v. The WHOLE AUT OK CtOVe'rNMENT CONSISTS IN THE ART OF BEING HONEST. JefferSOnl VOL 8 STEOUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1G, 1847. NoV 1-2. . 91 H 7 m SB m Hi til M JH fiS . I M 83; l 13 1 !' EM 11 KS S IK IP S 4 M It V K 1 IM IH. I K I H A tej KM 1 flU I LB I H 1 LS I m .1 I ' 1 10! IV I -J I H KJ I Gil I r..1 I ! Ml I ft I'M tCH I K 1MB - - V S-OWiV FnblisJtcd by Tlicodoro Scliocli. TERMS Two dollars ncrnnum in advance Two dollHrs nnJ ji quarter, half yearly and if not paid before the end of ilie vear. Two dollars ana u naif. Tliose wno receive ilicir j;ipers bv a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie t v. ill "lie cltarced 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. 'o papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at tlic option 01 me iMinor. wall be insertedthrce weeks for one dollar: lucnty-five cents irT Advertisements not exceeding one square (siriccn lines; fir every subsequent insertion : larger onus in proportion, liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers. 1JAH letters addressed to the Kditor must be post-paid JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna mental Tvpc, we arc prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circsilars, Bill Heads, Iolos, JBIaiiR Keccipls, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness atid despatch, on reasonable terms, AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jeft'crsoiiian Republican. Gentle Words. ,A young rose in summer linle Is beautiful to me, Jind glorious are the many stars That glimmer on the sea ; Cut gentle words and loving hearts, And hands to clasp nvy own, Are belter than the finest flowers, Or stars that ever shone-. The sun may warm the grass o life, The dew the dripping flower, And eyes grow bright, and watch the light Of Autumn's openirtghour. 13ut words that breathe of tenderness And smiles we know are true, Are warmer than the summer tithej And lighter than the dew; It is not much the world can givej With all its subtle art, And gold and gems are not the things To satisfy the heart; Hut, oh, if those who clustre round The altar and the hearth, Have gentle words and loving smiles',-- How beautiful is earth! From the Louisville Journal: Given up to Sadness. "Winds of the summer twilight hour ! "Whence came your tone's mysterious powerl Ye bear no griefs o'er which to pine, Zor yet a heart to nielt at mine; Yet uii sweet winds that bear your tone Like sighs o'er some heart broken one Ye whispering zephyrs wandering free That mourn so sweetly mourn for me j And you, ye waves with murmurs sweet, tnift sighing as ye kiss my feet, . . How like to mine your troubled breast, That heaves and sighs, and knows no rest f 1 list your melancholy swell, That with my sad heart suits so well Oh, murmuring waters, wild arfd free, Tliat sigh so sweetly sigh for me 1 And you ye gentle dews that fall, As twilight drops her dusky pall Ye trembling dew gems tears of even That seek to bring a balm from heaven. Say weep ye for the sad one'tr sake Who bears a heart that's fit to break t Then dews of twilight falling freV That weep so softly weep for me ! Habits of the Lion. The habits of the king of beasts are not of that noble order which naturalists formerly as cribed to him. In the day Jime he will almost invariably fly from man, unless attacked, when his courage is that of mingled rage and despair. I have seen the lion suddenly roused from his lair, run off as timidly as a buck. It is said that even at night they do not like to seize a man from a party, especially if the persons ex eicise their voices ; and that the carcass of an antelope or other game, may he preserved un touched by hanging some stirrup on a tree iie-drr .so that the ir6tfs may clash together when blown by the wind ; a white handkerchief on the end of a' ramrod is another receipt for ef fecting the same object. The lion is a steahhy, 'imnitig brute, never attacks uiiIhss he has the zdvani3ge,.and relying on his vat strength feels Mire of victory- , The names tell incredible stories of his sa gacity f which would almost inalit hhn a rea sonable animal. There are well authenticated cases orr record of linns carrying infn away at night from'ilie fireside, but ih.o.aTu qui'e rare exceptions. They are gregarious,. us; : many.' as iwftijiy ha vrag been, seen in a'noop.j Life itiu Wilderness. . . A gentleman sat .down to Write a deed, and began wjth "'.Know One Wjotnan by these pres- Votl arc wrong Vsaittva;.by!airder?' nought m M to he, hiowM fflM rx v ili-ii Knows -af um OTf ?,J-r?e- 4 T!i& testimony of a Democrat against me w sir witli RIcxico. In Brownson's American Quarterly Review u. liiuiiui ui juiy, me eauor appears to hare conclusively proved that the war with Mexico is " uncalled for, impolitic, and unjust." AJUMvuauu ia Known to wieia a powerlul pen ;.he has been for many years considered as no mean champion of Democracy ; in sup- pun oi wmcn ne obtained considerable celebri ty while editor of the "Democratic Review." He is still the political friend of the President, and