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JEFFER SOX TAX REPUBLI OA X
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroudsbur?, March 16, 1842.
Terms, $2,00 m advmice; $2.25, naif yearl: and $2,50 if not
paid befQie the end of the vcar.
We are indebted to Mr. Kidder of the Sen
ate, and Mr. Brndhead of the House for several
important Legislative documents.
The Governor of Connecticut has issued his
proclamation, appointing Friday the 25th inst.,
:s a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer,
hroughout that State. Why does Pennsylva
nia neglect observances of this kind ?
New Jersey.
Both branches of the Legislature of N. J
have passed a bill for the resumption of specie
payments, on the 15th of August next.
The Ladies' Companion.
DjrThe March number of this magazine has been
received. The embellishments are beautiful and
he reading matter rich and entertaining. We
oommend it to our readers.
KrGovernor Corwin has accepted the nomina
tion of the Whig Convention of Ohio, to be a can
didate for re-election for Governor.
05s" Our Devil hands us the Monroe Democrat,
with a request that we "scourge the editor." We
do not wish to have any thing to do with him or
his dirty "smut machine." He evidently thinks
that the old allowance of a "peck of dirt" to a man
is too small. His practical allowance to his sub
scribers is a bushel a week per man.
Resnmptioit.
0 The long agitated question settled. The
immediate resumption bill passed by both houses
of the Legislature, requiring the Banks to redeem
their notes in specie, has become a law. The
Governor, sent a message to the Legislature on
Saturday last, informing them that he had ap
proved and signed the Resumption Bill.
We learn that the Easton Bank commenced the
payment of specie yesterday, for all her liabilities.
" DroTTKiisg men catch at Straws."
I have often heard the above remark made,
but never to my recollection, have I seen it
more truly verified, than in the case of Jimmy
Rafferty, in his paper of the 26th February,
where we find him catching at a number of
straws, or barefaced, weak falsehoods, misrep
resentations, and mean low blackguardism to
save his sinking reputation. Jimmy has entire
ly lost sight of his duly as a conservator of pub
lic morality in its purity, and changed his sheet
into a regular smut machine. It certainly is a
base bird that fouls in its own nest, and Jimmy
will find that he has been defilinghis most woful
ly. When the character of an Editor is so far
gone, that he is forced to resort to falsehood, and
the meanest blackguardism to bear up his sink
ing reputation, his case is then a hopeless one.
The following are the charges he makes in the
Smut machine of the 26th February.
Jimmy says I am anxious for fame, and burn
ing to be great. This assertion is untrue. I
could hare received office of profit and honor
long ere this, had I offered myself to the public
therefor, and can prove by the most respecta
ble men in our county, that I hare repeatedly
been solicited to offer myself for office, with the
strongest assurances of success, but I alwavs
declined, and last fall my name was inserted in
Jimmy's paper without my knowledge or con-
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ent. Jimmy's second charge js, mat l vrouiu
fain create an excitement, and kick up a row,
and dont know about what. This is another
falsehood Jimmy. For proof examine your
bills, and you will find that your fees for coun
ty printing, since the organization of our coun
ty, amount to upwards of $000,00 over what
the labour could have been performed for, had
the Commissioners dealt with you, as though
they had been dealing for themselves individu
ally, and when the performance of the same la
bor was offered to said Commissioners for about
S.f0,00 per annum, only about a fourth part of
the amount allowed to you. It was my duly as
a sworn officer, to disseminate all the informa
tion I was in possession of, respecting the re
missness,, and bad management of our County
Commissioners.. I never intended to kick a
row, but only to let my brother tax payers know
who, and what kind of persona were grabbing
at their funds,. and filching from their pockets.
