of him, whom his father, in betier days, had
aaved from ruin.
Here we would drop the curtain, but we can
not forbear a single glance more.
Florence is alone no longer.- TTe has almost
forgotten the gloom of the past in the joyful
ness of the present. A year has past, and it
finds him in possession of a flourishing farm.
The woods are cleared away; the fencc.s sur
round fields of waving grain, a cottage, neatly
built, smiles from the midst of the little grove,
just back of the high road and shall we look
rn ? The village clergyman, as he joins the
hond of Ellen Lee and Edward Florence, in
vokes the choicest blessings ol heaven upon
them, and repeats the frequently spoken words
of the old farmer, " Remember that a good
action never goes unrewarded."
"It is the poor those least able to bear pub
lic burdens who consume the greatest quanti
ty of articles of the first necessity, there being
for them no other substitute : how exceeding
cruel, then, the enormous duties upon articles
f indispensable use all over the world."
The above is a paragraph from the (United
States Journal, and is part of an attack upon a
protective tariff. We copy it, in order to illus
trate its tnnh. We, a few days since, heard
some families in New England complaining bit
terly of their inability to "get help" meaning
domestic servants. We inquired the cause.
"The girls are all drawn away to the fac
tories." " But why do you not detain them 1"
" We cannot afford to pay as much as they
can earn at the factories ; besides, they have
hours of leisure, rest, and improvement there.
And it is stated in the report of the Saving Bank
of Lowell, that the amount of money deposited
by female operatives in that institution, is equal
to twelve hundred and fifty dollars for every
factory girl in that city; and that is not all, fac
tory girls rank with other independent people.
They are not considered servants."
Ah, thought we, how cruel it is to afflict the
poor, and make them bear such burthens. And
what is an additional grievance, these very fe
males note clothe themselves at half the price
tbe.y could effect that important part of econo
my, before they multiplied the fabrics -of the
country, and thus reduced the. price. How ex
ceedingly cruel !
We stopped a few moments on the narrow
side walk of Milk street, in Boston, unable to
move either way, excepting directly into a ve
ry muddy street, our course being hedged in by
a long truck (a dray) on each side, heavily la
den each with twenty-four bales of goods
" You get a job then, occasionally," said we to
the truckman.
" Hardly get time to eat," said he, "there is
such a continual movement of goods."
" Well, these would be good times for you,
if you could live as cheap as your fathers did,
when goods could be imported nearly free of
duties."
" We pay now one dollar a week less for
board than was paid twenty years ago, and
clothing does not cost half as much, while the
manufacturing of goods in this neighborhood
gives us twice the employment that was had in
other times."
A truckman now may not earn much more
than he did thirty years ago, but he can save
twice as much.
Oh, the poor ! " How exceedingly cruel!"
We looked around that busy hive. The ma
son was plying his trowel, and the painter his
brush: the carpenter shoved his foreplane, and
he shoemaker drew his thread with constant
industry, and the inspiring knowledge that his
services were in demand. Did they suffer from
enormous duties' on 'sugar' or clothing? Their
white cottages in Chelsea, Dorchester, Roxbu
ry, Charlestown, and Cambridge, look very lit
tle like suffering. Poor men, what cruel times!
U. S. Gazette.
Two boys going home one day, found a box
in the" road, and disputed who was the finder.
They fought a whole afternoon without coming
u a decision. At last they agreed to divide
ihe contents equally; but on opening the box, lo
and behold ! it was empty. Few wars have
been more profitable than this to the parties
concerned.
A Horned Snake. The Macon, Alabama,
Rptiblican, stateB that a horned snake was re
cently killed on the plantation of Mr. W. W.
Moore, about 15 miles from Tuskegee. It is
described as being between six and seven feet
long, colored much like the rattle snake, hav
ing at the end of the tail a horny spur, capable
of being opened, from which protruded a sharp
iuxtrument supposed to be a sting. This ser
pent is bejieved to be identical with what is
Homeitmes called the hoop snake, from the fact
that it occasionally assumes the form of a hoop,
anJ propels itself forward in that shape.
