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JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, April 17, 1845.
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and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third,
two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila.,
and No. lfiO Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,)
N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and
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chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend
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portunities for advertising in country papers which
his agency affords.
To all Coucci'iicd.
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subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas
ters, to the following reasonable, and well set
tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to
the patrons of newspapers.
THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.
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ttend them till all arrearages are paid.
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directed, they are held responsible till they
hare settled their bill, and ordered their papers
disconlined.
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out informing the publishers, and their piper is
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sponsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to
take a newspaper or periodical from the office,
or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri
ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud.
The Whiff Almanac.
We have received a few copies of this ex
cellent periodical for the year 1845, which may
be had on application at this office. Besides
the usual matter of an Almanac, it contains
Washington's Farewell Address, the Constitu
tion of the U. Stales, the Declaration of Inde
pendence, the official vote of all the States, at
the late Elections, the Tariff of 1842, a Register
of all the officers, civil, military and naval, in
the employ of the U. States, and much other
valuable reading. It is valuable to men of all
parties, and no one should be without a copy.
Price only 12 1-2 cents.
To the Public.
We have examined several Daguerreotype
likenesses, taken during the last week by Mr.
J. W. Thompson, and we do not hesitate in
saying they are equal, if not superior, lo any
we ever saw. In fact we can conceive nothing
finer, either as regards the likeness or execu
tion. Mr. T. makes a pretty picture of a Da
guerreotype, which no person who has been in
Stroudsburg before has done. Whoever wishes
to transmit his physiognomy lo posterity, just
as it is, should not leave the present opportuni
ty pass by. There is no mistake in the Da
guerreotype. It tells the truth. If any one
wishes to satisfy himself in this matter, let him
call on MrfT., who will bo happy to attend to
all requests of this nature. Mr. T. will remain
at Mr. Shively's a week longer. Now is your
time.
A zinc mine has been opened in Sussex Co.
N. J., which yields an article not inferior to the
imported one. The metal can be afforded by
the quantity for three cents a pound.
Pittsburg.
The Pittsburg papers inform ub that the gloom
which hung over that place, is passing away.
Relief is pouring in, in a liberal manner.
Wheeling had sent 100 barrels of flour, and
3000 pounds of bacon. Various contributions
had been made by citizens of Pittsburg and the
neighboring towns.
Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
NOBLE CONDUCT.
We hare heard, says the Pennsylvania In
quirer, of several instances by the' recent fire,
which reflect honor upon human nature. In
one case, we are told that a Pittsburg merchant,
who had been lo this city to purchase goods,
heard, on his way home, that his property had
been wholly destroyed by fire, and that as a
consequence he was a ruined man. He imme
diately returned to Philadelphia, called upon
the merchant from whom he had made the pur
chases, and begged him to take back his goods,
remarking that he was not able to pay for them.
The other was evidently touched ; but with
scarce a moment's hesitation, he stepped to his
writing-desk, and as promptly as it could be
done, handed to his honest-hearted customer
of Pilt6burg a bill and receipt for (he whole
amount more thBn $1QOO.
The sum of. S576 72 has been contributed
by the citizens of Easton, for the relief of the
Pittsburg sufferers.
The Raleigh, N. C. Register says that the
severe frosts of the 8th instant, has blighted
every thing in Garden and orchard, and de
stroyed all hope of fruit this season.
The mountains in ihe vicinity of Wilksbarre,
have for several days been a sheet of fire.
A cotemporary says, " Sealing-wax is now
made so as to Ignite by friction, which does
away wiih the trouble of procuring a lamp to
assist in sealing letters." But we fear that it
increases, like lucifer matches, the chances of
accidental fires.
A New Prophet.
It is rumoured that the Mormons are soon -to
have another prophet. Brigham Young says
that he has lately had an interview with Joe,
who declared his determination to appoint Or
son Hyde his successor, according to the pro
visions'in the Book of Covenants. Hyde (says
ihe Warsaw Signal,) will make a worthy suc
cessor to Joe.
