V V ft JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, July 6, ISIS- tferms, $2,00 in adrancc. $2,25 half yearly; arid $2,50 if not paiuueiure me enu 01 mejcar. 05s L. BARNES, at Milford, is duly author ized to act as A gent for this paper;to receive sub scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-Work and payments for the same. IE? J2. V. Carr, Esq., of the city of Philadel phia, is authorized to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the " Jcffcrsonian Republican." Office. Sun Buildings, corner Third and Dock streets, opposite the Merchant's Exchange ; and MO North Fourth street. Whig Nominations. FOR PRESIDENT, Ocaicral Z.4CIIAKY TAYLOR, OF LOUISIANA. . FOR VIC,E PRESIDENT, . Hou.iailXARDFIEXIUeilE, OF NEW YORK. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, IV'ER MIDGES W A UTH, OE UNION COTNTY. SENATOR rATi ELECTORS. T h o:.t as M T. M'K e n x a n, of Was hi ngt o n , John P. Sanderson, of Lebanon. ELECTORS. Gen. Taylor's Views ton the Tariff. . We have been favoufed with the subjoined ex tract of a recent letter from John Buehler, Esq, 'of Baton Rouge, La, the present residence of Gen. Taylor, td a gehtlemati in this town, who formerly resided in the saiiie piled. Mr. Buehler is a gen tleman, of great respectability and high standing, who would scorn to say any thing which he did not believe to be strictly the , truth, and is moreo ver personally and intimately acquainted with Gen. Taylor whom he states to be "a good Tariff man.," What Mr. B. means by this may be seen by pe rusing the extiact : "The repeal of the Tariff of 18.42, by the act of 1846, has been most ruinous to the country; ana" jprticularly to the sugar planters of Louisiana, and unless we can get some change in the Tariff, for protection, it must break up many planters, Who have but recently commenced the culture of sugar. I feel, of cource, much interest in the approaching Presidential e'ecfion, for the success of a good Whig, and Tariff man. My choice of all men, would be Mr. Clay if there is a probability of get ting him. If not, I shall be very much pleased to have Gen. Taylor, whom I know personally to be a good Whig and a Tariff man, as I recently had the pleasure of hearing him express his. views on this subject. I think, he is the only Whig that can get the vote of this State. Danville (Pa.,) Democrat. DISTRICT 1 Joseph G. GlarkMin, 2 John P. Weiherill, 8 James M. Davis, 4 Tims. W. Duffield, 5 Daniel 0. U inter, (i Joshua Dungan, 7 John D. Steele, 8 John Landis, 9 Joseph K. Smucker. 10 Charles Snyder 11 William G. Hurley, 12 Francis Tyler, 13 Henry Johnson, 14 William Colder, Sr. 15 (not filled) 16 Charles W. Fisher, 17 Andrew G. Curtin 18 Thos. R. Davidson, 19 Joseph Markle, 20 Daniel Agnew, 21 Andrew W Loomis, 22 Richard Irvin, 23 Thomas H. Sill, 24 Saml. A. Purviance Appointment by the Post Master General. Charles D. Brodhead, to be Post Master at Shafers's Post Office, Monroe county. Pa., in place of Daniel Brown, resigned. Fourth July. The Sons of Temperance and Sabbath School celebration, in Stroudsburg on Tuesday, passed off in excellent style. At the hour of 2 P. M. the Sons of Temperance Monro Division, No. 271, , with the Methodist Sabbalh School, met at the' . Methodist Church, where they formed irr proces . sion and marched through the principal streets iv Esquire Robeson's grove, on the banks of McMi chad's creek. Being seated the Choir sang Away the Bowl. The throne of grace was then invoked by the Rev. J. W. Mecaskey. After the " reading of the Declaration of Independence, by ' Doct. Mattison, and singing by the Chorr, the Rev. Mr. Mecaskey addressed the assembly upon' the subject of Temperance, in an appropriate man ner. The companny then partook of a supply of refreshments- which; had been furnished for the . occasion. Iflass Meeting; at Fort Harrison, Gen. Taylor's first battle-ground. The Taylor men of the West intend holding a Monster Mass Meeting shortly at Fort Harrison, in Indiana, Gen. Taylor's first battle-ground. The Indianopolis Journal, (which the Harrisburg Union says "gn.es against Taylor'') thus remarks : "All eyes are now turned on the scene of Gen. Taylor's earliest military history. That opens in 1812, at Fort Harrison, in our beloved Hoosier State, a spot hallowed in our history as the scene of the most daring courage ever displayed by man. Zachary Taylor, but a Captain then among the sun-browned, sturdy backwoodsmen of our wild frontier, was ordered to hold Fort Harrison, on the Wabash, in the vicinity of Terre Haute.. The Indiana territory was then but a vast wilderness, swarming with blood-thirsty savages. Fort Har rison was attacked by a horde of them, the buil dings fired, and with not more than ten or fifteen men to meet the crisis the screams of helpless women and children mingling with the yell of the savages what heart but that of Zachaty Taylor would not have quailed before death so appalling and seemingly so certain ! But his was the cour age to meet the crisis, however perilous. His