JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Slroudsburg, October 20, 1841.
Terms, $3,00 in advance; $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not
paid oeioic me enu 01 mc Tear.
The Ladies' Companion
The October number of this valuable period
ical has been received. It is beautifully em- Consul of the United Stales for the city of Li
beliished with a view of Lake. George and a
plate of fashions for October. The reading
matter is as usual of an excellent character.
Some of the best writers of the dav have con
tributed to this number.
OFFICIAL.
Appointments by the President
John C. Spencer, of New York, to be Sec
retary for the Department -of War.
William B. Hodgson, of the District of Co
lumbia, to be Consul of the United Slates for
the cfcy and kingdom of Tunis
Francis J. Grjnb, to bo Consul of the U
S. for the port of Bremen
Samuel J. Douglass, to be Judge of the U
S. for the Middle District of Florida.
John G. Wat-hough, Surveyor of the Rev
enue at Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Heap, transferred from the Con
sulate of the United States at Tunis, to be
Drogoman to the Legation of the United Slates
at the Sublime Porte.
F. L. Castelneau, of New York to "be
ma, in Peru, in the placeof-Edwin, Barilett, re
signed.
John H. Peebles, ot .Pennsylvania, to be
Consul of the United States for the port of Cam
peche, in Mexico, in the place of John Lewis
McGregor, deceased.
THE
EJECTION Iff PENNSYLVA
NIA.
JJj3 We give returns of the Gubernatorial
election in this State, as far as heard from.
MAJORITIES.
Governor, 1841.
Philadelphia City,
Philad. County,
Berks,
York,
Delaware,
Cumberland,
Bucks,
Lancaster,
Chester,
Franklin,
Dauphin,
Northampton,
Lehigh,
Lebanon,
Montgomery,
Mifflin,
Lycoming,
Northumberland,"
Perry,
Adams,
Monroe,
Schuylkill,
Columbia,
Juniata,
Centre, rep.
Bedford, "
Westmoreland,
Union,
Huntingdon, '
Alleghany, in.pait,
Porter.
3510
4570
1332
700
400
218
1167
228
1263
257
930
1034
963
1024
950
1500
200
900
200
2000
Banks.
1467
301
3164
250
375
293
368
From the Journal of Commerce.
Ac quilt a. I of Alexander Mcleod.
It is with great satisfaction we announce to
our readers the acquittal of Alexander McLeod.
The verdict of the jury to this effect was brought
into Court, at Utica, on Tuesday afternoon, af
ter an absence of about half an hour. The
Charge of Judge Gridley was decidedly favor
able to the prisoner, and on the whole, both
ihe Court and Jury, as well as the people of
Utica and vicinity, have acquitted themselves
with .honor in this matter; having treated the
prisoner with all candor, and given him the ben
efit of every circumstance tending to his advan
tage. Uur lteporter informs us that ne neer
attended a Court, either in this country or Eu
rope, where every thing was conducted with
more entire order and decorum. Not the slight
est indication appeared, either beforo or after
the prisoner's acquittal, of any disposition to in
sult him, much less to commit any act of vio
lence upon him. We trust the good people of
England, who have been so ready to imagine
evil against us in respect to the ultimate safety
of McLeod, will now see that iheir suspicions
were without foundation. To be sure, the shield
of the British government has boen in a sense rents
thrown over him, and doubtless a becoming re
gard has been paid to that circumstance by the
Court and people. But if Americans were the
cut-throats which they have been represented
to be by their dear friends in England and in , connexion with Gen
know was in array against the Government in
Guadalara, were received by the Chamber of
Deputies on the 31st August, and from Gener
al Santa Anna and ihe Governor of Vera Cruz,
the reading of which caused great excitement,
and on the 1st September a part of the garrison
rose in arms ana obtained possession ol various
A JLeiier from Major own i sag.
From the New York Express.
To ihe Editors of the New York Express, ihe
same paper my old friend Mr. Dvight, print
ed a spell ago
Washington, 7th Oct. 1841.
