J0!. . rs 4 v Tll'' mmttmrnmrmmmnm, - - - illiiVliir WliWW0W y8 The whole art of Governjient coNsrsfs m the art of being hVnest!. Jeifersonl .si '01 9- STROUDSBUKG, MONROE COUNTY, PA.,- THURSDAY, JULY 26, 184. No. 5k .-.- - i - - - - - - - , . . . "L ; - --------------- ---- published by Theodore Schocli. Ir.f?Two dollars per annum in advanc barter, half yearly and if liot paid b er annum in advance Two dollars before the end of P . Two dollars ana a nan. inosew ho receive thdir bv a carrier or stage drivers employed by the propne fll be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. , papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except L.iVp ovlion 01 me r.uiiur. ,r ..nmnnlcnnt f-riflin nnn minrr sixteen lines) &r. . thr vnfks for one dollar, and twenty-live r, for every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and jnyrrtions tne same, a nuerai discount niauu iu j mi ij Hct'ters -addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB . t f1nitn 1tfint v 1 n i r orwl r twin. description of JftrdSj Circulars, asih jticaas, noies, is i a ii k iscccipis, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. pniffcJ with neatness and despatch,on reasonable terms' AT THE OFFYCE OF THE Jefferson iaii Republican. The Motherless. God help and shield the motherless ! The stricken, bleeding dove For whom there gushes no rich fount ' Of deep and deathless love ! The saddest titles grief conferir For who so lone as they, Upon whose path a mother's love' Shed's not its holy ray ! Jo gentle form above them bends To sooth the couch of pain No voice so fond as hers essays To calm the feverish brain. ' 0, other tongues may whisper lov'sf In accents soft and mild ; "" But none on earth so pure as that . A mother bears her child ! Judge kindly of the motherless--- f A weary lo: is theirs-, And oft the heart the gayest seerasy A load of sorrow bears-. No faithful voice directs their steps, Or bids them onward press, " And if they gang, a kennin- wrang," God help the motherless f And when the sinful and the- frail', The-tempted and the tried, Unspotted one f shall cross thy path", ' 0 spurn them not; aside. Thou knowest not what thou hadst been' With trials even less -And when thy lips would: vent reproach-,- Think, they litre motHerless l A blessing on the motherless,- Where'er they dwell on eartrHj. rt Within the home of childhood, Or at the strangers hearth f ... Blue be the sky above their headsy- ,r . And bright the sun within, 0 God, protect the motherless; And keep them free from sin" A short time since, in Hertfordshire;- flnrJ were written on a grave rail, these lines : Remember me a3 you pass by, As you are now so once was I ; ' -As 1 am now, so you must' be j Therefore prepare and follow me,rt Underneath some one wrote1 ' " To follow you I'm not content, Unless I know which way you went, !n .Bxcnse for Smoking. j'n the reign of Ja'raes I, of tobacco-hating noto riety, the boys of a school acquired the habit of smoking and indulged it night and day,, using: the most jng.enfous expedients to conceal the vice from :their masters ; till one luckiest evening when.the Cmp.s were huddled together round the fire of their drm.Uory, involving eacn otner in vapors of their .own creating, lo ! in burst the master and stood in avPful dignity before them. " How now," quo.th the dominie to the first lad; uhow dare yoa fee smoking- tobacco V uSir," said the bo, "l am. ubject to- Head aches and a pipe takes .off the painl" "And you! and you T .and you ?" inquired5 the pedagogue, Questioning everv boy in his turn. One Md a "raging tooth;" another cholic ; the AW a cough r in short, they -all had something. " Now, sirrah r bello-wed the doctor to the last boy, " what disorder do you smoke fori" Alas ! all the excuses were exhausted, but the interrogated urchin, putting down his pipe, after farewell whiff, and looking up in his master's fece, said in a whining hypocritical tone, " Sir J xnoke forrcoms .'" The Fish &iNff. The Baltimore Patriot learns-from a. gentleman has recently returned from a visit to the Eastern shore of Maryland, that both sides of CMstPr are lined with dead fish, from tKe small 1ej tt4h'e largest size.' ;Tha s)fef phenomenon -was obsweddiring.the-,existeRcei6f.the cholera in 1832. and t&e-eauses-which then J existed- have 3io doubt produced a. like efl&CP'nWr From the Spirit of the Times. An Unexpected Race. Some years" since,'! was travelling through the Southern States on business, and driving Before a light sulky a celebrated old race horse purchased in Kentucky. He was supposed-to have passed the period of life at which speed could be obtained, but still full of fire and spirit?. About eleven o'clock on- a beautiful autumn morning, I reached Statesburg, South Carolina, at which place there is a very prettily arranged race course. Ascertaining that the friend I wished to see was absent at the course,-witnessing a trial of speed between two'r'iv'al nags of the neighborhood. I concluded to drive and s6e the sport. As I ap proached, I heard',' shouts from the course (which as usual was surrounded by a tall planlr fence) indicating that the hoises had started, and pushing my old gray, I drove at once through the gate, and immediately across the track. As we entered (horse, sulky, and small trunk attached to back of sulky, and last your humble servant, weighing abont one hundred and forty pounds,) I heard shouts from all parts of the field, Get out of the track!' 