"', I'll ' -"'" '"' ' JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, May 3, 1849. Tompcraiscc KiCCtnre. -aDocT. J. SILVARIi of While Haven, Luzerne county, Pa.,, will deliver a lecmre upon the above Subject, at the Court House, in the Borough of Stroudsburg, on Monday evening, the 21st inst., to commence at 7 o'clock. The public generally are respectfully invited to attend. Virginia Election. The returns, though very incomplete, show enough 'to satisfy the Locoforos that it will do to f.rnw. No changes in the Congressional delega tion are certain, except in the Richmond district. where. Butts is defeated by an independent Whig candidate running. The ftew Revenue Bill. The Harnsburg "Keystone," gives ihe fol lowing brief synopsis of an act passed at the last session, entitled "An act to create a sink ing fund and to provide for the gradual and certain extinguishment of the public debt." It appropriate, and sets apart, all iho reve nue from the collateral inheritance tax, and the per centage on bank, railroad, mining and im provement company charters, together with the revenues derived from the other new objects of taxation embraced in the bill, as a sinking lund to be applied, by the commissioners of that lund, to the purchase ol the btate debt at "its market price "u ,It imposes a specific tax, or rather requires certain um: to be paid for licences for distil leries, breweries billiard rooms, bowling sa loons, ten pin alleys, theatrical and menagerie exhibitions It increases the taxes on brokers, and extends the laws relative to brokers lo 'hose of real estate and merchandize. It also imposes a tax, or requires a license fee from the keepers of all bear houses, eating houses, Te.staurants, and oyster sellars, who sell above five hundred dollars, ranging from five dollars to two hundred dollars. The mercantile ap praisers are to classify and fix the rate of pay ment. It also irrTposes a lax, or requires a license fee frmn all manufacturers, venders, agents or other persons, ("except regular apothecaries, fur ihe sale of simple medicines, the prescriptions uf physicians, and the compounds of the phsr macopia, and ihe several' dispensatories of the United States.) engaged in the manufacture or sale of any nostrum, medical compounds, or patent medicines, whether pills, powders, mix tures, or in any other form whatsoever, ranging from fire to fifty dollars, and those who make sales to an amount over two thousand dollars, to pay a certain pertcentage on the excess over thai sum The Tragedy of Nations. There is War in almost every quarter of Eu-1 rope. In Italy the Austrian's have destroyed ! 'Brescia, the blood of her inhabitants staining the rums of their churches and their homes. Genoa ,has been bombarded for twenty-four hours by the Biedmontese troopsfor revolt and Republicanism. Jn Spain the old quarrel has resulted in a new battle, with its horrors of dead and wounded, and no great principle to shed lustre on the gloom. "Denmark is defeated by Germany, and defeated where she has hitherto been the" victor on the sea. In Hungary the Austrians- are more deci- dedly losers than ever. Thirteen hundfedrof their dead strew a single field ; Puchner lias fled to Russian protection in Wallachia, and Bern is mas ter of Transylvania. The King of Prussia refuses the German Crown, and all there is uncertainly. France still plays the part of a spectator, her Gov ernment making her false abroad, while by. at tempts to suppress Thought, 'shackle the Press and gag Speech at home, they make ready the new Revolution. , Thus in doubt, struggle, suffering unspeakable, ..dies the Old Order that the New may rise from its .ashes. Terrible, incomprehensible is the process, but let us believe that the result' will be? worth the5 pain. Tribune.- Mr. J. -H. Leith, a miller in Rochester N. Y. 'ground in 24 hdurs'-b'y one run of stones, 200 bar rels of flour. v Speakings oat in Church. A young lady of this city who is engaged and .;will shortly be united-to a-gallant son of Neptune, visited the Mariner's Church on Sunday last: . .During the sermon.'the pastOrdiscoursed eloquent ly and with much earnestness of manner on the trials, dangers and temptations of the profes sion of a sailor : he concluded y asking the following question ? "Is there one who thinks ' anything of him who wears a tarpaulin hat, a TWue jacket, or' a ipdir of trowsers made of duck in short, is there any one who cares ought for the poor sailor 1" A little girl, a sjster of .this young g iady? who was .silting by ,herj immediately jumped HP- tndlopking archly at hersi.ster,, said, in a tone ylojod. enough for every one lo hear.' "Yes? Sir; jjci.. uuco ; mo auaierice were cuuvuisen "awith laughter; the minister bit his lips, arid con- feicludcd the -services by -requesting the cohgrega , ion to unite wilhiKihiMh-pra'vcrPiiy Tribunes General Taylor's Pledge. fairly interpreted, says the National Intelli gencer, what does the pledge " not to be the Pres ident of at party" mean ! It means simply that one will not be what General Jackson was venge fully, violently, tyrannically ; what Mr. Van Bu hen was more mildly, but not less decidedly; what Mr. Polk was, "with a singular mixture of cruel ty to one side and of perfidy to the other: it means that, one will not, as the Executive Chief of the Nation, direct the public powers often for that purpose stretched to the utmost lengths of usur pation towards measures having for their end not-the general good, but the advantage of party and of persons alone; and, as the administrative trusts or emoluments, confer them with a system atic view, not to metit, competency, and the pub lic service; but as the reward and the instigation of unscrupulous partisanship. In the most liber al sense that can be given to it, the pledge of Gen Taylor means a patriotic, not a party policy, and, as to offices and other personal benefits, some thing like fairness in their distribution. It does not mean, therefore, a statu quo, unless a statu quo ante bellum ; for certainly there would be no fairness, as between parties, in leaving things as they stand, and thus perpetuating the almost ex clusive possession of public employments by the " Spoils" men. Mere equal justice for the mo ment would require that the Whigs should be re lieved from their long proscription, and the Dem ocrats curtailed of their long and almost exclusive possession of all the places and .profits in the gift of the Federal Government. Nor, indeed, would it, as to mere justice, as unfit that the past should be considered as well as the future, and by way of starting fair again,- that nearly all the offices of the country should be given for twenty years lo the Whigs, as during the last twenty years to Prescriptionists-. We are not arguing for any such vindictive justice, of course ; for none can be more averse than we are to meting out to the wrong-doers their own wicked measures : but rigid justice, stern and high, would nevertheless warrant such dealing, and warrant it even on the part of a Chief Magistrate pledged to weigh out even-handed right to both-sides alike. It would, in fact, be only proscribing proscription. The " pledges of Gen. Taylor," then, are in no manner violated by any thing which his Ad ministration has done, or is likely to do, in regard to removals. But that is not all : not only was (as every body knows no such serise' as that now pretended attached by the people to Gen. Tay lor's .declarations, but' both they who voted for him and those who voted against him looked for any thing but the conduct which the Democratic press now affects to have expected at his hands. His supporters certainly hoped in him, and his oppo nents as certainly dreaded, a man whose integri ty, patriotism, and unwavering fidelity to- public duty vrtJiilri" bring about a large civil reform in this Government; which reformat was wellknown, must include not only a more elevated, beneficent conservative policy, but the correction of many great abuses, and of course, important changes as to the persons conducting the public business. Many of these were considered as thoroughly af filiated with the badr corrupt, destructive system and organization of Locofocoism, with which the good people of the land, the steadier, quieter sort, that love sober law and honest, respectable, God- fearing rulers, were entirely disgusted. In mean- ing to shake it off, they knew well enough that they must shake off with it a large body of its de voted agents, instruments and minions of power, its habitual and determined confederates, as much bent on perverting all the subordinate functions of the Goverment as their masters on mis-employing the superior ones. This is a plain state of facts, known to every body, and which it is idle quite a waste of time, words, and character to deny. The people of the United States had, during the last four years, got a hearty surfeit of Mr. Polk and Locofocoism of such a man as their Presi dent, and of those who brought him in of such measures and of the