their hard earning.. Jimmy's third charge is,
that I called the meeting together on the 8th
February, for the purpose of denouncing the
Editi.r. and crippling the energies of the dem
ocrntie party and destroying the usefulness of
the democratic press. This is another false
hood', Juimiy. L ha-ve always been a democrat,
and am such at the present moment, nor did I
ever wish to injure the cause or the press in
this county, but merely to do justice to my fel
low tax payers in my official capacity, and save
as much for the couniv as I honestly could. I
stipposo Jimmy means that by curtailing hi
fees, I am crippling his energies, and destroy
ing his usefulness. How is it Jimmy? Yes,
I think I curtailed your fees to the tune of more
than $100,00 in one item, to wit: Printing
statement of the receipts and expenditures of
the county for 1841, for which you would, ac
cording to your former charges, have received
about SI3U.0U. but must now put up with no-
thing, on account of refusing to hand in proposals
True, 1 obtained the Commissioners names to
the advertisements, in order to bring down your
enormous charges, and Mr. Schoch m accor
dance with the Commissioners advertisement
handed in the only proposals that were received
in accordance with the advertisement, and con
sequently must receive his pay for priming the
said statement, while poor honest Jimmy can
not receive one farthing for the statement print
ed in his Smut machine, unless the Commis-
sioners see nt to pay mm out ot their own
pockets. I therefore, hereby caution the said
Commissioners to beware of attaching their
names to an order to pay Jimmy lor the above
named item, for those two who are unwise
enough to give Jimmy a Check for that work,
will be compelled to refund so much back to
the county. Depend upon it gentlemen, your
advertisement is preserved, and will rise up in
judgment against you, should you be so short
sighted as to pay Jimmy any thing for printing
said statement. The above named reduction,
together with a dispensation of knowledge, re
specting his past unlawful charges and grab
game principles, the silly tool calls crippling
the party and the press. Why Jimmy you
never aided or advanced the Democracy of our
county one inch. Your sheet has always been
a miserable concern, and scarcely ever out un
til the news became stale, and until the con
tents were disseminated verbally, or through
some other agency; therefore, cutting down
your fees, and endeavoring to make an honest
man of you, cannot effect the democracy of our
county but on the contrary, will in my opinion,
together with your new prayer to kind Heaven,
(contained in the Smut machine of the 19th
February,) to be defended from a swarm of hun
gry office hunters, cause you to abscond from
Stroudsburg, in which case we will endeavour
to et a more able, honest, and industrious Ed
itor to fill the station so wofully disgraced by
honest Jimmy and his understrappers. The
foregoing will show to every candid and well
meaning Tax payer, that your last mentioned
charge is also a base fabrication.
Jimmy then charges me with pouncing upon
him with all the ferocious vindictiveness of a
wounded animal. This charge is untrue, Jim
my. I am not wounded, but presume you are,
and applying the word animal, you must be a
wounded monkey. Judging from your phiz, and
antic capers, I am of the opinion that you were
sorely wounded at the county meeting, and your
vindictive pouncing and uneasy manner since
then, proves my calculation correct. You com
menced the paper warfare upon me, in false
hood, rancour, and mean contemptible style,
and I consider it my duty in truth and purity of
principle, to refute your foul and nefarious
charges.
The fellow then says, "we do not intend
going into a detailed reply to the article which
appears over the signature of John Merwine."
Why not Jimmy? The reason is quite plain, for
if you did, it would place facts before the eyes
of your subscribers, which you wish kept from
the public eye as much as possible.
Jimmy then says, if some portions of my pro
duction do not plainly show that the school
master was abroad when I penned ii, then he is
mistaken. L have too much business on hand
to devole much of my time to writing, conse
quently 1 pen my communications in offhand
style, though plain enough I trust to be under
stood by the hard handed and firm fisted tax
payers of our County. Jimmy is possessed of
great advantages over me respecting time and
aid, having nothing else to do but write ; aided
by some half dozen other scientific and literary
members of his clan, in and about Stroudsburg,
composed of Ex-Judges, Doctors, would be
lawyers and understrappers, together with a
large portion borrowed from Pocono township,
whilo 1 stand alone in my own defence, but
have truth on my side, which is mighly and
must prevail. Jimmy next makes a bold denial
of ever boasting of being the bearer of the
Monroe county Democracy. I .have it from
some of your old cronies and acquaintance in
and about Wilkesbarre, ami men in whom I
place all confidence. Reflect a second time
Jimmy before you deny charges that are easily
substantiated by respectable witnesses.
