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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18
NO. IL.
Something Interesting About the
IneuStS

Mr.. Daniel Lehman, the messenger at
the York County National Bank, informs
the editor of the True Democrat" that
the locusts made their appearance in
1917, on the 23d day of May in 1884,
about the same time, and in 1851, on tho
26th of May. He has ascertained the
fact, too, that the most Of them are now
about five inches below the surface Of the
earth, and their protracted stay is attri-
buted to the continued wet weather
Many Of them have died in the ground
on account Of the frequent rains, and
VIC may justly conclude that they will,
by no means, be as numerous as In form
.cr years. In 1917 Mr.. Lehman made
the following experiment: He took some.
OF the small branches where the eggs
had been deposited and wrapped them.
carefully up and laid them away and did
not open them until 1884, when the 10
Gusts made their appearance again; and
then by the aid of a microscope discoy
cred that the eggs were dead and had
never made the least advance towards
incubation. In that year he put quan-
tity of the eggs in bottle and corked it
up and did not examine its contents
again until 1851, when he found the re-
suit the same = the eggs were dead and
had made no progress towards Matching.
From this it is well established that
the eggs Of the locust must come in con-
tact with the earth before they will ad
vance towards life = that the soilis es-
sential to the development Of the life
giving property they contain.
BY frequent experiment Mr.. Lehman
has also ascertained that the locusts
never descend farther than six feet into
the earth, which is an entire refutation
of the fallacy that they pass entirely
through it during their long absence OF
seventeen years. What they live on, or
how they subsist, in their self constituted
grave; whether they increase or multi
ply, or remain, to all intents and pur-
poses, dead all this time, we believe, has
never been ascertaincd. These singular
insects are certainly the most wonderful
OF all natural phenomena, and should be-
made special subject of study Their
coming snd going is an object of interest
for the curious and scientific, and GER
tainly teach lesson which has never vet
been fully and satisfactorily explained.
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A Ruined Rebel.

~ correspondent of the Chicago I" Tri-
bunc says:-
"I saw on the streets of Nashville;
yesterday, an attonuatcd and cmaciated
form belonging to man who filled quite
large space in the public eye during
the war. 1t was none other than Gle
mcnt G. Clay, one of the commissioners
of the rebels abroad, and the companion
of Mason and Slidell in their negotia-
tions with France and England. Clay
was the man who was met by Horace
Greeley, at Niagra Falls, towards the close
of the war, the two ostensibly coming to-
gether for the purpose of arranging for
some sort of peace. The negotiations
were all futile, as will be remembered.
"Clement Clay was one of the most
remarkable men in the South at the
breaking out of the war. lie had just
been elected from the Huntsville, Ala
bama, district to the National Congress,
and had only reached his majority few
months before His family were wealthy
and powerful, and Mr. Clay entered
upon what seemed destined to prove a
most brilliant career in public life. BY
the war he lost all his property, and is
now racked with asthma and consump-
tion. He was riding through the coun-
try on horseback, seeking by the change
of climate and excitement to better his
health He lives in Huntsville still, and
practices law We are all poor folks
now he said to friend Of ours, and
have to work for living"
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NASBY.