unscrupulous faction that supported them ; and, being thus bent on having done with the matters, the country had, of course, little idea of keeping the worse of the men. Nor, indeed, did these themselves cherish any such ex pectation : they knew perfectly well that Gener al Taylor would not want such people as they were, nor the peculiar, sort of services for which alone they were fit; and hence they did their un most, every mother's son of them, to ward off his election. The Hollow Horn. We .find in an exchange paper the following .cure for this disease : Indigo made fine, and put in the hollow of the head, close behind the horns, by cutting a small place through the sk'in, say half an inch long, and causing it to mix with the blood, is said to be a certain cure. Poke root' washed and rolled in salt, given to the cow to eat' three or four times a week, is another cure. Two pieces of the root about two inches each' in length at a time will do. If the' cow will not eat it, which is sometimes the case, boll it down to gei tile strength, and give it in slop well salted. Pore Sentiment. The maiden wept, and l; said,v" why- weepest thou maiden" She an swered not, neither did she speak, but' sobbed exceedingly ; and again I said, "maiden why Aveenest thou?" Still she continued wppninir- nnA - .t.:.i t i voice said, my voice and maiden Why weepest thou V and she answered and sai I what s that in yu ) mine! .your own bustneas:' - . , t The Wew Militia Law. The law passed at the late sessionof, the:. Leg islature, makes it the, duty of every citizen hereto fore subject to be enrolled. -to provide himself with a uniforn and become a member of a Volun teer Company. Three Companies of not less than thirty, rank and file, shall form a Battalion. The Companies shall meet for training and di- oinlinn nt'lpnt twice a vear. and the .battalions and Regiments at least once. The enrollment duties are thrown upon the Assessors, who are to enroll all persons between the ages of twenty-one and forty five years,- and all who are not enrolled and uniformed as aforesaid shall be subject to a tax of fifty cents per year, to be entered by the County Commissioners on the Duplicate, and col lected as other taxes are collected All citizens who were enlisted or volunteers in the late war with Mexico, are exempt from militia duty, ex cept in time of actual watv The amount of fines received by the County Commissioners shall form a Militia Fund. Out of this fund the County Commissioners shall pay annually fifty dollars to the Treasurer of each Volunteer Company of not less than, thirty, rank and file, formed under this act, and seventy-five dollars when the number of the Company is not less than fifty, which money shall be appropriated to the payment of current expenses of the Company. The expenses of the Brigade Inspectors are also to be paid by the Commissioners out of this fund, and the balance, if any, is to be transmitted to the State Treasurer, to be appropriated to the pay ment of the State debt, after deducting from it the pay of the Adjutant General and expenses of those Brigades in which the amount of fines col lected is insufficient for that purpose. Company officers shall be elected every five years, on the third Monday of August. The Brig adier General and Brigade Inspector shall be elected every five years on the first Monday in June. A service of five years in any Volunteer Com pany exempts from further military duty, except in lime of war, &c. Each County forms a separate, Brigade, except the City and County of Philadelphia, which 'shall form three Brigades. The Divisions are as follows : Section 18. That the first division city and county, of Philadelphia. Second Bucks and Lancaster. . . Fourth York and Adams- Fifth Dauphin, Lebanon and Berks. Sixth Schuylkill, Carbon and Monroe. Seventh Northampton Pike and Lehigh. Eighth Northumberland and Union. Ninth Columbia, Luzerne and Wyoming. Tenth Susquehanna and Wayne. Eleventh Sullivan; Bradford and Tioga.