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The Public Works.
The fact that, according to an intelligent
contemporary, thus far in the present season the
canals and railroad of Pennsylvania hare not
,nore than paid expenses, if they have done
ihat, presents an appropriaie subject for news
papers comment. Governor Shunk's message
to the Legislature last year held out the pros
pect, from an anticipated increase of revenue,
of the creation of a Sinking Fund for the grad
ual reduction of the Public Debt. It slated the
amount of tolls received during the year to be
$1,581,757 87, being an increase of $286,081
Jl over the receipts of the preceding year.
They were estimated to amount thja year to
$1,700,000, which the message said there was
'good reason to believe wan rather below than
above the amount tvhich will be received."
On the basis of such and similar estimates, the
Governor calculated that the permanent revenue
of the State would how an annual surplus over
expenditures of half a million, which, he thought,
could be increased in a few years to a million
that in twelve years it would pay offover six
teen millions of the State Debt, and that then,
viz : 1862, the revenue from the Public Works
alone would more than pay he interest on the
twenty-three millions of public debt remaining,
and "relieve the people from all further taxa
tion for that purpose."
How stand the probabilities of the realization
of the estimates of the late Executive, enquires
the contemorary above alluded to I lo this
enquiry a very pertinent answer would be af
forded by a statement of the tolls collected on
the Public Works during the current year in
comparison with the last. None such has been
made, and this fact authorizes the belief that
there has been a heavy lalling off" in the Canal
and Railroad revenues. The interest on the
State Debt was recently paid, hut with what
funds? Principally, if not solely, from, the
pockets of the people by taxation, and coaxed
nut of them at a very early day by the induce
ment of a deduction of five per cent., on the
amount. The money collected on the public
works has been, at least in great part, consumed
--
in keeping mem in oraer ano paying me m-
ficers employed in their superintendence.
Therefore, we are authorized to say that the,
t 1 .1 Z .1 .r I
public works of the Stale have not been a source
of revenue the present year. Unless they can
bo rendered more profitable, policy, inieres.t,
erery consideration of duty, suggests their sale
en terms corresponding with iheir literal value.
A late number of the Philadelphia Ledger
iiotice'S a Recline in the receipts at the Col
tiecior's Office on the Columbia Rail Road, in
'that city, since lhe 1st of December last, of
J$19,969; and irul adds that "corresponding
decrease of revenues d all the other officers
on the public works will how a heavy agre
.gale." In view of this stale of iiiiigV lhe election
of Ner Middleswarth as Canal Cumis-ioueY
next October ie highly desirable. We1 Jieed liis
ound judgment, correct knowledge a:'d pwcti
cal -economy to give increased efficen T a,d
.-siicoeas to lhe management of the Slate vorh.
Ponble Cause for Grief .
The editor of the Pawtucket Chronicle, who
'had recently ah opportunity of saying good-bye
to a lovely young lady of his town, who had
that day "committed matrimony," and was on
the eve of departing for her new home i the
South, was Kurprised to find at the depot some
ilfiy of the fairer portions of the human race,,
"like Ntobe, all tears," and could not. resist the
temptation to ask what the matter was. He
was politely informed by one in Hhe secret, that
a part of the young ladies were shedding tears
of regret at parting with a much loved associ
ate, and the balance were crying because they
were not married too. Boston Courier.
An elderly gentleman travelling in a sl&ge
coach, was amused by the oonstnt fire of words
Ifept up between two ladies. On of m.eni at
last kindly inquired if their conversation did
not make his head ache, when he answered
ub a great deal ornaivpte, "No ma'ara, -.have
been married twenty -eight years.
STRO UDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY,
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Small Beginnings.
Despise not thfe day of small things. This
sentence contains wisdom and philosophy as
well as scripture. It is very easy and natural
to smile at small beginnings ahd humble means,
but it is not always wife to db so. It is better to
commence on an humble scale, and come out
in good siile at last, than to suffer a severe col
lapse after an extensive and ridiculous nourish.
Some men will do better with a capiial of six
pence, than they would if half the fortune of Astor
had been given them to commence with. We
have heard it told of a man worth his millions;
that he commenced by selling fruit at a street
stall. We have seen boys at school roll a
handful of snow upon the ground, till, by its ac
cumulated matter, it became so bulky, that a
dozen could scarcely move it. Sands make
the mountain, moments make the year, drops
make the ocean ; and so, little endeavors, ear
nestly, unceasingly, and honestly put forth,
make the great men in the world's history.
