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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

G5T A committee of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives have recommended that the State
resume the charter, franchises and property of the
rided that in 1853 (thirty years after it was
granted,) the state might take the canal-paying
nothing for it, if it has repaid TO the stockholders
the capital and six per cent. interest, If it has
not, then the state may take the work upon ma
king hp the deficiency. The committee have not
yet received the official statemement of the receipts
of the company, from the data before them, they
are Of the opinion that the commonwealth will not
have to pay cent.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

ArripaI Of migrants ship Franchise,
Capt Chapman, arrived at this port from Liver
pool on Sunday last, with $50 steerage passen-
gers. On the same day the Underwriter Capt
Simply, arrived from Liverpool with 600 steerage
passengers. Also, on Sunday. the Devonshire,
Capt Hovey, from London, with 800 passengers in
in the steerage. During the passage, Henry II.
Campbell, of Newark, n J. fell overheard and was
drowned. Here is total of 1,779 emigrants in
one day.-N Y Tribune, 9th.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

GEN. SCoTT IN PITTsBURGH.-The distinguished
citizen and soldier, Gen. Winfield Scott, arrived
in Pittsburgh on Friday evening, on a steamer
from Brownsville and was warmly welcomed by
a large crowd which had assembled, with music
and the firing of cannon A procession was for
med, and General Scott, escorted by the Honor
able Moses Hampton and General Larimer, pro-
ceeded to the Monongahela Honse, amidst loud
cheering He returned thanks for the enthusias-
tic welcome in brief speech. He left on SUIT
urday morning at 10 o'cock. The soldiers ofthe
late war escorted him to the boat
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

REDUCTION OF FARE-The fare on the Belydere
Delaware Railroad, from I.ambertvle to Trenton.
sixteen miles, was reduced from 30 cents to %
cents. commencing on the LIST inst making the
rate very small fraction over one cent and a
half per mile. This is the lowest fare on any rail-
road IN the United States, except one-the Hud-
son River Railroad-which carries passengers from
New York to Poughkeepsie, rs miles, for 81, or
one cent and one third per mile.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

THE FRAMING ABUsE--It is one Of the char
acterstics Of the American people to laugh at abu-
ses they cannot remedy, and to await patiently re-
forms for which present rulers may not be quite
ready. In this spirit, the Louisville Journal, in
referring to the recent exploit of Senator Borland,
Of Ark, in franking to himself about halfa ton of
books, says he committed one little oversight Af
ter irankng all his books, old clothes, and other
movabios from Washington city to Little Rock, he
ought to have franked himself BY crawling into
the same mail bag with his old clothes, taking with
him at the same time under frank, a sufficiency of
bread and cheese, he might have got home with
out the expenditure of any portion of his mileage
We would suggest TO the postlnasters to have the
mail bags handled very carefully. There's no tel
ling how many of them may contain live Locofoco
members of Congress. who might be sadly damag-
ed by rough handling
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

GETA translation ofa verse by Matthias Clau,
dius, German wit and poet runs as follows:
When Adam newly form'd, asleep was laid,
Woman from out his side was made
Poor Adam source of all our woes
Thy first sound sleep became thy last repose
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF PIGEoN.-A bird,
known by fanciers as Skirnum, recently accom-
plished in England the novel feat of flying from
two opposite points to its home at night. Several
hundred persons assembled to see the pigeon let off
The night was dark and foggy, and the bird, though
losing the stakes upon the match, which was a.
gainst time, reach his goal. His owners offer to
lay wager that he can ,fy ten miles in the
dark.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

SHIPPING WOMEN BY THE BARREL.-Captain
White, of the British barque Express which arri-
we'd at Charleston, South Carolina on Sunday, from
Liverpool. states that when fourteen days out he
discovered two females concealed in barrels, in
which they had been clandestinely rolled into the
vessel and subsequently that several other persons
were discovered concealed in the hold among the
cargo.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

