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The whole art of Government consists, in the art of being honest. Jefferson.
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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1849.
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I have no Wife
Br AN AND INCORRIGIBLE MEMBER OF THE BACH
ELORS CLL'B.
I have no wife ! young girls are fair,
But how it is I cannot tell.
No sooner are they wed, than their
Enchantment bid them all farewell.
The girls, God bless them ! make us yearn
To risk all odds and take a wife,
To cling to one, and not to turn
Ten thousand in the dance of life.
I have no wife ! whol have his nose
Forever tied to one lone flower,
E'en though that.flower should be a rose,
Pluck'd with light hand from fairy power ?
0, better far the bright bouquet
Of flowers of every clime and hue,
Bv turns to charm the mind away,
And fragrance in the heart renew.
I have no wife ! I now can change
From grave to gay, from light to sad,
And in my freedom wide can range,
Fret for a while and then be glad.
I now can heed a siren's tongue,
And know that eyes glSnce not in vain ;
Make love apace, and being ' flung,'
Get up and try my luck again !
I have no wife !--and I can dream
Of girls who're worth their wieghtin gold,
Can bask my heart in Love's broad beam,
And dance to think it yet unsold :
Oft I can gaze upon a brow
Which mind and beauty both enhance ;
Go to the shrine and make my bow,
And thank the fates I have a chance !
1 have no wife ! and, like a wave, .
Can float away to any land.
Curl up and kiss, or gently lave,
The sweetest flowers that are at hand.
A pilgram, I can bend before
The shrine which heart and rriind approve,
Or, Persian like, T can adore
Each star that gems the heav'n of love.
I have no wife J in heaven they say.
Such things as weddings are not known
Unyoked the blissful spirits stray
O'er fields were caie no shade has thrown;
Then why not have a heaven below,
And let fair Hymen hence be sent 1
It would be fine ; but as things go,
Unvvedded folks won't be content !
An Eventful History.
The following strange eventful record of a"
journeyman printer's life, we are positive is'
correct to the letter. It developes what a man
can do if he likes and what queer and enter
prising, unselfish fellows, the majority of prin
ter's are :
"The life of a printer is, to say the least,
one of variety.. 1 left -home at the age of nine,
and was apprenticed to the printing business at
liirteen ; since then 1 hai'e visited Euiope
I'een in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
France in Canada, No via Scotia, Labrador,
South America, West Indies, and all the Atlan
States of the Union, from Afaine to Louis
lar have lived in twenty seven cities and
'owrra of the United States. I have been a
ilor in the merchant service, and have sailed
J" all manner of craft;-ship, barque,brig, schoon
er. sloop and steamer in the regular army as
51 private soldier, deserted and got shot in the
W. I have studied two years for the ministryj
"He year for an M. D. travelled through all . ihe
t?lVRn nlorifl ftl ntiio M a n V . U Mi it fa reotr
ft-nnsylvania- and Virginia, as a journeyman
punier, generally with little else than a brass
IJle in my pocket. 1 have been the publisher
-"f tw'opaper8 in , one in Boston, one in
Koxburyv Mass., one in New Hampshire, and
"e in Ma;ne. At one time 1 had $7,350 in
(1nJ pocket ot my own. 1 have been married
''ice, and am nw neaily 26: years old ! Was
member of Captain (late Major) Ringold's fly
J"g artillery, at the encampment in Trenton, N:
J. i have been a temperance lecturer-arid pro
plielcr of a tempsrance theatre.
Effect of Imagination on the
Fliysfcai Frame.
Many years-dgo, a celebrated physician, au
thor of au excellent work on the effects of im
agination, wished to combine theory with prac
tice, in order to confirm the truth of his prop
oMionsjk To this end he begged the Minister
ui justice to auow mm to try an experiment on
a criminal condemned to death. The minister
conserved, and delivered to him an assassin of
distinguished rank. i-Our savant sought the
culprit, and thus addressed him ; " Sir, several
persons who are interested in your family, have
prevailed on the judge not to require of you to
mount the scaffold, and expose yourself to the
gaze of the populace, tie has, therefore com-
mu'ed your sentence, and sanctions your being
bled to death within the precincts of your pris
on ; your dissolution will be gradual, and free
from pain. 1 he criminal submitted to his fate:
thought his family would bo less disgraced, and
considered it a tavor not to be compelled to
walk to the place of public execution.
