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JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
-Sliroudsburff, April 13, i842.
Terms, $7,00 :n advance; $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not
paw oeiOiC inc cna oi me y ear.
- Home Leagues.
We have inserted, in another column, the Con
dition, and some of the Resolutions adopted by
"the Home League of Northampton County, 'in or
der to give our readers a more practical idea of
ilmse Societies which are working such wonders
in favor of the depressed and dispirited operations
of the United States. The object of the Home
Leagues, as there expressed, is to bring about a
proper protection for American Industry, and to
secure reciprocal Commerce. This is to be ef
fected by arousing the people to a sense of their
piesent prostrate condition, and thus awakening a
spirit throughout the land which will be felt in
the Halls of Congress, and induce that body to
enact laws to give protection to our manufacturers
and laborers, by means of a good and sufficient
Tariff.
According to the existing Tariff, our ports are
open to tire -ships of every nation, whilst theirs
are closed to us by heavy and onerous duties.
The productions of France, and other countries,
-where the price of labour is but 10 cents per day,
are imported hr.re, and our honest and hard-work-ingmen
undersold, because they cannot afford to
labor for the same -low wages. This is wrong;
and we are called upon by every sense of right, to
give full protection to our own industry.
To show how we are affected by foreign labor,
for want of a sufficient Tariff, we will state one
fact in illustration of our position. It is this. A
few days ago a Vessel arrived at Boston, from
Havre, having-bn board, among other things, 6000
pair of Boots. These Boots, on account of the
low rate of duty, can be sold for S2 less, per pair,
than those of the same quality made in this Coun
try. This is but one of many -similar importations,
and the consequence will be that many hundreds
of our Boot and Shoe makers will be thrown xut
of employment, whilst we are affording a market
for French 10 cent a day labor. It is pretty much
the same with nearly every other article of Amer
ican production the same ruinous policy is pur
sued in relation to it, and our own industry is left
to languish.
On the other hand, those countries, who thus
fatten upon our prostration, keep up the "duties on
articles of our production, so as effectually to ex
clude them from their ports. England, for in
stance, although she pays but a nominal duty on
all her imports to the United States, charges us !
S'3 for ever' barrel of flour, and the same price i
for every barrel of sugar, we export to that coun
try. We owe it to ourselves, and our people, to
put a stop to these evils. If other countries will
not receive our sugar, flour, rice, iron, coal, &c,
in return for their productions, without charging
us more duty than we charge them, we should ex
clude them by such restrictions as will fully pro
tect our own industry. In order to effect this,
union is necessary; and therefore these Home
Leagues are formed. We are emphatically a la
boring community in this County, and therefore
l ave a deep interest in the protection of American
Industry. Let us then join together in an associ
ation, and lend our aid in securing those benefi
cial results. Who then, in Stroudsburg, will de
serve the thanks of his fellow citizens by moving
first in this rr,atter, and organizing a Home League
for Monroe county
The Bribery Investigation.
The particulars elicited by tne Joint Committee
of the Legislature, on the examination of George
Handy, have not yet been fully made public. Suf
ficient, however, has transpired to let us know that
foul means were resorted to by the Banks of Phil
adelphia to procure the passage, of Suspension
Eesolutions in 1840 and that about 8120,000
(from the U. S- Bank,) passed through the hands
of George Handy, into the possession of Daniel
M. Brodhead, formerly of Pike County, afterwards
Winnebago Agent, and now D. R. Porter's Com
missioner of Loans. Mr. Handy produced abcut
sixty letters before the Committee, the contents
of which go to show that there was a conspir
ary between himself, Brodhead, and others, car
Tied on somewhat after the manner of the much
talked of Pipe Laying Plot. Brodhead figures in
the letters as a Lumber Merchant ; and whenever
additional money was wanted to carry on Iheir
design, he would writ that " lumber was very
high " "rafts were scarce," and that "more bra
cwg was required." In one of his letters, heays
'I will see the Governor to night and talk Indian
to him." Others of the letters, iv is said, also
make mention of the Governor visiting members of
the Legislature, at, their rooms, in the night, upon
the subject. The Committee, who had permis
sion to sit during the recess of the Legislature,
concluded the examination of Mr. Handy on Wed
nesday. morning last, and then adjourned till the
9th of June- They will make their Report at the
Extra Session.
