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IE7All letters addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna menial Type, we are prepared to execute every description of XT Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, JSIaiiR Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Trinted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jeffersouian Republican. Speak Niagara. Speak Niagara, .And tell the date of thy mysterious .birth Art thou covel with our mother earth, And, has each new-born year that's past and gone, Listen'd with awe to thy tremendous song, Since first the sun his boundless light reveal'd Or earth within her lengthened orbit wheel'd. Speak Niagara, And tell the wary atheist of a God, TThat waked thee from oblivion with a nod, And raised from earth on high, thy chast'ning rod, To crush the impious wretch that mortals laud Avho daies with sophistry and art proclaim, '"Idle chance," gave birth to all that beings name Speak Niagara, And let the hoarse anthem of thy wrath be heard, "While thou dost thunder forth the Almighty's word. Those, whose impious tongues his name deride And bid them in earth's dreary caverns hide, .Nor dare again, their treason to unfold, 'Gainst him from whose embrace creation rolled. Speak Niagara. Uplift thy own sublime and awful voice', Bidding the glorious light of truth rejoice", Till error's dark, relentless chains are broke' And god-like reason from her trance is woke To bind no more with fetters fast and strong Immortal spirits to atheistic wrong. Russia and the United States. The two most extraordinary powers of the present day, the two nations which bid far to survive ihe crumbling dynasties of Europe, and to divide between them ibe empire of the world, j-are Russia and ihe United States. Compared io theii future destiny, each may be sard to be -in the infancy of its years. A greater contrast could not be presented than is found in the character and institutions of the people of these icountries. On the one side, is general ignor ance, the rule of a single man, absolute, un questioned, irresistible. On the other, twenty one millions, who, in the language of an elo quent orator, are at once the sovereigns and the jubjects. The population of Russia is fifty-four mil lions. Her debt, compared with that of Eng Jad, France or Aaustria, (and if the Mexican -war continues, we fear we must add the Uni ted Slates,) is a small one, being but a trifle over sixty-three millions." Her capacities for wealth and power is almost unbounded. She is equal to our own country in agriculcural re sources. From some portions of her territory she can supply bread to a starring world in others, she can raise cotton, and in others pour forth a flood of precious metals from her mines. This vast empire is under the control of a sin gle mind. The fifty millions of Russians act, move, and almost think as their JEmperor wills The ship of State is a huge fabric, but a single liand guides her helm and controls her fbrmid'a hle batteries. The Emperor is supreme. The present ruler is fully imbued with the enter prise, energy and go-ahead spirit which distin guishes our awn" countrymen, and has ihe pow r, which he' is exercising wiih the moist in domitable determination, of making his people adopt those plans of improvement which have so rapidly developed the riches and the power of this republic. He has surrounded himself at home with' wise counsellors; he is represen ted abroad by the most acute diplomatists. His foreign and domestic policy is directed by a caFmy sagacious, and resolved' spirit. 'Bui all Despotism--An politics, education, Religion, ther '8 ssls bulone mQn Asince hang6k 1)er inili,ution9 an advances slowly in her march of reform, Russia clings to the past, and becomes every day mote stubborn and and unalterable in her principles, knowing no change, save in the rapid development of her onward and steady progress of annexation. On he other hand is the United Slates, with a population of twenty-one millions ; with the mosi unbounded freedom of thought, action and religion; with a national energy that has as ibnished ihe world, with agricultural resources beyond all calculation ; with a military spirit and courage which may compare with the mosi heroic nations of antiquity or modern times. We, too, know how to annex, to "ex- lend the area of freedom;" and achieve our ''manifest destin" This spectacle arouses some grave reflec tions. What will be the ultimate fortune of these empires 1 Will the renuhliean and ilio g - J ft W monarichial principle one day come in armed collision ? What is to be the fate of Europe between these millstones, Europe, bowed to the earth with financial difficulties and nation al debt, and rent by the conflict between king ly prerogative, and ihe cause of popular liberty? Champagne Wing. This wine takes its name from the Province in which it is made. It takes much labor to prepare it from the juice of the grape suitable for market. It costs much money for bottles and corks, many of the former breaking during ermentation. Ten per cent, breaking is not regarded as a loss, because the wine is con sidered belter and rises in proportion. M. Jaqueson, a wine merchant of Chalons sur Marne, it is said has cellars in which he erments his wine; more than a mile in extent. He alone pys for corks