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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ;
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To make bad matters worse, he defied her to!.
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do her "best or worst; ' i.r the offence of mar-1
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rving ner in America and afterwards marrying !
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another wife in Lngland, could not be constru-1
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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!
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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
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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,
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in secret, out n win nut oe ine last. vvasiung-
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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
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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.
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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.
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