JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, September 30, i47.
Terms, $2,00 in adrance. $2,25 half yearly ; and $5,50 if not
' paiauuioreincenaoi tneycar.
Democratic Whi Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR .
JAMES IRVIN,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
JOSEPH W. PATTON,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTV.
L. BARNES, at Milford, is duly author
ized to act as Agent for this paper; to receive sub
scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-work,
and payments for the same.
Representative.
The Whisks of Pike and Wayne, on Monday the
20th inst., duly nominated as their candidate, for
Representative, OLIVER D. DUN II AM, Esq. of
JJcthany.
The llonesdale Democrat says Mr. D has been
for a long time a resident of the district, and a
large jiroportion, perhaps a majority, of the elec
tors are personally acquainted with him. Ilence,
Ave need say but little in his favor, lie is well
qualified to discharge the duties of representative,
and, we have no doubt, will take much more than
the whig vote.
The execution of Lau rence Tcarney
pospoucd.
We learn that Sheriff Adams, of Northampton
county, received a warrant of respite from Gov.
Skunk, on Tuesday last, postponing the execu
tion of'Tearney, from the 1st of October to the 3d
of December next. It is no doubt an electioneer
ing trick on the part of Shunk but may operate
quite asjnuch against him as in his favor.
S'ew Jersey.
.The New Jersey Whig State Convention met at
Trenton, on Thursday of last week, and nominated
as their candidate for Governor, the Hon. William
Wright, of Essex county. There were three can
didates befoie the convention, and Mr. Wright was
nominated on the first ballot, by a large majority
, over the other two.
The Locofocos have nominated Daniel Haines,
of Sussex county. There are no Congressmen to
elect in New Jersey this year, and consequently
the poll will be a small one. The Whigs have
every prospect of succeeding for Governor.
flC? The Easton Sentinel of Thursday last,
snys Judge Porter returned home on Wednesday,
from a visit to Harrisburg, having accomplished
the object for which he went there. He brought
with him the letters patent, incorporating " The
Delaware, Lehigh, Scliuylkill, and Susquehantia
Rail Road Company," which was issued by Gov.
Shunk, and delivered to him.
0 The Plainfield Bank property, real estate
at Plainfield, was sold a few days since, by order
of the Receivers, at $3,745. It includes some six
or seven, acres, with. two houses. Its cost is sta
led at S8.500.
A mule was bit by a rattlesnake, a few days
since, near Millville, New Jersey, and died in
twenty minutes.
A Counterfeit.
Several attempts have been made wfthin the last
weelc or ten days to put in circulation in Philadel-
't pjiia, a new counterfeit issue of five dollar bills of
the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Bank of Pitts
burg, and two or three persons have got themselves
into trouble.
ILocofoco Attacks upon Col. Patton,
on account of his Poverty.
The locofoco press which has teemed for
weeks in wholesale abuse of Mr. Patton, be
cause he is poor, meets with a severe rebuke
in the following remarks from the Pittsburg
Chronicle, a neutral paper. That papcT justly
" Is not tho humiliation which an honest, but
unfortunate man experiences by the reverses
'which overtake him sufficiently painful, without
every heartless wretch who edits a newspaper,
throwing his misfortune into his teeth? What
justification can any man or thing offer for gross
ly assailing one whom poverty has placed with-
m his reach? Mr. Patton is poor, but his hon-
esty has never been questioned. Those who are
blinded by party rancor, should at least remem
ber that there are some who are bound to the
r9miforiunate by every sympathy of the human
' hcatt, and respect for their feelings, independ
ent of ones own manhood, should confine vil
lainy itself to at least tho truth, while fivin?
ent to the leeJtngs ol its malignant heart?
Our readers know that wo last wpplt mitt.
IN " I""
it n fair clilmnl nf (tin n m . . C TV T r.
"alignatif, while il must excite the
j OI Ijoncst and honomble, as it ex
tWHH8abi. Ji. and.uprightj.eJr) the mot
Whigs -are you Assessed?
