A, ... . . : $v'.' .'";.' ; V ll i 'IT 5 .v. - !'vjsai4. t ir WWII IHlW.JI.il !'" T?. r: L""J"'" " 1 1 - . . BmWW"-"-- - US- "' ,''S7'y' J-1-J-f ""ri II ' lllll"!---'-'!--- ' - ' - The whole art of Government consists in the art of being honest.- Jefferson. ' , VOL 7. STRODDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 184G. No. T i. i,i,LLMMMM1.wliMuJJ1ajLjj.j "JJJLL LL.''-l'jJilL!l!5.''-L!!Ll!il'il"Li-1111" "J n i " ' Mamm-.. .- i iiHriwiMwiuM mji.i.i tmi,w- m.in.uMjj.iiJUJwai TEH VIS Two (lullnrs nnr nnnum In nrtvnpf Tuo dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if not p iiii before the end of Uie vear, Two dollars ana a nail. Those who reccn e uiuii papers br a carrier or stage drivers employed y tne proprie tor., will be charged 3" 1-S cts. per year, extra. No p ipers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editors. iD'Advertisemcnts not exceeding one. square (Fixtoen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar: twcnty-iive cents for every subsequent insertion: larscroncs in proportion. A -liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers )DAll letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. ,TOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna mental Trpc, we are prepared to execute every description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Holes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Trintcd with neatness and despatch. on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE JTcf f ersoniau Republican . THE ISSUE IN OCTOBER NEXT James ITI. Power AND THE Win. B. Foster AND THE British Tariff o4G. Whig Tariff of 42. people of Pennsylvania, here is the istnj : fairlv Mated. The election of J AS. M. POW- ER, will be regarded all over the Union as cv iilpnce not lo be misundcrMood, that PENN SYLVANIA is not to bo PROSTRATED IN THE DUST, or her honest voiers CHEATED AND HUMBUGGED with impunity while rverv vote polled for V M.B.FOSTER will be deemed an expression in favor of Free Trade and the BRITISH TARIFF of 1846. The Parting; of Summer. BY MRS. HEJIAN'S. Thou 'rt bearing hence thy roses, Glad summer; fare-thee-well ! Thou 'rt singing thy last melodies In every wood and dell ; But in the golden sunset Of thy latest lingering day, Oh J tell me, o'er this chequered earth How hast thou past away? Brightly, sweet summer ! brightly Tkinn ItAiiro li. ha Annlnd It. , . . - , r 11 jV ; 1 o the joyous birds of the woodland boughs ,n, r t ' ' J he rangere of the sky : 0 J vv w And brightly in the forests,1 To the wild deer bounding free i .1-. And brightly midst the garden flowers, To the happy, murmuring bee. But how to human bosoms, With all their hopes and fears ; And thoughts that make them eagle wings To pierce the unborn years I Sweet Summer! to the captive : Thou hast flown in burning dreams Of the woods, with all their hopes and leaves, And the blue rejoicing streams ; To the wasted and the weary, - - . On tho bed of sickness bound; ' ',; Jn sweet delicious fantasies, k That changed with every sound ; To the sailor on the billows, In longings wild and vain For the gushing founts and breezyglnlls, And the homes of earth again. . t And unto me, glad Summer ,t How hast thou flown to met ' ,.tj My chainless footsteps naught have. kept i'cm haunts of song and glee. . "Thou h&st flown wiih wayward visions,,; In memories of the Dead In shadows fr.om a troubled heart, O'er a sunny pathway hed ; In briof and huddeji strivings 't To flight a weight aMde ; Midst' the.-'e, thy melodies have ceascdfM And all thy rosee died! But oh! tbou gentle Summtr' sjto71. If 1 greet I by .flowers on cr inoe "Bring me again thy buoyancy, Wherewith my soul should .soar J".. Give me to hail thy MJtishitie ftj . Wiih song and spirit free; -j Or in a purer land than thi Jilay our nextmeeting b" U The editor of the Colpmbus Enquirer chron icles the receipt of three white rats, (not mice.) He tays theywere caught in Harris county, where wc unde.rbtand a number of others of, the same kind have been taken. .Tber.e4ieaid to be one almost as red an ccarlpt. They are a curious variety, Slid .rio mtMake.," ' ' Thin line getJU6 out oTfafbcrape. The following remarks of James Madison, on the constitutional power of Congress to the various branches of industry of our country, are worthy of the roost aitentivo perusal and close Miuly. In 1S27, constituiional scruples, for the first time, began lo be expressed, and Mr. Madison was appealed lo and his opinion asked upon the point, and he gave it in a letter to Joseph C. Cabell, esq., on the 18th of Srp temher, 1828, to be found in Niles' Register. The disiinpuished nhilosonher and statesman. who took notes of everything that was said and done during the formation of the constitution, who took part in all the discussions in regard to it, who was a member of the first Congress under it, who was subsequently President of the United Slates, after arguing the question at length, sums up his opinions in eight general propositions. He says : " It is a simple question tinder the constitu tion of the United States, whether 'the power to regulnte trade with foreign nations,' as a dis liuci and substantive item in the enumerated : powers, embraces the object of encouraging, by duties, restrictions, and prohibitions, the manu factures and products of the country ? And the affirmation must be inferred from the following considerations : 1. The meaning of the nhrase 'to rcpulate trade' must be sought in the general use of it; in other words, in the objects to which the pow- er was generally understood to be applicable when the phrase was inserted in the constitu tion. "2 The power has been understood and used by all commercial and manufacturing nations as embracing the object of encouraging manu factures. It is believed thai not a single ex cepiion can be named. " 3. This had been particularly the case with Great Britain, whose commercial vocabulary is the parent ol ours. A primary object of her' commercial regulation is well known to have J cen the protection and encouragement of her t f . .