letters man a f- 1 The' whole art of Government consists in the art of beino honkst. Jefferson. f aw VOL. 11. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1851. No. m. meimMtratfz i Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS -Two dollars Dcr annum in advance-Two dollarj rt er ha? yc"lynd if not paid before the end of 1U UUlwuo K.rthn nmnrm. .iniinrs and a nan- papers by a carrier or stage . i'-""- tor will be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. NoiSw SKunued until alfarrearages are paid, except xSniTcxceeiinB one square (sixteen lines) willbe inserted three weeks for one dollar, and twenty-live rpntsfor every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and three insertions the same. A liberal discount made to yearly advertiseis. . ... 1CA11 letters addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna' menial Type, we are prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE .cffeisoiiiau Republican. rTo-Day and To-Morrow. To-day, man's dressed in gold and silver bright, Wrapt in a shroud before to-morrow night ; To-day lie's feeding on delicious food, To-morrow, dead unable to do good. To-day, he's nice and scorns to feed on crumbs, To-morrow, he's himself a dish for worms. To-daT, he's honored, and in vast esteem, To-morrow, not a beggar values him. To-day, he rises from a velvet bed, To-morrow, lies in one that's made of lead. To-day, his house, though large, he thinks but small, To-morrow, no command, no house at all. To-day, has twenty servants at his gate, To-morrow, scorned, not one of them will wait. To-day, perfumed as sweet as any rose, To-morrew, stinks in every body's nose. To-day, he's grand, majestic, all delight, Ghastful and pale before to-morruw night. True as the Scripture says, "Man's life's a span." The present moment is the life of man. A Strange Story. A ihw rlnvs since n. mPflir.nl mnn nnmerl Plu'linnr died in a village near Paris, where he had resided t ArchblshoP Cmer reviewed and corrected many years, and had acquired a great reputation j thls translatlon and hence it was sometimes called for skill and probity. He never demanded any re-1 Cranmer's blble- This bik was reprinted in muneration except from those who were in circum-! EnSllsh Wlth thls t,tIe " The IIoly m which is stances to be able to pay him; and during the last vis-' a11 the HolT ScnPtures in which are contained the it ofthe cholera he was indefatigable in his attention 0Ide and Newe Tcstament truelye and purelye to the suffering poor, Last year an Englishman, translated mto English, by Thomas Matthew traveling in that part of the country, was taken so j Thls was a fictltl0us nane, but the Bible was hence suddenly ill that he was obliged to stop at an inn j often called Ma"liew's Bible, in the commune, and Dr. Philipe sent for. Scarce-1 Cranmer sent portions of the work, as he re vis ly, however, had he arrived at the bedside of the ' ed il' to of dle learned men of his day, for patient when the latter became violently agitated, j correction- These, it is said were returned to him, and at once ordered every one out of the room. with excePtion of the Acts of the Apostels, When that was done, the door was locked on the whlch had been enb listed to Stokesly, Bishop of inside. The landlady being curious to know what , London who wrote thus to Cranmer, I marvel i- . . .. I what, mv T.nril r,C rTontnrTitii.tr tv1, 1 4. l. was gomg on, lisiened at tne door, out the conver-: sation was carried on in a language which she did not understand; she. however, heard the patient ex-; claim in French, 'Assassin ! assassin !' after which a violent altercation ensued. The Englishman ap peared to threaten, and the doctor to supplicate him. The latter afterwards left the room and went in to the Jvitchen, where he prepared some medicine, which he ordered to be given to the patient sever- al times during the night. On the following day the stranger was much worse, and feeling his end ! approaching, lie made a sign for a pen, ink, and : London Wl11 not bestow any labor or pains this paper, and wrote a few words in English, which , )vay . Your Grace knoweth well, that his portion the landlady gave to the mayor of the commune, ' 1S a Piece of the New Testament: but he being who, not understanding the language, threw it a- Persuaued that Christ has bequeathed him nothing side into a drawer, where it was forgotten. The 111 llis testament, thought it mere madness to bes stranger died the same evening. A few days tow an' labor or Pains