JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN.
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroudsburg, Pa. April 28, 1841.
Terms, $2,00 in advance; $2.25, naif yearly : and $2,50 if not
paw beioic me cna oi me year.
FOR GOVERNOR.
JOHN BANKS,
OF BERKS COUXTY.
The Request and the Response.
"Sir I wish you to understand the true
PRINCIPLES OF THE GOVERNMENT. I WISH
THEM CARRIED OUT. I ASK NOTHING MORE."
The last words of GEN. HARRISON.
" i am in favor, of the distribution of
the proceeds of the sales of the public
lands among the states, and in favor of
raising the revenue by duties on imports
in opposition to a resort to a system of
direct taxation.
i shall promptly give my sanction to any
constitutional measure which, originating
in Congress, shall have for its object the
restoration of a sound circulating medi
vm, so essentially necessary to give con
fidence in all the transactions of life,
to secure to industry its just and ade
quate rewards, and to re-establish the
PUBLIC PROSPERITY.
JOHN TYLER.
Appointments Iy the President.
COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS.
James Perrine, Mobile, Alabama, in the
place of John B. Hogan.
Edward Brooks, Detroit, Michigan, in the
place of John McDonnell.
Jonathan Roberts, Philadelphia, vice Calvin
Biythe.
j. Washington Tyson, Philadelphia, survey
or, m the place of George W. Ritter.
Bela Badger, Philadelphia, Naval Officer, in
ihe place of John Horn.
Joseph Rimer, to be Treasurer of the Mint
at Philadelphia.
ATTORNEYS.
Absalom Fowler, for the District of Arkan
sas. Charles Chapman, for the District of New
Hampshire.
John Holmes, for the District of Maine.
Charles Davis, for the District of Vermont.
MARSHALS.
Joshua Howard, for the District of Michi
gan. Minor Walker, for the Middle District of
Florida.
William H. Russell, for the District of Mis
souri. William Prentiss, for the District of Illinois.
Isaac Otis, for the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania. Sylvester Hartshorn, for the District of
Rhode Islaud.
Israel W. Kelley, for the District of New
Hampshire.
John D. Kinsman, for the District of Maine.
LAND OFFICES.
Ralph Guild-Receiver of Public Moneys at
Jackson, Mo. vice Felix Allen.
Nathaniel Webster, Receiver of Public
Moneys at Natchitoches, Louisiana, vice Benoit
Laurents.
United States Bank notes sold in Philadel
phia, on the 24th inst., at a depreciation of from
16 to 16 1-2 per cent.
The Hon. Nathan Heaton, a member of the
New York Legislature, departed this life on
Mondajr X9ih inst.
The Jesuits are making their appearance in
different parts of France, and taking bold
ground against the Government.
Veto- iTambcr Eight.
The Governor has vetoed the bill making
provision to submit the question concerning the
ontimiance of the Mayor's Court of Lancaster,
o the people of the City and County of Lan
i nster. He considers it a question with the
t ny alone: because forsooth it happens to be
3 seated there, forgetful that the burden of its
Mirmtirt is sustained in nart bv the citizens of
the whole countv, and that the State Treasury
in lased for the support of a useless office, in
its present lmnmenshed condition.
The Governor savs he makes no apology for
the use of the veto power! We doni a3k this
oi Sum. but the neonlc will reauire more than
an apology for its frequent abuse. Daily Tel.
Ah Incident. As a steamboat was about leav
:rg Wheeling, crowded with passengers, says
the Cincinnati Republican, "a heartless man
r.bservad thatjjne regarded the President's death
;:s a mibiic blessing. The remark startled those
who heard it, and for a time deep silence was
mo onlv answer which was made. At length
r. man venerable in appearance and years, in
stifled with grief, said that such a wanton
lewtv was not consistent with the character of
a true American, and that he could not travel
with any one who could so speak. All the pas
.emiers concurred in this opinion, and the heart
Itfwreich' was ordered on shore as being un
fiUo ftfeieiate with rnon."
