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Having a general assortment oflargc elegant plain and orna mental Type, we are prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Meads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c Printed wiih neatness and despatch, on reasonable Urins AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffersoiiian Republican. October. BY THE LATK WILLIS GAVLORD CLARKE. Solemn, yei beatiiiful lo view, Month of my heart ! Thou dawncst here, 'Willi sand and faded leaves io strew The summer's melancholy bier. The moaning of thy winds I hear, As the red sunsat dies afar, And bars of purple clouds appear, Obscuring every western star. 'Thou solemn month ! I hear thy voice It tells my soul of other days, "Whcn but to live was to rejoice When earih was lovely to my gaze ! 'Oh, visions bright oh, blessed hours, Where are their living raptures now I J-ask-ihy spirits wearied powers I ask n:y pale and fevered brow ! . 2 look to'tiiture, and behold iMy lifers Iim emblems rustling round, In hues of -crimson and of gold The year'; dead honors on the ground: And sighing with the winds, I feel, yJiHe their low pinions murmur by, How much their sweeping tone roveal GHife and-iiitman destiny. When spring's delightsome moment shone, They eame'in zephyrs from the west, Theyrfc llf wood-lark's melting tone. They stirred the blue lake's glassy breast; Through fcum'rner, fainting in the heat, They lingered in the forest shade ; Hut changed and strengthened now, thr.y beat In storm-, u"er mountain, glen and glade. How like those transports of the breast, When life is fresh and joy is new Nilt as the halcyon's downy nest, And transient all as they are true ! j'hey stir the leaves in that bright month, Which Hope about her forehead twines Trif Grief's hot sighs around it breathe Thtn Pleasure's lip its smiles resijns. Vilas for Time, and Death, and Care What gloom about our way they fling! . J, ike cloud's in Autumn's gusty air, The burial pageant of the Spring. The dreams that ca.-:h successive year Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride, At last like withered leaves appear, And sleep in darkness, side by side. Tie approach of Atitaran.' But late the song of reaper Was heard amid the corn, Hut now an anthem deeper Unto my ear is borne, Of winds among the mountains - u- In their unruly play, With voice of swollen fountains That bear the leares away. The golden garb of sutpmer, Like earth my soul has lost, The breath of the dark comer Its wsy mini has crust; For my pirtl chtangeth With (tiie vary ing sky, .A a cloud estrameth The .wood-bird 's melody. Xove Folly.' , J,uve xA Folly were at play, Jlotii loo ion' lo be wise, j.tsaf full on', s nl in the fray 'Folly put out Curidey.es. Straight h criminal1 was tried, Ami had this puni'shmonl.a&signed, Tht Folly should tO'LpVe be .lied.. - "7 : ' " .1 i .i'.i.Vi.i: '' STROUDSB ORG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, Universal Fame. BY J. K. PAULDING. It is amazing to observe how little mankind know of each other, although the vanity of human nature whispers to every distinguished person, that his fame is, or will one day be u niversal. The myriads of Asia and Africa, with a few solitary exceptions, never heard of the illustrious heroes, siatesmen, poets, and philosophers of Europe ; and a vast portion of the latter, are ignorant of the very names of great men of the east. But instead of an es say, we will give our readers story to illus trate our meaning. It happened once on a time, that an Israelite, an Egyptian, a Greek, a Turk, a Persian, a Chinese, a Frenchman, an Englishman, a Ger man, an Iialian, and tin Ameiican. met by chance at a caravansary, somewhere in the east, and being all great travellers, speaking many languages, entered into conversation with each oilier. As usual, they all differed in iheir estimale of human happiness; the comparative value of the various enjoyments of life and, above nil, in their own individual im portance, in the scale of nations. Each one held up his own country as the acme of perfec tion ; and the utmost he would allow the oth ers, was a degree of merit exactly correspon ding with iheir approach towards the infallible standard nf his own self-importance. 