f 71- a3: 'TAe Tt7co Caterpillar. This is a span- ;$worm of'brownish color, with twelve feet six near "each end of the body. It feeds on. the 'kefrial'in the milky state, and also devours the germinating end of the ripe grain. It Is said 'be 'found in iheohaffwhen the grain is threshed. 4 We have linle -certain knowledge concerning the"parent insect -or its transformations. . Jn addition to these three, there are probably oilier insectsunore or less injurious to our wheat crops. Much has been published in our jour nals relative to these depredators; yet their hab its are imperfectly understood, and many of the accounts are confused and contradictory. It is greatly to be desired that all who have the op iprrtunity should endeavor to make careful ob servations, and communicate them to the public. 'These observations must be accompanied by accurate descriptions of the insect under exam ination, and in its various stages ; otherwise, most of the labor will be spent in vain. A iTIost Singular Sea. Jlonstcr. ;, The following description of an anomalous iSea- Monster is received from an old resident afCape Island, Gnpe May. The writer is a man or the most undoubted veracity, and his ac count is worthy of implicit credence. Extract of a letter from a resident at Cape May, o ta gentleman in this city. Cape May, April 13, 1845. "Respected Friend: In consequence of the many events, not of an every day character, "that have occurred here since "the 1st of March, I have taken the liberty of writing you, know ing thai in one you would -take an interest, in asmuch as it b no us a great curiosity. Indeed it is so much so, that at any time, when the ob ject is in sight, you may see twenty or thirty .persons at a time watching its manoeuvres, and almost everyone differs in -opinion respecting this monster of the deep. What it is I do not pretend to say, but that it is not a whale I am quite certain. 1 will give you the best descrip tion of it that I am able, and you can drawyour own conclusions. It appears to be about sixty or aeveny feet long and not more than eight feet wide at the widest part, which is about one third of the way from the head; from this point it gradually tapejs to the tale. It eannot be ve ry thick, as we had an opportunity of viewing it yesterday, as it lay, apparently lifeless, on "the top of the water in not more than ten feet of water for fifteen minutes at a time; it would then sink out of sight, then come up again in the same place and blow, but its blowing is not like the blowing of a whale, since the jet of water appears to proceed from very near the widest part of it. After blowing, it will rear its head on high, (say at least 6 feet) look around, and then lay quietly down. The water caused by the blowing does not rise higher than ten "feet, and the column is not larger than your cane, (3 to 4 feel) and does not keep in a body, but flies about in every direction. After it (the animal) has gone one half the height to which it raises, the head is about as large as a hogs head, and appears to be flat on the top, as some say who have been along side of him, a hooked beak, like a loggerhead turtle. The person who gave me this information respecting the appearance of the head is a man whom I can depend upon; the animal passed within ten feet from him whilst he lay to an anchor in one of the pilot boats, and he thus had a fair opportunity of seeing him. The monster is perfectly black and is covered with a kind of black muscle or barnacle. As re gards its movements I find it difficult to convey an idea of them to you sometimes it appears to have fins, or flappers all along his sides, which make a great foam and wake in the wa ter at another time he will appear to be rigged out with one of the most powerful propellers, after the fashion of the Princeton, and he goes faster than any steamboat, but does not make any wake again he will go tumbling along like an'old bay porpoise. His favorite resort appears to be from Cold Spring Inlet to around 3n, the Bay, say two or three miles above the steamboat landing, and almost always so near the shore that you can see him without the aid of a spy glass; at times, when it is smooth, he is observed to be just outside of the breakers It was first seen on the 18th of March by a great many persons at once; these spectators were principally strangers, twenty-five of whom were down here at work at McMakin's house. It is, not seen every day sometimes it will not be.seen for three or four days at a time. We have made up our minds to lake him at "every hazard we have four good whale boats and every thing which may be requisite for the enterprise, except that we are still wanting the proper number of men necessary for the under taking. Yours, &c. P. S. If you could only seo our rig to catch this strange bird.you .would have a hearty laugh. I am furnished wjth a search warrant in the shape of a harpoon. Philad. Morning Post. T . JEFFERS ONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, May 1, 1845. Terms, $2,00 m advance': $2,25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid Dcioie tne enu oi ine year. V. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and No. 160 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y..is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jfejfersonian Republican, and cive receipts for the same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which his agency, anords. '3T all Concerned. We would call the attention of some of our 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. 