JEFFJSKSONIAN REPUBLICAN.
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroudsburg, Pa. May 5. 1841.
Terms, $2,00 :n advance, $2,25, half yearly : and $2,50,if not
paid befOiC the end of the year.
FOR GOVERNOR.
JOHN BANKS,
OF BERKS COUNTY.
TUe 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.
" 1 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
um, 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 by the President.
Alexander P. Field to be Secretary for the
Territory of Wisconsin.
Robert Tyler, to be Secretary to the Presi
dent to sign patents.
Surveyor's General.
James Wilson, for Wisconsin and Iowa.
Silas Reed, for Missouri and Illinois.
Attorneys of the U. S.
Franklin Dexter, for the District of Massa
chusetts. Thoma W. Sutherland, for theTerritory of
Wisconsin.
Marshal of the U. S.
John B. Eldridge, for the District of Connec
ticut. Justice of the Peace.
Robert Getty, for the Count- of Washington,
in the District of Columbia. (Re-appointed )
Deputy Postmasters.
Robert M. Riddle, at Pittsburg, Penna.
Jonas M. Wheeler, at Canandaigua, N. Y.
George Wm. Gordon, at Boston, Mass.
JJThe Court for this County will, com
mence on Tuesdav the 3 llh inst.. and continue
one week.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says
that the Post Office Department is one million
of dollars in debt. So much for an economical
administration !
Another Previous Pardon!
During the present sitting of our Court, many
applications forlicensing drinking houses, which
were not legally provided lor tne convenience
of travellers, were iudiciously refused by Judge
Parsons. This gave great satisfaction to the
friends of temperance, and was calculated also
to uphold the dignity of the laws, which have
been too frequently abused and evaded by licen
sing houses, which instead of offering accom
modations lor travellers are nottnng more tnan
drinking houses. Among other applications
thus refused, was that of Charles Pray, a man
notorious for his lawless connection with the
disturbances of '38, and who was then protected
- ill 1 T T
by the Executive innuence and oeoasea judi
ciary, despite the popular feeling and the calls
of iustice.
But it appears that the protecting power,
which then assisted to cover ms treason, is
again interposed between him and a solemn
rWision of our Courts of iustice! Notwith
standing the refusal of Judge Parsons to grant
ilim a license, lie sun Keepa ma uuubc wjjuii,
and boasts that lie has the protection of the Gov
ernor in his course! He says the Governor has
licensed him, and that he has authority from
the master of Oie Judges to continue his unholy
traffic! And we have every reason to believe
thai such is the fact: that Gov. Porter has again
offered a previous pardon to him, in case he
should ha convicted of selling liquor without a
license! The Executive has stepped forward
to surest a reform, which the law provides for,
and which the unanimous voice of our citizens
demands he interposes between the deliberate
fWrA nf a Hntirt of law. and sets aside its de
cisions as if he were the autocrat of a nation of
slaves, instead ofthe mere Governor of a repub
lican community.
How long is this lawless assumption of pow
er to he tolerated? how long are the lives, prop
erty, reputation and feelings of our citizens to
be outraged by these repeated exhibitions of
prerogative, more grievous man tnose wnicn
brought Charles Stuart to the block? We ap-
peal to the mends ol good order, to tne menus
of temperance, and to all who wish to see the
dignity of our laws upheld, to resist these re
noatP.H invasions of the ritihts of the--people!
Can our citizens tamely suffer thesearbitrary
inflictions, without an effort to release them
seircs? We think not, and next fall will pro-
r.mmre.a terrible condemnation on the law
i rraker, the Governor of veos and of previous
oardons! Daily Tel.
JJjThe Globe grows awfully lachrymose
over the removals made by the new administra
tion. We might be tempted to suppose, judging
from the tenor of recent articles in that paper,
that its editor had never heard of such a thing
as proscription, much less that he had been one
of its most unscrupulous and unrelenting advo
cates. It is truly laughable to hear this hypo
crite whining at the changes made by the pre
sent Exoculive, and shedding crocodile tears
over the fate of the wives and children of men
who have been in office long enough to have
accumulated fortunes, if they had not squander
ed their means in electioneering and other fol
lies. But where were these soft sensibilities
of the Globe and its friends when the brave
Barney a hero and the son of a hero seamed
with the scars gained in his country's defence,
was remorselessly turned adrift, in utter pover
ty and destitution, with a wife and numerous
family of helpless children? Where were they,
we ask again, when the thrice gallant veteran,
Van Rensselaer, was removed from the Post
Office at Albany? Where were these tender
sympathies, when a locofoco Senator, in his
place on the floor of the Senate, avowed, as one
of the doctrines of his party, the memorable
words "To the victors belong the spoils;" and
when the work of proscription was carried to
the uttermost bounds of the Union, and the best
men within our borders ruthlessly sacrificed to
make room for a horde of noisy partisans, scores
of whom are at this moment squandering the
plundered property of the United States in half
the countries under heaven? Belvidere Apollo.
