mnmg.inMi.V The wholk art ok Government consists in the- art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL 4. STROUDSB URG;, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1844. No. -19. TEKMS. TvvoddUurs por annum in advance Two dollars ind a quarter, half yearly and if lint paid before the end of llic year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their ii ipen by a carrier or sUi?e drivers cini)Ioyed by the proprie tor. " ill be charged 7 1- ots. per year, extra. No paners discontinued until all arrcanigcs are paid, except at the option of the IMitors. lO" Advertisements not exceeding one square sixteen lines) will be inserted three ivceks for one dollar: twenty-Jive cents f ,r every subsequent insertion : larger ones in proportion. A lioeral discount will be made to yearly advertisers jrr All letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. .TOES printing jr. SUnns a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna.- 4 mental Type, we ar prepared to execute very description of fa Cards Circulars, I5E1 Heads, IVotcs, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &o. rnn'ed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable. I emu AT THE OFFICE OF THE .Icffersouiau liepubtieau. "God Bless You." I've listened lo the cold farewell, The careless, short good bye, When not a tear of sadness fell, Or tributary sigh. I've felt the pressure of ihe hand ' At parting, 'gainst my own, The severing of a happy band That long in love had grown, But never did they wake ihe thought The sweet God bless you' fondly brought. It asketh for a mightier power To guard the loved one here, When in the dreary tempest hour, Thou art not nigh to che'er. A firm reliance on his care, Who rulos above ihe sky, A irustingness that looks to share The watching of his eye: A hope that they who love thee well May in his favor brightly dwell. " God bless you" in long after years I'll hold it to my heart, And check the quick and bitter tears, That from their founiains start. I'll merii, with a soul-breathed prayer, In trusting fervor given, That great, all-mihv watchful care, Which thou hast called from heaven; And as I breathe it to the skies, Thy swept 'God bless you' shall arise. "Goosey, Goosey, Gander." A story is " going the rounds" that, a while since, some " evil minded" persons look twen oih; geese from a farm yard belonging lo a Mr. While. A gander, which belonged to the flock, was left behind, with a bag lied around his neck, containing twenty-one pence and the fol lowing poetic excuse, written on a piece of paper : " Dear Mister White, We wish you good night, We are sorry we cannot slay longer; We take twenty-one geese, At a penny a piece, And leave the amount with the gander." Kendall, of the 'Picayune,' girei us ihe following idea of what is considered rather 'a lively plac' iu the South-West: TJiey have a little town 'Out West' which ap pears lo have been overlooked by Dickens, and oilier English travellers of his class, and which is 'all sorts' of a syrring place. In one day they recently had two street fights, hung a man, rode three out of town on a rail, got up a quar ter race, a -turkey shooting, a gander pulling, a match dog fight, had preaching by a MethodiM circuit rider, who afterwards run a foot-race lor drinks "all round;' and as if this was not enough, the judge of the court, after losing a Year's salary at single-handed poker, and whip ping a person who said he didn't understand the game, went out and helpud Lynch a man for bog-stealing. Dancing. The following is ihe way they call out a "rrel" in Georgia: "Dance to the gal wi'h the yellow shawl on now down outside and up the middle turn to your partner, Isaac S.nasli and now to that entire stranger a chez to the right and left, ra de dan, da da de now to Peter Schwilchel's daughter lurn lo your partner every one set to the gal with the flaring frillbalance one and spin about to the gal wiih a hole in the heel of her stocking!" i - ' IVo Peaclies tliis Year. A gentleman assured us the other day that there wm.Id be no peach crop this year in con- -quti!!ce oT ihe ..recent hevere cold. Jle says I hat whenever the mercury sinks to twenty de- reis below zero, it intariaMy proves laial to litis tender frtiit. Springfield Gas. - Exportation off Wotsseu lo Virginia in 1G20. "The enicrprising colonists," says Holmes, "being generally destituio of families, Sir Ed ward Sandys, iho treasurer, proposed to the Virginia company to send over wives for ihe planters. The proposal was applauded, and ninety girls, "young and incorrupt," wero sent over in the ships