- Fourteenth! Juniata, Mifflin, Centre, Hunting don, and Clearfield. Fifteenth Cumberland, Perry and Franklin. Sixteenth Bedford, Somerset, Cambria and Blair, Seventeenth Westmoreland, Fayette, Wash ington and Green. Eighteenth Alleghany, Armstrong, Indianna and Jefferson. Nineteenth Beayer, Butler, Mercer and Law rence. Twentieth Crawford, Erie, Venango and War ren. People of a moderate Fortune. If you are about to furnish a house, do not spend all your money, be it much or little. Do not let the beauty of this thing, and the cheapness of that tempt you to buy unnecessary articles. Dr. Franklin's maxim was a wise one " Nothing is cheap which you do not want." Buy merely what is absolutely necessary,- and let experience of your wants and your means dic tate what shall be afterwards obtained. If you spend all at first, you will find you have bought many things you do not want, and omitted many you do want. Begin cautiously. A3 riches in crease, increase in hospitality and splendor : After all, these things are vjewed in their pro per light by the judicious and respectable. Neat ness, taste fulness and good sense, may be shown in the management of a small household, and the arrangement of a little furniture, as well as upon a large scale. The consideration gained- by liv ing beyond oneTs income is not actually worth the trouble it costs. The glare there is about such false, wicked parade, is deceptive ; it does not. in fact, procure valuable friends or extensive influ ence. More than that, it is wrong, morally wrong, so far as the individual is concerned : and injuri ous beyond calculation to the interests four coun try. To what are the increasing beggary and dis couraged erertions of the present day owing! A multitude of causes-no doubt tend to increase the evils, but the root of the whole matter is the extravagance of all classes of people ! We never shall be prosperous till w'e have suf ficient moral courage to make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence. We .never shall be- free" from embarrassment till we cease to be ashamed of industry and economy. Let women . aid the reformation. Let their hus bands and' fathers, see them happy without finery; and if their friends have, as isf often the case, a foolish pride in seeing them docorated, let them silently and gradually check thfs feeling, by show ing that they have better means of commanding respect Let the exercise of ingenuity, ecomomy, and neatness, pfrove that good taste and gentility are aitainauie witnout great sxpense.iifjr, L. Lackawanna Coal and liigctl's Gap Railroad. The N. Y. Tribune says : Amorig the many branches running into the New York -and Erie Railroad, none are likely to be more important than that known as the Ligett's Gap Railroad, ex tending from the great Coal Basin of the Lacka wana to the New York and Erie Railroad, at Great Bend, a distance of about forty miles. The Char ter for this Road was obtained from the Stale of Pennsylvania, about the same time that the Del aware and Hudson Canal Company obtained theirs; but could not be made available until the Erie Road was completed to Bingharnton, as in reach ing that place the Road passes into Pennsylvania at the Great Bend, and approaches nearerthe coal field than at any other point on the route. The route is, beyond1 doubt, the best thatcan be obtained. The grades are remarkably favora ble for the transportation of Coal, the summit be ing reached in five to six miles from the valley of the Lackawana, at about 45 feet to the mile. From thence to the Great Bend there is no as cending grade over 18 feet, while 20 to 30 miles will be descending about 25 feet to the mile. This enterprise has been taken hold of by some of our most wealthy and enterprising citizens, with a view of supplying the great demand for Goal in the interior of our State. The salt-works at Se lina alone will require at least 50,000 tons a year. The Company have secured 1,000 acres of the finest Coal lands in the Lackawana Valley, on which the Coal is now handsomely opened, ready for a commencement ; and those at all acquainted with the" different Anthracite Coal deposits of Pennsylvania, are well aware that Coal can be mined and delivered into cars in the Lackawanna Valley at a less cost than in any other Coal de posits It is understood that the proprietors of the Lack awanna iron Works have offered to furnish the iron and chains for the entire road, and receive a large portion of the stock in payment thereof; and other parties have offered to furnish all the cars required for transporting coal and take one half pay in stock. Every one at all conversant with ihe want's and requirements of the State of New York, the great Lakes and the Canadas, for this indispensible ar ticle of fuel, cannot fail to see at a' glance the im portance of at once opening this avenue for the outlet of Anthracite Coal. With this road made and connected' with the New York and Erie Railroad, coal can be dis tributed over the whole of Western New" York and the Canadas ; the road would be