The Jeffersonian from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 2

JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, June 7. 1849. We observe by the Easton papers of last week, that the Town Uouncilmen ot that place. have assessed a borough tax ot hall a cent on the dollar ol the vaiuauun vi laxaoie property. r.

Counterfeiters Arrested. Two individuals calling themselves Wm. Bas- hinder and Wm. Colbert, were arrested and com- mined at Haeerstown. a few davs since, upon the charge of passing counterfeit money.

In the bed of one, at a hotel, $780 of the spurious notes were found, mostly in 5's of the Harrisburg Bank, of Pennsylvania, letter dated March 4, 1815, and some of the North-western Bank ofVir- oinia, letter July 1817. Paper light, and engra- ving badly done in both cases. Newspapers in Europe are not as cheap as2in this country. The German dailies cost from $22 to $36 per annum. Elopement.

We codv the following from the Belvidere in- tilliecncer of Thursday last. An incident of unusually painful nature occurred in. Lower Ml. Bethel on Sunday last. It appears that an individual aged about 45 years, styling himself Dr.

Andrews, has been for some time travelling through this county and in the adjoin ing district of Pennsylvania, under the pretence of practising medicine. In the course of his travels, he forced himself into the family of a wealthy farmer in Lower Mt. Bethel, proposing to effect a cure of a son who was afflicted with a white swelling. The parent after much persuasion per- milled the quack to take the case in hand: but when the treatment had been fairly tried and found ineffectual, he reouested the emipiric to cease his visits. He refused to do so, until he received a for rf Otnn At- 1 liic true A ante A It TJr VnlVorl revenge, and to procure it, resolved upon kidnap- rinrr oniirinfr a vnnnfr rlaimhiAr of the.

farmer; and it was not long since he was baffled in an attempt of the same kind. On Sunday last, having laid his plans, and obtained the assistance of a number of confederates, he for the second time, seized her, wiihin a short distance of her father's Hwellincr. nlnceri her in rarrinire and left with so much rapidity for parts unknown, as to completely elude all pursuit. The parents, it need not be said, are plunged in the deepest grief at the incident and their anxiety is enhanced by the worst suspicions as to the moral character of the impostor. The next Apportionment.

It will be the duty of the next Legislature to apportion the State for Senators and Representatives, and this duty will render the session one of more than ordinary importance. The Whigs should therefore be active, and select their best men to represent them. They should Tesolve, moreover, to secure a clear majority in the lower House, as the best means of securing the State against another disgraceful gerrymander, to which, if, they have the power, the opposition will resort. There were in New York on Monday last, re ported twenty five new cases of Cholera and sine deaths. Herkimer county, New York, and adjacent counties, have been covered with myriads of pigeons.

The sportsmen have made great havoc among them. The New Orleans papers mention as a new danger from the overflow of water, the large num ber of snakes which have been brought into the streets from the swamps many of them of the most venomous kind. Two persons, a man and a boy, had been bitten while wading in the water, and died from the effects. The Illinois Locofocos are now putting forward John A. McClernand, for the vacant seat in the U.

S. Senate, abandoning both Breeze and Shields. Moving. A constant stream of drays and other vehicles, laden with household furniture, was yesterday to be observed coming from the inundated districts. Multitudes of persons have already deserted.

The population of the city will thus necessarily be crowded into a space much too small for jts accommodation. The result of this must be discomfort and inconvenience, at least. It may be much worse. Every one agrees that crowding a great number of persons into a small 2space, is productive of effects very deleterious to health. Such may be the case in the present instance, yet being forewarned we are forewarned, and therefore take active measures to avert an evil which our neglect would at least aggravate.

JV. 0. Crescent, May 23. The Legislature pf Rhode Island have ad journed after a session of four days. Here is a good example to follow.

We never heard that Khode Island was deficient in laws, one even at one.iime had a double sett two Legislatures, two and two Constitutions Suawberriea arc 2b els. a quart in Balti more green peas, 37 ds. a peck. Ripe cher-Vies arc abdmlanl in Norfolk, and have leachfld NcVYoik FRO in EUROPE. The National Intelligencer of Saturday last says the Telegraph announces the arrival at Hal ifax of the steamer Niagara, with a week's later news from Europe.

Up to the hour of putting this paper to press, however, we had received only the annexed despatch, giving a view of the Liverpoo markets on the 19th ultimo A belter feeling prevailed for grain' and flour. Baltimore and Philadelphia flour 23s. to 23s. 6d. best Ohio 24s.

