"3. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, June 8, IS;I8. Terms, $2,00 in advance. $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not paiUbelorcthcend ol ilieyear. fcf' L. BYRNES, at Milford, is duly author ised to act as Agent for this paper;to receive sub scriptions, advertisements, orders for joU-work, and payments for the same. IGM5.v.Carr, Esq., of the city of Philadel phia, is authorized to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the " Jeffcrsonian Republican." Office. Sun Buildings, corner "Third and Dock streets, opposite the Merchants Exchange; and '1-10 North' Fourth street. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER jTEIL MIDDLESWARTH, OF UNION COUNTY. SEJfATORrATi ELECTORS. Thomas M. T. M'Ivex.van,-of Washington, Jonx Pi Sanderson, of Lebanon. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1 Joseph G. GlarkisonJ 2 John P. Wciherill, 3 James M. Davis, 4 Thos. W. Duffield, 5 Daniel O. H inter, ( JoMhu'a Dungan, 7 John D. Steele, S Jnhn Landis, 9 Joseph K. Smucker 10 Charles Snvder 1 1 William G. Huilevj 12 Francis Tyler, 13 Henry Johnson, 14 William Colder, Sr. 15 (mil filled) 16 Charles W. Fisher, 17 Andrew G. Curtin, 18 Thos. R. Davidson, 19 Joseph Marklc, 20 Daniel Agnew, 21 Andrew W Loomis, 22 Richard Irvin, 23 Thomas H. Sill, 24 Saml. A. Pnrviance Great Fire in Allonlowii. Best part of the Town Destroyed. Oil Thursday afternoon last, about 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in a frame siable, near the cen tre of the town, and raged frtr two houts before it could be arrested, rendering about forty fam ilies houseless, and destroying, besides a large number of stables and outhouses,- the following buildings : The Bplehded new Odd Fellows' Hall, (which was nearly ready for dedication,) occupied by Weiss and Lochtnan's shoe and varieiy store ; Keek's tailoring establishment, and H. Nagle's oyster cellar ; Grim and Reu ninger's siore ; Selfridge and Wilson's store ; James Trexler's hotel ; Ycager and Weidner's store ; Joseph Weiss' jewelry store ; Thomas Gingkingcr's tin and stove store ; Gang- wer's millinery shop and residence ; Thomas New hart's tailoring establishment : Dr. Don nosky's drug store ; Meiz & Weaver's sioro ; Wagner & Hoover's store ; Ed. Newhart's hardware store ; ihe Post-office ; Geo. Lucas' shoe store ; Nathan Jersh's clothing store ; Mrs. Brown's millinery ; J. Q. Cole's cedar ware establishment : J. F. Ruhe's tobacco store ; Reuben Rice's, chair manufactary ; Charles Scholl's tailor shop ; together with the follow ing private residences ; "Daniel Keiper'a, Mr. Keiper's, Peter Hoover's and granary, Joshua Hams', MrsHecksman's, Dr. C. H. 'Martin's, Joseph F. Newhart's, Mrs. Catharine GrofT's, Dresher & Wobdrihg's and Mrs. Moyer's. The progress of the, fire was so rapid that little property in its paih was saved. The loss is estimated at $150,000 about one-third said to be covered by insurance. The fire is sup posed to have been caused'by some boys play ing with cigars and fire crackers in the stable. r - Michigan. A c'rirrespondent of the Buffalo Express, w riling from Michigan, says : "You may rely upon it, that in no state in the CCThe Old World continues to be sadly ag itated. The intelligence by the United States is by no means favorable to peace. Great Britain and Russia ate evidently watching the progress IT and in no citv W admirpd thnn in itW in iwi dffalrs w,lh lhe deePest interest-eager and The National Convention The Whig National Convention met at Phila delphia yesterday, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice President Next week we will lay before our readers the re sult of their labors. (tr5 Miner S. Blackman, Esq. of Wilkesbarre, committed suicide by cutting his throat, on the night of the 25th ult. Sale of Peale's. 3fuseum. We learri from the Philadelphia papers, that Peale's celebrated Museum, in Philadelphia, will be sold in that ciiy to-day, at Sheriffs sale. The Portrait Gallery consists of upwards 200 portraits, chiefly of distinguished American states men and heroes of ths past and present, painted by some of the best" artists in the country. Gen. Cass resigned his seat in the United States Senate, on the 29th ult. IE? The N. Y. Herald of Friday last, publishes Gen. Cass's letter io the officers of the Loco-Foco National- Convention. He evidently intends to follow the