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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'