4 II JIM Mill II HI III "I 11 11 1 - .. va. v -1.' m JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, ITIay IS., 181S. Terms, $2,00 in advance. $2,25 half yearly; and $2.50 if not paid before the end il t le year. ft?" L. BYRNES, at. Milford, is duly author ized to act as Agent for this paper;to receive sub scriptions, advertisements, orders fonfob-work, and payments for the same. 1CFE W. Cakk, Esq., of the city of Philadel phia, is authorized to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the " Jeffersonian Republican." Office Sun Buildings, corner Third and Dock streets, opposite the Merchant's. Exchange ; and J 10 North Fourth street. FUR CANATi COMMISSIONER. NER MIDDLESWARTH, OF UNION COUNTY. S E N A T 0 R L AT. E L E CTORS. Thomas M. T. M'Ke.v.van', of Washington, .John P. Sandekso.v, of Lebanon. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1 Joseph G. Glarkson, ' 2 John P. Wetherill, .3 James M. Davis, 4 Thos. W. Driffield, 5 Daniel O. H inter, (i Joshua Dungan, 7 John D. Steele, 8 John Landis, 9 Joseph lv. Smucker. 10 Charles Snvder 11 William G. Hurley, 12 Francis Tvlcr, 13 Ilenty Johnson, 14 William Colder, Sr. 15 (not filled) IG Charles W. Fisher, 17 Andrew" G. Curtin,' IS Tho.s. H. Davidson, 19 Joseph Marklo, 20 Daniel Agnew, 21 Andrew W Loomis, 22 Richard Irvin, 23 Thomas II. Sill, 24 Saml. A. Purviance Bogus Gold. A spurious quarter eagle was offered at the Bank yesterday, and probably others of the same sort are in circulation in this section. The quar ter eagle referred to is coated, by the galvanic pro cess most likely, with genuine gold, but the cop per, of which the mass is composed, appears in spots which have been Worn: Of course the spurious character of a new piece" of this descrip tion cannot be detected by the eye, but is easly discovered by the sound of it when dropped upon a counter or table. The genuine coin gives out a clear, brilliant tone, while that of the spurious is dull and heavy. The false piece weighs only one pennyweight and fifteen grains, and the real 'one weighs two pennyweights and fifteen grains. Honesdale Democrat. The Medical Convention at Baltimore adjourned sine die on Friday after a session of four days. During their session, says the Baltimore Patriot , much business of importance to the profession, arid through them to the public at large, has come up before the Association for consideration. Valua ble information too upon matters of science and practice, has been elicited by report or in debate, and the experience of each upon such topics, be coming the common property of all, will be dis simulated through the community to the advantage of the suffering and afflicted, and elevation of the standard of public health. The next annual Con vention of the Association is appointed to beheld at Boston. Borough Officers. At an election held at the Female Seminary, in the Borough of Stroudsburg, on Tuesday last, the following persons, were duly elected. Burgess John J). .Morris. Councilmcn Robert Boys, Thomas Stone, D. E. Coolbaugh, William Row, and William Dean. High Constable John Keener. Town Clerk William Carev. Congress. Nothing of importance done last week, except the passage in the House, of the bill lo admit Wisconsin into the Union as a Stale. The grain crops in West Jersey are said to be coming forward with unusal promise. In a ten acre rye field, on Carman's farm, in Camden coun ty, several specimen stalks measure five feet arid upwards. ITIore L.oco-Foco Harmony. The Calhounists of South Carolina will not Be represented in the Baltimore Convention, and havecontempiously and unequivocally turned their back upon it, in spite of all the entreaties of the Government organ. The Charleston Mercury of the 5lh, repudales the appointments of Gen. Com mander as one of llie deligates. The Mercury thinks it is ajity to-disturb the State with a mat ter which is evidently not to its taste, and concludes by. saying that -"the great body of the people of South Carolina rest quietly on the conviction that they can neither gather grapes from thorns nor figs-from thistles." Commissioner Trist is about to preparo an address to the people of tho Onion, upon his course in relation to the treaiv. His disclosures will be rich. Paying: for the Whistle: It appears from official statements that thepub lie debt of the United States, at the end of the present financial year, (1st of July, 1848,) will be, if the treaty goes into' effect; ninety-eight