i A. -A .- v mi STRO UDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA.; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1848. ' VOL 9- 'No) U Mz, l ix it sjii 1 1 1 ui i ? ic.y mm it it l mi. : -sr-w : f ;.,- r ; - ' i , The whole art op Government consists' in the art of being honest. Jefferson. ' ' 'v-' " 5 ' aiV TERMS-TWO f-&nd ifVnaid before the end of ,d a quarter, hi -J a half T1J,fe who receive their the year, Two aoiw. . enployed b. lhc proprie- papers ay j.o cdnts, per yeur, extra. . Noapcw isSinued unUlali arrets are paid, except at the opuu.i not excecdinff one square (sixteen lines; irec Imsertions the sam. advertise-. tri (he E(f;tor rifast be post-paid. JJ7AU IW"" inr i ccneral assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna IIaT,nCmenlal Tvpc, we are prepared lo exAtute crfery mem .v , dnscriolionof rards, Circulars ftill HeadSj olfeif Blank licceiptsi JUSTICES, LEGAL AND' OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. printed with neatness and despatch, on-reasonable terms," AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jefferson ian Republican; From the Trenton State Oazite Rough and Ready Song. Tune iDandy JimS Our country calls, once more' tor arms, To save your workshops and ydor farm; Old Rough and Ready mak'tfs irri 'call, The invitation's to you all. Let Palo Alto be our cry, And on the breeze Resaca ny lTill Buena Vista's deeds repa The conquerer of Monterey. The Empire State with noble pride, Has placed her Fillmore side by sijle To run the people's race with Zack, So Cass and Butler clear the track. Let Palo Alto, etc A sound more welcome thari the" rest, Lights up the prairies of the West ; 'Tis Ashland's thunder bursts away The well-known voice of Henry Clay t Let Palo Alto, etc. Now in the dark and troubled night A star is seen on Bunker's height ; To guide the. old' Whig army homeV The tribes of Dan united come. Let Palo Alto, etc. Our gallant Scott brings up the rear His burning 3oup the Locos feat ; . Their old reserve can- ne'er escape -The deadly aim of Taylor's grape. Let Palo Alto, etc. Our harbor boys vrill wheel about, tflt And help to clear the Cass-cade ouI & , 'Chicago's letter' they will read, -i : . A snag him in the hour of need.: ! ' Let Palo Alto, etc ' :- - The people say Cass has been dully. , Since he surrendered under Hull,J?, t, And with that sword he , broke in twov A Mevican,- Brave Pillow slew. (. Let Palo Alto, etc. .... When starving1 Iceland cried for food .Cass like his native granhe stood ; .t He dreamed ihV.day was far remote,, . , Ere he would-want the .Irish vole. r . Let Palo Alfo, etc. Cass rides a Foote by DonkeVs ierJM' Polk has a .Pillow for his head ; . A.nd should Jhis Buckeye Bashaw fail. He has a Cushing for his tail. Let Palo Alto, etc. The sov'reign people will ltso, Old Sack must to the white House go For that hich station he was made, JHe never wore the black cockade. Jjet Palp Alto, etc. A Coiiffres? n Honeback. "Ireaenus," of the New Wrk Observer; writihg :from White Plains, mentions thav the, provincial 'Congress of the State-oCNew York, zajlned 'the city to. meet there two days before the Z?.eca" ration 01 inaepenoence. a ne memoers perior.raeu the journey, from iNew Yoidto White Plains on horsefcacki the President, Van'Cortlandt, riding in front of the 'procession. On the joufney, an ex '.press rider from Gen. Washington overtook the 'body, with buisinestf that required immediate ac tion whereupon the Prsideut called the Conven tion to order, and Ijeld a session on horseback, sever! resolution being.duly passed, andUhe buis- Jiness done in :an -orderly mannerr . perhaps our vongresi, migm,De,mq)med,wh advantage . to the country. ,: ,0?".. Qone Pasc.--i. beautiful pair repently appeared before a Justice of the Peace i n Illinois, to be married. "Do you take this man to be yoyr lawful husband V Jjaid 'the justice. The la lifted upherjblushjngpuntenance, and jthery touching accents replied: Weil.l doesl" t 'Ki.ried three weeks for one .dpi ar,, ana ieiiijr,-u Svsutequent instrtion. .Thfecharge or one and A iiuerai quscouih iiirtuc w j ... .. . . . , jMml The Five Points. FrornjseTiousffkeicbes oft Ne.Wv?York, published in the Thbune, we take the follow- Tufhihg eastwardly from the tombs into a street ih'at would strike even the practiced eyes and hardenad olfactories of a veteran New Yorker as particularly foul and loathsome, a few hieps bring us to the great central ulcer of wreichedness the very rotting Skeleton of Civilization, whence emanates in inexhaustible pestilence that spreads its poisonous .influence through every vein and artery of the- whole social b'ystem, and supplies every heart-throb of metropolitan life with a pulse