JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, February !, 1847.
Terms, 2,00 in adranrc-: $2,25 half yearly; and $2.50 if not
paid before the end of Uic year.
FOR GOVERNOR,
PETER S. MICHLER,
OF NORTHAMPTON.
Subject to the decision of the 9th of March Convention.
WZAs State Cosaveiiliois.
A State Convention, lo be composed of Del
egates from the cit' of Philadelphia and ihe
M'.veral counties equal lo their representation in
the General Assembly of this Commonwealth,
will he held at Harrisburg, on TUESDAY, the
Dili day of MARCH next, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, for the purposo of electing candid
ates for Gorornor and Canal Commissioner to
he supported by the Whigs and the friends of
the Protective Polic at the next ensuing elec
iioii, and to transact such oihcr business as may
he deemed important to the success of ihe Whig
cau.-e.
J. P. SANDERSON,
SAMUEL D. KARNS,
JOSEPH ICON 1GM A CHER,
MORTON McMJCH AEL,
, . . GEORGE ERETY, .
H. JONES BROOKE.
THEO. D. COCHRAN,
JAMES FOX,
JAMES MARTIN.
WILLIAM BUTLER,
; J. J. SLOCUM,
JOHN R. EDIE,
EDGAR COWaN.
JOHN B. JOHNSON,
Wm. J. HOWARD,
Whig Slate Committee.
The Coiiiaty Electa tiff.
vWo call the attention of our Whig friends to
the meeting which is to be held at the Court
House, on Tuesday evening next. We hope
to sec as many of our little band of Monroe
Whigs ihere, as can possibly make ii conveni
ent to attend. It is noi often thai they are call
ed upon to give their attention to matters of so
much importance as at present. The Conven
tion which is to assemble at Harrisburg, on the
9th of -next tnonih, and to which a Delegate is
to be appointed by this meeting, will have to
nominate candidates for Governor and Canal
Commissioner, to be supported at the ensuing
election, besides transacting other interesting
itutines?. We, therefore, once more call upon
our friends to turn out. Several distinguished
i-peakers from a distance, it is understood, will
bo present and address the meeting.
Siidclczr Death.
A stranger died in Stroud.sburg, on Thursday
afternoon last, under ihe following peculiar cir
cumstances. He left Milford on the morning
of thai day in the Stage, in apparently excel
lent health and spirits, and ate a very hearty
breakfast at Bushkill. When about four miles
from this place, he complained of feeling un
well, and requested that the curtains of the
Stage might be raised. He then attempted,
with the assistance of a passenger, to take off
his coat, but whilst doing so he fell down in
aensible, and never spoke afterwards. As soon
us the Stage reached Stroudsburg, he was ta
ken into Hollinshead's Hotel, where every care
and attention was paid to him, but without
avail. The physician who was called in de
clared his case lo be apoplexy, and declared it
to be hopeless. From letter, on the person of
the deceased, it was found that his name was
Joshta L. Wentworth, and that his home
had been at Pori Jems where he has a wife
li ving. Some friends of his, at lhat place, on
receiving information of his death, came here
nnd took his corpse home on Saturday. When
those friends reached Stroudsburg, they made it
known thai the deceased had been a member of
ihe Order of Odd-Fellows; whereupon, the
Lodge here, immediately convened, passed ap
propriate resolutions, and made the necessary
arrangements for performing their last sad duty
to a departed brother. They accompanied the
corpse out of town, in procession, when it left.
It was the intention of the deceased to spend
ome time in this place, in taking Daguerreo
type likenesses. Mr. Hollinshead and family
deserve great praise for their kindness and at
tention to the stranger previous to his death,
and for the preparation for his funeral, which
lie made before it was known tlfat his friends
uould come to claim him. Such disinterested
conduct will noi soon be forgot ten.
We see tharthere Is a religious donomina
lion'in Boston, the members of which are call
ed the "Come-Oute'rs." 'Ori the 4th of March,
18. 'there will be a political denomination
fimnigliout the country ,-having'a first-ra'te claim
io the title of the Go-Outers. Louis.' Journal.'
Matters at Washington.
The three million Bill, to enable the Presi
dent lo purchase a piece of Mexico, was dis
cussed in both houses without final action. Mr.