Tlie eatLt Bed o Gen. Harrison.
A personal friend of the late President,
shocked, as every body must be, at an atrocious
publication in the Globe newspaper, respecting
the death-bed of the lamented Harrison, has
condescended to notice and reprobate it in the
annexed article. We should have thought, un
til we saw the Globe of Thursday evening, that
party ferocity would have relented on approach
ing a scene hallowed by the regrets of a whole
nation, and would not have dared so revolting
an outrage on truth and decency.
Communicated for the National Intelligencer.
SHOCKING DEPRAVITY OF A PRESS.
In the leading editorial article of the Globe
of the 15th inst., among many other gross and
wicked untruths, is the following shocking fal
sification of "the death-bed scene" of General
Harrison :
"The scene of his death-bed, however,
showed, in the most affecting manner, the state
of his feelings in regard to the matter that had
engrossed them from the moment he had en
tered office. From persons who nursed and
watched by him, it is known that whenever his
mind began to wander, he gave utterance to the
secret thoughts that oppressed him ; and he
continually recurred to the distressing scenes
he had recontly passed through. Sometimes
he would say lMy dear madam, I did not direct
that your husband should be turned out. I did
not know it. I tried to prevent it.' On other
occasions, he would say, in broken sentences:
lIt is wrong won't consent His unjust.
Again: 1 These applications, will they never
cease?' From different and unquestionable
sources, we are informed that the malady of his
heart, which broke out into expression in his
partial delirium, or when his mind was ab
stracted in a sort of slumber, half awakened by
his anguish, constantly manifested itself by ut
tering some snatches of sentences like those
we have quoted."
Now, however much party spirit may be in
dulged in the official abuse of Gen. Harrison
that was published against him living, there can
bo no excuse of, nor palliation for, such gross
inventions as these after he is dead. What is
here said is not only not true, but not even ap
proximating a truth; and all these sayings im
puted to Gen. Harrison are the malicious in
ventions of the writer for the Globe.
The Globe is again guilty of a gross untruth
in saving that as to removals from office, Gen.
Harrison's Cabinet differed in opinion from the
President by a vote of four for removals, and
two against, and that this majority voted down
the President. This is all sheer invention, for
it was not only impossible to remove executive
officers without the President's consent but
Gen. Harrison presided over and directed eve
ry Cabinet meeting. The first removal made,
which settled the principle of action was that
of the Collector of New York, in which Pres
ident Harrison concurred with every member of
his Cabinet.
The utmost union and harmony existed be
tween General Harrison and his Cabinet, not
withstanding all the Globe insinuates to the
contrary. The General expressed to his friends
repeatedly his gratification that he had been
able to rally around him so able and united a
body of constitutional advisers.
The attempt of the Globe to extol Gen. Har
rison dead, after its innumerable personal at
tacks made upon him as a citizen, as a soldier,
as a statesman, will pass for what it is worth;
but the assertion there that he intended to keep
his friends proscribed by keeping in office the
men who for twelve years had monopolized all
the honors and emoluments of the countrv, who
were to have nothing, while his enemies had
every thing, or that he intended to sanction, by
a continuance in office, the conduct of the men
who had prostituted the power and purse of
their places to keep their monopoly up, is all
pure fiction, which he himself pronounced so
in the many removals he himself made and
was making up to the hour of his illness.
I took mv nen. however, not to discuss a
principle, but to express my abhorrence of the
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conduct of an Editor who was not satisfied with
representing a great and good man, while alive,
as in a "cage," "under keepers," "gabbling to
the geese and turkeys" of the North Bend, but
who now makes and invents "scenes" for his
death-bed shockingly false. To prey upon the
living may be in an eagle s sphere, but to prey
upon the dead is for the vampire or the worm.
A personal Jriend of Gen. Harrison.