The Chicago Conventton-1Mr. Nasty
attends 1t and gets on q heay disgust
ii Lecture on Democracy.
Posi- Offs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, \
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,) :
May "a, 1868.
| wuz at Chicago one day, and that one
day satisfied me. My ears wuz stunned
with 'rors for Grant whichever way l
turned my eyes | saw nothing but Grant
badges and Grant medals the bands wuz
all playing w the Star Spangled Banner
and sich, and even the street organ grin
ders he'd attooned their Tyres to the same
Albishun melodies.
On my arrival | askt yishus boy
(wich | knowd wuz Dimekratic, from the
fact that his little shirt wood hev hung
out Nv his little pants ef he'd he'd any
shirt, eff he Good show ne where the Ab-
lishun Convenshun wuz holdin itself
"Ccrtinly kin, my old BUFFER" sed
he. "It's in that yer bildin," pintin, ez
he spoke, to ruther gorgus edifce with
a stceplc to it.
entered it, and wuz surprised not on
ly at the fewness Nv the delegates on the
floor, but at ther pecoolyer appearance
They didn't look like delegates to any
Convention [ he'd ever attended. Their
noses wuzn't Nv the color l he'd ben ac-
customed to. They wuz all solemn look
in chaps with gold spectaclos, black coats,
high forcheads and white ncckerchcrs.-
"Is this" thot to myself, ''the unifrom
delegates wear at Republikin conven-
shcns 2"
At this part | turned to a man sittin
besides me, and in an undortone askt
wich wuz ahed On the last ballot, Colfax
or Wade?
"Sir," sed he, care you johnson post
master ?"
81 am" scd defantIy. allow didst
determine that pit 2"
''By yoor BREATH" sed he. s'Yoor
mistaken in the place, my friend. This
is Methodist conference"
That wikkid and pcrverse boy he'd in
tcnshnelly deceived me.
On my return we wuz settin in Bas-
CONS discussin the nominashens.-
Deekin Pogram wuz indignant, "Good
Heaven ~ said he, with horrer in his
saintcd face, ''Kin it be that men pcrfes-
sin nashnel views wood offer sich an in
suit to Kentucky ez to nominate sich a
man CT Grant, who, sword in hand, de-
vastatid her fertile fields and piled the
bodies Nv her nootral sons who resisted
his advance mountains high? Kin it be
that"
'Easy, Dcekin," replied !, "stiddy
stiddy Don't take posishen rashly 1t
amt improbable that we may hev to nom
iuate Hancock or some other soljer. In
that cvcnt-but I've sed enuff"
"Wcll, at all evence," sed the Deekin,
"its most hoomiliatin thing to hev
thrown in our faces infamous PROPOSE
shen to pay debt injured in Infamous
attempt to subjoogate us-to pledge our
labcr 10 pay debt unconstitooshnally in.
kurred, aud un-"
"Deckin," sed |, "yoor zeal I do ad-
mire, but yoor reely indiscrcct. 1t may
be found necessary in order to carry Moo
York to nominate Belmonts man, who
will bee pledged to this very thing. Go a
little slow"
"Wcll, however that may be, it's a
burnin shame to throw into Kcntuckey' S
face Abolishnist-two Nv EN- in fact
and"
"Deckin" G spoke this time severely
"yoor very indiscrcet to-day. It's pos
sible, and l may say probable, that that
noble patriot, Cheei Justis Chase, who
hez bin friteiul Ablishnist, and who, CT
he runs, will, for obYus reasons, make US
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Earthly Treasures.

When Sheridan had bought beauti-
full place, he invited old Dr. johnson to
go and sec it. The stern old cynic went,
and looked through the house and library,
and tasted the wine from the cellar, and
walked into the garden, and said moth
ing; and Sheridan said to him: DWELL,
Doctor, what do you think of it!" "Ah!"
saiG he, "these are things that make
death terrible"
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ANumerous Progeny.

Mrs. Regina Paul, who died near
Orwigburg, Schuylkill Co, Pa, on the
30th of April, aged 90 years, 4 months
and Is days, was the mother of Ii child
ren, 110 grandchildren, 2S7 great, grand
children and over 500 great grand. child
ren.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

A .milkman in New York dropped
some money while crossing the ferry, and
the scrip was conveyed by the wind to tho
East River. a bystandcr consoled the
Sender of the tactical with thercmark that
"what comes by water generally goes by
water"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

Jefferson Davis's trial has been again
postponed until October AS during that
month the country will be in very heat
Of the Presidential canvases, it is hardly
to be expected that either judges will be
found to hear or counsel to argne this
case, delayed already until it has lost all
interest Mr. Davis will, III all probability,
be transferred as legacy to the incom
ING Administration \
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

Wooley, the contumactious witness, is
thorn in Democratic flesh at Washing
ton. If is he compelled to tell what he did
with all the money he handled, there will
be Tremendous fulter among the Copper.
head thieves
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

At a meeting of the Iowa Radical Con
gressional Delegation the other day, tn,
following resolution was passed: Resolrcd
that
Old Grimes is dead, that mean old soul,
Wen bury him to-day
He never shall set foot again
On the soil of Iowa.
Old Grimes is dead, the poor old clls=,
lie ne'er was worth dime;
He chiseled us on Monday last,
Wen chisel him next time.
Wen bury him so deep, deep, deep,
That when old Gabriel sounds
The trumpet of the jubilee,
Old Grimes will not be found.
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j. LANTZ, DENTIST.

