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NO."
ELIZA. COOK.
U5i; should you learn the bravest Xhlug,
ImIi at That man can e?er do? ;
Would you be an uncrewned king-, i
Absolute and true?
Would ye seek to emulate
5 All we learn in story,
Of the moral, just, and great,
Ik
We
t k;
Rich in real glory ?
Would ye loose much bitter .care .
feHs your lot below?
y. Bravely speak out when and, where
, 'Tis right to utter "No." r
, Bh5i .v .
tffj Learn to speak this little word
t - In its proper place
94? ...Let no timid doubt be heard,. ,
fet Clothed with sceptio grace..-.
that: Let thy lips without disguise
- ; Boldlv Dour it oat :
-Though a thousand dulcet Iiss'
Keep hovering about. 'iiA
For. be sure our hearts would lose
1
Sit .
.1
Future years of woe,
'4 J
If our coufage could refuse
The present hour ith MNo.".
When Temptation's form vuli' lead
To some pleasant wrong
. When she tunes her hollow reed
To the syren song
" When she offers bribe and 'smile
i ,ti . .nj our conscience feels
There is nought but shining guile
M"f n ilia rrifV cftn
4 A bliW Ctib dllU UUiOi
Then, oh then, let courage rise
tkVI
. , io uie sirongest now :
.Show that ye are brave as wise,,.
eg t7 And firmly answer "No." ; ft. :
Mq t Hearts that are too often given ,
t.; Like street merchandize
. Hearts that like bought slaves: are driven
M . In fair freedom's guise
m&i a: Ye that poison soul and mind
y With perjury's foial stains,
f"' Ye who let th e cold world bind
I . : rr - , - !. :
in joy il's uiainage uuauia,
Be true unto yourselves and God,
Let rai'k and fortune go;
If love light not the altar spot
Let Feeling answer "No."
fc yVMen with goodly spirits blest, -
'Willing to do right,
,Yet who stand with wavering breast
'MW -n 4 r :
xcut;aLii i cibua&iun s ungut,
When companions seek to taunt
49msf J Judgment into sin ;
t:if j When the loud laugh fain would-daunt
7 Your better voice within,
Oh ! be sure ye'll never meet
11 'More insidious foe: "
But strike the coward to yourfeet;
Y By Reason's watchword, "No."
Ah ! how many thorns we
wreathe
ni ! nA ;twine our brows around.
By not,knowing when to breathe
'm?r;u'Ths important sound. '
uu ' . breast has rued the day
.wtrfte'Of - fruits upon the moral "Nay' s
Many a sad repentant thought ,
-K T'Curns to "Jong ago," . r
jtm--.' :When a luckless fate was wrought
tB,By'want of saying "No." ; -1
""; ' ?'
Few have learned lo speak this word, -
When it should be spokes,- r
'Resolution is deferred; " '
mu'. V0Ws to virtue brcken, !
frr IVIpre of courage is required
This one word to say,
Than to stand wh.ere shots arejijgd ,
In :the battle fray. (
Use it fitly, and ye'll sec
Many -a lot beltw, - r.s1
May bo schooled and nhly ruled
By power to-utter ,uNo1?i
4i
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'Tom, you -sol," saida tempemRcejnan to
a,jippling Xriend, "what makes rou drink
.siiqh stuff as you do 1 Why, the yexy hogs
wouldn t touch that braiM."
"That's .cause-they is brutes," said iTom.
'Poor creatures ! they don't know what's
good."
The wiroLE art
STKOUDSBURG,
All Army of Monkey's.
A NOVEL BRIDGE.
In Capt. Reid's Adventures in Southern Mex
ico, we find the following curious account-of the
way monkeys cross streams of water too wide for.
them to jump over. It is exceedingly curious,
and we have no doubt true :
" They are coming, and will most likely cross
by the rocks yonder," observed Raoul.
JUow -swim it !" I asked. " It is a torrent
there ?"
" Oh, no !" answered the Frenchman ; "mon
keys would rather go into fire than water. Ifthey
cannot leap the stieam, they will bridge it?"