Calhoun, on Tuesday, delivered his views in
relation to the Mexican War. He is in favor
of abandoning all offensive operations, and es
tablishing a lino from the Rio Grande up that
River to El Passo, and thence to the Pacific,
near the head of the Gulf of California. This
he would hold subject to a treaty of peace.
This could be held with five regiments-; and by
establishing custom houses at the Mexican
ports, he would collect enough revenue to pay
the expenses of this plan.
In the House an effort was made to expel
the reporter for the Union ; bul failed by a vote,
of 1 1 to 131. He had reported the remarks of
members incorrectly, and it was believed by
some iptcntionally so.
On Saturday, a resolution lhat had been pend
ing for several days, in the Senate to expel the
editor and reporter of ihe. " Union," for gross
abuse of Senators in the columns of lhat paper,
was taken up.
Mr. Westcoit addressed ihe Senate at great
length; and gave as his impression, thai ihe ar
ticles in the Union were ihe result of a precon
certed attack by the administration upon Mr.
Calhoun. The attack of Mr. Turney yesterday
confirmed this impression, and it'was Mr. W.'a
belief that the democracy of this administration
consisted in nothing more than 11 loaves and
fishes," from Lieut. General down to a mere
second lieutenant. If the people of the United
States were only aware of the corruptness
which exists at the seat of government, they
would tumble the President and his depart
ments, the Congress, and ihe whigs and demo
crats, heels over heads, together, into ihe Poto
mac, and they would do right.
Mr. Mason opposed the resolution, as abridg
ing the freedom of the press and as a violation
of the constitution.
The debate was continued pro and con, by
Mr. Butler, Huntingdon, Yulee, Hannegan,
Archer, Calhoun and others.
It was finally decided by a vote of 27 to 21
that Mr. Ritchie be expelled.
The reporters were spared by the withdraw
al of ihe resolution relating to them.
In the House, the venerable John Quincy
Adams appeared, and was introduced lo his
seat by Mr. Johnson, who has occupied it since
the commencement of the session. Mr. J. con
gratulated Mr. Adams on his ability to resume
his seat in the House ; and exprossed a gratifi
cation at complying with the declaration made
at the time the seat was selected, that he would
surrender it immediately on the appearance of
the venerable member from Massachusetts.
Mr. Adams replied lo the courtesy of Mr.
Johnson, and expressed a high sense of pleas
ure at the manifestations of respect and esteem
bestowed upon him by members of all parlies,
who were crowding around to welcome his re
turn. A message was received from the President
asking provision to be made for the appointment
of field officers under the ten regiment bill.
Mr. Polk recommended a tax on tea and coffee,
and a reduction in the price of public land", in
order lhat liberal provision might be made for
ihe vigorous prosecution of the existing war
with the republic of Mexico. He likewise re
commends the acceptance of the continued ser
vices of ihe volunteers already in the army in
Mexico, whose term of service may expire prior
to the cessation of hostilities.
He refers to the protracted refusal of the
Mexican Government to accept proffers of an
honorable peace, and to the measures general
ly which have been adopted, and remarks that
it is necessary that our arms in that quarter k
should be reinforced to their fullest extent.
The message was long, and on various sub
jects, all tending to forward the prosecution of
the war.
On motion of C. J. Ingersoll, the message
was referred to the Committee of Ways and
Means. Bucks Co. Intelligencer.
Comparative View of the Common !
Schools of Pennsylvania 1S35 and j
3LfG.
1835. 1-846. j
807 1 ,225 !
536 1.067
762 7,096
808 8,464
32,514 338,805
1,13 1,23
84 101
No. of District
Accepting Districts
No. of Schools 1 '
Teachers '
Scholars m
Cost of teaching per quarter
No. of rlavs schools open
Appropriation for 1847, $200,000.
Theue results are indeed gratifying, and can
not bul gladden the hearts of all true friends of
education. But a few years will elapse ere
tho reproach of ignorance will be wiped from
off the Keystone' State.
A bill to abolish capital punYshmpni has beenJ
postponed by ihe Legislature of Ohio,
I. O. of O. F.
. At a special meeting of Fort PennrJLodge, No.
