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From the Louisville Journal.
Forest melodies.
I love the fine old forest,
That for centuries hath stood,
And waved its lofty branches .
Grandly in the solitude;
'Mid its glories and its graces, rt
A stately grandeur dwells ;
And Nature's hand there traces
All her bright and magic spells.
Its shades are full of voices,
Ever ringing joyous out ;
From its trembling whispered breathings.
To the storm's wild boisterous shout
And its notes, so deeply thrilling,
From the dark recesses start,
And swell through ether, stilling
The quick beatings of the heart.
When the gorgeous robe of spring-time
Hath arrayed them in its green,
And the leaves are bright with dew drops,
Glancing in the morning's sheen ;
Then its full enchanting chorus
With a rapture we have heard,
For the songs are round and o'er us -v
Of each gladsome forest bird. -
Or when the sere of Autumn
Hath fastened on the leaf,
And clad the Summer glories
With the fading garb of grief;
One tearful strain of sorrow
Will thy songsters sadly chime, j
Ere they flit upon the morrow
To some far and sunny climo.
We have heard the senile zephyrs
Stealing through the waving boughs,
With a melody entrancing
As the maiden's whispered vows. .
And the storm-wind, as it rushes
In its wild and mad career,
The bravest bosom hushes
To a solemn awe and fear.
E'en the frosty reign of Winter
Hath a cheerful minstrelr.y,'
As the ice of morning falleih
From the tall and stately tree:
And the heart can feel no power
In the poet's sweetest lay,
Like the music of the show er
In some Summer's sultry day.
Oh ! I love the brave old forcst,
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IPX,
That for centuries hath stood,
And waved its loHy brancnes
Grandly in the solitude !
My home is in its bosom,
Where no human fool hath trod
My companion the wild blossom,
And my trust in Nature's God.
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tru:h, in the follow'tng.lines :-- - , f
41 A land there is whero dodors.die, -Of
hunger .they're so poor
Tho rtM.von is, nonc.pay ihemjhcrc:
But those they truly cure.' c .k
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1846.
We have no doubt that our readers will thank
us for laying before them the famous acts, known
as the Alien and Sedition Laws. We publish
them merely as matters of enlightened curiosity
and as such we commend them to the atten
tive and candid perusal of our readers.
An Act respecting Alien Enemies.
Passed and approved the 6th day of June, 1798.
Sect. 1. BE it enacted, &c. That whenever
there shall be a declared war between the Uni
ted States and any foreign nation or govern
ment, or any invasion or predatory incursion
shall be perpetrated, attempted or threatened
against the territory of the United States, by
any foreign nation or government, and tho Pres
ident of the United States shall make public
proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens,
denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or
government, being males of the age of fourteen
years and upwards, who shall be within the
Uuited States, not actually naturalized, shall be
liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured
and removed as alien enemies. And the Pres
ident of the United States bhall be, and he is
hereby authorized, in any event as aforesaid,
by his proclamation thereof, or other public act,
to direct the conduct to bo observed, on the pari
of the United States, towards the aliens who
shall become liable, as aforesaid ; the manner
and degree of the restraint to which they shall
be subject, and in what cases, and upon what
security their residence shall be permitted, and
to provide for the removal of those, who, not
being permitted to reside within the United
States, shall refuse or neglect to depart there
from; and to establish any other regulations
which shall be found necessary in the premises
and for the public safety: Provided, That aliens
resident within the United States, who shall
become liable as enemies, in the manner afore
said, and who shall not be chargeable with ac
tual hostility, or other crime against the public
safely, shall be allowed for the recovery, dis
posal and removal of their goods and effects,
and for their departure, the full time which is,
or shall be stipulated by any treaty, where any
shall have been between the United States, and
the hostilo nation or government, of which they
shall be natives, citizens, denizens or subjects;
and where no treaty shall have existed, the
President of the United States may ascertain
and declare such reasonable time as may be
consistent with the public safely, and according
! to the dictates of humanity, and national hospi
tality.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, That af
ter any proclamation shall be made as aforesaid,
it shall be the duty of the several courts of the
United States, and of each state, having crimi
nal jurisdiction, and of the several judges and
justices ol the courts oi tne untieu otaies, anu
they shall be, and are hereby respectively au
thorised upon complaint against any alien or
alien enemies, as aforesaid, who shall be resi
dent and at large within such jurisdiction and
district, to the danger of the public peace and
safety, and contrary to the tenor or inteni of
such proclamation, or other regulations which
the President of the United States shall and
may establish in the premises, to cause such
alien or aliens to be duly apprehended and con
vened before such court, judge or justice ; and
after a full examination and hearing on such
complaint, and sufficient cause therefor appear
ing, shall and may order such alien or aliens to
be removed out of the territory of the United
States, or to give securities of their good beha
viour, or to be otherwise restrained, conforma
ble to the proclamation or regulations which
shall and may bo established as aforesaid, and
may imprison, or otherwise secure such alien
or aliens, until the order which shall and may
be made, as aforesaid, shall bo performed.