He was conducted to the appointed room,
where every preparation was made beforehand;
his eyes were bandaged ; he was strapped to
a table ; and, at a preconcerted signal, four
of his veins were gently pricked with the point
of a pin. At each co'rner of the labia was a
small fountain of water, so contrived, as to
flow gent! into basins placed to receive it.
The patient, believing that it was his blood he
heard flowing, gradually became weak ; and
ihe conversation of the doctors, in an under tone,
confirmed him in this opinion
"What fine blood !" said one. "What a pity
he ihould be condemned to die;' he vthould
have lived a long time."
" Hush !" said the other ; then approaching
the first,. he asked in a low voice, but so as to
b heard by ihe criminal. " how many pounds
of blood are there in the human body ?"
"Twenty-four. You see, already, about ten
pounds extracted ; that man is now in a hope
less state."
The physicians then receded by degrees, and
continued to lower their voices. The stillness
which reigned in the apartment, broken only
by the dripping fountains, the, sound of which
was gradually lessened, so affected the brain of
ihe poor patient, that, although a man of very
strong constitution, he fainted and died, with
out having lost a drop of blood !
,!V Sagacity of a Do?.
An mhqe ofth? Army, accompaitieoyby his
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ijurl'.ngton, i. J., anu wnue
there becoming
j-ick, wrote to Ins wife and family at
West
Point, in relation of his indisposition. Shortly
after ihe reception of his letter, the family were
aroused by a whining, barking and scratching
ai the door of the house, and when opened to
a-cenain the cause, in rushed the faithful dog.
After being caressed, and every attempt to quiet
hini, the dog in despair at not being understood,
seized a shawl in his teeth, and placing his
paws on the lady's shoulders, deposited there
the shawl ! He then placed himself before her,
and fixing his gaze intently upon h6r to attract
her attention, seized her dress and began to
drag her to the door. The lady then became
alarmed and sent fur a relative, who endeavored
To allay her fears, but she prevailed upon him
to accompany her at once to her husband, and
on arriving found him dangerously ill in Bur
lington. He is yet indisposed. The distance
ravelled by the faithful animal, and the diffi
culties encountered, render this account almost
mcrediblf, especially as the boats cannot stop
at Wes't Point on account of the ice. Any one
can easily sa'isfy father curiosity in relation to
this remarkable case of animal reasoning by vis
iting Burlingion, where the owner of the animal
is at present. Philadelphia Bulletin.
An Unsafe Investment. Did thee receive
my remittance, my son ?
Yes, father.
'Then why did thee not buy a,new coal ?
thy present one is rather fragile.'
VVhy--ihe fact is that I left all my mon
ey in the bank at New-Orleans.'
'Ah, thy pconomy is certainly commendable--
ln what bank ?
'I don't exactly remember what bank, father--
I know it was a very good one, as it had a
scriptural name. It was urn ! Jet me see
itjvas the Pharaoh bank, I think
Cure for a Biting Horse. Biting1 is a bad
and dangerous habit. It is said that the bite
of a horse that is not mad will sometimes pro
duce madness. The following is regarded as
an effectual but barbarous remedy, but it is to
cure a savage habit. Roast or bake a piece of
meat, and present it hot as he attempt to bite
Be cautious lest he bite a piece of live flesh in
stead of hot meat.
G. H. Gentright, a jdstice of the peace at
Indianapolis, was lately married to his ninth
wife.
Turkeys are selling in Chicago for 37 1-2
cents each. The market' is stocked wiih'ven
isbri and prario chickens, whichare selling ve-
;ry; low'.-
Canal Commissioners' Report.
TSe great length of this report precludes its
publication in dur paper.. We will give the rea
the subWnce of the document, which will prob
ably beequally acceptable. ' .
TheiReport states that tlie operations on the
canalsAand railroads of the Commonwealth for the
fiscal year ending November 30, 1848, do not ex
hibit as favorable a result as was anticipated at
;the date of the last arinual report of th,e Board.
