M I illll I I III II ! I T.I IIIIW iii himH I I II III ikj uun. vx.vJiL .Ulivuu hi 1110 lillllll v cite iMizauethtown, J. J., on Saturday last. elections in 184S. The State elections forthe present year have already been held in New Hampshire, Connecti cut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. Those yet to take place will be held as follows: North Carolina and Tennessee, on the 3d of August; Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa, on Monday the 7th of August; .TEFFEliSONIAN REPUBLICAN jTM.;0B r - . - . . . . : on Monday, the 11th of September; Arkansas, ! Georgia, and Florida, on Monday, the 2d of Octo ' her;, Maryland, on Wednesday, the 4th of October; South Carolina, on Monday, the Oth of October; Thursday, Way 25, IS S8 w i in i mum ii in ii hi imim i niimninnniiiiniiii rwn Tcrms, $2,00 hi advance. $2,25 half yearly; and $.2,50 if not paid before thAeinl oi the year. Pennsylvania" and Ohio, on Tuesday, the 10th of Louisiana and November; New York and New Jersey, on Tuesday, the 7th of No- 'vpmlwr! M.issnchnsfitts. on Mondav. the 13th of -x ... . -x .r.i. r t j , J7 LT K. w.uarb, Jisqvoi uiBcuy n, V,liaoei; November; Delaware, on Tuesday, the 14th of . pL.BAUNES at Milford, is duly author- - . Mississippi, L wed lo act as Agent for this paper;to receive sub-; ' ' '.'w scriptioni, advertisements, orders for job-work, p exas, on Monday, the Gth of Nov and payments for llie same iihiri is: mithnrized Jo receive subscriptions and liemiftliran'1 1 November. IIUIMIIUIV ' Office. Sun Buildings, cdrner I bird and Dock The Presidential election will be held in all the Mreets. opposite the Merchant's Exchange; and ; States on Tuesday, the 7th of November. 410 North Fourth street. Foil CANAL COMMISSIONER NER MIDDLE SWARTH, OF UNION COUNTY. S E N A T ORjATj ELECTORS. Thomas M. T. M'Kenkan, of Washington, John P. Saxdkkson, of Lebanon. DISTRICT ELECTORS 1 Joseph G. Glarkson, 2 John P. Weiherill, 3 James M. Davis, 4 Tl.tH. W. Duffield, j 5'Daniil O. 11 inter, (5 Joshua Pun gnu, 1 7 John D. Steele, 5 John Landis, 9 Joseph K. Smucker.; 10 Charles Snyder 1 1 William G. Hurley, 12 Francis Tyler, 13 Henry Johnson, 14 William Colder, Sr. 15 (not filled) 16 Charles W. Fisher, 17 Andrew G. Curtin, 18 Thus. R. Davidson, 19 Joseph Markle, 20 Daniel Agnew, 21 Andrew W Loomis, J2 Richard Irvin, 23 Thomas II. Sill, 24 Saml. A. Purviance nr'tin, . lp liu miwiimimnujiiin. ILoccfoco National Convention. This body of politicians met in the Universalist church, at Baltimore, on Monday last, for the pur pose of nominating candidates, to be supported by them for the Presidency and Yice Presidency. The Convention was called to order and tem porarily organized by the appointment of Judge "Brice, of Louisiana, as Chairman, and Samuel Treat, of Missouri, as Secretary. Mr. Wheeler, of North Carolina, then submitted Members of Congress will be elected in the fol lowing States: Illinois, Missouri, Vermont, Maine, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Penn sylvania, Ohio, Michigan, New York", New Jer sey, Massachusetts, and Delaware1. The New Potagc Bill. The' following are described as the principal provisions of the bill reported by the Post Office Committee of the House of Representatives : The circulation of all newspapers free of post age within thirty miles of the place of publication, not above the superficies of 1900 square inches. Under one hundred miles and over thirty, one half cent; over one hundred and for any distance, one cent. . Newspapers above 1900 inches to pay pamphlet ! and magazine postage, which is two cents for the first ounce, and half of one cent for all greater dis tances. Newspapers under 500 square inches go free for the first.30 miles, and pay quarter of one cent for all greater distances. Transient newspapers pay two cents when not sent from the office of publi cation. Publishers of pamphlets, magazines and period icals, are allowed a free exchange, the same as the publishers of newspapers It is made known, by the official documents, that there are not less than two thousand three hundred women attached to the American army sharing its toils, privations, dangers and dories. a resolution for the appointment of a Committee They are occupied in various wavs, but in all .to consist of one from each and every State in the I war thp v arpt mnst sfll, nm1 inHiSnensnble. Union, the members of said Committee to be se lected by the respective State delegations, whose duty it should be