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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1849.
No. 4G.
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publisUe d by Theodore Schoch.
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Lveni .,,Hrfd tn tho. Editor must be nost-naid.
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n rie a ccnern.1 assortment of large, elegant, plain andorna-
description of
mnIsi Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes,
HI mi It Receipts,
JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER
BLANKS,
PAMPHLETS, &c. -
pm'.cl with neatness and despatch,on reasonable terms
AT THE OFFICE OF THE
.Teffersouian Republican.
Live tli em Down.
Brother, art thou poor and lowly,
Toiling, drudging, day by day,
Journeying painfully and slowly,
On thy dark and desert way ?
"Pause not though the proud ones frown !
Sink not, fear not live them down !
Though to Vice thou shalt not pander,
Though to virtue thou shalt kneel,
Yet thou shall not escape Slander
Jibe and lie thy soul must feel
Jest of whltling curse of clown
Hed not either Live them down !
Hate may wield her scourges horrid,
Malice may thy woes deride :
Scorn may bind with thorns thy forehead
Envy's spear may pierce thy side !
Lo ! though Cross shall come to Crown !
Fear not foemen ! Live them down i
The Seven-Sliillii.gr Piece.
It was during the panic of 1820 that a gentle
cffl( nts not exceedinir one sauare (sixteen uncs;
I?. . incrte I three weeks for one dollar, and twenty-five
man, whom we shall call Mr. Thompson, was j l0 There being an over supply of labor, there
seated with something of a melancholy look in j js want antj suffering among those seeking em
L:s dreary backroom watching his clerks paying ; payment. Many seek employment here without
away thousands of pounds hourly. Thompson j finding any. Gigantic foreign emigration fills us
ivas a banker of excellent credit; there existed, wjln the cheapest sort of labor. The editor says:
perhaps, in the city of London no safer concern
i ilan that of Messrs. Thompson and Co.; but at
a moment such as I speak of, no rational reflec
I tioa was admitted, no former stability was looked
to; a general distrust was felt, and every one
rushed to his banker's to withdraw his hoard, fear
ful that the next instant would be too late, forget
ting entirely that this step was that of all others
the most likely to insure the ruin he sought to
avoid.
But to return. The wealthy citizen sat gloom-
!i y watching the outpouring of his gold, and with
a grim smile listening to the clamorous demands
ua his cashier ; for although he felt perfectly easy
a:.d secure as to the ultimate strength of his re
sources, yet he could not repress a feeling of bit
terness as he saw constituent after constituent
rush in, and those whom he fondly imagined to
lie his dearest friends eagerly assisting in the run
upon his strong-box.
Presently the door opened, and a stranger was
ushered in, who, after gazing for a moment at the
bewildered banker, coolly drew a chair, and ab
ruptly addressed him. ' You will pardon me sir,
for asking a strange question ; but 1 am a plain
man, and like to come straight to the point."
" Well, sir 1" impatiently interrupted the other.-,
"I have heard that you have a run . on your
tank sir."
" Well t
"Is it true?"
" Really, sir, I must decline replying to your
yery extraordinary query. If however, you have
any money in the hank, you had better at once
draw it out, and so satisfy yourself: our cashier
will instantly pay you and the banker rose, as
a hir,t for the stranger to withdraw.
" far from it, sir : I have not one sixpence in
Ja hands'
"Then may I ask what is your business here !"
"I wished to know if a small sum would aid
)u at thi, 5 moment."
" Why t lo you ask the question t
" Becaui se if it would, I should gladly pay in
a small dej posit."
The moi ley-dealer stared.
"You &( jem surprised : you.don't.know my per
son or my motive. I'll at onceexplain. Do you
lecollect e.ome twenty years ago--when you resi
ded in Es.sex V
'Perfectly."
11 WelL, then, sir, .perhaps you 'have not forgot
ten the turnpike-gate through which you passed
daily V My father kept that gate, and was often
honored by a few. minutes1 chat with , you. One
Christmas morning my father .w.as sick, and I at;
landed, fte toll-bar. ,,iOn that day ypu passed,
Do
you
"NotI,-my friend." .
" No, sir ; few such men remember their kind
deeds, but those who are benefitted by them sel
dom forget them. I am perhaps prolix : listen,
however, only a few moments, and I have done"
The banker began to feel interested, and at once
assented.
