JEFFERSON! AN REP Ui3 L! CAN ! I If JEFFERS ONI AN REPUBLICAN Stx'oudslmvs, March 0, 1812. Terms, 2,00 ;n advance; $2.25, half yearly; and $2,50 if not pall! DClOiC UW tliu ui tiiu tcui. We want money and must get ii. Those who know themselves to be indebted, will con fer a favor by calling on us forthwith, or send ing by mail or otherwise the amount of their respective bills. We have a large sum on our books, a considerable portion of which we should be happy to transfer to our creditors as soon as possible. To enable us to do this, it is absolutely necessary that delinquentsshould pay up. Of a portion of our subscribers we have no reason to complain, but there are others, who would make excellent wheel horses they hold back so well. Xjjr3 In Philadelphia, on Monday, Girard notes were 40 per cent discount; U. S. Pnk 60; Bank of Pennsylvania 12; Speei' 3 Per cent. Relief notes were general!' ,aken at Par by the merchants, though ;hpjrokers exacted from 10 to 15 per cent dounl- Godey lady's Book. The ombelICnments f lue March number of this val'dlu Per'odical, are "Ann Page and qon-vsr,!' "The Return," and a colored plate of unions. The reading contents are of a high-1 ly creditable character. The legislature of Kentucky have elected the Hon. John J. Crittenden, to fill the vacancy oc casioned by the resignation of the Hon. Henry Clay, in the Senate of the United States. Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson j havcHeen nominated as candidates for Presi dent and Vice President in 1844, by the State Democratic Convention in Mississippi. Great revivals in religion have taken place among the Baptists and Methodists at Salem, New Jersey. FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. Mr. ScJtocJi: Not being a subscriber to ei ther of the papers of your place, but learning that our Auditor had been showing up to my fellow citizens the manner they had been swin dled by a set of cormorants, who have been hangine on to our County offices, I was in duced to make some exertions to get one of your papers, and have been much pleased, not only with Mr. Merwine's defence, but that other Tax payers have the independence to raise their vofcesagainst a regular pack of swindlers which have infested our County, led on by this double faced "Paddy" who boasts of being the Bearer of all the Democracy of Monroe. I think the name given him, or his press, the most appropriate of any I have yet seen, is that by the last Tax payer, to wit : a " Sjnut Ma chine." As for him being the organ of Democ racy, God preserve us from such Democrats. Is he not the same individual who within one short year called our worthy fellow citizen and neighbor William Overfield, Esq., a Feder alist, and heaped all manner of abuse upon him and his friends? And now when he finds Mr. Overfield could not be sacrificed to gratify the ambition of an interloper into our county, who to use his own phrase " came here poor," and had it not been for the ignoramuses that have disgraced our county as Commissioners and Auditors, would have gone away as he came. Stf?fi JLjiave above slated, the treatment Mr. Overfield hasreceived from him, all things con sidered, is most ungrateful. He extended a helping hand to him in the hour of adversity, and how was he repaid? No sooner had he warmed him into life, than this wolf in sheep's clothing turned about and bit the hand that had been feeding him. But why this sudden change, thought I, in looking over one of the last emission of this "smut machine" 1 was inclined to think it must be on the "reactor principle." Says I lo some of ny neighbors, "what means this, look how that "chumclion" of the Democrat is puffing our friend Overfield." "Oh! dont you under stand that," says one. I answered No. "Why," sa)'8 he, "that Paddy expects to gain some fa vors by the course he is now pursuing." But alas Jemmy, you have mistaken your man this lime AVilliatn Overfield despises sycophants, and youan spare yourself the trouble of "puf fing" hinf, and pay your whole attention to John MerwineXand the numerous Tax Payers, who seem determined to wake up the citizens of this counly id a sense of their danger. Please send me your paper. Yours, &c. A TRUE DEMOCRAT. Middle SmiihfiVld, March 3. i. . rfYimmunicated.l FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN The Editor of the Monroe Democrat, must indeed be a brainless ignoramus andpossess very little truth, honor, honesty, or od will towards the tax payers of Monroe couny. In his organ of the 19th February ho says. "If the editor of a free and independent public jour nal were so far to lose sight of the high duty enjoined upon lm. as conservator of public morality in its pun-'j as 10 condescend to no lice the attack of every petty anonymous scribbler whr may choose to assail him and the principle? ne advocates, &c." How does this langllPge compori with the acts and conduct of tj, braggadocio o(nMonkcy? What is his duty and how has he discharged that duly to the taxpayers of Monroe county ? Why tax payers he never intended that you should be made acquainted with a true state ment of the financial condition of your county, or he would have published ihe dissenting doc ument of John Merwine, giving that