to report upon the number of de legates claiming seats in the Convention and to examine the validity of their credentials. Mr. Coxie, of "Virginia, offered as a substitute for the resolution of Mr. Wheeler, a resolution pro viding for the appointment of a Committee clothed with similar powers and similarly selected by the respective State delegations except the State of Neiv .York. The resolution and substitute were debated with .warmth, when finally the question was put upon the substitute, and it was adopted. They wash and mend the clothing of the officers and soldiers. The army cannot do, with decency, without its laundresses. They officiate as cooks, and are the nurses in the hospitals. They have carried succor to the wounded on the field of bat tle, and soothed, as only waman can, the last mo ments of the dying soldier, whose last look is at his flag, and his last thought of the country he has so nobly served. $ Singular Document. The following is a copy of the Bill of Indictment against Margaret Christian, convicted at the Au gust Term of the Common Pleas, for 1847, in 'Pt. 0.. Jl .i . uc ,,uua oidie uBjeu,oiib. men cuiibuueu Wood Counlv yirglnia? on a charge 0f teaching a' together, and-after the selection of their respec-! i t , ,h , live representatives, the names were handed to the chair, and read by the Secretary, when the Convention adjoutne'd until 5 P. M. , Upon the re-opening of the Convention' a com mittee was appointed to report permanent officers of the Convention; who selected Andrew Steven son, of Virginia, as President, and a large number of Yice Presidents and Secretaries ; among; the latter was J. Glancy Jones, of this State. When the committee charged with this duty was absent, the Convention was addressed by Senator Hannegan, Gen. Houston; Mr. Yancey and Judge Bryce. a The New York difficulty was disposed of for " Wood County, To xcit. The Grand Jurors impanneled and sworn to inquire of offences com mitted in the body of said co.unty on their oaths present : That Martha Christian, late of said ; Late from Orcgoii. Correspondence of the Cincihnali Chronicle. The editor has just received the following letter from Oregon City. It is written by a young man from this town, and will give some practical in formation : Okegon Citv, Oct. G, 1847. Dear Sir : Since your last news frbrn myself, we have had near 300 wagons arrive, and more in the mountains. We are pleased to see men of cap ital coming in among us, and hope that the number may be increased very milch next year; for Oregon is the place for the capitalist now; and will contin eue to be for all future time! Whoever now wishes to do well, and has capital enough to do the work, cannot do better than to bring around a steam en gine and a good' boat builder. We can beat the work! for timber, and all we want is the opportu nity to prove it. The mouth of the great Colum bia River is every day becoming better known, and vessels are constantly putting in. We have saw mills building all over the country, and will fur nish for the next ten years as much lumber and surplus produce as any good steamboat can take to Astoria for "us. I wish not to go too far in any statement ; but I feel confident that all we need here is the start give us the start, and we will "go ahead." We are just about to have an Almanac for 1848 issued at the Spectator Office. What do you think, Mr. Chronicle, are we not doing something . The Author is Jlenry II. Everts, formerly of New-England ! x So it is go were you will, east or west, north or south, you find the Yankee ! ! I have been re-binding some few works, but for the want t)f materials, am unable to do much. We have had some small difficulties with the Indians at the Dallqs, but all is tranquil again. A' road is talked of along the south side of Colum bia lliver from the Dalles to Oregon City. This will afford a safe and comparatively easy route from the Blue Mountains to the Valley at any time of the year. This will open to the people of this Valley a country of boundless extent for the pas turage for sheep and stock of all kinds. Bring on your sheep and American mares we have room for all of them. We don't feed them in Winter or Summer don't be afraid. If you come late in the year, stop at the Dalles ; if early, push on and get through. While I think of it, I will mention a fact for Emi grants coming here. We have no foundry here, where cooking utensils are" cast, and all brought by sea are very costly. Indeed, I