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W'ho would life and health prolong ?' M'lio'd be happy, wise and strongiT, . ' $ jL.ei aione the drunkard s bane, Half-way pledges are in vain. 0 , Cheerfully, joyfully, you and you, Sign thcpledge and keepMtYob. It is said 4hattheiTexans,1tlIxaleflg the Lou- lana line, annexed ih.emjtpI.ve?.4o. t'lpj United. o'ates at the recent election. rr-rr Si. ' i A Stadxch Whig Town. Shepherdstowii) On Jffferson county, Vai) wii'h af&phUuon of ""urtkev ,hcn)R.ed polled only twenty-nine 9Im for folk. . The whole art of STROUDSBURG.. MONROE COUNTY", PA., THURSDAY, A Reniiniscence of the Eat War. "The King of France, with forty thousand men, March'd up the hill, and then march'd down again" "There appeared to be some fatality attending almost all mr attacks upon America, during the war." Capt. Maruyatt. About ihe middle of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the inhabitants of a village not far from the mouth of. the Genesee river were thrown into Htinttll of alarm, by the appearance of a British fleet under Sir J. L. Yeo, ofl" their shores. In the general consternation and confusion, vari ous "expedients were proposed, rejected, sug gested again," for ridding themselves of their unwelcome visitor. Some were in favor of an immediate fortification of their dwellings; others thought it more eas-y to keep them ofl tthorc, and prevent their landing, than lo defend their families after they hail landed. The proposi tion was at la.i suggested by a timid citizen, "to retire," and .save what they could in a hur ried flight. But stoutly and manfully the peo ple rejected this shameful proposition, and put their heads together to concoct a plan more agreeable to their sturdy patriotism. During this time of doubt and uncertainty, it was a moing spectacle to see the "tremblings of distress" which many of the good people ex hibited, as the ships of the fleet slowly neared ihe shore. Mothers shrieked and clasped iheir infants to their bosoms in fearful anxiety; the little girls cried", while the larger ones looked on" their sweet-hearts for protection in this hour of peril.. These latter again bluntly declared that they would not. run, but would stick by and see fair play. "Let the red coats come .on ; we'll meet 'vm !" One young gallant, e.a.-per i,e.d.-per- I-n'v Imp uuy iue,, ated at seeing the aliliciion of his swore that the British were a "set of rurally, heathenish ragmufilns, good for nothing under God's heaven but to scare women and. children!'' kThe more sagacious saw in this move ihe de struction of their s'.ores, and feared for the re sult. - Determining at last not to v it-Id without a show of fight, the militia were assembled, -men and boys, in all three hundred strong, and occu- piedran elevait-d position near the lake, whence they could see all the manoeuvres of the fleet. Presently a boat was seen to put off from the Commodore's ship. Nov.- let the vatiant m1 diers nerve themselves for thecoma! But ston! It a fia of truce! Now our friends are in a worse dilemma than beloro being en tirely guiltless of any knowledge of mi I nary or na-al 'eiifrueite, or indeed of military afiaits hi general, save the regular militia drill. What a predicament! Nobody seemed to know what to do, but every body was of the opinion that something must be done. After some deliber ation, hastened undoubtedly by the rapiil ap proach of the boat, Lieutenant B- was delega ted to lead a file of men drawn to water's edge and "find out what was wanted." As this lieutenant is a conspicuous character in this reminiscence,. it may not be amiss to give the reader a description of his person. In the words of a backwoodsman, "he was a great favorite among the girls in the villageand had enjoyed a great name in the military line, hav ing commanded a company of volunteers in New Hampshire, before he emigrated to the west." A shrewd, yei reckless disposition marked all his actions. A man could'nt get round him, no more than he could choal; a lion, and yet he was as open hearted a chaj) as eve.r kissed a pretty girl before she knew it. I've seen htm inatKEnveririg the soger-, too, when Captain Slinle used to bo to the ividuw's Sa turday evening, a'id could'nt ait nd it) the mili tary exercise " In short, the gallant lieutenant was a universal favorite, particularly amort" the ladies, who regarded htm as their enprcial guar dian and champion in ihose iroubIom limtis. Putting himself at the head of his men, the worthy lieutenant marched rapidly down the hill, and forming a line near the water's edge, awaited tlie next movement in stum' silence. fyideeJ. he afterwards said "ihul'he wasV.t so sure but the