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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
The Northern Gold Wines.

The papers and people in the vicinity of
the reported gold discoveries in MAINE and
CANADA, and particularly those ofthe Kenne-
bee region, are getting more and more excl
ted on the subject. The Hallowell Gazette
has constituted itself the special advocate of
the genuineness of the discovery, and the Or
gan of the adventures who have repaired to
the placer. Saturdays paper has long list
of parties from different quarters, said to have
started for the Chaudiere, and of specimens
of the metal which have been sent down to
the river towns. We have not too much faith
in the realization ofthe sanguine expectations
of the adventures and their friends, but We
shall soon learn more about the matter. If it
turns out as represented, there will be plenty
of visitors to the Chaudiere region this season,
though not exactly on a tour for pleasure
The Gazette tells large stories of the amount
taken from this new Ell Dorado-S20 to $40
day; states that letters from the country
were most sanguine and encouraging; that
some two thousand persons have started for
the mines, and that numbers are arriving dai-
ly from Boston and New York, bound to the
same destlnatlon.-B0SlOn Courier.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
Effects of Railroads on Agricul-
lyral Products.

The effects of railroads in modifying the
agriculture of different sections, is illutrated
by the example of Massachusetts,. Since
1910, about 800 miles of railroads have been
laid in this State. According to the returns
of the assessors, it appears that the number
of horses increaseased from 60,O30 in 1910,
to 74,060 in 1850 This is remarkable, espe-
cially when we consider the fact that the
railroads have displaced many lines of stages
on which numerous horses were employed !;
and it shows that the increase of business
occasloned by the railroads, gives employ
ment to an increased munger of horses
From the same returns we learn that cattle
have increased from 276,737 IN le4O, to 29S,-
600 in 1850, while the same period, sheep
have declined from 343,390 to 1889. The
produce of wheat has declined from l0l,l76
bushels to 2e,467, while Indian corn has in
creased from l,775,073 bushels in l64o, 10
z, ,395, $50 in 1850.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN-In case of attach
ment against witness for failing to obey
a subpoena to attend before q United States
Court Commissioner, Judge Belts, in Circuit
United States for the Southern District OF
New York, has decided that when witness
lives or resides more than one hundred miles
from the placce of trial, he is bound to obey
the subpoena to appear and testify before a
Commissioner, under the acts of Congress,
and disobedience of such subpoena is con-
tempt of court, for which attachment against
him will be sustained. In the Judges decis-
ion, he remarked that this had been the prac-
tice of the Circuit Court for the Southern
District ofNew York for twenty years. This
decision should dispel the DOUBTS of any Uni
ted States Commissioner, who has entertained
any, on this point of practice, and greatly ia
cilititates the taking of testimony.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

SwINDLERs AND BEGGARs.-There have
lately arrived in New York nearly hundred
Italian beggars, armed and equipped with
documents made out with care, purporting tc
prove them "political exiles,' " shipwrecked
passengers" or persons who have been rob-
bed, &c. These persons, there is good reas-
on to believe, are professional beggars, whose
business at home is begging. About thirty
have gone to fleece the good and charitable
of Philadelphia. 1t is supposed there are
twelve hundred of these now in the United
States.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
Short Dresses,

1t is ruR10red 1--WE cannot vouch for it,,
that some of the ladies of Erie contem-
plate the adoption of short dresses. .
Well, if the ladies will, they aciH, you
may depend upon it, and so We have
very little to say. Should they see fit to
attach act1gS to their persons, and follow
the suit of the son of Dedalus, who few
too high and lost his pinions and fell in
to the Icarian Sea, why the duty of the
lords of creation would be, to get out a
boat with all possible expedition and pick
the dear creatures up.
Its altogetherpossible thateven the slip
pered pantaloon"-to say nothing further
about "short dresses may become the
ruling fashion in this city, and we advise
all Benedicts, to see 10 it," as Cicero
said, that their authority receive no det-
riment, nor pass away with the unmen-
tionables, so long embiatic of matrimoni-
al monarchy. If all the anticipated chang
es should come to pass, it is to be hoped
that one 'iskirt," at least, will be preserv-
ed as suggestive souvenir of the times
that were. [Erie (Pa.) Gaz.
s1- We understand that some ladies
of our town intend introducing the Turk
ish costume-Short Skarts and petitions
on the Fourth of July. Hurrah for
independence.
Those ladies are cautioned against
wearing stockings with large holes in the
heel.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

