JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, December 25, 1845.
Terms, $2,00 in advance: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not
psud hefoic tho end of the vcar.
England and (he United States.
The question of tear or peace, is now the all
absorbing topic of the people of this and ihe
mother country. The speculations thereon are
nearly as various and numerous, as the minds
that conceive and the tongues that utter them.
We have already given it as our opinion, that
there will be no war. That opinion we now
repeat.
Our rights in Oregon, up to the 49th degree
of North latitude, are so clear and indisputable,
and the fee of the land between that Hue and
the Columbia River, is worth so little to the
mass of the English nation, that the govern
ment of that country will never go to war about
it. They may send ambassadors to negotiate,
their press may retaliate the bravado of our
own, and their people become excited on the
subject as well as ourselves; but they will nev
er commit so great un outrage upon civilization
as to declare war upon us, for not accepting a
iinc South of the 49th degree. If they do pro
ceed to open hostilities, it will be for something
else than that even if that should be their ex
pressed cause.
Our government has made a liberal offer to
England to settle this long-standing difficulty.
The proposition has been declined by Mr. Pa
kenham, the British Minister, without his giv
ing it that consideration, which its importance
demanded. It is said, however, that he reject
ed it without consulting his government. We
liope it is so for it. is not at all likely that a
more favorable offer will be made by the Uni
ted States. Much as we are inclined to peace,
and would deplore the evils of a war, we hard
ly think our government ought to recede, mate
rially, from that proposition.
The Democrat on the Message.
Our neighbor of the Democrat is still tugging
away at the President's Message, and trying to
make it assume an appearance and character
different from what any body else has seen
proper to give it. In tho course of his "hero
ics" upon it', he says, " it fell upon ihe Whigs
like a clap oj thunder on a sunshiny day," or
something like it we quote from memory.
This is rather news to us. Even if it had come
to us, unannounced, it would not have created
much sensation. But when we reflect, that for
-weeks before its delivery, its principal contents
were known, and published throughout the
country, it requires a stretch of imagination,
such as few persons can accomplish, to realize
that it fell like a " clap of thunder," &c. As
far as we can learn, the Whigs generally ap
prove the course of the President in regard to
Oregon, and condemn, in unmeasured terms, his
free trade principles on the subject of the Ta
liffl Try again, friend Schoonover. Perhaps
next time you will be able to make a little more
out of the Message. This being the first docu
ment of the kind which has been delivered,
since your accession to the editorial dignity, of
course the people will orerlook. small mistakes.
It is, moreover, a good one for you to practise
upon, and if you are only diligent, perhaps you
can make yourself perfect, before you exhaust
its topics.
The Harrisbur? Intelligencer.
We mention, for the benefit of those who
-would like to have good a paper from the seat
of government, that the Harrisburg Intelligencer
will be published semi-weekly, during the ap
proaching session of the Legislature, at the low
price of SI per copy. We recommend the In
telligencer to the peo'ple of this county, satisfied
that they will be pleased with it, if they take it.
The Columbian Magazine.
The Columbian, for January is a gem. Be
sides two superb steel engravings and a plate
of fashions, it contains forty-eight pages of as
good literary matter as we have ever seen col
lected together in such a magazine It is pub
lished in New York, at $3 a year. Now is the
time to subscribe. Hand in your names and
we will forward them.
JT The editor of the Mount Holly Mirror
lias in his possession one of the tickets printed
for Locofoco use at the last Presidential elec
tion, which is headed as follows : Polk, Dal
las and the Tariff of '42 !" This was a part of
the infamous game of fraud and delusion through
which Mr. Polk gained the power and patron
age that he is now wielding for the destruction
of American prosperity. Bel Apollo.
Congrcs.