The right way of Reform. We publish the
following for general information. About one
thousand dollars a year was, we believe, paid
to an individual who held an office which is
now declared to be 'entirely unnecessary.'
Pittsburg Gas.
War Department,
March 29, 1841.
Sir: As you have applied for the appoint
ment of Military Storekeeper in the Quarter
Master's Department at Pittsburg, I deem it
proper to inform you that finding the office to
be entirely unnecessary, and a just regard to
the public interests requiring its discontinuance,
it has been abolished.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
JOHN BELL.
Samuel Hubbey, Esq., Pittsburg Pa.
The St. Louis Pennant states that Mr. Koch,
of that city, has sold the bones of the animal
which he calls the Missounum, for the sum ot
fifty thousand dollars.
The notes of the non-specie paying banks of
New-Jersey, are worth in New-York only 54
cents to the dollar. The notes of those which
pay specie are at par or a half per cent, dis
count. The following is a list of the suspen
ded banks of this State:
Burlington County Bank at Medford,
Cumberland Bank at Bndgeton,
Farmers' Bank of New-Jersey at Mount Holly,
Mechanics' Bank of Burlington,
Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Bank at Trenton
New-Hope Delaware Bridge Co. Lambertvillt,
Princeton Bank at Princeton,
Salem Banking Company, at Salem,
State Bank at Camden,
Trenton Banking Company, Trenton.
Sussex (N. J.) Register.
Tlie Funeral Procession at Balti
more. The Baltimore American states that a gen
tleman who took the trouble to enumerate the
various bodies composing the Funeral Proces
sion on Monday 26th ult., has furnished the
following memoranda:
The Procession was ninety-seven minutes in
passing a point in INorth Uay street. It con
sisted of 21 bands of Musicians, drummers, &c;
Trumpeters, 105 Banners, 3 Devices, viz:
Funeral Car, Ark of the Covenant, and Urn of
the German Society; 1 Car (the r uneral Car)
drawn by six horses; 3 Carnages, with 4 hor
ses each; 27 Carriages, with 2 horses each; 1
Gig, 1 Horse caparisoned, 622 Horsemen, 1 18
Mounted Cavalry, 518 Infantry; 4 Cannons,
drawn by one horse each; 6 Cannons, drawn
by four horses each; 2 Tumbrils, drawn by four
horses each: 6097 Persons on foot. lotal
number of men, 7,911. Total number of hor
ses, 853.
LOCOFOCOISM DONE FOR IN OsWEGO. At the
Charter Election, last week, the Democratic
Whisrs most gloriously defeated their opponents
"Thev would now have it understood," says the
Oswego Whig, "that they made no exertions;"
but this is but cold comfort, when it is known
the entire vote polled at this time exceeded that
of last year and the loco candidate for president
gave it out, that notwithstanding he exerted
himself last year, he should do more this.
The fact is. he overdid the business the
people are heartily sick of locofocoism, and we
are now rid ot its last vestige. Last year Mr.
Prall was elected President bv a matontvof 31
this year he is defeated by a majority of 48!
Last year we had but two of the Trustees, and
those by the skin of the teeth this year we have
elected our whole ticket by handsome majorities
Albany Daily Adv.
Look Out!! Counterfeit Five Dollar Notes
on the Union Bank at Dover are in circulation,
signed E. Peck, Cashier, and John Scott
Pres't. No man by the name of Peck
was Cashier of that Bank.
ever
North Carolina. The election for members
of Congress takes place on the 13th of May, in
Worth -Timlin n Th rnnntar election takes
place in&ugust, butthe extra session has Caused
the change of day.
Pennsylvania legislature.
Correspondence oj the United States Gazette.
Harrisbuug, April 29, 1841.
