JEFFJKRSONIAN .REPUBLICAN. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Strouclsbtirg, Pa. ITIarch 21, 1841. Terms, $2,00 in advance; $2.25, naif rearly ; and $2,50 if not paiu ocioic uie ena 01 me year. FOR GOVERNOR. JOHN BANKS, OF BERKS COUNTY. OFFICIAL. Appointments by the President. LAND OFFICERS. Thomas Scolt, Register, Chillicothe, Ohio, vice Jas. b. McGmnis, removed. Ambrose Whitloek, Receiver, Crawfordsville Indiana, vice Ezekiel McConneM, removed. OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS. Collectors. James Hunter, Savannah, Georgia, vice Abm B. Fannin, removed. Joseph C. Noyes, Passamaquoddy, Maine, vice bullivan S. ftawson, removed. John M. Hale, Frenchman's Bay, Maine, vice .hdward S. Jarvis, removed. 1 1 T ill . . I onanes j. addou, renouseoi, Maine, vice Rowland II. Bridgham, removed. umam a. amim, lviacnias, Maine, vice Wm. Brown, removed. George Thatcher, Belfast, Maine, vice Na thaniel M. Lowney, removed. Edward Curtis, New York, vice John J. Mor gan, removed. Surveyors. CO -M ?.V Ol TTT1 1 TT . 1 r omiowiin o. wnippic, iastport, Maine, vice Ezekiel Foster, removed. Bazelleel Cushman, Portland, Maine, vice Stephen W. Eaton, removed. William Taggart, New York, vice Ely Moore, removed. Naval Officcr. I homas Lord, New York, vice William S. Coe, removed. The New Administration. A Washington correspondent of the New York Commercial says: " It would be difficult to exaggerate the amount of work that has been gone through by the President himself and by the Secretaries. They have given, by their untiring labors, the best evidence of the energy and activity which will be brought into the practical conduct of af fairs, so long as they remain in office. The President himself is an early man; and so are all his Secretaries. They all despatch much work before breakfast. General Harrison's habits of rising with the dawn are well known. Mr. Webster's are not different. During the last winter, with all its exciting business, and all its exhausting cares and toils, he was up with the whistle of the engine that indicated the starting of the rail-road cars for Baltimore at six o'clock, He springs up from repose with all his gigantic intellect in full vividness and vigor; and disposes of the many necessary de mands on his time, correspondence, &c, be fore the earliest visiter would take it into his head to call." U33 A beautiful specimen of the economy practised during the past administrations of Jackson and Van Buren, is furnished by Mr. II awes, of Kentucky, in a communication pub lished in the National Intelligencer. It ap pears from that gentleman's statement of facts obtained from documents in the State Depart ment, that the Mission to Spain has cost the Government of the United States, during the last six years, the enormous sum of one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars! Daily Tele graph. OFFICIAL.. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas sundry important and weighty mat ters, principally growing out of the condition of the revenue and finances of the country, appear lo me to call for the consideration of Congress at an earlier day than its next annual session, and thus form an extraordinary occasion, such us renders necessary, in my judgement, the con ention of the two Houses, as soon as may be practicable, I do, therefore, by this my Procla mation, convene the two Houses- of Congress, to meet in the Capitol at the city of Washing ton, on the last Monday, being the thirty-first xlay, of May next. And I require the respec tive Senators and Representatives then ami there to assemble, in order to receive such in formation respecting the stale of the Union as ; lay be given them, and to devise and adopt fiju h measures afi the good of the country may hfvm to iIumu, in the exercise of their wisdom ;iitd discretion, io require. In testimony whereof, 1 have caused the seal of the Ugited Stales to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, this SlSF pendence of thie United States gixty-lilin. ' W. H. HARRISON. By the President: Danicj. Wbrster, Secretary of State. seventeenth davofMarch.intheyear yft of our Lord one thousand eight hun 5k5fedred and forty-one, and of the inde- A VISIT TO WASHINGTON Judge Banks. Correspondence of the Inquirer $f Courier. extract to the editor, dated Union Hotel, Philadelphia ) March, 15, 1841. j Dear Sir I arrived here last evening from Washington, and thinking you would be glad to hear from an old correspondent, I take a few minutes to give you an account of what I saw and heard in that goodly city. The young ra vens "who continually cry aloud for food," that is, the office hunters, have in some degree dis persed, though there are still enough remaining to keep Old Tip daily and hourly in mind that he is the distributor of the loaves and fishes. The weather was worse than intolerable while I remained there the streets deep in snow and mud, and the poor cabs, with their "jony hacks" struggling through it like a parcel o flies in a pool of molasses. I shall not trouble you with the rumours that are rife about your city appointments; rumour is notoriously a liar, and with regard, to offico hunting she sometimes tries to play the thief and steal away a good man's character. "So I'll none of it." I saw General Harrison for half an hour, and was pleased to find he was looking well, and that his mind is calm and determined as to his fu ( 1 T .1 i 1 1 " iure course oi poucy. i tninK ne is tne very man to suit the crisis. The new cabinet are at work diligently and will soon master the de tails of their offices. 