The whole art ov Government consists in the art op being honest. Jeffersoa VOL 7. STRO UDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1847. ITo. 50. TERMS Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars ni quarter, half vearly and if not paid before the end of ihc vear, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their i itcrs by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the pioprie " L ,Viti be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except it'the option of the Editor. i ,rj circrliscmcnts not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) ill lc inserted three weeks for one dollar: twenty-live cents f ,r every subsequent insertion t larger ones in proportion. A !,,' discount will be made to yearly advertisers. IE7 vl1 lctters addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB PRIKTIiVe. Harin" a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna mental Type, we arc pieparcd to execute every cicscnpuon 01 Curds, Circulars, Bill Heads, ftotes, Blank Receipts, TUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLMKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. rrintcd with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jo f f c rso ii i a a Republican. From the Gem of the Prairie. God bless the Honest Laborer. BY FRANK WEBBER. God bless the honest laborer, The hard? son of toil, The worker in the clattering mills, The delver in the soil ; The one whose brawny hands have torn From earth her hoarded wealth, Whose sole return for ceaseless toil Is nature's boon sweet health. Bless him who wields the ponderous sledge, Clad in his leathern mail, That safe as warrior's panoply. Guards from the seething hail; That gushes from beneath each stroke, Each mighty crushing blow, Who seeks to lighten labor's toil, Where ruddy fires glow. Bless him who turns the matted sod: Who with the early dawn Hastens to gather nature's store Haste to ihe yellow corn ! Who plants in nature's bosom wide The fruitful golden grain, And gives it to her guardian care, The .sunshine and the rain. Bless him who lays the massive keel, Who bends the trusty sail, That bids the ocean wanderer Safe battle with the galo; "Who rears the tall and slender mast, Whence floats to eveTy breeze, The stars and stripes of liberty, As rainbow o'er the seas. Bless him whose ribbed palace rests Upon the heaving sea, Who scorns the dangers of 'the -flood, The breaker guarded lee; Who in the ocean cradle sleeps Calmly in storm-fraught hour, Un fearing that his bark will quail Before the tempest's power. I Bless him who gives each beauteous thought A resting place, a name, . .'And twines its transient glories - With a fadeless wreath of feme -"Who sends it forth on every breeze, ,A.nd bids it live to bless, VWhile ceaseless clicks the slender type, .And groans the printing press. iBless all who toil. God's blessing rest .On them with double power, "Whose 'honest brow the sweat-drop deck) Jn.-e.very daylight hour. Bless mesa though poor, and may they win What health .can never gain, Contentment with their lotpn earth, A balm :fox 'every pain, "Bless them, and .may the workman's hand That framed ((he -giant earth, That bid each star in glory shine, That gave the seas their birth Kesenre on high a resting place Wilhia lbs realms of light, For every honest son of toil, K When passed death's darksome night. Santa An mi's Money. A letter from Jalapa, speaking of the capture of Santa Anna's carriage and money, says the writer helped to carry the bags of silver tb Gen. Scott's quarters. One of the bags .bursted on set ting it down, and the Mexican dollars rolled about the place. The "boys" commenced a regular scramble for them; the sergeant of the guard or dered a charge upon them, but Gen. Scott inter fered, and said " Let the boys alone ; don't hurt them; they have behaved well to-day, and deserve to be rewarded." The dollars were 'speedily pocketed, but the bags containing the gold would not buist, notwithstanding they .were pierced by inany an anxious eye. A wise man will do good to "all, but a fool mockejh n. understanding. The Reindeer. The rem deer unharnessed, in ficcdom shall play, And fttfcly o'er Eden's steep precipice stray : The wolf to the forest's recesses shall fly, And howl to the moon as she glides through the sky" Captain Ftankhn describes the mode in which the Dog-rib Indians kill the reindeer, which he had from Mr. Oentzcll, who resided long among that people : The hunters go in pairs, the foremost man carrying in one hanil the horns and part of the skin of tho head of a deer, and in the other a small girdle of twigs, against which he from lime to time rubs the horns, im itating the gestures peculiar lo the animal. His comrade follows, treading exactly in his foot steps, and holding