JEFFERS ONI AN REPUBLICAN
Thursday July 10, 1815.
Terms, $2,00 in advance: $2.25, naff yearly; and $2,50 if not
paid befoic the end of the vcar.
V. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate
and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third,
two squares S. the Merchants1 Exchange, Phila.,
and No. 100 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,)
N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and
advertisements for the Jeffersonian Republican,
and give 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
Ids agency affords.
Texas is Annexed.
The advocates of annexation have triumphed,
and Texas, to all intents and purposes, now
forms a part of the United States. The Con
gress of that country, on the 19th of June,
unanimously adopted theannexation resolutions
passed by our Congress, at the last session
there not being a dissenting voice in either
I louse. The news was brought to Washing-'
ton by Cap!. Stockton of the steamer Prince
ton, in nine days from Galveston. The Prince
ton also brings intelligence that the Treaty by
which Mexico stipulated to acknowledge the
independence of Texas, upon condition that
she would not unite with any other nation, was
rejected unanimously by the Senate.
A resolution was also introduced into both
Houses requiring the President of that Repub
lic to surrender to the authorities of the United
States, all the navy yards, fortifications, bar
racks, &c. of Texas. Under this state of things
it is impossible to say what course will be pur
sued by the Mexican government. It is true
that government has pledged itself to declare
war against us in the event of annexation, but
whether she will now consider herself able to
cope with us, or be desirous of doing it, re
mains to be seen.
Awful Conflagration.
Quebec has been visited with another fear
ful conflagration."" On Saturday the 2Sih of
June, a fire broke out, which in the course of
fifteen hours destroyed about 1300 houses, and
rendered over 6000 persons homeless. Thirty
streets were consumed. Our readers will re
member that on the 2Sth of May, a similar fire
occurred in the same city. More than two
thirds of Quebec is now in ruins, and the suf
fering of the people is beyond description.
The Fourth of July.
The sixty-ninth anniversary of our freedom
was very generally observed throughout the
country on Friday last. In the large cities they
had almost every kind of celebration political,
military, civil, temperance, &c. &c. In Eas
ton, we are informed, they had a large and en
thusiastic military and temperance celebration,
which was participated in by several thousand
persons. In Stroudsburg the day passed off as
heavy as usual.
The August Election.
There is, at this time, a spirited political con
test going on in each of the following named
States, which will hold their elections in the
beginning of August, viz: Indiana, Kentucky,
North Carolina and Tennessee. The Whigs
have placed some of their very best men in
nomination, and are making a noble effort to
elect them. Success attend them.
Liberation of Dorr.
We noticed in our last, that the Law and Or
der Legislature of Rhode Island had passed an
Amnesty Bill, by which Thomas W. Dorr, was
liberated from confinement in the State Prison.
A majority of the members thought that Dorr
had been imprisoned long enough to satisfy the
ends of justice, and that to detain him any lon
ger would only be affording political demagogues
an opportunity of further imposing upon the
people. They therefore liberated him, but re
fused to restore him to his former standing as
a citizen until he took and subscribed an Oaih
faithfully and truly to bearallegiance and .support
the Constitution. He has up to this time ne
glected to take the prescribed oath, and is there
fore regarded merely as a traitor at large.
Why, should he refuse to comply with the rear
sonable requisition of the Legislature ? There
can be but one assignable cause, and that is,
he is ready again to disturb the peace of Rhode
Island, should an opportunity of so doing pre
sent itself. We are glad, however, that he has
been released upon these terms. t will tend
to restore the peace of his State, without com
promising its dignity or honour.
IHT'Tho communication of our friend "C,-"
was received too late for insertion in this week's
paper. It will appear in our next.
Important from Washington Ru
mored Settlement of the Oregon
Boundary.
We have already had vague rumors that the
Administration contemplated a settlement of the
Oregon question on the basis we have always
insisted was the just one namely, the line of
49 North latitude but the following is the
first reliable announcement we have seen. It
is from a gentleman of high character, who is
not likely to be deceived :
Washington, 2d July, J45.
