JEFFE RSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, September 2, ISfSV
Terms, $2,00 hi .nlvance. $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not
paia uciurc ine cnu ol the yrar.
'Democratic Whig Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR.
JAMES I R V IN,
OF CENTRE COUNTY. '
, FOR CANAL CO.V311SSIONF.Ii,
JOSEPH W. P A T T O N,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
flj L. KARNES, at Milford; is duly author
ized to act a3 Agent for this paper; to receive sub
scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-work,
and payments for the same.
The Recent Elections.
The result of the recent elections, every
'. where, show a decided Whig gain, and are of
" i he most cheering character. The noble man
. iiKi in which our politicaf friends, ihroughout
the Union, conduct themselves, is highly aus
picious and encouraging. The signs of the
limci indicate a great political revolution.
f ,,,, Honorable Correction.
t - The Ilarrishurg Argus, a "Democratic pa
;'per," liming been led inio error concerning
Gen. Ikvin, says :
" Some time siuco, we published a commun
ication, h which was set fonh, for faci, that
Gen. Irvin, when in Congress, voted agaitist
ihe hill introduced by Mr. Irgersoll, refunding
io Gen. Jackbon the fine imposed on him by
Judge Hall, at New Orleans. Our correspon
dent was in error on this question. Gen. Irvin,
then a member of Congress from Pennsylvania,
voicdyivr the bill refunding io Gen. Jackson the
. line above mentioned." We take pleasure in
correcting the error commuted by our worthy
correspondent as wo have no desire to do in
justice to the personal character or public acts
of Mr. Irvin. In "Blair & Rives' Congression
al Globe" for ihe first session of the 28th Con
gress, page 120, are the yeas and nays upon
ihe passage of the bill. Gen. Irvin'a name is
'among ihe yeas, of whom there were 158, io
28 nays."
JJCf3 Will the Editors of the Monroe Demo
crat, who gave currency to the above mistake,
have the moral courage and honor to correct it?
Hon Silas Wright died at his residence, in
St. Lawrence county, New York, on Friday
Ui, of appoplexy. Mr. Wriglit was one of the
ablest men of his party, has held ihe offices of
Governor of his Stale, U S. Senator, &c, and
was at ihe time of his death regarded as rhe
most available Locofoco candidate for ihe Pres
idency North of Mason & Dixon's line. His
age was about 53.
3Vew Jersey.
1 The two parties hold conventions at Trenton
ib' nominate their candidates for Governor, this
mouth, ihc Locos on the 22d, the Whigs on
ihe 23d',
Effects of the Tariff of 184a.
The Boston Iron Company have closed a
contract for 5G-.000 tons of Nova Scolia Coal,
to be delivered this-fall and winter.
tetter from the HSilford JTIisscs.
Dear Mr. Sciioch :
' We would beg space in your columns to
V;ill ihe attention of our friends to the fair
hich is to come off in our place on the ,14th
ant. Wo have been laboring away, plying
wr wits, and needles, most faithfully, with a
tf&i noble object in view the redemption of
""rtr church from a debt which has been resting
upon h- some three or four, years-.
.And noAv, we have a line assortment of arti
cles ready ,-taslely goi up, which, we are aboul
io offer. We-hope our dear friends will appre
cia'e the endeavour we have been making, and
liberally reward our enterprise. Mr. De Witt,
has kindly given us leave io occupy his large
storehouse, and upon those long counters of
his, we arc going to display our ufixins." It
being court week, we have an eye lo some of
pur. distant friends, who we expect will visit
t jis, but, for fear they should fail we "hereby
puHjnions them io appear before the court of
"Cupid" to be held lherc and-then under pain
of our, disapprobation fail not" dear friends.
Upon tho arrival of the mails from Fair-yland
at.d elsewhere, ihe Post Office department will
be open under the superintendence of ,
f -and some of the most marketable girls talk
orffyrjjig iheni.-elvcs to close the sale. But,
4riify;i must OH ftiuge, dtnw you think so
ctMr.d&J. 1 'Vhk Ladies or the Fair.
i ' i : 1
-''J.- M. G. Lescure, Suite Printer, and one of
lheCnroprierors of ihe Harris burg Union-, died
oh (Saturday morning, aged about 4-5 years. :
Slanders against Gen. Irvin.