the guns of both in a hori zontal position so that the muzzles project un der the arms of him who carries the head. Both hunters have a fillet of white skin around their foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same around his waist. They approach tho herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting them down somewhat sud denly after the manner of a deer and always taking care to lift their right or left feet simul taneously. If any of the herd leave off feeding to gaze upon their extraordinary phenomenon, it instantly slops, and the head begins to play its part by licking its shoulders, and performing oilier necessary movements. In this way the hunters attain the very centre of the herd with out exciting suspicion, and have leisure to sin gle out ihe faiibst. The hindmost man ihen pushfs forward his comrad's gun, the head is dropped, and they both fire nearly at the same instant. The deer scampers off, the hunters trot afier them ; in a short time the poor ani mals halt, to asceriain the cause of their terror ; iheit foes stop at the same moment, and having loaded as they ran, greet the gazers with a sec ond fatal discharge. The consternation of the deer increases ; ihey run to and fro in tho ut most confusion ; and sometimes a great part of the herd is destroyed wiihin the space of a few hundred yards" No animal has so impenetrable a coat as the rein-deer ; and for this reason the Laplanders prefer their skins before those of any other beasts of the forests ; for the fur is so extremely thick and close that it is impossible for heat to escape through it. And yet they suffer much in the summer from the attacks of the gad fly msirns faramJn which burrows under there denosits e?2s : so that the skin is filled with ! small holes. They suffer also, it is said by some, but doubted by others, from another insect (furia infernalis,) which causes fearful devasta tion among ihe herds. Tho Laplanders are now compelled to migrate with ihe deer to the mountains, or lo ihe sea coast. The Laplan ders say, that their chief object in going to ihe sea coast is that the deer may drink the water; to which, when in sight, they joyfully bound. By this one draught ihey destroy the larvae of the fly, but they never repeat it. The terror produced on the deer by the approach of their fly is very great ; their legs tremble under ihem, they prick up their ears and flee lo the moun tains covered wiih ice and snow. In ihe hottest iveather the ihermometer, even at ihe North Cape, rises as high as 60 degrees of Fahrenheit. The Laplanders summer lasts from June lo September. The winter storms of Lapland are snow and sleet ; but in May rain falls, and fresh leaves and flowers burst forth from day to day. The summer comes ft k- w rapidly. I he day ol nature is suddenly chan ged. The ice. and snow quickly vanish i early in June the winter has left no trace of its exis tence ; large flocks of wild fowl arrive, lo rf-ar their young unmolested ; the laiks carol in the air; the dragonflies dan abotn m every direc tion ; the wasp hangs its white and globe-shaped nest lo ihe lower branches of ihe hr-trees ; ihe birches and the aspens are once more gay wiih their young leaves ; and the pines are brightened T)y their fresh shoots, hanging in light green tassels from the end of every spray. The ground, in some parts, does not quite lose its snowy hue, owing to the rein-deer moss, being whitish ; and where it is in great abundance the country looks as if still springled with snow. In other paris the hills rise to Tiew, gilded wiih a brilliant yellow, from the peculiar color of another common species of moss. The soil is covered with ihe smooth and shining leaves or the whortelbeny. The lilly of the valley is occasionally found and ihe cloudberry every where spreads over the marshy ground. The borders of ihe streams are gay with wild flowers. Where the irees are she smallest and thickest, the graceful Linnrca Borcalis is to be found, nodding its twin, bell-ihaped blossoms of deli cate pink, just above ihe moss, among which irail its long and slender stems. The fine per fume of iis long flowers betrays its hiding place, long before iheir beamy meets ihe eye. Although ihe Laplanders find their skates most convenient for hunting, their journeys are always performed in sledges. These are in form not unlike an Indian canoe : ihey are lined with soft deer-skins and covered at the boiiom like ihe skates, wiih fur, which is intended lo render them less liable to slip when going up a hill. The rein-deer's collar is made of a piece of skin with ihe hair u on it; and the traces of leather are also prepared from ihe hides of deer Both collar and traces are often gaily otna' rhented with diffeient colored strips of cloth or silk. The driver docs not