JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, June 5, 1845. Terms ,$?,00:n advance: $2.23, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid befbioUie end of the year. 05s" V. B. Palmer Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants1 Exchange, Phila., nd ISo. lfiO Nassau street, Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements lor the Jcjfcrsonian Republican and give receipts for the same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may e.Mend their business by availing themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which his agency affords. For Use Fourth of July. The Jubilee number of ihe Pictorial Double Brother Jonathan is out, and we have received a cop- from he New York publishers. Among ome fifty or sixty fine largo National engra vings which embellish its columns, Washing ton's reception at Trenton stands iho moat prominent. This great piciute occupies half of one of the mammoth pages, and is a magnifi cent specimen of the art of wood engraving. The contents of the paper consist principally of historical incidents, anecdotes, songs, glees and romances of the revolutionary war, and of the last war, notices -of remarkable revolutiona ry characters, &c. It also contains a very beautifully illustrated Declaration of Indepen dence. All for 12 1-2 cents. The Annexation Question. The subject of annexation is daily assuming a more important and interesting aspect. For some time past, we were led to regard it as good as settled. We were informed that the people and government of Texas entertained but one view of the subject, and that was to open wide their arms to embrace our offer. La ter news, however, seems to throw some doubt over this opinion, and shroud the whole affair in mysiery. The U. S Brig Somers, has arrived at Pen eacola, from Vera Cruz, wiih news up to the 10ih of May. When the Somers left Vera Cruz, news had reached that city, that a Trea ty of Peace had been negotiated between the Ministers of ihat government and Texas, and confirmed by the Mexican Congress, by which Mexico acknowledges the independence of Texas, upon condition that she rejects annexa tion with the United States or any other coun try. The treatyis to be submitted to ths Con gress of Texas, and if approved of by that body, will put an end to annexation. The Texan Congress will meet on the 16th inst., when the propositions of Mexico and the United Stales will be submitted io it for appro val or rejection. It is now positively asserted that President Jones is opposed to annexation, and will use all the influence of his office and station, to prevent it. If this is so, the scheme may be defeated after all. Still we are not sanguine that such will be the result. A short lime will tell the story. Dr. Gardner's Lectures. We have received the 2d number of Dr. Di onysius Lardner's Lectures upon " Science and Art," from Messrs. Greely & McElrath, "New York. It contains six able and interesting Lectures upon the various topics of which the Dr. treats. These lectures are universally ad mitted to be one of the very best publications of the day, and are furnished at the low price of 25 cents a number. Editorial Change We observe a notice in the last number of the Monroe Democrat," by which it appears that Mr. Rafferiy has disposed of that paper and 3sablihmem to Barnard S. Schoonover, Esq., a young Attorney at Law, of Stroudsburg, by whom it will hereafter be conducted. Although a great loco foco, Mr. S. is a very clever fellow, and highly esteemed by those who know him. "We wish him all success in a pecuniary point. The Teeth. Dr. V. M. Swayze, Dentist, we are request d to say, will remain at the Stroudsburg House, until ihc first of next week. Persons wishing any operations performed in his line, would do wll io give him a call, as he is a careful and tk:l!ful Dentist. The magazines. We have already received the Columbian Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book, for June. They are both splendidly embelliahed, and rilled wiih excellent reading matter. The May No. of the Lady's Book, has not yet reached un. Friend Godey will confer a favor by for warding it. The Camden Race. We noticed in a postscript of last week's pa-. per, that Fashion and Peytona had ran over the Camden Race Course, and that Fashion came off the victor. We did not then mention the amount for which they ran; and as some differ ences of opinion exist about it, we will state that it was for a purse of SI 000. There was some lalk previous lo the race, about a match for 50 or 60 ihousand dollars, but the bet was not made. The owners of the two mares thon entered them io run for the Jockey Club Purse of SI 000, and Fashion came off victor with great ease. The New Bishop. We are glad to state that it is authoritatively announced, in the Albany papers, that Dr. Alonzo Potter, has accepted the office of Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania. A strong effort was made by the faculty and students of Union College, and influential citizens, to re tain him at Schenectady, but he considers du ly paramount to pleasure, and accepts the ar duous office. May he be particularly fortunate in uniting the church, over which he is called to preside, and advancing its best interests. Robbery. The Young Mens' Missionary Society, of Bethlehem, Pa., was robbed on Friday night last, of medals, silver coins, &c, to the value of about thirty-five dollars. Murder Trial. The trial of Abner Parke, for Murder, was commenced, at Belvidere, yesterday. He is defended by A. E. Brown, of Easton, A. Wurts, of Flemington, and W. F. Clemson, of Belvi dere. Messrs. Morns and Halsted aro em ploye'd for the State. New Counterfeits. Bank of Northumberland, Northumber land, Pa. 5's. Vignette, female with a child, reapers, &c On right end female wiih book. Left end statue of Washington, in a sitting posture. 