4 f.- '' 4. IS The whole, art of Government consists in the art of beino honest. Jefferson. . ! pnblisbcd by Theodore Schoch. pnMS tollars per annum in advance Two dollars i barter, half yearly and if not paid before the end of i 2r Two dollars ana a nau. tnose who receive their he-bv a carrier or stage drivers employed by the propne 11 be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. -Brill DC CnaiSCU m y jn,. ji.ai, tAlia. ri icfnntimied until all arrearaees are nnnl. excent ivopai -,nrt, - . .iM option ui ,. it" ...nnlc nnf orn.ifflinT nno ennnra cirtpptl lirifiSI Fine inserted three weeks for one dollar, and twenty-five I"'1. enhennnonf iritrrJ irn Tli a n met fnrOllcaild insertions tlio same. A liberal discount made to yearly JOB PRINTING. Lnn"apcneral assortment of large, elegant, plain andorna- description of krJs Circulars, Bill Heads, Rotes, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. r IpLiited with neatness and despatch,on reasonable tcims AT THE OFFICE OF THE JTcffersonian Republican. Harvest Hymn. BY MRS. LYD1A H. SIGOURNEY. Goo of the year! with songs of praise, And hearts of love, we come to bless Thy bounteous hand, for thou hast shed Thy manna o'er our wilderness ; linearly spring-time thou didst fling I O'er earth its robe, of blossoming And its sweet treasures day by day, Rose quick'ning in thy blessed ray. And now they whiten hill and vale, And hang from every vine and. tree, Whose pensile branches bending low " -'A'" Seem bowed in thankfulness to Thee,' The earth with all its purple isles, Is answering to thy genial smiles, And gales of perfume breathe along -j - And lift to Thee their voiceless song. ; . God of the seasons ! Thou hast blest The land with sunlight and with showers, And plenty o'er its bosom smiles ' To crown the sweet autumnal hours,; . Praise, praise to Thee ! Our hearts expand To view these blessings of thy hand, And on the incense breath of love, Go off to their bright home above. Chat our Fruits have Sprung from. The peach originally was a poisonous al- lond. Its nesh parts were then used to poi- bn arrows, and was for this purpose introduced Liu Persia. The transplamingand cultivation, 3ever, not only removed us poisonous qual- lies, but produced tne delicious iruit we uow Ly. The nectarine and apricot are but natural hbridation between the peach and plum. 1 he cherry was originally a berry-like fruit, i.a cultivation nas iriven eacn Derrv a separate - 1 i km, and improves its qualiiy. The common; pzard is the original of most of the presem liid of cherries. The common wild pear is even inferior to L - L I . ... . ... . , lecnoKe pear; out sun, oy cumvaiion,- n nas lime to rank among our finest fruits. The cabbage originally come from Germa- i and is nothing more than the common sea- pie, lis cultivation has produced the present abbage, and Us diuerent acclimatings the dif- pient kinds; while its hybridation with other pilar plants has produced the cauliflower, ! 'PL? I . .... , rr. 1 "fa snows ine uenetit cultivation nas enec d; in the mind of man it is infinitely reaier. American Agriculturist. Parting Scene between two Irish men. Ashmen, generally speaking, are not noted if 2nV orpnt Trtrol VirnrrVtt ftnnporninrr tltoir tarn- 2I welfare, but in anvihinp relating to the J . O O - pimual they exhibit an unusual share of jtoewdness, as id illustrated in the following pSEi which occurred on the frontiers of the jaieof Maine, between Jemmy McG.ee and JtMeGarlin. Pat 'being called to visit his -ighbot Jemmv McGee. and hear his last iords of farewell before shuffling off ibis mor- coil. he donned his best suit of clothes smoo- llng lits usual cheerful phiz into unusual grav- 1 (nnnA tt .: r. ! : j - "iiiu. upon meeting iiim jrai cauiuiuicu, " Well Jemmy I understand the doctors have ten ye up." hm." Yes Pat, ifs most over wid me." ht, after a nans " Well. Jammv. ve hav- - - i - J w 'tieen a great smner ve'll eo lo ihe good ce " hm. Oh, yes Pat to be sjiure I stole fle government timber." ifl't taking Jemmy's :hand and assuming a P'omaiic air. Well, farewell to e, when cacnes ihe good pUce,. tell them ,you re ''tcquaintcd wid Pat McGarluu" "ete Pat started for th door. hut. as if ud- ; thinking of Jemmy's dishonesty in sieal- . me government umber, he wheeled around . s friend and seriouslv and .earnestly ex- Jammv. if anv thin? hannens love 41.Ve should go to-.ihe -other place, jest lell STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1849. Story of Daniel D. Tompkins. The official relations of Governor Tompkins during the war of 1812', especially brought him in contact with a great number of persons. His memory up to a certain period, was extremely ten acious ; and he possessed, in an eminent degree, that remarkable faculty, so useful to public men of recollecting, not only the persons but the names of those