JEFFEHSONIAN republican
Thursday, April 19, 1819.
IEPThe members of the Bar of Dauphin coun
ty tendered the compliment of a public dinner to
the Hon. Judge Eldred (whom Governor Johnston
transferred to this district,) on his departure from
Harrisburg; but he declined the honor in an ap
propriate letter, thanking them for their kindness.
The elections in Trenton, Newark, and Bur
lington, N. J. last week resulted in favor of the
Whigs the first and last having previously been
locofoco. Every where, save in Connecticut,
where the Locofocos were saved from a total rout
by a coalition with the abolitionists, the Whig
party seems to be victorious.
New York Charter Elections.
The municipal election in the city of New York
has resulted as favorably to the Whigs as the most
sanguine of their number could well expect or
even desire. They have elected their candidate
for Mayor (Caleb S Woodhcll) by a majority of
at least 4,000 votes, three Judges of the Superior
and two of the Marine Court, and probably twenty-six
out of thirty-six members of the Common
Council, The whole City Government is there
fore, in their hands until the 1st of January, 1850,
when the members of the Common Council will
be superseded by those elected under the new
charter, which has been adopted by a large ma
jority. Mr. Woodhull, the Mayor elect will hold
his office until the 1st of January, 1851.
Messrs John Duer, Wm. W. Campbell, and J.
L. Mason are chosen Justices of the Superior
Court, and Edward E. Cowles and Jas. Lynch
Justices of the Marine Court.
In Brooklyn the Whig victory is equally com
plete and brilliant. Edward Copeland (Whig) is
elected Mayor by a very decided majority over the
highest of his opponents. The Whigs have twelve
or thirteen of the eighteen Aldermen, and have
elected Jesse C. Smith City Judge, and Truman
Smith (a name of good augury) Police Justice, al
though the opponent of each was upon three sep
arate tickets.
In Albany, also, the Whig ticket has been suc
cessful. Friend Humphrey is re-elected Mayor
over Dr. Thomas Hun, who was nominated and
supported by both branches of the Democratic
party.
The land sales in Wisconsin, by order of Gov
ernment, will commence on the 4th of June next.
The lands to be sold are the" vacant ones within
the reserved sections and parts of sections on the
Rock River Canal Grant. On the 1 1th of June
following, sales will be made, under the same or
der, of the vacant lands in the reserved sections
on the Fox and Wisconsin River Grant in the
Green Bay District.
Ql53" Vat you makes dare ?" inquired a Dutch
man of his daughter, who was being kissed by
her sweet-heart very clamorously ; " O, not much
just courting a little dat's all." " Oho ! dat's
all, eh 1 py tarn, I taught you vas vighting."
(LfThe National Intelligencer says that Mr.
Blackwell, of Coleroans Hotel, has failed for up
wards of $60,000. Grocers, Butchers, and wine
merchants, are among his creditors, and his where
abouts not known.
Hones dale Bank.
A bill to recharter this Institution has been
passed by both branches of the Legislature. The
renewal is ior fifteen years following the termina
tion of the present charter, which has two years
to run. By the act of renewal the bank is required,
before proceeding under it, to pay a bonus equal to
two per centum of its entire capital into the Treas
ury of the State, and the stockholders are made in
dividually liable to the amount of stock held re
spectively for the debts of the institution. Hones
dale Democrat.
The fisherman along the Delaware have near
ly given up all hopes of a successful season.
Thus far (says the Delaware Republican) they
have labored unsuccessfully, frequently toiling
the whole day and night for half a dozen fish.
Many who visited the Bayr in order to have a
wide scope and pursue their calling uninterrupt
ed, have returned to their homes the shad are
not there.
State Debt of Alabama.
The gross amount of the debt of the State of Ala.
is estimated at $9,207,555 55, from which is to be
deducted the good assets of the Bank of the Stale
. $2,207,534, and the debt is reduced to $7,000,
021 55. The annual interest on this debt, paya
ble in New York and London, is $471,507 80.