without a rival, because it is the most feasible, and forms the most direct, and natural connection with rail roads and Canals in New York ; and a market' at fair prices would be found for all the coal that can be transported on the road. A Family Travelling in Wheelbar rows. A strange scene was exhrbited in Cincinnati a few days ago, being nothing less than a family consisting of father and mother and. six children. The Chronicle states that they had traveled all the way from Laporte county, la., in three wheel barrows, intending to reach Pennsylvania, from which State they had emigrated three years ago. Their blankets, wearing apparel, and some few utensils used in preparing and distributing food among the family, were in one barrow, and the younger children were stowed away in the others, the father and the elder boys taking turns in wheeling them along. Interesting Iecision In tlie Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster coun ty, a few days since, quite an interesting question was decided by-Judge Lewis. The case was that of John Axer vs. the Franklin Beneficial Society, the plaintiff having been deprived of membership - i - i . . i , . in consequence oi naving serveu in tne iate war with Mexico, one of the by-laws providing that no member should enlist as a soldier. 'The plain tiff being expelled under this provision, brought suu againsi me society, t ne uourt neiq that the by-law which deprived of membership " any mem ber who should enlist as a soldier,1' did not extend to a member who united himself with a volunteer company organized under a $late laiu, although that company, upon the call of the President for voluneters, under the act of Congress of 13th May, 1846, voluntarily entered the service of the United States, and served for the period of twelve months in the war with Mexico. There was a material dif ference in the estimation of military men, in com mon parlance, and in the acts of Congress, be tween soldiers, and volunteers between enlisting in the regular army and entering ttie service as part of the volunteer force of a State without such enlistment. The. Court therefore awarded a per emptory mandamus to restore the relator to his rights. A clergyman, on a hot, drowsy, summer dav, found, on concluding a long discourse, that ha'lf his congregation were just waking from sleep, qui etly said : My friends, this sermon cost me a good deal of labor; you don't seem to have paid much attention to it; I think 1 will go over it again." And go over it he did, from text to exhor tation. The Crops. The Hanover (Pa.) Spectator says : It gives us pleasure to state that the crops in the beautiful country around us are in excellent condition, and that prospects are very encourag ing of a fine and plentiful harvest this year again, Accounts from other parts are equally pleasant. The Rockville (Md.) Journal says: The weather is fine. Wheat looks splendid. Farmers are busy getting then oats In, and pre paring for com. We anticipate plenty to eat and some to spare this year. TofF5 The Sn?W "J lhe CatsI'll mountains, on the 19th was two feet deep. ; A wag purchased a very fine horse. Retnr. ning from a ride a few days afterwards, he said adrl.d I fif,y dollars ,o $ yalue.-Vc atm constable l ' tj ?T5?' Highly Important from Canada. The Revolution Commenced Burning 0f(fts .Parliament House Arrest for High Treason ' We have startling intelligence from Canada Afairs have reached a crisis much sunttftr ihari we had anticipated. The cloud that has been gathering blackness and terror, has burnt wj vengeance at last. The tocsin has been soun. ded ; the fury of the populace has broke lnn,e and the sword and ihe faggot must now their work. It appears that the Governer, Lord Eljiin, at a late hour on Wednesday lat, weni down to the Legislative Council and gave In, sanction to a large number of hills, and nmnno others, to the bill indemnifying the rebels for loses sustained in 1 847. Upon this being made known to the mob outside, the Governor on entering his carriage was pelted with stone ro'ten eggs, dirt, &c , amidst a shower uf whtcj the Vice Royal Cortage drove off. In a feff' hours the excitement in the city became un. controllable, and by seven o'clock printed n0. tices of a mass meeting to be immediately he.j in the Camp de Mars were issued. Perm were commissioned to alarm the people hy driving through the streets in calaches wn, large bills. The fire bells were al-io hrought into execution. At 8 o'clock, a crowd of400g persons or more