'Get out of the track!!' Mv attention was at once called to the fact that the horses were approaching at a spanking pace. Pushing across, I drew up shortf and wheeled the nag around parallel with the track, and without paying, any attention to him,' was- all' on the qui vive as to the race. The horses came round a killing pace,' and the .whole altention of the field was absorbed by them, when just as they reached the point at which I was standing, I was most agreeably or disagree ably aroused1 (just as you may happan to fancy, Mr. Spirit,) by my old racer taking the bit between his teeth.and following the nags as fast as he could put it' d6Wn ! Recollect my dear sir, that I had tra-velled" over twenty miles that morning, with sulky attd trunk attached, and that I was still en cumbered with these disadventages ; but notwith standing all, my old singed cat' performed some tall walking, I can assure you ! This sudden nd unexpected start for the purse without the formality of entering, produced some excitement on the field you may well suppose, and what with the shouting and huzzaing, and ail the confusion of ideas consequent upon the sudden match into which I had been so unceremoniously pitched I vfssrather taken aback ! But soon the excitement of the scene, and the generous pace at which the old fellow performed his work, called up ail the enthusiasm of my nature, and I tooled him with all the skill I possessed. Let me say, by the way, that the face of the country was per fectly flat, and the whole course, hoth- within and outside of the tracV wa- a perfect level.- The half mile stretch had; been- passed' over hen I was jVce'into the rate. The next quar ter a few long strides on' the part' of old gray was soon reached, all three horses running neck and neck,-but as-We came up to the last quarter, my blood all up, we soon made a gap, and witli loud huzzas-, bets running high in our favour, we came in nearly ten yards ahead ! This was glory enough for one day, you must admit, Mr. Spirit, for a modest youth who had never ' seen the Elephant' any farther than- his tusks I We" were' soofl" surrounded by ''horse, foot, and dragoons,' and concluding that 1 was a speculator in horse flesh, various- amounts were offered for my old nag with what success you may readily conjecture, as I had just begun to appreciate his value. The judges unanimously decided ttiaf l"Had won the race ;- but as I had not made an entry for the purse, I most modestly declined to accept! But you may readily suppose, Mr. Spirit, I was sortie in thenvdiggihgs for the nonce, and; ''smiles' sweetly wreathed with tall bouquets of mint were plentifully showered upon (into) me f SoutfrCar olina hospitality was, as usual, in the ascendent. Truly yours, Percy. Remedy fon Cramps. A correspondent of the New York Sun, mentions a simple remedy for cramps, which he says he has tested in many cases with invariable success: ft con sists in lying a handkerchief around the fore arm, a Utile distance above the wrist and then placing a stick underneath and twisting the handkerchief lightly. In a minute the cramp will depart, if then the handkerchief hurts let it be slackened and on a recurrence of the cramp tightened again. Anajyzing the Atmosphere. Prof. Wm. H. EIIet,ris about to undertake at New York, an analysis of ibe atmosphere, with a view lo ssceriain whether there is anything in ilsscon dition that may explain the prevalence of (he Cholera. The experiments are to be on a large scale. Gen. Taylor's celebrated war-horse, " Old Whitev" has reached' Washington, safe and sound He fnent the 4ih at Cumberland, and received visits of crowds of-curious persons. -Hfoney-Iutoon Conversation. A correspondent of the Delawarian, writing from' Brandywine Springs, gives the following report of a newly married; cdutthY from Virginia. There" is a depth of affection in it, which it is quite re freshing to contemplate : " William dear William, said the wife, with a world of affection in her eyes. "Speak, heavenly charmer," replied the new hus band, returning with interest' the expressive glan ces of his spouse. "Dear