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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1844.
No. 13.
VOL 5.
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The Poor Man lo his dead Child.
Y!, lie thou there, my little one,
The death dew's on ihy brow,
Thy eyes are closed to flower and sun,
Thy pulse is quiet now.
No more ihou'lt ask, my famished boy,
For bread wiih wailing cry,
"While I'd have given flesh with joy,
But bread I could not buy.
Poor child! thy sharp, cold features speak
Of pain, and want, and care ;
Oft did the tear drops on ihy cheek
Freeze in the bning air.
Pui colder than the keenest wind,
Were human hearts to ihee,
Because, though claiming human kind,
Thy lot was poverty.
The proud one say 'tis heaven's award:
They but kind heaven obey,
To keep the gifts of nalure barr'd
From those who cannot pay.
Mv child, 'lis sadly sweet to think
Thou'lt never hunger more,
Nor gaze with wistful eye, yet shrink
From bread's inviting store.
But, oh ! my faded flower, for this
Was thy young being given,
To meet with nought but wretchedness,
And frowns from earth and heaven 1
Was this lhe pledge of cradled smile
That spoke the happy dream,
And gave me, worn with pain and toil,
Of passing bliss a gleam ?
Ari il yet, mayhap, ihy fate is bless'd,
And I should rather joy
That thy young heart the woes hae miss'd
That wait the poor man's boy.
The cold repulse, the galhng sneer,
That drives lo theft and shame;
The madd'niug thoughts 'he soul that sear
The scorn'd and blighted name.
0, yes; or haply worse than all,
Thou might'st have lived to be
A servile, crouching, flattering thrall
At some wealih-dagon's knee.
Than this, ihy eyes I'd rather close
On all thou might'st have seen,
-All stricken through with many woes
As thy young heart hath been.
Happiness in the World.
There is a great deal of happiness in this
vuiHl, if you know how to extract it, or rather,
w! would say, of pleasure. There is a pleas
ure in doing good; there is a pleasure, unfortu
nately, in doing wrong; there is a pleasure in
looking forward, aye, and in looking backward
also; there is a pleasure in loving and being
loved; in eating, in dfii king, and though last,
not Irast, in smoking. Wo do not mean to say
thai there are not t lie drawbacks of pain, regret,
-uid even remote, but there is a pleasure even
in shi'iit; it is pleasant lo repent, because you
3inow that you are doing your duty; and if there
i no re.n pleasure in pant, it precedes an execs-
when it has left you. We say again, thai
jl you know how to extract it, there is a great
-deal ol pleasure and happiness in this world.
" Sort Yourselves."
Thorp is a story of the -officiating minister at
Wam-hester Collegiate Churc h having to marry
thirty ciuipltj altogether on Whii-Monday. To
wards the end of lhe service, a female voice
tried out imploringly from ihe .midsi of the
crowd "Sir. you hate married me io the wrong
man." The fuuciionary called out "Sort your
selves," and went on.
Madness and its Remedies.
To the Editor of the Tribune :
I will thank you to give place lo the follow
ing: John Wesley's Remedy for the bite of a
mad dog :
1st. Plunge into cold waler daily for 20 days,
keep under as long as possible. This has
cured even afierjhe Hydrophobia was begun.
2d. Or mix the ashes of trefoil, or oak ashes
with hog's lard, and anoint the part bitten as
soon as possible; repeat twice or thrice, at six
hours iniermission. This has cured many in
England, and one instance particularly, a dog
bitten on the nose bja mad dog.
3d. Or mix a pound of salt with a quart of
water, squeeze, bathe and wash the wound with
this brino for one hour; then bind some fine salt
on lhe wound for 13 hours. The author of this
receipt was bitten six times by rabid, or mad
dogs, and each lime cured himself by this sim?
pie remedy. The above is an extract from Jno
Wesley's book of receipts for lhe poor of Eng
land. Hydrophobia or Cani.ve Madxess. The
following remedy (says a certain author) has
been successfully used by the sporting gentry
of Ireland, whose hounds sometimes got into a
rabid state. The experiment was tried soon
after a dog had bitten a number of his comrades;
all the dogs bitten but one had the remedy ad
ministered, and showed no signs of madness.
