I The whole art ov Government consists in the art of reino honest. Jefferson. VOL. 4. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1844 No. 33. I TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars and a. quarter, half yearly and if not paid before tlie end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their papers by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie tors, will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per vcar, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editors. lDWdvertiscments not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar : twenty-live cents for evcrv subsequent insertion : larger ones m proportion. A liberal discount will be made to yearly advertifcn ICAll letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. .TOR PRINTING. " Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental Type, we are prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AMD OTHER BIAjVKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable term AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffersonian Republican. The Bachelor. A Bachelor, a Bachelor, How pleasant it must be. A welcome guest at every feast, A happy fellow he : "Whate'er ho earns he freely spends, For home he has no care The young- and merry Bachelor, His home is everywhere . To ball and rout invited out, A beau to every belle, The pleasures of a Bachelor, No tongue can ever tell. A Bachelor, a Bachelor, When age with wrinkled faco, Comes creeping- on him by degrees. With slow yet steady pace ; The jovial set whom once he met, An evening hour to pass, Some, some are dead, and some are wed, For Time still turns his glass ; No friend to cheer his silent home, No heart responsive beats ; He bears his sorrows all alone, And pity nevcr.meeta., A Bachelor, a Bachelor, He lives and dies the same; No "wife to weep when he is dead, No child to bear his name ! With mourning garb and measured pace, Strangers attend his bier; They loved him not, and scarcely pay The tribute of a tear. No silent grief, uo heartfelt prayer, Hangs o'er his place of rest; He leaves this world as he has lived, Unbless:ng, and unblest. Predictions for IS 1-3. This year will be famous for a thousand dif- j tferent things. From January to December, the !- will consist of twenty-four hours each: tiiid there will be such a number of eclipses, tint many wise people will be in the dark. Those who lose money will look, sad, and those who are in want ol of cash when they bor- u-hnn tVinr rnmn m nar. row, will want it more wnen iney come iu pay Quadrupeds this year, will go upon four legs, pretty generally, and cows horns will be crook ed. The celestial aspects indicate that political parties will not agree for some time lo como ; hut whoever is President, water will run down hill, and ducks will waddle as heretofore. Cabbage this year will be rather round than three-cornered, and beets will be decidedly red. Coal will be as black as ever ; cats will love fish, but hate to wet their feet, and all on ac count of the late Comet. Whoever sells his house to buy moonshine will hardly get his maney's worth. Whoever runs to catch tho rainbow, will get out of breath for his pains. For all that, Eastern lands nmy be had lor the buying. Locomotives and auctioneers' tongues will tun fast. There will be mortal war between cats and rats, as well as between Aldermen and roast turkeys. People will talk about the ud of the world, but it is ten to one that the .olar system will not run against the dog-star be tween now and next April. Sea Serpents this year will be hard to catch, and none but a conjurer will be able lo get a quart into a pint bottle. Thoe who have wood en legs will suffer little when they freeze their toes. Wigs are expected to be fashionable among the bald, but blind folks will hare some difficuliy in 6eeing.. Divers steamboats will blow up ibis year, yet it is hardly possible lhat any Southern slang ivhanger will be able to set the. Mississippi on .uet Apples will ripen about October, sooner nr .Ver; 0,11 tnal u a'l one provided we have ctde.r enough. Foxes will pay particular atten tion to poultry ; there will be very few old birds taken with chaff, and wild geese will , not lay tame eggs. A linen factory, upon a large scale,1 is going, into opera'ion, at ,Paierson Iv, J, . The Tariff--Yankee Cloclcs, &c. Correspondence of The Tribune. Liverpool, Nov. 18, 1813. Sir: Tho most prominent subjects lhat en gage the public atteuijon at the present time aro 'The Irish Repeal,' 'The Anti-Corn Law League' and tho ' Rebecca Riots' in Wales. Of the first 1 know not what to say. Tho ac tion and interference of the Government have most certainly checked the Repealers in their ;)tWc'detnonstrations, hut that the excilemenl has subsided, only to break forth afresh, is be lieved by more than one. The trial of 'O'Con nell' will soon