William!" " Adored Eliza !" - ; ' Sweet flatterer !w . - " Angelic creature !" - , . - " Dear dear William5, pardon me bu,t do', you think a short walk would hurt us, as the divine Willis says ?" " I fear, loveliest of your ser, that you may be fatigued." " Fear not, dearest !" " Heavenly emanation bright dream of my pre carious existence but I cannot help fearing." " Sweet William--" "Celestial Eliza!" Here they fell to violent kissing, which lasted abbbt fifteen minutes. Almost breathless, the la dy exclaimed " William, dear William, why are you so. sweet 1 Oh, the joy, the ecstacy of Wedded bliss ! Best beloved, will ever love me thus V " By yonder fearful I say tremendous orh I swear !" he exclaimed, pointing to the setting sun. " And as a memento of our wedding day, will you yearly bring- me here will you cherished idol ?" " Yes, my only pet, my life, my love, I will bring you heie every year if my capital holds out!" " Oh ! bravest and best of your nbble sex, talk not of capital in this, our hour of bliss"." HoW much longer they talked, the writer cannot say, for he was called away at this moment to welcome some friends from Maryland; But he is firmly of the opinion that none but married people know what real happiness is. While the above happy couple were talking, he felt as" if he Was immersed in molasses, and everything since has looked, felt and smelt sweeter. Xfrerfology proved True. The item man of the Pennsylvanian furnishes the following police report : (Jity Police June 4. rigbts are common enough in Philadelphia, but the causes and occa sions for fighting have a charming variety. The following case is by no means a common one, and may be thought worthy of commemoration. John Dikeman is a " practical phrenologist' and has an office we think in some part of the'Ar cade, or somewhere in that neighborhood. An drew Mead, a stout,-middle aged country gentle man, seeing an announcement in-the philosopher's window that the character and capabilities of any man would be thoroughly sifted out for the mod erate sum of 2& cents, entered the sanctum, and submitted his poll to philosopher Dikeman's scru tiny. The latter, after stating his terms, payment in advance, and, receiving the specified, sum, pro ceeded at once to business. " iou have a very bad head!, sir," said he to Mr. Mead. " A5 very villainous head, sir.- Facial angle almost as low as that of a monkey, sir. Signifies you are very stupid, sir, and foolish: You havn't enough constructiveness to make a pig yoke ; nor enough-wit tb make a conundrum ; nor enough judgment to know the difference between pea soup and cider royal. And what's- all- this Back Here, sir. These bumps signify that you will cheat, lie, and steal, worse than a Louisiana nig ger. I would notfrust' you with a room full of scrap iroif or a yard full of mill 3tones. Such a scoun drelly head I- never did handle since I was a professor.- f suppose you came tb be examined to know what pursuit-yed'ought'to-take to. My can did opinion is, thafyou ought to'start immediately for California, where there's no law" for if you stay where there' are judges, juries, state prisons, gallows,' and these sort of things,'there's no chance for you."' " Why, can't f do any good at all l'r asked Mead, with much seeming anxiety; " Good ! not the least" answered the philos opher. " Stay let me see. Combativeness is large ; yes, you can fight -" " So, then,'F can flog ah itnpudent hurhbug dn occasion', I-guess," said Mr. Mead. " I suppose you might," answered professor Dikeman. " Well, if that's all I-can do, here gries," cried Andrew, and immediately applied his feelers to theprpfessors's'cranium, crowding on more bumps than Spurzheim'evef found names for. Here was"" an affray odd enough'in its origin, but' quite' com mon place in its termination. Mead was arrested and bound over; -and the professor was' supplied wuu auuuicr pruui ui in a science. x-ui, aoiu he in his evidence, " I knew the man would'strike me as-soon :as f saw his head ; his bumps of com bativeness were almost as' big- as ruta baga. turnips.'" From the Water Cure Journal. Swimming. Agreeable to promise, we make' a few, ex tracts from this excellent little work, which should be in the possession of every man and woman, boy and girl. It will serve a a guide to the inexperienced, and teach them how to save the hves of their1 friends and themselves. Besides all the particular instructions given on the art of swimming, the work contains much4 phisiological advice, which will be found of importance to all' who read it. The author says :' " The art of swimming appears to be as natural lo many as' it is useful, and, in some" cases, necessary for the preservation of his life'. " Cleartlintesa and exercise, both so neces aary to health, are Combined