We say, then, don't despise the day of small
things. If you have an undertaking to accom
plish, or a good thing to bring about, begin ac
cording to your means; and never be discharged
because you cannot make so magnificent a
commencement as you could wish. Old King
John, the Frenchman, five hundred years ago,
took it in his head to found a library ; and he
began with what do you suppose ? ten vol'
umes. But he knew what he was about; for
that library the Royal Library of Paris is
now the most magnificent library in the- world,
and contains 700,000 volumes.
A whale one day came frolicking into the
harbor of Nantucket, a short tiuie after the first
settlement of that island, and as for many hours
it continued there, the enterprising inhabitants
were induced to contrive and prepare a large
barbed iron with a strong cord attached with
which they finally succeeded in securing this
aquatic monster. A small matter, truly ; but
it was the commencement of a buisiiiess which
had added millions to the wealth of the people
the incipient introduction to an enterprise'
which nearly three-quarters of a century ago
extorted a noble tribute of admiration from Ed
mund Burke, on the floor of the British Parlia
ment.
Two fishermen in Holland once had a dis
pute in a tavern, on the question whether the
fish takes the hook,- or the hook takes the fish.
From this trivial circumstance arose two oppo
site parties, the "Hooks," and the "Cobble.
Joints," who for two centuries divided the na
llont an(J maintained a contest not unlike lhal
between lhe red and white roses in England.
There is a traditionary counterpart to this
in our own history. We allude to the story of
the pig, whose siupid obstinacy, we are gravely
told, involved us in a war with' Great Britian,
in 1812. There is nothing incredible about it,
however, and, as most of our readers are too
young to recollect the anecdote, we will ven
ture to repeat it. "Two neighbors both of the
old federal school of politics, who had lived in
the city of Providence, chanced to quarrel.
And so it happened, one was the owner of a
pig, who had an irresistible inclination to per
ambulate in the garden of lhe next neighbor. -
The owner of the garden complained of the
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pig-sty being insuittciont 10 restrain me pig,
and the neighbor replied, it was all because he
kept his fences in such ill repair. The pig
was taking his morning s walk when he was
surprised in rooting up some very valuable
bulbous roots ; this was the last "feather :" the
owner of the garden put a pitchfork into his
tender sides, and killed him outright. At the
coming election, the owner of the garden was
a candidate fur a seat in ihe Legislature, and
failed by one vote, the vote of his incensed
neighbor, who voted againt him. At the elec
a i
tion of a Senator, the Democratic candidate
was elected by one vole and when the quea
lion of war with England was before the Sen
ate, it was declared by the majority of one
vote so that but for this pig we should have
been probably saved from this war."
It is related of Chantrey, the celebrated
sculptor, that when a boy, he was one day ob
served by a gentleman m the neighborhood of
Sheffield, very earnestly engaged in putting a
MiirL- with a npnknifR He askud I hp. lad what
iirt was a dom? : and with great simplicity the
btv replied, "1 am cutting old Foxs head."
Fmt was the schoolmaster of the village. On
ibis th e gentleman asked lo see what he had
done anu pronouncing it to be an excellent
likeness, presented the youth with a sixpence.
This may be r ec'koned as the first money Chan
trey ever received ine proauciion oi ni
art v and from sucU' Beginning n was mat
arose this greatest of n-oam trusts'.
Again we say, despise Jiot arnall beginnings,
nor look with supercilious contflmpi upon eve
rv'thiiiff which aoDears intign:"1 nd iri-
'fiing. Trifces are pt s plenty K fis world
as: some; people imagine. 4 philosoier has
observed thaA wars, iiivplvinginisphief lo' great
nations, have arisen from a ministerial despatch
being written in a fit of indigestion I When
Alexander Pope received, his preseiU of Tur
key, figs, he little thought that a twig from the
baslcete was Jo be ihe means of introducing the
weeping willow into Europe and America, So
is ifra war JPde UP 4 g"?4 bv trl'
fles, at first too small to attract notice ; and the
wise man will not only cultivate, ahafp. eyes,
but attentive habits, making the most and , the
best of every thing, ahd despising'nriihing small,
but small souLs. ' .' . '
Singular Complaint j '
A New York correspondent of the "Newark
Advertiser gives an account of a malady; for
which there is no provision in modern pharma
copoeias, ahd which is very preVelent ifi Cer
tain quarters, of trie great city. We re'g'rei to
leSrn that it has been introduced into Boston,
and that at many of our neighboring watering
places it is tne reigning disease.. The follow
ing diagnosis is furnished by the correspondent
to whom we have refered :
It resembles fainting somewhat, except that
lhe sufferer i not actually deprived of strength,
but only thinks so. While lhe delusion lasts,
however the difference is unimportant, and the
consequences quite as bad. So heavy is its
pressure as to take two horses, sometimes four,
to remove the patient from rine place to another.
