iiejfiiwtwit- 0 ) . The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL 6. STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1845. No. 19. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCIIOCII & SPERIXG. TERMS. Two dollars per annum In advance Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if mil paid before the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their inner by a earner or stae drivers employed by the proprie tors, will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages .are paid, except at the optional the Editors. ' E7 Advertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) nil! be lnscrted'three weeks for one dollar : twenty-live cents far every subsequent insertion : larger ones in proportion. A Iiaeml discount will be made to yearlv advertisers IDAU letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. To nil Concerned. We would call .the attention of some of our subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas iers, to the following reasonable, and well set tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 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 to send them till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the offices to which thev- are directed, they are held responsible till they lave settled their bill, and ordered :heir papers discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their pnper is rent to the former direction, they are hed re sponsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to lake a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. The Games of Life. The little Miss at three years old, PEays with her doll and prattles : The little Master, stout and bold, Pinys with his drums and rattles. The Bey, detesting musty books, Loves romping with the lasses ; And Miss grows older, studies looks, Amd plays with looking glasses. The jolly Toper, fond of fun. Plays with his friends at drinking: The Sportsman plays with dog and gun, And Wise Men play at thinking. The Beauty, full of haughty airs. When young, play at tormenting; jBui wrinkled, turns to other cares, Gay sports at last repenting. Wretched from self-created wo, Tfre Miser's game is hoarding j Arid when he meets hi country's foe, The Sailor plays at boarding. The Lawyer plays his game so well A gets him many a greeting ; The Auctioneer with things to sell, Tbe Glutton plays at eating. To play at dosing. Doctors know A lengthy case Is cheering; And those who would to Congress go, Play at electioneering. With ledger busied, Merchants take A game at calculation ; And Congressmen too often make A plaything of the nation. By speaking much and doing nought, By basiling, threat'ning, raving, Congress the nation have not taught, That they have played at saving. Wiih looks profo'und, and thoughtful mind, Projectors play "at scheming ; Till worn with care, at last they find They've all along been dreaming. The Lover sad, and woful wan, i Plays day and night at fretting ; While, laughing at the silly man, His Delia sports coquetting. Cowards, with none but cowards nigb, Are fond of gasconading ; And Statesmen fawn, and cringe and lie, And play at masquerading. At setting types the Printers pjay, And sometimes with their quills ; Their Patrons do not play they say. At .paying off their bill. T'hePiayer plays for wealth and fame ; Andahus all play together, fill death at last disturbs the game, And-tops their play forever. A Sad Accident. A person walking along e s'reet stepped upon a watermelon, and got CjPized on ihe Rhine. A melonchuW acci- 'lent. truly! J From the N. Y. Spirit of the Times. A "Millerite" miracle. In a little village in the State of Hoosieiana, in the year 1 844, there was " all sorts" of ex citement concerning the doctrines and prophe cies of that arch deceiver Miller. For months, the Midnight Cry, followed by the Morning Howl, and the Noonday Yell, had circulated through the village and surrounding counties, to an extent not even equalled by Dr. Duncan's celebrated Coon Speech. Men disposed of their property for little or nothing. The wo men were pale and ghastly from watching and praying, and in fact, the whole population, or at least those who believed in the coming as cension, looked as if they were about half over a second attack of the chills and fever. There were, however, some " choice spirits," (not choice in theirs, however,) who, notwithstand ing the popularity of the delusion, would not enlist under the banners of the ascensiunists, and amongst these was a wild, harum-scarum blade from " Down East," by the name of Cade Newiixm. Now Cabe was as hard "a case" as you vould meet on a Fourth of July in Tex as, always alive for fun and sport of any and every desciiplion, and a strong disbeliever in Millerism. The night of ihe 3d of April was the time agreed upon out West here, for the grand ex hibition of " ground and lofty tumbling," and about ten o'clock of the said night, numbers