fellows in-the boat wanted to' play etna trick, and if iherc ever was a lime u hfti lie fel.t a great reonsihility on him, it was jjien!''1 lie did' not wait long before he was hailed by'llie JSfiiish messenger: "1 that '"- wav vou Tf reive a lbs of truce? It is gener- illy the custom to meet without arms on iu'ch Government consists in the art of' being occasions. " Well!" said the lieutenant, still maintain ing his soldier-like position, without turning his head. " I didn't know but you might cut up some deviltry or other with our people.: how sumdever, as you seem lo be, a., pretty peacea ble, well-disposed, well-behr.vi-d sort of a fel low, my men, may right about a little ways." So turning on his heel, a la tnililaric, he order ed his men to reiire a' few rods, and hold them selves in readinees for ferther action. By this time the boa't was close in shore, and the mes senger, and nflirer, aa appeared from his uni form, was about stepping a&hore, when the Yan kee interrupted him : " I say, hello, mister' yon don't come on this ground, nil I know what you're after! So, jest stay in the hoat and say your say out !" The Englishman, perceiving that it would be useless to oppose (his'nppcal, resumed his position in the bnat, mldei;larrd his mission, which was to demand a surrender of the stores that were concealed there or thereabout, on pen- ally of instant destruction in case of a refusal. Our officer replied : " I don't know about thai 'ere last part of the business; but I will consult rny superior's, and get their opinion on tho subject." Turning to his men he oidered them to wait, and not' "let that chap come ashore till ho came j back, when (added he, address.ng tho officer) , I'll report progress, and let you Know now we j conclude ihe act." So saying, he marched up; tne inn anu uisappeareo amoug:uie c.u: , . I 1 1 1 . I - t. .. .11 AC ! tor some minutes conversation wttn me oiuer inhabitants, and a few young leaders.in the lit-' tie armv, he-resumed hi march down the hill, i.i.rf..!f ,., rr.... .r hi- mn irun 1 . had awaited ht.i return,. agreeably to order, he . , i i ..ir r k f..n r.. UOIlVi;ilMi III1II!U1I Ui IOC IUUUIUII" It spiv to .tlie ' demand of the British. i.uni iimauii i.v wiu -.vui.ia, ,w iui.juu wo shall, keep the stores until the king:,shall send a force sufficient so take them away.. "So, if Toil want 'em badly, you mu-st gel 'm- the oesi wav vou can. . : i Somewhat asiouislH:d:Ru!ieirecen:ion he.had met with, and seeing nothing vp.ry inviting in the countenance of the sturdy Yankee, the ser vant of ihe king gae the word !o his men, and they quickly returned to his ship. While ihe.e occurrences. Wr6 taking place, a j the crowd on the hill were suddenly dispersed, land the militia in regular order filed off the left into ihe brushwood, and inarching round to ihe right', appeared again oh thtj hilt, in sight of the fleet, but in. a. difl't-rent order, 6 as to present the appearance 'of a tiew conipany just arrived from another q'tiartf r. These again in, turn filed off, and imuiediaieiy anolheX body of men came in sight directly in front, filed offund dis-! appeared like the former. . Thesi mancetivrea were rejieaie.d again and again; and the molly uniforms of citizens, wnh a great noise -.of drum and life, contributed not a little to the decep tion. After this had continued a considerable time, the lieutenant remarked, probably somewhat fa tigued wuh his arduous duties, thai the British ers didn't seem in any hurry about'their stores, and he reckoned that ihev would take time to consider the mailer some, afore they tried it?" And so it proved; for the British commander deliberated a long before making apparent move ment; and after firing a few guns, iii no. other elTecl than to waken the echoes of the dense 'forest 'which' skirlL-d the lake, and elicit a few scteams from the females, he sailed leisurely away, to the no stnall gratificaiion of ihe Amer icans, who feared for, the success of the ruse. Bin the final disappearance of the flee!, in the course of the afternoon, quieted entirely tlie doubts of the most timeious; and ihey 'returned lo i heir dwellings sincerely'thankiny 'l hat Prov- idince, or fatality,' as the worthy captain has tt, which had protected 'tin-in from ihi. destruc tion that had threatened ihcnt. - The evening' was spent in joyous festivity, and ihe agent's of this great' 'fatality' were by no means forgotten in the general joy. Lieu tenant B : was tlie hero of the day, and no bly he bore his- honors; gallantly reaping the reward of his. labors jn the smiles of the ladies whom he had protected. Ji is even "ii'seVred that he' was s-e'eu lo slefal various- kisses from "the lips of