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The courts hare decided that refusing to take a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. From the United States Gazette. Tbc Olden Time. BT L. r. THOMAS. The olden time's long past, and now, O ! bitter change to rue Friendship has not so warm a glow, And lore is not so true. The very sun sheds not such light, The Moon's not so sublime, Nor do the stars beam half as bright As in the olden time. The flowers that for the brow of Spring, Their gaudy chaplets weave, The birds that matin music sing, And vespers chant at eve, Have not the hue, have not the tone, Seem foreign to the clime, And glad not as in days by-gone In the sweel olden time. My mother's kiss, my father's smile My brother's laugh of joy, My merry sister's artless wile, ' My playmate with his toy ; The school, my little sweetheart there, For whom I first wrote rhyme Alas! they are not what they were, In the dear olden time. Tis sad to think o'er pleasure's fled, Hope's buds that never bloom'd, O'er mem'ries of rever'd ones dead, In the heart's love eniomb'd : But sadder still on Sabbath day, When peals the church-bells chime, To think the soul has need to pray More than in olden time. Grammar. The following brief and comprehensive, view of the first principles of English Grammar may be useful at least to our juvenile readers. 1. Three little words we often see Are Articles, a, an, the. 2. A Noun's the name of anything As school, garden, hoop, or swing. 3. Adjectives tell the kind of noun; As great, small, pretty, white, or brown. 4. Instead of nouns the Pronouns stand, John's bead, Aw face, my arm, your hand 5. Verbs tell of something being done : To read, write, count, sing, jump, run. G. How things are done, the Adverbs tell : As slowly, quickly, HI or well. 7. Conjunctions join nhe words together As men and children, wind dr weather. 8. A Preposition stands before A noun ;as in ot'throygh a door. J The Interjection shows surprise: As oh ! how" pretty, ah, how wise. The whole are. called nine Parts mf speed Which reading,, writing, speaking, teach. I t.i.tsois.-Ai a Democratic State Convention A. C. French, was nominated for Governor. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1846. From the Delaware Gazette. Courtship on a Fragment off the Pulaski. Mant interesting as well as painful incidents connected with that awful disaster, are related to us by those who have seen and conversed with pet sons saved from the wreck. Amongst others the following is told of a Mr. Ridge, from New Orleans, and a Miss Onslow, from one of the Southern Stales, two of the unfortu nates who were picked up on the fifth day, fif ty miles from land. It is slated of this gentle man that he had been silting on the deck alone for half an hour previous to the accident. An other gentleman who was walking near him at the time of the explosion was thrown overboard, and himself was precipitated nearly over the side of the boat and stunned. He recovered immediately as he supposed, when he heard some one remark, " get out of the boat she is sinking." Ho was not acquainted with a soli tary individual on the boat. Under such cir cumstances, it is very natural to suppose that he would feel quite as much concern for him self as for any one else. He was consequent ly among the foremost of those who sought the small boat for safety, and was about to step in to it when he discovered a young lady, whom he recognised as one whose appearance had at sundry times during the passage arrested his attention. Her protector was the gentleman who was walking on the deck and blown over board. He sprang towards her to lake her in to the small boat, but in the crowd and confusion he lost sight of her, and he supposed she was with some other friend. During his fruitless search, the small boat shoved off. The wreck was fast sinking. The night rang with the prayers and shrieks of the helpless and drown ing. He turned away in despair, and tumbled over a coil of small rope. Hope, like the ex piring spark, brightened again. He caught up the rope, lashed together a couple of settees, threw upon them a piece of an old sail and a small empty cask, and thus equipped, launched upon the element. It was all the work of a moment. He believed death inevitable, and that effort was the last grasp at life. His ves sel bore him up much better than he expected, and he was consoling himself with his escape, such as it was, while others were perishing all around him, when he discovered a female strur- eline for life almost within his grasp. He left his ark, swam twice his length, seized his ob ject and returned safely to his craft again, which