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Joseph Keifer, vs. John Drake and Derrick
Hullick.
Levi King, vs. Jacob B. Teel.
Joseph Lawrence, for the use of John Gow
. er, vs. Stroud J. Hollinshead.
John S. Sees, vs. Samuel J. Price and Charles
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Christian Snyder and Son, vs. Elizabeth
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Elizabeth and Frederick are devisees named
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smith dee'd, and the said Elizabeth, &c. &c.
Jeremiah Williams vs. Jesse Weiss.
Abraham Kresge, Jr., vs. Charles Kresge.
Jacob Vogle 10 the use of Robert Nolf, vs.
Frederick Meckes, Adam Meckes and Terre
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John M. Myers, vs. John Vliet and Jasper
VHet.
Philip H. Geopp, vs. Peter Merwine, Sen.,
Peier Merwine, Jr., and George Merwine.
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M. H. Jones to the use of Henry Kosienba
. der, vs. Peter Jones.
John Keller, vs. Christopher D. Keller.
Godfrey Greensweig vs. William Hak,
Adam Hawk, Peter Hawk, Charles Hawk,
Peter S. Hak.
Peter Merwine and George vs. Melchoir
Barry and Abraham Barry.
Martin Place to the use of William Brod
head, vs. Timothy Vanwhy.
In the matter of a road in Penn Forest town
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Bernard Franiz, Peter Meckes, Joseph Alte-j
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Heaney assignee of Samuel B. Keifer.
Simeon Schoonover vs. Elizabeth Schoono
ver. Owen Rice atiorney for the Heirs of Joseph
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Meckes and Terre Tenants.
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Same vs. Same.
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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, L850.
The Praise of Labor.
To the tired Toilers ring,
Brother bring your song and tabor,
Poets of all nations, sing,
To-day, a hymn of praise to labor :
CHORUS.
" Viva Labor ! long live labor,
Strongest sceptre ! keenest sabre-
Ohaunt the Hymn ! strike on the tabor,
Liegemen, sing the Song of Labor.
ii
n.
(German,)
On the German Rhine-banks I,
Have beheld his banners fly,
While the ordered ranks beneath,
Struck a stroke at every breath
Sledges on the anvils ringing,
Poets in their gardens singing,
" Viva Labor ! long live Labor, &c.
in.
(Italian,)
Where the Arno winding comes,
Under shade of Florence domes
Where Genoa rises steep,
Crowing high the subject deep
Where live Rome and dead Rome dwell,
Like corpse in crypt near Sexton's cell
Through Italaia's storied length,
Daily toil and chaunt at even,
The great human song to Heaven :
" Viva Labor! long live Labor, &c.
IV.
(Frenchman,)
Ah ! my France, thy dauntless spirit,
Love of toil doth still inherit,
And no power but armed wrong
Ever yet hath hushed thy song ;
In the province, in the street,
Troops of toilers you may meet
Men who make as light of labor,
As our minstrel of his tabor,
" Viva Labor ! long live Labor, &c.
v.
(Irishman,)
Ask not me for merry song,
Music flies the lane of wrong !
By the noble Shannon river,
Wretched land-serfs moan and shiver
Whining all day in the city.
Are the partners Woe and Pity
Lordlings think toil don't beseem them.
Though their own sweat might redeem them,
" Viva Labor! long live Labor, &c.
VI.
(American,)
In the land where man is youngest,
On the soil where nature's strongest,
Come and see a greater glory
Than the old Pine-bender's story !
Come and see the city's arms,
Filling forests with alarms
See before the breath of steams,
Space and waste fly like a dream:
44 Viva labor ! long live labor,
Strongest sceptre ! keenest sabre
Chaunt the hymn ! strike on the tabor,
Liegemen, sing the Song of Labor."
liife at tlie SotitJa.
hui-
thii mnntrv wfen
this country a ho wields
We know of no editor in
a keener pen than Mrs. Swisshelm of the Pittsburg
. . ,
lODhnlm nllUn D I f t V. rr
Satutday Visitor. It matters little what she touch
es ; she is sure not to leave it until it is finished.