'The Israelites,' said the Jew, 'were the chosen people ; therefore they must bo the mot true and virtuous of mankind.' The Greeks,' exclaimed the Athenian, 'were the brightest race that ever adorned the world. Look at their laws, their literature, and their arts.' 4 Pooh !' cried the Egyptian, ' you had noth ing but what you stole from us. You were ig norant barbarians, and so would have remained, if your wise men, as you call them, had not come to Egypt to learn their A B C 4 By your leave,' said the Persian, 'the na tives of Itak being the most ancient people of the earth, must have been the parents of all human knowledge.' , ' Hi Yah !' quoth the Chinese, 4 every hody knows my nation is the most ancient by at least forly thousand years, and that the foreign barbarians derhed all their knowledge from them.' ' Mashallah ' said the Turk, taking his pipe j from his mouth, 'Mashallah! there is no re-! ligion but that or Mahomet, and no knowledge but that of the Koran. The Israelites are tchoufouts, the Christians are dogs, and there is no truth but aiiiong the followers of the prophet.' Pesic !' cried the Frenchman--- there is no body knows the true ait of living but the French.' 4 There is no nation whose music is not in tolerable, but the Italian,' said the Neapolitan. 4 The Germans are all philosophers, quoth the native of Weimar. 4 Yes, but England, old England,' cried John Bull, 4 is the country for roast beef and free dom, nobody can deny that.' 41 do, exclaimed the lankcc. 4 1 he A mericans are the only free people in the world.' Mashallah ! whence did you come V asked the Turk. 4 From the New World.' 4 1 never heard of it before,' said the Turk. ' Nor 1,' said fhe Persian. 4 Nor 1,' said the Egpytian. 4 Nor I,' said the Chinese. 4 1 don believe there is any such place.' 4 Nor I,' eaid the Turk. 4 There is but one world, one God, and Mahomet is his prophet.' 4 What a parc6l of ignoramuses !' exclaimed the Yankee. As it is imnossible to setile the claims of nations by those loose generalities, ihe compa ny proceeded to particulars, cacti bringing for ward the greatest men and great achievements of his countrymen, in battle array, to support his pretensions to superiority. 4 Was there ever so wise a man as Solomon, so great a poet as David, &o brave a warrior as Joshua, who made the sun stand still, or such a prodigy of learning as Itabbi Ben Hammes- kenu, who wrote oeyonu ine compreueusiou oi all his readers V asked ihc Israelite. 4 Did the world ever produce such a hero as Napoleon, such a poet as Voltaire, such tragic writers as Coineille and Racine, such a comic one as Molier'e. or such a dancer as Veslris V cried the Frenchman. 4 Bah !' exclaimed the Englishman. 4 What do you think of Wellington. Nelson, Shalis- peare, Bacon, Locke, Newton, and all that sort of thing !' 4 They can't hold a candle lo Aruiinius, or Kant, or Gall, or Schiller, or Greihe !' said the German. Nor to Julius Caesar, nor Scipio, nor Vir gil, nor Cicero, nor a thousand others, who were all 'my countrymen, though they call them selves Romans,' cried the Italian. ; 'Pshaw!' said tho Yankee 4 all your he roes aud philosophers put together nvouI'I not make one Franklin, or half a Washington !' 4 Gentleman,' said ihe Greek. 4 you may 'jljoastVs much as you will.-but hadif- not bcon for Greek warriors, philosophers, poets and sages, you would all have remained barbarians to this day. What think you of Homer, and iEschylus, and Sophocles, Euripides, and De mosthenes, and Miltiades and Themistocles, and ten thousand others, whosevfame extends to the utmost ends of the earth?' 4 Who are these blockheads talking about V asked ihe Egyptian, the Chinese, ihe Persian, and ihe Turk, of each other. 'Talking of?.' cried the rest, with one voice 1 Of the lights of the world ; the children of immortality ; the heirs of universal fame!' 4 We never heard of their names before, and therefore, they must have been rather obscure persons,' was the reply. 4 But if you come to the Heirs of Universal Fame,' cried the Persian 4 What are all these to ihe great hero Rustand, aud the great poet Fordousi, who wrote a poetical history of Irak, in twenty thousand couplets? 4 Did any body ever read it V asked the Turk gravely. 4 We never heard of either,' answered all the lest. 4 Hi Yah !' exclaimed the Chinese. 