that arrived this yoar, and the year following sixty more, handsome and well recommended to the company for their virtuous education and demeanor. The price of a wife at firsi, was one hundred pounds of tobacco but as the number begame scarce, the prrcjKnvas increased lo one hundred and fifty pouiuMJttho value of which, in money, was ihree srrniings per pound. This debt for wives, it was ordered, should have ihe precedency of other debt, and bo first recoverable." Another writer says that "It would have done a man's heart good 10 see the gallant yotmg Virginians hastening lo the water side, when a ship arrived from London each carrying a bundle of the best tobacco un der his arm, and each lake back with him a virtuous and voung wile. JLarge Gksjs The Philadelphia Ledger says that cannons of enormous size have Ion been known in Eu rnpe. At ihe siege of Constantinople by the Turks, under Mahomet II. in 1463, cannons, were used which required two hundred pounds of powder for a charge, and threw a ball weigh ing eight hundred pounds. Some of ihese en ormous engines still exist in the fortificaiions at the Dardanelles; and were used against the fleet of Admiral Buckworth, when ho forced that passage in 1810. One of these large balls, cut from a block marble, and weighing seven hundred and forty pounds, struck the admiral's first rate line of batllo ship between decks, and made terrible havoc. The account of this en gagement saj-s that ihe sailors were aghast with terror on witnessing the destructive power of'gving a liifl of experiment (commencing in those balls; a predicament by no means -usual for English sailors. Therefore such heavy cannon can be used, and they prove what is proved in all cases with smaller cannon, that size Is the measure of power. fAn irregular appreniice frequently keeping' late hours, his master at length took- occasion j to apply some weighty arguments to convince! him of the " error of his ways." Duting ihelhonev. This presenily'&ions either i chastisement, he continual! v exclaimed, "How- long will you serve the devil ?" The boy whim pering "You know best, sir I believe my in denture will run out in three months 1! .'" The number of journeymen Shoemakers in the United States, is estimated at 150,000! The Si. Louis New Era truly remarks that uu me uku i ue.-,, Literal in uie jmiiocme li .1 l .1 : . :.. ' of Europe were permil.cd lo bo introduced free or duty, nearly all the shoemakers of the United; Slates would be thrown out of employment. ! I he actual working men have a deeper interest in the maintenance of fair protective duly on foreign articles than any other class of people. inBUM vHu,.ss, ,roI,e.w 0, their workmen at ten cents per day, could crush all our infant establishments if the nroietiivc arm of our Government was withdrawn. . . situation, his horse mired in the swamp, and Remarkable Occurrence. WM Qny exlricatod fnun hl8 sinking puion As two persons, says the NorwicJi Cojirier,!by the dismounting of the rider and his conse were digging a grave on ihe loth inst., in Gris-jquent exposure about midway to the same fate, wold, Connecticut, one of them discovered a - Thus surmounting ihe first difficulty, liitle did hole in the grave near where they were dig-! our friend inir.nino, thai a more severe task ging, which inclined them to think ihere might be some animal within. They accordingly i commenced searching, and to ihrir. surprise i found a burrow ahnnt two and a h:ilf fpf l imltiw 'the surface, from which ihey extracted si.ly-j Thus circumstanced, ho waa doomed lo at ithree'black snakes, which were from threo to, tempt his retreat through the dark on fool, ta i five feet and len inches in length, and in a ra- king with him only his medical valiece. In ther torpid stale, so that they soon decapitated i this situation he commenced wending his way j lhem all. J hese snakes would probably aver ! age four feel each, and were they placed in a line, w,ou!d extend 283 1-2 fecL or more than 17 rods in leng'h. An Irish gentleman at cards having, on in spection, found the pool deficient, nx-claimed " Here's a shilling short! who put it iu?" Sunday gcgo-jticetiiis Uress i;s ITowr. The bucks in Iowa are said to go to meet ing in a pan of pantaloons composed of hemp and hop vines, a ve st made of a hornet's nest and paste, a shirt mauufacturfd of milk-weed and cotton, and to crown all they w.eur wolf akin caps and go barefoot. Whai will Mrs. Troflope say now ? The Farmers of Massachusetts have begun iheir spring work by scraping all lint old bark from, ihe apple trees; this process dettroys ihe caterpillars.' egg, and is well repaid by sound and abundant fruit. 