JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday. November 11 1847. Terms; S2.00 in al ranee. $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not paidbeforetheendoi the year. HE?" L. BARNES, at Milford, is duly author ized to act as Agent for this paper'to receive sub scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-wdrk, and payments for the same. ti r .i t xr i ir II UUU UUU i . IV OHM it. t In otder, to accommodate such of our subscri burs who are indebted lo us. and cannot make it'eonvenient to. pay we are willing to receive inj.discharge of their subscription money, a lot of eood sound wood We trust that a number of patrons will avail' -themselves of this oppor tunity to square up their accounts, ---and1 whilst ihpy arc, about it . we hope they will bring: easy splitting wood. Geography. . HJ3 We would respectfully invite, .the at tention of the public to the seriesof lessons in Geography, which-'Mr. Paiste, intends gfving in the. Female Seminary, in Siroudsburg. An opportunity is now offered for acquiring a knowledge of this important and useful branch. of learning, without which, no1 persons educa lion can be said to be complete. t.t General .Taylor.' The Atlanta Miscellany of the 23d ultimo aays : " We conversed on Thursday afternoon last with a gentleman who has been for some time attached lo the Quartermaster's Depart ment in Gen. Taylor's division, and who left tnVKio Grande on the 6th instant. He in formed us that the statement contained in the papers that the General would visit this coun try in the month of November is without foun dation. The old Hero has his hands full, and has made a call on the Government for rein forcements to disperse the large guerrilla for ces that are concentrating irithe neighborhood of His camp, and who are becoming exceeding ly bold and insolent." Isaac G. M'Kinley, editor of the "Democrat ic Union," has been appointed Postmaster at Harrihburg, in the place of James Peacock, re moved. The former has earned his appoint ment by base subserviency to southern inter ests; and the latter has called down upon him-: self the indignation of the National Administra tion by presiding at a meeting of the friends of Gen. Taylor. The Somuambiilist. rri tit l rt . . . . i no iew iorK courier gives the lollowmg particulars of a case of Somnambulism: " About "half-past 11 o'clock on Saturday night, some of the policemen of the 7ih ward, and a number of citizens were attracted to the liberty polo on iho corner of Cherry and Gov ernment streets, by . hearing a person singing most merrily, and peering through the dark miBts of the night as best they could,, they dis covered a man perched upon the very top of the pole, amusing- himself with the vane. First, he- would make it point to the North then to the East then to the South and West and then he would whirl it around with great velocity. In this way, turning the vane to suit his fancy, and then singing, he continued to amuse himself and ihe spectators for nearly an hour. He then carefully dscended the pole un til be reached ihe ground, when he started off full speed, having on nothing but his shirt, drawers and boots, followed by a large number of persons. After running several blocks, he fainted and fell to the ground. Upon his reviv ing he stated that his name was Jesse Combs, and that he lived at No. C09 Water street. An officer proceeded to his dwellin? to obtain hi clothes, when it was ascertained that Combs retired to his bed aqout ten o'clock, and that he must have got out of the window and let himsejf down by the gutter on the front of ihe house, and made his way to the liberty pole, which he ascended while still unconscious. Q " - When he recoverod he appeared to be perfect ly rational." A Curious Fact. On opening the body of a valuable milch cow, 6sys (he Carlisle Patriot, belonging to Mr. Lewthwaite, of Kirkby Ire leth, hich lately died wiihoui any visible f yniptoms of disease, a large needle was dis covered sticking right through the heart, which was doubtless the cause of the animal's death. It is a remarkable and perhaps unpreceden ted, fact that there is not at present a single Bank. in New York drawing bills on England! Patties desiroys to remit find themselresjgreat- j , - , -i-uiu ujua taken with grcal caution. being A GREATWHIG VICTORY NEW YORK ; -A.SfSJROKEi ! whiS Majority 50,00 IJ J Thedeclionln NewYoi'k on ihe inst., resulted in a total and triumphant overthro of Locofocoism or rather of