Sect. 3. And bo it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the marshal of the district
in which any alien enemy shall be apprehend
ed, who by the President of the United States,
or by ojder of any court, judge, or justice, as
aforesaid, shall be required to depart, and to be
removed, as aforesaid, to provide therefore, and
to execute such order, by himself or his depu
ty or other discreet person or persons to be
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mployed by him, by causing a removal u suc
lien out of the territory of tho United Slates ;
,1 for such removal, the marshal shall have
am
,he warrant of the President of the .United
State?, or of tho court, judge, or justice, order
ing the same, as the case may be.
The Sedition Law.
Passed and approved the I4ih of July, 1798.
Sect. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That if any per
sons shall unlawfully combine or conspire to
gether, with intent to oppose any measure or
measures of the government of the United
States, which are or shall be directed by prop
er authority, or to impede the operation of any
law of the United States, or lo intimidate or
prevent any person holding a place or office in
or under the government of the United States,
from undertaking, performing or executing his
trust or duty; and if any person or persons, with
inteni as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise, or at
tempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlaw
ful assembly, or combination, whether such
conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice or at
tempt, shall have the proposed effect or not, he
or they shalL be deemed guilty of a high misde
meanor, and on conviction, before any court of
the United States having jurisdiction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five
thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during
a term not less than six months, and not ex
ceeding five years ; and further, at the discre
tion of the court, may be holden to find securi
ties for his good behaviour, in such sum, and
such time, as the said court may direct.
Sect. 2. And bo it furlher enacted, That if
any person shall write, print, utter, or publish,
or shall cause or procure to be written, printed,
uttered, or published, or shall knowingly and
willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, ut
tering or publishing, any false, scandalous and
malicious writing or writings against ihe gov
ernment of the United States, or either house
of the Congress of the United States, or the
President of the United States, with intent to
defame the said government, or either house of
the said Congress, or the said President, or to
bring them, or either of them, into contempt or.
disrepute; or to excite against them, or either
or any of them, the hatred of the good people
of the United States, or to stir up sedition with
in the United States ; or to excite any unlawful
combinations therein, for opposing or resisting
any law of the United Slates, or any act of the
President of the United States, done in pursu
ance of any such law, or of the powers in him
vested by tho constitution of the United States;
or to oppose or defeat any such law or act ; or
to aid, encourage or abel any hostile designs of
any foreign nation against the United States,
their people or government, then such person,
being convicted thereof, before any court of the
United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding two thous
and dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding
two years.
, Sect. 3. And be ii further enacted and de
clared, That if any person shall bo prosecuted
under this act, for the writing or publishing any
libel as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the de
fendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in
evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter
contained in the publication, charged as a libel.
And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have
a right to determine the law and the fact, under
the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, That this
act shall continue and be in force until the third
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
one, and no longer: Provided, Thai the expi
ration of the aci shall not prevent or defeat a
prosecution and punishment of any offence
against the law, during the time it shall be in
force.