1 saw Mr. Clay for some time he looks, and moves and speaks as strong as though there were many years wear and tear m him yet. Whatever there is, rest assured inai u win oe unsparingly devoted to the ser- vice ol his country. My companions and myself were the first to carry to Washington the news of the Democrat ic nomination for Governor. It was expected there, and was received with pleasure by every friend of the party. I conversed freely upon the subject with those whose talents and situa- lon render their opinion valuable, and found that among those who were best able to iudge. John Banks had indeed acquired an enviable reputation during his Congressional career. He is spoken of there among those who served with him, as a man of the highest order of tal ent, great capacity for business, and very ex tensive acquirements. I need not say, sir, that this testimony, coming as it did from the high- est sources, was uigniy gram vine to me as a Pennsylranian. Allow me to add my own firm belief, based upon an intimate personal acquaintance with Mr. Banks of many years standing, that the Democratic party could not have made a more happy choice of a candidate. If any one can restore the affairs of Pennsylvania to a firm ootmg, redeem her credit, and bring order out f confusion, he is the man. He is a business man, possessed of great power of despatch, and in addition has that reliance upon himself, which will ever keep him clear of the control of any action. He is a sound constitutional lawyer, and as a practitioner of the common law and a udge, he is unsurpassed in the State. Gov. Porter, I presume, considers this an obiection. as he seems, by his sometimes violating the constitution, and sometimes misquoting it, de termined to prove to the satisfaction of the peo ple, that he is no lawyer, and does not keep any lawyers about him. I will write you again when I gel home, and will now conclude by observing that after spend ing a few days in the District, seeing their hor ses, negroes and hoe-cake, and handling their poor money, one feels glad to get home to Penn sylvania's homely comforts once more, though they do say, that our State is bankrupt and our Banks all suspended. But friend Jones' song announces that whatever other folks may have done, he has not suspended, but continues to pay out plentiful dinners to as many as get to his bank counters. A SUBSCRIBER. FJLORIDA. The St. Augustine News of the 7th instant gives the subjoined report from the expedition of Captain Barnura: Information reached here last evening, that an express arrived at Pilatka, from Fort Rus sell, on the night of the 4th, bringing intelli gence that Capt. Barnum, with one hundred men, (including nine mounted,) came up with the Indians at the head of Orange Lake, and commenced an attack upon them. Capt. B. had placed the nine mounted men in ambush, as a reserve, and led on the others; but finding the Indians in such a body, he made a signal for the mounted men to come up. No sooner was the signal made, when the Indians having cut off these men from the main body, fired upon them, killing six and the other three retreated to the fort, being wounded. The express was immediately sent off to Pilatka, without know ing any thing farther. The wounded men state that. Capt. B. was still fighting. Captain Carr, 2d dragoons, with one hundred men, was sent out from Pilatka a few days pre vious and returned shortly after the express had arrived from Fort Russell. He immediately supplied his men with provision, and started for Capt. Bs battle ground. It is impossible to give the particulars under sucTi a circum stance. There is no knowing the Ioss7 as yet, that Capt. B. has met with. Lucky Fellow. The editor of the N. O. Picayune, it is reported, won the cushion that the "divine Ellslcr" sat upon on her way to her hotel, and which was put up at public raffle, such was the intense anxiety to obtain posses sion of it. The lucky editor is about to have it beautifully framed. Such is the influence of the malady of Ellslerphobia in the horses step out as if they were dancing the Lachucna, and pigs tails spin round as though they wctp pirouetting. Ledger. Pennsylvania Legislature. reported for thf daily pena'a. telegraph. SENATE. Harrisburg, March 15, 1841. Petitions, &c. were presented by the follow ing named Senators: By Mr. Sullivan: One for the better obser vance of the Sabbath, by persons employed on the public works. By Mr. Gibbons: One from Northampton, in favor of prohibiting the use of he public works on the Sabbath. Two from Northampton, in favor of small notes. Also, one from North ampton to authorize the Commissioners of that county, to collect toll on the Bridges over the river Lehigh. Mr. Hiester, on leave, introduced a bill to authorize the qualified voters of the city of Lan caster, to elect a Mayor, and to abolish the Mayor's Court. Mr. Reed, submitted the following resolu tion, which lies on the table to day: Resolved, That the Governor be authorized and required forwith to take and receive from the Girard Bank, the sum of $200,000, part of the loan of $380,000, authorized by the act of the 9th February, 1839, and deposite the same in the Bank of Pennsylvania, agreeably to the provisions of its charter, applying to the de posites of the inactive funds belonging lo the Commonwealth. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. March 15", 1841. Being petition day, memorials, petitions and remonstrances were presented as follows: For a more strict observance of the Sabbath on the public works, by Messrs. Leidy, Banks, Flick, Livingston, Fauss, Johnson, of A., Hill, and Miles. By Mr. Trach: From Monroe county, against any division of said county, lor removal of seat of Justice from Stroudsburg, for an act compel ling the Constable of Stroudsburg, to give se curity and to extend his powar. By. Mr. Brodhead of N: From Nancy Lies ter, for a divorce; for the incorporation of a Com pany to improve the road irom White Haven to Berwick Turnpike. By Mr. Brodhead of P: For repeal of the law removing the seat of Justice, or that the same be submitted to the people at the fall election; from Green Township, Pike county, to be restored to Palmyra Township. By Mr. Gramme: The proceedings of a meeting in Clearfield county, against legalizing the suspensions and the issue of small notes. SENATE. March 17, 1841. NOMINATION OF ASSOCIATE JUDGES. On motion of Mr. Kingsbury, the Senate pro ceeded to the consideration of the nomination of Joseph Keller, associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe county. Mr. K. moved that the Senate do advise and consent to thq nomination; and the yeas and nays being taken in pursuance ol the provisions of the Constitution, it was unanimously con firmed Yeas 30. On motion of Mr. Strohm, the Senate re sumed the consideration of the nomination of Jacob Grosch, as Associate Judge of Lancas ter county, which was postponed some days since. And the Yeays and Nays being taken thereon, it was rejected Yeas 13, Nays 16. A message was received from the Governor communicating his nomination of Thomas Burn- sides, Esq. as President Judge of the 7th Ju- cial District in place of John Fox. Size of Bread. The Mayor of New Or leans has published a notice to the bakers of that city, that, as the price of fresh flour is $4,25 per barrel, they must give 40 ounces of bread or 10 cents. The Mayor of Mobile, under date of the 25th ult., gives notice that the price of flour being $5, the bakers must give 47 ounces for 12 1-2 cents, and 23 1-2 ounces for 1-4 cents. This matter of the size of bread is one that may very properly be left with the commuuity to regulate, without the interference of municipal authorities. There is no more reason why a baker should be required to give a certain quantity of bread at a certain price, than there is for requiring a butcher to sell his beef or mutton at so much por pound, or the coal dealer his coal at a given price per ton. The community are always enough awake to their own interests not to be imposed upon by either receiving less in quantity than their mo ney's worth, or inferior in quality. As long as the latter are left free to choose between pur chasing bread of the bakers or purchasing flour to make bread themselves, there is little dan ger of their being cheated. Ledger. liooli out for an Impostor. A man professing to be a Siberian, and a convert from Paganism to Christianity, is trav elling through the country and attemping to lecture upon the manners and customs of the people of Siberia. He came to this place on Tuesday last, and attempted to impose upon the people here; but he did not succeed. When his hypocricy was exposed he was much en raged, and swore bitterly. Before he left, he became verv much intoxicated. He is a man apparently about 45 years of age, thick set and stoop shouldered, small eyes, bushy hair, no beard, and speaks broken Eng lish. He wore grey clothes, with buttons up the legs of his pantaloons. Warren Journal. JO3 Ail English paper mentions that one of the American ships at Cal cutta recently landed four hundred tons of ice, which sold at the whole sale rate of one penny per pound, netting a profit exclusive of port dur lies, of upward of 3,700 sterling. From the New York Express. MAJOR DOWNING. We have so much reliance on the Maior's views of finance, that we ask with entire con- nuence tne attention ot our readers to the fol lowing Letter. Those who approve his notions snouici use tneir inaiviuuai etlorts to see them carried nut into practice; it is cruel and heart rending to witness a nation like this crushed and trammeled, amid plenty, and ability, and all for the want of good and wholesome meas ures. Everv dav's delav brines increased mis- j ci - ery and distress, and we are quite sure that as soon as the present Administration can nave time to act, they will act wisely, and promptly, and we trust the whole People will go with them in an honest and nritrintie aid. to lift the nation over and out of the mud, we are now flounder ing m. It is not the work of a