11 It LI tfIJi.il VOL 6. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCIIOCH & SPERIXG. TERMS. Two dollars per annum In ailvAticte Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if not pnid bw'or'e the end of 'he year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their wpcrs by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie tors will he charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. So papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editors. E7 Advertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) ,mII be inserted three weeks for one dollar : twenty-live cents forever)' subsequent insertion : larger ones in proportion. A ibeml discount will be made to yearly advertisers lCTAl' letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. To all Concerned. We would call the attention of some of our subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas ters, lo the following reasonable, and well set tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to tlic palrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF XRWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not gie express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue lo send ihetn till all arrearages are pnid. 3. If subscribers neglect-or refuse lo take their papers from the officers to which they are directed, they are held responsible till they hsve settled their bill, and ordered :heir papers discontined. 4. If subscribers remove to 'oilier places with out informing the publishers, '-and their paper is sent io the former direction, they $re held re sponsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to lake a newspaper or periodical from the office, or amoving and leaving it uncalled for, is "prl ma facie" evidence of intentional frhud. Blind Bridles. Look and reflect ; use your oxen intellect. Yes, e your thinking powers, friends, it was given voa to use and not lo abuse. Blind bridles truly named, surely. Art never invehied a more fatal thing to the eyes of horses, than when she devised this plan of depriving the horse of what nature intended he should enjoy. But, says one, how are blinders injurious to the horse ? Because I hey gather dirt and heat around the eyes. Dirt irritates the eye and heat produces inflammation. These bridles so entratnmel the eyes of the horse that he is com pelled to be constantly .straining them to see his way. The over exertion of the nerves brings on disease. Eyes were not made in vain. Had they been needless, ihe Creator would not have located them in the head. They were placed on the corner of the head hat he might have the advantage of looking in different directions. Men in the abundance of their wisdom, concluded the horse had too much sight, and they wished to curtail it ; hence 'he origin of blind bridles. Think of this se riously and you will abandon the use of so de Mructive an appendage. Remember, that blind bridles and diseased eyes are inseparably con nected. Custom hoodwinks the senses of men, as much as blind bridles dees the visions of horses. JOHN MADDOCK, Farrier and Blacksmith. We are of opinion ourselres, that if the Cre aior had intended the eyes of horses to have been half blinded, that appendage would have been provided in a natural way. Western Cul tivator. Curious Combat. I witnessed a curious scenes it was a war between the wild dogs which inhabit the ruins ofThebes and the great hawks which abound in Upper Egypt. Our cook had just killed a sheep, and thrown the intestines on the bank of the river. I was sitting with my eyes fixed upon the magnificent rums of Luxor when I saw a crowd of hungry dogs issue from them, which desiring to have their share of the feast, immediately fell upon the refuse of the animal; ?"' their appetite was not to be gratified so easily as they expected, for other creatures, hov eniig in the air above us, had previously seen all that had passed, and the moment that the cook withdrew and the dogs approached, a 8a.rm of hawks and vultures, rapidly cleaving hfcair, rushed upon their prey, and disputed it their rivals. Avery curious bail le then began,, the bird Omrii by turns attacking or attacked, soih-e-tinies aucceeded in snatching the booty from 'he jaws of the savage dog, which yelped'and Marked after it, while the victor, rising into the a'r, seemed to mock at his impqtent cries. rary There are about fourteen hundred ntfwspa P0 .printod in the- United Stales, givin em- ieui to somfjih.iu, liko 12,000 hands. The whole art of .STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, The Shoemakers. BIT J. G. WHITTIER. Ho ! workers of the old times styled The Gentle Craft of Leather ! Young brothers of the ancient guild, Stand Torih once more together ! Call out again your long array In the olden, merry manner ; Once more on gay St. Crispin's day Fling out your blazoned banner ! Rap, rap ! upon the well-worn stone How falls the polished hammer ! Rap, rap ! the measured sound has grown. , A quick and merry clamor. NoW shape the sole ; now