Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, February 09, 1842, Image 3

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    JEFFERSONlAiV REPUBLICAN.
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Taxes refunded on Unseated Lands M. D. Robinson, tract Elias Deiter, in Pocono,
SHERIFF'S FEES.
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SamU Gunsaules, Commonwealth vs. Samuel Gross,
do vs. Ultver Jones,
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do
r I ir l- Tl..ll
s. jacoo ana jonn umi,
vs. William ,Bower,
vs. George Kiple,
vs. Charles J. Bellis,
Drawing and summoning Jurors 5 terras,
Premiums. Cash paid for Crows' heads, SO 76 do. for
Wild Cats, $10 00 do. for Foxes, $99 00,
MISCELLANEOUS.
3 00
14 62h
6 00
3 14
3 75
45 23
50
10 00
J. It. Struthers, drawing contract for bridge,
Andrew Storm, 2 cords of wood,
llobert Boys, store bill for gaol,
David Smiicy, 3 load wood,
John Vanvliet, 4117 feet plank,
"William Clements, repairs at the court house,
Robert Urown, 4 coras woou, .
w w iTaiinpfc rutting wood ana cleaninc court
H iii. a. a...-j 0
house 2 40
William Easlburn, store bill, quills, paper, &c. 7 07
James Scott, cutting w ood at court house, 50
John Keller; stationaries for court, 14 00
A. Storm, a check for S25, bad money exonerated
by Commissioners, 25 00
t nv.nih.nuTh. cuttinc wood for office. 2 50
Tomoc Srntt. "0 do 3ill
John II. Melick, making Commissioners' seal, 75
2 44
1 00
i I2h
4 57
4 10
-f5iQ0 93 70 q
109 70
' -7150
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Joseph Duesenbury, wood for court house,
Phillip Featherman, over taxed in 1830 & 40 and rc
funded
James Scott, cutting wood for office,
William P. Hallock, work done at court house,
Robert Brown, 2 load wood
J. Widmer, cutting wood for office,
Robert Brown, wood for gaol,
Peter JTcmerer, 45 bushels lime at Cherry cr. bridge,
Daniel B. Bui net, wood
William P. Hallock, cleaning court house, &c.
John Woodling, tax overpaid and refunded,
James N. Durling, 3 cushions for Judges chairs,
Joseph Wintemute, 65 brick for oven,
Dr. S- Walton, to Medical attendance on prisoners,
Samuel Deahl, building oven for Jail,
William P. Hallock, cleaning court house, tc,
Jarret Perry, cutting wood for gaol,
50
50
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00
50
45
00
83
94
00
C5
4 00
5 00
4 13
1 50197 35
TOTAL,
Treasurer s commissions on receiv
no fin on navmo-
l j -0
85670 29
,'ing S5575 94 cts. at 1 per cent. 55 75-94-40 )
xout $5670 29 " at 1 per cent. 56. 70-29-100 $ -112
Total Cr.
Total Dr.
46
$5782 7oS
5575 94
$206 81
Balance due Jacob Bush. Esq.'late Treasurer, from the county,
Examined and allowed this 26th day of January, Anno Domini, 1842.
JOHN C. BUSH. 1 JEREMY MACKEY,
JOHN SMITH. Commissioners. 11. S. STAPLES,
ELIHU POSTENS, )
Attest, J. H. Walto.v, Clerk.
Statement of the amount of Duplicates,'from the year 1S36 to the year 1842,
Auditors.
Years.
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
Collectors.
David 'Gregory
Felix Weiss
G. T. Mackey
Christian Stout
Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Geo. Labar
Jacob Hesler
Peter HurTsmith
Peter Snyder
Uodfrey Greensweig
James Turpenny
Andrew L. Storm
Michael Brown
Jacob Bisbing
George Shupp
John Rouse
Henry Moyer
James Place
Samuel Bond
Michael Brown
John Casebeer
Fred'k Eylenberger
Michal Shoemaker
Felix Weiss
Christopher Barlip
Frederick Brotzman
John Wood ling
Jonathan Coffraan
Jeremiah Galvin
Michael Brown
Henry Weiss
Henry Dietrich
Martin Place
Michael Keiser
Godfrey Greensweig
Adam Anglemy.er
John Bowman
John Dreisbach,
John Pope
Sat,:--.
