.1 j"EFFfeKSt)NiAN REPUBLICAN .1! X!' .- 1 &3T m JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Strotidsburg, September 7, 1843. 'Terms, $2,00 :n advance: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid befoie the end of the Year. (7 F. B. Palmer, Esg., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, 'two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila delphia, is authorised to receive subscriptions anfi advertisements for the Jcffersonian Republican, and give receipts for the same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing themselves of the op 'portunities for advertising in country papers which 'his agency affords. FAIR. The Ladies of the' Milford Benevolent Society "will hold a Fair at the Academy in Milford, on the 20th of .September next, to commence at 10 o'clock A. M.,at which time will be .offered for jsale a great variety of fancy and useful articles. 'The proceeds of which will be applied towards lor the Methodist Church, lhe miiam- payinff Hants of Milford and vicinity are lespectfully invi 'ted to attend. Milford, Aug. 24, 1843. To our Subscribers. We call the attention of our subscribers to the 'fact, that the September Term of our Courts will commence on Tuesday next, and that it will 'afford them an excellent opportunity of either 'bringing or sending the amounts which they owe us for subscription. We are very much "in want loftnoney, and our patrons by attending to this no nice will -confer an especial favor upon us. Carter's Trial. "Two weeks have now elapsed since the com mencement of this important trial, and the evi dence for the prosecution has just been finished. "The examination of witnesses on the part of the State, was concluded on Tuesday, when Mr. Wurts, of Flemrngton, opened the case, in behalf of the prisoner. What lime will be occupied in presenting the testimony for the defence, it is im possible for us to say, but it is not likely that the Trial wili be concluded before the beginning of next week. The testimony against the prisoner is long, and altogether circumstantial. Parts of it produce strong, if not irresistible iapressions of the pris oner's guilt. How the jury will view it, howev er, is difficult to conjecture. In our next we hope to be able to announce the termination of the trial, aand also to give a full account of the vhole case, carefully digested from the testimony of all the witnesses. Such an account, without occupying . much space, will be far more interesting to our readers, we are sure, than a mere copy of the tes- limony taken from the notE3 of reporters with all ihelr repetitions and inaccuracies. (ZfWc owe an apology to our readers, for the scarcity of Editorial in the present number. Un avoidable circumstances have prevented us from paying that attention to them this week, which we are in the habit of doing. We shall endeavor td make up for the present deficiency, by renewed exertions to please in the future. were not vital vto the interests of the soul, it mi&ht'be left to sink or swim, according to the taste 'or humour of mankind. But if the gospel is of'valile, and if it should be proclaimed to all, 'Whether it is appreciale'd dr not, (hen it fol lows by fair consequence, that the Bible should be'lendtJrcd to all in like thinner. But, it is again objected, the Bible coals mon ey ; and where are we taught that it is our du ly to make a, pecuniary sacrifico to help ano ther to a thing, when all he wants, in order to help himself, is a will. And does hot the sup port of the gospel cost mohey ; and is not the fitting out aitd support of missions; in affair of no small expense. In fact, self-denial for the good of others, and for the honor of God, can no more be separated from the feHgion of Christ, than light can 1)e separated from its source. Self-denial is of the essence of Chris tianity ; and one vory prominent form of it, which the actual condition of the world de mands at the present time, is that now under consideration. It can be easily shewn why the Monroe County Bible Society Bhould ask tho aid of the friends of the Bible. In the first place ; a con siderable debt has been incurred to the State Society for Bibles and Testaments about $00. If all our books could be Void fur cash at cost, which is all that is demanded, wo should be able to clear our Society of debt to the parent Society. But they can not all be sold tor cash. Many families are found to be destitute, whose circumstances are so straitened that they cart not raise fifty cents for a Bible, without taking from the supply of their immediate and pros sing wants. On such families we wish our agent to bestow the Bible " without money and without price." Destitute widows, upon whom is thrown the burden of a helpless family ; or the unhappy wives of idle, vicious and improv ident husbands, who are worse than widows, solicit from us the Bible to cheer them on their dark way; and can we refuse such. Some pay in part ; and some promise to pay the full price, but