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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
A Vast Gold Field.

A recent arrival from California brings
intelligence of the discovery Of an "E|
Dorado" Of immense extent. 1t seems
hardly credible that gold should exist 10
such quantities on the western part of our
continent; but from what is already
known, we feel confident that the mineral
wealth OF our "erest West" when that
vast region is fairly developed, will be
found to exceed the most sanguine ex.
pectations. The subjoined paragraph
contains the last report of gold disooVe'
ries:
"Tbe correspondent of the Dallas Noun
tsineer says it is demonstrated beyond
dispute that the whole region of country
embraced between the Cascades and
Rocky Mountains is one vast gold field
and only requires development to revolu
tionize that entire coast. An area OF 3.
200 square miles had been sufficient.
prospected to establish the existence o
the mineral everywhere. Exploring par
ties have been filing out for the Elk coun
try and Bitter Root Valley.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
Mount Vernon to be CoDfscated.

An effort is being made by parties in thi!
and other cities to induce the Govern
ment to confscate the Mount Vernon es.
tate, with the hope of realizing money,
Of which they were defrauded by the bad
management of the association. The
business matters of the fund were very
loosely conducted. A man named G. T
Deveraux swindled the fund to q consd
cradle extent. sfterward abscondiug.-
Deveraux was employed by Miss Pane.
liza Cunningham. the Regent, to epgrave
the Record" and certain other publica.
tions auxiliary to the uses of the society.
Being an accomplished peDman, be forged
Miss Cunningham's signature so skillful.
ly that G. B. Riggs, the Washing gton
banker and treasurer Of the society, was
repeatedly imposed upon. The society
is thought to have lost about $4,000 in
this way. A number of brokers on Third
street, likewise deceived, bonored the
forged checks, aud one was swindled to
the amount Of 81 900. These latter par
ties. with a view of securing indemnity,
propose that the Government shall confs.
cate Mount Vernon, irasmucb as the IT,.
ties to the same are held by Secession
lists, and Miss Cunningham. also Seces.
.iouist, adberes to the fortunes of South
Carolina. To the latter lady's careless
ness the losses are due. Daveraux un.
derstood her habits of business, and made
them subservient to his schemes. He
was, however, even when detected, suffer.
ed to 60 unpunished, whereas prompt ap.
peal to the authorities would have secur-
ed him, and saved the money.
Mount Vernon is now virtually the
property of the rebels. IF confisca ated
and sold it could not fall to worse hands
than at present, and tits improbable that
Miss Cunning ham with her reasonable
proclivities, will relinquish any part of
the funds voluntarily contributed by the
women Of the North.
Dayeraux is said to have gone to Eu.
rope, but many believe that be is hidden
away 10 Philadelphia. His swiudliug
operations netted him more than $780,.
600, and his known parsimony will prob.
ably direct him 10 investing it.
He forged to the extent of $50, 900 up
on the late Mrs. Gaunter, whose losses
are supposed to have induced her death.
philadelphia Press.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
A Sensible Woman.

A man in Lacrosse, Wis, few days
ago. rushed to the river, sSearing that
be would drown himself. When be had
waded in to the depth OF bis waist. his
wife, who had followed him, seized him
BY the hair, and then, as social editor
describes it, she led him back till they
reached place where the water was "a
bout two feet deep, where she pulled him
over backwards, sou-ed him under, aud
pulled his head up again. drown your
self-(down be wenL-leave me to faith
er the brats! (ano,her plungs)-get
drunk (another souse) land start for the
riVerl (another dip)-better use water in
stead of rot-gut, (anotber dip and shake
of his head)-Ill larn ye to leave me a
widow, and all the men at the wsr!" Af-
ter sozzling him to her hearts content.
she led him out a wetteF if net better
man, and escorted him into the house and
closed the door.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
The Harvest of Death.

DR.. Lyon, brigade surgeon under Gen.
at the battle Of Wilson Creek, was Wit
ness to the following extraordinary incl
deDt:-
"a tall rebel soldier waved large and
costly Secession flag de6antly, when a
cannon ball struck him to the earth, dead &.
A second soldier instantly picked up the
PROSTATE flag, and waved it agaiu-a
second cannon ball shattered his body
A third soldier raised and waved the flag,
and third cannon ball crashed into his
breast and he fell dead. Yet the fourth
time was the flag raised, the soldier
waved it, aud turned to climb over the
fence with it into the woods. As he
stood astride the fence a moment, balanc-
ing to keep the heavy Gag upsight, a
fourth cannon ball struck in the side, cut
ting him completely in two, so that one
half of his body fell on one side of the
fence, and the other half the other side,
while the flag itself lodged on the fence,
and was captured few minutes after
ward by our troops"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
New York a Hundred Years Ago.

