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There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a "warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing' Into "gray; Men of thought, and nien of action, Clear the way ! Once the welcome liglit lias brokeih, Who "shall say, "! "What the unlmagined glories Of the day ? "What the evil that shall perih In its ray ? Aid the dawning, tongue and pen Aid it, hopes of honest men : 1 Aid it paper aid it typo Aid it, for the hour is ripe. And our earnest must not slacken Into play. -Men of thought, and men o.action! Clear the way! Lo ! a cloud 's about to vanish ' From the day ;, Lo ! the right 's about to conquer Clear the vat!' And a brazen wrong to crumble Into cla With that right shall many more Enter-smiling at the door; With!iho. giant Wrong shall fall Manyothers, groat andsmall, That for ages long have held us For their prey ; Men of thought, and men of action, Clear the way! C.II. A poetical "lover," not long since, sent the following to Sally Ann, his ladye-love. TO SALLY. ANN. ... Soft is the down of the butterfly's wing, Soft is -fho whisper when lovers speak; Soft 9 tho light which thoonbeatns' fling, But softer by fer is my ladye -love's clfcek. SALLY'S REPLY. Soft am tatcrs all sniashi up, i . And muh are soft as soft kin be; , But noftcr beTs that il!y pup, Vol wnt that varae to ine ! A Frenchman who w.i exhibiting' various f acted adics and other' cunositius; produced a "nrd which he assureU bis Lviiitry was "de vurd Balaam had ven he would kill do'ass." A spectator .replied that Balaanf hadho' s word lyt only wished foroncf ,tiuVorwcIl,dis'is de tine he Uhcd lor.'" vj ' s STOOUDSBURG, A Snake Bit Irishman. A correspondent of the N. Y. Spirit of the Times gives " an original Tennessee hunting I ... ... o mciueni" tliat " will pass." A jolly party of sportsmen, made up of veteran hunters rife for sport and full of fun, were enjoying themselves for a few weeks in the mountains of Morgan county, Tennessee. A huge, raw boned, lo quacious Irishman, uninvited, quartered him self in their camp, and in addition to being a nuisance when awake, snored so terrifically when asleep as to drive "tired nature's sweet restorer" from others. Pat was afraid of snakes generally, and "puld snakes" in particular, and . the awful yarns he heard in the hunters' camp waked snakes" in every hair on the Irish man's head. After listening to a few yarns on the much dreaded snake subject one evening, this fresh son of the sod prepared to turn in, literally crawling all over. Counting his beads and his chances for being snake bit" before day, and lucking in" his blanket and wishing the "so wis of all snakes, in these parts pur thickuler," in a country where, to say ihe least, they stand but a slim chance for induloino- in their natural torpidity, he fell asleep. The correspondent proceeds: And now the storm began. His snoring Srcvv fast and furious, loud and long, occasion - ally a sort of half snort, half grunt, terminating , with "snakes, by jabers, blast their sowls !" " Ugh ! ugh!" when there came the variation or (h.liu tlin f 1 1 threatened to drive them throunh his law nr. crush them to powder; by way of variety heMing hiccough) "umph, I thought that gut lhoso who are 'y destroyed by a crush place called Bank side, Westminster, on the would hold his breath a few seconds, and then ' woM st()P snoring at this camp at least t ' or the brain, experience no pain at all in pas- j margin of the Thames, a ikbourrng rsan caught snore again, and such snoring! my stars, that I J Umph."- The next evening the Patlandcr was si"S fro,n a 5lale of ,,fe 10 a dead state. One a large rat. Being a fellow of an eccentric could spell it! It was a son of cross between' seen travelling at a mighty rate thtough Knox- moments expectation of being thus destroyed, turn of mind, he took it in his head that he the breathing of an asthmatic elephant and the ! ville, with a small bundle under one arm and a j far exceeds in misery the pain during the act. j could train the animal to fight its natural hun braying of a superanuated donkey, whose will; huge shillalah in the other hand, poked out ' Thos'e who fainl in havinB a liu!o blood takeiyer, the cat-; and, to that end, fed it entirely oi lasted longer than his wind. Well it thus con J ahead of him in a half-defensive half-exploring from ,he ar'm or on an' 0,her asioir, have ; young kittens, in order to give it confidence, tinued wilh the regularity of the whippoor-will's icrv, until say an half hour before daybreak whenJ. M. W. (Jim W. we'll sav ) whose stock of patience had lon ao evaporated, tin-; rolled himself fmm his hLL, ,,vincr l h'J j rolled himself from his blanket, savins in hi i usual quiet way, "Humph ! I'M