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John'Hohenlheldt
John BossatS
John Smith . 1
John Siglin, sen. -John
Pipher
George jrWarner
Mich. Altemos, semi
John Kelsey
Jacob Korner
Dennis MurphyJ
Checks issued by the Commissioners, and not yet redeemed by the Treasurer.
Townships. Dup's. ay'ts Ex's. Corns. Ovp'd Bal's.
Chestnuthill 541 73 502 39 14 22 25 12
Hamilton 919 80 859 85 18 47 45 99 4 51
Pocono 207 82 159 67 2 58 45 57
Tobyhanna 104 92 26 97 77 95
Stroud G63 84 626.65 17 55 33 71 14 13 i
Stroud 68951 641r36 22 55 34 43 8 83
M. Smithfield 274 01 205 17 68 84 .
Tobvhanna 10514 41 75 63 39
Chesnuthiil 546 38 501 60 18 38 26 40
Hamilton 925 56 863 55 1C 56 45 45
Ross 437 35 403 34 12 15 21 86
Smithfield 512 30 477 47 9 70 25 13
Price 90 19 79 00 II 19
Stroud 747 50 702 66A 20 33 37 37h 12 87
Pocono 241 07 219 20 10 34 11 53
Chesnuthiil 434 79 387 50 47 29
Hamilton 627 84 482 00 145 84
Smithfield 531 66 487 93 43 73
M. 'Smithfield 275 23 256 98 5 78 12 47
Tobyhanna 208 60 100 80 107 80
Stroud 990 34 927 71 18 8149 82
Smithfield 671 67 604 00 67 67
M. Smithfield 361 84 334 59 9 65 17 60
Hamilton 895 16 69 1 90 203 26
Chesnuthiil 592 52 545 98 46-54
Ross 598 04 487 75 110 29
Tobyhanna 189 60 34 03 155 57
Pocono 323 19 299 08 9 2615 79 94
Price 120 93 '98 00 ' 2i 93
Coolbaugh 23 71 16 00 7 71
Stroud" 949 33 882 18 60 15
Chesnuthiil 600 62 487 50 113 12
.Smithfield 692 01 456 37; 235 63
M. Smithfield 360 33 175 62 1 84 71
Hamilton 857 87 673 50 181 37
Ross 607 48 406 87 200 61
Pocono 333 83 282 08 5 1 65
Price 124 61 120 54 4 07
Tobyhanna 249 03 85 00 164 03
Coolbaugh 35 76 33 38 52 1 88 1
Stroud 927 13 257 68 669 45
Hamilton 867 74 248 87 GI8 87
Smithfield 707 20 138 96 568 24
Chesnuthiil 643 64 116 00 . 527 04
M. Smithfield 399 72 128 00 271 72
Pocono 367 74 113 70 254 04
Ross 459 78 147 00 312 78
Tobyhanna 365 99 35 00 330 99
Price 159 85 159 85
Coolbaugh 44 57 44 57 3
$123 52
132 23
368 72t
613 97
1178 44A
3758 15
No,
18 John Keller.jJ $ 2 TO
154 Felix WeissfSP 4 51
216 FrancisyflSnuth, 4 00
24 J & DZimmerman, 0 23
247 John Correl. 4S 00
256 Leonaid Labar, 2 00
294 John Frederick, 5 00
30fifiVm P. Hallock, 1 00
312CL Haramann, 1116
a 02
31 c; John Kem, 4 6S 3-1
319 John Huston, 5 00
332 James Bush, 9 00
330 Phillip Greenamoyer, 50 00
239 John floram, 3 00
343 Amos Miller, 75
348 A, H. Iteeder, 40 00
351 Michael Walter, 2 50
300 Charrick Vanvliet, 1 00
301 John Kern, 18 3-4
360 Samuel Gunsaules,
368 T. J. Albright,
3C9 M. M. Dirnmick,
370 Peter .Ncyhart,
371 Daniel Stroud,
372 Joseph Fenncr,
377 John C. Bush,
379 Jacob Price,
380 Elihu Poitens,
$6195 01
8 37
25
2 00
2 00
1 00
f2 1-2
50 00
5 00
10 00
313lAnthonv Dutot.
