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Thitrttlay, February 10, 184.
TV:rms,2,O0iniulvnncc. $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not
paidbcfore thc end of the year-
-t-'L. "BARNES, at Milford, is duly author
ized to act as Agent for Uuspaper;to receive sub
scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-work,
and payments for the same.
)US Mr. Adam Shafer, of Stroud town
ship, Monroe county, requests us lo say thai he
fntmd on hii farm, in October last, a stalk of
Buckwheat, thai measured over seven feet, and
Lore 37o plump grains. This Mr S. consid
ers a very extraordinary production.
In
The Fremont Trial was brought to a close
a few days since. The verdict of tho court will
probably be soon rendered. Ji is estimated
that tho cost of this affair to tho government
ill exceed $100,000.
P. S Tho Washington Correspondent of
the Philadelphia -Ledger states that Col. Fre
mont's sentence is a very slighj one ; suspen
sion for a short period, and probable remission
of even this. This is the end of all the great
lobors of the Court Martial that sat moro than
I wo months.
Whiff State Convention.
f' The State Central Committee have given
notice that tho Whig State Convention will be
held at Ilarrisburg, on the 15ih of March next,
for tho nomination of a candidate for Canal
Commissioner, and for the appointment of Sen
atorial delegates to the National Convention.
ID3 We with pleasure, give the following
letter, from Air. Scranton, an insertion in our
paper. The charge made agaisnt Mr. Smith,
is one of the most outrageous and wicked things
we ever heard of. We do not publish the let
ter alluded lo, for the information of Mr. S.'s
neighbors and friends, for among them the slan
der would have no effect, but for the informa
tion of the travelling community, among whom,
the demon who raised it, intended it should
have the desired effect. Mr. Smith was raised
near Stroudsburg, his family and friends are
of the most respectable characters, among the
first families of the County, and by his hon
esty, strict business habits and industry, has
planted within the breasts of every one who
knows him, .a name and reputation that never
can be reached or obliterated by the slander
ous tongue of a demon in sheeps clothing. The
person who will thus villifyr detract and stab to
.tho very vitals, a respectable citizen, should be
no more respected or countenanced by honest
men, than the midnight assassin or the highway
robber.
Lackawaxxa Iron Works, Pa.
" ' Jan 3d, 1848.
1
Mr: O. D. Smith,
t. : Dear Sir Some time in the
'fall of 1846, Mr. J. H. Scranton and myself,
while travelling: the road between Oxford Fur
'iiace and Lackawannar about one mile below
the Pocono Tanenry, passed a man who made
an attempt to catch- hold- of the back part of
our wagon, or a carpel bag lying there. We
poke to him sharply but received na answer ;
it was dark, so that we could not see his face,
but he was a tall sDare man. We drove on at
he rale of about 5 miles the hour, he following
and keeping within 8 rods of the wagon for &
or 3 miles we had no fears of him, and re
marked that he was a good runner.
I have just heard that a report is in circula
tion that we believe and have said that you
were the person alluded lo. I now, with
pleasure, inform you and all whom it may con
cern, that we never had the slightest cause to
suspect, and have never said to any individual
that our suspicions were fixed upon you the
man we saw was not near your size. You
certainly have good reason to trelieve that we
could not for a moment enlertain the idea that
you were the person, for we had before this oc-
currence and have frequently since -stopped at
'your house, and have spent more nights at your
-place than at any other house between this
Valley and New Jersey, and ha-e also for the
last soven years recommended your house to
our friends and others as being equal to any
other on the road.
We believe the report has been fabricated by
sie evil minded person, with the intention of
injuriag you and your house, and we would
suggest t the author, whoever he may be,, ihe
propriety of remembering iho old adage " He
that diggeth a pit for his neighbor, should be
ware lest he himself fall therejn."
You are at liberty to make any disposition
'of this letter you may think proper.
Very Respectfully,
Yours, &c,
GEO. W. SCRANTON.
The proceedings of Congress and our State
"fcegifelaturo ure without interest. The Ten
Regiment Bill is slill under discussion .in the
U. S. Senate.
r FOR THE JEFFERSONUN REPUBLICAN.
Leni Lena pee Literary Institute.
