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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27
/" Saturday NIgT,l,o
year

We cut the following from the CbicQeo
Daily Jo@rnI. 1t is a little gem from
the pen of the assistant editor, BENZ. 7.
TAYLOR. Teacher and Poet, who says
more good things in his way, than any
other man in the West He who has not
the heart to appreciate, and the taste to
admire it, has reached dreary Saturday
night in his life-one that never will be
followed by a holy Sabbath's dawn:
There has been a great deal written
about Saturday night. Its chief luxury
to us is comprehended in the words, "no
paper tomorrow" but to some people it
is vastly more significant. Did you ever
read Ike Marvels "Reyeries ?" Some
Of them are admirable, others little eked
out to make book.
Well, We have a picture Of our own,
and a beatitude for somebody else. And
to begin with the latter; happy is the
man who has little home and little
angel in it, Of a Saturday night. And
for the picture; such a night as last-night
was-cloudy, gloomy, gusty, rainy--case-
ments rafting, storm driving, lake roar
ing along the shore.
So much for the outdoor scenery
Now for the indoor "a martin box of a
house, no matter how little, provided it
will hold tar0 or so-no matter how hum
bly, furnished, provided there is hope in
it. Let the winds blow-close the cur
tains What if they ase calico, or plain
white, without border, tassai, or any such
thing? Let the rains come down--heap
up the fire, but it must be an open fire
none of your dark, prison looking stoves
No matter if you hayn't candle to bless
yourself with, for what beautiful light,
glowing coal make, reddcning, clouding
shedding sunset through the little room
just light enough to tdk by-not loud
as in the high ways not rapid, as in the
hurrying world, but softly, slowly, whis-
peringly, with pauses between, for the
storm without the thoughts within, to fill
up.
Then wheel the sofa round before the
fre-no matter, if the sofas settee, un.
uncushioned at that, if SO be it is Just
long enough for two, or say, two and q
half, with two or two and half in it.
How sweetly the music Of silver bells
from the time to come, falls on the listen
/ ing heart then. How mournfully swell
the chimes of "the days that are no more.
"Under such circumstances, and at
such time; one can get at least sixty nine
and a halfstatute miles nearer Kingdom
come, than from any other point in this
world laid down in Matte Brun.'
Maybe, you smile at this picture
Well, smile on, but there is secret be-
tween US, viz: it is a copy of a picture
rudely done, but true as the Pentateuch,
of an original in every really human
heart. Are you 50 old or so wicked that
the cabinet picture is dimmed or damaged
beyond restoration!' Then be shrived,
make Saturday night Of life, and bid
good night to the world.
Maybe, you think it ridiculous pic
ture then Heaven mend, and Alison cul-
tivate your TASTE"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27
Jury List, December Term 1851.
GRAND JURORS.

Ross David Correll, Edward Engler, John
Meixsel, Jacob Frantz.
Smithfeld; john Scyphers, Joseph Houser,
Isaac Tribe.
Folk; Edward Hawk
Chesnuthill Peter HuffSmih
Jackson; William Bells, Michael elsner,
John PoSsinger, Jacob Engler
H. Smithfield Michael Wolf
Pocono; James Clure, Peter Metzgar
Price; Josiah B. Snow
Hamilton Simon Williams, Peter Snyder,Jr.
Stroud; William Walton, ir., Samuel Ney-
hart, John Wolf Theodore Schoch, George
Ransbury
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27
Boy Love.