Polkofocoism. A victory so signal and overwhelming could not have been achieved by the Whigs alone, against a rigorous opposition of their ofa antagonists ; yet it can scarcely be doubted that in a fair and equal contest, the right would h?ve triumphed. Bm the magnitude oj "the majority is partly at tributable to the noble stand taken by a portion f t )i tx itfloinnprnf l' " nrrninol st'io tillnrl jiltiooinr of the parly to the southern measures of the Administration, attempted to be forced upon them by the leaders in iheir Siate'Convention. The repudiation of the principles of the WI mot Proviso by the majority of that Conven tion, was the great and leading cause oT'ilVs af fection; as it implied an approval of the prose cution of a war. of conquest for the extension of slavery. '. The 'Spirit of fredqrn was .fully aroused; and its efforts resulted in the triumph- ant election of all the Whig candidates for. Stale officers, as follows; f. Hamilton, Pish, of New York, Lieut. Govern- or;, unnstopiier iviorgon, ol Uayuga, secretary of State; Millard Film'ore, of'Erie, Comptrbller; Alva Hunt, of Chenango, Treasurer;1 Ambrose L. Jordan, of NewVjork, Attorney General ;, Charles. B. Stuart, of Monroe, State Engineer; Jacob Hinds, Orleans, Nelson J. Beach, Lew is, Charles Cook, Chemung, Canal Commis sioners ; David D. Spencer. Ithaca. Isaac N. Comsiock, Albany, John B. Gedney, West- cheater; Inspectors Slate Prisons. ,t The majorities of iho different officers felec- ledn.as above, is not yet ascertained, but will, says the Tribune, range from 20,000 lo .50,000! The Legislature as far as heard from stands as follows: Senate Whigs, 24; Locos, ;8 ;-- HouseWhigs, 70; Locos, 28. About ten or a dozen Assembly districts remain to be -heard from and will probably be about; equally di vided". - (f s .?r New Jersey Election. The Stale Gazette says :--The Whigs have elected their candidates for the Legislature in every one of their counties. Every ono of their counties (except Hudson,) has given them a majority for Governor and the rest of the ticket Consequently in the Senate and the House of Assembly, they retain. their usual decided pre ponderance. They fail only in respect to the Governor ; and the very signal falling off. in the Whig strength in the strong Whig counties of Hudson, Essex, and Passaic, situated in Mr, Wright's own dictrict, points, unerringly to the cause of that failure. But nevertheless, iho victory will enure to our political opponents. The. Executive De partment of the good Whig state of New Jersey, goes-for three years into their hands. The Union will claim the result as a victory. The whole Loco Foco press and party throughout the country will claim it as their victory. The whigs throughout the JLJmon will feel its effort as discouraging. It will animate ihe hopes of anu-tarlrT and war men. Tt will dispirit accor ding to the measure ofils influence, the friends of American industry and of peace and justice Christian virtue. And though we should en deavor to show that it constitutes nO evidence that New Jersey has deserted her whig princi ples, our attempt would be listened to with per fect credulity, as -only the common groundless excuse with which a party fairly beaten endea vors to cover its defeat. Willy, if not quite True. A friend at our elbow, says the Pittsburg. A merican, sticks to it that the returns from West moreland are the same tally-sticks that were sent in in 1844, with only some verbal alteration. In Tioga they use a pine stick. On one side they put an owl for " Democrat," and on the other a coon for " Whig," and as every elector comes with a. jack knife, he notches knowingly on the side he wants lo vole. Inmost parts of Berks county ;they.use beans. The small white are the Whigs, the speckled, green, white, and yellow are for the Democrats, and black beans are allowed to the Abolitionisls. .After they are counted, the beans are put back and remain' for the next election for Governor. a nun, as n i llAtt n Democrat or Whig dies, thev take one out. or ' 3 one comes of age, they put one in,, They have one good. rue, there, which might be adopted elsewherei to advantage. ; they ijever allow ; a man.io'vofe uniiljieis married.. This is under ihe supposition that he has little dicretiqn .un til he gets it from his wife. By. ihe same pro cess of reasoning, liey .allow him io voje as soon as he has a wifer the fact of his marrying being .taken as evidence that he has come to the use, if not years uf .