TiH fourth' Lecture before this Institute Was de
livered by Mr. J. L. Ringwalt, on Friday evening
last, at the Court House in Stroudsburg. Subject
" The Age in which we live." The evening
was rather inauspicious, yet we are happy to say
that there was a good u turn out" of the Citizens
of Stroudsburg. A goodly number of ladies were
also present, to cheer on the members of the Insti
tute, in their honorable and praise-worthy enter
prise, by their sweet and approving smiles. We
will not attempt to give a complete outline of the
Lecture, but be content with saying that Mr. It.
touched with a master hand upon all the important
topics involved in the contemplation of his inter
esting subject. We were perfectly delighted with
the comprehensive, easy and beautiful manner in
which the speaker glided from one department of
his discourse to another. He dwelt cursorily, but
in a very interesting manner, upon all the grand
and important features which characterizes " The
Age in iviich we live," and which so peculiarly
distinguish it from all others now gone and buried
boneath the dark pall of the past. Educatidn,
Literature, Politics, Government, the Arts and
Sciences, and their many brilliant triumphs at the
present day, in Rail-roads, Magnetic Telegraphs,
Ocean Steam Navigation, et cetera Commerce,
the great humanizer of man Manufactures, her
hand-maids and Agriculture, the most honorable
avocation of life, were all happily and appropriate
ly considered. He dwelt with apparent pride up
on the noble advances his own countrymen were
making in agriculture. The major part of the soil
in the United States is but little inferior to that of
Egypt, China or India, and under tho benign in
fluence of science, it is no matter of astonishment
that Unclq.Sam's larder is so richly and abundant
ly supplied with the good things of this life, that
there is not only enough for his vast household of
Jonathans and Jerushas, but can take in myriads
of boarders from every clime, and make the hearts
of starving millions abroad, leap at the sight of his
buns and Johney cakes. Suffice it to say, the
speaker touched upon all the important character
istics of the age -the many new and interesting
discoveries and inventions at home and abroad
down to the recent development of Yankee inge
nuity in the shape of wooden nutmegs, horn gun
flints, charcoal indigo and baby-jumpers proving
conclusively that the Yankees are a " great na
tion," whether at home or abroad, whittling their
initials upon the North Pole, chucking stones at
Monkeys under the Equator, or picking up pearls
on the shores of tho Persian Gulf. On the whole,
the Lecture was highly creditable to Mr. Ring
wait, satisfactory to all.
Mr. R. was succeeded by Doct. Mattison, who
continued his interesting remarks on Geology.
THE DOCTOR.
Congressional Nominations.
The Lehigh Reporter of yesterday announ
ces the nomination, by the County Convention,
of Dr. Trexler, of Millerstown, as tho Whig
Candidate for Congress, to represent the dis
trict of Bucks and Lehigh, in the place of John
W. Hornbeck, deceased. The election will
take place on the 23d instant. Mr- Trexler
is-a man of education and sound judgement, and
owinjj to his social and correct habitsr is uni
versally respected.
JJj13 Those Locofocos in want of high wages
and roast beef should mizzle for Oregon. La
borers get three dollars a day and carry hods
made of rose wood. Pork i3 worth 18 cents a
pound. Cider 8 cents for licking the spiggof
Bakers charge 12 1-2 cents for " looking in
the windows."
" Life on the ocean wave,"
But death to the inland sea.
Mr. Clay, as Commissioner to Ghent, to ne
gotiate z treaty of peace between Grcal Britain
and the United States during the last war, se
cured to tho United States by his great and far
seeing statesmanship, the free and exclusive
navigation of the Mississippi river. The same
river, President Polfc, by his River and Harbor
bill veto and Message, has turned oxer to the
free navigation and right of occupancy of the
snags, sawyers, shoals and other enemies to
its unobstructed navigation, who are making in
cessant and deadly war upon the people and
properly that traverse it. Mr. Polk is "death"
on harbors and rivers living at home ; but when
foreign Dead Seas come up m Congress, hu's
" thar." He sings
" Xife on the ocean wave."
But death to the inland sea.
Memphis Eagle.
Curious Medical Case.
The last number of the London Lai. eel states
that an old man, who was lately afliicted with
inflammations, &c, in one side of his . head and
face, was relieved and cured by the discharge
of a tooth from his ear ! The tooth wa
sneezed out, Where's Baron Munchausen or
Maps Longbow ?
India Rubber Road.
After serving every other useful purpose lhai
can be thought of, it appears that India Rubber
is now to be used in laying Railway track.
Cannot the same substance be turned to good
account in making plank roads, now so popular
iifihe country.
WliislVatioiiI Convention. 4
At a meeting of the Whig Members of the
Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States, held on Thursday evening, Jan
ary 27th, 1848, to consider tho propriety of
recommending a Whig National Conven
tion, the Hon. W. P. Mangum of North Car
olina, was called to the chair, and Hon. Caleb
II. Smith, of Indiana", was appointed Secretary.
After discussion and due deliberation, it was
Resolved, That it is expedient lo hold a Whig
National Convention for the purpose of nomin
ating candidates for the offices of President and
Vice President of the United ,S-ates.