10's. Vignette, Declaration of Independence. Right end Pat. Lyon at his forge. On left end sailor holding the American flag. 20's. Vignette. Pat. Lyon at his forge, railroad cars in the distance. On right end cattle; on left train of cars. All engraved by Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Huffy, Philadelphia, and Danforth, Under wood & Co., New York. BickneWs Reporter, June 3d. Providential Dispensations. A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, thus hits off that miserable raven Amos Ken dall. He omits however one of the most aw. ful portents to afright the times viz: ihe acces sion to power and authority of such men as Amos Kendall : " Scarcely had this great Union indicated its choice of Chief Magistrate by popular vote, ere two noble packet ships, beating the names of our own and mother country, commit them selves to the waters never more to return. Hearts sink with painful grief at the recollec tion of the fate of the "United States" and "England." The new administration had but just commenced its labours, when the fires of unexampled fierceness desolate our cities and villages. Pittsburg mourns her ruined citizens left without a home or the means of sustenance, and Milwaukie commingles her proud edifices with the dust. To the staid people of Phila delphia the sun sets with a glow of blood, seen through the smoke of fires that sweep down the sides of the Alleghanies. The all- consuming elements devour the products of New Jersey's industry, spreading a pall of fu neral gloom over our great commercial empo rium. Every where the work of final oblivion seems commenced. The sea swallows up our vessels, and our Insurance companies close their operations in insolvency. To complete all. as the result of the success of wickedness and corruption, the clouds of civil and foreign war darken the horizon, and Mars drags out his great gifns for slaughter. These verges are taken from the Bunk of AMOS. Protection from Drowning. A bill has been reported to the New York Legislature, re quiring all steamboats and water craft carrying passengers to have on board as many life-pro- servers as they are capable of carrying passen gers Penally for not carrying life-preservers, from one to ten thousand dollars in case of loss of life, or imprisonment from one to two years in the Penitentiary. A Fat Fee. We understand that Thaddeus Stevens, Esq., at the Bar of Lancaster county Court, lately in an important case, received a very delicate compliment to his abilities, in the shape of a $5,000 fee. Brighten up, younr 'uns, so that you may go it when you're older. New Tax JLaiv. The last Legislature passed a bill, which es caped our notice (ill this time, imposing taxes as follows : On every law incorporating a bank of less than $200,000 capital, $200 tax. Of less than $400,000, $400 tax. Of less than $600,000, $500 tax. Of less than $1,000,000, $800 tax. Of over $1,000,000, $1000 tax. For incorporating a coal, iron, or manufac turing company $200. For incorporating a canal, rail-road or insur ance company (excepting mutual) $100 tax. For erecting a new county $250. For chartering or renewing savings bank or bank of deposit, $100. For every law granting or renewing corpor ate powers ihat may be granted by Courts, $50. For a divorce bill oh application of a husband, $20. For" law relating to private estates wherein Courts have power, $25; on every law incor porating or renewing a private company (inclu ding mutual insurance) other than before taxed, $10. For changing name of a person or corpora tion, $10; every other act whore Courts have power to grant relief, $10. Sec. 2. No theatrical, circus, or menagerie exhibition shall be allowed in the State without a license, which the respective county Treas urers may give on payment of the following sums : For every theatre or circus in Philadelphia $200; in Alleghany $100, in any other county $50, tax; for every menagerie $40. One such license to answer for a year in any part of the State; but not to free them from existing tax es. Fine for showing without license, from $100 to $1000, each, for every offence. Sec. 3. Certain other tax laws not repealed. Sec. 4. Stato stock hereafter issued to be taxed a half mill on each dollar par value, bring ing 1 per cent interest, to be deducted by the Slate Treasurer at the lime of paying the inter est, provided the interest is paid in full. Sec. 5 9. u Appraisers of mercantile tax es" to be appointed by the courts of Philadel phia and Alleghany, and their duties, &c. de scribed. Sec. 10. The County Auditors shall hereaf ter at their meetings, audit the accounts of the Treasurers, examine ihe records, &c. of the Sheriff, Prothonotaries, Registers and Recor ders of the county, compel a payment of all dues to the Commonwealth from such officers. Such examinations to be made at the next Au ditors' meeting, and extend back to the year 1841. Sec. 11. In prosecutions under foregoing sections, Treasurers may employ counsel