may say so of I anything else, but particularly of this kind, because the contrary has been held out as the truth. We need a good foundryman. and capital enough to carry on the work. Our valley is filling up very rapidly, and .families are coming in, who want kitchen furniture. Indeed, all kinds of articles used by mechanics, farmers or merchants are in greater demand than in any of the States. But at the same time T say,that our currency is of a character so unstable that we can give but little encouragement to any one on that score. However, we hope that all things considered, we offer as fair inducements to the industrious man as any section of the United States, let his occu pation be what it may We have had to travel and break the way over a very difficult and dangerous country. Those who come after us will find less and less difficulty lo encounter and when they arrive here they will find the necessaries, of life to be obtained at much Cieti. Scott's Prospects. The Berks tj- Schuylkill Jouraal, which has ihe name of Gen.- Taylor at Us masi-head for ihe Presidency, thus discoursed of Gen. Scott, and his prospects for ihe Whig nomination : "The prospects of Gen. Scoit, are brighten ing, every day. The plaits and inirigues of the administration and its minions lo crush him, have the vory opposite cHed. The people will not see a faithful public servant acknowledged even by his enemies to be a brave and skilful soldier slandered with impunity, and just in proportion as the loco foios abue, the Whigs and the people will rally around him. In Berks county a complete change of feeling has taken place in his favor, and hundreds of Whigs who a few months ago, preferred one or the oilier of his competitors, are now ainong his warmest friends. Throughout tho State we notice the s ime feeling among ihe Whig party. Will the Convention run counter to ihe voice of public opinion so plainly expressed ? We think not. What every true Whig desires is success and i hat, it is plain to be seen, can in no way be better ensured than by the nomination of the popular favorite General Winfield Scott." The Whig Spirit. We are happy to believe that the Whig fe(, ling in all this section of country h found and firm, and that the Whigs are entirely and thor oughly .united and resolved. They have their individual opinions as to who would be the most available candidate, and who uill get the nomination of the Whig Convention ; but, that nomination once made, ihey are prepared to yield these opinions, and join in a solid phalanx in its hearty .support. They go for ihe Whig cause and the country. Whoever is .selected as the standard-bearer of their party---and they know that no one but a good whig and an hou est statesman will he selected will find rally ing around him the Whigs of the whole Poto mac region and the adjacent counties. It it a period in our nation's history, and tfl.ihc ad ministration of our public affairs, which call so imperatively upon the W'higs for concert, zeal, and firmness, that we shall look for re newed efforis on iheir part, and a determination to secure, if possible, a Whig triumph, which will maintain the future peace and prosperity of our country, and the permanent settlement on a solid basis of all our L'reat interests. --Alex. Gaz. County," being an evil disposed person, on the j irer rates, and settlements already begun. 1 will fourth day of July, in the year of our blessed Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, at Righteous Ridge, in said County, not having the fear of God before her eyes; but moved and insti gated by the Devil, wickedly, maliciously, and fe loniously, did teach a certain black and Negro woman named Rebecca, alias Black Beck, to read in the Bible ; to the great displeasure of Al mighty God, to the pernicious example of others in the oresent'and perhaps finally, bv the adoption of , v, a- - . . , r r.t . rl , ' ;' - H like case offending, contraty toAhe form of the sta a resolution irom rne committee on Credentials, lute jn such case ,nade and provided, and against recommending the admissibn of the delegates from I the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of ... .... . if all the otner fctates, and allowing the Committee to-hold the New York case under consideration during the sitting of the Convention. The Convention then adjourned, without fur ther action, until Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Virginia." The defendant was brought' into