1. Subscribers who do not give express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue to send them till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the officers to which they are directed, they are held responsible till they have settled their bill, and ordered their papers discontined. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their paper is sent to the former direction, they are held re 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. J. W. Thompson, will remain in Stroudsburg a few days longer, to give those persons who have not had their likenesses taken, an oppor tuniry to do so. Our Foreign Relations. Within a week past a great change has taken place in the aspect of our affairs with foreign countries. We have received news from Eng land which indicates great difficulty, and i probable rupture in regard to Oregon ; and from Mexico,' which shows that that country has stopped all diplomatic intercourse with us. This warlike aspect of things is any thing but agreeable; and it becomes our government, and the people generally, to do all in their power, consistent with the honor of the nation, to avert the threatened danger. The Inaugural Addi ess of Mr. Polk has stirred up a feeling in England, in regard to Oregon, which it will be difficult to allay. The unconciliating manner in which he asserts our claim to exclusive possession of the territory, has produced a counteracting influence in that country, and her statesmen deny, in the most emphatic terms, the correctness of his premi ses, and declare that England has rights in Oregon which she will never surrender to the United States. They are willing to compromise all difficulties in relation to establishing the boundary but will not give all, and receive none. This does not suit the far-seeing policy of Mr. Polk, who says beforehand (as if to pre vent all amicable arrangement) that the whole belongs to us, and he is determined to yield none. In this state of the case, we are unable to see how the difficulty can be settled without a resort to arms. England or the United States must recede from their position in order to avert it. Which will do so 1 In Mexico, the Annexation Resolutions have produced a state of things. A Resolution has been introduced into their Congress, making it High Treason for any person to express him self in favour of yielding up Texas to us. Our Minister has been officially informed that all diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States are discontinued ; and the Minis ter of Foreign Relations has directed a Protest to the Ministers of England, France and Spain, now in that country, in which he denounces Annexation, and expresses the determination of his government to strive to preserve the integ rity of Mexico. This, then, also looks exceed ingly warlike on the part of our neighbors of New Spain. Unless wise councils prevail, and that spirit of peace and amity, which has heretofore characterised us- as a nation, are adopted; we will be likely soon to have as much fighting as the noisiest demagogue, who pan ders to the worst passions of the multitude, can desire. Our prayer is that the honour of our country may be preserved, and peace maintained. A FRAUD. -Notes purporting to be issued by the .Mechanics' and Traders' Bank -of Philadelphia are in circulation. There is no such named institution m existence. fThefWhig Cause. The recent elections throughout the Union afford "conclusive testimony that the Whig par ty is not disbanded, as our opponents predicted it would be, after our defeat last fall, but that its principles, were never more ardently cher ished than they are at this time. Notwith standing the Dorr demonstration in Rhode Isl and, we have done nobly in that little State. In Connecticut our triumph has been over whelming ; beyond all expectation. We have not only elected all the State officers, but have carried every member of Congress. The town elections, in the several States, have also been equally cheering. We have succeeded in ma ny places where locofocoism has always here tofore been rampant. These demonstrations should certainly encourage us, and induce us to remain firm to our principles which are destined soon to triumph most gloriously. Virginia Election. The 'election in Virginia, for Members of the Legislature and Congressmen, took place on Thursday the 17th ult. but partial returns have, been received. The result was consid ered very doubtful. The Legislature which was chosen will have a United Slates Senator to elect. John Rice and William II. Winder. These two worthies, who were indicted for embezzling the funds of the defunct Northamp ton Bank, were tried last week at Lancaster, and found not guilty. The county of Lehigh was directed to pay the costs. Santa Anna The Mexican Congress, acting as a grand jury, has determined that Santa Anna, the late President of that Republic, shall be placed upon trial for his life. The feeling in that country is very strong against him, and the impression appears to be pretty universal that he will be convicted and executed. We hare no idea, however, 'that things will be carried to this length. An Execution. On Friday last a week, Samuel Zepphon, lately convicted of. the murder of CufFee Todd, was executed in the yard of the Philadelphia prison. Ho made no confession. The Columbian magazine. We have already received the May number of this beautiful and highly popular magazine. As usual, it is embellished with several splen did engravings, and its pages are filled with choice tales and poetry from the pens of our first writers. The Columbian Magazine is published by Israel Post, No. 3 Astor House, New York, at the low price of S3 a year. Subscriptions receivedarthis office. Diplomatic Movement.