gentleman's reasons for not signing the auditors statement, that document although it was a portion of the records of our count), was entirely excluded from honest Jimmy's paper of the 5sh February which was the commencement of Jimmy's pub lication of the County statement. In the exclu sion of this document from his columns it would appear that the editor was actuated by motives of fear and malice. First. He did not wish the public to become acquainted with the language of Mr. Merwine's dissenting document for fear of its producing a reduction of his fees for County printing in future, as that paper advised a reduction of this animals grab charges. Secondly. The dissenting docunfenl not appearing in the paper, the rmMre wld be in duced to believe that Mr. Morwaw was not in attendance before the auditors at H, and conse quently it would be calculated to injure his reputation. The first of these reasons shows that honest Jimmy considered the amount of cash he might lose by the publication of this document of more importance than the honest performance of his duty. The second shows a base desire to injure the reputation of an indi vidual, plainly showing that in this case the Editor must have lost sight of his duty as a conservator of public morality in its purity. For proof of the foregoing we need only refer to the subsequent numbers of Jimmy's paper, whero we find Mr. Merwine's dissenting document published ; this clearly shows that it was at first intentionally excluded, but after the public were made acquainted with its contents by Mr. Merwine in his address at the County meeting, and in the columns of the Jeffersonian, then Rafierty also comes out with it. O honesty ! ! 0 conservator of public morality in its purity ! ! ! It appears by honest Jimmy's editorial that .the principles which he advocates were assailed by a tax payer in the Jeffersonian. What princi ples Jimmy ? The Tax payer said nothing aboul political principles, but he did assail dishonor able, and dishonest principles, tying and grab principles, are these your principles Jimmy 7 1 contend that any tax payer has a right to as sail such principles, and any one who would advocate principles of this kind, should be branded with infamy and transported from civil society. In the same piece he says: "In our editorial capacity our humble prayer shall be, kind Heav en defend us from a swarm of hungry office hunters!" What absurdity! What ridiculous falsehood!! Why those hungry office-hunters are the very men who support this vain, con temptible iunoramus. Last fall the swarm of office-hunters numbered 7 candidates, who vol untarily offered themselves lo fill the various Counly offices, and if honest Jimmy charged each one as he did Kiser, viz: $13,50, the sum total would be $94,50 an enormous and un- j accountably exorbitant sum fur priming seven notices and their tickets, for so small a county as Monroe. Suppose 6 candidates for Sheriff, 2 for Coroner, G for Commissioner, and 2 for Auditor, come before ihe public next fail, ma king 16 candidates at $13,50 ahead, would be $216,00, and this ignoramus prays to be defend ed from their tender mercies. Why this asser tion of Jimmy's carries falsehood upon its very face. I hope, however, that all candidates who may hereafter come before the public for office, will recollect this prayer of honest Jimmy, and defend themselves from this extortioners tender mercies, by having their notices and tickets printed by some oilier person, who will have more mercy on them than to charge them dou ble price. It would appear from this prayer of honest Jimmy's, that the fellow must have been shattered in his calibash at the county meeting on the 8th ult., or that his mental faculties have left it and gone into his whiskers, for no sensi ble person who valued his reputation for truth and veracity would so shamefully scandalize and degrade his character by making a public assertion of a prayer of this kind, when it is known that there has been on an average 8 vol unteer candidates before the public each year for the last 5 years, all of whom had their no tices and tickets printed by grab Jimmy. Now what does this amount to at $13,50 a head; 5 timei 8 make 40, by which multiply $13,50 and it produces $540,00, besides (his Jimmy "Smut Jflacliiae," alias "Fiji Box." After an indisposition of some eleven days, the "Pill box" bursted yesterday about four o'clock, and considering the way in which it lias been held since the 2Gth of February, hav ing had some half dozen (quacks in pblilics, if not in medicine,) in attendance, it really seems a miracle that it has been spared to the citizens of Monroe, but I am led to believe that ns lungs are affected, and unless very carefully treated, it will expire before (log days. ONE THAT KNOWS. has received pay for printing the tickets for Congress, Assembly and Senate, for each can didate 1 understand he charges $18,00, being 3 Assemblymen for 6 years makes 18 candi dates, 3 Congressional candidates in the time, 2 Senatorial candidates, 3 Representative dole crates to the reform convention, and 1 Senatorial delegate, making 27 candidates, at $18,00 a head, is $486,00 added to the above makes $1026,00. Had it not been for the