind of som nolence, and is mentionsd by Tycho Brahe, when ho said, 4 Blessed be that man who in vented sleep.' Under the magnetic influence of mesmeric sleep, man has travelled' through the abstruse regions of of Mr. President the chimerical atmosphere of the most unboun bed metaphysical incongruities ; he has analy zed time and space, and soared into the myste ries of,the case and existence, like like like any thing ! My oppement will no doubt extend his ferocious mouth against my argument; but, sir, my arguments is based on the experiments of Col. Dyer and the philosophy of Dods ! Sir, I say, sir, mesmerism is the key which oversets the dipnet of time, and discloses lo human visiology the intricacies of miraculous interpositions. But phrenology sir, is the child of Gall and bitterness. It maps out the human scull like a terrestrial globe, and its professors, to keep good the resemblance, have whirled tjieir brains on their axes, and equal-nock-tialined their exuberances on tho oxspital and piraticaf bones. I reserve the remainder of my remarks for the rejineder.' President 1 Captain Jewkes!' Jewkes ' I aint prepared lo say nothin' on the question at least no but then sence 1 hearn the doctor, I would say a few words on the idees, chalked down here on my hat. Phrenology is the science of the knowledge-box, and knowl edge is free ; hence phrenology. But mesmer ism is is the science of sleep, he says one man can put another to sleep ; so can opium. It deduces man to the level of a pyson-ous drug. My antagonist has made use of a great many long words, and his speech would go twice round ihe world and tie.' Stump ' I call the cap'n lo order for personalities.' ' Didn't the doctor call my mouth ferocious ! Retaliation is the first law of nature. He nend'nt say noth ing about mouth ? Just look at hia'n, Mr. Pres ident ; it goes clean round, and makes the top of his cranny-um,' as ho calls it, an island. Mesmerism and its supporters are humbugs, sir yes, sir, iiuaiBucs, sir. They pick on a sleepy headed fat boy, who drops asleep of himself, and pretends that they willed it, when they coudn't a helped it, if they tried. 1 con clude, sir, by moving the question.' President Those in favor of mesmerism, hands up, 14; Phrenology, hands up, 14; a tie. Gen tlemen, you have decided that one science is just as true as the otner. ine sucieij is uu journed.' Boston Post. We see it stated in the papers generally, and therefore we notice the fact, that the Hon. Caleb dishing is about to be married with the daughter of the late Hon. Robert Goodloe Har per? ,and it is further added, that sho is a Cath olic. Nothing is said about the particulars of courtship, objections, approval, &c, nor how often iho lady attends church. These will probably constitute the subject of future - para graphs. No doubt all should bo told. Why should a man' be allowed to go a courting, 'and especially to get married, without a public state ment of tho progress of his suit, and its termi nation? And especially, why should not the creed of his wife be blazoned forth at his heels, wherover he goes? The liberty of the press demands this; and private hostility may be gratified by this enlarged liberty. U. S. Gas. A irty Witness. A German gentleman, in the courso.of a strict cross examination on a trial during mo Oxford circuit, was asked to stato the exact age of the defendant. Dirty (thirty) was the reply. " And pray sir, arc you his senior, and by how many years ?" Why, sir, I am dirty two. Among the many heavy and galling taxes nrwl imnnkla nf niiilt there is nOIie liko the nervous fear of constant concealment, and its accompanying fear of detection. There is a green germ of goodness living in nvnrv Imari thnt beats.. Wo may lalk of tho depravity ojfnan, bul there was never a felon in chains who had not some gleam of Buhshine folded away witlihvhis breast; Sowing Plaster Let all your clover fields be plastered, a bushel to the acre, as soon as vegetation begin i to start, taking care to sow tho ' plaster in' tho morniiip while the dew is on the leaves; or during the lime of a gentle ram. SPRINQ WHEAT. ' ' Again protecting against being the. advue.Ue of this variety of wheat, we feel it our dftty'i stale to tho:-e who may design to aim it, that ihe sooner it is got in the belter. Should