como on, the result of which will be an acquittal. It is reported to-day that he has summoned three millions of witnesses, all of which will appuar for the defence If it is true ho will never live to see his sentence, even if ho be convicted He is an old Fox and will worry ' his Majesty's Hounds' ere the race is over. Tho 'Anti-Corn Law League' are making tremendous efforts to disseminate their princi ples, and with great success. They, however, use some arguments which 1 think might with propriety, bo questioned. For instance, in ' Lancashire,' Yorkshire, and other manufac turing districts, they tell the people 'The Amer ican Tariff was passed only as a. retaliation for the English Corn Laws, and repeal the Corn Laws and the Americans will repeal their Ta riff.' These being districts almost wholly de pendent on America as a Market for their goods, the result is as would be anticipated. Did our own countrymen know as all must who have vistied England and the continent, the benefits which lesttlt to our country from the present tariff, 1 cannot believe there would be Free say We Trade men enough in the States to jt is astonishing to me that in " New England" and " Connecticut" my native State, there should be Free Trade men enough to make a show of a party. Open our ports for the admission of the pauper laborers of this country, and our wheels would stop, and the machinery would rust in their gudgeons And can the farmers of our country be made to be lieve that the Tariff is in opposition to their in terest ? The different ships which arrivo from New York are loaded with cotton, turpentine, cheese, lard, clocks, &c. &c. Tho idea of our Con necticut folks furnishing " John Hull" with time-keepers, is not less singular than true; and as I am from tho Clock Slate, and acquaint ed with the particulars of this enterprise, 1 will-, as briefly as possible, give them to you. The first iniporiation of clocks into this country was in i he year 1842, and by Mr. C. Jerome, Bris tol, Conn., the most extensive clock manufac turer in the U. S. The clocks were accompa nied by Mr. C. Jerome, jtm., a chip of the old block, "an open, decided, genuine " Henty Clay" Whig, who can calculate well on the workings j of the Free Trade System, and makes "no! bones" ui telling "John Bull" that "Brother Jonathan" knows his own interests too well, to receive their goods free, and be taxed to defray ih expenses of the Government. The first movement of Mr. J., after his arri val here, was to open a siore in the Broadway of Liverpool, which was douo more to show the j article than effect sales. The first clock .-old I was to one of " Her Majesty's Custom House j Officers," for ihe modcr.-ue sum of $28. The next to an "English Officer' for the same pried Rather a " tall start" thought the Yankee. Af ter supplying the natives lor a few weeks, a proposition was made to buy the stock, if he would quit the premises, and retail no more. It was agreed upon, and Mr. Jerome directed his aliontion to the wholesale houses in Lon don. About this time it was " reckoned" among ihe cluck speculators in Connecticut, lhat tho business in England was better oven than it was cracked up to be, and others engaged in it. Tho result i. as would be expected, by every one excrvt a Connecticut Yankee, viz: the mar- ket in gmttcd, and clocks are bought here even! cheaper than they can be in New York. The I original cost is about S3 50. freight $7 50 per ton, measurement, duty 20 per cent, and 5 ad ditional, or about, SI per clock, and they are -old here for $4 50 and $4 75, and these a amd bras clock. I think H quite wrong that ihe clock maniifaciurers in Nww York and Con necticut should misrepresent the state of the market a ihey do. It only acu as an induce ment for parties to engage in and loose, who cannot afford it. 1 trust, sirs, that a regard for the interests of every American will induce you lo give publicity to iheae statements, which i made by one Who Knows. Information Wanted. Benjamin T. Cox, a lad uf 15 years old, left the residence of hi parent in Montgomery county, on the evening of the lOili ulr., without any known eaue. Any information ol his whereabouts, will be thankfully received by Abraham R. Cox, Upper Providence, Mont gomery county, Pa. A New-York paper adu;rii-es that the owner of the perpetual motion, lately exhibited in the city, has absronded without paying the nun, who lurnotj! the crank in the cellar BISTORT OF MORN. The Ulodcrn JSlcac I5enrd--ISis birth at Worms Disposition to Ream Narrative of Iiis dreadful crimes filis cEiildreMEEe is uo doubt tEtc greatest crimiuai ever tried in this country. Ilfillman, alias Adam Horn, was born on the 21th June, 17(.)2, and is now in his 52d year, at the ancient town of Worms, on the river Rhine, renowned as the placo where the Ger man Diet assembled in the year 1521, before which Luther was summoned to