millions, four hundred and' forty-seven thousand, eight hun dred and-three dollars! So much for the election of James K. Polk to the Presidency ! Gen. Leslie Coombs is in New Orleans, and the Delta says his visit there has some connec tion with Gen. Scott's expected arrival; and the movement of the Northern politicians, to bring out Mr. Clay-and Gen. Scott on the same ticket; for President and Vice President His friends in Philadelphia assert that he is in New Orleans on private business having an important law-case on hand. De Bow's Commercial' Review says, that there is to Arkansas a circular valley called "Map.net Cove," having an area two miles square ; the soil is of a rusty colorj and not a pine is to be seen within its limits, although surrounded by pine forests. At the southern side is an extensive bed of magnetic iron ore, or load stone, which covers the surface of the ground for several acres. It varies in size from that of a pea to 36 15s. Its magnetic influence is such as to prevent the imme diate vicinity from being surveyed by compass, but does not extend as far as is genprally believed. We are assured by Dr. R. Conway, a practical surveyor, who has surveyed large bodies in and about the cove, that its influence does not affect the compass exceeding, from the centre, one mile in any direction. It is about two miles from Ooachita river, and seven from fhe highest point to which small streams can reach. This ore is said to yield 90 per cent, of an excellent quality of iron. The Pie Plant. . A Dr. J. C. Bennet writes as follows to the Massachusetts Ploughman, in" relation to the Pie Plant, the healthfulness of which was called into question last year. Similar views as to the per fectly innocent nature of the Pie Plant, have been expressed to us by an eminent physician of Phil adelphia : Mr. Editor : In your paper of the 1st inst., you call for medical testimony in relation to the health fulness of the Pie Plant, and as a member of that profession will respond to the call. The Pic Planlis a species of Rhubarb, the medical qualities .of which are cathartic, astringent, tonic and sto machic, and invigorating in small doses to the' powers of digestion. The acid which it contains is the rhubarberic, which is nearly allied to the tomatic, and the malic, all three of which, promote digestions and are very healthy, and none of which ever enter into the composition of any of the de- poshes that occur inlithic states of the urin ; con sequently there is no danger of producing gravel by the use of the pic plant, as your Oxford corres pondent has been led to suppose ; but as a dietetic article, the pie plant may be classed with the To mato as t'wo of the most healthy articles in com mon use. Rhubarb tarts, green'apple tarts, and tomato tarts, are precisely-the same in their effects upon the system1 all are laxative, alterative, deobstrument, and stomachic ; and neither of them are ever-productive of the lqast5 deleterious results. Another Yankee' Invention A Sew ing machine The-Boston Traveller notices a newly invented sewing machine, capable of making 250 or 300 stitches in a minute, and doing the work of six or eight seamstresses. It is said to work admirably and is destined to revolutionize the buisncssofthe poor, half-paid seamstresses. To sew the seamsof pantaloons, for instance, the cloth is-fastened to'a bar, so constructed as to obviate the necessity, of basting. Thfs bar, with the cloth attached, is moved horizontally in It is said that a papper- is to be commenced in-i 01 ine needle, by means ot a leed motion, New York, to advocate the Wilmot proviso, and j wic measures witlrperfect accuracy the length to support- John P. Hale for President, and Mr Corwin(of Ohio, fbr Vice President: The Court of Inquiry. Mr. F reaner (' Mustang") the well known cor respondent of the New-Orleitus Delta, makes, in a letter dated in the city of Mexico on the 7th ult., some severe remarks on the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry. In order to the due appreciation of what Mr. Freane'r says it is necessary to ob serve that he is a locofocd; and that the newspa per for Which he writes though independent in pol itics, is owned and conducted by ldcofocos. Now hear what he says i It is the general impression that thd Court of Inquiry will get through examining all the witnesses here' in the cburse" . of ien day s or two weeks, and will therf a'djdurn to the Uni ted States. I wish the were gone. You have no