And woe to the unlucky wight who runs a tilt
against her lance. The Ploughboy, a Kentucky
paper, took her to due for some remarks not en-
) tirely complimentary to the "divine institution of
slavery." To this she replies by giving a chap
ter of her own experience among the " chivalry."
Some few years since, it seems she resided at
Louisville. What she saw and heard there, we
will have her tell after her own way :
" We were young when there-, in appearance
not more than eighteen had been brought up in a
country village, where we had fancied ourself
somewhat of a belle and a beauty. We had run
wild in tho woods, with company, or without, as
suited our fancy, talked philosophy with our beau,
if we had one, or gave him a bit of sugar and bade
him go home, as suited our humor ; and nobody
questioned our right to do so. We knew nothing
about any city but Pittsburg, and here we some-
times went to church, staid very demurely, and
came nome witn our gaiiant, 11 we iiKeo mm, or
slipped off in the crowd and went to our lodgings
aione.orwun some lemaie ineno, wimoui reier-
ence to day or night.
But when ;ve went South, we were enslaved,
imprisoned, fenced up by a set of conventional
rules that they told us were the result of their pe-
culiar institution. We dare not go to the pump
for a drink, if we had to suffer ever so much from
thirst in waiting till the servants came in. Our
o
hostess, a Kentucky lady of the old school, would
have tied us to the bed -post first. We might walk
alone bj day-light in any place in the square boun
ded by-Market and Walnut sts., First and Eighth; j
but the ..suburbs, with its beautiful walks, groves,
and private residences, was forbidden ground.
When the sun was fairly down, we were forbidden
! to go to the door without a protector, or outside of
this charmed square with one. We could not go
j on the street without being stared out of counten
j ance by Kentucky gallantry. Our hostess said it
was because the gentlemen had nothing to do, knew
we were a stranger, and looked like a grown P
baby- We dare not go to housekeeping and do
our own work, for, oh, lack-a-daisy, a wnite woman
to work ! Nobody but the Dutch did that. We
almost wished to be Dutch, or to be black, or io bo
! anything that would make us less of a slave
What
a time we were in, like a squirrel in a flour barrel,
and how intensely we learned to hate your institu
tions, Mr. Ploughboy.
A few days after our arrival, a gentleman came
to our boarding house and took a room for himself
and wife. When they came whispers were. circu
lated as to the probabilities of their being married.
We were overwhelmed with astonishment, but
soon got used to such surmisings about every stran-
ger; and learned after a while, that we had been
taken for a runaway sohool girl, and our bigger
half for a stray German Baron, Spanish smuggler,
or Texan Ranger who was hiding from some of his
t'other wives. One could not stand in a door for
fear some gesture would be construed into some
masonic signal to somebody. Every third woman
was spoken of as a suspicious character, and as-for
the men they had no character at all. The neigh
bor over the way who lived in the handsome brick
house with double parlors, had a great, big, ugly
black woman for ht3 wife, and was raising a family
of his own children for sale.
That nabob, a little up the street, had a family
of dark brunette daughters, and just as many
blonds. To each of the blonds he had presented
one of the brunettes, just as he would have pre
sented ponies. The mother of the dark girls, who
were by far the handsomer, he had sold at auction
for eight hundred dollars. An Irishman, two
squares off, beat his black man to death in open
day because he was jealous of him and a slave
woman with whom he lived. Every sixth woman
on the street woie some article of dress as a badge
of infamy, and one happening to go out in one of
feese, a sun bonnet for instance, was liable to open
insult anywhere or at any hour. We began to feel
as one in his best clothes feels amongst a set of
children eating bread and molasses.