these pretty charmers, m'thVcourae j"f ho u'v i'vcHh i g. honest. Tefferson. DECEMBER 19,, ISM. Patrick Mcft'psgin's EiC,Uer. The following letter is taken" from the Danvers (Mass.) Whig ; which introduces it with the fol lowing remarks : IMPORTANT LETTER J ! '.We make no apology for presenting the following .letter to our readers, and only say it was not stolen and was not " picked up in the mud." If Patrick will call upon us, we will explain the manner in which we caine by it to'his entire satisfaction. Letter from Patrick McNoggin in Danvers, Amer ica to Michael (? Flanagan, Kilmore, Ireland. Michael my Deary : The, top of the morning to you Michael, and can't you pick up your little bit things, and be after coming over to this bless ed counthry; and bring Swaney, and Bridget,.and the twins, and Patrick, and little Michael, and the.! other twins, and the baby, and tlie rest of 'em? And if you'll be afther coining, you can live on the best of paraties, that can bo had for the dig gin, and then you can have coffee and paraties in the morning, and paraties and tay at night, and mate and paraties for dinner seven days in the week besides Fridays, when you know the Praste won't let us have any mate. Its a land o'liberty, Michael, and we want the sons of the Grano Isle lo come over anu j,0tp us t0 maj.e a prri,sjdent-T- and whats that Patrick? says you. I'll tell you Michael. It's the man that rules the Yankees, and gives the offices to the Irishmen. I want" you to come this blessed month, and help us choose Jem my O'Poke for Praisident; and he's as gude an ! Irishman as any of us, only he wasn't born in his own native counthry. It's he that was spaker of wouldnVlet him spqke at ajj Tow, when you come over here "Michael, my t 1' . . . ,!"' . noney, ana tne uig-oeiitea man rrora me custom iiouse tells you to nurraii lor l oung JijiKery, tie manes Jemmy O'Poke, that's the son of Zakiel t O'Poke, his grandfather. But afther all. Jemmy ' aint tho son of his. own lather, hc!s the darlin child. of Ould JIakery Jackson, hnd.Duld-Jrlakery's J mother, vou know, was an Irishman. 1, tell you I tell you can dig on i " . 1 MilrA itoc n rrronl nnunJhrv mnnrn von mo (hr nn the rail-road in summer, and live in the Workhouse all winter lor nothing at all, and no nnt lo pay., i The American's haVe go't a great ugly thing herei j ihey call the Tariff, but what it ss it puzzles the ..likes, o'me to tell "ye. They say it's a great fence across the harbors, and ail round America, to keep I off everything thc' Yankces can ke theirselves. all their own work to do, and; what'iy worst of all, they get' all the money for doin' it. Now Mike, that's what I calls chaiing. It makes 'cm live in their nate houses,, and wear their good clothes, and ate. their coffee and tay, and drink their mate and paralies, and go to their heretiek churches and aint that dowrnight chaliiig'alrthe good Cath olics in Kilmore. - , ' 1 : , Now Michael ye're a nice cobbler, and no milh er'i son in Kilniore can bate you in malcing a I brogue," or tapping a' shoe and "supposin you wali'ts'tb rnaSio fifty brogues, for me and Rory O'Scroggin, and the rest of us thats .diggin on the Danvers railt'oad. " Don't ye just go to Kilkenny, and buy your leather of Tommy M'liide, the tan ner, and don't ye git Benny INPBlubber lo curry.it? And don't you go to;Dooblin and git your lasts, and your.tools, and your pegs, and your lining skins, and binding skins ? And don't you cut out your brogues, and then git Billy Dooh and Saw ney O'Tool that's glad to get tenpence a day, to make ,'ern up ? A ud then, don't ou .git M'Adze, the carpentei, to make a nate box to put 'cm in, aiid don't you mark it on the top in this way : to"1,""" , " 1 Patrick McNoggin ' ' " 'tbfs side'up, , ' " . ; moat Kilmoks, Ireland,, to Patrick' m A'sr-RiCA, 50 Brogvk-3' ' Danvers. , from Michael Flanagan., . "And then Michael, don't you sind if to' me, and I arid Hory, and the rest of us git our brogues for 50 cents, instead of giving Misther Manning," and Mr. Dane, the Yankee brogue makers, a Dollar? No we don't Michael. A tid why ? says you. Wait a bit and I'll tell yod; says I. This great' lubber ly Tariff sticks up his fence in Boston' harbor, and stops your nice box of .brogues,' and: tolls Pathrick M'Noggin, (and that's tne) and Rory and the rest of us, " you can't have your brogues un til you pay Uncle Sam enough money 'to make 'em cost more than Misther Manning's and Mis ther Dane's Yankee brogues do.'1 .i . Now I ask you, Michael, aint that chatingyou? And don't it chate Billy Doon, and Sawney 0 Toole, that made the-brogues? And doesn't it chate Tommy M'Hide,, the Tanner, -and Bpnny M'B.ubbleT,..the Currier ? And