The heavy repairs ma.de during the; year on the
breeches caused by the disastrous floods of Octo
ber, Nqvember and December, 1847, and the re
building of the burnt aqueduct acros3 the Alleghe
ny river near Freeport, have swelled the expendi
tures beyond the estimates; whilst the interrup
tion to navigation on the main line, produced by
the destruction of the aqueduct, and the long con
tinued low water in the Ohio river, have been the
means of reducing the receipts below those of
1847.
The gross receipts on the various lines were as
follows : '
Main Line: for tolls, rents, fines,
moUve power, trucks, old ;- ?,
materials sold, &c, , . $1,190,377 79
Delaware Division : tolls, rents &
nnes, . ib,4b a
Susquehanna & North & West
Branches : tolls, rents and fines, 180,3 16 37
Total gross receipts, 81,553,344 00
The expenditures were as follows :
On the main Line including ordina
ry repairs of damages by floods of
1847 and by fire(S303,430,51;) pay of
collectors, lock-tenders, weigh-
masters, inspectors &c, $894,936 09
On Delaware Division including
repairs, pay of'ofricers, &c, 33,21 52
un susquenanna ana iortn anai
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west urancn divisions, I3o,ioo,
Total expenditures,
$1,067,394 38
Net receipts over exnendituresf. 3485,949 62
Deduct payment of Canal .Commis
sioners and ihe expenses of their - 5 ,
office, J" 5,143 26
Net reyenueMrom public works, $480,806 36
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Theigross receipts of the year ending Novem
30vl48, fall short of those of the preceding year,
$28,231 87.
The repairs were executed with as much econo
my as practicable, though materials and labor were
necessarily procured at higher than ordinary pri
ces.
The following comparison shows the difference
in the receipts on coal, iron, and flour and grain
during the two last years :
Coal. , . Iron. ... Flour & Grain
184.7 $218,970 93 $96,582, 08 $133,556 27
1848 232,935 03 121,177 44 78,836 62
Many of the locomotive engine? on t the Main
Line are old, and it is recommended to sell them,
and purchase new ones of greater power. The
new engines will be required the present year.
Nearlv one hundred tons of new rails have been
laid during the past year; and $3,750 will be
needed to purohase new rails the present year.
W. Milnor Roberts has been employed as an
engineer to survey a route for a track to avoid the
inclined plain at the Schuylkill ; and he recom
mends one diverging from the railroad a mile and
a half west of. the plain near the head of a ravine
falling into George's run. It passes down the
east side of that run, by way of Harding's tavern,
to the Permanent bridge. When opposite to Hes
tonville, it curves to the left, passes through Wood
land, approaches the quarries just above Fairmount
dam, and passing back of Harding's, continues a
long the sloping ground, through Powellton, to
the city property in West Philadelphia, until it
meets the permanent bridge. The distance by
this route is not much greater than by the present
the highest grade sixty feet to the mile the es
timated cost, exclusive of land damages , $283,000.
The interest on the whole cost would not be as
much as the annual cost of keeping the inclined
plane and motive power in order ; and the prose
cution of the work is strongly recommended, as a
measure of both economy and facility of transpor
tation. The tonnage transpoited over the Columbia
railroad during the year was 368,019.41.8 pounds
being an increase over the year 1847 of more
than twenty-two million pounds.
The Main Line was opened for business on the
20th of March, about which time business was
commenced o'n the other lines, except on the Del
aware Division, which was opened on the first of
March.
Of the Delaware Division the Report says it
continued in successful operation from the opening
on the 1st of March to the close of navigation.
No breaches occurred during the year, and no ex
penses were incurred, except for ordinary repairs.
The tables of receipts and expenditures'show that
this line continues in a prosperous condition, the
excess' of receipts ' over' expenditures'' being" one i
hundred, and forty -three thousand three hundred'j
and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.
Original cost of the canal, one million three hun
dred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and
thirty, six dollars and ninety-six cents.