Nothing appeared so thouroughly disgraceful a3
work. This was the business of slaves ; and it
appeared generally conceded that a white woman
iareu generally uuuceueu i si a w ub Ionian
& 3
Id secretly sell her honor rather than submit
wou
to the disgrace of working for a living. Certainly
hundreds did so, for it was reckoned there were
full seven hundred women in the city who were
utterly abandoned. Girls who had no means of
support, except sponging, sat nursing their white , win soon be men . and by that time your fathers ' have r6ceived 8trict and careful tral-nimJ; snould
hands, waiting to catch husbands to support them. will be gray-headed or in their graves, and you I exhibit characters in after life so totally the re
YVhffn thpv HiH oot nnp 5n verv mm.v mqpq. Hp I will have to take their Dlaces. and do vour share 1 verse of what was exoected. In such cases wo
was not able to keep them in idleness, and so he ' in the management of affairs. And as, in this j think ii will generally be found that either the pa-
., ' great and free country, the people govern them- rental discipline was so ill-judged and severe as
ran away ; we never saw so many grass widows, j selveS you mayj and many of you most likey wm t0 cause a reactionf or lhat lhe chndren themselves
But it would take us a year to trace the curse of have higher duties to perform than such as belong nullified the excellent precepts and example of
slavery through all the ramifications of society. ! merely to private life. Perhaps some of the very their parents by the concealed perusal of books
Weneversawsomuch trouble in housekeeping.! h?s wh noT?' read these lines, may become Pres- that corrupt the heart, deprave the mind, and
. , , -r : idem of the United States, or Township Constable, pave the way, quietly but surely, for all the de
(Jne hired Pirl here, for one dollar arm fi tv cents .. .i . - - .,',- . , i ui. - a ' j i
D ,
per week, would do as much work-, and do it bet-,
ter than two slaves there, for whom one would !
pay two hundred dollars per annum. Wo did go j
.... , , , . , ,
to housekeeping, but would not hire a slave
Once we wanted help ; a big fellow who dressed
in satin and broadcloth, sported a gold chain and
Havana, and did nothing, proposed to Mr. Swiss-
, , I
helm to hire him an old woman, for whose ser-.
vice he should pay him two hundred a year, and
added: j
"You would have to horsewhip her yourself,!
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once or twice a week, for she s a real devil, but a,
good worker, and lhat wife of yours could do noth-
ing with her."
Now Mr. Plouohboy, just imagine the man we
Qn hnchanrl n (rrpat hnwnt fistPri siv fnnipr whn
husband, a great brawny listed six looter, who
had been brounht ud on the free hills of Pennsvl -
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... . . . .
vania. and there held a nlouph. takintr off his coat
to horsewhip an old woman, to make her do work
c t 1 t ,n ' ., k, ,i, t.; 1
for which he was to pay not her, but another big'
' r J ' a ,
fisted lord of creation like himself. Oh, dear ! j sight, and beyond their reach especially at un
We were always glad he did not incline to fight, j seasonable hours, and when they do not know
KnMhnf t?mpwp urnrp nrnvokprl hp had not , where you are, nor how engaged. And it is an
the fellow's teeth down his throat. The experi
ence has grown very long. Some other time we
will tell you more of it, Mr. Ploughboy.
About that property question. I f we had signed
a solemn declaration, paraded it before the world,
and reiterated it a thousand times, saying "we be
lieved all property as common, we should act very
inconsistently in punishing a man for taking what
he wanted of ours. Kentucky has declared that
'all men are endowed with an inalineable right
to liberty' how then can she punish a man for
helping another to regain his liberty
It is not likely that we shall ever put anything
into the Visitor to incite slaves to rebellion. We j
never feel like talking to them. A rebellion would
do lhem no g0Q(L It JS slavehoiUers and pQOpi0 of
the N(mhj who supporl sjavery, to whom appeal
shouid be made
Thev have the oower to remedy
w evilan evil which presea upon all classes.
