JEFPERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, .Juno 3, L17. Terms, $2,00 in advance: 2,25 h:ilf yearly; and $250 if not paid before the end of the vear. Democratic Whig ffoniiuatioHS. FOR GOVERNOR. JAMES IRVIN, OF CENTRE COUNTY. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, JOSEPH W. PATTON, OF CUMBERLAND COUNTV. Sale of Real Estate. Our readers will perceive by referring lo our advertising columns, lhat Thomas McElrath, Esq. will offer at public sale on Saturday the 12th inst. a number of very valuable lots in the Borough of Stroudsburg. An excellent opportunity will then be offered to all who may be desirous of owning real estate in this beautiful and flourishing place. Odd-Fellows ETall. The Corner Stone of the new Odd-Fellows Hall, (now in progress of erection in Easton,) will be laid with appropriate ceremonies on Saturday the 12th inst:, at 2 o'clock, P. M. An address will be delivered upon the occasion explanatory of the principles and objects ol the Order; and a proces sion in full regalia will take place at one o'clock A Strike. The journeymen bricklayers, of the Borough of Easton, struck for highor wages on Monday last, and stood out nearly all day in the rain They have received, heretofore, $1 37 1-2 per day, they now ask an advance of 12 1-2 cts. Their wishes have not yet been complied with. Who brought about the War? This question the Loco papers now try to an swer by quoting the language of General Scott's Proclamation of the 11th of April last: "Mexicans! Americans are not your enemies but the enemies for a time of the men who, a year ago, misgoverned you, and brought about this un natural war between two great republics." They do not inform their readers that the Proc lamation from which this extract is taken was pre pared at the War Department at Washington and sent down to Gen. Scott to be published. It is but a short time since they were daily quo ting " Gen. Taylor's Proclamation" to prove the same thing; and were silenced by having thrust in their face Secretary Marcy's order to Gen. Tay lor to distribute the document from which they had been quoting. Cornered at .ast ! The Washington Union denies that the copy of the Pass of Santa Anna, published by us a few weeks since, is a correct copy. It says that Mr. Polk furnished no pass at all, but admits that an order lo hi Santa Anna into Mexico was issued ly , Mr. Marcy to the Squadron in the Gulf So it seems after a year's wrigglings and twi3lings and every endeavor to creep out of the matter, that Mr. Polk is endeavoring to place that disgraceful and disreputable transaction upon the shoulders of Mr, Marcy ! But did not Mr. Marcy act by the au thority of the President However, it makes no difference who issued the Order or Pass, it is now admitted by the Official Organ of the President that Santa Anna was permitted by our Government to pass the Squadron in the Gulf of Mexico, re turn to his own country, place himself at the head of a powerful army, and march against our own citizens and butcher them ! A similar diabolical act was never before committed by any country in anv age. It has remained for the President of the United States to furnish an enemy, then at war with this country, with a powerful General to lead its forces against his own fellow-citizens ! What has he not to answer! Lancaster Union. Hew Jersey, Hudson aud Delaware Rail Road. The capital stock of this Company has been duly subscribed, and it is now prepared to or ganize under favorable auspices. A respecta ble association of gentlemen, comprising citi zens of Sussex and Essex counties, with enter prising capitalists from New York, have sub scribed for the 6tock, and the charterjs now in hands which affords a guarantee that its liberal provisions will be employed in advancing the interests and welfare of the districts of New Jersey on the Delaware River, by a judicious appropriation of capital. Pennsylvania, espe cially the part bordering on the vicinity of the Delaware, with her great mineral and agricul tural resources, is deeply interested in the con struction of a Rail Road avenue to the great commercial emporium, and New York by in iiiasing her supplies of fuel and bread-stuffs from -the country will greatly promote her own growth and the wealth of her citizens, and at the same lime add to her commerce. Indeed w.e caa ee no good reason why a Rail Road from the Hudson to the Delaware will not be a main link in a westward communication extending through Pcnns3'!vauia to the great! West. Newark Daily Advertiser. 