1 1 m i ii wumi JEFFERS ONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, August 7, iS 5. Terms, $-J,)0 :n :ulr:incc: $2.25, naif yearly; anil $2,50 if not paid bufoic the cml of the vcar. ffT 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. 100 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for -the Jcffersonian 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 ad vertising in country papers which iris agency affords. Warlike frs:i Mexico. We have news from Vera Cruz to the- 3d of i Julv. and front ihe citv of Mexico up to the I t28ih of June, which is any thing but of a pa cific characler. Nearly all the papers and let ters indicate a determination on the part of Mex ico, to declare war as soon as it is ascertained ihat the United Slates troops have taken pos session of Texas. President Ilerrcra sum moned Congress 10 meet in extraordinary ses sion on the 1 Till of July, in consequence of Texas having embraced our overtures for an nexation. General Busiamcme, who had been absent at ihe West India Wands for some lime, reach-1 ;d Mexico on the 21st of June, and immediate ly offered his sword and services to ihe ffnv crnment to maintain ihe.national claim on Tex as. Vera Cruz is being forlified, and put in a condition for defence. The present standing army is staled to be thirty thousand men. The two Mexican steam vessels, lying at Vera Cruz, however, were totally unprepared for service ; although it was said they would be immediately made ready. The Presidential Election was to take place on the 1st of August. There were a number of candidates for the honour, atid the public journals were all filled with electioneering arti cles. All the aspirants declared themselves to be in favor of maintaining the Mexican claim to Texas, by means of the sword, if necessary. Pennsylvania Credit Restored. It is with feelings of the most heartfelt pleas ure we announce that the August instalment of the State Interest has been .punctually paid by ihe Treasure!. The call he made upon the tax-payers o the several counties, was nobly responded to ; and on the 1st inst. there was1 money enough in the Treasury to pay the in- talment in full. Good old Pennsylvania has gloriously redeemed herself. Duty on Iron. There has been a great reaction in the iron trade in England, and prices have gone down upwards of 20 per cent. Ai the latest dates pig iron was bringing but from S15 to S1G per ion, and ihe demand was small at even that price. In view of this, the quesiion naturally u-oests itself, what would the iron men in this country do were it not for the tariff which ! ;o,r,.oc o t,;v, ,-, r a .u ! The answer is obvious. The country would be flooded with English iron, our own furnaces would be closed, and the workmen deprived of employment. t a J - - - James G. Birney. Ja mcs G. Birney, has been nominated by the tinti-slavery parly of Michigan, as their candi date for Governor. We thought that ihe real friends of the slave had got enough of political abolttion last fall. Certainly the rascality prac tised by the leading men of the parly should have-given them enough. Carter and Parke. These unfortunate men are not to have new trials. The Court of Errors after invesiigaiing their cases for nearly three weeks, on Friday lat affirmed lhe proceedings of lhe Supreme Court.' They will now be brought to Belvi dere and hung on the 22d of August. Bolh feiill protest their innocence. Imposition. All kinds of stories are going the rounds of ihe newspapers in regard to the fertility and produciiveness of the land in Texas. These accounts should be received wilh great caution. Speculators will resort to almost any expedient to teil their lands, without caring for the disap pointment and sufferings of tho poor purchasers when ihey shall have got to Texas, and found iheir splendid bargains lo be nothing more than wild, uncultivated prairies. It is stated in a Lancaster paper, that Mr. John -Wise, ihe celebrated aeronaut, has become a lunatic. He is, 'however; perfectly harmless. Another Race. Fashion and Pcylona are to have another contest for the supremacy of the American Turf, over the Union Course, Long Island, in October next. Purse $10,000. Elections. Eleciions for Members of Congress, State Legislature, &c. took place in Kentucky, In diana, Illinois, Alabama and Missouri, on Mon day. To-day the eleciions in Tennessee and North Carolina are held. We shall receive but few returns under two weeks then wo ex pect to hear of our Whig brethren in those