tender mercies of these office-hunters in paying him this sum, and the tender mercies of the County Commissioners in allowing him the grab fees and exorbitant wages, amounting together to another $660,00, the whole making a fraction less than $1700,00, this interloper would have been obliged to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, starve to death, or leave Stroudsburg before this time. In the same piece, Jimmy expresses wonder ful aversion to the writing of anonymous scrib blers as he terms them and asserts that his rule is never to reply to them, but his two pieces of editorial contained in his paper of the 19th prove this assertion of his false, and shows a digression from his adopted rule as he terms it. There appears in Jimmy's organ of the 19th ult., an anonymous communication purporting to hail from Pocono township, but this cannot be, for Jerry, the brother of him that runaway, could not frame a piece of even that kind of composition, and no other person in Pocono would make himself so mean as to frame such a ridiculous and nonsensical piece of absurdity and sheer fabrication; consequently it must have emanated from honest Jimmy or his un derstrapper, and namesake, and newscarrier. I would advise you to desist from heading your anonymous communications with other town ships, when they are written in Stroudsburg. Such conduct amounts to forgery, but it cannot be wondered at, for men who have such an amazing propensity to grab, will resort to the most mean, despicable and miserable shifts to save ihe small portion of character they have remaining butii'sofno use gentlemen, salt petre won't save you from public reproach and condemnation, you are gone suckers in the opin ion of honest and well meaning men. A TAX PAYER. The Voice of Monroe. In pursuance of previous notice, the citizens of Monroe counly assembled at the public house of Philip Oyer, in Hamilton township, on Fri day the 4th of March, inst. without respect to parlies. The meeting was organized by appointing Major GEORGE L. SLUTTER, President, Joseph Kemmerer, Michael Shoemaker, Gideon Burret and John Bender, Vice Pres dents, and John Merwine and John M, Meyers, Secretaries. On motion, a committee of thirty-five were appointed to draft resolutions expressire of the sense of the meeting, composed of the follow ing gentlemen: Alexander Brown, John Hinkel, Michael Su per, Adam Custerd, Michael Kiser, Nicholas Metzger, Joseph Keller, Esq., Jacob Woolfin ger, Solomon Rauly, John Rouse, Col. Peter Snyder, Jacob Spragle, Abraham Seizer, Jacob Storm. Charles Dailey, Henry Dietrich, John Featherman, Samuel Rees, jr., Joseph Nau man, Jacob Dreher, John H. KunkeJ, Conrad Woodling, William Mosteller, jr., Peter Star ner, Abraham Marsch, jr. John Becker, Mel chior Spragle, Simon Moyer, Joseph Hinkle, Levi Slutter, Jacob Harpst, Andrew Woodling, Jacob Shook, Jacob Stackhouse and Joseph Slutter, who on retiring, a short time, reported ihe following resolutions which were read and unanimously adopted by the meeting: Resolved, Thai we as freemen of Pennsylva nia, have an undisputed right to assemble to gether, and express our opinion upon the actions and conduct of public officers; therefore Resolved, That we have undiminished confi dence in the talents, integrity and statesman ship of our worthy Governor, David R. Porter; his public Messages and addresses prove him to be a second Simon Snyder, in principle, and one of the most popular and patriotic Governors that ever filled the gubernatorial chair of this Commonwealth, a man who is well worthy the second ofiice iu the gifi of the people of these "United States. Resolved, That in the opinion of the meet ing, the Legislature of 1839 and 40 acted very unwisel)', in not obeying the Governor's in structions and recommendations for ihe sale of bank slock owned by the Commonwealth, which would at that time have brought nearly, or quite $2,000,000 but would now scarcely bring one eighth pari of that amount, plainly shewing, lhal the views of the Governor, respecting said stock, were correct to the very letter and that the slate will, in all probability lose nearly $1, 600,000 in consequence of the negligence and bad management in our Legislators in that one item. Resolved, That we consider tho salaries of all who draft upon the Treasurer of the state as enormously high, and if reduced to a fairprice would leave thousand.- of dollars in tho State Treasury which would go far towards tho liquidation of the state debt. Resolved, that we highly approve of Mr. Gil- more's report of 1842 recommending our conn ty officers to draw their salaries out of the counly Treasury jhe same as Pensioners, which would be a great saving to our State. Resolved, that wo highly approve of an alter ation of the appropriations made to Colleges, Academies, remale Seminaries and Incorpora ted Boroughs, being ihere are some small Borough a wnh perhaps one hundred taxables who leceive more than the remaining whole cpuniy, 'which if not revised in some shape equality, we would highly approve of applying ihe same towards the liquidation of our enor mnus state debt.' Resolved, That notwithstanding the improve ments which the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania has undertaken at a time when it was supposed lo be a general benefit to the state, l . ;..ir - Itn i morn cnpnnlflt.inn uus now jjiuvcti jiat;ji iu ui- u. uw to a few, individuals on the one hand, and a burthen to nine-tenths of the citizens of the state on the other; nevertheless, we are will ing to payour share of the losses already sus tained, but hereby caution our Representatives not to involve us any further in debt, for fear we may be inadequate to the task of redeem ing' the credit of the Commonwealth again. Rp.p.nlvrd. That we hiffhlv approve of an im mediate resumption of specie payments by the banks, believing that immediate resumption wou Id be a great benefit to the laboring class of people, in as much as it would convince them, that instead of laboring for themselves, they have been toiling for the benefit of specu lators. Resolved, That while an enormous sum is paid out of ihe Treasury of this commonwealth for government expenses, we earnestly recom mend the passage of a law fixing the pay for members of Assembly and Senate, as follows; for the first two months at three dollars per day, and if they remain any longer, nothing. Resolved, That the proceeding of this meet ing be signed by the officers and published in the Monroe Democrat, Pennsylvanian, Satur day Evening Post, and Jeffersonian Republi can, and that copies be transmitted to the Gover nor and members of Assembly and Senate of the Districts of Northampton, Pike and Mon roe counties. (Signed by the Officers ) Appointsnentby tlie Governor. William Dickson, to be Aid-de-Canip to his Excellency Governor Porter, with the rank of Jjieut. Col. The Spirit of the Times states that on Sat urday last, James Canby, the President of the Union Bank of Delaware, made an assignment of all his property to that institution. New Counterfeits. On Saturday counterfeit two dollar Relief notes of the Berks Counly Bank were put in circulation throughout the city and county. During the evening three young fellows named Richard Perry, George C. Devine and Ebene zer Ijewis, were arrested for passing some of them, and committed by the Mayor Tor further hearing. Lewis confessed that ho had passed off aboul fifty of them. He is an old offender though a young man. Perry and Devine at tempted to pass them at the Walnut street Theatre. Josiah Bright, a man named Miller, and two women, were also arrested in Spring Garden, and committed by Alderman Rees. It seems these notes were passed all the day and exen;.',-.;.,?almcst every part of the city and counly. Bright is an old hand ai this business. Sat. Chronicle. The Case of Do2t. The New York Courier says that in the Court of Oyer and Terminer on Monday, the bill of exceptions in the case of John C. Colt, was submitted to the Court, and after the amendments of the District Attorney had bedn inserted, the same was allowed, and as soon as a fair copy of ihe amended bill can be prepar ed, it will receive the signatures of ihe Court, and in ihe mean time a slay of proceedings is granted, so that sentence will not be pronounc ed until the exceptions taken shall be disposed of by the Supreme Court. The principal ex ceptions in the case, and the ones which will be most likely to serve the prisoner, are those taken as to the mode in which the jury were empannelled for trying the cause. The JTudgcsliap. Intelligence was received last evening from Washington, that PrcsidenuTyler had nomina ted Judge Archibald Randall, to fill ihe vacan cy of Judge of the United States District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 1 tie well known merits of Judge R. do not require from us a word additional. Daily Chron. Resolve that no earthly consideration shall tempt you to forsake the friend who tells you of your fault. Love and obey him, and your reward will be that state of mind which emper orr might envy. Heaven will bless you, and your sojourn on earth will be bright and pleas ant, and your departure will be glorious. The Mississippi gallon law has been repeal ed. New CouNTEUFKTTS.-.Z?arcza7igc Bank, Pitts burg, Pa. 5's, spurious. Vignette, Perry's Victory, which is not on the true bills. PcojAe's Bank, Paleraon, N.J. 5's, letter A, pay to T, S. Avery, May 12, 1839. Paper thin; appearance dull. The last "run on the banks" was a foot race along Ihe Susquehanna, near ihe Lovers' Rock. liar. Tal. Bankruptcy. On Monday the first decla- j rations in bankruptcy, under a national law, j were acted upon. by the u. b. District Court, in New York. J. Watson Webb succeeded in obtaining the benefit, in company with forty ihreo olhers. Dai. Chron. Lehigh Canal. This canal will bo navi gable, part of the routo, in all next week. From ilauch Chunk, ii will be open on the first of April. The Uavkrhill Pe-mtion for Dissolving of'THK Union. Tho HavefhTfpGazelie,,,says: 1 s said the petition is a literal cppy'of one of those sent from the Souih during tho days of Nullification. HA'RRISBTJRG NEWS. Correspondence of the Daily Chronicle. Jlarrisburg, March 2. 