J EFRE RS 0 N I AiS1 REPUBLICAN
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Strondsburg, September 21, 1843.
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and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third,
two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila
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portunities for advertising in country papers which
Jiis agency affords.
DEMOCRATIC WHIG NOMINATION FOR
CANAL COMMISSIONERS.
WILLIAM TWEED, of Northumberland,
BENJAMIN WEAVER, of Allegheny,
SIMEON GUILFORD, of Lebanon.
The Warren ITInrcler.
We brought our noiice of this important trial
down to Tuesday noon., of last week; at which
time Mr. Miller, one of ihe Counsel for the
prisoner, was speaking. He continued his re
marks until laic in the evening of that day ;
when, according io all accounts, he concluded
one of the most able, eloquent, and ingenious ar-
guments, that have ever been made in New Jer
sey. On Wednesday morning, at 9 o'clock,
Mr. Molleson, the Attorney General began
summing up fot the prosecution, and continued
speaking until half past eleven o'clock. His
Honor Judge Nevias then charged ihe Jury in
a masterly and impartial manner; and they at
1 o'clock retired to their room to deliberate on
iheir verdict.
When the Jury went out, we are informed,
hat of all the vast concourse of people, scarce
ly one (unconnected with the prisoner) could
be found but who believed in his guilt; yet they
all thought the Jury must acquit him on the
ground that the evidence was not sufficiently
strong to convict him. There appeared to be
some difference of opinion in the minds of the
Juiors, however, for they remained out the
whole of Wednesday afternoon and night, and
on Thursday until half past 2 o'clock. They
then returned to the Bar after a consultation of
twenty-five hours and a half.
The Couit House was filled to overflowing,
nd every one apprared breathlessly anxious to
liear the result. Carter, accompanied by his
father and hrother, was brought into Court.
.Messrs. Midler and Wurts, his Counsel, were
also present, and as soon as the foreman an
swered that they had found the prisoner Not
Guilty, exhibited the deepest emotion. Car
ter's father and brother wept outright; and the
prisoner himself, for the first time during the
3 rial, .vhed tears, and appeared moved.
As soon as his Counsel regained sufficient
firmness, they applied to the Court, that the
Slate should be compelled, forthwith to proceed
to the Trial of another Indictment, or else that
she prisoner should be discharged. The Pros-
. -ecuiing Attorney said that after the fatigue of
the present trial, ihe State could not immedi
ately take up another Indictment. When at
the suggestion of the Court, it was agreed that
.Carter should, sometime during the present
week, be brought upon a Habeus Corpus, before
Chief Justice Hornblower and Judge Nevius,
fur them to determine what course should be
pursued in relation to him.
He has now been acquitted of the murder of
John Castner. There still, however remain
-'ftiur other Indictments against him. One fur
filling John B. Parke, one for killing Mrs.
Castner. One for killing her child, and one
or attempting to kill the boy, Jesse Force.
Sheriffalty.
Morton McMichael, Esq. has been nominated
by the Whigs of Philadelphia, as their candid
ate .for Sheriff. An excellent selection.
A. Black Juryman. ""nI
The friends of negro emancipation in Wes
tern New York carry matters to a great length,
if the following information from the N. Y
Courier can be relied on. "A letter writer
from Buffalo Bays that a colored man, named
Abner H. Francis, is now sitting on a Jury, in
that" place, with eleven white men.''1 Our rea
titers fwill .remember that a property qualifica-
,iioo.j .$250 00, in New York, enables a ne
gro t 'te, and exercise alt the other rights of
atffreieou). Martin Van Buren was a member
of the Convention thai framed the present con
titmi of Hew York, and voted for the above
provision, which forms a part of it. Glad we
iae nothing of the kind in Pennsylvania!
Wj should not Ijke.io have blackmen to be the
jydjges Apur Jjfe and property. :.
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State Senator.
