ft' 5 - , " Mitt 8 (TSIBT-' The whole art ok Government consists in the art or beino honest. Jefferson. VOL 7. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1846. No. 10 41 fiii an l a .juarter. half yearly and if not paid before the end oi tnc veir, Ivo dollars and a half. Thoc who receive their ptfwfr lv a earner or stage drivers employed by Lie proprie tors, will be charged 37 1-2 rt. per year, extra. ,Vo papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at t.c option of the Editors. , . , i;c. .C7.vrcruse.nnts not exeecd.n? one square (s ix.ee.. lines will oe inserted three weeks for one dol.at: "y-five nts forerorysuosequcnunsertion: largcroncs in proportion. A lioer.il discount will be made to yearly advertisers C Ul letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. JOB FRSrSTIXG. Hivlnr a rencral assortment of large, elegant, plain and oraa ' mental Type, we are prepared to execute every aescnpuuii ui Card, Circulars, Bill Heads, Hfotes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatnevsand despatch, on reasonable teiros AT THE GFFICE OF THE TeZfcrsoniaik Ztepublican. .uwu.ir.miwwijupra' ID3 The Bosion Courier has a Jong 4 poem' from Mr. Joea Bigelow, wIil' says he was down io Busting last week, and he see a crute in' Saijuin strutting round as pop'ier as a hen with 'ie chicken, with two fellers a druiimin' ntid fiiu' arior him, who wanted Hosca to vol unteer for Mexico. We give a pari of Hosca's indigtiani response: Th?ah away! you'll have lo rattle fyn them kettle drum's of your'n 'Tint a knowiti' kind o' cattle Fbat is keichcd with mouldy corn ; Pit in stiff you fifer feller Let folks see how spry you be Gies you'll tool till you are yaller, PFore you git a hold of me. A for war, 1 call it murder, There you have it plain and flat; want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that. ! Taint our eppyleites and feathers .' Make the thing a grain more right ; Taint a folleriu' your bell wethers j Will excuse ye in His sight ; Ef you take a sword and dror it, And should slick a feller through, iGov'ment aim lo answer for it, 1 God'll send the bill to you. They may talk of 'Freedom's area' t Till they're purple in the face, It's a grand great cemetary For ihe birthright of our race; They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave States in, To abuse ye and to scorn ye, And to plunder ye like sin. Ain't it cute to see a Yankee Take such everlasting pains All io get the devil's thankee, Helpin on 'em weld their chains ? Why, it's jest as clear as figrxers, Clear as one and one make two, Chaps ihat make black slaves o' niggers Want to malie white slaves o' you. Want me to tackle in, do ye ? 1 expect you'll have to wait, When cold lead puts daylight thro' ye, You'll begin to calkylale, 1 dun know bui what it's pooty Trainin round in bobtail coats But it's enrus Christian dooty. To be cuttin folk's throats. There's them editors thai crowin' Like a cockerel three months old Don't ketch any on 'em goin. Though ihey be so blasted bold ; Aim they a prime set of fellers? 'Fore they think on't they will sprout, (Like a peach that's got the yellers,) With the meanness bustin' out. Jest go home and ask our Nancy, Whether I'd be such a gooe A o jitte ye guess you'd fancy The eternal bung was loose ! .She want me for home consumption, Let alone the hay'a to mow Ef you'ro atter folks o' gumption, You've a darn'd long row to boa The Military Horse Jockey, The Ten-jies-ee papers say.ihat Gen. Pillow;. Whom Mr. Polk'has appointed a Brigadier General, ia a horse-jockey by profession, and deficient of the mora) and inijjljectual qualification required for the slauofl. From the Spirit of the Times. UXcAIpiti's Trip lo Charleston. HY THE author of "cousix sallv dilliard." In the county of Robson, in ihe State of North Carolina, there lived in times past a man by the name of Brooks, who kept a grocery for a num ber of years, and so had acquired most of the land around him. This was mostly pine bar tens of small value, but nevertheless Brooks was looked up lo as a great landholder and big man in the neighborhood. Thero was one uaci, however, belonging to Col. Lamar, who lived in Charleston, that "jammed in vpon him so strong" and being wilhal belter in quality than the arcrjof his own domain, that Brooks had long wished to add it to his oiher broad acres. Accordingly he looked around him and employed, as he expressed ii, " the smariest man in the neighborhood," to wit, one Angus McAlpin, io go to Charleston and negotiate with Col. Lamar for the purchase of this also. Be ing provided pretty well with bread, meat and a bottle of pah-face, which were stowed away in a pair of leather saddle-bags, and like all other great Plenipotentiaries, being provided with suitable instructions, Mac mounted a piney woods hackey (named Rosum) and hied him off to Charleston. The road was rather longer than Brooks had supposed, or his agent was less expeditious or some bad luck happened to him, or something was the matter that Angus did not get back until long after the day had transpired, which was fixed