of the Millerites assembled on the outskirts of the town, on a little eminence, upon uhich the pro prietor had allowed a few trees to stand. In the crowd, and the only representative of his race present, was a free negro, by the name of Sam, about as ugly, black, wooly, and Nugh a descendant of Ham, as ever baked his shins over a kitchen fire. Sam's head was small, body and arms veryi long, and his legs bore a remarkable resem- blance to a pair of hames ; in fact, put Sam on a horse, his legs clasped round its neck, h.is head towards the tail; and his arms clasped round the animal's hams, at ten paces off you would swear that he was an old set of patent' gearing. The leader of the Millerites, owing to " an ancient grudge he bore him," hated Sam "like smoke," and had done all in his power to pre vent his admittance among the " elect," but all to no purpose Sam would creep in at every meeting, and to-night here he was again, dressed in a robe of cheap cotton, secured to his body by a belt, and shouting and praying as loud as the best. Now on the morning of the 3d, Cabe had, with a deal of perseverance, and more trouble, managed to throw a half inch hemp cord over the branch of an oak, which stretched its long arm directly over the spot where the Millerites would assemble ; one end he had secured to the body of the tree, and the other to a stump some distance off. About 10 o'clock, when the excitement was getting about " 80 lbs. to the inch," Cabe, wrapped in an old sheet, walked into the crowd, and proceeded to fasten in as secure a manner as possible, the end of the rope to the back pari of the belt which confined Sam's " rohe" succeeded, and ' sloped," to join some of his companions who had the other end. The few stars in the sky threw a dim light over the scene, and in a few moments the voice of Sam was heard, exclaiming " Gor Al mighty ! I'se a goins; up ! Who-o-oh !" and sure enough, Sam was seen mounting into the " ethe rial blue ;" his ascent was, however, checked when' he had cleared " terra firina" a few feet. " Glory !" cried one. ' Hallelujah !" another, and shrieks and yells made night hideous; some fainted, others prayed, and not a few dropped their robes and " slid." Now whether it was owing to the lightness of his head, or the length and weight of his heels, or both, Sam's position was not a pleasant one ; the belt to which Calm's cord was attached, was bound exactly round his centre of gravity, and Sam dwung like a pair of scales, head up and heels down, heels up and head down, at the same time sweeping over the crowd like a pendulum, which motion was accelerated by his strenuous clapping f hands, and vigorous kicking. At length he uecame alarmed, lie tcouldn I go up, and he couldn't come down! " Lor a Massy," cried he, "jti take utn poor nigger to urn ho aum, or Iff him down agm, vusy,vasy, Gur Al mighty ! Lef him down agin, please um Lord, and dis nigger will go straight to um bed ! Ugh-h-h" and Sam's teeth chattered with af fright, and he kicked again more vigorously ;han before, bringing his head directly down ward, and his heels up, when a.woman shriek ing out, "Oh! Brother Sam, take me with you," sprung at his head as he swept by her, and caught him by the woolj bringing him up " all standing." " Gosh ! Sister," cried Sam " lef go um poor nigger's kr." Cabe gave another pull at ihe rope, but the additional weight was too much, the belt gave way, and down came Sam, his bullet head taking the leader of the saints a " feeler" just between the eyes.--" Gosh ! is I down agin ?" cried the bewildered Sam, gathering himself up ; " 1 is, bress de Lord ! but I was nearly dar, I seed de gates !" The leader wiped his overflowing probocis, took Sam by the nape of the neck, led him to the edge of the crowd, and giving him a kick " a la postermre," said, " Leave you cussed baboon, you are so infernal ugly I knowed they wouldn't let you in .'" C. A. P. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 10, 1845. The Philosopher's Stone. The eccentric, but brilliant John Randolph, once suddenly arose from his seat in the House of Representatives, and screamed out at the top of his shrill voice, " Mr. Speaker ! Mr. Speak er! I have discovered the Philosopher's stone. It is Pay as you go .'" John Randolph dropped many gems from his mouth, but never a richer one than that. ' Pay as you,' and you need not dodge .con stables and sheriff. " Pay as you go,' and you can walk the streets with an erect back and a manlv front, and you have no fears of those you meet. You can look any man in the eye without flinching. You won't have to cross the highway to avoid a dun, or to look intently into the shop windows to avoid seeing a creditor. " Pay as' you go,' and you can snap your fingers at the world, and when you laugh it will be a hearty, honest one. It seems to us some- j limes that we can tell the laugh of a poor debt-j or. He looks as if in doubt whether his laugh; was not the property of his creditors, and not j included in' articles 'exempted from attach-' meni.' When he does succeed in getting out' an abortion of a laugh for it is nothing but an abortion he appears lrightened, and InoUs as though he expected it would be pounced upon , by a constable. 