Icffcrs0tit iff ,-'t The whole art of Government consists in the art of being ho'rest. Jefferson. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1849. -AT. 0. No. 26 - .hdlars per annum in advance Tv o dollars id a qn' :,nd a half. Tliose who receive their e Litit t - .-rcKHM1 lining ciuniui.uuf iiiv Kn can'-- J - - a ... r, will be en d imtU all ;irreurages are paid, except the: ?P"?!L,Vnts not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) l ir u-i" . r 'rt' "v.;wV?orl.nn dollar, and tuenty-nvc 'iryUsequent insert insuriioii. iiietn.n5- A libcraldiscount made to yearly insertions the same rertiseis. Alllctwrs ; addressed to the Editor must be post-paid ia;n'aiAH"'" demotion of circulars. jraeu.u, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. p ..tcJ itH neatness and despatch,on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffcrsonian Republican. The Soul's Defiance. I caid to Sorrow's awful storm, That beat against my breast, bnc on thou may's! destroy this form, And lay it low at rest ; !ui still the spirit, that now brooks Thy tempest, raging high, ,. ludaunted, on its fury looks With steadfast eye. s?s 1 saiil to Penury's meagre 'train, Come on your threats I brave ; My last poor life-drop you may drain, And crush me to the grave; Yet still the spirit that endures Shall mock your force the while, f - And meet each cold, cold grasp of yours With bitter smile. 1 Mid io cold Neelect and Scorn Pass on I heed you not ; Ye may pursue me till my form And being-are forgot ; Yet still the spirit, which you see Undaunted by your wiles, Draws from its own nobility Its highborn smiles. I said to Friendship's menaced blow, Strike deep my heart shall bear ; Thou can'st but add one bitter wo To those already there, Yet still the spirit that sustains This last severe distress. Shall smile upon its keenest pairi3,- - And scorn redress. 1 said to Death's uplifted datt, Aim sure oh ! why delay ! Thou wilt not find a fearful heart A weak, reluctant prey ; -For siill the spirit, firm and free, Unrufled by this last dismay, Wrapt in its own eternity, Shall smiling pass away. The meanest Case yet. The City Item contains the following excellent hinrr in ifc? mi - -"O' " "J Some years since, when money was scarce, and " " . w J JttQ vat? UVWW lit V J frAUWWf man named Jones called into the grocery and ry goods store of Mr. Brown, and asked for a arnmg needle offering in exchange an egg. Af- Cr mu;.:.. . 1. II. T "Come, sir, ain't you going to treat?" "What, on that trade?" inquired Brown. " Certainly a trade's a trade, let it be big or title." "Well, what will you takeV "A glass of wine," said Jones. The wine was poured out, when the sponge aS, -"would it be asking too much to request you f uu tg ikiisj fiiiiv a. am tj iuuu Ji Appalled by the man's meanness, the storekeep r took the identical egg which he had received the darning needle, and handed it his custom- r who on breaking it into the wine-glass, dis overed that it contained a double yolk." "Look here," said the sponge, "don't you think wu." in. lit w i i i j mrrt n w ri k j a m n m iiT'ii Mr iiuufiio a. HIS you see w a double egsri" A Challenge A litile fop conceiving him- eli insulted by a gentleman who had ventured u 6,re him a little wholesome advice, strutted P to fcim with an air of importance saying : Sir you are no gentleman here is my card ; firn4 - t r i 1 1 UC1 yuurseii caanengeu. Shou Id 1 be Jum home when you honor tne with a call, I to" leave word with a fripnd irehminaries to your satisfaction." lu which ihe other replied--" Sir you are lool- here is mv carrl rnnsiH I'1' ed, and should I not .be at home when vou tall on me, you will find that I have left orders my servant to :kick vpu ituo the street." From the New London Aurora. Soinetliiiiff about Printing. Wo live in an age and in a country wherein it would be almost considered a proof of luna cy, or great temerity at least, io say that print ing is nut the most useful of arts. That the an of printing" is like salt---" it is ihe proaer vanve of all aria" seems to be a position con ceded by all civilized communities where its benefits have been diffused with either an' un sparing or stinted hand. That it has facilila ted the march of improvement, spread abroad and propagated correct principles, heralded forth l he principles of Christianity; carried civ ilization, the arts and knowledge to heathen lands, and that it has elevated man, shown him what he is and what he ought to be; besides conferring numerous other invaluable advanta ges, no one who is cognizant to its operations will for a moment doubt. But the intention in commencing this article was not to eulogize ihe art lor iho benefactions it has conferred upon man, but for entirely another purpose. Common or letter jiress printing, such as hooks, newspapers, &c, is