I F. w I II f I li I I- I' II I -II I - : - : H fell W U Wt - , i.-J I t''' ii'U V I-l 1 T". T rt T." V- 111 .j. J?. MMMMMMM M1H HIgiB.l II HlllaBIWBBB,qllll 2 1' JiiiuD . -t , I tt , .'I . The whole art ok Government consists in the Art of; beino honest., JefFersoa VOL 8 STROUDSBURG; iVIONROE COUNTY, PA.,- THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1848. No. 23 I I published by TIico;doix' Schocli. tkrMS Two dollars per anritirti iri advance Tw o dollars and a ouartcr. hulf yearly and if not paid before the end of the year, iwo uuu.ua .wu a iuu. mute who receive mtjr mpers by a carrier or s-tagc drivers crarjlovcd by the propne tor.iH be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all an Parages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor. lEJAilvcrnsements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will lie inscrled three weeks for one dollar, and twenty-Jive cents for every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and three insertions the same. A libeiul discount made to yearly advertisers. . IE7AI1 letters addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JJOJB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna menlal Type, wc are prepared to execute every description of . Carrie Circular, Bill Heads, lYoJcs, Blank Bucoipts JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terras, AT THE OFFICE OF THE JeffcrMiuiaM Kcptcblican. From the New York Tribune. Who says Despair? Who says despairl The Earth is wide As when the first man walked abroad, When all things living owned him lord Himself but subject unto God. The Earth has lost no tint of green, The sun still smiles from out the skies; And all the flowers are fair, as when The wind first breathed on Paradise. The momhs and 3ears rolled on the same, And from the bosom of the soil Spring all things fresh and beauiiful, Obedient to the hand of Toil. Who says despair, has faith nor will ; He tuts his eye, and shuts his hand, And will not reap what God hath spread Lavish and fair in every land. Who says despair, hath coward heart ; He will not drive the ox, nor hold . The plow, nor thru;t his sickle round irheafs that aie brighter far than gold.' Who says despair, let him go forth And plant the seed that groans for birth ; And he shall find his gzrde7i fair As the first Paradise of Earth. C D. Stuart. Corsets. v " When I was down in Boston town, , , A month ago or more, I. . 1 saw a very sing'lar thing I never saw before. 'Twas hanging in a window case DO I . sir . Upon a string-a-straddle Looked somthino like an hour-glass? And something like a saddle'. ' I asked of several citizens, Who chanced to be at Jiand, " What was it but their gibeiisbi ; I could'nt undetstand. One fellow called it " a restraint On certain parties placed 1 '-i-Q - Like a decree in chancery, To stay the tenant's waste l',c.j , Another just the queerest. chap. Of any in the swatm ".tI . Said 44 -twas the gla3S;of-fasliion,-but It was the mould of form." Another said " 'twas a machine A lady used to rig her '; To bring her form and life'into ' - 1 ' z' The very smallest figure.' es.: Al last a little girl came out, -,!.--,'. ' And think-of my amaze ! . She asked me " if I would'nt please -. To ljuy a pair of stays ?" ; Of course I'd heard of " stays" 'before, -But, strike me deaf and dumb ! ! If ever I, until that hour, SuspectedtHem wasunr!,T Well isn't it exceeding strange t That any maid or wife v - . Just for a " little taper" should Put. out the "lamp of life;" 1 know'that lunatics must' hare Straight jackets put about 'eni ' 3ut women In their wils sTioUljJ.jnake' , , A shift to do without 'era' f " . n u" r, i- - r hy is de inside of a iiiggafs-ha.ndVj ajidrde btmom ob his feet always whiie-'tc Scause de debil had htm biVall fours When heJpainted him. Gallantry. There is a place sja :Jiew Hampfthire where they never have any old maids. When a girl1 reaches twenty niricisad M tltill on ihe ladde'r of expectation; rthe young fellow club together and draw lota for her.