A number of articles prepared for this week's
paper, which were unavoidably crowded out, will
appear in our next.
Executive Interference.
On Tuesday of last week, just as the Legislature
Was about to adjourn, and whilst the Committee
on Bribery were carrying on the Investigation,
Gov. Porter sent a most remarkable Message to
both Houses, setting forth that a3 his name had
been mentioned in connexion with the bribery bu
siness, in a manner injurious to his reputation
he had given instiucrions to the Attorney General
to commence criminal prosecutions against Geo
Handy, and all the others implicated by him in the
matter. It is scarcely necessary for us to say that
.hls interference of the Governor with the duties
of the Committee, is calculated (and perhaps in
tended) to stifle all further investigations, as no
one implicated will come forward and testify when
he is told before hand that his admissions will be
used as evidence to convict him of participation
in the crime. This act of Gov. Porter's, is a
high handed stretch of prerogative. It was un
warranted by the circumstances in the case. It
is calculated to suppress all further developement,
and thus permit the guilty culprits who were en
gaged in the conspiracy to go free and unpunished.
It looks very black for D. R. Porter, thus to en
deavour to put a stop to the examination, as soon
as his name was mentioned among those of the
conspirators. Was he afraid to let the Commit
tee go on and ascertain the whole truth 1 His act
looks very much as if that had been his purpose.
For the honor of Pennsylvania we would wish
that the matters revealed in relation to the Gov
ernor were not true ; but the course he has pur
sued is the very one calculated to make the com
munity think otherwise. Many of the Governors
political friends, in both Houses, denounced the
Afessage in unmeasured terms.
Arrests.
On Wednesday last, Mr- George Handy and
Daniel M. Brodhead, were arrested in Philadel
phia, on the complaint of Ovid F. Johnson, Attor
ney General of the Commonwealth, and each held
to Bail in the sum of S5000. It will be remem
bered that a law was lately passed by the Legis
lature, and signed by the Governor, which went
to exonerate Handy from arrest and prosecution,
on condition that he testified his full knowledge of
the conspiracy; and that it was upon the faith of
that act that he testified. Notwithstanding this,
the Governor has directed the officers of the Law
to arrest him, and although he has turned States
Evidence, to include him in the Indictment with
the others. Were they to go to trial this way,
Brodhead and all the others would necessarily be
cleared for want of some person to testify against
them. Mr. Handy, however, has sued out a Ha
beus Corpus, upon which he will have a hearing
on the 28th of this month, when he will no doubt
be discharged, and made a competent witness to
testify and convict all the other criminals engaged
in the Bribery business, whoever they may- be.
The Legislature.
This body adjourned on the 5th inst., to meet
again on the 9th of June. During the three
months they were in session, they passed upwards
of eighty acts, all of minor importance, but did no
thing for the people at large except to keep them
in almost continual alarm and suspense. No Tax
Bill has been passed, or other provision made to
pay the Domestic Creditors of the State, or the
August interest on the public debt. . They have
already squandered over S 100,000 of the peoples
money, without doing any thing to replenish the
exhausted coffers of the Treasury, and in June
will return to Harrisburg, and probably spend as
much more. This is the Loco Foco Legislature
which was elected to secure a thorough reform of
all abuses. Unless the people of Pennsylvania
show a more than Christian-like forbearance for
wrong, we predict that but few of the present mem
bers will return there next winter, again to dis
grace themselves and their State.
Texas.
We were a little too fast, last week, in announc
ing the War in Texas to be at an end. It turns
out that the body of Mexicans, pursued by the
Texians, were but an advanced guard, of the main
army, sent out by Gen. Arista to allure the enemy
within his power. The Young Republic is there
fore invaded in earnest, by a force of 12 or 15,000
men. The Navy of Texas has blockaded the
Mexican coast, and vessels from every nation are,
after the first of May, to be prohibited from enter
ing their ports. President Houston has also de
termined to carry the War into Mexico, and not
lay down his arms till the Banner of the "Lone
Star" is planted in triumph over the ruins of Aris
tocratic Tyranny.