The past has been an exciting week at Wash
ington. In the Senate, besides a mass of mi
nor business, a number of deeply important
quostious have been agitated. The resolutions
of Gen. Cass, instructing the respective com
mittees io inquire into the condition of our na
tional defences, both by laud and sea, may be
mentioned as the most prominent. They eli
cited a. discussion which lasted several days,
and in which many Senators took part. Some
of them gave it as their solemn opinion, that no
war would grow out of our present difficulties
with England about Oregon and whilst most
of them spoke in a spirit of forbearance, all
were united in declaring that the honor and in
tegrity of the Union must be preserved at all
hazards. On their passage, the vote stood,
yeas 46, nays 0. Mr. Allen introduced a reso
lution authorizing the President to give a year's
notice to England of our intention to put an end
to the treaty of joint-occupancy of Oregon,
which will be considered in the course of a few
days. Mr. Atcheson also introduced a series
of resolutions relative to the establishment of a
Territorial Government in Oregon.
In the House, the Bill admitting Texas into
the Union, as a State, has passed by nearly one
hundred majority. Many of the members who
voted against it, wished to have an opportunity
of expressing their sentiments on the subject,
but were prevented by having the previous
question moved upon them. This application of
the gag-law, is not at all relished. In the Se
nate, the Bill has been referred to the Commit
tee on the Judiciary, and when they report up
on it, it will no doubt be more gravely consid
ered, than it was in the popular branch. Mr.
Levin, the Native American member from Phil
adelphia county, has introduced a resolution
relative to the amendment of the Naturalization
Laws, and at our last dales there was an ani
mated debate going on as to whether the sub
ject should be referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee, or to a Select Committee to be appoint
ed for the purpose. This resolution has occa
sioned considerable feeling in the House.
Easton Whig.
Hallo, Pennsylvanians!
Did or did not James Buchanan, Wilson
McCandless, Richard Brodhead, Benj. A. Bid
lack, Pottsville Hughes, Samuel W. Black, etc.
when they traversed your State in 1844, as
sure ' you in effect that Polk was as much a Ta
riff man as Clay ? They duped and cheated
or told you the truth which was it ? Have
you read Walker's Report yet ? Do your jour
nals which huzzaed for Polk, Shunk, and the
Tariff of '42,' lay before you the substance and
drift of that Report ? Have you pondered on
Mr. Polk's second official explanation of his
Kane letter 1 Does it tally best with the Whig
or the Loco-Foco expositions on the stump last
year? And do you stand ready to be swindled
again whenever your office seekers have ano
ther axe to grind ? Think the matter over,
Pennsylvania!! ! and keep thinking till the time
comes to act! Tribune.
Some of the Locofoco papers, in the Tariff
interest, pretend to be disappointed with Mr.
Polk on account of his hostility to the protec
tive policy. This is sheer gammon.' The
knaves knew in the outset that Polk was a bit
ter enemy of the interests of free labor ; and ev
ery time they asserted the contrary, they were
guilty of the basest deception and falsehood.
Mr. Polk has spoken nothing but what every
intelligent man expected him to utter; and if
he does not now go on and extirpate the pro
tective features of the tariff, he will prove false
to his own sentiments false to the " democrat
ic" hatred of free industry and false to the
darling purposes of the Slave Power, whose
tool and instrument he is. Sussex Register.
A Member of Congress. Speaking of Mr.
McConnell, of Alabama, a Washington letter
writer says: The honorable gentleman reach
ed town to-day, dressed in the most singular
and outlandish style. He had on a pair of high
legged boots, coming up to his knees. His
pantaloons were of buckskin, and the legs were
thrust inside his boots. His coat was white,
and his cap was of rough bear skin. He im
mediately commenced a grand spree in honor
of his re-election, and he has spent the day, I
am told, in rovisiiing his old haunts. Of such
are some of the legislators of this free and hap
py land.
The prediction has been made that the next
Governor of Pennsylvania will be a Whig ; and
when we see the names of Gen. James Jrvin,
of Centre County, and Hon. James Cooper, of
Adams, brought forward for the office, we feel
inclined to look with confidence for the verifi
cation of the prophecy. Sussex Register,
Fifty-one buildings were burnrd down at
Bridgeport, Coniiectiui, un. ih.u U'tt iiibt.
The Canada Press and the message.
Some of the Canada papers are quite savage
in relation to the President's Message, and
threaten terrible things. Witness the following
from the Montreal Herald :
" We regret to see that the tone of the Mes
sage is decidedly unfriendly, and that there ap-
pears in it a studied determination to make no
compromise whatever of the conflicting claims
of the two countries
The successful viliany practised upon Mex-
ico in Texas, is now recommended to be adopt
ed towards Great Britain in Oregon. Grants
of land are promised to all who choose to go
and settle thete, and tho certainty of their title
to possession being confirmed by the United
States Government being distinctly held out.
