JEFKBRSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, January 6, 1848. Terms, $2,00 in ad ranee. $2,25h.uf yearly- and $2,50 if no paidbeforetheendof the year. L- BARNES, at Milford, is duly author ized to act as Agent for this paper; to receive sub scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-work, and payments for the same. To our Patrons aTe preparing ourselves for Court, which begins in Stroudsburg on Monday next, by making out the bills of all our delinquent subscri hers, -o that if any of them should call upon us, -e will be able to settle with tbemr without de raining them scarcely a moment. Many of our subscribers are largely in arrears, and some of them, have not paid" us a penny since we com menced the publication of this paper. To such, in particular,, we make an earnest appeal, that ihcy do us justice, and no longer retain from us the trifle which they owe, and which we are so touch in need of. (X-r We have received the January number of the Union Magazine, and have no hesitation in saying that it equals if not surpasses any other of the same class. IEF7,. A. Godey, publisher of ihe "Laoy's Dol lar Newspaper," a semi-monthly publication, de voted entirely to reading suitable for the ladies, announces that he has secured the services of "Grace Greenwood as Editress of that papar. (C?The "Home Journal," of Morris & Willis, commenced a new volume on the first isnt., and contains the commencement of a new American Novel, of fresh and piquant interest, from a dis tinuurshed' and popular pert, entitled "Passages in the Life of a Refugee' of the Revolution; or Cruises of an oti Sailor. This Novel, says the Editors, is founded upon actual occurrences in the vicinity of New York, during the Revolutionary War: with some events anterior to and during the war f 1812'. The character of this paper, and its editors, is too well known to need any commendation from us. lcrms $2' per annum, or three copies for $5 " almays in advance. Capt. IHillcrr The Eastonfans presented" this gallant officer with a splendid sword, on New Year's Eve, at the American Hotel, as a token of their admiration of the gallantry which he displayed in the various engagements of our army in Mexico. gThe last arrival from Eutope brought very unfavorable news for ihe- speculators in bread stuffs. They anticipated a riser but instead of that there has been a small decline in. bread-stuffs and cotton The Bank of Chester county has offered a re ward of S5.000 for the arrest of the person who robbed Mr. Darlington, the President of the Bankr of $50,000. The Legislature of our State assembled atHar risburg, on Tuesday last. Tire Stare Interest. The Sta4e Trearurer has addressed a crrcu lar to ihe Commissioners and Treasurers of the different counties, asking ikeni to- be- prompt in the collection of taxes, rameet the interest fall ing due upon the State debt in February next. Look out for Counterfeits ! JO3 85 "bills of the old plate of the Middletown Bank, Pa-, with the word "Pennsylvania" obliter ated and the the word "Connecticut" subttituted, are in. escalation. Be on your guard r Growth off Balthaere. Nineteen hundred and fifty-nine new houses were erected last year, the assessed alue of which is upward of $2,GOO,000. Tea RHd Coffee Tax. We don't heat any thing of late from the Lo cofoco presses, about the oppression and odium of a tea and coffee tax ! Before the late elec tion, they falsely charged upon General Irvin that he voted for such a tax in Congress,, and loud i their opposition to it, denouncing it as one of the most oppressive and infamous acts that could be entailed upon the people. Now forsooth, since Mr. Polk has again-, recommended such r tax it) his fate message, they have en tirely changed their tone. Their indignation has suddenly vanished, and they roar as gently as sucking doves. Oh, Democracy ! what a consistent, peeple-loving Democracy thou art ! tt?" The Editor of the Maine, Farmer Intimate that the design of our Govejrnmo in sending an expedition to the Dead Sea, may be to fish up So om and Gomorrah and "anutx them Jb the Uni ted Siatce.' ff? Have nH w got enough of thai so?! of ir . . ?Mwrv ...... r . From the New York Tribune. Presidential Several of our cotewporaries are amusing them selves and mystifying their readers by parading lists of members of Congress classified aa for Clay, Taylor, Cass, McLeon, Buchanan, &c. &c. This is well enough as a quiz, but whoever imagines that the classifiers have any other data than their own lively imaginations will be wofully taken in. A small portion of the Members not above sixty in all are known to be decided in their preferen ces for this or that individual as the candidate of their party for President; but by far the greater number have taken no decided stand in the prem ises. That a great majority of the Whigs prefer Henry Clxv to any other man it needs no count ing of nosea to establish j but some of these fear he cannot be elected think he might be killed by Slavery or Anti-Slavery, Nativism or Foreignism, the passion for War or the lust of Conquest, and, while they admit that he is just about right on