IMl own The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL. 4. STROUD SB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1843. No. 7. r III IIIS - , r . , - ' M ,.,,.7, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCIIOCH & KOKXOCK. TRRMS.-Two dollars wer annum in advance Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly, and if not paid before the end of the year, TWO aouars ana a nan. i iwsu no receive ineir papers or a carrier or .-siage urivuia umiuuyuu uv iuu yi.vyiu: tors, will be charted 37 1-2 cts. ner year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option oi me bailors, ICT'Advertfsements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar: twenty-five cents lor every suDscq.uent mscmon larger ones in proportion. A liberal discount win oe maue to yearly auvertisers. lD'All 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 Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, . PAMPHLETS, &c Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jeffersonian Republican. JURY LIST. Persons drawn to serve as Grand and Petit Ju rors, for May Term, 1843. Grand Jurors. 1 Edward Hoodmacher, Chesnutliill - ; ' 2 James -Fenner, Lower Smithfield - 3 John Pope, Coolbaugh sMf 4 Abraham Transue, Pocono 5 Peter Bcrger.. Tobyhanna f 0 John Harman, Middle Smithfield r 7 John Chambers, do - 8 Jacob Dull, Pocono 9 John Kelsey. Penn Forest ' 10 Abel Staples. Hamilton 4 - T 11 Henry Weitscll, Tobyhanna 12 Joseph Fenner, Smithfield - :, 13 David Heller, Price - T ' 14 Benjamin Price, do '--v 15 Lawrence Fisher, Chestnuthill " t 10 George L. Van Buskiik, Hamilton - 3 7 Peter Ace, Middle Smithfield 18 Adam Brotzman, Smithfield -v ' - IS John Hall, Pocono ' t ' w : 20 .losiah Pratt, Penn Forest 3jf 21 William Uisbing, Pocono " I 22 John Musch. Stroud ' 23 Henry Houser, Hamilton 24 Jacob L. Houser, Stroud Petit Jurors. Mark Miller, Stroud ' William Eschenbach, Tobyhanna James Johnson, Coolbaugh 0Ur' Jacob Correll, Ross Henry Deitrick, Hamilton -' "f Dewalt Fisher, Chestnut-hill - 'v X: Joseph Altemus, Boss .. Jacob Starner, Chestnui-hill i - James Raflerty, Stroud -Jacob Miller, Hamilton L,i James Bell, Jr- Smithfield ' ' Peter Albert, Middle Smithfield tf Edward Lee, Stroud James Mixell, Ross Adam Andrews, Stroud -Charles Frantz, Hamilton ,t George Dciterick, Coolbaugh J ' John Brutzman, Penn Forest George Flight, Ross . -. Simon Williams, Hamilton ? Daniel Brown, Chestnut-hill :"" William Coffman, Price k, Jacob Frantz, Ross . ? , Charles J. Price, Price Thomas Shively, Pocono - i 8 9 10 11 12 13 11 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 25 2G 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Amos Miller, Stroud Samuel Deahl, Stroud - (- Daniel Weiss, Chestnut-hill . . f, , Abraham JNeyhart, bmnnneiu George Kresge, Chestnuthill David Gregory do Jacob Steen, Pocono John Miller, do John Palmer, Stroud Simeon Schoonover, Middle Smithfield Abraham Fetherman, Hamilton BAR IRON. DOUBLE AND SINGLE REFINED, Bar Iron, Car, Coacli& Wagon Axles, CIIO W BAR, SLEDGE AND PLOUGH MOULDS, Axle and Gun Barrel Iron, - And a general assortment of WAGON TYRE & SQUARE IROW, constantly on hand and will be sold on the most reasonable terms, by MORRIS EVANS. Analomink Iron Works, April 6, 1842. SUBGEON DENTIST, Has located in Stroudsburg. Office one doo west of Dr. W. P. Vails. August 3, 1 842. tf. CHEAP FOE CASH. Calfskins, Kips, and Upper Leather. Forisale at the POCONOTANNERY. v ..February 11843. -JD.B WOllK Nfcafcly 'executed- afrtihis'Qfiice.., JLittlc Ciiildreu. BV MARY HOWITT. Sporting through the forest wide ; Playing by the river side ; Wandering o'er the healthy fells ; Down within the woodland dells ; All among the mountains wild, Dwelleth many a little child ; In the baron3 hall of pride ; By the poor man's dull fireside ; 'Mid the Mighty, mid the-raean, Little children may be seen, Like the flowers, that spring up fair, Bright, and countless, everywhere! In the far isles of the main ; In the desert's lone domain ; In the savage mountain glen, 'Mong the tribes of swarthy men ; Whereso'er the sun hath shone ; On a league of peopled ground, Little children may be found ! Blessings on them! they in me Move a kind of sympathy, With their wishes, hopes, and fears ; With their laughter, and their tears ; With their wonder so intense, And their small experience ! Little children, not alone On the wide world are ye known ; 'Mid its labors and its cares, 'Mid its sufferings, and its snates, Free from sorrow, free from strife, In the world of love, and life, Where no sinful thing