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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-10-11
New Wholesale and Retail
WINE & ElEQUOKs STOg
StroUdsburg, Pa.

EEl The undersigned would inform Land
saisssl liords and the public generally, that
he continues the above business in Strouds-
burg, in the store house formerly occupied
bv John II. Meiick as Jewelry Store, and
hac IN ha md Ia rre Stock Of
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
From the Cincinnati Price Current.
The Wheat Cron-

IL is difficult matter to determine what
an average crop. reduced 10 bushels, would
amount TO in any State, for the reason that
statistics collected under the authority OF
Government have been exceedingly defec-
tive. The yield of 1850, according to the
census return, was, in round numbers. 81
100000 bushels, IN the States of Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New York and Virginia, but an
average crop in those States is estimated at
about 100000 bushels. The crop OF the
present year, however, is slightly below the
latter. The severe douth Of last summer and
fall prevented farmers from sowing the usual
amount of seed, and it is generally admitted
that the breadth Of land planted is less than
usual. The increased yield per acre, and the
improved quality, make up in part, however,
for this decrease, and it is safe to estimate ths
yield Of the foIr States named al 65ocoQo
bushels, which, though below an average. Is
an increase as compared with last wear q a.
least 100000 bushels
In all the other States. hoVeves that grow
wheat to any extent there Is a arse Increase.
some of them having prodecea twice a. much
ss in any previous year Taking the pso-
ducts as stated in the csosus retaras Cor 1850
for the basis. aud estimating TIE feohAble IN.
crease this wear over that, Ne have the fol-
Loving result.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
Kentucky.

The election comes off to-day in old Ken
tucky, and whatever may be the result, we
earnestly hope that We shall not be compell-
Cd 20 record scenes of violence anG blood
she'd. We condemn such exhibitions as
strongly in Democrats as in Know Nothings
But TO the honor of our party, be it said, sell
dom, very seldom, does contempt of the law
at elections attach to the Democracy. The
Presidential vote in Kentucky In 1852 stood
IS follows:
ScorT 57,06S. PIERCE 53,807; giving
scoFr a majority of four thousand two hun
dred and sixty-one, which the Democracy
would have 90 overcome if things stood IN
statu quo. But the new issues have, we hope,
worked for the benefit of our cause.
We learn from the Bardstown Gazette that
the Cincinnsti Times has been playing the
game there as in Virginia and Tennessee
The Gasetts says:
This paper, intended exclusively for Ken
tuckg circulation, we have had in our possess
sion some days, and we have now succeeded
in getting hold Of one Of its issues, for OHIO
AND NORTHERN CIRCULATION, of the SAME
DATE AND NJ MBEli-and the papers are
as different as if emanating from different
offices and edited by different men. The
Northern number has nothing about the fifth
distrc: in it-no article appealing to the
"Citizens Of Kentueky'-and nothing favor
ing the South or southern institutions II
speaks with pleasure Of Chase's election be-
ing secure-gives and-slavery platforms
pats the Abolitonists Familiarity on the back
and openly avows that SAM Is A FREE.
SOILER IN OHIO" The other number ID
made of quite different materials, goes against
negro-stealiDg and underground railroads
and hurfas for Charley Wintersmith Both
papers are numbered Volume XII, No 52.''
and dated Thursday, July 10, 1855" They
are both in our possession, and can be seen by
any and every one.
Gentlemen of political experience say that
perhaps MooREHEAD. from his personal popu.
larity may be elected, but the State will be
fairly divided with the Democracy. Motor.
Pin aud WOoLLEY, both Democrats, will be
elecled; and Preston will be elected IL tn,
voters of the first, second and eighth Ward.
OF the city Of Louisville are permitted to vote
But on this point the Courier says:
IL is now reduced to certainty that IN,
infamous scheme 70 produce riot and blood
shed and to disfranchise at least one thousand
or fifteen hundred Of the legal voters of the
city, concocted in the secret councils of tn,
Know NothiBgs and faithfully carried out h,
their willing subjects in the General Counci
and on the Judges bench, Is to be prosecu
ted to the uttenmost extreme. Under presen
arrangements it is entirely impracticable D
poll the entire vote in the First Second q
Eighth Wards. The only manner in whicI
even anything like an approximation to a full
vote can be taken is by concerted action i
those wards, for the bulk Of the voters to cas-
their votes only for Governor, Jieutenar
Governor, Congressman, Senator and Repre-
sentative, instead of for the entire ticket.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
Circulation of Indiana Papers