daftly curl The glossy vamp around it-, And bless the while the bright-cved girl Whose genile fingers bound it ! For you along the Spanish Main A hundred keels are plowing : For you the Indian on the plain His lasso-cnil is throwing : For you deep glens with hemlock dark The woodman's fire is lighting; For you upon the oak's grey batk The woodman's axe is smiling: For you from Carolina's pine The resin gum is stealing, For you the dark-eyed Florentine Her silken skein is reeling: For you the dizzy goatherd roams His rugged Alpine ledges ; For you round all her shepherd homes Bloom England's thorny hedges ! The foremost still by day or night On moated mound or heather, Where'er the need of trampled right Brought toiling men togeiher. Where the free burghers from the wall Defied the mail-clad master, Than yours, at Freedom's trumpet callj No craftsmen rallied faster ! Let foplings sneer, let fools deride, Ye heed no idle scorner, Free hands and hearts are still your pride And duty done, your honor. Ye dare to trust for honest fame The jury Time empanels, And leave to Truth each noble name Which glorifies your annals. Thy song's Hans Sach, are living yet, In strong and hearty German. And Bloomfield's lay and Gi fiord's wit, And the rare good sense of Sherman Still from his book, a mysiic seer, The soul of Behemen leaches, And England's priestcraft shakes to hear Of Fox's leathern breeches. The foot is yours : where'er it falls It treads your well-wrought leather, On earthern floor, in marble halls. On carpet or on heather. Still there the sweetest charm is found Of matron grace or vestal's, As Hebe's foot bore nectar round Among the old celestials ! Rap, rap! your stout and bluff brogan, With footsteps slow and weary, May wander where the sky's blue span Shuts down upon the Prairie. Ye slippers shine on Beauty's foot, By Saratoga's fountain. Or lead, like snow-flakes falling mute, The dance on Catskill mountain ! The red brick to the mason's hand, The brown earth to the tiller's ; The shoo in yours shall wealth command Like fairy Cinderella's ! As they who shunned the household maid, Beheld the crown upon her. So all shall .see your toil repaid With hearth and home and honor. Then let the toast be freely quaffed In water cool and brimming: ",A11 honor, to the good old Craft, lis merry men and women .!'T Call out again your long array In die old time's pleasant manner; Once niorVon gay St. Crispin's day Jling out his blazonVu banne,r I Adversity not only testa nifti's courage but arouses and exci th,yir mim2s Government consists in the art op- being The Death-Bed. There is no place in this world like a death bed. It lies on the borders of eternity, and is separated from the spirit-land only by a thin misty, boundary. From that spot you can look over into another world, dimly seen, but which stretches away onward to an interminable dis tance, and beyond the reach of thought. Around the death-bed hang curtains, such as surround no other bed in this world. On lhat bed men lie down to rise up no more ; and though all men approach it with deep and solemn reluc tance, yet all are "hastening to it with the ra pidity of time. From that spot the man looks back over all his past years. They seem to pass in review like shadows before him. The actions which have marked his past life and formed his character, seem to come up like spectres, and flit across the field of vision ith wonderful distinctness. Here he lakes his last look of earth. The shadows of life's eve ning are gathering around him, as the twilight fades away into lhat long, dark night, unbro ken by the slumber of ages. To some, that solemn death-bed i3 much more dreadful than to others. The unbeliever dreads it, and would fain avoid it, but there is no discharge. To him, it is surrounded with gloom, and darkness as darkness itself. And well it may be, for he has no God to whom he can look for consolation and support. He lies down alone, and dies alone, and enters eternity alone, without one friend to comfort him; and when he has passed the mysterious boundary of time, he finds most unwelcome and horrid companions j with whom he must travel in company all the round of eternal ages. The death-bed is dreadful lo the impenitent man. He lies down on it sooner than he ex pected, and before he was ready. All his life he has been approaching it, and knew it was a solemn place, but he has made no preparation to lie down there, and take a last look and a last farewell of earth, and friends, and objects which he held dear. He was moving on amid the bu sy and engrossing scenes of earth, unmindful of i the eternal future, when suddenly he finds him ! self lying on the bed of death. He has only time to take a few hurried glances around, on the faces of friends "and the objects he loved, and the hour of his departure has come, and his spirit spreads its wwtgs for the final flight. But of all death-beds, that of the worldly, prayerless, false professor of religion, is the most fearful. And yet-, the careless conduct of too