The ignorant dolt again reiterates his asser
tions respecting the letter read before the coun
ty meeting,- giving a scale of prices paid to
printers in Northampton county, and says I at
tempted to- make the people believe that the
printing cost that coumy only $50,00 this is a
most barefaced falsehood Jimmy, and every
person who attended said meeting knows that
I read over each item being only for one prin
ters charges of proclamations and county state
ment. Jimmy then says that sum which Mr.
Merwine was pleased to call a mean sum is
$348,82, and says, "it may be a mean sum in
his estimation, and doubtless appears so to1 his
vision, for the simple reason that it does not an
swer his purposes." Why Jimmy H answers
the purposes of truth lo tho very letter but
you will recollect that the word mean has diff
erent meanings, your construction ofil answers
to a fraction, when applied to yourself, thus a
mean blackguard-, a mean Monkey &c. mean
ing base, despicable. I intended it to be con-
.strued, as the medium sum allowed for printing
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in Northampton county. Jimmy then inserts
theamount allowed to the whole five printers
in Northampton for 1841, and suys, "but
suppose there had been but one, and the Com
missioners had given to that one the whole
amount of business which has been performed
by the five should not the one receive the
same amount of pay? According to our phi
losophy, if one man does as much lobour as five
men, he should have as much pay as five."
Jimmy must be a keen philosopher, and think
that the poor tax paj'ers of Monroe county are
easily soft sodered, and made believe any false
hood and misrepresentation that he chooses to
lay before them. Does the dunce suppose that
one printer would set up 5 different forms of
County statement, Proclamations, and various
County advertisements, and work 5 different
presses at the same time, when they have but
onCj and issue 5 different dressed newspapers
at the same time? Why he talks like a mem
ber of an insane asylum, who has escaped the
notice of his keeper, and flown from thence
among strangers.
There are 5 papers published in Northamp
ton county, either of which do as much print
ing as this double faced blackguard, who re
ceived $247,25 for printing for Monroe in
1S40. Multiply this sum by 5, the number of
printing offices in Northampton county, and it
would amount to the sum of $1236,25, while
the Northampion statement is but $348,82 paid
to the whole five printers of the county, and she
contains five times the number of taxables "that
Monroe does, and receives and pays out seven
times as much money annually as little Mon
roe, consequently she must according to the
above stated facts have at least five limes as
much printing to do as Monroe. I have shown
in a former article that each printer ol that
County if equally divided, would receive only
$69,76 now deduct this from the amount re
ceived by Jimmy in 1840, viz. 247,25 and it
shows an excess of $117,49 received by Jim
my for that year, while living in idleness and
luxury. Jimmy m unquestionably the most idle
and unproductive being who disgraces the face
of our Democratic County.
Jimmy next mentions Oats and Pedlars insinu
ations of this kind show your breeding Jimmy.
feome years ago a certain understrapper to a boss
clock Pedlar, possessed of about the same kind of
principles as vou are Jimmy, having become vexed
at me, commenced the circulation of a falsehood
against me : whereupon I sent the Sheriff' after
lim, and caused him to flee precipitately from
these diggins into New Jersey, to save his bacon,
and you had best be cautious Jimmy that you do
not have to fellow his example.
Jimmy accuses me of refunded money lo North
ampton county. I will here take the liberty of
aymg a statement before the public in relation to
that transaction. Some fifteen years since, in my
youthful days, I followed school teaching in Ham
ilton, and being unacquainted with the school law
ihen in existence, I asked one of the Commission
ers who passed through Hamilton at that time,
what their rules were upon the subject, and what
course I must adopt to get my pay, as I never had
drawn any money from the county before his re
ply was that I should charge the county the same
that I did others, who paid their own schooling by
the quarter. In accordance with this advice, at
the expiration of the second quarter, I made out
my bill at $1,50 the subscription price per quar
ter, which were my regular terms presented my
bill and received my wages, beveral months af
terwards, a man who entertained ill feeling to
wards me, went to Easton, procured a copy of my
bill, then went from house to house enquiring how
many days each child lost. Some had lost time dur
ing the two quarters, as every person knows that
has sent children to school, that few are altogether
regular in attendance. He then commenced cir
culating a report that 1 had over charged the coun
ty this caused me to feel uneasy. Knowing that
my conscience was clear of all bad intentions, I
therefore went to Easton and found that 1 had
drawn my fees, exactly according to the custom
in existence in that county, to within two months
of the time that 1 had received my pay. It ap
peared that about two months prior to the receipt
ot my lees, the Commissioners had lormed a pre-.!
