" , . - - . ' v , , . nmsuk Tstgpc. lVtwffViV iiiw m.i.M. m i.ni.nm i in evnrrse .-..a, The whole art of Government consists in the Aitf of being honest. Jefferson. . j ., , , . . STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 18,17. No: 7. VOL 8. ,m n' i published by Theodore Schoch. TFRMS -Two dollars per annum in tulvaiiee Two dollars r. i I nmricr, half yearlv and if not paid lcfoic the end of anja'u . . i...ir IM...C i-pi-uv- their .ocis 1V a c" ,cr or !ilsi8e drivrs employed jy the propiie r 1 ....ii ' t, .'iiariied 37 1-2 cents, ner year, extra. f.wr 1 Wll uum i i'")v ....w ........... So papers discontinued until all arrearages arc p;ud, except "the option of the Editor. ' ir p lriTliemenls not exceeding one square (sirteen lines) .11 ho inserted three weeks for onelollai : twenty-five cents 1 pverv ulequiit insertion : larger ones in proportion. A ,u nl dVcoimt vvill be made to yearly advertiser. 11 Yj"Vi letteis addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB vniXTVKG. ll-ivinc a central assortment of larg", elegant, plain and onia mental Type, vc are prepared to execute every, description of r.-,i n cvrfflw vto ir'TCTsrnTT'itXTi 'c Vi-VAM i iVAiJi civil cA diii.vii visra Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Wotcs, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c i'iinteJ with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT TIIE OFFICE OF THE .Seffersonian Republican. Frorn the Louisville Journal. The Mountain Girl. She bounds away with footsteps light And.fiuttering robe, and tossing curl, And young heart trembling with affright, The wild and graceful mountain girl ! Thus lightly springs at dewy morn, Swift darting o'er the sunny slope AtTrighted at the hunter's horn The light and timid antelope I Twas here she stood with throbbing heart Light poised as if on bird-like wing,. Her white lips drooped her lips apart With music in their murmuring While dark curls, like a purple plume, Above the trembling glances bowed That ever quivered thro1 their gloom ' Lightening thro' the thunder cloud. AnJ oh her eye was like the bright Dark depths of some lone Indian shay All rippling o'er with liquid light, And deep with dailc transparency 1 Thus sweetly looks the evening star . When all beside is dimly dull Large, soft and sad afloat afar All sweetly wildly beautiful. Hut oh those eyes those round white-arms That budding breast that rose and fell The lovelier for its light alarm Were beauties indescribable ! Thus in its still and native wood Beneath .the sunbeams' soft caress , Some lonely wild-flower oft may bloom And blossom in the wilderness ! Oil thou so sweet so fair so blest So winning in thy native grace r Pure virtue is thy bosom-guest, - ' Thy heart its soft abiding place ! Farewell! yet tho' my steps depart- ; To mingle in life's busy whirl, I tear away in my full heart, Thine image graceful mountain girl!' PJIANTASMIA. Death's Final Struggle. The glories of our birth and state Arc shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown' ' Must tumble down, . -. And in the dubt be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the, field, And plant ,fcjU laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield, Th;y tame but one another still ; Early or lale They stoop to fate, . , . And must give up their- murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep lo death. The garlands wither on voer.brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; iUpon Death's purple altar now :Sec where the victor-victim bleeds; All heads must come To the cold lomb. Only Jibe actions of the just' Smell sweevand blossom in the dust. Sailing on Laud. We learn from a Western pape? that Mr. Win. Thomas had just returned Independence, Mo., Gom a trip of twelve days on the prairies in his wind ship. He says it worked well, and 'he is now willing to make a tour to the buflahi'coun wy if a sufficient number of passengers can be raised to justify him in making the expedition He takes one &'7. pounder, a beautiful stand of colors, tenia, Sec. He was to'again start in a lew day if he could' succeed in getting a com-p-diiy who desired to e.ifjjtiyF'KVo" most .beautiful reason of ihe vear for a butikb) Lumt. 1 General Taylor and liis State Carriage. The extreme simplicity of Qenerai Taylor's habits has become proverbial ; hilt like all hu man beings, if tl'Ce General was not proud of his dress, or of the prjde and prompt of " glo rious war," ho had his weakness, and it dis played iiself in his state carriage. This mag nificent vehicle was one of the last purchases the old soldier ma'de ere he started for the war. It was none of those high backed, four-horse, soft-cushioned, coat-of-arms panelled affairs, such as Martin VanBurcn imported frorh Eng land to ride in when he was President, but it