with a high de gree of enjoyment in the practice of this art. " The importance of frequent ablutions' can scarce be overrated. In fact, the Water Cure has become a popular remedy for most of the diseases to which humanity is liable. But, however excellent the various kinds of bathing may be for curing diseases, there can be no doubt that in preventing them ffiev are still more efficacious. " Those who swim daily in summer, and1 continue the use of ablutions, in some form, in winter, are not liable to sudden colds, or inflammatory diseases, ari'd rarely, if ever, suffer fronl chronic compraints". Their bodies? become indurated, their skin is healthy, and all the functions of life are carried on with healthy vigor. " They who merely bathe, without being able to swim, lose half the pleasure and more than half the benefit which arises from frequent ablution?. Swimming is an' exercise which brings more muscles into exercise than any other ; and the body being suppofted by an equal pressure on every part, their action is harmonTdmi none being relaxed, and none overstrained. This exercise gives vigor and form to the limbs, and to the general system. It is probable that the ample exercise which the muscles and lungs obtained ui the frequent bathing of the ancients, gave their chests that round, full foim, which is so observable in their statues. All flat and narrow-chested children should be tarught to' swim, as nothing is more Hkely tb counteract a! tendency to- consumption. " The mb'si beautifully developed forms now to be found in the human species, are those of the South Sea Islanders, who bathe .at least twice a-day, and are almost as much at home in water as upon the land ;: and where the vi ces and diseases of civilization have not been introduced, it is Very rare indeed to find among7 them a case of sickness, of premature death, or decrepitude, excepting from extreme old; age. " Among the Greeks and Romans, swimming was considered an important branch of educa lion, and ' he can neither read nor swim,' was a reproach for the last degree of ignorance. Caesar was a good swimmer ; Cato taught his son to! cross dangerous" gulfs the Emperor Augustus taught his nephew to swim. As the navies of Greece and Rome were manned by soldiers, and their battles were hand to hand encounters,' to be able to swim was of the ut most necessity, and rigidly required' of every soldierr " In1 more mO'Jern times; Charlemagne was renowned for being an expert swimmer, and Louis XI. often swam in the Seihe,-at the head of his cOUrtiers a better example than is often set bv monarchs. " The capability of the liuman race,-civilized1 or savage, for swimming, is geridr'aliy under stood. The human form is better adapted to it' than that of any animal nor absolutely aquat ic ; and the inhabitants of warm' latitudes ex cel most amphibious animals in the water, figh ting witli the shark, diViri with the alligator, and- remaining for a long period in profound' depths in search ofcorar, pearls, arid Other treasures of the sea. " TKe rjearl'-divers of Coylbri will descend to the depth of 60 feet ; and although auch di ving, is accompanied with a great" pressure of water and violent exertion, they do' not seem to suffer greatly from it, as they make 40 or 50 plungea aday, and at each plunge bring up about a hundred oysters'. " The swimming couriers of Peru cross the continent, hundred's of miler, swiniming down the rivers, -their despaihes enclosed in a turban on their heads; They swim' day and night, aided only by a light log of wood. " In Prussia, swimmings has long been a mil itary exercise, whole regimenfs beings instruc ted' to swim in line, fully enuippdd.-to wheel in column,-and even lo load and fire In the water. " A1 few years since the Viscount de Cour tivron exhibited some experiments of this same character in ihe Seine at Pans. fTe went' in to' the watbr, accoutred" as ah infantry1 soldier. A'frer swimming 30- fathoms" from the boat, he raised himself iri'lhd' water, and fired a mus kei,at which signal one of his pupils sprans from the Pont Royal, a bridge, into-the Seiner The Science of Swimming; as tatight'ahd practiced in Civilized and Savage Nations with Particular Instructions to. Learners : alsosho-; ing its importance in th Preservation of-Health and Iitfc. Illustrated with engravings. By an Ex perienced Swimmer; New Yorki Fowlers fc Wells. from a height of 64 feet, and Carried to Ml. Courtivron a tin box containing despatches. sHe read the papers, gave a" signal, and waV joined by a' Crass of 6$ pupils, who, in the wa-'. ter, equipped, executed; a series of military movements. " Pr. Franklin wa an' excellent swimmer and his ihtructronrs for learning to swim, beftfcj some of the best ever given, are copied at full1' length in this