" Well, sir, as I said before, I threw open the
gate for you, and as I considered myself in duty
bound, I wished you a happy Christmas. " Thank
you, my lad," replied you 44 thank you ; and the
same to you : here is a trifle to make it so ; and
you threw me a seven-shilling piece. It was the
first money I ever possessed ; aud never shall I
forget my joy on receiving it, or your kind smile
in bestowing it. I long treasured it, and as I
grew up, added a little to it, till I was able to rent
a toll myself. You left that part of the country,
.and I lost sight of you. Yearly, however, I have
been getting on ; your present brought good for
tune with it : I am now comparatively rich, and
to you I consider I owe all. So this morning,
hearing accidentally, that there was a run on your
bank, I collected all my capital, and brought it to
lodge with you, in case it can be of any use : here
it is sir here it is ; and he handed a bundle of
bank-notes to the agitated Thompson. " In a few
days I'll call again ;" and snatching up his hat,
the stranger, throwing down his card, walked. out
of the room.
Thompson undid the roll : it contained 30,000!
The stern-hearted banker for all bankers must
be stem burst into tears. The firm did not re
quire this prop ; but the motive was so noble,
that even a millionare sobbed he could not help
it. The firm is still one of the first in London.
The j30,000. of the turnpike-boy is now grown
into some j200,000. Fortune has well disposed
of her gifts. Chamber's Edenburg Journal.
Life iai Cities.
The New York Tribune" discourages all those
who contemplate changing their country for a city
! life. The cities are full, and over full, we are
"--"But do you contend that no American j
through, and I opened the gate for you.
recoliect it sir V
should ever migrate Irom the country to one ot.head. They immediately put off to town to re
our cities :" No, sir, we do not.
What we do
maintain is this : Whoever leaves the country to
come hither should feel that he has faculties, ca
pacities and powers for which the country affords
him no scope, and that the city is his proper sphere
of usefulnes. He should next be sure that he has
the ability to procure a livelihood while he shall
be laboring to attain that sphere whiclvhe regards
as his ultimate destination. No youth should mi
grate to a city without a thorough mechanical
trade or hanicraft such as is prosecuted in cities,
although he may not intend to follow it except in
case of dire necessity.
Teaching, clerking, law, &c, are so very pre-
carious, except to men of established reputation
and business, that it is next to madness lor a
youth to come here relying upon them. With a
good trade, a hearty willingness to work, strict
temperance and habits of economy, it will be hard
to starve out a man who is trained only for a teach
er or clerk, or who " is willing to do any thing"
which means that he knows how to do nothing.
With these our city always has been, always will
be crowded ; it pays for burying the greater part
of them.
The young man fit to come to a city does not
begin by importuning some relative or friend to
find or make a place for him. Having first qual
ified hfmsclf, so far as he may, for usefulness here,
he comes understanding that he must begin at the
foot of the class and work his way up. Having
found a place to stop, he makes himself acquaint
ed with (hose places where work in his line may
be found, sees the advertisements of" WantV in
the leading Journal at an early hour each morning,
notes those which hold out some prospects for him,
and accepts the first place offered him which he
can take honorably and. fill acceptably. He who
commences in this way,is likely to get oh.
But for him whose chief object is to live com
fortably, or even to acquire wealth by honest in
dustry, the city is not the place. The mass of
men and women work far steadier and harder here
for a bare subsistence than they do away from
the cities. To say nothing of the ruder manual
toil by which no man can1 support a' family in com
fort, the aveiage earnings of good mechanics here
will not exceed' eight dollars per week the year
round, or $400 per annum This will seem' con
siderable to mechanics who can hire a good house
and garden for $30 to $60, with often a strip of
pasture or meadow attached ; but let such a one
consider that here almost anykmd of a house costs
from:$300 to $500 per annujjgand the meanest
domicil into which a family cinfbe crowded per-
haps up two flights of stairs will cost him $100,
with like charges for fuel, niilk, vegetables, &c,
and he will understand the whole subject much
better." A good mechanic can support his family
better by five days1 labor per week in tho country
than by six in thi3 or almost any great city.
Great Russelville Snake.