Mr. Editors
1 in ' rn 1 i
r , i .nt i I ivir. iuuors i anu captain j viernave ueen
. " t " j"-- j thinking and talking considerably about this
"Currency question, and "I'iscalities, and
emergency, invested me .President, liusta
mente) with extraordinary power, who had de
clared the city in a stale ol a siege, and called
upon the military chiefs to support him. At
the last accounts the city of Mexico was partly
in possession of the insurgents, and partly in
that of the troops of the Government.
Vera Cruz had recommended the esiablish-
liTiQnt of a junta, whose firt duty should be "to
designate tne individual wnose wen Knovn and
heroic services to his country rendered him
worthy of exercising the executive power."
The choice will no doubt fall on Santa Anna.
The insurgent forces were advancing on the
capital, and it would appear that the odds are
greatly against the- President, Bustamente, and
ihe regularly established government
The Censor of the 10th contains a spirited
communication from Gen. bantu Anna, dated
8th, to the Governor of the Department, in the
nature of a manifesto, in which he denounces
the acts of President Bustamenie, and declares
his cordial adhesion to the "plan" of Gens.
Paredes and Valencia.
The Censor of the 14ih contains a still lon
ger communication Irom Lien, banta Anna to
Gen. Almonte, (Bustamenie's right hand man)
dated Fort Perote, Sept. 9th, complaining par
ticularly of the course of the President m de
claring the capital in a state of siege, placing
himself personally at the head of the army, and
subjecting the civil power to the military. He
concludes by saying, "! accuse ydu and His
x. Gen. Bustamentej of having violated the
Constitution in the matters spoken of, and in
consequence thereof, I no longer acknowledge
the authority of said General, either as the
Head of the Army or as President of the Re
public, nor do I acknowledge you as the legit
imate organ of the government for communica
tions relative to the ministry of war."
The "plan of Paredes," as it is called, i. e.
the revolutionary project broached by that Gen
eral in the laiier of August, finds many adhe-
I he departments of Vera Cruz, Guan-
axuaio, Queretaro, Zacatecas, &c. are repre
srnted to have pronounced in favor of the move
ment. Gen. Paredes, by the last accounts, was
in Guanaxuato, at the head of 4000 men, in
uortazan l nere were
630
650
613
Xegislatixre.
Canada, even the shield of the British Empire
would not have protected him
The issue of this trial must be a subject of
congratulation to all the lovers of peace; as it
removes at once the most imminent source of
danger to the pacific relations of this country
with England. The release of Col. Grogan by
the Canadian authorities, on rinding that he had
been seized within the American territory, is
Senate.
"Whig. Loco Foco. another auspicious omen: and it is devoutly to
Philadelphia city 2
Philadelphia county,
Adams, Franklin, and Cum
.berland,
Dauphin and Lebanon, T
Monroe, Luzerne, Wayne and"'
Pike.
House.
Philadelphiacity, 7
Philadelphia county,
Lancaster, 6
Delaware, -1 '
Chester, 2
Montgomery, . w.
Bucks, . ;
Berks,
Lehigh, ...
Dauphin, . r'juf
Cumberland,
Franklin,
Perry,
Adams,
Nonhampton &ndJMonro,
Lebanon,
York,
Lycoming,
Schuylkill,
Northumberland,
Columbia,
Centre,
"Westmoreland,
Huntingdon,
Mifflin, Juniata and Union,
"Wayne and Pike,
be hoped that the remaining subjects of differ
ence will soon be removed or adjusted, and that
thus the two countries will be -restored to a
condition, not of peace merely, but of cordial
and enduring friendship.
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An Exciting; Scene at the Mcleod
Trial.
An able correspondent of the Albany Even-
rumors thai Tampico had pronounced, but this
is doubtful.
2Sew-Jersey. .
We have received sufficient reports from N
Jersey, to renier pretty certain the triumph of
the Whigs in the recent Election. General
"Wall, the great Loco Foco Senator, has- been
beaten in his own county.
