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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-17

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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-17

GEO Is. ROLLINS, Auctioneer.
on FRIDAY i7th May at 2 O'CLOCK iu ront
celebrated club boat Wave three years old perfectly
sound condition. Her perfection of model for speed
evso has been equaedtO well cac
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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05
Don't be Proud.

Don't be proud! We will not say iha, alb
jec, humility is desirable; for man must have
some notion Of his own importance. or else
every one, finding him ready. viii give him
kick. But then don't run into the other ex-
Heme, especially il you are poor. Pride has
starved more men than famine. Never be too
good TO do any thing that is honest; saw wood
If YOU can't drive trade, and break stones on
The turnpike if you can't saw wood. There is
no greater farce than The can, about respecla-
bic pursuits. Many bad lawyer might have
merchants vino would have grown rich as me-
chanics. Proud people start in life with more
show than they can afford; and so insure for
themselves constant struggle with poverty
They ruin their fortunes and shipwteck their
happiness, 10 dress as their neighbours, or give
parties to people who quiz them for IT, Pride
is bailif1 10 bankruptcy. Go our aims-houses:
they are full of your proud people, who have
always spent their incomes and are now, in old
age, come 10 beggsry. Go to the wreiched al
leys of our grea, cities. aud look into that rick
ely old frame, from which the rags stuffed iii
The broken pane cannot keep ous the winter
snow; nine chances TO len, you will fiad there
some decayed mechanic, who spen, all he could
make while he had work, and who now eats
the bitter bread Of dependence or trusts 10 a
strangers charity. Take our advice! Seek
soEe honest pursuit where you are sure of a
living, and content yourself with little, if that
liule is a cerlainiy. Better have dollar in The
pocke, than gold piece at the top of pole.
Be pruden, and conioned, and you will be oul
of debt and happy. Then yon can walk the
streets feeling 'ha, no man is your superior.--
Old age will find you with comfortable home,
the result Of life's savings; and you can shake
hands with death conieniedly, satisfied that no
pauper hearsc will hurry you 10 your grave.
Neafs Saturday Gazette.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05
STRoUDsBURG MONROE COUNTY, THURSDAY DECEMBER

lily, The improvement of his mind and the ex-
ercise Of his political rights, is the highest or.
der Of man. In this country no invidious ar
tiicial Distinctions exist TO deaden his enter
prise or chill his energies. In the old world,
wealth and greatness sit encompassed by their
towers, and enriched with their treasures, and
filled with sel(-complacent satisfaction at the
view of their possessions, hardly bcs'ow ho't
on the masses Of The people around them
Here all stand on the same level Of civil rights
the highest motives to industry are held out
to all; all are urged to extension by the nobles,,
as well as the mos. selfish feeling of their hu-
man natures. Industry and thrift are no, de-
roga,ory here, but are regarded as merits, and
strange as il may sound in foreign ear, the
idler can hardly maintain position in society.
Our people recognise The general truth, that the
mind, uudireo,ed by prominent influences. will
necessarily form for itself occupations oul Of ac-
cdenls, and lake bias from the fortuilous im-
pulses of circumstances, and perhaps, imbiblng
lis principles from chahce, loose is Wofai III
iegri,y for the wan, of fixed employment
Property can only be accumulated by indi.
vdnal effort. No unequal law perpelua.es
wealth in families; death will relax the rich
mans grasp. aud unseen hands divide his ac-
quisiions among his heirs. Our institutions
guard individual rights equally with the public
safely, and project the enjcymen,s of the hum
bic, alike with the possessions OF the fortunate.
The independen, American Mechanic, living
under, and himself sustaining these liberal in
sliluuous cursed with "neiiher poverty or
riches;" free TO think, and free 10 aci; occupies
a position in the scale OF meh which has no
parallel in The old world Miners Journal
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05
Whole Niger.