was the heart to remain undaunted before, the de vouring flames, the whistling bullets, and exciting yells of enraged savages. His report of this scene to Gen. Harrison, though graphic in the extreme shows the unassuming qualities of his mind, which have so strikingly distinguished him since, in all trying emergencies Fort Harrison will become the rallying ground of the Whigs of Indiana in 1848, as Tippecanoe was in 1840. The names of Taylor and Harrison were associated in these brilliant exploits, shall they not be associated in the triumph of virtuous principles, and recorded in the line of Presidents of the United States T Ex-Governor Morehead has been' appointed TL S-. Senator from Kentucky, in place" of Mr. Crittenden. The National Intelligencer thinks the term nf the present session of Congress is in a fair way to extend itself into the month of August, jf not to-September. The battle of the Presi dency is likIy to occupy much- of the remain ing time. The first parcel of new wheat has reached the Baltimore market. On the 22d uli. the first lot of new wheat was received at Louisville; and sold for 65 cents, per bushel. A Caution to Housekeepers. A family iu Lancaster county, were, a few days .since, made very ill, by .eating of a sponge cake flavored too highly with " peach water." We beg our young housekeepers, to beware how they use ibis very agreeable and common- addition to' pies, confectionary,. &c, as it is but a mjld form of that deadly poison; Prussic acid. New Invention. A new engine of war has-been invented by X. Fitzgerald, of New York. It is a sectional can non composed of four aneffive-hundred thin plates, of' wrought iron riveted together in sections of sev emplates each, and the sections again screwd to1 gather on eight by twelve inch and a half bolts, six of which are visible at the muzzle, and the other six are countersunk. It is estimated to endure" a force of sixty thousand pounds to the square inch, . or that it is capable of throwing a leaden ball of seventeen pounds weight twelve miles in' perpen diqular height. And the aggregate force whichit is capable of sustaining, is supposed to- be about one million two thousand pounds. The length of tills new peace making invention, for- which a patent has been secured in Europe, as well as in this country, is seven and a half feet. The diam ,eterof bore 4 3-8 inches. It js soon to be tested' ;fjthe Navy. Yard, Philadelphia, unless, orders .should -be received to take it to West Point. ' 3 - .-. , -.-, , Canada goes for Cass. Gov. Cass has but a poor look for the Pres idency, so far as the American People are con cerned'. But he stands better in Canada, where his principles harmonize' with the' interests of her Majesty's subjects-: From the Cobourg Courier. The' result of the Presidential contest' will be of importance to-Canada ;: inasmuch as the Demo crats are free-traders ;; and the Whigs-monopolists. Trt' free trade matters,, reciprocity can be obtained from the Democrats ; but the Whigs will be for monopoly of the tariff together in favor of the manufacturer. In other wjrds, Whigs are in favor of protec ting America labor, while the Locofocos go for encourageing the British manufacturer, and hence John Bull very naturally prefers Cass to Taylor. ttioif and Stcl. To distinguish iron from steel by chimical pro cess, take pure nitric acid, dilute it with so much Water that it will only feebly act upon the blade of a' common table knife. If a drop of the acid thus diluted be suffered to fall upon steel, andlallowed tb remain upon it for a few minutes; and then wash ed off with water, it will leave behind a black spot. .But if a drop of acid be suffered to act upon iron in the same manner, the spot will not be black, but of a whitish grey color. The black stain is owing to the conversion of the carbon of the steel into' chrcoal, which thus becomes predominate, and iron being- nearly free from cabon, can produce on ly a grey stain. " The utility of this-test is not confined tc; finish ed articles manufactured of steel, but its applica tion enables the workmen n iron1 and steel to as certain also the quality and uniformity of texture of unfinished articles. Scientific American. New Spoke MACHiNE.Mr. Emmerson God dard, of Petersham, Mass, has in vented a new Spoke Machine;, which will turn and' tenon 20 spokes in a minute. All that is required is to place the wood on a bench, the large ends all one way. It is self-feeding and self-piling, leaving ihem when turned in a regular pile on one aide of the machine, opposite to the feeding side. The above number turned out per min ute, are 23 inches in lengih. Lasts and fork handles", can- be turned jn it with nearly the saqied.c.ilhy aspokes.. t , ' Scientific American. i Cass as Indian Agent. Correspondence of the Express. Washington, June-13. It will take some time and some labor to unbur den from the rubbish of the Public Documents, the facts connected with the administration and mal administration of Gen. Cass as an officer