to - itfJttiHtCfttt Jenersemmt The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL 6. STROUDSBURG.. MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1845. No. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCIIOCII & SPJ3RIIG. TERMS. Two dollars per annum In advance Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if not paid before lite end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Thote who receive their nsper by a carrier or staje drivers employed by the proprifc tors, wi'I be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extras No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except sUhe option of the Editors. irjAdvertisements not exceeding one square (sixtec lines) ,j be inserted three weeks for one dollar : twentv-five cents f jr every subsequent insertion : larger ones in proportion". A lioeral discount will be made to yearly advertisers 1C7A11 letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. To all Concerned. Yc would call ilie attention of some of our subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas iers, to the following reasonable, and well set tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not giie express no ticco the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue to send them till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse 10 take their papers from the officers to which they are directed, they are held responsible til! they hare settled their bill, and ordered their pdpers disconiined. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their paper is ent to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to take a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. To a Bereaved Mother, BY JOHN QUINCV ADAMS, LL. D. Sure to the mansions of the blest When infant innocence ascends, Some angel, brighter than the rest, The spotless spirit's flight attends. 1 On wings of ecstacy they rise, ? Beyond where worlds material roll ; : Till some fair sister of the skies Receives the unpolluted soul. That inextinguishable beam, With dUii united at our birth, oiieus a more dim discolour d gleam The more It lingers upon earth. Closed in this dark abode of clay, The stream of glory faintly burns: - Not unobserved, the lucid ray To its own native fount returns. But when the Lord of mortal breath : Decrees his bounty lo resume, And points the silent shaft of death Which speeds an infant to the tomb No passion fierce, nor low desire, Has quench'd the radiance of the flame; Back to its God the living fire Reverts, unclouded as it came. Fond mourner ! be that solace thine ! Let hope her healing charm impart, And soothe, with melodies divine, The anguish of a mother's heart. 0, think! the darlings oTthy love, , r Divested of this earthly clod, r Amid unnumber'd saints above, . , , Bask in the bosom of their God Of their short pilgrimage on earth ' Still tender Images remain: Still, still they bless thee for their birth, Still filial gratitude retain. Each anxious care, each rending sigh, That wrung for them the parent's breast, Dwells on remembrance iu the sky, Amid the raptures of the blest. O'er thee, with looks of love, they bend ; For thee the Lord of life implore; And oft from saintedbliss-descend, Thy wounded quiet to restore. Oft, in the stillness of the night, They smooth the pillow of ihy bed ; Oft, till the morn's returning light, Still watchful hover o'er thy head. Hark! in such strains as saints employ, They whisper to thy bosom peace ; Calm the perturbed heart to joy, And bid the streaming sorrow cease. Then dry, henceforth, the bitter tear: . Their part and thine inverted see : Thou wert their guardian angel here, They guardian angels now to thee. ' I wish you would put nedowri fora, puppy.' said a young sportsman the other day lo'a prac "cal amateur in canine flesh, who had recently tad an accession to the 'domestic-circle' iu his dg-hu!ch. I Ret you down for one Jong ago! i the tart reply. Articles of Food used by Mankind. The existence of man upon the earth, says Aristotle, even for a day, depends upon his food; if he find it, the functions of life perform (heir duty, and ordinarily health and long life follow ; if he find it not, disease and death speedily occur. In accordance with this -necessity, the earth is filled with the necessaries of life, and is, as it were, one great provision store. Trees, and fields, and animal life, fur nish si view of perpetual movement towards life all-devouring jaws of man; nor is he al ways particular as to the iiaiure and qualify. Vegetables ate the most simple means of nourishment, and it is probable ilial the antedi luvians fed on these until, pressed by hunger, they began to relish the flesh of animals. It may not be uninteresting or Unprofitable to sketch the various gradations through which the human family have passed, to arrive at the refinement and delicacy bf the present day's table, There is scarcely anything capable of being introduced into the stomach, that has not served for aliment roots, coarse herbs, dis gusting animals, verniin, poisons, filth