where no was to be since the mayor, when called on to register the etten- And besides thk ifc is e Acts of the A death of the doctor, who in his turn had paid the PosteIs who wefe simPIe P00r fellows, and there debt of humanity, thought of this paper, and on Tore my Lord of London disdained to have any thing his showing it to" his nephew, who understood the to do with any of them." language, it was found that Dr. Philippe was no ' . But Bisll0P Stokesly was hot singular in his other than the famous Patieson, a noted robber of ideas of Scripture reading. In the latter part of the United States, all traces of whom had been j lost. The Englishman had recognized him as a man j who had, twenty years before, attempted to mur-, derliim, while travelling in the State of Vermont, 101111 women, ajtificers, apprentices, journeymen, in America. sowingmen, husbandmen or laboureres. The mayor proceeded to the house of Dr. Phil-! The next edition was called the Geneva Bible, ippc to institute an inquiry. He found that he The translators were Coverdale, Goodman, Gilby, had, during his illness refused to be undressed and nd scyeral others, all of them exiles from their had made the persons who had attended him prom-' natjve country, during the reign of Queen Mary, ise that he should be imrried in the clothes which s vvas t,ie first Bible Pnted with numerical lie then wore. The mayor, howevever, ordered verses and was Published in 1557. the body to be undressed, when it was found in j Complaint having been made of this translation reality a very spare man, although he always ap- Archbishop Parker projected a new one, committed peared stout, the hulk being caused by his wearing : its execution to the dignitaries of the Church from clothes wadded most thickly. His legs were also I whence it was called the Bishop's Bible. It was bandaged, and one of his feet was found to be aPr'nted in folio in 1568 with maps and cuts, very skillfully made artificial one. The body was j 0ur edition of the. English Bible which lias been covered with marks of wounds. In a dark closet ! tbe standard now for upwards of three hundred there were found several chests fastened with triple ' locks, and on these being forced open, they were found to contain arms of various kinds, watches, gold coins of all nations, and diamonds and jewels to a considerable value. Particulars of this discov ery have been transmitted to the Government, and a copy sent to the authorities of the State of Ver mont. Galignani. Didn't Mean tiiat Evening. A cracked brain- ed man, who -was slighted by the females, very modestly asked a young lady, 'if she would let him -spend the evening with ,her.' "iSTo," she angrily replied,- '.'that's what I yon't.1" 3 'Why' said h Ve4'4tel4te I&'nt mwjwgtpaQmy jp when I .ca n't .go .tiny MHcrq elsp. , v ..-fU ,ij :ili ii .ii.: ! From the Commonwealth. The Bible. "I am of opinion," says sir William Jones, "that the Bible contains more true sublimity, more e.v quisite beauty, more pure morality, more impor tant history, and finer strains of poerry and elo- quence, than can be collected from all other books in whatever age or language they may have been written." The New Testament was first translated into the English language by Wickliffe, about the year 1380. The next translation was by William Tyn dal who was educated at Oxford,' and early em braced the doctrines of the reformation. Having by his opinions, subjected himself to the censures of the church, he secluded himself from public ob scrvation, in the house of an alderman in London, and devoted himself to the translation of the New Testament into English. But England being at that time, no safe place for such a labour, he with drew to Antwcrpt; where, with the assistance of two others, a friar by the name of Roger and John Fry, he completed the work, and had it printed in that city in 1526 : 8 vo and without a name. The greater part of the work was sent to England. There it had a wonderful spread among the peo ple, but was so distasteful to the Church Dignita ries, especially the Bishops, that they complained of it to the Kinc CHenry VIII, who issued a proclamation calling in all the copies in June, 1530 at the same time promising a more correct transla tion should be published. But the curiosity of the people was excited, and five successive editions were printed in Holand, to supply their wants. The Bishops bought up and burned all they could lay their hands on, but many copies were privately circulated and dispersed among