J EFFERSON IAN HEP U BLICAN. U. ii. S2remo Court, ITniporJaszt Ie- cision agaistv: isJay Laws. Tlwon, Feb. 28, 1 643. Gentlemen As it cannot be too soon or too generally known, it gives me pleasure to inform you of a deci sion of much moment, and of high conservative jcharacter, made to-day by the Supreme Court, with no other dissentient, but his Honor Justice Mr. McLean. It is this: That the States have no authority, with reference to existing contracts, entered into prior to such legislation, to provide for the exemption oT property from sale un der decrees of iudo-meuts until it shall have been first appraised under such a law and unless it shall bring a sum bearing a prescribed proportion to the amount of such appraisement. The question arose upon a certain certifi cate of division in opinion'between the Judges of the Circuit Court of the U. S. for the District of Illinois, in the case of Bronson and Kinzie, involv ing the constitutionality of two Acts of Assembly of that State, the one passed 19th February, LSil;the other the 27th of the same month and year. The following is a copy of the answer of the Supreme Court to the questions: "First-the deciee should direct the premises to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, wit out regard to the law of 19th February, 1841, which gives the right of redemption to the mortgager for twelve months,, and to the judgment creditor for fif teen months". "Second That decree should di rect the sale of the mortgaged prem ises without being first valued by three householders, and without re quiring two thirds of the amount of the said valuation to be bid accord ing to law of February 27, 1841." The Hagerstown, Md., News, re ports a curious case which came be fore a magistrate in that place, on Saturday last. The parties to the suit were Bayers vs. Herchberger, and the sum involved was 75 cents. The accounts made out against the defendant was for eatbles, lodging, and firewood, while he was paying liis addresses to a housemaid in the employ of the plaintiff. No judge ment has j'et been given. This is rather a queer case. Chronicle. Important By a case lately cle--oided in one of the New York Courts; ir turns out to be the law of that State, l'nt when the principle of a debt is j 'Ccived, an action cannot be main tained for the interest. f Mr. ,rrtm.he celebrated preacher on Tem perance, Kusrbcen lecturing in Mifilintown, pa.; and the- Times of that place is highly delighted with hint. Wc also learn by a letter from Leui&tuwi), that he is in that place, and created quite a sensation by his peculiar style of lee? Hiring. In one of his lectures he attacked the intemperate extent to which the ladies carried their bustling habits. Turning his back, which is humped, around to lite audience, ho remark ed that had nature granted the ladies such a bustle as he had thev wrnshl think it neither a beauty nor a convenience, and be.moro anxious to do without them than they now are. to put them on ! Good, for " old Hunt !" Pa. Tel. V hunter, in Cana-ia, who aimed : noble deer, accidentally shot a valuable horse, and was obliged to .- S-)nn rin u-!ti riper shnntinor r which hy little anticipated. .. T? is stated that there were impor 1 1 into Charleston, S. C, from Africa, i.i th. years lS0i,,'5, t5 and '7, 39, :i!0 slaves. The Pemia Register relates the following in cident ; " Two waggons with specie arrived at Princeton Bureau County, on Monday of, last week, in the midst of a heavy snow t-torm. The. landlord of the house ai which they stop ped, anxious to oblige his guests, commenced helping in with the b'oxcs.'but being unpracitced in the art of handling specie, he let the first one fall, and the half dollars .rolled out like mar bles. Here was a pretty kettle offish. The snow was nearly a foot deep, and the wind blowing with merciless severity. The receiv er (JuTlge Garnsey) observing through an open door that there was a large kettle of water on the fire, ordered it to bo brought which being poured upon the snow, removed it almost in sinntlv. The money was gathered