The Loco Focos Delegates of this Senatorial
District, met at Lehighton on Saturday a week,
for the purpose of nominating a suitable person
for Senator to be supported at the coming Gen
eral Election; but in consequence of a disagree
ment as to the number of Delegates to which
each County should be entitled, they separated
without agreeing upon any candidate.
The District is composed of the Counties of
Schuylkill, Carbon, Monroe and Pike. When
the Delegates assembled, the first thing to be
fixed was the number wfiich the several coun
ties should be allowed in the conference.
Those from Schuylkill claimed that the num
ber should be regulated according to the taxa
ble inhabitants of the District. To this the
others demttred, and insisted that the ratio
should be established according to the number
of the democratic (loco-foco) voters. Both par
lies adhered to their proposition, when the
Schuylkill delegates declined taking any further
part in the meeting.
After this, the Delegates from Monroe, Car
bon, and Pike, organized by appointing the
Hon. 0. S. Dimmick, of Pike county, Chair
man, and unanimously nominated Moses W.
Coolbaugh, of Monroe, as their candidate for
Senator. The Schuylkill delegates took no
part in their proceedings. F. W. Hughes, Esq.
was their man, and it is supposed that he will
yet be put in nomination and inn by them. If
he should be, it will require Schuylkill to give
him a solid vote, to give him even a chance of
being elected.
P. S. Since writing the above we learn that
Mr. Hughes has been nominated by the Schuyl
kill Delegates. We shall therefore have a
choice for Senator between Moses W. Cool
baugh,of.Mouroe, and F.W. Hughes, of Schuylkill.
A Curiosity
The Editor of the New-York Tribune, in his
paper of Friday last says, that on the previous
day he saw a tree in the Park, in that City,
which exhibited all the appearance of April,
having buds in their various stages to ihe open
ing leaf. It must certainly be a great curiosi
ty to see a tree putting forth a second and en
tirely new fojiage in the month of September.
Shipmaii -the Defaulter.
Jacob Shipman, the celebrated Bank agent
who lately, embezzled a large amount of the
funds of the New York Union Bank, and af
terwards absconded, was tried for the offence,
in that city, last week. The Jury however ac
quitted him upon the Indictment, on the ground
that the embezzlement was committed in Penn
sylvania and not in New York, as mentioned
therein. He was thereupon immediately re
manded to prison, from whence he will be ta
ken to Philadelphia to be tried for the offence.
laterary Prizes.
The Editors of that popular periodical The
Dollar Newspaper, of Philadelphia, offer three
hundred dollars in prizes for the five best siories,
which shall be furnished them by the first of
December next. SI 00 for the first best. $80
for the second. S60 for the third. $40 for
the fourth, and $20 for the fifth. The only re
striction placed upon the writers is that the sub
ject of the stories must be American. They must
each fill at least four columns of that newspaper.
That excellent and long established newspa
per, the United States Saturday Post, also of
fers a series ofprjzes, amounting in all to $400,
for five siories, as follows. $150 for the,best
siory on the American Revolution. $100 for
the best domestic story. $75 for the next best
do. $50 for the next best do., $25 for the next
best do. All manuscripts must be handed in
by the 10th of November. The prizes will be
awarded, and the publishing of the stories com
menced, on the 1st of December next.
The above liberal offers will no doubt have
the effect of inducing many to enter the litera
ry field and compete for the honor of the prizes.
Will not some in these parts also join, and by
producing one or more powerful stories shed
distinction ufion this magnificent and beautiful
.region. We are sure that we have more than
one among us who can do it, and therefore hope
they will consider the present a sufficient in
centive to induce ihem to make an exertion.
Astonishing Fruitful sjcss.
We learu from an exchange paper that there
is at present a negro woman, living jn the pa
rish of St. Landry, Louisiana, aged fifty-five
years, who has had tlurly-fivc chldren. Her
first child was born when she was twenty-five
years old. She gave birth to twins Jive times,
and to triples- three times. Twenty of her chil
dren are now living. Who can beat this ?
