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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
Difference,
Sir John Franklin.

The Newburyport Herald, relinquishing
all hope that SIR JOHN FRANKLIN will ever
be found alive, thinks that solicitude for the
fate of the bold searchers after him is more
appropriate at the present time. 1t says:
''Six or eight vessels have wintered in some
of the bays or inlets which empty into Baf-
fms bay, beyond the point where the whale
ships ever venture, and it will be well if 9TH
er expeditions are not required to recover
some of them. The American vessels, we
fear, were not sufficiently we'll appointed for
the undertaking, and we fear much for the
safety of their crews. We know nothing
on earth which we should not rather encoun-
ter than winter in the ice on board small
vessel above latitude seventy. 1t requires a
greater amount of courageous effort than to
lead squadron on the bloodiest field Of bat
tie the earth ever saw; for that trial would
be quickly over, and there might be excite
ment enough in the contest to carry one
through it fearlessly.
lit is probable that FrankllnS vessels
which have now been absent more than six
years, succeeded in the first or second season
in reaching some point ofthe Arctic sea, which
is seldom open, perhaps not oftener than once
in a generation, and there frozen in, where
they remained until they all perished by cold
or starvation. Not unlikely the vessels and
the bodies of the men may be found hereafter,
and many thrilling interesting memorials
found recorded in their journals by their side,
which the last of them no doubt kept as long
as life remained.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
12,011,34S 90
Total revenue in 3 years,
ToTL EXCESS of expenditures
over receipts,
S950,6s6 81

TOTAL EXCESS of expenditures
over receipts, $950,686 81
And they charge that this amount was left
for Gov. Porter to pay. Now admit this to
be all true, where is the proof in this state
ment that the State debt was increased fue,
ten, SeUe1E, or nine millions of dollars under
Gov. Ritner! Ii as not here nor eISeaohere
1t can't be produced. If that amount was
added to the debt by Gov Ritner, all the Cor
ernorS and Audior Generals ,ce hare had
since Cor Porter retired, hare pifully and
deliberatly .falSJfed. for all their messages
and reports virtually state expressly the oppo-
site!
These charges of largely increased debt
by Gov. Ritner, are made either through ig
norance or maliciousness. The revenues un-
der Gov Ritner were unusually heavy. The
u. S. Bank and other banks paid to the State
bonuses of over three millions of dollars for
charters, and nearly three millions more were
received from the National Government as
Pennsylvania share of the surplus revenue
in the National Treasury. With this money
the heavy expenses of the Government were
paid, and by it the necessity of all permanent
loans was ayoided
The statement which the Iocofocos make,
the substance Of which we give above shows
that there could not have been in the Treas
ury when Gov. Ritner retired, deficiency
of more than 100000. His last message,
the statements Of aohich are sustained eUen
By the authority the Locofocos bring to bear
upon the question, states this to have been
the condition of things when he retired:
"The permanent State debt which was twen-
ty-four million three hundred and thirty thou
sand and three dollars and thirty-two cents,
(s24, ,330, ,003 32,) is now twenty-four millions
two hundred and thirty thousand and three
dollars and thirty cents, ($24,230,003 32,)
and though there are temporary loans to the
amount of one million fdellars due, vet they
were forced on the State in opposition to the
Executive and will sink to small amount
when the sums due at the. commencement of
the year 1886 are deducted from them.'
He admits that temporary loans to the a.
mount of nearly million of dollars did exist,
but says he decreased the funded debt $780,
600 and that the temporary loans will sink to
"small amount when the sums due at the
commencement of the year 1896 are deducted
from them" (See Gov. Ritner's last mes
sage, dated Dec. %, 1889 81
We have thus taken the very figures in
tended to convict Gov. Ritner of increasing
the State debt and have proved that the usu-
ally large revenues he received kept up the
Treasury-that when he left office there could
nothaye been deficiency gilmore than $780,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
rae suban News summed up.

