JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, February 8, 1849. U. S. Senators. On Thursday a week, the Legislature of Kentucky, elected Henry Clay.U. 5. Senator, for six yeais from the 4th of March next. K3 The Whig members of the New York Le gislature met in Caucus on Thursday evening last and agreed to support Hon. William Seward for United States Senator. The election was to have taken place on the 6th inst. ttj3 It is reported that New Orleans is entirely clear of the cholera. So are most of the places it has visited on the western rivers. It is hoped that the country will be in a great measure exempt from its ravages. OC?3" Gold!" remains an all. absorbing topic, and scores of, vessels and thousands of adventur ers are weekly starting for the soon to-be-peopled land. A number of young men of the Borough of Easlon left that place for California a few days since. Their names are : John F. Bachman, Fredrick Randall, Samuel Carey, Charles Kinsey, Chas. Lawall, and Arthur and Garrison Kessler. fX53 The Philadelphia Money Market is com paratively easy. The Banks discount most of the first class paper that is offered, while out of doors the rates range from nine to twelve per cent. The transactions are few, as this is the dull sea son of the year. Iiife Insurance. The importance of Life Insurance is every day i - r . i ?r . 1 uecoming more raanuesi, ana 11 any argument or inducement were needed to convince people of the importance, nay the duly, of securing the comfort of their families when their own life is over, we should think it would be found in the repeated instances of sudden death, by which the most useful, active and promising persons are struck down in the midst of their career, leaving deso late hearts to the barrenness of a world's charity. Insurances can be made with Wm. Davis, Esq., in Stroudsburg. Patent Safety Bridle. Mr. Henry Seitz, of Marietta, Lancaster coun ty. Pa., says a Lancaster paper, is the inventor of a very ingenious Bridle for which letters patent were recently granted, whereby it is impossible for the most spirited horse to kick or run-away, and perfectly safe for a lady to drive or ride. The principle on which it is constructed is to hold the horse by the application of a pulley around which the reins are made to pass at the side of the horse's mouth, which enables the rider to exert a great deal of lever power to control the mouth of the an imal, to check him at any moment. Mysteries of Mesmerism. The Holiday sburgh Register states that while Mr. and Mrs. Loomis, and ' Miss Martha," were giving exhibitions of Mesmerism in that village, one Dr. C. J. Sykes appeared, laying claim to Miss Martha as his wife. Both parents and girl, it ap pears, resisted the claim, which resulted in a ha beas corpus, a two days' investigation, and a dis charge. The evidence disclosed many of the mys leries of magnetism, and a sad picture of connu bial felicity. California Gold Grease. A Yankee down East has invented this specific lor the use of gold hunters. The operator is to grease himself well, lay down on the top of a hill, and then roll to the bottom. Tbe gold and "noth ing else" will stick to him. Price, $94 per box. Rev. J. P. Hecht, for many years a resident of Easton, Pastor of St. John's Lutheran congrega tion, died on the 31st ult. He was distinguised for his learning and eloquence. Poisonous Pheasants. New York a gentleman came near losing his from, eating a poisonous pheasant. Such cases have frequently happened be fore, in various places, and are recorded in the professional books ; and the cause is perfectly well known. Pheasants are liable to become poisonous when the ground where they feed has been covered for a time with snow, un such occasions they resort to the ber riesfHtemnion laurel, or ivy-bush (Kalmia Lalifolia) which is a noxious plant, (sheep often die from browsing it,) and without killinfi the pheasant, imparts a poisonous quality to its flesh, only found in it on such occasions. (KpIt is believed that more than 2,000,000 dozen of eggs have been sent from Maine to Bos ton this season, and have been sold for something like 6300,000. X)ne of the most curious of investments about to be made in California, for New York, in a hotel. .A building has been prepared, complete in all its parts, and shipped on board a vessel bound to .San Francisco. It will accomodate two hundred ipersons when finished. All its fui niture goes with 'it. beds and bedding, camels, and the comnW 'fixtures of a first-rate hotel. " The entire cost of this venture is $70,000. A gentleman of high worth and much experience goes, out in charge of it.