"l((ft 1 1 111111 Ik 1 1 1' lit "tit , ciiet - v , The whole art of Government consists in the art of being honest Jefferson. YOL 8. STRO UDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1848. No. 44. 'sontoti published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars in 1 a Quarter, half vearlv and if nol paid before the end of ihe rear. Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their mners b'v a carrier or stage drivers employed by J '1 .. ,n'hn rhirrrrt 37 !- rnnts. ner veai". extra., No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except it'thc option of the'Editor. ll 411 wt . 1 : AnA cnMrivn fttvtnfltl linnet lCAdvertiscmenis nor execeumg uuct""- '" 7; ' rents for every subsequent insertion. Tlie charge lor one ami .v.illif inserted three weews ioronu ui ii.n, nnu inciuj-u three insertions uie s.uiic. ni.." - .- . adI&rA?l'etters addressed to the Editor mustbe post-paid .YOB PRINTING. Ha vine a general assorl mcnt of large, elegant, plain and.orna nicnlal Type, we arc prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Trinted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT THE OFFICE OF THE ' .Teffersouiari Republican. From the Louisville Journal. We thank our invaluable correspondent for these melancholy but exquisite stanzas. His tears are more beautiful than others' smiles : Tis coming fast, 'tis coming fast, The time when 1 slwll die, I feel Death's cold hand on my brow, His dimness in mine eye. Thete is a weariness of soul Clings round me like a shroud, The gloom of coming death steals o'er, Like the shadow from a cloud. And oh, upon the sunny sky, Stretching so far away, And the cold green woods with their music eigh, And the fountain's mossy play I often gaze and wonder if Another summer's sun "Will come and glad me with its ray Ere yet my life is done. There is a loveliness so dear In every glorious thing, la the fair young flowers just bursting forth, In the fresh and green-robed spring And the pure blue vault like an angel's home That rests o'er all on high, My heart grows sad to. think how 'soon I'll lose them when I die. N And the gentle eyes in whose soft depths I love to gaze so well, And the music voices 'round me now With their liquid fall and swell I shall lose them all like a bubble burst I shall pass from all I love And die oh, may the flower be bright And the sky be blue above. For the earth hath been a daik, dark home, With but few bright sunny gleams To light the dim and dreary gioom With the radiance of their beams ! And when I die may the sky be clear, That my spirit may float away, To the farthest realms where a thought can go Unfettered by mortal clay L And there where grief can never come In those pure free .fields of air, Away from earth and its heartless ones Its fever and its care. " - The spirit may find no spell to turn All happiness to woe, And feel the bliss above the clouds i It never knew below. Treatment of a Contrary Horse. When a horse gets in the way of being contrary and will not go forwad at all, it is common to ap ply the whip freely. Solomon says f "a .whip for j 'the horse," but he may not refer to ceses of this kind. At any rate, it is often, where thus used of j no benefit, only the gratification ofthe enraged driver. A method which we have known more j successful, is to treat the animal very kindly His contrary disposition is usually the result of having been fretted in some way, and kindness may -overcome it. Make much of him at all times. 'Speak gently to him, and so often that he will be- come accustomed to your voice. ; When he stops when attached to a carriage or a load and will not move, approach him io the same manner. Stroke the mane and put the hand frequently on the head. Means of this kind will have a powerful tendancy to overcome his stub- Jorness, as brutes feel the power of kindness. We aelieve from what we have seen that young hoises especially in nine cases out often, may besuccess' fully cured of contrary habits in this way, while the application of the whip would only increase the difficulty. " There are two things," says Mrs. Parting ton, " thai fchould be at home every evening at dark cows and women espepially if there are nursing Rabies in the bouse, The Palrairali Tree. The following description of the Palmirah tree of Ceylon, was communicated to the Wesleyari Methodist Magazine by Joseph Roberts, a. Wes leyan JUissionary on that island : The numerous uses of this tree are truly aston ishing. To proceed with order I shall begin with its leaf, which" may be taken off at the age of two years. 