of despair. No matter how hopeful a soul you may bring with you into these horrible precincts, it will be manv hours after you have left them bbfore your mind can regain its temper. The mem ory of the horrors that here breed and gender will haunt you like a fiend, forbidding hope for a human nature that may become thus degra ded. Mere words may convey but a faint idea of the Five Points ; but what can be thus accom plished has been so well done already by Dick ens and Willis that we hesitate to attempt go ing over the name ground. But no description b' f?ew York, no matter how discursive or su perficial, could pass b'ver this, one of its most prominent and revolting leatutes. v As in most other cases, the architectural aspect of the place is a striking indication of its character arid pur- poses. 1 ne Jf ive roints lies in trie ooitom 01 the Delta valley formed by the divergence of Centre and Catham streets, and received its name from the five corners or points where Anthony street, coming from tlie' west; afid Oiange from the north, intersect and are cut through by Crossst, running ftpm the Tombs eastwardly to Man street. The buildings in all ihat neighborhood are nearly all of wood, and are so old find rotten that they seem ready to tumble together into a vast rubbish heap. Many of them are furnished with steps from which half the stairs are missing, and each provided with a decayed cellcr door, broken' from the hinge's, and ready ui precipitate any one who ventures to tread upon H iiffo the cel lar below. Nea'rfy evefy house atld celler is a groggery below arid vrothel above. In the doors and at the windows may be seen at rfhy hour of the afternoon or evening, scores of slut lishlv dressed women, in whose fa'cea drunk enness and debauchery have destroyed every vestige of all we expect in the cOumenan'ce of woman, and even almost every trace of human expression. They are of all color, white, yel low, brown, .and ebony back ; and from house to house, from cellar to cellar, and across the narrow street, flows a continuous stream of obscenity and blasphemy, which makes the very aoul shudder Here and there, digging in the foul gutters, or basking in filihy haked nes upon the celler doors, may be seen groups of children, from the merest infancy up to the verge of premature puberty some seeming pretty, 6nie deformed and idiotic, and others horribly ulcerated from head to foot with that hereditary leprocy which debaucheryiand licen tiousness entail as their curse upon their inno cent ofTtpnrjg. Oh God t that helplesss and unconscious infancy should thus corh'e into this sorrowful world wiih i is innocent veins rilled with corruption instead of blood, and its tender bodv given over to the cancerous vulture of in curable disease even from us mother's womb! Arid1 this is not once in a" great ways, but c6ti-sta-iniy recurifing scores aye; hundreds and hundreds of them crowded info tho epace of tf single neighborhood born,' living and dying, Sffffd sores and vermin, never seeing nor hear ing frtfrn" the cradl to the grave aught of pure or innoce'rrt save the sky so far beyound their reach, and the wind that gets astray in these frightful, realms and sighs as it flees away. Is it any wortder that we have so many cases of -i ,"-. ... "Juvenile aepravny reporiea in me newspa pers 1 Dul let us enter one of the6 dark abodes. 'We liafe taken the precaution of etiirig'our selves accorrrpined by art ofircer' amf the blue eyed inmates' of the '''crib both1 malea'rid fe male, receiverJ-us with' some show 6f reluctant civilny. It is in the afternonand many of tli'e inhabitants and frequenters are absent. The reception room is furnished, with wooden benches, and one corner is garnished with a bar behind which, barricaded1 With broken lipped bo.':'e8 ana sixpenny tumblers, staritls the bloated misti"8 ,ne house, ready to admin isier drugged brjndy at "any price, from three cenis to a dollar a gss, according to the stage of intoxication at whici the customer has ar rived. Half a dozen disgusiJng wretches who ought 10 be women, are loung'ing upon the benches in immodest attitudes, while others 'gather around you and insist Pon you ",rea" ting" as ihey "haven't had a dipp all day." The jofBcer seems to be an old acquaintance ; and .they at first played shy, until' he assured them that ihis visit was not a'hostile on. Pas- sine through' the house, we stumbled down two- or ihree ncKety steps anu enter a sun meanei and nwre rqualtd' building in the. rear. with only ,jx feet space between he two: jTr all ! silent, "and w? see no one. . . 