New ork 10 1851, as described BY
Benjamin j. Losing in bis late work,
"The Life and Times of Phillip Schuy.
ler,' was really a village in comparison
with its present spleudor and proportions.
New York. at this time, contained a.
bout thirteen thousa inhabitants. There
we're about $500 buildings in the city.
many of them of brick, covered with
tiles. and most of them presenting an as
pect of comfort and thrift. Fine country
residences, surrounded By gardens and
pastures, embellished the suburbs, and
some Of the town residences were compar-
atively palatial. The city was almost a
mile in length, and about half mile in
it's greatest breadth. Some Of the streets
were paved with huge pebbles. as in rural
cities and villages at the present time,
but nearly all Of them were irregular in
their linear relations and course. Its
markets were we'll supplied with fish,
flesh, and vegetables of every kind, the
latter being chiefly raised by Dutch farm
ers on Harlem Plains, near the end Of
the island.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
From Charleston.

WASHINGTON. Tuesday, Oct. l
A. j. Davis. a Police Sergeant in
Charleston, S. c., was dispatched after
prisoner to Nashville, Tenn. He there
got a pass to Kentucky, and made tracks
for this place. He had an interview with
the President to-day, to whom be made
a foil state ment of matters and things in
Seeessiondom. He states that there we're
but few troops in Charleston. about 800
at Fort Sumter, and 600 on Sullivan's
Island. Half of these we're just from the
country. They were throwing up sand
bstteries for coast defense. Among the
working class, in and out Of the army.
the Union sentiment predominates, and
they only await an opportunity to mani
feet it openly. The Hatterss blow was
keeDly felt by the rebel leaders. Provis.
ions are very scarce. Wheat -four is sold
at 1sc per lb. There is no pork. and
specie was commanding large premium.
Federal prisoners from Richmond were
brought 10 ss Mr.. Davis left. He con.
versed wisb Col. Corcoran. who is nearly
veil. The Irish population was anxious,
bat feared, to exhibit sympstby for him.
Only three vessels have succeeded 10 run.
ming the blockade at Charleston. The
Confederate troops seen BY Mr.. Davis on
his wsy to Keotueky we're poorly armed.
generally with long bowis.knives and
shot guns.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
A Safe Bet.

Several gentlemen were riding in cal
during last fall, when the conversation
turned upon tho Presidential election
and the prospects of Lincoln and Others
were discussed at large. After awhile a
solemn individual who had listened in 81.
lence addressed the party thus:
my friends you are wrong. Before
the election of 1860, the world will have
come to an end, and Christ will be Pres.
ident of the Universe"
Up started an enthusiastic gentleman
from the Palmetto State, who stuttoring
~ said to the millerite-
ON bet you ten dollars South Carroll
ma won't 60 for bim."
A roar of laughter greeted the exit o
the Second Adventist, as be removed t.
another car.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
David Mcfarland, sen, of O'Fsllon

David Mcfarland, sen, Of O'Fallon.
St. Clair Co., ILL.,, has rendered $1,000
to the Government. Mr.. Russell Hinkley,
banker at Belleville, H.. in a recent let
ter to Marshal McKinstry of ST. Louis.
announcing the fact, Gays:
10 1912, there was sudden call for
men to 90 to Plattsburg to beat off inva-
ders of our country. A youth near Troy,
N. Y, aged only 10. promptly respond
ed. shouldercd his musket, and marched
to the battle ground. That youth, now
an aged man-a farmer living some eight
miles from here, in St. Clair Co.-whose
head is as white as snow, quietly walked
into my Office, where be has transacted
business for years. and laying his satcheI
on my counter, said
Il want you to tell me the shortest
way for me to get this into the hands o.
our Government. Without Government
it is worth nothing to me; and if it most
20 down, | want this to 60 with it,"
UDtying the satchel, he unrolled pspe1
after paper of gold aud silver, till th'
sum counted up 81 900.
Icould but clasp his hand, and exolaim
"Well done for you. my friend"
That patriots name is David. McFar
land, sen, of O'FalloD, St. Clair Co., LII
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
Whereabouts of Senator Breckinridge.