Mr. Barnum, it is reported, is about starting a
monster exhibition, to be called "Barnum's Amer
ican Museum and Menagerie." 1t is intended to
be the largest exhibition in the world and will
travel through rural districts of the country during
the summer. The wagons, or cars, for this exhl-
bition, are to be built in'this city Some OF them
were completed day or two since at the estab-
lishment of Mr. Thomas D. Pierson-NeDdrk Ad-
reriiSer
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

Mail RoJbcr ArreSted-We learn that Col
liottinger, the vigilant agent of the Post Office
Department, has arrested VIM. King, formerly de-
putty postmaster at Browningtown, Butler county,
for various mail depredations He was arrested at
Venango on the 31st ult and committed for trial
before the U. S. Court which meets in Pittsburgh
in May.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

Recording Deeds promptly after the sale and
transfer of property, would save parties long and
tedious law suits. a writer in the Lancaster In
telligencer, with view of showing the Importance
of this matter, gives the present law in this State
in relation to the subject:
ga deed should always be recorded but a deed
not recorded is still valid provided the prop
rety has not been conveyed TO different parties.-
If so, the party having his deed first recorded with
in six months of execution, has the best claims to
the property so conveyed. This is the law in
Pennsyvania-henc the necessity of recording
land titles within six months of executing them
But there are many more reasons why deeds should
be recorded: For instance in the destruction of a
title by fire or otherwise, what difficulty and ex-
pense it occasions to obtain another title, which, if
the deed had been recorded could all have been
saved, with the exception of two or three dollars
for a copy at the Recorders Office Another
great reason why deeds should be recorded is, that
persons often pretend to own property for which
they hold no ttle and defraud honest persons by
giving Judgment Ithas happened heretofore. that
persons held title for properties and the strength
thereof obtained money, for which mortgages and
judgments were given, the holders of which
thought themselves perfectly safe; yet upon thor
eugh investigation no title could be found and the
persons who had advanced the: money were de-
frauded out of the same Had the title been re-
corded, this could not have happened. All land
titles should by all means be recorded; it secures
the purchaser as well as the money lender, and
prevents fraud
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17
100000
$l4,eO0,OOO
s3,OOO,OOO
anthracite to be sent to market in

| value, %AI3OoOsOOo
Bituminuos Coal, domestic and ex-
ira, State consumption, $3,OOOOOO
| Thus the aggregate value at the points OF con-
sumption, is estimated at $17,S0O,O0O. But, say
the committee, Gas large as this return is estima-
ted, it sinks into insignifcance, when we cacu-
late from the past rate of growth of the anthracite
coal trade, the magnitude it must attain at the
lapse of only twenty years Assuming, as we think
we are justified in DOING that its product has been
doubled eachsuccessve seven years, and that this
rate of expansion cannot be materially checked IN
the present generation, then by the year 1870 it
will have grown to the extent OF 25,00O,OOO OF
tons And the whole yed of the State will prob
ably have approached the present enormous pro-
duct of Great Britain which cannot be much less
than 4O,OOO,O00 of TONS England doubles her
vast yield in about twenty years.
"The annual product of our furnaces, forges,
and rolling mills, was, in 1916, estimated by a
State convention at over 33,000,000 The ma
tural increase, even in the present depressed con-
dtion of the iron trade, cannot fall below $685.
100000 The amount expended by private canal
and railroad companies exclusive of the State
works,) in order to reach the mining districts of
Pennsylvania, has been $40,000,000. When we
take into consideration that the manufacture of
railroad iron in the United States is in its infancy
that the use of our Anthracite and btumnous
coal in the process of producing iron is just In pro-
cess of practical Misrepresentation of which
branches must ncalculably add to the value of our
staple products. We scarcely know what would
be fair estimate twenty years hence, of the an
nual value of the mines of Pennsylvania.
"If the iron manufactures of England doubled
It's product, as it is wel-known they did in twelve
years. from 1886 to 1S4S, and amounted at the lat
ter date to 100000 of tons, and our own attain
ed. as it did in lS47, the magnitude of 100000
tons it very easy to see that at the rate at which
production marches in our country, this branch of
our industry must in twenty years reach dmen-
sions truly colossal"
The Committee gives some further details, and
say that in reviewing this ubiect in all its phases,
that they have become strongly impressed with
belief that the progress of Pennsylvania for the f
ture viii in 10 small degree be contingent on her
encouraging by every effort of wise legislation,-
first, the development Of her native riches-and
secondly the, advertisement of them widely to the
world. They therefore, earnestly urge it du-
ty in the Legislature to cause the publication of
the Geological Survey, in the most complete shape
that can be given to it.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