Some of the Alabama papers propose that the
-.State shall purchase her own bonds at fifty cents
en the dollar, and thus pay her debt with some
three million five hundred thousand dollars, while
others oppose all measures of compromise or re
pudiation.
A destructive, fire broke out in JWilliamsport
filaat i'nday .a week, consuming, 20, .buildings in
lf.fl hflSinPKK nnrt tf thr fmvn"
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The iEria'l Locomotive Started
The New York Tribune give3 the following ac
count of the experiments with this machine on
Tuesday.
' An exhibiton of the model of Porter $- Rob
john's asrial locomotive was made yesterday after
noon in the Exchange and was perfectly success
ful. The float or spindle shaped balloon made
of gold beaterTs skin, was about ten feet long, to
which was suspended a steam engine in miniature,
weighing fire, water and all complete about
three or four pounds. Notwithstanding its dimu
nitive size, the engine turned the light paddle
wheels of the machine with ease, and kept in mo
tion as long as the water lasted. The rudder was
set to fly the balloon in a circle. It was started
from the eastern door of the rotunda, and went up
steadily, propelled by the engine, in a regular gy
ration to the roof making two full circles on its
way. Here a weight having been attached, it de
scended in a spiral, following the set of the rudder,
and landed safely. This experiment was repeated
the second time with like success, and as far as
flying in a quiet atmosphere goes, the locomotive
may be considered successful. It remains to be
seen, whether a large machine, similarly con
structed, would safely resist the violent corarao
tions of the open air. There was a large number
of persons present yesterday, who testified by a
hearty applause their opinions of the exhibition.
Statural Curiosity.
The editor of the Denton (Md.) Journal was
shown, a few day ago, a kitten with six legs.
The animal is perfect, in every other respect,
and the extra, legs are fair and of the usual size
and appearance, situated about midway the body.
It died a few days after its birth.
The Locusts. The Locusts will appear this
year about, the 20th of May, in Western Pennsyl
vania and Eastern Ohio, occupying the whole re
gion from the mountains in Pennsylvania, Ohio
county, Va., Columbiana and other eastern coun
ties in Ohio. They can be found now in places
upon trees or shrubbery which grew in 1832, in
the above region, by skinning the surface of the
ground an inch deep with a spade. This will
open their chambers, which will appear like augur
holes.
Rhode Island.
The Whigs have elected Anthony, Governor by
over 2000 plurality and near 1500 actual majority
over all. They have also elected King for Con
gress in the eastern district by about 1500 majority,
while in the western district lately represented by
Thurston, Loco, there is probably no choice. The
"yhigs have also nearly two to one of the legis
lature. Property in Ireland in 1849.
From a return recently made to Parliament, of
the number of tenements in Ireland, it appears that
the whole number returned is 1,134,018. Of these
750,806, or about two-thirds of the whole number,
are valued at under 8 per annum, and the an
nual value is about three millions sterling. The
proportions are as follows :
Number valued as under 4 per annum, 494,018
" 5 " 86,541
6 " 68,880
"7 " 56,139
8 " 45,228
8 and upward 383,212
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Total 1,134,018
This valuation covers the value of the land at
tached to each tenement, and when the annual val
ue of the land occupied by two-thirds of the whole
population is considered, and when we remember
that this property is let at the highest possible
price that can be wrung from poverty, we can
formvsome idea of the wide-spread misery and
poverty that pervade that unhappy country.
The editor of the Arena published at Kil-
lingly. Ct., complains that it is hard work to edit
a country paper on account of , the lack of local
news and incidents. He says he expected to have
had an original marriage and death for the last pa
per ; but the sudden thaw kicked the wedding into
the middle of next week, and the doctor got sick
himself and could not visit his patient, so the patient
got welland thus both announcements were lost.
Some years ago in the New Hampshire House
of Representatives, one of the members of that
body, an odd stick, from South Hampton, when
the yeas and nays were taken on an important
question, did not answer to his name. After the
roll was finished he arose and addressed the pre
siding officer in the following pithy language :-
" Mr. Speaker, I rise to get up before you, to
let you know I'm not backward in coming forward,
I did not mean to dodge the question. I only
squatted a little, in order to take a better view of
the whole subject : and I now say 1 no' to that
critter'
The manner in which this was done excited
universal burst of laughter from the members.