" Bridge it ! and liow 1"
"Stop a moment, Captain, and you shall see."
The half human voices now sounded nearer, and
we could perceive that the animals were approach
ing the spot where we lay. Presently they ap
peared upon the opposite bank, headed by an old
grey chieftain, and officered like so many soldiers.
They were, as Raoul stated, of the comadreja or
ring tailed tribe.
On an aide de-camp, or chief pioneer, perhaps
-ran out upon a projecting rock, and, after look
ing across the stream, as if calculating the dis
tance, scampered back, and appeared lo commu
nicate with the leader This produced a move
ment in ihe troop. Commands were issued, and
fatigue parties were detailed, and marched to the
front. Meanwhile several of the comadrejas en
gineers, no doubt ran along the bank, examing
the trees on both sides of the arroyo.
At length they all collected around a tall Cot
tonwood, that grew over the narrowest part of the
stream, and twenty or thirty of them scampered up
its trunk. On reaching a high point, the foremost
a strong fellow ran out upon a limb, and, ta
king several turns of his tail around it, slipped off,
and hung head downward. The next on the limb,
also a stout one climbed down the body of the
first, and whipping his tail lightly around the neck
and fore-arm of the latter, dropped off in his turn,
and head down. The third repeated this manoe
uvre upon the second, and Ihe fourth , upon the
third, and so on, until the last one upon the string
rested his foro paws upon the ground.
The- living chain now commenced swinging
backward and foreward, like the pendulum of a
clock. The motion wa3 slight at first, but gradu
ally increased, the lowermost monkey stiikinghis
hands violently on the earth as he passed the tan
gent of the oscillating curve. Several others up
on the limbs above aided the movement.
This continued until the monkey at the end of
the chain was thrown among the branches of a
tree on the opposite bank. Here, after two or
three vibrations, he clutched a limb, and held fast.
This movement was executed adroitly, just at the
culminating point of the oscillation, in order to
save the intermediate links from the violence of a
too sudden jerk !
The chain was now fast. on both ends, forming
a complete suspension bridge, over which the
whole lroop, to the number of four or five hundred,
passed with the rapidity of thought. -
It was one of the most comical sights I ever be
held, to witness the quizzical expression of coun
tenances along that living chain !
The troop was now on the other side, but how
were the animals forming the bridge to get them
selves over 1 This was the question that suffcest-
ed itself. Manifestly, by number one letting go
his tail. But then the point iVappui on the other
side was much lower down, and number one with
half-a-dozen of his neighbors, would be dashed
against the opposite bank, or soused into the wa
ter Here, then, was a problem, and we waited with
some curiosity for its.jolution. It was soon solv
ed. A monkey was now seen attaching his tail to
the lowest on the bridge, another girded him in a
similar manner, and another, and so on, until a
dozen more were added to the string. These last
were all powerful fellows : and, running up to a
high limb, they lifted the bridge into a position al
most horizontal.
Then a scream from the last monkey of th e new
formation warned the tail end that all was ready :
and the next moment the whole was swung over,
and landed safely on the opposite bank. The low
ermost links now dropped off like a melting can
dle, while the higher ones leaped to the branches
and came down by the trunk. The whole troop
then scampered off into the chapperal and disap
peared !
Canine Sagacily.
On Saturday week a dog, belonging to a gentle
man residing in Chester, suddenly left his mas
ter's house, which he was not in the habit of do
ing alone, and found his way to the shop of Mr.,
Piatt, chymist, where he attracted attention to his
necessities by holding out one of his forepaws.
On examination it was found that a large pin was
deeply imbedded in the foot, and this seemed to
have been unquestionably the cause of his visit to
Mr. Piatt, who had only a few days before adminis
tered to him a dose of medicine; the dog of course
imagining that the gentleman who had previously
been of so much service to him would now kind
ly act the part of an operator. He accordingly
did o, and after the operation, 'Bow-wow' wag
ged his thanks, and returned home, mueh Jo the.
astonishment of his owner. English paper.