- - life State Treasurer. The county officers and citizens of the State generally, says the Democratic Unionx seem to have forgotlon that a law was passed last year, providing that the State Treasurer shall enter upon his duties on the first Monday of May, in each year. G ideon J. Ball, Esq , the State Treas urer elect, is daily receiving official letters, which should be directed to Arnold Piumer, State Treas urer until the first Monday of May next. KF Cabinet-Making, generally is in a very dis jointed state at Washington. There never was more done yet less accomplished than has been in this line so far. Not one place, from highest to lowest, i3 yet filled beyond reversal. The spec ulations on the subject are generally those of office-seekers nosing about to learn to whom to pay court as the probable dispensers of the Spoils and are of very little account. Mr. Crittenden will be in, unless he peremptorily declines ; Mr. Clayton probably ditto ; Mr. Truman Smith can be if he chooses to say the word ; Mr. Caleb B. Smith stands a fair chance of being called to the Post-Office. All beyond is uncertain and some of this. A single factory in Worcester, Mass. has sold $80,000 worth of revolving pistols since the gold fever broke out. A Project It is stated in the New York Courier that appli cation will be made to the New York Legislature, to charter a company with a capital of 300,000, to convey the Saratoga water from its native spring to Nfiw York city in glass tubes, cased in brick. The cost is estimated at $1,000 a mile or $180, 000 in the whole. y Cholera Statistics. The whole number of cases which have occurred y&t the Quarantine, since the arrival of the New- Yorh, have been one hundred and two of which fifty-two died and fifty were discharged cured. Of these, fifty-nine cases occurred among the pas sengers of the New-York, and twenty-nine of that number died. Of the old inmates of the Hospital, forty-three were taken sick and twenty-two have died. A Verdict against Cupid. A coroner's jury having sat upon the body of a young lady who had hung herself in a fit of love frenzy, brought in this verdict : " Died by the vis tation of Cupid." A man, apparently about forty years of age, was stricken with paralysis in Harrisburg last Sep tember and being a stranger, was conveyed to the Dauphin County Almshouse. Since then he has so far recovered as to be able to state that he has a wife and family in Philadelphia, but cannot give any particulars. Perpetual Motion. A German watchmaker, of Madison, Ga , named Charles W. Richter, announces, that he has hit upon the grand arcanum. The Augusta Senti nel describes his machine as " a wheel, and six inches in diameter, which sets itself in motion and runs with increased velocity, until stopped by the application of external power. What it Costs. The standing army of Pennsylvania to wit : our gallant malitia cost us, last year, according to the report of Adjutant-General Irwin, over the amount of fines received for the non-performance of military duty, of more than $20,000 ! The Adjutant-General also shows, that for the past eighten years, the expenses of this imposing army ovdr the revenue, has averaged $25,000 per an num, or altogether about $440,000 ! This amazes us nearly half a million of money thrown away, and nearly half a million more extorted from our citizens to sustain this rascally system ! No wonder the Adjutant-General recommends the to tal abolishment of the system, and a moderate support of the volunteers. This is the true policy and will no doubt .be universally sanctioned ex cept by Brigade Inspectors and militia "ossifers." Germanlown Telegraph. Wellington's opinion of Gen. Scott. The London correspondent of the New-York Morning Star says : " I was lately in a company, at a fashionable party, at the west end of the town, when the subject of the American army, in con nection with Mexico, was broached ; and I can assure you that ample justice was. done American prowess. It was asserted by a leading member of Government, that the Duke of Wellington