THE METHODIST CHURCH SUIT.-The Nep
York Commercial says:-We learn from the
Christian advocate and Journal that the book
agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
acting upon the suggestion ofthe Court in the
late trial respecting the church property,
have proposed to the commissioners Of the
Church South, san adjustment of their pre-
ferred claims by legal arbitration under the
authority of the Court" We are glad to
learn this, and trust that the South will, with
equal promptitude and cheerfulness, meet the
proposal favorbly.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
LYnCh Law.

a little case of lynch law occurred on
Wednesday last, few miles from Princeton,
N. j., which was SO well tempered with JUS
tice and moderation that it deserves to be re-
corded. A party of laboring men were at
work on the road leading to Clarksville. \
negro man, well known to III, was in the par
ty, and hung up his clothing a short distance
from where they were at work. A couple of
way-faring men came along and stole the ne
gro's clothing, comprising his coat, (his Sun
dy best) vest, and little small change in
one ofthe pockets. The theft was discovered
short time afterwards, and the whole party
started in pursuit of the travellers. They
overhauled them finally and found the stolen
articles in their possession. The little party
organized themselves into sort of " faxseed
Court" convicted the travellers of the larceny,
and decided that they should be tied to a
tree and receive ten lashes piece, " well
laid on" by the hands of the injured negro
The sentence of the court was carried into
effect, by the negro-the travellers were then
released, and pursued their journey, no doubt
satisfied that the affair was so soon over
TTren. Gaz.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

The editor of the Fishkill Standard tells a
good story about friend of his who was in
New York when Fillmore and the procession
was passing up Broadway. About opposite
the Park, a number of gents were in the
forth story-window shouting hurras for the
President, when a tall fellow in the crowd
whom he took to be Vermonter, looked up
at the window, and asked in a voice that
could be distinctly heard by the whole crowd,
/" Mister, what Office will you her Z"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

615~At one of the places where the cars on
the Erie Railroad stop to allow the passen-
gers an opportunity to get breakfast, an incl
dent occurred not long since, which striking
ly exhibits the difference between a mans
wants and his capacities 81 have had a
boiled egg and cup of Coffee" said trav-
eler, as he passed over dollar bill to pay
for that amount of provisions. 1--WE charge
twenty-five cents" responded the landlord,
'and each person eats what he wants. So
The expression that came over the traveller s
countenance as he received this response
showed that much light had broken in upon
him, and the way he proceeded to make up
for lost time was caution to eating house
proprietors. Seven boiled eggs four cups of
coffee, and large slice of cake disappeared
in hurry, and as the whistle sounded for re-
suming the cars, we heard him calling for
"sliced apple pie" falling to obtain what he
called for, made frantic grab with both
hands at pyrimid of doughnuts, half doz-
en- of which served him for the remainder of
the day-N. Y. Tribune.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

LrsUs NATURE.-Whoeyer can .o.o,,,.
for the following phenomenon must have n.,.
taken of some Tree of knowledge that !,
has not been our good fortune to meet with
A very curious pear three is to be seen in the
garden of a Mr. Green, Gowanus, within =,
block or two of the entrance to the Green.
wood Cemetry. Half of the tree is at pres
ent In full blossom, and the other half merely
IN leaf Every alternate year each blossoms
ana pears fruit. The bearing side this year
WI Will yield an abundant crop of sweet fruit
Inc side that does not blossom this year will
blossom and yield crop of sour fruit the next
year, and SO on every alternate wear. This
has been the case since the tree first Welded
Brooklyn Star.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
Awful Tragedy.