- A Washington correspondent of the New York Sun says : u Considerable activity is observable here in diplomatic circles. England and France are driving the annexation question to a crisis, for which our Government is fully prepared. The concentration of a strong naval force in the Gulf, and an efficient army on the Texian fron tiers, ready for prompt action, prepare us for any event that may transpire. Expresses have been forwarded over land to the Pacific, to our forces in that quarter. The Cabinet are turn ing their attention to steam packet lines. Over tures for the building of thirteen large steamers have already been received, and I am glad to say that this great national measure is on the eve of being adopted the law of the last Con gress gives the Government all necessary pow er, and it meets with great favor." Rhode Island Election. The loco papers claim the election of Gov ernor Jackson as a democratic victory. If the election of Whigs instead of democrats, and the pointed condemnation of the Texas iniquity, be a democratic victory, then is the election of Rhode Island a democratic victory. Fenner and Potter were supplanted by two whigs, be cause of their real or supposed approval of the annexation scheme. That the election of Jack son is an indication that the people are in favor of the unconditional liberation of Dorr may be true. Thousands of whigs staunch law and or der men too, were .of opinion that no good could result from the further imprisonment of Dorr. Mr. Jackson was of this class. But he would not consent to be the ' liberation candidate)' un til the convention which nominated him had adopted a resolution acknowledging the binding the validity of the Law and Order constitution. A great democratic victory, this Rhode Island election. We like such victories. Hamp Qaz. A loafer, houseless and ragged, applied to a magistrate in Baltimore, for admission into the Alms house to keep him from starving. On rer ceivmg nts commumem as anagram, he- vM it to a negro for iweny'he ?etts. NOBLE. A servarit girl, who lived for some time in the family of Dr. Herron, at Pittsburg, went to him since the late fire and informed him that she had saved several hundred dollars, which she wished him to take and distribute among the sufferers. Twelve hundred men are now at work on the Morris Canal. The New Jersey Conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, commenced its session at Mount Holly, N. J., on Wednesday the 23d ult., Bishop Waugh, presided. Conscience Returned. We are requested by Mr. Jones, says the Baltimore Republican, to ask the Boston Atlas and the Baltimore Sun, to give place to the fol lowing which 'records the fact' that another politician besides D. M. Kimball has felt the qualms of conscience. A Lie Retracted. Having publicly stated before the election, that I did not know who James K. Polk was ; that I did not know his grandfather to be a tory; that 1 did not know he had branded his negroes in the forehead ; and that Great Britain had sent some half a mil lion of dollars to aid the Democratic Party. 1 feel constrained by the gnawings of my awa kened conscience, to publicly avow, that in all these matters I lied deeply, as I had often lied before. JOHN JONES. Cold Weather in Europe. The exceeding severity of the cold in Eu rope, even as late as the middle of March, caused the greatest suffering. Hamburg and other ports of the North of Europe were com pletely shut up. The Elbe, indeed, above Hamburg was, it is said, frozen solid to the bot tom. M. Arago, who had predicted this ex treme cold, is said to have won a considerable sum on a bet that the Seine at Paris would be frozen over on the 5th of March. It was frozen hard enough to bear a carriage. About a thousand acres of timber in Earl township, Berks county, was destroyed by fire about ten days ago, together with a quantity of cord wood and rails. The fire originated in a small negro hut. Coleman's Improved Piano Forte. The late editor of the Lebanon Courier, Mr. Frysinger, who is a native of York county, Pa. where he has resided the greater part of his life, in an article written two or three months since on this subject, denies that Mr. Coleman was the inventor of the improvement for which he became so renowned both in this country and in Europe. He says : " The honor of this invention, we are cer tain, does not belong to the one who seems like ly to reap its advantages, but to an old gentle man, (Mr. Adam Ault,) residing in York coun ty, Pa. in whose house there now is, and has been, for a number of years, an instrument com bining all the qualities claimed for Mr. Cole man's. It was projected some fifteen or twen ty years ago, and intended for a present to his youngest daughter, then but five or six years Old. That daughter unfortunately died in the bloom of youth, and year upon year elapsed be fore the sorrowing father could again bring him self to. labor at an instrument designed for one whom he had hoped would be the stay and com fort of his remaining days. It was subsequent ly, however, so far finished that it could be played upon, and eight years since the editor of this paper was repeatedly present when its sweet piano and organ (or accordian) notes en chanted all who heard them. Mr. Coleman's pianos, for aught we know, may be somewhat different in construction from the one alluded to, but the 'invention1 is clearly not with him." Perpetual motion. The present