But the one which did not lake the remedy,
died in a rabid state. This was a fair experi
ment. An Internal Remedy for Hydrophobia. Take
6 ozs. filings of pewier, G ozs. of rue, the herb,
pulverized. 4 oz. garlic, 4 oz. mithridate, or
Venice ireakle, cut the rue and garlic fine or
small, mix lhe whole in three quarts of strong
beer, put the same articles in a vessel that can
be stopped light; put it in a pot of cold waier.
If the vessel containing the ingredienls be of
glass, wind a rope of hay around it to prevent
its breaking when boiling. Let it simmer for
three or four hours over a slow fire. Then
take, the vessel out of the pot of waler, and pour
out the contents, and strain and press or squeeze
the strength out of the herbs, and bottle the li
quor for use cork it well. Doses: For a dog,
one table spoonful- the first day; 2 the second
day; 3 the third day; 4 the 4th day, and 5 the
fifth day. Then for four days more, give five
table spoonsfuls for a dose each day, making
n'.ne days in all. The same remedy to be ta
ken and and in the same way, by man, woman
or child. Children under 12 years of age, take
the remedy in proportion. To be taken in the
morning. The sooner lhe remedy is applied
after the bile the beiier. Poultice the wound
with lhe warm ingredient1', squeezing the
wound. This has lhe appearance of a valua
ble remedy. Try it.
And vet another valuable remedy for Hydro
phobia, the bile of rattlesnakes, chunk head or
pilot snake, spider, &c. Take a while onion,
cut il across the gram into four equal parts;
sprinkle fine salt on the onion, and apply it by
bandages to the wound as soon as posible af-
ler being bitten by a dog, or spider, and the poi
son will run tip into the onion; repeat every
half hour with a new piece, or until there is no
discoloring of poison in the onion, and the poi
son is exlraded. Then a heaiinji plaster may
be used and the wound healed.
S. RUTMAN, N. J.
There are accounts in almost every paper of
persons coming lo an untimely grave from lhe
bite of mad dogs or poisonou's serpents. Hence
all tried antidotes for these evils ought lo be
made as public as possible. Accordingly lhe
writer of these articles feels in duty bound to
do something to alleviate, if possible, lhe suf
ferings of his fellow-men.
S. H. WEED.
New-York, June 17, 1844.
Let pach primer of a public Journal, or reli
gious Periodical, give these recipes an inser
tion in his paper'and he may do something to
prolong the lives of useful persons in the world,
and be none the poorer years hencjj.
An Apple without seed or core.
S. W. Jewell, Esq., in a letter to lhe Boston
Cultivator, says he has this year received some
"slips," (scions we suppose) of a kind of apple
ihal has neither "corenor seeds." The fruit, he
says, is only propagated near Ticonderoga, N.
l. The oriin of lhe variety is-giving in lhe
following words "The lop of a. young tree
was bent over and covered with earth which
took root; t he iree was cut asunder which stop
ped all connection with lhe natural roots of the
iree, and by sprouts which sprung from the top
portion of the body a regular top was formed,
which produces this fine fruit, said to liea beau
ftil red, ood size, very pleasant table apple to
be used in the fall."
Co:iiMSiug Answer.
An English gentleman, travelling in the coun
ty of Kilkenny, came to a ford, and hired. a boat
io take him acwixs. The waier being rather
more agitated than was agreeable io him, he
asked the boatman if any person was ever lost
in J lie passage. " Never," replied the boatman,
" my brother was drotrncd here last week, but
we found him next day."
.Jimmy Polk of Tennessee.
BY J. G REINER.
Tuxe " Dandy Jim of Caroline.
0, every day brings aometing new,
The Locofocos find il so,
And strange events have proved to Marlin
That doubtful ihings are "mighty unsarlin."
Chorus. At Lindenwald the Fox is hold,
The Coons all laugh lo hear it told
, Ha! ha! ha! such a nominee
As Jimmy Polk of Tennessee.
0, annexation was lhe yoke
That fixed Van like a "pig in ta poke!"
They poked it at the cunning elf
By poking Jimmy Polk himself!
At Lindenwald, &c.
And "Cass," poor fool, his chance has flown,
Like the "lone star," he stands alone ;
His "Texas letter" proves that he.
Should write his name without a C.
At Lindenwald, &c.
