The whole art of Government consists m the art op being honest. Jefferson.
VOL 5.
STROTJDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1844.
No. 9.
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LDEPEiDESCE I
Fourth of July Celebration at
Hamilton.
"Let 'Yankee Doodle' and 'Washington's
March' resound through our vallies, and the
Star Spangled Banner' unfold its glowing col
ors on ihe glorious 4th." A Citizen Soldier.
Soldiers cannot be Christians. A Hypocrite.
At a meeting held at the house of Jos. Trach,
Esq. at Hamilton, on Monday the 27th of May,
1844, the following measures in relation to the
celebration of the 4th of July next, were unan-
mously adopted:
1. Resolved, That an invitation be given to
the several Volunteer Companies in Monroe
county.
2. Resolved, That an invitation be gh'en to a
suitable person to read the Declaration of In
dependence, & one personto deliver an oration.
3. Resolved, Thai an invitation be given to
the several clergymen of the different churches
in Hamilton to attend on said day, and deliver
addresses suitable to the celebration of that day.
4. Resolved, That each Sabbath School, and
hinging School, are respectively invited to at
tend, and the Sabbath Schools to provide them
telves with appropriate banners on that day.
5. Resolved, That the several companies of
Volunteer soldiers, Sabbath Schools and Sing
jus Schools composing the celebration, meet at
) o'clock, A. M. precisely, at a Maple grove near
Kellersville. The procession will be formed
in the following order:
Chief Marshal.
Soldiers of the Revolution. .
Committee of Arrangements.
Orators of the day.
Ministers of the Gospel.
Volunteers.
Band of Music.
The Sabbath Schools.
Singing Schools.
Citizens.
Dr. Abm. Levering, Chief Marshal.
'Order of the exercises of the day :
1. Opened by singing and prayer.
2. Reading of the Declaration of Independ
ence bv James H. Walton, Esq.
3. "Hail Columbia," by the Band.
4. A National Hymn, sung by the meeting.
5. An Oration on Civil and Religious Liber
ty, and American Rights and Independence.
6. " Washington's March," by the Band.
13 cheers by the meeting.
7. An Anniversary Hymn, sung by the chil
dren. 8. " President's March, by the Band.
9. An Address to parents and children, on
the importance of Religious instruction in Abe
Enolish and German languages.
10. Singing by the Schools and the meeting.
11. An Address by a Minister of the Gospel
to ihe meeting and people in general.
12. Close by singing and prayer.
Orator of the Day John D. Morris, Esq.
Addresses may be expected during the day
by the Rev. C. W. Hoffeditz, pastor of the Ger
man Reformed Church Rev. G. Heilig, pastor
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church; and Rev.
Diehl, and Rev. John P. Hecht, pas
tor of the Lutheran Church at Easton.
The Volunteer Company of Easton, com
manded by Capi. A. H. Reeder, is expected,
-tmd alfto the Nazareth Band of Music.
The undersigned Committee respectfully in
vite raeh and every person in the vicinity and
county, and all who wth to partake the good
leelmgs of a celebration of National Independ
ence, to join heart and hand in the Nation's Ju
jbjlee. GEORGE L. SLUTTER,
JACOB STACKHOUSE,
JOSEPH TRACH,
JACOB MILLER,
CHARLES SAYLOR, Esq.
JACOB LONG,
Cocammee of Arrangements.
June,
BY W. C. BRYANT.
I gazed upon thy glorious sky,
And the green mountains round,
And thought, thai when I came to lie
Within the silent ground,
'Twere pleasant, that, in flowery June,
When brooks sent up a cheerful tune,
And groves a joyous sound,
The sexton's hand, my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain lurf should break.
A cell within the frozen mound,
A coffin, born through street,
And icy clouds above it.rolled,
While fierce the tempest beat
Away! I will not think of these
Blue be the sky and soft the breeze,
Earth green beneath the feet,
And be the damp mound greaily preat
Into my narrow place of rest.
There, through the long, long Summer hours,
The golden light should lie,
And, thick young herbs and groups of flowers
Stand in their beauty by;
The oriole should build and tell
His love tale, close beside my cell;
The idle butterfly
Should rest him there ; and be heard
The house-wife bee and humming bird.