"Oh, mother jes, seed a man with one
half his face as black as--as-"
I !" As what, Sammy !"
Black as all creation, molher--wasn'i he
an ohject9'
"Lofd lore you, little dear. you don't say SOL
he mus, be half negry."
Go 10 thunder. old woman .-he was q
Dhole nigger-t'o,her half was jest as black"
Take that, You lltle sarplnt. Ny gracious,
how sassy children Isl"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05
No. 90.

The following humorous certificate Of the
virtues of The Chemical refined Turkish Es-
sence of wild Dandelion,' We end III the In
Gle Sam" paper:
Chesterville (Texas) July Isl. 1874
Dear and highly honoted Sr:-ls IL wrh
feelings Of The mos, profound esteem and ven
era'on that lake up The pen 10 address yoa
on The subject of my late illness. and the Causes
of its cure was first taken with the con-
sump,ion-,hen the gout set in after rha, was
allacked by he measles and the years
itch. Added to this complication OF disorders
| was all drawn up with the rheumatism, be-
sides symptoms Of the jaundice. While these
disorders were at their height. in moment Of
| acquired The habit Of stealing
horses, for which | was tared and fea'herei.
and subsequently lost leg. After having
spen, all my living upon physicians without re-
lief heard OF your valuable specific. Oae
boIlle cured all my disorders, aad having rub
bed the empty vial on the stump of my lusi leg,
i, Immediately grew GU, again!
Yours. with greai respect.
JOHN SMITH
am acquainted with Mr.. Smith, aud know
him to be gentleman Of undoubied reraeiIy.
JOHN BsowN.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

A QUEER 'uN-There is on Tower Hill one
of the queeresi looking blackies imaginable
His face is so black that he can't tell when il
is morning; his wool curls so iight that it has
made him round shouldered; his nose is 80 fiat
and greasy, that he has 10 put tar on his fingers
TO blow ii; his shins are so sharp that he can't
go through corn-feld without splitting the
stalks, and his heels are so long. lha, it is i'm,
possible for him to go down hill without cou-
pie of stones on them for ballast. He will no
doubt die young: modification in his legs hay-
ing already commenced, in consequence Of their
being too crooked for the blood to circulate.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

A young Miss having accepted The Offer ol a
youth 10 gallan. her home. afterwards fearing
that joke might be cracked al her expense, II
The fac, should become public. dismissed bin
when abou, halfway, enjoining secrecy.
"Don't be afraid said he. ''af my saying
any lhing about. for feel as much ASHAMED OF
/, as you do"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

There are unpleasan. things tha, are not pain
full: and painful things ha, are nu' unpiea>ani.
|. is no, painful to feel big spider craving
down your back, bot j. is rather unpleasant
On The other hand, il is no. unpleasant, TO some
heirs 10 receive the painful intelligence that
rich relation has left .lhis troublesome world
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

PREcocIous.--A youth in back country
town had arrived a. the age Of nine years when
his father sen, him to school for The irsi lire.
He stood beside The teacher to repeat the let.
ters of the alphabet.
Whats iba,?" inquired the master.
Harrer!" vociferaied the urchin.
"No, that's A."
~Weli, what's the nexIl"
"Ox-yoke."
mo, that's B."
"Tain, 3 neither. IT'S ox-yoke crotch all
hemlock, think don't know !"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

This has gone the rounds, but you may'ni
have seen il -" Some one was telling US, me
other evening, of remark that he once heard
married man make, whose rib proved TO be
.,be better half in the wrong senses ofthe term;
loved my wife, he said, 'al first, as much as
ANYBODY ever did love wife. For the hrst
two months, actually wanted to eat her up,
and ever since then I've been sorry didn't
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

Pete, wants 10 ak you Colombrous 5.
Succeed Niger!
Well, why is Quill, like Rail Road 3
Does you guve it up!
Yes does.
Cause there's seepers under it. YAH ah''
Wa, an ipnorent colored Individual you Is.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05
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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-05