One of the queerest things to think of
in after life is boy love-" No sooner
does boy acquire a tolerable stature than
he begins to imagine himself a man, and
to ape manish ways He casts sidelong
glanceS at every tall girl he happens to
meet, becomes a regular attendant at
church, or meeting, sports cane, carries
his head erect, and struts little in his
walk. Presently, and how very soon he
falls in loye-yes, falls is the proper word,
because it best indicate, his happy, dehr-
ious lf-abasement. He lives now in
fairy region, somewhere collateral to the
world, and yet somehow blended mex
tricably with it. He perfumes his hair
with fragrant oils, scatters essences over
his handkerchief, and desperately shaves
and annoints for beard. He quotes poet
ry in which "love' and "doye1 and
heart" and "dart" peculiarly predomi-
nate and, as he plunges deeper into the
delicious labyrinth, fancies himself filed
with the divine afflatus, and suddenly
breaks out into the scarlet rash--ofrhyme.
He feeds upon the looks of his beloved
is raised to the seventh heaven at pleas
ant word; is betrayed into the most as
tonishing ectacies by smile, and IS plum
ged into the gloomiest regions of nissan
thropy by a frown.
lie believes himself the most devoted
lover in the world There never was
such another. There never will be-
He is the one great idolator! He is the
type of magnanimity and self abncgation.
Wealth. he despises the grovellingthousht.
Poverty: with the adorable beloved, he
rapturously apostrophises as the first of
all earthly blessings; and "Loye in
cottage with water and a crust" is his
beau ideal paradise of dainty delights.
He declares to himself, with the most
solemn emphasis, that he would gothrough
fire and Eater, undertake pilgrimage to
China or Eamsehaska, swim storm tossed
oceans, scale impossible mountains, and
face legions of bayonets, bus for one sweet
smile from her dear lips. He doats up
on the flowers she has east away. He
OneIlshco nei SlONC-d iItttc WITH IN inc
fngers-next to his heart. He scraWls
her dear name over foolscap-ftting me-
dunn for his insanity. He seornfully de-
preciates the attention of ether boys of
his OWE age; cuts Peter Tibbets dead.
because he said that the Allowable An
gelina had carroty hair; and passed Har-
ry Bell contemptuosly, for daring to COM
pare ( that gswky Mary Jane with his
Incompatible Angelina.
Happy happy foolish boy love with
its hopes and its fears, its joys and its
sorrows, its tortures and estate fervors,
and terrible heart burnings, It's solemn
righteousness, and Its intensely prosaie
termination.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27
JOB Rim TIN G


NWTHEREAS the lion. NATHA ANIEL b.
" ELDRED, President Judge of the 22nI
Judicial district of Pennsy lvalia, composed of
the counties of Wayne, Pike, Carbon and Mon
roe, and Moses w. Coolbaugh and Stogdell
Stokes, Esqures, Associate Judges otthe Court
of Common Pleas of the county of Monroe and
ky virtue of their offices, Justices of the Court
Of Over and Terminer and General Jail deliv-
erv, and Court of General Quarter Sessions in
ana for the said County of Honroe, have issued
their precept to me commanding that Court OF
Quartel Sessions of the Peace and Common
Pleas, nd General Jail Delivery and Orphans
Court. for the said County of Monroe, to be
holden at Stroudsburg, OH
Monday, the TWeaty- Of December neat
to continue two weeks if necessary.
NOTICE
Is therefore hereby given TO the Coroner, the
Justices of the Peace, and CCnsJabes OF the
said county of Monroe, that they be then and
there ready with their rolls, records, inquisl-
tions .examna tions and other remembrances to
do those things which to their offices are aPper-
tanning, and also that those who are bound by re-
cognizanCes to prosecute and give evidence
against the prisoners that are or shall be IN the
iail of the said County of Monroe, or against
persons who stand charged with the commission
of offences to be then and there to prosecute
Or testify as shall be just.
JAMES N. DURLING, Sheriff.
Sheriff 5 Office,
Stroudsburg, Nov. 20, 1851
fho ('oDnmon tVpa lfk !
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27

Dieblcr Price township
Rice Butz ct al
do do
90 do
Wagner U Staples
Trainer Teel
Miller d Ellenwood Snow
Yetter Quigley ct al
Felker Woodling
Reinhart Reinhart
Taylor Hoffman
Getz ct al Getz
Storm Edmonds and Sox
Commonwealth p g. Geiz
Merwine & Walp Mackes
Crook . Durling
Long Kintz a. Dietrich
Dotter Kunkle
GreensweigU Grecnsweig ct al
Gish Staples
Quigley Albert
Merwine & Wa'pU Greensweig
Clark Kemmerer ct al
Kresge & CorreIl Hawk
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27

Sugar and Honey-A young gentle
man who has just married little beauty,
says she would have been taller, but she
is made of such precious materials that
nature could not afford it. How full OF
sugar the honeymoon makes one, don't
it? A year from now he will be swear
ing that his id little fool of a wife
has been cleaning the eook-stoye with bis
best boot brush.D
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27
Smoking ChIr,,ncYs.

The Scientific American" says, on what
it calls reliable authority, that if at two feet
above the throat of your chimney you enlarge
the opening to double the size for a space Of
two feet, then carry up the rest as at the first,
your chimney will never smoke.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27

Cnvc tor Hen.-Take alumni salt,
make strong brine, simmer it on fire,
in which wet piece of cloth, and apply
it for thirty successive days, and it will
disapper.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27

TERMS-Two dollars per annnuIn IN advance-IWo
dollars and quarter, half yearly and II not pala pc
tore the end of the year, Two dollars and hall Ihose
employed by the proprietor will be charged 81 l-2
cents, per year. extra. ;I
No papers discontinued until all arrearages are piu'
except at the option of the Editor
NJ Advertisements not exceeding one square SSIA-
teen lines) will be inserted three weeks FOR one uoldr
and twenty-five cents for every subsequent lseItlo
1'he Charoe for one and three Insertions the same
A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers
NJ All letters addressed to the Ecltor must De post
paid.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30
Reduction Of Postal Rates.

