JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN r JEFFERS ONI AN REPUBLICAN Stroudsburg, Pa. August 11, 1841. Terms, $2,00 in advance; $2.25, naif yearly ; and $2,50 if not paid ocioic me tnu oi me vcm. FOR GOVERNOR. JOHN BANES, OF BERKS COUNTV. No paper will be issued from thi3 office next week. Bank Bill Passed. "We have the pleasure of announcing that the Bill establishing a United States Bank, which passed the Senate by a majority of 3, and was sent to the House for concurrence, was passed by that body by a majority of 31 and sent to Mr Tyler for his signature. JJj3 Easton, has furnished a sad chapter of. noridnnts durinor the nast week. A son of o I Mr. Samuel Depew, merchant, of that place, about 19 years of age, was shot through the abdomen by the accidental discharge of a gun in his own hands, and died in about four hours A man named John Gress, a blacksmith by trade, was found drowned, and is supposed to have thrown himself into the river. George Piersol, who no doubt many of our readers will recollect, was also drowned in the river Delaware. Poor George, although 'his intellect was darkened, yet we feel sorry ahat he is gone, for like an old time piece which has been in a family for many years and is removed, so it is with him. Many will miss him. The Loco-foco papers in this Stale, unable lo discover any assailable point in the public or private life of John Banks, and aware that a close scrutiny of the conduct of the Previous Pardoner, would be fatal to his hopes of a re election, are determihed if they can, to divert public attention therefrom. Hence the dust they raise in relation to the McLeod affair. But the people are -not to be deceived by so shallow an artifice. Theyhave not forgotten that the burning of the Caroline, took place more than two years before Martin Van Buren was turned out of office, and that during all that time, this outrage was passed by in silence. They have not forgotten the course pursued by the loco foco party in the Legislature of New York, when a Mr. Hoffman a loco foco, backed by his party, "made a motion that McLeod be discharged set free and permitted to roam wher ever he chose." Where then was all the fire and fury which these same patriotic presses now evince? That was a different case it 'was too much like the -course of their now re nowned leader Buchanan during the late war, and prudence dictated silence. The following from the Log(pabin Rifle, so fully exposes the hypocrisy of the loco-focos in relation to this McLeod affair, that we present it entire to our readers. HIcl.eod lioco Foco baseness. The loco foco papers of this State and, in deed, of the whole country, are making a spas modic effort to manufacture capital out of the McLeod affair. Do these nase, fawning syc ophants think that the people have forgotten that the murder by this blustering BRITISH LOCO FOCO BULLY was committed TWO YEARS AND A HALF BEFORE VAN BU REN WAS DRIVEN FROM THE PRESI DENCY IN DISGRACE, and that during this long time NOT ONE SINGLE STEP WAS TAKEN BY HIM AND HIS TRUCKLING SECRETARY OF STATE, FO&SYTH, TOWARDS ITS SETTLEMENT! These NOISY BRAGGARTS seem to treat the peo ple as though they thought them fools, or else they are less cautious in exposing their knavery than they usually are. After remaining as qui et as lambs for two years and a half under the INDIGNITIES of England and the INSO LENCE of her Minister at Washington, they break out with demoniac fury against an honest American Administration, almost the very first week of its power, because the whole difficulty had not been settled in that time. Would it not b quite as becoming in a press which support ed and delendea Mr. Van Buren while becrc tary of Stale for INSTRUCTING Jackson's (not the country's) Minister lo Etgland to BEG of that Government a small share of the West India trade as a BOON, and to SUPPLICATE her in the most HUMBLE terms, that it might not be denied biro, LEST IT MIGHT HAZ ARD JACKSON'S ELECTION would it not become such men to be extremely modest jn denouncing the present or any other Admin istration for xiver much friendship to England! Let them first explain to the people how it is that MARTIN VAN BUREN, WHOSE SON WAS DANCING ATTENDANCE ONTHE QUEEN OF ENGLAND SOON AFTER THIS MURDER OF McLEOD WAS COM MITTED, suffered the outrage to be passed over without ihe faintest attempt to seek aatifac tion, except it was TO BEG IT AS A BOON lo the President, from the time'it'happened un til the term of his office expired a period of two years and a half? Do thes"e loco foco scribblers and apologists of England when their party is in power know how to account for this remarkable circumstance? Until they can ex plain this to the satisfaction of the people, we doubt whether much credit will be given thom for their present out break of affected Patriot ism. There is another circumstance connected with this McLeod affair, which the tory editors in the pay of Van Buren and his ally, the Queen of England, would do well to remember, and which we wish the people lo understand, as it shows beyond the shadow of a doubt, the cen temptible hypocrisy and consummate rascality of the loco foco editors who are bellowing so lustily over this matter. It will bo recollected that McLeod was arrested by the order of Mr. SEWARD, THE WHIG GOVERNOR OF N. YORK that the utmost vigilance was ob served by his