whom he had ever met. At the fitst drafts of militia for active service, the governor was overrun with applications from various com manders, for employment on the lines ; and the most urgent of these was an individual who resi ded near the northern frontier, who panted for an opportunity of "shedding the last drop of his blood, and dying in the last ditch, in defence of his country !" The beligerent spirit manifested in the frequent communications of this gentlemen, in duced the governor to grant his supplication ; and he was advanced to the rank of major, and ordered to Sackett's Harbor. The newly appointed officer, with becoming gratitude acknowledged the receipt of his com missionrenewing his former protestations, and closed with declaring his resolution to " rampart with his body the firesides and the alters of the free sons of Columbia !" The gallant officer took the lield ; the affair of Sackett's Harbor occurred,, and, in the detail of that battle, he was reported as having u been the last to retreat, and having brought off his command in good order." TJie major had not been without competitors for prefer ment perhaps many who had better pretensions than himself; and the governor was congratulating himself that the appointment had been so well be stowed, when a fortnight after the battle, he re ceived a visit from the triumphant mililaire, who had obtained leave of absence from the general commanding on the lines. The major received the congratulations of the governor upon his achievemets rather awkwardly ;and, after some preliminary conversation, he finished by asking leave to' .resign his commission. Surprised at this unexpected request, the gov governor asked if he met with any ill-usage from his superiors, which had driven him to that meas ure. " None at all," was the answer. He was asked if any domestic affliction had befallen him if his health had suffered in the campaign and urged to disclose the cause which impelled him to abandon a career so auspiciously begun. All these questions were answered in the negative ; and yet the major tendered his resignation with great urgency. He detailed a catalogue of reas ons for the measure,- ail of which the governor controverted, and concluded by telling him that the good of the service required that he should hold his commission. ,r Well, governor," said the major, "if you will be good enough to dismiss your private secretary for a short time, I will give you some other reasons which, perhaps, you will deem more substantial." The secretary was accordingly despatched upon a short mission ; and the major drawing his chair as near as possible to that of the governor, in a very low tone commenced the disclosure : " The real truth then, governor, is is it must come out that I am a most infernal coward ! I am not half so fit to command in the army, as my wife is, who has been rating me night and day ever since I determined to resign; but, the truth must be told, 1 am a coward, and that is all that is to be said about it !" The governor was incredulous. " Nonsense !" said hey " you probably felt some unpleasant emo tions at first ; these are all very natural, and will subside in time. ITew are without such feelings, at the first encounter with the enemy. Make up your mind, major, to relinquish your purpose, and return to the army. There will be warm work by-and-by, and you will soon get used to it." "It is just that oarm work," responded the' ma jor, " that I am afraid of; and as for getting used to it, I know that can't be done. I will tell you- governor, the whole story ; and then I think, you will agree to accept my resignation. When the news came that the British were coming over, I do think I crowed louder than any one else ! and 1 got our battalion under arms, and made a speech to them ; and I talked about the duty we owe to the country, lo ourselves, and to our wives and children, and ended with the Fourth-of-July flbur ish,Dulce et decorum, SfC. ; and really I thought I would do as I said I would wade knee deep' in blood, and drive the bloody British' into the lake. When the orders were given to advance, 1 dismounted and took the head of the battalion, and every thing went on finely. The British boats were approaching the beach, and we were drawn up in a line to oppose their landing. The drums beat-and we gave them a volley at long shot, and some of them dropped ; but, as the boats ground ed, the troops sprang ashore, formed, their line, and advanced upon us. " The red-coals were so cool about it, they did not seem scared In the least ; and on they came, with tlieir guns at a shoulder, marching as steady as rf at a tiaining. Wo kept popping away, but they did not mind it ; and as; Fast as one fell, they closed up the gap from the second line. All at once' I began to feel almighty queer it seemed as if a bone, as big