i; JE FFERS ONTAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, September -1, 115. Terms, $2,00 '.n adrance: 2.25, Half yearly: and $2,50 if not paid bofoic the end of the vear. 05s Tr. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Heal Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and No. ICO Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jcjfcrsonian 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 Jiis agency affords. Mexico. Mexico had not declared war against us at ihe laiest dates, although their Congress was still in session and engaged in discussing the subject. It was thought that the declaration would have been made ere this but for the dif iicnlty experienced in raising money where with to carry on the war with energy. A" loan of SI 5,000,000 was authorized eometime in Ju ly, but the ministers had not been able to nego tiate it about the 12th of August. All is there fore uncertainty. A few days more, however, -will probably determine our suspense. Vhilt the auihorities of Mexico are thus procrastiating, we are glad to perceive that our own government is acting with firmness .and caution. Every preparation is made, eo that if hostilities follow, we will be in a situa tion to strike a decisive blow, and make the war of short duration. We have a large fleet in the Gulf, under the command of Commodore Connor, sufficient to blockade the whole east ern coast of Mexico. In the Pacific, our naval strength is also sufficient. And on the frontiers of Texas, the troops under Gen. Taylor are 'daily strengthened by addiiiona and re-inforce- uicnts. Volunteer Candidates. Volunteer candidates for county offices are beginning to be all the go. By reference to our Eaaton exchanges, we see that more than two columns are filled with the' names of per sons who ihus offer themselves for the suffrages of their fellow-citizens. In other counties the system is beginning to find equal favor. We .are glad to see it, for it is cenainly the most republican mode of electioneering that could possibly be adopted. The Great Britain. This mammoth steam-ship left New York, on Saturday last, on her return trip to England. :She had 53 cabin 'passengers an immense mail, and 1200 bales of cotton besides other articles of freight. The Great Britain is by far ihe largest steamer in the world. " r The Warren Tragedy. We understand that a presentment is now 'fcefore the Grand Jury of Warren county, upon which they are hearing witnesses, charging Abner Parke, with being an " accessory before ihe fact" to the murder of the Castner family. Abner Parke was twice tried and acquitted as -a principal in these murders. Texan U. S. Senators. It is said that Gen. Lamar and Gen. Rusk, will be chosen U. S. Senators from the new State of Texas. Gen. Lamar, was former President of Texas, and Gen. Rusk is the President of the Convention that is now framing a Constitution to be submitted to Congress. They are both good men and highly esteemed by their countrymen. Bishop Potter. The Rev. Dr. Alonzo Potter, will be conse crated as Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the 23d inst. The Legislature of New Jersey at its last session, passed a law changing the time for holding the annual election in New Jersey. Instead of the second Tuesday in October, as heretofore, the election will now take place on Tuesday, the 4th day of November, and con tinue only one day. Iowa not a State. A postscript of a letter to the New York Express, dated Chicago, Au gust 14, says : " 1 have just seen a gentleman direct from Burlington, Iowa, who reports that sufficient returns of the election which has just closed had been received there to render it cer tain that the citizens of Iowa had again refused, by a majority of 200 to 500, jo adopt the Con stitution. Dodge is -re-electtd to Congress by ome hundreds," ITIr. Polk's Administration. The New York Express in the course of a reply to a charge made by the Richmond En quirer that ihe Express " has incessantly as sailed the Administration and daily represented Mr. Polk as a heartless and cruel lyrant" has the following, severe, yet just remarks in ref erence thereto : . What 'we have said of the Administration we repeat. Of all the Administrations we have had, the present has been the most proscriptive Of all the Presidents we have had, the present has been the least dignified and the most cor rupt. Mr. Polk volunteered a declaration to the American people on the fourth of March last, that minorities had their rights and (hat he would defend them ! And how has he defend ed them 1 By "rewarding his political friends and punishing his political enemies !" Poor sufTeringly poor men, with large families, de pending upon the earnings of their hands for their bread, have been made to feel his own and the malice of his associates in office. He turned the house of rejoicing into the house of mourning, and changed the buoyancy of health and hone into repining and sickness. His ministrations to the sick have been the medi cine of despair. Death has followed in the track of his persecutions, and tears have fallen from the eyes of those whom he has made the widow and orphan. He has turned upon old men, and poor men, and to one of these one of his minions has said, that he was removed, not because he was not a good clerk, for it was pub licly admitted that he was, but because ho was loo old. That old age which God blesses, hu manity honors, a'nd religion commands us to re spect, has