carried on by a large number of fonts of typos, every one of which costs money, labor and ingenuity to fit for use. A type of long primer size, although it is but eleven twelfths of an inch long, one seventh broad, and one fourteenth thick on an average, still costs something. It is said that there are but two or three men in the United Stales who can make the matrices in which types are cast ; so peculiar, complete, propor tioned and uniform must the work be done. The letters are principally made of lead, mixed with other metals in order to harden it suffi ciently w,hen cool, while at the same time those other ingredients caused the fused composition to fi;Il the most tenuous crevice of the matrix completely. For every sized type, and differ ently shaped types and there are more than three hundred shapes and sizes of each letter in our alphabet in use new matrices have to be made, and each with the same exactness, or the font is defective. In Roman, each let ter has to be made three limes large and small capitals, lower case, saying nothing of points and other indispensable characters. To giv some idea of the number of characters and letters which go for a font of types, it may answer to state that there are two cases as the printer terms them. The lower case, contain ing all the common or smaller letters, with the figures and points for punctuation, double let ters, quadrats this case has commonly 54 boxes, and every one is o copied. The up per case, containing the large and small capi taU, and numerous marks and characters which are m common use ; and but two or three of ihem are unoccupied. Thus it seems ihe type founder, in order to supply a common font of Roman letters, has to have constructed 150 matrices and the italics are not included here, which will make over a hundred more just to manufacture letters, &c, of one size and cor repi)uding faces. Here, then, there must be about two hundred and fifty characters made, and &ome of ihem a good many thousand limes over, just to print the plain matter of a common newspaper. To give the uninitiated an idea of the numbers and proportion of types used for printers have no secrets thai I know of it may answer to state that we use, say for a common average foni : a 8,500 n 8,000 b 1,600 o 8,000 c 7,000 p 1,700 d 4,400 , q 500 e 12,000 r 0,000 f - 2,000 s 8,000 g .. 1.700 t 9,000 b" . ' - 6,400 u- 9,000 i 8,000 v 1,200 j - 400 w 2,000 k 800 x 400 I 2,000 y 3,000 m 4,000 z 200 Nothing here is said of points, figures,' dou ble letters, and oiher characters, which would swell the list amazingly. And all this makes but one item in a newspaper office.' Nor is anything said of the numerous pic tures, flowers, ornamented, shaded, condensod, &c. &c, types used in job and newspaper printing, all of which are necessary to make up the stock of an ordinary newspaper estab lishment. These types, that is ihe plain ones, cosi from 30 cents up to $2 a pound. A com mon newspaper requires, or ought to he sup plied wilh from 800 to 1 ,000 lbs. of type. These, with some $200 worth of wood works, S250 for press, a good many dollars worth of trass rule, and still more for iron matrices, al so, paper, ink, &c. &c, will make a very large subtraction from Si, 000. When all these items are paid for by the printer, he is just about ready to go to work if he has a roller made and Bel his type. The usual width of newspaper columns is 17 ems of long primer type ; but ours are 21 ems wide An em is the tickness of a line. On an aver age, nearly three types will go go into an em. counting spaces. For every 1,000 ems a prin ter sets, he handles near 3,000 types ; and if he ads 5.000, which i a dayV work, with correcting the satne,. and distributing enough for next day, he handles not far from 30,000 types. The remark is often made that there are many errors in the papers, arid it is too true ; but let 99 out of the 100 who make the obser vation, try the experiment, and make fewer 'errors ll thev can. All the printer 8 ougni to 1 w be good spellers ; but a few of them are defi cient in the qualification, while others are care less, just like sorao other folks. These are but a few things, and bat very fetVj concerning the important and useful busi ness of printing ; arid if primers read them and find errors, as very possible ihexr will, let them go to work and correct, if they think worth while ; for, if printer's do not correct each oth er," who will ? Will any conscientious man, after knowing these facts, refuse to pay the printers ? If so, I will advertise his conscience to let, for noth ing. It is in view ol those things that print ers write so freely of those delinquents who Will not PAY THE PRINTER. From the New York Express. . Sound Advice to Yonii? Mots; The difficulty of obtaining employment, so often stated and so often, no doubij existing, arise, we apprehend, not unfrequently from causes within ourselves, and over which we have control. Man is ioo often unwilling to do what hts hands find to do. Pride interposes its objection against certain kinds of work. I he youngster comes from the country to the town to be a clerk ; he can obtain work only as a porter. 