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portunities for advertising in country papers which
his agency affords.
Mexico.
We are still in suspense in regard to the con
templated action of Mexico towards this coun
try, on account of the annexation of Texas.
She has not yet made a declaration of war, and
it is beginning to be currently believed that she
will not. This certainly would be her wisest
course. Mexico is too weak to attack us with
-any hopes of triumph, and tho consequences of
a war with us, her statesmen are well aware,
would be terrible to her. We think, therefpre,
that as she has procrastinated thus long, she
will pausu longer and consider the coit, before
authorizing open ho3lilties. All the exciting
rumors wo have laiel)' had, on this subject,
were got up by interested speculators.
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Specie in IheKatik of England.
We observe
among
the news by the late
steamer, that on the loth of August, the specie
in ihe Bank of England amounted to 10,000,
O0U, or nearly $80,000,000. This is an unit
stially large quantity to be gathered together ai
one time, even in the vaults of this mammoth
institution. It is nearly, if not quite, as much
tas wo have in all the United Stales. The es
timated amount in this country, a few years
ago, was SSO,000,000.
v Canal Commissioner.
We understand that James Burns, of Mifflin
county, was nominated by the Loco Foco Con
vention that assembled at Harrisburg on Thurs
day last, for Canal Commissioner. His party
friends s-peak of him as being a man well qual
ified to nil the important station.
RcLcrl H. Morton, of Dauphin county, is the
Native American candidate ; and unless the
Whtg State Central Committee soon present a
man of our own party for the office, our friends
will be compelled to make a choice between
the two above named geniletnen.
Candidate for Assembly.
The locos of Monroe held their Delegate
jIeeting,
at the house of Andrew Storm, in
Hamilton township, on Saturday last, and nom
inated Samuel Meyers, of Pocono township, as
sheir candidate for Assembly. The locos of
Northampton will hold their Delegate Meeting
on Tuesday ihe 23d inst., and nominate two
more candidates to complete the jtcket.
The JLady's Book.
Godey's Lady's Book for September has
been received, and is rich in reading matter
and embellishments. The prose and poetry is
of an uncommonly interesting character.- Go-
dey seems to improve with each succeeding
iiumber. The subscription price for a single
4 W
copy is S3, or two copies for $5.
Vermont.
" THE STAR THAT NEVER SETS!"
The annual election, which took place in
Vermont on Tuesday a-week, for Governor and
.Members of the Legislature, has resulted in
tTf I I m t
glorious wnig tnumpn. ine returns are not
Vet all received ; but sufficient is known to in
Mire the success of tho Whig Governor, and
the triumph of an increased number of Whig
Representatives and Senators. The Green
Mountain .boys have done nouiy. buccess to
ihem.
Dr. Gardner's tectures.
We acknowledge with pleasure the receipt
of Nos. & and 9 of Dr. Lardner's highly inter
eating and useful lectures. They are equal in
alue io any of the earlier numbers. Price 25
. cents per number.
Heavy Fine.'
- , We forgol to notice in our last that the Court
of .Quarter Sessions of Northampton county
'-had sentenced Jefferson K. Heckman, Stale
Senator from Northampton and Lehigh, io pay
afineofS300, and give ecurity in $1000 to
keep the peace for five years, for assault and
battery in spilling in the face of Matthew Hale
Jones, Esq. Deputy Attorney General of North
, uinpton county. -vj-
nomination.
Col. John Swift, has been nominated by the
Whigs of the city of Philadelphia, as their can
didate for Mayor. Col. S. was Mayor of the
City for a number of years prior to 1841, and
discharged the duties of the office in a faithful
and energetic manner. Col. James Page, is his
Loco competitor. The Natives also have a
candidate, but we have not learned his name.---Tho
election will probably be close but unless
the Locos and Natives unite, the Whig candi
date will be chosen beyond peradventure.
for the jeffersonian republican.
