! ' 11. (f till ll 1 1 if fflflf Jctfcr0tttft The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. $4 0L. 10 STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, L850. No. 31. 1. - Published by Theodore ScEiocli. My husband did not reply for some time. My tgrms-two dollars per annum in advance-Two dollars words appeared to have made considerable inl and a quarter, half yearlyand if not paid before the end of nressinn nnnn mw minrt the year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their "e!!,,on uPon my ina. papers by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie- " Do you know where Polly lives ?" he inauired tor, will be charged 37 1-2 cents, per vear, extra. it lpnoth " 'Huueu No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except . . JP , T . atthe option of the Editor. "io; but I will ask the girl." And immedi- ICPAdvertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) atelv rinpina thp hpll T mifloinniiinooin,,,!,. will be inserted three weeks for one dollar, twd twenty-five n ,7 .. g g . Del1' 1 mad? m.tlu,rie3 aS to where cents for every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and ro"V uvea ; out no one in the house knew, three insertions the same. A liberal discount made to yearly " It can't be helped now," said my husband in lrAinnlt- .;,u.ch t thr. v.Atinr mct h e,,.,;,i a t0"e of regret. " But I would be more thought- iui ni iuiure. j ne poor always nave need ol their money. Their daily labor rarely does more than supply their daily wants. 1 can never forget a circumstance that occurred when I was a boy. My mother was left a widow when I was but nine years old and she was poor. It was by the la bor of her hands that she obtained shelter and t4 ' ' ; Cards, Circulars, Bill Hcdas, Notes, food for herself and three little ones. Blank Receipts) "Once I remember the occurrence as if it had JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER taken place yesterday we were out of money and .f "Kf, iood. At oreaklast time our last morsel was eaten, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcf Cersonian Republican. JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna menlal Type, we are prepared to execute every m description of v t r t3 & MX?, ft," and we went through the lone day without a mouth ful of bread. We all giew very hungry by night ; but our mother encouraged us to be patient a little while longer, until she finished the garment she was making, when she would take that and some other work home to a lady, who would pay her for her work. Then, she said, we should have a nice supper. At last the work was finished, and I went with her to carry it home, for she was wealv and sickly, and even a light burden fatigued her. The lady for whom she made the garment was in good circumstances, and had no want un met that money could supply. When we came into her presence she took the work, and after glancing at it carelessly, said, " It will do very well." My mother lingered; perceiving which, the lady said, rather rudely. " You want your, money, I suppose. How much does the work come to 1" Two dollars," replied my mother. The lady took out her purse ; and, after looking through a small parcel of bills, said, " I havn't the change this evening. Call over any time and you shall have it." And without giving my mother more time earn estly to urge her request, turned from us and left the room, I never shall forget the night that followed My mothers', feelings were sentitive and inde pendent. She could not make known her want. An liour after our return home, she sat weeping with her children around her, when a neighbor came in, and, learning our situation, supplied our present need." This relation did not make me feel any the more comfortable. Anxiously I awaited, on the next morning, the arrival of Polly. As soon as she came I sent for her, and handing her the mon ey she had earned the day before, said, " I'm sorry I hadn't the change for you last niht, Polly. 1 hope vou didn't want it very bad ly." Polly hesitated a little and then replied, " Well, ma'am, I did want it very much, or I wouldn't have asked for it. My poor daughter Hetty is sick, and I wanted to get her something nice to eat." " I'm very sorry," said I, with sincere regret. " How is Hetty this morning !" " She isn't so well, ma'am. And I feel very bad about her." " Come up to me in half an hour, Polly," said I. The old woman went down stairs. When she ap peared again according to my desire, I had a bas ket for her, in which were some wine, sugar, fruit, and various little matters that I thought her daugh ter would relish, and told her to go at once and take them to the sick girl. Her expressions of gratitude touched my feelings deeply. Never Kavn't the Clxaiifie. since have I omitted under any pretence, to pay the . -It was house cleaning time, and I had an old poor their wages as soon as earned.