fUmtbl tntx torn VOL 6 STROUDSB ORG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1845. No. 10. The whole art ov Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. 1 : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCHOCII & SPJEKING. TERMS. Two dollars per annum In advance Two dollars ...j , Quarter, half yearly and if noi paid before the end .if ihe Tear, Two dollars ana a nan. inose who receive their rnner"! bv a earner or stage drivers employed by the uroprie SfT will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. So papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except Uhe option of the Editors. f? wvcrtiscments not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) u t,g inserted three weeks for one dollar : twenty-five cents fir ererv subsequent insertion: larger ones in proportion. A boeral d'iscount will be made to yearly advertisers E7A11 letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. To all Concerned. Wc would call ihe attention F some of our subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas ters to the following reasonable, and well set ileJ rules of Law in relation to publishers, to the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not gie express no ticeio the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue lo ?end ihem till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the officers to which they are directed, they are held responsible till they hue settled their bill, and ordered :heir papers discontined. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their paper is eni to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 5. The courts hare decided that refusing to lake a newspaper or periodical from the office, nr removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie." evidence of intentional fraud. The Road of Life. BY SAMUEL LOVER. This is a charming song, as the subject of it June same as that which inspired Shakespeare, ue will quote the words as a sort of appendix m the "Seven Ages." "Oh! youth, happy youth, what a blessing, In thy freshness of dawn and dew, When hope the young heart la caressing, And our griefs are but light and but few; But in life, as swiftly flies o'er us, Some musing, for sadness, we find In youth we've our troubles before us, In age we leave pleasure behind. Ay, Trouble's the post boy that drives us, Up hill till we get to the lop, While Joy's an old servant behind us, We call on, for ever to stop, 0! put on the drag Joy, my jewel, As long as the sunset still glows ; Before it is dark 'twould be cruel To haste to the hill foot's repose. But there stands an inn we must stop at, An extinguisher swings for a sign, That house is but cold and but narrow. But the prospect beyond is divine ! And there, whence there's never returning, When we travel, as travel we must, May the gates be all free for our journey, And the tears of our friends lay the dust." Burning Stubble Ground. In conversation with a farmer the other day, he staled that he thought he bad received much benefit from burning over a piece of stubble ground. It caught fire by accident, from some bushes that he had cut and was burning ; and he field, being dry, the fire run over it and burned the stubble pretty clean. It was sowed 'he spring following to grain of some sort, (we hd not learn what,) and it was found that the &hes were a good dressing, and improved the fop of that year, and the grass which followed. The plan of burning stubble was practised flinch in olden times. Old Virgil said or sung, about it more than eighteen hundred years ago " Long practice has the sure improvement found, With kindled fires to burn the barren ground ; When light -the stubble, lo the flames resigned ; Is driven along and crackles in the wind." .Beatson, in ,his new system of cultivation, Mentions the .practice of a Mr. Curtis, of Lynn, Norfolk, (England,) as follows: His stubble shorn and left about eighteen inches high, "d so completely set fire to as to consume eve particle that appeared upon the surface. 'bis operation. ays he destroyed every weed "d seed that grew, leaving the surface entirely toured with ashes; the consequence was, that D,i crop of wheal proved extremely advanta g'T'Us, it produce being full four quarters por ,fre, Moreover, his land, treated in this man fier, was remarkably clean and free from weed Western Farmer. Tho Cambria made her last trip in nine day MiorteM pasaagn on record. 