on for his return. Brooks in the meantime had got himself into a very fury of impatience. He kept his eyes fixed on the Charleston road he was crusty towards his customers harsh towards his wife and children, and scarcely eat or slept for ser erai days and nights, for he had set his whole soul upon buying the Lamar land. One day, however, Angus was descried slowly and sadly wending his way up the long stretch of sandy road thai made up to the grocery. Brooks went out to meet him, and without farther cer emony, ho accosted him, " Well, Mac, hare you got the land V The ageni, in whose face was anything but sunshine, replied somewhat gruffly, that " he might let a body get down from his horse before he put at him with questions of business." But Brooks was in a fever of anxiety and re peated the question " Did you gel it ?" " Shaw, now, Brooks, don't press upon a body in this uncivil wa'. It is a long story and I must have time." Brooks Etii! urged, and Mac still parried the question till they got into the house. " Now, surely," thought Brooks, " he will tell me." But Mac was not quite ready. " Brooks," says he, " have you anything lo drink." "To be sure I have," said the other, and im mediatelv had some of his best forth-comin O Having moistened his clay, Mac took a seat and his employer another. Mac gave a prelim inary hem ! Ho then turned suddenly around to Brooks, looked him straight in the eves and slapped htm on ihe thigh. " Erooks," says he, " was you ever in Charles ton V " Why, you know I never was," replied the other. " Well, then. Brooks," says the agent, "you ought to go there. The greatest place upon the face of the earth ! They have got houses thero on boih sides of the road for five miles at a stretch, and d n the horse track all the way through! Brooks, I think I mot fivo thousand people in a minute, and not a chap would look at me. They have got houses on w heels there. Brooks! I saw one with six horses hitched to it, and a big driver wiih a long whip going it like a whirl-wind. I followed it down the road for a mile and a half, and when it stopt I looked and what do you thiuk there was? nothing in it but one little woman sitting up in one corner. Well, Brooks, I turned back up the road, and as I was riding along I sees a fancy looking chap with long curly hair hanging down his back, and his boots as shiny as the face of an up-country nigger, t called him into the mid dle of the road and asked him a civil question and a civil question, you know, Brooks, calls for a civil answer all over the world. I says, ay I, "Stranger, can you tell me where Col. Lamar lives V and what do you think was the answer Go to h you fool ! ! " Well, Brooks, I knocks along up and down, and about, until at last I finds out where Col. Lamar lived. I gets down and bangs away at the door. Presently the door was opened by as pretly, fine-spoken, well dressed a woman as ever you seed in youi born days, Brooks. Silks, Silks thar every day, Brooks ! Says 1, " Mrs. Lsmar, I presume, Madam," says she "I am Mrs. Lamar, Sir." "Well, Madam," says I, " I have come all the way from North Carolina to see Col. Lamar to see about buy ing a tract of land from him that's up in our parts." Then," she says, " Col. Lamar has rode out in the country, but will be back short ly. Come in, Sir, and wail awhile. I've no doubt the Colonel will soon return," and she had a smile upon that pretty face of her's that reminded a body of a Spring morning. Well, Brooks, I hitched my horse to a brass thing on the door, and walked in. Well, when I got in I sees the floor all covered over with the nicest looking thing, nicer than any patched work bed quill you ever seed in your lifo, Brooks. 1 was trying to edge along around it, but presently I sees a big nigger come stepping right over it. Thinks I if that nigger can go it, I can go it too ! So right over it I goes and takes my seat right before a picture which at first I thought was a little man looking in at a window. Well, Brooks, there I sot wailing and wailing for Col. Lamar, and at last ho didn't come, but they began io bring in dinner. Thinks I lo myself, here's a scrape. But 1 made up my mind to tell her, if she axed me to eat, to tell her with a genteel bow that 1 had no occasion lo eat. But, Brooks, she didn't ax me to eat she axed me if I would be so good as io carve that turkey for her, and she did it with one of them lovely smiles ihat makes the cold streaks run down the small of a feller's back. " Certainly, Mad am," says I, and I walks up to the table there was on one side of the turkey a great big knife as big as a Bowie knife, and a fork with a trig ger to it on the other side. Well I falls lo work, and in the first effort 1 slashed the gravy about two yards over the whitest tabic cloihyou ever seed in your life, Brooks ! Well ! I felt the steam begin to gather about my cheeks and eyes. But I'm not a man to back out for trifles, so I makes another effort and ihe darned thing took a flight and lit right in Mrs. Lamar's lap! Well, you see, Brooks, then I was taken with a blindness, and the next thing