Mr. Polk will find that England is not Mexico.
" The style of impudent bravado adopted to
wards the European governments, and the
threats against them if they dare to establish
any new Colonies in North America, although
peculiarly silly, are intended no doubt to irri
tate ; they show clearly that if Mr. Pojk can
possibly excite a war during his administration
he will certainly do it."
English Railways.
The London Times has published a docu
ment relative to the railway interest of England,
which had excited much interest and a great
deal of alarm. The document presents the as
tonishing number of 1,263 projected companies,
io carry out which will require nearly two thirds
of the national debt of England!! Even the
deposit often per cent, will alone absorb 53,
136,350. It further appears that there are 47
railways completed, representing a capital of
.70,680,687. In the course of construction
there are 118 lines of railway, to complete
which, even wilh-the Parliamentary power of
borrowing one third on debenture, will absorb
.67,356,326; so that the invested capital in
railways, leaving entirely out of view the new
announcements, is already the enormous sum
of 113,612,012! But if the old, the new, and
the announced undertakings are added together,
wiih the ten per cent, deposit, we have the in
credible sum of 649,573,790 required for this
branch of trade alone. The world never wit
nessed such folly, knavery, and madness before.
Elliott, who stood charged with the murder
of young Kendall, at Washington City, has been
discharged. The discharge was granted, on
the presentment of the Grand Jury, that Mr.
Kendall came to his death from a pistol shot
fired by the said Elliott in self-defence.
Disease among the Turnips. The Liver
pool Mercury of the 14th uh. publishes an ex
tract of a letter from a magistrate of the Coun
ty of Louth, slating that " the destruction of the
turnip crop is much more complete than that of
the potatoe. All the Swedes are rotten at the
core; yet their external appearance is as good
as usual " Accounts from the south of Ens
land also state, that the turnips there have been
attacked in a similar way."
By the use of a "sponge and vinegar, chalk
marks can be removed from a brick wall, so
says a writer in the North American.
The Duties of County Auditors.
The Harrisburg papers contain a Circular
from John N. Purviance, Esq., Auditor Gener
al of the Stale, to the County Auditors, notifying
them of the provisions of tho Act of April 10,
1845, which makes it their duty to examine
the dockets, records, and offices of Proihonota
ries, Registers and Recorders, from September
1st, 1840, to the 31sl of August, 1844, inclu
sive, agreeably to the Acts of April Cth, 1840,
and March lOih, 1810, and if either of the of
ficers should have during any year received for
fees a sum exceeding in the aggregate $1500,
to certify the amount.
The circular also calls attention to the 40th
Section of the Act of April 15th, 1834, which
provides that the Couniy Auditors shall audit,
settle and adjust all the accounts of the Treas
urer of the County with the State Treasury,
embracing Stale tax, tavern licenses, retailer's
licenses, hawkers' and pedlars' licenses, tin
and clock pedlars' licenses, pamphlet laws,
militia fines, &c. And io facilitate this labor,
as well as to establish a uniform and convenient
mode for settling the accounts, a form to be ob
served in making reports to the department has
been prepared.
Tho Cincinnati News says, that the pork
packing business has fairly commenced. Nerv
ous people have moved out of the city, they
cannot endure the shrieks of ihe dying hoga.
Why thev do not Lay. The reason why
hens do not lay in the winier is said to be the
want of animal food, which they get in .summer
in abundance, in tho form of insecis. An
telligent editor in the VVest says the reason is
that they havn't limp, 'He Uys, bnug mi. shun.
iTIatters in Oregon.