The slaves pan do nothing, and any one, vvhodi-
reclly or indirectly, would attempt to involve them
Jn any broil wKh their maslerSj vvouId be an ene.
my t0 both and iiui0 short of a madman. No one
eyer appeared t0 dreanl) when we were in the
... nF nnn nnnfl-i:no. tr, n QiQro rpn rnr inrnr.
mation concerning his or her slate. We trusted
only to pur eyes and the testimony of persons anx
ious to jnake us think well of the system, and how
we do hate it ! We'd scorn alike to be a slave, or
have a slave. We will hit the system a knock
whenever we can do it fairly and openly ; but
there .g nQt a drop of moie blood in our viens, and
we cannot work in the dark. Lately we are get
ting a good many Southern subscribers, and quite
a number of papers from that section are coming
for an exchange ; and mind, good friends, we never
cheathed you never came in false colors or bor
rowed plumes.
If we were down at your houses in South Car
0lina. Georgia, or Alabama, we would tell you our
hatred 0f.slaVeryfmore fully than-we like to do here,
and r(jn lhe risk lf any t,ere be'
Definition ofdarkness a blind, Ethiopian in a
dark cellar at midnight, looking for a black cat.
From the Leioishurg Cfi-onicle.
Boys, Attention !
We want to talk to you a little whilo. Keep off
the streets at night. Go home as soon as it is
dark, and stay there. The streets are no place
for you after night fall. You are not benefitted
by it in either mind or manners. But instead of
improving in habits or morals, you come within
range of influences that will have a bad effect on
both, and may be as lasting as your lives. You
will learn no good there, but must unavoidably
learn much evil. The street is the college in
which loafers graduate, and you know loafers
don't pass for much among respectable people.
They are of little use to themselves, or anybody
else, and in a majority of cases are much worse
than useless. The proper place to spend your
evenings, is at home, helping your parents, and
learning your lessons. And when you have no
other tasks, you ought to be reading good books
not bad books, such as you sometimes find in the
hands of Gad boys but such books as will make
you wiser and better, and fit you for usefulness
and happiness. It is not necessary that such
books should be dull and dry. There are plenty
of excellent books if your parents will only take
pains to get them for you that are lively and in
teresting, and exactly suited to your years and
capacity. Perhaps you aie not fond of reading.
If so, we are sorry for you, and you should set I
yourselves to work immediately to acquire a taste
for it, for there are few enjoyments more pleasur
able and innocent. Besides, if you want to be
well-informed, you must read, and read a great
deal. Knowledge, (at least a large part of it)
must be got by reading and hard study, and can
be got in no other way.
But, you say you must have play and exercise.
So you must, and plenty of it too, to make you
healthy and strong to build up and invigorate
your constitutions, and fit them to bear the heavy
burdens that may be laid on your shoulders in af
ter years. But go at it in a manly waytake
daylight for it, when sunshine and the health-giving
breeze are abroad, and don't go prowling about
iu the dark, like a parcel of wild young animals
just escaped from a menagerie. Ah, you young
rogue, you need'nt stand there at the corner in
the lamp-light, with such a knowing look, and
i ,l l , , r , r -r .
i your thumb at the end ot your nose, as if you
' were wjser llian editors and parents both. We
are telling you the sober truth, and it would be
well lor you to lay it to heart, and practice upon
it before bad habits have grown so strong that you
can't easily change them. Besides, you must re-
r.nllfirr thnt vntt will nnf nKvnuc iiA hnvc "Vmm
(Jr some oinei great omccr, oeiore tney aie. ivnu
as all the public offices in this country, from the
very highest to the very lowest, are posts of honor
ancl responsibility, and require sober, upright, and
worthy men to fill them, you must take care that
you f(rni good habils and gain a g()od character
while you are young, or yuu may find yourself in
the back-ground, when you might just as well as
not stand among the foremost in the land.
But your duty to your Parents, is a much strong-
er nam wnyol.shouid slay at home in -the
evening, and be 3teady and well behaved boys,
then, and at all other times. Do you remember
JYj13 the 5th commandment says on this subject ?
ell, if you don t, you had better go and learn it
i j u ;t -n-.u-!
and thy Motherland if you do, what then -
' Why, that thy days may be long in the land."
