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The whole art of Government consists in the Aitf of being honest. Jefferson.
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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 18,17.
No: 7.
VOL
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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 !"
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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
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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.
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The imports at New York week. bcfpngwIVsr
amounted to $2,101 ;57tt 1