Wo find in variouslocofoco papers, credited
to"the Bedford Gazette, the following, charges
aoainst Gcn.jRViN : lie is,
1. An Aristocratic Iron Master !
.2. Tho father of the Bankrupt Law !
3. Tho advocate of taxing Tea and Goffeo !
4. The reviler of Gen. Jackson !
5. The friend of Thaddeus Stephens !
6. The supporter of tho Buckshot War !
7. The advocate of ihe Gettysburg Railroad.
8. The worshipper of a United Siates Bank I
9. The Trumpeter of his own acts of Charity!
10. An old-school anti-war Federalist !
There is not a single word of truth in any
one of the above " articles of impeachment,"
which are set. forth by one who has become a
general libeller and scold. We can easily
dispose ol the whole of them.
1. An Aristocratic Iron Master. Gen. Irvin
is a plain unostentatious gentleman, frugal. in his
habits, and living on lerms of friendly inter
course with every worthy neighbor.
2. The father of Ihe Bankrupt Law. Gen.
Irvin voied for that law, which was called for
by ihe country with an unanimity which sel
dom awaits any great public measure. He,
however, cannot claim any paternal relation to
it. If his vote was wrong, he erred in compa
ny with many distinguished democrats ; for the
law was adopted by no party vote.
3. The advocate of taxing Tea and Coffee
Gen. Irvin never voted for such a tax, .but al
ways steadily opposed ii, both by his voles and
tn his speeches. The Bedford Gazette knew
ibis assertion to be a falsehood, when it was
penned.
4. The Reviler oj Gen. Jackson. Gen Irvin
voted for the restoration of the fine imposed on
Gen. Jackson at New Orleans during the last
war. There was much 'unanimity on the final
passage ol that bill tnerc woulu nave been
more, had it been . asked as an act of simple ex
pediency or justice, and not for ihe purpose of
making political capital.
5. F he friend of Thaddeus Stevens. And so
ho is of Francis 11. Shunk. He is as intimate
with one as ihe other, and his relations are as
friendly with one as the.other.
G. The supporter of the Buckshot War. Gen.
Irvin was in no way, either directly or indi
rectly, connected with that disgraceful effort of
locofocoistn to wrest by force what it sought to
attain by fraud.
7. The advocate of the Gettysburg Railroad.
Wo presume wo have as good authority for
denying this as ihe Bedford jGazette has for as
serting it. i either ol us knows, any thing, ol
Gen. Irnln s views on the utility of that work ;
and for all political purposes, the accusation
might as well be made against him, that he is
the advocate of the Tower of Babel !
8. The worshipper of a United States Bank.
Gen. Irvin never made application to thai
Bank during us existence for the establishment
of a Branch, as did Martin Van Buren.
Nor did he ever draw up and present a bill for
a renewal of its charier, as did George M.
Dallas.
9. The Trumpeter of his own acts of Charity.
Gen. Irvin has been inexpressibly pained
because his friends with a zealous desire that
all the world should know him as they know
him, have made public some of his charitable
acts. They were performed in the true spirit
inculcated by the command not to lei the left
hand know ihe doings of the right-. If they
have become known, it was through' no agency
of his.
