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VOL 6.
STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1845.
No. 19.
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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!
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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
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eyes
to tho gallery, and beheld his son pelting1
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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.
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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
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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.