-discretion. A minor marrying there is called " taking the beans." But Berks, like Saxon England, has common law usages peculiar to onfy.cejtain districts. FAETAEEVIVEWS FROJI MEXICO! pETERSBURGNc d5. PThefNew Orleans papers received thislmorn jng aiinoun'cethe arrival of ihsteamsKtp la. bama, with tlaies from Vera Cruz "to the 20 th u!t. Gen. Patterson was expected to march into 'the rnteriorW the24thr vew , s. TheGenius, of Liberty, has files from the City of Mexico to the 7th, Profound tranquil ity reigned ihere. As soon. as. the government 'of Pcha y Pena had been' fully organized, ' the fact was'ofBcialty announcednoihe representa- ,'tii;esl'Of-f(ife-ign'' powers .on friendly delations with Mexico, and ihe'British 'Minister replied in satisfactory terms. ii M ".'. ' The Genius of Liberty was informed iby !a;gon: tleman that left the Capital on the 7ih ult that the decree which ordered Peha y Pena should take charge of the Supreme power in conjunc- tion with two associates hadbeen repealed, andl Santa Anna had bt5on 'again 'called to- assume the reigns o'f the .government andi re'sume? the command of the army ' The same gentleman also reports that Pa rades is at Talancihgo, where he was endeavor ing to esla&Hsh'his monarchical system, and he has recently made some important converts lohis political principles. Valencia was at his hacienda taking no part' in political affairs.' Gen. BraVo, was in Me'xico 'perfectly quiet on his-parolei 1 ' ' - -.- , , The semblance of the Mexican government met according to appointment, at Quer'etaro, on the 5th-ult. but there being nothing like a'quo- rum nothing could be done. The feelings of the people, are said to be. strenuously opposed; lo any comprdmise with the- Americans;' The; other leading men and generals; for the most part, had gone to Gucrnavaca, seventeen leagues' south of the City of Mexico: ' -From the same.source the .Genius of Liberty, learns that Gen. Laners force on the 11th ult. was at Hoanamla, a town half way between Pe rote and Puebla, Santa Anna was Ihere, but evacuated the town on the approach of Gen. Lane, leaving behind him .two -pieces of. artil lery and two prisouers Cols.' Vega and Itur bide. Santa Anna had 1000 cavalry at that time, and had subsequently been reinforced"by 1500 men. Rejis' command again took possession Of the town after Gen. Lane's -departure, and following up his rear, killed 70 men, principal ly stragglers. Gen. Rea had sallied out from Puebla wilh a considerable force, and was a-waiting- the approach of Gen. Lane, whose flank and rear was constantly harrassed by small bodies of Mexicans.- j The Picayune publishes Two important cir culars from Pena y Pena, and the Secretary of Slate, beings expositions of the views and poli cy of of the new administration. The Texan Rangers, about whom apprehen sions were entertained at the last accounts, had returned in safefy. It The yellow fever was still taking off its vic tims, Lieut. Jenkins of iho Dragoons had died of it. , . No improvement in. the health of Matamoras had occurred up to ihe last accounts. Capt. Churchill is named among the victims of its ravages. Reports prevailed that an army mail had been capiured by the guerrillas, and. .that a Mexican: force' was posted at Mier; We Understand that when General Scott chances to receive a mail, it is freighted wilh numbers of letters to him, private and public ; but more thanhalf the mails both ways -are intercepted. This may account lo. the-govern ment as well aa his friendsrfof not hearing frpm him. Indeed," writes ra friend, " The Gen eral has, for a long limehad'only rare momehis for private correspondence or indulgence, of any sort." ' ';-,!. ' The loss by fire in all part of the world, dur ing the lep years from 1836 to 184G, omiuing those where the Ioss did not exceed $50,000, ;j is estimated at $137,362,950. Of this amount more than one-fourth occurred in the United Slates, being equal toabout $3,700,000 a year. Adding ihe unrecorded fires and the numerous. direct and indirect losses and expenses of the rire Uepartmerit, u is supposed that the annu- . . , . .