4 From the New York Tribune. How a Tailor collected a Debt. A TRUE STORY. Near the close of the last century, a Quaker knight of the shears and thimble, who exer cised his avocation in Philadelphia, was im posed upon by an adroit scoundrel, who con trived to get a suit of clothes on credit, and af terwards sloped without paying for them. The Quaker was too poor to lose the debt, but like too many of his cloth, he had apparently no other alternative. The account was placed on his books and soon forgotten. Some years af terwards he was examining his old records of debt and credit, profit and loss, when his atten tion was attracted to this account and all the circumstances attending it came fresh to mind. Suddenly an odd thought suggested itself. "111 try an experiment," said he to himself; " perhaps I may succeed in catching the rogue and getting my pay." He immediately prepared an advertisement. in substance as follows, which he inserted in the Philadelphia Gazette : "If J C , who was in Philadelphia about the month of , in the year 1795, will send his address to the Editor of this paper, he will hear of something to advantage. Printers in the neigh boring States arc requested to copy." The lat ter clause was inserted from a yague suspicion that the rogue had taken up his abode in New York. Having instructed the Editor not to disclose his name to the rogue if he should call, but to request the latter to leave his address, the Qua ker patiently awaited the result of his experi ment. In a short time he was informed by a note from the Printer that the individual allu ded to in the advertisement, having arrived from New York, might be found at a given place in the city. The tailor lost no time in preparing a trans cript of his account, not forgetting to charge in terest from the time that the debt was incurred. Taking a constable with him, who bore a legal process suited to the occasion, he soon arrived at the lodgings of the swindler. The consta ble was instructed to stand off at a little dis tance till a signal should indicate the time for him to approach. The Quaker now rang the bell, and, when the servant appeared, requested him to inform the gentleman of whom he was in search, that a friend wished to speak with him at the door. The man obeyed the summons, and soon both debtor and creditor were looking each other in the face. " How dost thou do ?M kindly inquired the Quaker. " Perhaps thou dost not know me." " believe I have not had the pleasure of your acquaintance," politely answered our hero. " Dost thou remember purchasing a suit of clothes several years ago of a poor tailor and forgetting lo pay for themT' asked the Quaker. " 0 no," said the gentleman, blushing slight ly ; " you must be mistaken in the person. It cannot be me that you wished to find." Ah ! John ! I know thee very well. Thou art the very man 1 wished to see. Thou hast on at this moment the very waistcoat that I made for thee. Thou must acknowledge it was of good stuff and well made, or it could noi have lasted thee so long." " 0 yes," said the gentleman, appearing sud denly to recollect himself; " 1 do remember now the circumstance's to which yon allude. Yes, yes I had intended to.call and settle that littie bill before leaving Philadelphia, and you may depend on my doing so. I have come here to take possession of a largo amount of property which bat fallen to me by will. See! here is the advertisement which apprised me of my good fortune." Here he handed to the Quaker a New-York paper containing a copy of the advertisement u hose history we have given above. The Quaker looked at it with imperturbable gravity and continued " Yes, I see thou art in luck, but as my de mand is a small one, I think I must insist on pavmenl before thou comes in possession ol J thy largo estates." 'Di proper signal here brought the constable in'o the presence of the parties. The swindler was particularly astonished at the appearance of this functionary, who immediately began to execute h:s part of the drama. " What !" exclaimed the rogue in an angry lone; "you surely have n'i sued me?" " Yes, I have," replied the Quaker ; " and thou should'st be thankful that nothing worse has happened to thee.' " Come in, then," said the debtor, finding himself fairly caught ; " come in, and I will pay you if I must." The three went into the house together, and the slippery gentleman having ascertained the amount of the bill, paid it in full. The tailor having signed the receipt, placed in the hands of his late debtor, with feelings such as may be readily imagined. The swin dler took it and for the first time glanced at the various items of which it was composed. He said nothing till he came to the last charge, which was "for advertising," when he broke forth "Halloo! what's this? 4 For advertising'? That's an odd charge in a tailor's bill. You're cheating me !" " O no," coolly replied the Quaker ; that is all right. I have charged thee with the cost of publishing the advertisement which thou just showed mo." Here the swindler uttered a horrid oath, as he demanded, " Do you mean to say that you caused the publication of that advertisement?" "Truly 1 did," replied the Quaker with most provoking coolness. " You told a lie in it," quickly retorted the rogue. " Convince me of that," said the Quaker, " and thou wilt find me ready to confess the fault." " You said I should hear something to my advantage, if I would come here." "Thou art mistaken," immediately respond ed the Quaker ; " 1 only promised that thou shouldst hear of 'something to advantage'; and is it not to the advantage of a poor tailor to col lect an old debt ?' " If I can catch you in the street," said ihe swindler with an oath and in the deepest rage, " I'll give you such a cowhiding as will not leave the breath in your body." " Nonsense, now," said