Court next morning for sentence. Judge Sharklebar dwelt upon the great favor extended towards her oirher trial ; the enormity of the offence, and the necessi- A correspondent of the North American, says : ly of faithfully administering the law; and she the city is full of rumors and cabals and causes, j 'vas sentenced to ten years' confinement in the pen- The friends of Woodbury are at the top of Hope's Henliary, and lo pay the costs. -thermometer, and those of Cass-nearly as high. ! nnnvitinn f Y."fn! The trial of Charles Langlfeldi, for the mur- say one word to young men who wish to come here and make a home for themselves. They should first bring along their belter half, and next, as much of the needful as they can. Clothing a plenty will not come amiss. But above all, bring with you a good character, persevering industry, economy, and Washing Ionian habits, and ypu will succeed. Your friend and fellow citizen of our Great Commonwealth of America. C W. S. There is a st'rong'under current which wafts to wards Gen. Butler, of Kentuckey, and I shall not He surprised if lie is the candidate, with Senator Dix, of New York, for his Vice. A Law Qiic?ieisv 'The' estate that was left,' said an Irishman to his lawyer, 'was a pig and a bushel of potatoes, which were to be divided between the heirs, my self and brother. The Executors shut the pig up with the potatoes, ancf during the night he eat them up, and we want to know how we are to di vide the property? A-native of the Emerald Isle, the other day, oh hearing of the Revolution in France, the flight of the. king and his family, the triumph of democracy, and the establishment by the people of a provisional der of Mrs. Rademacher, was closed on FudaV ' government,-exclaimed "By St. Patrick, and is I last. The Jurv returned a w'rdiei of guilty of; not that iust the thincr t i tnnrdr in the first degree. guilty The North Amer- sv The Erie Observer, speaking of the suspension lca,H, sas. r. . , tnM i- , . 1 he prisoner gave way under the blow---all ofuhe Erie Bank, says,"! he caslner says that he feffor(s.t lydrod rJu hun... has means, but not at present available, to redeem jll3 coune'nwlce became deathly pale, and all the bills1 in circulation." On this, the Ledger cafiping jjLs hands, he sank down upon his very justly lemarks, " We never knew an officer ; sea, , ,. Joeb, being unable to stand. of a broken bank to say otherwise; and yet not one in twenty of the banks that break, make good their liabilities. The ' suspension of public opinion, usually solicited,-is too frequently used in plunder ing still deeper the poor holders of their bills."" A Governor Kohhed. At Frankfort. (Ky.) on the 1st instant; ihe bed-room of Gov. Owsley was entered, whilst he Banks hi lite United- Slatosv The aggregate number of Banks in the United States is 753 ; capital - $20&,2 10,000 ; circulation $116;738,00G ; supposed specie in their vaults,--! and his wife were a sleep, and his gold watch; '44,733,000. two air of gold speciacles, belonging to him self and Mrs. O., together with some other ar- BTon. RogerS. Baldwin and Hon. ! ucles of value, and some sixty or eighty doi- nrs in monev, were abstracted therefrom.--- day of sentence has not yet been fixed by ihe Court. There is scarcely a man, wo man or child to be found in the community, who does not" believe the conviction-a right eous one. Connecticut T.nm tr :.u i l . i . J Tj. .:.!. t-. . I i i mini w omiiu iiaits ueeii eiecieu uniiuu ciaies Senators from Connecticut'. Thev are' both good is. This robhery of a Governoi may be said so be putting the panning poyver at defiance. that just the thing that swcet Ireland .wants 1 A provisionary government forever ! By the pow ers, the only government she now has is a starva tionar one." ' Incrcae oft Population. The rapidity with which our cities increase in population has no parallel ru the history of the world. The attention of a recent English author has been directed to the extraordinary statistics which that history furnishes. They present the following interesting results ; From 1839 to 1S48 the population of Mas-' sachuseits increased 128,000. Of ibis increase, 66,000 or over one half, was in nine principal ! towns. During the same period, the increase of pop- j illation in the whole State of Nt.w York, was 07 tmrv ft r-i r t ittKlLi In I In A ftmrloitti I'l rtru'l IntpIlD i iwi i ; ii hiiiie in nib iwiiiickii laigt.n itinno, the increase was (54 1-4 per cent. ! Excluding these