Don't Write Again.
An attorney in this vicinity once addressed a
man against whom he had a " small bill for col
lection," requesting him to " call and settle."
Not receiving any answer, however, he again
wrote him "with no better success. After having
sent a number of letters, he at last obtained one in
return, in which the debtor said he would "try and
dew something when sledin' came," and closed
with-r-" But, for 'sake, squire, don't.write
any more letters, for it mWdaheall the debt to pay
the, postage I" , . m w ..-
The II inch man Case.
The" Court at Philadelphia has been engaged
fora long fime fn the case of Hinchraan vs. Ritchie,
etaf. This is one of the strangest trials on re
cord. It appears that the relatives of Hinchman
including his wife, mother and others, in view of
depriving him of his rightful title to his own pro
perty, endeavored to justify a plea of insanity
against him. The plea was so ridiculous in its
nature, that in order to sustain it at all, they were
obliged to resort to the most trivial and foolish as
sertions ever brought before a Court. The suit
was prosecuted by the plaintiff against them for
unlavyfully confining him in a madhouse, and for
depriving him of the lights, privileges, Ssc, to
which, as owner of his property, he was justly en
titled. David Paul Brown, for the Plaintiff, summed
up the pleading in his usual eloquent and argu
mentative way. In reply to the arguments of the
counsel for the defendants, he makes these felici
tous hints :
" When Pontius Pilate yielded at last to the
clamors of the populace, and washed his hands of
the consequences of the death of the Saviour of
mankind, and said, " I am innocent of the blood
of this man," he adopted beforehand some of the
arguments of the defendants here ; he stood by
and did nothing. He who stands by and does not
interfere when wrongs are committed, though, like
Pilate he may wash his hands of the existence of
guilt shares in the consequences of the evil which
he is not disposed to restrain or redress."
The basis of the argument adduced by the de
fendants counsel was that their respectability was
such as to warrant them from doing wrong. But
Mr. Brown says of the manner in which they com
menced their aggressions :
u This proceeding was wrong from the begin
ning and no subsequent matter can make it right.
They can't give life to a dead body. But it they
could every subsequent step was illegal as the
first. The petition was all wrong, the commis
sion was- wrong, the inquest was all wrong. The
keeping him in the Asylum was wrong. Dr. Evans,
said, after we had read Morgan's letters, that he
was convalescent before they were written well,
some of the letters were written in February
why did they keep him there for five months after
that Thevery measures they have resorted to,
in order to imptove the health of their feeble bant
ling, only shows their part in the conspiracy from
beginning to end."
A Searching Operation.
" Billy, my dear, where have you been, at this
time of night, to get your shirt turned wrong side
afore 1" " Been, mother ! been to an auction,
where a man lost his pooket book ; and they shut
the doors, and searched us all from head to foot;
that's how I got my shirt turned , glad to clear
out any how staid two hours and thej had'nt
half stript when I left 'em."
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Quick in her Application.
" It amazes me ministers dont write better ser
mons I am sick of the dull prosy affairs' said
a lady ia the presence of a parson.
" But it is no easy matter, my good woman, to
write good sermons," suggested the minister.
" Yes," rejoined the lady," but you are so long
about it ; I could write one in half the time, if I
only had the text."
" Tf the text is all you want," said the parson
" I will furnish that. Take this one from Solomon
' It is better to dwell in a corner of a house top,
than with a brawling woman in a wide house.' "
" Do you mean me, sir 1" enquired the lady
quickly,
" Oh, my good woman," was the grave response,
" you will never make a good sermonizer ; you
are too soon in your application.11
What thou doest, do quickly.
Quick young man ! life is short. A great work
is before you, and you have no time to lose. If
you succeed in business, win your way to honor
and save your soul, you must work quickly. The
sluggard dies. The wheels of time roll over him,
and crush him while he sleeps. Aim high, and
work hard, Life is worth the living, death worthy
the dying, because worth gaining.
