I, 1,. The whole art of Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson.. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA.; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1849. No. 30 VOL 0. fttf ' - lnv TIiPOfloi'G SdSOCll. X'uui'"1-" ..- -m-o dollars per annum in advance Tw o dollars TERM-' ' 1 ' if vcarly-and if not paid before Die cmtot and a q"-'"--',... nnd a mif. Those who receive llieir 1W ycajL irrr or slaec drivers employed by the propnc- r lyaP; -riSerysub Alibcmld.scoimtmudctoyearly sggleucrs addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. - J&Ii PRINTING. ,t .r,ncenenil assortment of large, elegant, plain andoma B menial Type, we arc prepared to execute every description of Cud Circulars, Bill Meads, Jfolcs, Blank Receipts JUSTICES, JjECjAIj AINU Ul iliMt BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. ' r-rintcJ with neatness and despatch.on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE .Tcffersouian Republican. SHERIFF'S SALE Bv virtue of a writ of levari facias issued out ofihfi Court of Common Pleas of Monroe coun ir, Penn'a, to me directed, I will expose to; Public sale at the public house of Abraham Ghh. in Dmotsbnrg, on Thursday the 22d day of February nex' at 2 o'clock, p. m , the following described properly, to wit: All those two certain tracts. p:eces "or parcels of land situate in Smithfield township, in the county of Monroe, aforesaid, hounded and described as follows, to wit: One of them beginning at a stone on ihe bank of the River Delaware at the corner of land of Ed ward Lowery, thence by the same north sixty cioht degrees, west forty perches to a stone, (outh six'y-one degrees, wet forty-four perch es to a stone, south forty-live degrees, west one hundred and nine perches to a white oak, a corner of Ulrich Honser's land, thence north right degrees, west one hundred and sixty perches to a black oak, a corner of Aaron De poy's land, thence by the same north forty-six perches to a white oak, thence north sixty de grees, east fifty-eight perches to a filone, south fjiir degrees, eas't fourteen perches to a stone on the south side of Cherry creek, thence south six'y-one degrees and a quarter, east one hun dred fifty-four perches and a half to a black walnut on the bank of the River Delaware, tbunce down the same River The several cour ses thereof to the beginning. And the other adjoining the above described tract, beginning p.t an Elm tree, a corner of William Allen's old iraci standing on the side of the said Cherry Creek, and from thence along the south bank of the ?aid Creeir the several courses thereof to the mouth of the said Creek to a corner of the .aid William Allen's land, and land of John 1 Smith, and thence along the said William Al- i Itns laud to the Elm tree, aforesaid, the place of beginning, which said two described tracts tire estimated lo contain C7 i TWO HUNBKEB ACRES more or less, together' with the hereditaments an.l appertenances. Ihe improvements thereon are a two story Frame Dvreil ins Eotie J8 feet by 22 feet; a Frame Barn 30 ,by 40 feet with stone stabling under neath; a Frame Stable 14 feet by 16; a Wagon House and an old Frame Dwelling House one nd half stories high, 14 feet by 27 feet. About !00 acres of the above is tillable land. Seized and taken in execution as the properly of Ferdinand Dulot and terre tenants, and to be sold by me. PETER KEMMERER, oherifT's Office, Stroudsbure. Sheriff. January 25, 1849. SHERIFFS SALE. T3y virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe coun ')'. Penn'a to me directed, 1 will expose to pnb I'c sale at the public house of Jacob Knecht, m me Borough of Siroudsburg, on Thursday the 22d day of Febuary it 10 o'clock, a. m. the following described p'operty, io wit : A certain messuage, tene ment and tiact of land situate in the township i lloss, in the county of Monroe, containing 240 Acres of Iand, ttireor less, bounded by lands of David Heim ln, Henry Christman and others; about one "ftidred acres of said land is cleared, three Erresof the same is good meadow, the remain Ler is good timberland. Tha improvements 'hereon are one LOG BARN and WAGON WUSE attached thereto; one Stone House o stories high, Spring .house and J'"ne kiln, and a large Apple Orchard, and '"tar fruit trees. Seized and taken in execution as the prpp en)' of Joseph Christman, and to he sold by me. PETER KEMMERER, griff's Office, Siroudsburg, ?. , Sheriff: ceoruary l.l.S49u ''mhbH& papcr . -harmed 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. 