assembled, and after stron resolutions had been passed, the cry was raisej "to the Parliament buildings !" The enrad multitude immediately rushed at a run throat the htreets, and by 9 o'clock the firt stone jr'ai thrown through a wijidow into the mirier ofths Legislature Assembly, at the time in f ,e,. sion. A constant shower was kept up into ihe windows till every jbing was smashed. n the meantime the members asembld in ifo lobby, when a band of iwenty-hve of the lead, ers of the mob r.tished into the chambers, and one having placed himself in the Speaker' Chair, announced, " Gentleman, the French Parliament is dissolved." They hen Mred wilh the mace lo present it to Sjr Allen lcaS, at Douiiegaua's Hotel. The cry of fire a, now raised, and it was soon fount that the Par. liaineut Houses was in flames in a hundred ph. ces. The fire spread with great rapidity, aJ in half an hour the buildings were one sheetof flame. The mob had now augmented ton least 7,000 persons, and the burning bmldinm wore surveyed with the most stoical difference on the part of the spectators. At first the fir?, men refused tcrplay, and only attempted to save the buildings close by Everything has hfen lost all the archives and records of the Con nies for several hundred years. Not S 103 worth of property has been saved. The mt.j. tary were called out and were received wu loud cheers on the part of the mob, which & nally dispersed, but so threatening as the as pect of affairs, that during the night miliary guards were placed in all the houe of the minister's. Sir Allan McNab, the Hun. tt Badgely, and G. B. Turner, q., one of tb editors of the Montreal Courier, were cut 05. of the Parliament House with axes, while the fire was raying. Soon after the outbreak! message was sent to Monkland, the Gover nor's residence, a mile or two from the ttr, and the Governor and family immediately ta.r.e into the town. A council was held during th night, and one hundred and forty-eight war rants for arrest issued, among whom it is mo tioned are the names of Messrs. MoutuoiucT, Mack, Howard, and F. Smith. The excitement on Thursday was, if 3nj thing, greater than on the previous nigh". Meetings were held, and the population of a." classes determined to stand by the acts of the night. The St. Andrew's Society met in ih morning, and expelled Lord Elgin as paironof ihe society. The military and a largely la- creased police force strove in vain lo dt?pen? the throngs of people in various pans of ib city, and despite iheir efforts, when it u known that Montgomery, Mack, He ward, Fer ris, and other leading conservatives were arret ted, and ordered to be committed after a short examination, a multitude of some three or four thousand accompanied them 10 prison, araii-'i continued deafening cheers, escorted as thej were by a strong military guard. The whole military force of the city was under arms, ani a memorial had been got upr 10 Sir Benj IM bar praying to order the troops to remain 11 quarter, and to leave the people to settle the:' own affars. During the day the rioters resold on another meeting in ihe Camp do Mars at 2 o'clock on Friday, and Hon Geo. Moffait," selected as chairman, which becoming knoJ he was immediately arrested on the charge high treson, and confined in the jail, whichs was feared would be burned that nishi. 'fl' French citizens were enrolling themsele a body guard to protect Lord Elsm, and patches had been sent by telegraph to the 1? per rrovmces, for such military furce as con be spared. Thus matters stood up to Thursdij nignt. lo us. this roRnlt Cr Into Kaninninn suit, though startling and sudden, is not str prising, and it is moreover an earnest of t future, which proud and haughty as she England cannot overlook. Bui as mauer !ir at present upon the Continent of Ewroj". : in Asia, it is not easy to fore.tel what th" f' of these things will be. With all htr vf sessions, England at this momeni tremble' the future. The catch word of "Liberty" Rounded by almost every tongue upon ibt? flC of the globe, and republics are rising here'1. ihere from the ruins of dilapidated thrones i crumbling kingdoms, as if by magtc. is ready 10 strike whenever the iron her adversary is released India is strug? against the myrmidena of British power, - France stands eager to revenge herself jump. into the breach as soon as it shall opf Canada is too well aware of all lb' forego ihe opportunity so lone bought, , 'which in now presanicd. The p?9 of b? i'
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