10. An Old School Anti-War Federalist.
Gen. Irvin was hardly of age during the war
with England, and therefore could not have
participated with James Buchanan in his anti
war federalism. But Gen. Irvin was brought
up an old school democracy a faiher w ho was
also a democrat, when that name was a politi
cal honor ; and before the hordes of old Feder
alism broke into the halls of Democracy, tram
pled down its principles, tore up its old land
marks and compelled those who cherished their
ancient faith and reverenced consistency as
well as purity of political sentiment, io leave a
party which was democratic only in name, and
form themselves into the Whig parly a Whig
party which combined all the essentials of that
democracy which Madison taught when feder
alism reviled him; that democracy which Mon
roe practised, so lovingly as to dispel all partisan
acerbity ; that democracy which Crawford a
vowed when federalism assailed him ; that de
mocracy which Henry Clay championed when
federalism like a rank weed was choaking its
growth, and which he has advocated through
good report and bad report, until federalism
wreaked its vengeance upon him, by poisoning
the public ear io his virtues, misrepresenting
his-sentiments and acts,, and following him up
with a malignity of detraction1 and' recklessness
of perversion such as have" never before been
known in the history of ihe world.
Gen. Irvin is one of these Whigs, a demo
cratic Whig ; snd ihore beats not a heart in the
country more warmly, fondly, and patriotically,
for the best interests of that country. Gen. Ir
vin js the son of a man who sought the refuge
of our laud, when tyranny assailed him too bit
terly in Ireland ; and from such a father's lips
a son could learn nothing but the purest princi
ples of republicanism. Ak ihe old men of
northern Pennsylvania,, whether any of the Ir
vin blood were anti-war federalists ask them
to what "old school" of politics they were at
tached ! Ask them whether ihe father now
dead, or the son no-w living, were traitors to
the country ; advoca'es of unjust laws ; osten
leniaiious or pharraic in iheir charities ; the
revilers of Jackson, or the oppressors of the
poor! Thousands of tongues will be ready to
respond and give testimony in their favor!
Thousands of hearts will leap at the remem
brance of the many ads which have made tho
very name of Irvin to be beloved where it is
beoi.and must truly known,
T.he vituperation which has been employed
by the opponents of Gen. Irvin, as the only
j weapon "they could use against him, finds noi
a spot for the entrance in. tho armor of proof,
wiih which a life of dignity and usefulness has
invested him The falsehoods, to which those
opponents have resorted we do not class with
the means uted io injure him ; for it usually
happens that misrepresentation recqils against
its originators. Where Gen. Irvin is known,
it is a w ork of supererogation to defend his pri
vate worth, or his political fidelity lo ihe best
interests of the country at large, and of his
Commonwealth in particular. It. is for those
who have not been thrown inio daily intercourse
with him who have not been familiar with his
public acts, nor conversant wiih his high and
consistent course as a statesman, that we have
deemed it a duiy to nonce the meanly disinge
nuous assertions, which the Adjutant General
of the State has seen proper to utter in the co
lumns of tho paper which he controls.,.
North American
A Fair Hit.
The New Orleans Naiional has not done
more than justice, in the following imaginary
correspondence, to the practice of writing let
ters to eminent public men, propounding all
manner of unmeaning questions, and then pub
lishing their answers. . It would seem as if
e'ery scrihler in the land had been catechising
Gen. Taylor, and that he, a frank old soldier,
answers ihem as if it were an official duty.
The questions propounded in the following im
aginary correspondence by Mr. Snooks are noi
less important than many that have been pro
pounded fo ihe General.
"honi soit qui mal y pense."
Highly Important Corresjwndence.
Prospectiveville, June 7, 1847.
Dear Sir: As you are our candidate for the
Presidency, so constituted by the people, you
are, therefore, open to all sorts of impertinent
questions. Your privacy is to ho invaded and
you are to suffer yourself to be daily examined,
as it you were a simple witness in the hands of
an indefinite number of sharp lawyers. I am
one of tlie people, and, being an exceedingly
small specimen, I have made it a practice, for
years past, for the sake of notoriety, to endeav
or to fasten myself on the tail of some great
man, who happened, for the time, to be in the
ascendency.
1 am opposed to your elevation to any office,
and would not vote for you were you, in the lan
guage of .a late Locoferco Senator of this State,
"pure enough to sit on the right hand of the
Throne of Heaven." Yet F woud be exceed
ingly delighted if you would answer the ques
tions I put to you in this letier, not only for the
purpose of having them published against you,
if they can- be so1 used, in case you are a can
didate, but also for the sake of getting my name
before the people, as hating done something to
assist in misrepresenting your real sentiments.