New York Election. The municipal election
in New York took place on Tuesday, the 13th
when Robert H. Morns, of the Van Buren tick
et, was elected Mayor, by a majority of about
COO. There-was a falling off of nearly fourth
of both parties. Jast vear the van Buren ma
jority was I617.--The Whigs gained two Wards
in the Common Council.
General Harrison in his last out-door exer
cise was engaged in assisting the gardener in
adjusting some grape vines. The gardener re
marked that there would be but little use in trai
ling the vines, so far as any fruit was concerned,
as the boys would come there on Sunday, while
the familv was at church, and steal all the
grapes; and suggested to the General as
guard against such a loss, ihat he should pur
chase an active watch dog. Better said the
General employ a Sabbath school teacher; a
dog may take of the grapes, but a good Sabbath j
school teacher will take care of the grapes and
boys too.
Rather Strange. The Baltimore Sun
says: A colored man died suddenly, on Wed
nesday evening, in that city, while eating sup
per, at his house. He was the fourth husband
of the same woman. The other three died
the first irLhed, immediately after supper the
secondiswidejiiy after breakfast, and the third
while auSglinner.
Hon. John Banks. j
We observe that a few of the Porter editors,
for want of something else to say, are complain
ing that Judge Banks has not resigned the Ju
dicial situation which he now occupies, with so
much honor to himself and advantage to the
public. In order to ease$ the minds of these
gentlemen, we may as. well inform them, that
if the Judge consults the wishes of all his friends
on this subject, he will not resign. No judge
ever gave greater satisfaction to the people of
the district, nor do they wish to dispense with
his services, because the Harrison party of the
State have nominated him as their candidate
for Governor. It would doubtless be a very
pleasant thing for the present Executive to fill
the office at once, but although J. Madison Por
ter is a very clever fellow, a sharp politician,
and writes a good lecture, still, we have no
idea that the people of this county have any
particular desire that he should be their judge.
The fact is, the Hon. John Banks, was nom
inated by a spontaneous movement of the peo
ple; personally he has taken no part m the
business, nor does it fall within his sphere of
duty, or intention, to do so in future. As may
be easily conceived, he finds sufficient employ
ment in attending to the business of the Courts
of one of the largest Judicial Districts in the
State. He has no Mayor's Court, nor District
Court, to lighten his duties, but attends to the
civil and criminal business, great and small, of
three populous counties; and his station is cer
tainly no sinecure. Instead of those political
labors, Avhich some persons seem to think must
necessarily occupy the time of a candidate for
Governor, the visitor of Judge Banks will find
him engaged with his law books, busy in wri
ting out charges, and in short, assiduously dis
charging the responsible duties which devolve
upon him. And this man we are told, should re
sign, and turn politician!
It has become the order of the day for every
candidate, to be questioned on every subject, by
every person who may tako a fancy that way.
Our present Governor, during the last guberna
torial campaign, made no reply to such inter
rogatories, leaving his political course, (such as
it was) ;o speak for itself. Without however,
referring to Porter, we may say in regard to
Judge Banks, that the position which he occu
pies, will effectually prevent him from entering
the field, with that kind of canvassing for votes,
which may be inferred from a general political
correspondence. His public life, is before the
people, on no occasion has he been afraid to
open his mouth and let his sentiments be known.
The people in the East, the West, and the mid
dle portion of the State know him, the people
have nominated him, and the people will elect
him. Reading Journal.
Another Case of Swindling.
We just fea'tli that soma time last week, the
Cashier of the Bank of America received a let
ter from the New Orleans Bank, enclosing the
half of a certificate for 23,000 Mexican dollars,
which he was to deliver to a Mr. Britton, on
presentation of the other half, and recommend
ing Mr. B. to Mr. Thompson's consideration as
an English gentleman of fortune, who had de
posited the money with the New Orleans Bank.
Mr. Britton appeared on Thursday and received
the part of the certificate, which he took to Jacob
Little & Co's, who cashed it for him by a check
on the Union Bank which was paid in 1000 dol
lar notes. At a late hour in the day another
person, evidently an accomplice, came to mr.