yearly $30,000, which is S5000 more than the salary of trio" President of the United states. What all the wine mer chants of the Old Province of Champagne pay for corks would defray the salaries of President and Congress ; and what all the wine growers of France employ for that purpose, would pay all the expense of the government, iucluding the Mexican war. A bottle of this wine in ihe Province of Champagne can be bought for about 40 cents. Now ihe jolly fellows of the United States they get the best of this wine to drink. Why shouldn't they ? The following fact's will show them the chance they have of drinking pure wine. With a ticket a piize can be calculated on with more certainty, than the purchase of a bottle of the wine pure from the vintage in this country". There are 32,000,000 of bottles of false champagne every year sent to Russia, about as much more is sent to England,' and fully equal to that quantity to the United States. There is a company in Paris, who make natural cham pagne wine. They take poor chabliSf for in stance, sweeten it with candy, refine, it, and then pass it through an apparatus which char ges it with carbonic acid gas, and in fifteen minutes it is ready for the market. Immense quantities are also made from cider, by the employment of all sorts of drugs, and in England a great deal is made from gooseberries and the stalks of rhubarb. It is not so good as the genuine, but nine out of ten of those who drink can't tell the difference ; and it will make them just as drunk, and give them the same horrid head-ache, and why then is it not just as valuable 1 True, some poisonous drugs are sometimes used in the fabrication, but none perhaps, worse than afcohof. The annual production of France in this ar ticle of Champagne wine,- is about 50,000,000 botiles. The annual consumption of the world in the same time, is 300,000,000, sO that 250, 000,000 of false wine goes down somebody's throat,- is a clear case. At Campania, in ftaly.the vintagers, if is said, let themselves to pick the grapes from the trees over which the vines grow, on condition that if ihey fall and are killed'.jheir employers pay the funeral expenses. If such an agreement was made by ihe drinker with ihe' vender of wine in ihe Uniied States, the trade would be any thing but profitable. Newark Advocate. We were much amused a few days since wiih a little boy, upon whom his mother was inflicting personal chastisement'.-" Give me two or thVee licks more, mother, 1 don't think!! can behave well yet.' Fact f ' Horrible Cruelty to a Sioux Girl. H. R. Schoolcraft, Esq., author of " The In dian in his Wigwam," &c, vouches for the authenticity of ihe following painful and unna tural events; which occurred during ihe fierce predatory war carried on between the Pawnees and Sioux Indians. In the month of February, 1838, the Pawnees captured a Sioux girl only fourteen years of age. They carried her to iheir camp on the west of ihe Missirouri, and deliberated what should be done with her. It is not customary lo put female capiives to death, but too make slaves of them. She, however, was doomed 10 a harder fate, but ii was care fully concealed from her, for the space of some sixty or seventy days. During all this time she was treated well, and had comfortable lodgings and food, the same as the rest, enjoyed. On the 22nd of April, the chiefs held a general council, and wheh-in broke up, it was announ ced thai her doom was fixed, but this was still carefully concealed from her. This doom was an extraordinary one, and so far as the object can be deduced, from the circumstances and ceremonies, the national , hatred to their ene mies was indulged, by making the innocent non-combatant, a sacrifice to the spirit of corn, or perhaps, of vegetable fecundity. When the deliberations of the council were terminated, on that day, she was brought out, attended by the whole council, and accompa nied on a visit from lodge to lodge, until she had gone the whole circle. When ihis round was finished they placed in her hands a small billet of wood and some paints. The warriors and chiefs then seated themselves in a circle. To ihe, first person of distinction she then hand ed this billet of wood and paint ; he contrib uted to this offering, or sort of sacrificial chari ty some wood and paint, then handed it too' the next; who did likewisej and he' passed it too the next, untill it had gone th'e entire rounds, and each one had contributed some wood and some paint. She, was then conducted to the place of execution. For this purpose ihey had chosen an open grassyglade near a cornfield, where there were a few trees'. The spot se lected was between two of these trees, standing about five feet apart, in the centre of which a small fire was kindled, with the wood thus ceremoniously contributed. Three ba'rs had been tied a'cross; from' tree to tree, above this fire, at such a graded height, that the points of the blaze, when at its maximum, might just reach to her feet. Upon this scaffold she was compelled to mount, when a warrior at each side of her held fire under her arm pits. When this had been continued as long as they sup posed she could endure ihe torture, without ex tinguishing life, at a given signal, a baud of armed bowmen let fly their darts, and her body, ai almost the same instant, was pierced with a thousand