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The courts hare decided that refusing to talie a newspaper or periodical from the office,! or removing "and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. LABOR. Ho, ye who at the anvil toil, vj And strike the sounding blow, Where from the burning iron's breast The sparks fly to and. fro, , , ;! While answering to the hammer's ring, . And fire's intenser glow . Oh, while ye feel 'tis hard to toil t. And sweat the long day through, Remember, it is harder, still , . To have no work, to do. Ho, ye who till the stubborn soil; Whose hard hand guides the plough, j Who bend Beneath the sum met' sun, 1 With burning cheek and brow '" Ye deem the curse still clings to earth' From olden time till now, ' But while ye feel 'tis hard to toil And labor all day through . Ren:ember it is harder still To have ho work lb do. Ho, ye who plough: thesea's blue-field;--". Who ride the restless -wave, ; Beneath whose gallant vessel's. keel , r, There lies a. yawning grave. . ; .Around whose bark the wintry. winds ; Like field of fury rage . . Oh, while ye feel 'its hard to toil , - . ...v And labor long hours through, Remember it is harder sfill ' To have no work 16 do; Ho. all who labor all who siriye! . . Ye wield a lofty power, , ; . j Do with your might. do with your strength. Fill every golden hour; . The glorious privilege to do. v . Is man's most noble dower, w . . On to your birthright and yourselves,. , . . To your own souls be true-; A weary, wretched life is theirs, . . ; WJio have no yo.rk 10 do. . ..... " Dismiss that He." Judge Dooly, of Georgia, was remarkable for bis wit, as well as for other talents. At one place where he attended Court, he was not well pleased with his entertainment at the tav ern. On the first day of his arrival a hog un der the name of pig had been cooked whole ad laid on the table. No person attacked it, li was brought the next day, and the riexi, and realed with flie same Tespect and If was on ie table on ihe day on which the Gourt adf j'unied. A iheariy finished,dinfleVJuavgf Dooly rose from Ihe table, and a solemn warmer addressed the-Clerk : ' 3 M Mr. Clerk,"' Wid he, " dismts's 'that hog "pon his recognizance ujitflHe fusf ihf bf ihe "xt Court. "He has atjetuie'd'sfr faithfully dui ,,ng he prcseinTTerin, 'fTi4inwl " A play upon wbrdsj" as'the hoy said'when kicked the dictionary up; and: diiwrl' the col room. STHOUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, From the Cincinnati Chronicle. The Romance of History. . THE ANCIENTS OF AMERICA. Mound Excavations. Ghilicothe is not only the site of a modern American town, flourishing and sightly, but was once the very seat and centre of the an cient Indian population. Dense with people as the fields with standing corn, was once the ancient Chilicoihe ; and more dense than the modern tombswere the sepulchres there erect ed to mark ihe cities of the dead. On every road, and in almost every field, in the great al luvial plain around the junction of the Scioto and Paint Creek, are, seen iho Mounds, where not only one, but many dead bodies, were en tombed together. Recently Dr. Davis, of Chilicoihe, and ano ther gentleman, have been engaged in excava ting these ancient tombs comparing One with another, and drawing, if possible, some conclu sions from the results. In all they have found twenty-three, and accumulated articles, instru ments arid remains enough to make quite a Mu seum of disentombed relics. We have been kindly permitted to examine these articles, and lo enter the excavated Mound-. The conclu sions we have come to are more satisfactory than any we have previously arrived t, and in regard to general principles seem to Us impreg nable. 1. The ancient Mounds of this country are Tombs, and only tombs, although iris not at nil improbable they may have been occasionally so placed as to answer the purpose of a look-out post or tower. But their original purpose was that of tombs. This is absolutely established by the. fact, that nearly every one (probably the whole) contains the remains of human bodies The-articles found with these such as crock ery ware, hatchets, arrows, &c, were unques tionably deposited, on the present aboriginal principle of burying with the body the weapons, instruments and ornaments possessed by the warrior while alive. The articles found are all of thisrdescripiion. . 