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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-04-12

fee OF health. The best hint can give to a snuff
fer, to set the practice aside: is, to wear only
white handkerchief; that, beside looking up his
or take pinch from anybody else, will cure him
in day. In a week he will forget he ever took
snuff.
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Early Rising.

Atalented physician remarks that Early
rising is the stepping stone to all that is
great and good. Both the mind and the
body are invigorated by the practice, and
much valuable time is gained that is lost
to the sluggard. 1t is the basis upon
which health and wealth are founded. The
early morning is the best period for rehec-
ton and study, for it is then, after refresh
ing sleep, that the mind is most vigorous
and calm. The statesman, as we'll as the
merchant, arranges his plans for the COM
ing day, and all passes smoothly; while he
who wastes his morning in bed loses much
of that most valuable commodity Of life
time-which is never regained. Early
rising will often make the poor man rich;
the contrary will often beggar the wealth
est. 1t will do much towards making the
weak strong; and the reverse will enfeeble
the strongest. Second sleep very gener-
ally produces headache and languor.-
There is nothing more true than that He
who loses an hour in the morning is seek.
ing it the remainder ofthe day. 'Surgere
diluculo saluberrimam est All our great
est men have been early risers; for instance:
Newton, Franklin, Wellington, Shakespeare,
Milton, Chantrey, Reynolds, Hunter, ,Eidon
and Erskine,''
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WoODSFIELD OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1s4a

self to me, until | was informed of the act
that had occurred.
The accident to which owe my exis-
tence will have been OWNED! NY condi-
ton is strange one! | am a living man,
and | possess certificates both of death
and burial. know that a coffin filled
with stones, and with my own name upon
the plate, lies buried in the church-yard of
St. Andrews, Holborn. saw from a
window, the undressed hearse that carried
it; | was witness to my own funeral These
are strange things to see. My damages,
however, and trust, my crimes, are over
forever. Thanks to the bounty Of that
excellent individual, whose benevolence
has recognized the service which he did
me for claim upon him. | am married
to the woman whose happiness and safety
proved my last thought--so long as reason
remained with me-in dying. And am
about to sail on a fair voyage, which is
only a sorrowfal one; that it parts me for
ever from my benefactor."
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The Desert Of Sahara.

North of the mo untains of the Moon in
Abyssinia lies the great Desert of Sahara
stretching 800 miles in width from its south
ern margin, and 1000 in length between
the Atlantic and the Red Sea. It hid
eous, barren waste, prolonged eastward
into the Atlantic for miles, in the form Of
sand-banks, and interrupted to the west
only by few cases and the valley of the
Nile:
This desert, is alternately scorched by
heat and pinched by cold. The wind
blows from the east nine months in the
year, and at the equinoxes it rushes a hur-
ricane, driving the sand in clouds before
it, producing the darkness OF night at mid
day and overwhelming caravans of men
and animals In common destruction
Then the sand is heaped up in waves ever
carrying with the blast; even the atmos-
phere is of sand. The desolation of this
dreary waste, boundless to the eye as the
ocean, is terrific and sublime-the dry
heated air is like red vapor, the setting
sun seems to be volcanic fire, and at
times the burning wind of the desert is the
blast of death. There are many salt lakes
to the north, and even the springs are Of
brine: thick incrustations of dazzling salt
cover the ground, and the particles carried
aloft by the whirlwinds, flash in the sun
like diamonds. Sand is not the only
character of the desert, tracks of gravel
and low bare rocks occur at times not less
barren and dreary. On these intermina-
BILE sands and rocks no animal, no insect,
breaks the dread silence, not tree nor a
shrub is to be seen in this land without a
shadow. In the glare of noon the air
quivers with the heat reflected from the red
sand, and in the nightitis chilled in clear
sky sparkling under a host of stars
Strangely but beautifully contrasted with
these scorched solitudes is the narrow val
ley of the Nile, threading the desert for
1000 miles in emerald green, with its blue
waters foaming in rapids among wild rocks
or quietly spreading in calm stream a
midst fields of corn and the august monu.
ments of past ages. .'
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Chinese Burial-Place.