Yearly Meeting.
The yearly meeting of the religious Society
of Friends of Philadelphia, commenced its
sittings in the Arch Street Meeting House, on
Monday last. The Hicksites (or that portion
which separated in 1828,) will hold their meet
ing on the 12th of May next, in their Meeting
House in Cherry street.
One Hundred and Twenty Dwelling
Houses.
The Danville Intelligencer says ihe Montour
Iron Company, at Danville, have engaged with
two contractors for the erection of one hundred
and twenty dwelling-houses at that place this
season. The houses are to be of good size,
and well arranged for the comfortable accom
modation of families. The carpenter work of
the great Rolling Mill of this Company now ap
proaches completion, and the contractor for the
Rolling Mill has taken a large portion of the
dwelling-houses.
An entire military company, the Burgesses
Corps, were daguerreotyped in Albany, a few
days since, while standing at "shoulder arms"
in one of the streets of the city. The papers
say, "every man's face and figure may be re
cognized." 2Vew Governor of Wisconsin
It is said that N. P. Tallmadge has been r
moved from the Gubernatorial chair of Wiscon
sin, and Gen. Henry Dodge appointed in bis
place.
Good Shooting.
Mr. Purviss, of Philadelphia, on a jaunt to
Little Eg-g Harbour, bagged eighty-five ducks,
weighing four hundred and fifty pounds, in a
few hours, with a single duck gun, last week.
Iron, of all sorts, has risen to such a price in
England, that it can be manufactured in a crude
stale here, (in the form of barms and pigs,) and
transported to England and sold at a profit.
Red ants are peculiarly troublesome to house
keepers in various parts of this "extensive coun
try ;" and perhaps it may be worth while to
know lhai a report is current that sage, put into
places where these troublesome little visitors
do congregate, will have the effect of driving
them away. The experiment is at least worth
a trial.
The use of Mcrcnry.
Dr. Samuels, memher of the House of Rep
resentatives from Lehigh county, in this State,
has made an elaborate Report to the Legisla
ture, relative to the use of Mercury in the prac
tice of medicine. The subject was brought
before the Legislature on the petition of certain
persons to have a law passed prohibited its use
in all cases, as a medicine. The Repott com
mences with a description of the article, and
after glancing at some of its uses and sanativo
and deleterious effects, concludes with these
remarks that much injury has resulted from
its abuse, but that is not sufficient ground for
the prohibition of its use: as Mercury when
skilfully administered, is one of the safest and
most effective agents in the materia medita.
Young Iadiett for the West.
To aid the thousands of young working-women
who are out of employment in New York,
it is gravely proposed to form a society and
raise $25,000, by subscription, to provide free
tickets for their passage to Chicago, Milwaukie,
&c, for such young women as may choose to
migrate Westward, in search of employment,
husbands and happiness.
A piece of burning shingle was carried by
the wind 35 miles from the Pittsburg conflagration.
Arrival of the Great Western.
Twenty-one days later jrom England.
The fayorite old steamer Great Western,
Capt. Matthews, arrived in New York on the
16th instant.
The Annexation of Texas President Ty
ler's Message on the Slave Trade, implicating
England, Mr. Polk's Inaugural the Oregon
negotiation are the chief political topics of the
British press the first having been introduced
into Parliament.
The final passage of the Texas resolutions
was received at Liverpool by the packet ship
Indiana on the 25th and was expressed to Lon
don. The steamer Hibernia, and the packets
Oxford, Rochester, and Geo. Washington had
all arrived the last on the 27th with Mr. Polk's
Inaugural, which was also expressed to London,
and to Sir Robert Peel, who was passing the
holidays at Drayton Manor, Tamworth.
The Cotton Market was depressed, in con
sequence of the abolition of the duty, and an
abundant crop.
The Corn Trade was dull ; but Sugar was
brisk. The demand for American Beef and
Pork had been tolerably productive ; but the
supply was mainly for ships' stores and for ex
portation. Lard, in barrels and kegs moved off
slowly, albeit the price of the article had in
duced a remunerating profit.