2. The interments in these mounds hove hcr.n made at different end distant intervals of lime This may very namraiJy have taken place while the same race inhabited the country as it did in the tombs of Egyp', arid as it does in the cat acombs of Paris. Thee is incontrovertible ev idence that this was the fact in the mounds. In one of the circular parapets found round Chilicoihe, there are no less thun thirteen mounds. These haye all been .opened, and all show the same results. .They show indisputa bly thai there have been at least, two distinct sets of burials, and that these have been at dif ferent intervals of time. In the upper part of the mound for example, are frequency found bones nearly entire. The skulls and bones of the thigh and arm are found. With these are found arrow beads, and crockery ware, such as it is well known the Indians had in, their sav age state, and which they buried with iheir warriors. In one.of them was a Silver Cross nd circle, undoubtedly belonging to Catholic .Indians. The date of these burials cannot be reasonably placed beyond two hundred years. ; The manner in which the recent relics have been placed in, at the lop. of the mound, and distinct f;om these, for the burial of which the mound was erected, is one important and char acteristic fact Ai'lhe botlom of the mound about on the lev el with the natural ground, occurs what arc ob viously the most ancient remains, and to which is attached the only real mystery belonging to theso tombs. The first thing to be observed about these fs, that they are accompanied by an hearth, or altar, o:i which the human re main, as well as the domestic antclcs w hich accompanied them, were burned. Thirj. Sac.ri-f fictal Ahar,, howeer rude, is a very mi)orian fact in, Hie analysis of these iumu li. .The fact ofihe existence of this ujtar is amply proved by the eye. It is composed very rudely, of two parts. The lower is a.sonol rough brick; or. clay, dried and burnt. Qi the top of this; ad;about two . inched ihick,is a planer, or lime coaiing.. This artificial -panjs an oval shape, from three to six feel m diameter. The object 'fTtWas to bum, or, sacrifice the bodies and ihmgs buried. Tiie proof; of ij,j? fact is- 1. ThVbbneB'are very seidom dTscovered' here, and when ihey are, (such :as the thigh bone) are those most likely to escape the fire, and have that aspect. 2. There are partly con sumed' articles found on this altar. 3. The pieces of crockery-ware, &c, are burnt and broken. The conclusion, then, is Irresistible, that this was a'place of sacrifice, in which the bodies at first pulombed were burned; or, in case ihey consumed naturally, there was cer tainly burnt something as sacrifice. These are the facts, which show that there have been two sets of interments in ihese tombs. The first and oldest was at the bottom of the Mound, and was accompanied by sacrificial buntings. The second were burials made by persons who came in an after-lime, and re-opened the mound, to deposit iheirdead. That the second burial was a re-opening of iho tomb seems to be proved by the fact that ihe mound was originally composed in homogeneous Mraia of earth, the top of which is a gravel layer near ly a foot thick. At the lop only, this seems to have been deranged, and made heterogeneous, as in the ordinary throwing up of graves! It has been s:iid that because the mounds were so stratified, they were natural ! The absurdity of this cJn lie seen, by asking where did na ture ever produce, on u perfect plan, circular parapets, wilh-' regular cones in them? Be sides, the; straia'arc not the slrata of the sur rounding soil. They- are palpably artificial and the mounds palpably tombs. 3. These tombs do not furnish evidence, that the different burials were by different nations, or races of people.. On ihe contrary, the various articles found in all the graves, and very nearly all the mounds, are of lite same kind and char acter. They are hatchet, arrows heads, crock ery ware, pieces of metal, Isinglass, or Mica, &c. Such a very great similarity convinces us,, thai in constructing all the monuments, whether of War, Peace, or Burial yet found in the -Valley of the Mississippi, there have been ! engaged but one race of people. - . 4. This people were not possessed of the Arts of a high Civilization. ' In respect lo the evi dence furnished by these mounds, the proposi- sition is obvious. There is nothing among ihem beyond the rude arts of Savage Life ; and noihinsr bevond what our North American In-( dians are not known to accomplish. If the fab ricators of these stone Hatchets knew hovv to manufacture iron, would ihey waste their time and labor in polishing flint ? Would they take such great pains to make stone arrows ? Not only litis; but ihey have left in these tombs lead ore, but not manufactured lead. In one word, they have exhibited nothing but the la bor of the hands in their aris. They have shown neither the ingenuity nor the intellect of civilization. 