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
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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
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Saturday Evenining Post.
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