'We havo'heard of a shoemaker in Connec ticut, who 'bought Huue-ohoc peg's made of rot ten wood Not being able to ue them, he took his knile and anarnenel tnc omer enu m them, and'than sold jhem for oat Chewing. A lady suggests thatif certain genilemen do not ccaae to expectorate so freely at church and at other public places, thoy;cannot oxpccl-to-raie very highly with the ladies. Chickcu niantifactory. The- New York Tribune, says : Nature is getting superfluous. We rather think she will soon be voted' ourof' fashion and dispensed with. There, is a chap just over our publication office, hatching Chickens in a big botr, filly a day, having a thousand eggs al ways doing. "The trouble of attending them is slight, ihe heat coats very little, and the chick ens crack their several shells and walk up to their dough and water like woodchoppcrs to dinner or sailors to their grog. They are. clean, strong and lively, grow fust and rarely die, (not being draggled through the grass;) and whoever has a hatching machine can have "Spring Chickens"' every week in the year, and at small expense. If wo could only invent a machine to lay eggs now, hens would be done wnh. nations wit&out Fire. Fire was unknown lo many of the nations of antiquity, and evan at the present day it is un known in some parts of Africa. The inhabi tant of Marian Islands, which were discovered in 1551, had no'idea of fire, and oxpressed the greatest astonishment on first beholding it, be lieving it to be some kind of living animal, which fed on wood. The inhabilants of the Phillipine and Canary Islands were formerly equally ignorant. V.'rotisht Irona Gnns. An article is published in the National In telliger, translated from a work of Capt. Meyer, 1460, and continuing to this time) upon wrought iron cannons. In all ihe expetimenls men tioned, -the guns bur?t. I3y the first in 1,460, James, King of Scotland, was killed. For pi (ting of Hiocd. Take two spoonsful of the juice of nettles at night for a week. Take throe spoonsful nf sage-juice in a little pining nr vomiting . blood. Take twenty grains of alum in walcr every two hours. Perilous AIvelsirc . Dr. T. A. II. Thornton, of Conyngham, Luzerne county, on Thursday of last week, as ; wc are credibly informed, encountered a scene ()f stlffering exceeding any thing we ever hoard, ' ,ure h Qr ThaXm had been on a proft5S!;i(m3i visil smue C0IJ3lderable dj3. ,n 'sllfi, v..,t r r..vi,...., .l i,; , ...!. 1.: A n.iriiiL t ti o i ... rmie . ,n . an ... mirr.miem. !d road on which ho traVeI!cd until he was obliged to leave it to go round a fallen tree, whe fae jos, hJ cours anJ wag eed lo i M. .t t. .i ..r .i' ..:u. I uum ilia n aj iiiiuuiju iiic uuiniiuas ui mo wiiji, in tnc lone wuuerness. in tins unenviable awaited him. He soon found himself and horso ; in another mire, tuirne than the first, from ! which he saved himself by abandoning his. ' knrcn lli rtoncr Ctrnz1 And mi t . ri i frli ! ftarlr ness, wAxvn sudueniy ms trouoies were cn hauced by ihe abrupt obtrusion of a still more formidable obstacle. Some living animal with shining eye-balls, here met him full iu the face! It was a huge ravenous WOLF! And now he had arrived ai a fearful and awful crisis! Alone in the wilderness iu tho dark unarmed far from human help and attacked by a ferocious beast of prey !!! What a situation ! In this fearful extremity, Dr. T. could only meet the assailant eTo to eye, assured lhat a re'treal; on his part, was certain death. Summoning lo h'u aid all the philosophy at his command, he loosened one of his riding tegons, in which ho infused spirits of Hatlshorue, and by walking backward all nighl, thus warded off the attack of his intended dstroyer ! After day-break tho Wolf disappeared. The Doctor thus cxhauuied and well-nigh overcome, succeeded in finding th nearest, in habitant," about 4 o'clock in'ihe afternoon, par lially related his adventure and swooned away, lie was finally taken home to his friendi and residence at Conyngham, where he is still con fined lo his room from the ellects of that peri lous 'adventure. We have sinro leomt'd that his bnrst has been 'ound-Golumbiq Jhqt'iirorx jhy0h f. ?Ct - ' I 1 t , - It Gcai. Josepii ISarkie. The Pittsburgh Mercury of October 15th, 1812, contains the following extract from a newspaper published at Lexington, Ky., under date of October 6th, 1812. " PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS." " A company of Volunteers from Westmore land county, Penna., under Captain MARKLE. passed through Zanesville, last week, on their route, to Urbanna. Two