Mr. Editor :
A grand scheme of internal improvement has
lately been started in Philadelphia, which is
creating considerable discussion and specula
lion. The plan is to run a Rail Road from
Philadelphia, or Tide Water, along tho Valley
of the Delaware to Carpenter's Point, where it
is proposed to intersect that magnificent work
now in progress, the New York and Erie Rail
Road. For the privilege of connecting with
thai great work; Pennsylvania is to grant the
right of way to that Company through ihe north
ern counties to the Great Bend of the Susque
hanna, on tho way to Binghampton, passing
through the Coal region of the Lackawanna, a
matter of vat importance to tho city of New
York, from which a supply of Coal could be
obtained at all seasons of the year. Besides
the company would save some 30 or 40 miles
distance in construction, and a proportionate
expenditure of money. 'Tis said by those pro
fessing to be judges, that for every mile made
up the Delaware to Deposite, ore, two miles
could be made in Pennsylvania for the same
money, saving to ihe company half a million of
dollars at least, besides passing through a bet
ter farming country. The distance from Tide
Waier to Carpenter's Poini is about 120 miles.
The grade is about 5 feel in the mile; indeed
it is believed that the whole distance from Tide
Water to Lake Erie, by this route, would not
require a single inclined plane. The formida
ble barrier of the Blue Mountains offers no ob
struction ; there are no Alleghanies to pass ; no
tunnelling of Mountains ; no obstruction by al
ternate rail road and frost bound canals. Such
a work would be greatly advantageous to both
Stales.
Philadelphia and New York, have both done
enough by gigantic works of internal improve
ments to insure their growth and prosperity.
All jealousy of each other ought to cease : let
the people have a choice of markets. At the
point of connection the facilities for reaching
Philadelphia, or New York, would be about
qual. The interests of the fanner and the
hardy sons of the forest should not be sacrificed
to mercantile cupidity. The narrow and sel
fish policy of restricting trade to this or thai
city, to the great injury of the farming interest,
is fast giving way, and will be ultimately swept
by ihe board before the mighty torrent of pub
ic opinion. May we noi then hope to see the
citizens of these two great Slates cordially uni
ting in pushing through this greal work. No
thing in this way is too difficult to bo effected
by their joint efforts. Look to the north, we
see the mighty works of internal improvement
of the State of New York. So on the south,
ihe no less astonishing works of Pennsylvania.
We propose to call' this the middle or central
route, which, when completed, will not suffer
y comparison in public estimation and utility,
with either of the others.
LACKAWANNA.
A decision has been lately given by Judge
Siory which is of considerable interest to per
sons purchasing at auction. The plainfifF pur
chased some mills, &c, at auction at $40,000,
le supposing that the auctioneer had fair bids
against him. It turned out however that there
had been no bid except his own beyond $20,-
000. the others being fictitious on the part of
the auctioneer. The original owners of the
mills received ihe $40,000, and action was in
stiiuted against them to recover back the pur
chase money on ihe ground of fraud in the auc
tioneer! The sale took place in 1S3G, and the
plaintiff did not learn the deceit until 1840.
Judge Ware of Maine, held that tho plaintiff
ought to recover, but Judge Siory delivered an
adverse opinion, chiefly on ihe ground that the
fraud was not brought home to the defendants
personally. The case will go to the Supreme
Court of the U. S. N. Y. Courier.
Importations in Texas. We find it stated
in :he Galveston Civilian, that entries of U. S.
goods have been made under protest in ihe
Custom-house at Galveston the parties intend
ing to try whether they are liable to duty, upon
the question whether Texas is or is not now a
part of the United States.
They talk of killing r.aiile now by a galvanic
battery, io make the biHchory descent and, the
meat lender. How considerate! r . ?.
Facts by the Way.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says : A man,
who shot his daughter with a pistol, and was
acquitted on tho plea of insanity, is to be aeen
upon our streets. Shuster, who was convicted
of one of the most cold blooded murders ever
perpetrated in Philadelphia, and afterwards
pardoned by Governor Porier, on condition that
ho would leave the country, has been convictod
of receiving stolen goods, and has been sen
tenced to three years' imprisonment. Sarah
Ann Davis, convicted of murder, and discharged
from the county prison last spring, by a pardon
from Governor Porter, is said to have been
keeping a house of questionable morality in the
upper part of the city. Wesley Flavel, con
victed of a cruel murder while in a fit of intox
ication, and pardoned by GovernorPorier, on
condition that ho would immediately leave the
country, and never return, walks our streets in
broad daylight. And a number of less distin
guished personages, who have been convicted
of crimes, and pardoned within the last two
years, may be seen walking the streets, loung
ing at the corners, and holding familiar con
verse at public places with better citizens.