No people profess SO much vcneration-
for the memory Of their fathers as the Chi.
nese; and the worship Of their tombs is
the most solemn, and apparently sincere,
ceremonial in the shape of religious wor.
ship, they exhibit. In order to perform its
rites, men (women take no part in it) who
emigrate to distant lands often return, at
much expense and trouble, to the place of
their birth; and their fond clinging to the
memory of the dead more than love for its
institution seems, and it is said to be, the
strong bond that binds the Chinese to their
country, But they have no consecrated
place of interment; and if they have any
rite analogous to episcopal conservation,
it must be so simple and easily executed
as to have effect any where. At any rate
they have no accumulation of graves in
particular enclosed spots; they do not set
apart few acres for that purpose and sur.
round them with walls, separating the ST.
lent tenants from the living world, and for.
ming great prison house for the dead
On the other hand, every one chooses the
spot he likes best for the final re ting place
of those he loved. The country residents
bury their dead on their own land, often
very close to their own dwellings. On the
hill-sides, especially in stony, barren pla-
ces, are seen tombs and graves, thinly
scattered in rural districts and more nu.
merous in the neighborhood of towns
The choice is wise, and its effects any thing
but unpleasing to the eye. The tombs
are often of porphyry, finished with some
minute chiselling, and sometimes in toler
able taste placed on rocky eminences, Of
ten in particular picturesqe situations un-
der the shadow of cedars and Expresses,
they present every where objects Of pleas
ing, perhaps proftable contemplation.
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PRRvERsIoN OF RELIGIoN.-How much
of injury has been done to the cause OF
true religion, by the austere and gloomy
associations which have been connected
with it by bigots and enthusiasts! How
often do we see children brought up to dis
cover nothing but what is harsh and re-
pulsive in faith, which is essentially the
source of divine and constant cheerful
ness. Is it not natural that under such
circumstances, they should imbibe dis
taste for what, rightly understood, would
be their joy and their refuge? Instead of
teaching us to regard our Creator as that
benignant and gracious Being, which nat
ural and revealed religion assures US that
he is, how many would set up the phan-
tom of their own diseased, or frightened
fancy, and have us bow down to it as to
the only true God! Oh, human frailty and
human inconsistency! that, protesting to
hate idolatry, art subject, unconsciously,
to more degrading idolatry than that
which prostrates itself before images Of
wood and stone! Let no man argue
against religion from its abuses; for truly
has it been said, that "religion and priests
have the same connexion with each other,
as Justice and attorneys" l8
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The pREss-Give me but the liberty of
the press, and | will give to minister venal
house of peers-I will give him corrupt
and servile house Of commons will give
him full swing Of the patronage Of his
office-I will give him the whole host of
ministerial influence will give him all
the power that place can confer upon him
to purchase up submission apd over-awe
resistance; and yet, armed with the liberty
Of the press, will go forth TO meet him
undismayed; | win attack with that NIGH
tier engine, the mighty fabric he has rails
ed; will shake down from its height cor
rupton; and bury it beneath the ruin Of the
abuses it was meant TO sheker.-Sheridan.
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EDUcATIoN.-An education is young
mans capital; for we'll informed, intelli-
gent mind has the best assurance of future
competency and happiness. A fathers
best gift to his child, then, is good edu-
cation If you leave them wealthy, YOU
may assure their ruin; and at the best you
only leave them that which at any moment
may be lost.
ifyodleave them with cultivated heart,
affections trained to objects of love and
excellence, mind vigorous and enlarged,
finding happiness pure and elevated in the
pursuits Of knowledge, you effect an in
surance on their after happiness and USE
fitness. Unless you bring up the young
mind in this way, you cannot, with any
Justice, claim for its possessor indepen-
dence. Your children must be virtuous,
or they will not desire it. They must be
intelligent TO have them intelligent asso-
ciates, as they must have habits Of indus.
try and sobriety to make the company Of
the industrious and sober agreeable.
1t is in your power to bestow this virtue,
this intelligence, and these golden habits.
Present them good model in your own
life, and give them every opportunity to
cultivate the heart and the understanding.
Spare not expense on your school, and
put into your children's hands everything
that may encourage or assist them in their
mental or moral improvement.
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The Times.

