JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, November 4, 1847. Terms, $2.00 in advance. $2,25 half yearly ; and $2,50 if not paid before the end of the year. . . ? ;(15 L. BARNES, at Milford, is duly author ized to act as Agent for this paper; to receive sub scriptions, advertisements, orders for jqb-work, and payments for the same. Wanted by the Printer On account for aubscripiion, advertising, etc. wheal, rye, corn, buckwheat, potatoes, butter, and in fact anything becoming the granary or pantry. We should be pleased to acknowledge the receipt of some of the above named arti cles, and would be "thrice happy" if we could, from the fulness of our heart say, with all our settings, we gel-money. We .will not refuse tho last named article, if bankable, for a sight of the "critter" in these degenerate times " re juices and makes glad the heart" of the Printer; and although we are no disciple of Epicurus, o must own a decided attachment 10 warm buckwheat cakes, buttered buns, Jritters" and "ich like." JXZr' W learn frm yesterday's Ledger, that ihe.elcction in Now York has res.ulted in a grand and brilliant Whig triumph. Majority from 15 to 20,000. Glory enough for an age. A Venerable Lady. Tho widow of Dr. Benjamin Rush yet lives, and resides in Philadelphia, at the age of near ly 90 years. She retains the complete use of all her faculties, says the Couiier, and is be lieved to be the only surviving partner of any of the fearless and patriotic men who pledged life, honor and fortune in Independence Hall. Treasury Circular. The Hon. John Banks, State Treasurer, has 'issued a Circular to the Commissioners and Treasurer of each county, urging the prompt collection and payment of the State Taxes due the Commonwealth. This is deemed necessa ry to maintain the faith of tho Commonwealth, inasmuch as the damage done lo the Canal, by the late flood will diminish the ordinary, re ceipts of the Treasury to a very considerable amount. Dominoes and Draughts. Some of our citizens do not appear to be a- ware of the provisions of the law of last session ,againsi gambling. A few days since, Michael Kennedy, the keeper of the Eagle Hotel, in .Race street, Philadelphia, near Ninth, was held to bail in $500, having been charged on the oath of John Watson, with permitting his board ers and visitors to play dominoes, backgammon and draughts, in his bar-room, for cigars and liquor. The evidence showed that those who frequented the house were in the habit of play ing these games in the evening for amusement. We learn it has stopped all this kind of pastime at our hotels. . . , "It is said that Mr. Beach has-made a propo sition to the Receivers of the Plainrteld Bank, that he will redeem all the notes of that institu tion, some $60,000, for which' the Receivers have issued certificates, upon condition that the . Receivers deliver iip to him all the assets of the bank. Value of Shipping. The intrinsic Value of the shipping (not in cluding steamships, sieamboais, nor schooners) belonging to the' United Statesris pat down at '$120,00)0,000, as a moderate estimate. The number" of persons immediately interacted, is stated at a fair calculation, to be 1,175,000. A Spotted Negro. f vi Tho Raleigh Standard of the I3th till., pub lished in North Carolina, has the-following: on Saturday last we were invited by Mr.Northam, of Johnson County, to examine at Lawrence's - Hotel a negro boy he had in charge and a very strange looking boy he is. He is as black ' as the negro ordinarily is, and has white rings around his arms and legs ; the skin upon his breast and abdomen is white, and there is a while streak commencing at the iop of his fore "bead and running an inch or so up his head, the hair on ibis part of his head being as white and .as soft as lamb's wool. The white is re- ; markably clear, and contrasts singularly with "ihe black skin, which covers the other parts of his body. This boy is three years old, was bqrn in Johnson county,, N. Carolina, and' teems' . Jqbeiman for one of his '.age,. c.; A The Yellow Fever is prevailing in Rodney, Mis&i. with great violence. FORTHEJEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. j J; We cannot refrain congratulating theciuzens oT Stroudsburg upon their long and peculiarex emption from the devastations of this devouring element. The public Journals are replete with the -sad tales of havoc and destruction by fire, and indeed, in a few instances, nearly, whole towns have been swept away,and all that re mains of them once thriving and prosperous are huge, unshapen masses of smouldering ru ins. While scores of towns and cities, in all parts of the United