doubt read the proceedings with a degree of interest : if you have not, I hope you will. The proceedings of the Court are well worth the study and attention of all military and civil lawyers. The decisions of the Court remind me of the story of a 'raw recruit, whom the drill sergeant could not make recollect his right hand from his left. In order to strengthen the memory of the re cruit, the sergeant blacked one hand and told him that was his right hand : then taking hold of both hands, and turning them one over another in quick succession, asked the recruit which was his right hand. " Why," replied the fellow, " you have mixed them up so, that I cannot'tell t'other from which." " So it is with the Court they have got the de cisions so mixed up, that I do not believe they or any one else can tell what has been the rule car ried out any two days in succession, unless it is that .Gen. Scott is always wrong, and the defence always right, let the question be what it may. If precedent were law, the decisions of this court would support an attorney in argument on any side of any question whatever. One day Gen. Scott complains of the course of proceeding of one of his antagonists, and the Court says' " It is a mat ter over which they have no control." In the course of a few days a complaint is m'ade that Gen. Scott had done wjiat the Court had said they could not control, and then- the Court decides- that it is " indelicate and highly improper." Put a peg there,- and sare the mark ! " Gen Pillow a'sks a witness for his opinion's, or the reasons for belief in a certain matter; the Court at once decide he must state it : in five min utes after, Gen. Scott asks the. witness what were his opinions in reference to another matter. Ob jections axe made the Court is cleared ! and after some forty minutes zvise, hnoiving and very honest (?) consultation, decide that the witness may state the facts which-led him to conclusions or opinions, but he must not State what those opin ions were. So it has been ffom first to last. I have, endeavored to find out what system- or rule has governed this court in their decisions, but without effect ; and I am sorry to say that I look upon it as an anomaly in military jurisprudence. " However, the evidence and documents brought out in the course of the trial, show, most conclu sively, the determined and deliberate effort, on the part of the administration, to overthrow and break down Gen. Scott to consign to infamy and dis grace the warrior Chief who has accomplished the most wonderful achievements recorded on the pa ges of American history and who has done all this, witlr the prejudices and-influences of the Gov ernment at home against him, and the political as pirants in his own camp playing second fiddle to them. The private bureaus, and tlie confidential correspondence of the departments at Washington, and every paper that could be brought to bear1, di rectly or indirectly on thd'questions at issue, have been copied and sent to the defence, in hopes' to influence the decisions;- private correspondence to the military bureaus-, Written at a time when it was impossible to forward regular official communications-from here, have' been' published in the Union, and the letters,-with-the names of the offi cers, sent to the defence, in hopes that it would prove that' persons' belonging to Gen4. Scott's gen eral or personal staff had' written letters for publi cation, or that it was the practice of officers to write letters in order that they would find their way into the public prints. " But the Administration have made a great mistake. When they aimed at the object of their destruction they selected a gun with tod small a Calibre." The Canal Commissioner. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. We'are not surprised that tho nomination of Mr. MiddleswaRTH for Canal Commission er should spread such teiror thro' the loco camp. It shows pretty plainly that our oppo nent! understand the character of the man, and know what to expect from a contest against such a candidate. They are anxious to get tho management of the public works into their own hands. When some particular party end is to be promoted ; some political favorite some brawling demagogue is to he provided for, it is frequently very iriconvement to have a Whig Commissioner in the Canal Board. No wonder then that the nomination of SO POP ULAR and so CAPABLE a man as Mr. MID DLESWARTH should work such CON- STERTION