an adherent of the party by whom he was ejected. Jt was, therefore, certainly not to be expected that such a man, in such a position. would so completely demolish every arpumoni auvauccu ny Mr. folk and his friends in sup port of the present war, as Mr. Brownson has . . . . . ... . done. He has thus, voluntarily, rendered a service to truths, for which the Democrats will never forgive him. But we will allow him lo speak for himaelf : " ror ourselves, we Have regarded the Mex ican war from the first as uncalled for, impoli tic, and unjust. We have examined the doc uments published by order of the ijovernment ; we have read the official defence of the war in the last annual Message of the President to Congress, and with every disposition to find our own government in ihe right ; but we are bound to say, that our original impressions have been strengthened rather than weakened. The President, undoubtedly, makes it clear that he had many just causes of complaint a gainst Mexico, which at the time of their oc currence might hare justified reprisals, perhaps even war, but he cannot plead these in justi fication of the present war ; for they were not the ground on which we professed to engage in it. The official announcement of the Presi dent to Congress was that war already existed between ihe two republics, by the act of Mexico herself, and whatever use we may make of old grievances in adjusting the terms of peace, wo can make no use of them in defending the war. We can plead in its defence only the fact on which we grounded it namely, war exists by the act of Mexico herself. But unhappily, at the time of the official announcement, war did hot exist between the iwb republics at all, for neither republic had declared war against the other. There had been a collision of their for- ces, out inis was not war, as me rresiaeni would probably have conceded; had he known (jr recollected 'the distinction between war and hostilities. By placing ihe war on the ground that it existed by the act of Mexico, and that ground being false, he has left it wholly indefensible, whatever the old grievances we I may have to allodge against Mexico. j " The act of Mexico in crossing the Rio j Grande, and engaging our troops oh territory which she had possessed and still claimed as hers, bui which we asserted had, by a recent act against which she had protested, become ours, -the act which the President chose to in form Congress and the world was war may or may no( have been a j'ust cause for declaring war against her, but it assuredly was not war itself. We have no intention to justify Mexico. She-may have been decidedly in the wrong ; she may have had no valid title to the territory of which ihe .President had j'ust taken' military occupation ; lhat terriiory may have been right fully ours, and it may even have been the duty of ihe President to occupy and defend it ; but it cannot be denied that she had once posses sed it ; lhat it was still a part of one of her states or provinces ; that she still claimed it ; and had continued to exercise jurisdiction over jt, till driven from it by our army of occupation ; that she invaded ii with an armed force, if in vasion it can be called, not as territory belong ing to us, but as territory belonging to her ; and that she attacked our troops, not for the reason that they were ours, but for the reason, as she held, and she had as good a right to be judge in her own case as we had in ours, that they were intruders, trespassers on her soil. The motive of her act was not war against the Uni ted States, but the expulsion of intruders from her own. territory. No sophistry can mafre h'er act war, cer tainly not without conceding that our act in ta king military possession of that territory was also war; and if that was war, therithe war, if it existed at all, existed by our act and not by hers, for her act was consequent upon ours. The most tfrat the President was at liberty 10 say, without condemning his own government, was, lhat there had been a collision of the for ces of ihe two republics on a territory claimed by each ; but this collision he had no right to term war, for every body knows that it takes something more than a collision of their re spective forces-on-a disputed territory to con stitute a war between two' civilized nations. j Fn no possible point of view was ihe an-i nouncement of the President lhat war existed between the two republics, and existed by the act of Mexico, correct'. It did not exist at all ; or if it did, it' existed not by act of Mexico, but by our act. In either case, ihe official announce ment was false, and cannot be defended. u The President may have been governed by patriotic motives ; lie may nave ten tnai prompt;: iand,, energetic action was required ; he . may have believed that in great emergencies the chief magistrate of a powerful republic, having lo deal with a weak and distracted state, should rise-superior to mere technical forms, and the niceties of truth and honor; but it strikes us ihauhe would have done better,' proved himself even more