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FrJiied with neatness and despatch,on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE .Tcffcrsonian Republican. per.' Talk and Church Scandal. That tall young fellow's here to-day ! I wonder what's his name ? His eyes are fixed upon our pew Do look al Sally Dame. Who is that lady dressed in green 1 - ; It can't be Mrs. Leach : There's Mr. Jones with Deacon Giles ! I wonder if he'll preach Lend me you fan ; it is so warm, We bbth will sit to prayers. Mourning becomes the widow James How Mary's bonnet flares. Do look at Nancy Slopei's veil ! It's full a breadth too wide ; 1 wonder if Susannah Ayres," Appeals to-day as bride ! . ;, Lord ! what a voice Jane Rice has got ! Oh, how the organ roars ! Tm glad we've left the singers' seats How hard Miss Johnson snores ! What ugly shawls those .are, in front !' Did you observe Ann Wild 1 , Her new straw bonnet's trimmed with black, I guess she's lost a child. I'm half asleep that Mr. Jones ! His sermons are so long : This afternoon we'll stay at home, And practice that new song. A Temperance Story. The following excellent temperance story is told by the editor of the Grand River Eagle : "We were highly amused yesterday. On the bndge that passes the tumbling waters of the J Grand Rapids we met a hale old man, with eleven ! sons, seven daughters, thirty-seven grandchildren, ; and his own wife, (the only one he ever had,) ' w.h numerous horses, carts, wagons, oxen, cows, and furniture of very antiquated appearance, among Khich were to be seen cradles' for babies, cradles ior grain, spinning-wheels; pots, kettles, and al most every thing requisite for a settlement such as ; fttj-seven blood relations will, make in the Grand Hirer county. After stopping the train and mak ing many inquiries, we asked the old gentleman Hat use there could be of a bottomless jug which was carefully laid in a safe place among his do mestic equipments, and received the following re ply: "'Why, sir, lam a man of many years and lots of children, and have worked other people's land all my days ; paid from four to nine bushels f grain an acre rent; for so doing have all that lime used a jug with a hole in it, and J got sick offeedin' other people with my hands, either land ed or rumseller ; so I sent seven of my boys to Mejico to fight for some land, and they all got fock safe, after fightin' with Gen. Taylor, time enough to vot for him, and they got seven quar ter-sections of land, that,-' please Gc-d, will be our own without rent. And now, that old jug Jou see there (pointing at the bottomless thing) shall hold all the" whiskey or runr that will be used in my whole family while ! control 'em, be muse old Gineral Taylor told my son John that aJug without a bottom was the" best kind of a jug 10 put liquor in, and if he was my son John he'd erre all the jugs to hum just as they did the Mexicans- take away their jiower .to kill .us. Good day.' " Deafness. James Yearsley, an TSnglish ,sur ieon, has discovered, according: to (the Medical. kxaminer, a curi.qus;and .efficient mode of .relief 'r deafness resulting from scarlet .fever, j&c. to cases where the drum. of the earha8'bcenbroken. is simply to moisten a small. pellet of raw cot ,r,n, and gently push -it down Hhe passage oHthe till .it produces dhe best hearing. This adr Kiting is necessary, jel.se it may make the -deaf-; ress at first only greater.., .Moisture is t iijdispen SJole. The cotton shbjiildbe c,h anged evejy,mprn ,ry Many -other cases arc cited as' proof. . T-rx I . - . . . 1 - rs and a nail. Those who receive -irs by a corner orslage drivers employed by the STRO UDSBURG, MONROE PIKE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1849. Elizabeth Blackwell, M. . The public, through the newspapers, has been pretty generally, informed that this lady was a reg ular student of Geneva Medical College and re ceived thfe diploma of that institution at its last Commencement. As she is the first medical doc- tnv nf It or c ti v in TT.,;J c. .1 .... Uw m lllc umiBu oiaies, me case is naturally enough, one of those questionable mat- ters upon which there must be a great variety of opinions, and the public sentiment is, besides, in fluenced by the partial and inaccurate statements of facts and conjectures which usually supply the place of correct information. Miss B. is 28 years of age. She was born in the city of Bistol, England. Her father settled with his family in New York when she was about 11 years old. After a residence there of five or six years, he failed in business, and moved to Cincinnati. A few weeks after his arrival there he died, leaving