thought General Scott the greatest military genious of the day, and the Duke, it is well known, is anything but a flatterer." The Public Domaiu. Our Government owns the richest, most exten sive, and diversified public domain on the globe, and if it be rightly used, an immense amount pf good may result from it. According to the re port of the Commissioner of the General Land office it appears that the public lands contain, as near as can be estimated, 1442,217,197 acres, one and a half acres of land for every man, woman, and child on the face of the earth. Every hour a man is in debt, is a year spent in slavery. Your creditor is your master ; it matters not whether a kind or severe one, the sense of ob ligation you incur, saps the feeling of manly inde pendence, which is the first charm of youth : and it is always through .the rents in moral feeling, that our happiness oozes out the most effectually Dangerous Counterfeit. We have been requested to publish the fol lowing accurate description of a dangerous counterfeit, of the denomination of $5, on the Bank of Penn township, and which has been circulating pretty freely in Milton, from Thomp son's Counterfeit Detector. The notes are so skilfully executed, and so well calculated to deceive, that one of the bills, we are informed, was taken for genuine at the counter of the Northumberland Bank, but was shortly after wards detected. The following is the descrip tion of the counterfeits : 5's imitation of genuine surrounding the border on the right end, are the words five dol lars 5 five dollars,' in very small print in the genuine the inside line reads from the bot tom and the outside line from the top ; while in the counterfeit both of the lines read from the top of the note. The smoke-pipe of the loco motive between the President and Cashierjs name is under the letter ' a' in Philadelphia in the genuine the smoke-pipe is under the let ter 1 ' and before the a in the same word." Sinking Fund. Mr. Evans, of Chester, has introduced a bill into the Legislature of this State, abolishing militia trainings, and creating a Sinking Fund, .by which, according to his calculation, the State debt would be liquidated in the course of 55 years. This strikes us as worthy of consider ation. Any law which provides for the pay ment of the enormous debt under which we are laboring, should be acted upon at once. It is suggested in this Bill to abolish Militia train ings, and in its stead a tax of 50 cents should be levied upon all who are subject to the Mili tia law. This tax in the course of a year would amount to $60,000, and would be the first item towards creating a sinking fund. The second item provided for is, that no discount shall be allowed for the prompt payment of taxes and uiges prompt payment without discount. It allows to the tax collector 2 por cent, instead of 5, for the collection of taxes. By not al lowing discount for the prompt payment of tax es, a sum of $41,000 would be realized. And by reducing the per centage from 5 to 2 per cent, an additional saving would be effected, forming a fund of upwards of $150,000 annu ally. This fund is to be invested the first year 'in the purchase of State Loans, which are to be cancelled ; but the interest upon the loans cancelled is to be added to the fund raised the following year, and be applied to the purchase of loans, which shall in a similar manner be cancelled ; and so on from year to year, the fund raised as aforesaid, together with the in terest upon all the loans so cancelled, shall be invested in State loans. Should this plan be adhered to yearly, and the amount of interest paid, it is thought this plan will effect a liqui dation of the State debt in 55 years. Miners' Journal. Pennsylvania Common School System. The annual report of the Superintendent, T. Haines, for the past year, shows 7,845 schools in the State, and 363,605 scholars, besides 6,931 learning German. Average number in each school 44. Average salaries of male teach ers per month $17 37 cents for female teach ers per month $10 65 cents. Cost of teaching each scholar 45 1-2 cents. 