5. . There is evidence of antiquity, but not of I very great antiquity. The recent burials, by the fact of iheir containing Catholic Crosses, have been made within the period in which the Catholic missionaries commenced their opera tions among the Indians. But when were the mounds built ? And when did ihese Sacrificial burials take place? We are willing enough to; concede any remote antiquity to them, but it is more philosophical to at-k, within what period might ihey have been erected ? Five or six hundred years are enough to give full maturity to the most venerable patriarchs of the forest. Grant that ihese may be found on the tops of parapets and mounds. Grant tliitt three hundred years since, when (he Cath olic Indians buried in them, ihey were then, as now, ancient remain, unknown (o tradition. Grant that these aged trees were then upon ihem, and these bones then decayed. What then? It is easy to see that ull this may have been dime in a thousand years. It is absolute- fv certain that It maVall have been' done, and I 1 t lost in tho ohscuritv of antiquity wiiluh the era? of Christianity: Mr, Stevens tliiuks thisVas ihe fact with ihe ruined, cities of Mexico; and there is strong and unanswerable facts in favor of t.hat opinion But' this is riot high antiquity, i is in truth, a receni epoch in the history of the world. Thus, much of ihe mystery and poetic ro? manco which, soemed to envelope this subject, and give it the interest of an unthreaded arid. apparently jmp'raiMicable path through iIih wildsj f antiquity,' likely to be 'dissolved like other misis. Inio .ihiu'rirri We. shall never know the "ietailed histmy oib aboriginal race of Arher- NOVEMBER 13, 1845. ica; but we can know their character by their remains ; and their lineage by their lineaments. The former was most unquestionably that of a barbarous people ; and the latter has the unmis lakeable characteristics, in person and habits, of thai great Tartar or Scythian race, which, from the earliest ages of the world, have inhab ited the' upper regions of Asia, and whence they have at different periods,-descended upon other countries. That they might have reached America with very little art, is well known: that they did so, is in the highest degree prob able. liomaucc in Real jLifc. One of 'my father's brothers, residing in Bos ton ai that time, became a victim to the pesti lence.' When the first symptoms appeared, his wile sent the children in;o the country and her self remained lo attend upon him. Her friend Warned her against such rashness. They told her it would be death to her, and no benefit to him; for he would soon be too ill to know who attended him. These arguments made no im press on her affectionate heart. She felt'jhai it Would be a long-life atisfuction to her lo know who attended him, if he did not. She accordingly staid and watched him with unre mitting care. This, however, did not avail to save him. He grew worse and worse, arid finally died. Those who went round wiih ihe death cartjj had visited the eba'mber and seen that the end was near. They now came lo take the body. Ills wife refused .to lei it go.. Site told me she never knew how to account for it, but though he tvas perfectly cold and rig id, and to every appearance quite dead, lucre was a powerful impression on her mind that life was riot extinct. The. men were overborn by the strength of her' conviction; though their own reason was oppo.sed to it. The half-hour again came round, and again was heard ihe solemn words, "Bring out your dead !"' The wife1 again resided their impuni ties, but this lime the men were mote resolute. They said t lie duty assigned to them was a painful one; but the health of the city required ounctual obedience lo ihe orders thev received: lxh RVef CSiecled jhe.pesiilence to abate, it nitisi be by a prompt tetnoval of ihe dead, and immcdiate fulmigatton of the infected apart ments. She pleaded and pleaded, and even knelt to theni in an agony of tears, continually saying, "1 am sure he is not dead." -The men repre sented the uuer absurdity of such an idea; but finally, overcome by tears, again departed. With trembling haste she renewed her efforts to restore him. She raised his head, rolled his limbs in hot flannel, and placed hot onions on his feet. The dreadful half-hour again come round, and found him as cold and rigid as ever. She renewed her entreaties so desperately, that ihe messengers began to think a little gentle force would be necessary. They accordly at tempted to remove the body against her will ; but she threw herself upon ii, and clung to it with such frantic strength, that they not easily loosen her grasp. Impressed by the remarka ble energy of her will, they relaxed their eflbrts. To all of their remonstiances she answered, "If you bury him you shall bury me with him.' At last by dint of reasoning on the necessity of ihe case, they obtained from her a promise, that if he showed no signs of life before they again came round she tvould make no faither oppo sition to the removal. Having gained this respite, sho hung the watch upon the bed-post, and renewed her ef forts with redoubled zeal. She