And if you don't, what then? Why, as sure as
uu iciguo, mo lUISD i ,uu. miai iugiamuuu auu
, . u u fa d
1,;'., ,hnr ;n v.nri;ro nn lont i.ci ; nnr
hearts like the fan? of a serpent. You don't know
1 LilllU V I U llllil l. 1 U l L ...V, It II V Uiuufe Jlt?lW It. t UUt
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how deep an interest your parents feel in your
welfare nor with what a yearning anxiety their
, . - . J " . r.i
horirtc fro fiuf nftpr vnn ivnpn vnn nro nut iif Jhpir
exceedingly ungracious and unworthy return for
all their kindness and care over you, to add to
their anxiety, and increase their burdens by wan
ton pervoseness, and rebellious opposition to their
wishes and authority. And now,
Parents, a word to you.
Above, we have given your children a little
wholesome advice, and we respectfully ask your
co-operation to give it additional force and effica
cy. Teach them to reverence your authority, and
obey your commands. The laxity of parental
discipline in these modem days has become pro
verbial, and it is, unfortunately, the case in too
many instances that the children are masters, and j
not the parents. It is an easy matter to bring up ,
ooys in iiitf cuuiiiry, uiu in luwua 11 ia u cuuicasi-u-
ly difficult task, and requires double vigilance, and
more than ordinary prudence and firmness. But
to be successful, parental government should not
be an exercise of blind, arbitrary, and tyrannical
power, for this could hardly fail to produce lament
able results. Tho kindliness and affection of th(
the.
parent's heart should be as manifest as the firm '
and steady hand of authority exhibiting neither
cruelty, nor weak indulgence. Boys can be saved
from many dangerous temptations, if prevented
from running at large after night, and required, as
a general rule, to spend their evenings within the
hallowed precincts of the domestic circle. But
to do this effectually, home should be made an at
tractive place lor them. In addition to tho cheer
fulneis of a well ordered household, liberal provi
sion should be made for tho proper improvement
of their minds, so that this salutary restraint upon
their liberty should not prove irksome and hateful.
An idle brain is the devil's vork-shop," and if
you don't keep it engaged upon healthful subjects
of reflection, it will brood over such as are of mis
chievous tendency. By a judicious course of
reading, your children will acquire a large amount
of useful information hi their young days, which
they will not have time to get in their after life.
But the books which are now placed in their
hands, should not be of a dry, didactic, and ab
struso character, such as are suitable only to per
sons of mature years and sober judgment ; for
they will not understand them, but will turn from
them with strong, and perhaps lasting aversion.
If the cravings of their nature are not satisfied.
Jniu(,s l0 slako tneir intellectual thirst at
their ninds will remain a oianK, or iney wm uuw
miDure and. forbidden fountains. Among the pro
per subjects to be laid before them, are works on
general and natural history, travels, voyages, nar
ratives, &c, &c, got up in attractive and popular
No. 2G.
style, and suited to the ago and capacity of tho
young readers.
4 But this costs money,' says one ; so doe3 bread
and butter. And the one is second only to the
other. Tho expense need not be great, if you
make careful and well selected purchases. But
even if it were, it is an objection of no weight in
a matter of such strong necessity. Healthful ali
ment for the minds of your children is as essential
as wholesome food for the nourishment of their
bodies ; and that is a mistaken economy, which
would hoard up money at the sacrifice of its most
valuable uses. If you do not take pains to instil
into their minds useful knowledge, and inculcate a
pure morality, they will seek for that which is
baneful and pernicious. And in this age of print
ing and cheap literature, you can not, by any
other course, hedge them in from the evil influen
ces that prevail around them. They will gloat
over the worst class of novels and the histories of
pirates, and highway robbers, with which the
country is flooded, and will, and do, avail them
selves of other channels to procure publications of
incomparable greater depravity. Such papers as
the u Weekly Despatch," and others we could
name, should not be tolerated, still les3 be patron
ized, in any moral community ; for under the garb
of literary journals they are in fact only advertis
ing mediums for tho sale,, through the inviolable
sanctity of the mails, of demoralizing books and
pamphlets that could not be publicly sold in any
village in the United States, without exposing tho
venders to legal penalties.