'V' Ji'iSdisconUnued until all arrearages arc paid, except flife ?!? Sceedins one square (sixteen lines) SHERIFF'S SALE; I3y virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out oft ho Court of Common Pleas of Monroe coun ty, Penn'a, to me directed, I will expose to pub lic sale at the public house of Jacob Knecht, in the Borough of Siroudsburg, on Thursday the 22d day of Feluary at 10 o'clock, a. at. the following described property to wit: A certain tract or piece of land Mtiia'te in Coolbaugh township, Monroe county, Pa., containing about jfortr-Eight Acres, be the same more or less, about Four acres of which are cleared land, two of which are pood meadow; and bounded by lands of Abraham Yet ter and others. The improvements on which are two liOg Dwelling Houses, one Stable, and other out buildings. Seized and taken in execution as the prop erty of Frederick Bush and John Gearhart, and to bo sold bv me. . PETER KEMMERER, Sheriff's Office, Siroudsburg, Sheriff. February 1, 1849. SHERIFFS SALE. By virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe coun ty, Penn'a, to me directed, I "will expose to public sale at the public house of Jacob Knecht, in the Boro'ugh of Strqndsburg, on Thursday the 22d day ofFehuary at 10 o'clock, a. m. the following dsscribed property, lo w11: A certain tract of land situate in Middle Smithfield township, Monroe coun ty, containing 145 ACRES;, more or less, 75 acres of which is cleared land, attd fifteen acres of the same meadow, adjoin ing lands of John Hoffman, James Place Jacob Fenickal and others. The improvements there on are One ILog Mouse, One JjOS Barn and an Orchard. Seized and taken in execution as the prop erty or Philip Noach, and to be sold by me. PETER KEMMERER, Sheriff's Office, Siroudsburg, ) Sheriff. Febuary 1, 1849. $ PROCLAMATION. Whereas the Hon. Luther Kidder, Presi dent Judge of the 21st Judicial district of Penn sylvania, composed of the counties of Schuyl kill, Carbon and Monroe, and Moses W. Cool baugh and John Merwine, Esq's., Associate Judges of ihe Court of Common Pleas of the county of Monroe, and by virtue of their offices, Justices of the Court of Oyer and Terrminer and General Jaii delivery, and Court of Gener al quarter Sessions in and for the said county 05 Monroe, nave issued tneir precept to me commanding that a . Court of Quarter Sessions I t of the Peace and Common Pleas, and General J,ail Delivery and Orphans' Court, for the said County of Monroe, to be holden at Stroudsburg, on Monday, the 26th day of February next, to continue two weeks if nece'ssary. NOTICE Is therefore, hereby given to the Coroner, the Justices of the Peace, and Constables of the said County of Monroe, that they be then and ihere ready with their rolls, records, inqui sitions, examinations and other rememb'rances to do those things which to their offices are ap pertaining, and also that those wrro are bound by recognizances to prosecute antf give evi dence against the prisonors that are or shall be in the jail of said County of Monroe, or a gainst the peraons who stand charge'dwith the commission of offences, to be then and there to -prosecute or testify as shall be just. PETER KEMMERER, Sheriii Sheriff's Office, ) Siroudsburg, January 25, 1849. y (God save the Commonwealth.) REGISTER'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to all legatees and other persons interested in the estate pf the re spective decendents and minors, that the admin istration accounts of the following estates have been filled in the office of the Register of Mon roe county, and will be preserved for confirma tion ahd allowance to the Orphan's Court, to be held at S'roudsburg, in and for the aforesaid county,' da Monday the 26lh day of Febuary next, 10 o'clock a. m. The final account of George Buskirk, sur viving Executor of the last will and testament of Conrad Fisher, late of Stroud township, de ceased. Tho first and" final account of John Huston and Peter Snyder, Executors of the lad will and testament of Eunice Partridge, late of Hamilton township, deceased. The account of Jacob H. Borger a'nd George Nagle, Administrators of the Estate of Henry rv Borger, late of Ross fo'wriship, deceased. ' The account of Andrew Storm, Administra tor of the estate of Peter Serfass, lato of Chcs nuthill township, deceased. - SAMUEL REES, J r.,-.Register. (RVgisterVOffice, Siroudsburg, )" -'January 25, 1849. ' , v Prom the New York Tribune. Wages and Profits in Manufacto riesSocial Anarchy. (, The fact that many, if not most Manufacturing Establishments throughout the country have re cently reduced thet Rates of Wages paid to their Workers is attracting, as it should attract, gener al attention. Let us consider it. That the prices of our Domestic Manufactures generally are lower and the difficulty of selling them greater than formerly, certainly( iieeds no demonstration. The Price Currents, the official statements of importations, furnish abundant proof of the fact." That iron-masters, for example, can not afford to pay wages when their product is dull at $40 per ton which they could very well afford when the same article was quick