The out-let lock at Wells' Falls, designed to
form a connection with the Delaware arid Raritan
Canal, and constructed under the provisions of
the act of the 20th April, 1846, was completed and
ready for use in the spring. As was stated in the
last annual report, " this improvement consists in
a guard lock one hundred and twenty-two feet in
the chamber, a canal nine hundred feet long, and
an out-let lock of two arid a half feet lift, with
chamber.one hundred and twenty-two feet in the
clear. The locks are built, of ruble masonry, laid
in the best hydraulic cement. The towing path
is paved one foot thick on top, thoroughly walled
both outside and in, and altogether is believed to
form a complete and durable work.
The present state of the fund applicable to this
lock' is as follows:
Amouut of loan, ,
Add tolls received in 1848
$20,000 00
1,539 00
$21539 00
From which deduct : ,.
Cost of construction, $18,000,00
Damage to land, .. 100.00
Pay of lqck tender, 175 00
Estimato for lock house and fix-,
tures, 950 00,
Advertising, . 50 00
f $19,275 98
Leaving the sum of two thousand two hundred
and sixty-three dollars, and two cents to be ap
plied to the purposes indicated by the act author
izing the construction of the lock.
The fund for the repair of road and farm bridges
is exhausted. It remains for the Legislature to
decide whether further appropriations shall be
made for these objects. If that body determines
that the repairs shall be made, ten thousand dol
lars will be required for the present year
A statement accompanies the report exhibiting
the estimated cost of keeping all the lines in or
der for 1849, which shows that there will be re
quired for ordinary and extraordinary repairs, and
the payment of debts;, three hundred and thirty
eight thousand nine hundred dollars ;( for motive
power expenses, the purchase of new engines and
the payment of debts, three hundred and sixty-four
thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars ;
for collectors, weigh-master, cj-c, thirty-two thou
sand dollars ; for lock tenders, thirty-five thou
sand five hundred; for pay of Canal Commis
sioners and expenses of their office, five thousand
two hundred dollars; for repairing breeches which
may occur during the year, or for the purchase of
materials after the first of December next, fifty
thousand dollars, for balance due on weigh lock
at Beach Haven, three thousand six hundred and
thirty dollars and ten cent's, which after deducting
the balance in the treasury twenty-two thousand
dollars ) leaves eight hundred and eight thousand
one hundred and seventeen dollars and ten cents,.
as the amount required for all purposes for the
year. It is estimated that if no serious breeches
occur, the receipts from tolls will amount to one
million seven hundred thousand dollars, which
will leave eight hundred and ninety-one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and eighty-
nine cents, as the net profits of the year.
REGISTER'S NOTICE.
John Miller, administrator of the estate of
Peter Labar, deceased, has filed his account
in the Register's office, at Milford, in and for
the county of Pike, and the same will he pre
senied to the Orphan's Court for confirmation
and allowance on the 12th day of February
next, of which all persons interested will take
notice. J. C. WESTBROOK. Register.
Registers oflice, Milford,
Jan. 11, 1840.-41.
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Agents wanted in etery town and County
hroughout the Union, to sell " Sears s New
and Popular Pictorial Works," universally ac
knowledged to be the best and cheapest ever
published, as they certainly are the most sale
able. Any active asent mav clear from $500
o $1000 a year. A cash capital of at least
$35 or $50 will be necessary. Full particu
lars of the principles and profits of ihe agency
will bo given on application either personalty
or by Tetter. The postage must in all cases be
paid! Please to address
ROBERT SEARS,' Publisher,
No. 128 Nassau St., New York.
JJJ3 Newspapers copying the above (inclu
ding this notice,) and giving it eight i.nsfiriions,
shall receive any oiie of the bound volumes,
which retail at from' $2,50 to S3 per volume.
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Derfimher 28, 1 848. Si.
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Greely on JTIileagc.
All our readers are doubtless aware that .oaif
weeks since the Hon, Horace Greeley who at
this, time has the double duty to perform of ed
iting tlje New York Tribune and representing
a portion of that city on the flooi of Congress
made an expose in reference to the amounts of
over-pay that members had been drawing from
the purse of Uncle Sam, in the way of mileage.