cedent to allow but two cents per day, for the days
each child actually attended. I then offered the
Commissioners the whole sum that I had drawn.
as I did not know the exact number of days that
each child attended school, telling them that my
intentions were pure, and rather than have any ill
feeling upon the subject, I would refund the whole
amount but they refused to receive it, telling me
at the same time that I might retain it all by law
or pay over to the Treasurer part if I saw proper.
I accordingly handed over to that Officer more
than half the sum that I had originally drawn.
Now be it known that I could have legally retained
every cent, but my youth and inexperience caused
me such remorse upon the subject, that I hated
the idea of retaining any of the fees that I had
drawn in good faith and intention. In that trans
action the County gained upwards of $15,00 that
would have bee.i actually due me, had 1 known
the precedent and made out my bill in accordance
therewith. This is the great story so much ban
died about by my enemies but let them circulate
it to their hearts content 1 care not, my con
science is clear of all base intention. This is,the
only act of my life, that could cast any reflection
upon my reputation, anu in mis i am umuwv in
nocenthaving charged oy uiu quanui.ia Hun
dreds of bills had before been paid, and 1 did not
know of the alteration or precedent ha ving beep
nude by tho Commissioners-, and was advised by
oxi of their board how to make my bill and had
ma'tfe it exactly hi accordance with thai, advice.
Noiv my advice to honest Jimmy Rafferty, is that
he should make his appearance before Frederick
Kiser, with his pockets full of the rhino, saying
Johi Merwine refunded money to Northampton
county, when he was but a boy which he done
voluntarily. I now offer to you'Mr. Treasurer, all
the grab fees that I have received from the County
give. me a receipt therefor and pass the amount
to tho credit of our County, my conscience will
then feftl'easy, and no more thrusts can bo made
at my honesty. With these remarks 1 will leave
Jimmy to his own meditations, only remarking that
he is the accuser, and that 1 have during the whole
paper warfare been battling in my own defence,
which is the duty of every man who is assailed,
especially when his assailants compose so great
a number of scientific characters.
1 'Your fellow citizen,
JOHN MERWINE,.
j Mt.,'Pbconb, March 5.
Proceedings of ilse Monroe county
BIJSIiE SOCIETY. V
Agreeably to public notice, a meeting of the
Monroe Bible Society, was held in the Court
House in this Borough, on Tuesday the 8th
inst. The President, Daniel Stroud, being ab
sent, Rev. J. Hvndshaw, one of the Vice
Presidents, was called to the chair, and the
meeting was opened with the reading of a por
tion of scripture, by the Rev. James Flannery.
Michael II. Dreher was appointed Secretary
pro. teirj. The following constitution was sub
mitted to the meeting, read article by article,
and adopted.
Constitution of the Auxiliary Bible So
ciety of the County of Monroe.
Article I. This Society shall be styled the
Bible Society of the County of Monroe, auxili
ary to the Pennsylvania Bible Society.
Art. II. The object of this Society shall be
to distribute the Sacred Scriptures, without
note or comment, in the county of Monroe, and
to aid the Pennsylvania Bible Society with its
surplus funds.
Art. III. Every person who shall contribute
annually not less than fifty cents, shall be a
member of ibis Society, and any person who
shall pay ai one time not less than five dollars,
shall be a member for life.
Art. IV. The business of this Society shall
be conducted by a President, five Vice Presi
dents, a Treasurer, a Corresponding Secretary,
a Recording Secretary, and 22 Managers ; any
five of which officers shall be a quorum to trans
act all business. They shall meet at least once
in three months ; make by-laws for their own
government; and fill such vacancies as may oc
cur in their own Board.
