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The cour:s have decided thai refusing lo take a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving It uncalled for is -pri-: ma facie evidence of intentional fraud. Charity. In ihe hour of keenest sorrow In the hour of deepest wo Wait not for the coming morrow, To the sad and suffering go Make it thy sincerest pleasure To administer relief Freely opening thy treasure To assuage a brother's grief. Go, and see the orphan sighing Seek the widow in her tears; As on mercy's pinions flying, Go, dispel their darkest fears; Seek ihe stranger, sad and weary," Pass not on the other side. Though the task be sad and dreary, Heeding not the scorn of pride. Go, with manners unassuming, In a meek and quiet way O'er the father, ne'er presuming, Though thy brother sadly stray, Tis a Saviour's kind compassion 'Tis his righteousness alone, All unmerited salvation That around thy path has shone. When thy heart is warmly glowing, With ihe sacred love of prayer, Be thy works of kindness flowing Not as wiih a miser's care : Ddtt e'er should be ihy watchword Pity drop ihe balmy tear Always towards ihe fallen cherish Sympathy and love sincere". Time to Go. " Hallo! my. dear!" exclaimed a newly mar ried man to his wife, " what are you fumbling shout your mouth there for V "Just taking out my teeth, love." u The deuce ! well, you can't talk, what's the mailer now." " Oh, that's only my palate dropped out, I'll soon fix that." " Thunder and blazes ! Why, why, where's your hair?" ' On ihe table, isn't it pretty ? 1 bought it he other day of the hair-dresser." The man took to his heels, and has not been heard from since, though a man resembling him as seen not long afterwards inquiring the way o Texas. The use of hair powder was driven out of England by famine, because the flour used to whiten ihe heads of ihe army would- feed 50, 000 people ! "Treasure-trove!" The N,' O. Delta ell ihe story of an individual, who had formed himself into an xplonng expedition of one, la'ely finding at the Old Mission. hear Clarks Texas, after tw,o or three days labor, an "hi oaken box imbedded in the bowels of the ,,;t"h, containing two thousand five hundred Vnibb dollars. Truly Texas ib a greacoun- STROUDSB URG; MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1846. Fiom the Beacon of Liberty. Tlie meeting of the Birds. The birds bad a meeting a few days ago, To settle some matters of state And withal, to consider their friends in limbo, Who long bad been pining in want and in wo, And few to mourn over their fate. In cages of wire, and in cages of wood, They were hanging all over the land, And there made to sing all the day for their food, And dream all the night in their dark solitude, Of the nrnrni liv tlio fr onU..., c i 1 J The Crow called the meeting to order-'caw! caw!' For he bad a far reaching ken, Ti, pi ... -ii ,.,.., lne .bade was scribe, ho was ski UpA i tli nw And knew where 't was safest to put in his claw;! And he, too, was great with the pen. ' j The Pigeon was there to carr the news For Bird-dom was waiting to hea"6"8' The most part were anxious to get their friends loose, brcak a11 cages and the traps tliat they use, Thosfi !)ird catcers, year after year. The Linnet was foiemost to open the cause For the drooping wing'd captives he spoke, His kindred they were, and he thought that it was ', A sin against God and the old forest laws, To bring them thus under the yoke. yoke The Canary arose with a tear in his een, And his musica1 voice choked with grief, This caging his kindred, he thought it was mean, The wirklpct thino- thnt PrP;- aWn I The wickedest tiling that ever was seen And he called the bird holder a thief. J IIoldMiold! says the Owl; not so fasl, my young j spark And he opened his eyes in a maze, There's a difference between them old cagers. (now bark ! I see it as plain as a chick in the dark.) And those that hold birds in these days. The fathers transgressed the old law, it is true, It was bad for the captive birds, quite, But that's not our fault we follow the new ; What the many call right, it is proper to do ; And therefore biid holding is right. Twas a clear case, he thought, and the logic was prime ; But the Goldfinch was not quite so clear; He could not but think is as much of a crime, To cage a bird now as it was in old time, Sin was sin, the same now as last year. Then up got the Raven, and bowed as ho spoke, The case seemed to him very plain. The fathers who put the birds under the yoke, It was they who the great law of liberty broke; Sure, we cannot break it again. The Sparrow was grieved at such logic, he said, They might bring us all into the wires, And lay all the sin and blame on the head Of some old transgressor a thousand years dead ;" 'Twould excuse all the robbers and liars. A sweet little bird, with his wings tipped with gold. (The chairman did not know his name,) Said, the wrongs of