1 he farmer s boy aspires to be a counter-jumper ; he can only be a stevedore. A lawyer's leathers are fledging : he mioht make, with industry, a tolerable mechanic, whereas ho will make only an intolerable law yer. 1 he nominal doctor was cut out lor a wood-sawyer. The great, the first, almost only lesson, to learn, when seeking employ ment, is : " What am 1 best fitted for ? and if that employment cannot just then be got, what can 1 find io do ?" And do it. whatever it is. with the hope of advancing. The demand for skill and capacity in this country, is such, in all the varied departments of life, that he who will stoop io begin at the beginning, and there bide his time, is quite sure, in the progress of events, of coming out at the end. But to take the first place at the first s'ep or to rise without showing the necessity or wisdom of rising on and by your indtisiry and devotion is almost an impossibility. The mam thing, then, for a young man of talent to! seek T.r, is not so much wages at first, or poi- j anl UP0 ,nem' 3,1(1 who can herefore, submit tton at first, but opportunity ; and when oppnr-,w temporary sacrifices of wages and time wilh tunity is given it is altogether the aspirant's fault out '."TO t0 0,ners. Qur country is so clamor if ha drifts no! m.nkfi hnnatlf niflinpiiihl m 1 ous in its demand for labor, above all for Intel - employer, or show him that he is far better fit"-! ted for a place above that which he fills than the place ho is filling. Opportunity, indeed, is all the man of true talent seeks for in this world, in any sphere. Give him opportunity, and he will create the necessity for himself (hat no man can disregard. Opportunity, in short, is the tide that rolls all men to prosperi ty or fame. The mechanical geuious that slum bers in the farmer's chimney corner needs but ihe opportunity in some large workshop, lo strike out in him the latent sparks that may j inspire mailer with new facilities of motion, and so crown himhelf with gloryj as well as with gold. But if that genius comes from the chimney corner and aspires to be foreman, in the workshop, where hundreds were employed before him, there will probably be no work fori public in the prairies of that beautiful region. him. True genius, however, is always humble The curious habits of the prairie dogs ard very in its aspirations, h is so sure of the siTong im-1 little known, and this account will be found ex pulse within, that it will descend to the-humblest ' trernely interesting- position to obtain the opportunity to show hs power. In ihe workshop, it will condescend to begin with duties that are servile. It will build the fires, or sweep the rooms, if necessary, for it feels and knows that within itself which no occupation can smother, and that waits only for ihe opportunity to bhine. Humility is the characteristic of rising greatness. What means to rise, and is willing io make the sacrifices necessary for rising prefers often to have first a firm foothold on the ground, amid ihe dust and dirt, before it expands its wings. No fall ia so great it knows, as that of him who begins with creating large expectations, which he can not fulfil, and inflames others with ideas of his importance that experience soon shows are ri diculous. To create a rising impression, true genius feels that it must often even undervalue itself. Of him from whom hut hule is expect ed and much comes, to him geal praUe is. awarded. Such a man is likely to he overval ued, whereas he is always certain obe under valued who overrates himself, or who lets oth ers overrate htm. The young man in search of employment can almost always find it, if he will submit 10 the necessary self-sacrifice, and ihen await for his opportunity. But eelfsacrifice is indispen sably necessary, lor ihe high places of life are seldom or never obtained but through long and painful vigils, or stern appreniiceshrps, or ihe most profound devotion io whatever one's bu siness is. Our own eyes will show us thai the men of ihe most eminence in their- ariou pursuits aboul us have risen io thai eminence by slow, laborious and tedious steps. Emi nence is not, in this country, to be reached by a flight, but upon steps of a long and constant ascent, and on footj too, with burdens on the back, that stagger and often almost weigh down the tfavellef. To learn and to understand all this, is the most afflicting and generally the most difficult le..8on of aspiring youth. The buoyancy of youthful aspiration will