lo Carpenter's Point will be something over 60 miles. The road would he. a regular grade not averaging over six feet 10 the mile from Carpen ter's point (ihe proper name of which is Station ipoint.) to Lumberville, thence there will be a 'slight ascent for three or four miles, and thence a regular urade to Philadelphia. I prefer this route to following the river to Morrisvillo or Trenton, because it will save 20 'miles in distance. You avoid all the trouble of coming into the Kensington district. You pass Mhe -valuable limestone and marble regions of White Marsh and the mills on the Wissahiccon. rBy going the state road out of the city you avoid 'the heavy damages -of culling through city pro perly. If it should be :preTurred to come into the Norrisiown road at. 'the 'Wissahiccon, it could be done if found preferable, of which sugges tion 1 am not able to -apeak with certainty. I have-no.preferences as to routes my only object is to'call public aiteniion to the subject -of constructing a railroad by the'best rouie from Station point on the Delawere to the ciiy of Philadelphia. The Now York and 'Erie Railroad commen ces at what is called Pieriiioul on the Hudson, 21 miles from New York. From Piermont by 'Goshen and Middielowu to -Port llarvis at Sta tion point is 72 miles, making thedistance from Jie.w York to Port Jarvis 96 miles. On this Toute, the greater portion ol the distance the 'route is ery unfavorable for a railroad. -For ma ny miles, ihe ascenis.jtnJ descents each way are equal to, if iheydo not exceed, 80 feel to the mile. Now any engineer will inform you 'that a road '125 milesdong, wilh a regular grade, can be travelled at less-expense than one of 96 miles with undulations at the raieof .80 'feet to 'ie mile. The road which I propose, then, gives 'Phil adelphia equal facilities at least with N. York in competing for ihe trade along the Erie rail- JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, Augmt 14, l 15. rcniis,$?i)0:n advance: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid befoictlie end of the vcar. The Tariff iu Daisgcr. The Washington Union, Mr. Polk's official organ, is out in a leading editorial, against ihe Tariff of 1842, and lakes ground in favour ol " reducing it lo the revenue standard." This is ominous of the fate of the Tariff, and shows our Pennsylvania dough-jaces, who were cheat ed into the support of an anti-Tariff President, what they have to expect. Our prediction, that Polk would take ihe earliest opportunity of striking a blow at our Protective System, is about to be verified. (T?" V. Ii. Palmer, Esa., at his Real Estate and (Joal Uihce, jo. 59 rine street, below Imrd, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and ISo. KiO Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jeffersonian Republican, and gi ve 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 us agency affords. The Whigs of Pennsylvania. We are happy to seo that the Whigs of Pennsylvania are buckling on iheir armour for mother contest. Nothing daunted ly the re verses of last fall, they are making preparations in many of the counties for a spirited struggle ; and from the determination manifested, we are led lo anticipate the most favorable result. The Whigs of the Keystone, in order to elect a Ca rial Commissioner and secure a majority of the Legislature, have but to exert themselves, and they will do it. Our friends, in different parts of the Commonwealth, appear to be aware of this, and are making the proper effort for the desired result. A large majority of ihe coun-. lies have already held their primary meetings, and most of ihe others are about lo follow their example. It would be a glorious remit to re deem Pennsylvania from the grasp of locofoco ism. Let our friends everywhere do their ut most to effect it. Let them remain firm in their attachment to their great chieftain, Hemit -road from Station point to Lake Erie, whilst it: Clay, and the principles of ihe Whig parly .-gives io Philadelphia the decided advantage for am ajppl ,he expressive words of Gov. Jones, all the Pennsylvania and New Jersey trade from that point down to-Lumberville. K1TTATJNNY. How Polk was Elected. The last two numbers of the American Re View are occupied in giving startling developc ments of ihe Loco frauds practiced to curry .New York for Polk and Texas. It appears :100 men were employed and paid, doubtless by 'Texas bond holders, to hire rooms in various wards ; to visit them as often as possible, under 'different names at each, and to vote at each un df.r those assumed names. Thus 100 men vo ting at each of the 70 polls, make 7000 illegal voies. Polk's majority in the stale was 5,106. 