We have had a rumor for the last few days,
that the Oregon question has been settled the
49th degree being the compromise line. 1
have reason to believe it is true. H , told
me this morning he apprehended it was so.
Mr. Calhoun in his correspondence refused lo
entertain such a proposition.. Ho contended
for the 54th. Benton and many other promi
nent Loco-Focos will denounce the authors of
it.
With regard to Removals, they have become
so common, that they cease to create any heit
sation, except among those immediately inter
ested. One very likely to be well informed. Ed.
Tribune.
If this rumor shall prove true, we shall hear
tily approve and sustain the act of the Admin
istration, in settling this long-vexed question.
We believe the line of 49 is the just and prop
er line, and a better line for this country than
that of 54 40' would be. Yet if it be so set
tled, what must be thought of those uho last
year fished for and won Western votes in thou
sands by formally proclaiming our right to the,
whole of Oregon 4 clear and unquestionable V
Are they not indictable for obtaining votes un
der false pretences 1 What shall be said of the
declaration in Polk's Inaugural? N. Y. Trib.
The Union' turn over the Georgia Postmas
ter, lately caught in robbing the mail, to Mr.
Tyler. He was among the first men appoint
ed to office by Mr. Polk, to be sure; but, tfim
parte he was ono of John Tyler's proteges,
and the Union is determined to shake the re
sponsibility from the shoulders of our present
"excellent Chief Magistrate. He is an arrant
thief, and stole money from letters passing
through his own office, and was actually made
Postmaster by Young Hickory himself, and still I
the official editor will have it that Hickory is
in no way to blame for the appointment, inas
much as the criminal had previously been in
the hands of Tyler the Troublesome. There
is a question of ethics involved in this business
which is ono of some difficulty, and cannot, as
we see, be satisfactorily solved by any body
but a Virginia abstractionist---being strictly a
case of abstraction and it is advisable, there
fore, to let it take that direction. John-yTaylor,
of Caroline, is not at hand to handle it, but we
should suppose there might bo something found
in the " Resolutions of '98," that would have a
bearing upon the point. One thing must be
quite clear to all properly-regulated minds it
is gross ingratitude in the official mouth-piece
to treat Mr. Tyler in this cavalier style. This
President and his organ ought to remember
how much (hat man has done and suffered in
permitting Mr. Polk to be where he is N. Y.
Courier.
" That's Wormwood !" The Washington
" Union" keeps its columns still in mourning.
The "Journal" there has the following pungent
hit at the official editor:
External Grief. Having never declared that
the election of Gen. Jackson to the Presidency
would be the greatest curse which could befall
this country, we do not consider it indispensa
bly necessary to continue our paper in mourn
ing for a month after his decease.
In firing cannon at Woon&oeket Falls, on
Saturday evening, in glorification of Dorr's re
lease, a discharge took place from one of the
guns before the ramrod was withdrawn, by
which two men were seriously injured, one of
whom, a young man named Brigg, died on Sa
turday morning."
jLp Truly this unfortunate man died "as
the fool dieth." lie could have found no other
earthly means of throwing away his life so sil
lily. There is some consolation in the thought
that the victim of this sad accident is likely to
be the last man slain by the indomitable ex
Governor Tom Dorr.- Bel. Apollo.
Iron Furnaces. The Pittsburg Age says
that there are now in progress of erection in
and near the city, twenty-six furnaces, which
will turn off between seventy-five and one hun
dred tons of iron per day.
An editor somewhere in the west has be
come so hollpw from depending on the printing
business alone for bread, that lie proposes to
sell himself to some gentleman, to bu Uocd as
a sto'vepip'e.'
i in i ii Hmnrwwri' T"
Law off Marriage.
In the Court of Quarter Sessions of this
County, a few days since, in the matter of the
application of the Guardians of the Poor, for an
order on Samuel Nathans to give security for
the maintenance of his wife and two rhildren,
Judge Parsons delivered an opinion, by whuh
it was decided .that said Nathans was married,
according to the laws of Pennsylvania, to Mrs.
