forgery niighi be made 10 appear, he drove fu
riously back to ihe Park On arriving-hejbursl
into the room where Mrs. Wiuthrop -arid the
i.ew married pair were sealed at tea.'
" You are very kind, uncle," said Eliza ;
" ones friends do not often call twice in one
da v."
41 You villain !" roared Tell at Tim, " so you
are the same thief that stole the will from my
.bedroom table, about six weeks ago! You
needn't ihink to escape ! You'll bo called on
bv an officer to-morrow morning, and go to jail
4 Thank'ce, I've no occasion," said Tim ; " I
only borrowed the will a few hours, just to get
itinroved. Was it not returned the next night?
Ask Peter."
The old villain almost foamed at the mouth :
" And so you colluded with my servant to rob
1 me of the will, did you ? Very well, Mr. Joco-
Jvn, there is a law against thieving.
" Yes," replied Tim, sipping his tea very
coollv. ' Peter did assist me soire in the mat
ter. I was in his room, and stood at the win
dow of the door, as you were about 16 commit
the crime at Forgery .'" I he last word was
pronounced in the same unearthly voice that
had frightened Pell on the evening alluded to.
The miserable old man saw that his crime
was known, and that he was in Tim's power.
Bui Tim commiserated him, and promised not
lo.divulgo the crime, on condition that Pell, af
ter surrendering the will and estate should quit
i he country. This was forihwiih done, and
Tim and Eliza soon loft Farmitigdell Park for
her father's homestead, whero they still reside,
Mirrotinded by worthy and sincere friends of
whom faiihful old Peler is not the least.
As for poor Benson, ho did not return to the
college, nor was he ever again seen in that vi
cioi'y. , Tlie Season.
Gentlemen fiom the interior of N. Hampshire,
on the 4th, report two feet of snow on a level
in the woods, and largo bauks in the roads.
The Franconia mail continued to go through
tho Notch on runners, and the sleighing was
reported " first-rate."
In Peachman, Vermont, on tho 1st of May,
the ground was oxteusively coverod with snow,
and there were banks in every direction from
two to eight feet deep. Boston Traveller.
A farmer of Pittsfield, (Massachusetts,) re
marked to us on Monday, while conversing witji
him relative to the backwardness of the season,
that some dozen years since, on the 14th of
May he planted potatoes ; on the day following
enow fell to the depth of eight inches on a level,
and on the 16th he drew wood upon a sled !
The crops, however, that year were good. The
statement of these facts will have a tendency
to satisfy all who manifest impatience at the
tardiness of spring that better times areJcoming
probably. Pittsfield Sun.
Tlie Dead.
How little do we think of the dead. Their
bones lie lowly entombed in all our towns, vil
lages and neighborhoods. The lands they cul
tivated, the homes they built, and the work of
their hands are always before us. We travel
the same road, walk in the same pah, sit at the
same fireside, sleep in the same room, ride in
the same carriage, and dine at the same table,
yet seldom remember, that those who once oc
cupied these places are gone alas forever !
Strange that tho living soul should so soon
forget the dead, when the world is full of the
mementoes of their lives. Strange that the
fleeting cares of life should so soon rush in and
fill the breast to the exclusion to those so near.
To morrow, he passes that grave with cold in
difference. To day his heart is wrung with
all the bitterness of anguish for tho loss of one
he so much loved ; "to morrow, the image of
that friend is effaced from his heart and almost
forgotten. What a commentary upon man.
TIte magnetic Telegraph in America
The New York Herald gives a table of the J
mi'nril linai nl lalonranh in nnpralinn In Ino
United States, worked by Professor Morse's
system, as follows :
Miles.
Nw Yoik, Albany and Buffalo 510
New York, Philad. and Washington, 240
Washington to Fredericksburg, Va. 50
New York and Boston, 250
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, 300
Buffalo, Lockport and Toronto, in Canada 130
Auburn, Ithaca and Elmira, 60
Syracuse and Oswego, ' ' . 35
1575
It appears, from a statement in the same
paper, that "there are under contract, and in
procesR of construction, lines to the extent of
4yi-4 miles, making a total, wnen complete,
of G549 miles.
A western editor having studied for two
weeks to make some poetry, finally succeeded.