-- tlofH who care. pay a.bofius to the oub'tf &o' From Graham's Magazine. The JLast Adventure of a Coquette. BY THOMAS 3IAYNE RE1D. A more capricious enqueue than ine beauii ful Kaie Grbssly never played wilh hapless hearfs. She is now a sober matron, the wife of an elegant husband, and mother of two beau iful children. We haie to rake up iHe ashes of bitter rehiembrances ; (for believe us gentle reader, this story though short, is nevertheless true ; and we know one young gentleman at least, who will recognize ihe unhappy hero of i.) But we cannot pass over in silence the last episode in ihe unmarried life of Kaie. It may be a warning to future, unfortunate lovers, and afford a striking instance of thai utter heart lesMiesb which a beautiful flirt alone can feel. Kate was an heiress, that , a moderate for tune of two hundred thou.and had been accu mtilated expressly for her use for she was an only child. She had a much larger fortune, however, in her face ; and that evening never passed, lhat the thi'e.hoid of her father's com putable dwelling was hot crossed by half a score, of elegant beaux, all bloods, and some of them men of fortune. Kate amused herself by making ihee young gentlemen jeajnus. A beautiful llin, who can command een the small stun of two hundred ihouand dollars, is a dan gerous creatine in the community of Philadel phia ; and already on Kate Crossley's account had two parlies of the aforesaid young gentle men, crossed over to Camden with sanguinary intentions. Fortunately, however, we have the most vigilant police in the world, and a mayor whose itisiiucl is .no keen, that it has been known to forewarn him of ihe lime and place of a duel, ihe arrangements of which liad been kept religiously ecrei from all but the princi pals and their seconds. By such efforts of genius on ihe part of our worthy mayor, had the chivalrous loveis of our heroine been Spared the pain of blood-letting, and having' purchased the pleasing reputation of courage, they were bound over, and thus pro; cured the sweet privilege of frowning at each other hereafter without the necessity of fighting for ti. Matters were progressing thus ; lovers were I'ernately ihmg and smiling, and scrowliug, when the elegant Augustus Nob returned from hi European lour, bringing with him, of course, a fureign mustache, and a decidedly foreign ac cent. Nob was an only son of one of he first families. He had been left an independent for tune by his parents, (deceased.) most of which he had" contrived to spend in Paris and London This, how.ever, was Mill a secret. Nob was welcome everywhere. But under no mahogany did Augustus Nob stretch his limbs more frequently than under the hospitable board of Mrs. Crossley. We say Mrs. Crossley, for although her good husband still lived, he was identified iri the house as a piece of its plainest furniture. Crossley had served his purpose in this world ho had made ihe two hundred thousand had renred from business, and was no longer of any xalue it was now Mrs. Cs turn to play her par,t, which consisted in practically proving that two hundred thousand can be spent almost as fai as it can be made. Balls, soirees, and supper followed eactroiher in quick succession. -Morning levees were held, attended by crowds of bloods. The elegant Augustus was always present, and always dressed in ihe most fash- .lonable rig. A party at . ihe house of. Mrs. Crossley and the elegant Augustus not present? Who could bear the idea ? Not Mrs. C her--elf, who was constantly exclaiming '-' My. dear Augustas he rs the very life and in'ul 'of-.us ; how charming, how handsome, and how; fashionable ; just the air that travelling al 4 way s gives. How much' I lung to call him my dear son ;' and in lact Mrs. C. was leaving no stone unturned io consummate'this maternal de-ign. She ivas not likely to find much op position on the part of the ' elegant'-himself Not only would the two hundred 'thousand Irave been particularly .acceptable at that time, but the voting gentleman, nr,iu other words, his tauijy. had become greatly excited, and he fell ir.U h disposed to carry off th'e coquette in tri umph, in spite of the agony and disappointment