was, in vulgar parlance, a Jersey wagon, and one of the ugliest and most inconvenient ones ever sent out of thai sand soil Stale. We have no doubt that this same wagon was kept on hand in some htile country town until it was discov ered that no one uould buy it, and it. was sent out to New Odeans to sell. Now, Old Zac looked at it, and it struck his fancy as one of ihe most luxuriant, sirong axle-treed, hard-seated, low-backed, first-rate carriages, that ever was made ; so he bought it, shipped it, and in . due ume landed it at Corpus Chrisli. It was evidently Gen. Taylor a pet; he kept it standing right up beside Ringgold and Duncan's batter ies, as if ho would have those sons of thunder blaze awny at anybody that did not say it was one of the greatest carriages thai ever was made. The old General was never seen in it. By many it was supposed that the top was so low that such a thing was impossible. When he started to Matamoras from Corpus Christiit was mado the carrier of the old General's blue chest, and the celebrated over-coat that got wounded at Buena Vista. After the battlos of the Sth and 9ih, a change lor two hours and fifty seven minutes came over his feelings he had read, no doubt, of u General Scott's splen did military carriage" and old Zack came to the conclusion thai he must put on a little gran deur, so he got in Ms- military carriage, and started from Point Isabel to Matamoras, to com plete his victories by driving Arisia from that town. No record was ever made when he re sumed his old grey, but long before half the distance was completed, a sick soldier was in the General's place, and he himself was again on horseback. Nothing of an exciting nature ! occurred to the old " Jarsey carryall" for a long lime. It was duly dragged about and statton- ed-where its owner could see it taken care of and honored. It went up lo Monterey, and fi nally down to Yicioria. When tho General was ordered back from his march to Vera Cruz, the old wagon top looked exceedingly surly, and its wheels screeched awfully. On this irip it mei wiih a sad disaster. A drunken teamster run his baggage wagon into it, tore its hind wheels off, and otherwise laid ii in ruins. Now, ihe old General had philosophy enough to pocket, without repining, tho orders that were so humiliating to his pride ; but he had not phi- losonhv enough to pocket the destruction of his state carriage, so he rode up to tho urifor tunate teamster, and catching him by both ears, he shook the fellow's hoad violently, exclaim ing " what did you do thai for ; I brought (the wagon) all tho way from Corpus Christ!. 1 he excitement soon passed away, the old General cast a lingering glance at the ruins of his pet, and left it to decay beside the road. Ar. O. No. tionol. Probable Discovers' o the History off a Former Race The Lower Sandusky (Ohio) Democrat states that, about two miles from that village, on land known as tho " Kerr tract," there is an ancient mound, circular al the base, about 39 feet in di ameter, rising ovally to a point, which is sur mounted by an oaken slump, probably original ly two feel in diameter, which is almost totally decayed from ago. A few days since, some boys dug into ihe mound ; and nearly under the stump, at the depih of three feet, a skeleton was found, much decayed, but portions of it in a fair degree of preservation. Near the head were found two stone hatchets, an arrow head, a stone pipe, and far moro singulara lot of plates, apparently of isinglass, which are cov ered with lines and hieroglyphics of different and beautiful colors and workmanship betoken a more advanced and entirely different state of the arts than has been hereiofore discovered in iho remains of Indian tribes. Some of ihe plates were destroyed, but there are fifteen pre served They are circular, oval in shape, and about 7 inches by 10' in size. A pipe, beauti fully finished from stone, was also found, the bowl of which is nearly round, rises from a base, on the bottom of which are the figures " 1461." Measures have been taken under the supervision of some intelligent citizens, farther to explore this singular mound. There is little doubt that ihese plates contain the history of 6ome former race that' has inhabited' this couniry, and far ther discoveries wilf be awaited with impa tience. India Rubber Springs for Carriages. Mr. B. F. Ray, of New York, has invented springs fonj-ailrnad Carriages made of Good year's ptepjued India rubber. They are said to be ire economical and durable than iron springs,- combining-strength. with elasticity. 