hath trod ; In the presence of your God, Spotless, blameless, glorified, Little children, ye abide ! From the U. S. Gazette. Tlie Want of Money. " The climax of all earthly ills : The inflammation of our unpaid bills." Of all the wants that torment humanity in this wanting world, the want of money is the hardest borne, notwithstanding the adage, thai "practice J makes perfect. It seems to be pretty conclu sively proven, that this groping after happiness, which makes this universal struggle in the world, is like looking fur a needle in a hay slack, or the search for the philosopher's stone, or the quadrature of the circle. We that have no money, find that we can have no happiness without it. Those that have it find that ihey can hare none with it. We are always ready to exclaim : Will fortune never come with both hands full, And write her fair words still in foulest letters She either gives a stomach, and no food, Such are the poor in health ; or else a feast - And takes away the stomach, such are the rich That have abundance and enjoy it not." But this is very feeble consolation to the poverty-stricken, who always flatter thems.elves that, had they funds, they would astonish lhe world by the good use they would put them to. One would think, from the general grumbling about empty pockets, that there was now-a-days pre cious little money left in this part of the world, and that destitution was about to be the fate of every body. Yet things go on as usual. There seems to be just as much luxury and extrava gance as ever; just as many good dinners eaten ; just as many fine dresses worn balls : and parties are no more- uncommon than they used to be, and some favored few tide about in -their handsome carriages with just as much non-chalaucc as if thev could afford it as well as formerly. And these very people who riot ! in all the comforts and superfluities of life, arcj oftenest those who entertain their friends with! woful accounts of the fall of interest and the difficulty of finding investments for cash, with terrible details of hardness of the times, of arrears and diminished incomes. It is a singular characteristic of a man, that he takes pleasure in the contemplation of his miseries. He likes to set them forth to show to some atleutive listener, and it cannot fail io be observed that those who are the readiest to hearken to these pitiful tales, are always popu lar with iheir suffering friends. Sometimes every amiable riralry displays itself between two friends, enumerating to each other their re spective mishaps, and as one relates his haz ardous experiences, it quickens in the other the recollection of many a terrible nvenl in his past life, which if it had not been for this con versaigHhewiuight have totally forgotten. We haja'tiity encountered a summary of the mis eries attendant upon the want of money, made up wfih so much feeling and skill as could only bo 'taught by experience. It will be read with interest, by a great mdny, for the very reason we havje mentioned above, that people like to be told of their miseries. Ilazlitt is the writer of it. . , " Ii is among the miseries of the want of money not to he able to pay your reckoning ai an iuu or, if you have just enough to do that. to have nothing left for the waiter ; to he stopped at a turnpike gate, and forfied to turn back ; not to venture to call a hackney coach in a shower of rain (when you have only one shilling left yourself, it is a bore to have it taken out of your pocket by a friend, who comes into your house eating peaches in a hot summer's day, and desiring you to pay for the coach in which he visits you) not to be able to make an investment by which you might make your fortune, and get out of ail your difljculties ; or to find a letter lying at a country post office, and not to have money to free it, and not to be obliged to return for it the next day ; or to be invited to spend a week with your friend in the country and noi to have money to pay your passage in tho coach or steamboat ; or to go to a public garden with a very pretty girl, who is very fond of ice cream and does not hesitate to say so, much to your discomfiture, you not having money to pay for it. " Another of the greatest miseries of a want of money, is the tap of a dun at your door, or the previous silence when you expect it the uneasy sense of shame at the approach of your tormentor ; the wish to meet, and yet to shun the encounter; the disposition to bully, yet fear of irritating ; thermal and sham excuses ; the submission to impertinences ; the assurance of