proved sufficient to sustain them both, but with their shoulders and heads only above the water. The female was the one for whom he had lost a passage in the small boat. She fancied their boat would be unable to support both, and said to him, "you will hare to let me go to save yourself." He replied, " we live or we die together." Soon after ihey drifted upon a piece of the wreck, probably a part of the same floor or partition torn asunder by the ex plosion. This, with the aid of the settees, fas tened beneath it, proved sufficient to keep them out of the water. About this-time one of the small boats came towardsjftjiem, but already heavily loaded. He implored them to take in the young lady; but she said no, she could but die he saved her life, and she could not leave him. They were fairly at sea, without the least morsel to eat or drink, in a scorching cl male ; the young lady in her night clothes, and himself with nothing upon him but a shirt and a thin pair of pantaloons, already much torn Of the boat which bore them all in quiet and safely but a half hour before, nothing was to bo seen but scatter! n 2 nieces of the wreck. The M small boat was on her way to the shore, their own craft being light, and lightly loaded, drift ed from a scene indescribably heart-rending, and which he still shudders to think of. At daylight nothing was visible to them but the heavens and a waste of water. In the course of the day they came in sight of land, and for a time were confident of reaching it but during the succeeding night the wind changed, and soon after daylight next morning it vanished again, and with it all their lively hopes of escaping from the dreadful dilemma. On the third day a sail hove in sight, but sVe was entirely beyond hailing distance. When found, they were sadly burned by the sun starved and exhausted, though still in posses sion pf their faculties and able to move and talk. Bui their pain and suffering was not without its pleasures and enjoyment. The romantic part of their expedition is yet to come ; and there's no telling how much lon ger they would have subsisted on the same food that seems to have aided at least in sustaining them so well, such an incredible length of lime. The intrepidity he displayed the risk he ran the danger he incurred, and above all the magnanimity he evinced in saving her life, strangers as they were to each other, at the im minent hazard of his own, elicited with her, at once, the warmest and strongest feelings of gratitude towards him, and before the tortures of hunger and thirst commenced, kindled that passion which burns nowhere else, as it burns in woman's bosom. On the other hand her good sense, her fortitude and presence of mind at the most perilous moment, and particularly her readiness to meet aud share with him the fate which awaited them, excited on his part an attachment which was neither to be disguised nor deferred. And there, upon the " waters wild," amid the terror which surrounded and threatened them, in the presence only of an all seeing God, did they pledge their mutual love, and declared if their lives were spared, their destinv which misfortune had united, should then be made as inseparable as escape from it now was inpossible. After their rescue, he informed her that a sense of duty impelled him to apprise her, that by the misfortune which had befallen them, he had lost every dollar he possessed here on earth (amounting to about $25,000) that he was in " poverty to his lips" a beggar among strangers, without the means of payment for a meal of vituals ; and painful as was the thought of separation to him, he offered to release her from her engagement, if it was her choicov to leave him. She burst into tears at the very thought of separation, and asked him if he thought it was possible for the poverty of this world, to drive them to a more desperate ex tremity than that which they had suffered thus together. He assured her of his willingness to endure for her the same trial again and of the joy, more than he could express, which he felt at finding her so willing to fulfil her engage ment, which it is said is soon to be consumma ted. It was not 'till then that he was made ac quainted with the fact that his lady love is heir ess to an estate worth $200,000. Who would noi be shipwrecked , and henceforth, who will say " matches are not made in Heaven." The Astronomers concerned in reforming the Calendar in 1582, by order of Pope Gregory XIII. , observing that in four years the bissex tile added 44 minutes more than the Sun spent in returning lo the same point of the Ecliptic ; and computing that in 133 years these super numerary minutes would form