Little to buy sovereigns, which he paid lor in
notes of the Union Bank.
The next day the steamer for England sailed.
There seems to be no doubt that this is but a
part of the plan by which the Banks have been
swindled.
Mr. Little has offered S 5,000 reward for the
recovery of the money. ro show the coolness
of the villian, when he presented himself at
the Union Bank, the check being drawn to his
order, payment was refused on the ground that
Mr. Britton was a stranger.
He immediately returned to Mr. Little, and
asked him to accompany him for the purpose
of satisfying the Bank. Mr. Little not being
able to go, the Cashier of the Bank of America
went with him, and the money was accordingly
paid.
Postmaster at Cincinnati.
It is understood in town to-day, that William
H. Taylor, Esq., son-in-law of the late Gen.
Harrison, and the Deputy Clerk of the Common
Pleas, is to be appointed Postmaster of this
city. This gives universal satisfaction. The
act is a proper one on the part of new Presi
dent, and grateful, we understand, to the feel
ings of the personal friends of Gen. Harrison.
Cin. Chronicle.
A Proposition worth Considering.
To induce persons to act as agents for pro
curing subscribers to the Rifle we submit the
following proposition.
For $35 we will send one hundred copies to
not more than ten addresses.
For S 15 forty copies to not more than four.
For $5 twelve copies to one address.
This will afford over twcnty-jive per cent to
agents for their trouble and as every one can
procure one hundred or more subscribers, in
their own neighborhood, he will be doing a fair
business in these hard times. And one to
make it a business for a month could procure
two or three thousand at least, as no body will
refuse to pny fifty cents for a paper for six
months during so exciting a campaign as the
approaching one will undoubtedly be. By
some unaccountable error, it is statea in our
prospectus that we will send fifty copies to one
address for $15 ;it should have been forty.
The first would not pay the expenses with ten
thousand subscribers. Address.
H. MONTGOMERY, Ilarrisburg, Pa.
Pcransvlvai&ia JLcsrislatare.
REPORTED FOR THE DAILV PENH'a TELEGRAPH.
SENATE.
Thursday, April 22, 1841.
Mr. REED presented a petition from Messrs.
Key and Brother, publishers, in the city of Phil
adelphia, asking for authority to publish the
laws of this Commonwealth.
Mr. BROWN presented a pel i lion from
Southwark for the erection of a Lock-up House
in that District.
Mr. BARCLAY, from the Committee on
Corporations, to which was recommitted the
bill relative to the Manufacture of Iron with
cokfi. nr mineral coal, with instructions to re
port a bill with a similar title and to provide for
the encouragement of domestic Manufactures,
reported a bill in accordance with the said in
structions. Mr. STROHM, from the Committee on Pen
sions, made an adverse report on the petitions
of William Wilson and otheis.
Mr. STROHM, from the Committee on In
ternal Improvements, to which was referred the
bill for the election of Canal Commissioners,
with sundry amendments made thereto by the
House, reported the same with a recommenda
tion that the said amendments be non-concurred
in.
Nominations.
Mr. FLEMING moved that the rule requi
ring nominations to lie on the table ten days, be
suspended, in order to take up the nominations
of William Smyth and Samuel H. Wilson;
which was agreed to.
Mr. F. then moved that the Senate do advise
and consent to the nomination of William Smyth,
as an Associate Judge of Centre county.
And the Yeas and Nays being taken there
on, it was unanimously confirmed. Yeas 30.
The nomination of Samuel H. Wilson, as an
Associate Judge of Centre county, was next ta
ken up, and unanimously confirmed. Yeas 30.
Lancaster County Bank.
On motion of Mr. HIESTER, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the amend
ments made by the House to the bill for the in
corporation of the Lancaster county Bank, and
they were concurred in.
