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JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, May 29, l45.
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paiu ueioicmc end ol ilievear.
05s F. B. Palmer, Esq., at -his Real Estate
nnd Coal Olfice, No. 59 Pine street, below Third,
two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila.,
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and give receipts for the same. Merciiants, Me
chanics, and tradesmen Generally, may extend
their business by availing themselves of the op
portunities for advertising in country papers which
Ins agency affords.
Division of the Ittethodisl Clinrcli.
The unfortunate differences, growing out of
the itistiiuiion of slavery, which have for some
lime past existed between the Northern and
Southern portions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the United States, have at length
produced a division among that sect of Chris
tians. The Convention of Delegates of the
Southern Conferences, which assembled at
Louisville, Kentucky, on the 1st of this month,
after a session of several weeks, have almost
unanimously agreed to separate from their
brethren of the North, and form a new religious
organization, under the name and style of the
"Methodist Episcopal Church South." The fi
nal vole on this important measure stood, yeas
95, nays 2. The first General Conference,
under this new organization, is to be held in
Petersburg, Virginia, on the 1st of May next,
to which all the Southern annual Conferences
are invited to send delegates. The hand of
friendship is not withdrawn from their brethren
of the Northern States. A Resolution was
unanimously agreed to which declares that they
will favourably entertain a proposition for re
union, at any time, provided it leaves them free
and uncontrolled in regard to their peculiar do
mestic relations.
The British Navy.
The British Navy, at this time, is by far the
most powerful maratime defence in the world.
According to a late report of the Lords of the
Admiralty, the force consists of six hundred and
eighty ships of War, carrying from one to one
hundred and twenty guns each. Of this num
ber there are one hundred and twenty-Jive armed
steam vessels, constructed on the most approv
ed principles. This immense fleet employs, in
time of peace, 23,000 able-bodied seamen,
2000 stout lads, and 34 companies of Royal
Marines. Besides this, the government have
control over all the Mail Steamers which run
from England to the United States, the West
Indies, and Egypt, numbering at least thirty
more. In order to still further increase and im
prove this powerful armament, Sir Robert Peel
has obtained from Parliament an additional
grant of several millions of pounds sterling.-
The naval force of the United States consists
of about seventy vessels, all told. Those Loco
Focos, who are clamouring so loudly for a war
with Great Britain, should look at this relative
disproportion of strength beiween the two coun
tries and turn their attention to improving our
marine, before they produce an outbreak.
The Changewater Hurdcrs.
Joseph Carter and Peter W. Parke, recently
convicted at Belvidere, of the murder of the !
Castner. family, were on Thursday last sen
tenced by the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
at Trenton, 19 be executed on Friday ihe 22d
of August next, between the hours of 12 and 2
o'clock. Both the prisoners solemnly protest,
ed their innocence, when called upon by the
Chief Justice to say why sentence should not
be pronounced upon them. They are to be
kept in the Mercer county Jail, at Trenton, un
til some day between the 15th and 22d of Au
gust, then delivered over to the Warren county
authorities, and hung at Belvidere on the 22d.
The second trial of Abner Parke, indicted
foi participating in the same murders, will com
mence, at Belvidere, on Tuesday next. He
was tried and acquitted on one indictment, in
December last. Three others still remain
against him.
Heavy Verdict.
Mrs. Eliza Letiiia Yeates, of Lancaster, Pa.
has recovered from the administrators of John
Yeates, Esq., her deceased husband a verdict
of $20,000 damages and 6 cents costs, for the
non performance of a marriage contract, enter
ed into between wife and husband, by which
ihe latter contracted to settle upon the former
the sum of $20,000 in case she survived him,
in consideration of which she was to relinquish
her dower.
Constitutional Reform.
The Legislature of New York has passed a
Law, directing that the people decide by bal
lot, at the next November Election, whether a
Convention shall be called to amend the Slate
Constitution. The people of New York have
long been complaining of many evils which
are tolerated under their .present form of Gov
ernment. They have now an opportunity to
rid themselves of these grievances ; and the
New York Tribune says they will avail them
selves of it by a majority of at least fifty thous
and voles.