at $60, surely needs no intrinsic proof. And if former prices were somehow maintained as quotations, yet the home made fabrics were elhovve'd and jostled in our markets by rival Foreign products, so as to render sales slow and difficult which formerly were prompt and easy, that would operate as disadvan tagebusly as a reduction of prices. A man em ploying a capital of $100,000 in making Cotton Sheetings, fur instance, and able to sell every yard at a net profit of one mill as soon as it reach es the market, can live and often thrive, when by selling the same goods at five limes that profit but being obliged to wait a year for a market, he would' be ruined. An eager market, small profits and quick returns are the elements of a healthy and prosperous business. But our markets are now glutted vilh foreign fabrics ; sales are slowly and with difficulty ef fected; our warehouses are docked with unsold products ; many factories are slacking off their work ; some have stopped entirely, and a few are already in the keeping of the Sheriff. All the manufacturing establishments in the country could to-day be bought for cost, and, but for the hope of a National policy affecting them, could be bought jor a greai aeai less, in mis state oi intngs with heavy stocks of their produts on hand and unsaleable, with scanty or no dividends on the last year's business,' their books often showing heavy losses instead, many of them have resorted to the expedient of reducing the Wages of Labor. This is in precise accordance with the theories of Political Economy which for some years have prevailed in this country. All along it has been proclaimed (see Buchanan's speech in 1840)' that th'e great'obstacle to Manufacturing success and stability here was the inflation of our Currency and Prices that the one way to protect andj maintain our Manufactures was by reducing the j money cost of the elements of Production, so that ! they might compete with their European rivals in all the open markets of the world. Thus (says Mr. Buchanan) if a piece of German cloth costs $50, vhile a like piece of American costs but $100, the only way to give the American maker a fair chance is to reduce the cost of making the article here to $50, and then he may defy compe tibn. Of course, the partisans of this theory sel dom say, in so many words, "You must reduce the Wages of Labor," but they can't mean any thing else. To reduce the cost of a piece of A merican cloth from S100 to $50 you must reduce the cost of the Wool, the Carding, Spinning, Weaving, Dyeing, &c. There rio other way. Shutting out foreign competition wiU'often reduce prices by securing to our producers an ample and quick" market instead of a partial and dull one; but to this the free traders are averse. They could not have failed to see throughout that the adoption of their theories involved a serious re duction of the Wages of Labor. But the moment that reduction becomes imper ative and begins to be effected, they set up a gen eral hov1 at the iniquity and repacity of those on whom is imposed the necessity of effecting1 it ! They feign indignation at those on whom they have cast the burthen of carrying thi3 feature, this essential result, of their policy into effect. Read ing their journals or listening to their speeches, you would suppose that they had always opposed and resisted the policy which renders this reduc tion inevitable. . To make this necessity manifest, only the sim plest exercise, of honesty and common sense is requisite! Over in England, separated from us but by a ferry of eleven or twelve days, theje are thousands engaged in making cloth's, which riper experience, larger capitals, lower rates of interest, more extensive and the'reforo more economical establishments, and in the average superior ma chinery to those at the command of our manu facturers. The cost of whisking o'ver fabrics is scarcely worth mentioning; Now. abolish, as near ly as may be, the duties'and our' thirty, twenty five and twenty per cent, advarloems, comes very near' this especially iii view of the thirty per cent, duty on Hemp and the coarse Foreign Wool from which a large portion of our coaiser fabrics are inanufacluredand how is it possible that Amer ican Wages should remain7 as. they liave been, -fronTfortft'o one 'hundred per cent; higher tlian those paid for similar services in England 1 We cannot see how any candid man can fail to per ceive that our Duties must go up or our Wages come down. , We speak here of the general result, not as suming to decide whether any particular reduc tion at any given time was or was not imperative. We see what must be without presuming to de cide when or just how far it must be. But there is fundamental assumption underlying all this dis cussion of the Reduction of Wages, especially by those, who would use it to