patriotic, and sufficiently prompt and energetic, if he had confined himself to the or dinary rules of morality, and the well defined principles of international law. By aspiring to rise above these, and to appear original, he has placed his country in a false position, and debarred himself, whatever the just causes of war Mexico may have given us, from pleading one of them in justification of the. actual war. We must be permitted to regret that he did not reflect beforehand, that, if he placed the defence of the war on the ground that it already exis ted, and existed by the act of Mexico herself, and on that ground demanded of Congress the means of prosecuting it, he would, in case thai ground proved to be untenable as he must have known it would, have nothing whatever to al lege in its or his own justification. He should have been lawyer enough to have known that he could not plead anew, after having failed on his first issue. It is often hazardous in our plead ings to plead what is not true, ajid in doing so in the present case, the President has not only offended morality, which he may regard as a small matter, but has even committed.a blunder. The course the President should have pur sued is plain and obvious. On learning the state of things on the frontier, trie crjtical( con- union oi our army oi occupation, ne snouiu nave demanded of Congress the reinforcements and supplies necessary to relieve it and secure the purpose lor wmcn n was avoweuiy Bent to me Rio Grande ; and, if he believed it proper or necessary, to have, in addition", laid before Con gress a full and truthful statement of our rela tions with Mexico, including all the.unadjnsled complaints, past and present, we had against her, accompanied by the recommendation of a declaration of war. He would then have kepi within ihe limits of his duty, proved himself a plain constitutional President, and left ihe re sponsibility of war or no war to Congress, the only war-making power known to our laws. Congress, after mature deliberation, might, or might not, have declared war, most likely would hot ; but whether so or not, the respon sibility would have rested with it, and no blame would have attached id the President. " Unhappily, this course did not occur to the President, or was loo plain' and simple to moet his approbation. As if fearful, if Congress de- iberaied, it might refuse to decmre war, and as if determined lb have war at any rate, he presented to Congress, notthe irue issue, wheth er war should or should not be declared but the false issue, whether Congress would grant him the means of prosecuting a war, waged a gainst us by a foreign power. In the true issue, Congress might have hesitated in the. one ac tually presented there was no room to hesitate, if the official announcement of ihe President was to be credited, and hesitation' would have been criminal. By declaring that the war al ready existed, and by the act of Mexico herself, ihe President relieved Congress of the respon sibility of the war, by throwing it all on Mexi co. But since he cannot fasten it on Mexico for war did not already exist, or if so, by our act, and not hers it necesssrily recoils upon himself, and he must bear the responsibil ity of doing what the Constitution forbids him to do of making war without the intervention of Congress. In effect, therefore, he has tram pled the Constitution under his feet, set a dan gerous precedent, and, by ihe official publica tion of a palpable falsehood, sullied the national honor. It is wiih no' pleasure' that we spoak thus of the chief magistrate of the Union, for whose elevation to his high and responsible of fice we ourselves voted. But whatever ma)' be-our attachment to party, or the respect we bold to be due from all good citizens to the civ il magistrate, we cannot see the Constitution violated, and the national honor sacrificed, whether by friend or foe, from good motives or bad, without entering, feeble though it be, our stern and indignant protest. Side Saddles. Queen Elizabeth, it s'eems, was the first who introduced thepractico of ladies riding sidewa'ys on horseback. The somewhat ungraceful cus tom of ladies riding in their stirrup in. trotting has been introduced of later years. Horse ex ercise is peculiarly beneficial to ladies of de bilitated and sonsumptive habits. The slow trot,- although' less graceful, is considered more healthy than either the canter or gallop. The motion of the horse and the fresh draught of pure, elastic air, aie the best, perhaps the only perfect means of recruiting and exhilarating the exhausted' spirits and system, and of enliven ing the imagination of the studious and sedentary.- Quite Trite. The Northampton Gazette says : " The idea, quite common among pious young men, that they ca'nnoi fulfil their mtssion-bf o'ood to mankind, wiihout. geiljng imp, (he , pulpit, Jias Ill eu me Nacreu -uoaK wnu a ereai iiiaciy.iiuyn preachers.