Pos,scrp. from boy in Indiana to hts ia'he'
in New Orleans:
.Dr.R DAppy.--Corn is dull and brother
John is dead likewise. Excuse haste, IN
bad pain Your omnipoien' ~. Z.
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18

from the State line to Toledo, is CO feet swide at
top. have not before me any statement of the
cost.
THIS line of canal, at a very low rate of toll,
yielded last season, 10 the State of Indiana,
about $4,000, and to the State of Ohio $4,000
An amount almost equal to the proceeds of
the ChampIain csnal during the same period
| quote from the annualreport Of the Treas
urer of the State of Indiana, of the 30th
November ultimo. He says: "Although en-
barrassments attended the early navigation
of the canal the last season, and extensive
breaches afterwards interrupted it, the
tolls, on the 3Ist ofEOctober, had amounted
to 1878, and will most likely, before the
close of the season. reach 1885, 900 or S60,oc0;
at least, double that sum may reasonably be an
~ticipated for the ensuing year. and a cores
|~ponding increase annually, as the work is ex-
tended, and the country depending on ;ae canal
for an outlet becomes improved and cultivated,
and it's business conc entrated upon it.
From Lafayeties,o Terre Haute. the distance
is 90 miles. The upper half of this line from
Lafayette, in TiPpecanoe county, toCoal creek.
in Fountain county is nearly completed,and on
the residue several hundred hands have been at
work during the past winter, as am informed.
The entire line to Terre Haute is under contract.
| quote again from the above report of the In,
diana Treasurer, as follows: $50 much has
been done on the extension to the mouth of Coal
creek, that it may easily be completed in time
for the fall business of the next present. year.
thus adding 40 miles to the canal, and drawing
gion of fertile country, and swelling its reve-
nues to a very considerable extent.n I will
add. that this part of the canal, thus nearly
finished. passes through the most productive
part of Wabash p~rairies, and penetEates come
80 miles into the great coal field laid down in
the chart of DR.. David Dale Owen.
The estimate made iR 1871. by the engineers
of the State of Indiana. for the cost OF the canal
from Lafayette to Terre Haute, is 81, 1856, 00O.-
l believe the work hes been taken at even How
err rates. The fund is on hand to finish the con-
st~ruction of this portion Of the canal-thus OPP
ening a navigation from the Maumee bay to
Terre Haute, in Yigo county, Of 305 miles.
tits at this point that the memorials referred
to The Committee on the Public Lauds take up
the Ework. Forty FIVE miles between Terre
Haute and Evansville Ia part of either lextremi-
ty) have been nearly completed, and abouta
quarter of a million of dollars have been expend-
on the residue.
With respect, your obedient s%erV't,,
ALBERT S. WHITE.
u~n Wt.-,&.r Uoorrr,nr- d
Charm Com. on Public Lands Of Senate.
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18
BREACH OF PROMISE.

In letter dated March 6, 1871, written
to the late Gov. Reynolds, of Missouri, Mar
tin Van Buren, said:
"NO ONE can expect or should desire to
be always in Office under government and
institutions Ike ours; and I have enjoyed the
privilege long enough to satisfy my utmost
ambition"
And yet having been thirty years in Of
fee. says the Albany Journal, and protesting
to have "enjoyed the privilege long enough
to satisfy" his utmost ambition,n this man
is forcing a nomination, through caucus ma
chinery, and against the popular sentiment
of his party! That party, by yielding TO his
rapacious demand, is conserving TO its own
defeat.
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18
BRITISH REGRETS.

The English papers express great interest
in the Presidential prospect of MIR. Van Bu-
rem. If he is elected, they anticipate such a
Tariff as will favor British interests. The fol-
lowing is a sample.
"The subject of the Tariffhas again been
discussed in the American Congress, with
out any result. There seems TO be a grow
ing impression, that nothing will be done
relative to the Tariffunti the new President
is elected; and as Mr.. Van Buren, is under
stood 10 be favorable TO a low Tariff, we see
with regret, that his prospects are becoming
"smalI by degrees and beautifully less.n
liverpool Chronicle. Feb. 10.
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18
AFFAIRS IN WAsH1NeroN.-The Wash
Hngton correspondent of the New York Sun