many affords sad testimony to the melan choly fact, lhat their hope of heaven is built on the sand, and must soon be swept away by the final atorm. Who would not shrink from he holding the death-bed of the false professor! " I have seen it before now, and, I trust I may never see it again. They are not blessed after death. The rotten branches will burn more fiercely in the flames. Oh, think what torment it will be io think that you spent your life in pretending to be a Christian, and lost your opportunity of becoming one indeed! Your hell will be all the deeper, blacker, hotter, that you knew o much of Christ, and were so near him, and found him not. Happy are they who en dure to the end, who are not moved away from their hope of the gospel, who, when others go away, say, Lord, to whom can we go In.pros perity they follow the Lord fully; in adversity, they cleave to him closer still, as trees strike iheir roots deeper in slornis. Is this your case? Endure it to the end. Be not moved away from the hope, of the gospel. We are made parta kers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto ihe end. Even in the dark valley you will cling to him still. Come to him as ye came at first a guilty creature, clinging lo the Lord our Righieousness. Thou wast made my sin This is to die in the Lord, and this is to be blessed." Old Huicdrelh. The music in harmony of fo.cir parts of Vhis venerable Church tune was oom posed by Claude Goudtmel, about the ye-ar 1544. The compo ser who was chape'j n,a9ier at Lyons, France, died in. 1 572. & victim to religious opinion. 'Hie harmony of this hymn has since been al tered, as may be seen by comparing the same, a arranged'in the present collections of church music, with ihe original. It is a popular mu sical historical error, thai Luther was ihe com poser of ihis chorale, Musical World. honest Jefferson. SEPTEMBER 4, 1845. Feeding Horses on the Road. Many persons in travelling feed their horses too much and too often continually stuffing them, not allowing them time to rest and digest their food ; of course ihey suffer from over full ness and carrying unnecessary weight. Some make it a rule to bail every ten miles, which is very inconsistent as in some cases with a fleet animal, good road, favorable weather and load, this distance may be travelled in one-third the time, that it can under unfavorable circumstan ces as to speed. It would be better to regulate the feeding by time rather than distance. Mr S B. Buckley who made a botanical tour among the Cumberland mountains, says in the Albany cultivator " four young men came in travellers on horse hack, who according to the Southern custom ride all day without stopping to dine or feed their horses. Horses will do well and keep in good condition under such treatment, as I can testifyfrnm experience." Horses should be well fed in the evening and not 8 lulled too full in the morning, and the trav elling should be moderate on starting with a horse having a full stomach. If a horse starts in good condition, and travels rather quick he can go twenty-five miles without bailing ; this is evident when we consider the time necessa ry to accomplish this space with tolerable speed. If a horse starts well fed, in the morning at 7 o'clock, ho can travel till noon, having a little water and a little rest occasionally, without food; or if he have any, a little meal in vater, or two quarts of oats, if ground the better, or a little lock of hay may be given instead of meal or oats. At noon the horse should be pretty well fed and rest two hours, then he can travel four or five hours with very little or no food. Horses cannot well endure hard travelling on grass ; therefore those that are generally kept on grass should be fed on hay the night pre vious to starling on a journey, or to a hard day's work. In taking horses from grass and feed ing on dry fodder and grain, care must be had to iheir health, as this change is liable to pro duce constipation of the bowels and cholic ; which may be prevented by giving small quan tities of wheat bran or potatoes or other roots Hay cut tolerably early, or that in which there is a good portion of clover, is more laxative and may be a preventative, but it is not so substan tial food as well grown hay, or herd grass. Important to Farmers. The following account of a new Reaping Machine, used 011 the farm of Mr. John Dela field, at Geneva, N. Y, we find in a late num ber of ihe Journal of Commerce. If a machine, simple in construction and easily managed, ca pable of reaping 20 acres per day, can be pur chased for $100, it is one of the cheapest in vestments a farmer can make : Mr. Delafieid was in the midst of harvest, and had already gathered about sixty acres, and, what is still more wonderful, this has been done without the aid of either cradle or sickle. He has a machine, sent him from Maryland, which is the most expeditious reaper I ever saw. It is driven by two horses one boy to driye and a man to tend the machine. Both of them ride. The horses are put