3en. Irviii and Is is Calumniators. The Loco Focos, panic-stricken at the cer tain indications of the election of Gen. Irvin by an overwhelming majority, resort, in their despair, to falsehoods which insult the intelli gence of the people and increase the disgust with which the citizens of the Keystone regard the present corrupt administration, and the con tracted clique which upholds it. For, Mr. Shunk never had the hearty support of the whole Democratic parly. His known feeble ness of intellect and imbecility of character, his inveterate prejudice against the friends of Mr. Muhlenberg and his corrupt subserviency to influences adverse to tho interests of the Stale, have incurred the honest opposition and open contempt of tens of thousands of the Dem ocracy. Tho One Term principle, now an ac cepted article of the true Democratic creed, has heightened this feeling of opposition to his continuance in an ofltce, for which he is ac knowledged by all the sincere of his frionds to be unqualified ; and the fact that he has passed his life in office, and received some fifty thou sand of dollars of tho public money, grown rich at the people's expense, satisfied even those who pity his feebleness, that he has long enough been a State pensioner. From all sections of the Commonwealth evi dences of the existence and growth of these "sentiments crowd upon the executive clique ; and it becomes necessary, in their opinion, to report to means the most desperate and despi cable, to arrest the torrent lhat sets thus irre sistibly against them. They desire to com mence an offensive war upon Gen. Irvin ; but where, in a character so lofty, and a career so illustrious and unspotted, can they find material? If it cannot be found it must such is the strait of this wretched faction of a oreat party be made. In this reckless and unprincipled spirit they havo charged, and still continue to charge against Gen. Irvin, that he voted for the tax upon tea and coffee, although they know that such a tax is the darling measure of the admin istration which they support ; and although they know, also, that Gen. Irvin voted, spoke, and worked against that tax, and secured its defeat. Now people of Pennsylvania, these are plain truths sustained by our Congressional records : and what think you of those who thus insult you, by conscious falsehoods, and wrong one of your most cherished citizens by deliber ate and malignant calumnies? Another and equally sordid and unworthy accusation is, lhat Gen. Irvin is rich. This is true, in fact, for he is rich in the industry that secures independence ; he is rich in virtue, in reputation, and in the loftyconsciousness of worth and talent : but it is false in the meaning intended to be conveyed, for, in this world's goods, Gen. Irvin though independent, is not afliuent. Wejwjve every reason to believe that his long life oPhonest and sagacious industry has not accumulated so large a sum as Francis R. Shunk has received from the public treasury. He is rich in benevolence, not in gold. There are in Pennsylvania thousands of farmers weal thier than Gen. Irvin. But let it not be sup posed lhat we regard the wealth earned by a farmer like Gen. Irvin, to be a crime. Those who allege it to be so are themselves guilty of a fault deeply censurable. Are our people to be divided into political classes of rich and poor ; and is every farmer or mechanic whose industry, economy and virtue have won, as they always must win, an independence, to be dis- franchised and ostracised? We have indeed fallen upon evil times if such is the accepted rule ; and heteafter indolence alone is to be considered honorable, and the farmer whose fireside has been rendered happy, and whose granary full, by long years of honest toil, must be content to regard himself as disgraced and branded unworthy office or honor, which be longs only to the politician, the pensioner and lacquey of parlies, whose hand has never been hardened, or whose brow, bronzed by a single day of honest labor in the field. We allege that the friends of Mr. Shunk, in making this charge against Mr. Irvin, seek to establish a war against honest industry anuits well-earned gains and to disfranchise and disgrace every farmer in the State who can call his plantation, his home stead and his well-filled barn his own. Upon this issue alone we would bo willing to meet the Locofocos in this contest. Another charge, and here the full quiver of Locofoco malice is spent, is that General Irvin voted in favor of the Bankrupt Bill. So he did. And who voted with him? Henry Clay, aud with a very few exceptions, every distinguish ed member of the Whig party. The entire Whig party was in favor of the bill. But these are far from all the facts upon the subject. The bill was carried by Democratic votes, and the man who, more than any other, labored to effect that result, by his speeches, influence and vote was Robert J. Walker, the present Secretary of the Treasury. To have sustained that bill has never been urged as an objection to any man by either party. The country de manded it, aud all parties united in its support. Will the Pennsylvanian denounce Secretary Walker on that account? Will tho Whigs i complain of their own illustrious and honored j champion, those whom they have ever ddight ed to honor ? If not, let us hear no more of this as an, objection to General Irvin. But why is this objection urged by the Loco Focos ? Because they ha:e the. poor man and hate the law that was passed for his relief.' Js this" their democracy ? What, after all, was the Bankrupt Law ? It provided that the poor debtor who gave up all to his creditors, and walked forth into the world naked of the world's weal i ft as when he first breathed its air, and almost as helpless, that (his poor beggared wretch should sleep. upon his pallet, and walk forth in his raggedness, vjithput a fear of the jail. That he should be enabled to labor foi his family without an apprehension thai a weal thy tyrant, should by a heirless attorney, loy upon the flour or potatoes that were to feed his children in the extremity of