towns, tin. increase was bill 19 per cent. In Pennsylvania, the increase of ihe whole Slate was 21 3-4 per cent., and in the nirte lar gest towns, 39 1-4 per cent. In Ohio the contrast is much' greater. The increase in the whole State was 62 per cent., while the increase in the 18 largest towns was 138 per cent. ! The increase, during ihe same period, in twenty of the largest towns in the Union, was 55 per cent., while the increase in the whole country was but 34 per cent. " What is to become of our rapidly increas ing agricultural surplus ?" a question often asked. These statistics form the basis of a satisfactory soltnion of this question. Consu mers increase more rapidly than producers. While our agricultural borders are being ex tended, our towns and cities are growing with' unparalleled rapidity. Simultaneously with every new acre subdued, new city and village lots are occupied. A ihe surplus wheat arid pork increases, new mouths are operi to receive it. Production and consumption increase to gether ; and it is the true interest of ihe coun try to foster that policy which will most cer tainly induce the one to keep pace with" the other. The Whig Protective policy is "directly cal culated to lead to this resulj. Its tendency is to build up cities and- villages to prdduce consumers of agricultural products to keep up and extend the market for agricultural surplus es and to secure to the farmer an active de mand and fair prices for his commodiiids. 'One or two facts will show the effect which the increase of population has upon the de mand for agricultural products: lh 1840, the population of the country was (say) 17,000, 000. The increase since then iusiifies the opinion that it will be at least 22,000,000 in 1850. This increase of 5,000,000 will con sume at least 22,000,000 bushels of wheat ox more than the ichole product of 1800! To bring up ihe increase to this point, will require, according to the estimate of an intelligent wri ter, that, for ten years, 130,000 acres of new land shall be annually put under wheat culture; and to furnish these 5,000,000 with oiher agri cultural commodities, will require three times that amount of land, to be appropriated to corn, rye, oats, pasutrage, &c. or, m other words, to supply the necessary ajnount of food for our annual increase of population from 1840 to 1850, it is necessary that 510.000 acres of new land shall be annually subdued ! v These statistics are important ; and if fol lowed, out to their full limit, would present as tounding results. Many of our cities are des tined to become immense in extent and popu lation ; and so long as they increase with their present rapidity, and from 600,000 to 100,000 acres of new land are annually required to fur nish an adequate supply of agricultural products, no one need be alarmed at the idea that the time wijl come when the farmer will be unable to find a market for his products. Alb. Journal. Warning to the South. Extract of a letter Jrom a Merchant in t'i" South to his Friend, a Merchant in the North It is needless to say, 1 presume, thai you tnusi. take care what you do in these times, for they are full of panic. 1 think they are worse than any I ever knew before. Heretofore revulsion. hav6 come from an over action on sound basis jTow, in the un:ver:al disarrangement of bu.-i ness in Europe, the foundation seem to re shaken, and may be destroyed for a time. Never was the prospect of the Southern Siatei so black. Never did the policy and wisdom of the friends of domestic industry hfhe fmriti so gloriously as now. The " Free-trader" were for slaking the prosperity of iIih couinrv upon old decrepit Europe; and they have mil ceeded : and see the result. The Whig-. wer. for building up a home demand for our pnuluiM; as rapidly as possible until thai demand for av ion would have been permanent iniead oi .sec ondary 10 Europe : and then that great Sou'h ern interest, would have been secured, lei Eu rope go as she would. Injured, of course, u would be by such a state ol things as the pre ent, but not threatened, as it now is, with de struction. Nation al Inl ellicn ccr. Gen. Scolt. The citizens of New Orleans are greatly dis appointed that Gen. Scott dues not come to that city. They had made every preparation. His Teller acknowledging these favors, says : " I am laboring under the public dt.