'Thtt- carrying the -stale by frauds unparalelled tin this, or any oiher country. Renicdyajjaiiist Hydrophobia. The Glasgow Argus mentions a remedy for the bite of rabid animals, applied by Dr. David Burns, (brother of the traveller Sir Alexander.) in ihe case of two ladies in that city. They were in the parlor of a 'hotel, when a large dog entered, bit them both severely and Tan ofi. Dr. Bums was in the hotel, having been on a tour in the Highlands Avrth Lord and 'Lady Hanmure. Dr. Burns, on learning the nature of the accident, instantly cauterized, cupped, and exorcised the wounds, and had also re course to the singular method of ma-king the patients suck their wounds. This course the Dr. recommended ten years ago in the Lancet; and he says that no danger whatever is to be feared from it, if the mouth and lips arc free lfrom sores or chaps. Paying the Parson. A minister in a neighboring city, says the Salem Gazette, who is celebrated for the num ber of connubial knots he ties, sometimes re ceiving five or six hundred dollars a year for his services in that way, was called upon one evening, by a couple who wished to be united for this life, for better or for worse. The cer emony was duly performed, and at the close of it, the man stated that he had but seventy-five cents, and inquired if that would he sufficient remuneration. Being told that it would an swer, the new married couple were about de parting, when the lady thinking it would he a little more romantic and sentimental to faint on the occasiun, indulged in that little bit of a fi nale. The camphor bottle was brought, and during the process of resuscitation, it got broke, and finally the minister had to pay for a back mo carry the happy pair home. The minister taid, after it was all over, that he had made about eleven cents clear profit by the whole operation. of Tennessee, as their motto " Fight on fight ever. Deaths of 35. (D's. Two of the members eleel, to the House of Representatives of the next Congress, have al ready departed this life. John B. Dawson, of ; the lst District of Louisiana, died about the 1st of iJuly, and Samuel G. Wright, of ihe 2d Dis trict of New Jersey, died on Wednesday a week. Several oiher members are reported to be dangerously ill. New Jersey Election. According to a provision in the new Consii tuiion of New Jersey, the elections in that State will hereafter occupy lint one day, instead of two, and take place on the first Tuesday in November. Wiiat are the Whigs about there ? They should wake up to the importance of the com ing contest, as it is very desirable that Jersey should maintain her Whig supremacy. A correspondent of the-London. Miners Jour nul, asserts that he has recently written on pa per made of iron, and seen a book, ihe leaves .and binding of which wero of the same mate Volunteer Candidates. The Easion papers of last week contain the advertisements of upwards of a dozen persons, who are out as Volunteer Candidates for ihe several county offices lo be voted for this fall. The people of Northampton are strongly in fa vor of the volunteer system ; arid nothing would more effectually secure the defeat of a candi date for any county office, there, than a regular nomination. The system of volunteering is a fgond one, and should be encouraged. Let ev ery aspirant for office submit his name to ihe people, directly, without the intervention of Delegates. By this -means the public offices will be more ably filled, and every one better satisfied. It is the true Republican mode of doing business. Several volunteers have also already announced themselves in Monroe coun ty, whose names will be found in our advertising columns. The Warren I?2jirilcrs. An application has been made, on behalf of Carter and Parke, lo the Court of Pardons, of New Jersey, for an arrest of sentence in their case, and the Court meets to-day 'to pass upon the application. It is generally thought that no pardon will be granted, and that the sen lence pronounced upon the unfortunate men by the Supreme Court will be carried into execu tion. Unless they should be pardoned, of which there is scarcely a hope, they will be hung in front of the Belvidere Jail to-morrow a week. JTJJ3 Two letters purporting to be written by Peter W. Parke and Joseph Carter-, Jr., but giv ing strong ground for suspicion thai tlipy flowed from the same pen, will be found in this paper. We deem it unfortunate that two such letters should ever have been written, and frankly con fess, that in publishing them lo gratify a morbid feeling of curiosity, we do some violence lo our individual sense of right ; for their sins against