use a double rein, but merely a cord lied 10 the base of the ani mal's horn. This he flings on one side or the other of its back, according as he wishes to turn it 10 the right or left. This sort of rein must give very little command over the animal ; but it is probably much safer not lb attempt to guide them lo strictly j but rather lo trust to iheir instinct for choosing ihe best ground. Peaceful and gentle as the rein-deer is in his general habits, and early as he is trained to draw ihe sledge, it is not always that he is tractable in harness. He will sometimes run restive, and not only refuse to obey, but even kick so furiously wiih his broad hoofs thai tho driver, is obliged for safety lo turn over his light sledge, and cover himself with it till the rage of ihe animal is spent. The speed and strength of tho rein-deer are very great. They can travel a hundred miles in a day without being pressed or put lr.'o a gal lop. They trot at the rate of len miles an hour. The most extraordinary stor' told of the speed of this animal relates to-an event which occur red in 1766, when the Norwegians having made an attack upon Sweden, an ofliicer was sent in a sledge lo Stockholm with the intelli gence. He performed ihe journey of eight hundred miles in forty eight hours ; but ihe poor animal which conveyed him was so ex hausted that it dropped lifeless on ihe earth immediately on its arrival in the capital. There is a piciure of this animal in the place of Dro tlimaholni in Sweden. 5r6g rI'rcc in Mexico. General Worih, in entering upon his duties as chief magistrate at Vera Cruz (says an ex change paper,) issued sundry orders for the in ternal regulations of the city among them was one directing the pulque shops, to be closed at 6 P. M. We were not fully avvaro of the exact j sort of merchandize or trade which ihis term indicated, until we found in the Albany Knick erbocker a sketch of the origin, nature, and use of the commodity in question which is de scribed by the writer as a beverage, the pecu liar characteristics of which " will soon cause it to become a favorite luxury with every civili- zation." Willi wliai conlidence sutfi an expec talion should be indulged, one can perhaps de termine from this definition of ihe article : pul que, possesses all the nasiiness of tobacco, and all the drunkenness of gin. The following ac count is furnished, of ihe natural history of this sort of " spontaneous toddy" ihe fermented juice of ihe plant called " Agave Americana." " The original process by which ihe fermen tation is produced is one which we shall not vAninrA in lMaii ? hut ihfl Imnnr nhlniried from the section of ihe plant is diawn up by a rude syphon, and poured inio dressed ox hides. The laste is mawkish, and ihe smell fully equal lo fresh assafoitida. Yet to the Mexican, it is nectar and ambrosia together. Pulque is to him meat, drink, and cloihing ; for without it ihe world has no pleasure. Indeed, a Mexican would rather die, or even fight, than dispense with his favorite beverage ; and if Santa Anna had pui his warriors on short allowance of ihe national liquor before his last battle, and prom ised them double allowance after it, he would aw probably have licked old Taylor out of his boots." The Agave, called by the natives Maguecy, is certainly an extraordinary instance of succu- lency, and an unrivalled acquisition to a thirsty population. A single plant of the Agave has been known to supply " hot stuff" enough lo keep twelve men drunk ihe year round. In good land it grows to an enormous size, ihe centre stem often thirty feel high, and twelve or fifteen inches in diameter at ihe bottom. When the plant is in flower, which occurs from seven to fifteen years old, the cenire stem is cut off at the bottom and the juice collected. Humboldt says a single plant will yield four hundred and fifty-two cubic inches of liquor in 24 hours for four or five months, which would give upwards of four hundred gallons. How curious are ihe distributions of naiure ! All ihis profuse efflux of mawkish fluid would be thrown away in any oiher country. But naiure has given the Mexican a palaife for its enjoy ment and to him ihe draught is rapiure." Tlie Credit System. A lady with a sweet face and remarkable tempting pair of lips, ehterecl one of our shops a few days since, and examining some small articles enquired the price of a nice pair of mils. The shop keeper had almost lost himself in ga zing at the ruby porials through which came the musical voice. 4 Miss' said he, 'you may have ihem for a kiss.' Agreed' replied ihe lady, the blush on her cheek rclipsed by ihe sparkle in her eye ; 'agreed and as I see you give credit here, you may eharge ii on your book and c ollect u the best way you can ! Smiling on ihe confused clerk to pay half ihe debt, she pocketed ihe purchase and tripped gaily out. Reading Herald. 