as my two fists, had got into my throat; and I felt, for all the world, like a fellow in the nightmare. I still kept my eye on the enemy ; and when they got within about sixty yards, the word was given. They halted, dropped their guns to take aim, and the officers were flatting down the ends of their pieces with their swords, as deliberately as anything you can think of. 4 Fire !' was the word, and they blazed away a stream of fire along the whole line; and, I tell you, there was a whistling, as if forty thousand catcalls were at work. Down went some of our men ; and I came to the right about in no time. I'll tell you what, governor, I am a pretty good ruririer, and if I ever did run fast, it was that day. I can't say .who followed, nor do I know a great deal about anything, until I found myself a couple of miles from the battle-ground, and wrenching my foot a little, I was obliged to stop and creep into the edge of the wood, where I hid behind a log, and began rubbing my ancle to' get it in pro per order for a fresh start. In about half an hour I heard voices ; and peeping over the log, I saw about fifty of our men walking in double quick time up the. road, and not very orderly, I tell you. 1 let them pass, and after they got on about a hun dred yards, finding my foot much belter, I crept out of the wood, just as they came to a turn in the road, and followed after them. Halloo ! halt ! halt ! I sung out, and hobbled on. When I got in sight of them, they were going it to kill. Halloo ! halt ! I again bellowed out, and Lieut. C , hap pened to look behind him, knew me, and stopped them. I hurried up, and waving my sword, which, somehow, 1 had conrived to hold on to, I ordered them to fall in, and formed them in proper order. For shame, men, said T, why did you not stand to it bravely Face about, and let us charge back upon the enemy I They all said 'twas no use, and we might as well follow the rest. Just then I saw something like a drum, a little into the wood ; and sent one of the men after it, who found the. drummer with it, tfndt brought him out. As we had resolyed to retreat, we struck up, and pushed on to the tune 6f Yankee Doodle. We had not marched far when, we came on a consid erable squad ; these I ordered to fall in, and by the time we reached W , what with these and other stragglers, we had a couple of decent, com panies, r.did not fail to harangue the fugatives when we got into town, in a proper manner, on their several delinquencies; they listened very patiently, to my discourse, and promised to behave better rn future. So, governor, I got well out of that scrape, and if you will oblige me, I. won't get into another of the kind very soon, I promise you." " Come," said he, try it again ; you have gained some eclat in this affair ; "in the next you may feel very differently. Hold on to your commission, and increase the reputation you have gained." " That," said the major, " is entirely out of the question ; the only way lo keep what 1 have got, is by not seeking or more." The governor seeing his entreaties" were. in vain, was no longer obdurate, and the illustrious Hanni bal Hacswood ceased to be a major rn the1 brigade of general Brown. Novel Pels. A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from Hingham, (Mass.) which place he had visit ed on a pleasure excursion, says : " We took the younger members of the party to visit Wear River Iron Foundry, and the pond near it, and Miss Thomas's petf the fish-and turtle in it. This child of nine years has fed these fish four years with bread. She was first amused by throwing the crumbs into the water when' she eat her mealsn the stones of the bank ; and see ing the fish dart for them she took an interest in the fish, and has fed them regularly since. Strange as it may seem, they known her voice. On our requesting her to feed and call them she did so, and called ' turte, turte, turte,' several times ; di rectly we could see the turtle popping their heads up1 over the pond, then swim to her, and take the bread from her hands. The fish did the same ; several hundred of which, consisting of large black pouts,-six to eight inches long shiners and min nows of all sizes, flocked around her perfectly tame. The turtles were of two kinds, snappers and the common yellow spotted ones This was a most interesting sight and well worth a fang ride to see it." A Challenge to the World. Gabriel Frost, of Lawrence county, a subscriber to the Eagle, is willing to " stand treat," if any man can beat him in ihe way of brothers and sis ters, and broiher-in-laws, and sister-in-laws. He is the youngest of 28 children has been married four limes twice into a family of ten children, and once into a family of twenty-four. He can count up one hundred and thirty-two ; and what is more, nearly all, men and ,vvomen, Whigs IBatesvillc (Ark) Eagle. ' - ; a. Immensity of Creation. ' He who through vast immensity can pierce. See worlds on worlds compose one Universe ; Observe how system into system runs ; What other planets circle other suns ; What varied beings people every star, May tell why God made us as we are." Pope. Some astronomers have computed that there are no less than 75,000,000 of suns in this uni verse. The fixed stars are all suns, having ; like our sun, numerous planets revolving round them. The, Solar System or that to which we belong, has about thirty planets primary and becondary, beloning to it. The circular field of space which it occupies is in diameter three thousand six hundred millions of miles,- and that which it controls much greater. That sun which is nearest neighbor to' ours is called Si rius, distant from our sun about twenty-two billions of miles. Now if all the fixed stars are as distant Irom each other as Sirius is from our sun ; or if our solar system be the average magnitude of all the systems of the seventy five millions of suns, what imaginaiion can grasp the immensity of creation ! Every son of the seventy-five milliods, controls a field of space about 10,000,000,000 of miles in diam eter. Who can survey a plantation containing seventy-five millions circular fields, each ten billions of miles in diameter ! Such however. is one of the plantations of Him "who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and, meted out heaven with a span, and com prehended the dust of the earth in a measure, weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ;" he who u sitting upon the orbit of ihe earth, stretches out ihe heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. (Millenial Arbinger. A Charity; Sermon shorter than th-k Text. Dean Swift once preached a charily sermon at Si., Patricks, Doublin, the length of which disgusted many of his auditors ; which, coming to his knowledge, and it falling to his lot soon after to preach another sermon of the like kind in the same place, he took special care to avoid falling into the former error. His text was, " He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord, and that which he hath given, will he pay him again." The Dean, after repeating the text in a more ihan com monly emphatical tone, added, " Now my be loved brethern, you hear the terms of the loan ; if you like the security, down with your dust." It is worthy of remark, that the quaintness and brevity of this sermon produced a very large contribution. Hoves in Cattle. Allow me to suggest a quicker and much easier way of curing an animal hoved on clo ver. Take a straw band with a knot in the middle as large as a man's fisi, put plenty of tar upon it, and pni it in the mouth of the ani mal, and tie it on ihe lop of ihe head, not too tight so that she can chew it? ihen put two or three table-spoonfuls of tar in the mouth. This will relieve the animal almost instantly. I have cured at least twenty cattle in this sim ple way, and can cure any one in 15 minutes at most with absolute certainty. If the animal is hoved upon- corn or rye chop, (corn or rye coursely ground and mixed with cut airaw or hay,) 1 lake a: pint of lard, or half a pound of glauber salts, and drench the bowels with it. I have known several cattle to be cured in this way, but never had but one of my own found ered it was a cow fresh in milk. I gave her lard she soon got better, but lost her milk, and for a' week or two gave but little. She losi all' her hair ; it came off in great bunches. B. M. Ellis. Sunbury American. Cure for spavin Take oil of amber, oil' of spike, and spirits of turpentine, equal parts, say four ounces ; wamr them on some hoi ash es, with no blaze, and apply them as warm as you can to the spavin, by pouring on and rub bing in well with the ball of your thumb, (first shave ihe hair off ihe spavin ;) this must be re peated twice. a day for two days, when, if well rubbed, it will become a running sore ; wet a sponge with-the substance, and apply it twice a day for three days, then stop for three days.H and if the Bpavm has noi disappeared, repeat tne course three days longer, let the sore heal, wash it with plairitaTn' leaf scalded, and suds from castile soap : as soon as the sore is closed, commence rubbing with lard or' rank btitter, and the spavin will disappear, and the hair J Will grow in me uamo kujui. Logic. " The orifice of tho typhantum ap pears lo be enlarged, and ihe globules of ihe abdominal fuhcitons are much deferred in this patient," remarked the quack doctor, as he held a sick man's arm". " Lor, doctor, where was you. born 1" in quired tho old lady. . " In Germany, madam in Germany. Fin ished my education in France." " 1 thought so. I know so," replied the old 'woman, " nobody was ever born in this coun try that knows as much as you do !" No. 51 l.l-J Re-Tacci n