Here is a specimen of the production :
All hail the land where freedom was born,
All hail thtr land where daddy hoed corn ;
He stuck'd his hoe iuto the ground,
Pulled it out and no corn he found.
Horse Hunting. TntJ' have been hunting
for a stolen horse in Wenham, Mass., for three
or four days, and at length found him in the
cellar of the stable, he having fallen through a
rotten corner of the floor.
I II HI llll III
itnmi'Tni mrn irrni n TiwaT'""m"witTrMiTTifiict m
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, JTIay 37, 1847.
Terms, $2,00 in advance: $2,25 half yearly ; and. 52,50 If not
paid ociore me ena oi me year.
Ieriioci:itsc Whig HToniiiiations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JAM.ES irvin,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
FOR CANAL C03IMI.SSI0NER,
JOSEPH W. PATTON,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Columbian Magazine.
Tho June number of this excellent monthly
has been received. It is a gem, and fully sus
tains its high reputation. The reading matter
is of a superior order, and the embellishments
cannot be surpassed. A new volume com
mences with the July number. Published by
Ormsby & Hackett, 116 Fulton street, N. Y.,
at $3 per annum, in advance.
Godey's Lady's Book,
For June, is on our table, and is a 'capital
number. It is filled with literary matter of the
highest excellence, from the pens of tho most
gifted writers of both sexes, in the country.
The engravings are of a costly and beautiful
character, and are alone worth the subscription
price.
Godcy's reprint of Blackwood's Magazine,
for Mayrhas also been received. Its contents
are varied and interesting. It is furnished at
the very low price of $1 per annum, in Edvance.
Fourth of July coming;.
We have already received a copy of Wilson
& Co.'s mammoth Jubilee Brother Jona
than, issued in New York for the 4th July.
Among the multitude of engravings contained
in this stupendous newspaper, we notice two
historical ones of a very large size, and of pe
culiar interest. They are, Washington's en
trance into New York in 1783, and Washing
ton taking leave of his officers on retiring from
military life. Both these engravings are fine
ly executed, and with a'historical fidelity wor
thy the great events which they commemorate.
The Jonathan contains over eighty engravings
and portraits in the aggregate. The price is
12 cents per copy.
The Crops.
We have hada number of fine refreshing show
ers in this neighborhood, during the past few days,
which has given a healthy aspect to the crops in
this region, and they now present at least a prom
ising appearance, and a tolerable fair yieldmay
be expected. This rain will bring up' the corn
that has been planted and lying in the ground for
some-time. Below are subjoined an account of
the prospects in various pans of the country :
The Wheat Crop oj Ohio. The Cincinnati Ga
zette, says : Some of our cotemporaries have-already
expressed the opinion that so large a portion
of wheat in the ground have been winter killed
that there is danger of a short crop in Ohio. We
have lately passed through the State from this to
Cleveland and thence to Beaver, Pennsylvania,
and although we noticed many fields where a large
portion had been winter killed, we are confident,
taking into consideration the quantity into the
ground, that the present promise is of a yield above
an average crop.
Crops in Virginia. The Lynchburg Virginian
states that the crops in that vicinity were very un
promising until the recent rains, but there is a.
much better prospect.
The Plainsville (Pa.) Telegraph states that the
wheat fields in that region look well, and promise
an abundance. The late rams will start up the
grass. Most kinds of fruit, from the bloom of the
trees, give a gratifying assurance that in the prop
er season we shall have plenty and to spare.
Maryland Crops. The Easton Star says :
Notwithstanding the excessive drought for several
weeks past, happily relieved by a delightful rain
on Sunday night last, the wheat crop of this coun
ty looks remarkably well.
The Middletown Enterprise, of Saturday, says:
After all the murmurings and predictions of the
farmers in this vicinity, we think they will be
blessed with pretty good crops, unless some un-
s
forseen mishap occurs.
Crops of Michigan. Kalamazoo, May fo, M7.
Our season here has been somewhat backward,
although the wheat crop upon the ground never
looked better. We are somewhat favored in that
particular, as our neighbors in northwestern Indi
ana, in Illinois and Wisconsin have suffered seri
ously in consequence of the severity of the winter.