acquaintances and friends. Tindal was still nniraired in translating i the .Old Testament, and in want of money, which Bishops Warham and Tunstall especially, unwit tingly supplied him with, in purchasing so large a portion of his work for the flames. He did not, however, live to complete the work, having been burnt at the stake, as a heretic at Augsburgh, in 1536. J uiconcui, ui.il uu thus abusetb the people, in giving them liberty to ead the ScriPtures, which doth nothing else but uncut luuiii jiuresy. x nave Destoweu never an hour upon my portion, nor ever will. And there fore, my Lord shall have this book again, for I will never be guilty of bringing the simple people into error." When Cranmer expressed his surprise (says . 4 4 4 l I T 1 1 . Strype in his life of Cranmer) at the conduct of Stokesl.V, he was replied to by Mr. Thomas Law ne "J can tel1 yur Grace why my Lord of tne re,n of HemT VIII the Bible was prohibited by statute to be read in any English church, and the reading thereof in English was prohibited also years succeeded the iiishop's Bible. Of this translation, Dr. Adam Clarke, one of the best linguists and most learned commentators of the 19th century, remarks : " Those who have com pared most of the European translations with the original, have not scrupled to say that the English translation of the Bible, made under the direction of King James 1., is the most accurate and faith ful of the whole. Nor is this its -only praise ; the translators have seized the very spirit and soul of the original : and expressed this i . . t -r wnere witn patnos anu energy, uesides, our trans lators have not only made a standard translation, but they have made their translations 'the standard of our language; the English tongue in thchylay was not equal to such a work; 'but God enabled them to stand as vuppnr Mount Sinai' to .ue the .ex pression' of a learned friend;. and. cranejipjtheir country's language to the dignity of the originals, so that after the lapse of 200 years, the English Bible is, with the very few exceptions, the stand ard of the purity and excellence of the English lan guage. The original from which it was taken, is alone superior to the Bible, translated by the au thority of King James.' (These are the words of the late Miss Freeman Shepherd, a very learned and extraordinary woman, and a rigid Papist, and the Dr. concludes by remarking): " This is an o pinion in which my heart, my judgment, and my conscience coincide," Of King James' agency in the translation we may speak hereafter. G. The Inquisition. A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, writing from Italy, gives the following thrilling description of a few of the horrors of the Inquisition. 'In Turin I met the American Consul of Rome, who had passed through the entire revolution in the Eternal City, and who was present when the doors and dungeons of the inquisitions were open ed by the decree of the Triumvirs, its prisoners re leased, and the building converted into an asylum for the poor. It was interesting to hear from the lips of an intelligent eye-witness the most ample confirmation of the published statements relative to the condition and appearance of this iniquitous establishment. The Holy Inquisition of Rome is situated near the Porta Cavalligeri, and under the very shadow of the sublime dome of Saint Peter's Cathedral, and capable, in case of emergency of accommodating three thousand prisoners. The Consul was particularly struck with the imposing rlimnnsinrisnf tho ni,nmhPrnf Arnhi vps' filial u-ith voluminous documents, records and papers. Here ll'f A -v.l-k1 11 fill". mnnnr.l-nnc n.i.l iliAiniAiir- holy office from the very birth of the inquisition, including the correspondence with its collateral branches in both hemispheres. Upon the third floor, oyer a certain door, was inscription to this effect- Sneak to the first Inquisitor.' Overanother-'No- body enters thischarnber, except on pain of excom- j wantcd il t0 stand UP' The doS stood UP- 'Now'' muncation.' They might as well have placed over said the bo' 'sit down.' The dog sat down that door the well remembered inscription of Dante . 