The JLatc Elections.
The Whig parly had never better reason to
be satisfied than with the results of these elec
tions. They gain nothing, it is true, and that
they did not expect ; bui they loso nothing of
moment, and thai ihey had every reason to an
ticipate. Not to be routed utterly under the
circumstances, is a substantial victory of itself:
for, let it be remembered what those circum
stances were. In the first place, the Whigs
were dispirited by e election of November,
which had resulted so differently from all their
anticipations, and their depression was propor
tionate to the sanguine expectations they had
naturally indulged. On the other iiad, the De
mocratic party was flushed with recent victory,
buoyant with good fortune, confident of success;
possessed of the Government for four years.
The Whigs again had scarcely any motive to
nerve them for the contest. Triumph would
not unseal Mr. Polk, or elect Mr. Clay, and de
feat could scarcely render their situation worse,
politically, than it was. Even as in Tennes-
see, wnere mere was a senator oi mo u. o. to
elect the approaching winter, the motive was
inadequate, for the Democratic party had al
ready secured a majority in that body.
We repeal that such being the circumstan
ces of the -country, as depressing as they well
could be to the Whig party, and as animating
and encouraging to their opponents, the Whigs
have done nobly and well in maintaining their
"round and making a drawn battle. In tho face
of a recent Presidential defeat, it is impossible
for the defeated to do much more. Time must
elapse chagrin must pass away new pros
pects must open the spirits and the hopes of
men must have opportunity to rally before a
vanquished parly can hope to plant their victo
rious eagles on the captured walls of their foes.
The recent contests in the above states, show
.what it was only important to show at this time,
that the Whig party in all of them survives in
its pristine force and integrity. Misfortune has
not disbanded, or intimidated, or diminished
thetn. There have been no desertions, and
thev need but the incentive and the occasion io
make as vigorous exertions for. the old cause as
in 1840 and 1844. Time is on ihe wing, and
parlies will soon be marshalling for 1S48, when
all the disasters of Tylerism, treachery and
1844, will be gloriously repaired.
Richmond Whi
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to
The Providence Journal, in some remarks on
the late occurrence ai Lexington, Ky., where
the laws of the land were treated with scorn
and contempt, expresses thfe following very just
opinion :
"To what tribunal can Cassius M. Clay ap
peal? There ought to be a power in the land
to take the press of the Truo American, and
replace it in Lexington, and give its control to
the editor. The same power ought to take.
some of the leaders of the outrage, Thomas F
Marshall among the rest, and put them in ihe
penitentiary. That power, in a government
like ours, can only exist where the allegiance
of the people to the law is unquestioned. That
power, we fear, does not exist now."
Decidedly Good. 'Which is the best house
in V said a gentleman on a steamer, address
ing a person who, he had been informed resi
ded at the place indicated. 'The House,'
was the decided response. 'That's tho house
where all the big bugs stop.' Discovering, af
ter a night of unrest lhat'his informant was the
keeper of the house alluded lo, he desired him
to send his baggage to some house where the
bugs were not so
big.
Santa Anna's Wife is just seventeen, very
fair and charming. What is exile to him,
who is 50, and with one kg, in the grave I
JJj3 We find the following in the Philadel
phia Ledger of Friday morning last :
"Report of the Arrest of a Murderer. It was
currently rumored yesterday, that a man named
William Runyan, well known in the upper part
of the county as a horse dealer, had been ar-
rested in Montreal and brought to the State of!
New Jersey on the charge of being the princi
pal aclor in the murder of the Castner family
at Changewaier, N. J. The story is, thai since
the execution of Parke, his wife communica
ted the facts lhat led lo Runyan's arrest, and
implicates several others in that horrid tragedy.
Runyan, it is said, was a relative and heir of
the Mr. Castner who was murdered."