Nathans. There had been no ceremony per
formed, but the parties had lit ed together as
man and wife, and the defendant had treated
the complainant as a wife in the presence of
acquaintances. This opinion establishes that
in Pcnn'a marriage is a civil contract, and as
such may be proved by admissions and acts of
the parties, without the necessity of any par
ticular ceremony. Gertnanloicn Telegraph.
This decision is not a new one. The same
principle was established in I lie case of Hantz
vs. Scaly, G Bum. 405, and in the case of St7
ser vs. Bower, 1 P. IX. 452. Carbon County
Gazette.
An Ft2!i$oi'lauiL E,av JsusS lUiUerirfsu.
Mr. Webster and Mr. Chnaie pre-engaged in
an important law suit, about to be tried in Bos
ton, which involves the question whether a
transfer of property made by a millerite during
liis hallucination, can be deemed lgal. The
case is as follows, and is very interesting, be
cause there are many similarly conditioned. A
gentleman in one of the towns in Massachu
setts, a manufacturer, engaged in a large and
profitable business, became impressed with t lie
conviction that the world was about to come to
an end, according to the predictions of Miller.
For a time he conducted his business as before,
but soon began to see the folly and wickedness
of bestowing his time and attention upon world
ly affair.'', when the end of all things was so
near at hand. He wished to divest himself of
his properly, retaining only enough for his sup
port till the coming of the great day. His fam
ily and friends prevented him from throwing
away his estate, and at last out of deference,
as he said, to their feelings, he disposed of it,
much as he would have done by will, in case
of his death. To his oldest son he conveyed
all his property, binding him to pay to his oth
er children their proportionate shares, and la
king for himself one thousand dollars, to defray
his expenses for the short time the world had
then to endure. The gentleman commenced
preaching until the doctrine of Miller exploded,
and his zeal then abated and he found out his
delusion. Ho tried in vain to get into business.
Not being able to obtain money in this way,
he has commenced a suit against his son for
the recovery of the whole properly. His plea
is that at the time he made the sale, he was la
boring under a delusion, and was therefore not
in a sound state of mind. The case will excite
a good deal of interest. Able counsel are em
ployed on both sides.
A new Artifice to Cheat Uncle Sam.
The Spirit of the Times, in an article on the
postage law, says : As usual, however, the in
genuity of our countrymen will no doubt seek
some means of speculation, even upon the sys
tem of cheap postage. They will endeavor to
reduce still more, in a practical way, the pres
ent prices of postage, and thus have the way
for another reform that must ultimately follow
as irresistibly as the cause precedes the effect.
Indeed we arc told that something of the kind
has already been projected ; that very thin pa
per, thirteen sheets of" which will only weigh
half an ounce, will bo retailed by certain indi
viduals at one cent per sheet, and that they will
transport a letter written on such a sheet the
distance of three hundred miles for three cents
carrying out all their arrangements in conso
nance with the law. For twelve of these
sheets they will thus receive thirty-six cents
postage, and then enveloping the whole in an
envelope, send the package by mail to their
agent at an expense of five cents the remain
ing thirty-one cents remunerating them for their
trouble and expense, They will thus under
carry the United States Mail, violate no law,
and accommodate the economy-seeking public.
We confess thai we like not these equivocal
artifices. They are intended to take advantage
oftho law; and however legal in the abstract,
and however fair in the sense of business, they
are associated with the immoralities of trade.
Pennsylvania Iron
The Carbon County Gazetto, says a gentle
man who takeB considerable interest in the iron
trade of Pennsylvania, handed us the following
statistics, which were extracted . from official
documents, and may be relied upon as corrects,
"Amount of bar iron made in the Province
of Pennsylvania, according to the returns made
to the proprietary Government from Christmas
1794 to January. 5, 1750, a period of seven
years, was3t78 tons, 13 cwt. 3 qrs. and 11
pounds."
Destructive Fire and L.oss of LirT
The most distressing occurrence of the ,inj
we have ever known in thix county, took pi JCa
in Solebury township, on Friday last. Amos
Pearson, the owner of a farm, being engn
in getting in his hay, with the aid of his son
about 18 or 19 years of age, and a colored nun
commenced about 2 o'clock, P. SI. reinnvinaa
load of hay from the wagon into the mow.