a day; to pre vent any changes being thus insensibly intro duced into the seasons, directed, that in the course of 400 years there should be three sex tiles retrenched. And hence every centissimal year which is a leap year according to the Ju lian account, is a common year in the Grego rian account, unless the number of centuries implied in a centissimal year, can be divided by 4 without a remainder. Thus, 1600 and 2000 are bissextile, because 16 or 20 centuries can be divided by 4; but 1700, 1800, and 1900, are common years ; because 17, 18, or 19 centuries cannot be divided by 4, without leaving a remainder. Hallo ! Ned ! What on airth are you stand in' hero for ? Don't onterrupt me, Tom; keep quiet and just plant your peepers on them 'are wires What's ihe sense o' that, NedJ- Why, don't you know they've got lhat light- nin' express a goin' tew day? No! have ihey though 1 Sartin ! and for tew blessed hours I've stood here, oxpectin' every minii lew see a letter go by! Thunder and Lightning. A fellow was lately swigging at the bung Viole of a gallon jug, with all the ardor of one who really loved its contents. The jug, in re ply to his drafts, went dug, dug, dug, on which an anxious expectant, standing by, re marked: "Jim, you'd belter stop: don't ynu hear it thunder 1": "No',?' replied Jiinf but 1 perceive the jug begins to lighten" A New Agricultural Wrinkle. A funny story is told of an old friend of ours one who, sick and tired of the care and bus tle of a city life, has retired into the country and "gone to farming," as the saying is. His land, albeit well situated and commanding sun dry romantic prospects, is not so particularly fertile as we have seen required scieniific cul ture and a liberal use of guano of some sort to induce an abundant yield. So far by way of explanation. Once upon a time as the story-book says, our friend, being on a short visit to the city, was attending an auction sale down town, and it so happened, they were selling damaged sausages at the time. There were some eight or ten barrels of them, and they were 'just going at fifty cents per bar rel,' when the auctioneer, with all apparent se riousness remark that they were worth more than that to manure land with. Here was an idea. Sixty-two and half,' said our friend. 'Just going at sixty-two and a half third and last call gone,' said the auctioneer. Cash takes them at sixty-two and a half per barrel.' To have them shipped for his country seat was ihe immediate work of our friend, and as it was then planting time, and the sausages, to use a common expression, were gelling no better very fast;' to have them safe under the ground and out of the way, was his next movement. He was about to plant a field of several acres of corn so, here was just the spot for this 'new experiment in agriculture, this new wrinkle in the science of geoponics. One Mink' of sau sage being deemed amply sufficient, that amount was placed in each hill, accompanied by the usual number of kernels of corn and an occa sional pumpkin seed. Now, after premising hat several days have elapsed since the corn was planted, the sequel of the story shall be told in a dialogue between our friend and one of his neighbors. Neighbor. 'Well, friend, hare you planted your corn V Friend. 'Yes, several days ago.1 Neighbor. 'Is it up yell' Friend. 'Up! yes ; up and gone; the most of it.' Neighbor. 'How's that.' Friend. Well, you see I bought a lot o damaged sausages in Oileans the other day, a smooth-tongued auctioneer saying they would make excellent manure, if nothing else. I brought the lot over, commenced planting my corn at once, as it was time, placed a sausage in each hill, and Neighbor. 'Well, and what V Friend. 'And fell satisfied that I had made a good job it. Some days after I went out to tho corn field to see how my corn was coming on, and a pretiy piece of business have I made of trying agricultural experiments.' Neighbor. ' Why, what was the matter!' Friend. 'Matter! the first thing I saw, be fore reaching the field, was the greatest lot of dogs digging and scratching all over it ! Thero were my dogs, and your dogs, and all the neigh bors' dogs, bosides about three hundred strange dogs I nevor set my eyes on before, and every one was hard at it mining after sausages. Somehow or other, tho rascally whelps had scented out the business, and they have dug up every hill by this lime. If I could set every dog of them upon that auctioneer, I'd be satis fied. Improving an Accident.