Fire, flood and pestilence, as a combi-
ned scourge, has attracted not little at
tention from the daily press-and one of
our contemporaries, in specializing on the
calamities of the times, considers it spe-
cial visitation Of the Almighty, for the sins
of mankind. But he seems to overlook
one very striking fact-that if fire, food
and pestilence are the terrible evils of the
times, that we are also visited by signal
blessings to compensate for, and counter
act them. Instead of famine, we are sur
rounded by vast abundance. The earth
teens with her fruits. Prosperity crowns
our trade and the returns of commerce en-
rich the land. If we lose much by flood
and fire, still will there remain great bal
ance in our favor. The pestilence, though
fraught with wo to the bereaved heart,
must be designed for good in its conse-
quences. The movements of the world
must be active. Where man is, commo-
ton, agitation, convulsion, will prevail
After all, what happy contrast do we not
exhibit, when our condition is compared
to that of Europe! Fire, flood and pesti-
lence are common to all the earth. But
Europe, in addition to all these, is accur-
sed by every civil wrong, social oppression
and political scourge, that tyranny, bigo-
try and sectarianism can invent, as tor
ment to humanity. The events of the new
world are bright and cheering compared to
those Of the old-and yet, the latter has
brilliant future to look forwardto. Aboun-
ding in money, successful in trade, blessed
with an ever productive industry, the old
wears smile of regeneration on her wrin-
kled front, that augurs well for her freedom
not less than her prosperity. Gold! gold!
gold! is the cry ofh her banks, brokers, ex-
changers and merchants. Constitutions!
Rights and Freedom! is the cry of the peo-
Pile. And the cry must end in reality
Perhaps no age of the world before gave
such abundant evidence of Gods good
ness instead of Gods vengeance. No
page in the volume of mankind, beams
with so much radiance, as the one now
spread open before us. And this too, in
the face of French perfdy and Roman
subjection-both, however grievous and
disgraceful, mere spots on the suns disc.
Neither the walls Of Paris, nor the gates
of Rome, embrace earth's population of
freedom. Heads of far seeing sagacity,
both in the old and new world, anticipate
immense business and prodigious profits,
during the year 1850. But will they be
realized? The probabilities are all in fa-
vor of it. The elements are spread before
us-and if they continue, 1850 will shame
its predecessors. Where, then lower the
clouds of adversely, that are to scatter their
fires, aud hurl their thunder-bolts as pun.
ishment for sin? Is pestilence, fire and
flood, nothing! What are they, we an
swer, but partial evils, unfelt in the lot of
human joy, and scarcely to be estimated
as an atom in the ereation-a drop in the
wide and unmeasured ocean of human be-
ing.-Ledger.
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Up the Nile.