Maryland Election.
Full returns from every County in this Stale
have been received; they authenticate the elec
tion of Hon. Francis Thomas as the Governor
elect of Maryland, by a majority of 505.
The House of Delegates will consist of 36
Whigs and 43 Opposition members not in
cluding the tie in Queen Anne's.
The Whig majority in the Senate still secures
a Whig majority on joint ballot.
Daniel Payne, the lover of Mary Rogers,
was found dead on Friday 8ih inst., at Hoboken,
near where the body of the unfortunate girl was
found, under circumstances which induce tho
belief that he. committed suicide.
The jury of inquest reported that he died of
congestion of the brain.
Peter W. Blair,, Jr., has been sentenced to
Wo years at hard labor in the Penitentiary Cor
breaking out of the Morristo-wn jail.
ter some of the most important passages in the
speech for the defence, recently delivered by
Mr. Spencer. It is stated that "he unravelled
the contradictions and discrepancies of the wit.
nesses on the part of the prosecution in a most
masterly manner. He charged direct and
pointedly on them the commission of " the
blackest perjury that ever disgraced a trial,
since the sun shone upon Christendom." He
declared that he knew the testimony had been
all got up for the occasion. The four learned
counsel, who were here conducting the prose
cution, were but a corporal's guard, compared
wun tne mighty host who were the getters up
and conductors of this prosecution. Witnosses
were raked together from all creation, and
drilled in this city, in what he must denomin
ate "Committee Rooms," as to what they must
swear. Aeam. he said that he knew thai the
men who had banded themselves together to
get up evidence to convict McLeod and involve
this country in a war with England, were sunk
deep enough in depravity to collect together
any number of deliberate and wilful perjurers,
who would swear to any thing which would be
required to make out their case. "I," said Mr.
Spencer, "make no exceptions when I make
this charge." Here Mackenzie, who sat di
rectly in front of the council, commended laugh
ing. "Yes, sir," said tho speaker, fixing his
eagle eyes upon him, "i wish it to be clearly
understood, that I make no exception whatever
when I make this chargo. Some of iheso men
now hear me, and I desire them to hoar me re
peat, that I firmly believe every one of them is
wicked enough to stop at nothing which will in
any degree tend to bring about their darling,
object." Mackenzie nodded his complimentx
to Mr. Spencer, and immediately commenced
writing down this withering remark of tho
counsel. The whole audience understood to
whom allusion was made, and every oye was
turned upon Mackenzie "
tATER FROM MEXICO.
Revolt of Santa Anna against the
Government
The barque Ann Louisa, captain Clifford, ar
rived yesterday from Vera Cruz, having sailed
on the I9ih Sept. We are indebted to the
Captaiu for files to the Mth Sept.
Our previous accounts had prepared us for
tho intelligence we now receive, Cominun;
cations from General Paredes, who we aire.
Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.
Washington, Oct. 11, 1841.
Mr. Wicklifib, Postmaster General, and
Judge Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, arrived
In town to-day. J. C. Spencer received his?
commission as Secretary of War also to-day,
and has already affixed his seal to the commis
sion of Mr. Tyson, as Commissary General of
Purchases, in the placo of General Irvine, who
died only yesterday. We cannot say that in
this instance Mr. Tyler has been slow in action
would that he had always been as prompt.
Mr. Webster is the only member of the Cab
inet absent from Washington.
The address of the Syracuse Convention, it
is rumored, is not welt received at tne white j
pre
sent to be sure; but rumor speaks loudly of the
feelings of President Tyler.