- - . : JBducation of Daughters. The following sensible and discriminating re marks are from the pen of an able writer, who is addressing a series of numbers io his.oxcel lency, Gov. Eaton, of Vermont, on the Intel lectual TiiianinO of Daughters. The sub ject, though sO often discussed as to appear like a hackneyed, worn oui theme, is not exnausted: Without being aware of it, we havo fallen into ail evif habit, so that- in some respects, things are worse than formerly. Half a centu ry ago, girls were educated, really educated for housewifery now, for accomplishments. Then, iho' the intellect was not cultivated and strength ened by discipline, the mind and hand were thoroughly and practically taught all the. knowl edge and craft of good housewifery. But not, in the majority of cases, the understanding and ihese important things are both neglected, and accomplishments too often occupy the whole vision of mothers and daughters. Now such education overlooks the real of life, and the greater part of life. It has respect only to the season of girlhood; to that brief space between leaving school and settling in life. The Rev. Sidney Smith, for some years the editor of the Edinburgh Review, ha9 uttered some truth re specting this sort of female "education. "One great evil is, that it does not last. If the whole of life were an Olympic game, if we could go on feasting and sing to the end this might do. But such education is merely a provision for the little interval between coming' into lie and settling in it, while ii leaves a long and dreary expanse behind, devoid both of dignity and cheerfulness. These accomplishments are merely means of displaying the grace and vi vacity of youth which every woman gives up as she gives up the dress and manners of eigh teen ; she has no wish to retain them. The system of female education, as it now stands, aims only at embellishing a few years of life, which are in themselves so full of grace and happiness, that they hardly want it; and then leaves the rest of existence a miserable prey of idlo magnificence. No woman of understand ing and reflection can possibly conceive she is doing justice to her children by such kind of education. The object is to give children re sources thai will endure as long as life endures habits that time will ameliorate not destroy occupations that will render sickness tolera ble, solitude pleasant; age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and therefore, death, less terrible---and the compensation which is offered1 for the omission of all this, is a short lived blaze a little temporary effect, which has no other consequence than to deprive the remainder of life of all taste and relish."' It is not long since I heard a sensible and noble hearted womari giving utterance lo lan guage like the following : When a girl, she was possessed of both fortune and great per sonal attractions. She married a physician at the age of eighteen. She was speaking of a mother whom she truly loved, but the singular .".. -' i-.i ... .i. .i . : r t Iu:i want oi juugineut in die euiiuauuii ui hui uuu dron, she could neither commend nor reconcile with her good sense in other matters. "I was put to a city school," said Mrs. D.t "ai the age of 13. Bashful and diffident of myself, I was feady to fall under all the influences and habits that came in my way. It had been well (for mo, if these had been of the right kind. The first impression made on my mind was, that ii was the chief object of all the girls to prepare therhselves to make an impression, and tliis seemed to be encouraged by the fashionable ladies lo whom I had been committed. I stu died arithmetic and grammar, and I studied phi losophy and logic, without knowing any thing about them, for want of previous discipline; and I was put to painting, and,embroidery, and dan cing, and making wax flowers, and fruit, &c. I came out of school, when a little turned of s"ixtoen, and really proud of my attainments; and I 8pehi my next two' year's iri displaying my ac complishments in such manner lhat I had nol time to inquire whether 1 knew anything or not. But when I was married, and had to look al the realities of life, I found I knew nothing as I ought to know fi, either of mental dtscipjine or the business of the actual world. I had never mad6 a bed or cooked a meal of victuals in my life, and with $11 fny knowledge of embroidery, 1 could not, for the life of me; make a; shirt ; and many and many a inne, I have sat down and had a hearty crying spell' over my ignor ance," Mrs. went on with much more to" the same effect,' and then cfosed with a ma.nirer and air which sliowed lier in earnest. "1 warrant you", pny girls shall not bo educaied in that man ner." . Row, dear sir, in contrast with all ihis, l wouM insist upon a" course of thorough intellectual dis cipline for girls, much like that pursued by our sons in college, and1 with the same object in Viewto make ihem strong arnd womanly min ded, and lo fit them for the whole of life. Nor will such training prove the enemy of a'ceom plislimenis, but the irue foundation and soured of all accomplishments, and the helper o'f all that is truly lovely in woman's character. The discipline is tfn essential part of educa'tfon'.