'ft f Facts about Digestion. The Hartford Review gives some facts in ref erence to ihe nutritive and digestive qualities of various articleo of food,' which may be of inter est to some of our readers. .The Review says : " Wheat is trie rrtpst nutritious ol afl substan ces, except oil ; containing ninejy-five parts of nutriment to rtve of waste matter. Dry peas, nuts and barley, are nearly as ftulrjtious as wheat. Garden vegitables stand lowest on ihe 1 si, in asmuch a3 they contain, when fresh a large por tion of water. The quantity of waste matter is more than eight-tenths of the whoe.,! Only one fortieth of a cucumber is cap'able.of being con verted into nutriment. The nutritious part of the different meats varies from one-fifth to one-eighth of the whole.. Veal is the most nu tritious ; mutton next ; then chicken ; then beef; last, pork. Fruiia Vary between two and three-tenths of nutritious matter, and their 6r dor is as follows, the most nutritious being placed first. Plums, grapes, apricots, straw berries, melons. Milk contains less than one tenth of nutritious matler, as it is mainly com posed of water, - Of all the articles of food, boiled rice is di gested in the shortest time an hour. As it also contains eight-tenths of nutritious matter, it is a valuable substance of diet. Tripe and pig's feet (strange lo tell) are digested almp.st as rap idly. Apples, if sweet and ripe, are next in or der. Venison is digested almost as apples. Roasted potatoes are digested in half the time required by the same vegitable boiled, which occupy three hours and a half more than beef or mutton ! Bread occupies three hours and a quarter. Stewed ousters and boiled eggs are digested in three hours and a half, an hour moro than is required by tho same articles raw. Turkey and goose are converted in two hours and a half sooner than chicken. . Roasted veal, nork arid sail beef, occupy live hmira arwl n hnC ihft loncrest of all arllCiOS Ol. food." "Zat is my Trunk Under this significant title, the " oWun" tells in tho N. Y. Spirit the following capital anec dote, " as he had it from a friend of his." It chanced to be in our sanctum that the " old tin was favored with the communication, and the gorgeous laugh it elicited from the hearers was enough to keep them in good humor for a twelve month : In the day's of coaching over the Providence turnpike, before rail-road cars were in esse, and baggage crates existed, and when travellers had to keep a sharp lookout for their luggage, some forty or hlty passengers had just stepped on board tho old ' Ben Franklin," and got under way on old Narragansett Bay. A gentleman, who had occasion to get some of his wardrobe had just hauled out from an inimenso pile of baggage stowed amid-ships, a new black leath er trunk of portly" dimensions, studded with brass nails, when a little withered Frenchman, ofa mottled complexion, and fashionably dressed, darted from the crowd, and, interposing between our friend and his property, exclaimed cour teously, but positively ' I beg your pardon, saro mais, parilonniz moi you have got ze wrong sochoii by ze oreille zat is my trunk V 1 Not so, Monsieur I hope I know fny own t rino & 1 U WJi Reslez tranquille hold on dans tin instant vill prove my props aha ! you soo dis key em Applying it to the lock, he threw up io Hd.and then struck a triumphant attitude. ' My key unlock you trunk eh ? I ell me zat ! 1 Stand out of the way ! it's my trunk, I tel you.' . 'Hold on von leetle rritntite--zoose you shurts eh!' To be sure ihc are !' ' Zose you drowaires, eh V 1 Certainly !' Vail a momenl---I will prove my props, saro and the little Frenchman, rummaging beneath a pile of shins and socks produced abottloand said deliberately, with a hideous grin-' 1 Zat your bol-tolleof Dom.froes Ish (itch oint ment saro eh V Ave you got von leo tie Ish ? Zis you Remedy (ov the lepros (lep rosy,) eh 1 Ah ! be dam ! 1 Knew u was my trunk !' It is needless to remark that our menu lm mediately opened' a- wide gap' between him self and his intnrRstinp- victim of two of the most unpopular disorders known to suffering humanity. Blackberry Mush. Boil two Quarts of blackberries ten miriutes and add half a nint of molasses. When it boils aoaih.-dust into it. from the edees, three table spoonfuls of fine wheat flbur, stir it' all the time and, when the flour is completely mixed .in-, ii is done enough, rt makes a cheap arm noaitn ful dessert for the table, and is capital for the children to take to school to eat with bread for dinner. It is announced thai a- number of deluded persons have commenced disiribuling iracts in Rrnnblvn. 