134, of .the . 0. of 0. F. held at their hall in the
Borough of Stroudsburg, 12th itist., the following
preamble and resolutions were adopted, and or
dered to be published.
Whereas the N. G. having announced u)
our order the sad intelligence of the sudden
deaih of Joshua L. Wentworth, a member
of the I. 0. of 0. F. of Middletown Lodge,
N. Y which happened on the llthinst. at
this place, who whilst on his way from Mil
ford, travelling by stage, and within four miles
of our Borough, was visited with an apoplec
tic fit. He was received at the Hole! of Mr.
Hollinshead, in a state of insensibility, in which
he remained, notwithstanding all the efforts of
medical skill and the kind attention of Mr.
Hollinshead and family, until ho expired at 2
o'clock p. m. In his" death we are furnished
with another instance of the mournful truth
"that in the midsi of life we are in death "
Therefore, Resolved That although the dee'd
was an entire stranger, still he was our Broth
er, lhat the members of Fort Penn Lodge, No.
1 34, do most sincerely and deeply regret ihis
dispensation of Divine Providence in the sud
den death of a worthy member of our order,
and cannot refrain from an expression of our
sympathy for the widow and relatives of the
deceased.
Resolved, That a committee of four of our
order be appointed to render every necessary
assistance in conveying the remains of our de
ceased Brother to his family and friends at Port
Jervis.
Resolved, That ihe thanks of this order, are
due to Stroud J. Hollinshead and his family
for their kind attention and particular regard lo
the deceased, in administering every comfort
that humanity could demand and sympathy sug
gest during his brief and mournful illness and
ii is a source of gratification to assure his be
reaved relatives and friends, though he died
among strangers, his last moments were visited
with all the considerations' and lender care
that -could be desired, had he have been in ihe
bosom of his family.
Resolved, That the thanks of the order are
due lo our townsman, George Malven, for his
kindness in promptly carrying the sad intelli
gence of the death of our brother to his rela
lives ai Port Jervis, and his perseverance in
doing the same by night, notwithstanding the
obstacles he had to encounter by fording high
water-and he badness of the road?. r .
Resolved, That a committee of three be ap
pointed "to correspond with the Middletown
Lodge in reference to the sudden death of our
departed Brother ; Committee, Bro's Gray,
Staples and Miller.
Resolved, That the officers and Brothers
assemble to-morrow morning at precisely 7
o'clock, and accompany, in procession, the re
mains of our friend to the limits of our Bo
rough. Resolved, Thai a copy of the above resolu
tions be forwarded to the widow of our de
ceased Brother, and also a copy to the Mid
dletown Lodge.
The N. G. appointed a committee of six lo
take charge of and waich with the corpse during
the nightf Committee, Bro's Clements, Staples,
Franke, Wintemute, Huston, and Phares.
Saturday morning, 7 o'clock, the officers nnd
Brothers assembled at the Hotel of Mr. Hol
linshead, and proceeded in procession with the
body of the deceased, as far as ihe bridge across
Brodhead'a creek, when, after a most solemn
and impressive prayer by ihe Rev. Mr. Gray, the
friends of the deceased, with the body, moved
on with sorrowing hearts io their destination,
and the members of the Order returned to our
village.
A Harrisburg correspondent of the North
American says : It is pretty well understood
within the precincts of the Executive chamber,
that a treaty is in progress between Harrisburg
and Washington, having for its object the union
of the Locofoco factions of the State, the settle
ment of family jars, and the consequent reten-
lion through the Odober ejections of the power
wwicn ,hey now h(,ltl- The ,erms of ,re:
iy, so far as they have transpired, are very sim-
pie. Governor Shunk is io withdraw his name
for re-nomination in the State Convention on
the 4ih of March. For this pro hi quid is to
be Mime honorable and profitable berth in the
gift of ihe President a foreign mission if pos;
i51e. Thus the Shunk faction, the only really
formidable one, is to be accommodated, and the
Convention is then to throw overboard all nota
ble, aspirants, and take up, a la Baltimore Con
vention, some Pennsylvania James JC. Polk,
whose political vices, virtues and history, being
equally negative, may be presented in any and
every light, most acceplable to varied views of
the. Democracy.