AFFAIRS IN WAsHINeToN.-The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Sun
writes under date of the 9th as, follows:
"It is currently reported that Mr.. Packen-
ham has received dispatches from England,
to the effect that that country has no desire
nor intention of becoming proprietor ofTex-
as, in case it is not annexed to the United
States. This report, | believe, 10 be found
ed in truth, because it appears to be admit
ted by both sides-but each side puts dis
tinct constructions upon it. That these de-
spatches have been received is pretty certain
each party draws It's own conclusions and
makes up its own issue upon them.
"The Wings seem to have pitched upon
Mr.. EVANS, the Senator from Maine, as their
candidate for the Vice Presidency. This
is in accordance with their intention to pre-
sent to the people of the United States as
strong a ticket as possible, il is well known
that next to Mr.. Webster, no man is SO pop-
ular in the State of New York and the New
England States, as the Senator from Maine.
therefore, they have selected him for the
Vice Presidency, and his chance for that
nomination is now better than that of any
other competitors.
HThe current belief in Washington on
the Virginia election is, that il will go Whig.n
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18
WASHINGTON, March IA. 1843.


Sir: 1t gives me pleasure to furnish you, as
requested, a brief statement Of the condition
and progress of the Wabash and Erie canal,
from Toledo to Terre Haute, as accurately as
the DATA at hand will enable me-.
The canal is finished and in use from Toledo.
on Lake Erie, to Lafayette, on the Wabash riv-
er, a distance of abouts els miles. OF this dis
trpce. l44 miles are within the State OF Indiana,
and the residue of the line, about II miles, is in
the State Of Ohio. The Indiana portion has
been finished for two or three years past. but
Ohio only completed her line after the COM
mencement of the navigation last spring, SO that
boats could not. until that time, spass from La
fave tie to Lake Erie. From four TO six boats
arrived, and alike number departed, daily, at
and from Lafayette, last season, during the Pc
Rod Of navigation, which continued until the
month Of December, Packet boats go through in
Sc hours.
The above.namedlinesof canal. of I44 miles,
from Lafayette to the State line of Ohio. cost
the State of Indiana about $2.389,56 OF this,
about 80 miles is go feet wide at top, and the
residue 40 feet. The entire II miles IN Ohio,
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18
GENERAL LAND orrroE. February 7, 1874.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE. February Z, 1874.
SIR: In answer to your inquiries of the 3Ist
ultimo, Ihave the honor to state, that there
were, on the 3lst December, i843, in the Vim
cennes land district, Indiana. I,627,270,83 acres
of land unsold, and subjecttc private entry
The returns of sales for the month Of January.
1914, are not yet received. No part Of these
lands consists of recent purchases by treaty from
the Indisns, The last purchase. in the vincen-
mes district, from the Indians, was by the treaty
Of ..20th September, 1905, commonly called
Harrison's purchase, by which 1855, 347.74
acres of the land within the present limits of that
district were coded by the India ms to the Unit
ed States.
1 have the honor to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
THOS. H. BLAKE, Commissioner
Hon. WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE.
Senate United States,
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18

A BILL to grant certain lands to the State OF In
diana, the better to enable the said State to
extend and complete the Wabash and Erie
canal from Terre Haute to the Ohio river.
Be 1t enacted By The Senate and House Of Repre-
s~entatir.s of the United States Of america in Con-
gres, assembled, Tha. there be, and hereby is
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18
THE EVANSVILLE JOURNAL.
PUBLssHEp EVERY THURSDAY.
TERMS.

