JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. f m it JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Strosidsbrsrs, February 23, 1842. Terms, ??,eo in advance; 2,25, half yearly; and $2,50 if not iwid bcfoie the end of the vear. Mr. Editor: Please give the following an insertion. Mount Pocointo, Monroe County, ) February 1 8th 1842. 5 The Monroe 'Democrat of the 12th February arrived at this office to-day, being the 6th day after its publication. It appears that its editor must have been much hurt and had some sore spots touched at the County Meeting on the 8th inst. if we. are to judge from the bowlings of the loJiow in lus mighty engine. 1 am inclined to I think that on the present occasion this tool has produced more editorial than has issued from the interloper in one year past. I have often observed that a reproachful look at a guilty cur, would make him whine, and a mere motion to cast sonuxhing at him cause him to growl furi ouslyit appaars to ha'.'c had that effect upon honest Jimmy. The fellow has in my opinion applied thevrong panacea to heal the wounds he alledges haie.been inflicted upon his dear and honest character, by mv observations at the ' , " , .! county meeting. 1 felt very delicaie upon ihat occasion about ihe mere mention of a persons name, and avoided a!! personalities,' never men tioning any persons name in my public re marks, unless it became absolutely necessary to point out seme item paid by the Commis sioners in violation of law; but this poor crea ture sys I. tore scabs off some old sores that might otherwise have healed without public surgical aid. Indeed I pity the poor creature for the course he has adopted in this matter, forcing as it must and should a reply from me, to the many moanings of poor honest Jimmy, whose honor and honesty has been so very se verely wounded, and received such severe thrusts according to his learned and elaborate jiuce of Editorial, which must have caused the poor fallow a deal of labour and head work, keeping hii employed from the 8th to the 16th rast., if I may be allowed to judge from tlie nine his engine appeared at this office. I fear the growth of ihe fellows whiskers have injured his brain, for it docs appear that a piece of edito rial of the lengih of thai contained in the Monroe Democrat could be frnmed in less than eijiht da)vs by a man who boasts of being the bearer of all ihe Democracy of Monroe county, were his faculties unimpaired. Upon a second re flection I am inclined to think ihe fellow must have been injured in intellect, at the county meeting or somewhero else, or silence would have been preserved by him." Upon this occa sion he has exactly opened the door to let out truth, upon his devoted head, as he lerms it in his fine piece. He says he could not get an opportunity of vindicating his honesty at the count meeting. Why not Jimmy I It must have been the sting of a guilty conscience, a lack of oratorical ability, or a disordered mind, that occasioned the gentleman to neglect a pub lic vindication of his dear aud honest character at the count' meeting, as every one knows who was present that free discussion was tolerated by the meeting. Let us now proceed to the examination of Mr. Rafferty's objection to the speech made by me at the County Meeting. He says I de nounced his charges of printing for the Coun ty, and said- they were extravagant, and pro duced a letter, from 2orthauipton county, giv ing a scale of prices of printing for ihe County, only part of which he soys I read to the Meet ing, .leaving them to infer that the County print ing ncost Northampton less than $50,00. To bhowjproof of this limit er he gives a mean sum of the amount paid by ihe Commissioners of i thatiSoumy for irinting in 1841, and further !: that my character for lruth and veracily is djuoiful, &c. The sum paid by Northampton says is $3'1S 82. It happens that I now have a copy fore me, and of a hue Northampton paper be- j themselves in their individual capacity ma wilt proceed to test the matter in !kinS fn Sf"e a half years the ' : cum nf Sfifif) OfU ' M, ir .i:. ordrr to lei ihe public sec, whose character is trobi reproachful, honest Jimmy's or my own. here annex a civ of the-letter received from Easten, containing prices of printing. Si:: I find that our Comtltisslohors have Ipaid Printers as follows: For JSIeciitw .ProclaaHn (General Iv lection) $.16,00 3,00 30,00 25,00 fin. do Presidenlifl Court Prockmaiiti, each' tnh $2,50, rtajiing per year PuthcaMoa W County apcoufli, $5,00 A !1 f u hich I' Ware- iiJifc Meeting on the 8th instant. With respect to the sum of $348 82 paid by Northampton, I will examine that matter. She pays a portion to each and every printer m the County. There arc in that Coun ty five printing offices, viz: Democrat & Argus, Northapton Cor RESPONDENT, SENTINEL & MESSENGER, EaS- ton Whig, and Mauch Chunk Courier, ma king live news papers, eaoh and every one of i .t . . wnuin receiveu a ponton ot tins 5?a4b,o2. iJi- viue mis sum ty o, the number of papers and it gives