An awful tragedy took place in Roxbury,
Mass, on the evening of the 8th instant A
young man, representing himself as stran-
ger from Hope, Me-, called at the house of
DIR. A. G. Cumming, a very respectable ply
sician, and requested medical advice. The
Doctor being out, Mrs. C. invited him to step
into the parlor, where he sat down, took off
his cravat, and complained of pain in his side.
At that moment little daughter of DR.. c..
came running into the room, when the man
instantly drew a razor from his pocket and
cut the child's throat from ear to ear. The
mother sprang forward, and in her efforts to
protect her child, was herself badly cut in
the hand. She then fed from the house with
the servant girl, pursued by the assassin.-
The neighbors were alarmed, and rushed to
the spot when the man cut his own throat,
and fell dead in the street The girl also died
instantly. She was an only child. The
mans name is supposed to be Ephraim G..
Daggett. He was doubtless insane.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
General Scott.

In answer 10 many inquiries as to the age
of Gen. Scott, and the date of services, the
Cincinnati Chronicle makes the following
statement:
Winfield Scott was born on the 18th oi
June, 1856, and viii, therefore, be 90 in June
next
Admitted to the bar in 1906, and practis-
ed a few months in the Petersburg (Va) Cir
cult
Appointed Captain of Light Artillery in
May, 1903
Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sec.
ond Artillery in July, 1912.
Fought the hattie of Queenstown and was
taken prisoner 18th of Oct, 1912.
Appointed Brigadier General in March
1914.
Fought the battle of Chippewa, July 5th,
1914.
Commanded the main body of Browns ar
my in the battle of Niagara, (Lundy's Lane,)
~Obu, 4C1T'
Brevetted Major General, July, 1914.
Maintains peace in the Patriot troubles, in
the affair of the Caroline, 1887.
Aids in the pacifcation of the Maine Bcun-
dafy in 1889.
Captures Vera Cruz, Odd of March, ls47.
Wins the battle of Cerro Gordo, April 18th,
1s47.
Wins the battle of Contreras, 18th of Au-
gust, 1847.
Wins the battle of Cherubusco, August 90,
1s47.
Stormed Chapultepeck, on the 18th ofSep-
tember, lS47.
Entered the City of Mexico in the morn
ing of the 14th of September, le47.
Thus has Windfield Scott been .forty-tUo
years in the service Of his country, having
made some of the most brilliant campaigns
on record, and never failed in any undertak-
ing.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
The Dcpopalation Of ireland.

The Dublin Evening Post states that ofii-
cial returns of the Commissioners, relative to
the population of Ireland, have not been pub
lished; but, from the returns from some local
tiles, it is apprehended that the entire census
will exhibit decrease in the population of
nearly t,c0 millions since IS41. The Post
gives instances of the decrease. In the small
city of Cashel in l841 the population was T.
O36; now ALSO; Limerick in 1641, 4S, 1893 !;
now in round numbers $4,000; in one of the
Baronies of Queens county, Shenemarague,
the population has diminished from 17,914 to
1850; in Carlinford, county of Louth, the de-
crease has been from LILO to 887. The pa
rish of Annadown, Galway, in 184l had a
population of 7,108; in 1851 it is reduced to
3.663 or very nearly one-half. The Leeds
Intelligencer, in remarking upon this state
ment, says:
"The rotten edifce of Irish agriculture
fell into ruins in 1916, with the failure of the
potato crop. The first fearful consequences
of this to the peasantry were famine and
deaths in frightful numbers, and each succeed
ing year has seen those more or less actively
at work in thinning the population. Up to
this day the rate of daily wages (where such
can be bad) in the West of Ireland is too
small to afford adequate sustenance, even of
the humblest kind, to multitudes of families
whose heads contend with one another for
employment Half feeding is proverbially
prolific of disease, and death still makes ma
ny, though almost unnotced, ravages among
the Irish peasantry."
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
The Cash Svsten,.