-Afrc. Graham colored tvoman scrubbing and cleaning paint Now-a-Days. Alas ! how every thing is changed Since I was sweet sixteen, When all the girls wore home-spun frocks, And aprons nice and clean With bonnets made of braided straw That tied beneath their chin, And shawls laid neatly on the neck, And fastened with a pin. But now-a-days the ladies wear French gloves and feather'd hats, That take up half a yard of sky In coal scuttle shape or flats With frocks that do not fall as low As such things ought to fall And waist that you might break in two, They are so very small. Dear me, young ladies now-a-days, Would almost faint away, To think of riding all alone, In wagon, chaise or sleigh: ' And as for getting Pa his meals, Or helping Ma to bake, O saints, 'twould spoil their lily hands, Though sometimes they make cake. When winter came, the maiden's heart Would begin to" beat and flutter, Each beau would take his sweetheart out Sleigh-riding in a cutter. Or if the storm was bleak and cold, The girls and beaux together. Would meet and have most glorious fun, Ad never mind the weather. LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA. The following letter, from Dr. Abraham Fetherman, son of Mr. Balsar Fethcrman of this county, who is known to many of our citizens, will doubtless prove interesting to many of our readers: California, Feather River Jan. 1&, 1850. Dear Parents : It is a long time since I last wrote to you The arrangements of Post offices and mails are so bad that no letter can be sent to the Stales with any degree of cer tainty, but a gentleman intends leaving here for the States next Monday, I therefore write and send these lines with him to New Orleans and have them mailed there, I will endeavor to give you a short history of our travels from Jerseyville here, and then of things as they are in California. Our Teams left Jerseyville, Jesey co., Illinois, on the 2?th day of March last, and arrived aPSt. Joseph, Missouri, the latter part of the third week in April, the dis tance being between three and fojr hundred miles. At St. Joseph we fully equipped our selves, recruited our cattle, &c, till on the 5th day of May when we crossed the Missou ri, and on the following day after amply sup plying ourselves with all the necessaries of subsistence and good teams, viz: two good wagons with four yoke of good young cattle to each, 1400 pounds of flour, 308 pounds of Bacon, one sack of Coffee, one oi Sugar, fifty lbs. of rice, one sack of dried fruit, Salaratus, &c. &c. Also a good supply of amunition, one gun to a man, one good cutting weapon, and together one Keg of Powder, being now fitted out and bye the bye with a good young horse also. We left the' bank of the Missouri early in the morning, (March 6th) seven of us in number, viz: James Whittock, Wm. Bridges, John Arnspiger, Andrew Arnspiger, Abr'm. Mowser, James Pering and myself, reached this object in about two hours by fast walking, we found the base to be about a mile in circumference, and the object about 300 feet high. We undertook to ascend to its summit we ascended about 250 feet without any difficulty, from here we had 50 feet to ascend in a perpendicular direction, we look out our pocket knives and commenced cut ting hole's for our hands and feet, and by so doing finally reached the top or summit, hav ing had a fair view ol the surrounding coun try and after inscribing our names, we fired our arms and then hastened to descend, in which we experienced rather more difficulty than ascending, we however all reached the base again, examined the composition of the rock, which we found nothing but consolida ted sand, and every hail storm and heavy winds and rain are gradually crumbling down this wonderful object. We now left this great Court House formed by nature, and went in pursuit of our train and after walking about ten miles, being tormented with millions of Musquitoes we finally reached our train just j as the Sun was hiding beyond the horizon; all 1 well. i On the following morning we set out early and before night we reached Chimney Rock. On the 14th of June we reached Fort Larimie, this is a small trading post for trappers and hunters through a great portion of the Terri tory, here we left the Platte Valley ami all I have to say in respect to the Platte country it is a beautiful valley, in many places a bouudingwith buffalo. I frequently saw as many as thirty in a drove near the road and few more days we struck Pitt river, we foll owed this river 100 miles and then crossed it, and struck for Sansoms Scttlement,I60 miles further. The first 100 miles of this road passed through the largest pine timber, I ever saw, I saw trees eight feet thick and sixty high, without a knot or limb. The last por tion of this route was extremely bad, the road very rough and for sixty miles not a mouth full of grass. On this portion of the route the cattle died offlike flies, one lost, the best one we had and three others gave out, but the three we finally got toSansons, and tra ded them for a Spanish J)eef, we reached San sons on the 2nd day of October, and here we saw the first house for 1500 miles travel. We were now completely worn down, having walked every day since early in the Spring. I did not ride on the wagon one mile during the whole of this distance, nearly twenty-five