-..w.. v.-. i j c t j . i . u .1 I "4. Snrh iinrtnrstnnrl in ho ilip nrnnr I11T1 11 11 I :i I'l II I f'k. - " - f'"l use of the power by the States most prepared for manufacturing industry whilst retaining the power over, their foreign trade. "5 Such a use of power by Congress ac - cotds with the intention and expectation of the 5 n cs in transferrin q power over trade from themselves to the government of the United Stales. This was emphatically the case in tne easiern, me more raanuiacturing, members or the confederacy. Here he cites the opin-J!orig ions of several distinguished men who aided in the formation of the constitution "6. If Congress has not the power, it is anni - hiiatedfor the nation, a policy without example in any otner nation, ana not witnin tne reason of the solitary one in our own. The example alluded to is the prohibition of a tax on exports which resulted from the apparent impossibility of raising, in that mode, a revenue from the States proportioned to the ability to pay it the ability of some being derived, in a great meas- ure, not from their exports, but from their fish- eries, from their freights, and from their com- merce at large, in some of its branches alto- gether external to the United States; the profits from all of which, being invisible and intangible, would escape a tax on exports. A tax on im ports, on the other hand, being a tax on con sumption, which is in proportion to the ability of the consumers, whencesoever derived, was free from that inequality. "7. If revenue be the sole object of a legit imate impost, and the encouragement of domes tic articles be not within the power to regulate trade, it would follow that no monopolizing or unequal regulations of foreign nations could be counteracted; that neither the staples of subsis tence, nor the essential implements for the pub lic safety, could, under any circumstances, be inured or fostered at homo by regulations of commerce, the usual and most convenient mode of providing for both; and that the American navigation, though the source of naval defence, of a cheapening competition in carrying our valuable, and bulky articles to market, and of an independent carriage of them durijig foreign wars, when a foreign navjgaiion might, be with drawn, must be at once abandoned or speedily destroyed; it being evident ahat a tonnage doty, in.foreign ports against our vessels,-and an-ex-emption of such a, duty in .our ports jjn, fa vor of foreign vessels, must have the inevitable effect of banishing ours from the ocean. " 8. That the encouragement of manufactures was an object to regulate trade, is proved by the use made of that power for thai object in the first session of the first Congress under the constitution, when among the members present were so many who had been members of the federal convention which framed the constitu tion, and of the State conventions which rati fied it; each of these classes consisting of mem bers who had espoused the constitution in its actual form. It does not appear from the prin- j ted proceedings of Congress on that occasion I that. the power was denied by any of them. J And it may be remarked, that the members from I Virginia in particular, as well of the anti-feder- : al as the federal party, the names then distin guishing those who had opposed and those who approved the constitution, did not hesitate to propose duties, and to suggest even prohibitions in favor of several articles of her production. By one, a duty was proposed on mineral coal in favor of Virginia coal pits; by anoiher, a du ty on hemp was proposed to encourage the growth of that article; and by a third, a prohibi tion of even foreign beef was suggested as a measure of sound policy. See Lloyd's De bates." Pleasures of Soldiering:. Major Forsyth, the editor of the Columbus (Ga.) Times, has written sereral letters which rank high for graphic power and spirited details. From a recent letter the Richmond Enquirer extracts a few passages, showing how rich a field Mexico presents for a lover of Entomolo gy and Natural History : " This country is distinguished, above all other particulars, by its myriads of crawling, j flying, stinging, and biting things. Everything vou touch has a spider on it. We are killing them all dav in our tents. We never dare draw -on a boot or put on a hat or garment without I . ' . ., . " . I. I , . . M.na..Mna H Close searcii lur suuiu uuimjiiuus juuuiu ur 111- . . , . . ..t,T : .!.; rl,l Tt : iCUl UI UUUllllig lll UICll IUIU9 Ul CUlllCIO. 