A friend has communicated to us a shake, story,
which we think worth recording. In July last
there was a great excitement in and about Russel
ville, in this State, on account of the reported ap
pearance in that neighborhood, of an immense
snake, which had been seen at different times by
various creditable witnesses. The favorite haunts
of his snakeship, were a pond and a briar patch
some tvvo miles from Russelville, on the farm of
an old gentleman, who was much annoyed by vis
itants in quest of fish and blackberries. Various
and contradictory reports were related, as to the
descriptions, size, &c, of the monster ; some giv
ing it as their opinion that it was the veritable
sea-serpent, which was making a tour of the con
tinent, while others were sure it was a dry land
reptile of the rattle breed, as they had heard the
shaking of its mighty tail hundreds of miles off".
Some contended that it was as long as a clothes
line and big as a yearling calf, while others of a
less vivid imagination represented it as not more
than sixteen feet long and three feet in circumfer
ence. A hunter had gone in pursuit of him, and
returned without his dog, whom it yras supposed
snakey had taken down. A young negro had
been missed from the neighborhood, and it was
firmly believed he had followed the footsteps of
Pointer.
As might be supposed these rumors spread
with rapidity, and created grpat terror in the minds
of the Russelvilians, they declared a crusade
against the serpentile intruder, and resolved ' to
neaa mm or aie. iraps were set, ana snares
laid to catch him, but all in vain. And at length
one day, two negroes, who had been in search of
the monster, discovered him lying across a fence
near his favorite blackberry patch, which he
seemed to guard with as much interest as if he
was the owner thereof. One of the darkies, feel
ing probably that familiarity breeds contempt,1
kept a long way off, and raising his gun, fired and
fell back. The other having more nerve, ap
proached within some twenty yards and let off
his double barrel, which took effect in the reptile's
late their achievement and procure a horse and
cart to carry the carcase away. Sam proceeded
at once to the most popular hotel, and to a gap
ing and delighted auditory, proclaimed his victory
over the terror of the neighborhood, and his re
ception, as the novelist say, may be better imag
ined than described.1 Wellington fre'sh from
Waterloo, or Hyer after his fight with Sullivan,
was no more lionized than Sam was at Russelville
hotel. He invigorated the internal man with fre
quent libations, and then with horse and cart, fol
lowed by numerous inhabitants, on foot and on
horseback, proceeded in quest of the spoils of his
victory. Sam reached the place first, and un
coiled the snake from the fence the citizens gath
ered around, and began a minute inspection of
the monster. About this time a horrid oath burst
from Sam a general roar of laughter arose from
the crowd and the 4 tempest in a tea-pot,' had
exploded. The wonderful and terrifying monster,
was made of striped muslin, stuffed loith bran and
shavings, and painted to life.
The counterfeit snake was an ingenious piece
of workmanship, a"nd reflects credit upon the me
chanical ingenuity ' of the owner of the land,'
whose receims from fish and blackberries, last
summer, exceeded any previous year. Sam still
declares the 4 muslin sarpint,1 is not the one he
killed, but that a swop had been made during his
absence. Lou. Cotir.
Excessive Polife'aiss.
Rowland Hill (a celebrated English preach
er) was always annoyed when there happened
to be any noise in the Chapel, or wheir any
thing occurred to divert the attention of his
hearers from what he was saying. On one
occasion, a few days before his death, he was
prerching to one of the most crowded congre
gations that ever assembled to hear him. In
the middle of his discourse he observed a com
motion in the gallery. For some time he tdok
no notice of it, but finding it increasing, he pau
sed in his sermon, and looking in the direction
from which the confusion prevailed, exclaimed:
44 what's the matter there T The devil seems
to hare not among you."
A plain, country-looking man', immediately
started to his feet, and addressing Mr. Hill in
reply, said :
No, sir, it ar'n't the devil as is doing it ;
it's a fat lady wot's fainted ; and she's a very
fat 'urr sir, and don't seem likely to come to a
gain in a hurry."
Oh that's it, is it V' observed Mr. Hill, draw
ing his hand across his chin ; ihen 1 beg the
lady's pardon and- the devj' too.-"
THE CHANGES OF LIFE.
HOPE ACTIVITY -ENERGY.
The realities of life are full of admonition.
The events that pass before our eyes in the
course of a few years, the changes that take
place, the characters that are developed, will,
if read rightly, be found full of practical knowl
edge, and calculated not only to warn but to
direct. We are too apt to overlook the ordi-
nary circumstances of existence to be startled
by results, without tracing otii the causes.