And then the meeting adjourned for one
week.
On Thursday evening, 3d February, the
meeting convened pursuant lo adjournment,
when, after some general discussion as to the
time and place of holding the proposed Conven
tion, Independence Hall, in the City of Philadel
phia, and the seventh day oj June, were agreed
upon.
uias therefore Resolved, That the Whig
Members of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United Stales do recommend
to their friends throughout the Union that a
Whig National Convention be held at Indepen
dence Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, on Wed
nesday, the 7th day of June, 1848, for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for tho offices of
President and Vice President of the United
States.
On motion it was ordered that the proceed
ings of this meeting bo published in the Na
tional Intelligencer, and that all the' Whig pa
pers in the United States be requested to copy
them.
After which the meeting adjourned sine die.
WILLIE P. MANGUM, Chairman.
Caleb" B. Smith, Secretary.
Prices of Iron
We learn from the New York paper, that
the prices of Iron are much unsettled, rather in
clined downward. Pig Iron brings from 25, lo
$26 per ton, cash. When sold on a credit of
six mouths or more the prices range from 27,
to 28 dollars per ton. English Bar Iron brings
$55, and Sweed 82 to $85. It is only a few
months since Bar Iron brought front SO to 90
dollars per ton. What has caused this reduc
tion of nearly 50 per cent ? Let the Free
Traders answer, when a few more Pennsylva
nia Iron Works close their operations.
Tartar en the Ttceth.
M. Le Baume ascertained that washing the
teeth with vinegar and a brush will in a few
days remove the tartar ; thus obviating the ne
cessity for filling or scraping them,- which so
often injures the enamel. He recommends the
use of charcoal and tincture of rhatany after
wards, which effectually (in his opinion) pre
vents its formation. Medical Times.
How to tell the Weather for a
Thousand Years.
If you desire to know whether the day will
be fine,- take a walk of a few miles into the coun
try, until you come to a field where cows are
grazing, and if the animals torn their tails to
the wind be sure it will be stormy, ff they turn
their faces it will be fine ; but if some stand
one way and some the other, you had better
toss up, and accordingly as the coin gives you
heads or tails, you will be able to solve the
problem.
Animal magnetism The Most Won
derful Case on Record.
In a small town Down East, there lived a
butcher who was a jack at all trades and more
particularly noted for his experiments in Ani
mal Magnetism. A half-witted fellow, who
lived entirely upon the charity of the town, im
agining one day that he was quite ill, made ap
plication to the butcher for a remedy to relieve
him from the pains in his stomach. The.
thought flashed upon the mind of the butcher
that he was a fit subject for experiment, and
accordingly he mesmerised him into a profound
sleep.
He then made an incision into his stomach,
and took out the innings to wash them, which
after doing he laid them down and went into
his house to get needle and thread lo sew up
the incision. But on returning, to his astonish
ment beheld an old sow just h?aing the place,
having eaten them. In this dilemma, he seized
a sheep and removed its entrails to the body of
the man.
Meeting the iudiidual some days after, the
butcher was induced to ak tho chap how he.
got along. Oh, first rate, says he; only 1 have
got such an infernal hankering alter uras.
Sutiday Diipatch.
Buckwheat. Howitt, in his lao work on
Germuuy, remarks that this corn afiords a curi
ous instance of how we sometimes translate tho
names of things. In Germany, he says, it is
called buch-wcizen, which means beech-wheat,
because, the grains are three-coruered.or shaped
exattly like the nuts of the beech. We have
retained rhe name buck, which in English gives
no meaning, or a wrong one as though it were
filled after the buck or male fallow-deer.
THIRD DESPATCHES
FROM MAJOR DOWNING:
' 4 r private.
To James K Polk, President of the United
States of America, Mexico, tf-c
City of Mexico, annexed U. S., Dec. 30, 1347.
Dear Colonel : 1 feel a good deal anxious
to hear how you are getting along there to home,
and I 'spose you are full as anxious to know
how we are going it out here. I got your mes
sage to Congress and their first three days' do
ings, and that's the last I've heard. When I
found the Whigs had fairly carried the House,
I see in a momem there was a bad time ahead
for us. Says I, look out for squalls ; tho old
ship will have a bad time of it this winter. I
had a good mind to come right home I o. help
stan by the helm, for I knew you would Heed
me. But then 1 see at once that wouldn't" do.
for our officers have got into "a dreadful snarl
here, and I shoulnn't dare to leave till things is
settled, for fear the annexin would all go back
again and we should lo.se our two years' work.
So, as 1 can't come, all I can do is to give my
notions about things a little, by way of advice.