Stales. Temperance Irleeling. On Tuesday evening the 5th inst., there was a lecture on Temperance in the Court House, in Stroudsburg, by Charles Sitgreaves, Esq. We were not present, but we are informed I lie gentleman did the subject pretty good jusiicc. The cause of Temperance we consider to be a good one, and we wish it success all the world over. At the conclusion of his leciuro the speaker look occasion to give an outline of the plan, organization, and utility of the order of The Sons of Temperance. It is strictly a ben eficial society on principles of temperance. Why may we not have a society here, lo be the Monroe Division. IcIiigU County Bank. The Democratic Press, (Reading,) of a late date, says the County Treasurer refuses to take S ,he uo,es of ,hls bank in payment of State and County tax. Gold Found. A colered man named Thomas, employed about the wharf on Peck slip, New York, on Thursday, found a gold piece between ihe planking of ihe dock and taking up the plank discovered S3.16S 12, all in gold. The mon ey was taken charge of by Mr. Saxion of the firm of Saxion & Webb. We are informed that there is no doubt that this is a portion of the $5,000 stolen from Adams & Co., some time ago. Indian Corn in England. A writer in the London League, speaking of the introduction of Indian Com inlo England, says, that about twenty-seven years ago he pur chased a quantity of it, the price then being low, and sent it to mill to have it ground. The miller, when informed that he intended to feed his pigs wilh it, shook his head and remarked, " Depend on it, friend, it will ne'er do it is aH a mistake you have made but a poor bar gain." The buyer was not to be frightened he got his meal home, mixed it with sleamed potatoes, and in about a month his swine were as firm and fat as could be wished. The mil ler called one day, and seeing his prophecy put at nought, exclaimed, " Oh, neighbor, it was the potatoes that did ii." Nevertheless he fed his hosrs on the same kind of diet, and with similar results. The writer in the League calls upon the Le gislaiure lo take off the duly upon the article, and remarks : "The crops of it are most abundant in Amer ica' a,,d hundred3 of acres are l ,0 ro1 a,,d 6Poil 0n lhe ,and' on accoum of ils greal cheaP ness compared with ihe price of labor. What a lamentable consideration to think that the bounties of Heaven should be so wasted and neglected from nothing more thin the perverse ness of men who study too little the happiness and comfort of those whose well-doing would be their gain! The advantage of its initoduc lion, untaxed, would prove of great service to she laboring class, who too often feed iheir swine at an enormous expense and great do- mestic privation The Natives of Africa. An officer writing from the Coast of Africa to the Washington Union, says : " We are now in the neighborhood of elephants, tiger, and boa constrictors. The ant hills are nut yet lev elled, and the huts of the natives correspond very well lo the piciures of them in the liule geography of my schoolboy days. The natives live in a stale of the rudest barbarity, being naked, filthy, superstitious worshippers of slicks and bones, and believers in lhe most absurd nonsense. They are willing lo sell each oilier, and by-ihe-by, when I asketl ihem why ihey sold each other, ihey have answered, by a ques tion in return, " Why white man buy negro." A drunkard dashed his brains out in Warrea ton, Va., 24ih ult , by stumbling inio a deep well and falling upon a rock at ihe botioui. Every Day Sunday. By different Naiions, every day in the week is set apart for public worship, viz: Sunday by lhe Christians, Monday by ihe Grecians, Tuesday by lhe Persians, Wednesday by the Assyrians, Thurday by lhe Egyptians, Friday by ihe Turks, and Saturday by ihe Jews. From the Richmond Whig. ': Truth is Stranger than Fiction. BURYING ALIVE. There can be little doubt that burying alive is much more frequent than the world supposes; or has any inclination to believe. There are conditions of suspended life so closely resem bling death, and of such long continuance, as to deceive the physician, and induce sepulture. The late eminent and most worthy Philip Dod dridge was within an ace of meeting the dread ful fate of being buried alive, and what made it worse, with a perfect consciousness of all that was passing. He was supposed to be de'ad, having fallen into a stale exactly resem bling death, so far as the body is concerned : His pulse and respiraiion ceased, his