Most human beings hurry on from day to day,
without glancing at the past, reflecting upon
the present, or regarding the future. We are
all to a certain extent creatures of hour. We
live, move, and have our being in tho scenes
and excitements immediately around us. If
we hear of the fall, the wreck, the ruin of a
friend or acquaintance, we comment hastily,
I - . it ii iti i
ana in mpst cases rasniy seldom iook oacK ;
with the obj'ect of ascertaining the real source
of the calamity, and rarely perceive that at
cast tome of the errors which precipitated the
downfall of the victim are among our weaknes
ses and infirmities !
How numerous we repeat the changes
of life ! In what wide contrast! Let an in
dividual who attained the age of fifty, pause j
for a moment and gaze around him. He will
discover that the children who long after he
had attained the years of manhood, played a
bout his knees, are now among the fathers and
mothers of mankind ; while those to whom he
looked up in boyhood, a re either decriped and
totering with age, or have passed to " the Val
ley of the Shadow of Death." The span of
human life how narrow ! Even the near
est and dearest of the beings with whom ou
existence is intertwined, pass away, and are
speedily forgotten, or if not forgotten, are re
membered so carelessly, as scarcely to excite
a momentary feeling. The philosophy of life
is understood by few. It is practiced by still
fewer. We do not live so as best to provide
for bur general and life-long happiness here, as
well as in the life to come but m most cases,
for the gratification of momentary wishes, de
sires, appetites and objects. The young, when
they start upward and onward on the hillside
of existence, are naturally buoyant, gay, and
cheerful. Imagination colors and brightens
the future they have little to regret in the
past, and hasten on their way to rejoicing.
When, however, they reach middle life, or u
point beyond, and pause for a moment, with ihe
object of ascertaining their real position and
prospects, they begin to realize that there is
much of shadow as well as of sunshine in hu
man existence that men are false, corrupt and
treacherous that evil still prevails to a fearful
extent and thus a feeling of sadness and dis j paint you the bear without a chain, for the a
satisfaction steals into their hearts. When, too, mount you offer me.
as it often happens, they find themselves de-l O, hang the Chain ; I don't care about haT
ceived and betrayed by these they tried and ' ing it any how. Paint the bear without it, and
trusted ; or when, after having toiled for years j I'll give you five dollars.
to secure some darling object, they awake in' The bargain was thus closed. In time the
disappointment and mortification, e cannot j sign was painted, delivered to its owner, aud
wonder that for the moment they should grow . hung up aloft in the place of the old one, where
misanthropic, and view with distrust all their
fellow men.
It is at such seasons that a kind, and en
couraging word is all important. They should
then be taught that life is full of change that;
the brightest morning is preceded by the dark -
est night that time, faith and eneigy should
never be inculcated and practised with a spirit
of more determination than when the heart ap
pears disposed to shrink and cower before the
tempests of the world.
Look through society. Mark the changes
that have taken place within a few years-ten,
fifteen or twenty. Yohdef passes a citizen
who five years ago' was a bankrupt overwhel
med with debt, and as too often the case under
like circumstances, without credit, and a char
acter sullied without suspicion. His creditors
lost by and hence suspected him. Nay, some
of them went further, and harshly bitterly ac
cused him of fraud. For a time he was slung
to the quick. To' be unfortunate, he thought,
was bad enough ; but to be assailed and reviled
hecauso of his misfortune, he felt was cruel.
But what should he do ? Should he yield to
the storm, abandon the commercial walks,. be
come an idler and a pauperbr should he nerve
his heart and his mind for the trial, and by liv
ing down his calumniators, endeavor to regain
his character, and thus a new foothold in soci
ety ! .The latter course Was adopted and pur
sued with active and untiring energy. No op
portunity was lost to convince the sUspocttng
and" defaming that they were wrong, and, al
though for a time the effort was unsuccessful, it
iriumphed in the end. iNay, in one instance, a
leading capilalrst who had been sadly embiv
tered, was convinced that he had done the un
fortunate gross injustice. He was ahigb-min-ded
and generous hearted manand as soon
as the conviction was forced upon him, that he
had been assisting to crush still further a really
honest bui unfortunate fellow creature, a re-action'
took place in his feelings. He sent for the
debtor-- apoligized for his conduct, and proffer
red liberal assistance. It was adopted. A new
start was thus obtained the cloud disappear
ed ihe sunshine of prosperity grew brighter
and brighter, and now the bankrupt of only five
years back, is fully on his feet again with a
resuscitated character-high hopes and a am.
ling path before him.