'Pay as you go.' and you will meet smiling faces at home happy, cherry-cheeked, smiling j children a contented wife a cheerful hearth stone. John Randolph was right. It is the Phi losopher's Stone.' Division of Labor. A certain preacher who was hqlding forth to . enninntlinl . Innntf fmnTrnrril).iti I i ft wl im 1 I r-i ( .. ' . ..... . I eyes to tho gallery, and beheld his son pelting1 . ., . r . I the people below with chestnuts. Dominie was about to administer, ex cathedra, a sharp ! and stringent reprimand for this flagrant act of impiety and disrespect, but the youth anticipa ting him, bawled out at the top of his voice " You mind your preaching, daddy, and 77 keep them awake." New, Substitute for Coffee. A letter from a gentleman to Hon. H. L. Ellsworth, Washington, says the ripe seeds of the plant okra, much used in soup, &c, burned and used as coffee, cannot he distinguished frotu it, even the best Java. The seeds are sown an inch deep iu djllls, four feet apart, in May, and cul tivated like corn of peas. It yields abundant ly, and is very healthy. Mr.E. has the seeds. It appears by the census ihat Wisconsin Is a great place for babies. One of the papers state them at the astonishing number of sixty seven thousand, under the age of five years. CactOw to Smokers. German physiolo gist affirm that of twenty deaths of men bo tween eighteen and t wenty-fiv'e, ten originate iu ihe waste of the constitution by smoking. The Editor of the New York Evening Star .ay: thai the man who eats tomatoes every dav, will live', barring casualiiics, more than a hun dred years. Life iu our Cities. A writer in the' New York Tribune, makes the. following appalling statements, in regard to the condition of a certain class of laborers in that city : , "There are in this city, according to the closest estimates that can be made, ten thousand women who exist on what they can earn by the needle. The, following are the prices for which a majority of these females are compelled to work they being such as are paid by the large depots, for shirts and clothing, in Chatham street and elsewhere : For making common white and checked cot ton shirts, six cents each; common flannel un dershirts, the same. These are cut in such manner as to make ten seams in two pairs of sleeves. A common fast seamstress can make two tif these shirts per day. Sometimes very swift hands, by working from sunrise to mid night, can make three. This is equal to, seventy-five cents per week, (allowing nothing for holidays, sickness, accidents, being out of work, &c.) for the first class, and SI, 12 1-2 for the others. Good cotton shirts, with linen bosoms, neat ly stitched, ate made for twenty-five cents. A good seamstress will make one in a day, thus earning 1,50 per week, by constant labor. Fine linen shirts, with plaited bosoms, which cannot be made by the very best hand, iu less than fifteen to eighteen hours, steady work, are paid fifty cents each. Ordinary hands make one shirt of this kind in two days. Duck Trowsers, Overalls, &c, eight and ten cents each. Drawers and Undershirts, both Flannel and Cotton, from six to eight cents, at the ordinary shops, and 12 1-2 at the best. One garment is a day's work fur some others can make two. Satinet, Cassimere and Broad Cloth Pants, j sornetimes with gaiter bottoms and lined, from 18 to 30 cents per pair. One pair is a good day's work. Vests, 25 to 50 cents the latter price paid only for work of the very best quality. Good hands make one a dav. 0 Thin Coats are made for 25 to 37 1-2 cents a piece. Heavy Pilot cloth Coats, with three pockets, $1 each. A Coat of this kind cannot be made under three days. Cloth Roundabouts and Pea-jackets, 25 to 50 cents. Three can be made iu two days, a great number of females are employed in making men's and boy's Caps. By constant labor, fifteen or eighteen hours a day, they can make from 14 to 25 cents. We are told by an j old lady who has lived by this kind of work a long time, that when she begins at sunrise and works till midnight, she can earn 14 cents a day. A large majority of these women are Ameri can born, from the great Middle Class of life, many of w'hom have once been! in comfortable and even amuent circumstances, and have been , , . , , , , . r. . , reduced by the death or bankruptcy of husbands j and relatives, or other causes, to such traits. I Many of them are the wives of ship-masters and other officers of vessels. Others are the widows xjf mechanics and poor men, and have children, aged mothers and fathers, &c, to sup port by their 'needle. Many have drunken husbands to add to their burdens and afflictions, and to darken every faint gleam of sunshine