Corn had further advanced; white 32s. to vellow 34s. to 36s. Der ouarter. Sales of American wheat at 5s 10d.

t0 7s. per Tnere was a eneral decline in all kinds nf nnV.es reperfin markets well sun. i ny.pi No improvement in commercial affairs; money plenty. Consols closed foi the week at 915-8 French three per cents, closed at 58fr. 80c; five per cents 88fr 95c.

The chief demand for Amer- lean securities was on urerman account. There was great complaint from the manufac tunng districts of the smallness ofprofit3 on goods sent away. A second despatch gives us a glimpse of the political news, as follows The election for members of the French Assem bly took place on the 13th. In Paris nine Social- ists and nineteen Moderates wete elected. The result in no other department had been ascertained.

M. Faucheke, the Minister of the Interior, had resigned, and it was supposed the other Ministers would shorlly follow suit- The French army had not entered Rome The Itallan question had been further discu ssed in the 'encn Assemoiy ana me ministry again oeieaiea bJ a majority ol It appears irom the debate that no instructions had been given Gen. Oudinot to enter Home. On the contrary, he was expect ed to remain at Civita Vecchia, to march to the city only in case of necessity. The French Government had written to London, St.

Petersburg, Berlin, and Venice, strongly de ploring the interference of Russia in Hungarian affairs and sayinfi that wil1 Put a st0P t0 il h7 diplomatic means and case oiiauure, will ap PlJ t0 the National Assembly for advice. The brave Hungarians are still victorious, and apparently defying the combined powers of Rus- sia and Austria. They are said to be within a ew days' march of Vienna, to which the Russian army is marching with the utmost speed. It is supposed a terrible battle will take place there. The Neapolitans had again been defeated.

Sicily is again in a state of insurrection The Danes have suffered another defeat, and it is supposed have accepted the mediation of Eng- land There has been renewed disturbances in vari ous parts of Germany. In Frankfort the revolu tionary movement is more and more decided. A Singular Request of a Ulan Con demned to be Hunc. Since the conviction of Conrad Vintner, for the murder of Mrs. Cooper, in Baltimore county, Ma ryland, and his confinement in his cell, awaiting the expiation of his crime upon the gallows, he passes most of his.

leisure time in performing on the accordeon. Fearing that all hope for the commutation of his punishment from the forfeiture of his life upon the gallows to the Penitentiary for life is in vain, he is composing a dirge which he asks permission to perform, on his way from his cell to the place of execution. A most singu lar request, truly, and one which will no doubt be readily complied with. TIi us is Life. If we die to-day, the sun will shine as brightly, and the birds sing as.

sweetly to-morrow. Busi ness will not be suspended for a moment, and the great mass will not bestow a thought to our mem ories. Is he dead will be the solemn inquiry of a few, as they pas3 to their pleasure or their work. But no one will miss us, except our im mediate connexions and in a short time they will forget us, and laugh as merrily as when, we sat beside them. Thus shall we 11, now active in life, pass away.

Our children crowd close behind us, and they will soon be gone. In a few years not a living being can say "I remember him." We lived in another age, and did business with those who have long since slumbered in the tomb. This is life. How rapidly it passes blessed are they who are held in everlasting remembrance. The Rush for Mincsota.

It is said that accommodations cannot be had at the hotels in St. Paul's at any price, so great is the rush of emigration. A gentleman who recent- ly returned, states that some of the strangers there have provided themselves with tents, being the best accommodations that can be procured at present men are doing their own cooking, and overseeing the household affairs. Board is $5 per week, whether you sleep on a bed or under a counter. Chicago Journal.

A Good One. A Correspondent of the New York 4t Spirit of the Times" relates the following Some years since, a Carolina lawyer, yet living, undertook to convince a Methodist preacher of some celebrity, that his manner of preaching, in threatening his auditors with damnation, was injudicious; and that arguments and exhortations of a milder character would be more successful. After listening patiently, the preacher replied "My friend! you are mistaken. Sin is a terrapin you may exhort, admonish, even kick him. and he will not move, but merely draw his head within his shell, and your iabor is lostbut place-a-cwflo" fire on hie back, and he Farther" Items from California.

The" New-York Tribune of the says From John Parrott, U. Consul at Mazatlin, who is now at the Astor House, we have obtained some interesting items of late California intelligence, in addition to those which he kindly furnished us yesterday. Mr. Parrott, we may re mark, is intimately acquainted with all parts California, and gives a more thorough and satis factory account of affairs than any one who has reached here since the discovery of the Gold Re gion. He informs us.

that the ruling idea of the coun try is the wealth so unexpectedly opened to it. Government is scarcely thought of all other in terests are swallowed up in this absorbing mania for gold. A Convention has been called to meet in August, for the purpose of effecting a political organization, but it will not be able to do much. There has been considerable complaint among the inhabitants that the laws of the United States have not yet been extended over them. They are however too strongly bent on digging to take the trouble of forming a Constitution of their own.