Impeachment.
The Harrisburg Telegraph expresses the hope
that Gov. Porter will be impeached by the Legis
lature, at the Extra Session.
The Right of Search.
The right claimed by England, for her tessols
of War to board American Ships, on the high seas,
and search for Slaves, has caused a great deal of
excitement lately, both at home and abroad yand
unless it is speedily abandoned by that country,
may lead to the worst consequences. England,
Austria, Russia, Prussia, and France, the five
greatest nations of Europe, held a Convention, a
short time since, at which a- Treaty was framed,
acknowledging the Right of Search. The ruling
j' powers of the first four countries have already rat
ified the Treaty ; but Francer in consequence of
an able manifesto, written by Gen. Cass, our Min
ister theier, had, up to the latest accounts, refused
her assent. The object, of this Treaty, on the part
of England, plainly is to forde us into the ac
knowledgment of a measure wnich is to redound
altogether "to-her own advan'tage. The Slave
Trade is but an incidental object with them.
Their great -motive is the destruction of'our Com
merce on the coast of Africa, which is now en
tirely eclipsing their own which they 'expect t6
do by boarding our merchantmen with the avowed
object of hunting for Slaves, but Tor the covert and
real purpose of delaying our vessels, and hunting
for English seaman who may be employed in them.
Thousands of dollars have already been lost to
our Merchants by this illegal interference, on the
part of Great Britain, for which no indemnity will
ever be made. The United States is favorable to
the suppression of the Slave Trade, and hereto
fore submitted to having her ships boarded for
that purpose. But since England claims that
when her naval officers have once lawfully board
ed a vessel to search for slaves, they have a right
to detain it, and to seize and carry off all the Eng
lish sailors they may find aboard of it, it becomes
us as a free and independent nation, acknowledg
ing supremacy to no power on earth, at once to
check such arrogant presumption. Our old friend
and ally, France, has acted nobly in refusing to
sanction "the Treaty; and if she perseveres in her
good resolve, will deserve the thanks of every
true American. Our government, too, has acted
promptly in the matter, by sending four vessels of
War to the Coast of Africa, to prevent a recur
rence of the evil3 complained of. If England,
therefore does not desist, honor and patriotism
both require that a resort to arms should be had
to compel her. Should this, unfortunately be the
case, our countrymen will display the same invin
cible spirit and courage which distinguished their
forefathers oh the two former and ever memorable
occasions, when the haughtiness and pride of
Britain became intolerable.
HOME LEAGUE -of
Northampton county.
CONSTITUTION.
Art. 1. This association shall be denomina
ted The Home League of tho County of North
ampton for the protection of American Industry
and the promotion of reciprocal Commerce.
Art. 2. The officers of the League shall
be a President, four Vice Presidents, a Cor
responding Secretary and a Recording Secre
tary. Art. 3. When a Central League for the
Stale of Pennsylvania shall be formed, this
League will become auxiliary to it under the
regulations such central League shall adopt.
Art. 4. The stated meetings of this League
shall be holden in the Borough of Easton on
the first Thursday of every month.
Art. 5. A majority of the members of the
League shall bo competent at any staled meet
ing to suspend alter or amend any part of this
Constitution.
TheComm iltec also submitted the following
resolutions:
Whereas there is in the mining, manufactur
ing and agriculiural operations in Northampton
County, a great amount of Capilal invested of
which an exposition may be made by an enu
meration of ihe following facts, viz: The in
vestments in the coal trade in this county
amount to seven millions of dollars.
The invesimenis in sixiy flouring mills in the
counly amount to one million and a half of dol
lars. The investments in the manufacture of Iron
amount to five hundred thousand dollars.