Of American Securities Willmer & Smith's
Liverpool Times says :
There has been some little doing in Ameri
can Securities, but the state of doubt which
still hangs over them will remain until the fate
of the August dividends of the Pennsylvania
bonds is known. If ihe other defaulting States
at the present critical moment were to make an
effort to restoto their credit, " by-gones" would
be forgotten, and the honor of the country
would receive a new endorsement. In Penn
sylvania stock, some purchases have been made
at 69 1-2 to 70, and the price will continue to
improve, if it is found that the dividends are
regularly paid.
Parliament has adjourned for the Easter hol
idays. A more than average portion of work
had been transacted during the ten or twelve
weeks since the session commenced. The ag
riculurists have been complaining of their dis
tress, and the House of Commons had resound
ed with the wailing,
Mr. Aldam called the attention of the Com
mons on the 19th to Mr. Tyler's Message, in
sinuating that the treatment of liberated Afri
cans in the British Colonies is no better than
it was in the time of slavery.
The Annexation of Texas is vehemently de
nounced by the press. The London Times, in
a bitter comment upon Mr Polk's Inaugural,
in which he says " Texas was once a part of
our country," says :
14 The whole assertion is utterly groundless
first, because Texas formed no part of Lou
isiana when sold by France ; and, secondly,
because the boundary treaty with Spain con
cluded in 1819 definitively wiped out all such
equivocal claims for ever. But in this discus
sion no argument is practicable ; the wolf is re
solved on seizing his prey, and it signifies but
little that the lamb stood drinking lower down
the brook."
Mr. Polk's claim to Oregon is treated threat
eningly :
44 It may spare lime likely to be consumed in
a very unprofitable discussion, if we express
our opinion, (adds the Times,) that in spile of
his marauders, and what he terms his constitu
tional rights, the territory of the Oregon will
never be wrested from the British Crown, to
which it belongs, but by war."
Concerning the Inaugural generally tho same
papers
44 If Mr. Tyler strained every norve in ihe
singular race which has recently taken place
between the late and the present Chief Magis
trate to consummate tho work which his ad
ministration hud brought to maturity, and to
gratify the passions which ho had roused, it
must be acknowledged that Mr. Polk treads
very closely upon his predecessors' heels. In
tho inaugural address delivered by the new
President, we find faithfully reproduced all the
worst characteristics of the American states
men who have been in power sinco the with
drawal of Mr. Websior from the Cabinet of
Washington. If Mr. Polk was chosen as the
thorough representative of ihe party which
makes slavery, repudiation, and foreign aggres
sion its claims to distinction, we are bound to
acknowledge that he has not swerved from the
intentions of his constituents."
The Times chuckles that Mr. Calhoun was
sent adrift by the new President.
That the Whig Senate, which is regarded
as 44 conservative body a drag upon tho head
strong House," in the language of a Liverpool
paper, bhnuld have sanctioned annexation, ex
cites special surprise,
Him mi 1111111111 in niirieaH'uaterfEti
Ireland was quiet. O'Connell addresMfd a
meeting in Kilkenny on the 20th. The Repeal
rent for the last week amounted to $497, 1 5, 3d.
A Staunch Clay Man.
The Picayune says that as the deck hands
of the steamboat Sultana were rolling a couple
of casks of wine on board, marked 41 Hon. Hen
ry Clay, Ashland, Kentucky," a stranger, ap
parently from the West, after regarding the in
scription in silence, until the casks were fairly
on deck, cried out to the clerk, that if he would
put the wine in a state room, and give each
cask a good mattress bed and musquito bar, he
would pay their passages up the river, and a
dollar a-piece to the stewards.
Cooking Food for Swine.