Slates have been visited by destructive fires, and sustained immense, losses, not only in property, but in the lives of valuable citizens, our own charming little Town has slumbered in fancied security with nothing to mar the public peace or disturb the general mo notony. But we have no guarantee for the fu ture, and cannot tell at jvhat hour our citizens may be awakened from the peaceful slumbers of the night by the dread alarm of Fire. We may court the smiles of Veata yet we are liable to receive the frowns of that capricious Goddess. Wisdom and prudence would dictate the organ ization of an able and efficient fire corpse, and we are pleased to know thar an eiTort has been made to compass this desirable object. Thro' the exertions of a partially organized Company who bear the significant cognomen, or more properly cognomens of " Rough and Ready" the Engine, though for a length of time defunct, has been recently exhumed and its panoply of dirtt rust, and cobwebs, has been brushed away as if it was not orginated in a Toy Shop, and was intended for some nobler purpose than to tickle the fancy and excite the curiosity of chil dren. This Company with a prpmpitude and alacrity worthy the. highest encomiumsr have come forth voluntarily arid evinced their willing ness to shield property from destruction when ever occasion shall offer; and no doubt a com piele and thorough organization will soon be effected. But they warjt a suitable house for the .Engine and it seems there is not money sufficient for the erection of the same. Inas much as this Company has been organized pro bono publico, we think the public will by volun tary contribution furnish the sum required, which would supersede the necessity of having an Act passed for the levying of an additional tax. If another strenuous effort be made by the Com pany to attain this end, we have no hesitancy in saying that it will be properly, appreciated by a liberal public. THJS UUUlUKi The Easton Whig says the Whig party is like a hickory sapling the lower you bend it down, the higher it will spring up. Right. The. Whigs are good 1 fighting boys 'the more they are thrashed, the better they will fight for Liberty and our Country. They never sur render,' however great the odds against them. Had it not been for those lazy Whigs who staid at home on the election day, we would have whipped the Locofocos to death. But ' what's done can't be helped.' We'll give the Locofo. cos ' particular Jesse1 next time. A Remarkable Experiment. A recent work of science gives the follow ing novel experiment, which settles questions of some importance in philosophy: 'Two hundred pounds weight of eanh were dried in an oven, and afterwards put into an earthern vessel. The earth was then moisten ed with rain water, and a willow tree, weigh ing 5 pounds, was planted therein. During the space of 5 years the earth was carefully water ed with rain water, or pure water; ihe willow grew and flourished; and, to prevent the earth being mixed wiih fresh earth, or dust blrown on it by the winds, it was covered with a me tal plate perforated with a great number of holes, suitable for the free admission of air only. Af ter growing in the air for 5 years, the ire'e was removed, and found to weigh 169 pounds and about 3 ounces; the leaves which fell from the tree every autumn were not included in this weight. The earth was then removed from the vessel, again dried in the oven, and afterwards weighed; it was discovered to have lost only about 2 ounces of its original weight; thus 169 j pounds of woody fibre, bark or roots were pro duced : but from what source f The air has been discovered to be the source of the solid element at least. This siatement may at first appear incredible, but on slight reflection its truth is proved, because the atmosphere con tains carbonic acid, and is a compound of 714 parts, by weight, of oxygen, 'and 338 pans, by weight, of carbon." A Wjaseington correspondent of the, Balti-. more Sun says, " It is not generally known ijhat Ctiapuhepec was that seat of a miljiary academy, similar to that of West Point, and that by order of the ex-President, the pupils were .kept there during the engagement. One of them wai killed ihe rest taken prisoners. " Despatches from Major Downing. -"7 CiTY' of Mexico, United States, J ., ' September 271847. Mr. Gales & Seaton : My de'ar old friends, I'm alive yet, though I've been through show ers of balls as thick as hailstones. I got your paper containing my letter thai I wrote on the road to the war. The letters I wrote afterwards, the guerrillas and robbers are so thick, I think it's ten chances to one if you