of the General Government. The Democratic nominee has grown rich upbn ihe sppils of office, doing nothing, we are -willing enough to believe, per sonally, and yet holding most unscrupulously to the creed that " to the victors belongs tj spoils of office. Gen. Cass was Governor of Michigan Territory from 1813 to i82l, and received a liberal salary as compensation in the discharge of his Guberna torial duties. His Idye of acquisition, and perse vering application however, secured for him an exjra compensation, nominally for Indian service; of fifteen hundred dollars a year additional, as a salary, and beybnd all this, ten rations a day, equal to $730 a, year, from the date of his appoint ment in 1812 to the end in 1821. .Here is an ex tra allowance of $2,230 per annum, for discharg ing duties incident to the office of Governor, which he held and for wnich he was liberally paid. All this, of course, was independent of his salary as Governor. On the- 30th of April, 1831, General Cass, after begging steadily for ten years, received $10,500 as extra compensation, and on the 13 th of No vember, 1839, $3,875 was allowed him as addi tional pay, the particulars of this case -may be found in document 212 354, Congress, 3d Ses sion, H. of R. In document 244, same Congress,-1 find the following-items under the h'dad of" allowances made to Governors of Territories, to cover expenses in curred on account of theSuperintendance of Indian Affairs, for office rent, clerk' hire, &c. Leiois Cass, Michigan, from Oct. 9, 1813, to May 29, 1822, 10 rations per day, at 20 cents each Lewis Cass, from Oct 9, 1813, to July 31, 1831; (extra salary at $1,500 per annum) $6,610 2fr,715 Total $33,325 All received as extra, compensation. -In a more important document, No. 6, 26th Con gress, I find the following items under the head of " extra allowances," and where Gen. Cass appears to have received, not as Governor of Michigan, but as additional pay while holding the office of Governor : Lewis Cass, for a per diem of $8 for 55' days' extra service as. Commissioner, at the Treaties of Greenville in 1814, and St. Mariy's in 1818, and concluding ar rangements with the Wyanddtts in 1817 and 1818 $440 Traveling expenses 260 Attendance and traveling aCFort Meigs,- 1817 200 Attendance and traveling at St. Marie, in' September and October, 1818 ' 600 Traveling and other expehses incident to the Saguenaw treaty, in 1816 240 Do. do. to the treaty Sault St Mary, 1820 336 Fiftydays extra service before and after the treaties 400 Commissioner at Chicago, 52 daysyat $8 per day, 1821 416 Mileage for do: $8 for every 20 miles- 218 Attendance at the seat of Government, 1826, for settlement of his own-accounts 1,480 For treating with Indians- at Wapaghko-j netta in 1815, and allowances 256 Same kind of service, same year, at Prai rie du Chien. and carrying the'treaty to Washington , ' 3,092 Similar servicefl826, in Indianna, in Sep tember and October ; 552 Similar sen-ice, 1826, at Fond: du Lac, 3: months 1,360 Similar Service,' 1827, atButtades Morte, June, July and August ' 960 Similar Service, 1828,-at Green-Bay,-July and August ' " 1,112 Similar service, 1827, at St. Soseph;for September , 240 Service and expense's at seat of Govern- ment, days, 1829 , 1,520 Fxtra pay for services at Piqua, Ohio, for Wayne and Chicago, 1822 to 1828, 10,500 Extra pay fgr services at Piqua , Ohio, for Wayne and Chicago, 1829, 1830 and part of 1831 3-875 Total $27,087 This is tripple pay for actual service, and dupli cate extra pay to the amount of sixty thousand FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS ! There were other benefits than this received. During the time1 that Gen. Cass was Governor of the Michigan Territory he received "his regular salary, always liberal even mqnificent for the amount of service performed. Nor was this all for the position of Gov. Cass enabled him to be come rich and a speculator in the public domain, and he located his lots almost in the heart of the present great City of Detroit. The Government has made him rich, and in a manner, it would seem, not always in accordance with principles of strict equity, and many will doubt even if it really be strictly just ft. B. By ihe late treaiy, the claims of our citizens against the Mexican government,- which have been pendingfor many years, hae been as sumed by the government of the United States. re amount i to tfie RWjzhborhood of ns 'of dollar. ?r t ne enu six millions QeJaivare Water-Gap. , . Correspondence of the Tribune. Delaware Water-Gap, June 27. To those who leave the City for the purpose of- enjoying a visit to the country, there is' scarcely any place contiguous to New-York or Phila delphia that will compare with the Delaware Water Gap. It is true there are places of more fashion able resort, and where the -amusements that are common to the City can be obtained. But a per son going to the country should divest himself the City leave its sports and its follies behind, and come' prepared to enjoy the country as