The Mayor of New York has remitted .$800
by the Hiburnia, in aid of the Irish poor.5
FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival off the Sarah SaiifSs. X
Phis new-Steamer left England on the 20ih
"tilt, and arrived on the 10th inst. making her
passage in 21 days.
Parliament was opened on Tuesday, Jan'y
19th, by the Queen in person. The speech
from the throne is chieflydevoted tothe 'sub
ject of Ireland.
The European Times say :
The ports are' probably to be immediately o
peued for the free admission of foreign corn of
ever' kind, by which the duty of four shillings
sterling will be abolished. The -navigation
laws are to be suspended, by which corn will
be admitted in vessels of every na'ion : and
sugar is to be allowed in distilleries.
These measures will be carried, as the pro
tectionists have prornised to gTve them their
support. They have been forced from the
Government by the awful condition of the peo
ple of Ireland.
The advices from Scotland are of a tomilar
character to the reports from other parts of
ihe kingdom. Not only wheat, bul all spe
cies of corn, is rapidly rising there ; and it is
certain that no supplies of oats (the staple arti
cle of the shipment lo the South) can be ex
pected that article being worth quite as much,
if noi more at Edinburgh, than in the London
market.
Food of every kind is scarce and dear in
England, Ireland and France, notwithstanding
the immense quantities shipped from the Uni
ted Stales.
The corn and provision markets in England
and Ireland are exceedingly animated, and pri
ces are still keplupat the extreme rates quoted
by previous arrivals.
In consequenceof the high price of malt, the
London brewers have raised the price of malt
liquors; and gin, rum. and whiskey have also
advanced considerably. Bread has also ad
vanced lid being charged lor the 4lb loaf.
An office has been opened in London to
grant letters of marque and reprisal, according
to decrees of the Mexicatr Government against
the United States: Three privateers have, it
is said, already been despatched. The rates of
Insurance on American vessels have in con
sequence been increased.
Trade in the Manufacturing districts of Eng
land remains in a very dull state. Most of the
mills were working short time, on account of
ihe very high price of cotlon.
Main field Bank Charter Repealed.
A slip from the Trenton Gazette informs us
that the charter of the Plainfield Bank has
been repealed,
The committee of the Legislature appointed
io investigate the affairs of the Bank returned
at noon on Tuesday. When the House met,
at three o'clock, Mr. Mc Lean presented a
brief report, stating that the committee had not
ascertained that tho Bank had ever been law
fully organized, and that in their opinion its af
fairs were managed improperly, and in a way
inconsistent with the safety of the public.
The Committee will make a detailed report
as soon as they can prepare it, accompanied
with the evidence given by the persons they
examined. Most of the persons to whom they
applied for information, gave it readily and ful
ly. The bill to repeal the charter passed unan
imously in both Houses. Joseph C. Horn
blower, John S." Darcy, Daniel Dodd Jr. and
Joel Dunn, are appointed Receivers or Trustees
for the creditors and stockholders, and are in
vested with immediate legal control and pos
session of all the monies, properly and effects
of every Jdud of the company.
The accconnts, says the Newark Daily Ad
vertiser, as given by the officers by- the com
mittee have not yet been reported but are about
as follows :
assets.
Specie,
$9,000
6,500
85,000
.100,000
Specie Funds
Notes receivable
Oiher Assets,
' ? $200,500
Ut LIABILITIES.
Circulation ; ' $115,000
Capital stock . . 100,000
Depositors and interest accounts .
about ' 2,000
$217,000
Excess of liabilities, $17,500
S This statement does noi indicate a very 'rot
ten institution,' hut tho Committee wore not
satisfied thai the assets really belonged to the
bank, It is also ascertained that not a single
share of the Stock was owned in the State,
and that ihe Directors who are required by the
charter to own five shares at least just before
their appointment had five shares assigned
them, which were afterward surrendered to the
owner again. Two of ihe Receivers took a
private conveyance at Railway in the night for'
Plainfield, and are now probably in possession
of the funds unless removed before'they arrived..
IMPORTANT FRO.TI MEXICO.
Hypothecation and sale of the Church Property
, Santa Anna reported to have been shut by
his Soldiers Distress in the Mexican Army
Great Excitement.
Telegraphic Correspondence of the Ta. Inquirer.
Washington, Feb. 9.-8 p. .