There has. bejni)o. pennies, ,isjied from the
.Mint.withrthe raised iliueunder'"je cent" since
1838. : '
To Toters.
Bear in mind you who are not already as
sessed, that if you wish to vote at the next
Election, you must be assessed ten days before
the day of Election. Remember that
Saturday the 30th of September,
will be the last day on which the assessment
can be made. Recollect this, and now is the
time to attend to it. Do not put it off until the
last moment. You are all freemen, and the
Elective Franchise is a right and privilege
that you should all hold as dear and sacred
be not backward or slow in the' exercise of
them ; but come up to your duty manfully and
fearlessly, expressing your opinions without the
least reserve.
The Yellow Fever.
Great excitement prevailed in the City of
New York, and some of the towns along the
North River, lately, in consequence of a re
port that the yellow fever had broken out and
was raging there. Upon examination, howev
er, the disease which was supposed to be yel
low fever, turns out to be a species of typhus
kind. A number of persons have died of it, at
Rondout and Kingston, on the North River,
and a few in the City.
Correspondence of the Jeflersonian Republican
Politics, Congressman, &c.
Easion, September 19th, 1843.
Messrs Editors :
As the election draws nigh our politicians
become healed, and take a warm interest in its
result. On Saturday last the Delegate Elec
tions in lhis County were held, and in most
townships warmly contested by the friends of ,arSe V"
, 1 . J -r, I magnificent mansions on salaries ol inree or
the different aspirants for office. In EaSton,four dol,ars a d , This sh()WS ,ha Mr
two sets of Delegates were run in each Ward,
and after a most desperate struggle, the friends
of Dr. James, succeeded in Bushkill Ward by
five votes, whilst in Lehigh Ward Brodhead's
Delegates were elected by seven majority.
The friends of both these candidates claim to
have carried a majority of the Delegates in the
County; but from all I have been able lo learn,
I incline strongly to the belief, that Brodhead
has a majority, and will consequently secure
the Conferees. As several of the Delegates,
however, are not pledged to either aspirant,
it is possible, but not probable, that James may
get the Conferees.
As to State Senator, notwithstanding the
certainty with which Jefferson K. Heckjia.v,
has all along looked to the nomination, it is
now by no means fixed that he will receive it.
I have no doubt that a large majority of his
party are opposed to him, and believe that if
the question had been fairly presented to the
voters on Saturday last they would have sus-
t;,i m., r.;5on Tho ?onotnr .uno inif
tained my opinion. The Senator was only
made a test in one or two townships, and in
Lehigh Ward in this Borough, and here, al
though it is the home of the Squire, and he
and his friends were actively at work the
whole day, he was defeated by a majority of
seven. This will work strongly against him
in the Delegate Convention, and some think
will prevent his getting the nomination. I am
inclined to believe, however, that he will bo
nominated, but by a very small majority. A ' most careful and diligent .search has been made
strong effort will be made to keep him off the I in the proper office for a copy of Mr. C's. con
ticket. tract but none can be found ! The money al
The Delegate Convention will be held at i ready allowed him for work done and materials
Cherryville, Lehigh township, on Saturday furnished amounts to the sum of $33,789 57.
next, when nluch difficulty is apprehended by On the back of the estimate on which this
the wire pullers of the party. I will apprise sum was allowed and.paid when the work was
you next week of all that lakes place.
Yours, J. J.
The President and a majority of the heads
of Departments hate been absent from this
city for several days, and it is found that the
Government works as well without them as it
uoes wim mem pernaps Deuer. i ue nnisn -
ing tests of the strength of our Government, it
seems, have been reserved for this Administra
tion. We never doubted its strength after we
saw that it could get along witlt such heads;
but some persons seem to think that it cannot
get along icithout them, but this last expert
ment, we hope, will convince all such that they
are wrong
,,,be-
s Another Old Soldier Dead
Henry Arnold, a soldier of ihe Revolution,
died at Washington, Pa., on ihe 26th ult., in
the 99th year of his age. He was in the bat
i .
tles of Brandy wine and Paoli ; at which latter
place, serving in the capacity of a drum major,
his drum was shivered to pieces by a cannon
or musket ball, while suspended over his back,
Wisconsin.
So groat is the. rush of emigration to Wis -
consin, that the Milwaukie Courier says that it
is anticipated the farmers will have a home
market for nearly all their surplus productions
this year, which will enable them to sell at re
munerating, prices, whatever may be the state
of the Eastern market.
An Arrest.
A man nnmetl Patrick M'Vay. was arrested
a day or two since in Manor township, Lan
caster county, Pa., and committed to prison,
charged will) murdering his wife, in Luzerne,
county, in. 1 842. It will bo remembered he
struck his wife a severe blow on the head will)
a stick, which caused her death, and then made
his, escape, eluding the vigilnuce of iho pnHce.
up to the present, time. Ifoihj Chronicle.
Candidate;! for Canal Commission
ers. If we wero to judge of the qualifications of
the locofoco candidates for Canal Commission-
ers by the laudatory tone of their party press,
we should infer that the State was about to db
redeemed, under their charge, from the plun
der and extravagance which have crushed it.
But if we investigate facts irrespective of party
prejudices, ve will find that James Clarke,
Jesse Miller and Win. B. Foster, are most dan
gerous persons io trust our public works with,
inasmuch as ihe.'r election will perpetuate the
extravagance aiid plunder which have gnawed
into the very vimls of the Commonwealth. If
the object of our lax: payers is to reform abuses,
it would be a strange way to bring it about by
electing persons so intimately connected and
identified with those almses it would be using
the hair of the dog to ctarc the bite !
James Clarke, has been in the Canal Board
under both Governors "Wolf and Porter. In an
early report made by hito, he displayed his un
fitness lor the station he again aspires to, by
estimating the whole cost ol the Main Line and
the various branches and extensions at 13 or
15 millions, when they havd already cost more
than double that sum, and aie yet incomplete!
This shows he is incompeteni and would be a
dangerous man to entrust wiu the care of our
Public Works. Besides this, in the first year
of Porterism. when Mr. Clarke was President
of the Board the system of extravagance and'
rnhhRrv was cnmmenrw . as :i coneauenco Ol
j which we find in that one year the expendi-
1 lures nn llm finished Imps nl ih Public Works
exceeded the revenue $350,595 98 ! whilst the
year before under Gov. Rimer's administration
the Improvements yielded a revenue to the
Slate over and above all expenditures, of $354,
180 17. It was under his direction, that Su
perintendents were appointed who amassed
I I t. 1 nnil
Clarke was incompetent or dishonest, and one
is as dangerous to the State as the other J
What will we gain by electing such a man lo
the Canal Board?
Jessk Miller was 4th Auditor of the Treas-
ury under Van Buren, and he audited and pass
ed the accounts of Swartwout and others at the
time that defalcations to the amount of millions
were either concealed or not discovered. If
concealed, Mr. Miller was dishonest if not dis-
rnvrpfl lift was inrnmnnlfltit ' I-T hns no
claims on the people at large he was a Tyler-
mnn o Innrr fiw liv cnfioinrr r,! in,lpninfl."nrft
he could retain his Auditorship he has ever
been a bitter partisan, of the school that gives
the spoils to the victors, and if elected Canal
Commissioner, would conceive himself bound
to fill all minor offices with politicians to re
ward their services, without regard to' their
qualifications for the trusts.
William B. Foster, Jr., is a practical Engi
neer, but he has not evinced any great capabil
itv for the business : on the contrary, we can
show that ihe most outra-renus charaes and int -
positions have been practised on the State, mi-
der his eye and endorsed by him. One instance -
wo will rp9tf nnw WUn Inlm Snvl-r i Iip
free trade candidate for Congress in ihe 13h
District, was Superintendent of the Susquehan-
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na Division ot the Pennsylvania Canal, he ail -
rertised a Letting at Sellinsgrove for the repairs
of the Shamokin Dam. Offers were made to
do all the repairs for $2,000. One half the
work was let to William Cameron, Esq. of
Lewisburg he prosecuted the work for some
time and then the job was suspended. The
! suspended, is endorsed the name of Foster
with other liingineers ! Would we gain any
thing by electing such a man for President of
the Canal Board!
The above is a slight sketch of the fitness of
. the Locofoco candidates tried bv the Jeffersoni
I an rule "are they honest are they capable?"
. vorum
Crops in Texas.
A letter to the editors of the New Orleans
Picayune, from a gentleman, residing at La
rangcf Texas, under date of Auaust 1st. savs
the crops of Texas are in a very flourishin'g
I condition. Three times as much corn will ho
j gathered this year, as will be necessary for con
sumption.
Found Guilty. The Rov. Amos
Lefever, who about six or seven
months ago, was charged vith the
' Seduction of a 3'OUnp; Q.lr!. one of his
j congregation, Under most acrtrravated
j circumstanceS hag hefin trfJin Bedj
! ford county, Pa., where the circum-
! stance occurred, atd convicted of ad-
ministering poison to Miss Wood
burn, with an. intent to murder her.
He has now a comfortable prospect
of a reside-aoe in the penitentiary for
his outrrjoraeus hypocracy and vil
lainy. 'Jaily Uhronicle.
Trotting Matcli,
A tr'.ii, in harness, mile heals, best three in
live, ior n purse of $1000, came off at Cam.
bri'j', Mas , on Friday last, between two
lijrses, Mingo and loin rhumb. The purse
cvas won, ousily, by Mingo, he beating his
competitor in three successive heats, The
best iiino made, wns two minutes fifty.thVee
seconus.
The British Museum.
The last intelligence from America is excr.
ting a benign influence here. The imnrow.fi
ment in American Stocks at home tells we)k
abroad. J he increased disposition to pay,
which capitalists discover, is having a salutary
effect. The fact that a new United Slates
Loan was taken by our own people, is the oc
casion of much congratulation, lo-day, in and
about the Bank of England. The shock io
American credit was not occasioned half 0
much by the inability of Illinois and Indiana,
as the Repudiation of Mississippi, and the in
difference of Pennsylvania. The insolvency
of ihe Bank of the United Slates, and i!m
robberies commuted by the North American
and other Trust Companies, though j wallow
ing up millions of English capital, would hav.?
had no injurious effect upon our pecuniarr
character as a Nation, so long as the Stan?
Governments preserved their faith and assent- ll
their integrity. Nor is the money we ouvl
them wanted or required. They only ask ili.n.i
like Bassanio, we should evince a determina-
tion to 1
Come fairly off from the great debts wherein.
Something too prodigal, lime hath left us ageil.'
1 had heard so much of theJjRiTisn Museim,
rrm llrnca urtin tnrl r - . . ..
livni uiuj v i.iiv uuu gecu ll, ciiiu icau on IJIUC III
about ll Iram. lourists and Travelers, ilia:
had come, to regard it as a New-York or AIik.
ny Musenm upon a large scale; and went
there to-day because it was oxe of the mair,
London Lions, not expecting to be particulari.
inieresting. Those, therefore, who have bee.i
through this institution, can judge of my -mazement
when its wouders were revealed
me. " Earth and Ocean " have been literal .
u plundered" to make up this endless coUpciku
ol all, that walks, or swims, or flies, or creep-,
or crawls. You have here an epitome of ai .
and more than all, that Noah received iwo ih
Ark. I shall not, of course, be absurd enouuu
to attempt to describe what I saw ; but I Jiv
want to give you some inkling some famtn
tion of what this Empire has, by extraordina
ry munificence, gathered togeiher for the gra
tuitous instruction and gratification of vis:iljr,
i ui ine aueinpi win uc lame auu iupuien;,(i)r
t., :n i. i i r . r
1 could not even procure the various catalogue
short of an expeuse of forty-three pounds s.t:
ling, or 5215 1 The catalogue of printed bnos
alone, in the library, published by Longman &
Co. costs 4 pounds 6 shillings.
There are 31 cases ol " itapaciou Boas:?,"
I containing iron, one to fifty different animals,;
; this SlieClCS. 1 lere are thirty Cases CDIlta;;.-
ing ' Hoofed Beasts," each with from five
fifty specimens, while those ol ihe specie tu
large lor cases, are arranged upon the Snor:.
front. There are 30 cases of Birds tf I'm'
each containing from an hundred loan- huncret
and fifty specimens. Of this number there a
over forty different species of ihe- Eagle. (A
" Nocturnal Birds," mostly of ihe owl and Lat
species, there are five large cases, and rrr
! lour ntmareu specimens, wi oiner wrU", ec
! bracing, 1 should infer, every known variery,
were are 134 cases, each containing frwn oi
j hundred to three hundred specimen l
f "Shells" here are forty-one caaes upon ;he ta-
bltss, with .specimens too various and too muu-
e" l" l,e ev eaUmated. Upon wMN
I . i . l ,u : r up ...
; uer l" ig punransui no
archs, Noblemen, Artists, or person tli:in
guis.hed lor their learning or virtue, all by emi
nent artists, among which are two fine pictures-
of Cromwell, two of Mary Queen of ic'v
Queen Elizabeth, Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Isaic
Newton, Martin Luther, &c. &c.
In another gallery are 19 case?, containing
more than a thousand specimens of " Reptiles.
There are also 22 cases filled with " liable!
Beasts," embracing every species of ape, mon
key and baboon, ol which there are between
two and ihree hundred. There is such an ap
proximation between the highest order of tin
tribe, and the lowest species of the humw
race, that the organ of speech is alone uaiiunj
to form a connecting link. 'The finny tribe, i
all their varieties, are arranged in cases whui
fill a gallery an hundred feet long. England
you linow, abounds in minerals, minute ami
beautiful specimens of which are displayed
here. Sixty cases are devoted to mineralogi-
cal collodions, arranged in the same niantif
.as in our State Geological Museum. 1 Di
collection, however, in several respects, is not
as complete as that obtained by our indefatiga
ble Geologists. There are 1105 different spe
cimens of minerals, with labels describing their
properties.
But the Galleiv ot antiquities am
most attention, and excites the highest admira
tion. I had only an hour where days wouiu
not suffice. Two large Galleries are filled
with onpiunt Grftplc nnil Roman slatuarW A
mong these is a bust of Trajan, a head i't
Apollo, a statute of Thalia, a head ol Marci
Aurelius, heads of Paris and Helen, a grot?
of Bacchanalians, a bust of Severus, a heauoi
Nero, a bust of Marcellus, with an inscripti
Priam snnnliVnlincT Achillea to deliver to h'I,v
the body of Hector ; Hercules', with a clef. I
sitting upon a rock, &c. &c. I here are ?j
more spacious Galleries Uevoieu lo urees
Roman sculptures, and two others, to BrUti
Antiquities. These Galleries cen.ta.in nwj
thousand curious specimens ol tl).e aits, wr,
the world, many centuries pgust,v wa& peopled
by a now buried race of seraUbajbariaus.
I have, in this hasty, ini)etfect glance, pass
ed without notice half a dozen galleries, each
containing innumerable objects of exceeding
interest. The galleries-vary" in length ffmJ
one to three hundred feet, i
And now, when enough to amaze and bewil
der ha3 been seen, the great treasure house ot
Learning and Knowledge was opened in u'
The Library of the Museum is only shown '
visitors who obtain an order from a irusteeot i
letter to its most indefatigable librarian,