placed kegs of hot vater about him, forced brandy betweeri his teethVbreaihed into his nosirilsand heldharts- hbrn toiiis nose"; but still the body lay moiiorH less and 'cold, she looked anxiously at the watch;- in five minutes ihe half hour would' ex pire, and t hoce dreadful voices would1 be heard, passing through ihe street. Hopelessness came oer her; she dropped the head she had been sustaining; her hand trembled violently; and ihe hartshorn she had been holdi spijled on the pallid face. Accidentally, 'he position of the head had become slightly tipped backward, and the. powerful liquid flowed mtt his nostrils. Instantly -there was a short, quick grasp a struggle his eyes opened; and when !he death-men came again, ihey found him sit ting up in bed; H is siill alfto and bus. en joyed .uJ3uallygVddhedlihV-iVfCAlWi,'' . No. That Harpoon Story. Strange as tt may seem, there are -some un believers in it. The Bunker Hill Aurora tells an anecdote of a shark, which it thinks is even more remarkable, and full as. true, as that of the years ago, says ihe Aurora, when Ex Governor Morton was oiMhe .bench, one Capi. Taylor boarded with ihe Judge at the Bloom field House. One morning the Jurlje came in while several gentlemen were standing by, and says to Capi. Taylor, "Captajn, 1 passed the, evening with Com. last evening, and he speaks very highly of your invitation, &c, but, captain, I have been thinking thauif a shark should happen-to come along while yon wete under water, what would you do then ?" "Why judge," said he, "one of my copper hoots would make an indigestible breakfast for him." Ah ! I don't know about that," said the judge; 'Some time ago, a shark cbad a boa, and the men healed a large .shot red hot,' and thiew it overboard to him; lie soon swallowed it and it burnt out, whereupon he turned round and caught again, and did so two or three times before it leached ihe bottom." The company manifested their grnvny from respect to the judge, until one gentleman de clared it was "a fact, for sa'd be, a friend of inine was sculling near the shark at the lime. The shark became so exa-perated, that he swal lowed my friend boat and all, and he immedi ately stuck the oar out of the hole made by ihe shot and sculled for shore I" The judge mizzled, and made straight- for the door, and has not alluded to the subject, since." Thc'ItJillci'itc allciupiiiff to raise the lead ! A short time since one of the followers of Miller and Hnnes committed suicide at Nashua, N. El , by walking deliberately into the Merri mack river, in presence of several persons on the opposite side, who could not reach him till he had drowned. "It soon became noised about, among his Miller brethren of ihe town, a num ber of whom repaired to ihe spot, look charge of the bodv, and carried ii to one of iheir own houses. All at once thev became filled with faith that they could restore him lo life, and with that view actually- prayed and sang over the corpse nearly all Sunday night. It is per haps needless to say that they did not make a raise. The Value of fjansiiter. A witty wriier says, in praise oflaughter: Laughter has even dissipated disease and pre served life by a sudden effort of nature. We are told that the great Erasmus laughed so heartily at the satire by Reuchlier and Van Huifen, that he broke an imposthume, and re covered his health. In a singular treatise on " Laughter," Joubert gives two similar instan ces. " A patient, befng very low, the physi cian, who had ordered a dose of rhubarb, coun termanded the medicine, which was left on the table. A monkey in the room, jumping up, dis covered the goblet', and, having tasted, made a terrible grimace. Again pulling only his tongue into it, he perceived some sweetness of the dis solved manna, while the rhubarb had sunk to the bottom. Thus emboldened, he swallowed the whole, but found it euch a nauseous potion that after many strange and fantastic grimaces, he gritted his teeth in agony, and in a violent fury threw the goblet on the floor. The whole affair was so ludicrous that the sick man burst into tepeated peals oflaughter, and the recov ery of cheerfulness led to health" : , " Mv dear Julia," aaid.one nretty.eirlm ano- ihej, u can you make up your .mind, toniarry that odious Mr.. SnufTH . ft s "Ay by, my dear Mary," replied. Julia ,. I belio've I could take him. at a pinch." " Those wicked men they dtd conspire To kill the king with Gun pow dire." Guilt upon the conscience will make a feath er bed hard ; but peace of mind will make a straw bed soft and easv. ' v It inukes agtl proud. to have. one beau; but when she has two, Lord t ; bless youi souli you can't get within ten feet of her.' ,fMt.fT f The Chambersburg (Pa,).WhigJtasjreceived a beet" w Men weigns seven pounus. pounds. .-4
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