winter. It was a question between tho tyranny of wealth and the helplessness of poverty. It was a question be tween the freedom and slavery of the poor for what man is more a slave than the unfortunate who dreads a jail or the grasp of a constable t was a question between despair and hope to the wretched for what despair is so profound as that of the pale debtor who, without the means of feeding his children, knows thai if he earns those means, they must be levied up on. I he law protected no dishonest man ; it required the surrender of all ; and having se cured that, it manumitted the slave oT poverty, it took off his chains, removed his curse, and bade him go forth, to hope, to virtue and to la bor. And who were and who are opposed to this blessed enactment? The nabobs, the ba rons, the wealthy tyrants who would hold a rod of iron over the poor and now in addition, the Loco Focos who support Shunk. Again, we are willing to meet them. We will trust to the honest hearts of Pennsylvania upon this issue; and let them determine whether it was a crime, in that season of almost universal bankruptcy and distress, when hundreds of thousands of our people were groaning under tho extremest destitution, to give a vote for the relief of the poor. Upon this question, R. J. Walker was, for once right ; and the effort of the Loco Fo cos to denounce him and Gen. Irvin will scarce ly avail them in Pennsylvania. The truth is that no ingenuity can invent an objection against Gen. Irvin that will not recoil upon the inventors. He is known to the peo ple of Pennsylvania ; and his eminent abilities as a statesman, his ardor in defence of Penn sylvania interests, his plain and disinterested republicanism, his modesty and his virtues have endeared him to the good and the' honest of all parties, r rom present appearances, his elec tion is placed beyond a doubt ; and we predict with confidence that his administration will, by its liberality, lofty integrity, moderation and ability, win the admiration of every man who cherishes the welfare and honor of the Old Keystone. North American. Whig taeiiicnSs Wages of 3La&r. We understand that a number of the laborers who voted for Polk and Free Trade, are begin ning to realize the truth of the Whig statements, that without Protection to industry, a famine abroad or a failure of crops at home, will al ways enhance ihe price of bread stuffs, without a corresponding advance in tho wages of labor. Such will always be the effect under Free Trade. Protection creates and stimulates la bor, consequently when a rise in the price of Provisions lakes place from any cause, a cor responding advance in ihe price of wages al ways follows. It is admitted that some branch es of business will flourish under the free trade system when there is an increased foreign dc mand for our bread stuffs, or for any other im portant article of domestic production, which causes an influx of money into the country, but it rarely, if ever happens that an increases price of wages follows from such causes. The creating stimulus afforded by protection alone can produce that result. Miners' Journal. Another Wife Wanted. A Mr. Thomas Jefferson Cade, of Woodbury N. J. comes out in the Ledger with the craziest advertisement we have seen for a long time, signifying his desire to take a wife, who, ifwe understand Mr. C. rightly, must possess the following qualifications : She must be a beauti ful young Virgin, with a capital of twenty-six millions, " if convenient," clothed in the sun or electro-magnetic gilding and "attended with thunder and lightning, artillery and musketry and smart engagements of grape and canister, with appropriate music of hornpipes, reels, an litems, organ, larnborines, &c." Any lady pos sessed of these moderate requisites is invited to address Mr. Cade confidentially and an imme diate response may be expected ; provided, we guess, Mr. C. should not, in the interim, bo confined in some lunatic asylum and debarred from the privilege of entering into an amatory correspondence. ScotCs Weekly Paper. ISisfffaloes in Texas. Immense herds of buffaloes have recently congregated on the frontiers of Texas, between the Brazos and tho Colarado. Several small herds have been seen below Bastrop, in places that have not been visited by these animals for many years. Their presence in such large numbers on the frontiers is attributed to the great severity of the winter on the northern prairies. The new settlers are. slaying great numbers and drying their meat for summer use. ftlorc Groans. The Democratic Courier, a locofoco news paper published al Johnstown, in Cambria coun ty, says, " It is impossible for Gov. Shunk to g?t tho support of the old Muhlenburg men !" AmagaB9satioa. Gen. Canalizo, who was next in command to Santa Anna at Gerro Gordo, is said to be a negro, black as the aco of spades." His let ter to the Mexican government, written the day after. the battle, shows him to be a person of fine abilities and finished education. A few days since, 1,900cmigrnnts landtfd at New York. FAIT3S32l REW FKOJTI MEXICO J The Philadelphia Inquirer of Wednesday thus sums up the news then jusrreceived from Vera Cruz : No new movement of importance had taken place. Gen. Patterson had reached New Or leans, probably in consequence of ill health. Several regiments