TV" -: s .(; a.- -v, --- iniMhiiiminii riiiiMdhjiaiii ft fl -.: MMipp i 1 is vr ui- -v. . -O - The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA.; THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1849. No. 37: 9 Published by TIteodorb Scltbcli. .,. TvV0 dollars per annum in advance Two dollars T??uirtcr, half yearly--and if not paid before the endof uiu- - T vo dollars ana a nan. inose wno rucir mui v a VPflli 1 . 1 1 1 . .-. earner or since unvers emmut ui uv mc r1"!""- f nipftrs discontinued Until all arrearages are paid, except notion 01 the tauor. ... ,:- i PiTinscriei three weeks for one dollar, and twenty-hve ....... nil..'nMi.fil mcori nn inRcnurvc ui ""i"" s-eineiiiv..- ...rfiincihos'imi". a linerai discount i - j .. 1 11 i.iiuio l- JOB PRINTING. . 1 jnrtmrntof larcc.eletrant. plain andornn- 5 . lilK ' O . . .. .-..- nvniil - memai i.i., J"rv ,V", "r ' r; tri In ite. Kill H fl iOli .1 I - JUSTICES. LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Tnntcd with neatness and dcspatch.on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jefferson Ian Republican. All April Pictures BY CLA.HA MORTON. The April rain falls gcntlv, Like tears from a maiden's eyes, And the floating clouds glide lightly, ' Over the azure skies ; And the soft, South wind is breathing Ne'v hope to the budding vine, As it reacheth out its tcndnlls More trustingly to twine. Oh I love the gentle April rain, Which rests like stars where the dew Hs lain. In the East, a rainbow spreadeth In promise of watchful love A bright and beautiful banner That fairies might have wove, With rays of gold and of purple With the emerald's flashing light With the pure and stainless sapphire, The ruby glowing bright. But we know the hand that placed it there1 ; And a type of love is trie rainbow fair. From the grass so lowly waving The violet lifteth its head ; f r And the pale and meek young crocus Peeps from its Winter bed, And over the latticed trellice The " virgin bower" doth creep, While dow n amidst the rrioiS and leaveY The hare-bell lies aslespV The robin chirps from the tre'm'biing spray: And the brown wren sings his sweetest lay: Oh! I love the gentle April, With her soft and balmy sigHsj THoubIi her smiles are oft-times tearfui; There's hope in her earnest eyes; And sweet indeed is the lesson i4 The grieving nta? learn alway, Forever the weeping A'pril Is followed by joyous May. She weaveth flowers for her sister's tomb", And in song and sunshine forgets her gloomr From' the New York Toibune. ITIarch. Dawn of the Spring ! cloud-girded March Thy footsteps mark the earth again, ' . , And softer winds and brighter skies Walk in the shadows of thy train. The riTers of their ice unbound, , . . Go glancing swifter to the sea, And meadow brooks, and Mountain springs," Loud laughing lift their hands in glee. . 5 No longer on the broad-armed pines The spangling frost and snow-caps lief And 'round the oak the ivy twines Its soft green fingers joyously. Birds in the air, fish in the streams, ' . And children on the s ard at play Warm sho A-ers and gleams of op'ning skies," Mark tLe rude Winter passed a ay. - - Sweet month of promise from thy grave What fairer months their smiles slhl bring'? April in tears and blushing May; . The crown and glory of the Spring.' Under their breath the trees shall leaf,' The rose-bush bud and violets. And all sweet flowers, embalm the turf When the soft wind the young gross frets'. , C. D. SrTJAET.- To drive away Rats. Mr. Charles Pierce, of Milton, says the Bosibtf Vullivator, pounded up potash and strewed it around their holes, and rubbed some on the sides r the boards and under parts where they came through. The next night he lieard squealing among thetn, which he supposed was from the wustic nature of the potash that got aflnong their tair or on thr bare leet. They disappeared, and has not been troubled with them since that time, .which was nearly a year ago. Epitaphs in a Scot tis?i country churchyard : Wha' lies here! I, Juhmiy D'ovtf Hoo, Johnny, is that ydui'' Aye, but a'ni deed now... . In the churchyard of S'orruip-toa-- Here lies the bodv of Eil'war'd' We laid him here because lie d-ied; We had rather It had been hi father ; If ii had been his sister, Few would have misled her But since 'tis honest Nedi; No . more shall bo aaid is WHAT TO EAT, DRINK AND AVOID; A Cuidc to Health and Long Life. BY R. J. CULVEtiWEtL, M. 6. Snuffi7ig and smoking. Medically speaking, they are both abominably unwholesome. They are delightful relaxations. Personally speaking (for I have been a snuffer and a smoker), I can bear witness to the great comfort and satisfaction I have derived from them, A cigar, during an evening stroll, is highly agreeable and companion able, but it is habit only which renders it neces sary. It is pleasant, I admit (and ladies do like wise), to catch the whiff of a fine Havana on a frosty night, or an out-door walk. Nor do I object, entering