answer the chargo of heresy, and is a portion of the Hes sian State of Darmstadt, Ho is, therefore, a Hessian by birth, and ihe son of Hessian pa rents. We liavo before us (says the Baltimore Sun) a certificale, signed by a priest, and dated at the town of Worms, m the year 1792, giv ing the name of his p.irents, and certifying to the day of his birth and baptism under the name of Andrew Hellman; there can, therefore, be uo doubt as to this being his true name. His parents gave him a good education, and at the age of 16 he was bound apprentice to a tailor at Wisupenheim, in Peteraheim county, where he remained until ho was of age, when a de sire to roam induced him to start off with only his thimble and scissors in his pocket, with the aid of which, according to his own representa tion, he worked his way through all the Ger man States, as well as various other parts of Europe, returning again to Wisttpenheim in the fall of 1316, after an absence of nearly three years.' Ilo could not long content himself there, however, and hearing of tho golden har vest that was to bo reaped in America, and having a desire to see a country that ho had heard so much of, he took passage for Balti more, where ho arrived in the year 1817, be in then about 25 years of ago. As far as can be learned, after his arrival, he worked for a merchant tailor of Baltimore, for nearly three years, when he started lor Washington, and passing through the ancient city of Georgetown, soon lound himself in Loudon county, lrgtnia. Whilst m Baltimore, h made many friends,' and was a young man of good personal appear ance, and correct deportment. He seemed, however, to have imbibed a lasting dislike to the whole femalti race, looking upon them as mere slaves to man, whilst he considered man, in ihe fullest sansu of the term, as the "lord of creation." Woman, according to his opinion, was only created as a convenience for the oth er sex, to aene in the capacity of a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, to cook his victu als, darn his stocking, never to (speak hut when spoken to, and lo crouch in servile fear whilst in his presence. He arnred in Loud'in county, Virginia, in the fall of tho year 1S20, and stopped at the farm house of Mr. George M. Abel, situated about four miles from Hillsborough, and about seven miles from Harper's Ferry. Mr. Abel was an old and highly respectable German lar mcr, who had emigrated to this country a num ber years previous, and had reared around him a large family of sous and daughters. The old gentleman took a liking to llellinati. and, unfor tunaiely, as tho sequel will prove, allowed him to stop or board with him, and being a good workman, he soon succeeded in having plenty of work to do from th farmers of the surround ing country. Ho remained through the winter, and in the spring of 1821 slaned for Baltimore. He however, remained in Baltimore for but a few months and in July again returned to his old quarters at Mr. Abel's, whero he had so ef fectually succeeded in concealing his opinion of ihe sex, or had perhaps been lulled from its expression by the scenes of happiness, con tentment, and equality that prevailed among the different sexes of the household of the respec table old Loudon farmer, that he was allowed to engaga the affections of one of his daugh ters. Mary Abel was at this time in her 20ih yoar, totally unacquainted with the dcceitfulness of the world; and deceived by his profession of love, she became, in the month of December, 1S21, ihe wife of Andrew Hellman. They continued for two years in the family of Mr. Abel, during only a ooriion of which time the presence of relations and friendi were sufficient to restrain the fiendishness of his disposition. After the lapse of a few months ho appeared to bo gradually losing all affection to her, though for the first sixteen months, with tho exception of this apparent indlffereuce, ovry thing passed off quietly. On the 8h of August, 1822, Lou isa Hellman, their first daughter, was bo:n, J KJt which, however, he looked on as a sertou mis. fortune, and, had they not been under tho pa rental roof, sad would doubtless havo bre'a the poor mother's fato. In the month of Apri',, he hocatne jealous of her, and the suppressed ferocity of his soul to wards the sex, bro'io forth vrilh increased vio lence. Ha acrujed her nf infidelity of tho basest kind, and on tho 27:h of tho ensuing September, wl.cn Henry Hellman, their sec ond child, w'in is now living in Ohio, was born, ho whoJ'.y disowned it, and denounced us mo ther us n hartwt. From thin moment all hopes o( rnuu-e r happiness were banished, but, like jP'r Mslind IIyrn)$ihe clung lo him and prayed to her God to convert and reform him, hoping that his eyes would be ultimately open ed to reason and common sense. But, ala.s! it was all in vain. In return for every attention and kindness, she received