every rule of propriety and decorum can only ! be equalled by their flagrant violations of truth. Viewed in ihe light of appeals io the public sympathies, the letters in question were totally uncalled for; since there is not a leoling heart in New Jersey that does not deeply commis seraie the self-inflicted woes of those wretched criminals, now recoiling in horror from the verge of that dread eternity into which they must be plunged so spedily. The men who heartlessly jested over the remains of the innocent victims of the bloody tragedy of Changewaier, will not, we trust, be followed to the grave by the gibes and mockings of any, but be objects of sympa thy and compassion to all, as man should be in the eves of his weak and erring brethren, even when steeped to the lips in guilt and infamy, as the solemn hour arrives when he is to expiate his crimes by a violent and ignominious death. It appears to us to have been a cruel kind ness in ihe friends of the condemned men, at such a time, and in the awful circumstances in which they were placed, to have flattered them with hopes of pardon by ihe circulation of peti tions lo that end. Belvidere Apollo. JTj"3 A rumor is current among us that a gen tleman in this county has in his possession two letters, addressed to a person in Ohio from this vicinity, and offering him S200 if he would make and forward io a designated individual in this couniy an affidavit, staling. that he (the re cipient of the letters) had heard a man confess that he was one of three persona who commit ted ihe Chaugcwater murders. We have the names of the parties lo whom the letters were addressed, uud to whom the affidavits were di rected lo be sent, but suppress (hern for obvious reasons. We have just conversed with one of our citizens k saw the letters on Saturday. Ib. Letter from Joseph Carter, jr Mercer Jail, Aug. i, 18.5 To the Editor of. the State Gazette : As I am about to leave ihis world, and ... i soul io be sent to the world of spirits, ihere .' j answer to God its maker for all I have san Letter from Pel or W. Parke. To the Editors of the Slate Gazette. As I am now about to leave this world, and must shortly appear before a just and holy find, one who cannot err nor bo mistaken, one who judges in righteousness and in truth, who I must give an account to for all mv actions and deeds, ! , , . it- n , . 0r , c i- i -ii t ' c t t i idone, knowing that he is a bod of Justii H nni before him who will condemn me if what I hero T , ua,"e am. say is not true, to the place of toiment forever, and j e ,hat canntn err bul w' jug , be eternally tormented. God knows my innocence, j. righteousness and truth. He knows' ,uy j and I am perfectly willing to abide his decision, j nocence and I am willing to abide his ilecis:0llt trusting in him as a just judge, for he knows all! trusting in him who know-all things tfon u things that is done whether by day or by night, j done by day or night. I will not there b.j tiicd I feel now, as I am about to be ofTered up a sac- j Upun SUspicjon or wilh prejudic e, nor false v M rifice upon the altar of my country to satisfy the TrU8ling Jn him for that j..aiicC wh'uu ' J . . - has been dented me in this world. Juaiic uuiy wnicu l owe io myseii, my lamity, my menus and country that I should now make a brief state ment of facts, and have them published to the world before 1 leave it. What I shall say shall be strictly true. The murder is as much a mystery to rne as it is to any man living. Who it was that planned the murder or committed it I do not know. It is all a mystery. I suspect no man living of having com mitted or being concerned : I knew nothing to suspect any one, or that would lead to the discov ery of the murderers. I now solemly declare before heaven and earth, that I am entirely innocent of the murder or of any knowledge of it whatever; that no person ever in timated in any way to me such a thing as that they wished or wanted John B. Parke or John Castner dead, killed or robbed, or anything of the kind ; that I never was on that farm, or in that house, or in that road from the crossroads to the creek, be tween sundown and sunrise, till the next week af- e is all I ask. I feel it a duty that I owe lo myself, mv fd. mily and my friends and my country, tliat should make a brief statement of fact, ami uV(. ihem published lo the worfd before I leare i I was iu the field at work all the afieriioum.f Monday till dark. I went to bed about i,i,, o'clock, and was not up again that itiuln u;i sunrise the next morning; that Coule was mis taken as io the day he took the letter to El ton; I was not in Washington on .Mon.i iy after noon