I cti-ii Etc s.1 The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL 6. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1845. No. 18. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCHOCI3 & SPARING. TERMS. Two dollars per annum In aitvancc Two dollars id a quarter, half yearly and if not pnid before the end of ne vcir.Two dollars and a h;:;f. Those who receive their ,ltpc'r by a carrier or snipe drivers employed by the proprie tors will be charged 3. 1-2 c.s. p,;r year, extra. yo papers discontinued until all arrearages arc paid, except at t!i option of the hdilors. rrj.vJvcrase nents not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) viil t? inserted 'hree weeks for one dollar : twenty-live cents f,r every suoscquent insertion : larger ones in propoition. A ijhcrsl di.scouiu win oe inaae 10 yearly advertisers jXjAll letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. To all Concerned. We would call ihe 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 die patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not gie express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing t,i continue their subscriptions. 2. If .subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publisher- may continue to send them till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse Jo lake tht'tr papers from the offices to which they are ilirecied, they are held responsible till they hae settled iheir bill, and ordered :heir papers discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with otii informing the publishers, and iheir paper is te'ii to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 5. The courts hare decided that refusing to take a newspaper or periodical from ihe office, or re'imving and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. Don't Spit in the I?lceiu-EIouse. A fair correspondent of the Hanntbal Journal indulges some reflections upon spitting, which are raher "in" to tobacco chewers. TO HA CCO. The Iraelitish camps were clean Such were their institutions, And why should not a meeting-house Be guarded from pollutions. Religion is a cleanly thing, And decency befits it, Spitting the floor's a nauseous thing, And eyery one admits it. Yet this vile practice here prevails, It pains me to relate it, And rational, reflecting men We hope will reprobate' it ; The rules ol moral decency, Our mothers inculcated, Are here profaned and trampled on: Too bad to be related. Thai witching, nauseous Indian weed, That gives men the salaver, Ha Miieared the floor until it needs We are the weaker sex : then sure You'll pardon our complaining, While true affection urges us To iry for your reclaiming. Pray lend a kind, propitious ear, And do not be offended,. When we propose a remedy To have this evil mended. Let those who will indulge, at home, There use it unmolested, If those around them can submit, To be so much infested. But when they come to worship God, Behave as is befitting, Oh! then refuse, for conscience sake: This is no place for spilling. But for inveterate cases, when They cannot be obedient, And for accommodation's sake We have a grand expedient, Let each procure a calabash, This from his neck suspended, Would answer well, and cleanliness Would be thereby befriended, Post Ittorlejii Examination. A consumptive gentleman who died in the tuy lately, experienced such unsual oppression n Ins lungs before his decease, that a post raor ni examination was held. The first incision 0 exposed to view a hard substance like wood, 'id a complete opening of the chest brought to 1'ghi a small 'camp stool,' which must have got n there during the last war .' It was by means fihi8 that a severe cold had been seated upon his lungs. If you want fresh eggs, always get those with Sickens in thera since it is a law in nature hat every thing young is fresh. ' j Cow .os2ci her Morn. On New-Year's day, 1845, one of my cows in fighting another, with a fence between them, caught the horn in the rail and completely sep arated ii from the pith. I was absent at the time, but my man who acted as assistant sur geon in the cases of the cow and the shoats, and who thought he had learned something from a book farmer, undertook to practice on his own account. He concluded, by reasoning on the nature of things, that as the horn was made to cover the pith, the pith ought to bo covered, especially in winter. He accordingly shut up the cow by herself, and looking around, found the horn beside the fence laying on the ground, and as cold as a swne. It was replaced, and he went to my farm medicine chest, and taking therefrom a ioll of sticking plaster, spread long strips of muslin with it, and wound the strips around the base of ihe horn The result was, the horn became warm at the base, and gradu ally extended upwards until the whole assumed ils natural temperature. The plaster adhered more than a week, and upon examination at the time, the horn was found to be united. It is now three months since the accident, the horn is firmly fixed in its natural