The Cincinnati Enquirer states, upon
good authority, that Senator Breckin.
ridge, with Keebe Richrads. arrived last
Sunday night week at Prestonburg. Floyd
county, wbish joins the Virginia bounds.
~. Col. George B Hodge, of Newport,
and Col. George w. johnson, of Scott
county, arrived at the same place on
Tuesday. On Wednesday. Colonel Wm.
Preston, Hon. w. E. Symmes. son of
Brutu. j. Clay. Union State Senator from
Bourbon and Bath, Captain Stoner, with
bis company, arrived there. On the
same day all left by the State road for
Virginia. where they uow are. They
were all finely mounted and well armed.
Nearly one thousand armed Kentuckians
had passed through PrestoDsburg, be.
tween Sunday morning aud Wednesday
evening, the time that Breckinridge and
company we're there. At the Sounding
Gap, Cumberland Mountain, which is at
the head waters Of the Kentucky and Big
Sandy Rivers, there is a secession camp
of fifteen hundred men, and it is increas.
ing in numbers daily. by secessionists
from Kentucky and Virginia. This camp
commsnds the two great roads that meet
there-one down the Big Sandy and the
other down the Kentucky River. 1t is
about forty miles from the Tennessee
Rsilroed. The Euquirer's Informant
says that on his way down the State road
leading through Prestcnsburg, be con-
stantly met squads on horseback, in wag.
ons, and on foot, with shot guns and
squirrel rifles, on their way to Virginia to
join the Southern army.-Lou'sviAs Jour.
nal.
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ga Great Bargain.

To all who may inolose 81. will send.
by mai post paid, fnely-cut engraved
portrait of George Washington. the Faith
er of bis Country. together with an ele-
.eapt portrait of BeDjamin-sither sela-
rately at four sbillings.
A gentleman, noticing the above ad
verti,eneut in city paper, sent 10 hI'
dollar, aud obtained in return three
cent and a one cent postage stamp, orna
ID msnted with "fnely cut engraved heads
A very mean swlndle.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10

You bsd better send q son unarmed
and helpless into wilderness Of ferocious
Wild auimsls, than into the world without
education.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10

AN IRIsHMAN's OPINION OF A YAM
KEE.-"Bedad. If he vas cast away on
desolate Island, he'd get up the next NOR
niu' an 20 round selling maps to the In
habitants."
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10

The amount OF Southern property seiz-
ed in New York BY the Marshal thus far,
is supposed to be not less than eight or
ten millions Of dollars.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10

There are thirty pounds Of blood in
the human frame, and two hundred and
forty eight bones. Women have the same
nan Der not including the whalebones.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10

How ABOUT THIs-Wonder if the
"Bitter Eod" that the traitors talk about
fighting to, hes any reference to the
"Rope's End I"
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VOL 20.
Published by Theodore Schoch.

TERMS.--Two dollars per annumin advance-Two
dollars and quarter, half yearlyand if not paid be-
fore the end of the year, Two dollars and half.
M papers discontinued until all arreaTages paid,
except at the option of the Editor.
,DAIvertisenents OF square tten lines) less,
one three insertions, co. Each additional lnser-
Son, IS cents. Longer ones proportion.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10
JOB PRINTING.
EAMGH PNIMIIMG3.

Having a'general assortment Of large, plain and {
Type, are prepared 10 execute every d'
ScriptiOn of
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-10

Cards Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes. Blank Receipts
Justices Legal and other Blanks, Pamphlets &c, pln
ted with neatness and DESPATCH on reasUnablct terms
at this office.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-08-21
A Preliminary to Union.