limbs be came rigid, his face assumed the sharp outline characteristic of death, and he remained in this condition until the family, physicians, and friends (all but one !) supposed thai his spirit had pass ed. That one was Mrs. Doddridge ; her love refused to despair, and she continued to use remedy after remedy to restore animation. Finally she poured a spoonful of brandy (a case of breach of leetoialism which we think Fath er Matthew himself would excuse) down his throat, and ihe powerful stimulant almost im mediately dissolved the trance, and resiored Mr. Doddridge to the command of his limbs, and to many years of distinguished usefulness. But for ii, he had in all probability been buried alive ; for the weather was warm, and he al ready shrouded for his last abode. He used to relate, with thrilling effect, his sensations during ihe time of his supposed deaih. He could not stir a little finger io give notice of being alive, but his sense of hearing remained perfect, and his mind collected. He heard the fact of his being dead announced, and ihe oui- burst of grief that followed, the directions for shrouding him, and the usual preparations in the chamber of death! Desperate, but vain as desperate, were his efforts to give some token of life not a muscle could he move. Even despair, and ihe immediate presence of a fate more appalling probably lo lhe conscious than Hell itself, could not rouse his dormant body to perform ihe slightest of ils functions. At last he heard Mrs. Doddridge call for the bran dy, with a delight and rapture of love for her which the horrors of his situation may easily explain. He left that he was saved, and he was saved. He himself wittily said, that it was as Utile as lhe brandy could do lo accom plish his resurrection, as it had produced his living dcaih ! When we reflect, that of the buried, ihe cof fin of probably not one in many millions is af terwards examined, and that yet among these few several instances have occurred in which it was obvious (as from the deceased having turned on his side) that the dead had been bur ied too soon, we cannot well reject the horrible conclusion that the occurrence is not so rare as our shuddering natures would desire it. An examination of the catacombs of Paris, some years ago, (where the dead are stowed away in open boxes, or simply deposited in the vault,) led to the discovery that some had turned over on their sides, and others had quit iheir places and died at a distance in the agonies of fam- inc having gnawed awav their own floah. Some machine or contrivance to water Farms during drought, is a desideratum for yankee in vention to supply. It is painful to ride along a full flowing stream of water, like our Passaic for instance, and see lhe crops on its banks per ishing for lhe want of a little sprinkling. La bor saving machinery is made to do almost ev ery thing else imaginable, but no one seems to have made an effort lo make it refresh and pre serve our fields" wilh water. In England ihey have contrivances for grinding corn and drain ing meadows by wind power, and we notice by ihe recent papers ihat a machine has been got up lo plough by ihe same means. The New York Farmer brings us this morn ing a description and diagram of " Farnham'o Double Action Lift and Force Pump" for sup plying artificial fountains by wind or waler power. With this machine a small running stream, with a moderate descent, will be suffi cient, wilh a water wheel and pump, to keep a reservoir supplied the year round, and lho.se who have not the advantage of a waterfall may obtain all the benefit of havin ihe water con veyed lo any part of their premises house, milk-room, kitchen, or barn by means of a small windmill and pump, with reservoir capa ble of holding two or three days supply. Mr. Famham, ihe inventor, No. 29 Fulton street, will construct them of any pattern or, size, adapted to any power or situation lhai may be. desired. His prices are, also, extremely mod- erate. Why may not this machine be adapted io watering fields and farms? Newark. Daily. Deaths in New York city, la&i week, 27G. 1oit at a JBisccna&t. x:' Now that Thomas W. Dorr has been let oui of jail, and is no longer available as a theme for the Loco Foco papers lo cant about, he is in a fair way to be rightly appreciated. The New York Evening Post, which has here tofore ireatcd him as a rnanyr to liberty, and poured out its vials, of abuse upon the Gov ernment and People of Rhode Island for refu sing to be revolutionized