to each one the sum of $69 76, thus plainly snowing that 1 was correct m my re marks at the County Meeting and that the let ter there read by me contained nothing but truth, ucing 5o4 uu tor the large items of printing, to wnicli add small necessary advertising and blanks, and it woujd raise the amount to $69 76. In the Northampton statement some prin ters received more than others, which is in consequence of having printed more blanks than their neighbors. I remarked in my speech that the Commissioners had paid RafFerty too exorbitant prices, and some illegal fees and I sav so still, and am able to maintain it. I shall now point out a few matters which would have remained dormant had the fellow been easy, but he has brought these matters out upon his devoted head himself. I here annex a state ment of monies paid him (since the organiza tion of our County) by ihe Commissioners in violation of law. Not having a list of each years accounts before me, I shall therefore con fine myself to his charges in 1841. Publishing list of Grand and Fetit and jurors to February term, $5,00 Trial list, 3,00 Argument list, May term 2,50$10 00 There are fovfr courts qach year therefore ""P'V w mme t amT . , ' vear to the sum of $42 00 then multiply that sum by 4 1-2, ihe lime since December court 1836 up to the passage of the grab act last March, and it produces the sum of $IS9 00 illegally paid by the Commissioners to honest Jimmy, while Printers in other counties per form the same labour gratis; as the law did not allow the payment thereof in any county in this Commonwealth, until honest Jimmy and a few others of grab game memory petioned the Le gislature for a legalization of this kind of plun der, and last March a special resolution was passed to that effect, though it reduced honest Jimmy's compensation from forty-two to twenty-five dollars, which I am informed was ef fected by the manly principle of a member from another county moving a reduction of this grab resolution, by which means the fellow was cur-1 tailed in his charges of this item for time to come. But what does he do in the matter ? Why no Jury, Trial or Argument list appeared in his paper for December term to my recol lection, and yet after reducing some previous grab act charges, he still over-runs the $25 00. Tax payers of Monroe county what think you of this kind of conduct? Does Jimmy RaiTer ty appear as honest in your opinion as he would wish to make himsefF? I think not. You will recollect this sum of $lS9 00has been paid by the Commissioners to honest Jimmy with out any law allowing the payment thereof. What has been received since the grab resolu tion become a special law for poor Monroe is not mentioned. At the settlement for 1810, RafFerty's bill of County printing amounted to $247 00 and upwards. I suppose he has re ceived a sum amounting upon an average to about $200 00 per year since our County has been organized. I think I have shown to the public sufficiently plain, that each Printer of Northampton county receives less than $100 00 per annum, and be it remembered that North ampton possesses about five times as many tax ables as little Monroe, consequently the Blanks made use of must amount to upwards of five times the amount used in Monroe. Northamp ton has also a Poor-House, which takes a deal of printing. Northampton recehes and pays out annually from $3C,000 to $50,000, while little Monroe never exceeds $6,000, plainly showing that Monroe accordingly ought not to pay more than about $80,00 per annum for printing all matters. But says lioncst. Jimmy I am the bearer of all the Monroe county De mocracy! and ought to receive as much as all the five Editors in Northampton, although my county is composed of only about one fifth the number of tax payers that Northampton is, and receives and puys out only about one seventh part of the amount that her sister Northampton does ! !! Now having shown these facts, I will proceed to give my opinion upon the amount that honest Jimmy has received in Treasury pap over and above what I think the Commis sioners might have had the same performed for. Admitting that he has received $200,00 per annum since he has sojourned in Monroe (being about 5 1-2 years,) the sum would be $1,100. m Allowing him 80,00 per year as a reasonable compensation there would remain an nually $120 00 which the Commissioners might probably have saved if they had traded with Jimmy as though they had been trading for - - iiu Jinan au;u iimcuu iur iii- tle Monroe to lose on account of ignorance and extravagance in her public officers. I earn estly hope therefore that honest James Raffer ty, in order to reinstate and keep up his honor and honesty so much boasted of, will call on the Treasurer of Monroe county and pay over at least the $169 00 paid him in violation of law, and should he feel conscience stricken and honest enough to refund the whole 0,60 00 including the grab fees, it would go a great way in reinstating his honor and honesty and heal ing the wounds received at the County meet