a bachelor's crib, where only real tobacco-smoking is going on but a five minutes' stay therein is enough. To those whom smoking causes to spit, it is productive of great depression and considerable nervous irritability ; to those who say they swallow their saliva, it is equally per nicious; to those who artf'irisensible to secretion, u acts locally, and its influence is conveyed by the nervous extremities to the brain. It would appear ill-natured and cynical to foibid a solitary cigar, but as in this page I have only to do with its sliluta riuess, I cannot speak in its favor. " I have never suffered from it,"may say some one. Well and good; I do not fotbid you taking one, but it surely cannot be wholesome for those who do. Besides, what is agreeable it is very difficult to believe can be hurtful. Nevertheless it may be so; and smok ing, in the majority tif instances 1 am convinced is so. What is the property of tobacco 1 sedative, Stupefying, creative of vomiting, and if swallowed in the form of infusion,' poisonous. Let any man ask himself, after spitting and puffing, if he feel better for it ; the reply general ly is, ' Oh, it is so soothing it gives rise to such ngieeable thoughts it carries the mind back to the past it makes a man comfortable even in his troubles. How happy every one appears with a cigar or a pipe in his mouth, from the lord to the basket-woman." A great deal of this may be true, but, on the other hand, the great smoker is gener ally shaky and nervous, and, like the drinker, hever happy but when engaged in his favorite pro pensity. Of what use is he then to anybody, or even to himself! None. The little smoker, the occasional smoke-breather, before he gets thiough his first, or give him credit for two or three, is left With a dry mouth and a nasty taste a desire to titink ; and although some will deny that smoking provokes drinking, except coffee or water, few can dispense Vith grog, ale, or wine. Other peo ple it muddles, makes them swimmy, and very disagreeable to talk to. Many men smoke twen ty or thirty cigais or pipes in a day, and a young town buck thinks it derogatory to his buckhond unless he C2n whiff away two or three. To say nothing of the nuisance of smoking, the habit, cap tivating and socializing as it may be held to be, is decidedly bad very bad for delicate persons. As to cheioing, it is an expensive habit. It is so beaslly a one, that there is little fear of a'n invalid resorting to it. It is equally pernicious, nay, more So than smoking. Snuffing is sometimes used medicinally, and with great success. Light stim ulative snuffs are useful in the affections of the head and eyes, and as a gentle refresher I have no objection to it ; but real snuffing, where a man consumes half an ounce daily, and soils half a dozen pocket-handkerchiefs in the twenty-four hours for those sort of snuffers awake purposely at night to tae a pinch isr 1 contend, very ener tfatfng, very depressing, except at the immediate' moment, and extremely hurtful even to digestion ; for, despite all the precaution, the snuff or its jiiice (bah !) will get down the gullet. Half a dozen pinches after dinner are allowable. Young merJ should particularly avoid becoming snuffers ; a1 very short indulgence" makes them look ten years older. These habits are very easy to acquire, and very difficult to leave off"; but it is not, as some peopl'e say, dangerous to abandon them at the e- leventh hour of your life. Mayhap such may not be necessary, but I have known people give up Smoking and snuffing, which they had in dulged in for years, at a mements notice, ahd those people have been my patients, and they have soon found reason to thank me for the advice There is a joke I have heard of a great snuffer and smoker, who for some purpose or another got married, and, of course, out of deference to his wife.jgave up both his favorite indulgences. He pined away, fretted, arid went about like a shadow UUWVV I of hisl soliciting and receiving the commisseration friends A while afterwards he was met by the narrator (who is supposed to be the retailer of the Joe Miller) in high glee, with his' box in his hand nd liis cigar in his mouth. " Heyday ! how is this!" exclaims his friend. "Oh! my lady smokes." --""But the box !" l Oh ! she snuffs." When ladies do these things I throw up piy denunciation of tHe practice. The story is 'in 'defence of the habit; it being intended to show that some people, having accustomed themselves to bad propensities, can relinquish them only at the cost oftranquillily of mind, agreeableneue of manner, and the sacrtT fice of health. The best hint I can give to a snuf fer, to set the practice aside, is, to wear only a white handkerchief ; that, beside looking up his snuff-bofc with a bold determination nbt to accept or take a pinch from anybody else, will cure him in a day. In a week he will forget he ever took snuff. Late hours. To give a reason for every asser