Gen. Smith is unsupported by any military force, and can do nothing at present. In the gold districts a tacit system of individual right has been agreed upon, and is preserved with the most honorable exactness. Each man who enters upon new ground has the privilege of mark ing out eight yards square and digging upon it so long as he chooses; his premises are never invaded. He is at liberty to dispose of his right either by sale or lease, or drop it entirely and try a new locality.

The sense of justice among the miners has thus far prevented all trouble or dispute. The moral effect of a general enrichment of the whole population, is worthy of notice. In the ab sence of all law except such as is administered by the Alcades, hundreds of persons have volun tarily discharged debts contracted many years ago, and which their creditors in many cases had given up as hopeless. A man who is industrious and temperate has no difficulty in obtaining credit to a large. amount.

The U. S. ship Ohio will proceed to Mazatlan shortly, that the crew may have their stipulated term of liberty out of the reach of temptation. It is nevertheless feared that a great part of them may succeed in escaping. Mr.

Parrott exhibited to us a number of interesting mineralogical specimens from California and Mexico. In addition to samples of gold from the wet and dry diggings, he brought a piece of coal from the surface of the bed just discovered on the coast, between Monterey and San Luis Obispo. It is of bituminous character, and is found in great abundance. It was tried in a blast furnace on board the Ohio and proved to be of very good quality. We also had a sight of a genuine ruby, picked up in the diggings.

It is the first one found of a pale crimson color, and about the size of a pea cut in half. Mr. Parrott intends to have it cut and set in a ring of California gold. He also brought with him specimens of cinnabar, the ore of quicksilver, containing 50 per cent, of the metal and some very fine samples of silver ore from 30 to 75 per cent. Some of these were imbedded in prismatic feldspar, in crystals of an amethyst tint.

Among other curiosities we noticed an ear of corn from the -Sierra Nevada, 9,000 feet above the sea. It was about four inches long but the grains were upward of an inch in length. This corn is said to yield remarkable crops, and its cultivation in this country is worth a trial. Mr. Parrott considers the introduction of Sla very into California as an impossibility, from the nature of the case.

The inhabitants are all strongly opposed to it, and no man taking slaves with him would be able to keep them long. He is of the opinion that the territory must of necessity be come a free State, with or without the action of Congress. Tobacco and Mortality. At a meeting of the Academie des Sciences, a paper was brought forward by M. Carbonnel, upon the effect of tobacco on the workmen employed to make cigars and prepare tobacco.

It would ap pear that out of 420 females whose husbands fol lowed the occupation, 356 had twins but with regard to health, outof 1000 workmen 340 became emaciated to the highest degree, and 64 in a secondary manner. French paper. IV. Y. E.

Railroad. The section between Binghampton and Owego will be open to the public on Friday of the pres ent week. Great preparations have been made by the citizens of Owego to impart eclat to thd occasion and what they attempt, they accomplish. Both the Goi'ernor and the Lieut. Governor of the State of New York, will be present, together wnn many omer persons ol eminence.

Warning for Calithumpian. In Dark county, Ohio, a number of individ uals have been indicted and found guilty of riot, in serenading a wedding party with tin-pan music. The Judge (Holi) in his charge thus comments upon the custom Some of the witnesses have spoken of a custom in that neighborhood to honor weddings wnn music oi tnis Kind, auch a custom is il legal it belongs not to civilization, and should not receive ihe sanction of a court and jury silling in a civilized community. It has been said that Music hath charms to soothe the savage It must indeed be a savage breast that can be soothed by the hideous sounds of cow-bells, horse-fiddles, rams -horns, and like instruments rattling, rjnging, and commingling together, and fntrapersed with the occasional explosion of A eonpliment to John A trn voller? whn hna ntihlifthed A sketeh'nfl The mnriovnaa. nftlia Now tfnna rti.

his journey from Eeaton to Wilkes; Barre, ihe Easton Seniinel; compliments very highly James Ely of Rosscommon, and John: Smith of Pocono, as accommodating landlord whose lables furnish every ihing a traveller could ask. Especially does he pay a high compliment to ihe heart of John Smiih. It seems there was aboard ihe stage an Irishman, thinly clad, and evidently moneyless. At Smith's tho pasaen- gers, except him, had a sumptuous dinner. As they were gelling into ine stage io resume their tourney, it was noticed that bmith called the Irishman into ihe house.