Episcopal Convention.
The Annual Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania, assembled
in St. Andrew Church, Philadelphia, last
week, and after disposing of their usual busi
ness, proceeded to the election of a Bishop of
the Diocese, in the place of the Right Rev.
Henry U. Onderdonk, designed. After a num
ber of unsuccessful attempts, the Rev. Aloxzo
Potter, of Schenectady, N. Y , was unani
mously chosen. He is represented to be a
very excellent man and divine. It is noi yet
certain whether or no he will accept the charge.
Interference with States' Rights.
The Legislature of this Slate, while discus
sing the subject of a Convention to amend ihe
Constitution of New York, have, at the same
time, had the Constitution of Rhode Island un
der advisement. They have even gone so far
as to authorize the action of a Committee, sit
ting in the Capitol at Albany, and paid by the
people of New York, whose sole business it
was to report upon the internal and. wholly lo
cal affairs of Rhode Island. This is what we
call rampant Federalism. Certainly a more
dangerous precedent of anti-democratic assump
tion has never yet occurred to alarm every true
Republican.
We should like much to hear what " father
Ritchie" and oilier patriarchs of the staunch
old Virginia school of politics, would have to
say to this unconstitutional interference of the
Legislature of one State with the affairs, of an
other. We use the word " unconstitutional"
unhesitatingly, for though ouch action may vio
late no letter of our great National Chartervno
thing can be more flagrantly opposed to iis
spirit.
The next Legislative action of New York,
to be consistent with the strange movement al
luded to, will be the appointment of a Commit
tee to report upon the "Domestic Institutions
of Virginia." Yet, unless the friends of true
American Republicanism begin at once to take
their ground strongly and determinately upon
the good old strong hold of "State Rights,"
this most audacious legislative interference
with the local concerns of our little neighbor of
Rhode Island will be the precursor of some
such desperate movement, and under the namo
of " Political sympathy," we shall have " Fed
eralism" revived in its worst and most despot
ic form " nous verrons," as the Union perhaps
will say. N. Y. Eve. Gaz.
flic New Postage Bill.
For the information of our readers, we give,
in a condensed form, the rates of postage upon
letters, newspapers, and jiamphlots, as regula
ted by the new bill, by the last Congress, which
goes into operation on the Ural day of July
next :
ON LETTERS
Single letters or any number of pieces
not exceeding half an ounce, !)00
miles or less, - 5 ccnis
If over 300 miles, 10
Drop letters (not mailed) 2
For each additional half ounce or part
thereof, add single postage thereto.
ON NEWSPAPERS.
Newspapers of 1,900 square inches or
less sent by editors or publishers,
from their offices of publication, any
distance nut exceeding 30 miles, Free
Over 30 miles and not exceeding 100, 1
Over 100 miles and out of ihe Slate, 1 1-2
All sizes over 1900 square inches, pos
tage same as pamphlets.
ON PAMPHLETS, ETC.
Pamphlets, magazines, and periodi
cals; any distance for one ounce or
less, each copy, 2
Each additional ounce or fractional
part thereof,
"on circulars.
Quarter post, single cap, or paper not
larger than single cap, folded, direc
ted, and unsealed, for every sheet,
any distance,
11-2
The following are ihe diotances traveled in
going to Oregon : Miles.
From Independence lo Fori Larimie, 750
" Fort Larimie " Hall, 550
Hall " Wallawalla 450
" " Wallawalla Vancouver, 250
Grave Truth Fitly Spoken.