tion in this little volume would render half a dozen keys necessary, Which it la not rtly. intention to do. I must therefore rely-Upon the commbn-sense na ture of my assertions, and leave the reader, who, perceiving I slate that late hours are unwhole some" (to be understood idiomatically) naturally in his own mind says, " Why, what signifies when we sleep, so long as we 'get it!" to solve the enigma by his experience. I assert the fact late hours are unwholesome. " I thought so once, but now I know it." " The body, by the toils Of wakeful day exhausted and unstrung, Weakly resists the night's unwholesome breath." All nature sleeps at night, and why should not man ! The great globe, and winds, and waves, move on, 'tis true, and the heart of man beats, and he himself respires, but these things arenecessa ry to keep up the general order. The darkness of night is a simple proof that rest and sleep should be encouraged at that time. Of its necessity man is well aware ; he could riot, if he would do -without it. As it is, society could not well exist as it does, did it not encroach upon the hours set aside for repose ; but as it was, our forefathers were wiser, and, rising with the lark, retired with the sun. A truce to this philosophizing. Invalids have little to do with balls, and routes, and even ing parties, and persons who value their health will not turn night into day. Teh or eleven o'clock at night should never find delicate persons unpre pared to go to bed. It is proverbial, because cer tified by actual knowledge, that the rest obtained in the early part of the night is more refreshing than that gotton in the morning. Rest is as es sential as exercise. The vital energies become exhausted after their due performance, arid require repose to regain their strength for the ensuing day. This is a physiological truth; and if that resj be denied, it becomes an infringement on a law ofria' ture, and that is sure to bring down speedy veil geance. What are the feelings after being up all night ! How doubly heavy is the sleep the next night ! which, if not 'taken, the exhaustion be comes an illness. Evils are of two kinds too much is as bad as too little, and he who retires early should rise early. It becomes a disease where sleepiness prevails at a time when we ought to be-getling up, instead of when going to bed ; but one of the best reme dies is to retire early, other things being attended to, and nature will do the rest Sleeping apartments ought always to be capa cious, dry, and well-ventilated. The bed should not be too soft, and the bed-clothes should be as light as may be consistent with necessary warmth The inordinate quantity of bed-covering some limes used has a most relaxing tendency, by pro moling excessive perspiration, and by rendering the body over-susceptible to external injurious im- pressions. Many persons are piun u. mo i.ci- Tl r ? -- r nicious habit of closing the bed-curtains wholly around them, or else burying their heads under the clolhe3, and thus " Cabined, cril)bed confined' they continue to breathe, during' the greater por tion of the night, the enclosed atmosphere vitia ted by their own respiration ; this is certainiy a most unwholesome custom. If the head be well night-capped, no curtains are at all necessary. The excellence of early rising, and its' inspiring influence on both body and mind, have been themes for the poet's song and the sage's sermon. Early rising promotes cheerfulness of temper, opens up new capacities of enjoyment and channels oT de light to which the sluggard must be insensible : " The balmy breath of morn, the bracing air, The twittering songster's carol in the sky, The blooming pleasures that await without, To bless the wildly devious morning's walk.'' It increases the sum of human existence, by stealing from indolence hours that would else be utterly wasted, and, better still, unquestionably conduces to longevity. All long-livers have been early risers, and to descend from the poetry of the affair to mere matter of fact it is remarked by the actuates of life assurance companies (an exceedingly shrewd people in alt that concerns matters of mortality) that early rising almost in- - " ' variably leads to length of days. Now, as the habit of retiring to bed at late hours will hardly admit of early rising, therefore the necessity of refraining from the one in order to secure the ad vantages of the other. From six id eight hours' sleep are generally held to be sufficient, ahd no' doubt on the average are so. Our sleep is regu lated much by the season. In winter people lie longer, on account they say, of its being too dark to get up before eight or, nine. There is some plausibility in the reason, but the system in cold and dark weather is more prone to sleep than in light and sunny times. Invalids- need generally plenty of bed rest, but then they jshould procure i .. - i.. i i t - l -. . - it, oy going cany 10 ueu. jrersons