a speedy supply ; the disengeniousness you practice on him and yourself; the degradation in the eyes of others and your own. Oh ! it is wretched to have to confront a just and oft re peated demand, and to be without the means to satisfy it ; to deceive the confidence that has been placed in you ; to forfeit your credit ; to be placed at the power of another, to be in debted to his lenity; to stand convicted of hav ing played the knave or the fool ; and to have no way left to escape contempt but by incurring py" Whence Come Great Men? The extracts which follow are from a lecture delivered by Rev. N. Murray, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, before a Young Men's Association in Troy. The subject of the lecture was, the duties "of young men, resulting from the privi leges which they enjoy in this age and nation. " Sir Edward Saunders, chief justice of En gland in the reign of Charles the Second, was once a poor beggar boy strolling about the streets, without any knowledge of his parent age. Sir Thomas Greesham, who, under the patronage of Elizabeth, became the founder of the ltoyal Exchange in London, was the son of a poor woman, who, while he was an infant, abandoned him in the fields, and his life was preserved by the chirping of a grasshopper, which attracted a little boy to the place where he lay. Nicholas Saunderson, the celebrated mathematician, lost his sight when ho was a year old, by the small pox. Assisted by his friends he pursued his studies. He became lecturet on optics in Cambridge ; he was the bosom friend of Newton ; he was elected pro fessor of mathematics ; and is one of the most acute and learned commentators of the Prin cipia. Our own Hamilton was the office boy and runner of his early patron. William Jones, the friend of Madison and Jefferson, once Secretary of the Navy, and first President of the united States Bank, served his apprentice ship to a ship-builder. You have all read of the Sexton's son, who became -a fine astronomer by spending a Bhorl time every evening in gazing on the stars after ringing the bell for nine o'clock. Sir William Phipps, who at the age of forty-five had attain ed the order of knighthood, and the office of high sheriff of New England, and Governor of Massachusetts, learned to read and write alter his eighteenth year, and whilst learning the trade of a ship carpenter in Boston. William Gifford, the great editor of the Quarterly, was an apprentice to a shoemaker, and spent his leisure hours in study. And because he had neither pen nor paper, slato nor.pencil, he wrought out his problems on smooihjeather with a blunted awl. David Riltenhouse, the American astronomer, when a plough-boy, was observed to have covered his plough and the fences with figures and calculations. Jas. Ferguson, the great Scotch astronomer, learned to read by himbelf, and mastered the element of astronomy whilst a shepherd's boy, in the fields by niiht. And,' perhaps it is not too much to say, that if the hours, wasted in idle company, in vain conversation, at tho tavern, wero only spent in the acquisition of useful knowledge, the dullest apprentice in any of your shops, might become an intelligent member of society, and a fit candidate for most of your civil offi ces.' By such a course, the rough covering of many a youth might-bo laid aside ; and their ideas, instead of being confined to local objects and professional technicalities, might range throughout the wide fiejds of creation; and other stars from, the young men of this city might be added to that bright constellation of worthies that is gilding our country with a bright, yet mellow light. Old bachelors do not live so long as other men. They have no body to darn their stock ings and mend their clothes. They catch cold, and there is no bo'dy.to niako them sage tea; consequently, they dropoff. ... Tlie Progress of Rail Roads. The American Railroad Journal was com menced eleven years ago in the city of New York. In a recent number, the editor gives a brief sketch of the history of his journal and of Railroads, which exhibits several interesting facts. At' the period the journal was com menced, according to the editor's showing, the whole amount of Railroads complete and in use, was comprised in the following list: Baltimore and Ohio 60 miles. Albany and Schenectady 12 " Charlesiown and Hamburg, about 20 " Mauch Chunk .,.9 " Quincy, near Boston, ' rG " Of these 92 miles only were upon any of the main lines of rail roads. The editor goes on to say: Let us now compare the present state of af fairs with this