The general charge ivas, that while the law al
lows mileage from the seat of government to ihe
homes of Members, it is not sufficiemly explicit
as to the rout ; and hence, instead of charaiuij
by the nearest post route, they have been in th
habit of receiving pay for travelling over cir
cuitous and much longer routes. ThN fyiem
had amounted to au abuse upon the Treasury
whjch Mr. Greeley xery properly deemed it
right to check, inasmuch as it allowed to certain
members as round a sum as S40 perdtem for
every day they were engaged in the public
service.
For this exposition, however, Mr. Greeley
has brought down, upon him the anathemas of
nearly all hw fellow-members, and for the past
week or two he has been kept an.bmy a he
may perhaps desire, in repelling their attacks.
But he has borne himself bravely in the ring,'
and we think pretty fairly floored the bullies
who undertook to over-crow him for his. dash
ing assult upon the.little pickings and stealings
from the National Treasury.
The fact is, Greeley is right in this. matter,
if in nothing else ; and he deserves the thank
of the public for his manly courage in bringing
this crying evil to the light. We .have no de
sire to see a system of niggardly economv en
forced upon those in the employ of government;'
but as $8 per day is a pretty liberal remunera
tion for the services of our National law-makers,
we can see no justice in that policy which per-,
mits them to over-draw thousands in ihe way
of extra mileage. A year or two since the,
whole country press throughout our land united
in asking Congress to permit their papers to
circulate through the mails within the countv
in which they were published free of postage ;
but theae same memhers, fearful, perhaps, that
such a measure would deprive the government
of a small source of revenue, have paid bui liulrt,
heed to their petitions. Had they permitted
this extra mileage to have remained in the.
Treasury, the same would doubtless have paid
ten times the deficiency they feared from this
measure. -
We repeat, Mr. Greeley deserves to he sus
tained for his manly courage.. He has .struck'
a blow in the right place, and while those num
bers who are continually .prating about reform
and economy in public expenditures, evince. so
much solicitude for the public weal, jet ihern
now come up to the work and assist jn reform
ing an abuse which has too long been prac
tised. Allentown Democrat.
The debate on mileage camq up in tha House
of Representatives on Thursdajand Mr. Gree;
ley had an opportunity to. defend his course in
relation to the matter. Among other things he
said :
And now, Mr. Chairman, a word on the main'
question before us. I knowvery well I knew
from the first what a low, contempiable, dem
agoguing business this of attempting to sa-o
Public Money always is. It is not a task for
gentlemen it is esteemed rather disreputablo
eren for Editors. Your gentlemanly work is
spending lavishing distributing taking.-.-Savings
arc.always such vulgar, beggarly, two
penny affairs there is a sorry and stingy look,
about them, moat repugnant to all gentlemanly
insiincts. And besides, they never happen ta
hit the right place it is always 'Strike higher?'
'Strike lower !'--To be generous with other
people's money genprous to self and friends
especially, that is be the popular and commen
ded. Go ahead and never care for expense !
if your debts become inconvenient, you, can re
pudiate and blackguard your creditors as de
scending from Judas Iscariot ! Ah! Mr. Chair-,
man, was not rocked in the cradle of gentility !
Plundering according to Law. Gene
ral Houston's mileage every session is $2X96.
The distance for which he charges ig 3120
miles. It can be traveled in three weeks each
way at an expense at the out side of S150.
Suppose he was paid at the rate of eight dol
lars per day for his time, it would amount to
about 320. . By the present law he gets up
wards of S2000, besides expense and lime.
Reform is needed, and must be brought ahum'
in Congressional affairs.
The amount of Relief Notes isu?'d by the
Banks of Pennsylvania, and now itf' circulation,
is stated to be $762,664.
Ten Thousand Dollars Damages In
the Superior Court, JQew York, on Friday, a
verdict was rendered against Moses Y. Beach,
publisher of tho New York Sun, for a;,libel puh-'
lished in his journal upon Mr. John 'Thompson,
publisher of Thompson's Bank Note" Reporter.
Mr. Eadte the editor, testified ihat it was vrn-
ten without the knowledge of Mr. Beach, and
that the younger members of thilrin'tennuted
its publication.
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