It was in what is called a cellar barn; ad
just after they had got to work, a sheet of jarn
ru-.hed through the open door at the head of
the steps leading from the entry beneath t() tno
threshing floor, and in a few moments enve.
oped the whole interior of the building. ,jf
Pearson, as well as the colored man, escaped
from the barn Mr. P. being then severelv
burnt about the face. His son, who wat in
mow at work, in descending was wrapped v.i
flames.
He made his way speedily to a creek near
by, and plunging in, extinguished the fire-, hut
not until he was so dreadfully burned at k
place his recovery almost beyond hope. Hut
the most horrible portion remains to be told.
Two other sons of Mr. Pearson, and a ni'ih
bor's boy, were in the mow opposite where iln
men were at work. Two of them escaped;
but one of the brothers, about 9 years old, per
ished in the flames his limbs and part of In,
body literally burned up.
The house, barn, and all the otit-buildintr,-the
wagon house, with its contents ; the cora
crib, with one hundred and fifty bushels of com;
the hog-pen and hogs in it, were all burnt.
The hog", the two horses to the wagon, and a
calf in the barn, are the lire stock destroyed.
The larger portion of his hay crop, beino al
ready gathered, was of course destroyed, a a'
so about one hundred bushel of oats. All hit
farming utensils, including a threshing ma-hirie,
were likewise destroyed.
Bucks Co. Int., July 1.
Great Sale of Cattle. The entire herj
of short horned cattle of E. P. Prentice, Evj,
of Albany, was sold in that city on Wednesdav.
The cows were sold from S225 to $100; heit
ers in proportion. Some 50 head of cattle were
sold. The aggregate amount of sales wasSl.
400, being an average of about $110 per head.
A farmer in the neighborhood of Chesterfield,
England, lately got up in his sleep, saddled h:
pony, drove his cows home, and went about to
milk them when he was awoke by his boy.
The same individual, some years ago, got up
in his sleep, harnessed his horse, and put it to
the carriage, and drove it to the front door be
fore he awoke.
Cheap Postage.
INCREASE OF LETTERS.
It is said that there was fully six thousand
more letters received in the Philadelphia PtK
Office destined to different points on the first
day the. new law went into operation, than ha
been the case on any previous day for several
months past. There was a large increase n
New York also. One house mailed 140, an
other 100; a third pTe-paid the postage on 6S.
and manv sent from ten to fort v. The clerks
were kept busily employed during the day
The Boston Post Office was also overwhelms!
with letters. The 'Union' says that ihe new
Post Office law applies only to letters mailed,
on or after the first July.
Sudden Death.
The Easion Whig of the 9th inst., says:-
A man by the name of Philip Carroll, siipp""
to be from the Bolton Iron Works, N.J., caiw
to Mr. Shouse's Hotel, in this place, on Satur
day last, with the expressed intention of star
ing for Wilkesbarre on Monday morning. 0J
Sunday evening he retired apparently in gooJ
health, but when called on the following morn
ing to leave in the stage, he was found dead a
his bed. A Coroner's Inquest was held, whirt
pronounced him to have died by the visitation
of God. Various surmises, however, have. 'in"
been indulged in, in consequence of a ii'3
empty bottle, labelled laudanum, being fount!:3
the room he occupied, since the finding of &
inquest. '
Here is a bit of the late Sidney Smith's iV'
casm : Every animal has its enemies.
land tortoise has two enemies-.mai and 1
boa constrictor. Man takus him home a--roasts
him, ihe boa constrictor swallow to
whole shell and all. and consumes him do'
in the interior, -as the Court of Chancery d
a. greai eaiaie.
Important Improvement Mt. Joel
Andrews, of Norristown, Pa., has taken oUl 1
patent for burning brick with stone coal. H"
burnt a kiln last week, containing 55,000 briA
which are said to be of a superior quality. $
. . . . ' h rt
the use ol coal as luel, the expense is iw
t 1 1 .1 1 . L ..if lllllll-'
uucea, ana tne time requited to. oum 3
ished one-half.