4 Hi Yah! Your elder brother, Lon Choo, knocks heads and worships. What do you say to the great Moon of poetry, the light of ihe universe, Kwang Chung, lord of the Celestial Empire and head of ihe world, who wrote three hun dred volumes of poetry, in the interpretation of which, three thousand learned pundits lost their senses ? The whole universe is filled with his verses.' 4 We nevei heard of him before,' cried they all. ... 4 What a set of foreign barbarians !' said the Chinese. 4 And what think you of our great prophet Mahomet V asked the Turk ! 4 Mashallah ! his swdrd was invincible agaiiist the enemies of the faith, and his wisdom more invincible than his sword. All knowledge is contained in the Koran.' 4 It maybe, but we have never read it,' said they all, with the exception of the true believ ers. . 4 Dogs !' cried he, 4 may your heads be con verted into shoe brushes, and your eyes bo come blind as your understanding !' As is usual in these cases, contention suc ceeded argument, and abuse was answered by recrimination. Each being unable to establish his own claim to superiority, made himself a- mends by retracting from the claims of his op ponents ; and if all had been true which they said of each other, their neroes anil great men would haebeeti a parcel of miserable creatures, unworthy ihe gratitude, or even the remem brance of posterity. 4 And this is Universal I-ame !' exclaimed an old derrise, who sat smoking his pipe quietly in, a corner, without taking part in the debate, 4 lo beadored as a prophet in one, quarter of ihe world and abhorred as an impostor in the oth ers, to be a hero in one nation, an oppressor in the eyes of its neighbors lobe held an oracle of wisdom on one side of a river, an apostle of error on ihe other--to be venerated in one place as the champion of liberty, and stigma tised in another as a rebel and traitor and to be either unknown to, orhated and despised by more than one half of mankind. This, this is UNIVERSAL FAME!' Itliue Advertisement. Rundaway, or sdolen, or straid, mine pig plack Horse, apnut fourteen oder fifteen hands and six inches hie. He has peen got four plack legs, two behiut and two pefore, and he is plack all orer his pody put his face, and dal is plack too. He trods, an ganters, an baces, and vawx, and ven he vawx, his legs and feel all goes von after attoder he has two ears pon his head poih alike put von is placker dantloder ---he has two eyes, von is put out, and toderis pon de side of his head, aud ven you go on toder side he vorti see you ren he eaiq much he has a pig pelly and he has a long dale vol hangs down puhint, put I cut it short toder day, and now lis not so long as it vas-j-he is shot all round, put his pehiutl shoes conred off, and now he has only got shoes pefore he holts up his head and looks gaily, and ven he has been scairt he jumps apout like every ling in de world he vi 11 ride mil a satile, or a shazc, or a cart, or vill go py himself miiopi nopody put a pag on his pack mil a poy on it he is. not very old, and ven he vauxs or runs, 'his Head como pefore and his dale stays pohind, only ven he durns round and gits' mat, and den his dale conies first. Whoever yill pring him pack, shall pay five tollers reward, an if he prings pack da tief dat stole him, ho shall pay twenty tollars an ax no questions. Fat. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce states lhai the fees of the clerk in the District court, in bankruptcy cases, have amounted to fifty thousand dollars, and those of the assignee, Mr. Waddell, to one hundred thousand, while ih'J New York Courier has received over twon ly thousand for advertisements. florsc Flins. Flies will not alight for a mo went on anythlijg'baihed' ih pennyroyal. OCTOBER 12, 1843. Who and Wlaat I have seem 1 have seen farmers that went to the store oftener than they went to the mill. I have seen a farmer's wife take the last twenty bushels of wheat from the granary to purchase a new dress, yheni her husband, at the same time, had an execution standing against him. 1 have seen farmers that burned their straw when threshing their grain in the fall, and go begging the same article before spring to keep iliHir stock alive. I have seen a farmer that travelled one hun dred