work. " Lord ByrOn was an excellent swimmer; and prided himself much on his acquatic feat'. In imitation of Meander, he swarrf th'e Helle spont, a narrOw strait which divides Europe-' and Asia, in an hour and ten minutes, with a strong tide against him: , He swarrY the' TaguV in three hours, and afterwards stfanrfour hours1 and twenty minutes without a rest, at Venice. " Dr. Bedall, an English gentleman, swarrr for a wager, between Liverpool and RuncoVri, in 1827, a distance of 24 miles, which he per formed at the rate of six miles air hour with' the tide, prohably ! " A French s'ailof as washed overboard: from a sloop' at nine' o'clock, in Sept., 182Q, and picked up next morning, and this, be it no ted, in a rough sea. " Row important is" it, in a courttr'y like ours,' that every man' should learn to swim ! Storm's', strew our vast sea-coasts with wrecks ; steam boats are liable to accidents from collision, ex plosions, or fire, on our rivers and our lakes ? pleasure-boats frequently upset,, and numerous' accidents' occur from the sudden breaking of ice fn wfrVidf. The necessity of saving oneV Own life by swimming, or the opporfunrty'of saving the lives of others, may happen to any one, and to many these things must often O'c&uf in' the course of their Hves. " At" the burning of the ateamboa't Erie, on Lake Erfey Of the hundred or more person lost,-every one might have been saved, had they been' able to swim. The caAtaTn of the boat was indebted to a negro, fro could swim, foK an oar which saved his life. In a hundred' such mefanchoiy disastertfOn our lakes, rivers, and the ocean, valuable Fires might have Been' safed by a little pain's" in learning to swim." Nothing is so important in learning to swirtV as a confluence' in one's powers, 3itd in the" buoyancy Of the liquid element ; atid perhaps one acquires a ctfcfidence in himself by no' means sooner thati by knowing what can ber done by others.- I shall- therefore give a- few additional examples of the skill in swimming; to be acquired by habit, beggirig my readers-to remember, "Whatever1 man has done, man!can: do' and that we do not vary, in any important degree, in physical organization, from those who have acquired this art in irar highest per fection. The Caribs ate expert at all gyrhnaiiic' dif ercisesyarid particularly at swimmingv as if they were born in the water, and formed for it. They swim like fish, and the Women are as skillful' as the meh. When a canoe over turns from carrying-too much saiiVtney never lose their baggage, arid drownding is seldom or never heaTd of. On such" Occasions, the chil--d'ren are seen swimming around their mothers like so many little fish, and1 the mothers- sup port' themselves in the warer with infanta at the breast, while the men bale out the canoesv Fn 1679 a vessel was overset in a; squall of? Martinique, in which was one Garib, the rest being Europeans. All were lost but the Ga rib,-who, after supporting the violence of the tempest, as well as hunger and thirst, for 60 hoUrs,-reached the land-in safety. But some of the most beautiful deaciriprioris of bathing and1 Swimming are giverrrnMr. Mel'--ville's narrative of his residence' in Typee a valley in the Marquesas, one of the finest groups of islatlds in the South Seas. I shall be par--doned for quoting, at some' length, from his in teresting pages. By the operation- of ihe " la--boo" a religious prohibition the use of ca1-' noes is not allowed to the females of Marquesas; " consequently, when a Marquesan lady voya ges by water, she puts' in requisition the p&df dies of-her own fair body. " We had approached wiinin' af rhife and a half, perhaps, of the root of the bay,' Wnen some of the islanders, who by this time had roan aged to scramble aboard of us',- directed out? tention to' a singular commotion1 in the f ai,r ahead of the Vessel. At first F im'ined it to be produced by a shoal of fish, sportms on the surface,-but our tfavage fr..ends aged us that it was caused by shn r i ;,;-10;Q. (yourig-girls,) w;J10 jn maTinr .VRrft rAmin- dn'irom. tne hm- tew Nearer, and I watched the mm and sinking of their forms, and beheld (he uplifted right arm, bearing above the water the girdle of la'rifia, and their long dark hair trailing be side them as (hey swam, 1 almost fancied they could be nothing else than so many mermaids." Through ihe Typee valley Tuns a clear stream of fresh water, in which the-whole pop ulation, old and young, bathe morning and night. Describing his first bath, our author says : " From-ike verdant surfaces of the large stones that lay scattered about, the natives were, now sliding off, diving, and ducking in the water, the young girU springing buoyantly into the air, with their long Irenes about their ihoul
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