And what, if cheerful shouts, at noon,
Come from the village sent,
Or songs of maids, beneath the moon,
Wilh fairy laughter blent.
And what, if in the evening light,
Betrothed lovers walk in sight
Of my low monument
I would the lovely scene around
Might know no sadder sight nor sound.
I know, 1 know, I should not see
The season's glorious show,
Nor would its brightness shine for me,
Nor its wild music flow ;
But if, around my place of 6leep,
The friends I love should come to weep,
They might not haste to go,
Soft airs, and songs, and light, and bloom,
Should find them lingering by my tomb.
These to their softened hearts should hear
The thought of what has been,
And speak of one who came to share
The gladness of the scene.
Whose part in all the pomp that fills
The circuit of the Summer hills,
Is that his grave is green,
And deeply would their hearts rejoice
To hear again his living voire.
Salt as a remedy for Cut Worms.
We give the following, from a letter from F.
J. Beits, Esq. the President of the Orange Co.
Ag. Society. The use of salt seems to have
proved an entire protection to his plants for
two years in succession. I his fact, it our rea
ders will remember and act upon it, may save
them enough to pay for the Cultivator for sev
eral years.
" 1 am making some very careful and accu
rate testa of the effect of various saline manures
upon maize, this year, the results of which 1
will communicaie to you m due season.
"A good deal has been said in the agricul
tural papers about the effect of common salt as
a manure, and also as a remedy for the cut
worm. I used it last year, as you will proba
bly remember, sown broadcast, at the rate of
two bushel per acre, and my field escaped the
ravages of the worm entirely, all hough my im
mediate neighbors were all complaining of its
being uncommonly destructive. Last fall, I
was planting fruit trees in the field which I
have this year appropriated to Indian corn, and
1 found the soil literally filled with ihe cut
worm. I again sowed alt in the same quantity
as last year, immediately before plowing the
ground this spring, and I have not lost a single
plant from its ravages, and I believe therefore,
that there is no doubt ihat salt is a certain rem
edy for that pest of the agriculturist. Albany
Cultivator.
Another Prophet in the Field.
A negro fellow, in the Choctaw Nation, has
commenced preaching a new doctrine. He
says that bell comprises a certain number of
square acre, and it is ordained that so soon
as that dark hole is filled with sinners, evil
shall cease to exist, and these regions be of no
fori her use. He makes a mathematical calcu
lation, and proves to a demonstration, that a
sufficient number of sinners will die in fiftaen
years, to fill up the "bottomless pit." All who
die after the year 1859 will be .saved. So heie
goes to patronize the butcher, baker and doc
tor; anything to prolong life until the "bottom
less pit is filled up." f$t. Louis Gazette
From the Baltimore Patriot.
The First Poke.
Tune "Old Dan Tucker."
Calhoun, Buchanan, Johnson, Cass,
The Locos say may go to grass,
And so they give us Polk and Dallas,
That Whigs may send them to the gallows.
Hurrah for Clay and Frelinghuysen,
The day's our own, 'tis past surmisin'.
Their own true friends ihey would dishearten,
And clip't the wings of poor old Martin ;
To calls of "justice" ihey proved callous,
And rictimiz'd poor Polk and Dallas;
Hurrah for Clay, &c.
The people say 'tis not suprisin',
We go for Clay and Frelinghuysen
The ship of stale needs no such ballast,
As James K. Polk, and George M. Dallas;
Hurrah for Clay, &c.
The Locos swore they'd have no Mat's,
And fought as did Kilkenny Cats,
Two tails were left whose were they tell us?
Twas James K. Polk and George M. Dallas.
Hurrah for Clay, &c-
Fruit Trees.
The method of raising fruit trees by planting
the scions, is a great desideratum in the art of
obtaining good fruit. It has many advantages
over grafting, because it is more expeditious,
and requires no stock or tree. They may be
planted where they are required to stand, and
the labor for one day will be sufficient to plant
out enough for a large orchard after scions are
obtained. The method of preparing the plant
is as follows: Take the scion as for grafting,
and at any time after the 1st of February, and
until the buds begin to grow considerably! and
dip each end of the shoot in melted pitch, wax,
or tallow, and bury it in the ground, the buds
uppermost, while the body lies in a horizontal
position, and at the depth ot two or ihree inch
es. We are informed that trees obtained in
this way will bear in three or four years from
the lime of planting. We have no doubt of the
practicability of this method of raising fruit.