(fA pious African at Louisville stumbled
while walking, one very dark night, and was pitch
ed head foremost down a celjar, which afforded
m an ''open entrance." 3painging to bis feet,
he exclaimed, "Bress deLord.dat, Hit on my head!
Ifdis nigger had scraped his shins so "hard, I spec
he broke his leg."
o; Government consists in. the art of being
MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1850.
Vegetarianism.
The editor .of the New York "Mirror1' has
been carrying on a discussion with the Vegetari
ans, and pitches into them in a way that " -can't
be beat." He boldly avows his opposition to
squashes, turnips, and potatoes, as an exclusive
diet, and expressess a determination to stick by
roast beef, turkey, boiled mutton, and other sue
substantial "creature-comforts," io the last. One
of the bran-bread and . pea-soup " philosophers"
having quoted the Chinese, as among the advo
cates and exemplars of vegetable diet, the Mirror
is after him " with a- sharp stick," as follows :
That the Chinese are geat . eaters of rice is very
true ; but that they vary their diet by feeding on
a peculiar race of dogs, fattened upon rice, and al
so upon rats, mice, snakes, lizards, and even upon
earth-worms, (a great delicacy with them,) is sus
ceptible of ample proof. The story of the Yan
kee captain at Canton, who had ordered, through
curiosity, a full course for a Qhinese dinner, o
whatever cost, is to the point. After taking many
equivocal, though palatable dishes, his eye fell up
on a platter containing what resembled a pair o
ducks. He could speak no Chinese, and his pig
tailed attendant was equally at fault with regard
to the English language.; The captain at last in
geniously bethought himself of the natural lingo
of animals. Pointing to the dish in question, he
uttered the words, "quack, quack, quack 1" The
Chinaman gravely shook his head, and responded
with a significant negative, " No ! bow, wow
wow !"
" A young lady of my acquaintance," says a
friend in a recent note to the Editor, "married re
cently, and the mother of her husband being in
very poor health, she was taken immediately
home by her liege lord to nurse and take care ol
the 'old folks.' In the course of a few months the
mother was removed by death. The dutiful and
sympathizing daughter-in-law thus expressed her
grief at this event, to a company of her neighbors
who called in to take tea with her on an afternoon
soon after her sad bereavement : 40h, dear !' said
she; 'how much I miss my poor, dear mother !
Why, it seems to me I can see her now, just as
she used to sit at the breakfast-table, reaching out
her fork for the best potato V " This reminds us
of a man without a tear,' a Missourian at the grave
of his wife : " I have lost cows," he said to
neighbor, as the coffin was lowered into the grave
" I've lost sheep ; I've lost bosses, and I've lost
calves : but this is the wust of the whole lot !"
Knickerbocker.
A Suffering Youib.
'Father, I wants a dollar,' said a country boy
a strapping lad of sixteen, who measured two
ax-handles in his stockings to his dad on Sunday
night 1 wants a buzzum pin amazingly, all the
big boys in town have got 'em but me.'
4 Fudge,' replied the sire, 'a buzzum pin ! non
sense ! You'd better get a pair of shoes or a new
felt, for a dollar, or sumthin' o' some consekwence
but b-u-z-z-u-m p-i-n ! Pshaw !'
rlumph r returned the juvenile, ' tnem ere
things you spoke on are all well enough in the
fall. Won't my palm-leaf dew for this summer.
and can't I go bare-foot now ? But, sobbed out
the stripling, 1 1 am really sufferin' for a buzzum
pin .''
Strange Circumstances.
About fourteen days ago, a young lady, resid
ing at the hillside of Montrose, laid out a beauti
fuL point lace collar on the green to bleach, and
thinking, as the green was enclosed, that nothing
would molest her handiwork, she left it exposed
during the night. In the morning the collar was
gone, and the sorrow and vexation felt for the loss
can only be conceived by ladies who have spent
days and weeks in ornamenting a similar piece o
dress. A few nights ago, the lady dreamed that
her collar was in a blackbird's nest in another part
of the garden, and, after dressing herself, was pre
paring too see if there was. any truth in ho dream
She met the servant girl and said, " I dreamed
my collar was in the blackbird's nest." " You
dreamed truly," was the reply, " for this is it. I
took it out of the nest, and it formed a beautiful
circle about the eggs."