Volunteer companies of Infantry from Perm, are descending the Ohio to Cincinnati. They will join ihe North Western Army. The patriotism of the people of Pennsylvania vio with the people of Ohio and Kentucky. The North Western Army, of which the bravo HARRISON is commander in chief, will, we understand, amount lo ten thousand men. Two thousand of which will be Penn sylvanians, fifteen hundred Virginians, upwards of five hundred Regulars, and the balance from Ohio and Kentucky. They will vixdicath THE HO.N'Ort OF THEIR COUNTRY, THEY WILL REVIVE HER GLORY, AND WHEN PEACE BEAMS AGAIN UPON" US, THEY WILL RECEIVE THE BLES SINGS AND ENJOY THE REWARDS WHICH THEIR" PATRIOTISM SO JUSTLY .MERIT Extract from the Pittsburgh Gazelle, of Oc tober 9, 1S12. "Captain MARKLE'S troop of horso from We'stmoreland county, left Zanesville on Tues day the 29th ult. for Head Quarters at Urbanna. THEY RECEIVED A FEDERALSALUTE PROM A SIX POUNDER AS THEY CROSSED THE RIVER." 'Ihe first intelligence we have of Gen. Mar hie after his arrival at Head Quarters, is con tained in the following exiract from Niles Reg ister, December 19, 1812. The Westmoreland troop composed part of Maj. Ball's Squadron. Extract of a letter, dated Chilicothe, Dec. 2, 1812. We understand that a body of troops set out from camp a few days since, on a secret expe dition, to be. accomplished in twenty days. They are lo proceed to Xenia, and from thence to Springfield and Eaton, and from the latter place to that of their destination. The troops engaged in this expedition are composed of the following corps, iz : Major Ball's squadron of U, volun teers, and twelve months' dragoonsj 200 Simrall's regiment Kentucky ditto, 220 Select U. S. Infantry, Captain Elliot, 50 Butler end Alexander's companies, 70 540 Again, on page 282 of Nile's Register, of Jan. 2, 1813, in a letter dated at Chilicothe, Dec. 22, 1812, ihi paragraph is found : " A detachment lately set out from Franklin lon, on a secret expedition to the westward. They have been heard from when within a few days march of Mississincwa (Indian) towns on the Wabash, which appears to be their desti nation. They have not been heard from since, that I can learn of." This last speculation as to ihe destination of ibis " secret expedition," turned out lo be cor rect. We copy the following from Nile's Reg ister, pages 300 and 301, Jan. 9, 1813 : From the Freeman's Chronicle, Extra. Fiianklington, (O.,) Dec. 23, 1312. Buttle with the Indians. Captain Ilito has just arrived express from Col. Campbell's de tachment, which, it will bo recollected, left this place on the 18th ult.. on a secret expedition. From- him we learn the following account of a most obstinate and hard-fought battle, in which the valor, intrepidity, and firmness of the Ameri can troops shone with a lustre which has never been surpassed during the present war. On the 17th, afier marching all night. Colo nel Campbell, wiih his command, arrived at one of ihe MissiSsinewa towns, and instantly charged upon the town, drove iho savages across the Missisninewa river, killed seven of them, and look 37 of them prisoners only two of our men were killed in iho skirmish. While contending with the enemy at this town, ihey sent a runner to aitother of these towns, about three miles distant, which was" immedi ately evacuated. On ihe 18th,- before day break the horrid savago yell was heard, tho word was given to arms, and a most desperate conflict commenced. Captain Pierce,- of the Zanesville iroop, behaved gallantly,- and died nobly. Tneut. Waltz, of Captain Marble's com pany (front Greensburgh, Pa.,) tuas shot through the arm, and not being satisfied with that he again endeavored to mount his horse, and in ma king the effort was shot through his head. His death tons glorious. Captain Trotter, while charging with fury upon the enemy, was wound ed in the hand. Lteuts. Basey and Hickman were slightly wounded. A great number of horses were killed. The action continued with unabated fury for one hour, when tho savages were routed and driven in all directions. Capiain Hite slates thai between 20 and 40 Indians wore known io bo killed how many wounded could not be ascertained 37 were laken prisoners, Wo had-two officers and six privates killed, and three officers and iweniy three privates wounded eight supposed dan- gerous. The town where the battle was foimhi Was burnt, and three other towns were burnt without resistance. The Indians wbre of tho Delaware and Miami tribes, and entirely desti tute of any kind of valuable property. ' Ii was slated that Tectimseh, with 4 or 50J warriors, was about 15 miles