Famine Threatened in our own Country. The
Marlborough (Md.) Gazette states that considera
ble "destitution exists -among the poor of Prince
George's county. A worthy clergyman in the
lower part of the county has been making collec
tions to buy cornTor the suffering poor in the parish.
TWinrirnuim-i'iTi n' i
" The Anglo-Sacsnia,"
Is the title of a new paper, -published in the
city of New York, by Messrs. Andrews &
Boyle, Sun Buildings, corner of Fulton, and
Nassau'streets. It is devoted to Phonography,
or the spelling of words as they are pronounced,
and presents quite a unique appearance. Per
sons wishing to become acquainted with-this
new and ejasy mode of spelling and writing,
should subscribe for a copy of this paper.
Terms, $2 per annum, in advance.
Coming Elections in 1-17.
The following are the elections yei to take place
this year :
Kentucky . Monday August 2d
Indiana : "
Illinois
Missouri " . , ( ' " "
Alabama " " "
North Carolinia Thursday : ". 5lh
Tennessee ' " , , "
Vermont Tuesday . Sept. . 7th
Maine Monday 1 ". 13th
Georgia " - Oct. 4th
Arkansas "
Florida
Maryland Wednesday " fith
South Carolina Monday ' " ,11th
Pennsylvania Tuesday " ' 12th
Ohio - "
Michigan Monday Nov. 1st
Met ' u . ' u
ississippi , .
Louisiana '
Texas " ' "
New York . Tuesday. . " 2d
New Jersey " . 1 "
Massachusetts Monday " 8th
Delaware Tuesday " 9th
Their candidate, Gen. Irvin, is knownto be a
man of immense wealth. Dem. Union.
If Gen. Irvin is wealthy, says the Ilarrisburg
Intelligencer, it was accumulated by honest indus
try, and is highly creditable to him. He has ac
cumulated his property by the sweat of an open
brow, and the labor of an honest hand, and makes
good use of it. He has not, like Shunk, subsist
ed like a drone upon the bounty of the people, for
over THIRTY YEARS, nor has he ever SWIN
DLED the State out of over NINE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ! Wealth is no objection to a man,
but dishonesty is !
Jfln view of the past action of the Lo-
cofoco party, the Reading Journal charges it
upon them, " that if ever there was a party of
TORIES and TRAITORS, jn this country,
since the days of the Revolution, it is compo
sed of the POLK and SANTA ANNA LO-
COFOCOS of the present day. JAMES K.
POLK is the BENEDICT ARNOLD of the
nineteenth cent ury. His pass lo Santa Anna
is of a piece with the pass granted by Arnold
to John Anderson (Maj. Andre.) Their names
are indissolubly linked, and it is but fair to pre
sume that those who now stand up for the one
would have stood up for the other had they
lived in the days of the Revolution."
JJj3 The Washington Union has an article
under the captain of " Santa Anna in Mexico."
The Administration should blush to look at that
caption. How came " Santa Anna in Mexi
co ?" Louisville Journal.
He was PoWd there.
Santa Anna's Leg. It is evident that General
Scott means to have a brush for the Presidency,
as he has taken the stump. North, American .
IEPThe result of the battle of Cerro Gordo has
shown how much more reliable in time of war are
wooden legs than flesh and blood ones. While
Santa Anna's live leg ran away, the wooden one
was firm to the last. lb.
It is said that Santa Anna foamed with rage,
at Cerro Gordo when he found that the day was
lost. Charleston Courier.
It Js no wonder that Mr. Polk's cork-legged
friend foamed a little. He was uncorhed. Lou
isville Journal.
The President.
The Baltimore Patriot, after pointing to the
errors of the present adminisiration.of the Gov
ernment, cays :
" Mr Polk has not, in all this, disappointed
public expectation. Those who opposed his
election to tho Presidency hoisted that ho was
not competent of the office that he neither
had the moral influence nor tho intellectual
capacity, which should be possessed by the
chief magistrate and predicted that his admin
istration, if ho were elected, would be charac
terised by contradictions, feebleness and cor
ruption. This was scarcely . denied by some of
his advocates, and to many of ihem was a
recommendation that the apprehensions were
just.
u Mr. Polkwas elected. What the Whigs
insisted of him, he has shown to be true-r-what
they predicted of his administration has come
to pass. Nobody is deceived. Mr. Polk has
fulfilled the public expectation "
From the North American
TIae-War as it Situs ds.