Congress, We are glad to perceive, seems
disposed to crafty the public wish that has
been so Enthusiastically expressed of late, of re-
ducing the postal rates of the country. A
Cheap Postage Bill has been passed by the
House, providing uniform postage on each
letter weighing less than half and ounce of
three cents.
The provisions Of this bill are
l. For each letter, one half ounce, 8 cents.
2. No post office or route TO be discontinu-
ed, or compensation TO pos.masters dimin-
ished.
5. On printed matter of no greater weight
than 2 ounces l cent.
4. Bound books weighing not over 80 oz's
TO be deemed mailabe matter.
5. Newspapers delivered in State where
printed chargeable only with half The foregu-
ing rates.
s. No postage on those marked to actual
subscribers in county where printed, or with
in 30 miles.
z. Fifty pc. cent. TO be deducted from pos
tage OH magazines when prepaid.
s. Three cent pieces, three fourths silver
one fourth copper TO be coined.
9. Stamps are now TO be provided and
sold al post offices, forgery of them to be
punished by fine and Imprisonment.
10. $500, 900 appropriated TO meet def
ciences in revenue.
IL. Letters uncled for after two weeks to
be published once only
II. The Postmaster General is authorised
to establish suitable places of deposit for
letters i'll cities and towns, 20 be collected and
delivered by carriers al one or two cents
each.
The above is synopsis of the bill, as pass
ed by the House. The Senate will probably
make no material amendment on the present
law. and we doubt not that still greater re-
duction in postage will be eventually demand
ed by the people. Among the good speeches
made in favor of low rates, was one by Hon.
Elbridge Gerry, of the Oxford District-a SEN
tence from which we append:
90 As you open facilities for communication,
induce correspondence, and bring the benefits
and advantages of the Post Office Department
within the reach of all, so you approximate
the remote parts of this widespread Republic
and the high walls that are now reared TO d.
vide and separate us as a people, will melt
away before the benign influence of an acquain-
lance with each other, ourselves, and the vast
and innumerable blessings that flow from and
are showered upon US, united and unbroken
people"
Constant and free inter-communcation be-
tween the various distant points of the Union
will have strong tendency to harmonic jar
ring interests. In short, it will make the peo-
pie of North and South, East and West, under
stand each other-and this is all that is nee
essary to render the Confederacy imperisha-
BILE
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30
The Shakers.

To" increase and multiply" has not been
one OF the Shaker doctrines and practices
lhey have ignored courtship, love, marriage,
and small responsibilities of their own. The
women and men sit at different tables when they
eat, sleep in different houses, work as far apart
as possible, and studioasly avoid approaching
.eaclfoiher near enough to shake hands or kiss
If all the world were strict shakers it would of
course become dcpopulatcd in a single penera-
ton, and that generation might as well die at
aAce as to hnger on half dead until reachinp
three score wears and ten. But it seems that a
new prophecies has risen among the sect
mightier than Ann Lee, who. goes in for mar
rage and all its etceteras as necessary to hap
piness and part Of LIES duties. t...r t.
We copied last week little paragraph in
relation to the reported proposed removal Of
the Canterbury Shakers to Ohio. A woman
calling herself Hester Ann Adams, has left the
following -
/" 1t is stated that the Shakers of n. Hamp
shire have purchased large tract of land il
Ohio, to which they intend to remove, in con
sequence of the dislike and persecution o
their present neighbors' Not so-but rather
to settle their youth in marriage compac
where they may become lawful fathers ano
mothers, and thus replenish their society tcitl
thar o,on dear children and be happy. "-.Nashut
Telegraph
This is from the "prophet Elisha, or some
other prophet" as declared by Hester AM
Adams in a Shaker meeting. She is one o
the ministry of the Shakers at Canterbury, n
Hampshire.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30
Constitution OF New Hampshire.