got 'em. Some of Gineral Scott's letters is missing just in ihe same way. Now we've got the city of Mexi co annexed and I. think the Post-master Gen eral onghi to have a more regular line of Mages running here, so. our letters may go safe. 1 wish you would touch ihe President and Mr. Johnson up a little about this mail-stage busi nessso ihey may keep all the coachmakers at work, and see that the farmers raise; horses as fast as .they can, for I don't think, they have an idea how long the roads is, this way, nor how fast we we are gaining south. If we keep on annexin as fast as we have done a year or two past, it wouldn't take much more than half a dozen years to get clear dow.n lo t'other end of South America, clear to Cape Horn, which would be a very good stopping place ; for then, if our Government got into bad sledding in North America, and found themselves in a dilemma thai hadn't no horn lo suit 'em, they would have a, horn in South America that they might hold on lo. I hope there aint no truth in ihe, story that was . buzz'd about here in the army a day or two ago, thai Mr. Polk: had an idea, when we get through annexin down this way, of trying his hand at ii over in Europe and Africa, and round there. And, to prevent any quarrelling aboul ii on this side of the water, he's agoing to agree to run ihe Missouri compromise line over ihere, and, cut Europe up into free States and Africa into5 slave states. Now, I think he had better keep still about that till we get this South America business all done, and well tied up. It isn't well for a body to have too much business on his hands at once. There'e no knowing what little flurries we may get into yel, and there's always danger if you have, too much sail spread in a squall.- However, I haven'i time to talk about this now. You will gel the accounts of the battles in Gineral Scott's letters, so I needn't say a great deal about them. Bui it's been a hard up-hill.) work all the way from Vera Cruz here -T and I don'i think my old friend Gineral Jackson him self would have worked through all (he difficul ties and done ihe business up better than Gin eral Scoit has. But the killed and the wound ed, the dead and the dying, scattered all along the way for three hundred miles, it's a heart aching thought 1 don't like to think aboul it. It is too bad that we didn't have more men, so as to march straight through without fighting, instead of having jest enough to encourage the enemy to bring out their largest armies and fight their hardest battles. One of the hardest brushes we had after I got here, was the attack on Chapultepec. I had been into the city trying to bring Santa An na to terms, but, when I found ii was no use, I come out and told Gineral Scoti there was no way but to fight ii out, and, although 1 was on ly the President's privale embassador, I didn't like to stand and look on when ho was so, weak handed, and if he would tell me .where to take hold I would give him a lift. The Gineral said he expected there would be a hard pull to take Cbapultopec, and as Gineral Pillow was placed where he would be likely to have the heaviest brunt of it, I might be doing the coun try a great service, if I would jino. in with Gin eral Pillowr as my experience, under Gineral Jackson and insite into military affairs would no doubt be very useful to that, valiant officer. So I took hold for thai day as one of Gineral Pillow's ,aids..t , , , . When we come to march up: and see how strong the enemy's works was, says I, Gineral Pillow it is as much, as all our lives, is worth to go right straight up and storm that place in the face and eyes of all their guns,; I think we ought to fortify a little. Suppose we dig a .ditch round here in .front, of the enemy's .works. At i Jiat the Gineral's eyes flashed, and be swore right out. Says he, " No, d n ihe ditches, I've no opinion of 'em ; they are nothing but a bother, and never ought to be used. The beat way js lo go right into ihe eqemy pell moll." So, on we went, and Pillow fit like a tiger till he got wounded, and then. ihe. rest of us that wasn't shot, down had to finish the work up tho best way we could The long and the shorl of jt. is, we fit our way into ihe city of Mexico and annexed it. Santa Anna cleared out the night afore with what troops ho had left, and is scouring about the country to get some more places ready for us to annex.. When he gets another place ready for ceremony, and, gets it well fortified, and has an army of twenty or thirty thousand men in tlie furts and behind jhevbreaat.wqrks, we shall march down, upon 'em with fire or six thousand men and go through the flurry. After