recognise, hot that man walks by his feet, but it fancies that he soars wnh wings. Ask ihe graduate of a college if, in his wish to be the conductor of some leading journal, he would be willing to learn the trade of the Printer's devil, and go through all the various transforations of that important personage, from being the bldckfaced errand office boy up to being the inditer of the leading article. A hundred to one of such grad uates would shrink from such vassalage, and yet the (fade cannot be well learnt without so doiiig. The statesman, first among the fore most, maintains his position with apparent ease, and the whole nation bows down before his genius with admiration : but ask a youih to submit to ihe nightly watches, the long sidings, the suffering and general affliction by which jhe power is won to obtain that ease and poi- Hon, and a hundred to one he will cower under the demand that is made upon his lime ahd peace. The orator has been created only by understanding and studying life in. all its varie ties, and then by hard study, and thus fining himself to express his ideas in ihe most vigor ous way. The mechanist hits by his fame and name spoken in the powerful machinery of the loco motive, or in ihe engine of the steamboat, or in the common spinning iennev ; but that mechin - ist won his way from the poverty of boyhood, a W m ' I m the humble task of cleaning the machine shot), or putting coal on the fire that started all j the machinery of the workshop. It is at the beginning things are learnt well. When we" begtri to build, wc begin Under ground even, srwt I h Cm tiHris ctfirwlu itilfr qc tiro Intr lha fittri- - w w and ihe fabric stands only as we lay the foun dation firmly. But in these beginnings it is that every youth can find something to do. If! there is not employment in building above ground, go in and dig out the cellar. Rely upon it that whatever true genius or real indus try and honor exist, the master workman will in due time discover and promote it, if for nb other reason ihan this : it is his interest so to do. A difficulty of finding employment, we ap prehend, if combatted with such principles a we here lay down, will not often exist, certain 'y wi,h ,ljPse wI,o have no families depend- I'ge. faithful, devoted labor, that wherever it exists it must find employ, if it only make itself known, or show itself, so that it can be known. I There is scarcely an employer in one of our! cities who has not a place for such a laborer as we describe, e'ven though every place ts seem ingly full. 1. is true, lie will not take the word of a man th.u lie is every thing he says lie is : , . :r, t. - l u Mill II htt .n olilniii in nnnnrmnliv tit chiiui wnai ue is, ana men riis acts come up to ms words, employment is sure, and his way to fortune is Marled. f.tr i t to a City of Prairie Bojjs'-iii- gular habits cf these Animals. f A lecent traveller in the interior of Texas, gives a particular account of his visit to a Canine 'Re- 41 We had proceeded but a short distance after reaching the beautiful prairie, before we came upon the outskirts of a commonwealth of the ca nine race. A few scattered dogs were seen scam pering in, and, by their short and sharp yelps, giv ing a general alarm to the whole community. The first cry of danger from the outskirts was soon taken up in the centre of the' city, and now nothing was to be seefn in any direction but a dash ing and scampering of the mercurial and excitable citizens of the place, each to his lodge or burrow Far as the eye could ieach was spread the city, and in every direction the scene was the same. We rode leisurely along until we had reached the more thickly settled portion of fhe city, when we halted, and after taking the bridles from our hor ses to allow them to graze, we prepared for a reg ular attack apon its inhabitants.. The burrows were not more than fifteen yards apart, with well-trodden paths leading in different directions, and I even thought I could discover something like regularity in the laying out of the streets. We' sat down upon a bank under the shade of a tree, and leisurely surveyed the scene before us. Our approach had driven every one in our immediate vicinity to his home, but some hundred yards off, thej small mound of earth in front of a burrow was each occupied by a dog sit ting straight up' on his hinder legs, and coolly look ing about him to ascertain the cause of the recent commotion. ' Every nb'w and theYi some cifizen, more venturous than his neighbor, would feave his lodge on a flying visit to a companion, apparently to exchange a few words, and then scamper back as fast as his legs would carry hhti. By-and-by, as we kept perfectly still, some of our nearer neighbors were seen cautiously poking their heads from out their holes and Iookin" cun ningly, and at the same