stop that infer nal concert or start the maker of it, see if I don't! Umph!" He then 'awoke Jim A. and the Judge, when a plot was laid and ihus ear ned into execution. W. got his hunting knife, aV;d -going to where ; gress from Indiana, and as " us boys of the the offal of a large deer had been thrown, he j West" never like to be outdone, even by a next cut off" about seven feel of gut, and securing the ' 'state-neighbor, I will relate one as an offset, ends with twine to retain the contents, he tied ; concerning a Congressman from 'my State, one end of it tight and fast to the corner ofj The venerable Gen. II , was for several Paddy's shirt tail, that had wandered through a consecutive years returned to Congress, and as "rint" in tlie seat of his breeches, coiling it all ihe hotels and boarding-houses at Washington i up smooth by his side, snake-like and true. All things thus arranged, the conspirators laid down again, and at the conclusion of one of the Mage norn snores with the "snake sowls" va- riaiion, Jim A. roared out at ihe top of his voice, ow lady who had two daughters) was regular "Hu wee! Ik; wee! a big copper-headed Iy furnished with stereotyped dinners, and at black rattle snake eleven feel long, has crawled one end of the breakfast table there always ap up my breeches, and is tying himself into a peared a boiled mackerel. Geu. H., whose doublebow knot round my body !" giving the I seat was near the fish, had gazed so frequently Irishman, with every word, a furious dig in the side with his elbow, with a running accompani ment on his shins with liis heels ! Of course, this butting awoke him quick and wide; it: his first movement he laid his hand on the nice cold coil gut at his side. Hissing out a "Jay- jzus" from between his clenched teeth, he made a bound that carried him some ten feet clear of the camp, and with a force that straightened out the coil and made the snake's tail crack like a carl whip. Casting ono wild blazing look behind, he tore off with the rapidity of lightning around the camp in a circle of some forty 'feet across, and at tsvery bound shouting, or rather'yelling. "Saze 'im! saze 'im by the tail! Och howly Yargin, Mop 'im! Och, Saint Pathrick! tare 'im in till jablctts? A wha! A wha! Bate him 10 smithereens wid a gun, can't yees? He's em hit) fast howld me ! Och, he has, by jabers! an' he's mendin' hishoult, a wha! Och, murther, he's forty fut long !" On making iluVcircuit he ran through a pari of the smoul dering camp-fire, and the twine of ihe aft of the gut caughf'fire ; this brought a new terror, and added a 'strong inducement for him 10 put on more ofeam and increase his rate; round round he went! " He's a fiery sarpint. Och, murther! Howly Vargin, he carries a light to sco how to bite by ! Och, help! I'm swal- MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1846. lowed (jumping a log) intirely all but me head! He's saxty fate long if he's a fut ! Tread on his bloody, fiery tale, will yees ! Thry to save me!" then as if inspired with new life and hope, he roared out "Shoot 'im! but don't shoot at his head ! Shoot ! Shoot !" Now here was a picture ! There stood the Judge hugging a sapling with both arms and one leg, his head thrown back emitting scream after scream ; hero lay Jim V. on his nack, with his feet against a tree, his arms elevated like a child's when he wants you to help him up, and it was scream for scream with Jim. All sounds, at all like ordinary laughter, had ceased, and the present notes would have ren dered immortal the vocal fame of a dozen pan- lllnr. I .1.. . I . 1 C inuio, uti;uiiiiaiitcu in uieir concert uy ine 100 i whistle of a steamboat. Yonder stands Jim A. " fat Jim," with his legs about a yard apart, his hands on his hips, shouting at regular inter vals of about five seconds, "Snake ! Snake ! ! Snake ! I .'" at the same intonation, but so loud the echoes mocked each other from fiftv cras. and " Snakes! Snakes !!" reverberated loud and long among those mountain slopes, while his eyes carefully and closely followed the course of poor Paddy round the camp. After running ; round it about thirty times the persecuted one ! nesv off in a 'angent inl0 tJ,e (ark woods, and t tne "ledley sounds of " snake ! murther ! help ! ' IC- saxty fat ! ITowly Yargin !" Sic, gradually , 1 died away in the distance, and the hunters, ' rk llrin A "Umph ," said Jim W. (after stopping his j altitude. When ho was asked bv Archv ' c . with, " Which way.Jaddv V' casting round at the speaker a sort of a hang dog, sl,I. kv glance, he growled forth, a word at a step, fer lhcir Stalest pain as a general thing, hours " Strate to Ireland, be J s. where there's no.'or even days, before they expire. The sensi - " otrate to Ireland, dc J s snakes !" foiled