Polk line of policy with regard to letter writing, as this letter, he remarks, closes his pro fessions of .political faith. What those profes sions are, is made partially apparent in the follow ing passage A Aul for the Curious. To the Editor of the Bucks Co. Intelligencer. A singular phenomenon occurred this spring at the farm of Martin Mull, Esq., in Falls township. His orchard is composed of the usual varieties The blossoms on one of the Fall pipin trees, which bears excellent fruit, has been peculiarly fatal to nearly all the bees of every description that have visited it the bumble hees in an especial man ner. The ground is thickly strewed with the dead. Th'e bees after visiting several blossoms in their usual way, would be apparently attacked with vertigo, as if they had taken some deadly narcotic,and descend in spiral cycles to the ground. Some would be dead very soon, others would lin ger a considerably time before they would die ; and but few would recover 'to escape. The tree is now thickly set with young fruit. No other trees in the orchard produced such, or similar ef fects on the bees, nor was-it ever observed before on the tree in question. - he has lived for thirty years, and amassed a.prin cely fortune without illustrating his life by a sin gle act of munifience or generous public spirit. With either Gen. Taylor or Scott in the field against him, Michigan may be set down as a Whig Stale." cseU's Opinion of Marcy. , As Mr. Marcy has recently made himself some what notorious, by his blackhearted and malignant attacts upon Gen. Scott, and his attempts to rob him of his well-earned fame, it may be interesting to know what manner of man he is : to know what the world in times past thought of him, and to have hispblitical and moral physiognamy held up to public view. This has been done with the spirit, truth and skill of it master mind by the late lamented Wm.' Leggett, a political friend of the Secretary of War; and the New York Auburn Advertiser brings, the picture to light after having been for some time withdrawn from' public views, for the purpose of letting its readers see who and what -the man is that has taken upon himsW the task, of maligning and villi fyjng Gen. Scott. Mr. Jjeggett, who knew him well, thus describes him in the Plaindealer, Vol. 1 p. 450 : - 44 He is a weak, cringings indecisive man ' the mere tool of a monopoly junto, their con- anxious to mediate and soothe, but at the same time prepared for any emergency. The late scene in Paris, in which the government was overturned for the moment, and the recently elected Chamber of Deputies compelled to yield to the mob, cannot but be regarded by the friends of hberal princi ples with alarm. And yet we may hope that the government having witnessed the temper and dis position of the more radical leaders and popula tion, will profit by experience, and guard against any such discreditable exhibitions for the future. The immediate cause and pretext of the outbreak, was a desire on the part of the " blouses," that the government should interfere at once and by force of arms in behalf of Poland. The Europe an Times, alluding to" this matter says, " The turbulence of the Parisians in agitating, bv a mob1 demonstration, for the interference1 of the government-in the restoration of 'Poland; is clearly doing inischief for the sake of mischief. For France to interfere she must march an army of at least 400,000 men acrossGcrmany, amidst a hostile population, to be received by the Russians in a position of almost impregnable strength. .At present such an enterprise, would be wild and im practicable. Indeed, the rebel Poles in Prussian Poland have laid down their arms, and have no. The New York Barnburners, it is said, will hol"d a Convention on the 22d inst., to nominate a Presidential candidate to suit themselves. 