A Lucky Mistake
When the surgeon was attending the wound
which confined me, he told me a diverting story
of a young Swiss soldier, a recruit, who, when his
regimentals were making, had procured a round
iron plate bordered with holes, which he desired
the tailor to fasten on the inside of his coat above
his left breast, to prevent his being shot through
the heart, ihe tailor, being a humorous fellow,
fastened it in the seat of his breeches, and the
clothes being scarcely on his back, when lie was
ordered to march to the field, he had no opportu
nity to get this awkward mistake rectified before
he found himself engaged in battle; and being
obliged to fly before the enemy, in endeavoring to
get over a thorn hedge in his way, he unfortun
ately stuck fast till he was overtaken by the ene
my, one of whom, on coming up, gave him a push
in the breech with bis bayonet, (with no friendly
design,) but it luckily hit on the iron plate, and
pushed the young soldier clear out of the hedge.
This favorable "circumstance made the Swiss hon
estly confess that the tailor had more sense than
himself, and knew ' better where his heart lay.
Henry Bruce,
JjfThe following sentiment was given on
the 4ih inst., at aLuelobralidn Jn Pennsylvania:
The Day we Celebrate. M&y its mornings
continue to be ushered4h. with.'peals of joy by
unborn milliohSi . -.c" ...
.How unborn .millions ?can shQ.uf, we don!t,
knpw. we sjiould iliink they; .could -shout bei.
ter after ihey were born than before. B.oston
Post.
.honest. Jefferson.
History of the Baena Vista Flas of
Truce.
Among the really valuable addresses deliv
ered on the occacion of the death of iho laie
President Taylor, is one pronounced at Salem,
Mass., on the 18th nit., by the Hon. C. Upham.
It contains an account of the celebrated flag of
truce which, during the battle of Buena Vista,
was sent from Sania Anna to Gen. Tayloi ;
and as this account was derived from the lips
of the late President, ii is veracious in every'
respect and will hereafter pass into history.
The passage is as follows :
As this incident of the battle may possibly,
if the secret history of the war is ever fully re
vealed, be found loshed light upon it, I will here
record the facts related lo me by Gen. Taylor
himself. During the height of the conflict a'flag
was seen approaching. The emergencies of
ihe day had o stripped him of his staff, that
having no one to send, he went himself to meet
it. As the young officer who bore it could
not speak English, nor he Spanish, the confer
ence took place in French. The communica
tion was this : "Gen. Sania Anna desires to
know what Gen. Taylor wants V Feeling
somewhat indignant that a message so appar
ently impertinent should have been sent at
such a moment, and regarding it as perhaps a
device merely to gain lime or some other ille
gitimate advaniage, or at best a species of tri
fling, he gave an answer dictated by the feel
ing of the moment. " What Gen. Taylor wants
is Gen. Santa Anna's army."
Here the conference closed, and the Mexi.
can officer withdrew. Upon a moment's reflec
tion, he regretted that he had given an answer
so undiplomatic, and having so much the air of
a repartee. He called to mind the fact that
his government had advised him that they had
favored the return of Santa Anna to Mexico,
from a belief that he was disposed to promote,
and might have influence enough with his
countrymen to effect a termination of the war,
and it occurred to him, really designed lo open
the way for negotiation, and perhaps pacifica
tion an object ever near to his heart. He
rode over the fields in search of General Wool,
made known the circumstances to him, and
suggested, if not iwo great a personal expo
sure, the expediency of his carrying a flag of
truce to the Mexican lines to ask an explana
tion of the message.