We have already mentioned that the
administration have removed Colonel b.
Watson, democrat, from the post-office at
Lawrence, Massachusetts. In speaking
of this act, the Boston Post, as staunch
a Union paper as exists, says:
President Lincoln and his associates
in authority, by universal testimony, wo'd
have been helpless, or perhaps prisoners
in rebel hands, but for the gallant and
timely conduct Of the Sixth Regiment of
Massachusetts soldiers. Those noble vol
unteers are public benefactors, and the ad-
ministration and the country owe them
an immeasurablc debt ot gratitude.
Lieut.. Col Watson, without single
days opportunity for preparation, left an
extensive professional business, and other
important matters which urgently claim
ed his attention, to lead that advance
column Of freemen to the defence of the
beleagucrod capital and its frightened in
mates. In person he commanded the
portion Of the troops that withstood the
murderous assault in Baltimore, and the
men of Capt. SIMPSONS immediate com.
mand can testify TO the courage, selfpos-
session and ability displayed by him on
that trying occasion, During the major
part Of the time while in service he com
manded the regiment, securing its warm
confidence and esteem, and served both
the original enlistment Of three months
and a further term of ten days. He re-
turned home, welcomed with cordial greet
ings by his fellow-citizcns, just in season
TO receive intelligence of his removal from
office While at Washington, in those
hours Of terrible suspense, Col. Watson
was honored with cordial attentions from
gentlemen high in official station, and re-
ceived from them voluntary assurances
that he would be retained, and prominent
Massachusetts republicans, unknown to
him aud without solicitation, urged tho
administration to continue him in Office.
The Lawrence Sentinel, owned and con
trolled by him, has firmly and zealously
supported the war for the preservation Of
the Union, and forborne the discussion of
political differences. The head and front
Of his offending consists solely in the fact
that he is democrat"
This, then, is practical Illustration of
the method in which the republican lead
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-08-21

sacrifice them both. Seward said, Spar
ties, platforms and men must be sacrifc-
ed 10 the Union," and he told thotruth
that once. The Union men Of the South
have made that sacrifice. We have CIV
en- up parties, and separated from old par
ty friends. We have given ole creeds
and platforms 10 the winds, to save a
country and free institutions. The peo-
pie North must make the same sacrifice,
no matter under what name they CO.
Whilst we acknowledge the necessity OF
armies, something moro is necessarily
This sectional antagonism must be smotb-
cred out and buried. We want now q
Union party North and South, composed
of men ready to sacrifice all, except the
cardinal doctrines Of free institutions, tc
the one obiect-the preservation Of the
Union,-LouisviHe (Ry.) Dem.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-08-21
Mortgage Sale.

hEFAULT having been made in the condi-
IL dition to n certain mortgage, executed by
llcrmanus Koning and Hendrick Koning, to
Engel Dc Young, bearing date the sixteenth
day of September, in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty eight, and recorded on the 25th day
of December, A. ID. 1860, in book or liber of
Mortgages, on page 404 in tho Registers Office
of Ottawa County, State of Michigan, part of
which said mortgage, being payment of 5000,
due the first day of January, A. ID. 1861, having
been by said Engel DE Young assigned TO me,
Jacob Cats, which said assignment was duly re-
corded in the Registers Office of Ottawa Coun-
ty, State of Michigan, on tho 10th day of July,
A. ID. 1861, in book or liber Il Of mortgages, on
page 2G3, and no suit or proceeding at law hay-
ing been instituted TO recover the debt secured
by the said mortgage, or any part thereof, and
there being claimed as due and unpaid on said
mortgage the whole Of said payment and inter
est amounting at the date of this notice to the
sum Of two hundred and forty-fvc dollars,
and thirty three cents (S2l5,33), together with
the costs of foreclosure
Notice is therefore hereby given that on Thurs
day, the 10th day Of October next, at IL o'clock
(noon,) Of that day, at the front door of the
COurt-llouse Of the County Of Ottawa. in Grand
Haven, in said County and State of Michignn,
shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder
the premises described in said mortgage, to wit /:
The east half of the northwest quarter of tho
southeast quarter and the east half of the south
west quarter of the southeast quarter of section
twenty in town five north of range fourteen
west, situate in the County of Ottawa, State Of
Michigan. JACOB CATS,
Assignee of Mortgage.
Grand Haven, July 16, 1861. 1929 Wis
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-08-21
THE PRorosED CoAL1r1oN.-This r