it is unal loyed and free. The scenery at this place is nowhere to be sur passed wild, grand and magnificent beyound de scription ; striking the beholder with a feeling of awe and admiration, and leaving upon the mind an impression that will never -be effaced. It is not to be wondered that the Red man lingered long upbn the banks of the beloved "Mackuiskis kan," (Delaware) that he wept when he viewed from the hights of the Kittatinng, the approach of the white man from the South, to desecrate the ground vvherethe Great Spirit was seen in the mighty structure He had formed; where their coun cil fires burned in the day of their pride, and where their kindred slept in the sepulchred home, beside their early fathers. There is much in the vicinity of the Water-Gap to designate it as the recent abode of thef native Indians. There is a tradition that these moun tains we're their most valuable hunting grounds that the Deer being pursued by dogs in the neigh- JJj3 A ratification meeting was recently held in'New-Orleans, at which Hon. Stephen A. Doughless, U. S. Senator from lllinoii, madua speech which is thus spoken of in the Delta : " Mr. Doughlass, while avowing his deter mination to lend his most cordial support to the nomination, said that each of ihe distinguished individuals selecled for the support of the De mocracy was his own first choice. - The gen tleman also declared himself opposed to th8 Wilmot Proviso, and said that he would voto for no man who was not determinedly and un qualifiedly hostile to that measure. If a north em man should be the Whijj candidal for the presidency, there would be no danger to south, ern institutions ; but if he should be a southern man, beware ; for a northern man can get no southern support unless he avows his senti ments distinctly upon the subject ; but from a southern man no pledge would tbe demanded from the south, and the southern states might therelbre find themselves deceived when per sonal ambition should be interested against them." The distinguished Dough-face receives a small part of his appropriate reward in the fol lowing " first-rate notice" of his great effort, for which we are indebted to Horrace Greely " If some of life flesh-mongers don't black that fellow's face and sell him to a cane-grower before he can get away, he will not have justice done him. He is every atom slav.e ex cept ihe outermost .-km, and, once japanned, could make nobody believe he had ever been allowed to go at large without a pass. And, bv Singular Accident. A lad about twelve years of age,- son of Mr. John Thompson, a farmer residing in Cheltenham Townsip, Montgomery County, while milking a cow on Monday morning last, to avoid the annoy ance caused by the.switching of .her tail, tied it around his leg. The animal soon afterwards be came alarmed and run away, dragging the boy after her. As she progressed, leaping fences and ditches, she became more and more furious, until completely enhausted, the friends of the lad were enabled to disengage him. His injuries were se vere, and he is in such an apparent lifeless condi tion, that his recovery was considered doubtful. Novel Invention. An ingenious Yankee has invented a machine which is destined to come into universal use. It consists of the attachment of a cheap simple, and durable alarm to a lock of almost any description, so arranged as not to interfere in any' respect with the action of the lock, and so connected with the bolt, that the latter cannot be withdrawn, or even the attempt made without giving an alarm, at once distinct and sufficient to awaken any person in the vicinity, and which may be distinctly heard at the distance of 20 or 25 rods. The Pine Distemper. The Mobile Herald says that the disease which is destroying the pine forests of the Carolinas has made its appearance in Baldwin Co. It exhibits some singular phenomena. Occasionally it proceeds in a straight line, de stroying not only the full grown trees, but the small shoots just springing up. Then again it goes into circles, leaving trees in the interme diate spaces sound and vigorous. The trees die just as though ihey had been girdled. The leaves wither and fall off and the trunk soon runs to decay. Our informant does not attrib ute the cause of this strange distemper to worms. The only worm seen about it is the common one peculiar to the pine tree. His impression is that the cause is entirely an atmospheric one, and that no remedy can be found for it. Vegetable, like animal life, appears to be the subject of epidemics, and doubtless this disease is of that nature. In all probability it will sweep through the entire pine region of the United States. From the Western Plains. A gentleman who lately arrived at St. Louis from the Plains reports ihe war spirit very pre valent among the Indian tribes. The Paw nees principally seem to have incurred the dis pleasure of their fellow-savages. Capt. Van vleet, of the QuartermasieVs Department, who left Fort Chile, a new post on the Platle river, on the 5th, reports