CUMMlSdlUlVJiKo iiV auuuui i wun miu uuiii uv jtiuiwtujz.
To Check No. 23, exhonerated Andrew Storm of bad money,
By part of said money passed by Jacob Bush and accounted for above,
$5 00 bill on the Schuylkill Bank, received by Andrew Storm, Treasurer,
pood aud depreciated in value while in said Storm's hands,
Overpaid James Rafierty, for printing Trial, Argument and Jury lists for 1841,
$10 00
5 00
$25 00
'15 00
25
Balance due the County, $15 25
We the subscribers, Auditors for the county of Monroe, having carefully examined the accounts of
"the'County Treasurer, and other bounty Ullicers, anu an oooks, papers, voucners, etc. lemuug uuae
'to, do certify that we find the same correct as above stated, and that the balance due to Jacob Bush,
-late Treasur, from the county of Monroe, is two hundred and six dollars and eighty -one cents.
Witness our hands at Stroudsburg, this twenty-seventh day of """'jgy'j CVEY J
K. S. STAPLES.
Auditors.
The subscriber, one of the Auditors of the County of Monroe, having examined the" above account,
begs leave to inform the public that he cannot give his assent thereto, but must dissent from the opin
ion of the other two Auditors for the following reasons.
The Commissioners of Monroe County havo allowed the following exorbitant and illegal charges
in his opinion.
1st. Amount allowed to James 11. Walton, Jor acting as Auuuors oier ai iasi seiuemeiu
is considered illegal.
It was the duty of Mr. Walton to be in attendance there as Deputy Treasurer and Com
missioners Clerk, under his annual salary, without extra pay.
2.1. Amount paid to J. Rafierty for county printing for 1841, is considered too exorbitant by
3d. Amount allowed Andrew Storm for bad money is considered illegal.
4th. The Commissioners in the last year in the erection or repairing of a bridge (over a
creek, which the subscriber understands is called McMichael Creek, and the bridge, Jack
sonville brido-e,) near troudshurgr under theSr superintendence have paid put of the County
funds the sum of $280 67 without an oraer of inspection view as required by the' Act of As-
$15 00
60 00
25 00
sembly, which the subcribef considers
illegal.
286 6"
$386 67
Ihe subscriber is also opposed to the .manner in
which the other two Auditors have lengthened out
me account, enumerating some items in an unusu
al and very lengthy manner, which in the opinion
of the subscriber would cost the Conntv an enor
mous sum if paid for at the same rate paid for last
yeurs priming. JUJL11N iYirittYYliNE, Auditor
Stroudsburg, Monroe Co.,
January 27, 1842. j"
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroudsburg, February 9, 1842.
Terms, $2,00 in advance; $2.23, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not
Dam oeioic tne enu ot the year.
Financial ITJeetlitg-.
At a public meeting of the citizens of Mon
roe county, convened pursuant to previous pub
lic notice at the Coim-hbuse in the Borough of
Stroudsburg, on Tuesday evening, the 8th inst.
to lake into consideration mailers relative to. the
finances of Monroe county.
On motion Col. John Huston, was called to
the Chair ; Isaac Transue, Esq. John Yetter
and Sam'l Gunsaules, were appointed V. Presi
dents, and Sydenham Walton and Chas. Boys,
Secretaries. On motion John Merwine, was
called on to address the meeting, who pointed
out various matters of mismanagement of the
County Commissioners since ihe organization
of this County, such as their neglect to take
good security under Bond from the Colle'ctors
of County Taxes, therefore subjecting the Coun
ty to a chance of loss to a. great extent, as in
numerous insiances since it has been organized.