The investments in tanneries amount to one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars besides in
vestments to a large amount in cotton, woollen
and other manufactures. And whereas these
products and manufactures are taxed on their
importation into England and other European
countries, with a duty that operates almost to
their entire exclusion, while similar products
and manufactures from these foreign countries
arc admitted into our ports at a duty which af
fords little more than a nominal protection to
our own producers and manufactures.
And whereas" the interests of the capitalists
and laboring men engaged in the mining, man
ufacturing and agricultural operations in this
county are essentially dependent upon and in
volved in the proper protection of the staple
productions herein before enumerated, there
fore Resolved, That the permanent prosperity of
this counly requires the imposition of a discrim
inating Tariff, that will properly proiect its
vast and valuable iron, coal, woollen, leather,
and agricultural interests against foreign com
petition, which is destructive, because wanting
in reciprocity.
Resolved, That the enormous duties, impos
ed by the British government upon American
commerce and American products require the
government of the United States in justice to
its own citizens, so to adjust the Tariff that in
raising Revenue, Amerrcan manufactures, pro
ducts and commerce may be protected, and the
industry of our laboring citizens be preserved
from ruinous competition.
Resolved, That we instruct the member of
Congress from llri3 district, and recommend to
the other members of Congress from the State
of Pennsylvania, to use till proper means to
procure tho enactment of a law imposing a
discriminating and protective Tariff.
Resolved, That we recommend to tho Tariff
Convention' about to meet at Harrisburg lo form
for the state of Pennsylvania, a central associ
ation to be denominated the Homo League for
tho promotion of reciprocal commerce and tho
protection of American Industry.
Which,, on motion, were adopted by the
meeting.
The vrhole number of bankrupts in the ndrth-
orn diarist of -New York ihus farr-1.329.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, April 7, 1842.
Senate. Mr. Buchanan presented memorials
upon the subject of the Tariff, mainly in refer
ence to the Iron interests
The bill relating to the Apportionment of-Representatives
among the several States, according to
tho Sixth Census, some days ago reported by Mr.
Tapp'an, and ordered to be printed, was called up
to-day, and laid on the table. The following is a
copy of the bill.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of ihe United States of America, in Con
gress assembled, That from and after the third
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,
trfe HOuse of Representative. shall be
composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio
of one Representative for-every si.xty eight thous
and persons in each State, computed accoiding to
the rule prescribed by the -Constitution of the Oni-
tee States; that is to say- within the State of
Maine-, seven; within the state ol JNew .Hampshire,
four; within the State of Massachusetts, ten; with
in the State of Rhode Island, one; within the State
of Connecticut, four; within the State of Vermont,
four; within life State of New York, thirty-five;
within the State of New Jerseyj five; within the
State of Pennsylvania, twenty-five; within the State
of Delaware, one; within the State of Maryland,
six; within the State of Virginia, fifteen; within the
State of North Carolina, nine; within the State of
South Carolina, six; within the State of Georgia,
eight; within the State of Alabama, seven; within
the State of Mississippi, four; within the State of
Louisiana, four; within tho State of lennessee,
eleven; within the State of Kentucky, teii: within
the State of Ohio, twenty-two; within the State of
Indiana, ten; within the State of Illinois, seven;
within the State of Missouri, five; within the State
of Arkansas, one; and within the State of Michi
gan, three.
Mr. Evans, chairman of the committee of Fi
nance, at one o'clock catted for the orders of the
day.
The Loan bill was then taken' up, and Mr. Bu
chanan proceeded with his speech in support of
the amendment of Mr. Walker to repeal the Land
bill and to pledge the proceeds of the sales of the
Public Domain to the redemption of the Loan.
Mr. Rives continued the debate, and sustained
the amendment of Mr. Walker in a brief but ear
nest speech.
Mr. Evans made some explanati'ori while Mr.
Rives was speaking.
Mr. Simmons replied to the remarks of Mr.
Rives, contending that if this land fund were taken
from the Slates, all hopes of meeting their debts,
except by resort to the most onerous direct tax,
would be taken away.
Mr. Smith of Connecticut, will occupy the floor
to-morrow.
The Senate adjourned.