that domestic affection throws even in the hum blest abode. Others have, sick or bed-ridden husbands or children, or perhaps, have to en dure the agony of receiving home a fallen daugh ter or an outlawed sou, suddenly checked in their career of vice. The manner in which these women live the squaliduess and unhealthy location and na ture of their habitations the inudeqitatcness of their food and clothing the impossibility of providing for any, tho slightest recreation, or moral or intellectual culture, or of educating their children can be easily imagined; but we assure the public that it would require an ex tremely active imagination to conceive the re ality." The Caledonia Mercury narrates at jength the case of a youth, named John Sweeny, a most inveterate stammerer, who was cured by a severe kick on ihe head by a horse. God acini you mure wit, and me more money. Thti Mineral Resource of the Uuiled Slate. Tile N. Y. Gazriite has a correspondent who occasionally furnishes that paper wjih scraps of truly tiseTuI information. In a hue nimib-r he "ives a sketch of the mineral ir.soorctM if the" United States, from which we condense following The granite of Am'eriea surpasses the gran ite of all other countrias, both in quan'try ami quality In Maine the granite quarries are more vnlu able than in any" other part of America. The whole expense of it delivered in New York, i $3 02 per ton, and it is worth here S7 00, leav ing tf gain of S3 38 per ton. The amount of Lime annually manufactured in Maine is about 700,000. This is more, m value than the produce of all the Gold mines iu our country. At one Lime Factory on the Hudson a kiln is charged and heated every 12 hours. The amount daily manufactured there is about 700 bushels, to make which amount, require about one ton of Anthracite coal. The Dutchess' County Lime Kiln product's annually 15,000,000 bushels, worth about S9o-r 750! The quarries of gypsum, or plaster, in New York are very valuable. In Wheatland. Mon roe county, 5000 tons are annually obtained. In excavating for the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad, 30,000 tons were obtained hetweim Syracuse and Camillus, which sold for $35,000 The marble quarries of Massachusetts, Con necticut and New York are very valuable, am! produce marble of great beauty and excellence. The income of the Berkshire marble quarries in Massachusetts, is annually $70,000. Four chimney pieces of the Verd Antique marbfe, were obtained from New Haven, Connecticut, for the capitol at Washington, D. C, for which $2,000 were paid The pillars of the Mer chants' Exchange, in Wall street, are the lar gest stones ever quarried in America. They weigh 23 tons, and cost $4000 each. They are from Quincy, Mass., of the same material as the Bunker Hill monument. This same granite is even taken as far as New Orleans L Zinc has not until lately attracted much at tention in this country. Within the ust year, however, a company iu Boston has become largely interested in the Zinc mines c-f New Jersey, located in Sussex county, and there is a prospect at present of their being effectually worked. A conditional offer was made to a French Company who satisfied themselves of ihe practicability of separating this metal in a large way--and they have recently caused the mines to be explored by a practical miner and metallurgist, but the result has not as yet been made public. It has been supposed that the lead, which is visibly exposed for a space of 4 feet by 600 feet, would yield a sufficient quan tity of zinc to yield, at the market value, $1, 982,880. Strange Origins. An exchange paper, under thi title, publish es the following : Moses was a shepherd; Noah a farmer; Con fucius a carpenter; Mahomet an ass-driver; Me hemel Ali a barber; tho actual Emperor of Mo rocco, a picture dealer? Bernandotte, a surgeon in the garrison of Martinique, at the time of the invasion of the English; Madame Bernandotte, a washerwoman of Paris; Napoleon, who de scended from an obscure Corscian family, was only a major when he espoused Josephine, daughter of a tobacco merchant, creole of Mar tinique; Franklin was a printer; President Boy er, a mulatto barber; President Tyler, a mili tia captain; Oliver Cromwell, a brewer; Presi dent Polk, a tavern-keeper; the Mi-p father of Isabella, Queen of Spain, the hulaud of Chris tiana, and the brother-in-law of the King of Na ples, was a waiter in a coffee house; General Espartero was a sexton; King Christopher, of Hayti, was a slave of St. Kitt; the present Pres ident of Hayti was also a slave ; Bolivar, an apothecary; Gen. Paez, a cow driver; Vaseo de ' Gama, a sailor; Columbus, a sailor; Louis Phillippe, a school master iu Switzerland, at Boston and at Havauuu; Catharine, Empress of Russia, a girl attached to a regiment; the present Governor of Maderia, a tailor; the' Min ister of Finances, ol Portugal, a-wiuu meichaiit.
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