been the object of his especial perse cution. The removals of such men as Col. Hebb and John McLeod, the one four score years old, and the other more than three score and ten, speak trumpet-tongued of that heart lessness, cruelty and tyrrany which the Enquir er will in vain attempt to conceal. In the one place the clerk was the humble keeper of an Arsenal, and supported a large family upon a small salary of three hundred dollars, and the products of a small piece of land attached to the same, and in the other example, the clerk received one of the smallest salaries of the Post Office Department. Both in advanced life, and men who had served the Government long and well, were driven into the world, and others were called to iake their place, and the bread out of their mouths, because they had not shout ed for, and voted for, James K. Polk. Shame upon such an Administration, and shame upon those who defend it ! " But we stop not here. Men have not only been removed from office, but.ihey have added to this wrong the calumny of their persecutors. " The good name of many a man has been filched from him, along with the means of live lihood, of which he has been robbed. We have not forgotten the caseof poor James, who was hurried heartstricken, to his grave, and who lelt a large and destitute family behind him. Nor have we forgotten the persecution of the grand-son of Innis, and of Peyton Ran dolph, and grand-nephew of Harrison of Dr. Vlinge, a nephew of the lamented Harrison Taylor, the son-in-law of Harrison, and pro tector of family a nephew of Capt. Jas. Law rence, of Chesapeake fame and a host of oth er worthy men. One hundred and twenty-nine have been turned out of office in Washington alone by Mr. Polk and his well selected official and public executioners. It is after this fash ion that he has shown that minorities have rights, and he, too, a minority President ! And it is nol in Washington alone that he has by his own actions given the lie to ihe words of his lips. Indiscriminate and causeless removals have been made; and in New York and else where we have been told, good men have been turned out of office, and ruffians, felons, and bullies put in. Mr. Polk knows this, and know ing it, we pronounce him, as all honest men must pronounce him, the most corrupt tyran nical executive that was ever exalted to the chief magistracy of the nation." The last Greensbttrg Argus reports two mel ancholy cases of poisoning and death which re cently occurred near that place, from lead ex tracted by apple butter from red earthen crocks. A small quantity of the apple butter was placed in the hands of Dr. King who detected in it a large amount of the acetates and carbonates of lead, (while lead,) There is a man (says the New York Patri ot,) who sits daily in Chatham street for alms. His hair is grey his whole appearance indica tive of extreme age. He is reputed to be worth about thirty thousand dollars ! The sale of ihe Ronaparie painiings lakes place at Bordemown on jhe 17hof Sepiember. The collection will be open for examination from the 15th instant. Children among tEte Indians. IJj33 Accounts have been repeatedly publish ed, to the effect that a number of white chil dren, stolen from the Texans and Mexicans, were in captivity among the Indians. A siir ring appeal to the Uniied Slates Government, upon this subject, was recently made through several of the public Journals, but we have yet to learn that it has been responded to in the proper spirit. The St. Louis New Era of a late date, gives some funhet and interesting particulars. The editor says : "In 1836, the Commissioners appointed by the Uniied States to treat wiih the Indian tribes, employed Col. Chouteau to go out to the plains and bring in (ho Camanches to hold a talk and form a treaty. Col. C. siarted out to the plains, but could not find the Camanches (ill he went far South to the Brazos. They had collected there in strong force both the M exicans and Texans were trying to secure them against (heir enemies, and the Camanche warriors were quietly waiting on the frontier to join which ever party seemed to promiso the largest share of the spoih of victory; calcula ting their chances for obtaining horses, blank- els, guns and ammunition. Coi. Chouteau fell in with their encampment, where were their women and children, and among them ho found 40 or 50 white children that had been captured at .various times from ihe Texans and Mexi cans ; they were generally, from 5 10 7 years old, and-of both sexes. Many of these cried for joy at the sight of a white man, and were importunate in their entreaties to take them away from the Indians. He had then neither the means to redeem them, nor to bring them away ; but he promised that ho would urge on the officers of Government lo take measures to redeem them without delay. This gave hope and joy to the captives. He made all proper inquiries of ihe warriors, and found that they were very willing to surrender these young cap- ives on the payment of a satisfactory ransom. Be made the arrangement with the Indians to come in to hold a talk with ihe Commissioners, and he represented lo those Commissioners the situation of the captive children, and pressed upon them the propriety of taking measures to lave them ransomed ; and offered that if the Commissioners would grant ihe authority and urnish the means he would, without compen sation, go into the plains and receive all the children thus held in captivity, and bring them