a Has permanently located him
H}yy< self in Stroudsburg, and moved
o his Office next door 10 DR.. 5.
Walton, where he is fully prepared 70 treat
the natural teeth, and also to insert lncorrup-
tible artificial teeth on pivot and plate, IN tue
latest and most improved manner. Most
persons know the danger and folly of trust
ing their work to the ignorant as well as
the travelling dentist. 1t matters not how
much experience person may have, he is
liable to have some failures out of a number
Of cases, and if the dentist lives at a distance
1t is frequently put of until it is too late to
save the tooth or teeth as it may be, othc r
wise the inconvenience and trouble of going
80 far. Hence the necessity of obtaining the
services of a dentist near home. All work
warranted.
Stroudsburg, March 81, 1862.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

Salt Lake City requires young men to
marry at 10 or pay three hundred dollars
fine.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

In Searcy, Arkansas, pair of twin
girls were born few days ago, each hav-
ing twenty fingers
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VOL. ~.
Published by Theodore Schoch,

TERMS-Two dollars year in advance-a md If not
pad oeioro the end ofthe year, TWO dollars and fifty
cts, Will be charged.
No paper discontinued until ali arreaTages paid
except az the option OF the Editor.
nIAdvertisements o { one square of(eiglt lmes) or
less, one CT tAree insertions 81 So Each additional
tnsertion, SO cents. Longer ones in proportion.
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nON'T FORGET that when

y you want any thing in the Furniture
or Ornamental line that McCarty, in. the
Odd-Fcllows' Hall, Main Street Strouds-
burg, Pa, a the place to get ii. [Sepi 26
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Maine has 70 o,o09 farmers
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Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.

hrs. JACKSON 81 BIDLACK, are
II prepared to attend promptly to all calls
Of Professional character. Office - OPP
posite the Stroudsburg Bank.
April %, 1S67.-tf
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DIR. Id. D. SMITH,
\ Gard.

~ CaHd.
The undersigned has opened an Office for
the purchase and sale of Real Estate, in
Fowler's Building, on Main street. Parties
having Farms, Mills, Hotels or other proper
ty for sale will find it TO their advantage to
call on me. | have no agents. Parties
must see me personally.
GEO. L. WALKER,
Real Estate Agent, Stroudsburg, Pa.
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"Deckin," q spoke this time severely
"yoor very indiscreet to-day. It's pos
sible, and L may say probable, that that
noble patriot, Cheei Justis Chase, who
hez bin fritelul Ablishnist, and who, cf
he runs, will, for obyus reasons, make US
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-18

The Chicago Convcntion-1Nr. Nasty
attends 1t and gets on q heary disgust
II Lecture on Democracy.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-26
SPECIAL NO TICEs.
s,p,rG AND SUMMER PRINTS AND
OTHER DRESS GOODS.
WE OFFER TO-DAY