they have shot down about half of us, ihe rest of us will climb in, over the mouths of iheir cannons, and annex that place ; and so on, one after an other. Ii is pretty hard work annexin in this way ; but that is the only way it can be done. It will be necessary for the President lo keep hurrying on hii men rhis way to keep our ranks full, for we've got a great deal of ground to go over yet. What we've annexed in Mexico, so far, is'nt bin-a mere circumstance, to what we've got to do. Some think the business is'tit profitable ; but it's only because they hat'ni ciphered into it fur enough to understand m. Upon an average, we get at least ten to one for our outlay, any, way you can figure it up 1 mean in the mat ter of people. Take, for instance, the city of Mexico. It cost us only two or three thousand men to annex it, after wo. got into the neighbor hood of it; and we get at least a hundred and fifty thousand people in that city, and some put it' down as high as two hundred thousand. Some find fault with the quality of the people we gel in this country, jesi as if that had any thing to do with the merits of iho cae. They ought to remember that in a Government like ours, where the people is useJ for voting, and where every nose counts one, it is the number thai we are to stan aboul in annexin, and not the quality, by no means. So that in the mat ter of people we are doing a grand business. And as to the money, it is no matter what it costs us, for money grows in the ground in Mexico, and can always be had for digging. There's a thousand things in this country thai I should like lo tell you about if I had time; but things is so unsettled here yet, that I have rather a confused chance to write. So I must break off here, and write a few lines to the President ; but remain your old friend, in all latitudes, clear down to Cape Horn. MAJOR JACK DOWNING. To James It. Polk, President of the , United States and all Annexed Countries. Dear Sir : I've done my best, according to your directions, to get round Santa Anna, but it is all no use. He's as slippery as an eel, and has as many lives as a cat. Trist and 1 together can't hold him, and Scott and Taylor can't kill him off. We get fast hold of him with our diplomatics, but he slips through our fingers ; and Scott and Taylor cuts his head off in every town where ihey can catch him, but he always comes to life n ihe next town, and shows as many heads as if he had never lost one. I had a long talk with him in the city, and pinned him right down to the bargain he made with you when you let him into Vera Cruz, and asked him why he didn't stick to it. He said he did stick lo it as far as circumstan ces rendered it prudent. " But," says I, " Gineral Santa Anna, tnat aint the thing ; a bargain' a bargain, and if a man has any honor he will stick to it. Now," says I, " did'nt you agree, if the President would give orders to our Commodore'to let you into Vera Cruz, didn't you agree to put your shoulder to the wheel and help on this annexin business, so as to make easy work of it ? And now, I ask you, as a man' of honor, have you done iiT' ' " Circumstances alters, cases, Major," says Santa Anna. "When Mr. Polk and I had that understanding, he thought he needed a few more votes than ho could muster in his own country to bring him into the Presidency an other term. So we agreed, if I wouldturn over the votes of Mexico to' him to bring him'in an other term, he would afterwards turn over his pari of the votes in North America lo me, so as to bring me in next time, Bui I soon found it would be throwing our labor away, for Mr. Polk's pari of the votes in his country was get ting to be so small that they wouldn't do much good to either of us. So I concluded lo hold on to what I had got, and stick to the Presidency of Mexico." " Then," says I, "you aint a going to nick to your bargain are you V1 14 No," says he, "circumstances alters cases." Then I tried to scare him out of it.' i told him our folks would whip the Mexicans all in to shoestrings in a little while,. And it made no odds whether he fit for annexth or against it, we should go on jest the same, and before another year was out Mr. Polk would bo Pres ident of every foot of Mexico ; for we should get through annexin the whole of it. " Very well," says he, go on ; ihe Mexi cans like the husiness ; ihey can stand it long er than Mr. Polk can ; for Mr. Polk will have all the work to do over again every year as long as ho lires, for there isn't a place in Mexico thai ill stay annexed any longer; than jesV while you are holding on to 'V .So you see there's no doing any thing with Santa Anna. What course it is best to take now seems rather a puzzler. 