'Amount of tax lev ied $508,690. State appropriation $193,035. The Superintendent points out strongly the evils of having the schools kept open for the short average lime of less than five months a year, and recommends sundry improvements. Accident Driesbach bit by his Xvion. Yesterday morning, at the National Theatre, Herr Driesbach put a newly imported tiger in to the cage with the lion, lioness and leopards, and supposing the animal to be under sufficient subjection to secure him from all danger, left the cage under the care of the usual keeper. No sooner had he got out of sight than the lion made an attack upon the tigar, and in an instant both were clenched, and went at it " tooth and nail." They disputed every inch of room like well drilled generals. Driesbach ran to quell the fight, with spears and pieces of joist, and at last entered the cage. But his power over the beast was at an eBd. The lion seized him and threw him down, tore his scalp on his head, and bit him severely on his right arm, which bled profusely. He made his escape from the cage, with his clothes completely torn from his back. Medical aid was called, and from the last accounts we learn his wounds, though ex tremely painful, are not serious. It was for more than three hours afterwards that the lion was subdued, and rendered obedient to the keepers. Boston Mail, 1st. The latest form the California speculation has assumed is presented in the New York Courier. It says : ' A wealthy gentleman has taken a novel method of securing a share in the California gold. He effects insurance on the lives of those seized with the California fever, expecting that enough of them will die to make it a profitable operation. He has already invested several thousand dollars in premiums, and has procured policies upon a great number of lives. Kew Yorli and Erie Railroad. The Binghampton papers are filled with ac counts of the activity of their flourishing town since the Erie road was opened. The streets are thronged with teams and people, and all branches of trade were feeling the benefit of the opening of this new avenue to New York. The freight house at the depot is full of goods and produce, awaiting the departure of the cars. The trade which formerly went to Syracuse, from Cortland, Tompkins, Tioga and Madison counties, now to considerable extent goes to New York on the Erie road, it beliigThe cheap er route. Great Battle with the Indians. By a late arrival at New Orleans, highly impor tant news has been received from Yucatan. A great battle has been fought between 8,000 Indi ans on one side, and 500 American volunteers on the other. The Indians were driven back after a desperate struggle, and American valor was again triumphant. The American loss was severe; they had forty-three killed and a large number wound ed, many mortally, The Indian loss was supposed to be immense. The Indian town of Tillo was captured and burnt. The Americans were on the eve of marching toward Basalus, where a decisive battle was anticipated. The next news was looked for with much anxiety. Terrible Affliction -.Mr. Richard Mo sher, of Dutchess county, N. Y., has been con fined to his bed for twenty-five years, a victem to disease and intense suffering. During the first year of his attack, his knees were dislo cated and ossified, and subsequently other joints in his lower limbs were drawn asunder and ossified. Two years after these disastrous af flictions his painB became less acute, and being naturally industrious and ingenious, he com menced making shoes, whips, and such other articles as he could while lying in bed. He thus helped to maintain himself, and for eleven years he continued to work until his arms were dislocated and'became ossified. For the last eleven years he has been unable to help him self in the least. His jaws were set some years since, and his teeth have been broken out, that food might be placed in his mouth. The only joints which he is now able to move are the extreme of his index fingers and one or two joints of his toes. Tho Total amount of Teas exported to the United States from China, d uring the year end ing June 30, 1848, was 19,338,647 lbs. Since that time, in the month of July, August, Sep tember, and October, 1,900,821 lbs. The scenes which transpire on the departure of the Californlu vessels, (says the Boston Journal of Saturday,)are not devoid of interest, melancholy though it be. It requires not a little of that "sterner stuff" to stifle the feelings and keep back those tender emotions of the heart which spontaneously gush forth as those hardy adventurers steps