REVENUE BILL. i
The bill reported this morning by the Com
mittee of Conference, was debated some .time
during the morning session, and afternoon, in
tho House, upon a motion to postpone until to
morrow, which was made by Mr. Cox, in order
to enable every one to make up his mind de
liberately and understandingly before he ahould
bo called upon to cast his vote upon a bill of so
much importance. At length the motion was
agreed to, by a vote of 53 to 35.
The friends of the bill generally voted for the
postponement, so that it might not be said by
the opponents thereof, that they voted "no,"
because they had not time to examine the pro
visions of the bill, for it is a fashionable argu
ment in favor of this negative vote, to say that
the only safe vote on doubtful questions is the
negative.
The Senate also postponed the bill until to
morrow. It is expected that the bill will receive a
handsome vote.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The bill authorizing the construction of a
railroad from Columbia to Middletown, came
up in order on second reading. The second
section, authorizing the construction of the said
road from the latter point to Harrisburg, if they
cannot form a desirable connection with the
Harrisburg & Lancaster Company, was stricken
out.
The remaining sections were then agreed to,
and tho bill was ordered to be prepared for a
third reading. It must now be returned to the
Senate, if passed here, and I think it will be
found amongst the "unfinished business" at the
close of the session.
A proviso was added to it, that the act should
not go into effect for two years, and that if, in
the mean time, the Harrisburg and Lancaster
Company should layta single track of t rail on
their road, then this act not take to effect at all.
The Election District Bill, from the Senate,
was taken up for concurrence in the amend
ments. It contains, amongst other things, a
provision, allowing the electors of the city and
county of Philadelphia to vote a plumper ticket,
containing the names of all the persons voted for
at any one election. The bill was passed with
amendments, and returned to the Senate. But
I need not go into detail, as the bill, with one
idea pasted at the foot of another will soon be
long enough to reach across the rotunda, and
allow the two Houses to work at it at the same
time.
A bill from the Senate, to incorporate the
Cherry Ridge and East Stirling Turnpike Road
Company, passed final reading.
A Tempest in a Teapot.
The seventeen millions of folks, or there-
away, wno miiaDit mese unuea oiaies are
ikely to be put to the sword by the nullifying
chivalry of South Carolina. Hold on to your
hair when you read tho following from the
Charleston Mercury Mr. Calhoun's organ:
" Let tho Legislature meet, put the otate
UNDER COMPLETE MILITARY ORGANIZATION ,
and instruct the Governor, in case of a Nation
al Bank or Protective Tariff is enacted by Con
gress, to summon forthwith a Convention ofthe
People of South Carolina to deliberate on the
measures necessary to be taken in defence of
their liberties. There should be no hesitation
no delay. Every thing depends on this bold,
uncompromising decision.
Oh, dear! oh, dear! We surrender; out
.t ir r 3
spare on, spare me lives oi our wives aim
children. We will admit that out present hard
money currency is the best that can be devised;
and we will furthermore agree to shut up our
manufactories and admit foreign goods into this
country free of duty. Is that enough? Miner's
Journal.
Important Seizure. About three months
since information was received by High Con
stable JBlaney, of this city that a large quantity,
of machinery, combining the whole of the ap
paratus for carrying on coining on a most ex
tensive scale, had been made m r ranee, and
had been shipped for this country. Assisted by
Peter B. Walker, ofthe New York police, iJIa-
ney ascertained that the articles in question had
arrived in New York, and had been conveyed
to the northern section of this state. It was
first supposed that the operations were to be
carried on in this city.
A few days back Blane.y and Walker pro
ceeded to Tioga county, in this state, and after
considerable difficulty succeeded in seizing tne
whole of the aDDaratus. Dies ot the most fin
ished workmanship for coining dollars, half dol
lars, quarters, eagles, half eagles and quarter
eagles, were discovered. Crucibles, lues, a
large quantity of metal in sheets, ready for work
ing, and all the necessary articles lor coining
were seized and brought to this city. A large
number of skeleton keys, above a hundred dif
ferent impressions of keys, and a hundred dif
ferent sets of files were lound also. I he ma
chinerv which is of ereat bulk, has all been
brought to this city. Philadelphia Standard
Death of an Editor. Richard Haughton,
editor of the Boston Atlas, died a few days ago
in that city. He was on tho eve of his depar
ture for England, and was dressing himself for
the purpose of going on board the Acadia, when
he fell in an apoplectic lit.
