Ill I B lr-lW m H I (J IN Tlin WHOLE ART OK GOVERNMENT CONSISTS IN THE ART OF BEING HONEST. JciTersOn. VOL 7. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 184G: - - No and a quarter, half yearly and if not p.iid before the end of . ..-'j u-ir t'i.v.j iviio rif!Mic their I papers bra carrier or -stage dm w employe uiu , inn VB.ir, u uiuiain auu i iiuii. i uu.-i. . tors, will oe onargca s i-a cis. per year, atSe.? wlK?SeS aSSuSSSVSSffi oSiSP0,tla-i IQAH letters addressed to UieEditors must bcpoMpaid. j TOB ?JlirVX37G". ! Harlnra general assortment of iairc,cicBant,plnin and onia-' utcatul Type, WTWtf execute every IF ASSY'S" S'SirClCTi I Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Rotes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable teims AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jul fersoiiian Republican . Palos-Alto and Resaca. A NEW SONG FOR THE FOURTH OF JULV. Now while our cups are flowing With memories born 10 bloom, And filial hands are throwing Their wreath's o'er valor's tomb ; While lips exulting shout the praiso Of heroes of the past that stood, Triumphant, 'mid old Bunker's blaze, And proud in Euiaw's field of blood; Be not forgot the gallant train, That lifia your name in Mexic war, One cup for Palos-Aho drain, Ono mighty cheer for Resaca ! For Taylor" Rough and Ready," True, son of truest sires ; For May, who, swift and steady. Trod down La Vega's fires ; For all who in that day of strife, Maintain'd in pride the stripes and stars, The dead, who won immortal life, And they who live for other wars-; Fr these, who with their victory, New wreaths to grace our laurel bring, A health that drains the goblet dry, A cheer thai Thames the welkin ring ! Nr, though even 'now we falter With ihoughls of thdse who died, And at our festive altar, Grow silent in our pride, Yi'i in the heart's most holy deep;, Fund memory fehrines the happy brave, Wh in the arms of bailie sleep By Palos' wood atid Bravo's wave ; Nor in our future deeds forgot, Shall silent thought forbear to bringi Her tribute to that sacred spot, Where Ringgold's gallant soul took wing. Fill to our country's glory, Where'er her flag is borne ; " Nor, in her failing story ; I" , Let future ayes mourn ; -Nor let the envious foreign foe, Rejoice that faction checks her speed, Arrests her in the indignant blow, And saddens o'er the avenging deed! Fill high, though from the crystal ware, Your cup, and from the grape be mine: The marriage rites, that link the brave To fame, will turn each draught to wine. Curious Fish. A large fish, sixteen or eighteen feet in length, and weighing probably some two or ihree tons, was towed into Portland harbor a few days ago. It was taken on the fishing ground ;ibout eighty miles distant. It was of a lilac color, and, in some particulars, resembled a ahark, but had no teeth, and its vertebra; ap peared to be little else than hardened jelly. The fishermen who took it were unacquainted with the species, nor has anyone yet been able o give it a name. The skin liad been taken t(T and is to be tanned and stuffed: The editor of an exchange wilfully perpe trated the following outrageous and abominable rhyme : " Hail beauteous maid of grace divine, Why do you wear a bump behind 1" The audacious camp. He ought to be choked to death wjth a lady's busflet Wonder if that editor cultivates .his hair? If he docs, he must swallow the following ro urt from a bustlc-ing little maid; "Hail dandies 'with your broad tailed coats Why do 'you wear'your'beards like goats?" Fighting the Tiger. Having a liule leisure limo at my command smm,ir nr T ,.l.t0,t r1 - t - w.w, v.,i,uv.u . .m- general current of .ravelling which had ,oward ,he SP"SS. in Arkansas, and ii that place in order that I might 'get a sight' (f won(Jerfu frcak of nature's laboratory. 