on board the vessel, and, extending the hand for the last friendly grasp, pronounce those last words, good bye." Many an eye is bedimmed with tears, an many a heart (at least among those friends who re main) bleeds at the separation from those who, for years, and often from their cradles, have been the object of their affections and most ear nest love. Some of those who go out are promted only by a love of adventure a desire to see the world. A case came under our observation this morning, of a young man about seventeen years of age, from New Hampshire, who goes out in the the brig Mary Wilder. He is the son of rich parents, who have offered him every inducement to stay at home. His father has offered him ten thousand dollars if he will remain, and an aunt, who followed him to the wharf, offered him seven thousand more. But he preferred going. The tears flowed down the face of that kind aunt, as she left the wharf, after the brig had hauled off into the stream, and sorrowfully wended her way homewards! It is said that the young man is heir to about two hundred thousand dollars. An Interesting Incident. The delegation of Chippewa chiefs and war riors, says the National Intelligencer, were shown around the Capitol on Friday by their intelligent agent and interpreter, Major J. B. Martell. They frequently expressed their won der and admiration at the extent and grandeur of the building, and the splendid paintings strongly attracted their attention. From the Capitol they proceeded to the Statue of Wash ington, followed by a crowd of ladies and gen tlemen. They went up to the front of the stat ue and gazed at it for some minutes, with looks of deep interest depicted upon their painted fa ces ; then sitting down facing the statue, one of the chiefs, O-ska-ba-wiss, filled his splendid pipe of Peace and held it out towards the stat ue, saying : " My Great Father, we all shake hands with you ; we have travelled a long way through the great country that you acquired for your people by the aid of the Great Spirit. Your people have become very great our peo ple have become very small ; may the Great Spirit, who gave you success, now protect us and grant us the favor we ask of our Great Father who now fils the high place first occu pied by you." This simple supplicatory address was faith fully interpreted to the bystanders by Major Martell, who, in his gentlemanly manners, ap peared there, as he does every where, excee dingly well. An Important Law Case. The Judges of the Supreme Court of this State held a private consultation on Saturday week on the Schulkill Bank case, which was argued before them two or three weeks ago. No decision was pronounced on Saturday, but they notified the President of the Kentuckey Bank and others interested, that their decision will be against the Schuylkill Bank. This case, between the Bank of Kentucky and the Schuylkill Bank of Philadelphia, has been pending for the last ten years, and involves a million and a quarter of dollars. The cause of litigation grew out of the extensive frauds of Levis, the cashier of the Schuylkill Bank, and agent in the transfer of the Kentucky Bank. If tne dioision be as-above stated it sweeps off the oniiro property of the Shuylkili Bank. Go.Seward, it is said, fs writing the life of John Quincy Adarav. '"' ' , -t Philadelphia Market. Saturday 3 The market continues dull and inactive, Wl, only small sales of Flour at $5,12 1-2 a $5' barrel for common brands. Rye Flour is no inal at $3,12 1-2. Sales of 200 barrels aylvania Corn Meal at $2,75, and Brandy;5, at $2.87 1-2. Wheat is in limited '5: cents, itye is steady at bb a bS cents. Sim - 1 ell ja is aio uuii uv hvina iui wwumci II, and 3) for Pennsylvania. Whiskey is steady ai 2: cents per gallon in barrels, and 25c in hhds. ' tt T"V C 1 curious jJiscovERi .xv lew uaya $jnC some men wno were worning upon our $ttv i i. l l i -c dtoko a sione, in wmcn was a oeauwui nUr. a - .:.u i i . r' uunci. wnu auuitj eicjbii leavca. as nesn in. hj . o ----- . m v iuaiant& aim ao oji iu iuuk.ii as it iw wan (jj grown in a green house. How it came is a mystery to us. The stone had been inoj street lor twelve years. But ihe Hower was erl mm. n. fU Uently in tne stone wnen quarried. Ferhap had been from "time whereof the memorvrj man runneth not to the contrary aye f aught we know, it is an antediluvian