arrows. These were immediately withdrawn, and her flesh then cut with knives; from her thighs, arms and body, in pieces not larger than half a dollar,' and put into little bas kets. All this was done before life was quite extinct. The field of newly planted corn reached near to this spot. This corn had been dropped in the hill, but not covered with earth. The prin cipal chief then took of the flesh, and going to a hill of corn, squeezed a drop of blood upon the' grains. This was done by each one, until all the grains put into the ground, had recefved this extraordinary kind of sprinkling. This horrid cruelty look place in ihe vicinity of Council Bluffs. Offers to redeem the life of the prisoner had been made by ther traders, rn a full council of eighty chiefs and warriors, but they were rejected. The original narrator was an eye witness. He concludes his description by adding that his wife's brother, a Pawnee, had been taken prisoner by the Sioux, in the month of June following, and treated in the same manner. Tritely, it rfiay be tfaid that ihe precincts of ihe wild roving Red Man,-are " frill of the abodes of cruelly." An Excellent Invention. . &om6 wag of a fellow, it appears, according to the Scientific American, has invented " a patent muzzle for tom-cats." This is designed for night wear being so constructed that tliey can't squall when they have it on. It is placed over a cat's head and a strap lever passes from it, and is buckled to the hind leg. When the cat opens its mouth a spring, which is passed up under this lever, flies off its axis and lets down- ihe cap, whibh conceals a spur this spur operates aggravaungiy oq trie kuii, ariu causes an immediaieploihg,of,fihe j;iws,3and provents tjig escape of ihe u(T;usive nobe. A Sensible Girl. ( Some years since, a young iady, remarkable for her maturity and good sense, daughter of a distinguished lawyer and Member of Congress from Worcester county, was placed at a young ladies' boarding school, in the neighborhood of Boston. Her unaffected manners ,ahd upright ness of character soon attracted the attention, and won the affections of many of the young ladies, who were full of their kind offices, until one day th'ey inquired the occupation of her father. Our fair friend perceiving the (Irift of their inquiries, gave ihern to understand that her father was a, shoemaker ; when many of them were struck with horror at her low and vulgar origin, and a change was at once pre ceptable in their conduct towards her. She, however, though fully understanding them, re mained quiei. After a while the father bf the young lady visited the school. $s he was a good looking man; arid as they observed 4that the principal and others treated him with great deference and respect, the scholars were led to inquire of their instructress who he was, and what his business, and on being told that he was the father of Miss H., and that He was a member of Congress, they were filled with a mazement ; and immediately made the attempt to renew their attentions as formerly, but it was too late ; she looked on their conduct wiih such perfect contempt, that iHey were obliged to eep at a respectful distance, while those who had treated her wiih kindness, without regard to her father's supposed occupation; were ever after, her favorites jlay the time soon come when modest worth shall be a standard of re spect, whether the individual is rich or poor, learned or unlearned a member bf Cbngress or a humble shoemaker. A Itoyal Cake at Windsor Castle. The English papers publish a description of the Twelfth Night Cake served at Windsor Castle on the sixth of January. This cake is a chej d'quvre in pastry, and the confectioner who made it must have called to his aid sever al artists who were not of his own profession. About the base of the cake afe placed a large number of Chinese figures interlaced with allegorical devices ; birds and animals, t the top rises a circular temple of classic architec ture with columns I the floor of the temple is of ice and imitates a basin of water ;' under the cupola are suspended with light movable threads a large number o'f white and red fishes which are reflected in the waier at the bottom of the temple, and which, moved by some ingen ious mechanism; seem to live and to' swim In this water so perfectly imitated. The tem ple is surrounded by imitations of rdeks, in which, a music box is concealed, and on these are arranged twenty Chinese figures playing different instruments and very skilfully m'ade. By touching a secret spring, the music com mences playing and ihe Chinese figures, set in motion, beat time with their heads with perfect precision. The cake is more lhan three feet in diameter and more than four feet high. It was admired by the whole court. Courier des Etats Vnisi Death. Death is a mysUery. We know we Bh'all ere long close our eyes' on all sublunary objects; but the time and the manner of our death we cannot forsee. Here one falls in His full strength, while another has beeri languishing for years. The aged are passing by, and the turf is upheaved for ilie young and beautiful. Our neighbor fdlleth by our side, just as we learned 18 appreciate his worth. A friend sinks ?ri b'uf arms, as we take him to otrr bosom. Yet these instances of mortality fail to leave suita ble impressions on our minds. We follow