Quick, ye men of might, in the road of life !
Your life is more than half gone already. You
are going down the hill, and the shadows begin to
fall around you. If ye have ought to do before
ye die, do it quickly: The morning has fled, mid
day has passed and the night cometh.
Quick ye aged men, quick ! Once, ye thought
three-score years and ten to be an endless time,
and that they could never pass away. They have
come, they have gone man what have they left !
The days of pleasure are past, and the days of
darkness are here. Have you left any work un
done 1 Have you come to infirmities, and tremb
ling, with no preparation for death ! Ah, quick,
ye aged father and grey beard sires.' Already
are the messengers of death beginning to render
their services to bring you to the sepulchres of
your lathers. With the feeble remnants of exis
tence struggle for Heaven. Work, pray, seek
while life lingers, mercy waits and God is gra
cious. ID3 Several Mad Dogs appeared last week in
the villages of Rancocas and Wnghtstown, Bur
lington county. A daughter of Dr. Woolman,
aged 13, was bitten on Saturday, and has been
sent to the residence of a female practitioner in
Frankfort, near Philadelphia, for treatment. Sev
eral boys and horses were also bitten. A horse
at Rancocas died during the week with hydropho
bia. The owner, says the Mount Holly Mirror,
had been driving him during the day, and at night
a short time after putting him in the stable, he
went back to leed him, and found him in the great
est agony. The strong manger to which he was
tied he had nearly bitten to pieces, and so violent
were his paroxysms of rage and pain that in a
short time he tore asunder his lower jaws, sever
ing some of the arteries, which caused the blood
to flow so profusely that death put an end to his
sufferings before morning. ' -
ARRIVAL OF THE HERMANN.
TWO DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
New york, April "14, 1849.
The American mail steamship Hermann,
Capt. Crabiree, arrived at New York yester
day, from Souihampton, England, wiih,iwo
days later intelligence from all parts of Europe.
She brings London dates 10 the 26th of March.
The Hermann left Southampton on the even
ing of the 26th ult., and has 120 passengers
and a very valuable cargo, from Bremen, Havre,
and England.
The intelligence is important.
The war has actually broken out in Italy.
The effort to make the king of Prussia Em
peror of the Germanic Empire, was unsuc
cessful. The rote for, was 252 ; against, 283.
The Gagern ministry immediately resigned.
The cholera continued to progress in Ire
land. In Paris, it had carried off one or two
men in office. y
Sir Charles Napier left London on the 27th,
for the East Indies.
There had been very little change in the
markets during the two days preceding the
Hermann's departure, in consequence of Sun
day; intervening. The British funds rose a lit
tle on change on the 24ih. The last quotation
for consols is 91 1-4. Foreign shares and
Railway stocks were rather lower. The pro
duce markets were low and unchanged.
A change of ministry was anticipated.
The amount of gold received by various mer
cantile houses at London, was about .40,000
sterling.
All efforts used bv the Governments of
France and Great Britain, to renew the armis
tice between Sardinia and Austria bad failed,
and hostilities would therefore be recommenced
and carried on with great vigor on both sides.
Although the European sympathies were so
strongly enlisted on the side of the Italian
cause, yet it was generally feared that King
Charles Albert would bo beaten by his power
ful enemy, who with an army ten thousand
strong, meditated a direct march upon Turin,
there, as RadetzkiTs manifesto stated, to nego
tiate terms of peace.
Latest accounts from Hungary state that the
Imperialists were not making much headway
against the Maygers, as success had latterly
crowned the arms of the latter, and the Austri
ans had several times been beaten with con
siderable loss. The proposal to appoint the
King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, was
rejected by the Frankfort Parliament. This
unexpected decision caused great excitement,
and would, it was feared, lead to unpleasant
consequences between Russia and Austria.
The Republic of Palermo had rejected the
constitution and proposals made by the King
of Naples.