at ex pense not over 3 per cent, on sums recovered, and paid thereoul. Sec. 12 and onwards provides for the con viction and punishment of existing or ensuing Defaulters whether in State or County officers, and if carried out fully will make Public Rob bers release their plunder sureties more cau tious and the State Treasury as well as cer tain county treasuries much belter filled. This Act was approved, 16th April, 1845, and must materially increase the State's rev enue. Great Land Sales. The President has just issued his proclama tion for ihe sale of more than five millions of the public lauds. In Wisconsin territory 375, 000 acres, lying on and between Fox and Wolf rivers, are to be disposed of; in Iowa there are to be two different sales in October and Sep tember ; in Missouri upwards of a million of acres will bo offered for salo, embracing tracls in the north, northwest, west, and souihwest parts of the Stato; and in Illinois, about 90,000 acres of rich bottom lands will be brought, into the market, embracing several tracts on ihe Mississippi and islands of that river. In Ar kansas, there will also be brought into tho mar ket about 1,000,000 acres, embracing 9 town ships in the new district of Champagnole. In Louisiana, about 153,000, and in Florida, up wards of 600,000 acres of fine sugar and col ton land will be offered for sale. How often do Climates Change. We believe it was Dr. Sherwood who a few years ago broached the theory thai climates change every 66(5 years He also announced, if we are not mistaken, that our climate, in con formity to his system, would become milder, whiUt that of Europe would become colder, du ring the present and succeeding centuries. Ob servations on temperature in this country and Europe confirm this theory, and go far to con vince many persons ihat it is well founded. The public would no doubrbe pleased io know more of Dr. Sherwood's theory. Agriculture ihe nursing mother of ilie Arts. Xenophcn " ' v' From the Semi- Weekly Tribune the 3 1a. Very late and Jinporlaur from Mexico. We published yesterday morning exclusively the news of the arrival of the Relampagos ai New-Orleans wi h advices from Mexico to tho 8ih inst., (ihe Picayune received yesterday morning says to ihe 10th) We take the fol lowing extracts from the Picayune of May 21: The Mexican schr. Relampagos, Cap'.Tald uondo, arrived here -.esieiday from Vera Ctuz, which place she left on ihe 10ih infant. She is said to hae been chartered by the Mexican Government fur the purpose of bringing des patches to her Cont.ul at ihis city. A Mr. Frederick Johnson came passenger in the Re lampagos, and is, thought io be the bearer of despatches from the British Minister in Mexi co either to the U. S- Government or tho Eng lish Minisier at Washington. Owing io these fads, and a certain mystery in the mo omenta of this vessel, her biingtng over but a single package of pnpr rs. and no let ters for the Post Office, a rumor obtained gener al currency in ihis City, shortly after her ai ri val, ihut Mexico had actually declared war against ihe United States. It is understood ihat the authority asked of Congress by the Mexican Executive, to treat wiih Texas in the spirit of Senor Cuevas's communication, which we published yesterday in full, has been granted, and there appears to be no doubt tlial the recognition of the inde pendence of Texas is a settled matter, upon condition that she declines to be annexed lo the United States. Reports state thai Santa Anna has been, or is to be, liberated. Rumors of revolutions in various portions of the Mexican Empire are rife. One of these implicate California in an insurrectionary move ment. Wo have been permitted to publish an ex tract from a letter written at Vera Cruz, on the 8ih day of May, which, were it noi for the re spectable source from which it comes, one would pay little heed to indeed. The letter is from an individual whose word might challenge the belief of every man in the country, not to say of the Government itself: " Elliott and the Texan Commissioners are about leaving this Vera Cruz in an English frigate for Galvesion, wiih the treaty acknowl edging the independence of Texas; bui they little dream of iheir reception at Galveston. These people the Mexican think that the ac knowledgment of Texan independence will pre vent Annexation, and thereby they will get clear of declaring war, as they had threatened. They swear, however, that if Texas prefers Annex ation to acknowledgment, they will declare war. What will astonish iho American people in ihis extract, is ihe intelligence that Elliott is in Vera Cruz, and that ihe President of Texas has secretly sent Commissioners to Mexico un der the patronage of England, lo ireat for re cognition upon ihe bases alluded to in Sennor Cuevas's letter io Congress. One of the British vessels, (the Eurydice,) composing the armed express kept upbetween Galveston and Vera Cruz was at Sacrificios an anchorage adjacent to Vera Cruz ready to translate Minister, Commissioners and Treaty to Galveston. Besides the American squadron and the Eu rydice, the two French vessels heretofore men tioned as being ai Vera Cruz'were yet in the harbor or in the offing. Both of the war'steam ers, three brigs of war, and several smaller armed vessels belonging to Mexico, were in port. From the Pittsburg Spirit of the Age. Another Great Fire. Sixty or Seventy Houses destroyed ! Loss from $30,000 to $40,000 At least 700 people houseless ! We regret to be compelled to state that a large part of the densely peopled Easi Ward of our city, about two and a half squares North of our former burnt district, has been laid in ashes. The city of Pittsburg has another calamity to mouin over, not in the loss of properly for that has been comparatively small but the suf fering of hundred of iho industrious poor, who are thus, many of ihom for the second time within a few weeks, rendered housele-s. At about half past eight o'clock last evening (Tuesday, May 27th.) a fire broke out in the stable of Mr. Samuel Young, one of ihe most intelligent and industrious young drayman,, on Seventh street, which in less than three hours, so rapid was the progress of the flames, do stroyed, as near as we could judge, from sixty to seventy frame dwellings, and one brick house. These houses were most densely filled bv our industrious hard working laboring men who are least able lo bear the loss ; draymen, carters, laborers and mechanics, many of whom soughi a shelter in this section of the city. tuTion lriVfn frnm thp Smith warA -...l .1 ",u U,,!J "tat )(ir. tion of the West which was destroyed by ,,e ever memorable fire of the J0:h ultimo, are again driven forth, many to seek assistance from friends or the benevolence of iho pu,, who have,so nobly sustained us under tho a3t nffliciing dispensation of Divine Providence There appears to be but Utile doubt that iha fire was communicated designedly. From the number of families living in a sn. gie house, in some parts of ihe district, We hare no doubt that at least seven hundred persons have been rendered houseless. The suffering will be great, although the aggregate lo3 W,J bo but small and we do hope those who Inn a, week ago magnified a loss of $80,000 tn half;i million, will send abroad a less exagerated ac count of this fire. Lockjaw Cubed by Electricity It ap. pears that a remedy for this horndlo diie,,, has at last been discovered. The New Yutk Journal of Commerce records a cure by the ap. plication of electricity. The patient was a young woman, in whom the disease had been closed five days. The electro-galvanic app. tus was applied to both angles of the jaw, an,! had not made forty revolutions before the com plaint was entirely removed. T7 . ... -. TV .! . I i at. iiuii i hiiuw wnom iftij belongs to, but we find it in the Brandon I);, seminator : When you see a man trying to mrrul a pn wiih a hue, you are at liberty to conclude el hrr ihat the hoe is very sharp, or the man u ierv dull. JEpTHE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD is now before ihn puhiu-; wh't wi'l not seek it? Sherman's Lzengc may welt be classed the eighth wonder of thu wr d. Be fore he introduced ihem, it took weeks to ct:ra a common cold or cough ; whooping-c uoh an I asthma were suffered to run their own cuursr, and consumption considered incurable; head aches were left to lime, as alone capable nfa.- fording relief, and beariburn a perpetual inr- hire to its victims. Now, bv using the-se Ln- zenges, which have the best medicines com bined and concentrated in them, vou are circe- ly sick before you are restored to health. They lay hold of disease at the foundation, and thor oughly oradicate, and are withal as pleasant at . T rn I a common Dcnpermini .uozense. i nev are si 4 - agreeable to (he palate that children who once laste them desire more, which has given na to the saying that " children cry for them." Dr. Sherman knows nothing about animal mag netism, but he certainly knows how to cure coughs, colds, headaches, and all our common ills as Sam Slick would say, in a little les than no time. A fresh supply of the above valuable medicines just received, and for sale at the Republican 0'- fice. ITXAKIIIED, In Easton, on Thursday lasi, by ihe Re. Mr Bomberger, Mr. Thaddeus Schoch, anl Miss Hester Messixger, both of Easton. DIED, On seventh day morning, the 31st tilt., ati!i residence of his father, in Edgmont, Delawam county, Arthur Hovcell, eldest son of Israel Howell. On Sunday last, the 1st inst.. at ParrwiJe. Carbon county, Pa., Elisabeth, wife of Ph'I? j Dutot, in the 32d year of her age. On Wednesday last, the 4th inst., at the res idence of her father, in Siroud township, Mnn rno rnnnH? C.nihnrine flniioVltpr n f Solomon ari Mary Heller, in tho 28ih year of her age. OEPHANS' COURT SALE By virtue of an order of the Orphans' of the County of Monroe, the following Reat Estate, formerly of Joseph Leo, late of Sink- lowusnip, in sam couniy, ueceasuu, wm uw at public venduce, on the premises, on L- ' -J J 1 ... Ul Saturday the 2st day of -June, 1S45, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a certain me- suage or tenement and two tracts or pieces ci jjana, situate in otroua lownsnip, aui -miles from Siroudsburg, on the main road.frpi'J 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 imrn: A small stream of w.aler passes through 1 Adjoining lands, of John Lee, David Let-, Btu William Smijey. No. 2, Containing SIXTEEN ACRES, about four acres improved, the remand . WaODLAIVD, adioinfnc lands of John Lee. William D. W von, John YtfnvMet, and others: a small ,"e3ia of waler nasses through the same. Thejerms and conditions will be made knna at the time and place.of sale, by John 'M Administrator By the Lourt. J. H. STROUD, Clerk. Siroudaburgj May 29, 184k.--.-4u Itiiift
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