the Quaker; "if thou really intends to do any thing of that sort, we had belter step out into the back yard and fin ish the business at onco." The rogue was completely non-plusscd by the coolness of the Quaker, and stood speech less and almost petrified. " Now," said the tailor good-naturedly, " let me give thee a piece of advice. When next thou hast occasion to get a suit of clothes, thou had better not attempt to cheat the poor tailor, but pay him honestly, for then will thy con science not disturb thee and thy sleep will be sweet and refreshing. Farewell !" There is no doubt of the literal truth of this story, as we received it some time since, from the lips of the Quaker himself. " Bold as a Lion." One of the best jokes of the season is told by the amiable Goines, of tonsorial notoriety. A Southern Adonis, no way celebrated for his personal attractions, on completing a somewhat protracted toilet one morning turned to his servant and enquired " How do I look, Caesar ?" " 'Plendtd, massa, 'plendid !" was ebony's de lighted answer. " Do you think I'll do, Caesar ?' (Giving him a piece of silver.) " Guy, Massa, nebber see you look so fierce in all my life ; you look jis' is bold as a lion." "Why, what do you know about a lion? you never saw one, Caspar." ' Nebber see a lion, Massa ! Guy, I see Massa Peyton's Jim ride one ober to. de mill ebery day." " No you fool, thai's a donkey." " Can't help dat, Massa you look jis' like him." A Bostonian writes to the editor of tho N. Y. Visitor, that in getting to Illinois, he expe rienced all sorts of goaheaditiveness. In the fust place, he took a'sleamboal in the second, a rail road the third, a mail coach the fourth, rode on horseback the fifth, went six miles on foot to Terra Haute and was finally rode out of the village on a rail. He says that he don't know which to prefer out of the six ; but thinks the lauer method is unquestionably the cheapest, though it accommodations nre. most wretched. From the New Orleans Dee. Something Jfc,w. Our readers may remember a statement pub lished some weeks since of a wild neto hav- O ing been seen in the parish of Caddo, in this State. The last number of the Caddo Gazette contains a long article from the pen of Mr. J. M. Pierce of that Parish, descriptive of his suc cessful attempt to catch this nondescript, and of his physical peculiarities. The Editor of the Gazette declares that ihe creature possesses an appendage which Dr. Pierce omitted lo men tion, viz: a tail about three inches long with hair on it. If this be so the idea of its belong ing to the Genus homo must be abandoned, un less some acute philosopher should prove that Lord Monboddo's theory of men being origin ally monkeys furnished with tails, is true, and that the animal in question, is a" specimen of Lord Monboddos idea of primitive humanity. It appears from the account given by Dr Pierce, that he in company with Perry, pro ceeded towards the haunts of the creature, which he tracked by means of a pack of hounds. Af ter running 6ome lime they beheld a creature coursing along at great speed, and resembling a bear rather than a man. Dr. Pierce got with in ten paces of him and commanded htm to slop, but instead of pausing he took to a river. He was stiil pursued by the party, which finally arrived at a very thick cane break, in the midst of which was a large gum tree, with a hole just large enough for a person to squeeze in. " I looked in," says Dr. Pierce, "and could see the singular being squatted in one corner of the hol low and looking more like a bear than a human being." It being almost night, they concluded to wait until morning. At break of day, they commenced cutting and succeeded in making a hole large enough to get him out. He was fe rocious and indomitable, fighting with fury and was only subdued by a rope being thrown a- round his neck and tightened until his respira tion was almost checked, He was finally se cured and taken to Dr. Pcirce's house, where he can be seen. No doubt, adds the Doctor, he is one of those negroes that has by some means strayed off when he was small, and it is the opinion of Mr. CafTrey that he come there when a child, or perhaps born there, as there were two skele tons in the hollow tree, supposed to bo the fa ther and mother of the man that we caught. He appears to be fifty years old, weighing one bundled and thirty pounds, and will eat nothing but raw meat, and that which is tainted he likes best. He will eat craw fish and frogs with avidity when they are left in his way at night, but will not touch food in the presence of any person. His hair and nails are very long. His body is well sheltered from the cold and rain by the long hair that covers it. When any of the negro women come near him he shows con siderable sexual desire, which must be from in stinct, as I do not think he ever saw one before he was brought to my house. A French chemist strongly deprecates the use of saltpetre in curing meat, and recommends sugar or salaeratus as more wholesome, and equally efficacious. He attributes scurvy, ul cers, and other diseases to which mariners and other persons