of volunteers whose period of service had expired, where al Vera Cruz on their route homeward. Gen. Worth was expec ted to enter Puebla on the 17th without oppo sition. Gen. Scott would not be able to march to tho city of Mexico, with a larger force than 6000 men. Santa Anna's whereabouts had not been fully ascertained, although he was repor ted to be at Orizaba, raising troops. The guer rillas were not as troublesome, as at first appre hended. Two deaths by vornito were announ ced at Vera Cruz on the lhli one a French lady, aud the other Mr. Smith, a sutler of the Pennsylvania regiment. A train of 400 wa gons was to leave Vera Cruz on the 8th. A Yankee was arrested in Mexico on the 2G'.h, w ho was anxious to make terms of peace with the President on his own hook. I he Mexicah papers are warlike in their tone. The owners of the mine La Luz had loaned the Government $55,000 for the war. An American officer is reported to have insulted a respectable female on the Plaza at Vera Cruz on the 9th. Disgrace ful ! Mr. Kendall writes that Gen. Scott was expecied to leave Jalapa with Gen. Twiggs, in the course of a few days, and that his next movement twouid depend upon circumstances. The Inquirer of Saturday gives the following summary of news by a later arrival : Major Gaines and his companion?, including Midship man Rogers, were at the last accounts at 'liber ty in the city of Mexico. A party of 200 Mex icans had been prowling about Vera Cruz, when Captain Walker, and his riflemen went in pur suit, and killed several of them. Every thing was reported to be in confusion at the Capitol. Anaya was still President pro tem., but was without influence. The Guerrillas were at work between Puebla and the city. The Brit ish proposition to mediate has been rejected by the Mexican Congress the motion even to consider being lost by a vote of 44 to 33. Santa Anna claimed a victory on the 17th at Cerro Gordo, but admits thai the United States troops had the advantage on tho 18th. He ie ports his force to be 7,000, and rapidly increas ing, and he asks for money to carry on his op erations. A powerful party in favor of peace is believed to exist at the Capitol ; but the mea sure was nevertheless unpopular. On the ap proach of our troops, Congtess and the archives of the Republic will be moved to the city of Morel ia. Fredericksburg, Va T May 30. By the propeller Trumbull, arrived at New Orleans, Brazos dates of ihe 10th instant have been received. The Picayune publishes a let ter dated Walnut Springs, 3d inst. which gives a report that Col. Doniphan's force had been attacked at a pass called Sierra Gordon, about half way between Saltillo and Chihuahua, by a Mexican force from Durango under Gen.Rieze. The battle resulted in the defeat of Col. Doni phan with a severe loss, and all his artillery cap tured. An English gentleman, who arrived at Saltillo on the 3d inst. says lhat Col. Don iphan started from Chihuahua on the 1st of April via San Jose del Parral. The Saltillo paper expresses the opinion thai his command must be within a few days march of that place. Gen. Cadwallader and staff, Col. Ramsey, Major Morgan, Captains Syberg, Butler, Ber nard, Biddle and others were at Palo Alto. Cadwallader was to proceed with his com mand, except the Dragoons, forthwith 'to Vera Cruz, to reinforce Gen. Scott. The Fanmse a Madeira. The N ew Bedford Mercury learns by au thentic advices from Madeira, received by Rev. Mr. Howe, pastor of the Seamen's Bethel in that city, that many hundreds of the inhabitants of Madeira have already perished by starvation. Flour has sold as high as $27 a barrel, but most of the inhabitants were unable to purchase at any price. The Mercury gives the following extract : " Wo have had no potatoes for two years, on account of the potato rot. For God's sake send us some Indian Corn, or wo must all perish. A little rice will bo thankfully received. Oh that wo might have a portion of that which the highly favored Americans throw to their ani mals to keep us from the grave." A young woman aged 18 years,, was convict ed at New Castle, Delaware, last week, of stealing some wearing apparel from her em ployer, and sentenced to be whipped with 21 lash es on her bare back. An editor out West heads his list of mar riages with "noose items,"---another calls them (i feats of the ring? The N, Y. Journal of Commerce says that two thousand nhlo bodied laborers are wanted along the line of the Erie Railroad. More Copper. The Philadelphia Sun says lhat J. H. Schenk, the manufacturer of the famed Pul monic Syrup, has discovered copper on his farm, near Flemington, N. J. .4 IVwc Priest. A German priest was walking in procession at the head of his parishoners over cultivated fields, in order to procure a blessing upon the crops ; when he came to one of unprom ising appearance, he would pass on saving : "Here prayers and singing will avail nothing; this mupt have. manure;., , From the Philada. Daily Chronicle. The Flour Speculation. There are few mailers of more practical im portance to every body, than the excitement which prevails in the grain and flour market. Upon it depends the size of every man's loaf. There are many, to be sure, to whom that ia of comparatively small importance ; but there are thousands also, whose circumstances in lif render it otherwise, and