or evening, nor Tuesday afternoon, mt. was there on Wednesday afternoon, ami pU to Cougle to take the letter, and gave n it) on Thursday morning. He went there boti, days and is mistaken as to the day. As to th. wagon that went up the creek I know nut whnl. it was ; the wagon was not mine, or if it htk it was laken unbeknown to me. As for iK tpr thf? morilRr. in mv liffi. that T have anv rnrnl- lection of; that 1 never knew that there was a s,('rV nf Je88e Tiger and Mrs. Mariem.,, u,er sink-hole any where about that farm or road tillhave b,,,h 'esttfied falely against tne, and Ut Tuesday morning after the murder; that if Joseph j knows it as well as they and hip. Tiger mi I Carter knew of it he never told me ; that when ( he was afraid of his life; it was ihe r .sun wv Linden G. Lyman told me of the murder on Tues- he did not tell it sooner. This spring a vr day morning, was the first that I knew or heard of au0, my father built me. a house, ami Tiger the murder or of the sink-hole ; that I was at home doe a pan of ,he nias0!l w rk j tvM that night all night from dark till about nine oV fae ti and we done the work alone. I clock in my shop, and in mv house from nine o'- c , , ... , . . , ,. , , . , ., 1 ncrer seen any tear aooiu mm. u tie wa ciock uii oayiigiu me next morning, uiai my wne i had been sick about three months, and my young- why d,d he come 10 work w"here 1 wa? D"" pet nhilfl who ;pL-timt nlrrht that T li;wl to cot unlit aland lo reason ? I was tried slionlv alter w.,. -.w- "q"-i - "r i with it till midnight; that I never seen Jesse Ti- jand he knew nothing or he would hate bem ger to know him till about four weeks after the 1 brought against me; but ihey was hard m.v murder; that he was an entire stranger to me at jor they never would have wanted such a'per the time of the murder, and never spoke to the man S0I, till June, 1814, in my life, that his evidence 13 positively false and that he knows it; that the evi dence of Mrs. .ofartenus is also false ; that her or no other person ever heard me say what she testi fied to, and that I can prove it to the satisfaction of And as for my money, I had saved it thronuli the fall and winter before. 1 was iu debt am! did not know how soon my creditors wouM come on me, and I kept all the money I cotiM any unprejudiced man; that I did not see Joseph 1 get together io support my family with, an! Carter or Abner Parke, or any other relation of j when any one would ask me for money 1 woull mine except the inmates of my own house that i say had none. There I done wrong anil am night; the first time that I ever seen the sink-hole, ' very sorry for it, and ask forgiveness lor itloili was on Tuesday morning after the -murder, be- tween nine and ten o'clock ; that the people may say all they can, they cannot make me guilty in j nnir nrnv rv in nnu clinn Ttio rnnrtc mnv rnn- , , i , , , , A way that I know of nothing that n oulil lead demn me and call me a hardened wretch, and a ' J wicked murderer. They must all recollect that' ils discovery and that I did not tee Pe.rr to God and man. I do solemnly declare before God and man that 1 am entirely innocent of the crime in any they have a judge supreme, as well as me ; the same judge, the same God, and the same Media tor; that they must appear before the same court in Heaven that I must ; that they must give an ac count as well as me ; and if they have done wrong they are answerable for their own conduct ; my conscience is perfectly clear of all guilt, and that Tlie August Elections. We have received but few returns, as yel, of the recent elections in the Western Stales, and these few are so incomplete aud"imperfeci, thai we can make but very little of them. It ap pears, however, that Garret Davis, Whig, has beaten Thomas F. Marshall, iloco, iu the Lex ingion District, Ky., and that the Loco Foco Assembly ticket has prevailed iu Floyd county, Indiana. Thommason, Whig, in ihe Louis ville. Ky., District, is also supposed to be elect ed. By next week we shall have more full and satisfactory returns. The amount of Treasury Noies ouistanding on the 1st instant, according (o the official state meat, was $776,264 18. A man who was in (he habit of talking to himself, being asked by his wife why he did so, replied ihat he liked to. qonveisc will) a man of sense. JJj3 We understand that reports are in cir culation below, that public opinion in this quar ter has undergone a great change in regard to the guilt of the persons under sentence for the murder at Changewaier. We have seen no evidence of a change of sentiment in favor of the condemned. On the contrary, we are in formed, tli.it although .strenuous efforts have been made to' -obtain signatures to petitions for their pardon, ery few names have been pro cured. The petitions in question will, however, furnish ihe best testimony in reference to this subject. Ib. Mr. Green, of 5unbury, (Eng.) has suggest ed a method of purifying wells, &c, from foul air. The plan is simply to throw into the well a quantity of unpacked lime, which, as it comes in contact with the water, throws up a column of vapor, driving before ii all the deleterious gasses. W. Parke or any other peron except the in mates of my own house, and that the rir-t t knew or heard any thing about the munlex, wat when told of it by Peter W. Parke, alimn eiht o'clock or a little after, on Tuesday iu pretend) of Hummer. Remember that we must all meet at the bar T Imva Anna ri,r rlntw In mviolf nnrl tn mv pnnntrtf -.i of God to render up the final account. .Mven throughout the whole , of my peisecutions, withi . clean hands that have injured no man, -clear from the blood of all men to appear in the court of Heaven. I have been indicted on suspicion, tried and condemned upon prejudice and perjury to die to die the death of u martyr, not the death of a criminal. I freely forgive them all, and pray that God will show them all the error that they -a re in before he calls them to leave this world ; and may God for give them and be more merciful to them than they have been to me ; and I hope and pray they will seek that forgiveness from God that will wash the stain of my blood from their never-dying souls. If any person should attempt to pass off on the public any confession of mine, contrary to this statement, it will be a forgery. This will bo my dying speech and dying breath, and speak the truth I ran say nothing else. The whole history of my persecutions in due time will appear in a brief form before the public, to give every one an opportunity of judging for themselves ol the evidence of presumption. By publishing the foregoing in your paper you will confer a favor on an innocent and persecuted citizen of New Jersey. PETER W. PARKE. Dated, Mercer Jail, Aug. 2d, 1845. Weaver, convicted of murder at Urbana, O. last May, has made his escape from jail. It is said that in Piitsburg, when a mother wishes to find a child which she allows lo run in (he street, she goes out, picks up and wash es the dirt from ihe faces of perhaps half a dozen of her neighbors' children, Ijelbre she is fortunate enough io find her own. A Camel married to a Mouse. On the 9:h instant, iu Lancaster, by Bishop J. Flake, Mr. Daniel Campkell to Mias Marv Mouse. A Tailor, it has been decided in a Boston Court of Justice, is bound to "fit," or the gar ment may be thrown upon his hands by his customer. The college libraries of this country number about 600,000 volumes. The libraries of the Legislature of the different Stales aro also con siderable. There are some 900,000 volumes, in public collections mostly. Dorr and McNulty. C. J. McNuIiy made a speech on Saturday the 19th tilt, at ajtieeting at Mount Vernon, Ohio, called lo celebrate the liberation of Dorr, These Loco-Focos do sup port 'each other. emies are many and hard, but I forgive tlie.ii all, and pray that God will bring them a '"" repentance, as will bring them safely ' Heaven of rest. t If any person should attempt, after I an gone, 10 pass off on the public any other am- Hamuli miutrifrv iu liiix Ki;iit?mt;ii. n nm v.. - li.rA.tf mikli.lnnn lha i Ii n 1' Villi 'L o j - j i e . ' confer a favor on a humble and persecute- O zen of New Jersey. JOSEPH CARTER, Jr. The salary of President Jones of Tesi ' $5,000 a year. 3 ..r.u m -v t. c imii i'ui . . . .r .. I o J j from the effects of being sun struck, fa'3 in nm ii cai niuiww. wiieio fiii.ii uwwu-. - nrn frpmipn! ihpv r...nt llio fiiHnwill" iI llir method of curing the unfortunate patients- I n n iiinau nn a. I H ranph cvi-ooi fill mi'""' . I i l ..n nn3 are lined wun cold water, and corneu u IK hflri lrnnvorP v n n ih pntiVM m lUUtf v . . . ,b..ltlt bv which means the ravs ol ihe sun arom from the system to ihe water, which yio ,,r comes very warm, and is laid away ; mJ "' iher, and still another, similarly applied, till a I 1 .1 . . 1 ... I T Ilhlllua" ... - .. , , The colder the water the better. A young mai: was arrested in.J?itiahurgi ?u nn 'I'l.ii rfiftntr woab utin alla a, lllir.fi Otl Via A MMI WUUJ ' V V. 1 a 1 W .IUU w t day, got married on Tuesday, and commi'1' two laicenies on Thursday. A strong bust""3- MARRIED. In Stroud township, Monroe county, on is Stull, of Buck township, Luzerne coiin' and Miss Rachel SBsasof the fotuwr jlp
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