nothing but threats and imprecations. Instead of tho endearing name of wife, she was always called "my wo man," and his ideas of the degrading duties and dishonorable station of woman, fully applied to her. He had, however, uover used any per sonal violence, and she consequently flt hound, for the. sake of her children, not to dscrt him. At the time of leaving Loudon county, he dis posed of property to the amount of at least S3, 000. How he had accumulated so much in the short space often years, when he had come there penniless, was, and siill is, regarded as a nivsterv. Although possessed of a close and Yniserly disposition, denying hit family nearly all the comforts of life, with the exception of food, of which he could not deprive, them with out suffering himself, it seemed impossible, from the fruiis of his needle, so large an amount could have been accumulated. About a ye.ar aftor their arrival at Logan, 0. Mrs. Hellinau, on one occasion, had poured out a bowl of milk, with the intention ol drink in!' it, hut before she got it to her hps, she found that ihe top of it was covered with a quantity of white powder, which had at that moment been cast upon it. Immediately sus pecting it, she threw it out, and undoubtedly, from .subsequent events, thus preserved her life. ! Thorn was no one in tho house at the time bin her husband, and he denied all knowledge of it. She was under the impression at the time that he had attempted lo poison her, and is now generally believed that such was the case. In tho month of April, 1839, all three of the children were suddenly taken sick, and lay in great suffering for about forty-eight hours, when Louisa, the eldest, aged 17 years, and John, tho youngest, aged 12 years, died, and were both buried in one grave, leaving tho mother inconsolable, for her loss. Her whole atten tion, however, was still required for poor Har ry, who lay several days in great suffering, hut muly recovered This was a sad siroko to the heart of the already grief-atricken mother, which was doubly heavy upon her from the firm belief she entertained that (heir death had resulted from poison, and that that poison had been administered to them by the hand of their father by that hand which should have brushed ;away from their path uvery thorn that could harm them. The belief is now general through out ihe country that their blood is also on ihe head of Andrew Hellman, but whether true or false remains lo be decided between him and his God. On Saturday, 28ih Srpiember. 1839, Mrs. Rachael Abel, the wife of Mr. George Abel, came to see her sisier-m-law, and as soon as she entered the room she was surprised lo see Hellman lying in the bed in the front room, with his head, face, and clothing covered with blood. Willi an exclamation of wonder, she asked him what was ihe mailer. Ho replied, affecting to be scarcely able to speak, from weakness and loss of blood, that two nights previous, at a late hour, a loud rap had sum moned him to the door; on opening itj two rob bers had entered it, one a large brown man. I (meaning a negro) and a small white man when lit 1 he had been immediately levelled to tne noor with a heavy club. How he had got into bed he said he could not tell, but said he had bccp.l lvinT ihero sufferinjr ever since, unable to pel out. On hearing this story, and from hisblr.ody appearance and apparent lamtness, nol doubt ing it, Mrs. Abel, exclaimed, "Whero, in. the name of God, is your wife?" lo which re. plied, "1 do not know, go and see." On push ing open the back room door, a sccno. of blood met her view that it Would be ir.ipojsible fully to describe. In tho centre of the room lay the mangled corpse of the poor wifu with her blood drenching tho floor, while tb.c ceiling, walls, and furnituro, were also heavily sprinkled with the streams which had. evidently gushed from the numerous woundr, w'jch she had received in ihe dreadful slrt'gglt From appearances, u was rendered certain that he himself, in, cold blood, thus butchered his wifo. The fact of his having hewn up and dissected ihe, body of Malinda Horn, can no longer, therefore, ho considered a mailer of wond".r. It was only tho second act of the bloody drama, and well did he understand his P'-iru The man who had passed, without being conscience-stricken, through such a scene of 'olood as thai we have jusl described, was doubtless capable for any emergency, and he probably disposed of his second subject with tho amo ease of mind that a butcher would quarter a calf. He was arrested and confined in the jail of Belmont, Logan county, Ohio, bui succeeded in effecting his escape with the iron on his legs. On the nighi of his escape he had been left up stairs laier than usual, and thero being no fastenings of any consequence on tho door, ho walked off. lie was immediately pursued and tracked to the hor.vj of a matt named Conrad Harpole, near East Liberty, in Logan county, in the. neighborhood of which a horse, belonging to one e. and it was ascertained that he had there purchased a horse, saddle-, and bridle, and pursued hia . T -I -. I ... "..!.