up, and on beinc'couriied, it was found that only two half . .. a ..... . , i dollars oki.oi tntriy nunurcu were imimi!. Those the landlord's son found the next morn ing, when all was made right again." It seems now to be generally admitted that the cow after a certain age, may, by careful management in driving and feedii g, be made nearly as profitable to the farmer as the ox. Why the cow should ever have enjoyed an ex emption from labor, is more than wc can decide. The mnre does not appear ever to have esca ped the yoke of servitude, although it isdiifi cult io ascertain perhaps why she has not been so favored as well as the cow. A neighbor of ours has recently broken over the bounds of prejudice in this respect, and has regularly worked his cows on the road for several months, with flattering success. He says that he finds them as docile, and in every respect as easy to manage, as oxen of the same ago. Another individual adopted the practice last spring from necessity. He was so unfortunate as tolose a fine three year old, and not having the means to purchase a mate immediately, he yoked up a couple of cows, with which he has since done all his light work on the farm, be sides working them frequently on the road. In Scotland, the practice of working cows is quite common. They are made to plough, harrow, and cart materials both to and from the fields, in short to perform all the tasks which, in this country, and indeed, even in .Scotland, were, until a late period, imposed exclusively upon ahe ox or horse. Maine Cultivator. A immifafctiirer at Lowell, Mass., having refused to pay the wages dus fie jrirls in his employ, they caught him and crave him a severe beating. The Senate of Ohio, have passed a hIi, fixing the legal rate of interest, a that State at seven per crnt. The FsUrek .c5evrc. The Argus, published in Bradford county, Pa., states that the offspring of the guilty wretch Lefevre, (the hypocritical scoundrel who palmed irimself cif as a minister of the gos pel,) died the day after birth, from the effect it is supposed, of drugs, admin istered -to procure abortion,"and that Ins victim is a maniac. It has recently been decided 'by one of the Courts in England that a house is not tenantable that is infested with bsd ,bugs, and that a lease upon the promises can be broken in conse quence. Store rents -in i.wypr.k, are. said to be lover'taejir, been for maiiy yr bsk,. ' I? ' The Unloosed for Comet. A writer in the New Bedford Mercury, who had noticed the new comet at midday, says : " lis brilliancy was almost equal lo that of Venus. Its situation is rery near the lirnb of the sun ; its tail 'appears about 3 degrees in length. It may be the comet announced some three months in Europe; it was then traversing the constellation Draco ; be it that or another, it is of rare brilliancy. There are but three on record of sufficient brilliancy to be seen in the day season. The "first was 43 years before Christ, and is called hairy star;' it was seen with the naked eye in the day time. The second was in the year 1402 and was so bril liant that the light of the sun, at the end of March, did not hinder people from seeing it at ntiddav; hotli its nucleus and its tail was, to ue! the language of the day. 'two fathoms long.' The third appeared on Feb. 18lh 177-1. and nearly equalled Venus in splendor, and many persons saw it at midday without glasses. It may yet prove that the comet of to-day is the same' as that of 1402." LADIES' COMPANION! A STANDARD NATIONAL MAG.AZI.Yi:, Published Montily in the City 'of New-York, by WILLIAM W, . SNOWPEN. NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS IN KACH NUMBER. The exalted reputation- of this popular maga zine has been so long and so widely established that it may perhaps lie deemed by some supere rogatory tn the part of the proprietor to offer a di rect exposition of its merits and its claims. The Ladies' Companion needs no laudatory puffs to force it into a precarious existence: it hasffnr a number of years, spoken for itself, and in a voice which hasound a most satisfactory