The Charleston Mercury, the leading organ
of Calhouniam, in commenting on the transfor
mation of " The Globe" into " The Union,"
holds the following language :
"Mr. Blair has been undoubtedly one of the
ablest editors in the couniry, and attached sin
cerely, we doubt not, to principles but at the
same time, in his way of writing, coarse even
scurrilous devoted to party, proscriptive, blind
to the faults of favorites, hating the very vir
tuos of enemies. With him parly was first.
middle and last and fidelity to it as an asso
ciation of men, not an embodiment of faith, con
stituted his beau ideal of orthodoxy. Hence,
when Slate sovereignly came in conflict with
Jackson, it was treason ; when it came to sup
port Benton, it was the essence of pure Democ
racy. But let this pass. The tendency of the
Globe has been lo make ihe interests of party
usurp the place of its principles and a very ob
vious result has been to convert all ihe offices
and expenditures of the government into a grand
party treasury, out of which an army of dema
gogues is to be fed. Such an army exists on
both sides ; a vast multitude who create nearly
all ihe disgraceful turmoil of our elections, and
whose sole interest in politics is notoriously the
hope of office; who demand proscription when
they are out, and denounce it uhen ihey are
in; who scruple not in the face of day to trans
fer their violence and noise from one party to
the other, and by their shameless pretensions
to principles bring every good cause into con
tempt, and lead too many to conclude that all
party contests are only a disguised struggle be
tween demagogues, for the gains of office.
Who does not see that this is becoming more
and more the case, and that our elections are
assuming the character of a strife of mercena
ries for pay! We will not stop to argue that
the Government of the country is thus corrupt
ed, and the public liberty endangered ; this is
manifest.
me auatrs u. uie uovernmeru win come o
ri. 'c .t. . . . -it .i
oe uisinouicu among men wno navo no a nor
honor whose life is a glaring and shameless
lie who have already sold themselves for gain,
and to whom the worst peculation would scarce
ly be loss of character. The education of a
street politician is truly a notable preparation
for the business of an accountant. And this
incompetency has led and will continue to lead,
to the multiplication of offices. Thus, because
the country is first wronged, by putting idle and
ignorant men in office, it must be further bur
dened by an increased expense, as a remedy.
Thus, to make "party services" the qualifica
tion for place, is to insure that we pay an enor
mous price for a very bad article.
In every aspect, it is a corruption and a dan
gerous rule. Looking at it merely in this light,
that it is trying men by a false standard and
the mischievous absurdity of it is apparent. To
examine candidates for the degree of M. D. in
civil engineering, or Midshipmen in Agricultu
ral chemistry, would not be thought very wise
but this is worse, for it is testing the fitness
of candidates by their proficiency in an essen
tially immortal art that of influencing.elections
by stirring up the bad passions of men. To
make prostitution of ihe passport to fashionable
society, would scarcely be more fatal to the
virtue of women, than to make coarse and noisy
demagogueism ihe qualification for office, would
be to the purity of the Government. We have
not yet done with this subject."
All this, (says the Richmond Whig) is ex
cellent Whig doctrine) such as we have been
preaching for years, in our feeble way. We
will do the Mercury the justice to say, that we
believe it has all ihe while entertained the
opinions here avowed. It and its parly con
tracted '.he tn during their connection with the
Whig party; and though they permitted them
to Ho in abeyance, as it were, during the last
few years, they have never ceased lo feel iheir
justice and their truth.
Cotton Manufacture at the South.
It is extremely gratifying to observe that this
branch of industry is being extensively intro
duced at the South. Al Columbus, Ga., seve
ral factories are about being erected, which
will contain from fifteen 10 twenty thousand
spindles.
Discovery of Ancient Treasure.
The Macon (Geo.) Messenger gives an ac
count of ihe discovery of hidden treasure 10 the
amount of forty-five thousand Spanish dollars in
Tainal county, in that Stale. The discoverer,
on blowing up the root of a large tree, discov
ered three dollars, and on digging deeper suc
ceeded in exhuming the above large amount.
The money was found on the land of Mrs.
Gray, a widow in needy circumstances
U. S. Troops There are now concentrated
al Fori Jeeup, 23 companies at ihe least 7 of
Dragoons, and ihe real of Infanirv,
Title to Oregon.
