i J j'"l' -t T l? f4 N The whole art ok Government consists in the art op being honest. Jefferson. VOL 5. STROUDSBURG. MONROE C.OUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1844. No. l-5 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY tFRMS Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars . Ji a miartcr. half yearly and if not paid before the end of fhfT t-car Two dollars anil a half. Those who receive their IvmrVbv a'carner or stace drivers employed by the propne ?o will be charged 37 1-2 ets. per year, extra. .V pa ers discontinued until all -arrearages are paid, except ,Mhp ontton of the Editors. Vr? Vdvcr! scalenus not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) .nbe inserted three weeks for one dollar : twenty-live cents f,r prerv ubecuent insertion : larger ones in proportion. A serai amount will be made to yearly advertisers ID 01 letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. Having a pencral assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental Type, we are prepared to execute every description of C:ird, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER SLACKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Pnntol with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE JTeffersoniaa Republican. From the Louisville Journal. Clay and JFielingiinyseu. What lruimpli tones upon ihc air, What free exulting shouts are these; Whence come ihe songs of joy we hear, Thus borne on every passing breeze ? What but a nation's mighty voice, Hailing the act a good and wise one, That links with Clay's, (our fifst, high choice,) The honored name of Frelinghuysen ! God's blessing on those honest men! They were a nation's filling voice ; And nobly did iheir calling, when Of Mich as these ihey made iheir choice! In the high catalogue of names, Our suffering country most relies on For aid, are none more nobly Fame's, Than Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen. Swift as ihe ruddy beams of morn, That rend the darkly curtained night, The tidings fair, by zephyrs borne, Have robed our skies wiih gorgeous light: From North to South, from East lo Wesi, The wild exulting shout Mill flies on, That tells by freemen's hearts are blest The names of Clay and Frelinghuysen ! And from each corner of our land, Is heard the cry up! to the right! Beneath our dag we'll proudly stand, And do high battle for the right! In Mich a cause we will not quail, Victory tt-e set our hearts and e3es on; All know "there's uu such word as fail," With Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen ! The h way -of tyranny and wrong, Hath uerued each heart with purpose high ; The clouds of black misrule, too long Have darkened o'er our country's sky, W hile one bright ray, alas ! but shons Too briefly on the dark horizon, Where soon shall mount the glorious sun Of Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen ! A sad accident occured in Newark, N. J., fn Friday last. A young man presented a gun at his bister, a young lady of 20, playfully re markino, "Vll ahoot you," and pulled the trig ger The-charge entered her lower jaw, ai.d went through into the left shoulder. She is fchockittolv wounded. The brother, who did tmt know ihe gun was loaded, is quite frantic. Drunkards Shall isot Marry. The Government of the principality of Wal aVk. in Germany, have given public notice lhat no license to marry will hereafter, be granted '(any individual who is addicte'd to drunken ties?.; or if having been so, he must exhibit full I'Kmls that he is no longer a sdave to this vice. The same government have also directed lhat tn every report made by the ecclesiastical, mu "leipal, and police authorities, upon petition for license to marry, the report shall distinctly state whether either of the parties desirous of enter '" into matrimonial connexion, is addicted to intemperance or otherwise. Smilks. The ladis havo many kinds. t here is ihe smile of recognition the smile "I coincidence in opinion the smile of encou 'agement when -wo are -titempiing to do some 'lung difficult the sniilr of approi-ation when l' t dftue thtt smile of auuse.d fancy at our "iiveration -the smile. of hope, if we venture apire. But the gr-at smile, the smile impe ftal, in that which says, plainer' than words, von have won me !" That smil never leaves "i"" memory, e.ren after- sh who gave It has. "lonlderod in ihe tomb. B-r it in mind that James K Polk is op ined tq ihe Tariff of 1342. A Yankee Shoemaker. 4 You hain't no occasion for a jour nor nothin', I spose,'said a jolly son of Crispin from the land of wooden nutmegs, as he entered a shoo es tablishment with his kit nicely done up in his apron. 4 Wonder if I hain't,' was the reply of the Boss. 