Mackerel Overdone Polalc- aiess. Mr. Editor : A dav or two since, 1 saw in Your naner an anecdote of a member of Con- i'city in those days were pretty much on a par, the members were in the habit of occupying, year after year, the same room3. The table of Gen. tl.'s boarding-house (w.hich was kept by a wid- upon it, for it never was touched except by thecook,) that he knew it "all by heart." Now, if the distinguished Heprescntative had any one peculiar virtue, it was an aflectionate desire to make every person and every creature around him happy. Well, in the course of time, Congress ad journed, and Gen. II. paid his bill to the wid ow, and got ready lo start for homo. The siage stood at the door, and then the old gentleman showed the goodness of his heart. He took the widow by the hand, and pressing it, bade her farewell ; then kissing the daughters, said he would like to see them in Ohio, and furnish them with good husbands, &c; but even this was not all. The black boys, who stood along the wall, were not forgotten, and grinned as he handed each a silver dollar; and as he passed around the breakfast table, which was not yet "cleared off," be saw his old friend, the mack erel. Tho tears came into his eyes, and rais ing it by the tail with his thumb and finger, parted with it, saying, "Well, good bye, my old boy, good bye ! You and I have served a long campaign together, but (wiping his eyes) I suppose we shall meet again next winter good bye !" The old gentleman rapidly left the house, and jumping into tho stage, rattled off,. and fortunately for his can the widow nev er saw him again. OHIO. Death not a Painful I'roccss. I nearly two miles from the sea-shore, I sowed. We think that most persona have been led to in I&35? twenty-live and a half bushels to tho regard dying as a much more painful change . acre. Tho soil was a thin, clayry loam, and than it generally is, first because they have the result of the application was a crop of in experienced in themselves nnd "seen in others, cellent clover, where, for years, nothing h-id that sentient beings often struggle when in dis- . grown but Vriullen and rye. The land ii.i4. mi tress : muscular action and consciousness arc 'yet forgot the application; the Yins mi the soil two distinct things often existing separately; with ashes bein& greener and far more luxnr and we have abundant reason to believe, that itijiant than on that where no such application had a great proportion of cases, those struggles ofj been made. On corn, beans and w heat ashes, a dying man which are so distressing to be- ( leached or unleached, operate with the bust el- hold, are entirely independent of consciousness, as the struggles of a recently decapitated fowl. A second reason why men are led to regard dying as a very painful change, is because they know that men often endure great pain without dying, and forgetting that like causes produce ! h'iCi effects only under similar circumstances they infer that life cannot be destroyed without still Greater pain. But the pains of death are much less than most persons have been led to only known to those who are tolerably '.veil believe, and we doubt not that many persons j versed in ioology. To those who hive not who live to the age of puberty, undergo tenfold considered how clear the distinction is between more misery in thinking of death, than in the ' bravery and 'ferocity, and who, Yhe'refore ztsa simplc act of dying; nay, tenfold Thoro VniseiV ciate the idea of intrepidity with the fell tiger, than they would, did they but entertain correct -ad the sanguinary panther and leopard, th views concerning this change. In all cases of proposition will appear extravagant : neerihe dying the individual suffers no pain after the J Iess, is true. Of all animals, I he dog tthmo sensibility of his nervous system is destroyed, ' will attack a much superior enemy, and fight and the sensibility of his nervous system is of- j against any odds. The cat kind, even when ten destroyed without much, and sometimes lngry. never attack where they are not sure without any previous pain. Those who are ! of possessing superior force. struck dead by a stroke of lightning, those who I nre decapitated with one blow of the axe, and j alrcatJy endured all tne misery tltey ever would in lllis Vorl(3' did they hot again revive. Those i wno uie oi levers anu inusi uuier msses, su,- or even days, oeiore iney expire. i ne sensi- ii snoniu iigiu as many cats as it couidyai uait biliiy of their nervous system becomes gradu-' a-crown each, stipulating, in return,, that tho ally diminished, their pains become less acute pcroon whose cat might kill it should be enti under the same existing cause; and at the mo-, tied to one guinea. At four o'clock on that nient when