1 1 rf3 v The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL. 4. STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1843. No.-6. mraiTO iirnrn PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCXIOCII & KOLLOCE. "TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollar Sind a quarter, half yearly, and if not paid before the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those 'vho receive their papers bv a carrier or stage 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. rDWircrtiscments not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar: twenty-five cents tor every subsequent inscitiou larger ones in proportion. A liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers. 1DAU letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental Type, we arc prepared to execute every des cription of Cards, Circulars, Bill Head;, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffcrsouian Republican. From the Richmond Enquirer. I have felt so forcibly the moral sublimity of the scene of the presentation of the Sword of Wash ton and the Cane of Franklin, that I have made an attempt to exhibit that scene in verse. I submit it to your judgment. THE PRESEHTTATIOIf. Say, why, in lengthen'd line, Hath rush'd this thronging crowd, Up to our Hill Capitoline, Where flags are waving proud I Is it in this high hall Some pageant to survey ? 4, Or, is some glorious festival Of Freedom held to-day 1 Lo! every seat is fill'd Doorway and stairs are block'd And, now, that sea of heads are still'd Which late with motion rock'd. Why gather thus the free With one consentient will? In breathless awe, they seem to bo Hush'd as in death, and still. - j I see an old man rise, And with a sword in hand ; ' - I. . " And, glancing are a thousand eyes ; Upon that gleaming brand. This is the sword," he cries, " Which makes our people free'; ,: No spot, nor stain, upon it lies 'Twas yielded but to ye. ' ' t " This sword, Historians tell, f , One hundred years ago, 'Saved Braddock's army, when he fell . Before a savage foe. This is the sword, whose shrine Our fathers led, like star ; - i It is the sword of Brandy wine, Of frozen Delaware. " In Monmouth's sultry air -- It did its gallant work, ; - And saw, amidst the cannon's glared Old England yield at York. 'Twas thine, great Washington V' And, in thy valiant hand, Like sword of God and Gideon, Swept Midian from our lqnd.u h , A shout burst from the throng Which shakes this white-capp'd.Hill But hush ! we hear again that tongue Be still! warm hearts! be still " This staff to you I bring The staff of that lov'd sage, Who snatch'd the sceptre from a King, And calm'd the lightning's rage. " On it, ol'r Franklin lear.'d, Whose countess thousands bless . The great philosopher' the Friend Of Plowshare and of Press. Franklin and Washington ! ! ! What mighty names are here ! Will ye accept ?" 'Ti3 done, 'tis done, With one tremendous cheer. JVhere should we place this sword ? T his staff of one so wise 1 A flaming; sword, by God's high word, "Was placed in Paradise. It flamed there, njghf and day, To guard, of Life, the Tree, So, let these R-elics guard ajway Our Tree of Liberty. The following is the concluding portion of a Miurt temperance sermon; A drunkard is the Jiuuiiyance of modesty; the spoil of civility; the tli:u'tiction of reason; the robber's agent; the slelmuse's benefactor; his wife's sorrow; his children's trouble; his own shame; his neigh hcoff; a walking swill mill; the picture of a beast; the monster of a man. JtVhen a pretty Jatiy is looking out for you, Ihen Jook out. - T, " ! ' Z - . . . The Chief's Death. OR, THE MASSACRE AT SAN ANTONIO. BV CHARLES II. SAUNDERS. The early history of the " lone slar republic" is rife with fearful inierest ; and many an "ower irue tale" which ils early pioneers relate, are well calculated to freeze the blood and blanch ihe cheek even of manhood. The incideni 1 shall attempt td rehearse, as told lo me by a participa tor in the fearful scene, and as it fell from his lips, I gireamy readers the plain, " unvarnished tale." In the year 1840, the Texian Council sent a Cumanche prisoner back to his naifon, charged with a mission to the effect, that if all the pris oners then in ihe Cumanche encampment would be immediately given up, liberal ransoms should be paid in exchange. Soon afier the messen ger had delivered this mission to the naiion, a parly of the Indians left ihe beauiiful valley of the Peninalis, which place had-been their win ter quarters, and took the road which leads to the main post of the Texian army. The cavalcade of the red men consisted of some of the oldest and most sage chiefs many of the young warriors with their squaws some with their children at their breasts, and a few old women, whose duty it seemed to be to take care of the baggage ; in the centre of the parly rode a. beautiful American girl, who had been taken prisoner in one of the predatory excur sions of the Indians, and had remained six months or more in the power of the savages. Her father was one of the pioneers of the country, who had removed from the United Slates with his wife and .daughter, to find a " new home" in that then uncultivated region. One day in his absence, the Indians made a de scent upon his cabin, tomahawked the mother in the presence of her, child, and boro the daughter into captivity. The party arrived at a spot within a mile of San Antonio de .Bexar, formerly a Mexican town, then the main post of the Texian army. A halt was here made, and the old women hav ing been left in charge of the baggage horses, mules, &c. ihe old chiefs and young warriors, wilh their squaws, marched into the town, ac companied by their captive. Each warrior was armed with his knife and bow ; but a young chief who preceded ihem bearing a while flag, denoted that their object was peaceful. In the little council chamber of the infant country, the Texian officers awaited their approach. Judge Howard, a much esteemed citizen and public functionary, presided ai the meeting : and sol diers having been stationed around the building and at every door within it, ihe grim procession was marched into the hall. The young warri ors with their squaws and children, were con ducted into an inner room, and the door closed upon them, while the stern chiefs were sealed side by side on a long bench confronting the Judge. The business of the assemhlv then commenced. Judge Howard arose and demand ed of them the number of prisoners ihey had. The head chief then presented the girl, and through an interpreter replied, but one," de manding a large ransom as the price of her Ireedom. 1 he girl was ihcn taken aside, and questioned as to how many captives she had left behind in the Cumanche camp. She lold ihem that many of her countrymen and Mexi cans yet lingered in bondage, expecting mo mently a horrible death. The assembly being satisfied that more prisoners remained behind, and that the Cumanches had endeavored to de ceire them, replied, through Judge Howard, that all must be brought in, and that they should be detained as hostages until every man was given up. The precept a Cumanche teaches to Ins children, is " to die rather lhan become a prisoner to a white man," and ere the decision of the assembly had pissed the Judge's lips, a Cumanche knife was at his heart. With out a groan the ill-fated Judge fell dead, and then commenced the scene of blood and slaugh ter. The wild whoop of the savages echoed through the building and was chorussed back from tho young warriors in the inner room : ihe door Was thrown open, and the Ctimanches were discovered in a seried mass each with an arrow fixed in his bow, others clasped with his hand around' tho stock, and others held be tween his teeth. With dreadful yells they rustled into the hall, and the well aimed mes- sengerS" V ueam cacu wu na ining mam. i iic officers who possessed swords or knives were .Minor thetu ul close melee wnn Hie savages who were similarly armed the soldiers, whose muskets were without bayonets, grasped their weapons in a stau of fearful inactivity, not daring to fire inio the sanguinary crowd, lest they should wound their own officers ; and not until their commanding Colonel was stabbed three several limes, was ihe order given torc at any rjsk. A blaze of flame blenched ai ihe word from ihe muzzles of a dozen muskets, and the grim savage who etppd with uplifted knife" over the prostrate form of ihe Colonel fell across his body a lifeless corpse ; wilh their muskets clubbed, the soldiers infuriated by the cihL nf their nrostrate commander and dying cohirades, rushed upon the savages, and al though more than one arm felt disabled as the soldier raised his musket to strike, the savages were soon stretched upon the floor, either cold in death, or writhing in its last agonies. Of the warlike band who entered that hall, but two now breathed an old chief and his wife, a squaw, with an infant at her breast. The woman, who had fought with despera tion wilh the babe in her arms, now lay upon the floor, bleeding profusely from a bullet wound in the breast. The old chief bent over her a moment: he saw his child draw from his moth er's breast the nourishment intended for its sup port, and at the same lime ihe purple stieam gushing from the frightful wound, carrying with iuhe life of her ho loved. The sharp crack of a rifle was heard, and as the savage gazed upon his wife, a ball intended for him, passed first through ihe head of the child, and lodged in the body of the woman. Both fell over on'ihe floor motionless! All was over, and the old chief was alone; with a horrid yell he slatted up and gazed around him. The fair flower of his wigwam, and she who gave it life, and caressed and nourished it, were both withered and gone forerer; his brare warriors, who. faithful to the religion of the Indian, which taught him to die rather than yield, lay a heap of dead around him, and he, like the sturdy oak which has survived 'the fury of the whirl wind, stood the only living thing amid the gen eral chaos. One glance sufficed with his bow in one hand, and in his other the broad knife yet dripping gore, he sprang over the dead bo dy of his wife, and rushed towards the entrance! three bullets sped after him; but they lodged in the heart of the sentinel, and he fell dead. The savage cleared the passage at a bound, and leaped into the street. Finding himself sur rounded, and all hope of escape cut off, he sprang into an adjoining building a sort of out-house without windows, and wilh but one door, and before untenanted. There like a ti ger at bay, he awaited the sure death that fate had marked for him. He stood in one corner of tho room, his eye flashing fire. His bow, never j'et bent in vain, firmly grasped, and wilh its cord stretched to its utmost tension, the deadly arrow was poised in ils place; others , hung in the quiver at his back, and thus he re mained, as motionless as death, guarding the only entrance lo tho room. A sentinel ap proached the door, and on the-instant an arrow quivered in his breast; a citizen who thought lessly exposed himself, shared the same fate. An awful pause now ensued; another sentinel, reckless of the consequences, with his musket levelled from his shoulder, approached the door way, but ere his finger could pull the trigger, the winged shaft of ihe savage laid him with the other two on the sloop of the building. Sickened at the sight, the citizens devised a plan that should drive the desperate chief from his strong hold. Just at this moment, one of the old women who had been left with the baggage was brought in a prisoner. She was directed to so to the chief and tell him if he would throw way ihe arrows, he might go in safety and peace. As she approached the door she spoke, and the chieftain recognized her voice, permitted her to enter. She delivered her message, and received for reply "No the white men have cut off all the branches now let them come if they dare, m r-J and hew down the withered trunk. &he re turned with ihe reply, and was directed lo re peal the message. She re-entered the build ing the same answer was returned, with the assurance, that if the dared to tell again the white man's story, she should die. All hopes of enticing him from his position were now lost, and implements being procured, several men ascended on the outside of the building to the roof, and commenced forcing a hole through the cemented top, for the purpose of shooting him from above. It had grown quite dark the quick ear of the savage caught the first-sound of the crow-bar; and, directed by the light of the torch which Btolc through the opening chinks, he changed his situation in or der to command both positions. As he passed under the aperiure, a flaming ball of liquid fire dropped from the torch of pitch, and fell upon his bead. His long hair was immediately wrapped in a blaze, and he ran screaming from the building. Hardly had ho reached the threshold, when five bullets were in his heart! with a terrific scream he sprang into the air, and fell heavily upon the ground. When they arived at the spot, the undaunted soul of ihe Indian, like the morning vapor of his prairies, had arisen from ihe dull earth, and the scarred corpse was all ii left to suffer the indignities of his pale faced enemy. " Mtillerisro and Moruioa&isni. In the Nauvoo " Times and Seasons," of March 1st. Joft Smith, tho Mormon impostor, addresses a communication lo the editor, which1 closes as follows : Therefore, bear this, 0, Earth i the Lord will not come to reign over ihe righteous in this world in 1843, nor until every thing for the bridegroom is ready." ! A man that would call everything by its risht name, would hardly pass through the streets witlioiujjeing knocked down as a com moil enemy.---Ellis? ' The Wife. It is not unfrequent that a wife mourns over the alienated affections of her husband; when she has made no effort herself to strengthen and increase his attachment. She thinks, be cause he once loved her, he ought always to love her, and she neglects those attentions which engaged his heart. Many a wife is thus the cause of her own neglect and sorrow. The woman deserves not a husband's love, who will not greet him with smiles when he returns from ihe labours of ihe day ; who will not try to chain him lo his home by the sweet enchant ment of -a cheerful heart. There is not one in a thousand so unfeeling as to withstand such an influence and break away from such a home. The Eldest Daugliteri The deportment of the older children of the family, is of great importance to ihe younger. The obedience or insubordination, operates throughout the whole circle. Especially is the station of the eldest daughter one of emi nence. She drank the first diaughl of her mother's love. She usually enjoys much of her counsel and companionship. In her absence she is the natural viceroy. Let the mother take double pains to form her on a correct model , lo make her amiable, diligent, domestic, pious; trusting ;hat tho image of those virtues may leave impressions on the soft waxen hearts of the younger ones, to whom she rH:iy, in ihe providence of God, be called to fill the; place of a maternal guide. licvc and Marriage. A case was recently tried in Rutland, Ver mont, in which Miss Munson recovered $1,425, of a Mr. Hastings for a breach of marriage contract. The curiosity of ihe thing is, lhat the Vt. judge charged the jury lhat no explicit promise was necessary lo bind the parties to a marriage contract, but that long continued at tention or intimacy with a female was as good evidence of intended matrimony as a special contract. The principle of the case undoubt edly is, lhat if Hastings did not promise, he ought to have done it, and so the law holds him responsible for the non-perforrriarice of his du ty. A most excellent decision a most righte ous judge compared with whom, Daniel would appear but a common squire. We have no idea of a young fellow dangling about a woman for- a year or two without being able to screifr their courage to the slicking point, and then going off; leaving their sweet-hearts half cour ted ; we hate this everlasting nibble and never a bite ; this beating the bush never starling the game; ibis standing to ihe rack without touch ing ihe corn; it is one of the crying sihs Of the age. There is not one girl in iweiity can tell whether she is courted or not. No wonder lhat when Betty Simper's cousin asked her if Billy Doubtful was courting her, answered : "I don't know 'xactly; he's sorter, and sorter not court in." We have no doubt lhat this Has tings is oiie of those " sorter not" fellows, and most heartily do we rejoice that the judge has brought him up standing with a SI, 425 verdict. JTne judge says, "that long continued atten tions, or "intimacy according to the laws oi Vermont; but supposing "aiteniions" to con sist in visiting a girl twice a week ; and esti mating the limd wasted by Miss Munson at each visit to be worth a dollar which is dog cheap, Mr. Hastings has been making a fool of himself fourteen years and somn weeks. Tho decision makes a new era in ihe iiw of lore and we doubt not will tend to the promo tion of matrimony and sound morality. Ex. p. A licsson for Young UIe A enfresnndent informs us that he was ac quainted, some thirty years ago, with three young men, all then apprentices to Mechanical trades, who boarded together at a boarding- house in Murray street. Jiach oi tneni was noor. havine no .means but the scanty allow- ance of Apprentices, which barely sufficed to pay their board and provide them wnn worKing apparel ; .so that on Sunday, when most young men sported holiday suits in Broadway-, these lads remained at home, reading, Having not one Sunday suit between them. But all of them were honest, industrious and prudent, and, as time wears on. one ol them has since been Mavor of Georgetown D. C. the second. j - . Mayor of Newark, N. J., and the third is Rob ert Smith', who we trust will very soon be Mavor of New York ! Such. Younc Men ! are the rewards of patient Industry and solid though bumble worm. iY. jr. tribune. horsehair has been introduced between ihe soles ol boots, to exclude dampness. When we see birds at ihe annroach of rain, anointing their plomea with oilfto shield off the drops, should it not remind us, wnen me storms of contention threaten us, to apply the i i oil of forbearance, and ihos pre;-em tne enm ing drops from entering our hearts. Matrimony is a mpdicine .very proper for vouni? men tota&o. li decides their fato kills j ci . - , or curosv , Pruning Fruit Trees; It will be fdurid, upon experiment, that -l wound made on d. tree in March or April will look black as Su'bn as the sap begins to fluWj and that the sap will ooze out utiitl ihe leavM have put out sb as to receive it,; while a wound made in June will rerriain while and immedi ately commence healing. And a iree ilial ha been broken by being Idaded with fruit, or, oth erwise, while the iree is green wilh foliage illU wound will look while, and the wood remain sound ; while one broken in ihe winter hy snow, or from any oihb'r cause, will look black and decline to decay. It has been my humble lot to spend the most of my time ih thfe spring aild fore part of llio summer in engrafting and pruning fruit trees, and my experience goes to prove that the bet time for pruning is when the leaves are full grown and the tree is vigUrous and in a grow ing state. For at this season, when the sap has been spent iri the foliage, and the pdrtfs uf the wood are filled, so that when the limb it taken off, ihe sun and warm weather will dry the end of the limb, and close the pores of the weod against the weather, and the sap will keep ihe limb alire to the very end, and tho healing will be perceived immediately. Bus ton Cultivator. A well known little Irish lawyer, famOUs for impassioned eloquence and sarcastic po wer, got challenged once by an irritable wiineas, who took offence at some sharp cfoss question ing in the court. The orator knew precisely as much about fighting as a fancy boxer known about Milton's " Paradise Lost." liis friends told hinij however that there was no way lo avoid the scrape, and it was certainly expected of him either to fight or apologise. This set tled the point; for the proud little Hibernian, though he would rather eat than fight, still in finitely preferred being shot to making an apo(- ogy. oo tne two oueiusts, wnn ineir seconds, &c.j were soon upon the battle ground. The challenger was notorious as a great pistol shot, and had fought some half dozen duels before!, in one of which he was so badly wounded as to be left a cripple for life. When oiher preliminaries were arranged he requested through his second, one favor- from his adversary, which was permission to sland against a mile siune that was oh the chosen ground. He sobght no advantage, but Wished to lean upon the stone, being too lame to stand erect without support. His request was at once granted, and just as the word was about to be given, ihe little lawyer issued his mandate to stay proceedings, as he also had a request to make. In the gravest manner in the world he solic ited permission to lean against the next mile stone! and the joke was so good that (he chal lenger took his revenge out in a hearty roar of laughter, withdrawing his deadly defiance, and declaring he could never shoot a man of such excellent Humor. The opponents shook hands. and wero ever afief close friends,- while the barrister rejoiced in the quizzical renown of being a good shot at a distaitce. Picayune. A fellow "down east,' recently visited his "girl,,rand she treated him to brown bread and pickles for supper! What of it belter that than eat nothing The Hampshire Washinctonian gives the following valuable "cure for a sore throat," as the best one known, probably it is meant for gentlemen-only "Let him lake the sleeve of a young lady's dress, and press it gently round his neck. N. B. There must be a soft while arm in the sleeve, or tho recipe will be use less." As we supply by rteV flowers those that fade in onr vases, so it is ihe secret of worldly wis- dom to replace by iresn inendship those that fade from our path. What," inquired the schoolmaster, "what is the plural of penny!" "Two-pence!" shouted the sharpest lad in tbe class. " I shall die happy," said the expiring hus band to the wife who was weeping most duti fully by the bedside, "if yob will promise not to marry lhat object of my unceasing jealousy, your cousin John." "Make yourself quite easy, love," said ihe expectant widow; "I am en gaged to his brother."? A boy once complained of his bed-fellow for taking half the bed. "And why noil" said his moiher; -'he is entitled: to half, ain't he?" "Yes, mother," said the boy; "but how should you like lo have him la take out all the soft for his half? he will have his half right out of the middle, and I have to sleep; both sides of him." A countryman sowing his ground, iwo smart fellows came riding along lhat way, when one of them called to him wilh an insolent air : " Well honest fellow," said he, " it is your business lo sow, but we reap the fruits of your hard labor," To which ihe countryman replied. "It is j very likely, you may, for I am sowing hemp."
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