'Why I should like a dozen if I could got 'em; but what kind of a shoe can you make?' '0, as tn the matter of that,' said the snob, I reckon how I can make a decent sort of a craft.' Spread your kit :hen,' said the Boss; 'I'll give you a pair to try, and if your work suits me I can give you a steady seat of work.' Crispin was soon at it hammering and whist ling away as happy as a clam at high water, and the Boss was called away on some busi ness which detained htm two or three hours meanwhile the tampering jour had produced a thing which bore some faint resemblance to a shoe, and feeling somewhat ashamed of it, hid it in a pile of leather chips thai lay on the floor, and proceeded to make another, which he had barely time to finish when his employer enter ed and began to examine it. 'Look here, mister, said he, 4I guess you need'nt make the mate to this; it is the greatest botch that ever was in my shop, that's a faci.' 'Pr'aps you'd like to bet a trille on that,' said the jour. 'Bet,' respondfcd the Boss, 'why I'll bet a ten dollar bill against a hand full of tobacco that there never was a shoe made in this shop half so bad as this.' 'Done,' says Crispin, at the same time cast ing a sly wink at his shoprnates, 'but stop, let me see if I've cot so much of the vceed with mc. Oil yes, here's a whole hand of Cavendish,5 and , laying it uu ute cuumg uuaiu, ne n;"-u ; suggest the propriety ol having the sue' sKin laid along, the side of it, which. was no sooner done than he proceeded to draw from its hiding' place the other shoe. 'Here, boss,' said he, you must decide the I bet; say which of the two shoes is the worst.'! 4 Well,' I guess I'm fairly sucked in this time,' I replied the boss, pushing the Lavendtsu and shin-plaster toward the rightful owner, and throwing a ninepence to the youngest appren tice. The boy needed no farther instruction as to his duty, but was off in the twinkling of a bed-post, and soon returned with a quart of blackstrap. After all hands had sufficiently re galed themselves, the shrewd yankee put his sticks together, and bidding the boss a hearty good bye, Marled again on a tramp, very well satisfied with his forenoon's work. A Tall Youth. Thf.y are growing a giant at Ooxsackie, in New York State, who promises to overtop all competition in this country or Europe. His name is Nathan Lampntan, and he is sixteen years old, weighing 198 pounds, standing at this time 7 feet 1 inch in height, and growing "like mad." He is described by Dr. Smith as 4,a great tall, awkward good natured sixteen years old boy." He is believed already to have the longest legs on the continent, and has ac tually grown nine inches the last year. He is an ambitious youth, and has great desire to out grow all creation; an aspiration quite likely lo be reached, for he has good health and good habits. The Doctor thinks he will reach ai least another fool, and on the whole we havo a very good prospect of raising an "Empire" Gi ant. Saratoga Springs. A census of ihe population sojourning at Sar atoga having been laken by the editor of ihe Republican, he gives the following report: "The number of visitants now in town is over 3,000-which may lie classified as follows: Married. 1,000; unmarried, 2,000; old bache lors, 400; in pumnt of wives, 875; in purMiit of husbands, 900; Gentlemen, 800; Ladies, I, 100; loafers, 500; blacklegs, 240; pick-pockcia, 25; politicians, 700; pious folks, 1,400; infidels, 800; freethinkers, 600; nothingarians, 200; in valids, 540; in pursuit of pleasure, 1,700; spring water drinkers, 1.400; wine drinkers, 1,500, !fops and dandies, 700: flirts, 800; flats 1,000; J men of sense, 200; bells, 14; beauties, 7; but terflies, 250. To all these may be added 2,000 ! citizens, including 200 porters, 300 wallers, $60 chambermaid, 50 scullions, 40 scavengers, 80 hostlers, J 00 loafers, 400 suckers, 620 ne groes and 100 "ambler.-; also any quantity of j good-for-nothing-know nothing vagabond's, who only live to be so many pests to the place they inhabit. Such a medley of human character is an interesting subject of contemplation ofthe philosophical observer, and e intend, as soon as other claims upon our attention are disposed ixf. U) devote a chapter to some of the moM prominent clans now congregated at Saratoga. Hoarseness. One drachm of freshly scrap ,ed horseradish root, to be infused with four ounces of water, in a close vessel, for two hours and mide into syrup, with double its weight in vinegar, is an Improved remedy for hoarseness.; a leaspoonful has often proved effectual, a few (easpoonfnl, it is said, have never been known to fall in removing hoarseness. t From the United States Gazette. The Campaign The Spirit in which it is carded ou hy the JLoccs. It is apparent, and becomes daily more and more so, that the present campaign, or canvass for the Presidency, is to be carried on in a spir it of bitterness and malevolence, on the pari of the Locofocos, hitherto unprecedented in this country; that instead of discussing ihe princi ples ot the two parties before the people, and frankly avowing what measures they are for, what are the views and opinions of their can didate with regard to the measure considered more important at the north than all others, 'the leaders of lhat party are resorting to the most reprehensible