his widow and nine children in very embarrassed circumstances. Elizabeth, the third daughter, was then 17 years, and assisted two of her sisters in teaching a young lady's sem inary. By the joint efforts of the elder children, the younger members of the family were supported and educated, and a comfortable homestead on Walnuthill was secured for the family., The property which, in the midst of their first difficuL ties, they had the forecast to purchase, has already quadrupled the price which it cost them. I give this for the illustration of character which it af fords. t The enterprise of these young ladies is still far ther indicated by the next steps which they sev erally took. Anna, the eldest, some years ago took up her residence in the city of New York, where she has until lately worked at the trade of pe riodical authorship, French translator, and com poser of music. She is now in England, under an engagement with a publisher there to translate, the whole of Fourier's works. She was selected for this task for her very high ability in French translation, and the excellence of her English style. Another sister Emily, is teaching a boy's school in Cincinnati, preparing them for college in the departments of Mathematics and the clas sic languages. And Elizabeth after two or three jears1 hard labor and study in North and South Carolina, and two years more, exclusively devo ted to tHe study of medicine, in Philadelphia and Geneva, has her medical diploma in her pocket. About five years ago she first entertained the idea of devoting herself to the study of medicine. Having taken the resolution, she went vigorously to work to effect It. She commenced the study of Greek, and persevered until she could read it satisfactorily, and revived her Latin by, devoting three or four hours a day to it, until she had both sufficiently for all ordinary and professional pur- poses. French she had taught, and studied Ger- man to gratify her fondness for its modern litera- ture. The former she speaks with fluency and translates the latter elegantly, and can manage to read Italian p"rose pretty well. Early in the spring of 1845, for the purpose of making the most money, in the shortest time, she set' cut for North Carolina, and after some months teaching French and music, and reading medicine with Dr. John Dickson at Asheville, she removed to Charleston. Here she taught music alone, and read industriously under the di rection of Dr. Samuel II. Dickson, then a redi dent of Charleston, and now Professor of practice in the University of New York. Two years ago she came to Philadelphia, for the purpose of pursuing the. study. That Sum mer, Dr. J. M. Allen, Professor of Anatomy, af forded her excellent opportunities for dissection, in his private anatomical rooms. The Winter following sheattended her first full course of lec tures at Geneva. The next summer she resided at the Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, where she had the kindest attentions from Dr. Benedict, the principal physician, and the very large range for observation which its great variety and number of cases afford. , Jast winter she attended her second course at Geneva, and graduated regular ly at the close of the session. Her thesis was Upon ship fever, which she had ample opportuni ties for observing at Blockley. It was so ably written that the Faculty of Geneva determined to give it publication. It is. jn keeping with my idea of this story to add that' the proceeds of her own industry have been adequate to the entire expense of her medi cal education about eight hundred dollars.. In a few weeks she will leave for Paris, with :the design .of remaininglhere one or two years, hoping to obtain there still greater facilities for the farther study of her profession than this .coun try affords ; especially in the department of sur gery, which she has had but little opportunity to see. She will return when this purpose, is accom plisliedT to practicemedicihe in all its branches and wijl probably settle in the City of New' York. Taking the Starch out of 'ena. A COLD WATER SKETCH. A knot of idlers stood upon the end of a pier which ran out into the Hudson River, in one of the small towns near Albany, a :few days ago, amusing themselves with hurling stones into the broad stream, each vieing with his neighbor in the endeavor to pitch a missjo at the furthest diittatice from tho shore, when a tall, rugged built Vermonter, direct from the Green Hills, suddenly made his appearance in their midst, and for awhile remained a quiet observer of their movements. - ' He was a brawny, strong-looking Yankee, and was decently