Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-01-26

Sequent decay OF my intimacy with MS DoaF-
ders.
The storm grew; blackened burst in the
shape of a capias, in which | was requested
foythpsh TO accompany Timothy TIpslaf, and
before Alderman Advise show cause, if had
any, why should not pay Benjamin Bonilace
certain sum not exceeding one hundred dol
lars. was of course hurried into tine pres
ence of magistracy Al once admitting the
claim--it would have served no purpose 10 de-
ny it, found all appeals for further grace in
vain-lor did plead most peously- and the
said Timothy was empowered 10 hold my per-
son in the name of the Commonwealth until
handed over, as satisfaction for the suit of Bon!-
face and the costs accruing thereon the sum Of
tweniy-six dollars and lorty-one cents. If the
amount had been forty thousand, the hopeless
ness o{ my situation would have been the same
had not The smallest coin of the country, and
knew not where TO raise one. What 10 do
knew not, could no, conjecture. Dim presages
OF prisons-od stories of lail-rues and the Bas-
tile were before me. so that when Tipstaf re-
quested me 10 accompany him, | complied me-
chanically. although fully noticed that the di-
rection he took was prison-ward.
A thought,-as then imagined, a most hap
! py oneat that moment entered my brain.
would seek friend TO bail me impaired
my views to the officer He shook his head
increduously, but the tender Of ring-it was
my mothers dying gilt---her aH'---excited the
sympahies of the fellow (he took the brbe
though and essayed task which they who
have never tried know nothing about even in
conjecture. l appealed TO one, then anoher,--
third and fourth; but when | was about re-
| linquishing the business in despair, the image
! of Bob. Bennett, my ancient, my old school
fellow, and most particular chum, came over
my minds eye like fash of ETHEREAL charity
to the soul in purgatory started for his cham
| berTipstalf was TOO polite TO leave me. Bob
was fortunately at home. | communicated my
errand---the jaw of my most particular friend
fell, and change came over him Of most per-
cepible import But | succeeded!---Oh! how
has the remembrance of the humiiating tone
then assumed clogged my memory even till
now-stili. | succeeded, and in due time the
name of Bennett appeared on the docket Of the
Justice, as special bail in the case of Boniface
VS.. c., and | found three monthly links
added TO The chain of personal freedom.
| remained two months Of This time in the
city, but as yet could find no employment ,--liv-
ing, chameleon-like, and enduring the haunting
enquiries of Bennett, as 10 whether | was cer-
tain of meeting the claim for which he stood
responsible | answered him for time as well
as could, but when there remained but thirty
days of the period of grace still before me,
could endure it no longer, and--- -disguises are
over now---i resolved TO quit Philadelphia, and
in some remote village hide my person and suf-
ferings from the fangs and sneers Of mankind
quilted the city, and pursued my way 10 Beth
lehem; bu, did not feel myself safe there, norI
at Easton so following the windings of the
Delaware | arrived at last at Stroudsburg, a |
primitive settlement, half Quaker and half Hes
sian. So embowered among the bases Of the
Kittatnny, and remote from all connexon with
tho great world, that felt certain of remaining
here free from all molestation.
was so fortunate as 10 secure a school. |
The compensation, sixteen dollars month and
"found, )" was TO me the revenue Of the Roths- !
chiIds, and could have enjoyed happiness
as unaoyed in that simple spo, as ever filled
the bosom of the owner of a city's rental. But
it was not to be. = | had scarce /
been five weeks in my new locaton when, on
rising ono morning to make a fire in my school |
ro0m-the month was January---and while has I
tening 10 the farther end Of the village for that
purpose, was accosted by mechanic, who
notwithstanding he bore but an indifferent rep
malion, was nevertheless man of a warm heart,
warmer thousand fold than The souls of those
that rallied at him. t3
He NODDED TO me significantly, and drew me
aside, where we could converse unobseryed.-
| had presage of what was 10 follow. 1t
appeared that he had entered the village tavern
thai morning, to get his bi'ers. as he said and
while there he overheard dialogue between |
The landlord who was my I" Cery particular
friend" bye the bye, and sianger, from which
he gathered enough, although they let him not
into the full particulars, to justify the belief that
some evil was meditaled against my person.
asked a description of the stranger. II
was Bob Bennett by all that is horrible it
was and my informant, who, poor fellow,
had been tried inlhe laws furnace in all its gra-
daiions of temperature, from the browning OPP
eralons Of summonses, capiases, judgments,
and what not, up 10 The roasting insasions oi
executions, SCI Fas; and incarceration in half
the prisons in The commonwealth; my informant,
| say, limited, hat from certain oracular express