The traveller thus chronicles what followed in a short time ine driver called 'all aooaru D.i Anmn st.it nf ilia tirtnto nn tVio nrtrill his mouth full, eating as fast as he could, and his hands ful of bread and butter and cheese, He got into the stage and off we were, Pal saving An oui uiai lanaiuru is cicvcr man. I suppose he saw I was hungry and he thought i i i 1 had no money and he gave me as mucn as could eat and a ha'pworth he charged me lor it and well he did not, for 1 had nothing to pay him for it but my thanksmay ihe Lord bless him, Dutchman as he is, for being so kind to a poor Irish boy." Amen, said John Smith is a good fellow." A rich and merited compliment, many will say who knew John Smith. How many there are in this world who would take from a poor man his last cent for a drink of grog, and then bid him beeone. but John Smith finding one hungry, gave him that which was belter, be cause he had no money wherewith to buy it. mechanics' Lien.

The Supreme Court of this State on the 22d ult. made a decision ot some importance to many of our readers. Judge Coulter delivered the opinion. It was in the case of Landis et. al.

an appeal from the District Court of Lan caster and derives its interest from the faci thai it makes the distinction between building a new house and repairing an old one. The Court say, In tho case before us, it was es sentially, practically and ornamentally remodel ling and repairing an old house. The front wall was taken down to the cellar, and the roof taken off except ihe rafters; but there stood the other walls on the tame spot, and the foundation the front wall was modernized and deprived of its old fashioned and pent roof ihe floors remained. Eterv passer-bv would say Mr. Howett has remodelled and repaired his old house.

The lien of the mechanic and material man oughi not to be extended beyond ihe terms of ishing them. He considers it quite antidemo-the statue, because it is often a secret lien, ex- cralic to gram any set of men exclusive privi- tending back from ihe date of its entry and pub- lcity, over-riding honet and fair judgments The decree of the court below is reversed, and the clerk of this court is directed to make a decree awarding the money to the other lien creditors according to their priority on the rec ord." XJCT Splitting the Differexce. A nice young gentleman, not a thousand miles from this, after a long and assidious courtship, found himself, one bright evening the betrothed of a pretty girl, the very pink of modesty. One night he was about to take his departure, and after lingering about the door for some time in a fidget of anxiety, declared and protested lo Miss Nancy, thai he could not and would not leave until she kissed him. Of course, Miss Nancy blushed beautifully red, and protested in turn, that she could not and would not do that.

She never had done such a thing and never would until she was married so now he had it. The altercation and debate became dee per and exciting, until the betrothed buffed out- right, and declared if he couldn't kiss her he couldn't have her and was marchine off. She watched him to the gale, and saw the fat was in the fire, unless something was done. Come back, then, said she coaxingly, "I'll split the difference with you you maysqueeze my hand List of Whiff Off ice-Holders ON THE PUBLIC WORKS OF PENN SYLVANIA. On the Eastern Division Canal 0000 Western Division Canal 0000 Portago Road 0000 Columbia Road 0000 Delaware Division 0000 Susquehanna Division 0000 North Branch 0000 West Branch 0000 Total 00000 We believe this lo be an accural tiatement but in order to leave no room for a charge of misrepresen'ation in the matter, we invite any of our Locofoco contemporaries to point out rphe steam-engine, that grand invention of mod-any errors we rnay have made, nd we shall JL ern times, is a machine envolvin? great promptly make the correction.

Hollidaysburg Register. We suppose if the Whigs should get a majority in the Canal Board, and anooint a dozen or wenty men of their own party to offices on ho public works, a simultaneous howl of "pro scription would he sent up from the whole Locofoco press; just as we now see in reference to appoinments by the general Administration. Land Warrants. The whole number of land warrants issued up to the 1st of May, was 55,000 of 160 acre warrants, and 1,000 of 40 acre warrants. A close estimate of the whole amount issued and to bo issued is 85,000 160 aore warrants, and 5000 40 acre warrants, leaving 30,000 of ihe latter vet to be.

issued. Them arr about 9.500 i applications beforeJDepartment. The new applications averaflK) per day, and the issuot anout 140 per da New Hope Delaware Bridge. in Bridge company, have taken possession of ih bridge in consequence of the company hain failed to pay thai inierest on their mortpa0 Since-the stoppage of the Company's bankm operations, a year ago last December, scarcely any money has been received for toll but J. own notes, which were not bankable wiih iha mortgagees.