Our citizens are greatly to blame for not
patronizing their own papers to greater ex-
tent. We do not make the remark in refc-
renee to ourselves, for we believe our circula-
ton is larger, certainly as large, as that Of any
other paper in the State. The complaint was
suggested by reading notice of the circula-
ton of the Philadelphia Daily Ledger for the
month of July. Ii averaged per day during
that month, sirty thousand three hundred and
seUe''ty-tiree copies. This is probably the
largest edition, by at least ten thousand per
day, Of any daily newspaper in the world
Three thousand, one hundred and forty fom
and half reams Of paper per month, costs
something in the course Of year.
We. of course. do not expect any such
grand results as these. But an approxim.,-
ton, even at remote distance, NAV be looked
for as nothing more than what is due to the
press from the two great parties which divide
our State. Ii is a matter of equal interest u
Fnsionists and Democrats to sustain thei
own papers. "The Press said MAoKINrosH
SIS the whispering gallery of the world. -
But Indiana politics will be whispered TO tn,
people in very inaudible tones unless the,
encourage their home papers Patronage vii
improve the character and merits Of paper
very commonplace truth, and yet one yer,
little regarded by Indianians.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
Democratic Mass Meeting at Ander

In view of the momentous struggle i'm
pending between the Democracy and the va
rious factions, it has absolutely become neces-
sary for the Democracy and national men to
begin TO show their strength. In view of the
impending struggle, it is therequest ofcvery
Democrat, who has been Intercepted upon
the subject, to meet in Mass MEETING AT
ANDERSON on the 18th inst, to more effectual-
ly unite for the coming contest, and to organ
lie so as to attend the grand rally at Indiana
polls on the 29th inst
National Democrats, National Wings, in
short, all opposed to the unprincipled ma
chinations Of the Dark Lantern Oligarchy, and
the reasonable efforts of disunion, fre-eating
Abolitionists, are invited, yea, requested to
attend upon the appointed day.
Let us make such preparations to attend
the mass meeting as to render it proud day
for the Democracy Of old Madison.
No arrangement will be omitted to render
the 11th a brilliant, soul-reviving time.
Come every body, set apart one day for the
service of your country. -
By request of MANY DEMOCRATS.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
SO ends Mr.. Campbell.
Mammoth cave, oh what spot.
Ia Summer cold. in Winter hot,
We powers ABOVE! great Gods l wondcri
General Jackson. blood and thunder"

"7he Missouri Compromise thus proposed By
tie South and carried by her united votes.'
Let us see how this statement harmonizes
with the truth of History. HILDRETH, (au-
thor of the White Slave,) in his History of
the United States, (vol. 5, p. $685. says that
the Compromise was proposed by THOMAS,
Of Illinois, a northern Senator; and it ia well
known that the Legislatures of Virginia, Ken
lucky and Maryland, memorialized against
any prohibitory clause.
JOHN RANDOLPH Indignantly denounced
the Compromise Gas a dirty bargain" by
which the South had surrendered her rights.
When the vote was finally taken, it appeared
that in the Senate out of twenty-five northern
votes, twenty were cast in favor Of the Com
promise and only two against it; while in
the House out of one hundred northern votes,
ninety-five were cast in favor Of it, and only
FIVE against it. On the other hand, of twenty
two southern Senators only fourteen, and Of
seventy-six Representatives only thirty-nine
voted for the Compromise.-(Appendi "a
Congressional Globe, July 9th, 1s50)
Speaking of the Compromise in ls4s, Mr.
CALHOUN said
after an arduous struggle of more than a
year on the question whether Missouri should
come into the Union with or without restric-
tons prohibiting Slavery, a compromise line
was adopted between the North and South:
but it was done under circumstances which
made it no wise obligatory on the latter. II
is true it was moved by one of her distin-
guished citizens, (Mr. Clay but it is equally
SO that it was carried by the almost united
vote of the North against the vote of the
South; and was thus imposed on the latter
by superior numbers in opposition to her
strenuous efforts. The South has never given
her sanction to it, or assented to the power 1t
asserted. She was voted down ard has sim
ply acquiesced in an arrangement which she
has not had the power to reverse, and which
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