And 'tis not the feet only ttiat are paralyzed ;
but frequently the hands are unable tp do.any
thing all day long, but to agitate a fan, or curl a
whisker, except at meal times, when a super
natural energy is imparted for the nonce.
When this disorder assuits a laborer of me
chanic, he is not long for this world. Hes fegs
are too feeble to support him in His daily walks
of life, but strong enough to carry him to a poo r
house, which be would be sure to find, were it
a thousand miles away.
This dangerous malady seizes its vistims
every where ; but in cities most of .ill. New
York is crowded with the sick. When indi
viduals are struck by it in the. country; (bey
lose all strength immediately., The hoe. and
spade drop1 from their weak grasp, and the
plough is left in lhe middle of ihe furrow,. Up
to town the hasten for those popular nostrums,
the infallible goosequill and yardstick. But
these by ho means cure them : they merely
serve to turn th'e first violent attack into a chron
ic; fingering atrophy. From fitting counters,
some become counterfeiters ; some go to the
wars, $s volunteers, others involuntarily to Jhe
Tombs, some spend their master's money; some
(heir own ; some get wives; others forget them;
a portion fancy that tjte Elysian fields are sit
uated somewhere on the Jersay shore, and so
6ross the ferry to Hoboken ; wfrile a bolder
class take passage to Hell-Gate direct.
What is the' name of this scourge of the face 1
The French call it Id pareist. The vulgar-
English name for it is laziness.
frail Fishing.
The genus catfish has its wonders as well
as other portions of the animal kingdom. In
theso regions the "catfy" is a nice little fish
some six at seven inches irf length,- which be
ing deemed fine eating, suffers a most unmer
ciful persecution from little boys al'id sunburnt
men wiih ''lay-out lines," "dipsies," and a multi
tude of hooks. Out West, in ihe great rivers
which roll their turbid waters to the Gulf of
Mexico, the case is quite different.. Thre the
"catty" is a perfect monsier of a fish, and is
rather shunned than sought for. His ferocious
horns or fins make him a regular waier porcu
pine. Sometimes, however, he gels, caught
unexpectedly. The Lousiville Courier tells, us
of a case in point. A Scotch gentleman was
lately angling in the Ohio river at that-city,
with a small line, when all at once the line be
began to disappear, and both the pole and the
fiisberman had a tendency to follow suit. The
angler tugged away like a good fellow for
about half an hour, and finally, with some as
sistance, brought up the "gudgeon," which
proved to Jhe a blue catfish weighing fifty-six
pounds and with a head on him as large as a
peck measure. The fish was hauled home on
a dray and divided out among the neighbors.
Judge in Oregon. We understand that Mr.
Turney, one of the new Judges for Oregon,
declines ihe appointment. He has a govern
ment office in Washington, and is unwilling to
give that up for the ermine in Oregon. A Mr.
Hall, brother of ihe Hon. Williard P. Hall, of
Missouri, is spoken of as likely lo reeeive the
appointment in his stead.
White Huckleberries. A. friend, says the
Boston Traveller, has brought us a bush of white
huckleberries, to match the white blackberries of
which we gave an account from the Portsmouth
Journal on Saturday. The berries are ripe, but
white, with a tendency in a few instances only to
rosy cheeks. They were found in a lot in Ipswich,
belonging to Captain Michael Lord, quietly frater
nizing with the blacks, but without any symptoms
of amalgamation.
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marriage Extraordinary.
AtYienna, a gentleman aged 86, without legs,
was married to a lady aged 70, without arms.
Room for 3fore.'
Washington Runkles, Esq., of Carroll county,
&f4- has "on mature reflection, come io'the con
cliijpa to sopport the man that never-surrender!.,"
Gen.. Zacijary Taylor., jiewaaiatlea
din JjOcOj J
SEPTEMBER 7, 1848. ..
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: . Fropi the, PUts farg Commercial Journal.. i
Col. Wynkoop in Clicks County.
A great 'hieetingf1 of the ifeffiocracy of Bucks
County1 was held at Doyjest'own pn Saturday; Au-,
gust 5th. Arnong th'e hero.es" present Was he oi"
the softie upon some ladrones" Col. , M.