1 Now ro11 over-' The doS rolled over- ' Now 1 i mi., i i rni ; l over the gates of Tartarus 'Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.' That chamber was the solemn Hall of Judgement, or Doom room, where the fates of, tliousands have been sealed in death. Over a door directly opposite another inscription read, " Speak to the second Inquisitor." Upon opening the door of that department a trap door was exposed, from which the condemned, after they left the Hall of Judgment, steped from time into eternity. The well or pit beneath had been built in the f. , , , . ordinary cylindrical form, and was at least 80 teet , J, 3 . i -i i deep, and so ingeniously provided with projecting knives ancr cutlasses tliat the bodies of the victims must have beeii dreadfully mangled in the descent, At the-bottom of this abyss quantities of hair and hpfl5 nfmnillflpritifr Vinnns rnm;iinni1 iInt nnlv nt flip lintfnm nf flip -nit lint filer in cpvprnl nF flip . " r "v r lower chambers of the building, were found of hu- tone Is it mince V Upon the lady's informing man bones. In some places they appear to have J him that it was not, he indignantly rose, said he did been mortered into the walls. The usual instiu- not care about eating it if it won't mince. ments of torture in such establishments were like- This seem a caricature, but I think it like wise manliest. 1 lie consel presented me with a. r bone which he brought with him as a memorial of !'. from an mcldent haPPenlnS a few days smce at his visit. The Done fled from Rome on the 24th of mv own dwelling, to have actually occurred. A November, 1848. The Roman Republic was pro-' claimed on the 11th o F ebruary, 1849 and imme-; tQ eat A fcw dinner remnants were put in her diately after its installation the Assembly solemnly : , , , . declared the abolishment of the Holy Inquisition,, baskct and hav,nff a sma11 ba or P,Ilou-sIlP m and by a special decree charged the Triumvirate her hands, she was offered as much corn meal as with the duty of erecting a lofty column to com-' would fill it, 'No ma'am 1' was the indignant re memorate the overthrow of one of the greatest nv t am poor en0ugh, God knows, but I can't ,i e i nt s .i i c the scenes of this world change. On the 1st of, T..1.. io,in l. t ti ui: iy l :' ' juij, iota, nic ivuiuuii ivupuuiic, uitur u. uriui ua- istence of five months capitulated to the French, and in May, 1850, Pius IX., after an exile of one year and six months, returned to his capital, pro scribed the Triumvirate, and re-established the In quisition in all its former power." Good Application A correspondent of the Era tells the following anecdotes in reference to President Fillmore's Bos ton Prociamation : This Proclamation reminds us of two stories, one of Greek, the other of American origin. A Greek of small wit and great connections lost a child. His friends and relatives collected in great numbers at the funeral; and when the corpse of the child was exhibited to the audience, the po- lite Greek apologized for its size and said he was ashamed to show so small a child to so great a collection of people. The Yankee story runs thus : 1 A man was breaking a colt, and having tamed j him so that he would bear his rider, told his boy to hide in the bushes, and rush out when he rode the colt by, so as to practice the colt against sum- lar occasions, and teach it not to shy.'' The boy , um oa uixcuwu tuiiiuu 111a juuivui, uvui mo uuim, rushed out of the bushes, and shouted at the top of his voice. The colt shyed and threw his master, who jumped up, brushed his clothes, put on his hat, and with an oath asked the boy why he did that. " Because you told me to scare the colt," said the boy. " Yes," said the fallen rider, " but there was no use in making so big a boo for so small a colt." : To Remeey Watery toes are watery, put into a small piece of lime perfectly dry and mealy. This is an easy and' cheap method of remedying a very common evil, and at this season very extensively complainea,oi. , PoTATOES.-If your pota- that they grow less in vines, but more in fruit, and ' filers, and their power over these reptiles may, .. , . 4. , .i i. nprlums be accounted tor m this wav. lean- the water before boning earlier; nut m me case oicucumuers anu muiunH, --r-i - . This will render them they are shorted-lived.- Working farmer. j trrfr ; mv;Hn The lime snoiuu De.iresn, ana.ior a wimuun . '?m ' lv.