It is necessary thai every voters name is on
the Assessor's list ten days before the election.
Let it not be said that a singlo vote for Irvin
and Patton was lost in consequence of the
neglect of this duty. Remember to succeed,
every Whig vote must be polled. Whigs, one
and all, prepare to do your duty on election day.
Look to the Great Issue.
If there ever was a crisis in the affairs of the
country, that demanded the sacrifice of minor
points of opinion upon the altar of the country,
arid invoked an union among all who agree upon
the great questions of national policy, it is now
before us. -There are various shades of opin
ion as to the politics of the stale and nation, and
those opinions have, to some extent, assumed
the character of organization and embodiment
peculiar and exclusive ; but it is known that
upon the great questions which involve our na
tional destiny, there is an overwhelming major
ity against the policy of the present administra
tion. The difference is upon minor and inci
dental questions ; yet, for them the great and
controlling.iasue is sacrificed. Thai difference
takes many shapes and looks lo many results,
all of which are inferior to the great questions
before the nation. Upon such inferior issues,
thousands of votes have hitherto been thrown
away. The right of suffrage involves the duly
of suffrage and in that duty it is required thai
the vote of the citizen should be so cast as to
promote, in the most available manner, what he
regards as tho true interests of the republic. A
disregard of this obligation has often resulted
in throwing away thousands of votes upon im
agined and not real issues ; and thu9, in con
sequence, the nation has been burthened with
the Mexican war, with the tariff of '46 and fts
ruinous importations, and- with the prospect of
extending over Mexico the shadow of slavery.
This error has inflicted upon us all that we la
ment of the course of the administration ; and
it threatens to continue those evils, although it
is-ascertained, by the latest result, that the ac
tual majority in this state against Polk & Shunk
is nearly thirty thousand. The great issue in
Pennsylvania is the policy of the present admin
istration ; why should a majority so vast be
rendered ineffective by needless divisions upon
minor questions, whatever these questions may
be? Why turn aside from the main, the vital
issue, thai which involves all that is dear to us
as Americans, to court some trifling result as
to a County or District a result that influen
ces no vast interest, and which lasts but with.
the year ?
Those who regard ihe present administration
as dark and dangerous, who believe that it in
volves a war upon the peculiar interests of Penn
sylvania, the prostration of domestic industry
and the sacrifice of the home market the only
market which now upholds ihe price of our pro
duce cannot hesitate, whatever iheir peculiar
views, to look to the great issue. Those who
aro opposed to a failing revenue, a national debt,
excessive importation, and inevitable dependen
cy upon Great Britain, must look to the great is'
sue. Those who object to the avowed object
of the present war, conquest, acquisition, and
the extension of slavery, must look to the great
issue. And all who, blushing for the feebleness
with which the war has been prosecuted by
the administration, and indignant at the wrongs
done to Scon and Taylor, would rebuke Mr.
Polk arid his advisers,- cannot but look to the
great issue. The coniesi is one in which the free
Slates struggle for independence from a South
ern tyranny grinding, degrading and ruinous ;
a tyranny to be established by the addition of
slave States from the Mexican, conquests and
adequate to secure a perpetual control of the
United States Senate ; and those who would
avert this overwhelming calamity must, laying
aside all minor points of difference, look to the
great issue.
The cause of Gen. Irvin embodies these vi
tal principles. Hts election will be their tri
umph his defeat their prostration. No good
can come to any party in opposition lo the
course of Mr. Polk, by voting any ticket but
that which bears the name of Gen. Irvin ; but
on the contrary, it must invoke disappointment,
humiliation and self-reproach upon the course
which secures, bydividingthe majority, strength
and triumph to the designs of the Southern
conspiralors.
This view applies to no one division of our
people more than to another :' we appeal to no
faction, bui lo the people at large. The crisis
is one that asks the patriotic and potential in
tervention of all who love freedom and their
country. Let them differ, if it must be, upon
minor points -r but not permit the lesser to swal
low up the greater interest In view of all ihe
vital questions now before the country, we trust
thai every American will be willing to concede,
for a time, all that the crisis demands, and look
to the great issue. North American.