We take the above to be one of ihe worst
specimens of the countless fabrications thai
have been circulated in relation to the Change
water murders. We know the Mr. Runyan re
ferred to, slightly, by reputation, and feel per
fecily confident that he is as far from having
killed the victims of the Changewaier tragedy,
as those victims are from having killed him.
He may have bled a green'' un occasionally, and
has certainly dealt in "bits of blood" in the way
of horse flesh, and this, wo are fully satisfied,
is all the blood for which he can justly be held
accountable. Mr. Runyan is in no way con
nected with the Paiko or Castner family. As
to disclosures by ihe widow of Peter W. Parke,
nothing of the sort is known in this quarter. If
some of our contemporaries would wail for the
Warren papers, they would perhaps have less
"charming variety of particulars in regard to the
murders, but such as they supplied the public
wiih, would bo much more worthy of credence.
Belvidere Apollo..
Premature Interments.
The Courier des Etats TJnis, publishes a let
ter from Paris, dated ihe 24th ult., which gives
account of a movement in Paris to preveui the
distressing and terrible possibility of premature
burials. Tho following is au extract translated
from lhat paper :
" An estimable philanthropist has recently
made a report to government respecting prema
ture burials. According to his calculations, the
delays now prescribed by law are insufficient.
He has collected during some years past, a long
list of persons supposed dead, who have aroused
themselves at the moment when the winding
sheet was about to be wrapped around them, or
after they had been lowered in the grave. It
is frightful to read this report of facts sustained
by authentic proofs and then how many are
unknown or discovered loo laic.
" II! omened rumors arise occasionally to de
velope some of the subterraneous dramas, which,
genuine or fictitious, freeze the soul. Last
winter a young and handsome artiste died sud
denly of a violent malady. A young man whom
her death had thrown into despair, was speak
ing to a celebrated physician about her last mo
ments, when ihe Doctor remarked that it was
not uncommon in such cases to mistake for
death what was only a long and deep lethargy.
At these words the young man was stricken
with terror. " If shu were not dead!" ex
claimed he in agonv. But she had been bu
ried ihe preceding day, and many and tedious
formalities were requisite before permission
could be obtained io re-open the grave. These
were at last surmounted, the grave and coffin
were re-opened, when ihe friendly (?) Doctor,
who accompanied ihe trembling lover, said,
" She is dead : but not more than two hours, for
1 yet feel the warmth aboui her heart." She
had been burried two days !
The means of preventing such horrors are
simple and well known. In Germany, a coun
try of wise precautions, thero is provided to
each cemetry, a hall, where the dead remain
sometime before being committed to the ground
In this hall the body, neatly attired, is laid upon
a coucn before tne lips is placed a mirror
which ihe slightest breath would cloud, and
between the fingers a string, which on tho
slightest movement, would cause a bell in the
department of the keeper to ring; this hall is
visited night and day hourly by vigilant inspeo
tors, and as we were told at Frenchport
scarcely a year passes thai the bell is not rung
by one of their supposed corpses
A Dr. Lyon has arrived at Now York, with
a lad named Davis, said '.o be a clairvoyant, and
repined io be able lo tell, when in a slate of
Somnambulism, what is the real disease of any
sick person, and what treatment (if any) wil
remove it, and even what course has been pur
sued previously, what medicines taken, &c.
An Editor of some paper in N. Y., very un
gallantly says that ho knows a lady who was
iiU years of age 10 years ago, and at the pres
ent time she is only 23.
A Paris letter published in ihe Boston Alias
says, that " Mr. C , an American lady,
some seventy odd years of age, has been led to
the altnr by a gallant Englishman, who 1m not
seen thirty surwmers."
Indian and Yankee. The water at 4ja t.
inaw is very clear and very cold, so cold as t.
be almost unendurable. A gentleman laieiv
amused himself by throwing a small gold Coi
in 20 feet water, and giving ii to any Ir,J;a;i
who would bring ii up. Down they nlU1Ppii
but after descending 10 or 12 feet they C3 '
up so chilled that alter several such ineffectu
. attempts they gave it up. A Yankee st.mtW
by observed that " if he would give it t() m
for getting it he'd swing it up quicker than Imfo.
ning," to which he consented; when Jonathan
instead of plunging in as was expected, qujeiy
look up a setting pole and dipping ihe end in a
tar barrel, reached it down to the coin ami
brought it up, and slipping it in his pocket XValk
ed off, to the amazement of the Indian diven
and the no small chagrin of the donor.- Co.