---Our daughUMs ought to pursue such" a" course of siudy as (shall give ihem enlargement of mind,; a full control -over their intellectual jowef4-, t . . , ..... habits of reflection arid correct reasoning; wiih such an amount of knowledge as aha) I fit ihem for ihe several relations of life: They mum begin with the elementary principles of lan guage, of numbers, of geography, history, mur als, &c, for without these elements,, ihe mind cannot proceed on itstown woik of diacipilnr: These are the instruments with which the liuiid acts, h is by comparing these principles with actual facts of experience and its owii percep tions, that the mind moves on to the acq.iixiii, n of higher truths. It is bui an identical propo sition to say lhat education must begin wnh" lio elements. . ... When these are acquired, girls should bo made thoroughly acquainted with the structure and power of their own language by reading; studying, and analyzing it, and by nuidying tho dead' languages from which ours is derived, for in all ibis work of decipliiie now begun, their own language is to be the instrument of thought ;' and Unless they know well ihe pdwerand mean ing of the lei ins they use in thinking they can not think logically, of from definite and right conclusions. I would therefore have girls well taught in their own tongue, both studying it di rectly and by studying the Latin, from w.hich' a considerable part of it is derived. Then,' thirdly, in addition to this knowledge of first principles and of their language, we would take the utmost pains to form in our daughte the habit of concentrating a steady, arid power ful attention upon any subject which ihey un dertake to study. W.e would teacli and induce theiri, in every possible way, to acquire such a control over their menial powers as shall ena ble therri, at will, to shut out every other sub ject, and for the time being, to bring dowh thee powers upon the subject in Hand, and hold them there at pleasure. This is no easy Uialler in any case. Wo should convince our daughters lhat it is possible give confidence in themselves, and never leave ihem -till tho habits are formed, and they will begin' lb ex perience the wonders of this wonder working power, in opening to them tiew fields of knowl edge; and leading them most pleasantly along, in those fields; which they once despaired o entering-. Anecdote of Stephen Girard; The following capital aticcdote illustrative of the peculiarities of tho late Stephen Girard', of Philadelphia, is from the New Bedford Mer cury " Mr. G. Had a favorite clerk, one wh'o every way pleased' him, and, who; wh'en at. tlio ago of twenty-one years, expected Mr: fJ. to say something to him in regard to his future pros pectSj and perhaps lend Kirri a helping hand in starting him in the world. But Mr G. said nothing, carefully avoiding the subject, of hi escape from minority. At length', after the' larpse of some weeks, the clerk mustered cour age enough' to address Mr. G. upon the sub- icct'' ' I. suppose, sir,' said the clerk, '1 am free' andI thought I would say something to you as to my future course. What do you think I had better do V Yes, yes, I know you are free,' said; Mr. G'. and my vdvice to yod is lhat you go and lean; a cooper's trade.' This, announcement well nigh1 th're'W the clerk off ihe track : but recovering his equili brium, he said if Mr. G. was hr earnest, hd would do" so. ' I am in earnest,' and tho clerk raiher hesi tatingly sought one of the best coopers, agreo'd with hirri upon the terms of apprenticeship', and went m it in good earnest, and in course of limo" mai'.o as good a barref as any one. He went 3nd told Mr. G. that he had graduated with all the honors pf iho craft, and was ready to set up his business at which' ihe old man seemed gratified, and told him to make three Of ihe best barrels ho could get up. The young cooper selected tho best materials, rind soon put into shape and finished ihroe of the best barrels, and wheeled ihem up to the old man's counting room. Mr. G. saioT the barrels were first rate, and demanded )ho price. 1 One dollar sa'id the clerk, is a"s Jpwra's4 can live by.' Cheap enough,' said his employer ' m'ake out your bill and present it.J . f And now comes the cream of ihe wholeV ' Mr. G. drew a check for $20,000, and handing it to the clerk cooper, closed with iheuo words : 1 There, lake- that, atYd invest it hi the he.si possible way, and if you are iinToituna"e and lose i'i, you have a' good trafde to fall back npnii. which will afford ou a goo'd living at all tunes Tom Tliiinrb Surpassed.! ; hi air bid paper, ihe London Literary Qh- zclte, for the year 1S24, we find an aefcouift of "a dvvafT even more Lillipuiiae than Gen. Tom Thumb. Her name 'was- GrAchami, a Silesian by birth and at ten years of age she was only nineteen inches in height, and weigH ing butjive.pounds. She was exhibited in Lon don, in May, 1824. Probably some reader, who has since reached middte.hfe, may remem ber of seeing or hearing of her
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