Blackwood's Magazine, in Review Of
Werne's Narrative of a voyage up the
Nile, furnishes the following description
of some of the strange scenes passed
through:
We can conceive few things more excl.
ting than such a voyage as Mr.. Verne
has accomplished and recorded. Starting
from the outposts of civilization, he sailed
into the very heart of Africa. up steam,
whose upper waters then, for the first time,
were furrowed by vessels no larger than
savage's canoe-a stream Of such gigan.
tic proportions that its width, at thousand
miles from the sea, gave it the aspect of
the lake rather than Of river. The brute
creation were in proportion to The magni-
tude of the water course. The hippopota-
mus reared his huge snout above the sur.
face, wallowed in the gullies that on either
hand ran down the stream enormous
crocodiles gaped along the shore-ele-
plants played in herds upon the pastures
the tall giraffes stalked among the lofty
plains-snales thick as trees, lay coiled
in the Shiny swamps-and ant-hills, ten
feet high, lowered above the rushes. Along
the thickly peopled banks hordes of saw
ages showed themselves, gazing in wonder
at the strange ships, and making ambigu-
Gus gestures, variously construed by the
adventurers as signs of friendship or hos
tility. Alternately sailing and towing, as
the wind served or not; constantly in
sight Of natives, but rarely communica-
ting with them-ofen cut off for days from
land by interminable fields of tangled
weeds, the expedition pursued its course
through innumerable pcrils, guarded from
most of them by the liquid rampant in
which it foated. Lions looked hungry,
and savages shook their spears. but nei-
ther showed disposition to swim and
board the hotills. h4
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For the Spirit Of Democracy.
Human Life. -

For the Spirit Of Democracy.
Human Life. 4
BY WV. LIVINGSTON,
For wnat was man creaied! 0I
For wants. and woes. and worldly cares;
An existence oyerrated.
Everywhere besst with snsres.
tTYaQgI m . Eg4 &Eitct ,rfi.!at-
ia The thorny pssh still tresding.
As long as lite can be endured;
ri And st every step still dreading.
s. Lest into error he be lursd.
Beset with human devils,
Constrained to be q devil toot fr
ram Lest (worst of all his evils) .G .1f
He come short of what bis neighbors DO.
Lured by such hollow phantoms.
: A. fortune, fashion. lame and friends;
= Those withtreacherous hope still haunt him,
Till life with all his misery ends.
Gould man enjoy existence. .r E
So long as laughing life would las;
Or offering death resistance. ~.
Live while fitting ages Lass'd; .Il 4.
Like the butterfly he'd fluttet,
While momentary life would last, -
Or with his hard.earn'd power,
Enjoy the fruits Of labor past.
But when we've been o'erwhem'd d with sor-
Till we have learnd to stem the tide; [row,
Learn to da7 ia live Tomorrow
That life tomorrow is denied.
II when I've crossed this ocean.
Thought no better world were there,
(God forgive the foolish notion,)
I'D shortly end my misery here.
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FIDELITY.-Never forsake friend.-
When enemies gather around-when
sickness falls on the heart-when the
world is dark and cheerless-is the time
to try true friendship. The heart that has
been touched with true gold, will redouble
its efforts when the friend is sad and in
trouble. Adversely tries real friendship.
They who turn from the scene of distress,
betray their hypocrisy, and proves that in
tercst only moves. If you have friend
who loves you--who has studied your in
terests and happiness-be sure to sustain
him in adversely. Let him feel that his
former kindness is appreciated, and that his
love was not thrown away. Real fidelity
may be rare, but it exists in the heart
Who has not seen and felt its powera--
They only deny its worth and power, who
have never loved friend or labored to
make friend happy. The good and the
kind, the affectionate and the virtuous, see
and feel the heavenly principle. They
would sacrifice wealth and honor to pro-
mote the happiness of others; a d, in re-,
turn, they receive the reward oftheir love,
by sympathizing hearts and countless ia
vors, when they have been brought low by
disease or adversely. 8 80
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THE REVENUES OF THE MIND.-The ear
and the eye are the minds receivers; but
the tongue is only busted in expending
the treasure received. If therefore, the
revenues Of the mind be uttered as fast or
faster than they are received, it cannot be
but that mind must needs be bare, and can
never lay up for purchase. But if the re.
ceivers take in still with no utterance, the
mind may soon grow a burthen to itself,
and Improbable to others. Twill not lay
up too much, and utter nothing, lest I bs
Lcovetous. Hall. NsH ist
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insertion, and twenty-five cents for each
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The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1849-01-02
CHAECERY NOTICE.