of at ' least a score of competitors. But where is our heroine, Kate, ail this time? Flitting, of course, with a dozen beaux, each at ipne moment thinking himself most favored, and ihe. next purued and despairing. Now she smiles upon Mr. Fitzrush, and compliments him upon the smallness of his foot. FitZ blushes, simpers, and appears not at all vain of his feel in fact, stammers out that they are 4 large, very large, indeed; to! which candid acknowl edgement on his part, shouldlihe company ap pear in assejuijji5jcatejalyadds that 4 ihey are small for a man of his size,' insinuating ihki it is nothing out nf the way to find 'stn ill mdri with little feet arfd little credit should therefole ha attached,; but'a'rrian of large dimensions found with eleganj Vifle feet iikje hfe, the ere it ought io be quadrupled or iripfted ,af laas'. Kate, the talented Kate, understands it all ; and after smiling quietly av the gentjernau's ji line", vhe turns her aatira ujkhi another victim. ; ' Ah' 127 oHstr Ml CfWiy, k6 ywr eye" j sparkled last, night at. the Opera they looked liko. a basilisk's.' . , This gentleman's eyes were, of a very dull green color, and looked more like a cat's than a basihak'a : but not ' seeing them as others saw them,' he replied that ' he could not help it the music always excited him so.' Ah !. ihe music, Mr. Creasy, but perhaps ' She was prevented from finishing her reply, by the announcement of a gentleman, who had just made4his appearance in the doorway, and who was no less a personage than, the elegant Augustus Nob. f j r To sav that Mr. Augustus Nob was a sroajl fish in this party, would be to seak what was not true ; on the other hand he was a big fif'h in fact ihe biggest in ihe kettle. Any one who had witnessed the Herniation produced by his announcement, would have judged to. The coquette broke off in the middle of her satire, and running toward the door, conducted him to the seat nearest io her own, where after ail el egant bow, he seated himself a full grown lion. During the continuance of this welcome recep tion, various pantomimic gestures .were exhibit ed by different members of the company. There was a general uneasy, shifiing of chairs daik looks were shot towards the elegant.' and conciliatory, and even friendly glances were exchanged among the beaux, w ho, forgetting for the moment their mutual jealousies, concentra ted their united envy upon iheir common rival: If Cressy's eyes never sparkled before, they ceriainly did on thi.i occasion, and the right leg of Fitzrush was flung violently over the left knee, where it continued to oscillate with an occasional nervoyq twitching of the toes, ex pressive of a hardly repressed desire on the part of its owner to try the force of those liMe leel on the favored 4 elegant's,' handsome person. It was all in vain, however, Nob was the suc cessful lover, for he sat close to the graceful creature that is, closer than any other and chatted to her of balls and'operas ; and, confi dent of his position, he did not are. , a. fig for the envy and jealousy which on all, sides, sur rounded him. - , And Kate showered all her attentions upon Nob, and Nob triumphed over his rivals. Matters progressed thus for several xveek?, ob still paying marked, attentions to l,he co(- quette, whose duel delight, seemed to oe, noi only to torment her ho,i of other lovers, but occa sionally the 1 elegant' himself; Augustus,' hoWever, sjiil roiitintied first in fa vor, and from the attentions which he received at the hands of Mrs. Crossley, it was conjee- uted by the family friends that a marriage with her daughter was not far distant. The less aspiring of Kate's lovers had loug since 4 hauled their wind,' and only a few, among whom were , i Fitzrush and Creasy, still continued to hang on despairingly to what was evidently a lonorn hope. Nob openly boasted that he had run them all out of the field, and was heard triumphantly to assert that he was breaking the heart of the 4 deaw creaiaw,' and that he, would be nudaw the positive necessity of healing it at the hy me nial altaw. He was very young