We can imagine that many a parent will say,
" Well, this may be so, but 1 am sure my children
don't do this." Don't deceive yourselves upon
this subject. Some of the very parents who con
scientiously strive most to educate their children
properly, and who shrink with unreasoning abhor
rence from much of our best and most wholesome
literature, because it happens to be in the shape
of a dialogue, (or tale, if you please,) would find,
if.they could but get at the truth, that their chil
dren are making up for all these restrictions by a
secret surfeit of the most pernicious writings that
ever cursed the world. If you don't believe it,
just try the experiment (which we admit would
be in a great measure useless after this public no
tice) of directing the post-master to deliver over
into your hands all packages that come by mail
addressed to your sons and you will find such
proofs as would compel your belief, as well as
shock your hearts.
Results aie always the effect of corresponding
causes ; and like causes produce like effects. It
i3 generally believed to be very mysterious why
' thfi phllHrttn nfwnrfhv nriit nintic naronfc u-Kn
jjhuuukj tuusi'quesces mat auerwaras ensueu.
The last number of the Knickerbocker tells tho
following story :
A colored gentleman preaching to a black audi
ence at the South said :
. " I s'pose, I s'pect, dat de reason de Lord made
us brack men, was case he use all de white men
up 'fore he got to de brack men and he had to
make him brack. But dat don't make no odds ray
brederen; de Lord look after de brack men loo.
Don't de Scripture say dat two sparrer hawks are
sole for a farden, and dat not one of 'em shall fall
' t0 de 8round wlthout dar fadder' U e11' den my
! brederen, if your hebbonly fadder care so much
for desparrer and de hawk, when you can buy
IWO 0D aera or a laroen, now oerry mucn more
hnfroA
he care tor you, dat is wuf six or seven hundred
1
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IVoblo act ot a Girl.
The Baltimore Clipper states that a few even
ings since, just after dark ; a young female resid
ing on the railroad near Sykesville, observed that
tho rain had caused a great part of the embank
ment to give way, and entirely cover up the rail
road track. Knowing that the train of cars would
pass along in a short time, she hastily and alone
procured a light, and set to work to remove the
obstruction. In a few minutes, however, she
j heard the train approaching at a fearful rate, and
abandoning her humane effort to clear the track,
she took her station in the middle of the road, and
by waving tho light to and fro, succeeded in at
tracting the attention of the engineer, who irame-
diately stopped tho engine. In a few momenta
morej had it not been for the greal preSence of mind,
courage and thoughtfulness of this young girl, the
whole train might have been dashed to pieces.
Jfler noble conduct is deserving of the highest re
ward. During lhe summer of 1846, corn being
scarce in the upper country, and one of lhe cit-
izens being hard pressed lor oread, having
worn ihreadbare lhe hospitality of his generous
neighbors by his exirerae lazinoss, they thought
it an act of charity to bury him. Accordingly,
he was carried towards lhe place of interment,
and being met by one of tho citizens the fol
lowing conversation took place :
Halloo! what have you there ?"
Poor old Mr. S." 1
What are you going to do with him ?"
Bury him," ' V
" What ! is ho dead I I hadn't heard ,ofmi
death." a .
" No, ho is not dead, but he might as well
be; he has no corn, and is loo lazyib'i work
for any." .
"That is too crul for cjvilizod people.: cTil
give him two bushels rather ihan see him.buried
alive." .v , A
Mr. S. raised the cover, and asked in his usual
draggling t,one. . - '7a
"I-s i-t s-h-e-l-l-e-d.r
" No, but you can Boon.ftheHJj."- v
D-r-i-r-e o-n o-yrs.'V Vn ?,jUip r
Yankees never commit suicide, because they
live in hopes of being elected PresidenUeffths
Uniied Statesl " '