The French and British fleets were about to
withdraw, and the Sicilians were preparing for
hostilities, which would immediately ensue.
The King of Naples would with great diffi
culty keep his throne, as a formidable insur
rection was about breaking out in Calabria, and
the Neapolitans were themselves unquiet.
The French Government had received tele
graphic despatches announcing that the Sar
dinian army had crossed the Ticino on the
20th, in three divisions. On the 2 1st, the Aus
trian army had passed the same river, and ex
po rienced some resistance. It was supposed
that King Charles Albert would be forced to
recross the river Ticino, but a great battle
would be fought onthe plains of Yercelli. A
French expedition of twelve thousand men was
ready to sail immediately, should the Austrians
set fool in the Pontihcial States.
Sardinia. The Piedmontese Gazette quotes
a letter from Como of the 16th, staling that the
Austrians have evacuated that place, and car
ried off the boilers of the steamers, to make
them useless to the insurgents.
France. -The Assembly, on the 24th,
brought to a close the debate of the law on the
clubs, which was finally adopted. The third
and conclusive reading will lake place after
five clear days. By ibis law clubs are inter
dicted, but publish meetings for the discussion
of political subjects, which have not the char
acter imputed to clubs by the present law will
be permitted. It is contended that this law
will have no other effect than to abolish the
name of "club." The clubs will still exist as
private societies
A Fans letter of Sunday, the 25th ult., says :
Great agitation prevailed in Paris last night
and yesterday afternoon. Attroupements were
collected in various quarters. The town was
patroled by strong detachments both of cavalry
and infantry during the night. A popular
movement for to-morrow continues to be spoken
of. The troops were everywhere under arms
yesterday and last night. These who are
quartered in the Banlieu and the detached forts
round Paris, have been consigned to their bar
racks for the last two days.
The War in Sardinia. We have received
despatches from our correspondent at Turin, of
the 21st, which supply us with some important
and interesting intelligence of the commence
ment of the war. A bulletin had just been pub
lished at Turin, by ihe Minister of the Interior
announcing the passage of the Ticino and the
march of the Piedmontese army into Lombar
dy. The headquarters of the king were at
Trecate. a small town on the Piedmontese bank
of the Ticino, close to ihe road leading from
Novara to Milan. It was by the bridge upon
this road, leading 10 Buffalora, that the army
crossed the river. The passage was unopposed,
the Austrians having retired from that point.
The road to Milan was reported to havo been
crowded with the Austrians and their baggage
and munitions in full retreat.
Advices have been received from Voghera,
of an attacks made by the Austrians upon the
Piedrnotese, who defended the bridge of Mez-ana-Corte,
near Pavia. The Austrians were
repulsed, after Avhich the Piedmontese pariiij.
ijr uosiroyea me onuge. mis new wasre
ceived by telegraph from Alexandria, 011 ih
21t. - e
Late on the 2lst, the Minister of War rc.
ceived a report that the fourth division uf
army, led by the Dake of Genoa, had advanced
as far as Magentb, in Lombardy. When ij9
division approached the bridge at Buffalora, the
King himself advanced suddenly to its head
and was ihe first man to cross the bridge. '
The recent reverses experienced by the Brit,
ish arms in India, are attracting the attention
of the whole civilized wor!d,-and as the Silkhj
are a people comparatively unknown to Ameri
cans, we copy the following intelligible account
of their origin and present position, fro:n
Chronotype :
The Silkhs are the diciptes of the British ;n
ihe art of war, and very apt scholars, Soma
forty years ago, when the British troops pg..
sued one of the rebellious rajahs of Hindosilri
through their territories, these fierce and fanj.
tical people were particularly delighted itn
the artillery service, and took to it with a grand
passion. They have ever since been accumu.
lating guns and training themselves to use them
Had they not also adopted ihe fashion of drink,
ing rum and brandy, the fierce battles they hare
fought might have turned out quite differently
and given vastly greater trouble to the Brnuh
arms.