to marry quite a child but then to keep the deaw sylph in suspense Oh ! it would be bawbaw.ous positively bawbawous !' . It is not 10 be supposed that the cunning, the talented ICate, was ignorant of these boasts on the part of the elegant Nob. No no ; Kate knew every thing, and among other things she knew M.. Augustus Nqb thoroughly ; and she resolved on taking' most exquisite vengeance on him. Spring, delightful spring' has returned, &ndj all nature looks as sweet as the lips of a'lo've ly woman. . The trees upon our side walks,, and in . our squares are once more covored .wnh green and shady foliage, and from the windows of high houses hang handsome cages from which those warbling prisoners the mockbtrd, and thu trOu pial, and the linet and canary bird, send forth their dulcet notes, filling the streets with music and melody. Fashionable ladies are beginning to make their appearance in jhe streets, unattended by gentlemen as it is the shopping" hour, and a gen tleman would be only iti ihe way. From the door of an elegant mansion in the tipper pari of Chesnui sireet issues a' graceful and beautiful girl, who is proceeding down Hie street toward the busier part of the city. She-does not luiuir nor look in the shop-widows as ladies general ly do at this hour, but walks, nimbly along as though she came on some preconceived errand. As she nears that pdri of Chesnut sireet wtitcjh ia in the1 neighborhood of ihe State House she lessens her gait, and walks more leisurely, She js heard to soliloquize , t 4 In trtnh'it ia as much as my courage, nay, even my reputation is w.ortK, io enter' the efudjo of my sweet painter thus albnV';rlmt what can I do, since the dear- fellow has' been banished from our hou-e bv he ril.oc,taiic notions of niy mother ? Well,. I shall risk nil for iim, as he 'would Tor me, I know. Tkmiw. 'How'ltnpy it will make him to hear my errand. "Only tliink-that I am forced to an elopement, ormarry thai ii py whom my tmother haachpserjs.l'or, tBut shall elope I shall . U,'',.' of,Pn nrop.)sHl jt-.-ho harpy hVVhdtl be" to hear ! consentbut I' sha! do it in my own way that is fixed. Henry will laugh wHen I tell h.im of my plans. Some one may be with him at this moment, and deprive me of the pleasure of con versing with him but then it is all written here, arid I can see him soon again. 4 Henry Willis, Miniature Painter.' Yes! this is the sweet fellow's' place no one observes me enter.' So saying, the graccful-gtrl entered a large hall, the door of wjiich. stood open, and passing up a flight of steps, she lapped gently with her small gloved fingers upon the door of the chamber, upon which was repeated, in gold letter, the sameiwords that were exhibited in front of the buildings--'. ? " 4 Henry Willis, Miniature Painter? In a moment the door opened, disclosing within the studio ol an artist, ihe artist himself, a fine hmking jouth, with dark Katr and slight mustache, and dressed in his painters blouse, while irmhe back ground cpujd be seen a prim, stiff old lady in hih cap and curls, steadily and rigidly siiiihg for hef pdrtrait. At sight ofihe new comer the artist's coun tenance became bright with'loe and pleasure, and fthe exclaiming 'dearesi !' that almost in voluntarily escaped hun, told.that. they were no strangers to each other. .The young lady, on the other hand, perceiving trie, sitter through the-half-opened door, glided back a step or two, so as to be tmperceived by t.he,Jatter, and taking from: her reticule a folded paper, she held it out to the painter, accompanying ihe act by these, words: 4A message lor you, Henry n would hae been pleasanier, perhaps, to have deliv ered it verbally, but you see 1 have been pre pared for any emergency.' So saying, she de livered the paper received a kiss upon her little gloved hand smiled said 'good morn ing"!' and gracefully glided back into the .street. The artist re-entered his studio found some excuse to dismiss ihe siiff old lady, and was soon buried, with: beaming face and beating heart, in the contents of thepaper he had j.u&i received. , r 7, . ,: ,.f tie rose from Its