response in the literary taste of the age. Conforming, howev er, to custom, which seems to demand a few words occasionally from the proprietor to his pat rons and the public, we will simply and suscinctly enumerate the chief titles which this standard na tional magazine has to the enormous patronage whicluit has for so many vears enjoyed, and to inai regular anti uninterrupted auvance in me ta vor of the critical, the literary and the refined, which has ever, in a degree peculiar to itself, char acterized the progress of the work. On the minor merits of the Ladies1 Companion, the mechanical execution, paper, typography, etc., it is needless to dwell. It has ever been the object of the proprietor to place his magazine, even in these points, beyond competition; but in doing so, he has had no disposition to sacrifice, the more important and substantial qualities which ought to distinguish a,national and standard peri odical. It is its preeminence in the literary depart ment, upon which is based the principal claims of the Ladies' Companion. To its pages the propri etor boldly refers for proof of the assertion that by none of its numerous rivals and imftators, has the Companion ever been equalled or even approach ed in its JLsSes'as'y C2s;iraer. If further proof were needed, the proprietor would point with emotions of pleasure and pride, to the following list of distinguished names, .em bracing the principal regular .contributors, whose able pens have exerted so much influence through the pages of this magazine upon the literary taste of the day. PROMINENT CONTRIBUTORS. Emma C Embury, author of "Pictures of Early Life," the "Blind Girl," etc.; Lydia II Sigourney; Frances S Osgood; Mrs. Seba Smith; Mrs. E. F. Ellet, author of "Character of Schiller," etc.; Ann S Stephens; Hannah F Gould; Mrs. E. It. Steele; Mrs. A. M. F. Annan, late Miss Buchanan; Miss A. D. Woodbridge; Mrs. Emeline S Smith; F. W Thomas, author of "Clinton Bradshaw," etc., Car oline Orne, of Wolfsboro', N. H.; Miss Mary Ann Browne, England, Mrs. M. St. Leon Loud, Penn sylvania; Professor J. II. Ingraham; Louis Fitz gerald Tasistro; Nathaniel P. Willis; Theodore S Fav; Edcnr A. Poe; Geon-e P. Morris, author of "Brier Cliff," and the "National Melodies," to- I getner witn a large numucr oi prominent, wmets, whose names we have not room here to insert. This list, embracing some of the most profound original and vigorous intellects of the male sex, and the most brilliant, graceful and witty of the fair, cannot easily be paralelled by any other mag azine in the country. It affords the surest guaran tee of the determination and the ability of the pro prietor to make the literary character of his work commensurate with its immense and increasing circulation. From the variety of talent every di versity of taste may expect to Jbe gratified, and ev ery kind of elegant literature receive a proper at tention. Poetry, tales, sketches, essays, embody ing the brilliant conceptions, the graceful imagin ings, the original inventions, and the witty or pro found thoughts of the able writers we have enu merated, have and will continue to administer, each in proportion, to the amusement and instruc tion of the readers of the Companion. EDITORS' TABLE. In this department is embraced short notices of those occurrences which are deemed of sufficient interest to demand attention critical remarks up on new books, and upon the productions of the stage. It will bo an- object of the proprietor to preserve the reputation, which this department has acquired for sound and unprejudiced 'decisions. THE EMBELLISHMENTS. It may be safely asserted that in this interesting and striking feature, the Ladies' Companion is yet unrivalled. It is not merely in the beauty and perfection of the engravings that it excels, but al so in the character of the subjects which are in ... , -. i . i . . i ii variably setecteo wiui me greatest care aim reac tion, and with reference to their utility and artisti cal merit, not to the facility and consequent cheap ness with which they yield themselves