our friends to the grave, antf turn as anxious as ever to engage in the business and turmoil of life. To-morrow we forget the pleasant smile and cheerful voice, and put far away from our minds the thought of our own mortality. Thus are we blinded ; but little as we dwell upon it, the day approaches when our voices will be hushed, our eyes closed, and our lips refuse to do their office. Blessed ahall we be, if we live for another nvorld, hy cherishing right feelings of ihe heart, and living" void of offence before God arid man? 4 - Gen, Koajney has .jiassedon to. the South ; probably under orduts for Mexico, . Tiie Striped Pig" Outdone: The scene of the following humorous sketch is laia in Portsmouth, N. H. We were, not Kware thai the people of thb old Granite- State' dtd uch things. ,lIs the Cape Ann stage in?" inquireiLtwri gentlemen of the barkeeper of a hotel in Ports mouth. " iTes, siri' was the reply. " Two back seats inside;" , said one of the gentlemen,, and immediately both left the room: In a moment after a single geileman came J' The Cape Ann stage in V1 inquired ho. " Yesj sifj" said the barkeeper; " One back seat inside," responded the gen tleman, and walked into the side room. In this was several entered, some engaging back seats inside,, some two bf three took front seats inside, and One man took an outsid'd Seat.' , , I remarked to thb barkeeper Ihdt there wak a great deal of travel on the Cape Ann Mute, bbserving at the sarrie time thdt it was a little strange that passenger should prefer the stage to the railroad ; besides how do you find t6 many back seats ? The barkeeper looked shy.-put his fingers id his nose and winked I was a little susptcldlis before; but at this manceuyre I knew there was a mystery, -end determined to find it bill; com menced questioning him. He looked; wise twisted himself a little, and said : Then you don't know the secret ?" . t " No,".said I, " but I have a great curiosity' 10 00 so" A gentleman who entered; overheard the last bf the conversation, and coming up to me said; " Friend; I'll lei you into the secret, but bV fore 1 cari do sb.ybu must engage a seat." V.Very well," said I. He wetil up to the bar and enquired of rife what seat I wbuld prefer. I replied that as the stage was pretty well filled inside- i pre ferred ah ouiside seat. We went into the next roorri where several were drinking and sat down. Soon, a waiter came in bearing a glass of brandy and water, and one of lemonade, The mystery was solved, the secret brought td light, and I was astrJiiished. So many back seats inside were so many glasses of brandy and waier (strong ) The front seats inside were, so many glasses of girt and sugar. The two outside seats were glasae's of lemonade, one of which I wds furiuhate enough to choose. Soon after this discoveiy the iravfel bh that route began id fail. The cold waie'f people broke it up entirely. . ( Americanisms in lioiidoii. n A London correspondent bf the New Hav'gn Register, in describing the norelty of the rjlace states that lih is no uncommon thing (o -see posted in the streets " American cheese, lard,'1 &c. u American empty flour barrels," Qoro bread, with the corn stalks sticking out o? the window tb show that it is real Simon Ure. l5T 1 o K tt A m orinn n knn'f o " W . L. t , xii, ixmwiiv.aii uuuio, ui uuuia ui3.de on trie American plan, and " American overshoes," and " American clacks," and las, though,- not least, " Baby-Jumpers." Theae have, as yet, created the greatest sensation of any thing from the land bf steady habits. They.have been ap proved by the physicians and the press. Even the Times newspaper the thunderer a3 ii is called thinks them a very useful article j and Tuitle, the inventor, is acknowledged by alf to be the great lion of the ciiy. His extensive store in ihe Strand is crowded by his numer ous customers, and the street and side-walk in front are blocked up by the curious gazers of all nations. It is said he is to be appointed " baby.jumper" manufacturer to her Majesty, Vne Queen who has been graciously pleased to accept as a present the beautiful Jumper ex hibited rit the Fair of the American Institute, and is in raptures at the delightful recreation it affords the little members of her household. Surely this is a wonderful era in the history of our country when a single Yankee can set a whole nation, princesses and all to jumping it should be honor enough for any one man. Grafting Grape Tines. In Hovey's Magazine, a simple mode of grafts ing grape vines is described, which in substance is is as follows : Cut off the vine below the surface of the earth; split the stock as in clefi grafting ; lei the scion be of one years wood with two or three bods, make it wedge shaped, and insert it in the cleft; if the cleft does not hold it sufficiently firm, secure ii by bind ing it tight; draw the earth over the whole, leaving the second bud from the top uncovered; take off all the sprouts from the stock and sci on, except one, and train that as usual. We think those who have unproductive, or wild vines, would do well to try this method. The lime is after the vine cease to bleed. It is said that in' Arkansas a three story house, means -pig-sty on the :floor, -Jleasdin the -bed,, and.a rowfof. fowls resting on a stick above. ""fx.- 1 r
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