Poughkeepsie Eagle.
" SUGAR, COATED PILLS,"
If we were willing to limit ihe office of ia,:B
to its proper sphere, and to cease eating Wnpil
appetite expressed content, indigestion wouti
be a much rarer occurrence in civilized com
munities than it is observed to be. Hippocratr-
remarked that severe perspirations ari.sinn d.
ring sleep, without any other apparent cause,
are a sure sign lhat too much nourishment u
made use of. The day of reckoning will follow
such a state of repletion, which clogs the boi!
Iy functions, and may lead to sudden death bv
some acute disease, when the individual u ap
parently in good health.
Dr. Smith's Sugar Coated)
" Improved Indian Vegetable Pills,"
are all-efficacious to regulate the state of
stomach, improve digestion, and purify
fluids. As they are pleasant and perfectly
harmless, they are resorted to exteuiivnlv by
the dyspeptic, and all persons of sedentary h.
its. No family should be without them.
Dealers furnished at the New York College
Health, 179 Greenwich street, New Yuri, a:. 1
sold by
Agents in Monroe Co.
Schoch & Spering, Stroudsburg.
R. Huston t Co. do.
Jno. Marsh 6f Co. Fennersville.
IE? CA UTION. As a miserable imitation hij
been made, by the name of" Sugar Coaled Piils.'
it is necessary to be sure that Dr. G. Bei.jain:.!
Smith's signature is on every box. Price 25 cena.
Aug. 14, 1815.
MARRIED,
In Stroudaburg, on Saturday evening laM, hv
ohn Musch, Esq, Mr. Samuel Phillips. anl
Miss Phebe. Walton, both of Siroudsburg.
In Chesuuthill tsp., on Tuesday last, by tb
ivev. Helllg, Mr. UEORGE d. KELLER, bi:J
Miss Martha Jane Brodhead, all of Mtmr-m
cottniv.
BARGAINS
May be had at WELLES & EARL'S 4W
Dry Goods Store, No. 05 Barclay siref, t
doors above Greenwich street. New York,
where the following Goods may be found, a:
unexampled low prices, viz :
Brown and Bleached Shirtings.
Calicoes, the greatest assortment ever ofTerel
on this side of the town.
Muslin de Lames, ) , T ,
Ginghams,
31 ICS.
slack and colored Alpaccas.
Plaid Alpaccas.
Flannels, White, Red and Yellow.
Cloths, Cassimeres, Saiinetts and Kentucky
Jeans.
Shawls, a great variety.
Hosiery, from 1 shilling per pair to 4 shilling'.
Together with a great variety of Fancy Good.
N. B. J. W. Strader, formerly ofSimui:!-
burg and Shawnee, Monroe county, would li
happy to see his old friends, and the Merchant
of Monroe and Pike counties, ai the above Stor?,
where thev can be supplied with all descrip
tions of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, on a
reasonable terms, for cash or a limned cred.i,
as at any other establishment in the Cuy.
New York, September 11, 1845.
To the Voters of Monroe county.
Fellow-Citizens : Berne oncouraged it
a number of mv friends, I am induced to oft
myself, at the approaching Fall Election, as
candidate for the office of
CORONER.
Should I be elected, you can rely upon my c1'
charging the duties of said office with fideli'I
Your Obedient Servant.
WILLIAM H.WHITE.
Siroudsburg, September 11, 1S45.
To the Electors of Monroe
uounty.
Fellow Citizens Encouraged by mar'
of my friends, I most respectfully offer rap'
as a candidate for tho office of
m thn ensuim? neneral election. Should ,
lonm rrnr fnnnpitv anil rlaim to the ofHcfi
ihv nf vnur auffrares. mv most anxious ityecy
and unceasing efforts shall be to merit you3?'
discharge of its. duties.
Wiih sentiments of respect,
I remain yours, &e.
WILLIAM A. BRODHEAD
Lower Smiihfield, Sept. 4, 1845.