01 this the natives make all their books, which are in manuscript, executed witiuin iron in strument called Elluttane. The Eadu (book) is generally from fifteen to eighteen inches in length; and will endure as long, or longer, than the best parchment. Nearly all their deeds, wills, &c, are made of this leaf ; which has led government to keep a quantity stamped in every cutchery to prove all agreements made thereon legal. That the same article of which is made a book should furn ish thatch for a house, may appear strange ; but it is the fact The most violent rains will seldom penetrate through it ; and it will endure two years. All their strong mats, which are used for many purposes, owe their origin to this leaf ; as also do their sacks, or bags, in which they carry grain to the bazaar. For buckets or baskets, the Malabar is not indebted to the osier, or the oak. He has only to ascend his favorite tree ; and he is furn ished with an article to contain his -vegetables or fruit, and another to draw his water fr'drh the well. From the fibres of the stalk he manufactures a strong rope, which serves for almost every do mestic purpose. To free his garden or yard from impurities, he needs not the birchen broom ; he only takes a part ofthe leaf called Eckel, and his wants are supplied. As for a fail to refresh him, or to defend him from the bite of the fierce mus quito he finds it at once in this most useful leaf. Poor European descendants are not like their pro genitors, indebted for their hats to the beaver or the hare. This leaf forms a cover for both sexes from the weather or the sun. And to make the hat or bonnet something like (as he considers) those in Europe, about which he talks so much and knows so little, the plaits are varied in color. The Malabar's pouch, in which he puts his tobacco, ch'unam, beetle-nut, and knife, without which he would feel as much at a loss as a school-boy with out a pocket, is taken from this leaf. Of this he makes his garden-fence ; and by it is supplied with an umbrella to defend him from the sun. Themale tree bears no fruit; but the flowers when given to cow's make them produce a greater 'quantity of milk. They are also used for medici nal purposes and are said to be of an anti-febrile nature. From this tree is extracted a liquor called Kallu, or Toddy, said to be very wholesome, which is carried to the market in a vessel made of the leaf. Thus the poor Cooly is supplied with a cheap and wholesome beverage, simply drawn from na tures springs. However, it must be confessed, that he has too often recourse to his much loved chunam, which soon produces fermentation in the liquor, and deep intoxication in the drinker. The jeggary , or sugar made of this, is certainly coarse; but it satisfies their palate and their wants. Lime, used for plastering, or in good walls, is generally mixed with jaggery, which makes the work sus ceptable of a very high polish, and renders it ex ceedingly durable. From this, too, our tables are supplied with vinegar ; and the baker with yeast. If distilled it would yield good arrack. The fruit, when half ripe, is called noonku, and contains a fresh gelatinous pulp, which is much esteemed. When ripe, it yields an article of food for the wet monsoon. This preserve is called pi nalu and is prepared by simply spreading the pulp on a mat, and exposing it a few days to the sun. When it is mixed with rice-flour is said to make an excellent cake. But I must not forget to mention another impor- I tant advantage derived from thi3 invaluable tree Tne preserve 0r jrinnatu, if always taken alone, w(Juld proye t00 uscious for; the stomach; but aiflpje provjsion is made to counteract this evil When lhe seed ha8 been in tne gr0Und about three monlhs u vieids a fine bulbous root, of conical form, , inches in length, which, when boiled, is exceedingly simple and nutricious. From Jhis is also made gruel, which is administered to the sick. When the tree in cut down, the tender shoot makes a good pickle. To conclude : the timber of this-tree is consid ered, for rafters, laths, and spouts, the best in In dia. Great quantities are exported to the Conti nent. To give an idea of its extent, it needs only to be stated, that in 18U the amount of export du: ty on this article alone amounted to twenty-three thousand and five hundred rix-dollars. Having given this unadorned and minute de scription, the reader is left to make such reflections as the cast of his genius may suggest. Ope thing, I may safely say,.that piety may here find a sub ject fpr astonishment and praise. Gqpd. There is a shop kept by an old maid in Southampton, ip the window of which ap- pear ihese words, in large letters." No reas onabe offer refund." What of the Mexican War? The last thing we have seen worth reading in the newspapers on the subject ofthe War, is thq following philippic in the New York "Day-Book" of Wenesday last : The Mexican War has been Very effectually obscured by the universal interest creaied here in the new and wonderful revofulions in Europe. Mr. , Polk evidently made it principally for the sake of ihe newspapers, the news boys, and the manufacturers and purchasers of alarming "ex tras" and "fourth editions," and became popular accordingly with these influ'ential classes and powers. The war might have