The people of Oregon, according to state
ments in the St. Louis Reporter, are virtually
divided into, three parties. First the British
parly under the auspices of the Hudson's Bay
Company; secondly, that portion of the Amer
ican emigrants who, from various motives, favor
I the plans of the Hudson's Bay Company; and
thirdly, that portion of the American emigrants
who are in favor of the extension over the ter
ritory of the laws of the United States. Emi-
grants depend, for the supply of clothing, pow
der, iron, and many other necessary articles,
on the accommodations they procure from the
stores and trading establishments of the Hud
son's Bay Company. American emigrants sell
their surplus products to that company, and
purchase of its agents the comforts and many
of the. necessaries of life. Those who are well
affecied towards the company, it is said, are
treated liberally, while those who peak boldly
in favor of the United States Government and
its claims, receive but little favor. The Bri
tish party and that portion of the Americans
who favor their plans are said to be in favor of
an independent government. The American
settlers, it would seem, are also divided on
other grounds a portion contending for the
laws and regulations adopted in a "mass con
vention," and another portion for ihose passed
by a legislature held last year. Among the
acts of the legislature was one declaring that
negro slavery should not exist in the territory,
and that every negro found in the territory, at
the expiration of two years from the passage of
the law, should receive a stated number of
! ,Mho8 al lhe whipping post This ,aw wa8
subsequently repealed and anoiher passed, re
quiring the negroes to be sold at public auction.
There are but a few slaves there, and they
were taken by their masters a few years ago.
The Newburyport Herald, after contradict
ing some statements in the papers discreditable
to merchants of that place engaged in the Or
egon and Sandwich Islands trade, says:
" The actual distance to be sailed from New
York to the mouth of the Columbia river, by
way of Cape Horn, is estimated at 15,000
miles. A ship canal at Panama, to be cut
through the Isthmus of Darien, which is only
37 miles, would save a thousand more than one
half the distance, reducing the voyage out and
back to less than the time now required to make
the passage out. The distance from N. York
to the mouth of the Columbia river by land is
about 3,700 miles. The territory which the
British claim in Oregon, North "of 49 degrees,
is represented by those who best know it, as
bleak, inhospitable and barren, abounding in
volcanic mountains and glaciers. It is now
valuable only for its furs, and these, through the
indefatigable efforts of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany, are rapidly diminishing. The American
colony in the valley of the Wallamette, is said
to number about 8,000 souls, though this esti
mate is probably overated. The climate is
considered equable and salubrious, and the soil
deep, strong and fertile. The crops never fail,
the water is remarkably pure and the water
privileges abundant. Shoujd we extend our
possessions over North Oregon as far as the
Bomanzoff mountains near the seventeenth par
allel, we shall reach that latitude where sun
does not set in Summer. Near the mountains,
in Summer the sun appears to stand as still as
it did in the days of Joshua. In June it is 25
degrees above the horizon at 'midnight,' and
the only mode of knowing that it is 'midnight,'
is watching the sun when it begins to ascend.
Fowls go to roost at 7 P. M. and repose until
the sun is well up. In Winter it is of course
the reverse, as in the high latitudes the sun is
not seen for six weeks."
The .Hcxicau minister.
The New York Courier has learned from a
reliable source the particulars of the appoint
ment of Mr. Slidell, of Louisiana, as United
States Minister to Mexico. It aeems that Mr.
Parrott, whose brother is already a Consul at
Mazatlan, a Mexican port, was sent to the Cny
of Mexico to sound the Government; and he
ascertained the fact that they were ready to ne
gotiate and willing to settle all the difficulties
with the United Simes for money. He return
ed to New Orleans the last of October, and
went immediately to Washington. Mr. Slidell,
learning the result of Mr. Parrott'a mission,
made application for tho appointment, which he
obtained. The basis of the negotiation, we un
derstand, is the Rio Grande for the boundary,
from ihe mouth to the source, and thence a
line North to our boundary; and the sum-re
quired, or which it was intimated would be fe
quired, as a consideration is. 3x5,000,000 io-:
wards which the amount due- by Mexico la A
merican clannas, will be taken in part pay
ment,' Upwards of 40,000 emigrants have loft Bre
men, this jearjur. th.e United Statqa. . .
nformenisHi as it is.
Mrs. Smith, the widow of the Prophet J0e
has addressed a letter to the editor of the New
York Sun, in which -she gives the following
picture of Mormonisrh; as it now exists under
the management of the Council of Twelve.