And Col. Johnson too, whose zeal
Burned bright for "Texas" and "Repeal;"
The Locos tho't Dirk "did'nt know beans,"
And so they poked up Polk for greens.
At Lindenwald, &c.
Bui Polk for greens won't save their bacon,
The parly lo its centre's shaken;
E'en Tyler and Texas now do say,
That Polk can't poke it into Clay !
At Lindenwald, &c.
And Silas Wright ('twas a good joke,)
Declined, Jie was not fond of Polk;
But, Silas we won't trouble you,
You're ''right" without the " W."
At Lindenwald, &c.
Next George M. Dallas they persuade,
Altho' he wore the black cockade;
And tho' he went the Bank and Biddle,
To Polk he plays the second fiddle.
At Lindenwald, &c.
Now "choke" and Polk will always rhyme,
And Dallas and gallows is very sublime;
They dosed the Fox on Poke root poison,
Huzza for Clay and Frclinghuysen !
At Lindenwald, &c.
The papers that you are always seeing lies in,
Go it it strong for Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen.
Faycttoille Carolinian.
Those who do best desere, the rope, and gallows,
Are those who steal for Polk, and lie for Dallas.
Oxford Mercury.
From the N. Y. Tribune
George M. alias.
The same Loco-Foco pamphlet which pur
ports io set forth "The Life and Public Ser
vices of lhe Hon. James Knox Polk," also pro
poses to rejoice lhe Hearls of lhe Faithful with
" A Sketch of the Life of the Hon. George
Mifilin Dallas." But those who take this in
hand, hoping to obtain therefrom any clear idea
of the public services and political principles
'of Mr. Dallas will be disappointed. They will
learn from ii that George has been a lavorite of
: fortune that he is the son of an able and il
lustrious Statesman, Alex. J. Dallas lhal he
received a very easy, lucrative, honorable and
desirable post (that of Secretary of Legation lo
Russia) about the time he came of age came
home about close of the War and went into lhe
Treasury Department under his faiher, and on
the death of his father returned to Philadelphia,
marriod a "rich wife, and betook himself lo the
law, which he has generally followed since
with decided success. The greal services done
to the Country by his father, in urging upon
Congress the measures which ultimately re
stored order and thrift lo our Finances, sound
ness and uniformity to our Currency, arc not
alluded to, but they are worthy of honorable
mention, and we will supply the deficiency.
On both the Bank and Tariff questions, Hon.
Alex J. Dallas was most efficient on the right
side, and probably for the creation of tho Uni
ted Slates Bank and the better features of ihe
Tariff of 181G the Country is as deeply indebt-
led lo him as to -aily other man. Others con
, stimulated, but he wisely planned and fearless
ly commended. His son George was with him
in the Department throughout this eventful pe
riod and till the Secretary's death, and doubt
less pariicipated thoroughly in the patriotic and
statesmanlike views of his illustrious parent.
We infer this not merely from their close rela
tion and intimacy, but Irom iha known senti
ments of Mr. Geo. M. Dallas in after years.
Mr. Dallas remained at the bar of Philadel
phia down to J 831, doing but a moderate busi
ness, in politics, inclining firsj. to Calhoun for
President in 1824, but finally going in for Jack
son with the rest of the Calhoun men. In 1831,
he was chosen to fill a two years1 vacancy in
the U S. Senate.
Here commences the really important
Hon of Mr. Dallas's history, tie came into
Congress at a most eventful season, and he
played no insignificant part there. His biogra
phers beliltle him sadly He was iwo years in
the most eminent Legislative body in the coun
try, when nearly every great measure and in
terest passed in review there. His voles, his
speeches, his propositions, are all of docided
consequence. Me had enjoyed no opportunity
to disiin.quish himself before; he has enjoyed
none al all equal to this since. Should we not
suppose that his Senatorial career the mea
sures he supported, ihe important votes he gavo,
would be held up in bold relief in a work which
is intended to make him known to the country?
Yet not one vole he gave is cited, not one prop
4 I 1 1 t ft
ostium ne mauc is neid up so view i w e are
very foggily told that he made a Pennsylvania
speech on the Tariff, and we arc allowed to
guess thai he went against Nullification. But
the facts that he made an out-and-out Protec
tive speech, and voted as a straight-out Tariff
man would, and that lie was so thoroughly for
Protection, or so anxious to ' let slip the dog
of war' on the Nullifiers, that he voted even
against the Compromise Ad, aro kept wholly
out of siht ! Yet this is The Life of George
M. Dallas !'
Not one word is ihere hero concerning his
course on the Bank and Distribution questions
you could not suppose from ihe body of the
work lhat such questions were discussed and
voted on while Mr. Dallas was in the Senate.