Duplicates have been handed to collectors with
out even making them sign a bond, consequent
ly they are merely charged for the amount on
book, which appears that the Law has been
utterly neglected. The Law requires the
Commissioners to take a bond with sufficient
security for the payment and performance of
Collectors of the various townships. Mr. Mer
wine also argued against the Commissioners
paying such enormous and exorbitant prices to
James Rafierty for printing the various items
for the County, some of which were paid in
direct violation of law. He also stated that
monies had been paid by the Commissioners
for building and repairing bridges, without the
work first being inspected by a Committee ap
pointed by the 'Court for that purpose, which
he contended was in violation of the act of as
sembly. He mentioned several other instan
ces of mismanagement in the Commissioners,
such as paying fees to a Clerk to assist the
Auditors in making a statement of the finances
in the former settlement, and their allowing lo
Ex-treasurers payment of the amount of spuri
ous monies received by them, which is unpre-
The Ladies' Companion.
The February number of this valuable peri
odical lias been received. As usual, it is rich,
various and entertaining. The fronticepiece
is a beautiful steel plate, a miniature of Untica,
N. Y.s and "the Fashions" are unusually fine.
Among the writers we observe the names bF
Benjamin, Ingraham, Fay, Willis, Mrs. Sigour
ney, and others of great literary fame. The
publisher is Wm. W. Snowden, 109 Fulton st.
N. Y. Teriria $3, per annum in advance.
DEPREciATiNG.The pHce of wheat in Alton
111., is eighty cents per bushel, with every
prospect of a farther decline. Indian corn is
selling at the same place at20 cents the bushel.
Curious Law. It is said that there is a law
among the Arabs which permits a man to di
vorce any of the four wives allowed him, who
do not make good bread. Fortunate for some
of the fashonables of the present dayi Ihere is
no such law in this country.
The Hon. Mr. Plumer, a Representative in
Congress from this State, is confined to his
lodgings in Washington by indisposition.
Hard Times. A lot of ready rriiide coffins
and cooling-boards, were disposed of a few
days since at auction, in Baltimore, to satisfy
a distraint for rent. The former brought 15
cents a piece, and the latter one cent. It is a
strange world this that we live in.
The Harrisburg Reporter contains a rumor,
that the Tovvanda and West Branch Banks
have closed.
cedenie'd and not legal by any means whatever.
The whole tenure of his argument went to
show that mismanagement had heretofore ex
isted in the 'affairs of our County and that it
was high time a retrenchment was effected.
James H. Walton attempted to reply to Mr.
Merwine, but the main portion of his argument
amounted to nothing more than blackguardism
and personal insinuations. From the appear
ance and actions of the fellow, some very sore
spots must have been touched with true re
marks by the proceeding speaker, and itideed
it appeared that old daddy. and all his little ones
were afraid of having something developed that
might injure one'of the dear sonnies. Any im
partial listener would have supposed that the
speaker wished to make wrong right, and to
whitewash the misdeeds of some Officials and
make the public belieVo them legal and honor
able proceedings,- or in other words, to advocate
the course pursued by former Boards of Com
missioners but tho public will and have fully
shown that this young scion has missed his
aim and caught himself in his own trap. Poor
little fellow, he stood in his own light.
Longevity.
A colored female, died at Troy, N. Y.
on
tho 22d ult., at the great age of 135 years.
She was a native of Africa, and was kidifapped
and brought to this countrv one hundred and
twenty years ago.
Mitchell at Large
is again at large. He is
emaciated.
-Charles F. Mhchell
aid to look much
The Banks of Ohio must by law resume on
the 4th of March next.
More than eight hundred Revolutionary Pen
sioners havo died during the last year.
New Couxterfeit. Princeton Bank,
Princeton $5's spurious, letter C; vignette,
Perry's Victory, which is not on the genuine
bills. Bicknell's Reporter.
Appointments by the Governor
Galvin Blythe to be President Judge of the
12th Judicial District, in the room of A. V.