The Southern mail of this evening, brings tho
Picayune Extra, of ihe 2d hut., containing news
from Anton Lizardo to the 20ih tilt. Jitters
received stale that the Mexican Congress on
the 9th, after a stormy debate, approved th
first section of a hill authorizing the Govern
ment to raise fifteen millions by the hypotheca
tion and sale of certain property belonging to
the Church. Santa Anna opposed this, and h
is rumored that his opposition ao exasperated
his soldiers, that they had shot him.
This report needs confirmation, but many
circumstances render it not improbable. Tho
army was in great distress.
The passage of ihe law created the greatest
excitement in Mexico. The churches wero
closed, and every indication of mourning and
resistance evinced by those who support the
religious establishments. The. Mexican Con
gress and Mexican press everywhere appeared
thoroughly aroused. The issue they make is
Scr O no ser" " to be or not to be."
It is stated on the authoriiv of dates not so
late as contained in the Picayune extra, that
Santa Anna had withdrawn 15,000 men from
San Luis and'marched wilh them towards tho
city of Mexico, affairs there requiring his presence.
Public Plunder.
We learn that Mr. Power, tho now Whig
Canal Commissioner, has discovered the most
enormous frauds upon the public works. Tak
a single item. The collectors on the Columbia
Rail-road have returned about $2,600,000 bush
els of salt, as western freight. Salt pays iei
toll than almost any other article, and dry goods
and other articles, paying double toll, artf
weighed and returned as sail. Now the whole
amount of salt actually transported" from Phila
delphia does noi exceed 600,000 bushels the
balance returned is a fraud upon the Common
wealth. " - - . .
Pain or distress of any kind, whether of gout,
rheumatism, Headache, toothache, or any other
kind of ache, is in all cases caused by impure hu
mors of the blood, which nothing save vegetable
purging, (purifying) can remove ; because by no
other means' can said impurity be driven from the
body.
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills have no supe
rior, if indeed they have.an. equal, in removing eve
ry description'of pain; because they carry off, by
the stomach and bowels, all morbid and corrupt
humors, (the cause of disease) in so easy and na
tural a manner, that the body is actually restored
to health as if by magic. Four or five of said In
dian Vegetable Pills, taken once in twenty-four
hours, on going to bed, will in a short time not
only drive pain or distressof every kind from the
system, and restore the, body to a state of sound
health, but the blood and other fluids will be siv
completely purified, that rew life and vigor will
be given to the whole frame."
Beware of Counterfeits. The public are cau
tioned against the many spurious medicines, which,
in order to deceive are called by names similar to
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills.
For sale by George II Miller, Stroudsburg, who
is the only authorised agent for that place; see ad
vertisement for other agencies in another column.
Office and general depot, 16!) Race St., Phil'a-
WHIG COUNTY MEETING.
The Democratic Whig citizens of Monro
county, are requested to assemble in general
County Meeting, at the Court-house in Strouds
burg, on TUESDAY ihe 23d of February ist.,
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 to the Whig cause.
February 4, 1847.
NOTICE.
The subscriber will attend in Stroudsburg,
at the house of S. J. Hollinshead, on Wednes
day and Thursday, the 17th and 18th of March
next, for the adjustment of unsettled accounts.
Should he be prevented from attending on those
days, he will be there on the 24th and 25' U of
the week following.
WM. P. YAIL,
February 18, 1847.
Office of the Lehigh Coal Navigation Co.
Mauch Chunk, Febvuazy Sth, 1847.
WANTED,
300 Good Steady flttcil can find con
siant employment1 ai Boating Coal during ih'ft
coming season, at liberal prices. Apply at this
Office. E, A DOUGLAS,
Sup't. cj- Engineer,
In the -mailer of the Estate of Francis AI. Smith,
late oj Milford township, Pike county, deed,
NOTICE is hereby given, that letters testa
mentary upon ihe above mentioned Estate, have
been granted to the undersigned. All persons
indebted to the said Estate are requested to
make immediate payment and those having
demands to present them, duly authenticated, to
John B. LaForge, at his office in Milford, Pike
county.
HANNAH S. WELLS? ExVcutrh,
J. B. LaFORGE, Exetutor
January 18, 1847, ' ' v-"