perusal like a mad man m'ad from excess of joy andj liasitly, striding up and down his small studio, he exclaimed. les, dearest heart ! any thing any thing you wish shall be done. One week, and she shall be mine and such a mischieou trick bui the fool deserves it, richly deserves it, for as piring Jo thehaftd-of, one so im.titeaiipbly. his superior. Ninny ! he littl knew how uY,epJy she has loved, sweet girl! How&he has de ceived them father,, mother, friends all ! How sweet and how powerful is first love!' Kate Crossly had often been heard to say that whenever she married, there, would be an elopement. ShV either had a presentiment that such would bejier fate, or she so despised the modern, unrouiahuc fashion of marrying and giving in marriage, that she was resolved it should be. Consequently, vhen the ek'gant Augustus" Nob, on. the fittt day of. May, 1842. knelt before her, in the most fashionable man ner, and made a most fashionable declaration, quite cpnfident of being accepted who could have refused? He was accept", wilh the pro viso that it should be an elopenieni. 4AII right V soliloquized Augustus, as he closed the hall door behind him; 'All right, and vewy simple, old lady decidedly in moy favaw recoticijliaiion easy carriage. and foaw- pri vate clergy- two days iti a hotel sent for, and all right, again simple, vewy simple, and vewy romantic, too;!1 .It vr 83. a dark night-;a, very dark night for the month of May, and a very cold one, too and under the shadow of some irees that grew upon the sPde-walftMn the upper part of Ches nut 'street making ihe sptil still darker, might be seen an 'elegaiiucrr.iage, and hoisefdrtf.wn close, up to the curb-,none. The driver was onihe box, enveloped in, a great coat, and at a shott distance 'from the carriage, and leaning against a tree, might be seen ihe figure of a young man, fashionably and elegartiy Srti'r,ed. 'H'e"wrbTe acloak, loose ly hanging front his shoulHers, arid he was evr idontly wattiug for some one to arrive and' en ler the carriage' with him.. There wqre.np passers-by, however, to conjecture his motives and actions, as 11 was nearly two o'clock in iho morning1", and" tlie 'streets were quiet. He re peatedly look out a splendid watch, and seemed impatiently waiting. lor ,pme fixed hour. I?re senily the great bell upon the aiaiehouse toUed two. A light footstep was now heard, in the distance, and a mojiient afte? a graceful woman canie tripping along, aiid approached the car riage. The young 'man who had been leaning against the tree immediately recognized .ihe figure, and stretched .out his hand to'condUci her 10 the. carriage. We will conceal tho names of the lovers no longer they were Augustus NorS and Kate Crossley: 4My deifr Kate said he, 1 hare .been; wait ing for. you half an hour-r-how vewy cojd it i!' No, no not cold on such an errantLas ours But, dear Augu-iius,, ,said JCate, changing hjr thne, ?wemus4et!mwte.d1by r jfesrov. r. (he giimnji beet! lko aajher io me, and I couldu t think of any one else ; pe ban' pr'omietj m, and tsexpectng Ms.' Oh, vewy well,' replied Hie In vet are aiure he' expects us V . Xes5: LwilLguvje dtr.eciipnslto jhsJliiktec So saying, she whispered, a word in iliria.-uof ihe driver. Whd deemed perfecilv m un'dfiStHii,! her, and' entered the carriage," followed fiySVfi gustus. : i- fJ The driver imrnedjately gave the. whip to the horses, and turning down. Chesnui,. emoted a cross street, and drove northward towards .th district of, the Northern Li'ePie. The earrjage droe op beJor 1 tie u- handsome house in the' upju'f .air o n 1 a ''V. and the driver, drsmoumMig irom th'e M'ac.' peued the door, let down the 'steps and liao-lmb ihe lady to the.pav.ejnetuu .Nobjhought hu saw the driver .kiss, his bride's little, wluie -gloved hand as. sue steppeu uptyi the curb-ioue ; btji it was'so dark he could not be. sure of" thjs. ' lie was sure, howevcr, that he was the innstimp"er liitent Btid.officiou driver he'had ever seen;and from ihe slight glimpse; he caughi of ihej Tel-: low's face, by .the Ilghtj of the street lamp. -he saw that he vvore a musiache, and was withal a Very handsome young man. It was no tiriie,' however, ( study phviogtif tay, or recent imaginary insults. The door of the house was quietly opened by some- one within, and Nob and .his. beauiiful " bride-en-lereand were shown into the. drawing-room. Thetser.vant desired . Kaje in follow her3 ipa. dressing-room, that s.he'miglu Jalt oir'her bpn; net, and intimated to. Mr. 