A patient and careful collation. of the
many conflicting statemants concerning
the recent manifestations" in Cuba,
we think must lead every well-judging
mind to the inevitable conclusion that
the Spanish Government there still stands
firm and unshaken. There is no better
indication of this fact, indeed, than IS to
be found in the perfect tranquility OF the
public mind in Havana, the most populous
and the most commercial city on the
Island, at time when, crediting the
s'patriot" dispatches, the whole interior
of the island is in blaze of revolution.
There is nothing in this world that makes
men more sensitive than their pockets;
or. what is about the same thing, the
trade which fills their pockets. If there
is revolution going on in Cuba-one so
widesprea ad and thorough as the New
York Sun and the New Orleans Delta
assure us there is--it would be out of the
power of the Captain-General to prevent
signs of uneasiness, uncertainty, anxiety,
panic, in the business affairs IN the cap
ital of colony which stands on the
brink of revolution, and in all probability
civil war. We can well conceive the
greatest exertions on the part of Gen.
Cencha to quiet alarm, by distributing
proclammtions, and by diminishing even
the magnitude of such demonstrations as,
it is not denied, have been made at Prin-
cipe and elsewhere; but were there any
thing really serious, we mean any thing
Immediately menacing the existence OF
the present Government, or threatening
to drench the Island in blood, we can as
easily conceive an excitement and stir
among the business interests of Havana
too palpable and too inevitable for the
! ingenuity of the Government to concea al
or repress.
Ncac York E;rprcSs.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
Tno E;ectjosys.

The returns of the August Elections are
not vet AL in. The result, as near as we
can ascertain from the Telegraphic reports,
are as follows: !,
KEyrucKy.- the Locoioco candI-
date for Governor is suppored to be elected
by 500 majority. Cassius nj. Clay emanci-
nation candidate, as far as heard from, has 81
l65 votes for Governor. The Congressional
delegation stands ) Wings to 5 Locos-last
year 6-Whgs to Locos. Leslie Combs IN
Henry Clay's district is defeated. The Legis-
lature is Whig in both branches.
INDIANA.-The Congressional delegation
is Locos to 2 Whigs-last Congress 1.o-
cos to l Whig The Legislature is Locoto-
co in both branches-as before. The new
Constitution is adopted by $4,000 majority.
TENNEssEE.-Gen Campbell, Whig, is e.
'lected Governor, over Gen. Trousdale, the
present Locoloco incumbent, by majority OF
several thousands. The Congressional dele
CATION is Wings to 6. Locos-a gain ofone.
The Wings have majority in both branches
of the legislature, which secures a U. s. Sen
ator, in the place of locofoco Secesslonlst..
NORTH CARALINA- Congressional del
.egation is Wings to 3 Locos. Among the
Wings is Stanley, against whose election the
I.ocofoco Seeessionists used the most desper-
ate efforts, but without success.
ALABAMA.-Gov. Collier, Locofoco and
Secessionist, is reelected. The Congression-
al delegation will consist of Secesslonists to
5 Unionists, among the latter of which there
are ? Wings.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
A Strange Insect.

The Cincinnati Gazette, of Thursday,
has the following paragraph
s'Immediately after the rain of Tuesday
afternoon, singular insect was found on
the pavement, in front of Billy Wards
store, on Main street above Fifth. 1t is
about four inches in length-has five
eyes-two stiff horns projected from the.
front head-sundry feelers extending
from the vicinity of the mouth, and long
silver colored wings. Among the many
persons who saw this wonder yesterday,
no one recognized it as belonging to this
region. One gentleman stated that he
had seen insects of the same kind in the
Island of Malta.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
The Farmers and the Tariff.

The enormous sum.of two and half mil
lions ofdollars have left the port ofNew York
within the last two weeks, to pay foreigners
for goods imported into this country. Two
and a half millions in two weeks exclaims
the Village Record. Think of that We adgo-
Gates of a revenue Tariff Our farmers who
were promised high prices for their grain,
under the British Tariff of '46 ind themselves
deceived and cheated The English market
is supplied with Wheat from other countries,
at price lower than it can be raised here at
profit. So the Wings predicted. The po-
tato rot raised the price of corn few years
ago and the Locos said it was their new Tar
if did it! The farmers now see what reli-
ancs is TO be placed ona party who are so
destitgte of American principles, as to manu-
factiire falsehoods in order to reconcile their
followers to the support Of a most pernicious
and ruinous law.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
From California .