But on the most obscure pages of the cover, we
have a brief chapter on " Geo. M. Dallas and
the United Stales Bank," which says :
"In 1S32 and '33, Mr. Dallas represented
Pennsylvania in the U. S. Senate. In obedience
to positive instructions from the Siaie Legisla
ture, he voted for the extension of the Charter
of ihe U. S. Bank."
The above is all lhat is said directly lo the
poinl. Is this true? Why not publish ihcse
' positive instructions V We have done so, but
the Dallas eulogists dare not do it. They will
not let their readers see that the 'positive in
structions' were just no instructions at all, but a
mere expression of opinion lhat a United States
Bank contributed to the prosperity of the Coun
try. We are quite confident lhat this resolution
was passed long afier Mr. Dallas went io Wash
ington with the draft in his pocket and intro
duced a bill to recharter the U. S. Bank.
But more : Mr. Dallas declared, on present
ing tho bill, that he came there a willing as well
as virtually instructed agent of Pennsylvania in
supporting this recharter. He does not inti
mate lhe least reluciance quite the contrary.
He moves a Select Committee on his Bank
bill; is of course appointed Chairman; reports
back his bill, and lakes the lead in defending
it. He voles against every amendment offered
by Benton, Marcy, Grundy & Co. to cripple
and feller the Bank, and the Whigs vote with
him. Messrs. Clay, Webster, Frelinghuysen,
Clayton, &c. only vote as h argues ihey
should. Together, they kill any quantity of in-
in
i i mi. i t, ,t, q ,.! . ii .icuio o
carrv the bill through tho oenate ; it passes Hie
House; (both Jackson) goes to the President,
j and he vetoes it, stultifying Mr. Dallas's threat
! ening prediction ihal he dare not. It is return
'ed to the Senate, and Mr. Dallas again voles
lo pass it, over lhe head of the Veio and in de
j fiance of Gen. Jackson. All these are mailers
'of public record no man dream? of disputing
i them but they are concealed from the eyes of
I the readers of the Siamese biographies of Polk
land Dallas! Those readers are expected to
' believe that Mr. Dallas was in all his Bankism j
( a most reluctant victim of 4 the Democratic doc-
inne ol Instruction.' lJut the atiinors wen
know belter. They know thai Mr. Dallas, if
instructed at all, was not instructed to vote
against Benton & Co. on every minor proposi
tion and in favor f the counter-propositions
supported by the Whigs. How then can they
hope io cram this fraud down the throats of the
People ?
Then on lho Land Disiribuiion, Mr. Dallas
voted with ihe Whigs throughout, and against
the great mass of the Loco-Focos. Here, cer
lainly there is no pretence of Instructions. He
was ready and eager to help veto the Veto on
this bill, had not Gen. Jackson resorted to the
mil! more arbitrary and unlawful step of with
holding it in his pocket, so that it could not be
passed over his head. Ho voted three limes
with the Whigs lo once With lhe Loco-Focos
while in the Senate. But of all this we have
not one word in the life of Polk and Dallas !
We ask the public lo reflect on these facis,
and judge whether these men ought, on their
own showing, io be entrusted wiih tho Gov
ernment of the Country. Mind that we are not
objecting to the votes of Mr. Dallas we think
they were mainly right and proper. Neither
do we object lo his subsequent change of opin
ion, if change it be. What we object to is the
guilty suppression of facts, by his biographers
the dishonest concealment of their candidate's
most important acis and votes. How can they
hope to elect a man whom ihcy will not allow
ihe public id know? Is not their deceit their
just condemnation ?
por-iXhe Centre Democrat! Opmios of
Mnhlenherir in
JjTJ3 Looking over a file of the Contra Dem
ocrat, a few days ago, we found under ihe Edi
torial Head of August 29, 1835, the following
TWELVE REASONS
Why no Democrat can vote for H. A. Mufdenhcrg.