clad. The efforts of the lit tle parly had been exhibited over and over again, when the stranger quietly picked up half a brick which lay near him, and giving it a jerk, it fell in the water a long way beyond the line which had not as yet been reached by ihe foremost of the crowd. At the conclusion of this feat, a loud 'bravo !' went up from a half dozen voices around him. It was a cold clear day in October, and ihe men determined not to be out-done, renewed their attempts; but the Vermonter, without say ing a syllable to any one, continued to pitch ihe pebbles far out into the stream, which seemed to annoy one of them in a green jacket, the ap parent leader of the gang, who declared, he wouldn't be beaten by a 'feller right strait out 'o the woods, no how,' and sidling up to the stranger, he determined to make his acquain tance. VVhere do you come from neighbor !" in quired the other. 'Me ? Wal, 1 hails from Varmount, jes' now friend.' 'Haint been in these parts long I reck'n.' Wal no. Not edzackly, yere but up and down, sorter.' 'Yes so 1 'sposod.' Yaas,' continued the green 'un, carelessly, and seizing a big billet of wood, he twirled it over his head, and it landed several rods from the shore, in tho water. 'You've a little strength in your arm neigh bor.' , Sum 'pum'kins is them flippers, stranger. Up in aouf town more'n month' ago, 1 driy them are knuckles rite strut thru a beard, more'n a ninch-'naff thick !' Haw haw !' shouted the hearer the man in the greon Jacket laughing loudest. May be you don't b'lieve it.' 'Not much,' answered the crowd.' 'We aint very green down here in York we aint,' said the fellow in the green jacket ; 'we've been about you see.' 'Wal, jes yer look year, friend,' continued the Vermonter, in th'e most plausible manner ;-'up in our country, we've a purty big river, consid erin Inynn Rt.er, it's called, and may be you've heam on it. Wal, I hoye a man clean across the river t'other day, and he came down fair and square on to'ther aide !' 'Ha, ha! yelled his auditors. ' 'Wal noaw, yeu may laff, but I kin deu it a- 'Do wha't:' said the green jacket quickly. ' 1 kin take and heave vou across that river yonder, jest like a shot.' 'Bet you ten dollars on it.' 'Done !' said the Yankee ; and drawing forth an X. (upon a broken downeast bank !) he cov ered the bragger's shinplaster. 'Kin you swim, feller ?' Like a duck,' said green jacket and with out further parley, the, Vermonter seized the knowing Yorker stoutly by the nap of the neck and seat of his pants, jerked him from his foot hold, and with a'n almost superhuman effort, dashed the bully heel over head, from the end of the dock some ten or more yards out into the Hudson Efiver. A terrific shout rang through the crowd, as he floundered in the wafer,, and, amidst the jeers .and screams of his companions, the ducked bulley put back to the shore and scrambled up the bank half frozen by this sudden and invol untary cold bath. 'I'll take that ten-spot, if you please,' said the bhivering loafer, advancing rapidly to the stake-holder. 'You took us for green hornst eh! We'll show you'how we. do-things down here in York' and the fellow claimed the twenty dollars. 'Wal, I reck'n you wunt take no tenspots jes' yet cap'n.' 'Why? You've lost the bet.' Not edzackly. I d'idn.'.i calkilate on deuin it the fust timo---but I tell yoff. I kin dm it.' And again, in spite of the loafer's utmost efforts to escape him he. seized him by the scruff and the seat of his over alls,, and pitched him three yards, further into the river than upon the first trial. Again the bulley returned, amtd the shouts of his mates, who enjoyed the sport immense ly. ... 'Third timejnerer... fails,' ...said the Yankee, stnppinng off his coat ; .'J ken deu it, I tell ye.' 'Hol pn !' shouted the almost petrified vic tim. - , ,i . .. 1. , ' And I will deu itif ft'ry till to-morrow inornin. . 'I give it up !' shouted the sufferor, between his teeth, which now chattered like a mad bad ger's Make the money!1 The Vermonter very cooly pocketed the ten spot, and as he turned away, remarked : 'VVe aint much acquainted with you smart folks daoun here'n York, but we sometimes 'take ihe siarch aout of 'em' up our way and p'raps yeu wonMry it oh tu strangers again. 