'President Polk, it is said, intends shorlly lo vhu the city of "N'trw York and mhr places eastward. The Famine Ferer in Ireland. A SAD PICTURE. Much has been done by the benevolent and generous of Great Britain and the United Slates, in aid of ihe famishing poor of Ireland ; and ihe relief thus afforded-has been acknowledged in the most grateful spirit. Doubtless the aid rendered, has mitigated much suffering, and prevented much death. But the good work should not be permitted lo pause. Although the famine had somewhat abated at our last ad vices, the fever which it had produced, had led to the most appalling scenes. The details can scarcely be pursued without a thrill of horror. Already hundreds of victims have been swept lo ihe gf-ave. The Dublin Freeman of the 1st of May, says that in Cork, the dreadful pesti lence has assumed the character, the record of which seems more like to fiction than to fact, anil would with difficulty be accredited did it purport lo describe past events. ' Bui, alas ! ihe most incredulous who pass along the lanes and alleys of ihe city, become convinced that the facts of 1847 surpass all fiction, when the horrible spectacle of unhurried corpses still warm from ihe struggle with disease present themselves, two. three, and even '-five' in a stieet! Most of the wretched victims who thus perish are " strangers," who fly from the rural districts, and in vain seek shelter in ihe city. The fever hospitals cannot conlain them, and it was stated at a meeting of the of licers of health, that they crowd round the hos pital door, and around its walls, wailing till the hand of death, by the Jremoval'of previous oc cupants, should make for them ihat shelter which ihe providence of the rich neglected 10 create." A gentleman named Roche, speaking of ihis condition of things at a public meeting recently held at Cork, saiil : "The people are dying in ihe sireeis, stretched in death everywhere. Outside the fever hospital walls ihere are crowds of poor people lying every night, with hardly any clothing on them, on sopsof straw some of ihem actually dying." The Cork Constitution says that " a man coming to his work at five o'clock on ' Wed nesday morning, saw Jive dead bodies lying m ! one street ' Such is the influx of ihe diseased and dying, that the citizens have found it ne cessary to establish a protective guaid round the city, 1 under the 59ih George III., c. 41,' with orders to keep the sick poor from collect ing in ihe cily where there are hot sufficient appliances administering the required relief. In some of ihe smaller towns in the county of Corkj ihe same fearful slate of fads exists. In ihe town of Mallow it is said that 'four hundred individuals. are now afflicted wiih fever and dysentery.' Macroom is described as preseri ting a similar phase. Whole families are weekly swept away, the dying attending upon the dead, until the last member himself is strick- . .1 ...1 : t. iU ...-.1.. T'rrxaA en uuwn-vw.cn, in a correspondent of the Cork Examiner, ' ihe - - i- rats feast unon their un ormnate Irames. JJr White, of Macroom, relates that in Macroom, ' a family of eight goi sick of fever, all of whom died, except ihs falher and two children, who siruggled hard against the ravages, but ultimate ly fell its viciims.' The close of the tragedy is thus described : The doctor and ihe priest, oh visiting ihe hut, ' found Ihe parent dead, and ihe two children apparently embracing him, but they were found also to be dead V " In Bslfast, the. fever hospital was so crowd ed ihat four were compelled 10 sleep in one bed. In the small workhouse of Ballina, the deaths were 07 in a single week, and 750 since last October. Is "not ihis 'condition of affairs awful ? Let us be grateful to Providence for our exemp tion from so fearful a visitation, and willing io contribute io the uimost of our ability, lo allevi ate the sufferings of the famished and fever- maddened children of unhappy Ireland; Wool. The history of the growth of wool is very curious. Fifty years ago not a ponnd of fine wool was raised in ihe United Slates, in Great Britain, or any other country elcept Spain. In the latter cmintry, the flocks were owned exclusively by the nobility or the crown. In 1794, a small flock was sent to tho Elector of Saxony, as a present from the King of Spain ; whence the entire product of Saxon wool, now of i-uch immense value. Before the breaking out of ihe last war between this country and Great Britain, Gol. Humphrey succeeded in gelling a few merino sheep brought out of Spain; then iheir exportation was prohibited under penalty of being sent io ihe galleys for life. In 1809, during the second invasion of Sfpain by ihe French, some of ihe Valuable Crown flocks