JOSEPH SlFKER. Administrator OF Conrad AihrerAt
dei euscd, and Margret Abrccht. widow. Of Conrad
Rrccht, decreased, Lewis Alhrect. Mary AIbferht Her
Inaii Alhree and VILLAIN Aibrerih nifnof riiiren of
Conrad AlhIeclt decenscd. hereby otied that on
the sixteenth day oi October In the year eighteen hundred
and forty eight, ernn I'd H. Kempey of the County OF u
nam, aDd State Of Ohio flied in the Court Of Common
Plens, Of the COuaty or PltMIn. ahd STATE Of Ohio
Bill In Clancery uginst the sd Joseph ifker Adnins
tiator aforesaid, Marsret AbrecIIt widow aforesaia
Lewis Anrechf Mary AIhrecht Herman brce IN. and
william Arechti minors aforesaid the object and prayer
OF which Bill Is nt said defendants te decrcsd to con
yey 70 said complainant by proper assurances. the fol
lowing rrcnises situated i the County Of Putnam,
Stute Of Ohio. to wit. z ttD iEfii''sl''f7 F}J'l
part Of the Southeast quarter of see,ion number
twenty, nTownslp number one North 0f fange,
herseveh East commenting two lrndred feet eouil of
me quarter post between Sections nsInbrr twenty and
thence Sout one hundred feet thence West
70 the State road leading from ottown 10 rrnneonia
thence North one hundred feet thence Enst 10 the place
OF beginning containing about three md fourth ssres.
which said prem ses the complainant In hs said Bill ed
ges th the said C,nrnd Albect In his lifetime nerrrd
10 convey 10 said conpIainant and the said Joseph Sf
ker, Administrator aforesaid ard Maigret Albrect wi
dow aforesaid, Lewis Aibrecit Mary Albrect Herman
AlbIeclit, and Wilnm AirecLt. minors nfpresaid. are
further notified that unleRs they appear and plead
inur to said Dill within sixty days aer next term OF
said Court the said BERNARD kemer. after ihs
OF snid sixty days will apply snd Court 10 take the
matters OF tho Bill us confessed and decree thereoa
-" '' MORRISON CoFsrNBERRY.
aoai W 7a3'V ~ Solicitors for Complainant. q
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SESSION OHIO STATESMAN
FOR 1883.

We head this Prospectus, "Session Ohss
Statesman" we do SO, because that has been
the usual practice, and every one al oHce
comprehends its meaning. But as the leagth
Of the Legislative sessions are Irregular and
uncertain, which prevents many from sub
scribing for session paper, supposlng II
may only las a few meeks, which is genof-
ally declared to be the intention previous "
commencing, we have concluded 10 change
the term and roppose our session papers tes
THREE MONTHS, commencing on Moa.
day the 4,h day Of December, lS4S, and
terminating on Saturday the Sd day Of March,
l649. ['Fhe 4th Of March being Sunday.
Persons, therefore, subscribing for the
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for definite period. We do this withOu
any increase Of the usual prices for our Seas
,on papers. We adopt the rule so thai
those who subscribe, may know definitely
what they are subscribing for Il will also
give. us an opportunity of furnishing our
readers with much important Congressional
an other matter, previous TO the expiration
Of the term of three mouths.
l, is scarcely worth our while TO say any
thing with reference to the interest every
person must feel in the meeting at the Capt.
tal of our State, the members elect Oh the
approaching Legislature.
We shall make every preparation 10 give
| ull and satisfactory reports, as is customary
n the Statesman, and at no period in The
history of our State, has il been more impo,-
iant that every man should be thoroughly in
formed of what is done. a
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I The spirit Of the age is onpGrd, ana what we
lose in the reduced price Of single paper
must be made up by on increased circuldtioa
[05- The Tri- Weekly will contain all II
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