Parsons, appointed Secretary of the Common-weath.
Ovid F. Johnson, Esq., Attorney General of
the Commonwealth, for the next three years.
John F. Smith, Inspector of Flour for the
city and county of Philadelphia,
Joseph 1 eager, regulator of weights and
measures for Philadelphia.
Peter Rambo, Health ofneer for the port of
Philadelphia.
The time for the presentment of the bills of
the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of JNew
Brunswick has been extended to three months
from the 26th ult., after which lime they will not
be paid by the Receivers. Those having bills
on that Bank would do well to present them
immediately. The Receivers are Peter Spa
der and John Van Dyke.
Mild Winters. The Lancaster Intelligencer
notices the coincidence, that mild winters have
happened at a regular periodical distance of
twenty-six years, af follows : 1686, 1712, 17-
38, 1764, 1790, 1916, 1842.
Disgraceful. In the Ohio Legislature dn the
22d ult., a petition for divorce was presented.
when a " Mr. Byngton inquired if it would be in
order to move that the petition be sent to
HELL I! Mr. McNully moved that thegen
tlemanfrom Pike be appointed the special messen
ger jor its despatch !
Mail Robbery. The Cincinnati republican
says that the mail from Lexington -to that cily,
that left on the morning of 22d, was robbed at
Florence, Ky., by the Postmaster at that place,
Will iam Hunter.
For the first lime since its erection lbs
White House at Washington has been tfiH
year the scene of a funeral and a svedding.
Kather Mysterious.
The New York Tribune says, that on the
16lh of August last, a Mr. NeAVberry; Practi
cal Phrenologist, leased and moved iiiiU ffn
rodm in the granite building diredily over ilSai
occupied by John C. Golt. He had benu theri
but a few days, when a gentleman, wIuhh
name he does not know, but whum he thinks
he should recognize, called at his room, exnift
ined several skulls, and in the course of a con
versation on kindred subjects, inquired very
particularly as to the precise part of the human
head where a blbw would be most effective in
producing ihsiant death. Mr. N. told him that
it was just behind and above ihe ear. It is
now regarded as note-worthy that ihe fdcull of
Samuel Adams vVds found lo be pierced at that
very spot.
Pardoned. Twii Germans in the interior
of Pennsylvania tiam'sU Abraham and William
Kromer, were in 1836 stJniertcpd to ihe State
Prison for mail robbery. Their term expired
in December last, but they were kept in Pris
on for costs until recently, when they, werti
pardoned by President Tyler. Though ihey
had been in the same prison for the whole termr
they had never seen each other's face. Their
meeting was extremely affecting; they rushed
into each other's arms add Wept bitterly. Du
ring their imprisonment they became attached
to their Bibles; and have both resolved, iit
the strdngth of Christiarl principle, Id lead
lives of virtue. They had scarcely got but of
prison when they accidently met a cousin; id
whom they made known their feelings aiid
resolutions. After salislyihg himself as uf
their sincerity, he gave each df them a farith
near his own in Indiana, and enabled ihem to be
come useful to their familes and the communitv.-
N. Y. Tribune. '
Philadelphia Banks
The Philadelphia Banks (the Girard and
Pennselvania) have agreed upon the following
arrangements in order the more effectually to
meet the present pressure
1. The Banks to issue their own notes' ex
clusively df the denomination of $20 and up
wards. 2. The Banks to riiake daily excharige's
with each other.
3. Balances to be seitled weekly, of bftchefj
at the option of the creditor; bank; to be paid
in specie, or up to the 1st of March, in corrimer
cial bills, not having more than 45 days to run;
after the 1st of March, not exceeding 30
days tb fun; to be approved by the creditor
bank, and guaranteed by the debtor bank.
4. A safety fund is also to be created thus:
the banks of largest capital are to deposite
$100,000 each, and those of a smaller capital,
$50,000 each, in the hands' of Trustees, each
Bank to choose one trustee, and the whole to
form a board. The above sums to be in specie,
Treasury notes, or equally satisfactory. On
the default of any bank the Trustees to have
power to convert the securities to such an ex
tent as to pay the defalcation; and tho defalt
ing bank to be hereafter excluded from the arrangement.