If I accomplish this, and you are defeated, I
am sure of some small office as a reward for
my ingenuous services
I wish to know, firstly, whether you are in
favor of putting corn in both ends of a bag that
is sent to mill on horseback, or do you believe
in the modern system invented by Bob Walk
er, who used a large stone in one end to bal
ance the grain in the other? Secondly, are
you in favor of mules having colts? Thirdly,
are you in favor of crossing the nutmeg melon
with the pumpkin?
A prompt and definite answer to these ques
tions will oblige your fellow-citizen,
AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE SNOOKS.
General Z. Taylor.
Camp near Monterey, July 9, 1847.
Respected Rir, : Your very important com
munication came to hand in due course of mail
and baggago wagon trasportation. I read ii
with profound pleasure. I was delighted with
the independent expression of your sentiments,
and the laudable motives that induced you to
place them before me in writing. The Gov
ernment has kept me so exceedingly busy of
late doing nothing., that I have not had time to
write you as promptly as I could have desired;
nor can I as explicitly, when I do sit down to
jhe task, as the importance of the subject de
mands. Your first questien 1 shall answer
all categorically is one that involves a favor
ite system of exchange,, which-would be indel
icate for me, in my pYesent. position, to enlarge
upon; but 1 will say, in passing, that it is bol
ter to have a stone in one end of the meal bag
than in ihe bladder. To your second question
I answer, I am in favor of mules having colts,
provided it suits the mules, and don't interfere
with the vested rights of the people.- Your
third question involves a point upon which I
have many doubis crossing ihe melon with
ihe pumpkin certainly enlarges the melon, but
it will require a large share of tho attention of
philosophers to: show it don't ruin tho;r?utmeg.
With high respect, I remain your most obe
dient servant,
Z. TAYLOR..
i Augustus Montague Snooks.
Western Crops.
A gentleman who has lately travailed through
a largo portion of Uie southwestern Slates, as
sures us thai the Cotton crop never looked more
promising, and that the yield will bo large.
We perceive also that the fears expressed by
somo of our Southern exchanges a few weeks
since, in regard to ihe apprehended damage by
ihe worm, have not been realized.
Along ihe Wabash-and' Erie canal the Wheat
crop has been very good, and more Wheat will
he sent forward this year than there was last.
The Wheat in that region will average more
than sixty pounds to tliQ bushel.
,Lmihville Jutiii'.al.
FARTHER NEWS FKOU M'EXS'CO!
By the arrival of the steamship Galveston a:
New Orleans, advices from Puebla to ihe Gih
of August have been received, which is one
week later lhan previous dates.
Gen. Scott was -still at Puebla on ihe 6th,
but tho army was to lake up its line of march
the next day for the city of Mexico.
Gen Twiggs' division was to form the ad
vance and leave on the 7th, Gen. Quitman's on
the 8th, Gen. Worth's on the 9ih, and Gen.
Pillow's on the lUth. Col. Childs was to re
main in command at Puebla.
Tho most agreeable news by the arrival is
the escape of Major Gaines and Midshipman
Rodgers from the city of Mexico, and their safe
arrival at Gen Scon's head, quarters.
Mr. Kendall mentions the death of Lieut.
Hill of the 2d Dragoons, and Dr. Hamner, of
tho South Carolina regiment.
The correspondent of the Picayune, writing
from the camp at the Bridge, iwenty-four'tniles
from Vera Cruz, under dale of August llih,
gives the particulars of the attack on the irain
that left Vera Cruz on the evening of the Gth,
under the command of Major Laily. He says ;
" The train was met by guerillas in consid
erable force at the pass, one mile to the rear of
our present camp, yesterday, about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. Attacks were' made in the
front, rear and centre of the train, but they were
repulsed at all points, and we advanced to (he
encampment.