and hu man flesh. The savage differs but little from the ani mals about him, and he feeds like them. Con sequently, innumerable islanders have eaten noihing but robts. The ancient Canadians, in default of acorns, subsisted on the sap bf some kinds of trees, and even on the pith. The Ethiopians lived on a kind of reed that grew spontaneously by the side of ponds and marshes; others on the small twigs and buds of trees, whence they were called hyluphages. Some have subsisted on the roots of roses, and the spermatophages were so called because they were nourished by the kernels of various plants. Diodorus Siculus, Tacitus, and others, mention whole people that ate all kinds of herbs, with out much preference LenVaire mentions a feast which he saw in the islands of Hoorn. The inhabitants, in large numbers, chewed various kinds of herbs to a pulpj and after ejecting them from the mouth into a huge vessel, they poured in water. Af ter suffering it to remain some lime, he adds, " llrey offered this soup to two of their kings and other officers, who ate it with exceeding relish." The Zealander also lives mostly upon the roots of fern. Leaving the vegetable kingdom, we find that the most disgusting animals, and the vilest in sects, have served for most delicious dishes.' The Spaniards found people iu America who lived on enormous serpents, and that their flesh might not spoil, they took them alive, hanging thetn in their huts till meal time, when they sliced off what was lequisite, and left the crea tures hanging till another meal. Oihers made their provisions from ants and bats. Shaw mentions millions of people about Cairo who lived on lizards and serpents. The acridopha ges of Ethiopia ate nothing but grasshoppers and locusts, which abounded. The Cu fires loved ants better than partridges or rabbits, and Albert speaks of a boy who would take nothing but spiders ! American Coinage. We are glad lo learn from a parugraph in the official paper that the Secretary of the Treasu ry has directed his aiteuiion to this subject ; and that the sum of $250,000 has been drawn from various deposile banks in Mexican dollars, etc., and sent to the Mint and Branch Minis to be coined into dimes and hall-dimes. This ad ditional supply of these coins will greaily add to the convenience of the public under the ope ration of the new post office Uw. More, we are told, will be sent, to the full extent author ized by law. And also that the tn-xi issue will probably be of quarters, when a sufficient num ber of dimes and hajf-dimes shall be coined. A7. Y. Express. A down east chap, walking with a lady, ac cidentally stumbled and fell. The ldy, think ing to commiserate his miahap observed, thai she 'regretted bis unlucky Jaux pas ' I didn't hurt my fore-paws,' replied he, 'it was my knee ' Summer Fashions. We notice by the last Spirit of-lhu. Times that : the summer" clothing iu Georgia, consists of a stirt collar and a pair of yurst A Goat in Church. Under this head the Barre Gazette tells the following good one. The papers are telling the story of a dog who entered a church after the assembling of the congregation but before ihe arrival of the min ister, marched up into the pulpit, and reared his paws upon ihe desk to the destruction of all sober faces among ihe congregation. We re collect being witness to a somewhat similar scene in our young days. A he. goal (with whom we had many a butt and pull) once en tered the village church during service, and passing to the pulpit stairs, entered the place always to be found in old fashioned churches, between the pulpit and the deacon's seat. He there laid down, quietly, until nearly the close of a long prayer, such as the Rev. Mr. F (not the regular pastor,) was accustomed to make. "Dick" seemed to partake of the weariness bf the congregation at " long prayers," and rearing his fore feel upon the communion table, he looked up beseechingly in the face of the pteacher, and sent forth a long baa ! If there was a long face in church, ii was out of our sight, and the prayer soon wound up." " Til ERE IS NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTES." We cui the following from the Tribune of Tuesdays where it appears as a regular adver tisement. 'I he "colored gemmen" of Goiham should resist this attempt to "poach upon their manors." Matrimony. A White Gentleman wishes to marry a Colored Lady of Education, of Re ligious principles and who is willing to reside iu a Country where ihe accident of Complex ion will not debar her from the Worship of God iu any Church or Cathedral with the fair est of her sex, and where Character, not Color, is the passport to Society. The Advertiser is unacquainted with the Colored Ladies of this City; he therefore requests that any Lady an swering this Adveriisement will be candid and explicit in staling Age, Pecuniary Circumstan ces, &c. The greatest honor may be relied on. Address Q. Z. Tribune Ofiice. Any While Lady who detests Slavery, and is free from prejudice against Color, who may please to answer will be attended to. The Clerk and the