otaem muuwn mini.1 w iii rtf JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thaxrsdaj', Jsibic 14, 1849. FoierUi of JTiiSy. The 73d anniversary of American Independence is near at hand, and as yet nothing has been said concerning a celebration of that event in Strouds burg. In looking over our exchanges we observe that grand preparations are being made throughout our Country for the commemoralion of that the most sublime epoch in the political history of the world. When have the American People had a more fitting occasion to rejoice at the harmonious operation of their institutions and the universal prevalence of prosperity and happiness throughout our borders, than at the present time. . The insti tution of a comparison between the old and new world, is sufficient to induce us to cling with more tenacity, to our magnificent, social and political fabric, and to effectually kindle every latent spark of patriotism within our bosoms. When we turn our eyes to Europe, wefind the waves of one gen eral commotion dashing and beating upon every fchore from he Thames on the west, to the con fines. of.Asia on the east, and from the snow-capped mountains of the North to the tideless Mediterra nean on the south. This being the state of things across the Atlantic, what is the spectacle present ed at home? Our country, in the interim, is re posing in the harbor of universal peace bringing all her energies to bear upon the development of her exhaustless resources, and employing every feasible agency for the augmentation of her al ready colossal power. If the citizens of this place wish to make any public display in honor of the day, it is time to be up and doing, and make the necessary arrange ments A meeting should be forthwith called, and a Committee appointed to carry its Resolu tions into effect. m i it ' . . Tn - : r .i? I 1 IIEUX EWS;FKOM lliUUOPE" 15 UUUII1 Ol SUlflling . KT We were informed yesterday that Mr. Da vid Morehouse, Post Master at Livingston, Essex 'county, !N. J., died of the Cholera, on the the 5th instant. . The -1th of July next, says an exchange, will be a glorious day in Pennsylvania. The law exempt ing .three hundred dollars worth of real and per sonal property from the pangs of" execution" and " levy," goes into effect on thai day. Two Farms were recently sold in Elk county, one of .five hundred acres, and the other of nine -hunched acres, for 15 cents per acre ! Who wouldn't own a farm ? ItJan Drowned. , The Easton Argus of the 7th inst. says, -a man named Rily was drowned in the Lehigh river, op posite South Easton, last Saturday. He fell over board, unobserved. by any one, and being unable to swim, was so far gone before he was discov ered, that life could not be restored. CoKsrsiotawealtEa Lon:t. The Harrisburg Telegraph says The loan of 8400,000 for the construction of a road to avoid the Inclined Plane at the Schuylkill, the propos als for which had been advertised, was taken on "Wednesday last, at a premium of about $1000, to the Commonwealth. This will insure the com pletion of that work in the least possible time, as t. engineers are how engaged surveying the route. State credit rises under a Whig Administration. Alarming;. , The Locofocos of Lycoming and Juniata coun ties have solemnly-resolved that the Administra tion of General Taylor, does not merit their con- . fidence especially in the matter of appointments. Young Wilson (aged seventeen.) "who was de tected as a mail robber in New Jersey, has been placed in the Penitentiary at Trenton, to serve a term of years for his crime. A lesson to the young who feel disposed to yield to temptations ! It is , said he has been for some time in the habit of purloining money from letters passing through the office in which he was clerk. In Philadelphia, onuhe7th?inst? the Board, of import.-f'-The Northern Autocrat; ostentatiously Health Reported . two cases of Cholera-rboth fatal. castsis sword into the scale .where thedeslinies These, it appears were the only cases during the rbf nations hang trembling, confident of his power week. Tim ritv authorities am tnkirifr everv ore- to crush the risiner hone of rreeuom. He marches - -j o - w t I - a i caution to ward off the disease. ' ostensibly against Hungary but really against The North American of Monday says Germany, Italy, and the free spirit everywhere From our exchanges and the. telegraphic reports, awake or awakeniug. . throughout Europe. Des we glean the following statistics of the cholera at potism decrees that human blood shall flow in riv the various points where it is known to prevail. ers that the chains of centuries may be tightened, On the plantation of Col. Bibb, Louisiana, 70 the wrongs of the. millions be doubled, the reced slaves, and on that of Bishop Polk, in the same ing darkness resume her dreary and dismal reign State, 23 slayes had been swept away by the epi- No choice is left the Nations but Slavery or Death demic. It-is a curious fact, that no deaths by Let it be remembered, through the years of carnage cholera have occurred at any of the cotton mills a3 now commencing by whom and on whose behalf yet. At .Laredo, in lexas, the whole town is in tins dire alternative is presented. mourning, so great have been the ravages of the Hungary is the first point ofattack. That Na- disease. Among its victims are 200 Mexicans tfon s one 0ftne oldest and bravest among the and soldiers of the 1st regiment TJ. S. infantry- Peoples of modern Europe long the bulwark of Live members of the Boston and ihssex Mining Christendom against the fiery valor of the Moslem Company died of cholera at the- same place. At hordes before Russia or Austria had-an existence Petersburg, Va., the.Board of health have declared when ie latter was at bWa petty principality, against salt fish 'and shell fish, and the Mayor has anu- lne