ing. It would indeed sound well in the ears of honesty to see honest Jimmy appear at the Treasurer's counter and say here are $1,89 00 which the Commissioners paid to me without legal authority, and also another sum which appears to have been too exorbitant in my char ges since I have printed for the County,-the whole amounting to $6,60 00f.inchiding the grab game charges; take this sum and pass it to the credit of our County. Such language would sound honest Indeed then could Mr. Rafferty say make no more thrusts at my hon esty. Tax Payers of Monroe', especially you who have Jo earn your money by the sweat ol your brows, what think you of honest Jimmy ? Does it not appear that a character for doubt ful truth and veracily is more applicable to him than myself. While writing his editorial he should have remembered ihe duty of man to his fellows, and in truth plucked the beam out of lus own eye, before ho m falsehood.commenced an endeavor to pluck the mote from his neigh bors eve. Mr. Raffertv should rrninmlnr thutt fistfc t..Ul . I 1 .1 ii.. .1 'i i j mc -aiuuuuiii imugs, arm mat "irum is mighty and must prevail." The fellow co plains loudly about "some individuals endeav oring to create prejudice against him andcrip ple the energies of the Democratic party and the Democratic press, in this county .'.Jsup pose he means me, and calls me individuals, being so used to the application of .usJwhen speaking of himself the word 'rneanin Jimmy, honesty, devil and all. 1 will say a few words upon this subject ; I aljvays have been a thorough going Democrat, aud -am so at present, nor is it my intention to'injme the cause of Democracy; but on the contrary to save some money for the poor tax-payers of our . l.i . ; c . t couniyranu at mo same time to purge irom tins Democratic county, a poor miserable loafing idler, and get in his place some one possessed of honest principles, true Democracy and good wishes towards his fellow lax Payers this is my end and aim Gentlemen. The crippling of the Democratic party and press, means in fact the curtailing of Mr. Raf ferty's fees, as that gentleman cannot hereafter reap so heavy a harvest from the County, as he has heretofore, done. The purse bearers of the treasury have become more cautious and will increase in knowledge and good manage ment, consequently the dear fellow cannot get as many spoons full of treasury pap hereafter, as he has been accustomed to receive; in con sequence of which he will most likely be out of paper oftener than heretofore. Poor fellow ! I fear he will not be able to carry the Democ racy of our county much longer, and will be forced to yield it to some one more able and worthy of being the bearer of so truly Demo cratic a county as this. With these remarks I will submit this cause to a jury composed of ali the tax payers of Munroe county, who may decide whether my character, or that of James Rafferty's, is entitled to most confidence. Your fellow citizen. J NO. ME R WINE. ISIgiits of WomaEi. The following petition was received '.villi a roar of laughter, by the Massachusetts Legis lature, a few days since: To the Honorable Senate and House of Represen tatives of Mass.; n hereas, I hat law ' which requires obedi- enCG Oil the n,irt nf th wife in ihr mnmrxrn covenant, if indeed there ever was such an en-! actment in any part of ihe world, is a violation! of the natural and inalienable right of every hu man being: Therefore, if there is such a stat ute of this Commonwealth, I pray your bodies to repeal it as being contrary to the principles of Christianity and Republicanism. Abigail H. Folsom. A boy named Dransby, residing in Balti more, swallowed-a cent a few days since, by which an abcess was formed in the side of the little sufferer, and he died. The talc's! Ick. A country editor has hit upon the newest and neatest method of forcing advertisements inio his paper that the last strotch of ingenuity could devise. He gives daily, a list of deaths, killing off everybody who don't advertise with him, who arc all obliged to put cards in the pa per immediately, and assure the public that they are not dead i The Rochester Democrat says: "The Sec retary of the Savings Bank of this city told us yesterday, that a lady had just deposited one hundred and twenty five dollars in that institu tion, saved by her husband from the avails of his daily labor since he signed the cold water pledge in July last. Such a fact should be heralded from one end of the land to the other, as one of the blessed fruits of temperance." We perceive by many of the papers that some impostor is busy in re-writing singular robbe ries and shocking occurences, from an old Eng lish book, giving them modern and American localities, and passing them offas recent occur rences. The "Tioga Robbtr Shot," U one of them; and the Maryland "old woman picked up by the road" is another. Look out for the imposing penny'-a-Iincr. Sat. Cour. A dreadful aud destructive tornado, passed over Mayficld, Newton, and other places, in Ohio, on the 4th inst., by which about 