in't it chating the Dooblin folks that made the lasts, and the. tools. and the peps ? And aint it, chating the farmer that sells the paraties. and the carpenter, M'Adze, who made the box, and the Praste you confess to. and tho Dncthor that cured SatVnoV OTooloV ninth child of the typhus' fever: '"ir' tro.. 31, I say, Mike, don't you in Ireland, and Engfandj and Germany, and France, and all about there, want good houses and mate and tay, as weil as the Yankees?' And aint the men that makes brogues in Kilmore every bit as good as Mlsther Manning, and Mis the r Dane, and the men thaCs doin' their work ? And can't them, live in mud -houses, and ate paraties without any salt; as well as Billy Doon and Sawney O'Toole ? Then coma over and vote for Young Hakery, that's for tho Repale of the Tariff. Repale! is the word nx America, as well as Ould Ireland. From Yours, PATHRI.CK M'NOGGIK. P. S. I'm done now, Michael, and send this by the good stamer Hibernia, and hope you'll get it before she gets thero. The Yankees are goinjr .to have another kind af a stamer, that aint no stamer, -at all, but it sends Jcthers by thunder and light ning, so. Michael, can't, i send ynii a lether lieiora iris writ, and get an answer before I sind it. i - :PATIIKlC!i ..A $ol for a Seuts.it. A young chap whom wo once knew in th" " country, and always full of fun and frolic, founfl' one day an old dry-bone of Borne defunct horau lying beside the road. He picked it up, ; for, tho, purpose of having it operated on, as hesatd' " Why do you bring this here?" asked tho den.-' tist, grving a suspicious look at both tlm boy and ihe old jaw bone. "Well, doctor," said the youth, " I want you to lighten all theseoru loose teeth what-rattle;and'fili them 'are'ihrea up and putly and warrant" 'em." " Get out of my office, ydu young scamp," said ihe 'enraged " . " ; ,00,hj0i5, " or I'll help vou out with mv foot. ( ptle jjuje j;.r re joker retreated, in double quick iime, for the door, but ere lie closed it, He turned round and said, with a cunning smile, " Now, look litre, doctor, you nee'd'nt gel mad about It, it's a firai rate jrtb for- you, and father says, if vou dnly do-it well, yomnay come arid'operaiur drYhis nldsaw, pull a looih out of his harrow,' and take a look'at 'Nabby'a comb." )Tj,Do.w,jJ.r.,afierdemon3lra:ino thai wealth doe.3 nol procure happiness, s?'s, " A nun wh owns a small house, a small farm, a stnal wife, a big dog,. a farrow cow, two or three f;tt pig , and, nine children, ought to be satfsfied. If he isn't, he never can be." A man killing hogs, became vexed, and;-venting his spleen, wished they were in h-lL 4 0 dear me, .mother, what can he mean?' .exclaimed his daughter. ' Mean ! Ijs'ppse ho wants. his pro vision sent on. beforehand !' Astronomical. ' Cuffee, which "do you tink tho mos usefiil'of de planets de sun or moon? Well, Sambo. I; tink de-moon orter to take the fus rank m dat ar'.ticular.'; - :, . ' Wha,,wha-, why you. tink so, Cuffee !' Well, I tell you kaze she shines by night, when we do want light, and the sun shines by day when" Ve do not!' 4 Well, Cuff, you is dc greatest nigger' I khosa on-atVa'real fac. rt " v ' ' - ; , ft Effectual Remedy for a Balking Horse. If you have a horse that refuses to draw just take a cat and tie it on the horse's back; then get into tho carriage and begin to whip the cat ; this will set the cat to scratching and biting the horse, and.re lyj on it, if you are not very careful, the horse will run away, with you and tho cat both together. i . . ' j , Rattlesnake. We can hardly credit it, but wo see a -certificate in a, Georgia, papor, stating that .'a .Rattlesnake had been killed, .in Evansville, 7 feet 11 inches in length, .15 inch. in circumference, and with tusks 1 1-2 inches in Yii?i ' ' " T,he Attorney General of the .Sakd-. wioii .Islands, (John Record, Esqt)-left Bucks Co ,.Pa.,,'tjWo years ago, a poor lawyer, to join the Oregon expedition wljich left .St. Louis in iheSpring. of i84$ participated in the dan gers and ipisery, to wticlt, tho .expedition .w-yt exipsi;d arrived in ite Oregon trri;)rv;,roor and friendless passed, on.io, tho Sundwudi JjjlandsbUjCarrio, a subject of jlie Kmg,,arid was appoinled Allurney peiiorl of the kir&" doin, w.it,h u handsome salary,. . , Trie Governors' Proclamation tor Thanksgiving was 'read on' 'Sunday irt the Churches. ' Or one 'ot theni was tin old Revolutionary Patriot, who',' when the minister' concluded tho " God iavetthe Com- moriwealth of 1 Massachusetts .ejaculated Jn, art audible' voice "He- did fhatjqst. .Monday f"t QreenfieldMass ) Gaz. t ...-.,,.. , , ' Pride has1 starved rnore'meu'thah famiri'n
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