to the burin of the engraver. Every number is ornamented with steel plates, executed by the first artists, in the most finished manner, expressly for the work! Scriptural engravings are also occasionally pub lished. The reader therefore, for the low price at which the "Companion" is afforded, in addition to its admirable literary articles,-obtains a port folio of elegant steel engravings. THE MONT-IIIY FASHIONS. make another, and the proprietor thinks, valuable department. Attention is paid as well to the ex cellence and finish of the plate, as to correctness of costume. To the ladies, it furnishes u faithful and beautiful record of the mutations in dress. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT. offers an opportunity to the display of taste in the selection of nieces, "which it may be safely affirm ed, has been alwavs taken advantage of. Most of the popular and valuable songs published under the unmeuiaie supervision ji,,i uiauiiyuiaiiuu muan-.n nrufessor. have been Given to the world in the pages of this magazine. Continued attention will i;e paid to this department. Terms and Conditions. The Ladies' Compan ion is published at THREE DOLLARS a year, navable in advance, or four dollars during tho year. Two copies, or two years, for five dollars if cur rent funds, in advance- ;m paid. The work is punctually issued.on tho first of every month, and is forwarded to subscribers by- the earliest mails, , i I N . 1 . . ..i. i ...... r m :.. c; . s roiiffiv envew peo. iiuv. volumes uuuuueiicu win uc nem-ai me om.n puuau,.. K ;m , Nonemler numbers. m ta itiw . NOTICE. A Petition for Discharge and Certificate un der tho Bankrupt Law, has been filed by John Eylcnberger, Tobacconist, Monroe. And -Friday tho 26th day of May next at 11 o'clock, .A..M is appointed for the hoaring thereof, before the said Court, sitting in Bank rutcy, at the District Court lioom, in tho City of Philadelphia, when and where the Creditors of the said Petioner who have proved their Debts, and all other persons in iterest, may ap pear and show eause, if any Uley have, why such Discharge and Certificate should not be granted. FRAS. HOPKINS0N, Clerk of the District Court. "Philadelphia; March 1, 18-13. 10t. .BANK IV.OTB. IiIST. -r "f i . correclevf weekly for the Jeflersonian Itepubjicnn. The notes of those banks on w.hich quctatiriRs are omitted and 'a dash( )subsiituietl,v(are int purchased by the brokers. : . .. . 5CJIJSsyIya'S5ia. jWest Branch banfcK. rhiladelphia bank, par J'1,ttsbur Bank of North Xnicricw, do JVnynesibnrri Farmers' & Mechanics' do B'.ownosntlc Y CSlCIil Uillliv uu- , Bca county bnn!t Towamla do Relief Notes' TICE. A Petition for the Benefit of the Bankrupt Law, has heen filed the 14th February, 1843, by Henderson D. Harvey, Laborer, Pike Co. Which Petition will bo heard before the Dis trict Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, silting in Bankruptcy, at tho District Court room in the Ciiy of Phil adelphia, on Friday the 1 7th day of March next, at 1 1 o'clock, A M. when and where all persons interested may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of tho said Petition should not be granted, and tho said Petitioner declared Bankrupt. . FRAS. IIOPKINSON, Clerk of the District Court. Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1813. 3t. NOTICE. ' A Petition for Discharge Und Certificate un der the Bankrupt Law, has been filed by Samuel Case, Butcher, Monroe county. And Saturday the 20th day of April next at 11 o'clock, A; M. is appointed for the hearing thereof, before the said Court, sitting in Bank ruptcy, at the District Court Room, in the Ci y of Philadelphia, when and where the Cred itors of the said Petitioner, who have proved their Debts, and all other persons in interest, may appear and show cause, if any they have, why such Discharge and Certificate should not be granted. FRAS. HOPKINSON, Clerk oj the District Court. Philadelphia, Feb. 11, 1843. 