gone on for dog's age," without a murmur from the over taxed community, so long as it lurnihed an abundance of exciting news in an otherwise "dry time." The newspaper-reading public, the real governing power in a pure modern de mocracy, requires a regular supply of exciting news fires, murders, immoralities, and inde cencies of all kinds, "wars and rumors of w.ars," battles, onslaughts, sieges, massacres, rows, and "consideahle fusses generally." The war in Mexico was the richest gift ever rouchsafed by the American Government to a news-requiring people. It kept them in a rapturous ecstacy of delight during two years, which might', but for this cause, have passed in most oppressive dullness and languor. It is evident that this great Mexiban war s "fizzed out." There is ho more glory to has be won or claimed in U. A new victory, equal to Buena Vista, Sacramento, or Cerro Gordo, might be obtained every week without creating the least excitement here or in Mexico. The miserable, helpless inefriority of the Mexicans has long been so completely established that the recommencement of the work of slaughter ing them would cause about as much satisfaction in this country as the. announcement that the army of the Uiiited States was employed in the massacre of a legion of monkeys. The Mexi cans have found their true policy ai last which is to lie prostrate and unresisting, though still iinyelding, like a mud-turtle with head and paws under cover and shell shut up. Armies may march over them and trample on them ; fire and sword may ravage their Fields and habitations murder and rapine may have free course of desolation among them ; but there they will lie in a weakness and misery so utterly helpless and hopeless as to be beneath contempt, silently "appealing fro'm tyranny id God," and evoking even the tardy sympathies of common humanity but in spite of force and fraud, unyielding and uncoxquered still. They know that such a struggle cannot last forever, and that this passive resistance must in time he completely successful. They know that if the war is all on one side the expense must he all on that one side, and that there is a bottom to the longest purse. The annouce ment that the treaty is rejected by the Mexi cans, and that the war must be continued for an indefinite period, with inevitably aggravated ferocity, horrors, expense, and infamy, would be received with one universal groan of anguish and disgust throughout this mighty and uvicto rious" .republic. The people "have supped full of horrors," they are sick with the smell of blood from the reeking shambles which they have erected in hundred fields, from Santa Fe to California and Yucatan. The arm is weary with slaying. The pen lags in recording the stale and dull repetition of slaughters, and the silent but sure and steady leiribhtions of the pestilence on the victors. And the question soon to be uttered and felt, if not answered, is, "Who's to pay for all this?' Where is the money to come from thai is to be thrown into this bottomless pit of perOition, and senseless, aimle&s, endless crime ? If more than a hun dred millions of dollars have been spent in a two years' contest, with no nameable result but profitless slaughter and the acquisition of barren pestilential soil thai cannot produce in a thousad years enough to pay the cost of keeping it sixmonths, what mortal can estimate the monstrous expense of waging this shame ful war to the attainment ofthe avowed pur poses of its profligate and stupid promoters? It is useless a is senseless---!!) attempt to suppress or disguise lhe actual state and result of the matter. ' This nation is wursted, baflled, defeated, disgracefully defeated, in this mis erable war. No power on earth can change that result. The permanent acquisition of half the territory of Mexico would not improve the stale of the case a particle. Every square mile would be an added expense and an added loss to the Treasury. A portion of it, now half colonized by Americans, the Government now knows neither how to keep nor how to gel rid of. It sticks like the Centaur's envenomed tunic to the victor-victim. The embarrssment of the foolish creatures who tumbled the coun try into this wretched, inextricable plight, would be ludicrous if it were not so woful to the suf fering people. The history of the war may be considered as already writen and closed, though the war itself continues indefinitely. Intermediiato pages may be occupied with the tedious partic ulars, but the conclusion is, thai "it was ihe bane ofthe uation's prosperity; the deal ofjis honor, the grave, of us liberty !" Curious Antics by Mrs. Scruggiiis's Old Cow. " We used to keep a cow when we lived in Cincihnater," said Mrs. Scruggin's, " and aich a cow ! She used to come up as regular to her milk as clock work. Shi'd knock at the gate with her liorns, jest as sensible! Her name was Rose.' I never know'd lidw she got that name for she was