AMONG OUR OPPOENTS. They perceive in 7TI1E UNERRING' II A R BINGER OF DEFEAT and the certainty of having a Whig to watch over their conduct with an eagle eye, and they know too that Ner Middleswarlll is just the' man to keep them in check. We lay nd claim to prophettic knowledge, hut we do noi hesitate to predict that 'OLD Ner' will be elected by a. handsome majori ty and that his election will be the means of saving to Pennsylvania, over ONE HUN DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS durring the three years of his official term. The Clinton Democrat may smoke that in his pipe. New Berlin Star. Our Candidate for Canal Commissioner. The Whig Convention of this State DID A GOOD DAYS WORK when thev put in nom ination Hon. NER MIDDLESWARTH, of Union county, for Canal Commissioner. The candidate is favorably known to the Whigs of the State. His nomination has been enthu siastically received by the wiiols Whig press throughout the State. The CONFIDENCE which the Whigs ihe friends of REFORM manifest OF -HIS ELECTION is cheering to those who desire ihe Public Works of Penn sylvania . placed in hands whose aim is the promotion of tho INTEREST of the PEO PLE and NOT PARTY. Ii is highly impor tant thai we should have a majority in. the Ca nal Board : it would drive from our improve ments the HORDES of POLITICAL HANGERS-ON, who are put there to the exclusion of men of worth. The MISCONDUCT and CARELESSNESS which have existed in that Board, are known ; and it is known, too, that but a short time ago our member of the Bbard had the manliness to expose the blunders of the locokocos. In order to have a majority in the Board it is but necessary for the Whigs to bestir themselves, be true to their principles, and VICTORY will b6 ihe result. Our can didaie is one of whom NOTHING EVIL can be said a FARMER of the GERMAN stock, HONEST and CAPABLE, he would WE'LL GUARD the INTERESTS' of the PEOPLE. All, therefore, that is necessary lo place him wjiere he will be of service to the State, is, a "STRONG and LONG PULL" on the part of the WHIGS of PENNSYLVANIA. FARTHER ffEWS FRO.tJ MEXICO: The Rochester, (N. Y.) Advertiser, in" order to siiow the cross inequality with which the people of-Great Britain are represented in Parliament, formed fjh of the stitches. Tins-motion can?be easily and in stantly so adjusted as to make longer or shorter stitches, at the will of the operator. The needle which has its eye in the point, or very- near it, is driven through the cloth by means of a peculiarly m. The thread which runs from a Why is it? ' Among the new and splendid goods which it will be seen by their advertisements, our mer chants are now' receiving, there are great quan tities or muslin of BRITISH MANUFAC TURE. For a few years past wo were pleased to see riiuslins of American manufacture in all our stores and in' general use"; but now we see foreign fabrics in their place. If this state of things is to exist for any considerable length of time, its ruinous effects Will be felt through out our whole country. The goods are'manu factured and hought in Great Bryain, and our specie goes then? to pay for them, which must sooner or later produce a pressure in tho mon ey market. Great Britain never takes our pro duce in exchange for her manufactures unless her' subjects have siarvation looking them full into their eyes. . We say" our stores are be coming filled with British manufactures. Whv From iTIexico---Pcace Prospects. The Express publishes the following letter, and says that it is from a highly intelligent and respectable gentlemen, who was formerly Amer ican Consul in the City of Mexico ; NeW Orleans, 1st May, 1848. My DfcAfr Sift : 1 arrived hear the nighi be fore last, direct' fiom' the City of Mexico, in the steamer Augusta' ; and shall set out at 2 p. m. for Washington, via Charleston. Our Commissioners, the new ones, arrived at Mexico on the 14th and 17ih, Mr. Clifford in advance. The Treaty will be ratified' WITH- ALL THE AMENDMENTS, RELY UPON IT. I had an in interview with Gen. Mora, the Commissioner of the Mexican Government in the City of Mexico, the day before I left He assured me that the amendments were not, and would not be objectionable to its ratification. The elections for Senators took place in the City on the 2d ult. the peace party gaining by large majorities. That for Deputies was to have taken place on the 15th, and the peace party would carry all before it. The Mexican Congress could not organize