the captives could never be i told, j Their sufferings now were like those of old, Then, why not bird-holding the same ? O quit, said the Wren, you're as blind as a bat, They may suffer and long lo be free; But the master has nothing to do with all that, He sticks to the law that's what he is at ; What the law says, that's right don't you see 1 The Redwing retorted in a fiery mood. Few talk about law! You marauder! You'd be a bird-holder yourself, if you could, I wish your whole tribe was driven out of the wood But the chairman here called him to order. Next the Ostrich got up, by courtesy there And the meeting most gravely address'd : His opinion, he said, he was free to declare, That the birds of themselves who could not take care, Were meant to be slaves to the rest. The Woodpecker roused up, and gave him a scowl, As if he would peek out his eyes, Avaunt! who sent you thither, old fowl ? Go, hatch your own egg li Order!" said the Owl, Keep cool you are more nice than wise. But now, it grew dark, and 'twas thought to be best, At least, by the Owl and such sages, To vote that bird-holding was proper, unless Thetreatment was bad. Then, each to his nest, And left the poor slaves in their cages. Thcro is often, more comfort, more genuine friendship, to.be met with from an humble and un pretending. friend, than from those whose attain ments and professions arc placed on a higher stan dard ; aye, and' more to be learned, too, in the greatest school' of all that "of truth and simpli The Right of the Oregon Case The Claims of Each Party War Con sidered. The North American Review for January con tains a long, able and candid account of Ore gon, its actual value and agricultural capacities, with a summing up of the rights and claims of Great Britain and the Uniied Slates respec tively in that region, and an exhibit of the rea sonableness of a resott to War to settle them. I We make room for the powerful conclusion of j this article, which is as follows: j w M b hj h au,horj t ,,c r ., . ,r - j means of establishing justice, If so, it is u ve- J ' ry p00r nufan8' fnr " is demonstrable that it es - taljl,ses " r,55l b" lh of 'he slrongesi. ' 'PPe,j ol Us PomP and circumstance, I U"d viewed "l-v in ,,ieory. i,s pretensions to i be ca,le(1 a j'U,e "f rigl11 and wron aPPear j simply ludicrous. Imagine a proposition seri - 'ously brought forward, that the polvaliant poll - jficiana and diplomatics, who 'are ready io shed every drop of their ink, and of other people's ( entire ruin of our foreign trade, and the paraly blood, in defence of their country's rights,' as ais of domestic traffic, would spread bankrupt- they have hitherto had ihe war of words all to themselves, should be allowed also the exclu- -tVf. nri..',un (,.,,.; ,in ,ua ,nr w,u i.aan sive privilege of carrying tin the war with keen - I er weapon ; lliat ihis national duel should be fought only by the principals, and not at second, or bv proxv; lhat Sir Roberi Peel anda dozen 1 ' . . . . I mnmbprs of his rnliinul ilnlv mninnpil with , , , , , swords and mtiskeis, should be drawn out in 0pen field against President Polk and his Sec- reiaries, armed afier the national fashion with faciuring poor of Birmingham and Manchester rifles and bowie-knives, lo put this great ques- might perish for want of employment; the peas tion lo the arbitrament of deadly banle. As the antry of England and Ireland, especially after latter party would be ihe weaker in numbers, such a season as the last, might starve. Our ihey might be assisted by half a dozen of ihe light-heeled privateers, escaping from ihesmal most valiant members of ihe Senate; and as the ler port, might make a fearful inroad upon that Duke of Wellington, who has the reputation of ' commerce whose sails are whitening every sea. being a terrible fighter, would appear or. the And io reflect upon such facts as these, upon a other side, he might be opposed by that gallant famine caused by our hostilities, upon a piracy Senator who ended a fierce speech on this very' commitied under our flag, would be the only matter of Oregon with the following startling ! consolaiion for lhe evils of war endured in our prophecy; " The man is alive, and with a ' own persons. beard on his face (though it may not be 1.) who The folly and wickedness of such hostilities will see an American army in Ireland, and an t WouId be aggravated by the intimate and friend- j American general in the streets of London. y relations which have long existed between The two chivalrous parties, thus made equal, ihe parlies. We do not, indeed, place much might proceed io shoot and slash each other to ; btress upon ihe lies of common descent, a com- their heart's content, till, one iroop being cui lo mon language, and a common literature; these pieces, or having run away, ihe other mighi may be a pleasing theme for the scholar and jtake formal possession of Oregon in their conn-j the reflecting