Tltc Snow Storm of 1787.
The storm of 1787 shut up people as snugly
at home as if they had been locked in. Those
who were blockaded had to use furniture and
the like, for fuel; in some places the snow was
thirty feet deep.. People made their exit fre
quently from the second story windows, and
the trees cut down for fuel, left long stumps be
hind. One Hannah Dingly a poor woman,
who lived not far from New Haven, was buri
ed for six or eight days, but at last discovered
by her neighbors by the smoke of her fire com
ing through ihe snow. Hannah dieted a la
Graham, on potatoes and dried corn, and warmed
up with chairs and tables. A flock of one hun
dred sheep were dug up out of a snow drift on
Fisher's Island, where they had been buriod to
the depth of 16 foci.
"The Dumb shall Speak."
Dr. Bartlett, writing from Vienna to the Lo
well Courier, gives an interesting account of the
progress made at the Berlin Institution, under
Dr. Muller, in teaching the dumb to speak, and
in elevating imbecile children and youth to ra
tional and intellio-eni men and women. A girl
born deaf and dumb, was asked how many
brothers and sisters she had, which she readily
answered, and then gavo their names. She
then told the color of the table, its shape say
ing it is not round it is square tho kind of
wood of which it was made, and so on. The
plan of instruction is very simple. The pupils
by placing the hands or fingers on ihe ihroat of
the teacher, so as to feel the voice, and then by
placing them on iheir own, for the same pur
pose, by imitating the motions of the leacher'a
lips and tonguo and jaws and by similar means i
come at last to utter the elementary sounds.
Thev are then carried along from the easier!
and simpler elements of speech to the more dif
ficult. The idiots are educated with the same
wonderful simplicity. Dr. Bartleu says: "One
little fellow, with a now thoughtful and intelli
gent face, interested us exceedingly. He was
very intently and earnestly at work, writing
upon his slate; and for three months after his
entrance, he was unable to fix either his atten
tion or his eyes upon any ihing. Another boy,
considerably advanced we cannot say in the
recovery, but in the creation or development of
his reason, was endeavoring to instruct a third,
on whose face still rested ihe blank and void
expression of idiocy. The director inquired
particularly after Mr. Horace Mann and Dr.
Howe; of whom, and his interesting child, Lau
ra Bridgman, we hear at all these places."
To know good Flour.
When flour is genuine, or of the best kind, it
holds together in a mass when squeezed by
the hand, and shows tho impression of the An
gers, and even the marks of the skin, much
longer than when ii is bad or adulterated; and
the dough made with it is very gluey, ductile,
and elastic; easy to be kneaded, and which may
bo elongated, flattened, and drawn into every
direction, without breaking.
Christ is 3f ine.
A gentleman took a friend to the roof of his
house to show him the extent of his possessions.
Waving his hand about, " These" said he "is
my estate." Pointing to a great distance on
one side, "Do you see that farm ? Well that
is mine." Pointing again to the otherside, ''Do
you see that house? That also belongs to me."
In turn his friend asked, "Do you see that little
village out yonder ? Well there lives a poor
woman in that village who can say more than
all this." "Ah what can she say?" "Why she
can say, Christ is Mike.
" How vain a toy ia glittering wealth,
If once comparedfvith thee !
Or what's my safely or my health,
Or all my friends to me ?
Were I possessor of ihe earth,
And called the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself,
I were a wretch undone."
Classification of mankind,
ACCORDING TO THEIR LANGUAGES.
The researches made by Balbi for the con
struction of his Atlas .Ethnographique, have led
him to set down Ihe number of known langua
ges as 2000 at least; but the imperfect state of
ethnography, ho states, has allowed htm to
class only 860 languages, and about 5000 dia
lects; of which number, 143 languages belong
to Asia, 53 to Europe, 115 to Africa, 117 to
Oceanica, and 422 to America.
Tribute to Henry Clay.