Again. The three men standing together
before yonder substantial edifice, each now
worth an hundred thousand dollars, were.teii
years ago, not worth as many cents. They af
illat time hit upon a happy thought--. ventured
upon a new enterprize prosecuted it d;iv auuV
night with indefatigable zeal, and the results
are before you.
And these are riot rare cases. The chances'
are as numerous as ever. Life is full of chan
ges. In order to take advantage of them, the
anxious and advehturotiH must have their
thoughts about them. They must watch
think calculate and having at last determined;
they must be prepared to.acJ, and with energy.
Let us not despond and despair because of one
or two reverses, and all will soon be over with
us. Integrity, activity faith and tricrgy, and
any reasonable undertaking may be accomplished.
Fast Colors.
The keeper of a country tun, situated some
dozen miles from the city, an honest, ignorartt'j
unsophisticated farmer, taking it in his head
that hisf establishment wanted a new sign
which was a very sensible conclusion in him',
inasmuch as nought was to be seen on the old
sign creaking on its hinges as it swung lazilv
in the wind, and not having the Ipast vestige
of the original painting left on it took it into
his head to have a new one painted, and accor
dingly, being in the good Quaked city, on busi
ness, consulted the proprietor of one of those
J shops where 'house and sign painting and gla
f 1 zing' are done
' Well,' said he, how much are you going"
to charge me ? you know I can't afford to pav
too much, 'cause I'm not a money bag, and
you city people can stick it on sometimes,'
'Teh dollars, replied th'e painter ; ' I could
j paint you one for ten dollars, although it's too
little a price for the quantity of work."
Too little!" ejaculacted the inn keeper, 'ton'
little for painting a sign ! By thunder, I can't
afford to pay any such a price."
4 Why,' returned the artist, ' you can't get it
done any cheaper. 4 What do you expect yoti
will have id give.
' Well, 1 don't know,1 replied the inn kee
per, 4 but I guess Sb would be quite a plenty.
Five dollars !' exclaimed the artist ; but
seeing what kind of a customer he had to deal
with, he resolved to make hirri pay for his
stinginess; so after some demuring, the paint
er agreed as follows :
4 I'll paint you a sign for five dollars You
say you want a wnue bear on it. Well, 1 11
it was the admiration of the family for a whole
week afterward. At length there was one night
a heavy storm of thunder and lightning, accorn-
pained with a deiue of rain. Next
morning
it cleared off, and the old man went out as usu-
!al to admire hi new sign, when what was his
astonishment to behold not a vestige of the bbar
left. This picture was completely effaced
from both sides. His first thought wa that
some mischievous youngster of the hei'oh'our
hood had scraped it off, but there wrfs no evj
dence of any scraping and the pawn was uone
as smoothly as could be.
I'll go to town to day and see thy.t painter.,
said he ; 'he has cheated me."
And so in double quick time he. was, landed1
in the painter's shop.
14 What kind of a sign' was that, you painted
me?"
" A white bear."
I know it was; but there's not much white
bear now. It's clear grne. The boards there
but there's not a mt'.e of a white bear left on
either side, Howr is ibis ? "
4 Oh ! ii'a oiea.r enough. Cheap goods aro
never the best ; I told you I'd paint you a bear
without ihe cHain for five doflors. 1 did so.
How could you expect such a wild animal as
that to remain without being chained 1"
The countryman could not exactly see into
this, concluded that it was best 10 have the
chain painted in the picture, and thus insure
its remaining. For an additional ten dollars
tht was done, and ihe renewed pirture did
not disappear after that. This puzzled the
couniryman more than ever, but tie continued
ihe patnter was right. The reader will, of
course, have guessed that the first sign was
painted in water colors, and the last in oil
paint. The water colors disappeared, as a
matter of course, after a hard drenching. The
countryman generally gave people a good price
after that.
JJj3 At Niagara Falls there is a factory for
the manufacture of wooden pails and tubs,
which turns out 1.600 of the former and, 500
of the latter per day, and consumes a million
feet pine in a. year. ' ,