Wyhkbopi' We copy him verbatim etliteratirfl,.et
punctuatim, ci seriatim; it is characteristic and
capital so transparent a piece of imposure that
reyeti so profound, an ass as Wynkoop might have
stbn that it could not.conceal his real motives and
design. He says':
" Our brave men -looked- to their friends at home
for approval and encouragement for the sacrifices
they had made. What did they find ? Instead of
'approval, bitter hostility dnd fierce' denunciations
almost preparing the gunpowder which was to
destroy us."
Now, this is simply a wanton, gratuitous false
hood " a lie of the whole cloth." This hero of
the " ladrones" cannot lay his finger upon the
Whig riewspaper. deser.ving of the name, through
the length and hrechh of this Union, which exhib
ited " bitler hostility," Or any hostility, to our sol
diers in Mdxicb. We challerige hirri to name the
single instance in which " fie'rbd denunciations,"
or ahy: denunciations were uttered against our sol
diers in .the .field, or volunteering for the field eyen.
We denounce it as an invention of Col. Wynkoop
-a. mean, unmanly, subterluge to cover an aposla-
cij which he finds it difficult to,, explain, and des
pite. all his twistipg; it wil still wear an aspect at
which decency will revolt from which honorable
men. must draw conclusions' fatal to Wynkobp's
character. . ;
, The .mbstbiiter and unceasing, opposers of the
war,' confined their " hostility" and "denuncia
tions" to its authors the Polk administration.
Perhaps we have gone as far in execration of this
war and its plotters perhaps have indulged in as
sharp denunciation of the wickedness and the
meanness, ihe almost cowardice of the Govern
ment, which precipitated this war, as any Whig
ediiop in the United States. Yet who will or who
can say, that we ever dropped an unkind word to
the soldier in arms at his country's call. So far
as in them, lay the Whig press gav.e them aid,-gave
them the keenest sympathies, rejoiced with them
in success, grieved with them iri their suffering,
privations and toils, and gloried in their brilliant
achievements.
Arid all this Is to be interpreted by d false arid
shallow demagouge, into 1 bitter hostility' 'fierce
denunciations' of the soldier fn the field, simply
because we did not like the corrupt aspirant for
promotion, .shout po?ans to Pplk: Dallas & Co.,
while "we praised and caressed and honored the
Soldier. Pshaw. I the matter is beneath argu
ment. But we have another point to make against this
redoubtable-Col. 's veracity. It is a very homely
but an old' saw, that 4 liars should have good mem
ories,' and Col. Wynkoop is an illustration of the
necessity of that faculty in cases like his.
In, the speech we copy, the Colonel attributes
his conversion to Demopracy to Mr. Clay's
speech at Lexjngtpn,' which he found. in a Span
ish newspaper at Puebla.' Now it happens to be
very fresh in our memory and we shall make it
very fresh in his before we' are done with him, that
in the letter in which he announces his conversion
to Dembcracy, he attributes the change ahriost di
rectly to a copy of a paper with an article from. the
National Intelligencer which he captured " in a
sortie upon some ladrones."
Now it is. a very small matter whether Colonel
Wynkoop was converted to Polk by a thirst after
promotion or by a disgust , with Henry Clay's
speech or by the ' anti-war practices' of the Na
tional Intelligencer, but it is'of consequence that
a man who assumes to arraign the whole Whig
party and asperse their motives and conduct, shall
be convicted of starting his accusations upon a lie,
however trivial the import of the lie.
. And we shall examine his facts a little further.
Col. F. M. Wynkoop tells the Democrats of
Bucks County : :
But the crowning act of all, which drove the
last drop of Whig blood from me, was Henry
Clay's Lexington speech. And where did I read
it? In good Spanish, in a Spanish newspaper at
Puebla. And from the moment I read it, my
Whig principles were trampled in the dust, so help
me God, forever." (Great Cheering.)
Mr. Clay then, is made responsible for this mo
meritdus defection from 'the Whig ranks, and we
are to believe that, but for this brilliant but mis
guideel statesman, the Whig party would still have
been permitted to rejoice and prosper in the friend
ship and support of Col. F, M. Wynkoop Mr.
Clay is ancj has been held resppnsipje for many
unaccountable movements of politicians and trim
mers whp found the mere association of his great
name with their dirty tricks sufficient to conceal
or qualify their own turpitude and treachery.r
CoU E. M, Wynkoop's case is po exception to the
rule, and we arqjglad to relieve Mr.' Clay . of the
guilt of having been, either Immediately or remote.-'
No. 8.
ly, the cause of this valorous gentleman's aban
donmerit of the Whig party.