hundred miles. My feet and ankles as well as arhhe rest I heard of wete completely worn out. I could oftentimes scarcely get one foot before the other. We drove three miles below Sansons and there recruited our selves and cattle, on the beautiful banks of the Sacramento. During the whole of our journey here we had no trouble with the In dians as was anticipated, all that we met be haved themselves friendly. It is true some of the Emigrants had their cattle killed by them. I saw several of them myself with arrows in their sides and a few white persons were killed by them. The Sioux Indians a bout Larimie are said to be remarkably friend ly and hospitable. The Sho-Shonees are a- miles off might be seen, often, hundreds at a ! uice friendly but the Diggers inhabiting the time; we killed two very fine fellows. Elk, Iirj i u tu . . t . . . ' I liumbolt are more savage. 1 hey go entirely saw but one on the whole route, but Antelope ' . , , . , , ., J L, could be seen at all times; this animal looks naked' and are a ml. The num- very much like a deer but not quite so large, her of Emmigrants that came through was I will now leave the Platte and enter the probably 20,000. They nearly all came blank hills. The country from Fort Larimie1 fiirnh w;,h ox teams. Some few with each pay ing an equal part of the outfit. The r.. r .t. Li.cm , i mules and now and then one with horses. - : . u "in mm uubi. 'u mu uti oi juiy we reacn nrst oays travel was short, only about eight GJ the summit of the Rocky Mountains a dis But now indeed, it grieves mo much The circumstance to mention However kind a young man's heart, And honest his intention, He ne'er can ask a girl to ride a But such a war is waged ! ' And if he sees her once a week, Why surely " they're engaged i" " Polly is going," said one of my domestics, asi the twilight began to fall. " Very well. Tell her that I shall want her tomorrow." miles, o ing to the road being very bad, in fact it was worse than any part we afterwards travelled over for 1S00 miles, here we struck up our tent, grazed our cattle, prepared our supper, &c. About 9 o'clock we tied up our oxen, spread our Buffalo Robes and quilts, and were boon wrapped in sleep. On the fol lowing morning we turned loose our cattle to graze, during that time we prepared and ate tance of 31 1 miles fram Fort Larimie. Some who had the best of teams commen ced packing their pack horses would give I almost forgot to mention Independence out and then thev would nack on oxen and Rock; this rock is situated about two rods j after their giving out they would Pack on from Sweet water and covers about two a- r l t . cres of ground. It is composed of solid gran-1 their backs. We saw no ram for the last ite, is about 125 feet high. On and around lS miles traveI for 11 seldom rams west of its sUes may be seen ths names of hunderds, the Rocky mountains after Match. From of thousands who went to Oregon and Cali-that lime till about the middle of November fornia.A short distance from this rock Saler- j Qr jater atus may be obtained to any amount On A j ' jti on 3d gheet of uic miu ui iiiu ,cuu hc uaiupcu ai ill's i ui niu breakfast, then got up our cattle and in a Spring, and this is the first water running1 PaPerI wlU h"rrytothe nes- From our short time were again on the wav for the EI-1 westward, we met with for a thousand miles ; j recruiting place last mentioned we had sixty- rado of the west, during this days travel we overtook somo more teams from Jersey co., Illinois and on the morning of the 8th, we con nected ourselves with that company, adopted our Constitution, elected our officers &c. On the following day we had the misfortune to loose one of our men, James Whitlock, who died of the cholera. Bv this time crass was coming plenty, the road being excellent our cattle fresh and strong, and the whole com pany consisting of about eighteen teams and sixty persons. Everything now went on well the train moving along at an average of 18 miles a day, with the exception of Sunday when we generally laid over. .After having travelled in this way about ten days, we were fairly nmong the Pawnee Indians, the Billia rd ' ft! " . h Trimming Apple Orchards. Farmers who own large orchards usually find it convenient to prune during the mild weather of winter. There are few but have discovered, that good and fair fruit is better I think she would like to have her money for grown when the head of the tree is thinned to-day's work," said the girl. enough to allow all parts a full chance. Small, l took out ray purse, and found that I had smothered leaves, within a dense mass of brush, nothing in it less than a three dollar bill. can never furnish a good supply of materials to' How much does she have a day 1" h swelling fruit. Hence, evenly distribution M . ..... and thrifiy shoots, forming a well balanced and ix s I trigs. handsome head, must be the aim of every " I havn t the change this evening. Tell her orchardjg, that Til pay her for both days to-morrow." ,, d':.cove, aft vearB of necIeci. that The girl left the room, and 1 thought no more hejr Uee have 0, dense, malted, and