position, and the cow is well, and running at large with the others. Cultivator. A Hard Case. In the London newspapers there is published a report, before one of the police magistrates, of a very hard case indeed. A respectable look ing female, named Amelia Jones, accompanied by her little child, made an application to the Justice, under the following circumstances, for his advice. She said thai she was a native of Philadelphia, and thai about iwo years ago, she married an Englishman, named Jones, who left her 9 months since, and learning that he was living in London in good circumstances, she left Philadelphia and went to England in search of him, and by laborious inquiry she found out his residence in ihe Kent Road. She called at the house, when to her uiier astonishment she discovered another woman. He told her " . . , i i i r i how he was situated: lhat he had formed an- oilier matrimonial alliance, and thai he was en-j tirelv dependent on his wife's property, and ; . . lClC(iU UUIIIU 1 UI1UV1 tJt.1 lit IVIIIU Wl U-10I01UIILV-, t To make bad matters worse, he defied her to!. , , , ms i r r do her "best or worst; ' i.r the offence of mar-1 , . , , , .1 rving ner in America and afterwards marrying ! " , . , , . , . ! another wife in Lngland, could not be constru-1 , . . ... ,, i I ...... I I. .... . . I 1 in .1 in n n 1 ru lll'U a. uwaijje ui yjgctui. x lit: puui uiiiuu was therefore obliged lo quit his house, with out the means of returning to America, or of supporting herself and child in London. The magistrate gave her some immediate relief, and advibed her lo call on the American Consul for aid. A regular back woodsman of ihe Yazoo swamp was asked how old he was. 4 Why, stranger,' said he, 4I can't cdzactly say, but when this country was first discovered, 1 was a! , , r , , I right sman chunk of a cub Married, on the 5ih Sept. by the Rev. Dr. Polls, Mr. Ezekiel Black to Miss Sussannah Kettle. We suppose that Pot may now call Kettle Black. What in it? A Mechanic,' in the Philadelphia Ledger, says lhat two gentlemen have invented a new method of roofing houses, more durable than shingles or slate or tin, as brilliant as glass, fire-proof and wa'cr-proof; red, blue, yellow, green, or any other color thai may be desired; a non-conducior of electricity, a reflector of heat; cheaper than tin, lighter than slate, being vitrified it is almost indestructible by time or weather, and so easily put on that the largest roof can be covered in a Mtigl day, if desired. It requires very little descent ; a roof covered with this material may be made as flat as any tin roof, without iho least danger of its leaking. Nothing short of actual violence will injure it. Should it come into eneval use our cities will outshine the Kremlin of Moscow, When a house with a slate roof is on firo, the slates fly so lhat firemen are in great danger, should they come near it ; but this article having passed through the fire in the process of manufacture, is not liable to this objection ; its durability is such that it will last as long as the house. The telegraph, it is said, is used at ihe pres ent time, for the consummation of qtjjte an cx-fra-ordinary business transaction. A gentle man of this city, as the story runs, and a beau tiful heiress in Baltimore, whom he likes better than himself, not caring to have iheir sentiments tumbled about in the mail and posi office, have substituted one letter of the alphabet, as ex pressed by ihe telegiaph, for another wholly different from Morse's which is unintelligible, not only to the rest of the world, but to the su perintendents themselves. Their messages are handed in at the telegraph oflicc, where the su perintendent plays the automaton over them ; and at ihe opposite end, he carefully folds the strips of paper, on which all ihe various letters have been accurately impressed by the tele graph machine, and sends them to the parly to whom they are addressed. Thus they talk lo each other any day, any hour of the day, they choose. The other day one of these curious love letters fell into " old Papa's" hands, intend ed for his daughter. The old man is very hos tile to the annexation which he has a suspicion his daughter is bent on forming. He put on his spectacles and scrutinized the mysterious budget. Then he look them off, wiped ihem, and examined ii again. Ii was all Greek to him. 4 Jule,' said he, 1 what's all this about V 4 That ! Pa ? O, that's only some paper from ihe telegraph office.' 4 Yos,' said he, ' I know ii's from the tele graph office, bui what are all these marks upon it?' 4 Those are made , you know,' she replied, 4 as the paper passes through the machine.' 4 They arc .'' said he, very significant!'. ' Well, what do they mean V 4 La ! now Pa,' sard she, 4 you must think I can read Chinese ;' and she absolutely laughed the old gentleman out of countenance. 