A laughable incident occurred to-day at the
War Office. The Clerk presented Mr. Spen
cer his Commission, when to his surprise he
found that instead of being appointed Secreta
ry of War, to obtain which office he had been
obliged, as he says, to sacrifice his political as
sociations in Albany, he was in fact constituted
"Major General and Commander-in-Chief of
the United States Army." He handed back
the Commission the Clerk having by mistake
taken a wrong blank!
things of that natur; and this seems to be the
notion that we cotne to, and twist it and turn.il
as we may, we always land at the same pint
In the first place, Captain Tyler keeps an eye
on the good old Constitution, and the darker
the night and the harder the wind blows, and
the crookeder the Channel,' there you will find
him watching the" Constitution just as close as
Contain Junmer of the "Two Pollies" used to
watch the cumpuss in the binacle.
1 was telling- him t'other day that some folks
were making a terrible and shocking noise
C"5 -
about hi3 Vetoes, and if we did not look out
sharp they would run us ashore. "Well," says
ho "Major, if we no on shore on the tack we
are steering, we shall go constitutionally, and
that's one comfort." "There" says 1, "(hat's
putty much what Captain Jumper tell'd me one
stormy nisht off Cape Hattrass. The "Two
Pollies" was plunging along, heading about N.
E. close in the wind's eye and I asked Cap
tain Jumper if he couldn't ease off a leetle and
let her go more free, for the deck was plagy
wet." "Not a pint," says he, "or we go plump
on ihe Cape." And then he took another look
at the Chart and cast his eye at the binacle.
"Well," says I, "Captain Jumper, suppose that
Chart and Cumpuss aint true," says I, "how
then." "Why" says he, "if accident comes it
aint so much my fault as the misfortune of own
ers, and underwriters;'" and he "hung, on that
lack like a dog at a root. As soon as I telled
this story to Captain Tyler, "well" says he
"Major, did the T wo Pollies go on shore or
not that time?" "No," says I, "she went clear
and as slick as a ribbon, and the next morning
that pesky Cape was away astarn of us."
And now as to Capt. Tyler's notion about
"currency matters," he says that a "National
Currency" and a "State Currency" out to be of
that natur that will work together just as a
National Law and State Law works together
he don't want to see a "National Currency" de
stroy good State Currency, ho more than he
vant3 to see National Law destroy good Slate
Law; but if any State Currency is not good
then a good National Currency ought to destroy
it just as a bad State Law ought tu be destroy
ed by a good NatiUhal Law. Law and Curren
cy, he says, are pretty mucn one and the same
thing in one respect that is, we must have Na
tional Law for all the States, and State Law (or
each particular State just as we must have a
good National Currency for the use of Govern
ment and folks who trade and travel over all
the States, and good State Currency in every
State for those who deal only in their own
State, any man using both or either according
to their notions or necessities bbl to say that
folks in any particular State shall use National
Currency and not their own Stale Currency
or so fixing National Currency, as to umieccssa
rily injure good State Gurrency "it seems to
me," says he "that it would be about the same
as to so shape National Law as Id prevent folks
from using their own good State Laws. Now,
says he, "my notion and desire is so tb shape
this National Currency matter as to make it
Co23, the Murderer.
A correspondent of the Boston Aths
l u.ne leanii Wial Unit, the murdiTH- r
Ailnmv lh iinninr i ui
, . jiuau inai comes on sj.()
ly in New York, was formerly a student of tf
University of Vermont at Burlington. l 13
or 1831, he studied the course of mathe,,, .
and was quite a proficient in that bram-h of e(j'
ucation. He was a vory quiet, gile;ail
fellow represented himself as an heir t0
large fortune, to bo left to him bv his granjfat
ther, who resided at Hartford, Conn. ie
in College, he was very much esteemed bv I, .
classmates, and was a young gentlemen uenc.
rally supposed to bo of a very amiable dim.
lion. During one of the vacations, he traveILt
to Detroit, Green Bay, and to other places ia
the West, and gathered many and various 1,.
dian curiosities, which he presented 10 tho Mu.
seum of the University on his return to Burlinj.
on. The writer of this remembers the do
harness "presented by J. Caldwell Colt of
iiariiord, and other curiosities presented by
him. These facts, are unimportant to mnV
but to a few this gossinrv may not be eutir,.tJ
devoid of interest." .