11 13 r wonderful that we are not slung twenty times I a day. Yesterday morning, while standing up j al breakfast, (we never sit at meals for the want j0f ,he wherewith to make a seat,) I felt some j strange thing crawling up my leg about the ; knce. jt did not take me long to seize it with 1 my hand and to disrobe. Looking into the leg i 0f mv olT-drawn drawer, 1 beheld a villainous j 00hiRg creature, of black and yellow, with a bony laj j caie(3 my me3S ,0 j00c, al it) J vvnen )r. H0Xey, who has been before m this j replic coun,ryf pronounced it a Mexican scor- 1 pjorii and told mo for my comfort that it was as j poisonous as a rattlesnake. His sting was out, j and no doubt when I clenched him in mv hand ;le stuck out at my clothes, instead of in at my flesh. 'Thinks 1 to myself there's an escape. Besides these we have spiders, centipedes, hordes of flies, and every thing else that crawls, flies, bites, and makes a noise. A gang of lo custs have domiciled ihemselvos in our camp, and keep up a sleepless catter all night. To ,his js joined ,he music of frogs and the barking of praJrje dogs. A few nigms since a panther came smelling up to the lines of sentries. All these small nuisances are universally pro nounced in camp as death to one's patriotic emotions, and a right hard fight wiih the ene my, to be followed by a riddance of his pesti lent country, would be hailed by the whole re giment as a consummation of too much happi ness. But here we are to stay, fighting his insects and vermin, with no present prospect of finding their masters, (our enemy,) for whose special use and appropriate comfort they seem to have been formed by Nature. The air here, near the seacoast, is certainly fine, and one is. at a loss to account for the sickness; but asiB, from that, I would willingly forego the posses sion of all the rich acres I have 6een to got back from this land of half-bred Indians and full-bred bugs." A Monstrous Woman. The Ohio "State Journal says that there i a-woman 'in "Picka way county, in that S'.aie, who weighs 4G4 pounds ! She cannd'. dispose oPherself in less ihan two chairs, atd would 'fill three pretty well. She-usualy. sleeps in i large chair that she had made for lhaVpurpose nol being able Asleep inibed.'n-, tfntJt -ri .vfci - i From the North American. The Iron Interests of Pennsylvania. It might be thought impossible that arty citi zen of Pennsylvania should be insensible to the Stale pride and ambition which a knowledge of the natural superiority of tho old Keystone is calculated to inspire, or that he should sanc tion the war upon her interests which renders her advantages of so httle avail. Every great natural avenue of commerce is oj?oiito her ; the Lakes, the St. Lawrence,' the Ohio, the At lantic, all contribute to enrich the country. In her iron and coal she is rendered the empire Stale of production. Those interests fostered and developed, would render her the wealthiest community of the Western world One would think that such advantages would unite all her citizens in support of the measures necessary for their developement. Instead of this, we find her people supporting, in the mal-adminis-traiion of her own government, and the oppres sion of that of the nation, the" obstacles that re tard her onward career. Her own vote on the Presidehlial question has repealed the Tariff of '42, under which her prosperity has been so ex traordinary ; and now, when the wrong has been consummated, we find lier journals and many of her people applauding the blow that smites her best interests to the earth. It is strange that any Pennsylvanian should be careless in relation to the maintenance of such interests as those of iron and coal. They affect, in their relative operation, every other interest cherished by our people. The demand for iron must ever be universal and imperative; and whether in peace or war, it is necessary that the country should be independent of for eign nations for its supply. No patriot can be willing to see our land drained of its wealth to purchase an article of the most absolute neces sity which a few years of protection would en able us to supply from our abundant mines. That under the British Tariff our iron trade must be crippled, if not crushed, is now appa rent. The manufacture of iron 'is in a transi tionbetween the use of charcoal and anthra cite, and the protection has'not been enjoyed for a 'time sufficient to establish in full vioor the latter improvement. We doubt not that some of the furnaces, enjoying peculiar advantages, may struggle on; but already some arc closed and others are preparing to close., The inter est is an infant one and it needed all the pro tection of the Tariff of '42. lis gains have not yet cleared the losses sustained in it. It is vain to say that these measures are intended for effect. What effect ? Are the iron mas-, ters such mad-men as to sacrifice their business and themselves to produce a political result a. result, by the way, which many of them oppose, and which such measures cannot aid in promiK ting. This absurd allegation has been so ofu3fl made, that many have given it a careless rye dence. Let the public mind be disabused, and let the party lay not the flattering unctio'n. to its soul that it is not the British Tariff, bttta Whi panic that is producing the results which all Pennsylvania must lament. The consequences of the depression of the iron trade must be calamitous to iho entire cotin try. Had Southern, envy