4 1 should just like lo know,' he continued, 4 what ihis read, and I will step to the tele graph office and get them to translate it.' 4 Do, father,' said the dutiful daughter, ' and please ask ihem why they send so much of it 1 . J J lo me. I 4 J hov send it to vou, do they,' said he. 4 1 es; yes I'll inquire? And he did inquire, and tried in vain to find j if nif I o n s r r t a o o ctl lit o irnn r i it u (U agwi&i Ma ao iiii in an nun aaiu, ' . I his may bo the first private alohabet which , ,r - , has been devised for carrying on a speculation . . , , , TTr in secret, out n win nut oe ine last. vvasiung- a ton Bee. A Story of a Gsasat. In exhuming of late the remains of so many wonderfully large animals unknown lo the pres ent age, it has been supposed that ihe ancient race of men must have been correspondingly as large. At length we have something to sus tain the doctrine. The Madison Banner slates on the most reliable authority, lhat a person in Fmtiblifi rnmi I tr 'Ponnocvno tit It ? 1 r Kiitv n J . , , we'i a 'ew weeks since, found a human skele- ion, at the depth of fifty feel, which measures eighteen feet in length. The immense frame was entire with an unimportant exception in otie of the legs. Ii has been visited by several of ihe principal members of the medical faculty in Nashville, and pronounced unequivocally, by all, ihe skeleton of a huge man. The bone of the thigh measured five feel ; and it was com puted that the height of tho living man, making the proper allowance for muscles, must have been at least iwcniy feet. Thefinder had been offered eigh I otisaud dollars for it, but had de termined not o .iell it at any price until first exhibiting it for twelve months. He is now having the d:fi'urent parts wired together for this purpose. These unwritten records of the men and animals of other ages, that are from time to lime dug out of the bowels of the earth, put conjecture to confusion, and almost surpass imagination itself. History informs us that the Empeior Maximus was 8 feet G inches in height. In the reign of Claudius a man was brought from Arabia 9 feel 9 inches tall. John Middleton, of Lancashire, England, was 9 feet 3 inches, and Cotter, the Irish Giani, 8 feel 7 inches. But our American skeleton, if we have really found such a one, will throw all other Giants in ihe shade. Peaches have been sold .at New Orleans this season for 25 cents each. JPrcsesat to H2r. Clay. We saw yesterday, at the residence of Mr. Romulus R. Griffith, in this city, a counterpane made by Mrs. Ann Warner, of Harford County, Md. a lady now in her 93d year. It is a beau tiful article, both as a specimen of fine needle work and in respect to the taste displayed in the arrangement of ihe numberless pieces of which it is composed. In the centre of it is the following inscription: TO THE. HONORABLE HENRY CLAY: THE ORATOR., PATIU0T AND PHILANTHROPIST, In token of admiration of tis genius and his vir tues, is presented this piece of needle-work, BV .MRS. ANN WARNER, Executed hy her own hands, in the 03J year of her age. Baltimore, 1845. While lingers still my setting un, And life's last sands in silence fall, Ere Death's rude hand ihe glass shall break, And o'er its ruins spread the pall I lift the voice which 'mid the storm Of war our early patriot blest, And with its dying accent bail, The patriot hero of the West. Oh hallowed be thy matchless worth By a whole nation's love and prayers ; And thy eventful being close Lamented by a nation's tears. The old lady completed the counterpane in about six weeks, without assistance from any one. The spirit which animated her whilst engaged in rendering this handsome tribute from age to the great American Statesman may be inferred from iho. inscription. The article will be taken in charge by James H. Merri weather, Eq. of Cincinnati, and be by him de spatched to Mr. Clay's residence. Baltimore American. Extraordinary Fact isi lYatural His tory. It is known lhat the Ratile Snake has a pas sion for milk over all kinds of food, and a very remarkable case recently occurred in Ohio. Two children (a boy five years old, and a young er sister,) went into the milk house, where an enormous Rattle Snake was engaged feasting at a pan of cream, when the boy unhesitatingly seized it, and pulled ii away by tho tail, and j not attempting to escape, he desired his sister lo wr.tch it whilst he went for an axe, with which the little hero returned, and courageous ly cut its body through. The tail part of this very formidable creature was given to Dr. T. Roe, of Hazlewood House, near Newark, who has carefully stuffed and preserved it, measu ring between three and four feet in length, and of greater thickness than the wrist of a full grown person, with twenty-seven rattles there to. The only assignable reason for its not at tacking the children, is, lhat the distended slate of its stomach from the quantity of cream it had drank, rendered it partially torpid. Its skin is rough, and scaly like a fish, with large spots upon ii of a diamond shape, and is considered a very great curiosity, and the providential safe ly of the children almost a miracle. A reptile of such terrible size, and power, happily, is not frequently