'Jo bap' 6f'rag, however, stirs in the corner, and .examining more nearly, there appears a female facej.ghast-' lyVith sufferings, 'the eyes glslssy krif set'iri death, tlven while we gazejthe jaw falls, and, with a gurgling imprecation, the spirit' of tlie prostitute seeks lis Maker. What a death-bed ! What alii awful entrance to the world of immor tal justice! Clambering with difficulty up a nrirrow stair case, leading from the room where the stran ger's hand has closed the eyes of the ppdr. er ring, 8titefing sister, we enter an apartment separated by tattered blankets, suspended frOm the low rafters, and inhabited by severaj fami lies. Here a mother lies dead drunk in her squalid bed upon the floor, and her two children are fighting over her bddy for the bottle 'which' she may not have drained quite to its dreg. There two women,' their eves inflamed and their faces distorted with passion, are swearing furiously at each other,. and threatening a war ol blows. londe er, on f a cot .without mattress orpillo.wV lies a paralyse old t woman! looking in If living and malignan't eyes h'ad be.en given to a decayed wax figure. Our companion tells us that she has lain in th.!;lt p'ldce,' and In nearly the same condition, more than a duanerofa century, praying lor deailf cursing lor death blaspheming .for death' to come and end her earthly sufferings. Once ah'e was beatiful and joyous and innocent, and her voice rang, and her eye flashed gladness around her1 path. She had a husband; too, and a ofafling daughter. Her husband was poor, while she naa oeen oreu in spienuor ana extravagance. The -girlish romance, in the height of which she hdd eloped with her poor lover," subsided in a yedr i in anotherthe hero-lover had, become the haled husband. Her passion for dress and aumitauon, suoaueu so long, oroKe out airesn, and with ten-fold force. The rich lecher, on the hunt for spoils, found her, and she became a willing victim to vanity more than lust. She was bea'tuiful and fascinating, and her paramour desfred her all to himself. There is a break in the history h'ere. Hut at any rate her hus band disappeared, and she dashed out into a brief Season of guifty pleasure. Some said the poor man had been inurdered, and others that he had drowned nuns elf. IJuf nobody ever made any discoveries of if they did, they were bo'ughioff. The woman was deserted in a few monthi---v7no could be faithful, to' iUcH a mon ster ?-a'nd fefl rapidly through' all t'her stages of prostitution, to end her miserable career amid the tortures and haunting memories of a living death. Such, in brief words, is one of the ten thousand heart-rending histories of the Five Point s. But we must descend to the street. It is night, and the thick and putrid atmosphere of the place is here and there illuminated by a sickly lamp, while the street begins to fill with row dies, negroes, drunken aailo'rs, pickpockets, ourglars, and vagabonds of every description. It is Thursday ntghi, and a grand 'tear' is to he held inr that large and rather aristocratic-Iooli-irig celler over the way. We will be on hand. Pah !' vhat an intolerable stench of brandy; tobacco, and steaming carcasses, meets lis at the top of tho steps ! But never mind ; we, have undertaken' to see the Five Points and we must not stop at trifles. The room looks like a large dimly ligtiied cavern: On a barrel by liie side of the bar, sits an" old negro, tuning his fiddle, while the dancers oh the floor have juit iakeu thetr pla- ces. Away they go a fat and shiny blacka moor with his arm around the waist of a slight young girl,' whose skin is yet' White and fair, but whose pinned cheeks and hollow,' glaring eyes tell how rapidly goes on the work, of dis ease and death. Opposite tins couple, a man naked aa at ihe first moment of his birth, whirls shouting and yelling away with' a brutal looking, woman, once evidently a queenly beauty. The other places nut he cotillion are occupied by a' no torious krackman with his 'parcelebrated 'toucher.'-both of whom give our friend the of ficer a good natured oath' and a wink of recog nition, and a stupid looking sailor,' more than half seas over, carefully watched by the hag who is to pick his' pockets, and who' never loses' sight for an frista'nt 6f her prey. A'round tlie sides of ihe room in" blinks, or sitting upon wooden benches, the remainder Wait impatient ly there turn upon (he floor meanwile drink ing a'nd telling obscene anecdotes-, or signing fragments of ribald songs. This is the grand dance house of the ive Points y atoll we have now seen enough'. Glad at leng'ih to esea'p'e' fro'rn all these hVf rors, we hasten away, asking of oursefvfis, t)bw is such a neighborhood kepi up, and from whit sources are the ranks of its female population recruited ? But this touches the whole ques tion of licentiousness, and its.causesj which we have left ourselves no. room to dmcuas in the present number. Superfluities. What man, in his righi senses, that has where withal' to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities"? What does that man' waul, who; ,ha rib'ugh ? Or what is he jbe better for abutidance, tha.1, can never be saUtneij i f. Scientific Farmins. ' A. correspondent of the National Intelligencer yiyca me luuuwiug ui;i;uuut r"aouit?