A gentleman in this vicinity the last season
planted about twenty scions of different kinds
of pears, which appear to flourish. The com
position he used was melted shoemaker's wax.
Albany Cultivator.
Core of the bite of a Spider.
The Baltimore Sun says " We yesterday
published a case of death resulting from the
bite of a spider, which has induced a corres
pondent to send us a cure for similar cases. He
says ihat the leaves of green plantin, smashed
and applied lo the wound and the free drinking
of strong tea made of the same herb, is an in
fallible and speedy remedy."
ISodcru Appetite.
" Mrs. Spriggs, will you be helped to a small
hit of turkey?" "Yes, my dear Mr. Wilkins,
I will." "What part would you prefer, my
dear Mrs. Spriggs?" "1 will have a couple of
the wings a couple of the legs some of the
breast the side bone some filling, and a few
dumplings, as I fuel very unwell to-day." Wil
kins fainted.
Something Cool.
On the 17th instant, a pocket book was lost
in the Bowery, New York, containing $50.
The losers insetted an advertisement next morn
ing in the Sun, offering $10 for the return of
the property. In the course of the. day, thry
received the pocket book, accompanied by the
following note, instead of the money:
" New York, June 18th, 1844.
"Gent. I am the happy finder of a pocket
book lost in the Bowery yesterday, containing
S50, for which a reward of $10 is offered in
the New York Sun of this morning. Being in
want of money, I have concluded to appropri
ate the 350 to my own use, and return you the
book. Should any compunctions of conscience
visit me hereafter, 1 may return the money; hut
for the present I can use i'. profitably. God
forgive me.
THADEUS."
Death from swallowing a Bone.
A post mortem examination was recently
made, says the Calais Journal, by Drs. Holmes
and Porter, upon the body of Theodore Jelli
on, Esq. of this town, who departed this lite
the day previous. About fifteen months ago,
the deceased supposed he swallowed a bone
while eaiing a dish of soup, lmmediaiely af
ter he was attacked with a severe cough and
pains in the chest, which continued until dca:h.
The examination confirmed the truth, of the sup
position. About an inch and a half helow the
niftiriealion of the bronchia, in the right lung,
was found a roogh fragment of beef bone, meas
uring an inch in lenjjth, half an inch in width,
and a quarter of in men in thickness.
SOMETHING FOII THE GERBIAWS. j
Henry A. 31 ulilcnberg's vile and in
famous iander upon Germany and
tlie Germans.
The following fetter, together with several
others, written by Mr. Muhlenberg while in
Austria, was addressed to the editor of the
"Readinger Adler," and originally published in
that paper, and copied from it into nearly all
the German papers of the Commonwealth.
Both the letter and the author were denounced
in the strongest terms. The letter now pub
lished we find in "Der Freiheits Freuitd and
Pittsburger Boehachter," of ihe 15th March,
1839. What will the Germans of Pennsylva
nia think of the man who has thus ridiculed
and -slandered the home of their ancestry?
And what must be the feelings of the emigrant
Germans when they see themselves and the
laud of their nation thus vilified and abused ;
and that, too by a man who is asking them for
their votes as a candidate for Governor?
LETTER FROM EUROPE,
To the Sen. Editor of the Reading Eagle, dated,
Vienna, Nov. 30th, 1838.
Dear Friend: I hear so seldom 'from my
friends in America that I have almost become
home sick. Indeed, it would be strange if an
American abroad should not become so. One
sees, it is true, much to be admired, much to
be praised, and much to bo imitated ; but as to
happiness in common life, the moral condition
and political relations, the preponderance is
upon the whole, so much in favor of our own
country, that one may indeed be proud of being
an American. It is absolutely impossible for
a native American to travel over Europe and
not return with renewed patriotism and thank
God that he is an American citizen and that he
and his children may live there. But I dislike
to say much of this at present. If God spare
my lifo, and I am permitted again to tread upon
and kiss the soil of my native country, I shall
give you a more copious description in detail.