jtself before about the 1st of May at most, admitting no squabblers among them. Its first step will be the election of a President in the person of Herrera, and the next will bo the Treaty. The war parly were not satisfied, but the 17th article of the "armistice ptii ar stopper in their mouths, and ihey are coming over in order lo share some of the three millions. You or some of your friends may be interested in this news, and the facts are, I believe, known to no other person. There, will be some struggle in relation to the three millions, between themselves; but as the Army cannot now leave before tho end of October, all will be kept quiet among them till then after which God knows what will be come of them. is it so? It is evidently One of the practicle .results of the Locofoco Tariff of 181(5. which gives a table, which wa- prepared just after the i spool through the end of a spring, so that it can ' ihe present Administration called' into exis- u,assage of the Reform Bill, in 183i3. Ii embraces be tightened at pleasure, passes the point of the eighteen boroughs, with a populatiori'of 320,000, j needle'through the cloth; till it is caughtby a hoolr which contain but 3G04 voters; New York, which j on tlie other side. This hook holds the thread in a peculiar' manner, forming it into a loop, until" the needle has passed out and been again driven through the bar upon which the cloth'is, having in the mean time been moved along the length of one stitch. The hook then drops its first hold and ! has the same population, has 50,000 voters. r The Whijr National Convention. Ample arrangements have already been made by the Whigs of Philadelphia for the accom modation, ol the. Whig National Convention,! I I ll L... ..... . .1 1 f I which is to assemble in that city on the 7th of'again siezes lhe thread which has noW passed June. The Upper Saloon ol the Chinese Museum has been engaged for the Convention, and the Ratification Meeting will be -iicld in Independence Square. ihroughlhe l'oop and repeals- the process; thus interweaving the thread so as- to form a' uniform and substantial stitch', suclf'as- the ladies call a diainf stit'eh. tence, and rt which they hold on with a per tinacity worthy of a better cause. , It is not only British muslin's, b'ut foreign manufactures of every descriptionlbot)ls, shoes, hats, caps, arid wares aiid merchandise of every name, that are flooding our country under tho present tariff; and driving' our own manufactu rers out of the market; and the workings of this tariff will'soon be seriously felt by every laboring man and mechanic in the free States, for our independani freemen cannot hold out against the pauper labor of the old country, nit der the Free Trade system of Polk, Walker & Co. Huntingdon Journal. x .The Democratic National Convention is to meet on the 22 d inst., at Baltimore. It seems scarcely probable that it will be able to agree upon any one of the distinguished men who liaVe deen commonly spoken of as candidates. Possibly some more obscure member of the party, as in the case of Mr. Polk, will bo taken as a comptomise. In that case, it has been truly said, ihe very obscurity of the man his entire want of popular strength, having been just defeated as a candidate for re-election na Governor of Tennessee the absence of all evidence of fitness for the place the fact thai no delegate was sent to the Convention to vote U him---and the certainty that ha was the first choice of no man iii the Conveijtjon or out of n ihese wero his recommendations, and htv secured his nomination. Pena y Pena about to take the responsibility of of ratifying the Treaty. Petersburg, Va. May 13. The Overland express of io-day, brings Now Orleans papers of ihe 7th instant. The brig China had arrived from Vera Cruz with dates to the 29th ult. but they contain very little be yond whal has been already p'ublishod. The Mexican papers state that Pena y Pena will assume The responsibility of ratifying the ireaty should a quorum of the Mexican Congress not be obtained in season. May 14. The express due today, brings Now Orleans papers of the 8th inst. The steamship New Orleans Capt. Auld, had arrived on lhe 7th, having left Vera Cruz on the 3d inst. Generals Pillow, Towson, Cushing. and a large number of Officers, are among the pas sengers; the Court of Inquiry is to he organ ized at New Orleans. The prospects are in favor of the ratification of the peace treaty. The Commissioners on the part of