Art. V. The annual meeting shall be held
on the first Tuesday of January in each year,
when the officers and managers shall be chosen,
the accounts presented, and the proceedings of
the year reported.
Art. VI. If any election shall not take place
at the appointed time, the officers in place shall
continue to act.
Art. VII. No alteration shall be made in this
Constitution, unless it be proposed by the Man
agers, and agreed to by the Society at an an
nual meeting.
The meeting then proceeded to the election
of officers for the current year.
President. Daniel Stroud.
Vice Presidents. Michael Brown, John Kel
ler, Rev. Mr. Johnson, Rev. Mr. Flannery, or
his successor, Rev. Mr. Hyndshaw.
Corresponding Secretary. Wm. P. Vail.
Recording Secretary. Samuel S. Dreher.
Managers.
Stroud. James Van Buskirk- and M. H.
Dreher.
Hamilton. The preacher op' the circuit and
Peter Williams.
Pccono. William
Macfcey, Esq.
Young
and Jeremy
Gjicsnuthill. John Merwine and Rev. Mr.
Decker.
irce.-Anthony Peters & Jac. Hylgert,Esq.
Middle Smithficld. William Clark and Da
vid Eylenberger.
Smithfield. John Brown and Henry Eylen
berger. Ross. Jacob Frantz and George Flyte.
Tobyhanna. Washington Winters and Wil
liam Adams.
Penn Forest. John C. Nace and Garret Al
bertson. Coolbaugh. Abraham Yetter and Oliver
Smith.
The election of officers being ended, the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions were submit
ted, read, and adopted.
WHEREAS, the scriptures of tho Old and
New Testaments, called by way of eminence,
the Bible, that is, the Booh, are what they claim
to be, the word of God, by which He as really
makes known his will lo man now, as in for
mer times He did by prophecy, or by vision, or
by spoken words, as when a man talketh with
his friend; and whereas, this Bible contains
principles of universal and easy application to
man, whether wo regard him in his domestic,
or social, or civil capacity; principles whence
our legislators may frame just codes of laws,
and our statesmen, enlightened systems of policy,-
and whereas, above all, this inspired word
of life is the only, and sufficient, and infallible
guide of man in things pertaining to religion,
shedding light along his pathway through this
dark world, and pointing him onward and up
ward to glory, honor' and immortality in the
world to come; and wheroas.in order that this
Bible may fulfil the principal design of its au
thor, which is "to teach man what he is to be
lieve concerning God, and what duty God re
quires of man," it is a first requisite that it
should bo had in actual possession; therefore
Resolved, That we recognize tho obligation
in general, and the special obligation of Chris
tians, to lender the Bible to those who have it
not.
Resolved, That in tho American Uible Soci
ety we see an agency of vast power and utility,
of tho inmost simplicity and directness of aim,
adapted as a basis for tho united action of the
friends of the Bible of every name, and worthy
of the confidence and support of all.
Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Biblo Soci
ety, auxiliary to tho American Bible Society,
claims our affection and entire confidence.-
Resolved, That the Monroo County Bible
Society, auxiliary to the stale society, is bound
to employ the facilities furnished her by a kind1
Providence, and lo go forward in tho nobla and
benevolent work of dispensing the word of life
to all the destitute within her bounds, willing
to receive it.
Resolved, That immediate measures be taken
to carry into effect, the obligations recognized
above, as soon as practicable, by procuring a
supply of Bibles adapted to the wants of Mon
roe county, and establishing a general deposi
tory at the county seat, whence the several
townships may be supplied in such manner as
shall be deemed most expedient.
In accordance vith these resolutions, the
Corresponding Secretary was instructed io
write for 200 Bibles, (150 English and 50 Ger
man,) and 25 English Testaments in large typo,
to be drawn from the depository of the Penn
sylvania Bible Society in Philadelphia.
It was also resolved to publish the proceed
ings of this meeting in both the papers of this
Borough whereupon the meeting adjourned,
with the reading of another portion of ihe sacred
scriptures by the Rev. Baker Johnson.
MICHAEL H. DREHER, Sec.