The Sikhs were originally nothing but are.
ligious sect. About three centuries ago a re.
ligious teacher arose in the Punjab, who en.
deavored to unite what he deemed the beat fM.
tures of Mahometanism and Hindooism, mio
system which should reject cast and the grea
ter part of the superstition. These come-out.
ers were for many years pacific, and theii fru.
gal habits and the obligation which ihey nn.
posed upon the rich members to-support th9
poor, gained them many converts. At length
their fierce spirit of propagandist!! led one uf
1.. -J a I' -t -1 tm
their leaders to give them a military character
and they became formidable against their Ma.
homeian and Hindoo neighbors. They acquire
cities, villages, and extensive territory. The
government into which they at first fell was a
sort of federatrve republic. But the stroma
of the equal chieftains, catted Singhs, or Ltum,
soon began to tyrannize over the weaker, and
in 1808 the whole Sikh confederation wan con
sohdated into a Monarchy under Runjeet Singh,
a prince of great ability and of despotic sway.
He was shrewd enough to cultivate the friend
ship of the British, and was their much valued
ally, a protection to their northern provinces.
On his death in 1839, a number of candidate)
for the succession appeared, and the Bnthh
journals would have us believe thai their gor-
ernmeni honestly and carefully abstained from
any interference with the quarrels which en
sued. But if they did not foment them, it was
the first time they ever failed to take advan
tage of native dissension 10 advance their own
power.
Suffice it to say, that the claimants of Run-
jeei's sceptre soon reduced themselves by bloody
murders to Dhuleep Singh, the supposed sua
of Runjeet, by a certain Sikh Lola Montes, a
minnr aiirl hia r-iiiintnit nln miii-Ia (4hfi!nfi Sin&
aaaa.iua . a a a u u u ii 11 11 w a v u a w w a ii u ia ii a iuHI
The British favored ihe minor and his dancioj
mother.
In the meantime, ihe army of 75,000 men
whom Runjeet had disciplined in the highest
style of European tactics, could not be idle, or
submit to the whims of a woman or a child.-
It assumed a sort of republican control of itself,
and the consequence was that chivalrous attack
upon the British which resulted in its defeat and
the plorv of Lord Hardinpe and Lord fimioh.
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The army was disbanded in form and the Sikhs
were reduced to British Protectorship at an ex
pense to them of $ 1 ,000,000 or more per annum.
There can be but tittle doubt thai the Briiul
government, as a government, is a far, more pit
feci article than the native, but it is also fir
more costly, that is, to the producing people.
The people have to pay not only for their on
protected princes, but for the British agents ad
troops who protect them. It seems to but
been on account of this burdensome tribute ibis
Moolraj, the Governor ofMoultan, rebelled, and
caused the horrible siege, of which the last En
glish mail bore the account The British jour
nalists adjure all desire to annex the PunjabM
extend their Indian territory, yet a writer 11
the Edinburg Review very distinctly adsiu
that the war in the Punjab is popular in India,
that is. with thn Rritish in TiJia nn account
nf thn inp.rHSin nf arlVn o n rl nt rnrn no fftllCl
i . nni vaBusw. 1 imi 10 iijo icuick 111"
lot .lllai.n iw Tniliai a-.nl . . , . a f g . If ll
I ...ill n a a . ' 1 1 U a a U . Tk. HNI.
ism iuioio in mui uu 11 uv warn leunuiji
mOf ft,rat IB l.tKlllaa C I flflfl flflll ta a . AnilUJl
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for protecting a Sikh race.
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decisions awarding the contracts. Like
ceeuinga win soon aner taKe place in c-r
to the new routes advertised for contracting
other States of the Union. Nat. Intelligent
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nal Commissioners of this State, report ih1
M ahBaf 4 af A. al -A. 1 1.M A 11 lj " ' I M IlliaiU
debts due for repairs nrior to ihe 1st of Defl
ber last, amount to $220,338 JQ, ami th3t'!
sum ot $200,558 38, including S35.2S3
bridges will be Tequuad to keep" ihe impi
ments in repair durmirthe current fiscal"
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Railroads and Canals in ranair in the is"
December 1849 4"
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