ihe United States had arrived at Querelaro. General Scott and staff left the city of Mex ico on the 22d ult, and arrived at Vera Crux on the 30th. He there embarked on board tlm 'ship St. Petersburg, direct for the city of New York. FOREIGN NEWS! Arrival of the Cambria. SEVEN DAYS LATER. The steamship Cambria, Capt. Harrison, ar rived on Saturday night after a passage of I t days, wuh both London tiiuI Liverpool dates to the 28th of April, the day of her sailing. The French elections had laken place, and all passed off as far as heard from peacefully. The moderate republican caudidatos were m the ascendant in every arrondisetnent of Parts. M. Lamartine and the moderate party head the lists. Reform meetings were taking place in all parts of England and in Scotland. ' The Chart ists recommence their sittings in National As sembly on the 21th of May The grand popular fete to inaugurate the French Republic is to take place oh the 4Ui day of May, which, from the preparations, would 'eclipse the demonstration oi the 20ih April, in which 300,000 persons joined. On Sunday the great event of the Elections immediately followed the spectacle of theThurs day previous, and fortunately all th'e apprehen sions entertained of the great disturbances dur ing the progress of this formality, have been falsified. The voters have performed their du ty in Paris Without any great interruption of the public peace. The voles examined up to the evening of the 26'ih give air imposing majority in Pari, m the following order : 1, Lama nine ; 2, Dupoiu (de L;Eure); 3, Gamier Pages ; 4, M. Arago ; 5, Marrast ; 6, Mane ; 7, B'eihinont. M. Lamartine has generally obtained 95 per cent, and M Jedrun Ivoiim Jo cent, ol the votes. Louis Blanc and Albert, each about one vote in 20. So far as it can be ascertained at present, ii appears thai not more than two thirds of ihe qualifed electors in Paris have ex ercised ihe nghi of voting. Next to the elections, (he internal dissen sions of the Government exclie attention. An other explosion is reported to have taken place on the 24h inst., in which, as usual, M. La- mariine and Lfcdru Rollm were in open con flict ; the latter desired the further postpone ment of the meeting' of the assembly, the for mer opposed n ; lhe latter threatened a demon stration, ihe former treated the menace wuh contempt. M. Ledru Rollm then declarrd that he would have Paris covered with barricades. M. Lamartine ihen declared that he set his col league at deftiance, that the majority of the Government were quite prepared for any mea sure of that description promoted by the Minis ler of the Interior, and they would resort to ef fectual measures to defend it. After this M. Ledru Rollin lowered his tone. The breach which separates ihe moderates from the ulira democrats within the Government widens every day, and it is now said thai Rollin has spoken of giving in his resignation, and withdrawing from the Government, but Lamartine has re plied lo this by assuring Rollin that if his res ignation were seriously offered, it would be im mediately accepted. When will the Fourth of March come on Sunday ? It is said that the question was asked when the Constitution was framed and adopted, what will be done if the fourth of March should come on Sunday, and thai ihe answer was returned lhai the fourth ol March would never come on Sunday. This ii seems was a mistake. Tho second term of James Monroe in 1821 com menced on Monday the 5th of March, and from an interqRting table which has recently come under our eye, we perceive that lhe 4th of March will again come on Sunday in 1849, the day for inauguration of the next Prestdt-ut. Before another Presidential Sabbath twniy eight years must elapse, viz. in 1877. Before another 4th of March comes on Sunday, eight hundred and forty -eight years must elapse, which will bring us lo ihe year 2717. The 4th corner on Sunday again m the year 2885, and before another returns 840 years more must elapsa. Again it occurs in 37S3, and also in 4521, a lapse of 338 years. Following up lhe table to, which wo refer still farther, we perceive that in a period of 2772 years, or from 1S4) to. 4G21, both inclusive, ihe fourth of March, or as it might be calfed, the Presidential Sabba'b, comes on Sunday bin, thirteen limes. Before ihe relurn of these thirteen days, how many will have passed oui of .the porch of time nnu the vast temple of Eternity. RocL Adv..
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