The evils of the credit system, in minor
business transactions, are the experience of
almost every one. The remarks below,
from the g s'American Mechanic" apply as
well to most kinds of business as to publish
ing -
"With publishers of newspapers, in CON-
mon with business men generally, the cash
system is preferable to any other; to publish
ers, who rely or nearly so, upon their sub
scription list for support in the prosecution of
their business, it is indispensable. Such
thing as newspaper credit should have no ex-
istance anywhere. Nothing is gained by it,
either by the proprietor or subscriber, but the
former must necessarily be the looser.-
There are thousands of upright, well-mean-
ing men, who subscribe for newspapers and
who intended to pay for them, but the idea of
writing letter to the editor, enclosing two
dollars, never entered their heads-though if
called upon for the amount due, they would
probably be prepared to meet the demand.
But the publisher of almost every country
newspaper knows it would be out of the
question for him to employ collector out of
the profits of his subscriptions; so many of
his patrons continue year after year taking
the paper without advancing a cent, while he
is paying cash for his printing material, cash
for his paper and labor, and everything ne
cessary to carry on business. Here then is
loss-not attributable to any design on the
part of the subscriber to defraud. but the le-
gitimate fruit of worse than worthless sys-
TEN. They would pay if waited upon; but
the printer cannot afford to spend five dollars
for collecting three, and never gets his pay.
"Again-Mr. A. has the paper sent to his
address four or five years; his bill by this
time amounts to ten dollars he dies, or runs
away, or perhaps becomes bankrupt; here is
another ''proft and loss account for the prin-
ter.
"Mr B. also, who lives some five hundred
miles distant, has had the paper mailed to
him three years without making payment,
when suddenly the editor is addressed thus:
4" Sir-Your paper addressed to MIR. D. is not
taken out of the office. Reason-gone to
California"
aside from cases Of this kind, there are
in every community numbers of very liberal
minded men," who are particularly anxious
for the success of everything of literary
character, and who, by way of encouraging
the enterprise, are always ready to enter their
names on the subscription book, but never
think of paying.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

A man named Peiffer was tried before the
Mayorof Allegheny few days since, and con-
victed, on the testimony of another named
Hartmeyer, of passing small notes. contrary
to our law. The circumstances were, that
Hartmeyer asked Peiffer to give him change
for ten dollar gold piece, but the latter said
that he could not do it without giving him
small notes. Hartmeyer said that would do,
and took them, but afterwards brought suit.
Mayor Flemming fined the defendant one
hundred dollars.
feTBills were found by the Grand Jury of
Carbon county, at its last session, against c.
M'Geddy, John Kirchnen and Joseph B. We'll
ler, for passing small bills.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

The Crystal Palace Eclipsed.-Mr. Duff,
in his speech at the anniversary meeting OF
the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
in London, thus describes one of the Heath
en- Temples ofIndia:
"Jn Seringham you have the hugest heath
en- temple that can probably be found from
the North to the South pole. It is square
each side being mile in length, so that 1t IS
four miles round. Talk of your Crystal Pal
ace Why, as man would put penny 10
his pocket, you might put your crystal Pal-
ace in the pocket of this huge pagoda.-
The walls are % feet high and or feet
thick, and in the centre of each wall rises
lofty tower. Entering the first square you
come to another with wall as high, and four
more towers. Within that square there
another, and within that again another is
crowded by thousands of Brahmins. The
great hall for pilgrims is supported by thou
sand pillars, each cut of single block Of
stone"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
Horrible.

A man in Greenfield, Hancock Co., Indi-
ana, recently shot his own daughter, killing
her almost instantly. He was arrested, tried
and found guilty, and sentenced to imprison-
mont for life. 1t appears that the man, Ken
edy, had abused his wife SO outrageously that
she had appealed to the law for redress; and
the daughter, married woman, was one of
the principal witnesses against him. After
the trial he was heard to say he would kill
her, and even the afternoon before the trage-
dy, he was at the house of his son-in-law and
swore he would have blood. In the evening
as they were sitting in the room, all at once
the daughter who was looking towards the
window, started and throwing up her arms
moved towards the bed, when the sharp crack
of gun was heard and she fell shot through
the temples Her husband ran to the door
and discovered Kennedy making off. She
lived long enough to state, before she expired
that it was her father she saw through the
window with a gun.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

G- The trout-fshing exploits of Major
FREAs have been cast completely into the
shade of insignifcance by party of young
Pottsylvanians, who, as we learn from the
Emporium, returned last week from high
ly successful fishing excursion to Loyalsock
Creek near Ellis tavern, in Cherry town.
ship, Sullivan county, during which, having
been absent six days, they caught upwards of
fifteen hundred Trout, many of them large
and fine. The party also shot number of
wild Ducks and brought home with them in
triumph, large Bald Eagle, which they
fortunately captured alive. 1t measures ser-
en- feet from tip to tip of its wings.-Reading
Gazette and Democrat.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
Stale ConyenrIoul.

