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JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, February 4, 1817.
Terms, $2,00 in adrancc; $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not
paju ueiorc me end of Uio year.
FOR GOVERNOR,
PETER S. MICHLER,
OF NORTHAMPTON.
Subject to the decision of the 4th of March Convention.
Whig State Convention.
A Slate Convention, to be composed of Del
egates from the city of Philadelphia and the
several counties equal to their representation in
(he General Assembly of this Commonwealth,
will be held at Harrisburg, on TUESDAY, the
9ih day of MARCH next, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, for the purpose of selecting candid
ates for Governor and Canal Commissioner lo
bo supported by the Whigs and the friends of
the Protective Policy at the next ensuing elec
tion, and to transact such other business as may
bo deemed important to the success of the Whig
cause.
J. P. SANDERSON,
SAMUEL D.KARNS,
nwi t . JOSEPH KONIG VIACHER,
1 MORTON McMJCHAEL,
" GEORGE ERETT,
H.JONES BROOKE,
THEO. D. COCHRAN,
: JAMES FOX,
JAMES MARTIN,
WILLIAM BUTLER,
J. J. SLOCUM,
JOHN R. EDIE,
EDGAR COWAN,
1 JOHN B. JOHNSON,
- Wm. J. HOWARD,
Whig State Committee.
"Tlic proceedings of tho meeting held in Pike
county, were received too lale for insertion in
this week's paper. They will appear in our
next.
The County Meeting.
Dy reference to a call in to-day's paper, it
will be seen that a Whig County Meeting; will
be held in Siroudsburg on the 23d instant, at
which a Delegate will be appointed to the Har
risburg Convention. We hope to see a fair
turn out of our political friends on the occasion.
The I-ady's Bock.
The February number of Godey's Lady's
Book is a gem. It contains no less than nine
teen beautiful illustrations, some of which are
executed by the best artisis in the Union.
Among the others is a. splendid Mezzotint
Fashion Plate, the first of the kind ever execu
ted in America it alone is worth double the
price of the number. The reading matter is
excellent, and has twelve extra pages.
Godey's reprint of Blackwood, and the Lon
don Ladies' World of Fashion, are continued,
and improve with each succeeding number.
Columbian Iff agazine.
This famous New York monthly, for Febru
ary, has made its appearance, and is equal to
the very best of its predecessors.
Newspaper Letters. Mr. J. Brown, 2d?
tAss't. P. M. General, in a letter to the Boston
vC Transcript, states that publishers of newspapers
j, .rnay transmit their bills for subscription due,
. jfree of postage, according to the provisions of
Sec. 156 of Post Office Regulations.
Later front the Army.
We have dates from Tampico to the 14th
ult. Gen. Taylor and Gen. Quitman had en
tered Victoria on the 9th ult., driving the Mex
icans before them for many miles.
The Mexican army is believed to be not far
off, though the Mexican soldiers seen in the
neighborhood of Saltillo are now supposed to
have been the advanced party of some 1,500 or
2,000 men kept in position on this side of the
desert between Saltillo and San Luis, to de
stroy the water tanks in case the American ar
ray should more in force in the direction of
San, Luis. Gen. Taylor .had sent forward Col.
. May to examine the mountain pass between
Monte Morales and Labradores, and on his re
turn he look another pass leading to Lenares,
iwwhere he was attacked by a large body of the
' fenemy, and his rear guard cut off by rolling
stones down into the pass. Col. May's loss
had not been ascertained, nor whether any o
his men were killed.
Generals Taylor and Paterson with 6,000
' men were at "Victoria; Butler Wool and Worth
with 8,000, at Saltillo. The Mexican force in
the field is said to be 50,00030,000 of whom
were at San Luis.
.. .Prentice.says jhere are Whigsenough going
jiu ,,iuuAii.u iu wiiiu iuo lucAikaus, auu a sum
- cient . number remaining at ..home to whip, the
locofocos.
The Legislature of New Jersey, on Thurs
day of last week, re-elected the Hon. J. W.
Miller, U. S. State9 Senator.
More 41 Aid and Comfort." A resolution
was offered in the Missouri Senate on tho 8th
inst., for firing twenty-nine guns in honor of
Palo Alto, Reacca de la Palma and Monterey:
and rejected by the unanimous vote of the Lo-cofocos-!'