misrepresentations in regard to these views and opinions, and the basest slan ders ofthe Whig candidate. We havo seen and conversed with a gentle man who has lately returned from a tour through the middle, eastern, and northern counties of this Mate, and the account he gives of the calum nies industriously circulated among the people, and the truth of which is asseverated by the Locofoco leaders, against Mr. Clay, is almost incredible, even knowing as we do that there 1 are tle who seem to prefer falsehood to 1 ruth, J and who are never so happy as when they have : invented and palmed upon the honest and un suspecting "a whopper" of the most malicious kind. Mr. Clay is represented as the vilest of ihe vile as guilty of vices and crimes which .would disgrace humanity, and any society in which they should be tolerated ! And these stories are told by the "little great men" of neghborhoods who arc always looked up to by iheir political followers as oracles of truth, and paragons of knowledge, with an air of serious ness, as if they themselves believed the mon strous untruths they were telling. And it may ' be that some of them do believe them; they! may have had them from oilier "little great men" ofthe count', to whom they look for in-1 formation and act as echoes, retailing out in their own neighborhood, what ihey have receiv ed uio!esale from the county town. It citniot have failed to strike every observer of passing events, how different is the course pursued towards Mr. Polk, by the Whigs, from that pursued toward Mr. Clay by the Locofo cos. While ihe Whigs discuss Mr. Polk's principles, as avowed by himself at various limes, and examine his votes, his qualifications for the office of President of ihe Union, &c, objects of legitimate examination and discus sion, they meddle notswiih his private charac ter. But the Locos, ou the contrary, do not at tempt to discuss Mr Clay's principles, his pub lic acts, his eminent services : no ; these arc abandoned, and he is assailed with all the poisoned weapons which caluji.nv herself ever invented, and gathered in her armory. This savage warfare upon him is not new For nearly twenty years the foulest slanders have been showered upon him, and ihe most malevolent, diabolical and wicked falsehoods coined and put in circulation against him. But, like other felons and base coiners, the authors of these slanders take care to put them into cir culation among those not likely to detect their baseness, and who will therefore receive them as true and genuine coin: they may circulate j undetected for a while, but they cannot escape i the test of truth. The American people are! lovers of jusiice, and though prejudice may; place a liltii upon their eyes and steel their! hearts for a time, yet truth will find her way at last into their bo.oms. She is mighty and will prevail. General Washington himself did not escape calu.ii.vv, and ihe grim monster ut tered a shout of exultation when death closed the mortal career of that illustrious sage, patri ot, and hero; but she was soon driven hack in to her noisome den, to feed on toads and other poisonous reptiles. She loves "a shining mark," and where can t-ho find one at the pres ent day more brilliant than 14 the Farrqer of; Ashland," "the Statesman of the West," the j great Orator and Patriot ofthe age?" Audi .1.1... 1 ill.. r.lnn .h.t.awt.iw ..f . i . ! "IIU in Hit JJIIIIJ IIIIMO'tTI dllU SUIIUC Ul 11113 monster calumny Amos Kendall. He whom Mr. Clay befriended and took by the hand when he came lo Kentucky, a stranger, penniless, friendless, and "sick of a fever." Even this viper, which Mr. Clay warmed into life in his own boMom, by his own fireside and upon his own hearih-stoiie this venomous rep tile is now the prime minister and secretary of the monster calumny, which is so furiously hurling its- poisoned arrows at Mr. Clay. From his bosom comes the gali by which ilu weapons are poisoned, and they are first hurled at the victim ihrouh "Kendall's Expositor," and when thrown from that magazine, caught up and again hurled at him by the Washington Globe, the Richmond Enquirer, the Albany Argus, the Nashville Union, and other affiliated presses. To all thes'e calumnies, we have this answer: Mr. Clay has been in public life for nearly forty years, during which time no man has taken a more prominent part in all the im portant measures of the day. It is admitted, by his worst enemies, that he never disguised a single seuiimeni he entertained, and never failed io advocate it. whether popular or unpop ular. This is admitting his frankness and hon esty, and ihut he has never gone out of his way to seek popularity. He has always been a leader, and not a follower, in the councils ofthe nation. How could he be so were he not re spected, and how could he have been respected if guilty of ihe thousandth part of ihe vices his revilers lay to his charge? He has always been popular in his own slate, district and neighborhood, and even more than popular; he has always been beloved by the people, and