having fallen in with several hostile parties. Col. Powell had effected a treaty with the Pawnees, by which they had ceded to the Uni ted Stales Grand Island, a highly important point, on which Fort Chiles stands. It is ihe only good locating for a; miiiuiry post for ssve- nuuarea mites. ra for Cass and against free soil a thousand miles away. Shall there never be a check on such abuses V boring forests would flee to the summit of the j , he way, he is now'drawino $8 a day from th mountain, and there fall a prey to the deadly ar- national treasury fur imaginary services at row, or bound from the lofty precipice and fall life-1 Washington, while he is in fact electioneering less at its rugged base The place of their burial is a few miles from the Gap, up the Delaware, where may be seen many interesting relics of that mucfynjoured race, whose history is buried in so much obscurity. There is much to please and interest in the Water Gap, and few there are I should venture to say, that visit it, but leave with reluctance. The gentlemanly deportment of the propriefor, (Mr. Brodhead,) and his unceasing .efforts in, ad ding to' your comfort and amusement, endears him to all who are capable of appreciating the good they receive. The perfect cleanliness and order of the interior arrangement of the house,? together with the kind attentions of the' lady, and last, (though not least,) the extreme superiority of the viands and pastry, makes it altogether one of the most desirable spots to spend the warm season I have ever found. Hudson. C5ot the Atlvaastagc. The Pittsburg American says A Locofoco desppndingly remarked to us the other day, " You Taylor men have a great advantage over us. You can talk and sing of your banks of Palo Alto, de Reseca, Monterey, and Buena Vista, of which your candidate is the hem, and we have nothing wherewith to answer but the surrender of Hull. Praise from an opponent. At ihe Utica Convention, composed of disaf fected democrats, which assembled in Februa ry last, the following resolution was reported by a committee, of which the celebrated Barn burner, John Van Buren, was a member. It was -dnanimoiFy adopted. . Resolved, that Gen. Zachary Tat'or by his masterly correspondence with the War De partment, no leas than by his heroic conduct and rudomiiabie coolnes's and courage oh' ihe field of battle, has -shown himself to he not only a distinguished military chieftain, but a man of great menial and moral, power, and whose life has given evidence of a strong head, an hon'est heart, and d republican: simplicity of character." Cffecls of the Tariff of 1846. The manufacture of railroad iron is suspen ded in New England. Englih iron can be de livered in this couritrj' at twenty dollars per ton, including duty, freight and all oiher charges. It connot be made in this country for less than seventy dollars per ion. One of the Boston pa pers says, contracts for railroad iron, delivered in Boston, duty and all charges paid, can be made in England, at Twenty Dollars per ton a price which effectually closes the Rolling Mills in New England. The mill at Wareham, in that State, having furnished that made upon contracts, stopped last week, and those upon ihe Mill Dam, and at South Boston, must slop when their old contracts are fulfilled. Nothing short of $70 per ton will pay the manufacturer of railroad iron, in this country, and many declare $75 to leave but lit tle profit. The Siamese Twins, for the last eight or ten years residing on a farm in North Carolina,, purpose to make another tour of. the Southern and Western States thetcom.ming Fall, for ex-, hibition. They will start from home in Octo ber. They have wives and three children each a fact which has given the husbands addiiionol interest, and go where they may, es pecially'ir their wives accompany them, we predict more crowded houses than ever before. Distinguished Foreigners. . The Salem Regisler chronicles the following arrival, which has created quite a furor among the showmen of New York to secure the pri zes : The brig Allen, Capt. Williams, which arrived at this pori on Friday, from ihe west coast of Africa, brought home an enormous Boa Constrictor and a female Ourang Outang. The Boa is twenty eight feet in lengih, and during the passage produced, in a .single night, sixty eggs, the aggregate weight of which was forty eight pounds .'Some of them -were very large, and have been preserved as curio-i-ties. The Ourang Outang was brought to tho Coast from the interior, and is one of the finest, specimens ever imported into this country. A merchnnt advertising goods for sal, gives, notice that he will take in payment aJLkin"d.o country produce except promises. Valuable Emlffraflit It is said ihat a number' of old Amsterdam merchants are making preparations to emigrate to this country. They belong to ih-st das whose fortunes were made in in the East In dia trade, and who had money stored away in, their cellars for 2&ar 30 yea,rs
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