I see how 'twill be ; the House will be quar
relling with you all winter ; they'll bo asking
you all the hard questions they can think of,
and all the time prying into your secrets, about
the war and annexin. And I don't believe
the Senate will be a copper bettor. Tis true
there aim so many Whigs there, but there's
them there that is full as bad. You can never
dt) anything wiih Mr. Calhoun ; you know he
always splits every thing in two, even to a hair;
and the most he'll ever do for us about this an
nexin business will be to split ofF a little piece
of Mexico. If he finds out we are annexin the
whole of it lie'll fih agin us till all is blue.
Then there's Col. Benten I don't-think is a
whit better than Mr. Calhoun. You know
what a fuss he made when we took in Texas,
because we sol out to take in a little strip of
Mexico with it ; only a little reasonable strip,
too, jest on our side of the river, so as to make
square work of it. Col. Benton's ebenezer was
right up about il ; he said it didn't belong to
us, and it didn't belong to Texas, and we had
no right to it, and shouldn't touch it. Now, if
he made such a fuss about that little strip on
our side of the river, he'll be likely lo raise
Ned and turn up Jack if he finds out we have
a notion of annexin the whole of Mexico. And
he's a terrible enemy to have, I can tell you ;
I don't believe (here's any other man in the
country that can look down opposition equal to
him. Now, with such men as these in the
Senate, besides all the thunder of Webster, and
all the persuadiu of Crittenden, how are you
a going to get along 1 think there's no
way for us to get along safe but to keep such
men in the dark. Keep coaxing the money out
of em to conquer a piece, but never let em mis
trust that we intend to conquer the whole.
We must look one" way all the time and row
'toiher. I know you'll have a hard lime of it,
for Congress will keep diving into you all the
time with this question and that, and pryin into
all the secrets about tho war, and want to know
what orders you give us out here in Mexico,
and what the armies are going to do, and where
all the money goes to, and a thousand things
thai they've no business with. Now, when
they keep coming to you with these ugly ques
tions, I think the only safe way for you to shet
your mouth right up, and keep a stiff upper Hp
and not say a word. And do pray bo careful
what you tell to good old Mr. Richie, for you
know he never could keep his mouth shot.
There's some dogs, you know, that always bark
at the wrong time and frighten away the game.
You never can train em to keep still when they
ought to. You remember more than two years
ago, before the war begun, when you was lay
ing oui the work privately and carefully, and
getting your ships round to the Pacific, and
giving the officers their orders to stan ready
and wait till the train was touched on this side,
and the moment they heard the first sound of
the war to snap up California, and annex it,
so that if we found the people wouldn't let the
war go on, we could come to a settlement, and
each side hold what they had got you remem
ber how Mr. Richie got so full of the matter
lhai he liked lo blow ihe whole business up by
letting on about the conquest of Mexico. A
little more such carelessness at that time would
a been likely to upset our whole kittle of fish
we might a lost California, and Santa Fe,
and likely enough even that little strip on our
side of the river jining Texas. And, as for the
whole of Mexico, our jig would a been up at
once, we might a whistled for it till doomsday,
but 'twouldn't come.
1 think youdid right to make believe in your
message that you had no idea of conquering the
whole of Mexico. I don't believe it would be
safe to take that ground nil ihe work is all done.
The people of our country aro too skittish yet
about conquering other countries, they haint
got use to il. And for this reason you will
have to be very firm with Congress, and not lei
em cross-question you too close, and get you
into a bother. Call unon them boldlv for larrre
j O
armies, and all the millions of money the mints
can make, and all that Mr. Walker can borrow.
I and tell etu you are digging into the vital parts
of Mexico to get that five millions she owes us
If they ask you if Mr. Tyler didn't offer to
gtvo up mat nve minions to .Mexico to pay ner
for our taking Texas without her leave, jesl
shet your mouth up.
If they ask you If we hadn't ought to give up
that five millions to Mexico for that strip on
our side of the river that you sent Gen. Taylor
to tako without her leave, jest shet your mouth
up.
If thoy ask you if Mr. Trial didn't offer to
j give up that five millions to Mexico and pay
ner twenty iniiuorib more il she wouldn't try lo
get back California and New Mexico, that you
had taken from her without her leave, jest shet
votir mouth up.
1 i
- 1 f thev aaW
want now of a hundred thousand soldiers jn
for spending money, jest open your lipa careful
ly a little way, and tell em you are diggin jnt()
the vital parts of 'Mexico to get that five3 mil
lions she owes us.