perhaps will fail to do so. What we realize, then, from the distribution of the Bible in our county, will meet our debt to the parent Society, only in part. The deficiency must be supplied from other sources. Again, we have undertaken to exploro the county, by the agen cy of a competent and trustworthy man. This agent, devoting his whole time to our service for a season, and being necessarily at charges, must be remunerated. He has consented to serve us for a compensation barely sufficient to cover his actual expense of time and money. Thus it will be seen that the Monroe County Bible Society has strong moral claims upon the confidence, the sympathy, and lhe support, of all the enlightened and well disposed citizens of Monroe county. A. B. General Jackson The rumor, last week, that Gen. Jacksori was , iho more, proves to have been unfounded. His ifinany friends in this county, will no doubt be glad tojearn that his health is tolerably good, and that he may yet live for some years Although old age has rendered his body" feeble, his mind is as strong and vigorous as ever. Whereabouts. President Tyler is at the Rip Haps, Virginia, at present John C. Spencer, Secretary of the Treas ury, is at Ballston Springs, and James M. Porter Secretary at War, is at Easton. They will all soon repair to their posts at Washington. COMMUNICATION. Theprtndples upon which the American BibleSoeiety are founded, and all auxiliary to it, are of the most liberal and catholic nature. They form a broad platform upon which all the friends of the- Bible may act ia concert While each denomination uray preserve its own dis tinctive form and faith, if can freely labor with all others that hold tho common charter of the Christian hope. The great protestant prjnci- pie ts the bond ot union " l lie uiuie me whole Bible; and nothing- but the Bible."' The 131Hlfer without note or comment, in the hands wfiall- theniHliotis of the tribes-of eathria the mono of our cause; Some Ituvo called in question the propriety ' P the course which the friends of the Bible cause have taken. Let the Bible, say they, find its way among the mass of mankind, ac cording to'ilie law of distrtbutieirwhich obtains Tn other case that is, let it follow the demand whoever wants it, let them procure it. Now ihisAobjectiou might as- well he urged against Hue aggressive action of the Church in the form of missionary operation, and with equal justice'. if the possession of the Bible were-a thinjih- diitriit in itself, or if there were any thing elae that could supply its place ; if, in short, it Death off John Ress Contradicted. " We are kindly furnished," says the Phil adelphia Gazette of last evening, "with the fol lowing note in contradiction of the statement:" Philadelphia, 8th mo. 29th, 1843. To the Editor of Philadelphia Gazette: Respected Friend: I have just received a let ter from Fort Gibson, under date of the 30th ult. in which no mention is made of the death of John Ross, as stated in the morning papers. The letter is from a, particular friend of Ross. If any such melancholy event had occurred, the writer would Undoubtedly have referred to it. You will perceive mv letter is filteen days later than the one from which the morning pa pers copy I make this statement in order to relieve the minds of many of John Ross's friends in this city. Respectfully, J. R. Election of President. A correspondent inquires how many Electo ral Votes each Sfate is entitled to under the" New Apportionment of Congress. We' have staled long since, says the' N. Y. Tribune, but will state it again for the benefit of those who may have forgotten. Sonic oJ the Effects of the, Tariff. The Georgia Journal of the '25th ult. gives the following notice of the practical effects of the Tariff. This plain statement of facts is worth more than a dozen columns of window speculations and day-dreams of demagogues: At retail, in this place, very good Coffee is selling at ten pounds for one dollar, and Sugar eleven pounds for one dollar ! Not more than eighteen months ago, Coffee was seilingtue pounds J or a dollar, and Sugar six-pounds for a dollar! In the consumption of these two articles, we ask the Loco-Focos wherein does the Whig Tariff injure the people 1 Loaf Sugar, that used to sell in this place at 25 cents a pound, can now bo bought at 14 dents a-pound ! Does the TarifTiprove disadvantageous here? Iti the same proportion is the reduction of price oh other necessaries. Now, when we cotepafe the effects, of the Whig Tariff with the effects of the Tariff when Van Buren was President, on which side is the result most fa vorable? These are facts for the people! They all know, them to be so! And oimfact, with them, should outweigh an 'hundred assertions that cannot bo proven true. Business. A gentleman called yesterday morning at the counting house of one of the iron merchants of this city, to purchase.fifty tons of pig iron. In the course of the negotiation, the merchant was led to inquire to what' purposo th'e iron