spaced Pennsylvania, instead' 6f piling uporr her the heaviest and most destructive, penalties of the British Tariff, a few years woold have seen our country sup plied with iron and the manufactures in iron, more cheaply than we will procure them from England. A vast interest would have been raised up and matured, giving unbounded wealth to Pennsylvania and tlifiusing the advantages throughout the whole land. Our Slate dobt would have been rapidly and easily lifted from our shoulder our farms cleared from that uni versal mortgage, and our labor disembarrassed from its present heavy 'taxation. Our State could have entered anew, wiih a light heart' and heavy purse upon her career of improvement. Agriculture and commerco would have shared largely in the general prosperity, and our Stale would soon have been the garden and the work shop of the Union. Since the passage of the Tariff of '42 the population and wealth of Penn sylvania haye .increased more rapidly ihan ever befpre.. How will it be with us now? .And what should be thought of those of our citizens, who from a lust for office, -or a slavish subse'r: vi'eiicv topa'rtymiite with theeriemies of genn-i sylvania o ciush and impoverish ner :o drive her back to repudiation, despondence, and wretchedness? " ' It is to be regretted that those immediately connected with this great interest hiiv-'"i1ft adopted measures to unite and organize their efforts in its behalf to lay before the people if Mile State the facts and statistics that hear ufinn ;'it, and to dispel the errors which prevail upon j the subject. Such a course would effectually suppress the misrepresentations by which ib people are deceived and misled The people .should be regularly and fully supplied with in-. j formation upon a subject so important to th umis 1 uiiu 11 1a miijr umiltu lieu aim frjtl II !!- ed effort among those engaged in the business that this can he effected. The columns of the North American will be gladly opened for the admission of such statements and views as inav c?.... . i :. ..i.. -. 1 t , i be calculated to enlighten the popular ipind 3iid sustain an interest so eminently Pentisvlvaiiian. "That's What Bene it." We have frequently had the pleasure of wit nessing sturdy old democrats turn from their dearly cherished political predilections, as some truth of a startling character would break upoi, their mind and awaken them to an in-csiiganon. of the , principles which they have hold for years, without, being able to give a reason fuc their faith.. Itf is a noble sight to see a ran bursting the shackles of preconceived and ill digesied opinion, however ruged and homely may be the language in which he.embodieshii reasons for so long doing. In such cases we always have found it best to say nothing; as men of this class are generally prompted to ac tion by motives and feelings whir 'n no one else jan multiply or diminish : they will have iheir own way of working out theiv own political salvation. We acted on this p'an a few dava ago, when a plain, blunt looki.ijg farmer enteltu our sanctum, and said : ' ' ' ' " I wish to subscribe foe your paper." " Yes Sir," said we; th.e subscription nook was taken down, and the. name entered in'a trice. We are generally expeditious in such matters. When thi was done, the old gentTe man (vhom wehrfrj lover seen before) pee rod over the top of a "newspaper at us, and remark ed : - - - . M " I voted for Polk !" ' " What in tVe world made you do'thatl" " Annexation that's what done ftNow we've got oor annexation, and, it strikes 'me : .-.. . , , ' "..f e iu paijiji jor u, wnicn goes down rayther hard, scW-in' Clay told us aforehand. I believe that rvian's a prophet." " Ve nodded, as much as to say, " them's the p'f.nt." He added: " P'r'aps you think I'm not a Whig now (jut cfl aint. the new Tariff hilPx tint n stinair f j - 1" Yes Sir, 1 holler enough ; give me a copy of the Kane letter for a neighbor of mine." So saying the old gentleman departed, leav ing us in thp comfortable belief that he will be in the right place next time. Vicksburs Whirr. i A Cincinnati paper says" that dragging for dead bodies is sometimes unsuccessful, but a curious discovery has been lately made in that place. A child of six year's was drowned':in the canal, and a long time was lost in dragging for the body without, success. A young wo man recommended them to get a loaf of bread and put some quicksilver in it, averring thai it would float to tho body. The bread thus pro pared floated to a distance, remained stationary after turning round several times, and beneath the spot occupied by the loaf the child was found. The Mormons have a species of gun" they manufacture themselves, which they calPsix teen shooters, and which will discharge sixteen times without re-loading. At' a short Mistanre they are very effective, and give ih'e Mormon a great advantage over their enemies. " . 1 . 4 . Double Headed, CliiSd. .,o A very wonderful natural curiosity isvnow being exhibited at the Colliseum Hall. New York. It is a child born alive on the Island of 1 Nantucket, with two heads 'and neck', aJau- tifully formed body, two hearts, four Iwigsand one stomach'." .-.? " " It's a poor rule'tlhit wdnttworkibothLways," as :the scholapsaid, when? he sentirnbackiagVu. ai the master's head. 1 t
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