-t3spenHenis inape in r arming dv rroiessor in apes, wnicn we have an idea will be interesting to some of our ag ricultural readers. Professor's farmps' near Newark, New jfsa?; and coritains bnlv 'fortv a- cres. The inieiligencer's correspondent, who' "0ri drir arrival wfe' were sedted awhile-in the Professor's snug parlor, where he gave us; a gen eral account of the farm, the hature of the soH,- the sources and the mode df procuring, preparing and applying manures, the effect of various clfemical action in the composition of manures arid their in fluence; u'ppri vegetation.. In short,, it waslan ad mirable chemical lecture applied to agriculture. He then took us over the farm" td'see what he had done and what he was preparing to do. A.t the. barn we found two yoke of .lie handsomest and most powerful working oxen 1 have ever seen. Wliere did you firid sufc'fi Rattle !" ' t called a nia'h to niy airi who was a first rata judge of a'rilm'alsV and told .him to go ou' and look for th'em, directing him to bring me two pairs o t the bpst ox"en he could find between New York Bangor, xegafdless of trie exp'ense." The result was that h'e brought back these cat tle at a'rjouf' two -hundred dollars a yoke, " and cheap enWgh! at thaV" said the Professor. One pair weighed ab'o'ut 3,$0() pound's." VVe then went ttilo the field to see them plough?,' and the eae with! which they took the plough thronghthe soil semed more little the work of a powerful stearri engine than of animal powef. The first yoke cut a furrow sixteen inches in depth. The next yo'ke followed with the subsoil plough in the sme fur row, cutting.and loosening the eaith sixteeju inches below the first furrow. The Professor s&ys deep ploughing is very important for large, .crops. Some of his ploughing is thirty-six deep. His system of preparing and applying manures is sci entific and important, and judging from present appearances he will produce remarkable- results: The science of a succession o'f crops in the same season, without impoverishing the soil is of vast importance. The Professor says that from a sin gle acre he shall take off this season eight hundred bushels of potatoes, three thousand five hundred cabbages,' and six hundred bushels of turnips ;: which must be worth five or six hundred dollari at the lowest market prices His crop of cabba es this season he calculates at eighty thousand heads. He has a new -variety of potato, which h'e calls the nutmeg potato, of which he expects to raise this season' eighteen' hundred bushels, which' will be disposed of M seed at one dollar a bushel. He calculates that he will have, a hundred and twenty thousand nutmegs-melons for market this season, which certainly ought to average two cents apiece, and at that price they would' yield twenty-four hundred dollars. There is on thafarm a great variety of other vegetables and crops' to which I make reference. Unlike most farmers, he does hot leave a s'trip of waste land along by the side of the. fences, but cultivates every inch' snug' to the fence. Against each' post in' the fence he sets out a fruit tfee, and midway between the posts al grape-vine, which, as' it runs and spreads, will rest oh the fence. In this way he will soon have three, miles, of grape vines and fruit trees oh ground which ordinary farmers would let run to" waste. He uses his farm like a great machine of wonderful pbwers, if pro perly a'nd scientifically handled. He emploV.s upon it about twenty h'ands, but says in a high state of cultivation it wonld give employment to' eighty Goldsmith says, in that sweet poem, the De serted Village' . " A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rod of ground maintained its man." But I think Professor Napes ii hi a fair vVay of proving that in this country a rod off ground may 'be ma'dj to maintain quite a number of men j and I hope he will do much to convince our farmers that scientific farming is of more importance to them than great numbers of acres." . ' i A WctV Invention'. Ve witnessed a machine, just built by Mr. Sam uel H. Little, of this town, the inventor of t'fre cel ebrated horse power, which is designed1 fotiirash ing, separating, a'nd cleaiisfh'g ai'n afl at the same time. The machine 'fs constructed upon the most simple principles, and' will,, we tliink, super sede' all