was to be applied. "To make weights for Yankee clocks." "Why what can you do with io many clocks?" uThey are shipped to England," Think of that! Fifty tons of iron for clock weights each ciock requiring, probably, less than five pounds. We saw it stated some time since in an English paper, that tho clocks were being introduced in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain, and almost every workman was becoming the owner of them. U. S. Gazette, The Corn crop; both in Virginia and Ken tucky, is said to be very promising. Gen. Shel by of Kentucky, has one hundred acres of corn which, it is estimated, will average 100 bush els to tho acre. Interesting; to Lawyer?). We find the following account of an interest ing land decision in an exchange paper: Amendment of a Mortgage Deed. The Supreme court of Indiana, in Chancery, has decided that where in a mortgage executed in favor of a complainant to secure a debt, a tract of land intended to have been inserted by the parties in the mortgaga, was omitted by mis take, and afterwards and before the bill was filed, judgments were obtained against the mortgager he being insolvent, and the whole properly, including that omitted, not sufficient to satisfy the debt intended to be secured, the Court had power to correct the mistake; and free the land omitted from the lien of the judgments. State's. Pres. Electors. States. Pres. Electors Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Vermont Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania1 Virginia North Carolina South Carolina any State is entitled to;-8ubtract- two (for Sena tors), from its quota of Electors above, and the remainder will be the number of its Representatives. 9 Georgia ltf' G Alabama 9 12 Louisiana & 0 Mississippi1 6 4 Tennesseo' 13 6 Kentucky 12 3rj Ohio 23 7 Indiana 12 26 Mrchigan 5 3 Illinois 9 8' Missouri 7 17 Arkansas' 3 11 9 Total ( 275 Required' to elect 138 many Members oP the House A new Invention. Tho following article is from a paper com municated to the August number of the North ern Light, and is of interest to our iron makers. A New mode of making Malleable Iron direct from the Ore at one process.. This is claimed as the invention of a person named Clay, and is said to have been successfully adopted in one of the Scotch Iron Works. A mixture of dry haematite, or other rich iron ore, is ground up fine with about four-tenths of its weight of small coal: this mixture is allowed to pass gradually through a hopper to an oven adjoin ing, and forming part of a species of pudding furnace, into which a given quantity is drawn at stated times, when thoroughly and uniformly heated. The charge is then puddled in tho usual manner, but with less labor than when woking plate iron, and about an hour and a half the iron is produced in a malleable state, fit for shingling and rolling iron bars. After another process of filling and rolling again, malleable iron bars are produced, of a quality (as was stated by competent authority,) supe rior to the sable bolts or best iron usually made by the long and expensive process of calcining the OTe, smelling in the blast-furnace, and re fining the pig iron and the saving of fuel is necessarily very great. The iron was stated also to be capable of being converted into steel of superior quality, and when worked by Mr. Heath's plan of uniting manganese in the pro cess, cast steel was produced which possessed the property of welding or uniting to' iron? and in consequence, all tho cutlery which was for merly made Of sheet steel is now made Of Cast steel. Should this discovery be fully confirmed in all particulars, England, in conseqirence of her immense beds of. unopened htemaiite, would be rendered independent of Sweden. Wheat is selling ,at Chicago. III.,, at 68- to 70 cants current funds. Tliey have" had no rain in RochcsterN. Y., for five weeks. All the fields are literally parched up with the heat. Revival of Iron Manufactures.' 1' he Rolling Mill' at Wilkesbarre, recently purchased by Mr. T. T. Payne, is" soon to bo put in operation. The Wyoming Iron Works are again Iff be pur m operation. Oiher estab lishments of the kind in different parts of the State, which the dtlll' times had brought to a stand still, are again to be put in motion. We look to a thorough revival of iron manufactories' generally,, unless some mischievous legislation in Congress should check the present progress of the business. , TJie bopIs for subscription to the slock of ,Uie iNortft IJrancJi, UanaK Company, are now open at ,vyjiKeabarrp. ja,, and .'are filling up slowly. The Ban It of England. Wo availed ourselves this morning of the permission obtained by Mr. Wiggin, to visit the Bank of England. An official (Macer or Ush er) with laced dress coat and three-cornered hat, escorted us leisurely through an institution that is so potent in controlling and regulating the money pulsations of Europe. It is situated on Thread-needle street, but fronts upon haf a dozen others, and occupies