" Our loss is severe two officers were se
riously wounded, Capt. James H. Caldwell, of
the Volnguers, and Capt. Arthur C. Commings,
of the 11th, Infantry. The former is a native
of Matyland, and the latter of Virginia. Ten
men, non-commissioned officers and priva'es,
were also wounded, bui none were killed out
right. One has since died, and some are per
haps dangerously wounded. Hopes are enier
tained of the recovery of the two Captains.
"I think we will be able to make our way
i through securely after fighting perhaps for many
oays.
We are about twelve miles from the Na
tional Bridge, and will move on a few miles to
day." The Sun of Anahuac says, that eight of our
men were killed, and that Capt. Loyell's Geor
gia mounted men killed twenty-five of the ene
my. Governor Wilson immediately ordered the
preparation of reinforcements.
Verbal reports say that ihe Americans had
thirty men wounded and as many horses killed.
Serious apprehensions are entertained for the
safety of this irain, as ihe Mexicans have made
extensive preparations to cut it off.
The Mexicans are under the jmpressron that
the wagons contain a million of dollars in spe
cie. It is reported at Vera Cruz that tho Mexi
cans have destroyed part of the Natiorrai Bridge,
and erected defensive works there.- A decisive
action at that point was therefore expected.
The Sun of Anahuac sets down the number
of tho guerrillas at four thousand.
Col. Wilson, had nearly recovered, and was
now considered convalescent.
The health of Vera Cruz had much improved.
The Spanish Minister was expected ai Ve
ra Cruz on his way to Spain. "
Mr. Kendall writes from Puebla, August 5ih,
ihat Captain Ruff of the rifles, has given the
guerrillas at San Juan de Lostlanos a severe
drubbing, killing 43 and wounding some 50.
Major Gaines thinks that Santa Anna has a
boui 15,000 tolerably disciplined, uniformed
and drilled troops,- besides undisciplined re
cruits, adding but liule strength to his force.
Mr. Kendall adds that, " since the commence
ment of the teller Geri. Scott has issued his or
ders for the march of the army."
The sick and convalescent aro to be left be
hind. Gen. Scott is to accompany Gen. Quitman,
and the whole army will probably be concen
trated at some point beside the Capital.
Under date of August Gth, M-r. Kendall writes
thai Gen. Pierce arrived that morning, and his
men, though jaded and travel-worn, making a
mosi soldiery appearnance. They came through
without losing a man, though attacked several
times.
His letter concludes as follows, having been
written laic at night : Gen- Twiggs will move
to-morrow morning. Reporis continue to come
in that large bodies of ihe enemy are moving
in the neighborhood, and I have just heard that
a body of one thousand guerillas had been seen
at El Pinil.
The Vera- Correspondent of the Delta says
that a letter from Puebla under date of ihe 1 1-th
insi. to a mercantile house, mentioned thai Gen.
Seoti moved forward on ihat day.
Tampico is very unhealthy, and the yellow
fever prevails among the; squadron at Anton
Lizardo.
Nothing further had been received from Gen.
Taylor's army.
. LATER!"
By the arrival of the steamship Alabama at
New Orleans, Vera Cruz dates to ihe 15th ift'a't.
have been received. All was quiet there.
The most important news is the return of Pa
redes to Mexico. Ai the lasl accounts he was
in Parras. He reached Vera Cruz on the 14th
in the English Royal Stoamcr Teviot, under
an assumed nme. This steamer was tele
graphed at G o'clock .iii the morning from the
Casilo. A private Hgnal was hoisted from the
Mearner, .known only io the English merchants,
intimating that a distinguished petsonage was
on board. Preparations were made for his re
ception by his friends, but all was kept as still
as midnight. The steamer anchored, and the
passenger, Don Ma&iet.o, from Havana, leaped
into the first Jjoal King alongside, and was Ian
ded at tho Mojoj aittl, yuiti to hi friends,. Pepe
! Tamora borrowed forty ounces of gold, three
nurses, hat and coat, anij with two servants
was past tho gate in thirty minutes, with a fast
horse and clear track.