man to contemplate, but have lit ! try's name, and be required to end their days te effect upon the people at large, in whose j there. minds they rather create the familiarity which 1 Everv one would lannh ai the nrbnosal. wor-' nourishes dislike or breeds contempt. It is thy only of Captain Boabdil, for settling the j r i ' , controversy in this fashion. Yet which is lhe more absurd, we at-k it in all seriousness, that those grave civilians, ministers and diplo- matisis should be required lo fight iheir own j battles, or that ihey should be permitted lo hire hooks of sieel. The mutual dependence of ag J forty or fifty thousand wretches to do all their ricultural and manufacturing industry, similarity j fighting for ihem, while ihe shame, the suffering' of pursuits, and community of interests draw to I and the loss which must accompany every war, gether Great Britain and lhe United States al- would fall broadcast on ihe community at large? j most into one nation, and Commerce throws (' If damned custom had not brazed them so," around them its connecting chains of gold. 1 had not so inuied them io a passive contempla- Side by aide, assisiing or defending each other, lion of the tremendous evils of war, we might, their daring ships belt the globe, or pass from safely trust this question to every man, woman 1 the Arctic lo the Antarctic, and hoist their flags or child arrived at years of discreiion, either in' in friendly rivalry with each oiher in every Great Biiiain or lhe Uniied States, and be sure' nook and corner of the remotest seas. Ship of an answer on the side of humanity, or in fa- wrecked or in peril, the mariner blesses the vor of confining the fighting to the smallest pos- first glimpse of an approaching flag, careless ii i ii r i i r ...u ...I. ... : L , iU imklamu tif Si Cionrrm nr stnie numner. j tie duik oi tne population oi either country care nothing about Oregon: why should they ? Not one in ten thousand of them would be made richer or poorer, happier or sad der, bv a gain of the whole Territory. Bui where shall we put ;i limit, even in imagination,) to ihe suilering", the disasters, the horrors, i which should change fair and sunny skies to which must follow in the train of an obstinate 1 darkness and storm, may convert that flag into and protracted, though it be a successful, war'ia more fearful thing than the utmost violence To what fireside, either in Encland or the U. i of ihe wind and waves. No longer a token of States, will it not bring distress, if not a feeling of desolation and despair ? What commercial convulsion, what pestilence, what famine, ever diffused afiliciion so widely, or caused so fear ful a destruction of human life, as a single year of sanguinary warfare between two haughty and powerful nations, for whom Science has carefully studied the most effective means of wholesale murder, and years of study and delib erate preparation have collected all ihe muni tions and eninery of destruction T The for mer awful dispensations of God' mysterious providence purify while they chasten; the suf- fering which they occasion, as it is not brought upon us by the fell devices of an enemy, nor, in most cases, as any immediate effect of our own follies or crimes, is submitted to, if not wilth resignation, at least without the exasper ation of revengeful feelings, or the bitter aggra vations of remorse. But the curse of war strikes equally upon the body and the soul; its demor alizing effects continue long after its external wounds have cicatrized, and the carcases of its victims have roiled in their grares. The foolhardiness which invites danger is seldom prepared to meet it. The fury and ig norance of party contensious, which have twice, j within one year, brought this country to the brink of a war, have left our commerce exposed, j our fortifications unmanned, and our coasts un- guarded. England's war-steamers alone might ! blockade all our chief ports for a twelvemonth, ' in spile of our most strenuous efforts, while ! the remainder of her Navy was occupied in sweeping our commerce from the ocean. The j cy over every part ol j expotts of Cotton, 'I ' i; ,;.u. ;., a, of the Union. Our staple Tobacco and Grain would i lie perishing in the fields, not worth the trouble ' of harvesting them, except for a limited home consumption, while our ships were rotting at the wharves. T we mi ht have lhe satis ' . fnrlinn in thf mwlst nf llifsr fli:nlora nf L-nnw. , ing lhat we were plunging the iron deep into -the vtials of our great antagonist. The manu- humiliating for the pride of human nature to re- fled, that brothers may hale each other with the known bitterness of fraternal haired, while ihe hearts of partners allied in inierests, though not in blood, are grappled to each other as with wiiemer h ucam mo nuuiui"' ihe stripes and stars; for in either case it brings assurance of rescue, comfort and supply. But a few words uttered by a