House Morning Business. The House this
morning presented a much larger attendance than
usual, and the business went on regularly and
properly after the reading of the Journal.
Mr. Kennedy of Md , reported a dill from the
committee on Commerce, "to prevent the trans
portation of passengers or letters, coastwise, by
foreign ships or vessels."
The House then went into committee.
Mr. Thompson of Indiana was called to the
Chair, and as soon as the House went into Com
mittee, Mr. Adams moved that the Committee rise
to report the bill considered yesterday for the
erection of a war steamer.
The Committee rose and reported, and again
went into committee, and took up the General Ap
propriation Bill. Among the first items proposed,
was one in reference to the pay received by the
District Attorneys, Marshals, Clerks, &c.
A point of order was raised in reference to this
amendment, which was overruled, and the amend
ment was afterwards adopted. It operates as a
restriction upon the money received by those offi
cers, and limits the receipts so completely that for
no purpose whatever can they be advanced be
yond the term's of the law.
Mr. Ingersoll moved to reduce the expenses of
the Courts from S17'5,000 to $375,000.
The amendment was debated until 4 o'clock by
a large number of members. It was of a desulto
ry charae'er and without public interest. Mr. In
gersoll spoke quite at length and was followed by
Messrs Fillmore, Adams, Pickens, Pendleton, Ev
erett, Cave Johnson and others.
David Miller, convicted of passing counter
feit notes of the Berks County Bank, has been
sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
Death of Adams, the Murderer.
James Adams, indicted for the murder of his
wife, died in the city prison about 10 o'clock
ori Thursday night, after a short illiness, of
typhus fever. He was attended regularly by
Dr. Tonnelicr, the physician for the prison, and
visited by Dr. Archer, the coroner. During
his illness he appeared to labor under great
mental and physical prostration, and refused to
partake of the nourishing food recommended by
his physician. He has thus escaped trial be
fore an earthly court, and gone to appear before
a judge from whose decision there is no appeal.
Apples for Stock. Under this head a "Prac
tical Farmer," in the Boston Cultivator, Bays:
"Last year I butchered a hog- sixteen months
old which weighed 500 lbs. For some time be
fore bringing him to the tub, he ate frothing but
boiled apples: Corn meal was offered him, but
refused; the pork was of tho best quality, and
though the moon was not consulted in killing
him, the
" Meat ne'er shrunk a bit i' the pot."
Imposture.
The Mormons haro found a now book called
the Book of Abraham, h purports to havo
been- written by rhat patriarch, and is said to
have been found in the Catacombs of Egypt by
an English traveller who brought it away with
eleven mummies. Jo Smith is engaged in
translating it for the "Times and Seasons,"
published at Ntuivoo.
Cure for Rheumatism. Take one pint of
brandy, 1 1-2 oz. saltpetre, 1 oz. camphor, 1 gill
spirits turpentine, mix together, when about to
use it,- shake it up well, Apply it by wotting a
flannel with it and dry it in by a flat or other
iron as hoi a3 it can be borno.
Deaths in Now York last week, 182.
LATE PROM CHI ft' A.
ifphe ship Hannibal, Capt. Scott, auired
Nv York on Wednesday afternoon. out l ...
rlrfif.arul eleven days from Canton. briili!t:. . .
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lion had been pafdto . the interference ofi
rt iitHnriin i .firiviiii ur inc it auci. uui ii in i'r
tention of Mr. Edwards to represent the whoU
affair to Congress.
The Chinese continued to -'sink stones ati-l
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nlaced suns in their newly erected ft
tney are ueiermineu to stop iuh snip unit
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v i i n 1 1 nil i m nnri'i I rmniniiikiiiHiir lT'n o t
meuse wealtli.
Chekeaiig, has been disgraced by the E npc.
ror. Tang Ting Ching has also been digrncnj.
Lin, being" res'ored lo favor, is herraOcr m
regulate the yellow fever, and to keep ii wnlj.
in its banks.
Hong Kong, the new British settlement,
gan to improve rapidly in building and busine-s.