47 w I Death warrant. The Governor has issued a warrant for the execution, on Friday, the 29th of September next, of Harris Bell, convicted in Wayne county, of the murder of Mrs. Eliza Williams, wife of the Rev. Mr. Williams, of that county. Another new Planet. It is enough to astonish the public, even in these days of surprising events, to see how thickly our solar system is' becoming studded with plan ets. A few years ago a half dozen of planets, I have carefully read the resolutions of the , rolling around the same centre, were considered Democratic National Convention, laying down the platform of our political faith, andl adhere to them as firmly, as l approve them cordially. Arid while Thus adhering to them, I shall do so with a sa cred regard to " the principles and compromises nfahe Constitution," and with an earnest desire for their maintenance " in a spirit of moderation and brotherly love, so vitally essential to the perpetu ity of the Uni&n and the prosperity and hainess of our common country" a feeling, which has made us what we are, and which, in humble reli ance upon Providence, vve may hope is but the beginning of wllat we are to be. If called upon, hereafter to render an account ofTny stewardship, in the great trust you desire to commit to me, should I be able to show that I had truly redeemed ihe pledge-thus publicly given, and had adhered to the principles of the Democratic party with as much fidelity and succees as have generally marked the administration.1 of the eminent men to whom that party has hitherto confided the chief execu tive authority of the Government, I could prefer uo higher claim to the favorable consideration., of. the country, nor-to the impartial commendation of history." lie also announces his intention -of following the example, of. lus;' predecessor in the nomina tion," in declining to be a candidate for re-election. Peace I Peace ! I Peace 11 1" THE TREATY RATIFIED. By a latkrrival at New Orleans, direct from Mopico, the intelligence has been received, that the Mexican Congress has ratified the treaty of peace, and the messengers are on their way to Washington. The news is so well substantiated, that there is little doubt of its entire correctness. The vote on the ratification of the Treaty was taken in theMexican Chamber of Deputies on the 17th of last month, and stood yeas 51, nays 35. No doubt existed that the vote would be approved in the other branch of Congtess by a large major ity. ; Orders have been issued" calling in all the out posts of our army in Mexico. Gen. Smith has been appointed to superintend; the embarkation at Yera Cruz. , a respectable brotherhood, but the ideas' of the astronomers of the present day have greatly ex panded, arid they look for numbers"1 to correspond with this enlargement. Accordingly, in the last year or two, they have nearly doubled the num ber of known planets; and we see by a note in the National Intelligencer from Lieut. Maury, of the National Observatory r with the accompanying ex tract from a French paper, Le National, that' an other asteroid has been discovered, which makes the nurrfber of this interesting group as great near ly as that of the regular planets : "Two jiew Stars have been seen in the heavens, One, discovered on the night of the 27th of Apirl by the Irish astronomer, Graham; probably be longs to' the group of small planets, already so numerous', situated between Mars and' Jupiter ; the other', observed in London by Mr.,IIind, does not manifest any peculiar motion; and seems to be one of the fixed' Stars." venient instrument ; and whilst he gives his sane tion to their unworthy measures, toe survey him ! scttCti .P'an of action whatever. The opinion, with contempt, and can offer no better excuse for ' however, gains ground, that the Emperor of Rus his conduct than that "his poverty and not his will ! sia wi,l integrate Poland as a separate monarchy, consents." under his son in law, the Duke of lieuchtenberg. This is the portrajt.of Wm? L. Marcy the man 1,1 tllis event, Prussia will run the chance of los- who once stooped.to'the meanness of charging the inS Danzic, arid perhaps Stettin, as the penalty of State fifty cents for mending his breeches, and to ! lier rash quarrel with the Danes ; since Russia the infame of trying to rob an old war-worn vete- ue 100 Slad 10 se.'ze lis long looked for op ran of the fame he has spent a life to acquire. Is, portunity to enable her to secure for herself those I !. A .1 . : . i i lmnnrtnnt nnrto in ttm Rolfio " lii&tvs iiib xuveriiaer; irut auuu u uase, crinmnsr, '"'r" " j-no m .wuu.ii mercenary poltroon, the appropriate tool for the dirty work he is used for ? Harrisburg Telegraph. 