l~ 4Ir. John Van Buren, has addressed an Ella
borltey written letter to the abolition convention
Just held in Boston, over which Hon. Horace Mann
presided arguing against the constitutionality of
10 il.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

LARGE EGG.-The Sussex Register notices a
hens egg measuring six inches in circumference,
and eight from butt to point and weighing q oun-
ces. 1t was produced by hen ofa common breed,
not before remarkable for large eggs.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

CHEAP PosTAGE.-The Postmaster General has
decided that under the new postage law, which
takes effect the first of July, weekly papers on
F are entitled to circulate free Of postage, in the
county where published and that the Office of pub
lication is the starting place, and net county lines
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

GTThe Alexandria Gazette says that the grow
ing wheat in all that section of country, at this
time, looks well, promises an abundant harvest
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

Carrying poiiteness to excess, is said to be rais-
ing your hat to Row to young lady in the street,
and allowing couple of dirty collars and pair
of socks to fall upon the Sidewalk
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

(6TThc Cincinnati Gazette states that Gen.
Mosely, of Greene county, Ohio, has recently dis
covered gold mine on his farm on the line ofthe
Little Miami Railroad The discovery has caused
some excitement in the neighborhood, and many
persons were about commencing the process ofdig-
ging.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17

o. A writer from California, in the Hartford
Times, says: g | believe there are more poor peo-
pie in California in proportion to the number of the
inhabitants than in the rest of the United States"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-04-17
Nsineral Resources Of Pennsylvania.

The report on the Geological Surveys of the
State, is anable and interesting document, reflect
ing much credit upon the Joint Committee to whom
the subject was referred 1t enters into detailed
history of the Legislative action OF the Common
wealth upon the subject, and points out the lmpor-
tance of Geology in forcble terms, while many val
liable statistical facts are introduced. The COM
mittee estimate the present annual yield OF the
coal mines of Pennsylvania as follows:
Tons
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-08
THE FEARFUL FUNERAL.
BY REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, DID.

1t was on the morning of cold, chilly
day in the month of April that l was thus
interrupted in my studies by one Of the
children :" Pa, there is queer-loolsing
man in the parlor who wants to see you" 3"
On entering the room my eye lit upon a
man who was queer-looking indeed, be-
cause his dress, face, and whole appearance
proclaimed him a drunkard. He rose on
my entering the room, and with con-
strained and awkward politeness, amount
ing to obsequiousness, which the half-in-
toxicated often assume, he addressed me :
"I come, sir, to ask you to attend fu-
neral this afternoon.
"Who," said l, "is dead ?"
GA friend of mine,' he replied, "by
the name of s., and rs he has no par
ticular friends here, thought l would
come and ask you"
"Where did he live ?" again asked.
"Why," said he, he lived in no place
in particular, except at the grocery of Mr..
H. This Mr.. II. was the keeper of
groggery of the very lowest character,
where blacks and whites freely mingled in
their revels, and which had often been
presented as nuisance.
again said, "Of what disease did he
die ?"
"Why," said he, dropping his counte-
nance, and lowering his voice almost to a
whisper, al hardly know; but, between
you and I, he-was pretty hard drinker.'
After few more inquiries, to which 1
received answers in keeping with those
given above, dismissed him, promising
to attend the funeral at five o'clock.
At the hour appointed 1 went to the
house of death. There were ten or twelve
men present, and, with two exceptions,
they were all drunkards I went up to the
coarse pine coffin, and gazed upon corpse,
not pale and haggard, but bloated, and al
most as black as the ravens wing. There
were two brothers present, both inebriates,
and as unfeeling as if the body of beast
lay dead before them. From the under
taker l gained the following narrative as
to the deceased:
He was the son Of respectable, but ire
ligious parents, who, instead of spending
the Sabbath in the house of God, either
spent it in idleness, or in doing their own
work" When desecrated, the Sabbath is
usually day Of fearful temptation. Sab
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-08