io, Antelope, and the Wolf, on the 23d of May of Polly for an hour. Tea time had come and scrUDby ; and to remedy (he defect, the saw we reached Fort Childs, here we saw the passed, when one of my domestics, who was rath- aj axe are unsparingly applied, and large er communicative in her habits, said to me limbs are at once lopped, and ihe trees left ' I don't think Polly liked your not paying her naked and disfignred. The wounds being this evening." large, must bo covered wiih a waterproof " She must be very unreasonable then," said I, composition, and a long time is required for rd that I had healing. no change. How did she expect that I could A better way is to begin early, while the ft b trees are yet comparatively young, and on the Pa?' , , . first appearance of crooked and thick growing : "Some people are queer you know,' remarked ahQQll0 cul ,hem out with a chisel or knife, the girl who had made the communication, more Th jf repeate(1 eacn wjnicr wnere it appears for the pleasure of telling it than-anything else. ,0 be needed, will preserve ihe trees in good 1 kept thinking over what the girl had said, until order, form and condition, bo far as pruning is another suggestion came into my mind. concerned. Even w-here trees have become " I wish 1 had sent and got a bill changed," old and need much pruning, it is decidedly bet said I, as the idea that Polly might bo really in ler to accomplish the desired thinning gradual want of money intruded itself. " It would have ly in successive years, by a sparing and even- ly uismouieu pruning, man io cut in ueavny m once. In all instances, ihe cutting of very large limbs, should always be, if practicable, avoided. Some of the best orchardists in the country never allow a heavier tool to be used in their orchards than ihe knife and chisel. The lat ler. for cuttinff exneditouslv sucti branches as showing conclusively we were now on the five miles to Longs bar on Feather River west side of the Rocky Mountains. About which place we reached on the 13lh day of 80 miles before reaching the summit, we saw Qctoben Hence knQW we tmve,. I'rcmont s Peaks, rhey presented a mag-1 , ,. J c t , r , nlfinf nnnpnr.nn tntvprinrr .n ttio nlnwHc ! leC1 a S'eat UIMHHCB irOHl UltJ I 111 UI iTlUfCU, ii ' o and constantly covered with snow. It was remarkably cold crossing the mountains. From the Pacific spring to big Sandy we travelled in one day 23 miles, then we cole till the I3th October, every day now and then one excepted, we travelled. I was glad after we had reached the mines. 1 was always on " i mv (oof fVnm mnrninir till nlcrlif T f?nnf nil bratedthe 4th of July, on the next day took' . J n i . . , Subletts cut off, a distance of 52 miles, with- the cooking for 2000 miles. I often had to been very little trouble." This was the beginning of a new train of re flections, which did not make me very happy. To avoid a little tiouble, I had sent the poor old woman away, after a hard day's work, without her money. That she stood in need of it, was evident from the fact that she had asked for it. " How very thoughtless in me," as I dwelt Ion- may be a considerable height from the ground, get and longer on the subject.. . avoiding at the same time the trouble oi nana- " What's the matter 1" enquired my husband, ling ladders, and the bruises and injuries to the " Nothing to be very much troubled at," I re plied. "Yet you are troubled." " I am ; and cannot help it. You will, perhaps, bark placed on the end of a pole, a blow of ihe mallet at ihe lower end of which, will quickly sepe rale closely and smoothly io ihe tree, any limb an inch and a half in diameter. first house since we left St Joseph, a distance of three hundred miles.but the country is lev el and the soil extremely rich, producing ex cellent grass, and is well watered by the Blues and their tributaries. Fort Childs is situated atthe head of grand Island, fourteen miles above where we first struck the Nebras ka or Platte River. It is a new place, contains a few sod houses and a few military men. From Fort Childs we followed up the Platte as far as Fort Sarimiea distance of three hun dred miles from Fort Childs About one hun dred and ten miles up the river it forks, one called the South and the other the North, we followed the South fork about twenty miles and then crossed that branch and struck for Ash Hollow. From Fort Larimie may be seen many of the wonders of the world, especially the wonderful and curiously shaped bluffs bounding the valley on both sides. I will give you a brief description of one of these bluffs as I recorded it in my Journal and will describe the rest at some other time, the ob ject I shall describe is usually called the Court Housq from its resemblance. About two hundred and twenty five miles above Fort Childs, and about 8 miles to the left of out a drop of water, until we struck Green carry water two miles and wood nearly as far. River. Then we recruited our cattle and du- Sometimes no wood could be got, I would then ring this time one of our men was taken sick gather reeds and dead grass and do the best with camp fever. We