all these- matters, they append so many ifs and buts that their support is not worth a great deal, just at present. It may be true, as one of these dash ing computations asserts, that ninety-odd of the Members are for Clay to thirty-odd for Taylor and as many (Whigs) scattered upon half a dozen oth ere ; but we would much sooner rely on a canvass of the Whig People than of the Whig Congress men to attest the overwhelming preponderance of Clay feeling in the Country. Politicians general ly (we do not say improperly) wait to calculate who can most surely be elected; the People con sider rather who ought to be which is not always the same' thing, as we trust it is this time. As to our opponents, the calculation of a co temporary that eighty-odd of their Congressmen are for Gen. Cass is simply absurd. He has not to-day thirty earnest partisans rn both Houser, and will hardly add to the number. Not many of the Members have positively taken- their positions; but James Buchanan is clearly the favorite of the Court and the Organ, and we think him the more likely to be nominated. If he is, we think Mr. Van Buren or some one of like attitude will be supported against him; for it is morally impossible that Van Buren men should support Buchanan Pennsylvania sent Delegates to the last Baltimore Convention expressly instructed, by a vote of three to one, to nominate, Van Buren ; but these very Delegates did their best to stab him, and succeed ed. At the head of the wire-workers were Mr. Buehanan's special cronies and followers Col. Real- Frazer, the Lancaster Delegate at their head. Who was behind the scenes it might be hard to prove, but is not difficult to guess. Ttfew York does not count for much just now in a Loco- Foco computation, but Mr. Van Buren has friends in other States, and these will not permit the exal tatian of Buchanan. But Secretary Walker, Vice President Dallas, Col. Benton and even James IC. Folk, wilf have their advocates in the next Con vention the last, we think, the fewest. Messieurs Members of Congress of both par ties ! do you mean to1 allow the People to- hold Na tional Conventions for the selection of Presiden tial candidates 1 If yea, let us have day and date for it soon ! Even though you resolve to postpone the Conventions to July, let us have the Calls ear ly in January. Conventions may be evils at best, but nominations (virtually) by Congressional Cau cuses are still worse. Let all have a chance to be heard. New Hope Delaware Bridge Co. The Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday says there was no market there the day before for the notes of this Bank. How often has it broken Is it thrice or six times' 1 Secretary Marcy, and cer tain others' of its ancient stockholders and wire workers should write its history. They could tell how it obtained a perpetual charter; failed; set up again; got Brokers here to puff it, and put its worthless paper into circulation; broke down again with double disgrace ; -was literally driven out of Pennsylvania- by the Butch agriculturists ; landed in New Jersey ; got the Wall-street gentry once more to blow its bellows; became again bankrupt; always deceived the public; and stands ready again to betray it the moment that the last batch of dupes shall have forgotten their losses. New-Jersey might display her zeal to advantage by sweeping away this nuisance- by the machiavelism of which so many honest farmers, laborers and mechanics have been cheated out of the products of their use ful industry, during the 35 years of its rickety ex istence. lb. Sore N ose If ew Remedy. A man of science up among the knickerbock ers, prescribes the following cur for a bruised or irritated nasal apendage : T'akehalf a pound of gum guiacum, half a pint of cowhage and half a gallon of tar simmer over a' slow fire until effervescence ensues. Apply to the af flicted pan with a whitewash brush. In about an hour the sore will peal clean off -nose and all. Bite of a Rattlesnake. Dr. Lev, of Hartford, Conn , who has prac ticed extensively at the South, states that he has treated five cases of rattlesnake bile, and all of them successfully. His remedy is alco- t. t i - . J none nquor enner rum, brandy or gin given in large doses. A half pint every fifteen min utes, making a quart in an hour, is not too much, to-be given as soon as possiHe after the bite. This remedy has been usedat he South to a great extern, and has never ben known to fail of a cure.