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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1846.
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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
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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. ' ; ' ' "
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