England lays claim lo a part of the Oregon
Territory predicated upon ihe alleged discovery
of the country by Sir Francis Drake, in 1579,
and upon the cession by Spain in 1790 to Eng
land, concurrent jurisdiction with herself over
the territory, to be made available only by oc
cupation and settlement. The Albany Argus
gives the following summary of the American
title :
1. Discovery of the mouth of the Columbia
river by Captain Gray, of Boston, giving the
name of his vessel to the river.
2d. The discovery of the head of the same
river by Lewis and Clarke, under the authori
ty of the United Stales.
3. The settlement of Astoria, under the aus
pices of Mr. Astor, an American naturalized
citizen.
1. The treaty in 1803 with the French Re
public. 5. The treaty of Spain of 1819, acquiring
all rights of Spain to land north 42 degrees be
yond tho Rocky Mountains.
6. The Nootka Sound contest (1798) between
England and Spain.
7. The treaty of Utrecht, (17G3) between
France and England, settling boundaries ihi
seiuemeui necommg uuis, as me nutucaaui ui
France in thai part of her dominions.
8. The treaty of Ghent (IS! 5) restoring As
toria to the United States as American properly.
9. American citizens were once in sole pos
session of the Columbia river region.
The same paper remarks, that "this question
is evidently surrounded with complicated diffi
culties and embarrassments, growing too, in no
small degree, out of the "joint occupancy" by
ihe United States and Great Hritatn.
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Trouble again ainonig the Mormons.
It appears that there is to be no end to the
bad siaie of things in Hancock county, Illinois.
The Mormon and anti-Mormon parlies contin
ue as hostile to each other as ever, and outra
f onQ kim anJ ano,her says ,he Slate j
D - . .
Register, are perpetrated daily.
"The anti-Mormons refuse to be taken to
Nauvoo for irial, for fear of personal violence;
and the Mormons refuse to beraken out of Nau
voo, by any kind of process, for fear of assas
sination. Such a state of things is lamentable,
indeed, and cannot last long. Wo constantly
look for the commencement of a system of at
tacks and reprisals, which will lead lo the ex
pulsion or extermination of one parly or the
other. If it once commences, there is no tel
ling where it will end. That unhappy country
will be delivered over to anarchy; and all men,
of every parly, will live in continual fears for
murders and assassinations."
Uniforms for Volunteer Companies.
It will be of interest for persons throughout
the country who are about forming Volunteer
Companies, or for Companies, desirous of chan
ging their uniform to the dress of the Army, to
know that the head of the Clothing Bureau of
the Army, with a view of encouraging such,
will furnish uniforms lo them at ihe original cost
10 ihe Government. The 'Citizen Soldier, says
there are several companies in Philadelphia,
that have been uniformed in this manner, at
less than $10 a man complete: and the dress
looks quite as well, and is equally as substan
tial, as that which would cost three times tho
amount.
German Emigration to the IT. States.
A primed German circular shows that the
number of individuals who, on the average of
the last few years, annually migrate from Ger
many (chiefly lo the United States) is about
30,000, and that they carry with them at the
least, a capital of five millions of Prussian dol
lars, or three millions and one-third U. States
currency. It further shows that the emigrants
from Bavaria alone, for ihe five years from 1834
10 1S39, amounted to 24,500, with a capital of
seven millions of florins, or three millions of
dollars in the currency of the United Slates.
Germans are admitted to he among the best of
emigrants, rendered so by ihejr patient, sober,
steady, and economical habits.
A negro boy, about 17 years of age, fell
headlong from tho roof of a house in Richmond,
Va., on ihe Gth iiist. As he fortunately struck
on his htad, says ihe Siar, he escaped without
injury.
Hot Drops. The Mormons are likely to
excite much indignation by such paragraphs as
the following, which appeared in a late number
of the Nauvoo Neighbor.