A letter from New Orleans to the Philadel
phia Inquirer states thai on the occasion of the
inauguration of Gov. Johnson, the Hon. Henry
Clay, who has been a guest of Dr. Mercer, of
lhat city, for some time past, entered the church
unattended a short time before the ceremony
commenced; the moment ho was recognised by
the crowd, the whole house resounded with
shouts and clapping of hands, which continued
for some moments. This seemed not a little
singular, occurring as it did, in the very midsl
of the Democratic party of Louisiana ; but it
told the feelings of high esteem and love, for
the man.
- No. 41.
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Beauties of "Dftitiocrnej."
The locoioco family in New York, have got
into something of o snarl, and say diver queer
thinss about each other. A shori time since,
during ihe discussion of a motion to expel the rf
porier of ihe Argus, Senators Clark and Young
(locos) appear to have exhausted the vocabula
ry of Billingsgate in abusing each other. The
members of tho lower House and the people
from the streets crowded the Chamher to wit- .
ness the fray. We are told by. the reporters
that Young asserted that a respectable" indi
vidual from Washington county has told him
(Young) that Gen. Clark was regarded in his
neighborhood as a notorious liar!! And in re
ply Senator Clark proceeded to give the in
scription which would shine on Col. Young's
monument after his death. He premised that
Young had never been in the Senate without
disturbing the peace of that body. He wan al
ways quarrelling, and was a morose and petu
lant old man. The following (said Clark) will
be inscribed on Young's monument. On ono
side will be, " To the memory of one whose
temper had become fretful and morose, on ac
count of disappointed ambition and vanity."
On the other side will be
" Pass, gentle reader lightly tread
For God's sake, let him lie !
We live in peace since he is dea'd, ''
But heft is in a frv."
"Amen" is a word as old as the Hebrew. it
self. In that language, it means truth, faithful,
certain. At the end of a prayer, it implies so
be it. It has been generally used both in. the
Jewish and Christian churches.
Death Scene of an Infidel.
Mr. Reed of Philadelphia, in a lecture on the
'Life and Times of Thomas Paine,' alluding to
his death bed scene said : Paine dreaded be
ing left alone, or being left in darkness, and
screamed like a terrified child for his nurse and
ihe light. He insisted on his nurse reading
aloud: it was not so much in order to take so
lace from what she read, as to be satisfied by
the sound of her voice, that sbo was at. hand.
" Kiss me Kate."
" No sir-ce."
" Why not, Kate. Do I not love you'better
than anything else?"
" My goodness gracious ! I should' think so !
What a fool you are, John." '
" Why so, Kate ?' '
" Why No sir-ee' means yes."
Scene closes John in an enviable position.
" Well what do you think of Sierra Leone I"
said a devoted laborer in the field of coloniza
tion to one of his sable listeners, after the close
of his lecture.
" Sarah Leon ? 1 dosen't know dat gal :
'sides dat, I's 'gaged to Dinah, and you can't
fool me wid none of your white gals, no how!"
was the encouraging reply. Orleans Rep.
" Mother, mayn't I wear my new clothes to
day ?" said an urchin who was just supplied
with his winter suit. " Oh, no, my dear, the
weather is too warm entirely." " No, but mo
ther, I'll keep on the shady side of the street."
" Ma, aint Joe Smashby a courting our Mel
by?" "No; what makes you think so?"
" Why, always when he comes near her -gfe
sorter leans up to him like a kitten to a hot
brick."
Hon. Henry Clay's letter to tho Gold and
Silver Artizans of New York, acknowledging
the reception of their beautiful $1000 vase, is
one of the most admirable specimens of episto
lary composition extant. Morris's Nat. Tress.
Singular. It has recently ben stated that
fifty of the Signers of the Declaratinn of Inde
pendence were masons, and that all the Major
Generals of the Revolutionary Army were ma
sons, save one, and that one was Benedict Ar
nold. An editor in Illinois, mentioning the fact that
ladies have discarded corsets, concludes with
the following effusion :
Sound the loud timbrel o'er valley and eaf
The tape strings are broken and women ate free!
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At Canton, Ohio, there are 29 cider diatil-
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