- amily, say of six, Jhce th W1'? izeof.anngli, Wt. I ' , ... r. , c,rri swa iowe i a Ke? or inuiuissubuuwi , Small Ittoulh one Husband Large, two. Old Gov. L , of Vermont, was one of the most inveterate jokers of the early times, in which he. figured. An anecdote is told of him, which has never been related in print, and never can be, per haps, with much effect; but we will try it. One fall, as he was returning from the Legislature, on horseback, as usual at that day, he was hailed from a house by a garrulous old maid, who had often annoyed him with questions respecting public af fairs. "Well, Governor," said she, coming out, towards tho road, " what new laws have you passed at Montpelier, this time 1" "Well, one rather singular law, among the rest," he replied. "Dew tell ! Now, what is it, Governor 1" asked the excited querist. " Why, that the women in each town who has ; the smallest mouth, shall be warranted a husband. "Why, whot !" said she, drawing up her mouth to the smallest possible compass, whot a queer cu rios lor that is !" " Yes, but we have passed another that beats flint? tlin wnmnn wlin line tlio lnrrrnct mnntli 10 tr i w.w ' iJtlvl If J1V A LVkJ bilk migiUb JUUUUi . tj l J have two husbands !" 'Why, whart !' exclaimed the old maid, instant- . ly relaxing her mouth, and stretching it wider at every syllable, 'what remarkable law that is; when does it come in force, Governor 1" I At this, the Governor put spurs to his horse and ' vanished. Green Mountain Freemam. i '" '"' i xc ny.ft c,MW sa's tnat "Mn 0ulver' lrom ' m n,s address ttL "ie A remain "impie, guve we louowuig apt - lustration to the bargain in Congress at the last SCSS10IV that is, if the South should have the ' Compromise measures carried through, the North was to have a Tariff' IIe said there was a W in his neighborhood, after having eaten a full meal, who had a sPaniel doS that s veiT hunSry- He tooR a cracker ana nem 11 UP' lellmS tlie S 11 sPeaK- 1110 uo hPKe- xuen lurmn rounu' the W Put the cracker into his Pocket' sayin 4 1 i.n i 4. i i.: .1 - :4. : o ... :a.i. HIiau wa,,L umi lo maKU uu 11 uum- ou W1L" . the 1 antt- Atler carrying all the obnoxious meas- ures the South turns coolly around' kills the bil1' and says We sha11 want that to make them ro11 , n tbc mud agaln- j beggar applied at the house of a country j friend of somewhere about Christinas time for , . , . . . . . tUn t,;fw I something to eat. According to the hospitable t r., . , j i . . custom of the neighborhood, he was invited into i , the kitchen and a pie placed before him. Just as the good lady of the house was about to cut the piC) the fellow looked up at her with the greatest . .... ..... nconrnnfo m t ho wnr m. anr sa.ui m an mainsitive destitute woman called on my family for something J go corn meal; when 1 come to tnat, I mean ' cfriip to "w A young lady, whose name was Mayden. having married a gentleman called Mudd. gave rise to the following: Lot's wife, 'tis said, in days of old, For one rebellious halt, Was turned, as we are plainly told, Into a lump of salt. The same propensity of change, Still runs in woman's blood ; For here we sec a case as strange A Mayden turned to Mudd. An American Title. 'When I was travelling in Massachusettsome twenty years ago, said a traveller, ' I had a seat with the driver, who, on stoppin"" at the Post-Office, saluted an ill-looking fellow on the step, with 'good morning, Judge San- ders, I hope you are well, sir.' I 'On leaving the office, I asked the driver, if the man he spoke to was really a Judge.' Wtj last week, and he was judge. Cucumbers, and Melons, from cut-, .W etc. Perhaps it might be interesting to , i 4. i i. .iainnQ crrnu-ti know, that tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons, grow n ' . mi i e ,,-f rUor thmi frnm from cuttings, will produce fruit earlier tnan lrom iroui cul""& ?pprl Mv nlan is to sow the seed; (in a hotbed, ot seea. my juau ib w bu , k course;) when the plants are large enough, takeoff the cuttings with a sharp knife close to the leaf, put three or four in a small pot, water them, and shade from the sun is the only care requisite; trans- plant to the open ground as soon as the weather is fit A number of years' experience convinces me. TT ! . C Ct n 11 n.,i!t!nn' in ta 11'nV : : UlC ! - scattered tit Another Whitewash. The editor of the Horticulturist, in answer to the3 queries of a correspondent gives the following re- cipe for a whitewash. Wehave published a'good' many recipes for this purpose but believe that we have never published one exactly like this. He recommends it as most excellent, as a cheap and! durable wash for wooden fences and buildings. He thinks it owes -its durability to the white vitriol which it contains. Take a barrel and slake a bushel of freshly burn ed lime in it, by covering the lime with boiling water. After it is slaked, add cold water enough to bring it to the consistency ef good whitewash. Then disolve in water, and add one pound of white vitriol (sulphate of zinc) and one quart of fine salt. To give this wash a cream color, add one half pound of yellow ochre, in powder. To give it a fawn color, add one fourth of a pound of Indian red To To make a handsome gray stone color, add one half pound of French blue, and one-fourth pound of Indian red. A drab will be made by adding one half pound of burnt sienna, and one-fourth pound of Venitian red. For brick or stone, instead of one bushel of lime, use a half bushel oflime and half bushel of hydrau lic cement. These washes are very useful in prereservingt buildings, fences, &c, to which they are applied'.; and although it may be renewed much oftener than oil paints, they give a very neat appearance to , farms, where they are applied to the buildings, sates, &c. As their cost is trifling, it is strange . that they are not used more often than they are. A Dutch widower, out west, whose better half departed on the long journey to the spirit land some twelve months ago, determined, the other day, to consult the 'Rappers,' and endeavor to ob tain spiritual communication, feeling anxious res pecting the future State of his wife. These 'rap pers,' be it known, were not the genuine 'medi ums,' but of a bogus kind adventurers endeavor ing to reap a harvest out of the late mysterious de velopements. After the usual ceremonies, the spirit of 'Mrs. Hauntz' manifested its willingnesstto converse with her disconsolate spouse. 'Ish dat you, Mrs. Hauntz 1 inquired the Dutch man. 'Yes, dearest, it is your own wife, who ' 'You lie, you tarn tevil of a ghost,' interrupted Hauntz, starting from his seat, 'mine frau speak notting but Deitch, and she never said ' tearest' in her life. It was always 'Hauntz, you tief !' or 'Hauntz, you tirty schamp 1' and the Dutchman hobbled from the room well satisfied that the 'rap ping spirits' were all humbug and that he was safe from any further communication with his shrewish frau on this earth. Saving Time. A clergyman, who had consid erable of a farm, as was generally the case in our fathers' days, went out to see one of his labourers, who was ploughing in the field, and found him sit ting upon the plough, resting his team. "John," said he, " would it not be a good plan for you to have a stub scythe here, and be hub bing a few bushes while the oxen are resting 1" John, with a countenance which might well' have become the clergyman himself, instantly re plied "Would it not be well, sir, for you to havet a swingling board in the pulpit, and when they are. singing, to swingle a little flax V The reverend gentleman turned on his hecH laughed heartily, and said no more about hubbing bushes. Inoculation with the Venom of Rat tle Snakes. In a work called, "Life in Mexico," recent ly published, the fair author gives the follow ing account: " We have just been hearing a curious circumstance connected with poison-" ous reptiles, which I have heard for the firSt time. Here, and all along the coast, the peo ple are in the habit of inoculating themselves with the poison of the rattle-snake, which Ten derers them safe from the bite of all venom ous animals. The person to be inoculated- is pricked with the tooth of the serpent on the tnncrno. in both arms, and on various nart3 of the'bodrt and the venom introduced into the , An eruption comes out, wnicn lasts x. Ever after, these persons can i iancie the most venomous snakes with impu- jty. can make them come by calliug them have great pleasure in fondling themand the bite of these persons is poisonous ! You will not believe this; but we have the testimony of - J" lt' morning Says that he has been vainly endeav- oring to make up his mind to submit to the operation, as ne is ery mucu ure he lives, and is obliged to travel a great dbal o o on the coast: and when he goes on these expe- . . , , ditions, he is always accompanied by his ser- . . i . 1 . i i - i. vanfc an in0culated - negro, who h.o the pQwer of curing him should be be bitteUj by sucking tie poison from the wound. He als5r: saw this negro cure the bite given by an in'oc- ' ulated Indian boy to a whiteboy, with whom ' he was fighting, and who was the stronger ofr- the two. The stories of these eastern jug-" .! 1. J -1 sn.aky nature transferred into my conipositidnf nor to live among rjeoule whose brte is venom'r WAX l Hntifl fnne?itirfsinhntj.tnf hv tho TTin? ntr fi mi i Z. npt above thVehundredidie? but of theisimnum- er reared inuree,itiYe'Jru:d die. i 1.1 , It ! t. i . :1 t , 1 if"
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