OF The Managers of the Bellefontaine
Railroad at indianapolis refuse to receive the
paper of the Indiana Stock Banks in payment
for freights, &c, &c. This is right. At this
time the people are oppressed and abused
with bank paper. If the railroads centering
at the State capitol would all refuse to receive
bank paper of all descriptions, take nothing
but the legal constitutional currency-gold or
silver coin-the people would soon have a
better currency. This policy, if pursued by
the Railroad Companies throughout the State,
and if they would pay out the coin for labor
and materials on the line of their respective
roads, it would have as good an effect on the
currency in the State as Gen. Jackson's spe-
Gle circular had upon the currency of the
United States.
Instead of falling back upon this Jackson
policy, the State Sentinel family echoes the
JouTnaL-which in the now olden time was
regular British bought United States Bank
opportunities half column leaders in con-
domination Of this specie circular of the Belle
fontaine NATURALIZATION Courier.
1t is not particularly because the managers
Of the Bellefontaine road refuse to receive the
paper of the Indiana Stock Banks, that we
have declared against 1t, but because they DIS.
crinai'late il favor OF foreign Banks, which
have not one-half the amount of securities
and are not one-half as well guarded as Gu
Free Banks. We are for hard money cur
! rcncy: this is in consonance with the views o
the Democratic party on the currency ques-
ton; but as long as we are afflicted will
Banks, and until we have a metallic currency
we are for that system of Banking which
promises the greatest security TO the bill
holder.
AS TO the Sentinel family "echong tn,
Journal" this is only one Of the Courier
stretches of imagination. When the Belle
fontaine or any other Railroad, issues "speci
circular" we shall have naught to say agains
it. That Road has never done anything o
the kind, however.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

U"Our platform would be better, beyond all
question, If that portion of the second resolu
ton above alluded to, was stricken out but let
It stand for the present, and the people ViH strike
L 0ut next year. We were never in favor of the
Missouri Compromise, and we would, in my es-
timation, be foolish to restore it now.-C0rTes-
pOndeRce of the Indianapolis Journal, of Friday.
We published the above caption on Satur-
day in its connection with the other para
graph of the letter. But it is too good to be
lost; it deserves to be repeated until it sinks
into the memories of the voters of Indiana.
We admire the writer for his candOr-what-
ever we may think of his discretion. He
boldly proclaims that principles, rules of Polit-
ical action, solemnly promulgated in large as
sembles and through the recognized organs
of numerous party, have no permanence OF
fxedness, but are things which, like articles
of dress, are to be put OFF and on according tt
the season.
1t is true that Congress meets next winter
but no person ever imagined that the Missouri
Compromise will be restored and the Nebras
ka bill repealed with President Pierce and
conservative Senate at the head of the gov
eminent.
The writer plainly confesses that the part
had no intention of restoring the line +; TO
long before that could be done, public opIn
, ion would have advanced so far in the anti
Slavery direction that such restoration woul
, be condemned as pro-slayery movement
f He does not seem to be conscious that he
: exposing his own shame and that of his pal
7 ty by this cool declaration of duplicity-
Let IL stand for the present; it may secure som
wing votes-it may give an air of moders
), ton to our platform, and enable our leader
in certain localities to deny the charge OF rad
!, icaism. 44nd the people ,OiH strike it ont ne
year, when they are sure of victory, when W
s ters have become committed not to
i able to withdraw. What do they care 4
: consistency or honor if they can only hay
> success? But they may find themselves ba
calcu lators; they may have to say that Il
clause about the restoration was worse than
, crime; it was blunder.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
sohnson f. scted in Tennessee-North
CTrolina all right.