an irregular area of eight acres. There are no windows through the exterior of the building, light being sup plied by sky-lights and open courts within. There is a clock, by which bank time is kept, with dials indicating the time in sixteen differ ent offices. The bank with its various offices, ate open from 9 A. M. till 5 P. M. The bank has its printing office, book bindery, engraving office, &c. Checks, blank books, &c, are all printed within the bank, as are the bank notes, in the room where the circulating notes are printed, there are eight presses, all constantly employed, and which throw off about 8000 im pressions daily. We saw two presses rolling off five pound notes, and others upon the various denomina tions up to a 1000 L. which is the largest note the bank issues. The dates and numbers of the notes are supplied by smaller presses in another room. The paper is delivered to the presses counted, (an hundred sheets at a time,) and when worked and returned, another hun dred sheets are given. Pressmen work five hours, and earn from two to three guineas a week. In the office where redeemed notes are examined, cancelled, &c, 136 clerks are constantly employed. When we entered this room, our attendant was bharply reprimanded for bringing strangers there, but on being in formed that it was " the Governor's order," we were allowed to pass. Forty thousand differ ent notes are frequently sent to this office, to be cancelled, in a day. The bank, you know, never re-issues a note. Whbti returned to the counter for payment, a note is cancelled, filed away, to bo burnt at the expiration of ten years. The armory of the Bank consists of a hundred stand of muskrts, with pistols, cutlasses, hand grenades, &c, and has a night guard 38 strong. In the office where the bank notes are counted into parcels, lied with twine .and placed in pigeon-holes, we found five staid; methodical, matter-of-fact look ing clerks, whom you would trust for their faces. One of these old chaps, with the pre cision of " Old Owen' and the good nature of " Tim Linken water," took his keys and un locked the depositories of wealth. The "rags" of each denomination were in separate Dar- cels. When we came to the " high number," he placed four packages in my hand, and re marked, " you now hold -4,000,000 sterling in yoitr hand, sir." Yes, I was actually in pos session oi twenty millions of dollars a sum much larger than the whole estate of John Jacob Aator ! Bill it all returned to its pigeon hole, and left me a far happier man than those who are encumbered with overgrown fortunes. Another of trie old clerks operied the gold dormitories, where reposo an endless number of bags, each containing qight hundred sover eigns. We were nexi and finally conveyed to a subterrarieari region, enriched by gold and silver bullion. Here bars of the nre'eious riiet- als were as plentifully heaped as those of iron and steel are in the stores of our friends Bene dict, Townsend and Coming. The silver we did not meddle with, but we handled bars or gold, each weighing eight thousand pounds sterling, that were piled in barrow loads of seventy thousand pounds sterling each. Much of this bullion was recently received from' China, as an instalment upon the sum John Bull makes the Celestials pay for their obsti nate refusal to " take opium." The Bank of England has now, in paper and specie,' nearly thirty-eight, millions of pbunds sterling. There are eight hundred persons, in its various de partments, constantly employed within its" walls. Weed's Letters. Election in Rhode Island. The election in Rhode Island on Thursday a week, resulted in favor of the "Law and Or der party," by a greater maj. tharfin April last. Messrs. Cranson and Potter, the Whig or "Law and Order" candidates, are elected to Congress by large majorities. The Pittsburg Post, which supports Bu chanan for President and Judge Wilkms fur Congress, says the ticket unites all the requis ites to success over the federal forces. Modest again, Post! Are Buchanan and Wilkius no longer federalists? Forum. A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, who states that he has ever been an ardent friend of Mr. Van Buren and voted for him fur President in 1840, thinks it would be unwisu to nominate him again for President : he says "I entertain nb unkind feelings towards my brother Democrats, who may differ with mc m their first choicfc for, if I did I could not In; a Democrat; but I do fear, that if Mr. Van Bu rets friends do hold on to him so fast as they du at present, and he should, through the partiality of the delegates, get the nomination in Conven tion ANOTHER DEFEAT AWAITS ls, MORE APPALLING THAN THE LAST, in 1844. May Heaven forbid it! Yet I can not but think, that with Carolina's noblo sun, we are bound to come off victorious inasmuch as no man, at the present day, holds the. Dem ocratic creed in greater purity than John C. Calhoun." Congressional elections to take Ilace. There are seven Stal'ex yet to elnct. and va cancies to be filled by iw'ri others, as follow Maine, Georgia, vacs, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania; New-Jersey, Michigan, Mississippi, Mass, vac's, Elected nowj Total mem. No. cfMeriib. 7 (3 J2i , 3i? ; . 4 -4 s Ui Date of 'Election. September 1 1 October 2 4 " 10 "10 "10&I1 November (I " G it 7 13 223-4asi Congress I'd Highway Robbery Mr. Edward Colahan, of Port Carbon, was riding home from Pottsville, on the night of Sa turday week between 11 and 12 o'clock, and had arrived at the turn, in the road immediately beyond the Blue Tavern, and not a mile from Pottsville, when his horse was stopped and ho was dragged from the sadfdle by two men, wh'o held pistols at his head, swearing that they would "blow his d d brains out if he said a word." Mr. C. finding resistance useless, sub mitted, and was robbed of about t'weniy-five dollars. He was then allowed to prtfeeed with out farther molestation. Prosperity oi Cincinnati. S'omo idea of the rapid.rise of property in' Cincinnati, may bo formed from the following fact stated in the Enquirer. Forty yeas afgo, the Firsi Presbyterian Society of that city purchased an entire block situated on' the cor- ner Of Fourth and Walnut streets, for sixteen1 dollars. A few days since a twenty secorfd pan of the original block, composing a lot of ninety-nine feet, was itemed for eight hundred and forty-one dollars p6r anrrtim', which at 6' per cent, interest is equal to a Value 6F $14,025. If the entire block is calculated' at the same rate and this 99 feet is not more' than the average of the property if now in' market and divested of the improvements' made Upon it, it would' not be Worth loss than $314,550; or almost 20,000,000 times its original cost. At a carriri meeting at Eastham. lately, one hundred and fifty-four ministers and1 church members signed the anli-tobaccc-'pledgd. , , Missouri chewing-tobacco, says the. Cincin nati Gazette, is .pronounced, by connoisseur, to be superior to the best Virginia. Occupations in Cincinnati. The occupations bf professional men and tradesmen, in Ciilciniiaii, Ohio, arc tlyfs enu merated: Clergymen, 72; Lawyers, 96; Phy sicians, 94; Judges; Teachers, Editors', Au thors, Artists, &c. &c; The above class", al though weak in numbers; principally influence society. With few exceptions, they are edu cated and intelligent pbfsb'ns. There are deal ers in goods of eyefy description; from' books to lumber, 781 Clerks afid Book-keeper?, 945; River men, 570. Th'ese' results give Profes sional men, 4Sf2j TrdOesmen, 2.29fj. Total, 2,789. All these, however, are only about one- fifth part of the Active men in Cincinnati. The :J: .u im ! ... Manufactures, a"s Laborers, &c. &c. Cucumbers are d very favorite vegetable among the Persians. An individual will devour a peck at a siitirigedting leisurely for hours, until he consume all before him. They often Carry a ciicdriiber tri tlieir hands a's a nosegay. A I?i6nster--Dread:f ril; Art English pa'per states, that as a gentleman waS travelling albtfg the road near Coldbronkr lie liad his alteritlon attracted to the- scream 6T . a child iii the care of a trampirig womanr who h'ad two, other- children (totally blind) a!o with' her. Tlife cries of the child were so dis tressing, that h'e iiisisted on knowing the cause ---but rfoi pfcttinir rt sati-sfaciorv Answer : ho L forcibly removed a b'a.ndags from its eyes. when, horrid td relate, tie lounu mem encased with two small peVforated shells", in which" were two live bfa"ck beetles, fd'r th'e purpose of destroying the sight". The woman was instant ly seized a'nd giveri into custody, and, at the magistrate's meeting at Eton, Committed for trial. What was the motive of this monster iti rrurrian form fbf destroying the sight of these poor cfriaren' is not stated but u was doubt less for the purposo of working ufpon the sym pathy of the public, to induce tn'O unwary ti bestow alms. Till' Coal TRADE.---The q'uantity of coal miODud from the Sch'uvlktl reuon this sea son, up to Thursday last,-is 401,747 tons. A Honey Mo'on.--A clergyman at Naw Ha ven was lately married, and, o'n the day on which' h'e conveyed lo' h'is domicif his blcahtn bride, a swa'rm of bees took possession of tho chimney indicating, if is to be hoped, a happy " fioriey1 moon." , A Ca'se of MESMEAfssi. It is said that Pr. Edwards, postmaster, at Alton, 111., a few da)'5 i since, threw a yoing lady into tho mesmeric steep, and during the sleep extracted a wear from her temple without pain to tho subject. t AfiYER'icAN Manufacturers. The LoveN Com-ier says that tho Merrimack Prim ?rk. hi' that city, manufacture rising 1 0$" nieces o( Calico per day. The Merrirnck prints. ate celebrated all over the CQyrAtry Iheir bea,uiy and durability. Bitter AlJfONa Oil, The wfotile oil bitter almonds is four times more, potent that the prussic acid generally kept imhe chemistV shops, and yet ia ex.ten,siyply iispd by coo and confectioners,,
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