nio the settlements. He confidently expected that his represeniaiions would be properly at tended to by the Commissioners, but nothing was ever done, and (he capiives have ever since remained in captivity among the fierce savages." This is a sad story, and indicates a degree of apathy on the part of the Government, that is truly censurable. We beg leave to invite the attention of the Washington Union to the subject. Mr. Ritchie would serve ihe cause of humanity, by co-operaiing with his cotempora ries in oiher pans of (he Union, in an effort cal culated to produce prompt and proper action by the authorities, in a case so well suited lo in terest and touch every feeling mind and heart. It is painful to contemplate the condiiion of these poor children. In our view, it is as much ihe duly of Government to attend to matters of this kind, as to be engaged in movements of a more exciting- and perhaps less philanthropic character. The President should regard it as a privilege lo interfere promptly, and in the most generous and benevolent spirit. BicknelVs Reporter. Breakers Ahead. Messrs. Ritchie and Heiss have Issued a prospectus for a Congressional Union. This may have been a very well considered step on the part of these genilemen, but it may be pro ductive of very unlooked for conseqtlences. Blair and Rives did not sell the Congressional Globe when they 6old out the newspaper estab lishment and materials ! They are now erecting- with all possible despatch a printing office in the rear of the building lo be called Jackson Hall. The walls are up to the third story and the roof will be on in a few days. Here they iniend lo print the' Congressional Globe. How will ihey relish this rivalry of Mr. Ritchie's 1 They did anyihing but like the mode in which ihey were driven out of ihe Globe. May not this rivalry of Mr. Ritchie be the peg upon which Blair and Rives will hang ihe establish ment of a rival newspaper lo ihe Union ? We shall see. Mr. Rives has but recenily been on a visit to Albany, and jusi on the heels of his return from that city we see a paragraph in the Albany papers surmising that an opposition pa per to the Union besides the Constitution and the U. S. Journal will be started, and surmism that Blair and Rives are at the boiium of 11. What does it mean. The Locos of Philadelphia, have nominated Jas. Page, as their candidate for Mayor'. !' .t.pegaLf.ULjujiy- 11 1 . i .111 urn 1 1 n A Iisniav;iy Preacher. A laie Kentucky paper conlains an adver tisement offering a reward of 5400 for the re covery of "a negro man named Richard," who is 40 years old, reads and writes very well, is a preacher and has a license to exhort, endorsed by ihe Elder of Stone River Circuit or Mur freesborouuh Station. The advertisement states that he preaches and sings well, and it is sup posed ho will try to make his living in that way The crime for which he is advertised is I wo fold he is black and was born contrary to the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps he has some wild notions of his 'responsibility as a preacher, and is inclined to give a too liberal construction to the passage, "Go ymlo all the world" tyc. Is not this a great country, where preachers of the everlasting gospel are adver tised like stray cattle ? Tribune. A ITIonster Serpent. The Sea Serpent is no longer a doubtful character. The monsler. bones found by Dr. Koch some months ago in Alabama, have been put in order for exhibition, at th Apollo, in Broadway. They aro arranged just as ihey were found imbedded and petrified in the chalk and limestone. They are ail in a remarkable slate of preservation, and .ome of them almost as perfect as if but just taken from the animal. The spinal bones, as now arranged, measure one hundred and fourteen feel in length, and the animal must have measured at least one hundred and twenty-five feel. Thirty-two of the ribs, apparently about half the whole num ber, have been recovered in a good slate, and prove that this enormous snake must have mea sured twenty-five feet in circumference. Al though found so far in land, the monster no doubt belonged to the deep, and was thrown out of his element, to die where he was found, by some convulsion of the earth. A scientific gentleman who came in and examined the teeth and bones, said the animal was evidently a calf, and far from beingiVma'ure m iis growih. In his day, however, he would have fully sustained all that has been said of the sea serpent off our Atlantic coast. Jour, of Com. The Tribune chronicles a remarkable case of honesty. A poor boy in Grand street was crying over a five cent piece he had just lost, and which a carman had just picked up. Hear ing the boy cry, the carman asked what was the matter. "I've lost my money hoo-00-hoo!" blubbered ihe boy. "What was it ? a five-pence ?" inquired the honest man. 4,Ye hes, sir !" said the boy. "There, then," said the man, while a glow of real pleasure lit up his broad brown face as he put the coin into the urchin's hand "(here's your money ; don't cry." The boy took the money put his fin ger 10 his nose a la coffee mill, and exclaimed as he hopped away " Well, aint you a lidle-er the greenest. I seen you pick up that ere shi ner !" Petrified Bodies. There is a gentleman in Troy, N. Y., who has taken out a patent for petrifying dead bodies, or almost any other substance of a similar nature. The body after some preparation, is immersed in a liquid that in the short space of fourteen days will render it as