Will Mr. Polk have these negative
voters tried under the second section? 'Bait.
Patriot.
Iowa.
The St. Louis Republican of the 16th ult
says: ine Legislature oi towa laueu to meei
in joint session on the 5th inst. to elect Sena
tors in Congress. The election stood adjourned
to that day, but the Loco-Foco members of the
Senate, fearing the result, refused to meet the
House in joint session, and it is now probable
that no election will take place at the present
session.
If this should be the result, then the State
will be without Senators for two years to come,
because the next session of the Legislature will
not be held until November, 1848, and the Go-
vernor cannot make temporary appointments,
as, the office never having been filled, no va
cancies can be said to have taken place.
We stated yesterday that Marshall who stood
accused of bribery had been liberated by ha
beas corpus. On this subject we find the fol
lowing statement in the St. Louis Now Era:
The statement of Mr. King, upon whom the
attempt at bribery was made by S. T. Marshall,
was placed on the Journal of the House. A
committee of investigation was appointed and
Marshall taken into the custody of the Ser-
geant-at-Arms.
After these proceedings, on a subsequent
day, Mr. Olmstead moved to amend the Jour
nal, so as to exclude Mr. King's statement (!)
This was refused ; not, however, without a
struggle, the vote being 3 7 for and 19 against
the motion.
The Committee proceeded to inquire into the
facts, and while the Committee were so engaged
and pending the inquiry, Marshall was taken
from the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, by a
writ of habeas corpus, issued by one of tho Su
preme Judges. The power of the Judge to or
der the discharge in the case is most peremp
torily contested.
The whole history of the business shows
how anxious are the Loco-Focos to deliver the
guilty and to stifle all inquiry into the guilt.
It is well known that Gen. Dodge's name
stands in a ery equivocal position in relation
to this inquiry. A1 any rale 'he Hawk Eye re
marks :
" We believe on ihe highest kind of testimo
ny that Gen. Dodge's real friends have offered
bribes to several members of the Legislature,
to induce them to vole for Dodge as U. States
Senator."
Flour in New York, a few days since, sold
at $7 per barrel, and wheat at $1 50 per bush
el. The spirit of speculation was rife.
Ten first class ships have been chartered at
New Orleans by the U. S. Government, to pro
ceed to the Gulf. These, with the fifteen
chartered previously, have been engaged at an
average rate of from $15,000 to $22,000 a
piece, which will make the round sum of be
tween $225,000 and 330,000 for their three
months service.
Petrified Unman Body found.
We gathered the following facts from a gen
tleman of intelligence and undoubted veracity,
who was an eye witness; they may therefore
be relied upon as substantially correct.
A few weeks since, while engaged in dig
ging a well in the Lower part of Lownds coun
ty, Ga., within about a mile of the Florida Line,
the workmen found a human body, completely
turned to chalk. They had mutilated the body
considerably before they were aware what it
was. After they discovered it was a human
body, they succeeded in getting nearly or quite
all the pans. Our informant with several other
gentlemen of the vicinity visited the spot, and
examined it carefully. They say there is not
the least doubt of its being a human body.
There were several teeth still remaining in the
jaw, and the appearance of three having been
extracted while the subject was living. The
body when found was imbedded in a Miff clay
about thirty feel from the surface. The sur
rounding country is a flat pine forest, heavily
limbered, no stream of water of any magni
tude within ten miles. Our informant was
strongly of opinion that this body had belonged
to one of the antediluvian race. Albany (Ga.)
Patriot.
Sweet or Olive Oil is said to be certain. cure
for the bite of a Rattlesnake. . Apply U inter
nally and externally. "
W commend the following extract of a re
cent letter of " Oliver Oldschool," to the atten
tion of certain editors who indulge in the ridic
ulous practice of stigmatizing the -Whigs as
41 Federalists:"'
"A very sharp, cutting,, pungent speech was
made in the House upon the navy appropria
tion bill, by Mr. Culver, of New York, who
waked up his adversaries and greatjy amused
his political friends, and occasionally the other
side. Mr. C. undertook to repel the charge of
federalism, enumerating a host of old federalists
in different States who are now whitewashed
democrats. He said that the gentleman from
Ohio, Mr. Thurman, had last session, -made a
speech upon the war, in which he had incqrpo
rated many extracts from the federal papers
published durirtg tho last war with England.
