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JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, July 6, ISIS-
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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. '
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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.
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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