On the'9th day of September, 1847, Col.! F.;,M.
Wynkoo'p wrote a letter from the Castle of Perote
to, Francis W. Hughes, of Pottsville, which was
published in the Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia. , In
this letter Col. Wynkoop takes occasion to an
nounce kis abandonment of the Whig-party and his
accession to the Democratic ranks.
7:he Pennsylvanian, in publishing this letter, of
September 9th, we wish the reader to mark the
date, among other remarks makes the following :
"fCol. W. was a Whig at home, but the con
duct of the leaders and the organs of the Federal
party, in their aid and comfort1 of the enemy, has
been so glaringly unpatriotic, that it has convert
ted him into a good Democrat while. abroad."
And the Colonel, for himself, in th3 letter, in
denouncing the " Whig leaders and supporter."
and threatening a most diabolical future of re
turned soldiers' wrath upon them says, that he
came into the country " a Whig in policy," but he
had " again and again been compelled to listen to
and suffer that which must have changed the dis
position and alienated the affections ot the most
determined partizan." And he says that, what.he
captured in his " sorlie upon some ladrones of Ja
lapa" was, some Mexican newspapers " of ihat
place,'' in which he finds ' the strongest argu
ments published against our army, were selections
from Whig papers in the United States." He
adds " I send you a copy of the 4 Boletin de No
ticias," in which you will perceive that the first
articleJs an extracrfrom the National Intclligen-
cer.
And in his postcript he givas the world1 to-
understand that his renunciation of Whig princi
ples, and the Whig party, is complete and perfect,,
and intended for the public eye. The P. S. reads:
4 You may publish this if you please. I have be
come so disgusted with what I have seen that I
have no care lor the consequences which this kind
of truth may produce.'
There we have Col. F. M. Wynkoop out, and
declared a renouncing Whig, received and adopt
ed, intd the Democratic ranks, a full blooded Dem
ocrat, by his deed of the 9th of September, 1847.
Mark the date.
Now he claims before the people of Bucks coun
ty that it was not until he read Mr. Clay's Lexing
ton speech 4in Spanish," at Puebla, that' hft
4 Whig principles were trampled in the dust, so
help him God, forever !" Most unfortunately for
the colonel's pious attestation of the date and
cause of his.apostacy,Mr. Clay's Lexington speech
was not delivered until two months and four days
after the date of the published letter in which he
had once before, 44 so help him God forever" tram
pled his 44 Whig principles in the dust."
Perhaps the Colonel will be ready to agree with
us now that 44 liars should have good memories,"
for he will be put to the inconvenience of finding
sOrrie other apology for his apostacy, than Mr.
Clay's .Lexington speech, the date of which - will
not allow it to be used on this occasion.
We repeat in dismissing the Colonel, that it is
of small consequence indeed, what was the offence
which, 44 so help him God, forever," led him to
treat his Whig principles so rudely as to trarnplr,
the little he had in the dust. But it is as we ha .-e
intimated quite another affair, and of positive con
sequence to us to be able to prove thatan.occ user
of the Whig party at large and of the vene rated
names of its 4 leaders," Clay and Webster,
is guilty of wanton falsehood, and in "no wise
worthy of oredence, as he is certainly "unworthy
the association or confidence of honorable men.
A Cat Story.
A good many dog stories have been going the
rounds of late, but we do not remember having
met with a good cat story until the following,
which appears in the Adam's Transcript, and
which in justice to a numeraus and sometimes much
neglected class, merits a general circulation:
Last SabbatVi a motherly old. cat,, belonging tp,
one of our citizens, left her little family in quiet
repose, while she went forth in pursuit of some
thing to eat. On returning, she found them quar
relling. She then very deliberately took the one
most eagerly engaged in the combat, by the nape
of the neck, and not seeing any convenient place
near by. to administer what she considered salu
tary reproof, went to a neighbor's wood-house,
where she found a tub of water, upon the edge of
which she raised her feet, and dropped the kitten
into the water. She resisted all attempts at es
cape, and after repeatedly sousing her in the water
till sufficiently punished, she took it again by the
neck as before, carried it hack again, doubtless'ra
thorough repentant, for the wrorg:it had done.
There has been no contention in the family
since.
A Good Name.
An individual whose name was as bad as his
personal conduct, applied recently to the Maine
Legislature, to have his cognomen changed. ;ln
presenting his petition he said he was not partic
ular as to the new name which might be awarded
to him, but he hoped that the Legislature wouloV
give him one that would go at the Banfa,
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