1 havu't time to give you my views about it in this despatch, but will try to soon. Give my love to Mr Rich ie. 1 meant to write him loo, but I shall nave to wail till next time. Your faithful friend and private embassador, MAJOR JACK DOWNING. Pennsylvania CannN One of the members of the Bard of C mal Com m i s s Ton e r s in fo i r in e d ' ti s , o n T h ft r mJ ay T hit there was no doubfthe West'Ptanch canal was thejji in good navigable cond.iion, unless somo unforseen accident had occirred that .the N. Branch would be so in ten days to Danville and Wilkesbarre, the coal and iron region that tho Susquehanna division would be ready by the 10th of November, a large force being en gaged upon it at Duncan' Island, where iho main breaeh occurred. The damage on the Juniata js-the most ru inous, but tho. exertions now making will place thai important division in good repair to Mil lersto n, 30s miles above1' HanisbtirgV in ihe space of ten days, and by the 25th of Novem ber, to the Augwick-Fulls, about 15 miles above Lewistnwn: leaving a space between thai point and Hollidaysburg, ready to receive the water by the 5th December, but perhaps too late in the seastm tobe of :muchuse for transportation. . Philadelphia paper. The anniversary of the battle of.Yo'ktowr was celebrated with great, rejoicing, in Nor folk, Ya., a few days since. . Expenditure of the JLord Stewart! of the Royal ISouseholtS. The following bill of fare for one year 1 S16) may not be uninteresting to economists and th public: Bread .2.050; buiter, bacon, cheestr and eggs, 4,976; milk and cream, ,l,47S; butcher's meat, 0,472; poultry, 3,633; fiSh. 1,979; grocery, 4,644; cillery; l,7a3; fruit and confectionary, 1,741; vegetables, 477; wine, 4,850 ; liquors, &c, 1843 ; ale and beer, 2,811; wax candles, 1,977; tallow candles,679; ramps, 4,166 ; fuel, 6.819-; stationary, 824; turnery, 376; braziery, 3. china, glass, &c. 1,428 lbs ; linen, 1,035 lb.; washing, table linen, &c, 3,130 lbs ; plate 50O pounds. A small boy, oui afier crows in Berks coun ty, lasl week was attacked by a majestic eagh which, after hard fighting, with, therassnance of a dog, he finally captured. It is rumored at Washington thai the Pre:-!-deni is about appointing Col. Wilson MeCau dies, of Pittsburg, Minister to China. During a slorm, on the. 21st ult., mus-U were thrown from the bed of the sea into tlm upper apartments of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, a height of 70 feet. Il appears, from the census lately taken of the population of Paris, that the inhabitant uf that city are composed of 543,492 males aiid 510,405 females ; total, 1,053,897. Court Etiqasetle. A Scotch professional gentleman, who was called on to visit the Queen in the course of her journey, asked one of the gentlemen in at tendance on the royal party If any particular manner were necessary. " None, sir," was the reply ; " you will only, recollect ihai the Queen is a lady." ERYSIPELAS, or ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE. Wright's Indian' Vegetable Pills are an easy, safe and certain cure for Erysipelas, be cause they purge from the body those poisonous humors which are the cause of St. Anthony's Fire and every other malady. From four to six of said Indian Vegetable Pills, taken once in twenty-four hours, at night on going to bed, will in a shoit time make a perfect cure of the most obstinate at tack of Erysipelas1; at the same time the digestion will be improved, and the blood so completely pu rified that all kinds ofinflarnmatiori and pain will be driven from the body, and health and vigor will be given to the whole" frame. Beware of Counterfeits of all kinds! Some aro coated with sugar ; others are made to resemble in outward appearance the original medicine. The original genuine Indian Vegetable Pills have the signature of William Wright written with a pen on the top label of each box. None other is genuine, and to counterfeit tht3 is forgery. For sale by George H Miller, who is the only authorised agent for Stroudsburg; see advertise ment for other agencies m another column. Office and general depot, 161) Race st Phil'a. E STRAY. Came to the enclosure of the subscriber, in Stroud township, Monroe Co., Pa., on Thurs day the 28th day of October, a Flock of Eighteen Sheep, variously marked. There is among the num ber one bell-sheep. The owner of said sheep is requested lo come forward, prove pioperty, pay charges, and take them way, or they will be disposed of according to law. HARRISON CARMAN November 3, 1847.
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