To send an officer of his rank, character and
position, would remove the indignity, if it should
be so regarded, of his blunt and summary an
swer. General Wool readily and gallantly un
dertook ihe service, and rude forth to execute
it, but the fire of the Mexican batteries could
not again be stopped, and no furthur parley took
place. The next morning, when Col. Bliss was
ieni with a flag to the Mexican Head Qurlers,
he was requested to ascertain what had been
intended by the message of the previous day,
but he found the slate of things such as to ren
der it vain to enter upon the subject. The im
port of the message remains unriddled lo this
day. Santa Anna can undoubtly solve the
enigma.
Mr. Upham, in the course of his address gives
"numerous anecdotes, exhibiting the late Presi
dent s courage and generosity. Among other
instances of the display of these qualities on
the part of the deceased hero, he gives the fol
lowing: In the conversation, from which I derived
these interesting items of information, General
Taylor described to me the anxious consulta
tions of the second night of the battle. His
officers came lo him, one after another, expres
sing a decided opinion that his army was too
much broken to be brought up io the struggle
another day. He declared to them his belief
that, dreadfully as his forces had suffered, the
enemy had suffered worse ; that retreat or any
other alternative was entirely out of the ques
tion, that he had made his arrangements lo pre
sent, still a Ibrmidible front to the foe, and all
that remained for them was lo make up their
minds to conquer or die together, if the assault
upon their position should be renewed wiihihe
returning light. " But," said he, "gentlemen,
it will not be renewed. I surveyed iho whole
field as the sun went down, and I believe we
have beaten the enemy."
When the day dawned, it was discovered
ihai Santa Anna had fled from the ground.
General Taylor instantly ordered a train of
wagons, provided with medical and other means
of relief, accompaniod by Burgeons from his
own army, to follow on the track of the Mexi
cans and administer to ihe wants of the woun
ded and disabled whom they had abandoned on
(heir retreat. Upon some one's expressing a
doubt whether such a use of the public stores
and wagons, for the benefit of the enemy, would
be allowed by the Department, Taylor cut the
difficulty short, at once, by saying, " Thqn I
will pay the bill" and to provide for the con
tingency, he directed a separate account to be
kept, of all that was expended for the purpose.
Cure for Ring bone, Spavin, &c.
Take ihe oil of origanum and the oil of tur
pentine equal portions, and apply it to the part
effected three limes a day, by means of a feath
er, until it gets very sore, then let it heal up,
and if the disease is not entirely killed, proceed
?n ihe same way again. A young horse or coll
can be cured by one application, but an older
horse needs more severe treatment, bome-
lmes it is necessary to keep at it for three
months before the cure is perfected in an old
hdrse, yet I never knew an instance where it
ailed, if attended to. The same remedy will
cure the boue spavin. Ohio Cultivator,
A Great itW.-r-.CIinton Jackson, a young
man. swam across. the Niagara river, under the
alls and back again, without landing to lake
breath. The distance is half a mile, and the
current; as is well known is exceedingly strong
and. turbulent.
-.rim
No.50.
- A Bit of Humor.
We do not relish truths the less for being
occasionally spiced with a little humor The
following extract from ihe report of a Commit
tee on Hogs, read before an Agricultural Soci
ety " down east," contains some excellent hits :
Again, some folks accuse pigs of being filthy
in their habits, and negligent in their appear
ance. But whether food is best eaten, off the
ground, or from China plates, is, it seemsWto
me, merely a matter of taste and convenience,
about which pigs and men honestly differ.
They ought then, to bo judged charitably.
At any rate pigs are not filthy enough lo cho w .:
tobacco, nor to poison their breath by drinking:
whiskey. And as to their personal appear
ance, you don't catch a pig playing the dandy, .
noi the females among them picking their way
up this muddy village, after a rain, in kid slip'- .
pers.
Notwithstanding ihe heterodox notions, hogs
have some excellent traits of character. If one
chance to wallow a little deeper in some mire
hole than his fellows, and so carries off and
comes in possession of more of this earth than
his breihern, he never assumes an extra impor
tance on that account ; neither are his brethern
stupid enough lo worship him for it. Their
only question seems lo be, is he still a hog?"