they feci most deeply interested in die fluctuations of the market. We have heretofore shown that those, fluctua tions have been, in several instances, ihe result of sheer speculation, and that to this cause wo are largely indebted for the high prices of flour. Upon the airital of each of the steamers from England, the state of the markets abroad hav been telegraphed from city to city, and the pub' lie quotations of prices have been each-time ae- companied with pretended private odeices a few hours later, announcing farther rises in prices, and additional briskness in demand. This u ihe scheme of the speculators- in flour, to run? ' up prices here, which they have" each tune suc--ceeded in accomplishing. For instance, the public accounts by the stoamer Caledonia, in the beginning of tho present month, reported flour at 38 to 40 shil lings per barrel. This was an improvement oit previous prices, and therefore flour took a con siderable rise on all our markets. It was af terwards said, however, on the authority of pri vate aduiccs, that on Monday the 19th of April,, the day on which the steamer sailed, prices in Liverpool had risen lo 42 shillings. This gave to our markets another upward progress. A few days afterwards another speculative letter was published in some of the newspapers, da ted at Liverpool, on the 16th of Apiil, cxpres. sing an opinion by the writer, that by June or July, ihe scarcity would be so great in Liver pool as to run the price ihere up to 60 shillings or more. This of course produced a farther rise in our markets. The Britannia arrived at Boston, on the Ifith ult., with two weeks later intelligence. The commercial news brought by her represents that after the sailing of the Cambria, llour had declined to 33 shillings, hut had again rallie 1. But we hear nothing about the prices hiving been 40 to 42 Shillings as stated in the private advices. It is announced, however, lhat ano ther rise had taken place, and up went the mar kets again, higher than before! A day or two elapsed, and then appeared another edition of private advices, dated at Liverpool, on the day the Britannia sailed, professedly from the most reliable sources. These announce a new ex citement in the London market, on the day pre vious ; that purchasers had appeared from the. continent, and lhat flour had gone up to 45 shil lings ; and that ihe best household, in sacks, had risen to equal 52 shilling? per barrel. Tho same private advices predict, also, higher prices before harvest! Flour was jerked up & dollar a barrel, in consequence, aud the speculators came off, of course, right side up." Such are the stratagems to which this odious speculation has given play, and to which the people are no doubt indebted for the last rise of one dollar per barrel, in the market price of flour. A few days more will prove whether or not we are right in this conjecture ; aud the people may then satisfy themselves, by the next arrival of English news, how far the pri vate advices to which we have referred, are borne out by facts, and how far they have been manufactured for the purposes of those interest ed in the flour trade. It is worth while to ob serve and test this point. - Doubtless from the same sources have ema nated most of the croakings about the forthcom ing crops, on this side of the Atlantic. This is, to be sure, an annual business to some ex tent, and one, therefore which is better under stood than the other. This season, however,, has witnessed a decided improvement in the croakings of former ones, and the cries of "scarcity" and " poor prospect" are likely to increase in proportion as they may serve to drive flour up, in the market. Flour speculation, is just now ono of the mania's of the day. Indian Corn in Europe. Many suppose because so much has been satu lately of Indian com, lhat it is an article of food just introduced into Europe, and that we shall have the entire monopoly of the trade to supply the demand in that quarter Thaf we shall secure a large portion of the trade we have no doubt. But the United States is not the only corn-growing country in the wot Id, if McCulloch can be re lied upon. By referring to his work it will be seen that Indian corn has been grown in Ireland for a number of years, and quantities of it have been annually exported to England. As far back as 1827 no less than 1,795 quarters were received from Ireland into the port of Liverpool, and in 1834 the quantity had increased to 3,037 quarters.. Some of our commercial writers are of opinion, that we shall have a permanent market for com in, France, but by referring i0 the same authority we find that it is grown extensively in some of ' provinces, and forms a leading article of 1 v among certain classes of the population. Ti.s surplus is exported to England, as will be seen In the following statement, which sliows that France in ordinary times is ahead of us Bushels. 111,141 179,500 102 503 13.193 France in 1831 exported United States Russia The Azores Spain 2,754 This is merely the quantity exported to England How much greater the aggregate production is than the exports we leave for the reader to judge, Indian corn is grown extensively in Spain, Itah and Mexico, and various portions of Asia aud -r vica. Rochester Democrat.
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