1'1'3 cnd inae lhe requisite arrangements, and in due time was formally introduced to a scene combin;ng n(jre of ,he beautiful, antl fuWime, lhan had ever before been my lot j to witness. j And now we turn to the immediate object in ! writing this sketch, which is to embody a 'yam' J that came to my ears during this visit, as well 1 as to give tangibility and shape to an incident : in the hunter's life, the recital of which had ; well nigh made i-ne Knoueu ana comtimea iock3 to part, And each particular hair to stand on end." Every one who has visited the point in ques tion will recognize the many log shamiea which are sprinkled along the valley silent and len antless in winter, but redolent with life and spirit in summer. One evening towards twilight (in company with several friends) we had gathered around j the doors of one of ihe shanties, just referred' J : to, and listened with delighted ear and excited hrain, to the many marvellous stories which the natives were unraveling. During the relation of one of these stories, we were startled by a sepulchral voice behind us, exclaiming that the party was telling 'a h-11 of a yarn" at which we turned, and beheld a creature so much like tho celebrated sage of 'Sleepy Hollow' that we could scarcely suppress the belief that he must have sat for Irving's bright portraiture of that redoubtable personage. . , , , ,, ; So very like indeed, was he to the venerable . I . ' 'Rip,' that we were more than once tempted to look round for the rusted remains of his gun the uncamiouized bones of his dog' the scorched and weather-beaten 'pouch' in which! he was Wont in days of yore to keep his ele ments of death. But we were not permitted to f remain long in doubt, for with a spring, he rose ; from the counter on which he had been reclin-j ing, and repeated his assertion that, 'That was j a h-11 of a lie.' The crowed reeled him with ! a 'round of applause,' which soon satisfied us that he was (to use a provincialism of that re-, i.. k;,. :,. ,t. ti. ..... I a u.g ,uau ... ...a puuu.u. a ..c icquesi , was general that he should spin a yam also ! a request to which a ready assent was granted, : after a proposition for a 'general treat' had been1 swallowed His story ran somewhat thus: 'Did any one ever hear of my fighting the tiger, a year or two ago in Alabana? If any one hasn't heard that siory, he'd better plaister his hair to his head, and sew his coat to his skin; for cuss tne if it isn't enough to frighten a man out of his senses. ' Wall! Some time long in the month of July, Sal came to me one day and says she to me iays she 'Joe, I want some iar-meat, and I guess you had better cut right out and get mejject into the street the width of tho pavement; some.' Now, you must recollect, fellows, lhat Sal was sorter sick about that time, and used to lake the darndest kind of notions iu her head that ever I heard of. But, however, I blung 'old Bellzv, over mv shoulders, and sat out ih full chase after the only bar that we had heard of iu that neck of the woods during the sum mer. A long, and a hot and a wearisome tramp I had: but luck was wid me and I finally brought 'old Bellzy' lo level on him, and jusl laid him out as slick as ever you saw a coon 'couse' a dog. Liule time elapsed before he was regu larly cleansed, when I made a break for home, as I was tited, hot and hungry. The trump was a long one, the load none of the lightest, and 1 soon grew faint and sick under the heat of tho sun. Casting about for a spot upon which to resl until the cool of the evening, 1 soon found a quici"tibok. under the shadow of a cluster of vines, to which I took an especial liking. Hanging my game to the branch of a neighboring tree, and rosting my gun by it side, I reiired to this inviting spot, and. was quickly in a land where uneasiness is not felt. How Jon" I slept is impossible 10 say; but the nap generally, was a sweet, refreshing one, and might have lasted much longer, if I had not been disturbed by a blimy and .compressing sensation about my throat, together with a feel ing' that something was passing over-fiiy face which was not every way pleasant to mc-1 was thoroughly disturbed: yet I felt my situn tion becoming more and more unpleasant, and in a dreaming listlessness, opened my eyes to see what was going on, when mercy on me! least, the botanic garden. After passing thro' found an enormous snake (well known as the all sorts of filth and dirt on the basement story, Racer,) had wound himself about my neck, J you come to a dark narrow passage which con and was bobbing his nasty head back and forth ducts you to a massive door, which when you upon my face, while