The Louisville Courier has the following: |
TENNESSEE ELEcIIOS.-For 10 these many |
wears the first election news from Tennessee
has been always 50 favorable - the Wings as
to excite their highest expectations and en-
thusiam But the more the returns came in
the darker things looked, and frequently that
which at first promised so fairly, resulted in
disaster and gloom. The complexion of the
news from the distant counties often upset the
incest calculations as based upon the vote IN
the first few counties.
The dispatches at noon yesterday an
nOunced that IN thirteen counties heard from
Gentry * ny had gained 1890 votes on
johnson, who was elected in 1858 by only
2,26l majority. OF course X. n. stock went
up rapidly, and Know Nothings were exult-
ant and jubilant in a high degree. Last
nights dispatches, however, put another face
on matters. Gentry's gain in % counties
was reduced to only 300, one-half of which
was gained in Davidson county, in which
Nashville, the hot bed of Know Nothingism,
IS located. Moreover, several private des-
patches came through, stating that johnson
was beyond all doubt elected, some Of them
stating MS majority at several thousand. OF
course Know Nothing visages suddenly
elongated and the ''Owls'' soon sought their
hiding places We were still, however, rather
inclined to think Gentry was elected, when
we were favored with the following private
despatch from a Know Nothing at Nashville,
which settles the hash"
ave are catching HI in West Tennessee.
i, e doubtful who Is elected, but johnson
has the best chance"
The iig NAV be considered as up. Sam is
dead in Tennessee and he will be pretty apt
to be buried deep. deep, deep in Kentucky,
and especially in this Congressional district,
on Monday next
The Telegraph reports are as follows:
Tennessee Election.
JoHSsex gains $50 in Smith and Macon
1872 in Marshal, IS in Cameron, and repOr-
ted gain Of 60 in Warren county.
GExTBY gains 20 in Robertson, 40 in Giles
and gaining IN Dickson, Benton, and Hum
phrsy's.
The returns fuctuats very much; Their
ars large losses and gains on both sides, an'
the result IS nov very doubtful. Johnson
chance seems the best.
The net gain for GENTRY, in 80 counties, /
1870. Election close. 1t is expected ths
the h y candidate for Congress from IN
First District IS elected by 700 majority
Zo1tscoFrrR K n in the Nashville Distric
is elected by large majority.
North Carolina Election.
Tenth Congressional District of N. G. Hal
fax County, gives Fl. NJ SHAW, Democrat,
majority Of 600 over PAINE, K. N, for Con
gress; in End District, Edgecombe and Wayn
counties give THos. RuFFIN, Democrat 200
majority over L t. LATHAM, K. N. Wing, i
Sd District; WrSsI.ow, Democrat, has yer
large majority over DAVID REID, E N
Fourth District, Granville county gives So
franklin $50, Warren 700, and Wake As
majority for L. L. BRANCH, Democrat. I'm
preston IS that Democrats have a majority {
Congessmen. Returns show large Democrat
gains
Here an accident happened to the line, an
further reports could not be obtained.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

6r Several papers in this State are urging
the claims of Hon. Dan Mace to the next
Speakership of the House of Representatives.
He is as capable for the position as any Re-
publican in the North. More than that, he
will gain credit for his honesty and upright
ness, qualifications which speakers have not
always possessed. We hope he will be cleo
ted to that high archaeological Aneri-
can.
We imagine that this will be sy.os to many
Republieans(D in Hoosierdom. DAN MACE
as speaker of the House of Representatives
Ha! ha! However, why not? DAN is as
honest as any of the Republican members elect,
and his intellect is about of equal ca.ibre. His
qualifications, however, are quite another
thing-nagnifcent, superlatively excellent BY
the way, will the american please explain its
newborn admiration of DANIEL? We thought
that paper opposed Know Nothing principles
and Know Nothing leaders. How is it
friend HOWE?
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

