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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..
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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;
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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'
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