administration to bring the author of the outrage, whoever ho might he, to punish ment. Well, no sooner was McLeod arrested than the WHOLE LOCO FOCO PRESS of New York pounced upon GOV. SEWARD WITH THE SAME TIGER-LIKE FERO CITY that they have since upon Mr. Webster, for the course he has pursued. And at the last session of the Legislature of that State, Mr HOFFMAN, a bitter and unrelenting loco foco member of the Legislature, backed by his par ty in the House, MADE A MOTION THAT McLEOD BE DISCHARGED SET FREE AND PERMITTED TO ROAM WHERE E VER HE CHOSE. The attempt to liberate the Murderer WAS DEFEATED BY THE WHIGS! Who ever heard a word of this fire and fury which the loco foco papers are now breathing against MR. WEBSTER FOR WISHING TO PUNISH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR THE AUTHOR ISED ACT OF ONE OF HER SUBJECTS RATHER THAN THAT SUBJECT HIM SELF. Two or three of the federal papers of this place are particularly indecent in their course upon this matter, who had not the manliness to open their mouths in relation to it while Van Buren was President, and if they believed that there was a possibility of their being compelled to play a part in the war which they seem to be so anxious for, we will be bound that their courage would soon ooze out at their finger's ends, and their foul mouths would be effectual ly sealed. From the Log Cabin Rifle. The true doctrine. See the princi ples of a Democrat when in office! It will be seen by the following manly and patriotic letter of Mr. Troxell, late a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, that he is determined to practice upon the democrat ic doctrine that office-holders of the federal gov ernment shall not interfere in elections. This course will be approved by every right minded man in the State, and we are glad to find that the outrageous system introduced by Jackson is about to be abolished. Reading, July 21, 1841. To "Geo. Ford, Esq. Chairman of the Demo cratic State Central Committee. Bear Sir Having been recently appointed to office under the General Government, I con sider it my duty to tender to you my resigna tion of the station which I hold as a member of the Central Commutes of the Democratic Harrison Party of Pennsylvania. The reasons which have induced this course, will at once occur to every one acquainted with the principles of the Harrison party, and the expressed wishes of the present National Ad ministration. The period when the officers of the federal government, were not only permit ted, but expected to use their official influence for political purposes, is now past, and a posi tion or course of conduct, which in a private citizen, would be entirely unexceptionable, and even honorable, might, in a public office a ser vant of the people, be far from proper. In thus retiring from a station, the duties of which I consider incompatible with other obli gations, I may be pardoned for saying, that ray attachment to the principles of the Harrison Democracy is unchanged, and that I most ar dently hope to see those principles again triumph in Pennsylvania, in the election of the Hon. John Banks. Without attempting to influence the sentiments of any one, and according to all the utmost freedom of thought and action, I do not consider that the right to a free and proper expression of my views and opinions in regard to the political interests of the country, is in any degree diminished by my present position; but jt shall be my aim to exercise my privileges, as a citizen, in such a way, as not to interfere with my duty to the people and the government. I have the honor to be, With great respect, your friend, CHARLES TROXELL. Gen. Jackson and the Bank. Every now and then the "old Lion" erects his tail and mane, and sends over the Blue Ridge a roar. At the loco foco meeting in the Square the other day, somebody read a letter from the Old Hero, urging upon the meeting to fight against a National Bank. When he was in the Exe cutive Chair, he said he would willingly have furnished a plan of one, if Congress had only asked him for it. His party, like him, blindly opptse erery thing which does not originate in their wigwam. North American. During a late fire at Boston, a woman is said to have leaped from a window forty feet from tho ground wjtjiput injury. Wonder if her name is n't Sal Patch, a sisler of Sam's, -FROM: WASHINGTON. 'Correspondence of the North American. Washingtdn, Aug. 5, 1841. We had quite an amusing scene in the Sen ate this morning. Mr. Benton presented the proceedings of a meeting held in one of the counties of Virginia, in which the subject of a National Bank was discussed much at large its dangerous tendency, its unconstitutionality, and its liability to be repealed by any majority of Congress, all figured in bold relief. Mr. Benton concurred in the sentiments of the doc ument. Mr. Archer would not question the respectability of the assemblage, though he had seen a paper printed in the immediate neigh borhood which did so, but he protested againBt any .such nullifying doctrines as these going out as the evidence of the feeling of the people of Virginia. A debate sprung up, which Mr. Clay found was likely to consume more of the time of tho Senate than was reasonable, and he moved to lay the matter on the table. Mr. Alabama Clay asked him to withdraw it. Mr. Clay Indeed I will not. Mr. Benton went on