1 The Second Pennsylvania Regiment. Col. Geary has furnished Governor Shunk with a list of all the casualties which have occurred in the regiment from the date of its organization to the 31st of March inst. The regiment, when it left Pittsburg numbered 1137, including offi cers. Its effective strength on the 31st of March, was 639 the number of ordinary deaths, 214 ; killed in action, 8 ; died of wounds, 18 ; dis charged 131 ; transferred, 13 ; deserted 110, re signed, -2. Total, 408. . The Harrisburg Union says the list of casualtiesembraces the names' of the voluntee, the date and place of their decease, &c. and the company to which they were attached, and that all desirable information will be furnished persons asking it, by addressing H. Petriken; As sistant Adjutant General, Harrisburg. Pretty Old People. Kentucky appears to have an unusual share of long lived persons. A gentleman of Green coun ty, in that State, has sent to the Louisville Jour nal for publication, the following list of old per sons living in that county : Stephen Riggs, 93 ; Thomas Parsone, 100 ; W. Thayer, 93 : James Warner, 97 ; Mrs. Thurman, 101 ; Mrs. Emeury, 94; John Mann, 96; James Turpen, 92 ; Peter Dispain, 90. Their united ages are 856 years, and the average -is a-little more than 95 years. Three persons have recently died in that county, whose ages were as follows Mrs. Speaker, 113; John Miles, 93; Mrs. Sands, 105. "Old Ilunkers and Barn-burners." 1 The New York Herald undertakes to enlighten the people as. to the origin" of these designation of these two sections of the Locofoco Party of "New York. It says that lf Hunkers" are so designated from thfeir, devotion to the spoils, always taking care to supply themselves' with a " hunk" from the public treasury. That lhe "'barnburners" are those who, disappointed "in the endeavor' to obtain a " hunk," are disposed to burn down the house which contains the. spoils. That the one party are the rats .who have possession of the grain in the barn; -and the other. those rats who being unable to obtain entrance and a share of the spoils, would rejoice to see-the barn consumed, that the buttons might go s'upperlessto bed" as well as themselves.' The Court of Enquiry, before which Gen.-Scott was arraigned, adjourned from Mexico to New Orleans, and thence to Frederick, Md., where they met last Week and adjourned for a few days to await the arrival of Gen. Pillow. Gen. Scott was in attendance", but has returned to Washing ton. Every where as the veteran moves about the country, he is met by the enthusiastic greeting of his grateful and admiring countrymen. Gen. Tay lor, it is said, has been summoned to appear be fore the Court. . Prince Lucien Murat, a nephew of Napoleon, who sailed -from this country upon the first report of the breaking out of the French Revolution, has heen elected to tlie National Assembly. Andrew Jackson Ogle, of Somerset, has been nominated for Congress in the 16th district of this State, now represented by the Hon. Andrew Stewart. Novel Invention. MV Robert Criswell, living at Buena Vista, Franklin Co., Penna, has invented a combined. Plough and Planting Machine, answering for corn,-potatoes, &c. &c. The instrument is so constructed as to scpre out two rows for com, potatoes, &c, (at1 a time), to drop, cover, and roll them as it passe) along droping at any re quired distance apart, and. covering to any re quired depth and as the hoppers drop opposite, and at the same .time, corn can be planted so as to farm it botrrways, without having to score the ground out in an, opposite direction previ ous to planting; and by a peculiar arrangement the rows are kept straight.'and parallel, without using pules io score,-by. With this instrument one-man and team pari plant from 12 to 15 a cres per day : whereas it would require four men and teams a dayto score that number of acres both ways, aird eight or ten persons to plant and cover it in the ordinary way. After planting, the hoppers, wheels, &c. can be ta ken off, and the plough will accomplish double the amount of labor per dav that a aommon one will. The division in the iYIcthoist Church. At the Methodist General Conference; now in seseion at Emsburg, the Commitee on tho state of ihe Church have reported on the "Plan of Separation," passed by the General Con ference of 1844. They declare it to be of no eflbci ''null and void" for reasons which they aasigh at some length. Passengers were carrie1 up and. down the north River last week for nothing. -The Aj bany Knickerbocker'thinks iln-y will yet a dol lar a piuce to make, the trip