'! I. :.. I - . 11 1 rM. 1 ri
inP Journal, condenses into an interesting let- I House. We have no roaring H .here at ore- w"rH ,m.r w" ? g00Q 0 ale gurrency,
Attempted Insurrection.
We yesterday learned from an undoubted
source, that a plan was recently laid in South
Carolina, near Purysburg, by some negroes to
ri3o and kill their masters. It was however
discovered, as is the general fate of such evil
machinations, in season to frustrate the hellish
design. On Wednesday night last, Mr. Zandt
heard three of his own negroes and one belong
ing to a neighboring plantation, knock ai his
door, and on listening, he overheard enough to
convince him that some villainy was on foot,
and did not admit them. The next morning he
had the negroes arrested, when they confessed
it was their design 10 have killed Mr. Z. the
moment ho opened the door, for which purpose
one of them was provided with an axe. They
then intended to proceed 10 tho residence of
Mrs. Williams and kill her, and so on to the
next neighbor,
On their examination, the four negroes im
plicated several others who were concerned
with them, and nine in all wero put on their
trial. Our informant thinks the four ringlead
ers will be hung and the rest severely punished.
Of the negroes arrested, three belong to Mr.
Zandt, three la Mrs. Williams, two-to Mr. Har
doe, and one to the estate of Yeomans.
Much excitement prevailed in the neighbor
hood, but when our informant left, the alarm
hnd in some degree Mihsided. Savannah Republican.
A rulorrd man waa recently hilled at St.
'Catherine, 1J. C. li .seems that n friend of his
was about to marry a white girl. The object
of ihe mob was to lynch the intended bride
groom, but he made his escape whonahey as-
aultpd another man with clubs, stones,- ,&c.
and killed him almost in&tantlv.
and then all things will so smooth. The Gen
eral Government must have a safe bridge to go
over all the streams in the Union that is con
stitutional, and there is no objection to let all
the folks in all the States go over the same
bridge if they so desire it but to say that they
must go over our bridge, or so fix our bridge as
to make it impossible for them to pass over by
any of their own, is not constitutional, neither"
is it constitutional fdr any of the States to say
that the General Government shant build this
bridge for its own safe crossing in any of the
States, because the General Government, (which
belongs to all the people,) must have a safe
crossing place at any rate and as the General
Government can't regulate the building of State
Bridges nor their toll gates, it must look 10 its
own safety and build a bridge of its own, and
safe and strong enuf for its own crossing and all
creation besides it, if they chusc to use it and
don't injure it. And now, says he, "if Congress
can't fix ihis "Currency matter31 on this principle
it aint my faulr that is the "chart and cumpus "
Says he "Major, the Constitution points out for
my guide, and if we leave that tack wo may
perhaps have a dryer deck for a short spell, and
go with a flowing sail but we shall fetch up on
Cape Hattrass beforo morning."
" Well," says I, "Captain Tyler, that is what
I call considerable sound doctrine and tho' the
wind is just now blowing right in our teeth on
the tact we are steering, I hope all good and
considerate folks will look at the chart we are
steering by, and come to the same notion I have
come to, and that is, that tho' a hard wind is a
plaguy hard thing, yet that breakers and a rocky
shore arc a confounded deal harder.
1 intended to say something in this Letter
about the real natur and duty of the "great Whir
party," as I see there is considerable of '-great
cominoiion- motion motion, the country
through," (according to the good old song,) but
I must leave this mailer for the next Letter
only reminding fori0&? that iho wizzitrg noise
they hoar is-only the escaping of extra sieam,
not bunting 0f ij,e biler? and also to remember
that whvu a pot biles over, ii is very api to put
out the fire under it- so the evil cures itself;
and that's all for the present from
Your friend and fellow citizen,
J. DOWNING, Major, &c. &c.
Bund Staggers. Haifa pint of hog's lard
melted and poured down; a sheep,, will cure the
blind staggr2 in ten minutes.