his horrible tongue was ' have succeeded in opening, you enter an apart playing like lightning upon my features! Wiih'm'em enclosed with high walls on every side a yell of horror, I sprung to my feet ! Fortti- but open at the top, and certainly hot exceed nately, my presence of mind did not leave me, i"g,eighy feet square, and this is tho botanic and 1 bethought myself at once of my knife. garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs Quietly drawing it from my belt, I managed to pass it between my throat and the snake, until all that it contains. I have rarely in my life j j0WM a th'c graa'a in it. They also wem iiuu I was sure lhat its point had reached beyond . seen a more gloowy and desolate looking place. i,is p,aio patch, and cut a few swaiths througii his widest fold'; then with a sudden movement, J h is much more like a prison than a garden.--- l When tho lime catiie for digging, his pota turned the back to my skin, tho blade to my I A decrepit, palsied old man, said io be or j t0es were found principally rotten, except w he,rrt enemy, and with a vigorous thrust of my wrist, j than a hundred years old, is the superintend- j ,he boys had niowej 0ff ,f, lnj. Those u.ert. he was laying powerless around my feet. Be-1 ent of the establishment ; no one could have ! fmnid 1(J b'e 4nd g0U( This L.xnL.rimeui fore I had lime to recover from my alarm, I j been selected more in keeping with iho geiier- j woud seem lQ ahow lha, lhe f(Jl Qf AK looked and mercy again! 1 found a grander j al dilapidation and dreariness of this melan-; -,n ,he ,0 a d suest as ,1e mealls nf norror upon me: urawn oy tne scent oi oioou,; a tiger had found my game during my sleep and was rampant and raging over his prey. Never shall I forget the groul which he gave when he first saw me. There he was rearing up on the game before him, his eyes like balls r r . , r of lire, watting only for me to move to spring upon and tear me limb from limb. My bra:n was on fire : I saw but one hope, and that was to recover the knife which in my first surprise 1 had let drop. I made one effort to secure it, but my enemy kept so clos e a watch upon me, " I could reach it. and darled upon me before As he cariic with a thundering roar and flaming eyes, I gave myself up for lost; blindly I closed my fist and made a pass as he reared upon me. Fnrtunalplv mv arm nassnd ilirenllv into his ihrfjal. as hg . cIoihes jn threadg whh i i j . T , , his iron paws, I kept shoving my fist onon on, until it was through by thunder! Quick as lightning I seized his tail, ris upon my feet, avc a heartv ieik. and turned the tarnal beast . , Straners i .hmjollt , sllf)llI(1 . 'flummixed' right on the spot, but I got over it, and feel none the worse for fighting the tiger. dr:Ilkr... c, j-x R-!h Tim Cits' ' iicxico. ' ne cl!.v of Mexico is aid to be the finest ou,lt clVf " ,J,C American continent. In some resPecls 11 certainly is so. In thy principal streets the Imusfts arr? i r.rinsJrnriiM rwrnrlirui -B to the strictest architectural rules. The foun- dations of tho city were laid, and the Orst buil - dings were erected by Cortes, who did every - thing well which he attempted-from building a house or writing a couplet to conquering an empire. Many of the finest buildings iu Mexi- co are still owned by his descendants. The public square is said to be unsurj in the -world; it contains some twi 1 t ,r, . , 1 acres paved with stone. The cathedral covers ..... , one er.l re side, tho na nce another: the wesiern , ( side is occupied by a row of very high and sub- stantial houses, tho second stories of which pro- the lower stories are occupied by the principal retail merchants of the city. The most of these houses were built by Cortes, who, with his characteristic sagacity and avarice which equal ly characterized him in the latter part of his life, selected the best portion of the city for himself. The President's Palace, formerly the palace of the viceroys, is an immense building of thrers stories high, about five hundred feet in length, and three hundred and fifty feet wide; it 6tands on ihe site of the palace of Moniezuma. It is difficult 10 conceive of so much stone and mor tar being put together in a less tasteful and im posing