As all ihe papers which ho quoted .from were
from two States, namely, Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania, he inferred that he had been fur
nished with them by the two members of the
Cabinet from those States, who must have been
familiar with those papers ; he alluded to
Messrs. Buchanan and Bancroft.
But Mr. Culver said there were some things
which had escaped the gentleman's notice
federal doctrines which he would now supply
him with. He would read him some extracts'
from an oration delivered by one James Bu
chanan, at Lancaster, Pa., on the 4th of July,
1815. The author of the oration bore the same
name and came from the same place as the
gentleman who was now so famous a democrat,
and who held a seal in Mr. Polk's Cabinet.
He did not know that there were two James
Buchanan's of Lancastor, Pa.
Mr. Culver then read several extracts from
the oration, which attracted no little attention
from both sides of the House. He then went
on to show that the so called democratic party,
was spotted all over with Federalism, it was to
be found in its ranks in every one of the.-Northern
and Middle Stales ; and commencing with
Maine, he went through the Slates, mentioning
many of the most active and prominent politi
cians of that school, who were as prominent
and active formerly in tho federal party. But
it was said, he remarked, that these men had
all repented ; he never knew of their changing
their principles or renouncing their former doc
trines.
Mr. Culver then adverted to the war and its
causes ; spoke of the people of Texas, what
sort of a people they used to be thought ; name
ly, a lawless, roistering, drinking, gambling,
bowio knifing, repudiating set of men, who left
their country at the north, for their country's
good. Much laughter. It was probablo they
had now become the most staid, sober and vir
tuous set of folks in the world.
Mr. C. spoke of the course and voles of some
of the members upon the other side, and espe
cially Mr. Sawyer of Ohio, who voted for the
River and Harbor Bill, but who when Mr. Polk
vetoed ii, had not the courage to stand up against
the executive, and so voted against it next time.
He referred to the causes assigned by the Pres
ident in his last annual message, for the war,
namely, because she did not pay us what she
owed our citizens: charged Mr. Polk with tel
ling only a part of the story, and suppressing
jmportant facts. He then stated ihe condition
the negotiations were in between this country
and that of Mexico at the lime Mr. Tyler en
tered into the intrigue with Texas which broke
off those negotiations.
Bui if non-payment of debts constituted cause
of war, what would become of those Polk States,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Illinois and Texas.
Appointment by the President without the ad
vice and consent of the Senate. Antonio Lopez
de Santa Anna, to be Lieutenant General and
Commander-in-Chief of the Mexican forces.
The appointment, though not confirmed by the
American Senate, has been agreed to by tho
Mexican Congress, and all the oilier accom
plished and skilful officers whom ihe President
admitted lo Vera Cruz, with the Mexican lead
er, have been in like manner accepted by Mex
ico. Troy Whig.
Occupation of the Iff embers, of the
.Legislature.
A. friend, says the Harrisburg Daily Intelli
gencer, has furnished us the following for pub
lication, which may interest some of our readers.
51 Farmers, 12 Lawyers, 5 Merchants, 4
Garpenters, 3 Surveyors and Scriveners, 3
Blacksmiths, 3 Doctors, 3 Printers, 2 Cabinet
makers, 2 Innkeepers, 2 Shoemakers, 1 Tin
smith, 1 Conveyancer, 1 Saddler, I Miller, 1
Artist, 1 Teacher, 1 Tailor, 1 Stone Mason, 1
Cooper and Guager, 1 vacani.
Hollow Horn Where supposed to exist,
feed hall peck potatoes twice a week, and treat
your cattle kindly in food and bhelter.
Toads are the best protection, of Cubbnges
against lice. N , ,v v ,
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Accounts from the Upper Missouri River
stale that a battle took place on the 16th of
December, near Council Bluffs, between a band
of Sioux Indians and a band of the Omahas, in
which sixty of the latter were killed before the
conflict terminated. The Sioux had a few days
before murdered a number of Omaha women
and children wljilst the men and marriors were
absent on a hunt. Four days before this event
a lodge of the Omahas was attacked by a part
ly of the Ayonas, and four men killed.
A Thrilling Scene.