" May God, who never errs, sprinkle upon
every man and city, that belies the saints, (Mor
mons.) as upon Pittsburg, now and then, a hot
drop
In New Oilcans upwards of $10,000 have
been collected and forwarded to the sufferers
by the ate fire qt Pittsburg.
CAMDEN RACE COURSE.
Fashion Victorious!
We learn, by the Philadelphia papers, ifo,
another race between Fashion and Prying
came off yesterday, on ihe Camden Race
Course. It is estimate3 that ahmit 25,000 per
sons were ir attendance. The fullowin js
the result :
First Heat.
The horses started evenly and tognthpr, Prv
lona having the inside track At the end f
about half a mile, Fashion shni ahead about a
length and a half, which advantage ahe man.,
tained throughout the heat Peytom mikiii
several struggles, but in vain. Tune, 7 minutes
48 seconds,
Secoxd Heat.
The horses again siarted evenly, and kept
closely together, neck and neck, for nearly tlirPe
miles but Peytona was a neck in advance at
the end of the second mile. By ihe end of the
third mile, however, they were once more even;
and soon after, Fashion shot ahead for about ;i
length, and at the close of the race came in,
beating her opponent without much apparent
effort, by several lengths. Time, 7 minutes 57
seconds.
Genuine Respect.
Mrs. Gen. Hamilton, being just now in Alba
ny, was invited to a seat within the bir of ihe
Assembly chamber on Monday. When th
committee conducted her in, ihe whole I luu-x-
rose, one was conuucieu up me middle aisle,
when Mr. Lee, stepping a few paces in advance
of her, said, " Mr. Speaker, I present 10 tin
House the widow of General Alexander Ham
ilton, the daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler "
The lady then took her seat on the right of the
Speaker, and having listened some nunutes tt
the proceedings, rose, bowed lo the Speaker,
and took her leave, the House honoring tier de
parture by standing until the doors had closed
upon her retreating from.
Children. A lad by the name of Little ran
off with a girl of fifteen from Cincinnati, and
they were married at Pittsburg. They hava,
years enough before them for repentance.
A foot race is to come off over the Beacon
Course, Hoboken, on or about the 15th of next
month, for a wager of $1500 to $2000, and n
is said there will be great compeii ion.
Five dollar notes purporting to be on the
Bank of Smyrna, Delaware, altered from the
Tenth Ward Bank, N Y., have been detected:
in Philadelphia.
Passengers come through from Montreal to
New York in 34 hours. Fare $4 50.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE
By virtue of an order of ihe Orphans' Court
of the County of Monroe, ihe following Real
Estate, formerly of Joseph Lee, late of Stroud
township, in said county, deceased, will be sold
at public venduce. on the premises, on
Saturday ihe Zlst day of June, 1S45,
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a certain mes
suage or tenement and two tracts or pieces of
Land, situate in Stroud township, about four
miles from Siroudsburg, on the main road from
Stroudsburg to Paradise.
No 1. A lot of
THREE ACRES,
on which is a
FRAME HOUSE,
one and a half stories high; a young;
APPLE ORCHARD
and other Fruit trees; all cleared or improved
A small stream of water passes through i'
Adjoining lands of John Lee, David Lee, ami
William Smiley.
No. 2. Containing
SIXTEEN ACRES,
about four acres improved, the remainder
WOODLAND,
adjoining lands of John Lee, William D. Wl
ion, John yanvliet, and others: a small stream
of water passes through the same.
The terms" and condiiions will be made known
at the time and pluce of sale, by John l'EE
Administrator. " By the Court.,
J. H.STROUD, Clerk.
Siroudsburg, May 29, 1S45. 4t.
V. M. SWAYZE,
DENTIST,
From East on, Pcnnsylvaniai
Is now at the Stroudsburg House, in this plnce.
where he is prepared to perform all operation5
on the' Teeth;
TESTIMONIAL.
Mr. V. M.'Swayze is a qualified, careful and
skilful operator.
F. L. CRANE, TJ, S.f Eawn
Stroudsburg, May 22, 1845,
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