before Jong. In Berlin, also, there has been more excitement. A letter under date of the 12th ult. says : " The ministerial address, and royal and some what harsh reply of the King, calling back the Prince of Prussia, have created great sensation. Placards cover the walls and trees, condemning this measure. " The King," says one of them, " has recalled. the Prince of Prussia. The Minis ters are responsible for this act. Let those who' disapprove of it abstain from to-morrow's parade. The people are alone entitled to decide upon this matter." A postscript is to the following effect : " A meeting is now going on at the Tzelten. The president of the club chapter declared the re call to.be unlawful, and against the will of the people (loud acclamation.) He farther p'rop'bsed a deputation of the whole assembly, some two or three thousand, to march to the minister Camphau- sen, and demand a repeal of the King's order'. The whole city is in a state of great excitement, and for the present, at least, the Prince of Prus sia's return may be considered as hazardous for himself and the tranquility of this city, whose in habitants are all pouring toward the Thier Gar den." In England, the Reform movement is progress ing. The New League already embraces nearly one hundred members of Parliament; and Mr. Hume has given notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in a bill to extend the suffrage, to establish the vote by ballot, to limit the duration of parliament, and equalize the members in pro portion to the' population. A Correspondent of the Daily News pun gently remarks that there are only two men who have written very bitterly against General Scoti. They are Santa Anna and Wm. L Marcy ; and of the two, Marcy seems to be the bitterest Mexican. It is a beautiful sight to see ono of the cabinet writing with Santa Anna to put down the commander of our Army ; but' it won't take. The people will have a word to say -in that little matter. The boys will be about when the proper time comes. Hastings, that naughty wag of the Albany Knickerbocker, perpetrates the following droll 'un : . "We thought that we had heard of a good many green people in our lime, but there is a young lady in Pleasantville, Ohio, that beats our time considerably. She got married the other night,..and the next day appeared! before a magistrate, io enter a complaint against her husband for 'taking liberties with her.' " A nice point of law It has been suggested to our Irtend Mr Briefless that his opinion would be very valuable on the question, wheth er a man who dies before he h&s settled with his creditors may be considered to have shown an undo preference, in paying the debt of Na ture before his other liabilities V The newest luxury in New Orleans pn the 1.2th ult., was watermelons, brought from the valley of Jalapa, in Mexico". Pol Ash pounded and placed in Tat holes is said to be very effectual in driving them away, t - A new fruit has been introduced at Charles ion, S. C, from Japan. Ii is an evergreen, and bears flowers of a delightful almond-like fragrance, twice a year. Last summer, the fruit in small quanity came to maturity in July. This year it bore more luxuriantly, and the fruit is now ripe. It is of a rich orange color, about the size and shape of the iiugianne, although a !iulcMnore;longaieil. The "Barnburners" and "Old IXmj. Iters." The term Barnburners is known only asaiu. nificaut of a faction in the Democratic party; but hundreds a&k what does it mean ; how d:il it originate ? The origin of the term barnburner was, w,5 believe, this : In the State of New York it u well known that politics were for very many years arranged and directed hy a class of men called the' Albany Regency. .They held ihn State offices and parcelled them out as their own domain Of course this in time l egat jeal ousy,3and opposition. The young and new members of the party could see jieither justice nor propriety m ihia sort of political aristocra cy ; and many of the old ones, who had fought long unrewarded, took sides with (hem. This manifested itself in the Legislature; A radical faction was formed, and the great point of ilia dispute was, as it has always been, the offices. " Ah, (said the radicals) what right have these old fellows these hunkers iobe forever suck ing as the public crib, while not a teat remain for us V It was a sore grievance