- ... ? e8 wceeaa.oignt mil lions of dollars! - Specie returning" to Europe. :The steamship Cambria,. which sailed from Boston on Monday for Liverpooltbokbut$298,- 860 m specie. litriig Humanity. Niiiham Lam'pmari, of"CbxackierNew York, who is no iy 16 years of age and seven feet one inch in height, bids fair to become a- man of higher standing in the world than any man. now living, having grown nine inches during ihe past year, and on the usual growth, will proba bly reach at least one foot more. Ho weighs 162 pounds. Worcester Transcript, , The Slaughter. if f A$ay'or twoago; sa)s the&Ltfuisvile Jour- vnal.f in looking over -the New Qi leans 'papers, fwe found in ihe-Delfa what purnort.edj'tb bera full'list of the killed itt the battles of Gontreras, Chorubusco, Chapultepec, and El Rey. The catalogue was appalling. It filled several solid andclosely printed columns,-Tandwecontem-. plated it wilh. feelings of pain too intense for expression. We looked and mused upon that legion of the names of the slaughtered dead un til every thirig-seemed iof wear to' our eyes the hue of blood,-and we could almost heaMheex piring groans of the fallen and the still more agonized shrieks of the widows' and orphans. And in this conviction we would aik, arid eve ry just-minded citizen oflhe country will' ask, why Gen. Stroll was placed in such circumstan ces as to be unable to take tha city of Mexico without all this frightful slaughter? Why was his gallant little army required to make its way hundreds of jrnilcs through a; hostile country, encountering four times its own numbers at every pass, and-ail lengt'h 'to storm "the almost impregnable defences df "the capital with so small a force and under such disadvantages as to render an awful sacrifice of life inevitable ? Why was ihis done when our home Govern ment, instead of exposing our bra'e and devo ted 1 1 ill e army to such great, suoh cruel ine qualiiies, and lo such horrible slaughter irr t hose battfes, might-at any lime have ponred' an over whelming force into Mexico and thus have em powered our ghllant General to finish his ap pointed work at a blow and at co'mparitively i. i r 1 1 ITTI 1 " ,4 i . j nine cost ot dioou vvny, m snort, were mx or seven thousand men required, at the' sac rifice of nearly a third of their entire number, to storm powerful fortifications defended by the whole military power of Mexico, when thousands and tens of thousands of their coun trymen at home were not only' ready but burn ing to rush to iheir aid 1 The responsibility for the torrents of Ameri can blood that have dyed the soil of Mexico rests upon the head of the administration, and it is a responsibility which no right-thinking man or righi-thinkin? body of men would wil- Iingly bear for all the wealth and all the hon ors of a thousand world's. The Horrors of War. Although the half is not told, hundreds of cases of Arson, Rape and Murder in Mexico by men who were senf thither under our Sag to fight, have leaked out through the letter wri ters, all champions of the War. The follow ing, from the Mobile Daily Advertiser who is not opposed to the War, is one of the latest but by no means most revolting ; " Some scenes that we occasionally witness here, would shock the morals of any robber in the States. A few days ago, just at nightfallr a Mexican came running into the hospital, cry ing mosi piteously and making all sorts of ges- . : i.r tt r . n it t ucuiauons. we lonowea nim to nis nouse, when a sight shocking to behold burst upon us On the floor was lying a Mexican, pierced in the breast by a ball, and ihe blood gushing forth from the wound. Holding his head was his wife and little children. He had been shot by a discharged volunteer, because, he refused for gold to barter away the virtue of his daugh ter, a beautiful tnrl -who stood byher hair dis heveled, and great drops of grief coursing down her olive cheeks. A Curiosity ! The Cleveland Herald says, ihey. have at their office, subject to the inspection of the cu rious, ihe identical, straw through which Mr Polk sucked m.lhe TarifFmenof Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1844 ! . A perfect heap of Aims and Legs. One of the Surgeons of the Army, (who has since been himsejf dangerously w(6unded) wri ting to a friend after, the battles of, Contreras and Cherubusco. says :. . " After operating with my assistant, till three o clock m iho morning, I left the building of which I had made a temporary hospital, to take i . . an nour s rest in open. air. 1. turned round to look ai my amputation table ; under it was- a perfect heap of arms andjegs ; and looking at myself I, found I was .covered with blood Trom head lo foot." .. , In passing the store of our neighbors, R. C. v v v 1 1 1 u r e o. , w e s a w i n e m s e n (J i n g oil p a e k ages o'f their crockery marked 'Oregon,'' will iih