10 w. Petitions for Discharge and Certificate under the Bankrupt Law, hae been filed by John H. Brodhead, Farmer, late Merchant, and late partner in the firms of Mott & Brod- ead, and of the firm of Stoll & Brodhead, Pike county. And Saturday the 29th day of April next, at 11 o'clock, a. it. is appointed for the hearing thereof, before the said Court, sittinjg in Bank ruptcy, at the District Court lioom, in the City of Philadelphia, when and where the Creditors of the said Petitioners, who have proved their Debts, and all other persons m interest, may inpear and show cause, if-any they have, why such Discharge and Certificate should not be granted. . FK AS. HUrKliNSUiN, Clerk of the District Court. Philadelphia, January 30, 1843.- 10. NOTICE. A Petition for the Benefif of the Bankrupt Law, has been filed the 27th February 1843, Vincent Huguincr, Pike. Which Petition will be heard before. the Dis trict Court of the United States for tho Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting in Bankruptcy, at the District Court room in the City of Phil adelphia, on Friday the 7th day of April next, at 11 o'clock, a. at. when and where all persons interested may appear and show cause, if any thry have, why the prayer of the said Petition ! should not be granted, and the said Petitioner! declared Bankrupt. . FRANCIS HOPKINSON, Cerk of the District Court. Philadelphia. March 4, 1843. 3t. NOTICE. A meeting of the Monroe co. Bsble SocietVi on Monday, evening the 27th lust. It is very df.sjruble. that all who feel any interest in the purely benevolent object. of the Bible Cause, uill exert themselves to attend. Those who have taken bibles for distribution and sale in the various townships, are especially invited to attend. WM. P. VAIL, Sec. March 15, 1843. - NOTICE, v TiiihV Poor Man's Plasters, pougjilpz Pills; k For 15a!e.,aCihi uflitc. S3 per annum CLUBBING. Price of Subscription is Two Copies, or. two years, tor Five Copies for Eight Copies for Eleven Copies for All letters. and communications must be. postpaid, or they are not taken from the post office. Ad drnss WILLIAM W. SNOWDEN, 109 Fidlon Street, New-York. 10 15 -20 ( (i it ' BLA.NK DEEDS For salo, at this glftce. M3TICE. A Petition for Discharge and Certificate un der the Bankrupt Law, has been filed by David R. Burley, late Merchant, Pike coun And Friday the 31st dav of March next, at 11 o'clock, a. ai. is appointed for the hearing there of, before the said Court, silting in Bankrupt cy, at the District Court Room in the City of Philadelphia, when and whore the ureuiiors oi the said Petitioners, who havo proved tnen Debts, and all other persons m interest, may appear and show cause if any they have, why such Discharge and Certificate should not be arantcd. FRAS. IIOPKINSON, Chrk of the. District Court. Philadelphia, Dec. 28, 1842. 10. South wark b ink io Kcnsmclon bank do I Bank of Northern Liberties d 1 Mechanics' Bank do fr.irir'rfiil Unnk do Tv1J.-rPf.nnTo'.vnshfn do CITY BANKS iManufacturcrs & Mcch'ns diAmcrici, b-mk of iWr Moyainenshiffbank 2 Araencan Exchan5c United Staiei bant 45lBruik of Cmumercit. - Hd Girard do S5 Bank of the State oi N Y do Pennsylvania bank sTJntcbe; and DroverV & Bankof Gcrmantown . parfCjienucaI t dj flank of Montgomery co. do.nuy - tin ,-ank of Uclaw are county do.Commcrcir.l J UauU of Chester county ?''nt0", t - ' r, Dovle "stown DanK oo uu.ciuu uuujuh v.w.r Farmer." bank of Bucks dol)w ; ?ck 1-2" qo ruuun u.iiia ui iivw ivjia pnt I Greenwich ' 7 Lafayette ! 4 Leather Manufacturers' tfo 7 ManUatten company d-t llSJeChtuiic Bankhig Asss. do 1 'Merchants bauk - .-'SHHt 2'Merchant' to 27'Mechanic? & TraJerV- (? i rt;chants' Exchange to n.N'niTonal bank mob Farmers' ba.il of Reading Lebanon bank Harnsburg bank Middletown bank Farmers' bank Lancaster Lancaster twnk Lancaster county bank Northampton bank- Columbia Bridge Carlisle bank Northumberland bank Miners bank of l'ottSville York bank Chambcrsburg bank Gettysburg bank Wyoming do Ilonesdatc do Bank of Lewis-town Bank of Susquehanna co 5 0 1 6 10 Lum. bank at Warren no sale'W.ishington New i'oj-K. nnnH "5 ' &y NeA-Yoi-1 Barking ear 3 N. Y. Sfe. "t'Js Security b. ffir North Kiver PhQ'nix A' 0 Seventh Ward .tT f i emu vari Tradesmen's I Union B. of N. Y. . - cheap foe cash.::;.. Calfskins, Kips, and Uppeiw Leather. 1,1 For sale at the POCONO TANNER' February 1, 1843. I Attorney at iLaw, . -ITIiiford, Pike conasty, Pa..'-i i (OFFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PKESBVirSItltAN" CHURCH.) ;.r, September 'Id, 1842. " ... -i..-. - FEMALE SEMINARY.: The Autumn Term of this Institution com menced on the seventh day of Novemhpr.jinder the stiperintendance of Miss A. 32. SloIlCS, and is now open for the reception of pupfls.? The branches taught in this Seminary ara Reading, Writing, Geography, Grammar, Rhal oric, Composition, History, Natural Philosophy r Chemistry, Botany, Logic, Mathematics, Draw ing and Painting, the Greek, Latin, German. Languages, c. The Seminary being endowed by the Statu, instruction is nflbrded at two dollars per quar ter, inclusive of all the above branches. Board can be obtained in respectable fami lies on reasonable terms. 'I he Trustees with full confidence commend the Stroudaburg Female Seminary to the pat ronage of the public. JOHN HUSTON, President of the Board of Trustees. December 14, I8l2.-tf. LUMBER! LUMBER!! Prices IScdtEccd. 100,000 feet While Pine Boards cSlO 00 and $1 1 25 per thousand. 50,000 feet White Pine Siding c$l0 00, Sll 25 and S12 50 per thousand. 30,000 feet Yellow Pine Heart Boards $13 00 20,000 " " " Sap " c$9 00 per thousand. 40,000 feet Hemlock Boards cS8 00 per m. 40,000 Pino Shingles from $6 50 to $10 00 per thousand. 4,000 feet Panel Boards 1-3 ich, V inch and 1 1-2. All kinds of will he taken in exchanfTR for iho nVm-f m iln i highest market prico, and good money would I Emporium, No. 101 North Second street be LUMBER! LUMBER!!. The subscribers have at their Mill situate three miles from John Fleet's Tavern, which! is on the Drinker Pikr, and only half a mile from Henry W. Drinker, Esq., a largo and genoral assortment of seasoned WEiifc FIsac liWEiakei1 of the best quality, which they offer at very low prices. Purchasers would do well to call and examine their assortment, rrbeingfrom 5 to 10 miles nearer, and a much better road, than to any other Mill in this section of country, where a general assortment can be had. PHILIP G. READING & Co. September 21, 1B42. 4m. WORMS! WORMS!! JjJ3 If parents knew the value and efficacy of Dr. Leidifs Patent Vegetable Worm Tea, they never would be without it in their families, as children are subject at all times to Worms. Dr. Leidy's Worm Tea is composed of veg etables altogether, and may be given to chil dren of all ages. Directions accompany cjveh paper or package. " ' Children sufier much, or times, from 3p many things being given them for worms, without any effect. Much mciUcine, given to children, has a tendency to destroy their general health, and they are more or less delicate ever after. To avoid the necessity of giving medicine unnecessarily when you are certain your chii 'iren have worms give them at first Dr. Leidy's Worm Tea. It is all that is necossary: Reference might be made to several Jntmlrtjd parents in Philadelphia city and county, of tTie efficacy of Di. Leidy's Worm Tea. Try it and you will be convinced. Price 12 1-2 cents a small, and 25 cents, a large package. Prepared only, and for sale. wholesale and retail, at Dr. Leidy's -Health not be refused. We respectfully solicit all per sons in want of LUMBER, before purchasing elsewhere, fo call on C. W. DeWUTT & BROTHER. Milford, March 2, 1843. Brass 30 hour Clocks, Wund 30 do- do For salo cheap, by i C. Milford, Dec. 3,, 1342, w. Dwtrr; low Vine, (sign of the Golden Eagle and Ser pents,) Philadelphia. Also, sold at Wm. Eastburn'a store, Strottds burg. Jan. 4, 1S4S. All pesons having unsettled demands against tho estate of Hugh Ross, will present the samo for settlement, and all persons indebted to said estate, are requested to call and settle tlo. sjiuie at their earliest convenience, JOHN H. BRODHEAD! -Administrator Milford. Dec. 23, 1842. ;V JOB WORIC 'NoatlV executed at this Qic
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