make capital for Loco Focoism, which we wish now to consider. A company have subscribed capital, erected a factory, stocked it and set down to work, and have perhaps done middling well for years. At length they are not doing well, and decide they must get their work done cheaper or stop going. Now we recognize fully the right of the Hired workers to combine and resolve, " We will have so much for out labor or we won't give it." It is their right to do so, and so long as they don't interfere with the right of others to work or not as they please, any ten, hundred, thousand or million, have aright to make such a compact arid live up to it. But the employers also have rights, and among them that of saying howjnuch they can pay and where they must stop. (We speak here to Employing Classes; we do not admit the moral right of one or of a few to screw down wages below the gen eral rates paid all around them.) But we see newspapers which must know bet ter, arguing iu this fashion : The manufacturers have made money at some time ; therefore they ought to pay as high wages as they have done, even though they run their works at a loss. All this, by the way is in its best aspect, directly in trie teeth of the Free Trade theory, which as sumes that whenever money cannot be made by employing men in a given way, it is proved that fa morQ adyantageouslv employed at something elge and t0 be dismi:ssed to seek such employment. We cannot realize that any more obligation rests on proprietors to run their works at a loss, even though they have formerly made good dividends'. But do the gentlemen who are voluble in bar rooms and eloquent in journals on the fight and wrongs of labor in factories even begin to prac tice on the principles they present to others ? Suppose one of them has realized $10,000 by printing a newspaper, (and the same in any other department of enterprize)' how long will he con tinue that paper after it has become a hopelessly losing concern, in order to insure good wages to the printers emyloyed ihereonf Follow the man who has just declaimed so el oquently on the oppression of Factory Workers home to his dwelling, and see if he hires labor, domestic or other, on any better principles than that of paying the market price for it ; what it will fetch. Where is the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant, who pays fifteen dollars a month, for labor that he could hire for twelve ? Are not the very teachers of our children, male and female, in non-manufacturing sections of the country, paid less for that most responsible service than the average earnings of those employed in the Fac tories Who are there, outside of the Factories, who make abstract Justice and Fitness, instead of Interest and Necessity, the rule of their bar gaining 1 Now if there be a movement in favor of a radical refoVm in the principles ofbuyinffand selling, of hiring and paying a movement to sup plant Necessity by Justice in the government of. these important relations we say amen to it, most heartily ; but we protest against applying a rule to a single class which nobody else is governed by. You, Mr. Orator at the laborers' indignation meeting, when you look , out to buy a dress of Merrimac or Fall River Prints, never think of ask-J ing or paying what the goods cosf the makers or merchant you ascertain what they can be bought for and, though that be ten per cent below the cost ofjiroduction you do not think of paying any more., Nay though, the maker were to tell you that he had supplied you cheaper for years than you could have bought but for his making, you will still say" What is that to me ? Trade is governed by the law of supply and demand you sell forjill you can got, while I buy as cheap as I can." We do believe a higher and better law will yet be accepted ; but, so long as this is the law for every body else, with what justice shall we seek to force another up'oti manufacturing com panies alone ? Method of Preventing Cold Feet at Bed time. Draw off your stockings just before un dressingv'and rub yourrankles and feet with your hand", as hard as you can bear the presiire, for five' Or ten minutes, ani you will neverhave to complain of cold feet' in bed. It is hardly conceivable what a pleasurable glow this" diffuses. Frequent washing, o'f the feet, and rubbing them thoroughly dry with cloth or flannel, is very use ful. . , Sullivan ami flyer. The great prize fight which wa3 to have ta , ken place, on Wednesday, 7ih inst., npar BhI ttmore, between Yankee Sullivan and Turn Hyer, for a purse of $10,000, has caused, noi: ' withstanding its barbarity, a wonderful excite ment in the public mind, and as we write, i o'clock, the streets are filled with an anxiou eagar crowd, awaiting the announcement of the result, while ma.ny rumors arc afloat in rela tion to. the matter, some