Relief for the Dumb. A discovery has been
j t -
made in France, by which the deaf and dumb
can be made to hear and speaK, tnrough the in
stnlmeptality of magnetism. Baron Dupitel
ihe'author of the discovery, has operated in sev
eral cases, and succeeded in nineteen cases to
make the duaf and dumb hear and speak,
The Confession of a Dreadful weed.
A colored man named Harry Sisco,
who has been convicted at Hacken
sack. N. J. for the murder of Alfred
Myers, has made a confession of the
dreadful crime, which is thus detail
ed by the reporter of the New York
Herald:
"I again met Harry Moore; and as
we wanted to contrive some plan to
make a raise, and it come to storm
hard, we crept into Alfred Myers'
barn, and there we laid all day Sun
day (Nov. 22.) It rained hard all
that day, and whilst we were talking
things oyer, Harry Moore says to me,
says he, "Let's kill Alfred Myers,
and then we shall get some clothes
and some money." So we agreed to
hill him that night! Well, it was
night, about 12 o'clock; when all was
still, that we crept out and went round
to the door of Alfred's store. Harry
Moore knew he slept alone, and as
Air i .
Alfred. Jtnew Harry Moore s voice,
and had every confidence m mm, we
agreed that Harry Moore should call
him out of bed to come down stairs,
and when he opened the door I was
to open the door and hit him on the
head with a stone. Well. Harry
Moore called him up. Alfred came
dowrn stairs, lighted the lamps, and
we went in; his dog was there; as
soon as we got in, I made a grab at
him and missed him; we then had a
pretty smart scule; finally, I hit him
on the left; temple with a large stone
and it knocked him down; this did not
kill him; and his dog flew at me and
tore my pantaloons, and bit my log
and my face. He called for help and
'murder and Harry Moore told me
to hold him by the throat, and said,
1 11 fix mm! Harry Moore then took
a black silk handkerchief, wound it
fast round Alfred's neck, drew it tight,
and so choaked him to deathl The
dop- then run off."
Rhode Island. Election
The election for Governor, Lieut. Governor,
members of Congress, and of the Legislature,
took place in Rhode Island yesterday. I here
was no regular opposition to the Whig candid
ates, with the exception of one Senator and sun
dry Assemblymen. Consequently, Sam I Ward
King, of Johnston, is re-elected Governor; By
ron Dimon, of Bristol, Lt. Governor; Joseph L.
Tillinghast and Robert B. Cranston, members
of Congress for two years from the 4th of March
last; Henry Bowen, Secretary of State; Albert
C. Greene, Attorney General; Stephen Ca-
hoone, Treasurer. All Whigs, and all re-elect
ed. The ten Senators will doubtless all be
Whigs. The Assembly consists of 72 mem
bers, 48 of whom, in the last Legislature, were
Whigs, and 24 Van Buren men.
Jour, of Com
Small Pox.
The Trenton Gazette says: This disease is
prevalent in South Trenton, and several per
sons have died with it.
TowaiKla Bank.
Tho notes of this Bank are again at a heavy
discount, some of the brokers refusing to. pur
chase them at any rale, the funds with the agent
in this city for their redemption have been ex
hausled. This is not the first time this has oc
curred, and persons were induced to lake them
at par in their business transactions, under the
impression that they would continue to be pro
vided for at a trifling discount. U. S. Gazette,
The Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Ken-
rick, of Philadelphia, has requested the Cath
olic Clergy of that diocese to observe the day
of fasting and prayer designated by the Prcsi
dent in reference to the loss sustained by the
nation.
A correspondent of the N. O. Picayune thus
announces himself as a candidate for Congress:
t " My spunk is up my ambition is riz and
I'd go it, il it costs me fifty dollars I've gin up
the school, so now I must go topedlin,' or to
teachin short hand ritin, or tu mendin' clocks, or
else I must go tu Congrees or sumthin' i
won't du tu be here dum' nothm , 1 want you
tu back me. Here s my ticket:
For Congress from the first vacant district
in Luzyannur, Pardon Jones, Esq., son of old
Mr. Jones of the Bay State, Mr. Jonesses
sentiments is liberal and free, and founded on
tho principles of Washington, Jefierson, Jack
son, Van Buren, and Gineral Harrison. Mr.
Jonesses opinions about banks are precisely the
same as them great men entertained. Mr.
Jones will slick up, one aide or t'other, for the
tariff but don't like tu commit himself on that
subject till he sees which way the cat is goin'
to jump. Mr. Jones will go in for the public
lands. He is goin' tu be the people's man, and
he want's to be on the popler side for that is
dimmecratic. Mr. Jones will go in for all the
Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen, Dutchmen,
Frenchmen, and the forriners born and brought
up in the United States.