upon a quick walk, which sets a number of cutters in motion, and the wheat falls back upon the platform in handsome order, as fast as the machine pro gresses ; and when a quantity accumulates suf ficient for a aheaf, the man in attendance shoves it oft' with his rake. It falls smooth and even upon the ground, and another is. immediately formed ; and so it proceeds wi.ihoiit any trouble or difficulty, until the 100 cre field is finished. There were eight hind.ers accompanying the machine and it, frequently had to bo stopped, to allow them l me m get out of the way. It will cut 20 ac'es in u day. I have never seen any thing in ihe machine line work more completely. U tertaiiily will prove of the utmost utility to farmers, both for expedition and cheapness can now bo obtained for about $100. It Jim,' said Timothy, the other day, to his son 'Jim you are lazy what on earth do you expect to do for a living V 4 Why father, I've been thinking as how 1 would be a Revolutionary Pensioner !' After a marriage in Connecticut, the bride groom took the parson aside very mysterious ly, and whispered 10 him 'can't you lake your pay out in tutors.' jajfllliv.i" - No: 4 umjumjw nit. Bint hi traKmiTrumxB3i- A Gormandizer. A few evenings since, a number of persons aitended the Junction Inn, Glu.sop, Eng., fr the purpose of seeing a feat performed y a man named Jesse Ollerenshaw, for -a vager of-a. quart of ale. The man undertook to eat .and drink in the space of half an hour the following articles : Three half pounds of butter, without bread; two pounds of new potatoes, raw; il ree and a half pounds of bread, dry; two pounds nf raw onions, one pint of coffee, half a gill ol rm.i, two quarts of ale, and oue glass ot ale with i teaspoonftil of cayenne pepper mixed up with it. Strange to say, the individual performed the feat in ihe time specified, and offered to eat more, but was prevented by his wife, who said that the wager (a quart of ale was too small, otherwise he would have consumed every tiling eatable that was in the house. Manchester Guardian. Straw Bounels. In 1S17, when straw bonnets first became general, it was common to trim them with arti ficial wheal or barley in ear; on which the fol lowing lines were written : ' Who now of threatening famine dare complain. When every female forehead teems with grain! See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes. Our barns are now transferred to drawing rooms, And husbands who indulge in active lives To fill their granaries may threh their wives.' Curious Ilevenge. A man and his wife having a bitter quarrel, in order to appease their fury they threw alL their portable furniture out of the window. The wife had even ripped up the tick of the bed, and set the feaihers afloat in the air and then run ning to the banisters of the stairs, and breaking her arm upon them, she exclaimed with insane energy, 'Now you scoundrel, you must pay for a surgeon.' Fatality among Horses. A singular and fatal disease has appeared re cently among the horses on Long Island, which, defies the skill of a most experienced veterina ry otirgeon, wno can uiscuver uu uiuo than an inflammation, thickening and contract ing of the gullet. The fust symptom is ihe refusal of the horse to drink, and about thirty valuable beasts have died at Bath and ForL Hamilton. At Long Branch, New Jersey, lately, they got up a race between a dull horse and a. fast ox, which attracted a great crowd. A colored rider mounted each animal, and strange to say,, at the end of the mile, the ox beat. The ladius. were very much excited, and several expressed a wish "to ride that sweet ox." Of the sixteen millions of white population of the United States, about fourteen millions are employed in agriculture. The entire number employed in manufactures and the mechanic arts is less than half a million. Commerce and mercantile pursuits occupy the larger portion of the remaining fifteen thousand. Jail v. the Grave. A facetious physician discussing- with a law yer the merits of the professsion remarked, that the 'victims of the law' in the end usually had the pleasure of gazing upon Mho face of nature throupi certain iron-barred windows.' ' Far better view that,' replied the Lawyer, 'than your victims gel six feet of earth usually ob structs the vision entirely Ihe Dr. gave a, cognovit for costs. A young lady being told that her lover had beon killed suddenly, exclaimed. Oh ! that splendid gold watch of his ! give me something to remember him by." Sam do you know any songs V Yes I know two.' 'What are they, Sam!' 'One's Old hun dred, and tother aintV A Roinisli Nut. A Roman Catholic piiest, some time smcs in Germany, entering, the pulpit, took a walnut into it. He told the people that the shell was tasteless and valueless that was Calvin's Church. The skin was nauseous, disagreeable and worthless that was the Lutheran Church. He then said he would show them the Holy Roman Apostolic Church. He cracked the nut and found it rotten I
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