She is said to be very wealthy, and shows a
disposition to condemn this great system of n.
inquity and imposture, fostered by her late hus.
band.
" The laws of the United States are qnite
good enough for me and my children, and my
settled intention is to remain where I am, iak0
care of my properly, and if I cannot educate
my children here, send them to New York or
New England for that purpose. Many of ihB
Mormons will no doubt remove in the Sprtnu
and many more will remain here; and itotliju,,
would give me greater pleasure than to have a
mixed society in Nauvoo, as in other cities, ami
all exclusive religious distinctions abolished.
" must now say, that I never jor a moment
believed in what my husband called his appari
tions and revelations, as I thought him laboring
under a diseased mind; yet, they may all be
true, as a prophet is seldom without credence
or honor,, excepting in his own family or coun
try; but as my conviction is to the contrary,
shall educate my children in a different laith,
and teach them to obey and reverence the laws
and institutions of their country."
She also says : I am left here, sir, with a
family of children to attend to, without any
means of giving them an education, for there u
not a school in the city, nor is it intended there
o Vin H Qnv Kara nr of qiiv rttlin !. I
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the men who now govern this infatuated, sim
ple minded people, have sway. I have nut the
least objection that these petty tyrants remove
to California, or any other remote place, out of
the world if they wish, for they will never be
of any service to the Mormons or the human
family, no matter where they go. Their object
is to keep the people over whom they rule in
the greatest ignorance, and most abject reli
gious bondage, and if these poor, confiding
creatures remove with them, they will die in
the wilderness."
The amount of money in the depositories of
the U. S. Government on the 1st instant, sub
ject to the draft of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, was $8,922,885 42.
Before the Presidential election, the locofoco
cry was 'Polk, Dallas and the Tariff of 1842'
Now, it i, Harrah for Polk and Dallas the
Tariff may go to the d 1 !' Democracy is al
ways the same !
There are a couple of Editors in Lebanon
county, in this state, who unblushingly declare
that they 'want money !' Funny lhat, ain't uT
"Never too Late. The Knoxville Regi-
ter announces the marriage in Jefferson coun
ty, Tennessee, of Mr. Frederick Pulse, aged
one hundred and two years, to Miss Dorcas Man-
non, aged thirty four.
"NATURE AND EXPERIENCE OUR
GUIDE."
The extraordinary and well authenticated
cures wrought by the celebrated Sugar Coat
ed Pills, or Dr. Smith's Improved Indian Ve
getable Pills, have naturally drawn ptihlic at
tention to them. Perhaps in the history of
Medicine, from the time of Hippocrates to the
present day, there is no evidence of a medical
compound obtaining equal celebrity in so short
a time. There was never a medicine recom
mended by such high authority as Dr. Smith
Pills. Besides their great curative properties.
(possessing as they do, such astonishing power
to open all the natural drains of the body, viz
the Lungs, Kidneys, Skin, and Bowels,) they
are, unlike other pills, extremely pleasant be
ing coated with sugar, and as they do not grfp,
nor produce nausea, or any other unpleasant
conseouences. thev havn heinme verv onoular
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for Dyspepsia, Head-ache, Costiveness, Biliom
complaints, Foul Stomach, Fevers, Wornu,
Want of Appetite, Impurities of the Blood, Ob
structions and Female Complaints generally.
Colds, &c. One of the most influential ami
benevolent ladies in New York, Mrs. S. A
Gould, Matron of the U. S. Naval Hospital.
says, "There is no medicine in hr knowleda1
so well adapted to the numerous ailment
mankind, as Dr. Smith's Sugar Coated Pills
She especially recommends them to ladies j
Read her certificate in the pamphlet.
Dealers furnished at the New York College ot
Health, 17S Greenwich street, New York, and
sold by
Agents in Monroe o.
Schoch & Spering, Stroudsburg.
- J R. Huston & Co. do.
Jno. Marsh j Co. Fennersville.
ID CAVTlON:As a miserahle imitation b
been made, by the name of" Sugar Coaled jfr&,
it is necessary to be, sure that Dr- (5. Bnjaro"
Smith's KifTtiatlirn io nn ni'nrir hnv Prirp 95 cenW-
Aug. 14, 1815, "