to denounce the motion to lay on the table, when Mr. Clay perempto rily called him to order. Mr. Benton, imperturbable gravity, " take down the words," (alluding lo a rule of the Senate which requires words out of order to be submitted in writing.) Mr. Benton was again proceeding, when Mr. Clay rose and said "I call the gentleman to order and insist that he take his seat." Mr. Benton, still standing "take down the words?1 The Chair said that a motion to lay en the table carried with it the motion to print, which Mr. Benton had previously made. The deci sion was no doubt erroneous. Mr. Benton said he would not take his seat until ihe Chair had decided. The Chair said it had decided. Mr. Benton Then I appeal from the deci sion. Mr. Clay I move to lay the appeal on the table. Here a scene of altercation ensued as to the point of order, which seemed for a mo ment to threaten the harmony of the body; but it subsided almost as suddenly as it was raised. Mr. Cuthbert rebuked the Senator from Ken tucky for showing passion. Mr. Clay (bowing with great good humor and smiling,) " with great deference to the gentleman, I submit whether the ebulition of passion is not from the other side. Mr. Clay reported the bill from the House relating to duties and drawbacks, with several amendments. Mr. Buchanan, speaking in sotto voce I hope there is no soda nor pipe clay in it. Mr. Clay said there was not. The bill to revise the charters of our Dis trict Banks was passed, after Mr. Benton made his last attack tho vote was quite respectable being 29 to 15. The Fortification Bill, which has occupied so much time, was at last passed by a vote of 45 to 4. Mr. Calhoun voting in the minority. The bill which occupied ihe greater portion of tho time of the Senate during a protracted session, was the Navy Pension Bill, which may possibly absorb another day, as no two Senators of either side seem to have any defi nite idea of it. It was owing to hasty and loose legislation in 1837, that the Navy Pension fund was literally plundered, and finally exhausted. And some Commanders of line-of-battle-ships are now receiving pensions under that act for full disabilities. If there be a greater abuse than that extant; I confess I do not know where to find it. In the House of Representatives, tho Fiscal Bank Bill was under discussion until 11 o'clock at night. The bill, you are aware, comes out of committee to morrow at 12, and that produ ces great anxiety on the part of speakers lo be heard. Another excellent rule to be adopted by the House would be, not lo allow any one member to speak more than once on any given subject. Mr. Adams submitted a resolution, inquiring by what authority any foreign Minister could hold a correspondence with any Secretary or head of a department, on matters before the Na tional Legislature. This has reference to some communication made to the House by the Pres ident. On motion of Mr. Bolts it was laid on tho table, by a vote of 99 to 79. We were sitting among others in the gallery of the U. S. Senate, listening to the debate on the Bank bill, when Mr. Calhoun roso, and in reply to some remarks from Mr. Clay, remon strated with great energy against the establish ment of a National Bank. It would interfere, he declared, with our State institutions, and in this interference seemed to lie the great burden of his objections. One would have inferred, from the enthusiasm with which he spoke of State Banks, that they were all sound as a nut, and all paying out the precious coin whenever desired, and most especially that the Banks in the Senator's own State were well stored with specie, and challenging all bill holders to their groaning counter. But this flattering picture was all cruelly dashed by Mr. Smith of Indi ana, who, rising in his place, held up a bill which read much as follows: "The Directors, of the State Bank qf South Carolina promise to pay the bearer twenty-five cents in current money. South Carolina, her btate Bank, and a twenty-five cent shinplastcr!! This is the cur rency which so kindled the admiration of Mr. Calhoun, and over which he seemed to hang with tho rapture of a young mother over her first born bud of bliss, and whiph a National Iank, alas! would destroy! Yerily this remipds one of the Indian who refused tq change his tomahawk made of a split slicK and sharp stone, for one fabricated, pf gop,4 9tsel. N. A.mcri6an. Ah JEscape. Yesterday morning about 1 o'clock an Irish man confined in our county Jail had occasion to go into an adjoining cell where the celebra ted Peter W. Blair Jr. was confined. He im mediately discovered that Blair's clothes not in the usual place of deposit and on were going to his bed he tound it unoccumed. He then proceeded to the door of the hall leading to the cells which he found open, when he gave the alarm. It was discovered that the two pad locks which secured the door had been picked, and that Blair descended to the basement un locked the rear door, and fled. Blair was a native of Warren county In herited a handsome property at the death of his father, went lo Newark during the late specu lating mania was soon fleeced of his property returned lo his place of nativity and entered largely into the mercantile business, the pur chase of grain, and converting it into flour. His receipts not being equal to his expendi tures, in an evil hour he forged endorsements on