by Slamm, B;ing & Co., now whistle Dorr down the wind in lhe following-fashion : Whaievcr the cause, the failure of the affair at Chepaichct has taken from Dorr all Uc pres tige of heruUm ; and his liberation from prison, if it had been accompanied with his restoration lo political rights, would brtvo effectually sepa raied his name from the direction of any future effort which that portion of the people of Rhode Island who want freedom, may think proper lo make. This extract from tho Po--t proves two ihings pretty clearly. First, thai the Loco Focos never cared a sixpence aboifi Dorr, or his "sufferings," except so far as they hoped to make political capital out of his confinement. And second, that ihe authorities of Rhode Isl and could not have adopted a surer or speedier mode of" using up" Mr. Dorr, than by turning him out of prison and giving him full rope. Albany Journal. Death Jrom Political Proscription. Among thejeascs of cruelty under the prescriptive prin ciple of removals from office for the sake of a difference in political opinion, the following is mentioned by ihe Washington correspondent uf ihe Tribune : " Mr. James, whose case I have before re ferred to, died on Thursday and was buried yesterday. He was a prominent member of the Episcopal church, a good man, a worthy citizen, and has left a widow and six children penniless, but I irust not friendless. He had been for five-and-iwenty years a Clerk in ihe Register's office, and not a whisper of com plaint was ver breathed against him. Mr. Gilleti, with ihe approbation of the President, removed this man from office. Unqualified for any other employment, he remonstrated against the ad, represented ihe helpless condition of his family, was roughly repulsed, went home and fell sick. A congestive fever came on, and this, aggravated byjiis disiress of mind, termi nated in a brain fever, which resulted in his death. In this case against whom have the widow's curse and the orphan's cry gone up lo heaven !" A Wild Wo ess a si near Baltimore. We understand from a gentleman, recently from Elhcoii's Mills, upon whose word we can rely, that no liule interest has been excited in that neighborhood, in consequence of ihe occa sional appearance, for some time pasi, of a fe male, supposed to have fled from society and taken up her abode in the woods. She is re ported by those who have seen her as being re markably delicate and fair; with flowing tress es, small feet and hands ; ncally though plainly apparelled ; and, in her movements when un conscious of any of her species being near, cautious and sprightly ; but, upon observing any person, she bounds back 10 the depth of ihe forest wilh a speed and lighiness almost super human. She is seldom seen ; having been ac ccidenially discovered, she has been watched for with interest ; and as she has occasionally emerged from ihe unknown place of her seclu- sion Per Home in the rocks and glens per sons have witnessed her visits lo the "Sylvan Springs," in a deep ravine peculiar lo that re region of country. We also learn that a num ber of gentlemen, anxious 10 saiisfy iheir curi osity in relerence to this mysterious recluse, have determined lo find out the abode of the fair and lovely stranger, and, if possible, restoro her back 10 society. Washing hy ITlacSaiucry. They are washing in New York by machi nery on an extensive) scale. 1 lie True Sun says ihe clothes are firs! put in a drum with four openings, large enough lo contain four hun dred pieces at one lime. Through ihe shaft on which this revolves, steam and waler is let in upon the contents. In fifteen rninuies they aro thoroughly cloau-ed. From this they are removed 10 washing tubs and rinsed. They are ihen pressed between two iron rollers cov ered with blankois, and iho water, is removed from them. They are next taken to ihe upper story and dried. They aro ihen starched and ironed, and returned io tho owners. Upwards of 30 females are employed in the establish ment, where ihey are lodged and fed, The machinery is driven by a steam engine of 20 horse power, though it is not yet. all in use for ihis particular purpose. The work performed: da,Jy ,.is..'quivalent 10 that of 100 persons,. and; 'he ,nos are beatnifujiy gqt up. A fnrpnonnnflflnl nf fVi ti wriies ihus from Rome during Holy Week " Ladies go to St. Peter's dressed as for 3 ball room; long lines of soldiers wiih fixed ba oneis are stationed in the church to nr. 1'ieserre order. Gentlemen dressed wholly in black aro admiiied