and four miles in tho course of a year to use Kis neighbor's grindstone, when two days' hihur wniibi nurchase one that would last ten years. T have seen a farmnr's wife that would prer rr c'nnr nrpiim ami :l ' visit' to sweet cream and hnme. 1 have seen young men that would pay ten flnlhiru fnr n 'snrne ' ihat wduld not nay one dollar for a newspaper. I have seen a hiother that called her.child a Kmi in tli rradh' and in two vears the child called her a harder namo. 1 ht,vp sitnn farmers that would carry their A J v produce fifty miles lo market, when they.could sell it at their own doors. for the same price. I have seen many farmers that would drink slouch water and have the ague six months, when four days' labor would dig a good well 1 lmv fn farmer's dauoliiers ihat were 'very accomplished' in every thing, except card- spinning, weaving. Killllins, cuuniing cheese-making, cooking, &c. T huvR sftRri :i fanner 4nut in' 80 acres of crops, and was under the necessity of purcha sin' srain for his family most of the year. 1 linvo Sfiftll those ihat will stick uip their noses at what I have seen. Prairie Farmer. Pleasures of Imagination. To think of ico cream when prostrated be neath the torture of a raging fever. . To read an author's description of, a charac ter distinguished by many excellent points, and fancy he has drawn vour own portrait. To dream of finding heaps of gold, not know ing next morning where to find a breaklast. To fancy yourself the particular object.of ad miration, when you are walking about with a dishrag pinned lo your coal tail. When an editor slips out some diabolical in uenda about somebody, to feel convinced in once that he is assailing you, and commence a suit of libel against him. To send an old poetical composition to a newspapef,'vi.ih your own initials attached, in fluenced by a desperate resolve lo be a poet any how. To start out in the morning with a pockei full of bills to collect, fancying you will come back at night with a pocket full of bank bills. To be assured that a brighi-eyed beauty is leering at you, when the young lady is afflicted by nature with a shocking bad squint. To be the aichitect of all your own houses, and, to avoid paying for land or employing a builder, erect them all in the air. 4 To open a creditor s note, threatening pro ceedings," fancying it an invitaiion to dinner. Carrying off a new silk umbrella, under the innocent delusion that it is your own. Flattering yourself with tho hope of assis tance from a rich relation. Safely in Thunder Storms. People often inquire what is the best means of safely during a thunder slorm, and a con temporary thus undertakes to enlighten them. ' If out, of doors, we should avoid trees and el evated objects of every kind; and if the flash is instantly followed by the report which indi-. cates that the cloud is very near a recumbent posiiipn is the safest. We should avoid rivers and ponds, because water is a conductor and persons in a boat are very likely to bo struck by the lightning. If we are within doors, the middle of a large carpeled floor will bo tolera bly safe. We should avoid the chimney, for the iron about the grate, the soot, and the heated ratified air, are all , conductors. Ills never safe to sit. near an open window, because a draught of moist ,air is a good conductor ; hence wo should close the windows on such occasions. In bed we are comparatively afe, for the feathers and blankets are bad conduc tors, and we are lo a certain extent insulated in such' situations. A western editor, who was recently robbed of a jack knife, a wooden comb, a brass rule, aud fire cents, says he is ruined; and shall be obliged to 44 take the benefit" of the insolvent act. The editor of the Baton Rouge Gazette i,s gelling to be very unscrupulous wo fear. In his last number ha charges down upon his de linquent subscribers in the following rery point ed terms: Monf.w If nnv of those who owe this office have anv money, or can get any honestly dishonestly, righteously or unrighteously-by work', theft, or murder, we wish to sl:,ar8 u ; willi them. The article is necciisa.ry o our gei-nlon3f-ativcnesa. No. 28; i Itiodcrn Geography. f "Jedediah, have you got your lesion ihi mormnsr "Yeth, Mather." 44 Who was the fir.it man ?" 