50 build dings were destroyed and some lives lost. Oac of (lies ISicSi Coal Restores 2 Ee sa'atsy I va sn u . Tho. Miners' Journal of Saturday, says that' the rents paid in that region to tho owners of coal lands, for coal and timber leave, amounted last year to upwards of $200,000. The aver ago rent on coal alone, is about 25 cents per ton. We have coal enough in our Siato to make her omf of iho richest .in "the Union, lo say nothing of her iron and other "vast natural resources Su, Cbqr., HARRISBURG NEWS. . - Correspondence of the Daily Chronicle. Harrisburg, February 19, 1842. Mkssrs. Editors: Your readers must erei this be tired, beyond endurance of th.e nume rous crude from the brains of members of'the legislature,- who comoJierew.uhl3Utany oracti cal knowledge either -.of rrie'n or things and set themselves u.pf'far regulators of the currency, and reformer;of the Banking system, aud seenrJ to suppose that their elevation to a seat upon this iloormoro by accident than any thing else endows them with knowledge and dis cernmnt far above their fellows. I shall there foreTnot detain you with all the new ideas which iyere '.'forthcoming to-day, but merely give you sjhpse which seemed to meet with the especi al lavor. hi the House. Mr. Roumfort from the Select Committee, appointed yesterday, report ed m a detailed and better digested form, the same proposition which was submitted to them yeterday, in the shape of a Bill, the object of which would seem to be, to hold out to the banks the alternative of going into liquidation or of paying specie or of doing neither, finder pain, however, of not being able to collect mon ey on executions during such suspenion. On motion of Mr. Roumfort, the Bill was ta ken up for consideration immediatly, and, after a long discussion and numerous propositions to amend, was passed on second reading, being but slightly amended. The Bill was then ordered'to be proposed for third reading. A motion was then made by Mr. Roumfort, io drive it through, under a suspension of the rule. This, however, reouirinrr two-thirds, wns not agreed to. Yeas 4fi, nays 30. Unless a "change should come over the spir it of their dreams," the Bill wiil, therefore pass on Monday finally. On motion of Mr, Felton, the Committee of Ways and Means was instructed to inquire I imu uic expediency oi uevising some means lo raise the sinking credit of the "relief notes." I think they had belter let these alone, as every thing they touch depreciates. The Speaker presented the annual report of the officers of the Lille Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad, Canal, and Coal Company. The resolution of Mr. Stevens, limiting the State debt to $10,000,000, came up in order on the mojion of Mr. Stevens, whereupon, Afr Sharswood offered a substitute so to amend the Constitution as to'require every act of the Le gislature borrowing money on the credit of the commonwealth, to contain a tax provision sufficient to pay the interest on the; same, to gather with an additional sum of two per cent. per annum, towards that payment oftheprinci- pa The subject was debated up to the the time ol adjournment. v In SEtfATE.-After the presentation of peti tions, amongst Kvhich the most important, but least acceptable, were those in favor of an im mediate adjournment sine die; and a few re ports from committees of an important character. Ihe Resumption Bill- oiMr. Gibbons came Hin in ordcr: 011 its secomJ reading, and wa aiscusseu wiiuoui any rote neing tasen, Dy AJessrs. iuuuer, rleadiy and Jbtrohm, up to this time of adjournment. Those adjournment petitions, of which there arc not a few, and. ma ny of them unpresenled, are a great bore ''upon the Legislature. They do not know what. lo. make of it. There is no doubt but there are many members who are both able and willing nay desirous to do something to relieve the troubles of the commercial and the laboring portions of the community ; but the number who are swayed either by ignorance, prejudice, or party considerations, to say nothing of self ish interest, is so much in the ascendancy, that all their efforts are of no avail. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the just condemnation merited by the majority will not be visited, in discriminately upon all. This evening's mail brought us all the ar rearages since Tuesday, all in a batch it is either a feast or a famine. From the Phil. Gaz., Feb. 18. E&avrible hsq o Crime and Ssascadc. This morning about G o'clock John G. Boyd, late Cashier of the Towanda Bank in Bradford, county, of this stale, committed suicide at the house of a Mrs. Seymour, in Schuylkill 7th st., a few doors below Vine st. by shooting himself in the head with a pistol, of which wound he died a few minutes after 10 o'clock. He com mitted the act in a front bed room on the se cond story, under circumstances that leave no doubt that ho designed to take his life rather than submit to become an inmate of the prison. It appears that he has been in the city since Saturday last, and as was his