cocHEco, srRAeUE, DuNNELs AMERl
ON. and PACIFIC CALICoES ns i2ac. pei
yard:
pP1,LIA Mt DELAINEs at 2oc.' worth a'c';
uozAMBI2UEs at 2oc., worth ssc
1rNos at 2sc., w<rth +oc.:
E1FPY-cENT DRESS GOODS of all kinds re-
duced to asc.:
sH1RREp and Pun FED MUsLINs at &c., usual
price Sl.25:
BRIDAL QUILTS. large enough for tho largest
or ATE.CoI,ORED LINEN, yard wide, at 2sc.,
worth asc.;
Genuine TWISTED sILlS M1Ts at 2oc., worth
5oc-at aoc., worth &c..
ALEXANDRA SILK GLOW Els, white, black, and
colored at Soc, worth 15c.
OPEN-woRKED HOSE, for Ladies, at 2sc.-
such as IS sold elsewhere at &c..
LINEN DAMAsK FRINGED NAPKINS at 81
per dozen, worth 80;
Large-sized NAPKINS ST $3.50 per dozen, worth
g.;
WHITE FLANNEL, yard wide, at 2sc. per
vard-same goods sold everywhere at ssc.;
Extra fine WHITE FLANNEL" full yard VIDE At
Soc, would be cheap at 75c-;
superane sKIRTING CAMBRIC, II yards wide
at Soc, worth 75c.;
NAINsooK, forty inches wide, at ssc., worth s0c'
per yard;
CHECK MUsLINs at leg, 90 and 9sc.;
WHITE BRILLIANTs at &c., worth 4oc. per
yard;
superAne RUSSIA DIAPER at 8s.25 and 81 a
piece-just one dollar less than regular prices
All kinds of LINEN and SILK FANS at re-
ductlon of fifty per cent
PARASOLS at cost and some at even less, 10 close
out what we have on hand;
| MARsEILLEs TRIMMIN G 8 at csc. piece,
worth 81;
DAISY FRlLLISG at Soc. piece, worth sl.a5;
CROCHET EDGING, twelve yards in piece, at
2sc., worth 75c.
HlGMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFs at Csc,
warranted pure linen;
SHIRT BOSOMS at l2a, 20, IS and aoc.;
GENUINE FRENCH-WoVE SHIRT BOsoMS
at soc., worth &c.;
MOSQUITO NETS at 81 apiece;
BROWN LINEN TABLE-CLOTHs ct 81, worth
$l.5o;
LINEN DAMAsR TOWELS at $3.50 per dozen,
worth So;
SPOOL COTTON warranted 100 yards on aspool,
at CSC. per dozen;
SPOOL COTTON-white, black, and colored-
equal to Coats's, at 3Oc. per dozen and lots of
other cheap goods.
LEVY BROTHERS,
ls!7 Main street.
Store closed on SATURDAYS. aus
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-26

PRINCIPLE AND OFFICE.-Men who estl-
mate their real worth by the value of the
office for which they bargain and sell them
selves get the full value of themselves, be
said Offices great or small. They may be
worth infinitely less, but certainly they
cannot be worth anything more. Men Of
honor and integrity will never surrender
principle because of intimidation. They
may for the time being be overpowered, but
they'll rise and shine at last and should
they fall by overpowering force, their
principles will live when they are dead and
gone. The principles of Christianity will
live forever though all who profess them
prove false. So with every principle of
right, truth, and justice. Many may prove
themselves false and faithless to principles,
but principle remains the same forever.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again.-Nec
Nation of yesterday.
This is Mr.. HuNSICUTT's latest epistle to
the carpet-baggers. He is reliable mo-
ralist on this subject and if he does not
know who have sold themselves for Office in
this State, then nobody does. He, too,
knows what they are worth, and that they
are well sold!
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The Whites of the s outh.

The venerable DANIEL RAyENEL and q
number of the leading citizens Of Charles
ton have addressed letter to the people OF
that city counselling them to forbearance,
calmness, and fortitude in their trials and
troubles. They also vindicate their people
from the vile SANDERS of villainous white
men who are regularly employed to SANDER
the white people there, as they are the
people everywhere in the South. Some OF
these slanderers are officials Of the Bureau,
others officers in the army, and others
again the retained partisans fed out of
Radical funds. These caitiffs have been
industriously engaged in manufacturing
lies to infame the northern public mind
and still further Cypress the people of the
South, now suffering the horrors of poverty
and tyranny.
What the respectable persons who sign
the address say Of their city and State will
apply with equal force to Richmond and
Virginia-nay, to the whole South. We
make the following extract:
"We do most honestly and unreservedly
declare that, 80 far as we have any know
ledge or belief, interference has never been
attempted by the white citizens of this
City or State with the fullest exercise by the
freedmen, individually or collectively, of
all the rights, civil and political, which
they asserted Us belonging to them. They
have had their meetings, and never with
interference they have voted, and never
with disturbance they have assembled in
convention, passing a Constitution for their
government and ours, without interruption !;
and under that Constitution they are now
sitting as Legislature, framing laws for
the people of the State, removing officers,
imposing taxes, and exercising the func-
tions of legislation which involve the pro-
perty, life, and liberty of the citizen,
without show of violence, without al
most complaint on the part of those
who are excluded from all participa-
ton in proceedings which so deeply
and intimately affect them. But all Of
this has not been sufficient to satisfy
them that the privileges so enjoyed by them
were complete, unless they included the
| absolute domination and control of the
! so exclusive and absolute that it would en-
brace person and property, and even extend
to thought and speech. To this condition
is the white population Of this city now at
this time reduced, and in this condition
/ they are forced to see the evidence Of fur
Their purpose, to enforce this denial to them
OF every privilege, and to hold every right
which belongs to them subject to the caprice
Of those who are the dupes and the victims
of the bad men who have poisoned their
hearts and for the most selfish and base
purposes destroyed for them the comfort,
contentment, and happiness they might
have enjoyed"
This highly respectable and most trust
worthy body of gentlemen have laid their
address before President JOHNSON, and as
sured him that in case of riot the police
would be utterly unable to protect the city,
and requesting that q United States force
| be kept there to preserve order.
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Profitable Caiolery.