other thra'shfn'g rriachines riow in use. Bem' free frohi'the complicated Works with whfch others tfre'raahufafc'turedi this machine is not liable to become disordered as they afre, which Wifl'be a great' desideratum with farrters and others using thrashing machines It will take from' the sheaf iw6 hundred bushels Of wheat, and . prepare it for the mill in one day, with the aid' of but seven hands. Hagerstoan Herald, 4 Wagoner's Toast. -"Jha Fair Sex :;', ..The Jack-screw of the United' States'.Uhcf the' Wheel horse of al Creation.7 ' d From the Sfate Gazetted ! Rough and Ready. r ' . . r Come all ye Whigs of Jersey;- A story I'll relate, About ihe Hero who was borri 'Twas down at Bueha Vista - . He foughl the livelong day; Nor rested 'till the Mexicans,' BiMo wards, fled away.: Oh, Rough' and Ready; Ybii'fe brave,1 true and steady,1 : I if "il-Vn.il c;vnV,l 'off ftrirrkf 5 1 . tt &ttL r - s Waved ifi the fight, 'Till the foeman ran away. There Jances glittered in the sunrj'lf There soldiers fiercely frowned; But Yankees they do figt for fun, Anil bravely stood their ground They fought thSt tlay, they fought the rieit: H or our country s starry flag, Till the order came from Taylor's lips,1 "A little more grapei Captain liragg'"' Oh, Rbugh and Ready, etc. ' Ut Then terror seized the Mexicans, . f f K , They turnded," and basely fled, ' We chdled therii off the battle.field,.. f: By gallant Taylbr led ; . ,tl And oli, the. memory of those days, , ift.& . On history's page will glow, ft. When Taylor, with four thousand men; 4 Gave Jesse to the foe ul- OH, Rough and Ready, etc. ' 1 Proper Depth of PEatitiiijj WheVtJ i From the 113th page of the Report of the Com missioner of Patents we take' the following" ex" tract : " Experiments" have been tried with' respect to' the ticpth of planting wheat. M. Moreau, of Par is, formed 13 beds,' in which he planted 150 ker nels of wheat ai various depth's. The result wa3 as follows : No. No At the depth of Came up. of Heads, of Grains'. 7 inches 6 1-4- " 5 Sf-4 " 4 i-4 " 4 l-4: 3 3-4 " 2 3-5 "" 2 1-2 " 1 3-4 ' i 1-2 " 53 140 174 400 700 992 r,417 1,560' --ll,590 1,660 1,561 529 107 682 2,520 3,818 8,000 16i500 T8;534 35,434 34,'349! 36,490 35;826' 35,072 iO,5S7 14 2d 40' 73 :M 123 130 "j140 142 137 63' On the surface, 20" 1,600 By this experiment the maximum as the num'-' ber that came up was 1 3-4 deep, the minimum at' 7 inches ; the maximum1 of the number of heads was also 1 3-4 deep, the minimum 7 inches ; but the maximum of the number j)f grains was 2 inch--es deep and the minimum 7 indies deep. The range from 2' 3-5 inches down to 1 inch, varies in those that come up only about 20. for the extrcrrfes of maximum and minimum of the heads 243, of ihe grains 2,'331. Between 2 1-2, 2 and I inches of those that came up, there is only a difference of about Iff at most ; of the heads only 30j of jhe number of grains, 1476'. Looking- at it; hoivever, in another light,, we' may rate the depth of 2 inches as best, then 1 3-4; then 2 3-5, then 1 inch, then 2 1-8 inches. After inches, the falling off of the product is 1-2;' from 1-2 inch to the surface it reached to 9-10. " Where there may have been extraneous causes influencing, the difference between 2 3-2 inches and 2 1-8 inches, which seem to vary from the general rule ; but.it may doubtless be considered, so far as this experiment?, goes, that the' grain should not be sown at much greater depth than' -inches', nor nearer tha'a I inch from the surface". The dYfference to be allowed should respect this season, the nature of the soil, &c." TWo Coal Marked The Philadelphia Ledger says : "The price o'f coal was never lower in this5 city than at present. In consequence of the production of the mines be ing greater" than the demand', there is"' an overstock, and it is" believed that the article can be bought at prices'below the cost of mining and transportation. The consequence is that' many families hafti be gun to lay in their winter stock, and" the retail or ders are greater than ever known' at this season of the year. But what benefits some ruins others, and the1 rAmers and large' operators are becoming embayrr'assed ih4h'eiVfnaiices by the. troubles rh' the money market. We heard yesierday of the failure of a large coaf operator to a considerable' amount, and perhaps" more may be expected. Ol Keep your enclosures in the best possible" repair. If a post rot3 off, supply its place with1 another; if your stone wall gets prostrated, lay it up; if a gate gets broken or thrown from. its hiri- ges, let, it be immeqiateiy repairea or repiacea ; this is tlie true pblicj;: w ' l - .' y PI it' is i 8 i r J Lis ft - i mi Mi 1U
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