party but the work of a People, honest, patriotic, and inde pendent and above mere party we h e had enough oi party. Washington, 15th March, 1841. To the People of the United States. Fellow-Citizens Whilst the Gineral and his Cabinet folks are all busy looking into mat ters and gitting things in order, I think it is a good time jist to give you my notions as to what is best for you, the people, to be thinking about, so that by the time Congress gets together they can go to work and do what is needful, without making long speeches and wastings time till the Dog Days. There are three or four measures must be putin shape without delay--and it is a great pity all the State Elections didn't finish before 4th March, so that a new Congress would be always ready. In the first place, Uncle Sam must have mo ney, without being driven to borrowing on't, from hand to mouth on Treasury Notes, which is a beggarly system; and he must get his mo ney out of duties on foreign goods there is no mistake about that. In the next place, he must have an agent to receive and pay his money, and make it the interest of that agent to lake what kind of money he chuses; only agreeing to pay out what he does receive, in the best kind of money the people demand ; and then all parlies are accommodated, and that can't be done by Sub-Treasuries; because if the law compels every man who owes Uncle Sam to pay only in gold and silver, they must first get gold and silver and that is a trade in itself, and before the folks can larn it there will be no revenue. Every man engaged in any kind of calling will understand the difference betwixt an agent of the Landlord drawing gold and sil ver for rent, or one who is willing to take what the tenant takes in his trade; and if this agent can accommodate thus the Tenants, and agrees to pay Dollar for Dollar of what he collects for the Landlord, in gold or silver, if wanted, then no one can grumble and we have currency matters put back again on the same footing it was before the Hogs got into the corn-field. The next .measure is to put the Public Land matter on a safe footing, so that they who own this big farm will get their honest share of the proceeds of sales and see that no speculators grab up large quantities of it because prices are low but sell to no man unless he goes and digs there, and then let him have it at the lowest price. Now all these measures have been talked over, and intelligent and patriotic folks under stand them all well and there is no use to waste time in Congress in gabbling over them but toe ihe mark and pass them, and as soon as done there is only one more measure to look to, and then we all float off the mud and get into deep water, and that is to aid and save the credit of the States. I don't know but that the measures already mentioned won't do this but to make it sure Uncle Sam has only to say to the world, " I stand by the boys,' and the business is done at once. Now, how is he to do this economically and safely? Unless some loiks have a better plan this is mine. Let Con gress pass a law authorising the issue of U. S. lionds having twenty years to run, and bearing an interest of three per cent and sav "all ve . JL J who have any State Bonds now issued by the states, it you don't think 'em safe bring 'era in and take my Bonds bearing three por cent in terest" and Congress might further say, "and all bonds hereafter issued by the States can at any time be thus exchanged provided said Bonds aro issued by authority of Congress first obtained by the Stale issuing them." This would work on a safe rule for tho' it doirfc ac tually prevent any State issuing "a Bill of Credit," (which the Constitution positively pro hibits) yet it comes to the right ground, and the States should agree to it never to let any Ci . r -1 . . y"mi r st -y oiaie issue more oi inese mils oi ureUH without consent of the great family. The Constitution did evidently intend that no State should go on and create " Bills of Cred it" and for very good reasons for apart from the ability any State could otherwise have in raising money for unlawful purposes it is a scandal to tho family for any of its members to crefile debts and be unable to pay them. I haye no doubt myself that any of the States now owing dehts can easily pay them if the country has a revenue from foreign commerce an agent to collect and disburse the same with power to furnish a good currency and also the Land Distribution Bill but these take a little more lime than can bo afforded. Creditors have lost confidence public works of imorove- ment are stopt for want of means to proceed. and million will be lost by not saying what is done and completing some so that they can go on earning and ibis can bo at once done by U7icie csam lumsell coming right up and say ing to the holders of State Bonds "here is your security if you don't like what you have got " uncle dam then pays three per cent on his Bonds thus issued the question is, who is to pay that? for some States have no bonds om.. the answer is, the Stales pay it whose H,;s are exchanged for these United States JlmuU For example, suppose Illinoia Bonds to tnJ amount of three millions of Indiana Bonds, , or any othor Bonds are thus