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STROUDSB ORG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1845.
No. 10.
The whole art ov Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson.
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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.
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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.