The Wing State Convention, to nomin-
ate candidates for Governor, Canal Com
missioner, and Judges of the Supreme
Court, meets at Lancaster on Tuesday
next, the 2ith inst. Gov. JOHNSTON,
having already received the approval of
various County Conventions, and having
carried with him in his course the appro-
baton of the great majority of Wings,
viii no doubt be nominated as the Wing
candidate for reelection. The question
between the parties is distinctly made up,
and there never was a better chance to
gain glorious victory upon well fought
field.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

No MoRE CoRNs--ChGmber'S Journal dis
closes a secret which it AYERS will relieve hu-
mananity from load of misery not the less
difficult to bear than it is unpitied or ridculed.
1t says:
"The cause of corns, and likewise of the
torture they occasion, is simple friction: and
to lessen friction you have only to use your
toe as you do in like circumstances coach
wheel-lubricate it with some oily substance.
The best and the cleanest thing to use is a
little sweet oil, rubbed upon the affected part
(after the corn is carefully pared) with the
finger, which should be done on getting up in
the morning, and just before stepping into
bed at night. In a few days the pain will
diminish, and few days more it will cease,
when the nightly application may be discon-
tnued.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
THE CHARITABLE HIGHwAYMAN.-Itis is said

THE CHARITABLE HIGHwAYMAN.-Itis is said
of Poulter "a better sort ofhighwayman) that
one day riding on horseback on the road he
met a yong woman who was weeping and
who appeared in great distress. Touched with
compassion, he asked her the cause of her
affiiction, when she told him creditor, at
tended by bailiff, had gone to house which
she pointed out and threatened to take her
husband to Jail for debt of thirty guineas
Poulter gave her the amount, telling her to
pay the debt, and set her husband at liberty;
and she ran off loading the honest gentleman
with benedictions. Poulter, in the meantime,
waited on the road till he saw the creditor
come out; he then attacted him and took back
the thirty guineas, besides everything else
he had about him.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19
Judicial Convention.

The Democratic State Convention, to nom-
mate candidates for Judges of the Supreme
Court, met at Harrisburg on the llth inst,
and nominated the following named persons
as their candidates, viz:
Hon. jeremiah S. Black, of Somerset.
James Campbell, Philadelphia.
Walter Lowrie, Pittsburg,
Ellis Lewis. T" Lancaster.
John B. Gibbons, Carlisle.
The nomination Of these men is conceded
TO be Buchanan triumph. Itisjust the kind of
u ticket that is easily to be beaten, and that
will be defeated if the Wings act wisely and
make the right kind Of nominations.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

or Mr.. Terry, editor of the Lynchburgh
Virginian, having made some comments up
on the course ofDr Saunders, member OF
the Virginia Convention, was attacked in the
streets of that place on the 9th inst, by JAS C.
Saunders, son of the Doctor, and murder
GUS fight with revolvers was the consequence.
Young Saunders died the next day from his
wounds, and Terry is also reported as having
since died. A constable who endeayored 10
separate the parties was also so severely woun-
ded that his life is despaired OF The con-
iict created great excitement in Lyhchburg.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-19

The Battery" of the city of New York is
to be enlarged to twenty-four acres, being
more than twice its present area, which is
ten acres, three roods, and thirty-two poles,
and increasing its river front from sixteen
hundred and twenty to two thousand one hun
dred and twenty feet. To effect this enlarge
ment, the depth of water covering land to be
filled up varies, at high tide, from eleven to
forty-eight feet, and yet this work has been
contracted for at So, ,152-the contractor ex-
pecting to receive, for the privilege of depos-
iting dirt and rubbish, a compensation suffi-
cient to reimburse the cost of building the ex-
tensive bulkhead and wall which are to pro-
tect the works from the action of the sea.