Mr. SPACKMAN moved that a joint Com
mittee of two be appointed to meet one on the
part of the House, for the purpose of making
arrangements in relation to the delivery of the
eulogy on the life and services of the late la
mented President of the United States on Sat
urday next. The motion was agreed to.
The SPEAKER then appointed Messrs.
SPACKMAN and KINGSBURY as the Com
mittee.
Revenue Bill.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
this bill, to which a great number of amend
ments were made.
Senate adjourned till 4 o'clock.
Afternoon Session.
Revenue Bill.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
this Bill, until that body
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, April 22, 1841.
Petitions were presented by Messrs. Iight'
ner, uuworih, uanks, liUSK, umis, foreman,
Law and Cox.
Mr. Kerr read in his place and presented to
the chair, a resolution as follows:
Resolved &c, That the resolution passed on
the 17th inst., fixing on the 27th inst., as the
time for the final adjournment be and the same
is hereby rescinded.
The resolution was opposed by Messrs. Lusk,
Brodhead of N., and Hoieman, and supported
by Messrs. Law, Smyser, Cox and Penniman
A middle course was pursued by Mr. Wright,
and the question being taken on the passage of
lha resolution, after an ineffectual attempt to
postpone its consideration, it was carried by the
following vole:
Yeas Messrs. Andrews, Banks, Bard, Bell,
Chrizman, Church, Clark, Correy, Cummins,
Cox, Darsie, Dilworth, Dunlap, Eyre, Fauss,
Foreman, Funk, Futhey, Gratz, Hanna, Hig
gins, Hinchman, Kennedy, Kerr, Kieffer, Leth
erman, Law, Lightner, Livingston, M'Clure,
M'Curdy, Middleswarth, Miles Montgomery,
Musser, Myer, Pearson, Pennell, Penniman,
Pumroy, Rush, Smith, Smyser, Snively, Sprott,
Steele, Titus, Von "Neida, Washabaugh, Crabb,
Speaker. 50.
Nays Messrs. Anderson, Apple, Bean,
Boal, Bonsall, Brodhead P., Brodhead N., Cort
right, Crousillat, Ebaugh, Felton, Fenton, Flan
nery, Flenniken, Flick, Fogel, Garretson, Gil
lis, Haas, Hahn, Hill, Hoieman, Horton, John
ston W., Kuiz, Leidy, Lusk, May, M'Cully,
M'Kinney, Moore, Painter, Pollock, Scott, Sny
der, Vanhorn, Weaver, Wilkinson, Wright,
Zimmerman. 40.
The act authorizing the Canal Commission
ers to lease the Columbia rail road, motive pow
er &c. came up on third reading, and passed
by a vote of 53 to 30.
The act providing for the acceptance of a cer
tain sum in discharge of the Collateral Inheri
tance Tax payable out of the estate of William
Hogg, late of Brownsville, Fayette, county, de
ceased, was negatived m Committee of the
Whole.
An act for the relief of Francis Sample, laje
a contractor on the Tioga line of the North
Branch L-anal, was finally passed.
An act authorizing tho Stato Treasurer to
bring suit for the purpose of finally settling tho
accounts of the late printers of the House was
taken up, and before it was acted on, the House
adjourned. '
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The act pending which the House adjournc-d
this morning, was taken up and finally passed.
Mr. Hinchman moved that the IIoitc tak.
up the consideration of bill, passed Senate, m
their order which was agreed to.
The resolutions relative to ihe repeal of the
Sub-Treasury Law, instructing our Senators w
vote for its repeal, passed 44 to 34.
An extract from the Journal of the Senate
was presented by its Clerk, staling that Messrs
Spackrnan and Kingsbury had bsen appointed
a Committee to take measures in reference to
the oration of Hon. Thomas Williams on tbo
death of Gen. Harrison, and Messrs. Brodhead
of N. and Law were appointed a Correspondtno-
Committee on the part of the House.
For the rest of the afternoon, several omni
busscsweve drawn up, fully freighted and driven
over to the Senate.