After a not very pleasant voyage, during
which we had almost daily rains and contrary
winds, we landed on the 26th day after our de
parture from New York, at Havre, in France.
With my own luggage I had not much difficul
ty, but the other passengers not a little, since
even the hand baskets and reticules of the la
dies descending from the ship were searched
through, and all trunks instantly taken to the
custom-house, opened and rummaged, in order
to find prohibited articles, which were immedi
ately confiscated, and the owners fined besides.
Tobacco, silk goods and clothes of every kind,
which were not yet transformed into garments,
they were particularly keen in searching after
and there were some comic scenes, that may
in future afford occasion for laughter.
In Havre we were not a little astonished at
the dresses and the whole appearance particu
larly of the country people. Thev much remind
me of our ROUGH MOUNTAINEERS.
The women all wear caps, some a foot and
a half high, and many pointed like a sugar
head. From Havre we went with a steamboat
up the Seine to Rouen, the capital of Norman
dy, where we remained one day to view the
Cathedral, one of the most ancient and splen
did, not only in France but in Europe, besides
other curiosities. The banks of the Seine,
from Havre to Rouen, are very beautiful.
There are many splendid palaces and beauti
fully situated villages; but the collages of the
country people are very poor, low, and almost
all covered with straw, not much better than
the pig pens of our wealthy farmers. They
look romantic enough but want every comfort.
After leaving the bay, formed by the river at its
mouth, it is pretty much like the Schuylkill,
only somewhat .deeper, to Rouen ; from thence
to Paris it is not so wide, and yo shallow, too,
that it is hardly navigable by small boats. We
left, therefore, the river, and travelled overland
in a fast line stage to Paris.
It is an enormous city, with about 900,000
inhabitants The houses are very high, the
streets very narrow, and extremely dirty, with
out (pavements) sidewalks for foot passengers.
Every place is swarming with people, so as
scarcely to force oneself through ; and the crowd
and 'stench makes one anxiously long after
God's free air. How men can freely choose
such a city to live in is inconceivable to me.
Only the magnificent public gardens, which one
finds there, and they are indeed most beautiful,
can render the place, in some measure tolera
ble. One may spend a month here ; for the
palaces, galleries of painiings, exhibitions of
all conceivable works of art, public libraries,
etc., are beautiful to admiration and very attrac
tive. The King, and the whole royal family,
(and I had the honor to be presented to them,)
are tery kind and affable. The King .talked
much with me of America, and remembered
manv a family that he had known in Philadel
phia. He don't appear to enjoy the best health,
and after his; drceao, troubles may arise again
jn France, ibal morally w extremely corrupt,
. -A
and seems neither fit fur a republican nor mo
narchical government.
In Paris I bought a travelling carriage, amb
travelled with post horse by way nf Mrtix,
Thierry, Eperney, Chalos, Verdun, Mei, ami
Phalsbourg, to Strasbourg, a distance of nearly
500 miles. Verdun, Meiz, and Phalsbmirg, a-
well as Strasbourg, are strong fonrwsse.i, and
have numerous garrisons. Bel ween Maux
and Thierry enormous masses of French Bu
Millstone are dug out. By Epprrnuy and Cn
lons the noble Champaigne wine is grown, :unf
we enjoyed the same. The soil is poor and
chalky. The vines, as is done every wh:n: uv
France, are kept low, and the vineyards resem
ble our cornfields, after attaining to hall" thir
growth ; but without having i he fiu lively
green of those fields. From Paris to Mez tho
country is neither beautiful nor of superior qtal
ity, but is cnltivaiKd with great mdiHiry, mid
every foot made me of. Of villages there art
a great many ; BUT THEY HAVE 1URELY
ANY THING ATTRACTIVE ; ON THE
CONTRARY, THEY ARE VERY UlRTY,
THE DUNGHILL IS NEARLY ALWAYS
DIRECTLY BEFORETHE HOUSE DOOR
SELDOM MORE THAN A FEW STEPS
OFF, AND VERY OFTEN 41 EN. HORSES.