The mail from the steamer in ihe mean time
came on shore, and arnone tho 1 etiers wpr
some to the Collector and others from AIr
oampueu, our uonsul at Havana, disclosing
ihe fact that Gen. Paredes, the Ex-President
of Mexico had taken passage on board ihe steam
er an hour too late. Tho bird had flown.
We are deeply pained lo learn tho death of
Col. Wilson of the 12th Infantry, who was rep
resented at the last accounts as convalescent,
but died on the evening of the 12th inst., and
was hurried the next day. He was to have
commanded the tram that left on the 7th imt.
Cheap Fare for Travellers.
Competition has so reduced the fare in New
York that five dollars will enable a person to
visit almost every prominent place within a
hundred miles of the city, including fares both
ways. To Albany, the fare is $1 ; to New
Brunswick it is down as low as 12 1-2 cents.
To Penh and South Amboy and intermediate
landings, G 1-4 lo 12 1-2 cents. To New H(l
ven and almost all the other places on the
Sound, $1 and 50 cents. To Staten Island,.
12 1-2 cents.
The Governor and Council of New Hamp
shire have appointed Thursday, November 25ih
as the day of annual Thanksgiving in that State.
It is said ihat whenever Prince Albert dan
ces, either at Buckingham Palace or elsewhere,
his partners are invariably married ladies.
The various Irish societies in New York
have completed their arrangements for paying
appropriate honors to O'Connell. Ex-Govern-or
Win. H. Seward has been invited to deliver
the address, and has accepted. Castle Garden
is io be the place, and the 22d of nexl munh
the day.
It has been ascertained thai the time required
for ihe electric fluid to travel from New York
to Washington and back again, a distance nl
450 miles, is so small a fraction of a second, that
it is inappreciable to the most practised observer.
Silver and more Copper in IV. Jersey.
A farm lying in the neighborhood of Prince
ton, at Rocky Hill, was recently ascertained to
contain a rich vein of copper ore, and it was
forthwith purchased by a mining company lor
$12,000. The rumors now an, that the cop
per is exceedingly rirh, and that in opening
ihe mine a vein of silver has been delected in
connection wn.h the copper, hich yield 20
per cent, of pure metal. Under these circum
stances the farm has suddenly increased very
much in value, and it is said that $100,000
could noi buy it.
A Challenge lo the World.
We find the following challenge to ihe world
in a Columbus paper:
A Banter to the World. We the under
dersigned, will match Mis Forte against any
other race horse in the world, for any stun front
one to five thousand dollars a side, half-forfeit
to be run over the Columbus course, the Nt
day of November next. This proposition ts
open until the 20th of September nexi Jeo
Ivey, A. B. Moore, F. A. Henry.
Columbus,- Miss., July 27, 1817.
We saw,-says the Baltimore Clipper, a Du'ch
woman yesterday morning, who had a barrel of
flour strapped on her back w-hich'her busbam!
had just purchased, and which she was con
veying to its destination, w hilst her affectionate
lord walked very quietly before smoking his
pipe!
The following advertisement appears in tho
Times. "Wanted a coachman to drive a pair
of horses of a decidedly pious turn of mind."
The Guard.
Jack, was yer ever appointed to stand guard
at fire 1 It is a glorious chance, 1 assure you."
" How so Bill ? I should think that it was
a plaguy bad job to have to stand over a pile of
goods and" look thai nobody steals 'em."
" Not ai all my boy. It's tho way I've picked
up many a glorious nab ; for when you stands
on guard, you know ihat nobody is guard over
you, and the way you can monopolize is glori
ous.
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the side and breast,nausea and sickness, va
riable appetite, yellow or swarthy complexion, &c.
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stomach and bowels of all bilious and putcid hu
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Beware of Counterfeits, of all kinds ! Some aro
coated with sugar; others are made to resemble
in outward appearance the original medicine.
Theoriginal genuine Indian Vegetable Pills
have the signature of WilHam Wright written with
a pen on the top label of each box. None other
is genuine, and to counterfeit this is forgery.
For sale by George H Miller who is ihe only
authorised agent for Stroudsburg ; see advertise
ment for other agencies in another column.
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