was Catholic; and Judge Gibson-whc
is now on the bench for life-don't troub.
lie himself enough to oppose them, and the
decision is confirmed"
These cases, are progressive parallels
to that of Hall vs. Armstrong. The truth
is, the decision of Judge Lewis is founded
upon wrong principle. By the same law
of blind obedience-the subjecting of Di-
vine to human authority in all matters Of
falth-every preacher of the Gospel, every
missionary of the Cross, every teacher of
doctrines, whether in law, politics, morals,
science, or religion, is constantly doing
wrong. BY the same law immortal beings are
not accountable to their Maker until they are Just
81 years old Chat is. if they have parents
wheiher those who have no parents, or whose
parents are insane, are divided in their views
are never accountable, or are always accountable.
the learned Judge has not decidedly And yet,
savsees become civilized, and Idolaters become
Christians. every year; and all Christendom
seems to rejoice that it is so. Catholic children
are converted to Proiestantism. md vice versa)
DAY after day. IE every sub division of the Pro-
tesiant world, are minors who were educated in
the faith of other subdivisions, and who were
received contrary TO the wishes Of their parents
II is also true. that one Nero has left name
infamously abhorrent by his butcheries and lion
boi,ings Of children. women and men, for turning
his subjects from Paeanism to Christianity. 1t
is true, the "lnfalible" Inquistion once prisoned
and burned its thou<a <ands, and Catholic despots
have slaughtered their millions of Prespyterians
in Scotland and France, the Reformers among
the Germans, and the Waldenses on Alpine
mountains cold" because they had left the
holy Mother church," and that they still perse-
cute in some places when they have power. New
England once fined, imprisoned. banished. and
hung Qnakers, Episcopalians, and Catholics for
intruding into their moral vineyard with heresy
Virginia formerly (as Patrick Henry said) " in
dic,ed Baptists for preaching the Word of the
Almighty God." Not long since, :" Judges
winked at all mobs when pel,ing Methojsts, and
gowned "ChuIchmen sneered at them for
- proselyting." And it is also true, that savage.
still make war upon the advances of civilization.
Brutal idola,ers often take the lives of Christian
teachers and converts. All "Church and State
governments still claim and exercise more or
less power in preventing new heresies' from
the established faith" among both |
old and young. But the tendency Of things is
tnxaxfr .,rais frng,on mere are PERFECTLY
free. And we venture the assertion that the
decree of Ellis Lewis in Furnishing VIM. S. Hall
for performing a ministeria, duty OF every days |
occurrence among all evangelical denominations
everywhere, is an outrage upon religious liberty
snd an infringement Of the sacred rights of con-
science as given by our Creator to all mankind
and solemnly guaranteed by our Constitutions.
without a parallel in the United States in the !
10Th century. W.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-08
Outrages In Lancaster CouutY.,