OXEN, PIGS. CHICKENS. &c. LIVE
UNDER ONE ROOF. TOO OFTEN THIS
IS THE CASE IN GERMANY; AND THE
CONSEQUENCE IS, THAT ONE scarce
ly KNOWS HOW TO SAVE ONESELF
FROM FLEAS AND VERMIN. THE
BEST HOTELS ARE FULL OF THEM ;
AND EVEN IN THE PALACES OF
KINGS THEY SAY ONE IS NOT SE
CURE FROM, THEM.
By Metz you come into ihe valley of Mo
selle, and this region is indeed beautiful. One
day's journey from Metz you come from St.
Avoid to the Voigts mountains, which resem
ble much our Blue mountains. On ihe summit
find Phalsbourg, and at ihe other foot Saverne,
where you get plenty of excellent trout, per
fectly equal to ours. From Meiz to Strasbourg,,
the frontier town of France, on the Rhine,
much German is spoken In Strasbourg th
Munster tower and the church connected with
it are very remarkable. The lower is said to
be the highest in the world, and built entirely
(of stone. The armory loo, which conlaiu
; 300,000 muskets, is remarkable.
By Strasbourg we went over a bridge of boat
across the Rhine-lo Kehl, in ihe Grand Dotchy
of Baden, and visited Badei.-Bud.eii, Rastadt,
and Carlsruhe, the Grand Duke's residence.
Baden-Baden is a celebrated place for baths,
and has very hot sulphur springs. The situa
tion of the mountains is very fine, and much
like our valley, only somo'whut more diffused
and embellished with ihe most magnificent im
provements. Below ilu-. caslle, as it is called,
are found the judges' iall and the prisons nf
the old celebrated Kn;isht of the Vehrne. On
the top of the mountain ts an old decayed cas
tle, th remains of grey antiquity, which, one
must contemplate wi',h admiration. Carlsruhe
is a new, and llvere,fore beautiful town, perhaps
one of the inoa' beautiful in Europe, and is sur
rounded with beautiful improvements.
Baden is akogeiher a very beautiful and ex
cellent co'jniry, in the highest state of cultiva
tion, and seems richly to reward the labor of
the huf.bandman. think I have found more
cleanliness there than in any other part of Ger
many. The habitations of the country people
appeared very pretty, and their inhabitants con
lent. The Grand Dutchey is not wide, but
has a great length on the banks of the Rhine.
it contains 1.232,000 inhabitants, of whom 20,-
000 live in the residence of Carlsruhe. About
Farther Rhine I found myself disappointed.
By Vehl he is no: wider than the Schuylkill
near Reading, but flows a little more rapid and
deep.
From Carlsruhe I went by the way of Wil
perdingen, Pforxheim, Illingen, Bahingtm, and
Schwieberding, to Huttgarl, where I remained
nearly a whole week, and took a view of the
whole surrounding country. RosensteinrCon
stadt, Lewisbourg-, Bearcastle and the park
connected with it, where I saw, for the first
lime, wild boars. The Solitude, the royal
siuds by Wiel, where Arabian and English,
horses are brd ; the agricultural institutes by
Hokenkeim, where I found the Swiss cows,,
particularly fine. Wurlemhurg has 1,700,600"
inhabitants, Hutigart 23,000. It h a beautiful,
very fertile country, and is cultivated wilh ex
treme industry ; but is much too small for the;
number of inhabitants, and therefore many earn
but a needyfvelihood. The country is much,
broken ; resembles our Washington county,
and even the hills and mountains are fertile.
There it is where you find the finest vineyards,
hut which are cultivated with much trouble,
Except some kipda of Rhine wine, they am,
like all German wines, much to sour for Amer
ican taste.
From Huttgarl we proceeded over Ppslin
gen, Plochingen, GeOppingen, Lwtt.hautR to
Ulm, and then into Bavaria, to the ancisnt, free,
imperial town of Augsburg, where much wnrth
seeing detained me many days. A short day's
jnurney from Angsburg lies Munich, the capi
tal of Bavaria, with a popaJatiom of 95,000 &e?U.
t