- This liquor absorbs or deadens the fatal viru5. an3-;jiever intoxicates the subject so Jor 6s t;it wrus ofibto repufp is in the sysivm War meeting. The citizens of Dingman's Choice, and sur rounding country, held a large and enthusiastic meeting at the Choice on the 29ih ult., to cele brate the glorious victories achieved by our sol diers on the battle fields of Mexico, and to re turn their thanks to Gens. Wtnfield Scott and Z. Taylor, their officers and men, for the gal lant and chivajric manner in which they have sustained the honor of their country's flag, and for covering the American arms with unfading glory. At 6 o'clock in the evening, a proces sion was formed under the charge of William F. Brodhead, Esq., Marshal of the day, which proceeded to the Academy, headed by the La fayette Brass Band The Academy had been brilliantly illuminated, and the Hall magnifi cently decorated with gorgeous festoons of lau rel and evergreen. A large number of ladies had previously repaired to the Hall, who con tributed largely to the interest of the occasion, and greatly enhanced the brilliancy of the scene. The meeting was organized by the appoint ment of the following officers : Hon. DANIEL W. DINGMAN, President. C. Angle, D. E. Vanatten, John Labar, and Benjamin Frazier, Vice Presidents. William Osborn and J. H. Brodhead, Secre taries. After the meeting was organized, Doct. H. R. Linderman took the stand and addressed it in a very eloquent and happy manner. The Doct. concluded by introducing Lieut. Wm. Schoonover, who was recoived with loud and long-continued cheering. The Lieut, was lis tened to with marked attention as he detailed his adventures, and the history of the Regiment to which he was attached, from the lime he entered the service until the battle of Buena Vista, of which he gave a very interesting and thrilling description. The Hon. Pope Bushnell, Representative Irom rike and Wayne counties, was then called for, and entertained the audience with a very beautiful and appropriate speech. The Hon. Albert G. Brodhead was then loudly called for. Mr. B., after making a few neat remarks, was followed by S. C. Burnet, &sq,f of btroudsburg, who entertained the au dience for near one hour in a speech of great beauty and strengih. It was worthy of the oc casion, and will long be remembered by those who had the pleasure of listening to this young and eloquent speaker. The following resolution, presented by Dr. H. K. Linderman, were then unanimously a- dopted : Whereas the soldiers life, in' addition to- the dangers of battle, is one attended with hard ships and privations, and whereas the approval and gratitudo of their countrymen are pleasing rewards to those, who bidding adieu to ihe comforts and enjoyments of their homes, em barked in their country's service, and underwent the toils, dangers and privations of war. Therefore, be it Resolved, That the thank of this meeting are due and are hereby tendered to our galfant countrymen, for the patriotic man ner in which they responded to the call of the constituted authorities of the country, for vol unteers, to prosecute ihe war, declared by Con gress to exist between the United States and Mexico that in thus answering tho call of our country lor their services, in view of the dangers of battle and of the. insidious and irre sistable enemy, disease, they have conclusively proved1 that the spirit of 76 still exists in the breast of Americans. Resolved, That in Maj. Gen. Taylor, we re cognize the hero of many fields. That his conduct, from the time when he first assumed the command' of the Army of Occupation until the present time, has been' characterized by consummate skill, daring, courage and untiring perseverance. That the victories achieved by our brave countrymen under his direction, have won for him an undying name, and covered the American arms with unfading glory. Resolved, That Maj. Gen. Scott has, in his operations against Mexico, displayed, in an em inent degree, all ihe qualities of the great com mander, fully vindicating his title to the asso ciation with the most renowned warriors of an cient or modern times, that the gallant officers and brave men under his command meet and receives the thanks and gratitude of every A merican citizen for indomitable courage and chivalric bearing, displayed by them at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, and before the fortified walls of the proud city of Mexico-. Resolved, That the thanks of ihe nation are due to Gens. Worth, Wool, Smith, Quitman, Shields, Twigs and Pillow for the heroism and skill so conspicuously displayed by them in the different engagements with the enemy. Resolved. That we heartily approve of the conduct of the representatives of Pennsylvania on the battle fields of Mexico. Resolved, That while we thus express our feelings of admiration and gratitude to the sur viving heroes,- we are not unmindful of those who' have yielded up their lives fighting brave ly beneath the banner of the Republic, at Palo Alto, Kesacn,- Monterey,- Bnena Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, Controras ami before the gales of Mexico;; wlibve deds of heroism and courage liave won for them an un dying fame; whose names will be handed down in unfading letters of gold on the arch of Amer ica's glory. Resolved, That in ihe opinion of this meet ing, Congress should appropriatentihlcient means for ihe prosccntion of the war, on such princi ciples as would1 secure a Just and honorable peace between the United Stales and Mexico. Before ihe revising barrister, the other day. a witness being asked how he knew that a man and woman were husband atufwife, replied, lie cause " he had often heard the lady blow th. UHii'leman up." . The eiidence was held to br vrv Uii e. The Difficulties in Mexico. The arrest of General Worth -'and