-. II...-. journey, nc was ineti traceu u airmniHi Carroll countVi whero ho had lormeriy liven-, passing through in open day. He wa- herd spoken to by an old acquaintance bui he. madft no reply. Some of his pursuers actually ar rived in Baltimore before he. did, and, although tho most diligent search was made for him; as aisted by high constable Mitchel-, no further trace could be found of him. They, howe,r. were tinder the opinion that he was eono-alml in the c'.ty, and finally gave up all hops of de tecting bun. TImj next thing that whs heard of hint was in York, Pennsylvania, where-, tin the 28th of September, 1811, about ten irtotilln after his escape, he appeared before John A. Wilson, Esq. a justice of the peace, anil exe cuted a deed for 640 acres of land in Mercer county, in favor of Charles Anthony, -q. on .; uf his attorneys. He made his appearance in Baltimore enmi ty, in the neighborhood of the scene of his Ln;& murder, early in the year 1812, and co:ni:ij.,c-d boarding at the house of William IJnut, i tl month of May. On the ensuing 17th d:iv wl" August, 18-12, he was married m Muling '&a klc, as is already known to our readers, a, well as his deeds from that time tip to iSic poeii. If guilty of no other crimes but those of which he stands publicly charged, he is its duubtecily 'He greatest criminal that his evec be.t-n. tried in this country. Since his conviction, however, we ier fh;it he has become greatly changed, and under tin guidance of a spiritual teacher, is seeking par don of an offended God. He h;is axpre9ed a great desire to see his son, Eeruy Hellman, and has written to him to cotne on without a. moment's delay, which ho will no doubt soon do, as we learn he has expressed a groat de sire to see his father before lit a death. Henrv Clay's Wife. A lady of Northern Penniylvania now resi ding in Virginia, has wriitea to a friend in Mont rose, Penn. from which the Ediior of the Sus quehanna Register has published several ex tracts. Among ihem we find tho followin, which will interest the ladies at least, and shows Mrs. Clay to be the true American mat ron, as her husband is the true American citi zen and patriot. " I happened to get in compaiiy with Clay men and ladies too. 1 met wui Mrs. H of Lexington, Kentucky, whr, l,ad visited at Mr. Clay's during the last summer; and sh gave mo a pleasant account of the domestic habits of the family. Mr.. Clay gets up at 4 o'clock in the morning superintends her dai ry, does much of the la'bor. wii'h her own hand.i, sometimes churns the cream and always salt- nnd prepares it for t'.io market, fcc. She said it was a well arraoged.house, and she described the place as beavtife.i in the extreme. I en quired whether. Mr.a. Clay was genteel and lady-like in her manners. She said yes, exceed ingly so that i.c was rare to meet one so intel ligent and. accomplished. Mrs. II. would al most have n .adn a Clay man of you, if you had hoard her talk." Corn Cobs. 'TliO most economical method of disposing of cor.i cobs, is doubtless to pound them up and (ft in A llinm MMfK rnrn Trtr GlnnL' . turn uiuiii u mi ofciswrfc But as this is 'te neglected, another excellent mode of dis- posal is to soaR tnem in ptcKie and leed mem to cows or other cattle in. the yard. A large tub formed by sawing a hogshead in two, near the middle, should be placed in a convenient 1 lace near the yard, and being filled with cobs a sufficiency of warm waier strongly impregna ted with common salt should be poured over them to render them soft and palateablc to the slock. Most animals devour them greedily in this stale, bui when it is not too much trouble, grind ing into meal is much preferable. The meal of the cob also makes excellent puddings, Maine Cultivator. Methodist Episcopal Churcb. Tho increase of this body within a few years has been without a parallel. In their last offi cial documents they publish iheir numbers in each conference in tho Union and Texas, of which tho summary is : Whites CoVd Indians Total. Totaljthisjear 03G.73G 123,410 3,371) 1,083.525 Total last year 803.2UG 107,206 2,017 Ui",20 Inc. this year 133.440 21,111 7(52 155,316 A man in Huntsville, Alabama offers a piano forto for sale, and says he'll wait for payment till Henry Clay is elected President. No great shakes of an offer, this. If he'll wait till Martin Van Buren is elected we'll find a customer for him. Paterson Intel. A new England paper says: " A young Quakeress was married a few evenings 'sinco in Philadelphia, and her bridal dress consisted of woven glass and satin, which was impoited from Franco at a cost of $1500 !" nfhis attorneys, was found miming loo
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