Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-03-16

| the amount allowed to the whole five printers
| in Northampton for l84l and says, ''bu,
suppose there had been but one, and the Com
mlssoners had given 10 that one the whole
amount of business which has been performed
by the five-should not the one receive the
same amount OF pay! According to our phi
losophy, if one man does as much lobour as five
men, he should have as much pay as five
Jimmy must be keen philosopher, and think
that the poor tax payers of Monroe county are
easily soft sodered, and made believe any false
hood and misrepresentation that he chooses TO
| lay before them. Does the Ounce suppose that
one printer would set up different forms Of
County statement, Proclamations, and various
County advertisements, and work different
presses at the same time, when they have but
one and issue different dressed newspapers
at the same time? Why he talks like mem
Der of all insane asylum, who has escaped The
notice of his keeper, and flown from thence
among strangers.
There are ) papers published in Nor,hamp
ton county, either of which do as much print
ing this double faced blackguard, who re-
ceived $247,25 for printing for Monroe in
lS40. Multiply this sum by 5, the number of
would amount 10 the sum of Sl236,25, while
the Northampton statement is but S348,82 paid
10 the whole five printers ofthe county, and she
contains five times the number Of taxables that
Monroe does, and receives and pays out seven
times as much money annually as little Mon
roe, consequently she must according to the
above stated facts have at least five times as
much printing 10 do as Monroe. have shown
in former article that each printer of that
County if equally divided, would receive only
500, ,76- now deduct this from the amount re-
ceived by Jimmy in 1910, viz. 247,25 and it
shows an excess Of $Il7,49 received by Jim
my for that year, while living in dleness and
luxury Jimmy IS unquestionaby the most idle
and unproduc,ive being who disgraces the face
Of our Democratic County
Jimmy next mentions Oats and Pedlars --insinu-
ations of this kind show your breeding Jimmy
Some years ago certain understrapper to boss
clock Pedlar, possessed of about the same kind of
principles as you are Jimmy, having become vexed
at me, commenced the circulation of talsehood
against me ;---whereupon | sent the Sheriff after
him, and caused him to flee precipitately from
these diggins into New Jersey, to save his bacon,
and you had best be cautious Jimmy that you do
not have TO follow his example.
Jimmy accuses me of refunded money to North
ampton county. will here take the liberty of
laying statement before the public in relation to
that transaction. Some fifteen years since, in my
youthful days, followed school teaching III Ham
ilton, and being unacquainted with the school law
then in existence, | asked one of the Commission
ers who passed through Hamilton at that time,
what their rules were upon the subject, and what
course | must adopt to get my pay, as | never had
drawn any money from the county before-hs re-
ply was that | should charge the county the same
that did others, who paid their own schooling by
the quarter. In accordance with this advice, at
the expiration of the second quarter, made out
my bill at $3.50 the subscription price per quar-
ter, which were my regular terms--presented my
bill and received my wages. Several months at-
terwards, man who entertained i'll feeling to-
wards me, went to Easton, procured a copy of my
bill, then went from house to house enquiring how
many days each child lost. Some had losttime dur
ing the two quarters, every person knows that
has sent children to school, that few altogether
regular in attendance. He then commenced cir
cuatng report that had over charged the coun-
ty---this caused me to feel uneasy. Knowing that
my conscience was clear Of all bad intentions,
therefore went TO Easton and found that | had
drawn my fees, exactly according to the custom
in existence in that county, to within two months
of the time that l had received my pay. 1t ap-
Of my fees, the Commissioners had formed pre-
cedent TO allow but two cents per day. for the days
each child actually attended. then offered the
Commissioners the whole sum that had drawn,
as did not know the exact number Of days that
each child attended school, telling them that my
intentions were pure, and rather than have any III
feeling upon the subject, would refund the whole
amount--but they refused to receive it, telling me
at the same time that might retain it all by law
or pay over to the Treasurer part if saw proper.
accordingly handed over to that Officer more
than half the sum that | had originally drawn.
Now be it known that could have legally retained
every cent, but my youth and ineXperence caused
me such remorse upon the subject, that | hated
the idea of retaining any of the fees that | had
drawn in good faith and intention. In that trans
action the County gained upwards of $500 that
would have been actually due me, had known
the precedent and made out my bill in accordance
Herewith. This is the great story so much BAN
died about by my enemies--but let them circulate
it to their hearts content---l care not, my con
science is clear of all base intention ms IS Inc
only act of my life, that could cast any rehectoh
upon my reputation, and in this am entirely m
nGcent--having charged by the quarter as hun
dreds of bills had before been paid, and did not