In an article on Pork making, in a late No.
of the N. E. Farmer, Dr. Lee says : From
some experiments of my own, and considerable
research in the published results of the expe
rience of others, I am satisfied that ten bushels
of boiled potatoes, thoroughly mixed with the
pudding that can be made from three bushels
of corn or peas, will make as much pork as
twenty bushels of potatoes, and six bushels of
corn or peas fed raw. It is, indeed, gratifying
to find that throughout the entire length and
breadth of our country, the expression of popu
lar sentiment is annually becoming more and
more decided as regards the practice of econo
mizing food by cooking. The calculation made
by Dr. Lee, though it will in all probability be
doubted by some, will yet appear reasonable to
every one who has any knowledge of the prac
tice to which it refers. Our own experience
has long since convinced us that, to feed un
cooked food of any kind, to hogs or other ani
mals while undergoing the 44 fattening process,"
is a sheer waste of at least one-fourth the ma
terials demanded. We hope our farmers in
Maine will examine this subject critically, and
act, hereafter, as their own reason, uninfluenced
by long cherished prejudices shall decide.
Maine Cultivator.
Incendiarism.
On Monday night last, Mr. Horatio N. Gus
tin, of Montague, in this county, discovered a
fire kindled in his wood-pile, which he was
fortunately enabled to extinguish. The pile
was so situated, we are informed, that had the
fire spread through the whole of it, his house
and barn would have both caught. It was ev
idently the work of design ; and Mr. G. deter
mined to be watchful; but on iho following
night, notwithstanding his vigilance, his barn
was fired, and burnt lo the ground, with all its
valuable contents.
An investigation, we understand is now in
progress in Montague, in the hope of discover
ing the malignant demon who could thus heart
lessly seek lo accomplish the ruin of a neigh
bor. Sussex Register.
A New Business.
A man was arrested in Philadelphia a week
or two since, and committed to prison, charged
with selling dog meat for mutton in tne market.
His 44 chops" had been celebrated all over the
city, for their delicacy and sweetness, and he
had quite a 4 run' of custom circumstances go-
-ing to prove that tho vulgar prejudices against
dog meat, besides being highly reflective upon
the character of those 4 sagacious animals,' is
altogether unfounded.
The population of EastJ3oston (opposite Bos
ton,) is now 5000. Twelve years ago it was
fivc one family.
Singnlar Presentiment of a Dream
Mrs. Dorothea Foos, who died ai her resi
dence in Elisor si., 'near Madison, a few days
sinco, at tho advanced age of 99 years, dreampt,
some nine years since, that she would die on
the 5ih of April, 1845, and her acquaintances
have often heard her state her presentiment.
About two years ago she accidentally fell oui
bed, and broke her hip, and otherwise injured
herself, so that ail hopes of her recovery was
givun up, bui she steadily insisted that she
would get about again, and not die until the 5th
of April, 1845, and,'bingular though it may be,
yet such is the fact, she did live until Saturday,
the 5ih of April, and died on that day.
Foot Race in New Orleans for five
hundred Dollars.
A foot race look place on the Metairrie race
course on Sunday, 30ih ult., in tho presence of
5,000 spciaiors. The purso was $500,' dis
tance 10 miles. Four competitors started; J.
Gildersleeve, John Archer, Thos. Elwortb, arid
a man in a mask, who called himself H. B. U.
S. A., which was understood to signify, "Uni
ted States of America" and not "United Slates
Army." The 4mask' hailed after running three
quarters of a mile. Tho other ihrea kept on.
Elworih gave in, in his ihird round, Archer in
his sixth. Gilderslceve kept on and won ihe
purse, having run ihe len miles in 59 minutes
and 50 seconds.