practice made t his house, the home of his mistress, his place of lodging. Yesterday morning ho was arrest ed there while at breakfast, by officer Saunders of the Sherff's office, at the suit of tho Bank of Perm Towntdiip, involving a claim for thirty one thousand dollars, growing out of some trans actions of his with that Bank, while he was connected with the Bank at Towanda. He remained in the custody of ihe officer during the whole day and night up to the moment of the act which hurried him into eternity. Part of yesterday he was at the office of Win. L. Hirst, Esq , Counsel for the Bank of Penn Township, and last evening proceeded with the officer to tho Bank for the purpose of effect ing some arrangement in relation lo the claim. They remained there until after ten o'clock and "then proceeded to the office of Constantino ..Gillion, l?sq., his Attorne', where ho remain ed until alter four o'clock this morning the fjffiecr then procured a Cab with the intention of conveying him to tho Debtors' npariment of the Mnyntri'Mising prison, .bura Boyd's request went to thejmuse of Mrs. Scwur for the purj pose, aslfe saidVto takefisf clfiliing and n rr- aflHI. manteau with him. .Here lie.nnckeil i .. clothes, and burning one or two Tetters, l.nnj :'.! diis clothing into the parlour down stairs. Tie 'then expressed a desire to go up stairs for "uiu arucie more," when the officer said you cannot go without me, and they -both proceeded up stairs, Boyd entering the room while tho oln pr remained at the door. In a moment the ftmale j0ili??IoPnU who it appears had gone in about the same moment, exclaimed "my God, heJias shot himself," when looking into t he-corner if the room he saw the unfortunate"' man lvitu' there in reality a suicide . Tiicf wliolelragi-dv-was but the work oamoment, and so cui.ii and cool was the deceased that no one supei t ed that he hauVtthy design upon his life. TI, report of jjiefplstol was noi louder than that of a percussion cap, and until the exclamation of the female the officer was not aware of anv suc deed. Medical aid was called in but n'i assistance could be afforded as it was evident that the injury sustained by him mu-st result in death. No traces of the ball were ascertained except that it entered the roof of his mouth, an 1 must have lodged in the vicinity of the base of the brain. During the time he lingered, from G o'clock until 10, he was perfectly sensible, f.iid noth ing however of his circumstances or condition and to the enquiry how he held the pistol ho replied: "I don't know, don't tnaible me." The deceased is supposed to be about 35 yeir-s of ag-e, and has a wife and two children living in Covington, Tioga county, in this stale. His wife was a Miss Cleaver, and niece of Jonathan Knight, Esq. late President of ihi Bank of the Northern Liberties. Boyd has not been connected with the To wanda Bank, as Cashier, since about the first of January. The pistol with which he did the deed, was bund by his side, and the fellow to it was tak en out of his pocket, loaded. It is evident, therefore, that he had them with him all tho day and night while in custody of the officers, as no opportunity was afforded to him to obtain them any where or from any person, and that it was his intei.tion to commit the rash act rather than go to prison. Up to the time our reporter left the house, the Coroner had not been there, and we can say nothing of the verdict of the jury. Bat from the circumstances, there can be no quest ion of a yerdict of "suicide" beinjr rendered. The coroner held an inquest on his body, and the jury rendered a verdict of "stticide, by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol." NOTICE. A meeting of the Monroe county Bible So ciety will be held at the Court-house in this Borough, on Tuesday evening, 8th of March. As business of importance to the Bible cause, will be brought1 forward, all who feel any in terest in the same, are invited to attend. Ad dresses may be expected. WM. T. VAIL, Sec. Siroudsburg, Feb. 23, 1842. SIX XGENTS REWARD. Ranaway from the subscriber living in Stroud township, Monroe county, on the niVht of the 8th inst., an indented apprenticed negro boy to the larmmg business, named .Edward Tkosiias ros. Said boy is about 13 years old, thick and heavy set had on a hair cap, linsey roundabout and drab colored clotlpantaloons. All persons are forbid harboringofctrusH'ng him on my account. The above rewanilwiilbe paid, but no charges, if said boy is brought'back or lodged in any gaol. RgBERT BROWN. February 9, 1842.3t. SCHOOL BOOKS, American mmtitnti&ns. AnalvticaV$ader. Porter's Rhf!mcal Reader, English Hale's History United States, American Popidarmessons, ParJcers Help to Composition, Comstoctis NaturatWiophy , Do Chemistry, Colburris First Lessons, TowvUs Analysis, Do Little Thinker, Andrew's Latin Grammar, Do do Readers Smith's Arithmetic, Daboll's do Adams' do Gh'eenleqf's English Qi'mmmarf Smith's do 4 do Broivn's do do Olney's Geography and Atlas. 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