Butter. The most approved recipe for
making butter In Missouri, is, to take one part
of fresh butter, one part or clear tallow, and ono
part of lard. Salt it to suit-yjurtaste.
Jabe says he knows a family, who arein the
habit of having nothing for breakfast, and
warming it up for dinner. He thinks the bovs-
would make good printers.
Counterfeiters Arrested.
Jacob Buser, and Anthony Auble, were ar
rested at Lancaster, Pa., a few days since, on
suspicion of being part of an extensive gang of
counterfeiters. Several counterfeit bills were
found on their persons, and they were commu
ted. The counterfeits purport to be notes on
the following banks: S2's on the Berks coun
ty Bankletter A, rougher paper than usual; a
$10 U. S. B., badly executed; and a $5 Mmers'
Bank of Pottsville, admirably done; $10 bills on
the Northen Liberties Bank; S5'h on the North:
America Bank; $10's on the Farmer's Bank.
Lancaster; SlO's on the United Slates; $10'$
on the Hagerstown Bank; $2's on ihe Cumber
land Bank, N. J.; $5's on the Miners' Bank,
Pottsville; and $2's on the Berks county Bank.
NOTICE.
Commissioners of Monroe county, you are
hereby respectfully cautioned to beware of giv
ing any order to James RafTerly, of payment
for printing a statement of the receipts and ex
penditures of Monroe county for 1841, as such
a step would not be in accordance with your
advertisement to receive sealed proposals for
that job, as I am informed that Mr. Raffeny
never offered any proposals until after Saturday
noon, 8th January, the lime specified but that
Mr, Schoch, did hand in proposals to perfornr
that work for the sum of $25,00, which sum
you will by lafw, be bound to pay to Mr. Schoch,
at any time that he demands the same of you,
but shonld you pay Rafferty any thing for print
ing said statement, you would be violating the
rery letter and meaning of that advertisement,
and faying yourselves liable to refund the same
to the county. 1 would also, in addition, re
quest you, in good faith to our county, t0 give
all other printing to the lowest bidder, all blanks,
&c, as it is time some retrenchment was ef-t
fecled in our county finances.
With sentiments of respect,
I remain your brother tax payer.
JNO. MERWINE.
One of the Auditors.
Chesnutnill isp: March 12, 1842.
ASSIGNEES'
Notice is hereby given, that the subscribers,
Assignees' of Alexander Kenner, of Milford,
Pike county, will' expose to public sale, on
Tuesday the 5ih day of April next, at the dwel
ling house of the said Kenner,- the following
Real Estate to wit:
All that certain town lot siuiafe in the tovVn"
of Milford, county of Pilce, and State of Penn
sylvania, known and designated on the general
plan or map of said town, as-lot, No. 341, con
taining in front on Broad srtreet 40 feet, and' in
depth180 feet, adjoining lot No. 342 on the
north, and lot No. 340 on the south; on which is
erected a small
Dwelling House.
Together with an out lot of two acres
appurtenant to the above town lot.
ALSO;
One other lot situate in said town of Milford,
numbered on said plan or map of said town of
Milford, 342; containing in front on Broad sreet
forty feet, and in depth one hundred and eighty
feet, adjoining lot No. 341. On which is erect
ed a two story
18 by 35 feet, with a kitchen. To
gether with an out lot of two acres, appurtenant
to the above described town lot.
ALSO;
Two other lots situate on the north west side
of Broad street, in said toyvn, numbered on the
plan or map of said town, four hundred and sev
en and four hundred and eight. Each lot con
taining, in front on Broad street forty feet, and
in dopth one hundred and eighty feet. On
which said lots is erected a largo BARN, thir
ty feet by seventy. Together wiih two out lots
appurtenant to tho above described lots, of two
acres each.
ALSO;
The following personal property, Iron,
Pork, Beef, Wood, household furniture, con
sisting of chairs, tables, side hoard, stands,
beds, bedding, clocks, bureau, oarpetingystova,
and various oilier articles.
Sale to commence at one o'clock, PI M
when conditions will, bo made known and at
tendance given- by
JAMES WATSON,
JOHiN M. HELLEJR
Assignees.
Milford,, March 16, 183:
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