1M. V.. in nrovo that the end of iho world will take place on the 1 9th of Oct. ncxi. Nonsuiting a Creditor. t There was a certain lawyer on the Capo, a ong time ago, the only one in iHbse ki digtns, then, and for augiu I know, at present, lie was a man well to do in the world arid what was somewhat surprising in a limb of the law, i averse to encouraging litigation. One day a client tame lo mm in a violent rage. ' ijOOK-a-nerc, oquire, saiu nu, mai ere blasted B.hoemaker down to rigeon Love has gone and sued me fur the money for a pair of boots I owed him." " Uld the boots suit you ?" " Oh ! yes l vc got em on lust rate boots." " Jf air price v " un : yes. -men you Owe him the money honestly," " Course." " Well, why don't you pay mmr " Why, 'cause the blasted snob wetit and sued me, and I want to keep him out of the money if I kin." " Ii will cost you something. ' 1 don t keer a cuss for that, llow much mon ey do you want to begin wiih 1" "Oh, ten dol- ars will do." " Is that all. Well here's an X, so go ahead." And tho client went on very well satisfied with the beginning. Uur lawyer next called on the shoemaker and asked him what he meant by commencing, legal proceed- ' : h.t '- ii un.r iio' I tugs uguuiiii m . kept on sendin' to him for money till I got tired. know'd ho was able to pay and L was ter- mined to make him, Thai's ihe long and short of it." Well," said the lawyer" he's been a good customer to you; and I think you acted too hastily. 1 tiered a trine to pay on ac count of your proceeding----but I think you'd belter take this .five dollars and call it square. " Certain Squire -if you say so aitd glad o get it," was the answer. So iho lawyer gave one y and kept the other. In a few days the client came along and asked the lawyer how io aot on with his case "Rapidly!!1 cried the lawver " we've nonsuited him I he 11 never trouble you." "Jerusalem ! that s groat crieu ttiA frlipnt "I'd rather pin fifty dollars than have had him got the money for them boots !" w w - - a j A Beautiful Recluse. The Brooklyn,. N. Y., Advertiser relates quite n romantic storv. The 0d tor savs that there dwells, in a secluded nart of that cily, " in iovel of wretched and obscure exterior, a young "emale of singular beauty, who for three years - - J k m - past, has, lived a recluse irom an association with the world, save in the common intercourse forced upon her by the purchase of Iter common articles. She is reputed to be immensely rich, and is known to be in possession of jewels of rare value ; but whence she came, who she is, i i i . . , . cr what ner omeci in pursuing a career &u strange, no one can divine. Since she has been an occupant of the place, no visitor has been known to erite'r her abodo, and lovely as she is in form and feature, hhe appears studi ously to avoid tfio ruder sex, and seems to" entertain for man insuperable aversion. There is a mystery connected with her which the most curious and inquisitive are unable to fath om : and a deep and all-absorbing interest in relation to her has been- excited among many whom her personal charms have won to admi- ration. New Roots to Old Trees The New England Farmer mentions the fact, that the editor of that journal having so'me pear irees on quince stocks which were dying, took a dozen near stocks, two years old, and partial ly removed the earth ffom about the roots of si of the most sickly looking trees.-so as to maue room for tho roots of the young pear stocks, placing one on each of the opposite Bides of the old trees. J he tops ol iho young stocus were cut off by a drawing stroke, making the taper about two inches in length as for splice crafting. A horizontal cut was then made through the bark of ihe tree just abovo its junc tion with the quince, and then an upward inci sion in ihe bark of the desired length. Enough of the bark be 6'w the horizontal cut was re moved to prevent its offering any obstruction The bark was then raised by carefully passing atnree cornered ivedge up the incision, The tapered point of iho $iock, prepared as above, was genlly crowded up till it lelt rrrm in its place, and was bound tip fiTmly with matting Tho earth was th&i carefully covered over tho roots, and heaped tip' four or five niches above tho place of operation to exclude, the air. The result was highly satisfactory. The tre6s aro emirIy renovated1. Those on' which he did not operate, died. Where trees are girdled about tho row s by mice in winter, they may be savrid in this wa'y The Editor of the Ohio Cultivator is get ting quito poetical. Hoar him; " We never loved a charrriiiig' criiter, Bui some one else was sure to git lief." Poetical SItcep Stealers. A few" weeks ago some fellows went into a field at Toy's Hold, Brasted,' Eng., where hav ing lulled a sheep, they carried away the flesh, leaving ilie skin4 behind rtMtlv the following po etical effusion attached lo it ' Potatoes are scarce, turnips are thin, We lake ihe carcass, and leave you ilio'skin. Diversity off FeatuiMiV. It is a very evident proof of the ifdorable wis dom of God, that, although tho bodies of men are so conformed to each oilier in their essen tial parts, yet there is so greaj a difference ni thoir external .appearance that they iriay be ea- Sliy anu inialliuiy uiauuguistieu. Among so