living on cured provisions are subject, entirely to the chemical changes pro duced by saltpetre. A Bigger Day's Work. We noticed in our last the big day's cradling of Mr. Wil.'dam Bane, of Hampshire county. It appeals, however, that Mr. James Carskadon, nf that county beat him. On the 1st day of July, he cradled in 15 1-2 consecutive bnura, Nine Acres, Two Rods and Three Polef,, yielding three hundred and thirty-six dozen of sheaves of good bind. The cap hheafjf" however this harvest, was done by Mr. Francis Helms of Marshall coun ty, who cut in one day Ten acres and twelve rods of wheal. Charlestown (Va.) Free Press. Killed by a Snake. The Columbia Spy states that a lilllo girl, about eight years of age, was killed by a snake a few days sinco, near Bainbridge. She was outselling blackberries, and remaining a long er time than usual, search was made for her. She was found quite dead with a large black snake coiled around her neck. Captain Kidd's Treasure and ITIer uierisui. We have seen intimations that the projector of the digging and pumping operations in ihe Hudson, near Caldwell's, had been influenced to some extent by Mesmeric revelation, but m particulars of these had reached u. In the Boston Transcript, however, u an ex tract from a pamphlet, giving an account of ibt marvellous seeings by a woman at Lynn, inclu ding an examination of Kidd'a sunken vessel,, as follows : First, finding a room near the stern, which she called tho captain's office, she spoke of seeing an iron chest, about as large a a a com mon soap box, encircled by a chain which ap peared to her as still somewhat bright, as if it. had a kind of gill wash or leaf on it, fastened at each end by a small sized padlock. In it she said she saw silver and gold some gold in sol id bars. She next discovered, on the honom of the vessel, in the mud and water, several small heaps or collections of silver, gold and precious stones, including diamonds, though mostly in. the rough or ore state. She next saw a sfngular looking thing, to her, which she at last called a quadrant or com pass ; she also spoke of seeing gold watche like ducks eggs in a pond of water. A liwl afterward she manifested great enthusiasm in finding another iron chest or safe, nearly ihe size of the other, but having no chain around i; and after looking some time very intently, sh insisted that she saw in it a splendid gold crown, once worn by a king or queen, and also a most, magnificent necklace, made in the shape of t harp, beautifully set with iho most brilliant dia monds. In examining farther, she spoke of seeing nothing else of a very remarkable character, ex cept several cannon, swords, and a large quan tity of cannon balls, till she entered a place, which she described as a small room, appear ing to be a very private room of the captain's,, and which, according to her account, seemed, to be in the forepart of the vessel. The last object she described was a tlfiro which she first called a spy glass, being rcund: and something like a yard long, but sh&soort discovered that ii was not a spy gtass, ike out side of it being made of a very hard lititd of brown wood, within which was a kind of zinc case, made water tight; and after carefal exam ination, she decided thai it contained the man uscripts of the pirate, still in a good degree oC preservation, though the paper or,ce white, is now yellow, and the ink, once black, brown. These manuscripts, she insisted, if lhey could be obtained would be very valuable, as they would give a full account, of his life, including the number of vessels w nich he had robbed, and the places where io 'jad buried his other treas ures. JErpevimeiit with Tar. I promised to give you the result of an ex periment wViich I had made with tar in pre serving t'je peach and nectarine trees. It is so very simple and cheap, lhat all admirers of good fruit may have flourishing trees, and a chance for eating good fruit. As soon as the so'fon attains tho size of a man's finger, which, is generally about the first of Autumn, remove the earth from the root, and deposit around the stock of ihe tree a half pint of soft tar, rubbing at ihe same time the body of the scion for six or eight inches above the surface with tar; then replace the dirt previously removed. This pro cess must be repeated each succeeding year, say in the month of June, increasing ihe quan tity of tar according to the growth of ihe treo. My own experience enables me to say, that this receipt is infallible. GEO. C. DOBSON. Mayoning, Va., Jan. 31, 1845. Fruit Treks. Instead of continuing the old practice of having alternate bearing and bar ren years for fruit trees, ihoae who cultivate them would do well to note this fact ; when young trees come into bearing for the fit at lime, about the lime the fruit is setting, if the most of it is taken off, and this continue for a few years in succession, leaving every year about ihe same quantity on the trees, they will, by the time lhey have become of sufficient size to bo profitable, acquire the habit of bearing every year. Coltimiiat S. Carolinian.
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