HENRY CLAY or FUs1oy.-The following
IS an extinct from a speech delivered by
Henry Clay. in Nov 10, 1850 and now both
applicable and Of interest:
"But ifit (the Wing party is to be merged
into a contemplate Abolition party, and if
Abolionisn is to be engrafted upon the Wing
creed, from that moment renounce the party
and cease to be Wing. Igo yet step further:
If am alive, will give my humble support
10 that man for the Presidency, who, to what
ever party he may belong, Is not contaminated
BY faI,aticisn, rather than to one who, crying
on, all the time that he is Wing. maintains
doctrines utterly subversive Of the Constitution
and the Union.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
The Decatur Press and Gov. Wright


1t is pity to spoil SO rich story as the
one published in yesterdays Journal from
the Decatur Press, upon the subject Of the
Temperance law, Gov. WRIGHT and others
The editor of the Press must try again; all is
false, every word, line and sentence. Judge
BLACKBOARD never gave any opinion on the
subject of the Temperance law. Gov
WRIGHT never prepared any veto message.
The Governor does his own thinking, writing
and talking. Judge BLACKBOARD was appoint
ed to his present Office at Washington, by
President PIERCE, and not by the influence
of any man from Indiana, either Senator or
otherwise
We should think after the number of mes
sages, veto messages, prepared by Gov
WRIGHT, and published during the last six
years. upon the various interests ofthe country,
that the Greensburgh editor must have known
that no one man in Indiana would believe his
story that Gov. WRIGHT had other men to
think for him. We think the public will
sustain us in the remark, that Gov. WRIGHT
is man of labor, of industry, and but few
men in any community equal him in the
amount of business which he dispatches.
From the first inaugural which he deliver
ed in 1849, including some ten veto messages,
four annual messages, several special mes
sages, addresses TO Colleges, Agricultural AS
sociations, &C., every reader will say
whether he does or does not believe the doc
thine advanced, that they are Gov. WRIGHT
all over--that the same head, hand and heart
were the author of them ALL
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
Appointments by the President

THOMAS A HENDRICKS, of Indiana, to be
Commissioners oil the General Land Office, in
the place of JoHN WILSON, removed.
JOSIAH MISoT, of New Hampshire, to be
Commissioner of Pensions, in the place O,
LOREN P. WALDO, resigned.
MURRAY MoCoNxEL, of Illinois. to be
Fifth Auditor ofthe Treasury, in the place O
JOSIAH Minor, appointed Commissioner o
Pensions
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

The above figures show an increase as CON-
pared with the crop reported in 1s5o-of
twenty-five million bushels. The aggregate
yield in 1880 was doubtless much larger than
indicated by The e. ires above, as is also the
crop OF the present year; but the statement
shows the comparative yield. Last year he
crop was smaller than in 1850, BIZ at least
twenty-five per cent so that the increase this
year as compared with that Of last is over
forty millions Of bushels.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

APPOINTMENT BY THE GovERNoR.-FRAN.
els j. NEFF, Esq. of Sullivan County, Prose
cutting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
Of the present incumbent.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

GREAT FLooD Is WHITE RIVER. We
learn that immense destruction Of Crops has
been caused on the White Rive bottoms by
the overflow Of the river. The water is said
10 have been from to feet in many corn
folds On Wednesday.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

GTFrightened and disguised at the open
speculation and hopeless bankruptcy of the
finances of New Orleans. under it's present X.
n. administration, the Delta Of that city sug-
gests the expediency of letting out the city
affairs to some half dozen capable men, to
pay its debts, receive and take care of its
revenues. and perform the duties of govern
ment.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

W One of the "he animals that whiu:
his wife is Sag Nicbt and lives in Indian.
apolis.-Madison Courier.
The che" animal aforesaid Is as natural
a Know Nothing as the Courier editor. It q
said that he is particular favorits Of the
President Of the indianapolis Councils,
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

TGovenor CLARK, of New York, hai
COMMITTED the sentence of death passed OF
Mrs RoBrssoN, the yelled murderess, to I'm.
PRISONER for life in the Sing Sing prison.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09

l. o. o. F.-STATIsTIcs OF THE ORDER IN
KESrUcKY.-During the year ending June
80, 1853, the Independent Order of Odd Fell
lows report membership of $3.50. The ag-
gFegate amount Of receipts for the year was
sA,s47 OF which there was spent: