JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN T li W-ERSONIAN REPUBLICAN StrtmdRbui's;, "tforcuiber 2, 1843. Terms; WtO :n udvance: $2.25, naif yearly: and $2,50 iftiot paid bcfo.c the end of the vear. LT F- A Put?, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, wo squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila delphia, is authorised to receive, subscriptions and advertisements for the Jeffersonian Republican, and sive receipts for the same. Merchants, Me fhanirs. and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing themselves of the op portunities foradv-oftisingin country papers which his agency affords. WOS2 VOOD! ! WOOD! I ! T i our -Mtbvcrtbers who intend to fttr riish Wood in '.payment of their subscriptions, mi', requested Mi forward the same immediately. - Nov 2, 1843. Jdcstrnctlon by Fire. 'We are sorry to learn that on Tuesday eve ning last, n 'barn of Mr. Balsar Featherman's, in Hamilton township, Monroe county, abottt 4 xniles from Stroudsburg, jvks destroyed by fire, icietlier with all its contents, consisting of a uie&VA' stock of -.grain. &c. The loss sustained was considerable. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Bobbery. On Thursday night a week, two stores, ono at Tannersville, and the other at Naglesville, both in the upper part of this County, were broken open and robbed of a large number of -articles. Among other things taken from the one at Naglesville, was a keg full of pennies; the thieves no doubt supposing, when they took i it, that ii -contained silver, -or something moroi valuable thancoppers. Suspicion at once rested upon two ill-looking lads, who had been seen yowling about the neighborhood on the previ ous -day.; who were pursued the next morning, and overtaken about thirty miles from this place, in the woods, near ihe North and South Turn pike. Some of the most valuable of the stolen goods were found with them, as also some ready made clothing, with which they had both rigged themselves out complete new suits. They were brought to Stroudsburg, and taken before Esq. Musch, where they confessed to laving committed the robbery at Naglesville, hul sioutly denied all knowledge of the ether. An individual remarked to one of them, that he bought goods would soon be cheap, to which the young scamp replied, " that he could not say; but that if application had been made to them sooner, sortie might have been had very theap" They were committed to await their trial at the next Court of Quarter Sessions, which will take place in December As the i-..:i-'a,-!e as conducting them into the Jail, a darkey who has been confined there for some .time past, on a criminal charge, came to the bars, and rolling up the white of his eyes, 3.3 he showed his ivories, welcomed them to their new quarters, with the following salutation, how ar you, gemmen, how ar you." They s;iy their name is Hull; (hat they are brothers; and that they come from Whitefall, Rhode Isl and. Canal Commissioners. 0 We are astonished to hear that during the late election, no tickets were printed, and circulated, for the Whig candidates for Canal Commissioners, in the County of Monroe. Harrisburg Telegraph. Your information is wrong, Mr. Telegraph, as -far as the printing of the tickets go. We printed a sufficient number to supply Monroe and Pike counties, on our own responsibility, several weeks before the election; but as 'we were too poor to go to the expense of taking them (o (he different Polls, and as' nobody else could be induced to do so, ihey were not circu latcd in matly of the townships. The conse quence was, (hat our Candidates received but about one hundred votes in Monroe, whilst in Pike, they received not half so many. At sev eral of the unsupplied Polls, some good-natured friends wrote a few, which were voted; but in the other townships, the written, were as - scarce as ine printed ones. we. nave every reason to believe, that if the two counties bad been properly canvassed, and attended to, the majority against us would have been consider ably smaller than heretofore. But we have no party -organization herej and unless we receive some aid, from our political brethren in other parts of the State, it is not likely we soon will 'have. VTr' Jamen M. Porter, Esq. Secretary o Wur, was in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, on his way to Easton. Gov. Porter was in tho City at 'ihe same time. New Jersey Legislature. This body met at Trenton, on Tuesday a week, and organized by electing James Pat terson of Monmouth, Vice President of the Council, and Mr. J. Taylor, of Cumberland, Speaker of the House, both locos. In Council the vote stood, locos 12, Whigs 6,- m tfle House, Locos 34, Whigs 21. On Friday last, both branches met, to elect a Governor for the ensuing year, and Daniel Haines, Esq. of Sussex, was chosen on the first ballot. Mr. H. is a member of the Newton-Bar; has already been twice elected to the Legislative Council of his State', and is still a young man. In .politics, he is a staunch friend of 'Mr. Van Burtin. As the Locos carry New Jersey but about once in every 'seven years, they always make the most of their short-lived power. Thetr members of the Legislature, have therefore al readymade over ttco hundred and fifty appoint ments, in the shape pf Justices of the Peace, County Judges, Clerks, and -Surrogates. -Tennessee. Wo are sure it will afford unmingled satis faction to every true Republican, to learn that Tennessee, after being without a representa tive in the Senate of'the U. S. for upwards of two years, will again have a voicow that body. The Legislature of that State met in joint bal- lot, on the 11th ult., and elected the. Hon. Ephraim Ii. Foster, of Nashville, and Spencer Jurnagin, Esq., of McMinn co., (both Whigs) U. S. Senators. The former till the 4ih of March 1845, and the latter till the 4th of March 1847. This makes our victory in Tennessee complete, and preserves the Whig majority in tho Senate of the United States. A Distinguished Visiter. General Bertrand, one of Napoleon's Mar shals of the Empire, is now making the tour of the United States. During his journey to tho South Wast, he was the guest of Gen. Jackson, at the Hermitage, and Henry Clay, at Ashland. He is at present enjoying the hospitalities of tho people of New York, and will soon proceed ;lo Washington, whero he expects to arrive about the opening of Congress. Gen. Bertrand is now quite an old nan, and has been a sol dier from his youth. Before the name of Na poleon was heard of, he was a solder of France, and afterwards became a part of his dynasty. He followed the conquering hern through all his wars ; and after his defea. at Waterloo, went with htm to St. Helena, and voluntarily shared his exile. From first to last, in pros perity and adrersity, he manifested the most unfaltering affection for hts Emperor; and nev er left him till death closed his mighty career. Such entire devotion, lias seldom been witness ed; and clearly proves that Gen. Bertrand pos sesses a noble heart. We are glad to see that wherever he goes, our -countrymen receive him wiih open-handed, and warm-hearted, hospital ity and kindness. A Fatal Wager. A negro drank a. pint if brandy, a few days since, in Richmond. Virginia, to decide ahei, and was found dead (he next morning. Legal proceedings have already been instituted, to as certain whether ihe persons who made the bet, and the dealer who supplied the liquor, have not exposed themselves to the serious charge of murder. Ursa Major. A great bear was killed on the 14th of Octo ber, at boion, Maine, whicn measured seven feel ten inches, from the hind fool to the end of the nose, and weighed over four hundred pounds. He was supposed to be over fifieen years old. He must have been a whapper. Public lectures. As the Winter season is again rapidly ap proaching, and with it, as a matter of course, long evenings, we would propose to our citi zens to get up a course of popular lectures. We have enough gentlemen of ability, in and about Stroudsburg, to afTord us a lecture n piece for many weeks; and then, if we should be at all hard pressed for speakers, we have no doubt our friends from neighbouring towns would cheerfully lend us a helping hand. Wc say, then, lei us have a courf-e of lectures! " The Phalanx," is the title of a new week ly journal lately started in New York, the first number of which is before us. It is devoted to the principles of Association. Attempt to Escape. Monroe Edwards, ii is said, made another attempt to escape from the Slale Prison at Sing Sing, New York, on Friday night last. At the Presbyterian Synod, in Baltimore, last week, the Rev. Mr. Dale, agent of the Pennsylvania Bible Soiiety. stated that there are 30,000 families, or 150.000 souls in the Slate of Pennsylvania alone thai have no Bible. 3Ir. Clay on the Tariff. The following -letter was written by Mr. Clay to the editor of the Georgia Herald, in answer to one requesting information concern ing Mr. Clay's present views of the tariff: Ashland, Sept. 13, 1843. Dear Sir I received your favor, addressing some inquiries to me in respect to the policy of protecting American interests. On that sub ject I have very frequently publicly expressed my sentiments within the last two years. In the Senate of the United States, early last year, I fully expressed my views, and what I said was published. About the same time 1 communicated them in the answer which i transmitted to a letter addressed to me by a committee of the Legislature of New York, which was also published. 1 again expressed my opinion in reply to a letter which.! -received from a fellow citizen of Philadelphia, tequest ing me to state the principles-of the Whig par ty. A statement of (hem, as unders(oud by me, was accordingly made, and it is now con spicuously published at the head )f many newspapers. The last expression of iriy opin ion is contained in a letter which i recently addressed to Nashville, and of which I now transmit you a copy, ll you had seen theso various expressions of the opinions which 1 hold on ihe subject of your letter, I presume you would not have deemed it necessary to address me. The sum and substance of what I conceive to be the true policy of the United States, in respect to a tariff, may be brielly stated. In conformity with, ihe principle announced in the compromise act, I think that whatever revenue is necessary to an economical and honest ad ministration of the General Government ought to be derived from duties imposed on foreign imports ; and I believe that, in establishing a tariff of those duties, such a discrimination ought to be made as will incidentally afford reasonable protection to our national interests. I think there is no danger of a high tariff being ever established ; that of 1828 was emi nently deserving that denomination. 1 was not in Congress when it passed, and did not vote for it ; but with its history and with the circum stances which gave birth to it 1 am well ac quainted. They wore highly discreditable to American legislation, and 1 hope, for its honor, will never be again repeated. After my return to Congress in 1831 my ef forts were directed to the modification and re duction of the rates of duly contained in tho act of 1828. The act of 1832 greatly reduced and modified them ; and the act of 1833, com monly called the compromise act, still" farther reduced and rrlodified them. The act which passed hi the extra session of 1841, which I supported, was confined to the free articles. 1 had resigned my seat in the Senaie when the act of 1842 passed. Generally-, the -duties which it imposes aie lower than those in the act ol lbdiJ ; and, without intending to express any! opinion upon every item ol tins last tann, i would say, that 1 think, the provisions, in the main, are wise and proper. If there be any excesses or defects in it, (of which I have not the means here of judging.) they ought to be corrected. My opinion, tha: there i9 no danger hereaf ter of a high tariff, is founded on the gratifying fact that our manufactures have now taken a deep root, in their infancy they needed a greater measure of protection ; but, as they grow and advance, they acquire strength and stability, and consequently will require less pro (eciion. Even now some branches of them are able (o maintain, in distant markets, successful competition with rival foreign manufactures. Hoping that this letter may be satisfactory to you, and afford all the information you desire, arid lendering my grateful acknowledgements for the friendly feelings and sentiments enter tained by you toward me, I am with great re spect, your obedient servant, HENRY CLAY. New Jersey. The last message of Gov. Pennington to the Legislature xf New Jersey, was delivered on the 24th instant. The Gov. represents the condition of the treasury of that State an com paratively free from embarrassment. The float ing debl contracted by loans from the banks, has been paid otf. The only debt that remains unpaid, consists of loans from (he School Fund. This may be readily liquidated in the course of another year, by raising the usual tax, if the expenses of the government should not succeed those of the past year. The Treasurer esti mates that after applying the tax of the present year with the balance in the Treasury and the bonds for seventeen thousand dollars of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, and ihe Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, now in the Treasury, to the payment of the debt duo to the School Fund, there will remain due to that Fund at the end of the present year, (and this is the only debt that remains) a sum rather less than thirty-three thousand dol lars. The present amoilni of the School Fund will not vary much from 350,000 dollars. This fund has iueiuased within the last MX years about 80,000 dollars, although during that time the sum of 30,000 dollars has been annually distributed among the several counties, prior to that time ihe sum distributed was only 20,000 dollar. There are at this time thirteen benefi ciaries of the State in the ceaf and domain; stitutions of New York and Pennsylvania, and eleven in the institutions for ihe blind. The keener of the Siate Prison reports one hundred and fifty-five prisoners, an increase of ejghieen m. ... r.i. during i tic year, j hk ynam t-iiimujis iie Prison have exceeded the expenses $2069 80. Tho fare between New York, and New Haen, Conn., via Bridgeport is only seventy five cents. From tho Zanesrille HrpnMican. "Sing us a Whig Song." Zanesville Aurora. A WHIG SONfS BV J. GREN1ER. Tune Old Dan Tucker. The moon was shining silver bright, The stars with glory crowned the night, High on a limb (hat "same old coon" Was singing to himself this tune : Chorus Get out ihe way, you're all unlucky ; Clear the track for old Kentucky ! Now in a sad predicament The Lokies are for President, They have six horses in the pasture, And don't know which can run the faster : Get out of ihe way, &c. The wagon horse from Pennsylvania, The Dutchmen think he's best of any; But he must drag in heavy stages, His federal notions and low wages ; Get out of ihe way, &c. They proudly bring upon the course, An old and broken down war horse; They shout and sing " O rumpy dumsey Col. Johnson killed Tccumsey !" Get out of the way, &c. And here is Cass, though not a dunce, Will run both sides of the track at once. To win the race will all things copy, Be sometimes pig and sometimes puppy : Get out of the way, &c. The fiery southern horse Calhoun, Who hates a Fox and fears a Coon, To toe tho scratch will not be able. For Matty keep him in the stable : Get out of the way, &e. But here is Matty, never idle, A tricky horse that slips the bridle ; In forty-four we'll show him soon. The little Fox can't fool the Coon : Get out of the way, &c. The bulky horse they call John Tyler, We'll head him soon or burst his boiler ; His cursed " grippe" has seized us all, Which Doctor Clay will cure next fall: Get out of the way, &c. "The people's favorite. HENRY CLAY, Is now the " fashion" of the day. And let tho track be dry or mucky, We'll strike our pile on Old Kentucky : Get out the wav, he's swift and luckv, Clear the track for Old Kentucky ! Presidential The Richmond Whig says that running for the Presidency is something like running for your hat when it has been carried away by a high wind, and it very amusingly runs a paral lel of resemblance in the following words : " The best way for him who runs for his hat or the chief magistracy is just to keep close upon it for some lime. Don't break your neck after it, like Mr. C ; nor let it be quite blown out of sight, as Messrs. B and B do. Still less go snatching at it, at ev ery step, like glorious John, ducking and diving after it, when you are not within a mile of it. Be steady and yet be swift. Try, too, to look particularly disengaged all the lime, as if you wero only going about your business. Be quick, but cautious ; and watch your opportu nity for all depends on that. Run on, if pos sible, till you get some distance ahead of il ; then if no cross wind comes to snatch it from your grasp stand still, turn round, and folks will see ii coming to you, instead of you after it. Still, when the decisive moment comes, don't bo too sure; don't fling yourself flat upon it, as if certain of it; no, nor sit down right on end, as if you had only to let it run into your arms ; but rather squal upon your hams, so that you shall be able to shift your position in some innocent degree and then, with arms spread as skilfully aa the wings of a partridge net, wait for it to come. Now when you have it as good as bagged, (and not till now,) maks a rapid dive, and as you duck, seize it by ihe crown. Having now laken it with the sure bail-writ and your thumb and forefinger, lift it high in air, wave it thrice about your victorious head, salute with extended arm the admiring beholders, stick it on your noddle as if it grew there, smile pleasantly as if you and your hat understood each other perfectly, and had equal lv enjoyed ihe sport, and walk off about your business as il nothing at all had happened. UjThe Philadelphia Forum says:" Our friend Mr. Mahan, has just finished a coat in tended for Htm. Henry Clay, which may be called an American garment the cloth, trim mings, &c, being of Domestic manufacture. The cloth is of a very fine texiuro, and is as boautifui and durable as can be produced in any country ; and the workmanship cannoi be ex celled. The coat may be seen at ihe Fair of the rraukltu Institute, A Tyler Coat. Wfl were shown yesterday, says the St Louts Republican, in the shop of Messrs. Boyle & West, a garment more appropriately named than anv we have ever met with in the nomenclature of the tailors or lailoresses. A Tyler coat is a coal that may be turned as cir cumstances require, and worn with either side out. The garment we saw was on ihe one side French Cassimero of a drab of light color, and on the. other, fine pilot cloth of a dark co lor. Tho prime Minister of Catholic Braria (Monsieur De Gise.) is a Protestant, and the Prime Minister of Protestant Wurtembiire (Count do Beroldin'sier.) is a Catholic. M. Gul- znt ihe President of Council in Catholic France is a Presbyterian. A Bemarkahio A very ingeniously contrived lock, one of the most remarkable inventions of the day was exhibited at tho Fair of the American In stitute in New York. It is called a permuta tion lock, invented by Mr. Newell, and nude by Francis B. Pye, who was engaged nearly oiib year on the work. The lock contains fif. teen changeable tumblers, and is susceptible of one billion three hundred and seven thousand six hundred and seventy-four miilions, ihrea hundred and sixty-eight thousand changes. would take a man, allowing him to make ona change every two minutes, and calling ten hours a day, thirteen millions, nine hundred and twenty-four years, one hundred and sevetuv seven days, three and a half hours, to u0 through them' all. The changes are affected in the following manner : The key is altered by transposing certain of its parts, and every time a change is made in the key, a corresponding change is made in the lock. Thus a new lock may be made each time it is locked ; and person may have a new lock: every day of hi- life, and his children after him, to within a few years of the end of time. The object of thee changes is to make a false key useless, as tlm chances are a trillion to one that the ro?ie will not hit upon the right arrangement. They cannot be picked by any instrument. The ni. ventor himself cannot pick ii, though he his hitherto picked every lock that has been brought to him. This lock has been in use among the banks about ihroo years. It is sold at from $250 to S300. Dr. Wess. There has been some dispute about the pnl itics of the tndf pendent can-lida'. 1). kss. elected to represent the 1 5th tli-inci, m (".o, 2ress. The Doctor was elected by the Wlii'i and is claimed by them. The Adams Seiwiii!".. published in the district, says: " We oixrrfe that the locofocos place the namo of Dr. ."ei on their list of successful candidates. Wcian ive them assurance that he is not with iu;m hut sustains all our good Whig principle--, ami was elected in this district as the candidate f ihe Whigs, although he received a number of votes of Nur opponents, in his own county, hum personal popularity." The harrisburg Argus, a leading lncofocn paper, we observe, places his name on the li-t of Whig candidates. Norristown Herald awl Frtc Press. itlr. Adanas. The Hon. John Quincy Adarm mot hi con stituents of ihe eighth Massachusetts Congrns sional district on ihe morning of Tuesday, 24th inat., at Dedhatm. He was welcomed wnit great enthusiasm, and, upon his entering tlie church, an odo prepared for the occasion, en titled " Welcome to John Quincy Adams," wa sung by the Assembly. His address occupied three hours in delivery. He discoursed :h:el- ly on the subject, of slavery, the rights of pi tton, and against the annexation of Texas. H aimed to show thai the free labor of the North was laxed to support the claims of the slave abor of the South that all tha evils we labor under were caused by the fact that (he North was represented by freemen, and the South by slaves. He was in excellent health read his notes without spectacles and remarked that he would leave home on I hursday to attend to aying ihe Corner Stone of the Cincinnati As tronomical Observatory. Mr. Adams returned home, and received Marshal Bertrand early m the afternoon, both passing the remainder of the day together ai the mansion of the Lx- President. Pardon for a Postmaster. Beniamin Demever, formerly Postmaster at South Durham, near Cattskill, Green coim y. N. Y.. and who was convicted of robbing ihe mail entrusted to his care, and adjudged to th State Prison, at Sing Sing, has been pardoned by tho President. It is well known that we vote against par dons : and especially against the indiscnminai use of the pardoning power, which, of late years, has been so indiscreetly and wickedlr exercised. In our opposition, we feel certain lhat we are instigated by but one motive. For years we have regarded this growing exercise i ..; I ia ol toe pardoning power as a senuus ou Arflencan society, and none can deny mat has turned out so. What is the use of having laws to convict rascals under, if, the moment after they are sentenced, iho Governor of a State or the President of the United Stales par dons them out of the prisons to prey upon ih innocent again Does not this increase great crimes i any say that it does not? Certainly not. The.-t why is the pardoning power so inhumanly ' ercised ? It u inhuman : hecause ihe turning of villains, forgers, thieves, cheats, burglars, raail-robbers and incendiaries loose upon socie ty, is inhuman in the worst sense to the peace- loving members of American society. oa.- day Courier. Counterfeits. A man has been arrested at Buffalo, for po sing a $10 bill, which is pronounced io be a very good imitalion of the genuine notes oftn" Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. It letier B., dated New York, Oct. 5, 1835, ami well engraved. Vignette, Mercury and a lp in the distance ; the paper, however, i flimsy for a true representative of ihe genmo'" I. H. Williams, Treasurer ; John Wari3.f pres ident ; and all executed with much adroitness. Counterfoil fives of the Kingston Bank at also afloat. All th three aotviving sons of iho pot Burns are now in Scotland ; and it is probabls a public entertainment will bo given to iburo m Edinburgh.
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