A Fact.
Last year the Canal Commissioners were
all 'members of the Shunk party, and the man
agement of the public works was exclusively
in the hands, and under the control of that par
ty. Thts year there is one whig in the Board.
And this year, during about half ihe Boating
Season, although on the Pennsylvania Canal,
the boats cleared were mote than 700 less, the
toll amounted to near ten thousand dollars more
than during the whole of ihe fiscal year of 1846
Such facts speak volumes, and call loudly for
a change in the management of our public af
fairs, throughout.
Thk New Jersey Journal,, .at Elizalj'eth-town,-
-is now .published by William M. White:
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POLITICAL, UPMCITYi
The flevilcrsof HciiryA.IUuIileu&erg.
A scheme of political duplicity, carried out
by the immediate friends of and present officials
under Gov. Shunk, has just' been developed,
which perhaps has no parallel in the pariizan
tactics of our country. Startling as ihe devel
opements are, they are made by those who
were conversant with the secret movement of
Locofocoism in 1843-4 and eye-witnesses of
the shameful intrigues to villify Muhlenberg,
defeat his nomination, and place the Treasury
of the Commonwealth at the command of a cor
rupt faction, by procuring the election of Fran
cis R. Shunk.
Let the friends of the 'lamented Muhlenberg
read Dr. Salisbury's letter and the "accompa
nying documents," taken from the 'North Amer
ican,1 and then support the present corrupt Ad
ministration, if they can:
Harrisburg, Sept. 20, 184-7.
To the Editors of the North American and
U. S. Gazette. Gentlemen : Your paper of
the 15th inst. has been placed in my hands,
and my attention has been called to an article
headed ' Governor Shunk and Berks County."
Of the article, in the main, it is not my purpose
to speak, but to a portion of that article I feel
called upon by every consideration of duty to
the country, and to the memory of one of the
purest men, most exalted pairiots and eminent
statesmen, that Pennsylvania ever produced, lo
respond.
You say " no one conversant with Pennsyl
vania politics can forget the virulence and abuse
which assailed Mr. Muhlenberg through the
columns of the Democratic Champion, a paper
started at Harrisburg to advocate the nomination
of Mr. Shunk, and oppose the selection of Mr.
Muhlenburg, and that there aro many manu
script editorial articles written for that paper
yet in existence ; and upon ihe authority of
persons connected with the office of ihe Cham
pion," you " affirm that they are written by
Jesse Miller, Mr. Shunk's Secretary, and oth
ers, all belonging to the Governor's body guard ;
and if tho Democracy need further edification
on ihis subject, ihey may appeal to the Harris
burg Argus for facts and proofs."
" Its proprietor and editor, we have every
reason to believe, are in possession of the evi
dence to fasten the paternity of the Democratic
Champion upon the officials now about Mr.
Shunk. We know lhat Dr. Seth Salisbury,
the editor of the Argus, has publicly stated
in Harrisburg, that he is in possession of such
evidence, and have long wondered why he
suppressed it."
In reply to this, I will speak direct. You
have been so obliging in your article as to refer
to the friendship which existed between Mr.
Muhlenberg and myslef.
Of my obligation to him, to his munificence
and friendship, which had boen steadily extend
ed to me for more than twenty years, I, cannot
be unmindful. The tribute which 1 can pay
for all this is feeble. I can only say in truth,
I loved him while living, and cannot be unjust
to his memory when dead.