The steamship Prometheus arrived at New
York from San Juan de Nicaragua, on Wed.
nesday, with California news two weeks Ia
ter than previously received She had $50
passengers and half million of dollars of
gold. Crime and lynching are the exciting
topics of the day. A notorious robber named
Jim Stuart, was hung in San Francisco, on
the 18th of July, by the Vigilance commit
tee." He confessed horrid series of crimes,
and appeared to be satisfied Of the justice of
his punishment. The Court charged the
Grand Jury that such executions were mur-
der, but still the Vigilance committee proceed
and appear to be sustained by public sem
timent. A Mexican woman was hung by
the Lyncliers at Sacramento for stabbing a
man on the 7th of July. The man behaved
outrageously in her house; and the deed she
committed was in no wise proportioned to the
punishment. Such is the injustice and un-
certainty ofLynch Law. Robberies and muir
ders are perpetrated in every quarter-some-
times severely punished, and oftener not pun
ished at all. Society1in the State appears to
be in lamentable condition.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

The !Susquehanna Register has two
columns of a defence of Judge Jessup a
gainst the assaults of the locofoeo press
proving the malignity and utter falsity
of their charges. In a short article on
the same subject, it relates the following
anecdote as aptly illustrating the position
of the locofoco editors, in the matter:
A youth was on certain time viewing
very carefully fine horse belonging to
his neighbor. After looking at him in
tently for some time, he exclaimed:
II wish that horse was dead"
"Why," says the father, "the horse
dosen't hurt you; why do you wish him
dead?"
EEBecause he amt ourn!"
1t is admitted by all who know Judge
Jessup, no matter of what party, that
there is no man in the State better quail
fled for the Supreme Bench, either for
honesty, capacity, or legal learning.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
The Reason lohy the locofocO journal al

7 The, Reason ,ody the locofoco journal at
Montrose is assailing Mr.. Jessup in reference
to the affairs of the Bank of Susquehanna
County was fully explained TO US the other
day by gentleman who has had ample OPP
portunities to make. himself acquainted with
the secret motives Of the editor and his asso-
ciates. 1t appears that Mr.. Thomas p. St.
John, the cashier under whose fraudulent
management the Bank was ruined, is to be
tried at Montrose for his misdeeds in few
weeks, at special court to be held by Judge
Williston. His locofoco friends at Montrose,
who were accomplices more or less direct
with him in the great swindle, are anxious
to relieve his case in the public estimation,
and, through public opinion, in the estimation
of the jury by whom he shall be tried, by
wrongfully shifting portion Of the odium O.
yer upon Mr. Jessup. This is an old game,
which rogues often play at, and frequently
with success. In this case it has been car
ried too far, and is reacting powerfully. We
are assured that Mr.. Jessup will run far ahead
of his ticket in Susquehanna county. In this
county he will poll more than a party vote,
and SO he will in Wyoming, Luzerne, Pike,
and Monroe counties -HoneSddle Demo
c;.0t
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

BELvIDERE DEL. RAIL RoAD.-The
following persons have been elected Di-
rectors: Robert f. Stockton, r. L. Stevens,
j. r. Thompson, Edwin A. Stevens,
Samuel d. Striker, Charles Sitgreayes,
Charles Bartles, William p Robson.
Lewis Perrine. The Directors met and
elected the following officers: Charles
Sitgreavas, President; John p Stockton,
Secretary and Treasurer
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