auuicieu iu hours plead the parties tbey form members ot as one excuse, and others insist that the evening or night are the only times they havejfor relaxation. This is all very reasonable for suctiso constituted, but, notwithstanding, late hours are Unwholesome. Moon and star-gazing are bad for delicate persons. There is more health and strength to be found an the practice of seeing the sun rise. than in look- ng at ft fri any other part of the day. In fact, I inovv of no feeling equaling in delight that of basking of strolling about, unshaded by housetops or any other earthly canopy than the blue sky, in the first hours of the morning sun. Dead open and shut ; or the way tlicy play iii Arkansas. BY TOM HARRINGTON. There are few, who traveled much on the Mississippi at an early day, but have heard wiih dread the name of General William Mont gomery ; and none but Jcuelv of the landing called "Montgomery'- Point;'" which for its location and peculiar advantages Was hard to be excelled. Montgomery, himoelf, was a ahrewd. quick-whitied, low-bred fellow, who, in roguish exploits, was seldom if ever equaled. He was the terror of the South, to all who knew him, and as a sponsman,' gambler, &c, was as no- a i- T T a onous as the celebrated Uapt ividd lor.piracy The General was said to have many redeeming oualnies in his gamins tfansactidris, which misHt be classed as follows : . . First ; If he found a man naked, he clothed him ; if he was hungry, he fed him. Second ; If he was thirsty and poor, he gave him to drink, and advised him to leave for some more salubrious clime. And last, though not least, if he was thirsty, and rich, he made hitri drink and then robbed him. His notorious life was the occasion of all gamblers yielding to his nefarious designs, who chanced to fall in with him and whatever (he General said mtist of course be right, as none dared to gainsay him. It was about tho lime when his noiorieiy was at Its height, that a French gentleman, accompanied! by a huge Yankee erv.antarfived at the "Point," n iheir way to ihe head waters of the Arkansas river, and as ihere was no other hotel in the place, put up with the General. Application being made to him for conveyance, he advised them to defer their journey some few days, as he thought ihe prospect of high water was in their favor. This proposition was by no means a welcome one to Jonathan, who had heard more than once of the desperate character" of their host ? and he declared he would rather walk, and make a pack-horse of himself, than remain. The Erenchman assured him, likewise, that his business was. very urgent, that he must go on foot even, if there was no oilier conveyance. The General was not pleased with the deter mined obstinacy of the two, but could riot well hit upon a plan whereby to detain theni, wiih their own consent, so he finally agreed to take them through on horseback, as far as Fort Smith. The horses were accordingly equipped, and the General, wiih" his negro servant, the Frenchman, antihhe Yanltee, at length set out making quite a respectable looking caravan for the Arkansas wilderness. Ere they mounted, however, theGeneral be gan running his "soft-sawder" on the Yankee, about the many advantages he possessed over! multitudes of the southern people, which were no other, than that, being sufficient in strength to answer as his own packhorse, though he might have bushels of wooden nutmegs and horn gun-flints, to' pack throughout the State, he could always accommodate himself. The Yankee felt somewhat chagrined at the General's insinuation, for fear that the French man might consider him a man of that charac ter. After their leaving, the General still caused Jonathan no small uneasiness, by his continued attacks upon his nativity,' &c. The French man eoou discovered the annoyance the Gene ral was giving the Yankee, and remarked that he was too hard, in Accusing his honest friend of having to do wiih anything of so base a char acter. At this the General laughed, and told him his accdsatioris were no ways erronous. The Yankee ground his teeih and remarked : "It's tarnal well for you, that I aint at hum, for if I was I'd give it to ye, darn quick, tew." "Don't you see," said the General turning to the Frenchman, with aV insinuating glance, "Monsieur believes it loo true to be a joke." At this the Frenchman assured the six foot down-easier that he, the General only jested. "You are as much mistaken," replied the General "as if you fiad burnt your finger. I never accuse a man, but what I am willing to back my accusation' wiih' my money ; and I will bet you one Hundred dollars that if you' search the Yankee's saddle-bags you will find, at least one hundred horn-gun flints, and as ma ny wooden nuimegs." "I belie you five hundred djollars," said the Frenchman "that my friend carry no wooden nutmeg nor no gun flint in his vou leetle sad die-bag." . " V takb ajl such' beta," replied the Gorier!', turning to Cufly who was showing Km ivory' and placing the above-named sum in hi hnd.' 