'Niili that ihe'Rey, Mr. C would wait upon ifitri in a iniif- Niw it was a very strange-' thing- ilia't- that, same driver'who'kissRdKatelittle hand for. he actually Jiad kisBedjt instead' oXliayjiiiny his horses, as every good driver should- do, wave, them up to another, and walked into the house close after the bride and. bride-groom. Itw'as also strange that the bride kept the elegant Mr'. Augustus ISlob impatiently waiting in. that front, parlor- for. at least, ivvjenty minutes :huk the strangest thing of all was, thai .when she did make her appearance, she still had her bonnet on, as when he last saw her, and wan leaning on the arm , of a. handsome yjotmg .gentleman wearing mustaches aiid while kid gloves,twhom ihe stupified Augustus at once recognized aj the- impertinent driver, and whom the reader may recognize as Henry Willi; 1 lie arit. Mr. W lilts' polnely thanked Mr. Nob for having kindly attended his wile thither, and. assi-ting hun in bringing the afjair. to its happy i,riiii,na. lion, and added, that us he had driven the part ly timber, he hoped ihat Mr. Nob would coil'dV sceud to reciprqcate and lake ihe liox On their return. - ;$f., however, haviuggoA jh.ejcA ,fj so cruel a. fashion, felt no.inclinaiion to take the box, and in a few moments he was among, the miniiig - - 4 Hejvyas never again seen in the city of 'Broth erly LToTerr . . i . Thb'young' artiit and his heHunftjI bride n tered flfe'TaTriagH and drove to Jotir-'? lln.el where thev rema.nied until sent 'for by Mr'A.v.l M(. Crossley, whirh Jiappy uvejit occurred a daor two after. Whoever h'iiuld sue the modest and, matonly Kate utvv, with hr two beauu'fui cjiiltfren,. woiiltT hardly credit" tbe'i ry, that she had ever been" a.i-oqiifiiie.'v Trs, however, was her last arfvt-firure -1 Tegelable Leather. ' " We learn from ihe New-Brunswick "Times. lhat Mr. H. Day, the celebrated maunfael uiv of India rubber goods, has been or in.any inotchs past engaged in. experiments forihe pti'pos.e of ascertaining the value of a iipw subs'ain'e re cently discovered, called gima percha, or- vege table .leather, for various purposes, ami so w.ll satisfied has he become ot lis imporauce th-ji he has ..sent Mr, A". Q. Wycoff to ihe liilno Archipelagt't where the ar'lile ts ..tt';''. r'rh pirrsi)se of instructing the nativil u t it ,pJifi." manner of preparing it lor use oiffii.- sAV'HOtt capable o f j u d gin g ex p r e is s t h eo pinion i.t ;tie leather in others-. It. will.drmbileijt . befiise.d for shoes, machine, bands,, &c. : We have een some of the article prepared for 'book-binding, and we believe it vVill be found to be prefera ble jo any other a TTtclen 6 w ;u s e d for hai,pur- sose. Lewarn &agie. i: icr5fl Hallway Cars in Fraiic.; :h Nbthing can" be imagined more lnxurioiis;in way of seat" than a first class French car:; You sit. upon figured white silkor. dama.sk,, and cushions yielding to your iigttesi niovemepi. You have them at your side, youiiat'e them'for your Kead: Brussels carpet wi iread upbn ;Silk curtains to shut out thasun ; ;and,your tcrin-filruciioo-below is such that you, feel no jar but seem to be swimming through the air. ' Talleyrand once said that the art of pulling men in their pjper places waaT pethapsiUhe first in the scienteof jjrvertjiJienL. We tOjjtot always .succeed ; sometimes we send men to Congress whom we ought 10 send 10 the slate prison ;' and place, men on the bench; who I. t r ihu liar . mon ara uppii seen laborlouVly thuWing the' cuthioii who obght 10 gutta percha wjll be found yaluable lor varjou mechanic leV-k wipfobfb1 take the placeof India' rubber-irr. manny!ca.nHi',iaud of I w imfvi. jj.. , w-. jx.-uv.-. - " " ' " " " ';1i. iti 'Hiumh 4-: