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The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson.
VOL. 4.
STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1843.
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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,
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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."