2readt'ul Shipwreck.
FORTY-ONE LIVES LOST.
We learn from the Quebec Gazette that ihn
bark Amanda, Captain Davis, rum Limerick
bound to Quebec, went ashore at Little Metis
Point on the 26:h tilt. She had 40 passenger
on board, and a crew of 18. Of the former 29
and of the latter 12 wero lost. .We give tli0
names below:
Passengers lost. Stephen Rennals, County
of Clare; James Slaterry, Patrick Clancy, Ann
Murray, Mary Hall, Mary Hall, (aged 60) John
Htnchey, Margaret Hinchev, John Hinchcy,
Maria Hinchey, Frederick Harden, Daniel
Carney, Margaret Carney, Mary Carney, Dan
iel Carney, Jeremiah Cannnrs, Catharine Lus-
tace, of Limerick; John O'Brien, of County of
Clare; Mary Cummins, Bridget Cummins, Ca'h-
arine Cummins and Michael Cummins, of tho
County of Galway; Julia Crawley and Pairick
O'Neill of Clare, and Thomas Kennedy of
Dingle 29.
Male adults lost, 1 1; female adults lost, 12
total adults 23; children lust, 6 total pasan
gers lost, 29.
Crew lost. Patrick BlaKe, 1st mate; James
Mclndry, carpenter; Michael Higarty, cook;
ohn r uley, steyvard; David Kcefe, John Gra
ham, Thomas Allen, Patrick Shannon, Thomas
Iarte and John Hayncs, seamen; James Qu
ack and Francis Johnson, apprentices. To
tal ere v.' lost, 12.
E,oz2!ok Post Office.
The extent of the operations in thi3 ofiko
may be conjectured, from the number of men
employed. There are S24 letter receivers, and
724 letter carriers. Including Clerks and oth
ers directly employed, not less lhan 1903 per
sons are connected with tho London Post Of
fice. The loiter receivers pass about certain
districts of the city, and receive letters in a bag,
through an opening similar to the one at the
Post Office. For each letter, the receiver gets
a penny, and thd bag cannot bo opened, except
by those authorized by the Government. Tho
postage on a letter weighing half an ounce, 13
one penny. JE very additional half an ounce, is
charged with an additional half penny. This
is the rate of postage to every part of Great
Britain. Newspapers are not subject to post
age, provided they are mailed within eight days
after ihey are printed. The franking privilege
is entirely abolished, as it should be in this
country, or materially restricted. The average
number of letters daily posted in London, 13
80,370. The same of ncyvspapers is 85,510.
The number of Post Offices in the United King
dom, is 393S. The mails for every part of the
country leave the General Post Office in Lon
don daily, Sunday excepted, at 8. P. M., and
all are expected to arrive at 6 A. M. The Lon
don Post Office is not open for the delivery of
letters, or the reception or delivery of Mails on
Sunday. North American.
Buried Alive Almost, not
quits. The Now Orleans Picayune
says A scene strange as any found
ed on fiction occurred in this city on
Sunday last. We will give it in the
words of the gentleman who furnish
ed ns with the fact. His veracity
and its truth may be relied on.
It appear that a young Spaniard
was lying in the last stages of yellow
fever, next door to the printing otTica
of Mr. G., in Chartres- street. The
physician, Dr. B., was sent for, but
before his arrival, the young man had
ceased to live, according to the opin
ions of those in the house, so that
when he arrived he found his patient
covered with a white linen, and re
ported as dead. That very eveiu:
they washed and cleansed the younj
man, and having put on his burial
dress, they laid him on his bed until (
the morning. In the morning a cofiin
was got, and all the necessary prepar
ations were made. He was then ta
ken and put into his cofiin, but no soon
er was he di opped in it than he jumped
np and asked where they were going
to place him. They .then conducted
him in a carriage -to a colored nurse
woman's house. He is yet very sick,
but may perhaps; live. It appears that
he was in a state of lethargv,
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