the winter sown wheat be much kill ed out by frosts and thaws, the crop fihib greately increased, if spring wheat wet on the field and harrowed and rolled in. as it would ripen in lime to be cut with the fall soyn wheat, and would enchanee the yield. Shmilll any one contemplate such sowing, "t'.r advice isthai they do so as early as possible. . SPRING RYE. y' T-his grain cannot be got in too soon. Ip the preparation of the ground, care must b !a ken to plough deep and pulverize well. A j tho quantity of grain lo be sown ami the uutita of sow ing, our directions will be brief. Lt i.hu quantity of seed, and the method of srv.vtng; be the samo as for winter rye, and as by sowing a bushel of plaster to the acre, you may encour age the growth of white clover, our advice i s, that you try the experiment. If you succeed, you will thereby secure a good pasture in lato summer for your slock, provided you koep'ihem off the stubble and give the clover a chance of growing. CORN PREPARATION" OF THE SEED. Soak your seed in a solution of salt, salt petre, soot and copperas, made as follows. To every 10 gallons of boiling water, add 2 lbs. saltpetre, 4 lbs. of soot, and 2 lbs. nf cop. peras ; slir these until the salts are dissolved, then put in your corn, regulating the quantity: so that all the grains will be covered. As you plant, take out the corn, and drain it in a bas- ket ; then prepare :a mixture of tar and water, which must be made thus to five gallons of boiling water, add a pint of tar; stir the whole well together, and when cool, put your corn into it, and stir it unli! all ihe grains are cover ed, then drain, and dry them in plaster or ashes, when they will be ready for planting. Tito corn should remain in the first soak 12 hours before any of it is planted, and no more should he taken out any day than can be planted : the tarring and plastering should be done just be fore the grain is wanted for planting. No fears need be entertained of the-firsi soak destroying the vegetative powers of the corn, for a week or so. Seed corn, thus prepared, will be pro tected from birds and vermin, while its vegeta ting powers will be greatly accelerated. PLASTERING AND ASHING. In order to ensure a rapid growth to the young plants, prepare a compost of ashes and plaster, in the proportion of 5 bushels of tho former to 1 of the latter, and give to each hill of corn, just a3 the plant comes up, a gill of tho mixture. Its increase of yield will pay you . liberally for your trouble and expense. And if, in addition to this, you were to sow a bushel of plaster per acre broadcast over your fields, you would be most beautifully rewarded for the labor and cost. Watery Potatoes. Watery potatoes or those in which carbon does not "abound, are generally, indeed always, deficient in their nuttiuve qualities which de pend on ihe presence of carbon. The latter cannot exist in its just proportion independent ly of proper light and heat. Hence polatoes grown m an orchard are never goou; me iigtu rind oxvrren which should act upon them is in tercepted by the leaves of the variousfcfruit trees ; the deleterious portion ot tne caroon which the lieht andoxvaen would have carried off, and it becomes not only deficient in nutri ment, but absolutely unwholesome. The Direction of a ILetter. ,vi There was a letter received at the Pitisburg post-office, a few days ago, directed as follows: " Swift as the mail, pursue your route, ( Nor stop to stay for any, Until you reach Miss Catherine Trout, ; In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania." '. Tho witty clerk in tho post-office i arfdedjhU if. o. : Miss Catherine Trout Soon came ahout, And fished this funny letter out. And wo will y?;i-ish the story : Thus pretty Trout, as we opine. Is caught by him who dropped thatjirie". A hypocrite is worse than an alheist: an atheist is but a ridiculous mocker of piety ---but a hypocrite makes astandingjest of religion. Somo of the bachelors in the Ohio Legisla ture are for a tax on bustles! We never knew a bachelor yet that hadn't something" ioJsayar gainst the ladies. behind their backs. - - " Where aro you going ?'' asked Jack of. art acquaintance. "To see a ..friend." ,'Wiell, I'll go with iyou; for I neversaWfOue .yetV V
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