GREAT TROTTING MATCH.-The great
trotting match between Lady Suffolk and
St. Lawrence, for purse of $500 took
place at Union course, Rochester, N. Y.
on Friday afternoon of last week-mile
heats, best 8 in 5. Lady Suffolk was vie
torious, winning the lst 2nd and 4th
heats. The time was as follows: lst
heat, 2m. 25sec.; 2nd. Pm 37sec.; 3rd Pm.
36sec.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
E@The Steamboat, Maj. VIM. Barnc

h1The Steamboat, Maj. VIM. Barnet,
is still lying at Trenton waiting for the
Delaware to rise and enable her to reach
Easton. She is said to be a beautiful
little boat, and attracts considerable at
tention, having her wheels in the stern
gives her an odd look, but she is said to
make her way through the water with q
speed that is equalled by few boats. 1t
is thought she has strength of machinery
enough to stem the current of the Della
ware whenever the water will float her
over the rocks and riffs of that stream.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

600 for Gov. Porter to pay-that he made no
permanent loan and did not increase the fun
tded debt of the State, because he had plenty
of money without resorting to sich means-
that he decreased the funded debt 100000,
and that he slightly increased the floating
debt. These are the facts OF the case as all
honest men are ready to admit, and all efforts
to misrepresent the facts have ended in the
total overthrow and discontinue of the men
who had boldness enough to undertake the
rk.-Daily american.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

The,new Constitution of VIRGINIA, which
will undoubtedly be adopted requires nothing
of the voter except that he be white male
over twen.y-one, resident in the State for two
years, and in the county or city where he Of
fers to vote for one year. 1t is thought this
will more than double the number of voters in
Virginia. ~
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

pg~In the Canary Islands there are to
be found trees which yield abundance of
pure fresh water in the driest seasons
In China, taliow is produced by a cer-
tain species of plants. In Chill there are
trees which daily supply the people with
salt,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
acffcrsonian Republican.

~ The Postmaster of this place, informs
US that the Post Office at Shaw's Meadows,
in this County, has been discontinued, by or
der of the Post Master General.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
A Good Bargain

A gentleman of Washington city, but
few years ago, married pretty little
girl of ninety pounds, and now has very
extensive wife Of more than two hundred.
He confesses that he has more than he
bargained for-and better than he merits.
Many husbands might with truth confess
the former,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
Successful AnncaI.

Rev Dr. Mclean, President of lafayette
College, Easton, Pa, preached on Sunday,
the Sd INST, in Huntingdon, and on Monday
secured from the congregation of that place,
one thousand dollars towards the endowment
of the College.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

D-P The Pennsylvania having charged
that q Judge Jessup has devoted so much of
his time for years past to the breeding of hor-
ses that Coke and Blackstone have been ne
elected" the Binghampton Republican dry
ly replies that IF the Judge had paid more
attention. TO the breeding. of asses in this state
locofoco editors would have been better man
nerea than they are"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
TNcac York Express

DEThe locomotive force on the New
York and Erie railroad amounts to one
hundred and seventeen engines. The road,
it is said will require, when in full opera
ton, two hundred locomotives.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

A Chicago paper states that the ladies
there have got up bonnet as an Offset
to the 'kiss-me-quicks' and the 'hold-me-
fasts' of the north. They call it they mo-
you-dont.'
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

PoTAFo CRop IN OH1o.- The Cynciu.
aaqts Connpesosaz says; The Potato cron-
this year, has never been equalled by
any previous one. In addition to the a.
bundant supply, their flavor is far superb
or to any that have been introduced in
our market for many years,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
S26.I66.9I9
Total for 1851

Total for 1851, S26,l66,9I9
This fully explains the cause ofthe present
pressure. 1t can all be traced TO orer- r-impor-
tation ; and vet we learn from the New York
Express of Saturday evening last, that so far
the importations during this month have ex-
ceeded those of the corresponding period of
last year. The pressure in the money mar
ket has thus far had no effect in lessening the
imports, but has only caused large quanti-
ty of the goods imported to be stored in the
public warehouses.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
were chosen
c. C. Field.

At a meeting of the Directors on Saturday
last. PETER S. MIcHIER, Esq, was elected
President of the Board. At another meeting,
held on Monday evening, McEvers Forman
was elected Cashier. Melchior II. Horn, Tel
Ter, John Knight, Clerk, and William Ham,
man, NVatchman.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
Earmers' and Mechanics Ramk
Of ENlsfOFl.