I remember I was upon tho hath a kicking. Well, by this time 1 began to think of navigating. So I goes out and mounts Rosum, and puts for Norih Car olina! Now, Brooks, you don't blamo mo ! Do you 1" A certain Judge, meeting a minister mounted on a very fine horse, said to Bome gonilemen who were with him, " Do you see what a fine horse that priest has? I should like lo crack a joke with him." "Doctor," said he io the minister, "you dor.'i follow ihe example of your great Master, who humbly contented himself with riding on an ass." " Indeed," returned the minister, " that was my intention ; but of late so many asses havo heen made judges, that a poor minister, though ever so willing, can hardly find ono to ride on." At Providence, R. I , according to the Senti nel of that place, a pig was last week mesmer ized by a man who pui it asleep by scratching its back. The editor says : " P'ggy wenl 10 sleep in precisely two min utes by the old town clock. At the end of three minutes a fly lit upon his ear, without produ cing any visible change in his countenance. When we came away he was wide awake, bui apparently unconscious of all that had trans pired, besides tho scratching his back." By the ancient law of Hungary, a man con victed of bigam)' was condemned io live with both wjves in the same house; the crime was, in consequence, extremely rare. A man in Cincinnati, Ohio, recently made a thirteen strike. He knocked down ten pins, the bar-keeper, and the alley lamp, and ihe " set up" boy. Endeavor to possess a syul woithy of the exahed station, as a rational and unaccountable beiri". - ' Address of Odd-Fellowship. P. G. M. Samuel York Atlee, a few weeks since delivered an address on Odd Fellowship, by special invitation of Wildey Lodge, in the Presbyterian Church at Charlesiowu, Va. The Address was one well calculated to instil into ihe minds of the brotherhood the prosecu tion of their benevolent labors with renewed vigor and unwearied diligence. We mako the following interesting extracts from the Address as we find it published in the Virginia Free Press : " The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is an Instution established in this country at Bal timore in 1819. Its design is practical benevo lence. The mombers of ihe fraternity individ ually pledge their honor that they will assist a brother in distress. Them t3 no obligation ex clusively with one another, in preference to their fellow citizens generally, but each one is perfectly at liberty to deal in the manner and with the persons best suited in his opinion lo promote his commercial interests. Nor is ihere the slightest restriction imposed on his political freedom. No party is recognized by ihe Lodge. No discussion is permitted, under any circum stances, which involves politics in the partizan sense. There never has been an Odd Fellow Ticket presented for support at the polls, and it is impossible that there should bo. Nor do the obligations of Odd Fellowship wound the most sensitive conscience. Religion, in the sec tarian sense, is never permitted to enter our Halls. I do not mean to say that a religious man cannot be an Odd Fellow. On the con trary, I assert that the religious man is belter able, than all others, to appreciate the princi ples of the association. Having thus briefly stated the negative char acteristics of the Institution, I will proceed to exhibit its affirmative attributes. To become an Odd Fellow, tho following qualifications aro indispensable : A belief in One Supreme Being, the Governor and Pre server of the Universe a fair moral character, the legal age of majority, and some known re putable means of support. Any one thus qual ified can apply for membership. His petition in referred to a committee whoso duty is to as certain whether these things be so, and report ihereon. The candidate is ballotted for, and if the issue be favorable, ho is initiated. ' The mode of his initiation cannot be set forth in a public address, because the injunction of secre cy has never been removed. This topic is not prohibited, however, on account of any myste ry that need fear the light. There have been many pretended exposures of these secrets pub lished of late years. Whether they be authen tic or ficticious, 1 have never cared to ascertain by actual perusal. If they be false, ihey will of course come to naught ; if they bo true, no detriment can ensue to tho Order; for not a sin gle sentence in our ritual would dishonor the tongue of a man, or offend tho tongue of a wo- o man. There are, in all, fourteen degrees in the Or der. They are conferred by certain ceremo nies, instructive and pleasing, impressive and sublime. Tho candidate pledges his honor never to divulge them. In no instance is an oath required, nor is thero any penalty invoked by, or prescribed against the unfaithful confi dent. If he prove recreant to his pledge of honor, his own want of principle will eventual ly bring upon his head appropriate retribution. Should such a man avow his social perjury in print, ho would strike no panic into the Order. Not a single member of the