several notes made payable to one of the Banks in this Town, probably with the inten tion of meeting them as they became due, as some of them were nearly paid off when the discovery was made. Notices of protest on one or two of them were received in Warren which led to the discovery of the fraud, and Blair fled. He was arrested in the city of New York and imprisoned, but through some myste rious agency he made his escape, and in June, I 1B4U, ne was re-taken m Michigan, where he was employed in peddling pills, and brought back to our county Jail and secured. At the July term of our Circuit of that year six bills of indictment were found against him, but his tri als were not brought on until the September term, when he was found guilty on three of them, and plead guilty to the other three. His friends in Warren urged the Court not to send him to the State Prison, as it would be a last ing stigma upon his family and connexions, but stated, through their Counsel, that if he could be permitted to pay the penalty of a breach of the law by levying a fine, that fine should be paid. In accordance with the desire of the friends of the criminal he was fined $250 on each indictment, with costs of suit, but instead of coming forward and retrieving their pledge, he has remained a prisoner in our county Jail, and at the expense of the county, these fourteen months, and nearly eleven months after his conviction. . At the last meeting of the Board of Free holders of this county, Blair applied to that body to be released from his liabilities on ac count of his inability to pay them and the non compliance of his friends to assist him. The Board very promptly refused the application, and intimated that he must remain a county prisoner until his friends saw proper to redeem their pledges by paying the fine and costs, or securing the county therefor. Thus all hopes of defrauding justice were at an end in any other manner than by another escape, which he has at length effected. The manner of his eacane is a mvsterv. Sheriff tieCamp went to New York on busi ness on Monday morning, and in the afternoon his Deputy, Mr. Demston, was thrown from his horse and severely injured. The keys of the prison were deposited with the Clerk, who locked them in his desk previous to closing his office, and oji the escape being discovered, ev ery door and lock about the Clerk's office was found secure, and the prison keys in the place they were placed, with no indication that they had been disturbed. The general opinion, is that some person was secreted in the interior of the building and there remained until all was quiet, when the door was opened by means of false keys, and Blair was thus assisted in his escape by a friend, as it is not probable he could himself carry the large quantity of cloth ing he had in possession. Blair is what may be called a comely person age can accommodate himself to any kind of society can play the gentleman or lady as oc casion may require is ready at any and all times to turn his hand to preaching, peddling pills, writing poetry on subjects of love and matrimony, or measuring out tape or molasses. In fact he is a very good subject for the Repub lic of Texas, whither we hope he has gone, and thus spare the tender feelings of his connex ions which must necessarily be sadly tortured should he be re-captured and sent to the State Prison for breaking Jail. P. S. Since the above was in type Sheriff DeCamp has returned, and on his endeavoring to secure the door with the same pad-locks, (both were of English manufacture, and made expressly for such purposes,) he found oneof them so much out of order that the key would not turn. It was taken to Mr. Gridley's shop and broken open, when it was discovered it had been picked from the out side, and the wards so much bent as to render it useless Thus far the mystery is solved but who rendered the assistance the parties only know. Handbills were issued by day-break, and persons sent in every direction. MorristownJerseytnan, Aug. 4 XO3 There was a case of cruel but not ab soluiely unusual punishment in tho House of Representatives tho othcrday. The subject was the Bank bill, and Col. W. W. Payne, a now Loco-Foco Member from Alabama, got the floor, and blew off a largehead of steam against any sucti institution. It was unconstitutional, op pressive, iniquitous,pernicious, &c. &c. When he had finished, Christopher Morgan, a Whig from this State, got up and quietly asked the orator if he was the same Col. Payno who in the Legislature of Alabama a few year3 since voted to instruct the Members of Congress from that State to support a National Bank with a capital of One Hundred Millions? This was a chpker, The Col, has npt slnpe etjified, tho House iV". Y TfHWMi roon OWAKTWOUT is In an unlrtrftuwr. " rnsownea oy ins own political friends, and re pelled by the Whigs whom for years hu op posed, it is difficah fnr 1 rm lit In! ble position The Peimsvl - - w iiiiu ui v iir.ii i rn.syjvani:in argues be- cause "his friends" gave bun a cordial greetii, in New York, nfppsriltr i . 