Adventure with a Boa Consiriei0r
Captain C , of her majesty's 8i,, r00,
was one of the most indefatigable sportsmen I
ever met with; and the entire of his time i!ut
could be spared from regimental duty was pas.
sed in the jungles. He was a man of vast per.
sonal strength, could undergo any degree of fa.
ligue; in short possessed a perfectly iron con
stitution. When upon one of his excursions, Captain
C happened lo be passing the night at a
small village in the Wynaud jungle, when a
ryit who had been out very late searching fora
stray bullock, came to tell him of a large cheetul
or spotted deer, which he had watched to rt
lair. He had also heard from the villagers tlht
a large snake had been seen several times n
thai neighborhood. He started accordingly a -ter
his game at daybreak, accompanied by iL
villager and a favourite dog, which rarely lr.i
his heels unless ordered. After procenlm,
about half a mile through rcry dense jungle-,
and being, as the villager supposed, near i.
spot where the chcelul had laid dow n, Captain
C of a sudden missed his dog, and hear.
ing a rustling in the bushes about ten yards off,
accompanied by a whimpering noise, he turmd
in that direction, and saw, what he at f-:,:
glance took for a tiger, from its colour, a m x
ture of black and brown, but soon discovered
what the monster really was a huge cnormum
boa constrictor, which had seized his poor Juno,
and was at the moment crushing her to atoim
in its terrible coils. The native who was writ
him saw what it was likewise, and immediate-
ly fled. Capt. C afterwards described the
appearance of the reptile, when thus culled
round his dog, as somewhat resembling a bar
rel, every portion in violent muscular motion,
and he distinctly heard the bones of ihe poor
animal crack in succession within its ternbln
embrace. At last the monster raised its head,
and fixed two glaring eyes on Captain C ,
who in another moment might, perchance, tiara
been fascinated by iheir deadly gleam, but with
unerring aim he placed two balls in its forehead.
Their effect was not however, as he expected,
fatal, and the snake instantly uncoiling itself
from its victim, came straight at CaptainC ,
who, of course, took to flight, but so thick was
the jungle that he found the animal gaining oa
him, from the noise it made among the bushe;
and, therefore, sought shelter in a tree, reload
ing his gun with all possiblo expedition.
Whether the reptile followed him by sight or
smell, ho could not judge, but Captain C
was only just prepared for a second discharge
when the boa constrictor reached the tree, and
instantly twining itself round the stem, woull
have soon seized him, but fortunately at the
next shot he blew out both its eyes withi
charge of BB; yet though the snake appeared
for a moment stunned, it. still continued its ef
forts lo reach him, until by repealed shots it
was incapacitated from rising, not, though, till
Capt. C had completely emptied his pow
der flask, and he even then did not venture to
descend, as the reptile continued coiling round
the tree, occasionally by a muscular movement
showing that its vital powers were not wholly
extinct. At length, after some hours' solitary
confinement on his perch, and shouting until In
was hoarse for aid, Captain C had tha sat
isfaction to see a number of villagers arrive, by
whom ihe monstrous animal was completely
destroyed. Captain C had no means of
accurately measuring its length but by a piece
of Btick, which the natives said was a cub:!
long, and he declared that it measured upward
of thirty of these, and much thicker than oneof
his own thighs, which were of a make hat
would have well become the leather fiefo'
shames of any Lifeguardsman! The head of
the boa was cut off by his orders, and sent
the Hon. Mr. Cole, then resident at Mysorf.
and its enormous jaw still may possibly be
existence at the Mysore residence.
Madras U. S. Case!!.
Escape of Santa Anna. The N. 0. Cour
ier of the 4th, says that a schooner from Veti
Cruz had jusl arrived, having on board Sant
Anna, who escaped from prison ihrough
connivance of some of the officers, of the ne
government.
Another Great Gnu.
A monstrous gun has just been manufacir.'
by Messrs. Forsyth and Preston, of l,nefl!l"
which is intended to replace the one that
on board the Princeton. It is made of mal'
ble iron, is 12 feet long, and weighs U on,
cwt. 2 qrs. 1 1 lbs.
Attention 4th Company
The enrolled Militia of the 4th Con;
34th Repiment. will moot fnr nnrado at
it?
house of Edward Postens, in Stroudsburg,
Monday the 5th day of May next, at 1 o'clock
r. &y order 6
Vm. P. hallock.
April 17, 1815. Cap