The Constitution of n. II. as amended by
the recent State Convention assembled for that
purpose, has been published The Keene Senti-
mel makes an abstract of this instrument, so far
as amendments are concerned /; and from this
analysis we derive the following
Perpetuities are prohibited, and the right Of
the Legislature to alter, amend or repeal acts
of incorporation, is affirmed.
Towns are prohibited from raising money or
lending their credit for the benefit of any cor
poration.
The Legislature is prohibited from authori-
zing lotteries and required to impose penalties
on the sale OF lottery tickets in the State.
The religious and property qualifications for
Office have been abolished entirely.
The Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer,
and members of the Legislature, to be cleo
ted bicnnially, and the sessions of the Legisla-
ture to be biennial.
The State Council has been abolished.
The Senate is to consist of thirty members
to be chosen from Is districts, which cannot be
altered by the Legislature, oftener than once
in six years.
To the appointment by the Governor, of Com
missioners in other States, of Bank Commits
soners, Notaries Public, and Justices of the
Peace, the Senate is required.
The basis tor the election OF members of the
Legislature, makes lis the basis for the first
representative, $50 for two, 1850 for three, 1850
for four, and so proceeding, making 1000 the
number for each additional representative after
| the third.
| A Lieutenant Governor is to be chosen, to
preside over the Senate, and to act as Cover
nor in case of vacancy.
! Trial Justices, not exceeding three in each
town. shall have jurisdiction in all civil case:
where the sum demanded does rot exceed $50
| The Legislature is authorized TO increase
| their jurisdiction to the sum OF 5 100. In sucl
| trial. at the request of either party, jury no
! exceeding six in number, shall be summoned
In cases where the demand is less than $40
no appeal is allowed, but the action may be re
viewed-in cases where the demand is owe
$40, either party may appeal.
All elections by the people arc TO be deter
mined by plurality vote.
The Judges of the Supreme court, and \ ttor
ney General, are to be elected by the people fol-
six years the County judges, Sheriffs, Judges
of Probate, Solicitors, and Registers Of Probate
are to pc elected by the people of the respective
counties, for four years-and Trial Justices are
to be elected by the people of the towns, for
two years.
A Superintendent of Public Instruction has
been created, to be elect ed by the people.
4 Commissioner of Agriculture has been
created, to be chosen by the people once in
two years.
Provisions is made for amendments Of the
Constitution, but not oftener than once in six
wears.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30
The Patent Department.

| The Kennebec Journal gathers the follow.
ing items from the Mechanical portion OF the
Patent Office Report for $3.50:
The receipts Of The office for lo49, on nc
count of applications for patents, caveats, &c.
were $50, 563 II Paid back on applications
withdrawn, Sl7,793.33. Salaries and expen-
SEES, S59.923.ll. Leaving balance TO 60 to
the Paten; Fund, of S3,036.34. The Patent
Fund, Oh the lst January, 1919, amounted 10
S2l6,4 6S.S3, of this $4,000 were appropria-
ted by Congress for the erection of the wings
Of The Patent Office: and on january j, 49,
80. there was Sl69, 404.17 remaining.
The applications for patents during 1S49,
numbered 1865, caveats flied, 595. Patents
issued, go Patents which have expired
during the pear, 75l.
Among the patents granted, the following
were 10 persons in Maine.
To Stephen Titcomb, Of Pennington, and
to Ezro Gilmore Of Leeds, for bee-hivcs
Calvin Delano Of East Lrver,nore-
rake.
Nj. Fisher, and w. Martin Jr. Of Newport,
process for welding cast iron TO wrought
iron or steel.
p. P. Reed of Bowdoin-ox shoe machine,
rollers with movable dies.
jeremiah Myers of Biddelord-looms, let
off motion.
l.. X. Day, and Preston Day of Saccarap-
pa-reaver's temples.
David Gay of Bath-portable beer foun-
iains.
Richard H. Emerson of Portland-loco-
motive with driving axle above the boilers.
james Scott Of Portand-sun-dials.
Samuel Jack, I'd, Of MISUNDERSTANDING
machine.
H. FELTON,, r. ID. Cummings and Harring-
ton Hinkley of PoTtland-cast iron plate car
wheels.
George Weber of Portland-can hooks.
Wilbur NJ. Davis of Gardner-machine
for making boxes.
Jacob Muzzey of Eddington-nipper saw
SET
Jos. Vaughan, Jr. of Union-machine for
grinding and polishing tools.
Henry Wright Of DEMONSTRATION trees.
E. Webber and C. Hartshorn Of Gardiner
machinery for turning lasts.
G. Hartshorn and w. b. Shaw of Gardi-
ner- machinery for turning right and left
lasts.
Enoch Osgood Of Bangor-tooth extract
ors.
DiuSC lC~U, uiSTc udNc Uecu OOO pdtCuts
granted to citizens of Maine-previous to 49,
20, but TO- The greatest number for any 10
years was 300, granted from 1880 to 1910.
During the past ten years, 1473 patents
were taken out in New England, of which
only Sc were in Maine, in New York, 1899
in the other eight Northern states, 1872, in
the fifteen Southern states, 6S4.
Proposed Premiums and Pri-es.-The Com
missioner proposes that premium of $780,
900 be offered for improvements by which a
vessel shall make three consecutive trips
across the Atlantic at an average OF 20 miles
an hour, and another of $4,000, for those
by which 25 miles shall be done.
Also, that Congress authorize premium
of 100000 10 any person who shall wllnIn
given period, render electricity an econom-
ical, efficient and general prime n'orer.
Or who shall discover the means oy WHICH
A,mosnberic Pressure can be probably en-
played as propelling or impellIng power.
Or who developes IAN erptosire, or othsr
prime mover, applicable, energetic and eco
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30
EXPLANATION OF THE APPARATUS.