announcing the arrtfst ' of Hyer, and others that the pm-tics had fought; and that Hyer had been proclaimed victor, af ter a contest of 48 minutes. The result will probably be known before this meets the eve of the reader, yet a brief account of the origin of the quarrel may not be unacceptable : Yankee Sullivan is an Irishman, known in New York as the keeper of a small porier-houe in Catham street. He has been lono famous as a pugilist, and was the second to Lilly,, .in the famous prize fight between Lilly and Mc Coy, which terminated in the dea-h of the lat ter. In England he fought with the celebra ted Champton of the Ring, as it is called, Ham mer Lane, and obtained ihe victory ; since, which time his name has been "up" as the. champion prize fighter of all Chrisiendcrn. Hyer is a stouter and stronger man than his antagonist, but is said not to possess his sci ence and skilL Ho is an American -a natiyo. of New York ; and this circumstaricc coupIeJ with the fact of Sullivan being an Irishman, tended not a little to foment the bitterness and. increase the excitement of this affair. Hyer weighs over 210 lbs, stands 6 feet high in )ri: stockings, and is a fine; strong, well-pcoponron-ed man. This gives him a decided advantage over Sulliran, who is a man of ordinary size, and not so remarkable for strength and stamina. This .fight originated in the following1. man ner. It seems that Tom Hyer had got it into his head that Sullivan was not quite so great a man as his friends believed him to be, and. felt confident that he, himself, deserved the ti'le of champion, more than Sullivan. A little jeal ousy between the two was thus crpated, and ir this state Of feeling they accidentally met one day, at a porter house in Broadway. Taunts and jeers between 'the two naturally arose, till Hyer, exasprated, and burning to try his pow ers, threw of his coat, and dared Sullivan, then arid there to battle. Sullivan, instantly "peeled," and they had a regular "set-to Hyer caught SulJivan by the head, held him by the neck firmly under his arm, and there kept him, thrash- i - . i i 1 1 f 1 1 it isn mm at ins leisure, nil ouuivan was oongeu to cry, "hold, enough." From this time, it wat. open war and hostility between the two, and' Sullivan and his friends burned with, desire ,fp'r revenge, and to vidicate the honor of their .fal len champion. In this irritated stale of fee hi ig, they met again by accident, in one of the flash houses with which New York abounds, and and another "set-to" instantly followed an im mense row .was kicked up, and Tom Hyer a gain gave Sullivan a licking, precisely in tho same way as before, getting his head under his arm, and then battering the poor champion at his leisure. After this, several belligerent cards were published by the parties a bitter warfare of words was carried on in the public papers, until the present fight, for a stake of ten thou sand dollars, was arranged between them by their several friends. Iljer, the Pugilist This person for some days previous to the' fight which was to have taken place, on Wed nesday, 7h inst., near Baltimore, had been m "training" near Goranstown Md. He com menced by walking ten miles per day, with wejghts, which ho regularly increased one mile each ay, so that on the day before" the fight, he was to walk twenty-three miles. He also practised daily by striking at a suspended bag of sand, weighing 160 lbs., which he caused to throw a somerset by one blow from his power ful fist. Ho also used some black chemical substance to harden the flesh on his hands, so that they are as rough and hard as a nutmeg gra ter. He also had two negroes to daily bathe him from head to foot in whiskey, and rub him with coarse brushes. He was daily provided with a large number of raw eggs, and in short underwent the training of the ring in all its va ieties. Parson Itlurray. The first Ilniversalist preacher in Boston, and perhaps in ihe United States, was the Rev. Jolm Murray ; and he was at first regarded with a kfntl of hoi ror, as if he were scarcely human;. (Uq day passing along the street, he encountered a woman procuring a pitcher of water at the street pump, and feeling thirsty, he solicited the favor of a draught. This was readily accorded ; and on handing him. the pitcher the woman perceived who the gentleman was. " You are Mr. Murray, sir, I believe." " Yes, madam." " Pray sir, give me leave to ask you one question. " Certainly, with all my heart.5' " Do you really and sincerely be lieve, Mr. Murray, that every body will be saved!;" Applying the pitcher to his lips, and thoroughly quenched his thirst, he politely returned v; hnvl then slowly , and deliberately replied--" Madam, if God is willing, and you have no objection I .think they will." Tost. 3 5 srr tern, pii
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