Devil. A merchant's clerk came into a printing office a short time since, and seeing a pile of papers lying on ihe table, it being publication day, unceremoni ously helped himself to a copy, and uttering the following to the printer's devil : " I 'spose you don't take any pay for just one paper ?" " Not always," replied ihe devil. Shortly af terwards the devil entered the store where the clerk belonged, and called for a pound of rai sins, which was quickly weighed oui by ihe clerk. The devil took the raisins saying " 1 'spose yon don't charge any thing when a fel low don't take but a pound ?" " No," said the clerk, after seeing the disadvantage under which he was placed by his own stingy, imprudent iiliberaliiy towards the pennyless printer's dev il; and looking daggers at the little imp, indig nanaully exclaimed " When fgcl any more newspapers from a printer, Nl pay for them." Five thousand good wives are advertised for in Texas. It is much to be feared that our sis ter republic has called for more good wives than she is able lo furnish with good husbands. It might happen, loo, tjiat some of her reputed bachelors had left wives iu ibis country, quite forgetting ihetn, in the hot haste with which circumstances urged their departure. Sam Houston is not, within our knowledge the only man in Texas who has paried with a wifo at short notice. Beloidcrc Apollo. Ready Rctort. A drunkenlawyer going into church, was observed by ihe minister, who addiessed him thus : ' I will bear witness against that sinner at ihe day of judgment.' Tito lawyer shaking his head with drunken gravity, replied : ' I have practised twenty years at the bar, and hae always found the greatest rascal is the first lo turn State's evi-deuce.' A chap in New-Hampshire said he went out gunning the oilier day and treed "a. gray squirrel in a wood chuck's hole, dug him din, and lo !, it wiii a skunk ! Trial of tbe Monster Gun. A trial of ihe monster gun which has been manufactured in this town for ihe American steam-frigate Princeton, of which we have giv en details in a former number, was made a few days since, on the sands, North Shore, between Crosbv and Fombv. The firing commenced I about eleven in the morning, and eoniintied with some slight intermission until three in the af ternoon. During that time upwards of three tons of shoi were discharged each shot weigh ed upwards of two hundred weight. The re port was distinctly heard iu the neighborhood of the docks, and in the north end of ihe town, although the scene of the firing was some eight or nine miles distant. The experiments proved highly Satisfactory. The appearance of the shot, after each discharge, skimming along the water had a novel and pleasing effect. The range extended some miles. The day mild and fine, and notwithstanding the fact of the gun having been carried out as early as three in the morning to the scene of the experiments, to avoid notoriety, great numbers were attract ed to the spot when the firing commenced. Liverpool Times. New and Fearful Mode of Execution. It appears from the journal of a European traveller, that a new and frightful mode of exe cution has recently been adopted by the Great Mogul. The instrument and the process are thus described : A box, each side of which is fifteen feet square, is constructed of timber, about eighteen inches thick, dove-tailed togeth er, and braced with iron rods. The outside of the bo.ttom of the box is covered with a plate of beaten iron, one inch in thickness. The in terior is filled with perfect cubes of granite, weighing in the aggregate several thousand pounds. A machine is erected afier the man ner of an ordinary pile-driver, but of course on an enormous scale, and of tremendous strength. The mass is raised by powerful machinery, cast in Birmingham for ihe express purpose, though it is to bo presumed lhat the machinist by whom the work was furnished, had no idea of the hor rible purpose for which it was intended- The human victim is placed upon a block of granite, of a corresponding surface, buried in the earth immediately beneath the enormous mass, and also covered wilh a plate of iron. At a signal by the vicrumadack, the executioner touches a spring, the mass falls ! and the victim, crushed at once, is suddenly annihilated, and spread out like a sheet of pasteboard. The huge weight being again raised, the flattened body is with drawn, and dried in ihe sun. When complete ly prepared, ii is hung upon the walls of a pub he building, there to serve as a warnin cr in infl multitude. Ingenious HSode of catching Crows. A week or two since Mr. Harmon Eddie, whose farm is a few miles north from East Town, N. J., caught a crow in a steel trap. After taking it out of the trap, he pinned both wings down to the ground with forked sticks, and then went and concealed himself in his barn. The crow made a terrible outcry, and shortly attracted a considerable flock near, when one came so close to his imprisoned com panion that the latter grabbed him in his claws, the same as a drowning man will catch at a straw. Mr. Eddie sallied