from the scene of acitou, and our troops anticipated another smack on their return. The attack commenced on the right line commanded by Major Ball, who repelled. n wh.i lhat firm and manly couragu which is his dis tinguished characteristic. To attempt to he stow praise upon one officer, or tine private more lhan another, would be uuju-jt and ungen erous. All fought with, equal bravery and all deserve the highest encomiums. We copy the following from the Pittsburgh Mercury ofjslsi January, 1SI3:---. " From the Ohio Sentinel. "Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 30, 1812. "In the statement relative to the ba'i!; of Mississinewa, handed by myself, and publish:.' I in your paper of this day, I discover I havo been guilty of an omission which I hasten to rectify. The Colonel commanding being desi rous to give lo bravery its jttst reward, directs me to slate, lhat nbout the time the ch ire was made by Capt. Trotter, Capt. MARKLE, with about fifteen of his brave followers, and Lieu tenant Warren, wiih a fuw of his delach iifiit, made a daring charge on the enemy, perform ing ihe most dangerous duty in the bravest man nerf The Captain avenging the death of hts relation, Lieutenant Waltz, wiih his own sword. 'JOHN PAYNE, First Lieut. Ky. Volunteer." We find also in the Mercury of Jantnry 1 1. 1813, the following laken from a Greemhurgh paper : "The following letter was received iu town by Monday evening's Mail, from Capt. Alexan der, of the Greensburgh Volunteers.- Though written in haste, and not intended for publica tion we have requested and procured a copy. Wo like the generous and handsome manner in which the Capiain speaks of his brother offi cers. The letter is dated at Money town, I miles from Mississinewa lown, 18;h Dec. 1812: ' We arrived here yesterday morning, attacked and took this town. This morning wo wero attacked before dayj had hard fighting, attd were victorious. CAPT. MARKLE has dis TlNGUisHEDni msCLF". His company has suf fered. Waltz is killed, and two or three others. About thirteen of his men wounded ; some severe ly. Capt. Butlers men fought bravely. Thrir fire was destruciive. So of Capt.' Hopkins, and every oihcr that fought. Capt. Butler ha 1 one man killed and four wounded. My men had little share in the fight owing to our station ; but they will fight. We have thirty-seven pris oners. I think the enemy suffered greaily. Behind almost every tree blood is seen. I think they have lot at least fifiy or sixty. We will march on our ralurn this morning. Wc have no forage for our horses, and are scarce of pro visions. 1 think we will be able to make our way.' " It is proper to observe here, that the battle of Mississinewa was ihe first successful effort of our arms on tho North-Western frontier. It was bravsly fonght ; but the .suffering of tho troops was immense. The expedition was un dertaken in iho depth of winter, and the battle took place 120 miles from the head-quarters of tho armynnd lOO miles beyond tho limits of tho white settlements. The troops look wiih them only five days' rations. They were absent on the expedition eighteen days. Tho provisions wera exhausted on the morning of the battle, six days after the departure, and twelve before the return of the expedition. The troops were without tents, and there wa3 about five inches of snow on the ground. Some of them became so exhausted, that they reeled as ihey walked, and some of the most faint sub sisted by gathering and eating ihe scattered grains of corn, left where tho homes had been fed on the Outward march. Rut the principal 8ubistence was spice-wood tea. " 1 have seenj" says onoofthe troops, describing tho expedition, " Gen. MARKLE oficn muttering his men, and regaling himself at the samo iinu. with' a lin-cttp full of smoking spice-wood tea." Some estimate may be formed of tho compe tency and popularity of Gen. Mark', from tho declaraiion of one of the Delegates to the Lo cofoco Slate Convention from that county, u h- declared, after bi nomination, lhat he "should not be surprised if the General had one thousand majority in Westmoreland couniy that strong hold of Locofocoism. Telegraph. Hiist to Farmers. It is said that spirits of turpentine is a dead ly enemy of all iho inject tribes, consequently, will destroy tho bug or .worm which is found to pry on wheal and oiToVgrain. With a water ing pot, finely perforated in the spout, a person may sprinkle a field of ten acres," without using moro lhan two or three gallons. Tlje experi ment on-a small scale may easily be tried. '.Uer. Jour
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