were sold to raise money. Our Consul at Lisbon, Mr.. Jarvis, purchased fourteen hun dred head and sent ihem to this couuirj'. Pre viously, however,- Mr. Livingston obtained a few she p of the Spanish breed, as a present, in 1792. A poruou of the pure unmixed meri no blood from tlfesc flocks is io be found" in Vermont at ihis time. Such vvas the origin of the immense flocks of lino wauled sheep in ihe Untied Slates and Great Britain. Marriage Ciislosn.H of ti (Chiisrse; The beiroihal of children is arranged entire ly by their parents; but when ilm panics are of age a go-between is employed. After be trothal it is considered iiriproper for a lady u go abroad until her marriage. The day before her marriage the bride has a crying spell ; sh then takes leave rif Her ancestors whom st worships for the hist time: henceforth .she i& dead to ihem. The bridal dress is the mo-f splendid they can procure, being oftun hired for the occasiori. The bride is carried lo hef future honie in a sedan, but no member of her own family attends her. As the procession ad vances along the streets, all persons are re? quired lb mdre out of the way while it passes: As soon as they reach the house, the ma'ehm.i-" ker goes in search of the bridegroom and brings him out ; he then opens the sedan, and behold his wife for thb first time. The vVife, on her rrlarriage, is considered i'rT be dead to her father's house ; and some tinin after, perhaps about three mohlhs, she will re visit hbr former home and renew her acquairii tance with the family, as though she had b'e'eii an fehtire stranger. From ihis blind method of contracting mar riages; as might be expected, most bin'er disap pointments ofien ensue, and are sometimes at tended with deplorable results. Indies" wiiV had been well brought up, and perlmps received a good education, on finding themselves linkeU for life wiih men of hard and unsuitable ch.it a'c'tcr, have been driven by despair to suicide": A lady was once describing tho wretched lifi? she led in crtnseqtienco of an ill-assorted riidr riage ; and four unmarried women, heard lief story, were so affected by it, ihat fearing th'p.y might experience a similar fate, ihey went and drowned themselves in the tank. Women, on iheir marriage, lose iheir "givft name and lake their old surname for a first name', and their husband's name for a surftariiKr It is rare to find a man of twenty-five year.? who has not been married. In villages wlfeir parties are too poor To gel married, ihe party ji? will sometimes make a collection id bhabli? ihem to do so. Persons of the same name are hot Allowed -lo intermarry, even though ihey be hoi. related-; neither may two brothers marry two si-st'ers. A. New York letter in the Philadelphia IilqiiireF says : u Within a few days a business of a very htivel character has been cohimenced in this city by an j enterprising ingenious young man. It is nbthing ! fa . , , . t . n less than a mnrnnire-brnkerncre hi sinpsc. Tit. less than a marriage-brokerage business. The gentleman who has commenced it says 'it is formed for the purpose of facilitating persdns of both sex es in forming honorable and well suited connex ions for marriage. That such a plan (he says) is. needed must appear to th& mind of every rational person.' If anything new under the sun can? be-' produced, we think this shows that New York-. cart, do it. Heavch. A rieero woman was relating her c"x- peiience to a gaping congregation of her own col or. Among olhei: things she said she Jiad been to' heaven. One of the brethren says : "Sister, you see any black folks in heaven"., She replied, "Oh, go way Sam, don't put a body but; 'spose I go in de kitchen when I was darV A German journal siaies that the application of galvanism has been made in Auslra for pre serving trees from the ravages of insects. THe process is simple, consisting only in placing two rings, one of crifipef and ihe oiher of zinc attached together, around the iree or plarit. Any insect that touches the topper lY is' Sa?&, receives an electric sho'ck, which killspiifOr causes it io fall to the ground. .Vru- Good Nature. Give us good natured cheerfulness shd a sun ny face, and you are wehdme hi hia mies.N gold. Some persons Ibok as ff thry always had a vinegar cruel in their ttioirhs, and a pep per box under their noses. Though spring" fs smiling around them birds sinking above ihtfm- and flowers blooming sweetly in their paths they cannot, or rather will not soften down the rapishrcounlenance, and pariake of the gen eral joy of nature. Shame on them.- Wo would not live in the society of such for one twelve month for half the weahh of the world. We cannot control ihe evil longuesfof oih'erj. but a good life enables us to despise thetivr i
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