I only wish, that in responding to your inqui
ry, it was in my power to make that response
in the negative. Articles written for the Cham
pion so offensive to the political as well as per
sonal character of Mr.Muhlenbergand his friends
too, should not attach to the present Secretary
of State and his deputy. Bui honesty and good
faith to the public, as well as justi.ee to the
memory of departed worth, compel me lo speak
truthfully on the subject, and in view of that
responsibility, I now averand solemnly declare,
to the people of the Stale, and especially to the
democracy, that ihe original manuscripts, writ
ten by Messrs. Miller, Petriken, and others,
and which appealed in the Democratic Cham
pion of lhat day, aro all in my possession, and
lhat 1 stand ready to prove and vindicate this
statement at ihe bar of public opinion and be
fore the legally constituted tribunals of the coun
try. And here I must be permitted to state, my sur
prise and pain, when the facts, ihe "damning
proofs" were placed in my hands. I had heard
such things rumored, but I gave no heed lo it
I supposed the personal gratitude under which
I knew Mr. secretary Miller rested to lir. Muh
lenberg forbade it I supposed that his high
regard for the usages of the democratic party,
of which he had been so long a bountiful recip
ient, forbade it for no man of his capacity in
our State had shared more liberally of the mu
nificence of the democratic party.
But when some few weeks since these char
ges were boldly put forth by the Intelligencer
and Telegraph, at Harrisburg, I learned upon
inquiry, of Mr. Canline, the publisher of the
paper I then edited, that the charges preferred
by those journals were substantially true lhat
he knew the Democratic Champion had re
ceived articles from the pens of Messrs. Miller,
Petriken, and others, and upon his personal
knowledge of these facts, respectfully declined
publishing in his paperan editorial ariicle which
I had prepared, in defence of those gentlemen
Immediately subsequent to this the proofs were
placed before me, and the original manuscripts
from ihe pens of those gentlemen are now in
my possession. Such is the response which I
have felt called upon to make to your article of
the 15th inst. It is proper that you should be
furnished with the facts themselves, and to thai
end I enclose herewith the original manuscripts,
which are respectlully placed at your disposal.
Wnh sentiments of high consideration, 1 am,
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. SALISBURY.
That our readers and the people .of Pennsyl
vania, may fullyf comprehend the character of
ihe-ednoital.ofhe Democratic Champion, we
publish' the following extracts i from iheriginal
manuscripts prepared for the columns of that
paper. Prefatory to each extract we give en
dorsements made upon ihe written papers at
the time they were handed in for publication.
Written by Miller, handed in by Henry Petriken,
Deputy Secretary of Commonwealth.
We have within the last week received a
number of communications from different parts
of the State, urging the necessity of another
gubernatorial candidate in ihe field, as the forced
nomination of Henrv A. Muhlenberg will not
go dow n with the hatd-fisted and honest portion
of the Democracy of Pennsylvania. Muhlen
berg will do for pap-suckers, .bank aristocrats,
anti-school, or rather anti-equal rights party.
From the communications in our possession,
and a number of them written by men who
have never swerved from their principles or
their duty, when honestly required, we are full
well convinced lhat H. A. Muhlenberg can nev
er be the Governor of the party. We sugges
ted in a former number, the holding of a Con
vention on the 4th of July next, we there gave
our reasons. We have conceded, on all occa
sions, the right to YVestern Pennsylvania to
have the candidate for Governor, and we are
perfectly willing thai theyshould make their
o"vn choice. We have several names that have
been suggested to us by Western Democrats,
and we to-day publish a communication, setting
forth the claims of one of the citizens of the
Star of the West, Michael Meyers, Esq, the
hones! farmer of Westmoreland county. The
writer of it is one of the oldest Democrats in
Pennsylvania, a man who has filled high places,'
and in whom there is no guile ; with it we re
ceived a large addition of subscribers, all with
the ready cash. We ask lhat serious prrusal
for it that the emergency of the case requires.
Written by Petriken, handed in by C. Seiler.
Henry A. Muhlenberg and his friends broke
down the Democratic party in 1835, and boast
ed of it. They come forward now and impu
dently thrust him upon the party, treating with
contempt the popular will, and adopting as their
motto rule or ruin. When the election shall
come and the good old Democratic pariy shall
be torn into fragments, then let ihem take ihe
responsibility.
Written by Petriken, handed in by C. Seiler.