eaneelPd for UiuumI States Bonds the interest pnid for their ac count by the United States is a debt against said States, and can be deducted out of their proportion of the distribution of Land sales if r.eeds be so that no state, unless its Bonds are cancell'd by this exchange system, pays for account of any other state the account is as simple as shelling corn, there is no mystery about it if twenty or even forly millions of State Bonds were thus cancell'd, it would be no killing matier to Uncle Sam three per cent a year on twenty millions is six hundred thous and dollars and the credit of the states sound and put high he has paid more than in chas ing and catching six Injins in Florida and con sidered cheap work too, for one campaign. Now, the next question is, how will this operate? Well, I'll tell you. By the time Umi millions of dollars of State Bonds are brought in for Exchange, folks who hold the balance will begin to think it is quito well to hold on and they will feel confidence and well they may for by the lime they see the count rv on its legs- again and all inlerests working ahead, as they will under the measures proposed, ihev will be very glad to get State Bonds and hold them too for it will be a strange matter indeed if the securities of ihis country aint as good as the best in Europe when things are put strait here, and they will be put slrait if the people will only agree to what the present folks at tho helm advise, there is no two ways about it. But if one set of folks talk one way, and one another, and another a little of both, and another contrary to all, there is no getting on. " E Pluribus Unum," is the latin of a bundle of sticks strait and crooked, all tied up snugly to gether, and all creation can't break them whilst thus bound together, but take 'em singly and you can snap 'em like pipe stems. The time has come now for every honest man to look to this, and to see that his Repre sentative in Congress does his duty, and makes no long speeches about it. Three hundred folks, all talking month after month, at 8 dol lars a day (and a CongTess day only three or four hours) is a little too tuff for these hard times, and the expense comes right out of honest labor. The people must therefore look to it; and see that their Representatives look to it too and do their work properTy. It is dead low water now all over the coun try the hammer the wheel the axe anil plough are all ready for action. We have good and honest and truly patriotic folks at heaat quarters, and all they want now is a chance lo do good for all and I for one say, give 'em a lair cnance ana it they don t succeed or show they don't know how, then turn 'em out and try again. Some roots of the old weeds are still in the ground and will try to sprout up they must be watched and hoed under if we want good crops it makes no odds what name these weeds take, or how they may shoffand try to gull folks but "red dock" "blue mul len," and "skunk cabbage" we all know, and have seen and suffered by, and the less we have of them the better. Your Fellow-Citizen, J. DOWNING. Major, &c, &c, &c. Tea. The Farmer's Monthly Visitor for February contains a communication from Shad rach Cate, of Loudon, N. H. in which he re commends a subsitute for lea, in a plant of na tural growth in New England. This plant is, or rather was, held in great estimation by the Indians, on account of its healing qualities and was called side weed. But Mr. Cate gives it the name of free shon tea. It grows on dry, sandy soil, newly cleared, and sometimes in the woods. A small, round stalk rises from one to two feet high the leaves grow at joints round the stalk, four or five at a joint. The flower is small and yellow, projected from the stalk by a fine stem above the leaf. It flowers the last of June, and is then fit to pick. Mr. Cate says he has used this tea for more than ten years in his family, and believes it to be a good and wholesome tea. More Mail Robberies. The North American (Philadelphia) of Saturdar says that one of the banks in that city had received a notice from different persons of about 50 missing drafts upon it from the AVest, which were regularly mailed at various points, most of them in Illinois. Wc hear that other banks have had simi lar notices, and even money remitted to this city is missing. Mammoth Skeleton. Almost every day brings to light some evi dence of tho antedeluvian world. Two hun dred miles above St. Louis, tho remains of mammoih animal have just been discovufet; They arc described as 1 6 feet high and 32 Ion-, with enormoii.i lusks. The monster appear iv' have been webfooted, having no hoofs, hyt lot By comparing the size of his frame with a hm ox, he is estimated to havo weired 1 00,000 pounds, or 50 tons! It is not oven, suggested the amount of food he would l?.ave required for his breakfast; but for dinner, provided he was an anti-Grahamite. he would have been satisfied with nothing short of a half dozen Buffaloes, . with fifty bushels of notatoes. to Droduee nnvt wing liKe a surleit at his moals. The remain will soon be exhibited in all the Atlantic ciiio .1 .l - . 1 . . ' ' . T Saturday Evenining Post. i ' I
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