by those moat who best knew him, his neighbors. Is it lo be supposed that he would be loced and respected by them that ihey would be mi ar dently attached to him, were one in a thousand of the lies told of him true ? To believe this, is io believe lhat the people of Kentucky have no respect for virtue, morality or religion. Again : is it to be supposed that a man can act a prominent part in public life in this country for thirty or forty years, and his character, pub lic and private, not he known to ihe peopl ? If Mr. Clay has been the monster ot vice and depravity be is just now found out to have been, by Amos Kendall, Francis P. Blair, and a few men whom scorn has for years pointed her " slow, unmovmg finger at," why has not the world, why have not the American people, heard of it before? We know Mr. Clayr anil have known him personally lor nearly twenty years, publicly much longer; and though some rabid partisans may say that what ice say is "a Whig lie," as they are in the habil of pronoun cing all unpalatable truths which appear in Whig papers, yet we do say that ths stories set afloat in regard to Mr. Clay, such at least as we have heard, touching his private character, are sheer fabrications, concocted in the malev olent hearts of those who hate him because his brightness is a constant reproach to their black ness, and because, if he is elected President, they know ihey must slink away into those dens of obscurity and corruption from which, like ravening wolves, they emerged lo prey up on the sheep fold. They have fattened upon " the spoils," but their appetites grow upon what they feed on : the more they get the more they desire, and ihe longer they feed at the pub lic crib, ihe more unwilling are they are to be driven away. They are leeches upon the body politic, and if not driven away, will suck its very life blood. If Mr. Clay is elected, they know what fate awaits them; if he is defeated, they will continue to gorge their bloated bodies at ihe expense of the people the very dupes they have made. From the Daily Foriim Oar ffutnre Prospects What we have suffered VS hat the People of Penn sylvania and of the Union require Heury Clay and General JSarkle. Pennsylvania is undoubtedly a Whig State. The elections last Fall and Spring, and the re cent unmistakable demonstrations of publicopin ion, have convinced every unprejudiced man, that this assertion is well-founded; and the elections next Fall will most assuredly result in the total overthrow ofthe corrupt clique that has for years administered our State Govern ment in a manner which would best promote the selfish ends of a few, regardless ofthe wel fare ofthe many. Intriguers may prosper for a time but the day of retribution will surely ar rive ; and so far as Pennsylvania is concerned that day is not far distant. We have seen the most debased and dishonest men in the commu nity, elevated to offices of trust and profit ; and our rulers, desirous of promoting their own ad vancement, have neglected to ask, (in the words of Jefferson) of an applicant for a responsible station " is he honest is he capable ?" but the question has been " is he true lo the in terests of the party is he a friend to the Ad ministration ? We have seetv political mendi cants daily accumulating wealth, from stations, for the discharge ofthe duties of which, small salaries were allowed, and the people have been led to inquire from what source they de rived iheir fortunes, and whether the public Treasury was not robbed? Inquiry -has led to investigation, and the hard working farmers, mechaun-s and manufacturers of iheSlate, have ascertained lhat they have been PLUNDER ED; that the taxes which they have been call ed upon to pay, as they supposed, for the liqui dation of the public debt, have been 'placed at the disposal of dishonest office-holders, and that in consequence thereof, their 'credit and the credit of the State have been made to sufibr. From the General Government wo have been taught to expect nothing. The Administration has refused to award to the Stales the proceeds ofthe sales ofthe Public Lands, which belong to them ; and the same motives by which the party in power in Pennsylvania has beeu actu ated, are observable in the acts of that party throughout the Union. Our currency has been destroyed business was for a time almost en tirely suspended, and we were compelled to undergo hardships, deprivations and sufferings with which it is the prayer of every honest cit izen, we may never again be visited. The on y measure of relief that ha-! been adopted is the Whig Tariff of 1842, and since it has been in full operation we have, as individuals and as a nation, experienced benefits and blessings of which it is the wish of all we may never be de prived. Tho People will support its advocates, and reject its enemies. So far as our own Stale is concerned, u should bo the object of all to place in power honest and capable men in whom contidetim cay be reposed. For Governor we want a nun free from corruption a man whose p.ist iin gives assurance that in his future course will be governed by motives the moM patriotic and noble a man in whom ihere i no guile in .short, a practical man, who is acqniiinie I ' with the wants ofthe people, and who pot-..ser the 'firmness to administer the G nernmant-'Vi1 such a manner as will promote the we:'r , happiness and prosperity of ihe whole. iSiic i a man is Gen. JOSEPH M Ali CLE, the V?n r candidate for Governor of this State. s H-ENRY CLA Y, for President of ho Unit.