fraternity would molest his constitutional rights of speech, but h would be allowed to remain, where he had placed hini6elf, beforo the tribunal of public opinion, whose decrees can inflict a living tor ture harder to be borne than any punishment at the hands of a betrayed brotherhood. I have said that we were bound by a pledge of honor to assist a distressed brother, by a stressed brother we mean strictly a member of our so ciety. To enable ourselves promptly and efficiently to extend this aid, wo each pay into the gen oral fuud weekly "dues" making in the aj?gre- gate about five dollars a yar. Out of this Trea sury, allowance of, generally, (our dollars is pyid weekly to a broiher, so long as he is in capaciiated to perauo ihe avocation by which he obtained a Hvolihood. Thi sum is, in most casus, amply sufficient. Should peculiar cir cumstances however, in any instance render it . inadequate to relieve the "distress," ihe Loile by special vote, increase the appropriation, ir a voluntary subscription among ihe member?, sup plies such amount as the emergency may de mand. The aid thus furnished is technically called the "benefits." These benefits however, are not paid indiscriminately. Three inquiries, are first made by the Lodge which must alt satisfactorily answered before the invalid unn ' receive them. They are 1m, Wherher ;he distressed brother is in good aianding in his Lodge; 2d, Whether he has punctually paid liia duos up lo the time of his sickness; 3d, Wheili er his sickness ia involuntary, and umi superin duced by any immorality. If these interrogatories be affiruvifively re sponded to, he is entitled to and receives every solace he needs. Two brethren are regii'ariy provided to tend his bed, if nece.osaiy, y day and night. These kind ofiicea aro always faith fully rendered, and they are performed wiilmut any implied obligation of gramude on the p;irt of ihe recipient. He is entitled to his "bene fits," because he has paid his "due," and com plied with the requisitions of the Order. On his recovery he returns to the Lodge, not shrink ing under the mortifying consciousness of re lieved pauperism, but with an independent iho' grateful spirit, returns the greetings of welcome and congratulation. Should, however, his dis ease terminate faiallv, his brethren do not con-; sider themselves released from further attentions, for the Lodge provide a decent sepulture for his remains. The constitution of everv Lodge makes provisions for a certain sum, generally thirty dollars, for the burial expenses of a de ceased member. Besides all this contribu tion in money is made to the widow. If the deceased member has left any young children, it is the duty of the Lodge moreover to aid and assist ihe widow by money and adrice in main taining and educating them. For these purpo ses there are established in our Lodges a wid ow and orphan fund, and a school fund. Should the entire Treasury be exhausted by these out lay?, the Lodge is not relieved from the respon bilities it has bound itself to assume. They are required to submit to an individual extra assessment sufficiently large to defray these expenditures. If they should be unable io col--lect these assessments, the Lodge is virtually dissolved, and surrenders their charter to tho Grand Lodge, under whose authority it was is sued. I have, however, never known such an instance to occur. There is loo much gener osity and pride of consistency amongst us to succomb to such a crisis. The liberality of the Order in relieving iho sick, burying the dead, assisting the widow and educating tho orphan is enormous. During the past year ahput $300,000 have been expended for these purposes. Large outlays have also been required for rent, furniture, lights, fuel, &c. in our Lodges; and notwithstanding, the aggre gate general surplus exceeds SI, 500,000. Such an evidence in our favor is unaccount able to the public at large. The wealth of our fraternity is, however by no means miraculous. Ii is the inevitable result of our mode of organ izaiion. That the people acknowledges the good fruit of our institution is evident from the vast in crease of the Fraternity. Twenty seven years ago five men organized tho first Lodge in this country. Already there are one thousand Lodges and one hundred thousand members. Musquito Story. A man living near Grand River, Michigan, tells the following story concerning the musqtii toes. Being in the woods he was one day so annoyed by ihem, that he took refuge under an inverted potash kutile. Ilia fir?i emotion of joy at his happy deliverance and secure ay lum were hardly over, when the musqttitoes having found him, began to drive their probo sces through tho kettle ; fortunately he had a hammer in his pocket, and he clinched them down as fast as they camo through, until at length such a host of them was fastened to the poor man's domicile, that they rose and flew away with it, leaving him shelterless. By taking revenge, a man is put eveii with his enemy, but in .passing U oror hVfc'nopa rior. ' ; ' ' " 4.-- 'f '
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