The Stockholders of this Institution met at
the American Hotel, IN Easton, on the lIth
inst, and choose by ballot, thirteen Directors,
to manage the business of the Bank, until the
next election, which comes off some time in
November next. The following gentlemen
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
How aI,e Money goes.

InlS50 the House of Representatives was
strongly Locofoco. The Expenses were
(See Auditor Generals Report, p.
44) S71, 1856 %
In 1e47, the House was strongly
Whig. Its expenses were (p.
36,) 57,129 %
Difference, $14,257 90
Who were economical! The Locofocos
who spent SEVENTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS or the Wings who spent over FOUR
TEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

OEF Several heavy failures have recently
occurred in Baltimore.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21

Total August 0 to August 16 S907,707
Previously reported, 25,259, ,242
The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-04-23
A NEW CRUSADE FOR THE RECOVERY
OF THE HOLY LAND

Ii 10 stated ia a late number of the AHee.
mine Ztitrne, that the Austrian Utramon.
tans party is preparing considerable difficult.
ties for Prince Schwar,zenberg, by lis zeal
for an object which the Christian world has
abandoned-,he recovery of jerusalem and
the Holy Sepuchre from The hands OF
the Mahometans. Tho purpose of the cru.
sades is TO be revived, but il is to be pursu.
ed by the way o! diplomacy, not by war;
Ii is stated that the Catholic powers, with
The connivance of Austria, intend TO obtain
possession lt ls not precisely defined how
Of all the sacred spots OF the Holy Land,
which will be then made over to the Catho.
lie Church. The Order of the Hol, Sepul
chre will be raised to The Importance once
possessed by the knights Templars. The
Pope is to be the q and Master, and one
Prince Of every Catholic State of Europe is
to be created Grand Prior.
The movement, as far es it can be called
one, is probab bly, caused by The increasing in.
fluence Of the Greek church in the East, un.
der tho support Of Russia. That church,
too, has made the possession of the HOLY
Sepulchre a special ohjec, Of its ambition, as
well as other localities in SYRIA sacred by
their associations. During the two years
past, while the political power of the Papa
Government was prostrated, the efforts of the
missionaries and agents Of the Greek church
are SAID 10 have made great progress, and
are gradually saPpng be inHueEce Of the
Latin church.
The feuds between the two churches have
long been Of the most bitter kird, and in Je.
fusalen, it is well known, have grown 10 a
scandaious excess; guard Of Turkish sol.
ders alone keeps peace be,ween them on
certain festivals IN the Church Of the Sepul.
chre. The Germans state that the Greek
christians have really obtained the prepon
deralng influence in jerusalem, and that any
efforts Of The Austrian ultra. Catholics TO re.
cover he lost ground will be met by the de.
cded opposition Of the Emperor Of Russio,
practically he Pope Of The Greek church
Prince Schwarzenberg is not over Jealous in
the cause of the Austrian Pelisrs, and will
probably suppress the whole plan as soon as
II becomes politically inconvenient. Men
York Courier.
The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-04-23

We saw journeyman printer the other
day who is 80 years DID, and still IN good
case, with all his faculties perfect, and able
to do days work without spectacles. = Bos
ton Post.
Ia the Washington Globe office, there is a
gentleman so years of age, who works al the
case from II to IA hours every day, and walks
from and to his home in Georgetown, dis
tance of some three miles every morning and
evening He held clerkship in the Land
office for thirteen years, but for the crime of
being Wing, was displaced by President,
Polk, and in his old age obliged to fall back
upon the business TO which he was educated.
Mr.. Collins established the first paper pub.
ished in the Western States, and his history
embraces almost every vicissitude Of life
He is now, although in the "sere and vel
low" time of life, hale, vigorous, and hear.
ty looking man, capable of "setling" his s
or 10000 ems a day, and when the notion
takes him, of delivering to the "crall " in the
office where he works, good, sound, and
wholesome Washington Wing lecture. The
"click" of his type and stick is music to the
ear of printer, and none can look upon hi.
venerable form without feeling of edmira
ton and respect. - Boston Journal