time inquisitively, about thern. After some time, a dog would emerge from the entrance of his domicile, squat upon his look- . irig-oui place, shake his head, and comutene'e yelp ing. For three hours we remained watching the movements of these animale, and occasionally picking one of them off with our rifles. Nd less than nine were obtained by the party. One cir cumstance I will mention as singular in the ex treme, and which shows the social relationship which exists among these animals, as well as the regard they have one for another. One of them had perched himself directly upon the pile of earth in front of his hole, silting up. and offering a fair iriark, while a companion's head, too timid, perhaps, to expose himself farther, was seen poking out of the entrance. A well-directeif shot Carried away the entire top of the head of the first dog, and knocked him some two or three feet frorn his post perfectly dead. While reloading, the other daringly came out, seizing his compan ion by one of his legs, and before tve ciUld arrive at the hole, had drawn him completely out of reachj althdugh we tried to twist him out with a ramrod: Therd was a feeling in this act a something human hich raised the animals in my esttma ; tidl,5 an(1 never after did I attempt to kill one o of them, except when driven by extreme hunger. The prairie dog is about the size of a rabbit, heavier perhaps, more cohipact,-and with much shorter legs, In appearance, it resembles the ground hog of the north, although a trifle smalldr than lKal anmaL In their habits, the prairie dogs 'in are social, never live' alone like other animals, but "e aUvas foUnd ,n v,1IaSes or IarSe settlements. They are a wild, frolicsome set of fellows when undisturbed, restless, and ever on the move. They seerh to take especial delight in chattering away the time, and visiting about, from hole to hole, to gossip and talk over one another's affairs; at least, so their actions would indicate. Old hunters say that when they find a good location for a village, and no water is handy, they dig a well to supply the wants of the community. On several occasions, I have crept up close to one of their villages, without being observed, that I might watch their movements Directly in the centre of one of them, I partially noticed a very j large dog; sitting in front of his door, or entrance to his burrow, and by his own actions and those of his neighbors, it really looked as though he was the president, mayor, or chief: at all events, he was the " big dog" of the place'. For at least art hour, I watched the movements of thig ,iule communit duri mal fa , , , , . , , , , large dog I have mentioned received at east it 1 0 ' dozen visits from hrsvfellow-dogs, who would stop and chat with him a few moments, and ihen run" on to their domiciles. All this while he never left his post for a single minute, and 1 thought I could discover a gravity in his deportment, not discerni ble in those by whom he was addressed. Not being learned in the canine vernacular, of course" I cannot say that the visits he received were upon business, or having any thing to do with the local government of the village; but it certainly appeared as if such was the case. If any animal is endow ed with reasoning powers, or has any system of laws regulating the body politic, it is the prairie dog. In different parts of the village the members of it were seen gambolling, frisking,- and visiting about, occasionally turning heels over head into their holes, and appearing to have all sorts of fun among themselves. Owls of a singular specie were also seen among them; they did not appear to join in their sports in any way, but still seemed1 to be on good terms, and as they were constantly entering and coming out Of the same holesvthey might be? considered as members of the same fam ily, or, at least, guests. Rattlesnakes, too-, dwell among them ; but the idea generally received a mong the Mexicans, that they live npoTi terms of companionship with the dogs, is quite ridiculous, and without any foundation. The snakes I ,look upon as loafers, not easily shaken off by the regnlar inhabitants, and they make use of the' dwellings of the dogs as- morer comfortable quarters than they could find elsewhere. We killed one a? short distance from a burrow which had made a meal of a little pup ;. although I do not think they can master fufl-grown dogs. This city of the dogs, which we visited, was several miles in length and at least a mile.in width. Around and in the vicinity, were smaller villages, suburbs to the town-. We kindled a fire, and cooked three of the animals we had shot ; the meat was exceedingly sweet, tender and juicy, resem bling that of the squirrel, only that ihese was 'mure fat upon it. '- i sf K9 A. r -
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