many millions of men there are no iwo perfecU Iy alike. Each has something peculiar which distinguishes him from afl differs,. oither in face,1 voice, or manner of speaking. The varieiy iff face Is the mofe astonishing, because ilie parts which compose the human face aro few in hum-. ber, and are disposed in every pors'oli accord ing to the 6anio plan. If all things had been produced by blind chance, the face of irien must nearly resemble each other as eggs laid by the same bird, balls cast in the same mould, of drops of water from the same bucket. But this is not the case ; we must admire the iiihuite wisdom of the Creator, which, ih diversifying the features of the face in so a'dmirab'le a man ner, has evidently the happiness of man in view. For, if they resembled each other perfecily, mi, that they could not be distinguished each from' each, it would occasion an infinity of inconven iences, riiistakesf and deceptions in society.-. No man could ever bo aUre of his life, nor of the peaceable possession of his properly. Thieves and cut-ihroais would run ho risk of being discovered,' if th'ey cuuld not bo knowit again by the features of their face or the sm'uul of their voice.- Adultery, theft, and other crime' would go unpunished, because the guilty could scarcely ever be discerned. We should. b every moment exposed to the malice of wicked aild envious men; and we could not guard against an infinity of mistake, frauds, and irlisdemeaii rirs. And-what uncertainty woilld there-be 'in judiciary proceedings, in sales, transfers bar gains, and commerce. What confusion in com merce What frauds and bribery in respect to" i ! Finally, the uniformity and perle'ct witnesses similitude of faces would deprive human socie ty of a great part of its charms, aiid considera bly diminish the pleasure which men find ili conversing with each oilier. The variety of features constitute a part, of the plan of Divine government, and is a strik ing proof of the tender care of God toward us; for it is manifest that not only the general struc ture ol the body, but also the disposition of its" particular parts, have been executed with iho greatest wisdom. Ever,y where wo behold varieiy connected with uhiformiiy, whence re sult the order, proportion, and beauty of iho hu man body. Let all who" cortsidef this subject admire ihe wise arrangements of the great Crs-i dloi Sturm's Reflections. a : r '-' ' vu:fJ A Beautiful Figure. Life is beautifully compared to a founiairijcd by a thousand streams," that perish if one be dried. It is a silver cord iwisied with a thou sand strings ih'at part asunder if one be broken. Frail and thoughtless mortals are surrounded by ehnumefable dangers which make ii much more sirahge that they escape so'Io'hg, than that they almost perish suddenly at last. We are encompassed with accidents every day to cnisli the mouldering tenement that we inhabit. Tho seeds of disease aro planted in bur coristittiuons by nature. The earth" and atmosphere whence we drew the breath of life is impregnated with death health is made to operate its own de struction. The food that nourishes coijtaTn tho element's of decay the ao'ul that anima'tes it by a vivifying fire tends to wear it out by its own action ; death lurks in ambush along our paihs. Notwithstanding this is tho truth, so palpably confirmed by tho daily etfamplp beforo our eyes, how little do we lay it io heart I ( Wo see our friends and Neighbors peri.shing among us, but ho'w seldom doesT it occur to our thouhtV that our knelf shall, perhaps give the n'oxVfruit letfs warning to the world! ' V. To make a Green Rose. Vp And the following receipt in oho til, the Exchanges r " Place a fresh gathered rose jit water as far as the stem will allow, then pow der h over with fine rappee snuff, being careful ribl to load it too much ih about1 threo Knure on shaking off the snuff, it will Become a greety rose. . i' ; inhalation of Ether. The knowledge of the exhilarating eWjkter of ether ha3 already fed, in LbntLon, to rts Sbuso as vl rrtfians 6f intoxication. Asinalf -hpparatjm has been invented for private, convenience, hu.I persons who first used it for ihe relief of paiu. corilintie to'psd it for tho pleasuTo il aflbrtja-,--The apothecaries' shops in London, have rVgti laT customers for Ihe liq'uid, and the apparatus for Inhaling U found in many private, houses. Terrible catalogues are given of the dsastrojis effects .frightful derangement of tho digestive organs, diseasbs pfthe lurigs, idiocy and death' aro declared to be almost ceriairi attendants of1 habitual inhalation. If this is so, the wamiiijr cannot bo loo ea-fnesily given against ,rion-p'ro fessional use of ihe lotheon. -i . . i The imports at New York week. bcfpngwIVsr amounted to $2,101 ;57tt 1
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