out and easily caught the second crow, who was firmly held by the imprisoned one's claws. He then pinned lhat one also down to the ground in a similar man ner, and thus, during a couple of hours, he caught over a dozen. Mr. E. informs us that this method is practiced in some parts of Eng land to catch jays, which bird also makes a most violent ouicry when pinned to the ground. Borrowing Two Clergymen, Rev. J. L. Richmond and Rev. Richard Kay, complain in the last Wyoming Republican, that a shovel has been borrowed of the one and a hoe of the other. The Republican remarks said articles are as-good as new ; 'and all will agreo that when a Clergyman has a disposition to labor, it is too bad to deprive him of tools. The Sea Horse having departed from New York, a fellow in Broadway advertises a Tame Oyster for exhibition. - .Roosters tails are now called-" fowls' bustles." A Maiiprown by Guano and Eloc- tricity. The New Haven Courier tells the following capital story : A citizen of this place, while recently on :i tour in ihe Slate of New York, was indueedjtA make one of the audience of an itinerant lo titf er who was holding forth upon ihe efficacy, of electricity as applied to vegetable produci.on. In ihe course of his harangue, G ian w.i-. incidentally alluded to as a powerful agent in quickening the growth of plants, and the ellec of both were displayed iu such glowing lan guage that the auditory soon imagined them selves standing in the midsi of a field and en deavoring to measure the height of the grain., before it was oui of reach. The whole assem bly were iu a fine stale of enthusiasm, and swal lowing down the wonders revealed to them with, open mouths and starting eyes, when a plat.i looking old farmer arose, and with apparent fy much diffidence, begged leave to confirm the lecturer's statements, by the relation of an in cident which he had recently witnessed, and to which he was a party: " 1 have," said he, "a very bad boy, nameot Tommy; he's given ua a good deal of trouble, and having tried various methods to reform him. without success, I told my wife that it would be best to try something that was new, and ra ther more severe. Accordingly we agreed tu shut him up at night in the barn. This an swered very well for a while, but he grew worse again, till finally I was obliged to shut him up every night by sundown. Well, one night while Tommy was roosting; with the catlle, and 1 was in bed, there camit on a tremendous thunder storm. It lightened sharp enough to put out a man's eyes, and thun dered so loud that it made the house rattle like a snare drum. Feeling rather uneasy about hu boy, I got up early in the morning, and went out to see how he fared. As I was going u the barn, I met a man most eight foot higlt comiti" towards me. I never had seen such a tall critter in all my life before, and I begun to feel sorier scarible at having him about my pre mises. Hollo, says I, as soon as 1 could speak, who are you? and what are you doing in my ham yard? The strange looking animal answered in a. little squeaking child's voice, "Why, father, it' me; don't you know Tommy ?" " You, says I; why, Tom, how on earth did you get stretched out so long in one nighi? why, you're growed as tall as all out doors, don't yon' know it?" " Why, yes, father," says he, " I s'pose I have, for last night L slept on them bags of. Guano you put in the bam, and that and tha lightning together just did the business." The effect of this story upon the audience.' was indeed electric. Peal upon peal of laugh ter followed, the people went off every way:, and the nexi day the lecturer upon electricity and guano was among the missing. A few days ago, a lady of our acquaintance in this city, feeling sick at the stomach, took: a teaspoonful of New England rum, as she. sup posed ; but not liking ihe taste, she examined the boitle, and found that she had taken corro sive sublimate, which had been kept for the de struction of chimzes whenever chintzes should come. The family becoming alarmed, the la dy of the house proceeded to mix, as she sup posed, a teacupful of ground ipecacuaima,. aud this the patient swallowed in h.er flight, as spoedily as she had swallowed the poison. Judge, however, of the surprise of all, when, they ascertained lhat the anicle was Scotch snuff. The accidents however off-set each other; for the lady, af'.or enduring a siege equal to that endured hy ihe ancient city of Troy, came forth fror her couch entirely well; and, as she expressed it, "very much better for tho Scotch enjetic." As this is a new remedy for poison, we insert the fact for the benefit of the ruodiyal faculty at home and abroad. United Slates Journal. Balancino. Duiing the sleighing last win ter, one of the New-York Omnibusses on run ners came. very near upsetting, the vehicle be ing balanced over the gutter some moments. 'Narrow escape, driver?' said one of tho alarmed passengers. ' All skill !' said the -Jehu ; .' I lurned'over my quid of tobaqco just in lime, and that stved us.'
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