as blaclc as a kiitle. One day Rose got sick, and wouldn't eat, poor thing, and a day or two after she died. 1 do b'lieve I cried when she was gone. Well, we went a little while without a cow, but I told Mr. S. it wouldu t do, no how wetinust have another, and he gin in. Whenever 1 said must, Mr. S. knew that I meant it. Well, a few days after he .came homo from market with the finest cow and calf that I enir seed. He gave thirty dol lars for her and the calf, and two levies to a man to help bring her home. They drove her into the back yard, and Mr. S. told me to come oui and see her, and I did. I went up to her jest as I used to do Rose, aild when I said poor Sukey, the nasty brute, would you b lieve, she kicked me! Her foot caught in my dress, a bran span new one, which cost two levies a yard, and she took a levies worth right out of it, and then how wicked she struck her head at me. -1 screeched right out. Mr. S. jumped and caught me jest as I was dropping 1 wasn't quite as heavy then and he carried me to the door, and I went in and sot down. I felt faint ish, I was so abominably skeered. Mr. S. said he'd learn her some manners, so he picked up the poker and went out, but I hadn't hardly be gun toget a little strengthened up afore in rushed my dear husband, flourishin' the poker at the wicious cow; who, with her head down and tail up, was running at him like mad. Mr. S. jumped into the room, but before he had time to turn round and shut the door, thai desp'rate cow was in too. Mr. S. got up on the dining table, and I run into the parler. I thought I'd be Safe there, but I was skeered so bad that 1 forgot to shut the door, and would you b'lieve it, after hooking over the dining table, and rolliti' Mr. S. off, in she walked into the parlor, sha kiu' her head jest a.s much as to say, I'll give you a tetch now. -" I jumped up on a chair, but thinkin' that not high enough, I got one foot on the top of the large brass knob on the Franklin stqve, and pui the other on the mantlepiece. 1 was safe there she could'nt reach me. You ought to have .seed that cow in in our parlor she looked all round as if she' was 'mazed. At last she looked in the large mirror and saw another cow, as she thought, exhibilin' passion like herself She shuck her head and pawed the carpet, and of course so did her reflection, and would you b'lieve it-, the orful brute went right into my mirror the big new one I had only had two months. I boo hoo'd right out. I s'pose she thought she heered the call? for she ined toget oui, and in going round the room she poked her head. into Mr. S.'s book case no doubt she smelt the calf skin covers. All this time I was getting agonized. The brass nob on the stove g i so hot that I had to sil down on the narrow mantle-piece and hold on to nothin.' I dassiut move for fear I'd slip off. Mr. S. went round to the from door, but it was locked, and he then came to the window and opened it. I jumped down and run for the window, I hadn't more than got my head out afore I heered her com in' after me. Gracious, but I was in a hurry ! More haste less speed,' always, for the more I tried to climb quick, the longer it took me ; and would you b'lieve it, jest as I got ready to jump down, that brute of a cow caught me be hind and turned me clear over and over out of the window. Well, dear, when I got right side up,' as they put on lookin' glass boxes, I looked up at the winder, and there stood that cow, with her head jest between the red and white curtains, and with another piece of my dress danglin' on her horns. " Husband and me was jest startin' for the little alley that run along side of the house, when the cow giv a bawl, and out ofthe winder she came. Whiskin' her tail about, it caught fire m the Franklin stove, and it sarved her right. Mr. S. and me run into the alley in such a hurry that we got wedged fast. Husband tried to get ahead, but I had been in the rear long enough and I wouldn't let him. Would you b'lieve it, that dreadful chw no sooner seen us in the alley than in it dashed, but thank goodness it stuck fast loo. Husband tried the gate, but it was fast loo, and there was nobody inside the house or yard to open Mr. S. wauled to climb o,ver and unbolt it, but 1 wouldn't let him 1 wasn't going to be lefi alone again with that desp'rate cow, if she was fast, and so i (old him. 1 mauo him help me over the gate. Ah, dear, climbin' a high gate when you are skeered by a cow, is dreadful, and I know it. 1 got over, let husband in, and then it took him, and me, and four ofthe neighbors, to gii lhat dreadful critter out of ihe alley. She bellowed and kicked, and her calf hallowed to her, and she bawled back agin, but we got her out at last, and sich a time, ah, deHir -J. had enough of her. Husband sold her for tvveniy dollars i ho next day. it cost him seventy-five cents to get her to market, and when ho tried to. pa&h one of the five dollar bill he got would you