told the company if , , , T , , , .., 1onn , 1 . . . r r I could. I also drove our loose cattle 1300 they choose to go on not to wait for us, for our sick man was not able to travel. miles, me old man Arnspiger was to assist About 20 miles before reaching the Sink me but he rodelhe horse al1 th8 rW com we took a cut off reported one hundred and Pricing of being unwell, so I had to do the twenty-five miles to the first diggings. Stim- bcst 1 cou!d- Immediately after reaching ulatedas many were with the idea, all fa- Feather River, Houser and mysetf, went down tigue was removed, travelling troubles for- mto a ravine where he soon picked up a gotten, f was anxious to take the old route Pce ol gold worth about a dcllar, tn a Jew and told our company it was all a hoax, one minutes he picked up another piece about the iimdred end twenty-five miles to the diggins, same size, the sun was snimng areaaiuiy not as we afterwards found out, but they would U sweated more that day than any one on the have their own way. We therefore took the whule route. On this same day Houser was new route and after a few miles travel got on taken sick with the bloody flux and died in two a desert such as I never wish to see again, weeks afterwards. for 60 miles there was in fact no grass worth ovr rr lhe counting, the Cattle perished like flies. I pre- Anal there is gold m uiiiiornta is certain .i nnnn i i i fnr T hnvf mv'spl f snpn mnrp t hn SKO.OftO dntr sume l saw more man xuuu neau pensu j - for want of feed. We finally reached Black out ol lhe vines and banks of Feather River. Rock, here is a hot Spring of enormous depth; In an)r Ravine that empties in the river there this Spring, has been sounded 700 feet without IS lore J iss goiu. uui me j.eupiu aver- finding bottom, the water is so hot that one a clay is impossible io ten. aome mane a cannot leave a finger in it a moment. Scv- an ounce,.-io d uuy. i,wltuu.e uu t r u t r mnm Jn nno n f fourth, but my opinion is a person wi th a good en miles further arc 7 or o more, in oneol ' - r r . a rockercan average wnen in e weainer is goon them one fell accidentally, and was seal about $12 a day,. I believe the diggings here .,t. , . ; r ? . . While me lmuonauce oi pruning la not m , , . . , . . . .. : . . . i. : . " trifi roan is tins lumous ud ect; wu icuuuuu em le at me, DUt sucn causes buuieviiiiea piuuuc u rr ollon ,ne muupensauie necessity oi i . - . . - i cj i . i. .ii j... I - i i i i . . much pain. Old roily nas oeen ai won an manuring and ricn ana ciean cuiuvaiion musi scrubbing and cleaning. When night came she be constantly borne in mind A ferule sml asked for her wages, and I, instead of faking the and vigorous growth may, to a great, extern trouble to get the money for her, sent her word COmpenaaie for other neglect ; but no cutting that I hadn't the change. There was nothing less nor formjIlg 0f ihe branches can imparl life to than a three dollar note in my purse. I didn't re- a ree js languishing in a hard, sterile, fleet that a poor woman who has to go out to daily nej,ected soil, overgrown with grass and r!f rnnct nppfl hor mnnow q ;non as it is earned. . O . . , , Wi """"v - - weej3, Albany uuwaior. hnre on Friday noon. June 8th. It is dis tinctly seen from the road, and presents to the eye at once the most majestic and sublime ap pearance, at one view it would seem like a large and ancient tower apparently on the decline. On approaching nearer it would as sume diffcrcu.4 aspects. Five of us set out apd ded to death in an instant. On the 24th Lre about B Srood M an I heard of a place 25 of August wo reached Mud Lake, here we mnes up this River that they are making from 1 were informed by a government Officer that to2oz, a day, I doubt it very much, but next wf hud at least 350 or 400 miles to Sansoms summer fortunes will be made on the South and that no diggings was known this side, and North forks, by turning the water and wor- Such was the startling news we received here, king the beds of the stream I venture to say Our cattle were worn down, and two head we that in Petaher River is more gold than all the had already lost, and had several heavy de- BW that was ever handled m the United Mate. J ... , a thousand times over, esrtsto pass over, still, we ourselves vere J would not hesitate in saying that I could almost completely worn down. Many per- pickaspol within 150 yarda of my house 100 ft syns lost all their cattle coming over the des- 6quaro containing not less than one hundred rail- ert, and then took it afoot, what was to be Hon3 of dollars but under water. Fine pieces done, to stop here was impossible, to go back are found on the highest mountains weighing we could not, we were already 2000 miles from 10 to SI) dollars. Feather River ia diffi on our journey our only plan was to move -cult to turn owing to the deep Canyon through onward, we did so and travelled day after "h.ch ;Pjf nd bounded by immense roeka day, we finaljy. reached the summit of tHn Sierra Nevada mountain, (Sept. 5th) In n on both side Yours, &c. A. H. Fethcrman, i
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