Seven Chinese trading veseU had been
seized by H. Majesty's squadron in the Chi
nese waters taken to Hongkong, and condemn
ed as lawful prizes.
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vve nave uenru noiuiiig lanuer in ihp report
ed capture of Hangchowfoo, the capilal of the
province of Chekeang.
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1 he reports from Canton are various: one is,
UUi, J ill liiui iiciiiiiiiun ui inc uihj.-i. uicau
unreasonable; that if he gives them a chair, they
then want a bed. Another is that Keshen anl
two other ofneers have been deputed to Ningpo,
to treat with H. M. Plenipotentiary.
From Canton Press, Dec. A.
Trade is proceeding as usual in Canton, al
though upon unfavorable terms. By forcing -sales
of manufactures upon an unwilling mar-
Ket, tneir prices arc even lower now man no
fore, and cotton also shows a tendency to de
cline. Teas are ahoiit the same as last week,
but it is observed that this year's crop is gene
rally of an inferior quality. J Large qtianutiea
of green teas are how being prepared in Ma
cao for the American markei ; a considerable
portion of these sorts of teas, as indeed of ma
ny others, being how shipped from here instead
oi irom ianin. i iw bvaivvy in me ttiv-mai-!
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i r m a 1 1 ft t-n film' iriirniciii: ) t i i .- tiu u wii .
ai Will. willOb iJ r..iv-ail uunai -- aioui vaiii.ii" 'p
difficult sale at 4 a 5 per cent discount. We
were, we learn, misinformed last week, when
partially attributing the present scarcity bf sil
ver dollars to the shipment oT'the ransom mo
ney of Canton, to Calcutta. The dollars then
received were mostly kept fpr the use of the ex-
must have again beicn circulated. The chief
reason for thi3 sudden diminution of these dol
lars may probably be sought in the present
troubled state of the country, when Spanish
dollars, as generally more current than Sycee,
and, besides, easily concealed, are eagerly
sought after in the province of.Cahton, Fokeen,
and Chekeang by the people. Another rea
son, which would fiowever not act with quite so
sudden efecj, is the nearly total cessation of
supply of these sort of dollars, and their rapid
destruction in the hands of the Chinese, from
their habit of stamping them; a measure resort
ed to by them, as bills of exchange are endors-
si ntr ne nM riinir inrir i' iimvm .m.iiiiiin 11111111 .
them, responsible for ihe goodness of the metal.
A singular incident happened at Washing
ton, Pennsylvania, recently, he town Sex
ton kefpt a depot at walnuts under an old tomb
stone, which certain boys were in the habit of
visiting during his absence. He sallied out al-'
ter night to capture them, and found three boys
regaling themselves. He ordered them to fol
low hirrt to a constable, but the young fellows
tnnned htm no. seized his less, and shded him
to a new mauu anu very ueep grave, i ncy
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nrst tiea ins arms neninu mm wiia nts suspen
ders and then tumbled him in throwing after
him the shells of half a peck of nuts. Tho
"house of tho dead" was very deep.jhe even
ing vory dark, and it rained in torrents. The
sexton roared afoud; his screams were heard at
intervals through the storm; the old women at
the end ol the town began to shake theiVheads;
tho waitings of the damned spirit could be dis
tinctly heard; and at length it was whispered
iii every street, that the devil had carried off
tho sexton. The corporation collected, and
ihe whole town rushed pell-mell to tho gravo
yard. The voico vas heard and the "man "I
the turf" was lifted out more dead than alive.
The old wAmen were all disappointed at find
ing him without tho "gentlemen in black' ami
the gravo was soon tenanted by another, who
"slept well" and complained not'.
In tho Tate edition of his Dictionary, Web
ster has added a new and comprehensive verb,
,f?Vus : "To Swartwout, va, to absquatulate,
run away, evaporate, hack out, cufdirt, make
tracks, take the Sabine slide and disappear."
Cold Water for Infants. Dr. Dcwees
says, that he has often seen infants, when
seeming to suffer exquisite agony, rendereu
perfectly quiet and easy by .a draught o( cool
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