Pillow and Col. Duncan, by Gen. Scott, titans out to be true. Gen. Worth's cause of complaint a gainst Gen. Scott was the disapprobation of the latter of the terms of capitulation entered into by the former with the authorities of ihe city of Pue bla, in his advance upon that city, and also the disapprobation of a circular issued by General Worth to his division, cautioning them against a design said to be on foot to poison the foun tains whence they procured their daily supply of water. Gen. Worth became violently inim ical to Gen. Scott, with whom he had been tin the most cordial terms for thirty years, and de manded a Court Martial, which was granted The Court was composed of Generals Quitman, Twiggs and SmithLieut. R. F. Hammond special Judge Advocate. The opinion of the Court sustained Gen. Scott, and declared that in the remarks of which Gen. Worth com plained, their was nothing to which he could properly take exception ; that the terms of ca pitulation to the city of Puebla were unneces sarily yielded, improvident, and in effeet detri mental to the public service ; and that the cir cular in relation to the rumored poisoning of water called for the emphatic admonition and rebuke of the General-in-Chief, inasmuch as it might tend, by exasperating the whole Mexi can nation, to ihwari the well known pacific policy of the United States, and disturb our friendly relations with Spain and if the bar barous offence was mediated, it equally effected the whole army, and ihe information if worthy of notice, should have been communicated to the General-in-chief, for his discretionary pow er. The arrest of Gen. Pillow and Col. Duncan, was for insubordinate conduct, towards the General-in-chief. The Flood at the West. The western papers are filled with accounts of the disastrous effects produced by the recent severe freshet in the Western rivers. The Scioto river overflowed its banks, wash ing away the turnpike, bridges, culverts, &c. On this as well as on the smaller streams emp tying into it, vast amounts of hogs and other stock have been washed away. The destruction of property along the Ohio river is represented as appalling. In the towns of Guyandotte, Point Pleasant, Pomeroy, Hock ingport, Parkersburg, Point Harmer, Marietta, and Sun Fish, many families were compelled to' leave their dwellings, and others removed to the upper stories. Most of the Islands between Kanawha and Wheeling were entirely covered wirh water, which carried off fences, corn, woody and' prop erty of all kinds. All the people residing in the low lands had to abandon their dwellings and take refuge on the hills, leaving their property to the mercy of the water, being satisfied to escape with their lives. The losses by the recent flood in the Ohio river, at almost every point from Pittsburg to its mouth, and at various places on its tributa ries, have been very great, and the aggregate loss is immense. As might have been expected, there has been much suffering among the poor, many of whom were driven from their homes by the rising waters, glad to- oscape with their lives ; and some idea may be formed of the general distress when it is known that at Cin cinnati the river was fifty-four and' a half feet above low-water mark The occasion gave rise to a number of in stances of noble generosity,-which are noted in the Cincinnati papers: Messrs. I . & J. W. Ga'ff, millers, of Aurora, had" several hundred barrels of flour on hand, for which they were offered $5 per barreF, by a man who,-irr view of the prospective want of provisions, intended to speculate in the article. Messrs. Gaff refused the offer, ana, turning to thir clerk, ordered him to give a barrel to any poor man who needed it. And in this way dozens of bancls were given to the necessitous without charoe. At Lawrcnccburg, Wm. E. Craft, Eqs., caused it to be proclaimed to the houseless and needy, " Here are my ware-frortrse and store hero are flour and meat ; come and take what you need." And his clerks dealt them out to them as thev came. Lewis & Eichel- berger caused the same thing to be made known concerning flour at the mill, and gave away to the destitute and unfortunate more than one hundred barrels. Messrs. Barr & Febi ger had a number of their hogs slaughtered, cut up, and given to all who needed and wished. One of the Subordinate Lodges of Odd Fel lows at Cincinnati promptly made an appropri ation of three hundred dollars for ihe relief of tho sufferers in that city, to which was as promptly voted five hundred 'dollars additional on the part of the Grand Lodge, to disburse which a committee' was appointed, with instruc tions not to pass by any case of distress because its victims should not have special claims upon them as members of the Order. A Visit to Gen. Scott's Sqiaw. The party of Iowa Indians, while passing through Elizabeihtown, N. J., visited the resi dence of Gen. Scott, accompanied by Mr. T. B. Catlin, and were entertained by Mrs. Scott and her daughters. This party have with them he war chief of the Iowa nation and when he found that the great war chief of his white bjethron lived there , he expressed a wish to srt' his squaw ami nrgwam! From the Alexandria Gazette. Xocofoco JDoctrinc. Wo invite the attention of the Pp.nrj , ., following brief but significant paragiapl, the Washington Union. It is extracted frr tne new ions corresponaence ol the goverR ment on?an. and is evidently only a fiirh-..t ' ing of the evils which the policy of the preset ttaminiHtration is oestineu to- lasien upon i, country a standing armv and direct " Both the Democratic papers of this city- the Globe and Evening Post have pnn.