fhwer u S. Young says, the flower resembles the III biscun species, but ihe leaf is more nearly ty rnso hut it nnt pvartlv like anv flnwpr n a . , j J HUVf ll native ot tnts country, nor inoeea like any.,! otic cultivated here." He adds, "it moi LaUI.. i i IiaI a in 1 1 r mtr . I n f . uaui gievv in a. wuio in mo iui.iv nucie 11 no? is, when the rock must have been earth it grew." Eaton Ohio) Register. OCARLET FEVER usually commences d kj nausea ana sicsness great mirst, neadad redness of the eyes, &c. In two or three dav pricking sensation is experienced, and an erupucj of a fiery redness begins to appear, fisrt on thefe and arms, and finally a uniform redness cottj the whole body. In cases of Scarlet Fever, Wright's Indian Ve; etable Pills should be taken every night on go-i to bed, in such doses as to produce copious en uations by the bowels. This course, if prouy followed up, will in a short time subdue the ntj violent attack of Scarlet Fever, at the same y the digestion will be improved, and the blood ca:j pletely punned. Beware of Sugar Coated Counterfeits. M member,that the original and only genuine IndiJ Vegetable Pills have the written signature of VJ liam Wright on the top Jabel of each box. t i y rr n.it... 1 ror saie oy vreorge n. muter, wno is me oil authorized agent for Stroudsburg ; see advertiJ ment for other agencies m another column. Office and general depot, 169 Race st. Phil'a. fi LICKENER'S SUGAR-COATED PURGl KJ TIVE PILLS. Come on all ye whoi abhorred physic that ye suffered all manner ; diseases rather than take it, and unite in erecy a testimonial 10 JLr. incsener, wno nas us; c . , . T I r VHI Hfl ;i Hill. WfllfTM Till iwsih riiif iini nn.rc . 1 : ll L - l t . i r r.--, . " t" I ...Lr.L . ? supar. ana wn cn. wunniii orimnfr or nansp.i .t ii hkk vimr svsihiii iis n m;ir ;i LiirnniHr in n . I . 1 1 . . .1. . T t rency. vve may cnnsien ncnener tne uraa IIT I . l"t -I r I Unsickener. May he live a thousand years, wb he is likely to do if he keeps himself under a protection of his own magnificent pills, m may add that Clickener's Sugar-coated Pills if the best general family medicine that has beJ ever introduced, for they have all the purifjJ advantages of physic, without any of those dnJ backs which make physic such an aversion A most people. For sale at the Republican Office, by T.ScM the only authorized agent for Stroudsburg. DIED, In Smithfield township, on the 1st inst , 31 George Ace, aged 89 years, 2 months and: days. In Stroud township, on the 2d inst., Mi Eliza Rockafeller, wife of Philip Rockafe!! aged about 35 years. Auditor's Notice. The subscriber appointed by the Orpb; Court of Pike county, to distribute the as!; of the estate of Benjamin Depue, late ot i: county of Pike, deceased, will attend to a duties of his appointment at the house of Ok H. Molt, in Milford, in the said county, oat eighth day of March next, at which time persons are required to present their cli against the said estate or be forever after 3 barred. HORACE L. WEST, Audita February 1, 1 849.-4 1. ORPHANS' COURT SALl By virtue of an alias order of the OiM Court of the County of Monroe, the folio Real Estate, formerly of Chas. G. Nebe, Pocono township, in said county, deceaHj Will be sold at nnhliR vpnri ii r at the nOfiifP . , i Jacob Knecht, in Stroudsburg, on j Thursday the 22d day of Febru(F next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, one! equal undivided moiety or half part of acerl Saw Mill and 7 Tracts of lm situate in Coolbaugh township, in said Mocj county, in the warrantee names of the foi inn nprenni In toil. 1 T 1 Oil 1 ... . -.iH uauiei onoemaKer, containing 4Uo i j lowance. Richard Shaw, Tobias Guiltner, Aaron Depue, Henry Biles, Peter Hagle, Nicholas Depue, 408 97 412 72 408 97 408 97 408 97 408 97 it These lands are heavily limbered wtthSl and Hemlock; the lobyhanna Creek, aE failing stream of water passes through thefti which is erected a good and substantial SAW MILL, in complete order. The Sullivan Road pJ iin;n u . . :i c m;ii. II miiiiii auuiu iwu nines oi iuo oawr nim- i whole will be sold together or in parcels"! sired. The terms and conditions will bu known at the lime and place of sale, by J. H STROUD, Administrate By the Court, M. H. DREHER, W January 25, 1849.--4t, ; - - ? zt & i,
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