b'lieve it--the nasty rag was'a counterfeit. Mr. Scrgins said to his dying day, that, ho b'lieved the brother of the man that sold hint that cow, bought it back agin. I b'lieve n helped to worry my dear husband to death. Ah", child, I know what cows is " . The old lady's ag-itation was so great at this point of her stor'y, that she dropped a stiiclP m her knitting. St. Louis Reveille. A Hard Case. The Bostor Saturday Rambler tells the fol lowing good one ? " A poor jolly weaver, in this city, not many years ago, had a fortune left him by a distant and wealthy relative, who ' went off'ihe handle' rather unexpectedly. When the news came to the poor fellow, as he sat clickei le clack at his loom, he stopped still, and said : " Well, 1 suppose I must spend the money straight" The fortune, some twenty odd thousand dol lars, was duly realized and duly spent. For two brief years did the poor weaver travel, make merry, and riotupon all the luxuries ofthe land. ' But two years did the job, and he returned to his loom" as poor as a church mouse, but as merry as a cricket, and worked away again for his daily bread, perfectly satisfied with the good time' he had had while his fortune lasted. His friends called him green, but he laughed at their gibes, and worked the harder. In a twelvemonth's lime off popped another rich rel ative, and the news, post haste, came to the jolly weaver lhat he was again ihe possessor of a handsome fortune. Stopping his loom and looking sorrowfully on the letter, he despond ingly said : ' Good heavens ! is it possible that I must go through fill that again ' A llich Joke. A ludicious scene recently occurred in a small chapel situated in one of the secluded valleys for which West Cumberland is celebrated. Tho minister, who was a man by no means adverso to the enjoyment of lhe good things,of ihis.wotld, was engaged in catechising the juvenile portion of his flock, and on putting ihe usual question, '.What is thy name:' to the girl that stood highest, a strapping girl of thirteen the only daughter of the village Boniface, received no reply. ' What is thy name V said the minister in a more pe remptory manner. Girl. 'Nin o' yer fun, par son ; ye kna me neame vera weel. Duon't you say, when ye're at our house on a ueet, ' liet, bring me another pint o'yell V ' It is needless, to say that, notwithstanding the sacred naturn of the place in which they were assembled, tho congregation was on a broad grin. His rever ence looked daggers. The Republic of Liberia. The existence of an Independent Republic of Free Blacks on the continent of Africa, com prising a population of 80,000 souls, including natives who have been incorporated into the Colony, is one of the most remarkable phenom ena of modern times. The above estimate of population is given by Governor Roberts, in his Inagural Address, Jan. 3, 18-18, and is no doubt essentially correct. In this growing Colony, which now extends 300 miles along the coast, the English language is that which wilLuliimately prevail, and is already spoken to a great extent. The free calored men of tho United States, and even their white Abolition brethren, after abusing the Colony without mercy, for many years, are beginning to look upon it with a considerable degree of favour, and will probably become in due time its fast, friends. Why should they not? They profess to be the friends of the colored man and the world does not afford another example so hon-. orable to his character, and so cheering to his hopes. They profess to abhor the slave trade, and this much abused Colony has done more to repress lhat trade, lhan the combined Na vies of Eangland, France, and the United States. They profess (some of them) to love, the religion Of the Gospel, and this Colony doing more to spread that religion, in its purity over ihe benighted regions of Alrica, than all other human instrumentalities put together. Having become independent, it will, for tho present, become less an object of jealoqsy tu the enemies of thai Society at home and abroad. The practical wisdom of the colonization en-, terpnse, and the far reaching sagacity and ber nevoience of its founders, now begin to atqnd out in bold relief, and as that lulani Republic shall expand Us frame, extend us influence over the whole African Comment, becoming alike lhe asylum and the glory til the free colt ored man ; even Garrison, or his descendants if any there be, will be constrained to confess lhat hostility to African Colonization, is also hostility to the colof ed rate. Journal oj Cow merce. ' A Hydropathic institute ha$ been established at Parkeville, Gloucester county, N. J., about ten miles south of Philadelphai. Oiie peculiar attrac-r lion it offers, is that of being in the midst of tho pines and cedars, and what is known as "cedar water" in Nesv Jersey has a balsamic property especially invigorating to the consumptive.
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