1812. House. A statement of the amount of as sessments of real and personal property, under Plhe act of 1841, in forly-ihrce counties of ific Commonwealth, was received from the Audi tonjjeneral; from which it appears that in these counties the whole amount ol Stale tax levied is a little over S53 1,500. The other counties remainto be heard from. 1000 copies of the statemenKvere ordered to he printed. Thero appears to be "a great inequality in the assess ments. """V Bank of Chamlcrsburgyix Elwell from the Judiciary, reported the billslo annul the. char ter of this institution, with amendments-, -referring the mailer to the decision of the Supreme Court, and directing the Attorney GeneraFth. file suggestions and institute proceedings, for the purpose of bringing the question to a hear ing. The offence of this devoted Bank con sists in its alleged refusal to loan the Co:n monweath 5 per cent on its capital, when it was bound lo do so, under its charier. The li!l was immediately taken up for consideration, and after a long discussion passed finally, an J was sent to ihe Senate for concurrence. Mr. Dcford was very anxious to pass the original bill, which declared the charter null and tn. without the interposition of any court, the Leg islature acting as judge, jury and witnesses, but the House could not see as he did. Mr. Stevens' resolution proposing ?u amendment to the Constitution in these words: "The Legislature shall not have power to create a Slate debt exceedingthe sumof S-lO.O-JO.OOO, exclusive of the deposite wnh the Sta'e by i lie General Government, except so far as may !ie necessary to pay for the expense of the Stnte in case of actual war. And that when the State debt is diminished to $20,000,000, it shall not again be increased, except a afore said," passed final reading. Yeas,7vnays 7, and was sent to the House for concurrence. On motion of Mr. Elton, the Judiciary Com mittee was instructed to inquire into the expe diency of bringing in a bill to reduce the sala ries of all officers and agentsof the Legisla-. ture, Executive and Judicial branches of the government of this commonwealth. The adjournment resolution was debated some time for "Bunkum," but no conclusion was arrived at. The probability is that there will be a recess from about the first of April to the first of June; it being now pretty certain that, unless Congress act immediately, this Legislature, as well as those of a number of the other States, must hold extra sessions. The afternoon session in the House was oc cupied entirely in the consideration of private Bills. The greater portion of the time was spent in Ql3CUS3in an ameimniein-auumcu 1' 1 -. -in i m.n'- ' " 't House to a Bill from the Senate, to incorporate the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company, making the stockholders individually liable the Senate refusing to concur. At length the House refused to" recede from iheir amendment, and the Bill was returned to the Senate ihe vote stood forty-eight tblthirty. This provision is considered the quintescence of democracy, Correspondence of lhcNorth American. Harrisburg, March 5. The Speaker laid before the Senate a peti tion from a large number of the citizens of the city and counly of Philadelphia, praying the leg-4 islature to cease tampering with the currency, and adjourn forthwith. Mr. Gorgos, one of likeirhport from Cumber land counly. Mr. Coplan read in place1 a bill postponing until eighteen hundred andjforty-three, the elec tion of mcmbors of the 28th Congress. The bill providing an adjournment on the 22d instant, coming up on third reading, was postponed until the I9th inst. Mr. Kidder, from the committee of Confer ence, made a report, which I sent you this morning. Tho report meujnuch opposition, but tho arguments generalljvound up with a declaration, lhat under the circumstances they should cast their votes for the bill, and take it for better and for worse. MessrsCochran ani Spackman opposed it strongly. Messrs. Gib ons. Ewing and Fleming, denounced it, but will vote for it. Mr. Kidder thinks it an admi rable production. It was under consideration in Senate at the hour of adjournment. In the House, tho speeches, wilh one or two exceptions, were entirely non-coinmiltal. The subject was postponed until Monday. Mr. Dunham ofiered a joint resolution that from and after the first of October noxt, the members of tho legislature, officers, and clerks, shall recoive an annual instead of a per dieu allowance. The bill authorizing tho Governor to dispose of the bank stock belonging to tho State, pass ed second reading by a vote of 73 to II. The bill for the abolition of the board of Ap praisers, and the transfer of their duties to the board of Canal Commissioners, passed co mittce of the whole, and was some time o second reading. Jlarrisburg, March o, ) II 1-2 o'clock, A. M. $ The Committee of Conference on the Re sumption bill have just made report in the House of Representatives. Of tho bill, I have not lime now even to spoak, but send you a copy, lhat you may judge of it for yourself. A motion was made to postpono the subject until Monday, which is now being debated. '1 ho Report meets with groat disfavor, as far as I can learn, and will, in all probability, be "Krockcu into a three-cocked hat," and tho.furihcr larti pering'with the currency question be left over, until the oxtra session. In haste. &c. PI
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