1 reck'n yeu wunt,' he continued; and putting on a bjoad grin of good humor, he left the compa ny to. their reflections. Flag of Our Union. Ave tlie Planets, Inhabited ? Are the planets inhabited ? is a question which natuially presents itself to the human mind, and for a solution of which we as naturally look to the science of xVstronomy. But when the im mense distance which separates us even from the noarest of the planets is remembered, it can scarcely bo a matter of surprise, when the tel escope affords no direct evidence of the ques tion, whether the planets, like the earth, are inhabited globes. Yet though it gives no di rect answer lo ihe inquiry, modem Astronomy has collected together a mass of facts, connec ted by the positions and motions, the physical character and condition, and the parts played' in the solar system by the several globes of which that solar system is composed, which form a vast body of analogy, leading the intel ligent mind to the conclusion, that the planets are worlds, fulfiling in the economy of tho uni verse the same functions, created by the same Divine hand, for the same moral purposes, and with the same destinies as the earth. Thus', for example we find that those orbs like our own, roll in regulated periods round the sun ; that they have nights and days, and successions of seasons, that they are provided with atmos phere, supporting clouds and agitated by winds; and thus, also, their climates and seasons are modified by evaporation, and that showers re fresh their surfaces. For we know that wher ever the existence of clouds is made manifest, there water must exist ; there evaporation must go on ; there electricity, with its train of phe nomena, must reign; there rain must fall ; there hail and snow roust descend. Notwithstanding the dense atmosphere and thick clouds with which Venus and Mercury are canstantly enveloped, the telescope, has exhib ited to-us great irregularities -on thc:r surfaces; and thus proves the existence of mountains and valleys. But it is upon the planet Mars,, which' approaches nearest to the earth, that the great est advances have been made in this depart ment of inquiry. Under favorable circumstan ces, its disc is seen to be mapped oul'by a va ried outline, srjrne portions being less reflec tive of light than others, just as water would be less, reflective than land. Baer and Mead ier, 'two, Prussian astronomers, have devoted many years' labor to the examination of Mars, and the, result has put us in possession of a map of the geography of that planet, almost as ex act and defined as that which we possess of our own ; in fact the geographical, outlines of land and water have been made apparent upon it. But still more extraordinary fact, in relation to this planet, remains to be considered. Among the shaded markings which have been noted by the telescope upon its disc, a remarkable region of brilliant whhe light,iOtanding!out in bold relief, Jias been observed surrounding the vissible pole. This highly illuminated spot is to be seen most plainly when it emerges from the long nights of the winter season ; but when it has passed slowly beneath the heat of the solar beams, it is found to have gradually con tracted i i s dimensions ; and at last before it has plunged Into light on the opposite side, lo have entirely disappeared. But the opposite pole, then coming into similar relations, is found to be furnished with a like luminous sriot, which in its turn, dissolves as it becomes hea ted by the summer sun. I$ow these facts prove to us Incontestible, that the very geographical regions of Mars are fac simihes of our own. In its long polar winters the snows accumulate in the desolation of its high-northern and south ern latitudes, until they become visible to us in consequence of their- reflective properties ; that there are slowly melted as the sun's rays gather power in the- advancing season, until they cease to be appreciable lo terrestrial eyes. THe fact is a most-striking one in reference to the present question. . If ihe moon has proved to us, incontroverti bly, that one of the celestial luminariesis a sol id sphere, carved into elevations and depres sions, analogous to those familiar to us, as the mountains and valleys of the -terrestrial surfa ces. Mars teaches us as emphatically that another among' them is a world, filled wiirr its rains and snows, and clouds and seasons sui ted to the purposes and wants of organic life, which is intimately dependent upon such adap tations for its being. Westrhihister Review. Negro. Wit.r During the pugilistic excite men in Philadelphia, and when Hyer, after the encounter, was dining at Miller's, a friend of his antagonistic, wishing to cast a slur upqa the victor, ordered ihe waiter to bring him some Sullivan potatoes. A moment after, the waiter relurned, and presenting him a dish? ex claimed aloud, '.'Here dey.is, massa, smashed, of course." An instantaneous roar was the result. No. Cause and Cure of the Potato Rot. As every suggestion likely to be of