humble commencement. There are now between four and Jive thousand miles of railroad in use in the United States, built by the expenditure of nearly one hundred millions of dollars. Eleven years ago there were but about one hundred miles in use. There are now probably more than Jive hun dred locomotive engines in use, nearly all of them made in this country. Eleven years ago the few engines in use were imported from England, and were of the oldest patterns. Since then fifty or more American engines have been sent abroad, some to Russia, some to Austria, and several to England. Had this fact been predicted, even in the most direct manner, in the first number of the Railroad Journal, it would have sealed its doom. Eleven years ago a dead level was by many deemed necessary on a railroad, (see p. 5S, vol. 1) and grades of 30 feet to the mile wero hardly thought admissible. Now, engines are in daily use which surmount grades of 60 and 80 feet'lo the mile. Eleven years ago inclined planes with sta tion power were considered the ne plus ultra of engineering science. Now they are discarded. as expensive, inconvenient, and incompatible with the free use of a railroad. Eleven years ago it was thought that rail roads could not compete with canals in carry ing heavy freight, and even much more recent ly statements to this effect have been put forth by authority. Now we know that the most profitable of the Eastern railroads derives one half its income from bulky freight, and that coal can be carried more cheaply upon a railroad than in canals. Eleven years ago the profitableness of rail roads was not established, and, discouraged by the vast expenditure in several cases of exper iment in an untried field, many predicted that they would be unprofitable. Now it is already demonstrated, by declared dividends, that well constructed railroads, when divested of extran eous encumbrances, are tho most profitable in vestments in our country. The New England railroads have paid since their completion 6 to 8 per cent., sevejal other roads 6 and 7 per cent. The Hudson and Mohawk, of fifteen and a half miles, costing about one million one hun dred thousand dollars, paid in 1840 7 per cent, on that enormous outlay. The Utica and Sche nectady and SyracuseOnd Utica pay 10 to 12 percent.- The stock of 'the Utica and Sche nectady Railroad has never been down to par since operations were commenced in 1836, and has maintained its stand without fluctua tion at a higher rate than any oihcr species of stock during all our commercial revolutions. Eleven years ago there were but six miles fof railroad in use in the vicinity of Boston. Now Boston has direct connexion with a web of railways one thousand two hundred and three miles in length, all of which except about 24 miles are actually inmse, being a greater length of railroad than there was in the whole world eleven years ago. motherly JCovc. Last among the characteristics of woman is that sweet motherly love with which nature has gifted her ; it is almost independent of cold reason and wholly removed from all selfish hope of reward. Not because it is lovely, does the mother love the child, but because it is & Jiving part of herself the child of her heart, a fraction of her own nature. Therefore, do her entrails yearn over her willings; her heart beats quicker at his joy ;, her blood flows more softly through her veins when the breast at which he drinks, knits him to her. In every uncor rupt nation of the earth this feeling is the same. Climate which changes every thing else chan ges not that. It is only the most corrupting forms of society which have power gradually to make luxurious vice sweeter than the tender cares and toil of maternal love. In Greenland where tho climate affords no nourishment for infants, the mother nourishes her child up to tho third or fourth year of life. She endures from him all the nascent indications of the rude and domineering spirit of manhood, with indul gent all forgiving patience. The negress is armed with more than manly strength when the child is attacked by savage beasts. We read with astonished admiration the examples of her matchless courage and contempt of danger. But if death robs that mother, whom we are pleased to call a savage, of her best comfort the charm and care of her existence where is the heart that can conceive her sorrow ? Read the lament of ilia Nadowassee woman on the loss of her husband and infant stn. The feed ing which il breathes is beyond all expression. Hcrdre. . The widow Mtijjgeridge, in her best toom had two pokers. The one was black and mjimb what bent ; the other shone like a ray of .Wa rner light it was effulgent, speckles te-l..". Both pokers stood at the .same fire plarf. ' What ! yon ak, and did the widow Mujf geridge stir her fire with both ? Certainly not. Was a coal to be cracked the black pukpr crackrd it ; was the lower bat to be cleared ihe black poker cleared il ; did she want a rous ing fire the black poker was plunged relent lessly into the burning mass, to stir up the sleep ing heart of Vulcan; was a tea kettle io'Ijh accommodated to the coals the bla"ck poker supported it. 