The Chinese Embassy, 30 called, was en-
tertained few evenings since by the Mu'
tual Admiration Society of Boston; or
which occasion, says the Boston Advertiser
Mr.. BURLlSGANE " contrived to point out
"several particulars of resemblance be.
"tween the nations Of the United States
"and China" Angels and ministers Of
grace defend US Can that be so9 Why
should We be like the Chinese? Are they
not satisfied with being like nobody else,
that their Minister should try to make
them like us ? They may not take it as a
compliment-certainly We do not
But, gentle reader, "be not afeard."
There is no danger in the world that any
body will imagine that we are like the
Chinese. It's only little CANNON Of
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-26

New CABLE.-Under a grant from the
Emperor Of France, company, under the
presidency of Mr.. ROBERT Lowe, of Eng
land, is about to undertake the construction
of a telegraph line from Brest, in France,
via the French island of St. Pierre, in New
foundland, either to New York direct, or to
some point within the State of New York
the Legislature of that State having granted
the privilege of terminus on its territory.
The steamship Great Eastern has been en-
gagged for the work of laying the cable.
Soundings are being made, or are soon to be
made; but when the business of laying the
cablo is to be begun is not settled.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-26

The papers have been busy for some days
with General RosEcRAss's rnission 70 VIZ
einis. That he has come. purpose In view
of national character seems to be very
we'll settled; butwhst he isdriving az e1-
ac,ly is of course not positively known.
Most correspondents and telegrapnic mes
sages concur in the report that he desires
TO do something to harmonic the connlctihe
zsect,ona, feelings Of the Union by dis
abusing the northern public mind of the
main cause of these conflicting sentiments-
viz, the lying reports Of the Radical agents
who are rambling about the South, or who
are resident in the South, and employed or
interested in maligning her intelligent and
perfectly orderly citizens.
A letter in the Whig Of yesterday gives
some account of the interviews Of General
RosEcRASs with General LEE and others,
and the purport of their conversations
touching the conduct, the disposition, ana
wishes of the southern people. The writer
says that General R. suggests the propriety
of an address, signed by General LEE anu
other prominent Generals of the late Con
federate army, setting forth the facts con-
corning the department and temper OF the
southern people, in order that the false I'M
pressions made upon the minds OF hones'
northern men by false accusers may De re-
moved, and better and harmonious feel
ing be established in their place.
We await with interest to hear something
further about this matter. 1t seems to nave
been suddenly sprung upon the country
and rather singularly projected ana III
itiated by gentleman just about 70 leave
the United States on foreign mission-he
attaining leave of absence from the Federal
capital for a few days only for this pur-
pose. The fact is peculiar. That General
RosECRASs is a Conservative, and really
desires the pacifcation Of his country in
some other mode than that proposed oy the
Radicals, which can only lead to perpetual
hate, we have not doubt. But that ne
should have postponed his kindly lnter7en-
ton until just upon the eve OF his oePar-
ture to Mexico is a little singular.
1t is quite a compliment to General LEE
and one well deserved, to suppose that his
assurance would exert beneficial influence
at the North, and certainly 1t would De
gratifying to his friends if, being properly
solicited, he should afix his name to such
statement as he could make. Surely the
most impudent of Radical libellers would
hardly undertake to throw discredlt upon
the state ments of ROBERT E. LEE.
If such statement is to be made, We
hope General LEE will make it himself, and
that it may be brief and plain, as he would
make it, and not burthened with any sur
plusage and discussion, such as many poll
ticians are so fond of. A statement of that
sort would probably do good. 1t would be
read. But even that should
not be made unless it be elected under
some satisfactory assurance that 1t is
earnestly desired by the northern people.