THE PRoPosED CoALITIoN.-This re-
publican party is organized and built up
on the antagonism of sections, and, whist
it lives, the luminosity its existence engen-
ders will not die. It's partizans have
plunged rccklcssly on, sneerod at Union
savers, and discredited those who sounded
the alarm of dangers ahead. They de-
rided the cry of wolf, forgetting that in
the fable the wolf did come at last
The first step to q restoration Of the
Union is a dispersion of the republican
party, a disorganization of the whole
concern, reputation of the basis of its
existence. Perhaps an entire breakup
of the parties in the North might in the
end answer the purpose; but q union with
the dominant party there would be taken
at the South as an acquiesence on the
part of the minority in the purposes and
objects of tho majority. The whole
North would be written down us enemies.
That the republican party must die, if
the Union lives, and that it will die, we
believe. Its existence costs the country
too much, and the sooner il consents TO
pass away the sooner will the calamities
Of war cease. Do they expect one sec
ton of this Union TO predominant over
the other at discretion, and that upon
principles that cause all the hatred aud
luminosity of the other? We submit TO
all sensible men that this is impossible.
We make no apology for this wicked ef-
fort in the South to destroy the govern
ment. Wcgrant the necessity of suppress
ing it; but abolitionism, that has produc-
cd it, must also be suppressed. Adolf
tionism and secessionism must DO buried
in the same political grave. The patriot
who loves his country must consent TO
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4" Removed.

"The guillotine has fallen upon the
head of Il. G. Fitzgibbon, Esq. About
year ago he was appointed route agent
on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad,
a position which he has filed since with
fidelity and entire satisfaction 10 the POST
Office Department, as we have reason to
believe. He is an Irishman and Dem
ocrat, but as he was the only one in the
State who held an office under the Gener-
al Government, we doubt whether the
Postmaster General might not with per-
feet safety to the country, have permitted
him to retain his place until we have no
further need of Irishmen and Democrats
TO aid in fighting the battles of the Union,
if no longer" bet. Advertiser.
The reason for removal is sufficient, in
all conscience, and that is, he is not a
Republican, and that's enough. We
would not notice it further did not the
Advertiser 90 into an argument TO show
what qualifications arc requisite TO hold
office under the present dynasty. To fill
an Office "with fidelity and satisfaction
is absolutely hcresy; therefore, he car
not be Republican. To be "an Irish
man." of the same blood ms MoNTooME
RY, EMMETT ana ANDREW JACKSON, there
fore, he is unfit, and when battles for The
maintenance of the Union arc needed
then the country can tolerate" IrishmeI
and Democrats" but "no longer, will
perfect safety to the country
Tho Advertiser is sound. " FITz" i
dismissed. Served him right. Because
first, he was honest, efficient, ready l.
battle for the Union, was an Irishma,
and q Democrat. Second, he was no
dishonest, nor imbecile, nor n cowardl,
traitor, nor q nigger, nor Republican
He was not up TO the standard, and, c
course, was turned out. Err" yoI
must have been on train all the time
or you would not have been continued j
office so long eater the delugc" befor
the Government found you out.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-08-21

GEN. LYoN.--Gen. Nathaniel Lyon,
who fell MORALLY wounded while at the
head of his men, al tho battle near Spring
field, No, last Saturday, was born in
Ashford, Conn.,, in 1919, and was conse-
quently AZ years of age. On the mater
nal side he was descended from rovolu-
tionary sires. Gen. Lyon graduated at
West Point in 194l. Immediately af-
forwards he entered the army, and was a
Captain in the Second Infantry of the
regular army at the beginning of the pres
ent war, having served for many years on
the frontiers, in Florida, Texas, California,
Oregon and Kansas. AT the beginning
of The present contest he was chosen Brig
adler General of the loyal forces in Mis-
souri,, and moro recently received an APP
pointment from the President as Briga-
dicr General Chicago Times.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-08-21

Ey' We would like TO enquire how
many swords Ethan Allen, the hero of
Ticonderoga carried while engaged in SER
vice. This makes taOo identical swords
which have como to light within q short
period of time. A relative Of Ethan AL
len residing in Ottawa County, in this
State, claims TO have the identical sword
carried by tho old hero; and, if our rec
objection serves us right, the Legislature
of Vermont passed vote for the pur-
chase of the sword held by the relative in
Ottawa county, thereby recognizing it as
tho identical sword. Our opinion is that
Capt. Lumbard has been most gloriously
hoaxcd, and has taken an old rusty sword
into service, when he could just rs well
have taken better one.-,SaginaO Re
publican.