nation. First every individual is susceptible of vac cination ; second, re-yaccinnation is hot neceaf, sary before puberty ; third, the system under-, goes d change at puberty, and rovaccinaiiqn. is. then necessary"; fourth, vaccination is a surer preventive of small-pox; fifth, re-vaccinatioii is a sure preventive of varioloid ; sixth, the third vaccination is inert ; seventh, the sys- tern is susceptible of vajioloid after puberty;, whenever the individual is exposed to small:, pox, without re-vaccination ; eighth, re-accin?i ation is not necessary if the first operation wan performed since puberty ; ninth, ihoe who' disregard vaccination are always liable to small-pox, whenever exposed to ihe influence of that dreadful disease; tenth, if every indi vidual were vaccinated before pilberty, and re veccinated at that revolution of the systdnfi1 there would be no such disease existing as small-pox. A sprig of the law expecting soon the ap pointment of judge, was questioned as to his. qualifications as to the penally he should lach to the crime of arson, replied, with pro-, found gravity : " Arson, arson ! I would make ihe fellow pay a hundred dollars and marry7 the sirl." ' ' ' A constable at Dansville lately seized' and advertised for sale two dogs, a harness, a wag-i on and four dozen beer bottles. It seems that the defendant is a root beer vender, and ped dled his commodities about the village, uainv, dogs as a team to draw his little cart, and in' this way procurred a scanty living. Soinebo dy bad them attached for debt ; and hence they were advertised. Uundcr ihe new law, a man's team cannot be taken lor debt, and as the dogs served in that capacity, the root beer peddler floored the officers and retained his pontes. Loss of Vegetables. It is estimated that gardeners in and about Richmond, will be los ers to the extent of $10,000 in consequence of the cholera excitement stopping the sale of their vegetables. The loss will doubtless be very large in all sections of the country. The Average Income of Men. We once' look a notion to find out the average annual income of the inhabitants of the most favofed countries of Christendon. We opened Mr. Culloch's work on Great Britain, and found hi$ estimate for each to be 16 a year, or about 22 cents a day f and for each person in Ire land, 6 a year, or 8 cents a: day. We looked into Chevalier's admirable lectures on French: Political Economy, and his estimate for eactf person in France is about $45 a year, 12 J cts. a day. Gur own census estimates the average" product of the richest Siale in the Union at S110 for each person, or 30 cents per dayy while our whole country taken together, slave Slates and all, yields an annual product of. but $62 for each person, or about 17 cents per day Horrible Affair. We learn from a gentleman, from the bor'-' ough of Huntingdon, that on thursday last, an al most fatal rencountre took place between two' brothers, George and Henry Helfright, about five miles above that borough. George, who lives in Huntingdon was on a visit to Henry who attends a lock on the Pennsylvania Canal in' connection with keeping a drinking house and after the former remaining some time, and both becoming intoxicated, an altercation look place, which, it is said, will result in the death of George. Henry, no doubt, under a highf state of excitement, to which he is unfortun ately subject, seized a piichfork and thrust it through ihe face arid tongue o George, causing a dangerous wound, and repeated ihe assault by a severe abdominal wound with the same instrument. They are foreign Germans and have both been Jiving about the, borough of Huntingdon for several years. -BlairsviUe Whig'.- The Tribune says lhat on Sunday week the' Rt. Rev. Bishop Hnges made a few remarks' after1 ascending ihe pulpit upon a Circular; which he had received from the City Authori ties" in reference to ihe Cholera. They wero to the effect that cleanliness should be preser ved, and as little excitement as possible indul ged' in; he concluded by saying lhat as the use of fish had been pronounced by the med ical faculty as inducive of the Cholera, he had bv virtue of the perogative invested'in himf suspended lhat law of the Church wlcch pro hibits the use of meat on. Friday from ihw pres ent time to the 18th of August, should he Chol era continue. The gold medal ordered for Oen. TayI6lr by Congress, has been sent to Washington. It was made at ihe mint in Philadelphia, and' is valued at three thousand dollars. The name of Bloominton, in Iowa, has been changed to Muscatine. It is intended to change ihe names of several other towns in that State, by resuming tho former Indian appellations ap plied to their former sites. Burlington islo. be called Sho ko-ken, and Fort Madis6u,is tbV take the name of Pottowanck.
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