It is a question still debated among those
best acquainted with the subject, whether Gen.
Scott will be enabled to reach the capital of
Mexico without further and terrible sacrifices.
It might be thought that a victory o decisive
a's that of Cerro Gordo ought to be sufficient to
discourage a foe so frequently proved to be un
equal to the struggle, from further resistance ;
but the celerity and apparent ease with which
Santa Anna, after the battle of Buena Vista, as
sembled fresh thousands to encounter General
Scott, indicates a degree of desperate resolu
tion which will probably induce a renewal of
the effort to stop the career of our troops.
There are still situations of vast strength inter
posed between our army and the city of Mexi
co ; a?id if the Spanish obstinacy prompts a bold
and desperate defence, thousands of wives and
mothers in both counfries may have occasion
to mourn over the result. Gen. Scott may be
checked, he may be constrained to mark his
path with graves, and struggle at every step :
but it is our belief that he cannot bo prevented
from reaching Mexico. And w4iat then ? It
has always been doubled whether the capture
of the capital would secure submission. The
latest advices inform us of the probable inten
tion of the Mexicans to change their seat of go
vernment; it is also proposed to abandon open
resistance in the field and adopt the guerrilla
mode of warfare ; and every report that reaches
us speaks of implacable hostility and unending
resistance. If ihese statements be confirmed
by future results, we are but at the threshold
of this sanguinary war. We have turned but
the first bloody leaf of this volume of horrors.
Lives innumerable, American and Mexican, are
yet to answer for the insanity of this Adminis
tration; and we may look forward to a. future
crowded with sacrifices and afflictions.
Since this contest commenced there has been
everything in it to excite and gratify the war
like passions of our people. We have victories
that transcend the wonders of romance ; and
national pride and national vanity are appealed
to with an eloquence which it requires an ex
traordinary self-control to resist. In lime, and
with the sacrifices required, having made Mex
ico a wide sepulchre, we may conquer it. Al
though the effort be one that must redden the
path of our triumph with the best blood of our
country, we may effect it. We may add a dozen
Mexican Stales to our Union, and crowd our
Congress with members of every language,
complexion and character. And, although these
barren, or ruinous triumphs be won at the price
of bankruptcy or disunion, still we may, and
will exult, with an earnest joy over the viclo
ries of our arms, for they are the triumphs of
our brethren the glories of our flag ; and the
pulse leaps and the shout rises before we have
time to think at what price all this glory has
been won. Yet we are constrained, in the
midst of these triumphal rejoicings, to reirew,
with a sadder emphasis, the expression of our
disapprobation of this war.
Congress, however strong ihe majority in fa
vor of the Administration, would never have
declared this war. It'was commenced by the
President's usurpation of the war power. It
was commenced, whatever pretext was at first
resorted to, for the guilty purpose of conquest.
That object is now avowed and gloried in by
the Administration and its friends. Such a
war, with such an object, cannot be otherwise
than guilty, whatever glory may crown it, or
than unfortunate whatever rapine it may accom
plish. Its reacting curses must reach and pun
ish us in the consequences of a precedent of
successful crime,' and-in the wide-spread and
reckless demoralization of the people. Were
there no other or worse evils in the train of this
war, than those induced by military demorali
zation, and the excitement of a natural love of
conquest, ihe retribution of time would be found
to avenge sufficiently the wrong we aro com
mitting. But there are other and more imme
diate results which no good man can contem
plate without grief and horror. The first fruits
of those conquests are the extension of slavery
which the Administration has determined to ac
complish, and the peoples to avert it, at any ha
zard or any consequence. In this Btruggle, our
Union must oncounier a peril the most deadly
a peril that- may induce civil discord, and
may involve civil war.