shape ; it has much more the appear ance of a cotton factory or a penitentiary than what it really is; lhe windows aro small, and a parapet wall runs tho whole lengih of tho buil ding, with nothing to relieve the monotony of us appearance except some very indifferent or namental work in the centre ; there ure no doors in the front either of the second or third stories nothing but disproportionately small windows, and too many of ihen; the three doors, and there are only three in the lower story, are destitute of all architectural beauty or ornament. Only a' very small .part of this palace is appropriated to the residence of ihe President; all the public offices are here, inchi ding iliosc of the heads of ihc diUcrcpt depart ment; ministers of war, foreign relations, finance and justice, the public treasury, Sic. &c. The halls of the house of deputies and of the sen- .ate are also in the same building, and last and j and plants and the celebrated maniia tree, are cuoi auair. But the cathedral, which occupies the site of the great idol temple of Montezuma, offers a striking contrast. It is five hundred feet long by four hundred and twenty wide. It would be superfluous to add another to the many de scriptions of . this famous building which have already been published. Like all the other! churches in Mexico, it is built in the Gothic style. The walls, of several feet thickness, are made of unhewn stone and lime. Upon; entering it,. one is apt to recall the wild fictions of the Arabian Nights; it seems as if the woahh al empires was collected tlicre. J lie clergy in Mexico do not for obvious reasons, desire that their wealth should be made known to its full extent; they are, therefore, not disposed to give very lull lnlormation upon tiic suoject, or to ex- l j i j t -. 1 1 i i hibit the gold and silver vessels, vases, precious stones", and 6ther forms of wealth- quite enough is exnibited to strike tne beholder wnh wonder. , dei'ermined to watch his potatoes, and if he di The first olueci that presents itself on entering I covered" any symptoms of the same disease, to the cathedral is the altar, near the centre of the j ,ako a scylhe and mow a the ,()ps off Ahoul building; it is made of highly-wrought and high-' veek after blossoming time, he saw strong ly-polished silver, and covered with a profusion j symp0ms of the same disease, on the tops first of ornaments of pure gold. On each side of ald ropls af,erward. lie however concluded this all ar runs a balustrade, enclosing a space , j() jej iherh stand a few days, say four or five about eigljl feat wide and eighty or a hundred daySj in order to iet ,he polatoe3 gel a j,,, 0. feet long. The balusters are about four feet dcr. af(er wjlicl he orderc(l hjs man ,0 go and high, and four inches thick in the largest pan; IU0W ajj ,j,e topB wp;. and wj,je ma w;18 the handrail from six to eight inches wide. , n, Mr AiUrJo-i., nn,t fripml nf Ut . ,Inf .,. tnM (lf .-.ur..i at .1,,, ilislnnee ( ' T , . .'" ; ' SI ' el , , ' T' ? 'niagc. ' ",mr . , , ' , . S i , - 1 cu ",ou,,u 8' CW lha M ! lhal 3" ofler had l'Cen m!ide 10 lakc ,h,i faalu.s- -imams. i ne 1 . . . 1 passed by any I ' rei)lace 11 WI,h another of exactly ! ging his crop) he f0Hnd aDOut ihree dozen rot-.-elve or fifteen lhc same S'Ze &nd workmaI,sh'P of Pure i5llier' ' ten ones in some forty or fifty bushels of as anu to give a uai a mm on 01 uo lars oesiues. 0 ... . . , , , 1 here is much more of ihe same balustrade in . other parts of the church; I should think, in all ol it, not less than three hundred leet. As you walk through the building, on either ' side there aro different apartments, all filled, j from the floor to the ceiling, with paintings, j vases, huge candlesticks, waiters, and a thous- 1 and other articles, made of gcild or silver. c This.too.is only the every day display of articles nf value: inn morn ens v :ir stored awav ... , j -j in chests and closets. What must it bo when all these arc brought out, with the immense quantities of precious stones which the church is known 10 possess ? And this is only one of the churches of the city of Mexico, where there are between sixty and eighty others, and some (if them possessing liule hiss wealth than the