and a trying tirrre. What could be done 1 Nothing deemed possible. The Hunkers held. on with a grip like a vice. They acted most emphatically on the doctrine, that " a bird in the hand wa.i worth two in the bush." At length, seeing there was no chance without force, a leader of the faction rose and said . " Mr. Speaker': I see that ihe gentlemen who hold the Regency power have taken their course, and are not to be moved by persuasion or ejectment ; they are no sooner driven out at one corner than they come in at the oiher. Sir, 1 see no way to get them out but to serve them as some fellow did the rats. He wai troubled excessively by rais in his barn: he tried all sorts of vways to gel ihom out ; he set trap. for them ; he got a terrier dog, he sent in a weasel, and he put poisun in their way ; but all in vain no sooner did they go out one side than they came in the other. The traps they would not enter, the poison they would not eat. He resolved what he would do; he set fire to the barn, arid burnt barn, rats, and all ! This is what we will do, sir. In the masterly lan guage of the immortal Jefferson, sir, 4 few men die and none resign.' We must trv a more summary method we will bum the bam, rats, and all." The Hunkers understood the game, and re solved to anticipate a liule ; so at the next election, when the great chief of the Barnburn ers (Silas Wright) was nominated, the Hunk ers quickly gave him a stab under the fifth rib, and laid him low lit political death. 44 Ven geance!" then said all the Barnburners. 44 Justice to Silas Wrighi now requires that we should immolate a hecatomb of rats." 44 The barn must be burnt !" And it was. Nothing but its ruins remain, whilst hundreds of Hunk-, er rats, all nicely fawed, expired in the flower of polifltia' martyrdom. Cincinnati Chronicle. A lady eighty years of age was asked by a little girl how old a person had to get before a desire to marry left them. Ho. child,' said she you will have to ak some one that ii older than I am. Three kinds of Dbctors --Tti thle of Doc tor is thus defined by a Texan editor : A doc tor of divinity is a friend of God, a doctor of law is a frieid of the Devil, and a, doctor of physic is the friend of Death. A Whole Family Poisoned A family by the name of 13esy, living m Winnebago co., III., were recently poioned by eating ham, which was found to be impregnated wjta arsenic. Three of them died, and ihe others were not expected to recover. A neighbor, suspected of the diabolical act, was arrested and com mitted for tral. Great quantities of maple sugar is produced in Canada. In the the parishes of Saint Joseph and Saint Francois, many farmers have made from 3 to 5000 pounds, and 300,000 pounds have been made in two' parishes. Potatoes sold at Sandwich, Mass, last week, at the rate of two dollars a bushel. A New Orleans paper advertises the sale of "one undivided half of a slave." It is stated that the cost of new buildings now in progress of erection in the city of New York will be at least four millions of dollar.. MARRIED, Oh Saturday, the 3d inst. by M. D. Robeson, Esq., Mr. Benjamin Tock, of Stroudsburg, and Mrs. Sally Ann Azer, of Hamilton township. On Sunday, the 4th inst., by trie Rev. Ed ward Barras, Mr. Heniy D. Bush, of Siriids burg, and Miss Sarah J. Angle, of; Middle Smithfield'. On the same day, by Jacob L. Houser, Mr. Pe ter Myers, of Hamilton township, and Miss Susan White, of Stroudsburg. COMPLEXION. Wright's Indian. YegetahNi Pills, are, the best cosmetic a the world because they cleanse and purifv the body of ihtvS8 Jmorbid humors which, if lodged in the cutjele, arft the cause hot only of yellow or swarthy complex ipn and roughness of tho skin, but all kinds pf eruptive diseases. Wright's Indian Vegetable. PillSjnso aid anq improve digestion, as. well as. cleanse and purify the blood, and, therefore, giye health and vigor to the whole frarne which ir turn, wiU be sure to give a clear and healthy CQnw plexjon. Jiewqr4 of Sugar Coaled .Counter) e member, that the original and only genuine Indian Vegetable Pills have the written signature of Wikm mam Wright on the top label of each box. For sale by George fl. Af7er, who is the. nnjy authorized agent for Stroudsburg ; see advertise ment for dther agencies in another column. Office and general depot, jqa R,ace s, fWs
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