To these costs of this unhappy contest, it is
unnecessary lo add the painful sacrifice of hu
man life and tho aggravation of human suf
fering, for these are considerations which tho
friends of tho war seem lo regard as too trivial
for notice. But there ia a consequence which
ihe most ferocious and unfeeling may appreci
ate iho establishment of a lowering and per
haps an evcrlasiing national debt, and the im
position of domestic and direct laxes by the
general Government. Against this combina
tion of evils immediate and inevitable, fhe war
offers not a solitary advantage, unless military
glory be considered a substantive blessing. It
tutors us in the trade, and fevers uj wiih the
thirst of blood ; it starts us upon a career of
guilty wars of conquest ; it endangers our liber
ties by standing armies and strong governments;
and destroys our prosperity by its heavy and
crushing extortions and its war againsi the
peaceful interests of industry i but it promises
no good, and it affect3 no justification. The
considerate, the just and the patriotic of ihe
land may well regard the brightest glory ever
won by the slaughter of mankthd, as no suffi
cient recompense for such consequences, and
unite in praying for the hour when a change of
councils will secure a change of policy.
latest from Vera Cruz.
Our friend and correspondent at New Or
leans informs us of the arrival there of thn
steamer James L. Day, from Vera Cruz on tht?
6ih, bringing among- her passengers Gen. Pil
low and Col. May, the latter having got or
board at Brazos.
The city oLPuebla had sent a deputation lo
Gen. Scott, and will make no resistance to
his occupation of that place.
Arrangements had been made to- defend the
capital, but afrer Gen. Pillow was on board at
Vera Cruz he received a message from short
staling that an express had arrived with- intel
ligence that the Mexican government had aban
doned the capital, taking with it the archives,
and that the cftizens had sent a deputation to
Gen. Scott to advance and afford them pro
tection. Proclamations were being circulated bv the
Mexicans calling for the organization p guerilla
regiments, which plan of warfare was to be
adopted on an extensile scale.
In consequence of sickness, death, and loss
in battle, it is said that Gen. Scott will not
have left in his army more than about 5,000
effective men, after the return of the volunteers
whose time shortly expires, and whom Gen.
Pillow states will return almost to a man. Of
the seven regiments, he says not a company
will remain.
Santa Anna's army was entirely dispersed,
and he, wholly without "power and influence,
was seeking to leave his country.
Gen. Taylor, remained at Monterey, and tin?
main body of his army at Buena Vista, without
any prospect of an immediate advance. All
the new troops recently iniondcd for him were,
under a new order, to be sent to Vera Cruz.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Britannia arrived at Boston on the 17 h
inst., bringing fourteen days later advices from
Europe.
The flour market continues lo advance.
The potato blight has reappeared in tho
neighborhood of Belfast.
O'Connell is sinking daily--hiTearthly career
is drawing rapidly to a close.
The weather has recently undergone a favor
able change 7egetation ia making progress.
The account of the Wheat and Oat crops are
highly encouraging, and even in regard to Po
tatoes, with the exception of the neighborhood
of Belfast, the accounts are very gratifying.
A most diabolical plot to murder the Pope
has been discovered. It was first found out
by the French Ambassador he revealed the
names of the conspirators. Their intention was
to assassinate him while giving audience lo
one of them, who was appointed to kill him.
A Capuchin Priest presented himself for an
audience of the Pope. His Holiness request
ed his name. This Ire gave but before ad
mitting him, the Popo looked over the list of
conspirators, and finding the name at the Ca
puchin there, be immediately summoned Car
bines, who, on the Capuchin's entrance, seized
him, and on searching him, found he had a
brace of pistols and a poisoned dagger about
his person. He was conveyed to prison. Ma
ny arrests took place.
" A letter from Gen. Taylor has been received
in New York, written in reference to his norm -ination
for the Presidency, in which he cxpres
ses a preference for Henry Clay over every
other candidate named, and for Crittenden and
McLean next. But notwithstanding these ara
his preferences over all others, he stilh candidly
avows that he is not indifferent la. ihe will of
ihe people, and intimates that he will feel him
self bound to accepi the Presidency, if ihe peo
pie should persist in thrusting ii upon, him
Lot us hear no more about his declining tho
nomination.."
India Rubber Itfoucy
The editor of the New London Star has l een
shown a" One Dollar Bill of iho New Haven
County Bank genuine the paper of which
was India Rubber, but liule thicker than the or
dinary paper, and perfectly impervious to va
ter. Indeed, to so great perfection had U been
brought, both in the filling up, ant in ihe.
used for the signatures, that it seems tp h ft re
de fied ihe common, and even some uncommon,
methods of obliteration. It had been soak
and boiled in strong potash lyc, .wjih. ca;ei
perceptible effect,"