-pleasure of the President of the United States, and as a soldier, dutiful lo constitutional authority, 1 may not, for the lime obtrude myself upon my partial coun trymen, of make any personal movement it may be in my power to avoid, thai might provoke iheir greetings. I am, therefore, embarked lor one of our Northern ports, the nearest to my family, and shall, in retirement, await the fur ther orders of the War Department. Extraordinary Remains. While some persons in the employ of Major Bates, of Guernsey, in Ohio, were engaged m quarrying stone for the repair-of ihe national road, on the hill west of Cambridge, iliey found, in a petrified slate, what was supposed to have J been the body of an ldian child, which, perhaps centuries ago, was deposited in that spot, t This extraordinary specimen of ancient remains wa found imbedded in a mass of solid rock, and has the appearance of a strange image, somewhat imperfect in its outward form, yet having the appearance of ihe human" shape. The male rial of which it is competed appears to be a pecjes of limestone. Tn ihe same cavity was also found a small row of w hat appeared to'have been Indian, beads, malted together, ' Carious " Democratic" Sentiment, Senator Calhoun in a recent speech in ref erence lo the Indians of Yucatan, denounces, ihe idea that all men are enmled. to the enjoy meni of Liberty or th'at one inan is as good as another. To liberate and raise the slave to an equality with his master, he declares to be contrary lo the dictates of truth and nature. These Southern folks have curious ideas of what the French call "liberty, equalite and Craternitie" and locofoco "democracy." v Moon Story. A stone resembling black flint, and weighing 13 pounds, fell on Wednsday night 3d inst., neap Carthage, in Ohio, Ii is suppo sed to have b.een discharged from the volca noes in the moon.. The whole number of deaths in N. Y. city in 1847 was 15.7S8, of which 8,526 were males and 7,263 females. 14,322 were Whiles, and 366 colored. From the Ea'slon Whig. Dedication of the Odd Feliows' EIa!l. The ceremonies connected with the dedica tion of the buildiii" erected by the Odd Fel lows, took place on Thursday hist. The ded icatory address was delivered in the Hall at eleven o'clock, by Dr. Andrew Yohe, late of this place. A crowd composed of citizens and members of the Order, assembled to 'hear the Doctor, and from all he received ihe highest applause. His delivery was good, and ihe subject matter of his addres, which was an historical account of the Order, was edifying. At one o'clock the different Lodges of this vicinity and those in altendene from a distance, assembled in the public square and formed in procession, under ihe direction of Chief Mar shal Adam Yohe, Esq. The line was quite a long .one, and as it moved through the town the rich regalia and other trappings of the members, enlivend with martial music and the Easton and Bethlehem Bands, presented an interesting and imposing exhibition. Thousands of citi zens and strangers were drawn to ihe square whilst it was forming, and most of the streets through which tho procession passed were lined with spectators. The exercisses of the day were closed with an address, explanatory and iifdefence of the Ordei, by Mr. McAnhur, of New York. Ht address occupied upwards of an hour, and-durs ing all that lime he succeeded in keeping a large audience standing in the square, exposed to the heat. Strong evidence of his talents and ability as a public speaker. Slate of the Crops. As this is tho season when our friends feel anxious lo hear something in relation to the appearance of the growing crops, we have been for some days collecting such information on the subject as is contained in our exchange list. "The result is cheering. We hoar from from every part of our own Staie.that ihe Win and Rye look unusually well, in Ohio and Michigan, generally, both crops are promising in the highest degree, The Maryland papers, say : "Our crops were never known lo look belter." In Virginia, "We have never seen a more cheering prospect." From Georgia, the Marietta Advocate says : "The Wheat crop in this county was never more promising al this season. Our farmers have sown double the quantity of land of last year. Wheat read ily commands eighty cents a bushel." Tho T4en- nessee papers say: "The crops never looked more promising than now." In the vicinity of Plaquemine, Lousiana, "the crops are in a mo; excellent condition. The planters have had. so far, a fine and favorable season', and ih.o ciops indicate a most abundant yield."
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