All the apparatus used by Mr.. Paine in
demonstrating the subject is represented above
the whole being placed on a table. As soon
as the wheel in the magnetic machine is
turned, which sets the helieeS between the ends
of the magnets in rapid revolution-large bub-
bles of gas arise from the electrodes. This,
passing through the first pipe, burns with a
pale blue flame, showing it to be hydrogen
The gas then passes on through the jar of tur-
pentine, into the second pipe, and to another
burner, producing brilliant light.
The glory of the discovery is in the i'm
mense increase of power over the electric cur
rent which he has gained by the introduction
of water into the helices. These helices are
placed between the ends of two magnets, and
consist of coil of hollow wire, filled rith ,ra-
ter, and insulated by being covered with gutta
percha. Now, water, it is known, contains a
vast amount of electricity, and just in proper
ton as the power of the helices is increased &c
induce or receive the electric current, so is
Its power increased to give it off. By means
of this powerful battery the whole of any body
of water can be converted into hydrogen gas
without the production of oxygen. This by
drogen is then passed through turpentine
which is not consumed by the operation, wher
it becomes catdhoed, and will burn with clear
and brilliant flame This is Mr.. Pane's dis.
covery, the importance of which all can form
some conception of.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30
Conviction of DIR. Smith,

The trial of Dr. James H. Smith, of Saco,
for the murder of Miss Berengera d. Caswell
in an attempt to produce abortion, by means Of
drugs, instruments, &c, was commenced in
that town on Tuesday, the 2lst inst, and con
ciuded on Saturday. Present, judges Shep-
icy, Tenney and Howard. The Attorney
General, Henry Tallman, Esq, of this city,
and the County Attorney, Ira t. Drew, Esq,
appeared as prosecuting attornies for the state
Nathan Clifford, Esq, L. ID Wilkinson Esq,
and Rufus Tapley, Esq, attornies for the pris-
oner.
The Saco Democrat says the arguments OF
Messrs. Wilkinson and Clifford were eloquent
able and ingenious.
The Attorney General followed Mr. c., and
closed about in the afternoon. His argu-
ment was a very able and powerful one-pre-
senting every point of the case in the clearest
and strongest light, and answering every argu-
nent of the opposing counsel.
At the close of his argument the jury re-
tired, and the court adjourned till 7 o'clock in
the evening.
At seven the court met and the Jury came
in, and after the usual preliminary inquiries
the foreman said they found the prisoner Gull
rY OF MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE
BY the statutes of our state, the punishment
for this crime is Imprisonment i'll the State
Prison FOR LIFE,-and sentence accordingly
was pronounced on the prisoner.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30

" The steamer Atlantic has not yet been
heard from. She has now been overdue some
eighteen er twenty days, and the most serious
apprehensions are rife in regard to her. Fifty
per cent. premiums have been paid in New
York for insurance on portions of her cargo
The steamship was provided with life car to
land through the worst surf, and six immense
metallic fire proof life boats, capable of carry
ing hundred persons each. Her pumps are
very powerful.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-30

and TRAITORS! If it be so indeed, then has
slavery ceased to be local institution, and we
of the North have surrendered every thing of
freedom and independence but the name. But
tits not so. Let politicians say what they
will, and do what they may, the people can
never be persuaded to barter away the right Of
discussing freely the provisions of all enact
ments made, or to be made. And they will
be very aptto suspect too that any law which
will not bear examination must be monstrous
indeed. C..