age seems to revive the explo ded notions of a perpetual motion, so great are the strides of science in their application to mechanics. The foreign Polytecnic Review gives an account of the electro-magnetic clocks, invented by a Mr. Brain, which come as near a perpetual motion as it is possible to conceivo that the nature of earthly things will admit. These clocks have but three wheels and are put up at a cost of 7s. 5d. sterling, and never run down, or require winding up. They will run aa long as the earth and the atmosphere exude electricity or we might say to the end of time. A manufactory of the clocks is being established in Edinburs. Singular Scene. A woman calling herself Isabella Hagan, was committed to prison in Philadelphia last week by Alderman Redman for stealing a-little girl from her parents, and hawking her about -the streets to excite the sympathy of the citizens of-whom she asked alms, The little girl was restored to its parents in the .Alderman's office, and Jhe woman sent to "ruralize" at Moyamen- sing. Burnt for the fourth Time TU A few minutes after six o'clock, last erenir a fire broke out in the carpenter's room attach' ed to the Bowery theatre, which instantly C0R municated to the theatre itself; and in three quarters of an hour that fine edifice was a com plete ruin, with nothing but the high walls and the massive columns standing. The inside 0r the building, scenery, furniture, wardrobe, mi chinery, &c, was entirely destroyed, and 3er. eral of the performers, we understand, luSt prj vate dresses and properties to considerate amounts. The evening's performances Wefe to have been for the benefit of Mr. Ddvenpo-t and the actors and actresses were in the build' ing, just commencing to dress for the duties f the night. We are happy to state that, ,0 rar as could be ascertained by the strict iiiquirv possible under the circumstances, every persnii in the theatre escaped in safety, although seve ral of them with narrow risks Of life and limb In the Theatre nothing was saved, and wn learn that there was no insurance on any part of the property or building. It is believed ihat Mr. Hamblin had no interest in the Theatre u having passed, by a recent decree in Chancery into the hands of James R. Whiting, Esq -I but the particular nature of the trust is unknown to us. We are informed, also, that the grouiiil cannot according to the terms of the lease again be occupied for the purpose of ereciini Theatre. This is the fourth time the Bowery Theatrr has been burnt. First, in 1828, when it took nre atiout tne same tune in tne evening, rt o'clock) and was owned by Mr. Hamlihn, wlm was partially insured. So vigorous were ihat gentleman's measures that in 60 days the The atre was rebuilt and in full operation. It again burned down, we believe, in 1836 was rebuih, and again destroyed in the winter of 1S37-S the last two times without insurance. We understand that Mr. Hambjin has just completed his arrangements for building a new Theatre on an extensive and costly scale, on Broadway, adjoining the Tabernacle the k purchased and paid for, the plan agreed upon. and all other preliminaries settled. To avoid the delay and difficulty in getting the stuck ta ken, Mr. H.. means to issue tickets to purcha sers, in sums of $100 to $500, until he has m this way raised sufficient to go on with the en- terprize. N. Y. Tribune of Saturday. A lady in York, Pa., has made adonatiouof $500 to the Pittsburg sufferers. , Coleman & Stetson, of the Astor House, iY. Y., $100; Cheater Jenkins, City Hotel, N.Y. S100; Curtis & Hand, Philadelphia, S100; and the citizens of Steubenville, Ohio, $500. Expenses in Suppressing the Slare Trade. Il appears, by the yearly report to the Brit ish Parliament, that England has expended lit tle short of twenty millions of pounds sterling in endeavoring to suppress the slave trade oa the coast of Africa, and a large amount of bounties has not yet been paid. The Whiff Almanac. We have received a few conies of this ex cellent periodical for the year 1845, which rnay be had on application at this office. Beside the usual matter of an Almanac, it cotiiatn Washington's Farewell Address, the Constitu tion of the U. States, 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, i the employ of the U. Slates, and much other valuable reading. It is valuable to men of parties, and no one should be without a ctff Price only 12 1-2 cents. "GOD BLESS THE DUKE OF ARGYLE," was once a common snvincr in Smtlnnd. esper-ii- j o . ly by those who had occasion to avail themseli of the use of certain posts he had caused to b erected at convenient distances as substitute flesh brushes. We have no Dukes in this was try all are nature's noblemenbut we have liberal and benevolent individuals, who do as nuir" for the good of their fellow beings as any of t titled aristocracy of the old country. Look arou: I . 1 t . 1 1 l. - KanPll ' yuu uiiu see me numc-eys-mai nave uec" ted, and even saved from an untimely grave. Dr. Sherman's Lozeneos. He is the only c-' ted and experienced Physician who has eng in preparing medicines adapted to everv cla disease. Thero are numerous ignorant pretend ' in the field, but thoy cannot contend against h skill, knowledge, and experience. Formerly1 took weeks to euro coughs and colds that his-k zenges will effect in a few hours, and hcadjf in ascmany minutes. This is truly a new ei? !' medicine; A fresh suonlv of the above valuable medial juafc laucivtm, anu tor saie ai me uepum!-"" ftcef? JOB WORK Neatly executed at this Qftc
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