as little concern as they would send' them to Deiroii. .On inquiry, we learned lhat mer chants from that "city" make their regular trips io( the Atlantic seaboard 'for their supplies They cross the cpuntry on mules, and send their purchases .home via Cape Horn. Oregon city now contains some 10,000 in habitants. We leagi that goods are sold in large quamilies and ai good profits by our " oc cidental" breihren. They have already open ed a iradu wilh the San.dwjch Islands, and Po,yns?. Asides a gmwjng, traffic with wha ling ship N. Y. Jour, of Commerce. -'JIM l liUJW John Quiney Adams visiiednhe Iark Theatre last evening, and was grjeetcd in almost en husiastic manner by the ero wdjed. house. The venerable patriot made His appearance-jusl'as the curtain had fallen on the first act of " La Somnambula." He was immediately recognized by several gentlemen in the pit. The honored--name passed in an instant over the house, and inspired by ono common impulse the auditory burst into three cordial shouts of welcome. The "old man el oquent" bowed his acknowledgments, and an other cheer shook the walls of the Theatre. It was altogether one of the4most unaffected, sincere and thrilling exhibitions of patriotic feeling which we ever witnessed. li was no expression of healed pariizanship, but the spon taneous manifestation of popular love and rcv ereiice for one of the purest of American states men.1 N. Y. Tribune, th inst. Mr. Adams-has passed on to Washington, in anticipation of .the meeting; of Congress, and is said to enjoy much improved health. The New York Express, noticing a recent meeting between Messrs. Adams" aiid Gallatin, says: . . "When the two venerable men mer, and grasped each other by the handa tablet of un utterable thpughts" was plajnly traced upon their several countenances, and It was with ev ident reluctance that" they loosened their friend ly hold. Eachof these men is upwards of 80 years old, and yet their minds are as active as , - i si they were fifty years ago. Excepting Mr.. Clay, they are the- only, Americans now living who placed their signatures to the treaty-of Ghent more than thirty years ago. Adams, Gallatin, and Clay are the men, and ihey are among; the greatest men of the age ; and all of ihcru Whigs." ' Victims.. . The following is a recapitulation of .the num ber of persons who died, ofj5 Yellow Fe.vr in in New Orleans, from July. 5 to October 20ih, with the places of their nativity vix: United States, ;J , England - . 340 70 20 C92 224 877 44 y ; 24 ' 'i 1 I i 4 4 ' 2 Scotland Ireland France Germany Prussia, Spain Portugal Switzerland lialay Denmark Canada Attstria Bflgiutn Sicily Turkey Cuba Mexico Gibralter Circassia Isle of'Man Sardinia - -' il? i!- - 1 1 1 44 238 Norway Hanover lIe of-Malta West Indies Jewihh Cemetery !)rir ". Unknown -: Total 2,544 Ages of Statesmen. Of our distinguished public men, John Quin cy Adams, born in 1767, is the Nestor. He is 80 years of age. Henry Clay comes-next, be ing 70 years old on the 15th of April. Martin Van Buren, R. M Johnson, J. C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Daniel Webster, singular enough, were all born in 1782, and of course are 65 years of age. Tyler is S years younger born in 1790. Polk is about the same age. Dallas 2 years youngerr.yet born in 1793. General Taylor is nearly 60. The rest of our promi nent public men are generally younger by years. If wo cross the Atlantic we find a statesman in Wellington, unimpaired in intellect at the ago of 78. The age of Peel corresponds with that of General Taylor, as that of Lord John Rus sell does with thai of Dallas. Brougham is tho youngest of the first grade of public characters,, being barely born in the last century. Cure for Cancer. . A jeweller who h,ad a bad cancerous pimple on his cheek, having occasion to dissolve some gold in nitromuriatic acid, rubbed it several times, unconsciously, with his impregnated Ian -gers and was surprised to find u speedily change its appearance, and shorily disappear. M. Recamier, suspecting ihe cause, made sev- eral-uniformly successful experiments of the same mixture; and thus has accident discover ed a new caustic for cancerous affections, The proportions he adopts are one ounce of the acid to six grains of ohloruret of gold, The American Institute, New York, recent ly-awarded a gold medalMo the Lackawam Iron Company, for ihe Railroad Rails, of ihoic manufacture exhibited at the fair.
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