-j ... o - r"Meii with tne utmost warmth the recommpn.i ..... H"-ii()J of the Secretary of the Treasury in fav()r r tax on tea and coffee. There can he doubt that DIRECT TAXATION is essentially DemocJ. tc, and has only to be brought fairly before people to find favor with the majority." t . . ... I .. ...w 'xrribji 1 me gicoi hmi, wc cAisaci a cunous statistical paragraph. " Ohio county was organized in 1776, and the western emigrants Buffered from a famine of the most serious kind. Even after the price of corn had fallen () to thirty dollars per bmh el, continental currency, the tavern rates in Ohio, as we are told, were established by ihe County Courts. 1. Breakfast or supper, $4 00 2. Half a pint of whiskey, 6 00 3. Dinner, 6 00 4. Lodging, Wnh clean sheets, 3 00 5. Horse, to hay over night, 3 00 6. One gallon of corn, 5 00 I . une gallon ot oats, 4 00 8. Half pint of whiskey, with sugar, 8 00 9. One quart of strong beer, 4 00 " The currency, cnntinental money, continued to diminish in value until 1781, when the charge M It for dinner was fixed by the Court at twenty dollars, breakfast and supper at fifteen dollars'7 One-tenth of the body only is solid muter. A dead body that weighed 129 pounds, was dried in an oven until its weight was reduced to 12 pounds. Egyptian mummies, being bodies per fectly dried, weigh about 7 or S pounds. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills are a safe, easy, and certain cure for Colds and Coughs; because they earay off, by the stomach and bowels-, those morbid humors, which, if de posited upon the lungs, are the cause of the above dangerous complaints. A single twenty-five cent box of said Indian Vegetable Pills is generally sufficient to make a perfect cure of the most ob stinate Cold at the same time the digestion is improved, and the blood so completely purified, that tnew life and vigor will be given to the whole frame Beware of Counterfeits of all kind ! Some are coated witn sagar ; others are made to resemble in outward appearance the original medicine. The original genuine Tndian 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' this is forgery. For sale by George H. Miller, who is the only authorized agent for Stroudsburg ; see advertise ment for other agencies in another column. Office and general depot, 169 Race st. Phil'a. ITIAKItlED, On the 1st inst. by ihe Rev. J. W. Mecaskey, Mr. Frederick B'uxh, mid Miss Catharine Ann luakntjr, uuiu tit kJ'ltiuu IU w lia II I l. On the same day, by the same, Mr. Iaac Brown, and Miss Elizabeth -De Long, both of the borough of Stroudsburg. In Price township, on the 24th ult. Mr. Sam uel Vanormanm the 8oh year of his ae. One more of the heroes of '76 has departed this life, and been- consigned to a peaceful and quiet grave. The" subject of the above notice was one of the actors in the great drama the American Revolution, and contributed to estab lish upon a prominent basis, the tho civil and political rights of mankind. During his long and eventful life, he sustained a pure and un tarnished reputation a character embellished with all the virtues that adorn the patriot and christian, and lived to see his country in the full and complete enjoyment of all those inval uable privileges for which. he so nobly contend ed in the 'Mimes that tried mens souls. He has been1 summoned from among us, and al though his venerable form has found an honor able grave, his spirit has gone to commingle with that of a Washington in the spirit-land. He needs no costly and magnificent monument, no elegantly sculptured marble to perpetuate his memory, as his invaluable services in the cause of human freedom will ever be enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people. Peace his ashes. Communicated. OYSTERS! OYSTERS!!! The undersigned has just opened at his old established stand, in Franklin street, a few doors south of the Court House, a new assort ment of Oysters of the very finest quality, Beer, Cider, &c. He will also furnish a saloon for the ladies, so that they, too, can partake of this luxurious edible, without annoyance. By strict attention to business, and to tho wants of his purchasers, the subscriber hopes to obtain a liberal share of public patronage. DAVID STARNER. January G. 1848. ESTRAYS. Came to the premises of the subscriber,, in Hamilton township, Monroe connty, Pa. about the 14th or 15ih of November last, two Boars about 6 or 7 month old. Th owner ia re quested to coma forward, prove property, pay charges and take them away, or they will b dis posed of according to law SAMUEL SfENGEL. Hamilton, December 15, 1847.
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