The mortgages, with the interest due, amount to nearly $19,000, and one held by the Messrs. Halcombe, of Huntendon coun. ty, j. j. The Cholera at the West coniiniiej though several towns heretofore afflicted ar now exempt, among them Liouisvuie, and mv.

I Bill Tftr hor. ICQ k9MI Qi during the week ending at noon on the 22U la decline of 78 from the preceding week, thouoh in the latter few days the mortality had greaik I mi co increaseu. xuera were uo casus cnoiera and 10 deaths, on steamer Atlantic, arrived at i at. L.outs witn duu emigranis. i wo cases of cholera had occurred at Hannibal, down to the 17th.

The cholera had re-appeared Nashville on the 24ih six out of nine casei proving fatal. Six or seven new cases, with two deaths, occurred, in the lunatic hospital at Lexington, last. Thursday. Among ifo California emigrants, though there were somB cases near the towni, 80 or 90 miles out there was no sickness. "I 1 I he Commerce of unglaxd.

i ne mer- chant fleet of England numbers between 1,000 and 25,000 vessels, with a tonnage d.QOO,. 000. London alone, in 1842, had belonging to il 3,000 merchant vessels, with crews amoun ting, in the aggregate, to 35,000 men and hoys; and the cusiom duty of that poH in 1844 wa. above 1 1,000,000. So great an amount of shipping and commerce was probably nerer before concentrated in any single port in the.

world. The official value of the imports in( Great Britian from her colonies in 1S42 was between 30,000,000 and 40,000,000. GoiNG the Whole Figure. Major Lewis of Nelson county. who claims to Ha I a An I nnri rrnnntna re QPn IMIlpr i i -it offers himself as a candidate for the Conven wv uu icai aim goiiuiuu a wwui tion to remodel the constitution of ihat State He announces thai he will not only advocat the election of judges, magistrates, d-c, by the beople, but will also go for the election of preachers, schoolmasters, tavern-keepers.

As to sneritts, constables, 6Xc, ne regard them as nuisances, and says he will go for abol leges, merely to bedevil and harraas other peo pie about paying their debts, while tney never la a pay their own A Fair Hit. There is quite a strife in Bridgeport to see who can build the highest steeples. The Congregationalists say that they will have the highest steeple in the State. A few days since one of the CongregauonalUts met an Episcopalian, and pointing to their now church, now in the course of construction, he remarked, There, look at that high belfry We shall put 160 feel more on the top of that, and thus have the highest steeple in the State." Yes," replied the Episcopalian. and you would brobably make it still higher if you could, but that is as high up as your society owns Albany Exp.

Runaway Match and Death. A colored man, accompanied py a white woman, who bad eloped together from the northern pari of the State, arrived al Cincinnati on the 16th instant, were both seized with cholera on the 1 7th, ana both died and were buried in one gravoon he tame day. A sad finale to a strange elope ment. Large Calf. A cow belonging to Cyrus W.

Wilkins, of Middletown, had a calf a fw days ago, which weighed one hundred auw mii jr jjuuiius av iia un hi. Colored Physicians. We are informed that Messrs John V. Da Grasao of our city, and Thomas J. While of Brooklyn, two the colored medical students of Bowdoin Medical College, Brunswick, have received the degree of M.

D. at the cloie of the last term. Mr. De Gresse was a un dent of Dr. S.

R. Childs, and Mr. White a student of Dr. W. C.

Roberts, boih of this city. Notwithstanding the doors of the Medical Colleges of this city were barred against them, they have pursued a regular medical course, and now have their diplomas in hand, inten "'n IO 8 lo neir respective 1 ne-; are 01 ana raui" wort" Tribune. power with constant motion. What power is to the steam-engine, life is lo the livins? machine; T.ather life is power, which, through the interren- tion of machinery, produces regular and sentient action. This machinery, )ike that of the steam-engine, is susceptible of disarrangement, and muM in time, wear out.

Both require attention tokee, them in good condition each have governors, condensers, escapements, valves, all at work, and all important; and accident to either weakens or destroys its motions. The human machine, from its superior, complex, and delicate contrivance, is easily disarranged. Remove the obstructions, lessen the friction, let the valves work freely, and health is again restord. To effec this, use Clickener's Sugar Coated Vegetable Pills, which have attained great reputation for their cur PJPPrtfe. They remove from the system all seeds of diseasa without irritating it, and are.

therefore, suited tp all constitutions, and in all stages of complaint. For sale by T. Schoeh, who is.he only authorized agent for Stroudsburg see advertismont for other agencies in another column, i.