5. To resdme specie payment on the 1st of
AugfiSf.
After fhe adoption t)fa few further resolu-
tioris, not of general interest, the delegates ad
journed.
The receipts of the American Board of Mis
sions during the month of December, were
$28,296. Total from August 1 to December
31st, $144,084.
Bankrupt Law Anticipated.
On Wednesday, 200 insolvents are said
to have passed our insolvent court, and by their
discharge, it is estimated that on an average
each cancelled debts to the amount of $1000,
making an aggregate of $200,000. Phil, Ledg.
Tho damage done by the fire at East Bos
ton is estimated to amount lo $17,QQ0.
liepdrt of the Canal Ctfmmission'esV
We have at length received this document,
and. we are free to say, that it more than real
izes our worst fears; The following are the
demands it makes upon an empty Treasury:
Tb pay debts due for repairs
and to contractors. 81,60-1,41577 3-4
Amount required for repairs
next year, 200;00Ct)0
To complete Erie Extension,
North Branch, and Wis-
conisco Canal: l,919,3d4 49 1-4
$3,720;919 27
required by the
' To which add the s'urri
Governor to pay the Banks on the Repeal of
the relief bill, and amounting to upwards of
$1,700,00, and we have the snug little sum of
Five Millions four huxdred thousand
dollars and upwardsl
. Wrong in 1831, and in 1812.
If the scenes which now disgrace the Kail of
the House of Represenatives in Washington,
were acted in England and France, we should
copy the report as something at which our readers .
smile, while they condemned the actors But
when they are found at home found in the Nation
al Assembly of a young Republic, we are bound to
weep over the "events as evidences of that shadW
which coming anarchy casts before it.
1 he bouthern members now start appalled at the
mention of the dissolution bf the Union, when it is
made by a Northern member. They now find
treason in the language.. They seem to forget how
flippant they conversed of such things ten years
ago, ond how coolly they sat down, and calculated
the advantages of the Union. But Mr. Adams also
-we say it with all the respect and reverence for
his age and wisdom which thev deserve Mr-
Adams forgets the loud execrations with which the-
eastern and middle States citizens visited those of
the South, who talked balfrily of such a course.
And those who would be" consistent or just, must
not auopt as tneir own course, the plan which they
loudly and unaualifiedlv condemned in nthers
Every word of df condemnation which was, in.
1831, uttered against the Southern members
for talking of a dissolution of tho Union, is due.
and ought to be given, to the Northern man
who, in 1S42, utters the same language. U. S.
Gazette.
DIED,
In Hamilton tsp., Monroe Co., on Sarurday
iho 5th inst., Jacob Keller about 2 J years of
age.
SIX CENTS REWARD.
Ranaway from the subscriber living in Stroud
township, Monroe county, on the wight of tha
8lh inst., an indented apprenticed uegro boy
to tho farming business, named
Edward Thomas Gross.
Said boy is ahout 13 years old, thick and heavy
set had oi a hair cap, linsey roundabout and
drab colored cloth pantaloons. All persons are
forbid harboring or trusting him on my account.
Tho above reward will be paid, but no charges.
if said boy is brought back or lodged in any
gaol. ROBERT BROWN.
February 9, 1842. 3t.
Administrators' Notice
Notice is hereby given to all those iud'ebteJ
tb the estate of GEORGE GETZ, late of Ross
township, Monroe county, deceased', either by
bond, note or book account, are requested to
make payment, and all those having demands
against said estate are requsied to present them
duly authenticated for settlement. Tho Aa
miuislrators will attend at tha late residence of
George Gels, dee'd, on' Saturday the 22d day
of January next, to settle the accounts of said
estate.
CONRAD GETZ, Sen.
JACOB GRONER.
Adminisirnthr
Koss tsp., December 29, 1841. 6tv