The Baltimore Sun tells an exciting story of
a young gentleman of that city, who unexpect
edly became the hero of a startling scene, a
few nights since. It appears the gentleman's
wife was sick, and awakening in the night, the
lady aroused the husband, and requested him
to hand her some medicine, which had been
left on the table. Unfortunately, the lamp had
gone out, and he was", it 'seems, lying upon his
left side, and the table directly before his face;
accordingly, extending, his right hand to feel
for ihe bottle, he placed it upon the hand of a
man upon the table. With admirable presence
of mind, he instantly tightened his grasp, and
firmly holding on, at once called out "There's
a man in the room !" His wifo screamed, and
cried aloud for assistance upon others in the
house, unwilling to move; while her husband,
feeling the risk of moving from his position,
and unable lo turn, so as to get at a loaded pis
tol beneath his pillow, shrewdly enough, how
ever, exclaimed sternly to the man " If you
dare to move, I'll blow your brains out." The
noise accasioned by such an occurrence, with
the crying and screaming of one or two chil
dren in the room, who had been woke up by it,
soon brought in two or three of the other mem
bers of the household, with lights, when our
excellent friend was discovered holding in the
vice-like grip of his right his own left hand,
which had been stretched out on the table, and
rendered insensible by the interception of ihe
circulation caused by the pressure of his head.
With his daring and presence of mind, at a
marvellous discount, tho gentleman slid under
the blankets to enjoy his laughby himself.
Old Brine If sweet and good, and has kept
your old pork good, it will keep the new with
out boiling. If the brine is full of matter which
it has received from the old pork, it cannot ex
tract the best juices of the new, and is quite as
sweet.
MARRIED,
On the 28th ult., by John Heller, Esq , Mr.
James B. Shuman and Miss Eleanor Smith, all
of Lehman township, Pike county.
DIED,
In Siroudsburg, on the 4th inst., after a lin
gering and painful illness, Sarah Hasbrouck, in
the Mi year of her age.
In Ross township, JUonroe county, on Tues
day the 3d Just., Mrs. Frantz, wife of Jacob
Frantz, Esq.
WHIG COUNTY MEETING.
The Democratic Whig citizens of Monroe
county, are requested lo assemble in general
County Meeting, at the Court-house in Sirouds
burg, on TUESDAY the 23d of February inst.,
at half-past six o'clock, p. m., for the purpose of
appointing a delegate to the 9th of March Gu
bernatorial Convention, and attending to such
other matters as may be considered of advan
tage lo the Whig cause.
February 4, 1847.
CHEAPEST IX THE WORLD !
Steam Refined Sugar Candies,
12 1-2 Cents per pound, Wholesale.
J. J. RICHARDSON, No. 43 Market street,
Philadelphia, takes pleasure in informing the
public, that ho still continues to sell his very
Superior Steam Refined Candy at the low
price of $12,50 per 100 pounds, and the quali
ty is equal lo any in tho United Stales.
He also offers all kinds of goods in the Con-
fectionarij and Fruit line at corresponding low
prices, as quick sales and small profits are the
order of the day.
Call or send your orders, and you qannot fail
m be satisfied. Don t forget the number, 42
MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
J. J. RICHARDSON.
August 27, 1846.
SOAPS.
Fine scented Soaps for washing and shaving
also the celebrated shaving cream, for sale
cheap, by JOHN H. ME LICK.
Siroudsburg, January 1, 1846.
English and German
Prayer Book lor Children.
The subscriber has just published an edition
of a new book calculated for the juvenile read
er, bearing the above title. U is intended for
families and Sabbath Schools, For sale at the
office of ihe Republican, and by the publisher
ai Bethlehem. Price per dozen SI, 25 single
'copy 12 1-2 cents. - ;
j ' JULIUS W, HELD.
October 30, 1845. . . ; - ;
Indian Disturbances.
SHERIFF'S SALK.
By virtue of a writ of Plurie Venditioni Ex
ponas issued out of the Court of Common Pleas
of Pike county, to me directed, will be sold at
public vendue, or outcry, on
Monday the 157 day of February, 1847,
at 1 o'clock, p.m., at the Courthouse in Milford.
in said county, all those two certain tracts of
land, situate in the townships of Lackawaxetv
and Palmyra, in the county. of Pike and Statu
of Pennsylvania, one of them surveyed on a
warrant granted lo Jonas Seely, conjaining
Eight Hundred Acres,
more or less ; about forty acres of which is im
proved land, with a
Frame House,
and FRAME BARN thereon erect-
ed ; being the premises upon which Solomon
Westbrobk now resides. The other, a tract
surveyed on a warrant granted to- Robert Sitts
Hooper, containing
402 Acres and 53 Perches,
with the usual allowance for roads, bounded on
the north-east by land surveyed to William
White, Elizabeth Chap man, Thomas Bullrusn
and others, with about two acres of improved
laud, and a small
Frame House and Barn, and a Sawmill
thereon erected. The above tracts taken in ex
ecution as the property of Solomon Westbrook.