few weak men, "drest in a little brief authority," at London and Wash ington, more potent than a magician's spell succor at hand, it would become a herald of captivity and ruin, and the sailor will meet alone the utmost perils of fire and flood rather than wail its approach. It behooves those who have the power to act at a conjuncture pregnant with such awful con sequences io look with a heedful eye to the measure of their own responsibility. Thirty years of profound peace among all the great na tions of the earth have made Governments care loss and confident, and men sit under the shad ow of iheir own vine and fig-tree, and talk light ly of a war. A generation has passed away No. 34 since the conclusion of the lai great struggle and the recollection of the misery and gloom which attended it has become dim. "He jeu at scars who never felt a wound." Meanwhile, the feelings and opinions of men respecting thu wilful infliction of injury, or the destruction, of human life under whatever pretences, have un dergone a greater change in reality than in ap pearance. Humanity has mnde progress, tToa progress; God be thanked for it! If ihe care less and the unthinking still speak recklessly about a war, il is only because war is not de finitely connected in their minds with any idea, of the shedding of blood. They have only h. vague notion of it as a sort of non-intercourse, by which, at considerable inconvenience lo it self, a nation bravely avows its determination not to be cheated out of the least of its rights. In this way alone can we account for the ab surd blustering of some very worthy persons, who talk about vindicating our pretensions lt that worthless Oregon by an appeal to arms. Bring the. matter home to them, Jet them wake up some morning and find themselves in tho midst of a war, and they would be struck with horror and remorse. The news of a great vic tory, of the old-fashioned kind, attended with, the slaughter of thousands on both sides, in stead of being received with exultation, as we verily believe, would excite in their minds only the mingled feelings of grief, humiliation and repentance. Above all, they would hold io a. fearful accountability the politicians whose pol icy had become so deeply stained with blood. Then let the English ministry and the Ameri can Government look to ii ; they may carry on this war of words for a while longer, and v. will harm no one; ihey will even deserve, and obtain what is the sole object of their ambition, the applause of their countrymen for being so valiant and steadfast in defence of iheir coun try's rights. But the outbreak of actual hos tilities between England and America about such a contemptible, possession will be follow ed by a storm of popular indignation, that will not only hurl them from their pride of place, but will cover the history of their administra tions with disgrace, and leave an indelible blot upon their names. Walking upon Water. In Hanover, two young men, one a Swede, and the other a Norman taking the hint from that sort of foot gear of fir planks, called skies,, by means of which in those Northern countries, the inhabitants pass through valleys and ravines filled with snow, without sinking have been exhibiting, in. the capital, the exploit of walk ing on the water by means of skies made, however, for the latter purpose, with iron plates hollow within. An European journal says : " Backwards and forwards, much at their ease, according to the report, did ihe exhibitors walk and run going through the military exer cises, with knapsacks at their backs and final ly drawing a boat containing eight persons all without wetting iheir shoes. The Minister of War, has, it is said, put a portion of the garri son of Hanover under the training of these gen tlemen, for the purpose of learning what might prove so useful a military manoeuvre ; and as M. M. Kjelberg and Balcken propose carrying their invention into other countries, our readers will probably suspend iheir opinion till .they have a neare'r view of this novel meeting of sky and water." ' The Alabanta Tter. 1 Are you in favor of biennial sessions of the Legislature !' asked a manager of an eleciioo b Alabama of a voter. Whr?f says the voter, whoset name was Ance Veasy and withal, toierjioly green. ' Are you in favor of biennial sessions of the Legislature, sir!' 4 Biennial Sessions.! I don't know him i be any kin to Reub Sessions, sir ! Ef ho is. I'll be d d ef you ketch me a votin' fur him ! You never hearn me tell 'bout lhat fight I had long with Reub" Sessions, up in Shelby did youT Never, mind yonr fighis now, Mr. Veasy ; answer, yea or nay i I dos'ent know whal you mean by your ya's and na's ; but I'll, be dod rotted ef I vole fur en ny uv! the Sessions family, no how you can fix il! Bah ! Biennial Sessions, indeed-! jusi a. much fit for Guvnur as h-ll is fur a ico-houso!" city.
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