The following is an extract from lettcr
to the editors Of the Harrisburg Telegraph,
dated LANCASTER, Sept. 56, 1851
The testimony in the Christiana. matter
will be published next week, the public
can then judge what credit is due to Ger
tain officials.
There we're several Incidents elected in
the course of the investigation worthy Of
note. Mr.. Nelson, one of the witnesses,
who was with Gorsuch from Maryland,
testified that when the blacks charged on
their pursuers they advanced, singing =
hymn beginning with the words, 1--WE are
free, We are free"
A portion of the police engaged by Mr..
Thompson, the District Attorney, in bring
ing the offenders to justice-indeed that
portion most praised and honored by our
public journals next to Mr.. Alderman
Reigart, were John keech, G.. W. Bow
man and one or two others, who were con-
victed and sent to the penitentiary for
breaking open and robbing the Mayors Of
fee of this city. Their time expired some
time since. One of them has since been
several times indicted for stealing chickens
In the reign of terror which has existed in
this county since the Christiana mur,l q.
these men with like associates from 1C1;l,
adelphia, have secured the counte 9 and
without any warrants made mum .r,us. N.
rests of unoffending men; broke coep and
robbed houses, and perpetrated rsany other
enormites. All this is overl s2ed in the
rage for "Justice"
Last Monday, these crcat,rcs went TO-
the house Of Parker, where the murder
was committed, and found it deserted bv
Parker and his wife. He had fed be-
cause of his participation in the riot
she, because she was a slave, as is Supposed.
She had left an infant child behind in the
care of an aged mother, dangerously sick
with the measels- They arrested the old
woman, and took her to Christiapa. leaving
the child alone in the house, hoping that
the mother would return to nurse her child
and thus fall into their hands. She h.,
not appeared however, and the old woman
has gone to Philadelphia, and left N.
child to perish. 1t is she, who has a,ksS
in her despair, to be sent back to .lave,v
These are but couple Of hundred l.;
less cruelties that have been perpetr.,sS;r
the name Of UrSTICE
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-08

his Docket to make out his case to the pro
ducton of 4 mighty shower of sweat tha
rolled from his brow? But enough of this
don't stand to pass Judgment on then
qualifications. lam wiling to offset against
the opinion of the "Tax payer" and "Ed
Ch." the deliberate Judgment Of as sound
Il lawyer as ever Pennsylvania had
The Hon. Thomas Burnside. now no more,
about the time of Judge Wilson's appoint
ment, declared "that he was as good law
yer as there was in the District, and per-
fectly honest man" If the " Ed Ch"
can produce the word of as sound a lawyer
and upright a man as Judge Burnside is
known to have been, in favor of his candi-
date, it might relieve the consciences of
some voters.
| do not want to speak unnecessarily
hard of any man. Did |, facts are at hand
The facts of the cases of ''Wagenscllcr vs.
Boggs" and the " commonwealth for Hayes
VS. II. S. Boyer ct all" are fresh in the
minds Of the people.
His threatened demolition of Neiman's
head with the goldheadcd cane, and his ac-
cusation of Judge Wilson, that if he had
known that Fryer was not whig he would
have let him clear of fine, for assault and
battery at the last court, and his afterward
leaving money with two men in Perry TIP.
to be spent at Fryer's bar to treat the bays
after he left, shows what the man would do
himself, had he the power.
Fellow citizens, l have To special inter
est in the election, more than the rest of
you; but let NE say to you whether YOU
will hear or forbcar) east your votes in such
a way that you will elect an honest man
and sound /a~ycr,-which an experience
Of ten years has proved Judge Wilson to
be, and thereby put the veto on man that
you know but little about, except his char
acter for political inconsistency which l
leave politicians to talk about-and who
has given no extraordinary evidence, du
ring his short residence in this county, of
l character for LEGAL acumcn or integrity
hat fits him for the Office he aspircs to. /
md is small enough to 20 around the Dis /
'rlct to beg votes for. The President Judge
ship is transcendently responsible Office, !
and should be occupied by a sound law
ger, but more especially by an honest man.
JAMES F. LINN.
Lewisburg, Pa, October ,, 1851.