met wiih, nor is there, perhaps, on record, an instance of a child so young posses sing a spirit so undaunted. A Beautiful Idea. At a public meeting in New York. Rev. J. Spaulding dwelt a few moments on the death less nature and extent of moral influence. "Away among the Alleghanies," said he, 44 there is a spring so small that a single ox on a summer's day could diain it dry. It steals its unobstrusive way among the hills, till it spreads out inso the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away a thousand miles leaving on its banks more than a hundred villages and ci ties, and many thousand cultivated farms ; and bearing on its bosom more than half a thousand steamboats. Then, joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and away some twelve hundred miles more, till it falls into the great emblem of eternity. It is one of the tributaries of thai ocean, which, obedient only to God, shall roll and roar, till the angel, with one foot on the sea, and the other on the land, shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear thai time shall be no longer. So with moral influence. It is a rill, a rivulet, a river, an ocean, boundless and fathomless ns etcrniiy?' Appearance. Some years since a merchant on Long Wharf" advertised for Spanish nulled dullirs. Tho premium was high. A Roxbury farmer who came into town for manure, and who took pride in appearing like a poor man, with a shovel on his shoulder, called al the counting room of tho man, and asked him if he wanted ilvcr dollars. 4 Yes,' said the merchant; 4 have you gm anyf 4 Not wi:h me,' replied the farmer, but 1 ibin'; I have a few at home. What do you give V 4 Four per cent,' said the merchant ; and added, 4 1 will give you seven for all you have. 4 Well said the man, 4 1 should like to have you just clap down on paper how much you give and the number of your shop, or I shall be puzzled to find it.' 4 Yes,' said the merchant, 'that I will do; what is your name V 4 Edward Sum mer,' said he. The merchant then wrote as follows, and gave it to him. 4 Edward Summer, of Roxbury. says thai he thinks he has some Spanish dollars at home, but don't know. I hereby agree to pay him seven per cent, premium for all such dollars as he may produce. G A . 4 If I find any,' said the cartman, 4 1 will call with them to-morrow morning, at 9 o'clock, if I don't you won't see me.' The appearance of the man satisfied the merchant thai hisfd;llurs would be scarce. At 9 o'clock the next day, however, the man appeared, and atockingfull after stocking full was carried up and emptied on ihe table, till several thousand were counted. The merchant somewhal restive, but honorably caught, look the silver, gave a check for the amount, with seven per cent, added ; pleasant ly remarking, 44 1 did not suppose from your ap pearance, that you could have more than half a dozen dollars." Mr. S. took up his check, and replied in his own peculiar emphatic style, 44 Sir, I'll tell you a truth which a man of your standing in the world ought to know, and it is this Appear ances oftentimes deceive us." Itfo mistake at all, Sir. A sailor having purchased some medicines of a celebrated doctor demanded the price. 4 Why,' says the doctor, 4I cannot think of charging you less than seven-and-six-pence.' 4 Well, I'll tell you whai,' replied the sailor, 'lake off the odds, and I'll pay you the even.' 4 Well,' returned the doctor,' 'we won't quar rel about trifles.' The sailor laid down sixpence, and was walking off, when the doctor reminded him of his mistake. 4 No mistake at all, sir: six is even, and se ven is odd, all the world over; so I wish you a good day.' Get you gone,' said the doctor, Tvo made four pence out of you yet.' Ho osier Wedding. The ceremony of tying the nupiial knoi is very much simplified in the Hoosier state, as the following scene will show : 4 What is your name, sir?" Matty.' 4What is your name, miss?' 4Polly.' 4Matiy, do you love Polly?' 4No mistake.' 'Polly, do you love Matty?' 'Well, I reckon.' Well, then, " 1 pronounce you man and wife, All iho days of your life." A strange gentleman passing by the Poor house of this county, not long since, thought it was the mansion of some country nabob, and desiring to know his name, inquired of an Irishman, who was laboring in a field near the road, 44 Sir, will you please to tell me who owns that building there?" 14 Troth, an' there's a company of us owns it," was the instant reply of Pat. Excellent vinegar may be made of the juice of beets. A farmer lately grated a bushel of sugar beets to a fine pulp, pressed oui'the juice, (six gallons,) and put it into an empty vinegar barrel, and in two weeks he had'as fine vine gar as was ever obtained from cider. An editor out west says lo his non-paying subscribers "We cannot afford to pay two or three dollars a day for horse hire to dun men who ought to have paid us a long time ago ; and besides we are too ragged and miserably clad to be seen out of our own village. V 1
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