If he is, they treat him as such. !
And when a hog has no merits of his owni
he never puts on aristocratic airs, nor claims''
any particular respect on account of his family
connexions ; and yet some Hogs have decen-
ded from very ancient families. They under
stand full well the common sense maxim, " ev
ery tub must stand on its own bottom."
To color Walls.
Take good stone lime, and slack it in iho or
dinary way. Dissolve the crystals of one and, .!
a half pounds of blue vitriol in bulling water,
and when dissolved, mix it with one pound of
glue and pour the whole into the whitewash ;
or pour in the vitriol first, and then slowly add
the glue, stirring ihe mass constantly, that the ;
ingredients may be thoroughly mixed. The
first coat should be put on horizontally, (with a
common whitewash brush,) the second vertical
ly, or up and down, and the same as the first.
The color will be of a bright blue, resembling
that of blue bottles sometimes seen in ihe win- -dows
of druggist's shops. The above consti
tutes a very beautiful as well as exceedingly
cheap coloring matter for walls.
A short Oration for the Fourth of July, for
Unprepared Orators. A western oraior being
" unexpectedly called upon" at a fourth of July
celebration, delivered himself as follows .
Feller citizens the great bird of American
liberty's flawed aloft, and soarin' upon the wings
of the wind, is now hoverin'high o'er the cloud
capped summits of the Rocky Mountains, and
when he shall have penetrated the unknown re
gions of unlimited space ; and then shall have
duv downward, lit on daddy's wood-pile, I shall
be ready to exclaim, in ihe grand, the terrific,
the sublimo language of Paul the Apostle, in his
celebrated episile to the Aborigines, "root,
little pig, or die."
Something new. A White Gunpowder, said
to bo more powerful than the black, has been
manufactured in England. It is composed of
chlorate of potash, loaf sugar, and prusiate of
potash. '
Independence day was celebrated with be-;,
coming spirit in Albany. The editor of the4t
Albany Dutchman says he saw four country;.
buys choke themselves with gingerbread before..
the procession was oven formed.
Singular Suicide at St. Louis.
The St. Louis Intelligencer says that a Ger- ,
man named Henry Lammert, who resides near,
the head of the Garondelet Avenue, committed
suicide last Monday night by shooting himself
with a pistol loaded with water ! In the day
he had bought the pistol, and at 3 o'clock at,,
night, while in his brother's room, he took an"
ordinary charge which he poured into the pis
tol, ramming a wad down after it. Then near
ly filling the barrel with water he secured it
firmly with a second wad, after which lie han
ded $5 to his brother, with a request that ho
would give it to some one to whom it was due,
and rushed into his own room At the report
of the pistol his brother followed him, when he
found the unfortunate man lying on the floor,
with his upper lip, the upper pan of his face, .
and nearly half of the skull blown away. The,,
effeol of the pistol's contents were most terrible. n
Lammert had been married but four months.
Jealously is among some of the causes adduced
for his self destruction.
Hard Blowing. '-'
An old gentleman, who came up in oue of lti&$
Cape May steamers, was relating the effects? of
the recent storm to a crowd of crdulous gapersto
whom he declared, with all the seriousness imagi
nable, that "it blew the heads out of flour barrels
nA iho hnrna frnm tha r-nMln " trtM
The Fifth Year. i
VOLUME FIVE year five of Scott's
Weekly Paper, Philadelphia the favorite
Family Journal, will commence with the issue
of August lOih. A good opportunity is offered
persons to become subscribers, aa several im
provements will be made in its appearance and
contents, The long winter evenings will soon -be
here, when a family paper is the best com
panion for the fireside. It affords instruction
and amusement, and a yeai's subscription-Two
Dollars though less than the sum paid for
three months schooling, will be of twenty times
the value. The presence of a newspaper ina
family, is an incentive to the young to progress,,
in their education. Address. A. SCOTT,
Publisher,
No. 1 15 Chesnut Sueet, Philadelphia.