their lrienda tninu tnom in tne treat- est distress, they aro more at ease than they have been for days previous; their disease, as far as it respects their feelings, begins to act upon them like an opiate. Indeed, many are rino afrer another, set on to combat this animal; already dead, as it respects themselves, when of which eight ran away, and seven lay dead, ignorant bystanders are much the most to bej A sixteenth was then shamefully sot at it. pitied, not for ihe loss of their friend, but fori This, being bolder and stronger than the rest., their sympathising anguish. Tho3o diseases and its poor antagonist being exhausted with, which destroy life without immediately affect-1 the fatigue of so many hard fought battles, had ing the nervous system give rise to more pain j belter success than its fifteen predecessors, and than those that do affect the system so as to (killed ihe rat; not however, till aftor a sever impair its sensibility. The most painful deaths j round of fighting. ; which Human beings inflict upon each other, arc produced by the Tack and fagot. The hal- j ter is not so cruel as either of these, but more savage than the axe. Horror and pain consid-j ered, it seems to us that we should choose a narcotic to either. Charles Knowlton, M. D. Aslies. As a manure, ashes, on certain soils, are in valuable. We have frequently experienced the beneficial effects resulting from their applica tion, but never more convincingly than during the present year. On a piece of corn, contain ing about twenty statute acres, we applied about, twenty bushels of ashes and a little quantity of gypsum, or plaster of Paris the ashes being applied on evety other row in order thai the comparative value of the two article might be accurately ascertained. The result of tho experiment was perfectly iu accordance with our previous observations, Through the entiro season, the rows on which the ashes were applied, took the lead, and at harvest produced ono-ihird more corn than those which had the gypsum. We would commend to every one to save all the house ashes he possibly can. Even leached are too valuable to bo thrown away. Applied as a top-dressing to grass lands, they produce important effects. One of the most substantial farmers in Mas sachusetts, writing us on the subject, says: " I am now moro fully than over persuaded of the value of ashes as a manure. Nothing, in the whole catalogue of manures, compares wi'h them on my land All iho distance of V No. 4 1 j fects. Formerly we "were in the practice of disposing 'of our ashes at from a shilling to MO cts. per bushel; but experience has now opened our eyes, atid w'e are purchasing all we can at. double the former price." Maine Fui'mer. Cats killed by a lint. I hat the whole of the cat kind, incltviirJg even the lion and tiger, are a cowardlv tribey ft A verv singular incidence of the cowardico of tiro tribe occurred lately in London. At a. well as taste lor it as prey ; and, at ibe ume , time, allowed it no liquid but milk, for the pur- po3e oi sirengmenmg 11. Aner ne naii mil dieted ihe rat ; it should fight ior a luniiigiii, ne proposeu mat day, a lull crown cat was put to tne rat in a .' vat In wliirh ihpi rnt bar! hfn nrnvimulv fi1 '" - I v , but the cat instantly jumped out, and would not. faco iho rat. No less than fifteen cats wore. j Tlie Belle and Ibe St ti den?. , At a certain splendid evening party a haugh- iy young beauty turned ta a student who stood I near her, and said, " uoustn John, i understand your eccentric frtenu L great curiosity lo see him is here. 1 have a Do brin him hero and introduco lilm to me." " Well Kale," replied the student, " I will go and see what mood ho is in now, for, to lell you the truth, with all his talents, he is some times so odd that there is no pleasure in being near him." The student went in search of his friend and at length found him lounging on a sofa. Come L ," said he, " my beautiful cou sin Catharine wishes to be introduced to you." " Well, trot her out, John," drawled L , j with an affected yawn. j John returned to his cousin and advised her ! to defer her introduction to a more favorahlo lime, repeating the answer he httd received. Tho beautj bit her lip, but the n-t nnvnri.1 said, " Well never fear ! 1 shall insist on be ing introduced." After somo delay, L was led up and the ceremony of introduction duly peformed. A greeably surprised by the beauty and command ing appearance of Catharine, L made a profound bow; but, instead of returning it,, she stepped backwaid, and raising her eye-glass, surveyed him deliberately, from, head to fool, waving tho back of her hand towards him, drawled out, "Trot him off, John.! trot him off b that is enough !" li 1! s
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