service, on a subject of so much importance, is worthy of attention, we insert from the Morris Jersey man the following: " " One of our farmers, a few days siher; while in conversation on this subject, said tie planted His potatoes earlier this season than usual, and that he dug and put in hi cellar somo rhirty or forty busheU before the rain come on. These are still perfectly sound, while those which remained in the ground dur ing he recent heaiy rains are utterly worth less. To tho autumn rains many persons have attributed the rot, and consequently they put their crops in very early, to enable them to ar rive at maturity before the heavy rain com menced. The experiment mentioned below may be considered of some consequence, a we have. seen it sufficiently tried. A lady front Mississippi spent ihe 'past season with her friends in our town'. The all-engrossing nb jectofthe potato rot was on the tapis, when she observed, that in that region many of the planters had been experimenting on that vege table, and the best result was from transplant ing the slips into fows, similar to the method of cultivating the Carolina potato. Her friends tried an experiment, and finer potatoes we' have not seen or eaten in many years. The potato is planted earjy in a hot bed, and the slip, when about 3 inches in length, are taken off and transplanted some eight or ten inches dis tant. The original will continue to send forth shoots for a long time." Sometimes mistaken. We have often heard of the term ho is a singed cat, "---which, we take it, mean?, "he i not such a fool as he looks " applied to indt- jjduals-in whom somebody was deceived. But we never saw the saying so fully verified, as in a little instance that occured a few days ago. A tall, gaunt specimen of'mankind, dres--sed in red jeans, looking as if he would have: sold himself, and all he had on for two doilars and fifty- cents, entered a banking establish ment, where he had called to procure some" small change, and addressed the Teller with "I say, Btranger, haye you any Keotuck V "Any what asked the gentlemen spoken to. . - '- "Why, any Kentuck money the Ohio tra?h don't go in our parts." ' v., The Teller, supposing from his appearance, that he only wanted a few, dollars, told htm that he had nothing short of some $500 notes "nothing shorter." "Well, how many have you got of them ?" "Oh, twelve or fliteen, I think ; do you want them ln " Yes, old fellow,. I call you on the whole, " said the Kentuckian, as he pulled out a roll of' bank bills as big as your fist and that is no' smallOne. The money was counted out, and the fifteen $500 notes handed over to the stran ger, who, on pocketing them, saidYou couldn't see ' the same amount and go a leetle better, could you, for this pile is,' so big it bothers mo, to carry it," hauling out of another pocket just about as large' a roll as the first one. f "No ! I'll be hanged if I can," replied.Wihe banker ; "rake it down, my friend that be?.ts. it - me. s- " ' The Kentuckian was a hog drover, who had. just received his pay for hogs, amoUni'mg lo about S-15,000, and he thought he would rather have Kentucky money to take home than the Ohio that was given to him. We concurred with the banker that it would not do to judge -the depth of a man's purse by his personal ap pearance. Cincinnati paper. ' tfothin? Previous. " We have often heard rft persons trying ic use "big words, " and placing themselves in . rather a, ludicrous situation by misplacing them; but the best ono ttf the kind came off at a dan cing party not many miles from this place, a short time since. One of the exquisites pres- ent, slipped up to a dashing young lady, the "belle Qt the town, " by the way, who was then on the floor ready to dance the cotillion then formed, Sard he: , . "Miss B , shall I hare the pleasure of dancing with you" in the following set." w "No sir," replied she, "I am engaged for tho next set. " - - "Oh well, Miss, he previous one. thpnM if voii have no objections," continued he, looking very dignified. " "Why, sir;., replied thq blushing brlle'-f have danced that one." . -.- VVeH," aid he. vervanxious to dance with the 'bell?, "the n,ixt to that, if it suits your plea sure. " . "Indeed,,, ir, I am sorr.y X-can't accommo date youas'T am now dancing that one." , "Well, I'll bed d, " said he, addressing a gentleman who was. in .- heaihg, and had dis covered the joke, "if that girl ain't engaged for all night." . v w "I-utfM she's engaged for "nothing prervovs" . said the person addressed ;-and here the muic struck up $nd we heard nothing more Obadiah Critic.
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