solid as a rock of marble. The cost is but trifling compared with the lasting benefit rendered to those who wish to preserve and look upon departed friends. The Troy Bud get says, thai a boquet of fresh flowers immers ed in the liquid will, in a few days, be as solid and durable as though they were cut out of marble. Amalgamation and Bigamy. A woman named Jane Ann Hamar, alias Cor rieliucs, alias Watis, was arrested last week, in New York, for bigamy. She was married in December 1842 to a colored man named Cor nelius, and again, with the full knowledge of Cornelius, in December J843, to Geo. Walts, a while man and a mechanic Cornelius aciu ally living in the service of his own wife's se cond husband. Wails discovered her former marriage by chance, and having preferred the charge of bigamy, she was committed to an swer. The Moon and the Weather. Dr. Larduer in his fourth lecture, declares unequivocally lhal ihe changes of ihe moon have not the least effect upon the slate of the weaiher. This will be sad news to our weaih-er-wise people ! At New Orleans, Aug. 21, Mess Pork was up to $16, and Prime to $13 in consequence of the Government demand. The Lancaster Examiner, says : Wo have received from Col. Brimmer, of New Holland, a curiosity in the shape of nine full formed-ears of corn growing from one siein and under one huskV, This is a small sample of ihe way they do things in Old Earl. Curious Coincidence. In Davidson county, (Tennessee in whic't Nashville is situated, Mr. Polk was beaten i the gubernalorial election in 1843, 583 voie, In 1844, (the presidential election,) he wa, again beaien 583. In the Jale election, (IS15 ) Mr. Brown was beaten by Mr. Foster in th,!, (his own) county, 583. Close running for threo years. Union. Scarcity . of Ship Carpenters. BicknelPs Reporter of the 2d inst., S;ivs At the present lime a great demand exw fl)r ship carpenlers, in consequence of the iucreai of work at all the ship yards on the Delaware The wages-of these useful artisans is SI 87 1-li per diem, which is an adance of 75 cents H week on those given in the years lS42and'i:i but notwithstanding this fact, but few of tjle yards have a full complement of men adequ-.m to the cheering prosperity which is every where perceptible. THE " SUGAR COATED INDIAN VEG? TABLE PILLS," TRIUMPHANT. " AX OBSTINATE CASK. Baltimore, Feb. 13th, 1845. Dr. H. W. Andrews : Sir, The box of Dr. Smith's " Sugar Coat ed Indian Vegetable Pills," I purchased of yu 1 some two months past, 1 found in their applica tion to my son (of about fifteen years of a") the most happy effects on the system. He hail been for some years very delicate in health, and very much subject to Fever and ChilU, s.. much so as to create alarm for his future heal'h, and for iwo or three years we had to kreji him from school most of the time. 1 am now frank to acknowledge the complete restoration uf health, and a fair prospect of its permanent en joyment. John A. Sangston, No. I GO Hanover St. The above gentlemarris a well known uhuk- sale merchant in Baltimore. Dealers furnished at the New" York College of Health, 17U Greenwich street, New Yurie" a;.! sold by Agents in Monroe Co. Schoch & iapering, Stroudsburg. Jno. iMarsh.tJ- Co. Fennersville. ID CA UT1 Oy. As a miserable imitation has been made, by the name of " Sugar Coated Pdis," it is necessary to be sure that Dr. G. Benjamn Smith's signature is on every box. Price 25 cents. Aug. 14, 1845. To the Electors of Monroe County. Fellow-Citizens : Encouraged by many friends, I am induced 10 offer myself as a can didate for the office of County Treasurer, ai the ensuing Fall Eleciion. Should I reccire a majority of your votes, I pledge myself in per form the duties of said office with fidelity. I remain yours, &e. GEORGE V. BUSH. Smithfield township, Sept. 4, 1845. To the Electors of Monroe County. Fellow Citizens Encouraged by many of my friends, 1 most respectfully offer myself us a candidate for the office of at the ensuing general election. Should vou deem my capacity and claims to the office wor thy of your suffrages, my most anxious object and unceasing efforts shall be to merit your ap probation, by a prompt, faithful and impartial discharge of its duties. With sentiments of respect, I remain yours, &c. WILLIAM A. BRODHEAD. Lower Smithfield, Sept. 4, 1845. To the Voters of Monroe county. Fellow Citizens : Encouraged by numer ous friends in various parts of the county, I oi fer myself as a candidate for the office uf Register and Recorder. Should I be elected, I will endeavor to fu'l the duties of said office, myself, with prompt ness and punctuality. EDWARD P. RHOADS. Hamilton tsp., Sept. 4, 1845. To the Voters of Monroe county. I Ha Fellow-Citizens: Encouraged by mimef m -pQ ous friends in various pans of (he county, I m fer myself as a candidate for (he office of Register and "Recorder. Slirmlrl T K 1prlfi1 1 will fnrifl;ivor 10 f"'J the duties of said office with prompt""5 u punctuality. WILLIAM HUSTON. Stroud township, Sept. 4, 1855. To the Voters of Monroe eouniy Register and Recorder. Fellow Citizens: Encouraged by numsf ous friends in various pans of ihe county. I01 fer myself as a candidate for the office ot Register and Recorder. Should I be elected, I will endeavor 10 the duties of said office with prompmes punctuality. SAMUEL KJ5 Hamilton tsp., Aug. 7, 1845. r. e. t land if dlsch; I Genu I All I 'he as owns! Quest e lscribei "1 (he Stroud
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