1st. Ho opposed lhe Democralie p:irty itr
1805 and 18t8, and stood prominent as ;m- en
emy of Governor Snyder.
2d. He ranked wiih lhe Federalists in 1812
and '13, in opposition to Madisnn.
3d. In 1817 and 1JJ20, Mr. Muhh-nberji was
one of the most virulent and persccuunir of the
Hiester party. Il was him that urg;d upon the
Hiesler administration, the. diMui.-al of tjvery
democrat, who held an office in lhe S'ate.
4th. Because in 1823, he commenced the
political campaign as the opponent of ihe dem
ocratic party, but afterwards, from family ami'i
tion, coalesced wiih his cuin Shuhzc i
5th. Because he was dedicated ami nrdainr-d
to the Sacred Ministry, which he descried i it
1828, for political prel'ernmut.
6th. Because Church and Stale should bo
kepi separate and unconnected.
7ih. Because he encouraged Ami-masonry
in 1829. and opposed Jackson and Wolf.
Sth. Because he dodged the Bank vote in
Gongress, assigning as a reason, that he was a
large Stockholder, and sustaining that monied
power up to the time he sold out his slock.
9th. Because in August, 1S34, he presided
at a meeting in Berks coHiity, and wrote the
proceedings, unequivocally declaring ihe worth,
ability, firmness, democracy and claim.-; oT Geo.
Wolf to a re-election, yet he unites with Anti
masonry and lends himself to divide and defeat
the Democratic party.
10th. Because his nomination was made by
faciion, in opposition io the expressed will of
the people, and in an entire disregard of lho
usages and customs of the democratic party.
11th. Because he is opposed lo our splendid
system of Inlemal Improvements, which now
yields a revenue of upwards of three thousand
dollars each day.
The edilor of ihe Democrat continued io ex
press the same opinion of Mr Muhlenberg up
to the time lhat the corrupt clique of Porter and
his office holders succeeded in opposition to
the will of the people, in placing him upon tho
ticket. Ho can now laud Muhlenberg, and
print the name of the honest old veteran farmer
who has never shrunk from his duty to hi
country or his fellow men, thus Joseph markle.
We have a few more choice extracts on file,
which we shall give from time io time in dose
to suil the patient. Bcllefonlc Whig.
The Editor of lhe Louisville Journal says
that when poke stalks produce hickory nuft,
and hickory trees produce poke berries, the
Locofocos will probably be able to pass Polk
off for a second Jackson, but not till then.
A loenfoco country paper says that " those
connected with the Polk family are tried pa
triots." We don't wish to contradict this asser-
I Hon, but we must say that the Whigs of tho
t - ... , ,
Revolution, if they could have caught Jame
K. Polk's grandfather most certainly would
have tried him ; and it is very probable, loo,
that ihcy would have hung him lo a branch of
lhe " first tree." Forum.
The last anti-tariff argument.
A day or two since, says the Clay Banner,
a promine.nl "democrat" of this town was dis
cussing lhe tariff question with a Whig, when
tho former exclaimed, "damn the tariff sinre
that damn Whig measure went inio operation
you cant get a girl to work for you for less than
a dollar a week as they can make more in tho
factories.
iTlaaiinioth Cave.
Twcnly-six large avenues and a third river,
larger than any previously known, have bso
discovered in the mammoth cave, Kentucky.
A sulphur spring of an excellenl quality of wa
ter has also bean found some miles within tho
cave. Boats of admirable construction have
been built expressly for lhe rivers, so lhat visi
tors desirous of taking a waler excursion a doz
en or so miles under ground, can be accommo
dated To Preserve Tomatoes.
Dip ihe ripe lomaioes in scalding water, peel
them, and divide them into two, or (if very
thick) into lhree slices; lay them on plates, and
put them into the oven after the bread is drawn;
in 48 hours they will be perfectly dried. Put
ihem in paper bags, and keep in a dry place.
When warned for use, dip them in cold water
and lay ihem on a dish to swell; and in a mince
or stew, they are almost equal to the fresh fruit.
If you wish io make tomaioe sauce, add a Iitilo
wa'ter to cook them in. They are very good
to eat out of the hand in a dry state.
Mr. Polk hires out his slaves by the day,
month, or year, as chances offer, the mine as
men do horses or catile. He is a sort of "liv-
Jery-stable keeper" of human beings !