X
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1e yenr.-Adpertisements inserted at
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continuance.
The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18

~ FgfFTffsr " oorrrF ncv -
Charm Com. on Public Lands OF Senate.
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-20
No Mistake about these Revolutions

No nun can say of the following extracts from the
Richmond Wing, of some years back, what Tom
Paine said Of certain argument that IS "Pofnt, no
Point" We have never any thing more pointed
than these structures on the Tariff, and on Mr. II
CLAW Read, and wonder at the present position OF the
organ Of the Richmond Wings Was it TO be con-
ceved, that any newspaper could have undergone SC
complete CHANGE relation TO the great question
now before the public, and to the great Wing cham
pion, as these extracts from the Wing exhibit, com
pared with its present devotion to Clay and the Tariff
sThe Tariff Bill is under discussion, and it's enc
mics are d,sputng the ground, inch by inch. 1t is
expected to occupy The House of Representatives. four
weeks-and the eoquenco of Clay, 'cho hopes to rid.
into the Presidency on IT'S daek Will probably iorce II
through at last Wing, February 1924
"Sucb is the consistency Of men, who exclaim against
the Tariff, and the unconstitutional assumption o.
the power of making roads and canals by Congress
and net are aciliing eecate The great champion q
both 10 the Presidency "a. Clay, of course
[Riehmond Thig, February 1924
"To cay nothing of his, (Mr. Clay's) unconstisn
,onal opinions his Tariff and cav'lling, 'oh'eh mus
forerer ercludsim from The ros Of Virginia and The 1s
riculturat, Republican, and The Commercial States Mr.
CLAW ought not TO be elected because the people arr
ec;denHy against him" "Below the mountains, Or
vrginiu) Mr. Clay has scarcely ,cell-1isher left
lie had some before the meeting of Congress, but ths
Tariff has scared them all of"-[Dm
ave commence to-day the publication of NJ.
W tUSter int ldTW SpttCH. ~ 10
ebraed and could desire ii to be printed N letter
Of gold aad nailed "p every road in Pennsyl
vania and Kentucky, for the benefit of Msssrs Ola,
aud Tod. = Ibid
ain The first, (Mr. ClayD she. (vitginia,) woul'
select native of Virginia it is true-but one who II
ooposed 10 all her interests and political opinions the
octir. and uncompromsing friend of the Tafiff-o
Road, and Canals-of The consolidating Federal Pc
lev. Mr.. Clay dislikss Virginia Kentucky hates
her parent He IS psaaed from the State Of his natl
rity-all his attachments Mlssissppian-and he il
the father Of all hose great schemes SO rno"s and op
pressire 10 The Southern Atlantic Cities
In another paragraph in the Richmond Wing, he
calls him "Yae aspiring naooareaehing Clay :"
Such is the former Portrait of the present Fedora
candidate, from the pencil Of The Richmond Wing
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-20

We have received letter by last evenings mar
from Prince Edward, (Aprl 10 stating that ). W.
Bear hal appeared with letter, bearing the sig
nature OF al J. Fry, dated Richmond "A prl =, 1911
particular date not recollected) -setng forth, Sub
slan.ia!ly) -
"lst That Bear (the bearer,) would be in farmvl'e
on Saturday 81. That he a successful Tempe
rance Lecturer and if invited, would lecture on tenn.
parancc That his temperance lectures were OF great
use "a his canse and had great effect with poor peo-
pie and mechanics; and clearly inferred that he would
do much for the Wing cause in Farmyil!e " iuIther
stated lha, Mr. Bear poor man, and charged no.
thnr f,r his services but that the Wings were unwil-
lug that he SHOULD GO unpaid and that any thing g.
him in priru,e ,cay (underscofed) would be re-
ceived' 49, ,
Our correspondent states, that Bear dia SPEAK
in the CLAY Club at Farmville on Saturday nigh
last; No Temperance Lecture on the Sabbath--thal
Al the Courthouse on Monday he spoke after Mr.
Watkins, and on that night, lecture on lmPe
rance IN Church The Coons had hard cider or
ges with their speeches in l540--and now they resort
10 The device Of Temperance Lectures to haVor theii
politics Our Correspondent does not think that pear
presence in Prince Edward viii add to Watkins pol
that he has heard Of only change wrought, and
tia, 10 one Wing converted TO Democrat by BEAR
tina, his visit will bring every Democrat to the polls
He informs u.s. that Sat Prince Edward Court (ast
Monday Texas Meeting was held, and memorial
gotten up for the annexation, which was sgheo
by good many. The Texas question has become so
popular that any thing sent out IN relation thereto
eagerly read