- I States, and JOSEPH M AliKLE, lor Governor of Pennsylvania, are the men placed'before ilio people of this Stato by the Whig parly. They are both entitled to their support. They h;i-o both served their country in different capacities, and by their patriotism and public services lim-o won ihe admiration and esteem of iheir I'elliW citizens. They are both disinterested ami in defatigable advocates of those measures whirti havje received the sanction of the people, ait'l in trials and difficulties, which would hav- caused the hearts of men less persevering, ! despair, ihey have never faltered. During ih- last war with Great Britain, while HENRY CLAY, in Congress, was ably and eloquently defending Madison and our country from internal-enemies, Gen. MARKLE was fightuisi tbt battles of his native laud, and warding off tht blows aimed at it by a foreign and powerful force. When Mr. Madison said: "The army is -doing its part, and ihe navy its part in de fence ofthe nation, but Henry Clay is doing msre than both!" James K. Polk was seeking refuge in a place distant from his home, to avoil behig called upon to lake up arms against our cothurni! enemy. Gen. Markle was at thac time expending his money in support ofthe gal lant band that marched with him to our fron tiers, to shield from harm the defenceless wo irren and children who dwelt in our western ter rirories. Where then was Mr. Muhlenberg? Ay where was he? HENRY CLAY and Gen. MARKLE are honest and capable, ami are, above all others, the men who should re ceive the suffrages of a free people. The for mer is the champion of the protective system;, the defender of our liberties, and the Preserver of the Union. The latter is a brave arid effi cient officer, an honest man, and a respected! citiztin, whose qualifications no one who know.-, him, 'will doubt. Of his character, talents and popularity, wo may learn something of his most intimate neigh' bors and" friends. A few days since, we pub lished a few lcsolutions adopted at a meeting held by his own neighbors ; and we will now close ihis article by quoting the following ex tract from a loiter written by John Forsythe, a respectable citizen of Allegheny county, who, together with General Markle served his coun try in the battle-field, during the war of IS12 : "From the commencement of the war, our defeats were almost always caused by the tin skilfulness or cowardice of onr officers, and L believe many others besides myself felt as muclc ' .... r r concerned about tne mismanagement oi our of ficers, as ihey did about fighting. I believed my officers were brave and fearless, but I con fess I put more confidence in the military skill' and management oj u-en. Markle at the time, than I did in any other officer of the detachment. When we made a charge on the Indian towns bore to the left and took my post by the side of Gen. Markle in front of the town. He was cool and collected, with every appearance of the sol dier about him. After destroying two or three towns a few miles farther down the river, we returned and encamped for the night at ihe first town. On the following morning at 5 o'clock,, the Indians made a furious attack on our line and that on our right. Markle's company fought. ; gallantly and suffered severely, having sixteen. men killed and wounded, lncluuiug Lieui. Waltz among the stain. Nothing daunted,, however, although the commander endeavored to persuade them not to engage in the chargo that there wero enough of others, who had not been in the action, ihey could not ba kept back, but charged on the Indians with their brave captain at their head. I ate the last mor sel of my provisions on tho morning of tho bat tle. We had then to return one hundred miles through thrt wilderness, and were twelve days, in accomplishing our return. In the meantime, we had subsisted principally upon spictswood tea. Some of the men pipcured a few gr.tins of corn, left by our horses on ouroulward inarch. For some years after my return from ihe ar my, I got almost out of the acquaintance of Gen. Markle. But for the last twenty years I have found him as much of a gentletiiiUi as a aoldter a man of strict business habit, a good, sound politician, and, belter than all otleri, one ofthe noblest works of God AN HONEST MAN." Gan it de sol Mr. Yandevece, of Shrews bury township, N. J. raised, it is satd, on two acres, the almost incredible quantity oi two hundred and nix bushels of oats ! This U something uncouimon.,
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