Then shet your mouth right up again, and
keep it shet, and I guess you'll be safe. Don't
be afraid of em; they .cant pry your moutL
open if they should try ; and I guess that an
swer will pacify em till we get the work all
done and Mexico all annexed. Then ynu can
step up to em boldly and tell em you havemadt.
the greatest bargain that any body ever made
on this airth ; you have got the whole of ML.X.,
ico, people" and all, for five millions of dollars
which is only about fifty cents a head for ih0
people, and the lands and the gold mines thrown
in for nothing.
I'm persuaded it will make the greatest man
of you that ever lived yet ; greater than Wash
ington, Jackson, or any body else. Tho world
will then say, " What great things was Wash
ington 1 He only defended his country and
built up a Republic ; but there was Col. Polk,
he conquerred a country and annexed a Re
public." I'm so sure it will come to thu that I
i wish you could stop their setting up that great
: Washington Monument there in the city 0f
, Washington, for that monument ought to be
raised to you vet, and the money should bo
saved for that purpose. 1 don't know how you
can stop the work going on, unless you can
make it out tluit it comes under the head of m-
I ternal improvements, and then you might stop
it constitutionally. At any rate, u s worth try
ing for. Never mind the prating of ihem scare
crow folks, who make such a fuss and say it
will be the destruction of the United Slates if
you annex Mexico. What if it should ? You
wonld slill stand above Washington and be re
membered longer. Our History books tells us
that the name of the man who built the first
great temple lo Diana at Ephesus is lost and
forgotton ; nobody knows who he was ; but the
name of the man who sot fire to it and burnt,
it down, is found in all the histories down to
this day. So in this grand annexin business
of yourn, if you should set fire to the great tem
ple that Washington built, and burn it down,
don't be afraid but what your name will liveo.i
the page of hislory full as long as Washing
ton's. But I've writ so much already, that I haven't
room to say but a word or two about matters
here. We keep pushing the business here:
we've got pretty well through the vital parts of
the country, and the army has commenced
spreading out and turning squatters. But we
haven't near enough to spread all over the coun
try yet without leaving them too scattering. I
hope you will hurry on the thirty thousand
more men that you promised, as fast as possi
ble, that would make us near a hundred thou
sand strong ; enough to spread our squatters
into all parts of the country and tho annexin
business would be pretty much over. That i?,
the annexin of Mexico, and I take it you'll give
us a holyday and let us rest a few months be
fore we hitch on to the next country down
south. And, besides we shall need that holy
day to see about electing you President another
term, for you'll have to be elected in the com
mon way once more, before you will be strong
enough to stand President all the time without
any election. i see things is going on very
well for your election this time The more
candidates there is on both sides, the better
it will be for you, and it appears now as though
there was agoing to be lots of 'em.
I remain your faithful friend,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
To drive away A ails.
Tho following is a sure way to drive away
black ants; when they trouble your sugar box,.
&c, just roll up a small piece of champhor
gum in a paper, and put inside the box, and it
will soon kill or disperse ail these intruders ,.
sage tea leaves thrown in their way aro also
veiy troublesome to them.
Noses. The last number of ihe Vermont
Asylem (Insane) Journal contains some humor
ous remarks on noses. The mad writer saysr
" that the nose has been placed by Providence,
directly over the mouth, to pass judgment on
the food a sort of sanitaray sentinel a kind
of quarantine officer, to prevent the entrance in
to port of all things that are unsafe or unfitting."
'Pennsylvania Banks.
Statement of the condition of the Banks of
Pennsylvania, from the report of tho Auditor
General, Jan. 19, 1S4S : Amout of Bills dis
counted, $26,282,997, amount of circulation,
$9,943,094, amount of specie and specie funds,
S9,028,45G, amount due depositors, $13,559,
552. SCARLET FEVER usually commences with
nausea and sickness, great thirst, headacb,
redness of the eyes, &c. In two or three days a.
pricking sensation is experienced, and an eruption
of a fiery redness begins to appear, first on the
face and arms, and finally a uniform redness cov
ers the whole body.
In cases of Scarlet Fever, Wright's Indian Veg
etable' Pills should be taken evety night on goti;
to bed, in such doses as to produce copious eval
uations by the bowels. This course, if properlv
followed up, will in a short time subdue the most
violent attack of Scarlet Fever, at the same time
the digestion will be improved, and the blood cow
pletely purified.
JBeware of Counterfeits of all kind ! Some are
coated with sagar"; others are made to resemb'0
in outward appearance the original medicine.
The original genuine Tndian Vegetable P'
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 II. Miller, who is the only
authorized agent for Stroudsburg ; see advertise
ment for other agencies in another column.
Office ana general depot, 169 Race st. Phil'a
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