The Governor sent in a veto message, re
turning the act, in which provision concerning
the Mayor's Court of Lancaster was made, to
place its continuance before the voters of thu
city and county of Lancaster..
The consideration of the message was nosi-
poned for the present, and the House adjourned.
We learn from the Philadelphia North Amer
ican, that the Locofocos in that region are mi
king a move in lavor ot Commodore Stew an,
as a candidate for the Presidency. The Com
modore is an excellent man, and moreover, an
excellent Whig. Are the Locos, as a party,
about to disband? Louisville Journul.
The steamships Lion and Eagle, intended
for the Spanish Navy, were to sail yesterday
from N. York and Havana.
lister front Mexico.
Tampico dates to the 31st ult. have been re
ceived at New Orleans. The efforts of the
Federalists to capture Tampico, it appears, has
thus failed. Several of the leaders have been
captured, and are now in prison awaiting their
trial.
A late number of the Diario del Gobierno,
frankly acknowledges the inability of the Mex
can Government at present to raise funds for
another campaign against Texas. But it still
clings to the hope that the future has better for
tune in store for the Mexicans that after the
Cumanche Indians are extirpated, and the na
tional coffers replenished, their banner will float
proudly on the banks of the Sabine! It winds
up, however, by stating that when every thing
is taken into consideration, the Texians are
not the demons some have represented them to
be that they always respected their own Go
vernment, and never stirred up fratricidal war.
We regret to learn that one of the Yucatan
revenue schrs. the Ocean, was lately wrecked
near Vera Cruz. Five of the bodies of the un
fortunate crew were washed ashore on Goaza
coalcos. The vessel is a total loss.
The Desengano, of Tampico, states that the
Prefect of the department and the military com
mandant are about to have a road made between
that city and the Bar. It is expected the com
merce of Tampico will be greatly benefitted by
it.
During the month of March, two considera
ble fires occurred in Tampico, which caused
the destruction of a good deal of property, as
there were no fire engines in the city.
We notice that the Bulletin is used without
gloves in several numbers of the Diario del
Gobierno, because it maintains that the cause
of Texas is the cause of humanity and civiliza
tion. We assure our worthy confrere that we
act according to the dictates of our conscience.
The hints about being mercenary, are entirely
out of place.
Curry tlie Forger.
This man, who obtained some $2,500 from
the Bank of Ithica by means of forgery, and
who has been the subject of much correspon
dence between Gov. Seward and Gov. Gilmer,
of Virginia, passed through town to-day, loaded
with irons, on his way to Ithica. He was in
custody of Mr. John A. Dix, of that place, who
was deputed by Gov. Seward to obtain him of
the acting Governor of Virginia, who has sur
rendered him without restriction of any kind.
The prisoner is a "fine, gay, bold faced villain,"
apparently accustomed to his calling, with black
eyes and a profusion of whiskers. Some $2,-
000 hare been received in money and effects,
which will leave the loss but trifling. Buffalo
U077J. Adv.
TAILORING.
The undersigned resnectfullv informs his
former customers, and tho public generally, that
he still carries on tho
TAILORING BUSINESS,
At his residence in Elizabeth street, second
door below his former stand. Those who
may favor him with their patronage, may be as
sured that no effort will be spared to give them
satisfaction. Ho receives the Philadelphia and
Now York Fashions, quarterly, and will make
all kinds of garments, in the most fashionable
manner.
N. B. The rules, for cutting, draughts, cl'c.
of Ward, Basford & Ward, may ho had of lu-J
subscriber, Agent for the publishers.
CHARLES SMITH.
Stroudsburg, April 28, 1841,
ATTENTION!
STROUBSBITRG ARTI&IJSRISTS.
You will assemble for parade and drill on
Saturday, the 8th day of May next, at the house
of Edward Poslens, in Stroudsburg, at 10 o'
clock, A. M. Absentees will incur a fine of
one dollar. By order of
CHARLES SMITH, Capt.
Stroudsburg, April 28, 1841.
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