The Money Power. In the late Democrat
ic Convention, of all the candidates proposed
for nomination Mr. Muhlenberg had the great
est wealth ; indeed all the other candidates are
comparatively poor and 1 believe that Mr. M.
could easily buy them all, Bell, Sturgeon,
Shunk, Eldred, &c, and no doubt his wealth
did in a great measure procure his nomination
but we can tell Mr. M. thai all his money
and all the money of his Middletown and Berks
County Banks, at his back, cannot secure his
election politicians and office hunters, cash
iers and bank Directors may nominate, but it re
quires the people to elect. We have no doubt
lhat every press in Pennsylvania which has
been opposed lo Muhlenberg, and whose editor
is conscientious in his opposition, will be bought
out, (an editor may honestly sell out, for print
ing a paper is not a profitable business in gen
eral,) and then it will be proclaimed thai ihe
paper has come out for itfuhlenberg. And
having bought up all-or nearly all the Demo
cratic presses in order to stifle oppositon in
their ranks, they will then turn their attention
to us common people. A-nd for electioneering
purposes we may expect plenty of promises of
offices and money loo-will flare like oil spilled
upon water. The leading politicians in the va
rious counties will be supplied with cash, and j
to many an honest Democrat the county will be j
offered. But it will not avail ; for Mr. Afuhlen
berg with all his train of banks, cashiers, bank
directors, and money too, can never buy the
unpurchaseable Democracy of Pennsylvania.
A FARMER.
Written by Miller and Petriken, handed in by
C. Seiler.
We asserted and proved the fact some time
since, that Henry A. Muhlenberg and his partic
ular friends are opposed to our Common School
System. We haVo more evidence of the fact,
and will publish part of a speech delivered in
the House of Representatives a few days since,
by Henry U. Smith of Berk's, who came here
for the purpose of making a nomination for Go
vernor. This is the same Smith who led off in
the late convention, in favor of H. A. Muhlen
berg, and is now his bosom friend. This is ihe
same Smith who charged Muhlenberg with be
ing a disorganizer, for attempting a union' of
Church and State, for buying up papers, and
for being a Jackson man in words and not in
deeds, &c. in 1835. Thai Berks county is op
posed to our Common Schools is evident from
tho fact that they have drawn' annually only a
few thousand dollars, instead of about $17,000
that they were entitled to as their quota.' If
Henry A. Muhlenberg possesses lhat influence
his friends pretend he does in Berks; and if he
be the friend of the poor, why not use that in
fluence, and exercise that christian benevolence
in benatt ot me poor laboring man, that his chil-
i I P I 1 a ...
oreu may it an opportunity 10 receive iliai
tuiuuaiiuii uiai uu uu are creaieo iree anu
equal" are entitled to receive in a Republican
Government. If Muhlenberg is the friend" of
the poor, the benefactor of man, why did he
suffer his name to be put up ow high places
(miscalled liberty poles) with tho motto' of Muh
lenberg and no Common Schools, and was sup
ported as the antf-schour candidate in 1835.
We contend' that no man is the friend of the
poor who' is not the advocate of equal rights,
education to poor as well as the rich, to high
and the low. A pure Democrat must not only
preach but practice upon this principle, that all
mTi are created equal and all are entitled lo-
the sa'me rights'.
We, 6ubjr)it to'oui readers, thes following. lel-
ter corroborating ihe statements of Col. Salis
bury. It will be seen that Mr, Crangle was an
editor of the .paper in which the attacks ap
peared, and thai he decisively proves the truth
of the charge which has been made by Col.
Salisbury.
Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1847.
Gentlemen: Having been the original editor
and publisher of a paper called tho 'Democrat
ic Champion," and having observed that re
marks have been made in your paper and flatly
contradicted by the leading members of the
Cabinet of Gov. Shunk, I feel (hat justice to
myself, as well as lo tho public at large, bids
me ask a favor at your hands. 1 therefore fear
lessly stand ready and willing to give all infor
mation on the subject matter referred to, should
you so wish.
In the meantime, I take the liberty of assert
ing, that it is a fact w ithin my personal knowl
edge, that Henry Petriken, Jacob Seiler, and
other leading friends of Gov. Shunk, DID fur
nish articles for the said paper, abusive of the
late Henry A. Muhlenberg, and I stand ready
to prove this assertion to the community at
largo
JAMES B. CRANGLE.