1 wuai uc u vnii as Joco focus desen an mifonnmite man the mo ment he ceases to b useful lo them. Swart vvout for years headed the Jackson and Van Bu ren cliques in New York. He contributed gen erously of his Custom House emoluments to sustain his politics! friends. But in his adver sity ihey desert him, and basely try to disown one who for years upheld the loco focos in N. York, and fed and clothed many a breechless zealot of that party. The Miltonian savs the Harrisburg Reporter has promised to "work off" Benton's and luger soll's speeches as soon as the press of other matter will permit, and adds ihe advice that if the Reporter has overloaded its stomach with such indigestible matter as those speeches it had better work them off as noon as possible. If Benton's mint-drops won't do it. a (nn nf Brandreth's Pills is recommended. A Great Voicaao. The Missionary Herald for the present montlv contains a letter from Mr. Coan, a Missionary stationed at the Sandwich Islands, giving an in teresting description of the, great crater at Kil auea. The scene which he thus vividly de scribes, must have presented one of the most grand, sublime and terrific objects in nature: "On the 30th of May the people of Puna ob served the appearance of smoke and fire in tho interior, a mountainous and desolate region of that district. Thinking that the fire might bo the burning of some jungle, they took little no tice of it, until the next day, Sabbath, when the meetings in the different villages were thrown into confusion by sudden and grand exhibitions of fire, on a scale so large and fearful, as to leave them no room to doubt the cause of the phenomenon. The fire augmented during the day and night; but it did not seem lo flow off rapidly in any direction. All were in con sternation, as it was expected that the molton flood would pour itself down from its height of four thousand feet to the coast, and no one knew to what point it would flow, or what de vastation would attend its fiery course. On Monday, June 1st, the stream began to flow off in a northeasterly direction, and on the follow ing Wednesday, June 3d, at evening, the burn ing river reached the sea, having averaged about half a mile an hour in its progress. The ra pidity of the flow was very unequal, having been modified by the inequalities of the surface, over which the stream passed. Sometimes it is supposed to have moved 5 miles an hour, and at other times, owing to obstructions, making no apparent progress, except in filling up deep vallies, and in swelling over or breaking away hills and precipices.' But I will return to the source of the erup tion. This is- in a forest, and in the bottom of an ancient wooded crater, about four hundred feet deep, and probably eight miles east from Kilauea. The region being uninhabited and covered with a thicket, it wa3 some time before the place was discovered, and up to this time, though several foreigners have attempted it, no one except myself, has reached the spot. From Kilauea to this place the lava flows in a subter ranean channel, probably at the depth of a thou sand feet, but its course can be distinctly traced all the way, by the rending of the crust of tho earth into innumerable fissures, and by the emission of smoke, steam and gases. The erup tion in this old crater is small, and from this place the stream disappears again for the dis tance of a mile or two, when the lava again gushed up and spread over an area of about fif ty acres. Again it passes under ground for two or three miles, when it re-appears in another old wooded crater, consuming the forest and partly filling tip the basin. Once more it dis aDDears. and flowing in a subterranean channel, cracks and breaks the earth, opening fissures from six inches to ten or twelve feet in width, and sometimes splitting the trunk of a tree so oxactly that its legs stand astride at the fissure. At some places it is impossible to trace the sub terranean stream on account of the impenetra ble thicket under which it passes. After flow ing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke out like an overwheling flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation," and every thing before it, rolled down with re sistless energy to the sea, where leaping a pre cipice of forty or fifty feet, it poured itself in one vast cataract of fire into the deep below, with loud detonations, fearful hissings, and a. thousand unearthly and indescribable sounds. Imagine to yourself a river of fused minerals,, of the breadth and depth of Niagara, and of a. deep gory red, falling, in one emblazoned sheet, one raging torrent, into the ocean! The scene, as described by eye-witnesses was truly sub lime Tu'n miorVitv aofiheies in collision! Two antagonist, andgigantic forces in contact, am producihg ellects on a scale wconceivamv? grand! The atmosphere in all directions w.t filled with ashes, spray cases, etc.. while ll'i I burning lavn, as it fell iido tho water, vx &J?iv- ; ered into millions of minuto pariiclos, and hv thrown back into the air, fell ltt showers of wish! i ii .i i ml. - ...no. on an tne surrounuing cuumry. x no coiio ' extended into the sea for a quarter of a tnile and a pretty sand beach and a new cape was formed, Three hills of scoria and sand ware also formed in the sea, atid tho lowest about 200 and tho highest about 300-feet. For three Weeks tnis terrific river disgorged itself into the sea with little abatement. Mul titudes of fishes wore killed, and the waters ol the pcean were heated for twemy mil?? alvg .1. ' mi i l.! f .1 . ...l.,ii rr,,, III fell into the sea, is about half a. $zx but in, jUAJ V I
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