'And what, methinks you ask, did the bright poker do 1 I answer nothing nothing save to stand and glisten at the fireside. its black, begrimed companion, sinking, toking, roking, burning, bailing during ail liio sweating work. As for the bright pokirr. that was a consecrated thing. Never did Mrs. Muggetidge go to Hackney for a week to visit her relations, that the bright poker was not re moved from tho grate ; and, carefully swathed in oiled flannel, awaiting in greasy repose the return of its mistress. Then, once more in glistening idleness, would h lounge among shovel and tongs; the jetty slave the black poker, worked until il was worked to the stump at lasl to be flung aside for vile old iron ! Ou dozen black pokers did the bright poker see out ; and to this day doing nothing it stands lustrous and inactive : My son, such is life. When you enter the world make up all your energies to become.: A Bright Poker J- PuncJis Letters. Use of liime. It has been a long known and well estab lished Tact that lime mixed with barn manure is injurious, tending to render the extraction in soluble. Il ought not, therefore, to come in contact with or be applied conjointly or separ ately to crops the same year. Its application as a top dressings in this section of the country, haa met with little favor among the farmers. Our barren fields are not renovated by the pro cess for this obvious reason: the soil is not charged sufficiently with vegetable matter for it to act upon, and this in a measure accounts for its fertilizing effects when composted with peat or muck. When the soil is rich in vege table matter, yet produces little or nothing but sorrel or the sour grasses, the application of lime neutralizes the acids and renders it fertile; so also, on bog meadows where iron ore abounds. Many farmers are in the habit of throwing a handful of lime round each hill of corn at weed ing, but we have never been able to discovor any beneficial effects from thef practice, and even ashes are far more profitably applied as a top-dressing on grass lands. The effect of lime when applied unmixed to crops is very slow, and almost imperceptible; and would almost lead one to believe in the theory of Doctor Dana lhai "all soils contain enough of lime, alkali, and other inorganic ele ments for any crops grown on it." There is, perhaps, no subject on which there is such a diversity of opinion, as on the appli cation of lime as a manure, no subject which has arrayed its, advocates and opponents for so long a v period in "wordy war." We are not informed whether Adam was tempted to exper iment on it in the garden of Eden, yet it is cer tain it was used long anterior to the Christian Era, for Pliny states that the ancient Gauls employed it successfully on their soils. Dr. Channing, in one of his latest addresses, says with as much beauty as force, " that the grand end of society is to place within the reach of all its members the means of improve ment, or elevation, of the truej happiness of man. There is a higher dutyjhan to build alms-houses for the poor, and that is to savo men from being degraded in the blighting influ ence of an almshouse. Man has "a right' in something more than bread to keep him from starving. He has a right to the aids and en couragements and culture, by which he may fulfil ihe destinies of a man ; and until society is brought to recognizo and reverence this, it will continue to groan under its present misc nes. A man in this vicinity intending to open an oyster and swallow it, opened hisjWjfo's siays and swallowed her, not discoveringlpfs mistake until he was choked by her bustle ! A Cariosity. A heifer calf was born on the place of Mr. Perine, Staten Island, last week, having two heads with eyes, mouths, jaws, tongues, com plete, and six legs. It has bul one tail, and that growing erect from the middle of the back. It was alive at its birth, but died'shortly thereafter.- " ' 1 I tl 9 i i
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