From the Allentown Democrat.
Surgical Operation.
On Saturday evening last, (the I8ih inst.)
Professor Rodgers, who ts now lecturing in ihU
place on Human Magnetism, announced thai a
Surgical operation would be performed on a
person while in a state of trance or mcsmcr,
without pain. Accordingly, at the conclusion
of a highly interesting lecture, which was lis
tened to and appreciated by many of our best
citizens, the Professor threw his subject (a
young lady) into.pleasant dreams, and announc
ed that she was prepared for ihe operation.
While ihe Dentist, (Dr. Scholl) was prepar
ing his instruments, the Professor excited the
organs of time and tune, and she sang sweetly
until the Doctor announced his readiness to
perform the operation, when her mouth va
opened and a large tooth extracted, without the
contraction of a muscle ! the young lady in the
meantime holding a candle in each hand. Her
mouth was allowed to remain open for some
time, it having been made rigid it seemed im
possible for her to close it at ail events sh?
made no .attempt to do so. It was at length
closed, and The organ of time and tune being
excited she again commenced singing. All
appeared perfectly satisfied with tho experi
ment ; when it was announced that another tooth.
was to be extracted, the situation ol which
would render il extremely difficult and danger
ous. It was attempted, however, and the mo h
was broken off, as was anticipated. Another
instrument was then applied, and still another.
with no better success, when il became requi
site to insert an instrument, similar to ngimblet.
This was inserted deep, great strength applied,
and the instrument slipped out. The tooih wa
finally taken out in small pieces the lady
singing from time to time when the instruments
were not in her mouth! The whole time ern
ployed' in' ihe operation could not have bet it
much less than an hour. When the ladv was'
taken out of the state, she had some faint re
colleciion of their doing something to her mouth,
but declared she had nut experienced the least
disagreeable sensation.
The Doctor then stated to the audience in a
very candid manner his former skepticism and
his present full conviction of the truth of Mes
merism lhat the operation performed had been
one of the severest he had ever performed; in
fact, that it would be almost impossible for
any. one to undergo it in the waking state that
it was much more painful than ihe amputation
of either limb thai he had acted coolly and
deliberately, and could not perform it more to
his satisfaction, if he were lo go through with
the sama operation again.
A number of medical men were present, who
seemed fully satisfied, as well as every person
in the house, that " there ate more things in
Heaven and Earth lhan we had dreamt of in
our philosophy." HORATIO.
Fever in New Orleans.
The Picayune of the 5th inst, says: "The
past has been the most fatal week of the epi
demic, which scourges us with a severity
which is appalling. The interments for the
week in the cemeteries of the city up to nine
o'clock on Saturday morning, were 533, of
which 427 were of yellow fever ; the corres
ponding numbers of the previous week were
about 442 and 311. Add the interments from
New Orleans at Lafayeiie, 43 cases, and we
have a total of interments for this city for one
week of 57G being an average exceeding
eighty-two each day. A physician states that
there have been 20,000 cases this season.
Some of the newspaper offices have scarcely
hands enough lo get the paper oui. Tho
Times has been peculiarly unfortunate likewise
ihe Bee and ihe Bulletin; in the two former
iwo deaths have occurred; in the office of the
Notional nine have felt the hand of the unseen
an(j terrible destroyer, and several are still s.f
ferjn This awful mottality needs no cum
meul.
Tho Ohio.
The length of this siream has been various
ly, but generally over estimated, says the Zanes
ville Courier. The late Jared. Mansfield, how
ever, left among his papers at the ttme of his
decease, memoranda of the autual distance, as
actually surveyed, and, as taken from the most
authentic accounts. By these, the actual leng'h
of ihe Ohio, from Pittsburg to he mouth, is
found to be only 875 miles-. It was first sup
posed to be 1100, ihen called 950, and nov
this is found, to be too muc.t.