ALSO:
A messuage or lract of land situate in the
township of Delaware, in the County and State
aforesaid, bounded and described as follows to
wit: Beginning at a large oak tree standing on
the bank of the River Delaware, marked on
three sides, being the original corner of Wil
liam Allen's survey, and also a corner of land
now or late of Daniel W. Dingman, north forty,
eight degrees west fifty-six perches to a stone
heap for a corner, thence north thirty-seven de
grees east sixty-two perches) to a black oak tree,
also a corner of Nathan Emory's land, ihenco
along the same north 47 decrees west one him
dred and sixty-eight perches to a stone on thi?
line of land taken up in the name of William
McPherson, thence along the same south tlur-ly-seveh
degrees west one hundred and fifty,
eight perches to a stone on the line of land tum
or late of Garret Brodhead, thence along th
same south forty-six and a half degrees cm
one hundred perches to or near the main mail,
thence along or (nearly so) the courses of the
said road south thirty-seven degrees west thirty-six
perches to a stone, thence along the hno
of Soferine Weatbrook's (now Margaret Wcat
brook's) land south forty-five degrees east on
hundred and twenty-four perches to the afore
said River, thence up the same the several cour
ses thereof lo (he place of beginning, contain
ing 213 ACRES,
being the same tract of lanofvwhich Solomon
Westbrook, the elder, conveyed to John West
brook in fee by deed dated tlie 17th day of April
1819, excepting and reserving out of the same I
eight acres on the north corner sold to Nathan
Emory, and three acres on the east sido being j
woodland sold to the heirs of Soferine West
brook, deceased, upon which Is about
100 Acres of Improved Xaiad,
with a two story
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Two Earns and a Wagon
House
thereon erected. Taken in execution as the
properly of John Westbrook.
1 he above described properly will be sold
to the highest and best bidder for cash only.
LEWIS ROCKWELL, Sheriff.
Sheriff's office, Milford. Dec. 19, 1846.
Great Bargains, in Hals and Caps,
At the old established
No. 196 Market St., 2d door below Sixth,
PHILADELPHIA.
We extend a general invitation to the citizens
of Monroe, and its vicinity, as well as to all
others, to our Store. We have on hand a large :
and complete assortment of Hals and Caps of
every style and variety, which we are selling
full one-fourth lower than the usual prices,!
namely:
Extra superior Beaver Hats, from $2,50 to $3,50 :
" " Brush- " " 2,00 to 3,00
" Silk " " l,25to 2,00 1
" " Moleskin" 2,50 only,
usual price 4.
Good Halssas low as $1,25 and upwards. Al
so, a complete stock of Gaps, cloth, fur trimmed,!
glazed, silk oil cloth, velvet and fancv Caps!;
fine Otter, Shetland Fur Seal, Musk Rat, Hair j
Seal Caps, &c. &c, at lower prices than they"
can possibly be had elsewhere. From our ex
tensive sales, we can sell for a smaller profit
ihnn others ran Hall anrl ha sntisfinrl. it Id 10 !
your interest.
Merchants, Storekeepers, Hatters and others,
who buy to sell again, supplied on reasonaoia
terms. Be sure and call at No. 196 Market
Street, second door below Sixth Street.
GARDEN & BROWN.
Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 1846.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
A hv ihe
Orphan's Court of Monroe county, to examine.
rocAltla and mat a rlislrihnlinn in the matter 01
.WUV....W --
the account of Jonas Hanna, Administrator ji
the estate of Elizabeth Michael, late of MuWi
Smithfield township, Monroe county, deceased,
will attend to the duties of his appointment D
Monday the 8th day of February next, between
the hours of 10. m. and 7 p. m. of said da)',?1
the house of Joseph J. Postens, in ihe Borouga
of Siroudsburg, when and where all persons in
terested may attend.
SAMUEL S. DREHER Audits
January 7, 1847.