Steamboat Explosion.
On Saturday night, the 24th ult. at about 12
o'clock, the new North River steamboat South
America, broke her shaft, ten miles above
Poughkeepsie, and the connecting machinery
giving way, the piston was forced through tho
cylinder, both in its downward and upward mo
tion , scattering the fragments of machinery in
different directions, and with great force, and
discharging the steam into gangways and cab
ins. A scene of great confusion ensued, but
by the energy of Capt. Brainerd, order was
soon restored. Just at this time, the steamer
Swallow opportunely came up, and took off the
passengers. Ten persons were more or less
injured one of them, (Mr. Taylor, of Troy,)
has since died. The South America is a new
boat, and has made only three or four trips on.
the river. The loss involved by the destruc
tion of her machinery, &c. is estimated at
$20,000. Another and more disastrous
Explosion. We learn from the New
York Tribune, that at a little past 6
o'clock on Tuesday evening, as the
steamboat Henry Eckford, Capt. Tice,
was leaving the dock at the foot of
Cedar street, and just as the escape
of steam through the chimney had
been stopped, her boiler burst with a
tremendous explosion, tearing her
machinery and upper works to frag
ments. Two of the hands were kill
ed outright; the Captain was blown
60 feet across the slip, into the wa
ter, breaking his leg, and otherwise
injuring him, so as to render his re
covery doubtful; the Engineer had
both legs broken, and was thought to
be fatally wounded; one passenger
and one fireman had their limbs bro
ken; a deck hand had his head badl"
cut and bruised by flying lragments
yf the boiler; several others were
slightly injured, and three or four per
sons are missing supposed to nave
been blown into the river. The en
gine, piston, smoke-pipe, shaft, and
upperwork, wheel, pilot house, deck
cabin, &c. were completely blown
away most of them into the river, so
that they cannot be found. One-half
the boiler is pushed forward and re
mains on the boat; the other half was
blown into the river.
The Henry Eckford was probably
the oldest steamboat running in the
vicinity of New York having been
built some 17 years ago. It seems to
us (says the Tribune,) that there was
gross recklessness of hie evinced m
the running of so old and worn a boat
-that her engineer must have been
unqualified for his station and that
the United States Inspector, who ex
amines and licenses boats, has been
grossly unfaithful to his duty.
Aluminous Salts. The bbdy of Gen. Wayne,
who died 30 or 40 years ago, at Erie Pa., and
was buried near the Lake, was recently disin
terred and removed by his son, was found to bo
in a very perfect state of preservation. Those
who had known Gen. "Wayne, recognized his
features at once. This extraordinary preserva
tion is accounted for in Silliman's Journal, by
the fact, that the body had been buried in argil
laceous soil, strongly impregnated with a solu
tion of Alum.
Colloquy. Soon after the E evolutionary war,
Capt. P. a brave Yankee officer was at St. Pe
tersburgh, in Russia, and while there accepted
an invitation to dine there was a large num
ber at the table and amongst the rest an English
lady who wished to appear one ofthe knowing
ones. This lady, on understanding that an A
merican was one of the guests, expressed to
one of her friends a determination to quiz him.
She fastened on him like a tigress, making ma
ny inquiries respecting our habits, customs,
dress, manners and mode of life, education and
amusements, &c.
To all of the anquirios Capt. P. gave an an
swer that satisfied all the company, except the
lady: she was determined not to be satisfied,
and the following short dialogue took place:
Lady Have the rich people in your country
carriages? for I suppose there are some that
call themselves rich.
Captain P. My residence is in a small town
upon an Island, where there are but few car
riages kept, but in the large towns and cities
upon the main land, there a-number are kept in
a style suited to republican manners.
Lady 1 cant think where they find drivers
for I should not think the Americans knew hour
to drive a coach.
Captain P. We find no difficulty on that ac
count, madam; Ave can havo plenty of drivers
by sending to England for them!
Lady (speaking quickly,) I think the Amer
icans ought to drive the English, instead of tho
English driving the Americans.
Captain P. Wo did, madam, in the late war;
but since peace, ve allow tho English to drive
us!
The lady half choked with anger, stood mule
a minute, and then left the room whispering t
her friend the Yankees are too much for us B
the Cabinet as well as in the field.