cathedral; and it must also bo remembered, that all iheoiher largo cities, such as Puobla, Oau dalajara, Gtian.aju.ato, Zacatecas, Durango, San Louis, Polos:, have each a proportionate num ber of eqyally gorgeous establishments. A Western paper says, in an obituary notice thai the "deceased had also been for several years a director in a bank ; notwithstanding whichV he died a Christian, universally re peated. " Major Noah compares the victories of Gen. Taylor with, the exploits .qf Lucullus, Agesi laus, Zcnophon, and Xerxes, and finds a par allel for(the. bravery and success of our troops in lhe account of au old bajtle recorded in his toiy" in which 13,000 Greeks ryutqd OQg.ppO Persians, : ! i. Penn Forest, Carjmn Co.", Pav ..... May Dth, lbdG. To the Editor of the Philadelphia Saturday Courier: " i pear Sir : I observe in yotir paper tif tho 1 1 ih of April, lB'lC, at or near lhe bottom of. iVm sixth column of the fourth page, an aniclo headed thus: "Potato Rut a Curious Fact"." I here quote the article: " In tl'u: laiter pan of the summer of 1841, a farmer of iheMu'wu ship of Lincoln, Addison county, Vermon'tVwtn quite behind all hia neighbors in cutting lu grass in his meadow. At night, some waggith i wem jmo 0RC 0f ",'js icadiws, s a rut cut saving -a crot), to apnlv the st-vthe as soon as j lh(J U()S begjn (Q die ...0fJ-- Cultivator. ..Slrnnge as lhis mav appealt h Wl. W()rlU j experimenting upon.-'V. Courier." Allow me now to state another fact, in cor ' : . roboration of tho above, which was communi cated to a neighbor of mine, Mr. Aquilia'E. Al- bright. His otatomcnt was in substance an j f0i0Ws viz: In t bright, on looking the summer of ISll, Mr. Ai- ovcr.his potato patch, dis- I covered some of tho tons to annear as if frot ; biUen an( gxami,,, lne YOln)g pUtatoes, im found tney had jusl bcgun ;o rolj ,hete bingt j her'e and lherej a smaj, spcck on ,hem Fr(Mll J he ca'nie ,0 ,he conci;lsion that ,he disease j was in lho aim09phere, and attacked rim top3 first and lhen the r0()ls. WlP1 llle ,me camt) ,0 d; his potatoes, he found many of them 9 uit uio luiaiuoj. ic iuuiiu ujaii v ui iiiuim much diseased, and during fall and winter most , of ,hcrn 'rol,e'a. In the summer of 1645, he j l l , t.:.. r .. - - t wa,Keu oul 10 u,c PaiCH u,,u u,s ,r,enu' u, ac" jllg lhe man at work mowing ()ff ,he potato tops, 1 assured Mr-Albright that he would ruin his , crop ol potatoes; upon wnicn no maue answer. thai if left alone he was certain to io.e tncn. and ho might as well lose them one way as another. Now, mark the result. Upon dig- : rintiinp; n nrrd bo not one of winch rot- j "tie potatoes as nccu 00, not one 01 w im.u iu. j ,ed durinrT the following winter, and he says 1 ieu uurM,o lu"u,""b ""' Cl' j j,0 reejg confident that potatoes can bo saved in wa j rcmain, &c. 1 " JOHN KELSEYj Sermon for Old Bachelors. A lato number of tho Hartford Mirror con tains a lay sermon for the special benefit of the t I Ul r l-.l .l. r..llnl-irirr Invlr ' ...0 y ! Wilt iVinu an wiih this man ? and she Said I "vl u J ... . . . , r -n " sc'o -wvt fif) 1 will go." Genesis rcxxvi, 50. In those times, ceremony, formality, sighing. and sentiment, wero altogether unknown. Re becca was a good girl, and jumped at ihe first offer. The editor of the Norwich Aurora says; ho could have picked oul a better text to preach before the honorable fraternity, viz : " Jacob kissed Rachel." That is something substantial for bachelors to ponder over. The other text waV for tho benefit of Rebecca altogether: "Jacob kissed Rachel, and he lilted up hi voice and wept." How pathetic ! The fact i., says the Auro ra, time and fashion mako strange inroad-rupon poor human nature. Here was Jacob scouring iho country to look for a wife, and on a .fine sunny day, in the valley of Padaiwua'm,. he s,avv her at a distance, drawing water ftom ti weil, being barefooted, and without ceremony ho ran towards her, and in the language of the good book, "kissed her and lifted up his voice and wept." We have no account that Rachel boxed his oara for his rudeness, as in ihno days of simplicity and innocqnco-ho would haye tloac particularly in "good society." Iuiiortaiil-Potalu iJiV
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