'pu .,...i....r'.. , i .i' -o i." j. ins wcis imiiit-uiriict y cuvisreu uy lite r reucii man, while the Yankee dismounted, and pre pared to settle the matter by unloading his sad- dle.-bags. For some moments all gathered around in breathless silence, when the Yankee, to hi great astonishment drew forth the above-named" articles. Well, you see I have won," continued the General, while Cuffy roared, and capered a bout with delight, showing the whole breadth of his whiles his eve opening to an ex'raor- ft . dinary magnitude, and his none Ihttened like a viper crying "You didn't catch de General dis ar' time," gosh a-m.ighty ! wid dem ar' horn gun-flints." f "What have you to do with it, you tarnal black nigger you !" cried Jonathan, turning to' him with a furious look. ; , Why, you see I is de Gineral's aid-de-camp, in holding de stake, in dis ar' special g.une ;" at the same time he handed them over to his master, wiih a chuckling laugh. The losing party saw ihe deception of ihe trick, and appeared doubly anxious to facilitate their journey. The General wds none the less rrierry for having won tlieir money, and occa sionally laughed over it, saying he had merely made his expenses whereas he had thought to have made some several thousand dollars. The Frenchman sighed, and said he thought it von varie expensive countree." t , The General, however, asnu.es hirn that he shall have a chance to win back his' money, so soon as he should feel disposed1, by any other game lie or his down-east friend should think; proper to select. Monsieur said he only knew one, which was the French game of Vingt-unl or twenty-one. . The General replied that was one of his strongest games, and ttiat so soon as they could make themselves comfortably situated as to their lodgings they would have a friendly touch of it. Arriving at a hotel where they intended to pass the night, the Frenchman and his com panion having determined not. to proceed any farther wiih the General, made their intentions' known to him, stating, as a reason, that the friend whom they sought was on a lour to the South, and that on the first opportunity they should embark on a boat for Natchez. , The General said he thought they would, have a very pleasant trip, and that he would! dispatch his servant home with his horses, and, Accompany thern. This was certainly anything but agreeable, but as there was no help for it, our traveling friends thought proper to assent. The water ti this time being low, it was pro posed by the Genera, that a' sinall flat-boaf -should be procured, which would be very ad-, vantageous, as he and the Frenchman could' play at their favorite game of twertty-qrfe, while the down-easier and the landlord, whom the General persuaded to go along should manage th'e boat. . . . This, accordingly, 6eing acceded to, the boat was soon on its passage to the mouth of the riyer. Scarcely had they left the shore ere the" General, eagfer for the game, gave the General a hint, and they were soon in full blast, the, Frenchman taking the deal, the General betting" high", and losing. Night setting in, they con cluded to lay to, and dispense with the game until morning. The next day, while lying at the shore, they resumed their play, the General still losing the most important bets. At last he proposed to change the deal. Monsieur assured hnri he could only play his game one 4way, and that was to deal. A'gain they played on for a time, when the Generaf," appearing to' get out of pa tience, insisted the game, should be changed, as he was over a thousand dollars the loner. r Monsieur said that he thought it an unfair re quest, as he had frequently said he khew no oiher game. The General still pressed his stnt, and said he was willing to leave it to their host whether or n.o it was not right that he should give finrf a cH'ahce to win back his money. The host being a staunch friend of the General. of course' decided in his favor. . i . By this time all was ready for their morning departure, and Monsieur, thinking he might come out second best, was anxious to leave ; but the General declared that his game must bo played without any further delay. "My game" replied tVe general, is "dead open and shut." "Vol you say General ? Me no under-iaitd you, sare. Is n von dead open and abut vnh' von card ? eh !" "Open and shut with every thing elsi hut cards," said the General, wiUi a coarse Uugh." I will give you an axatupfe." He then placed himseif in an attiude to explain his gams, which was done, by placing his hands behind him, and requiring" the Frenchman lo say whether they were, open or shut. Monsieur hardly knowing what ttf make of it, said "open' "How mucfi" will you bet V asked the Geri. . "Suppose me bstte you von teetle hundred iLiiL"1-' ii dollare. "Done '," said the General, at ihe same tiros
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