within the lines. As we had not procured our trunks from the Cusiuni lutJ3e we went in our travelling dresses, and uers' consequently assigned our places annum u-,,. unsooped multitude. Here is the place fjr "drigging wipes," and indeed every ilm,g tse I lo3tr the first day, every thing I had m my coat pocket, and always afier ihat, I prepared myself for going to- church on any great occa sion, by the devotional exerciser of einptvinrmv pockets and pinning in my pocket hutulkf rchir. at which I would get a bite about eyt.ry fr minutes. A young Englishman- who was wi ; us the first day, caught a fellow pulling h waich out of his pocket. He seized him b,' ihe throat and gave him a iremend'ntn trhippm'f in the chupcb, while the Pope was washing .hB apostles' feel, lhe guard officers, ami priest los ing on and not interfering. A great trolling match came offr over ?V Cambridge Course, near Boston, 011 TuexU last. Four horses Daniel Webster, flv Dorr, Euclid and Moscow were eniere,!. Moscow was declared to-be ihe winner. Got Dorr was badly distanced. He ran bettor m lhe great race which " came off" from Cx pachet than he ever will agaitu Curious Fight- i lib iiuiuciii c juiiiiiiii inio . 'lint'ill I flirt .... .!.-. Imllrtful Ll.wl.v - few days since. A good sized cai 1ml m a liule chipping bird, and was riialui.g nffw. . her prey, when a kinbird, attracted h.v cries of ihe victim, came 10 ihe rescue, an gave a loud alarm, which was answered ly whole swarm of kingbirds and swallows, ulmu attacked the cat with such ferocity ilni shewn soon compelled lo drop her victim; ion tlu- fia ti ered avengers were not content wnli iliit They pursued lhe cat, continually pet king a. her, until she found shelter under a barn, creep ing through a crevice, where Iter lurijieiueii did not venture to follow her." Consumption and its Victims. Hastings in his -work on consumption, furn:. -some curious statistics. lie says, ihat a n ... persons engaged in the different professions . Geneva, 114 fall victims lo consumption oue 1000. The average varies ; in some profess it is higher than others ; in varnish painters it as high as 37 in the 1000, in the gardeners it s r low as 4. Among polishers, plasterers, sci' t stone-cutters, watch-hand makers, il rertc!:es 117 in the 1000; and among tailors, en;nvr- printers, cierks, etc., even to 1 11 to the 1000. T. average falls in carpenters, blacksmiths, s'.v and agriculturists, to 89 in the 1000: in bu'e.:'. o tanners, and candle-makers, to 73 in the 1011 . weavers, dyers, bleachers, and waterman. Uj3 the 1000 ; and in persons in easy circumta..:t it falls as low as 50 in the 1000. iM. Lj.iu? fonnil tlintthe nan of the stone cutter avenusd 35 -o- years, the sculptor 30, the miller 42, the pa; ' " 44, the joiner 46, the butcher 53, the lawyer 31,-1 surgeon 51, the mason 55, the gardener (50. ' merchant 62, the Protestant clergyman CJ. t raagistrate 60. Restoring Dead to JLifc. On the 20th ult., Mr. Fowler, of MansflcU, ' a bed at Nottingham. Afass., and ia lhe mor woo fniinrl nnnnrontli- flond frnm nOISOH. f usual remedies were applied without effect, w. electricity was resorted to. At the first a;, cation of the conducting wire to the chest of '. patient, he rose up and gradually fell back a: I At the second shock he rose up, crying out, ' 1 and then fell back again ; but on the thirl s.; he started up, crying out, u Oh God !" anil sat . right with ease. In a short time afterwards. asked for something to drink, and tea anJ c- were administered. to him ; in three quarters f" hour he dressed himself, and appeareJ almost 1 tirely recoveied. lie had purchased two r of laudanum, and had taken the whole of t' l k doses. Some disagreement with his. wif? is to have been the inciting cause. CAMP MEETING. By Divine permission a Camp Meeting ! . I. 11 - .1 111 f ... lr P. , be held on ihe oround belonaiiiL' 10 Mr. 1" 1 Shafer, lo commence on ihe 21si of Aglisf N. 13. No hucksler vill be allowed 10 fic within the distance prescribed In I w " is ihree miles, without permission l""" managers. J. EDWARDS- Sironrlshurg, August G, 1S15. To the Voters of Monroe count Regater and Recorder. Feli,ov Citizens: Encouraged by M' ous friends in various parts of the rnuirv, lu fer myself as a candidate for ihe office of Register and Recorder. Should I be elected, I will endeavor fl the duties of said office wilh prompting a punctuality. ' , . SAMUELREES.jp Hamilton tap., iVug, .718rl i. 0,
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