44 Crithtopher. Cnlumlmih, thir." ...... " in 'iWr- " Who was the nrsi woman t 44 Queen Victoria, thir." "'T;' &j " Who is the greatest man ?" ' r- w " Pa thays as how Joliii Tyler ithV , 44 You pa is correct. How is Bos'jWBo-smi- cd?" . 44Bothton ith bounded on the rbouib H. Thouth Bothton Bridge on the nrh by Ghr I thea Ferry Boat on the raih i'V Ltg Wharfs and on the weth by Back-Bay." . 44 Well said. Now tell mu who is governor of Massachusetts?" Io nto cos Martin, thir." . . 4 What arc the staple commodities' of 'the- state?" " Clamth, Coontli and Codfish, thir.'' 4 " Take your seal you'll be a great man-' The Triumphs Seiessce. 44 A splendid triumph of, sciencr," said Mr., Muggins lo his wife; 44 a Doctor JI-ttini.,of Hartford, has given a boy a new hp, winch hti look from the cheeks." "Thai's nothing Pa, I saw the new DmMor take two lips from our Patty's ch-k ihe thtyt day, and the operation did n't seem to be at all painful either." . - " Mrs. Muggins, put ihat boy to bed as aooiT as possible." Smoking. . Physician : Madam, I can im lo'nger continue to prescribe for you, unless you throw away' ihat pipe! Patieni Why, la, Doctor, I .change the cob every day or uvo. Physician Niv matter, while you continue to. smoke at tall.' Besides, I see you do jioi change the sicm." That reed, madam, is filled whh the pill of to bacco, a dea.dly poison, the etherealizution oT which is sufficient to suffocate a rhinoceros! Horrid practice, ma'am, Oh, reform it a,W gether. Paiient La, .Doctor, how do ,yb'(i talk!. Suppose I should quit smoking ,,wHat should I do for excitement, .seeing 1 have no baby to nun. To Boys. Boys, listen to us. a moment. Do you wish to become good men and influential citizens? Do you wish lo command. the respect of the wise and good ? Then abstain from, all thai id evil. Go not into improper society; use ifc profane or indecent words; spea k no falsehotftj; never cheat; uev.er lie; be perfectly .honest: Remember your conduct now will have an ir fluence over your life. If you are viritibu and improve your time in useful pur.Miiis, ve have no hesitancy in saying ihat if yoli 'jve yoq will become ornanienis io society. On the contrary, if you yiefd.to bad examples anr i in fluences, have no xegsrd to virtue or 'ruth, break the sabbath, yanrler about with th pro fane and idle, during your leisure evcuiw g., we i ell you plainly that it will prove yoi ,r ruin. Be careful theti to do right, to have th e fear of God before you and lo '.valk in the pa th of in tegrity. Then your early days will lc precur sors of a glorious manhood and aa useful aud happy life. Portland Tribune. Nine Millions of JDolIarjmorc! The statement furnished by the Treasury Department to Mr. Slade of Vermon'., show's that the importation of fore'gu wooU in this country, within the last year, lias Callen ofTto the amount of nine millions of iJollars. Our people, it is not. doubled, we.'tr a s much cloth ing as ever and hence the supply of wool has had to come from American farmers. It is no uncommon fact noticed in il.0 easiern papers, that merchants in tlj'e cour.iry towns of some parts of New England a nd New-York, have paid tho present season from SO to 100,000 dol lars far wool. Tho wo.ol growers of the Eas tern States are at this time doing a brisk busi ness. A Lady Fi.ved under the Militia Law. A lady in New Orleans, having disobeyed that clause of the Militia Law which makes it ob ligatory upon a housekeeper to give tho name of any person liable to militia duty in his or her employ, or who dwells or boards in his or her house, whose name may be asked, has been fined, and tjie Court has actually granted an ex ecution upon her property to saifafy 'the claim. An American left New York 1st June, aud in 35 days risited Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Franco and Enjand. He was back in New York in 72 days whole cost $378 ! Whai would our groat grandmother think of this ? -A- f'llow walking through ihe Old Bailey, at l",'j tune of execution, when an Irishman was at the point of being turned off, inhumanely bawled out--. Are you there ? I always aid you would come to be hanged !' 4 You're a liar replied Pat, 'if it was the lastworr1 1 Usd to ay, I 'did, not come, 1 was brought' r-Z-
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