--A story is lold of Mr. Van Buren, that while on a tour through the West in 1840 he was overset in a stage coach, and as he stood up to his knees in mud, and asked ihe driver how the accident happen ed, was told by that personage that ho had al ready upset eleven members of Congress, and by so doing had secured ihe votes of every one of ihem for appropriations to the National Road, and as ho never before had a President for a passenger, he thought he would improve the op portunity by doing his duty to the. West, in en deavoring lo prevent a Veto, in case another appropriation should pass. Dow, Jr. says, when a human soul has long been exposed to the scorching rays of avarice, it becomes shrivelled up like fried ahoe-Btrings. Contentment. A head properly constitu ted can accommodate itself to whatever pillow ihe vicissitudes of fortune may place under it No. 40. Wheat. There are two sorts of wheat generally cul tivated in this country; the winter wheat, which is sown in autumn, and the spring or summer wheat, sown in early spring. The former has a large, plump ear, smooth, with a strong, vig orous, and erect stem. There are of this, two varieties.: the red wheat, which is of a dark colour, and has a tough, thick skin, and the common wheat, which affords the best flour. The spring wheat, which is supposed to come rom the north of Europe, is less hardy, and has a slender stem than the other, with beard- d ear. As it comes more rapidly to maturi- - . ty than ihe winter wneat, it is sometimes a surer crop in our variable climate, though tho quality of the grain is reckoned inferior. The Egyptian, or many-spiked wheat, is cultivated in Egypt and some parts of Italy, is supposed to be of African origin, and its qualities and habits, resembles the spring wheat just men tioned. The stem of this species is branched at the top, and bears several ears, or spikelets. The ear is bearded, and the grains are smaller and thinner than the common winter wheat. The spell wheat is supposed lo be zea of tho Creeks, and the kind of wheat used by the Ro mans. It is still cultivated in the south of Eu rope, and it grows on a coarser soil and requires less care and attention than the finer sorts of grain Hogg's Weekly instructor. This is "Dipping." In the South, and particularly in North Ala bama, the ladies of all classes, and some of them very pretty, too, carry with them a small bottle of Lorrillard's snuff, and a small willow slick chewed fine at one end, with which they con vey the snuff to their pretty mouths. This they do at intervals as regular as an old tobacco chewer renews his quid. In parties of six or eight they pass round the bottle in the same manner the Indians do their pipe. The cele brated American novelist, John Neai, has ac cused the ladies of Baltimore of similar pretty practices, but they do not call it dipping. A Weardale doctor was lately summoned to a collage at Harwood in Toesdale, near Dar lington, Eng., and found a boy-patient iu need of his services. " Put out your tongue," said the doctor. The lad stared like a "gawvison." " My good boy," repeated the medical man "let me see your tongue." " Talk English, doclor," said the mother, and then turning to her son, she cried " Hoppen thy goblet, and push out thy lolli ker !" The lad lolled out his tongue in a moment. We should like to know who perpetrated tho following. It sounds to us marvellously like the querulous effusion of some gentle fair one whose hope is in the "sear and yellow leaf." EPITAPH ON AN OLD BACHELOR. " Beneath this stone a being lies, Who ne'er the joys of wedlock shared. With no one near to close his eyes, One day he died and no one cared." Bibles in the Hotels of Boston. The Trustees of ihe Massachusetts Bible Society, ai their last meeting instructed their Treasurer, Henry Edwards, Esq., to address & circular to the principal hotel keepers in Bos ton, offering them copies of the Bible, to be placed in ihe apartments occupied by transient inmates in iheir respective houses. Replies were promptly received from most of thom, ac cepting the proffered sacred volume, and there has been placed in fifteen of ihe hoiols 013 Bibles of a good size, octavo, bearing the name of the hotel conspicuously on the cover, in gilts letters, with ihe addition of the words, "Pre sented by the Massachusetts Bible Society.' Lady. A female with her head stuck in & silk bonnet, her waist puckered iulo ihe cir cumference of a junk bottle, an enormous bustle and a hole in the heel of her; stocking. Gentleman. A man with a long nine in one hand, a sword came in 'ihe other.: with two cents in his pocket, and no sense in his head. ' What for you no mind your work dar, Sam bo 1 said Cuffee, 'yon darn lazy nigga you always is more benefit dan profit l wouldnl gib your wittlet for your clothes :
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