former the -domain of' savage tribes less made the selling of them a penal offence. On enlightened and scarcely more formidable than our board the steamer Josiah Lawrence during the Indians. Defeated, and her monarch slain on her last trip from New Orleans to St. Louis, there hast great battle-field, Hungary called to her throne" were 100 cases of cholera among 350 passengers! tne house of Hapsburg, not as conquerors but as only three died, however. At Kingston, Canada, magistrates, sworn to uphold her independence up to the 3d inst. there had been 14 deaths of ancj administer her laws. She never thought of cholera, all in one location. At Nyack, Rockland becoming an appendage, much less a province, of county, N. Y., during a week, there were 12 cases Austria, but an ally in the great work of resisting and 7 deaths. - At Albany N. Y., no cases were me tide of Ottoman aggression, for which either officially reported, but the Evening Journal says alone was proved unequal. Thatend wasachieved. that several had occurred, one of which was From the walls of sorely beleaguered Vienna the very severe. At St. Louis and Cincinnati, also. Moslem standards were hurled back in shameful the reports are incomplete, as well as at Richmond, defeat by the gathered might of Eastern Europe ,ra. At New York, 9th, 40 cases 19 deaths, Uih- hurled back never to return. For three centuries cinnali, 8th, 31 cases, .4 deaths. Richmond, Va., tne fortunes of Austria have been profusely nour 7th, 4 cases, no deaths; 8th 2 cases, 1 death. jsneci by Hungarian blood. At length long obse P;lc.Viii.nr AlU n nionc O rlonttio TVJoiv Allninw. I ir J i r a .r..niii . imouuig, im, j viKJ uumo i -j j quiOUS U.U Uglify UtJIUilllUS UI -fVUSUIU 111B JUlilUlUKIU 1st, 2 deaths. Madison, IndianffTlst, 1 death. 0fthe guaranties which induced her to yield her Lexington, Ky., 1st, 7 cases,2 deaths. Maysville, cr0Vvn to an Austrian prince. She asks the cor Ky., 4 cases, 1 death. Salem, Massachusetts, 1 rection of certain glaring abuses, the restoration of death. Brooklyn L. I., 8th, 1 death ; 9th, 4 cases, some porti0n of the rights which have one by one 2 deaths. Chicago, 111., 1st. 1 death; 2d, 3 deaths; been filched away from her people. The Austrian Sth, 3 deaths. At Milford, Ohio, 1st, 3 cases, 2 oligarchy answers with the sword, and with the deaths. At Nashville, Tenn., 1 death. At Bor- nttfir ahrnaation and formal denial of ricrhts, to Hungary as a separate nation. Beaten by default at the bar of History and Humanity, Austria is doubly discomfitted in her ready appeal to arms. The minions or despotism are at all points chased from Hungarian soil. All hope of her subjugation by Austrian force alone is dissipated abandoned. It is manifest that Vienna is far more in danger of capture than Debrecsin. Here the Autocrat of all the Russias interposes his colossal strength. In swelling words of blas- The Lumber Trade. The Suequ!6hannar has; been- inexnellent'order for rafting during the past weekand large quanti ties of lumber have been floated down. . The total number of rafts and arks which have floated past Harrisburg this season is 3628. deaux, La., 60 slaves died. Cholera in New York. The reports of Cholera in New York for the last week show the following results : Monday, twenty-three cases nine of them fatal Tuesday, thirty-ninejeases eleven deaths. Wednesday, sixty cases ten deaths. Thursday, thirty-eight cases nineteen deaths Friday, twenty-six cases twelve deaths. Cincinnati and St. Louis reports exhibit much phemy he reviles the Hungarians for daring to as- the same number of cases and deaths. Boston and Baltimore are nearly clear of it. Presbyterian Convention. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian (Old School) Church, in session in Pittsburg has determined to hold its next meeting in Cincinnati. The proceedings thus far have not been of very much importance, except the exhibition of a kindly feeling towards tne convention (iew ijcnool; in session in Philadelphia, and an earnest desire to heal the present differences of opinion. sert their rights and threatens to crush them by his power. His accusations are lies, and of no account, but his five hundred thousand trained veterans pure fighting-machines without an idea beyond their daily exercise or an aspiration be yond a night's debauch men who would shoot their mothers at the word of commanH as mechan ically as a saw cuts timber these are not to be lightly spoken of. Above all, his uncounted mil lions of hoarded gold are appalling. Give the Hungarians these, and they will waste away his armies; but, destitute as they are of money or credit, we fear they must fall unless assisted and their fall drags down the whole German Democra cy. Let Hungary succumb, and the last whisper of resistance to the thirty-odd Royal tyrants and Damages by the Astor Place Riots. Mr. Hackett; Manager of the Astor Place The atre, has presented to the city of New York a claim of $5,005 20. for damages sustained during, ihe late riot. 1 : One of the Members of the Massachusetts Leg islature recently offered a bill which provided that " no lady shall be married, except in the town vhcre she resides." It didn't go. down ; another . .member knocked it on the head by offering In amendment, requiring people " to die in the town where they are born " , Prolific. v., , TJie Frederick Examiner states that a cow pronging to Mr- John Howard, of Urbana district, f Frederick .county Mdvhas had within the past f. twelve months six calves; producing three at each time. r:;':t I j r Rhubahb, or pie plant, which is at'this season of the year generally used for pies, should be ex eluded 'from the table. It is considered to be a ''fruitful source of diarrhoea, and at the present time Should 'be ;str icily too cautious 4n their diet and habits" usVnow. ;'when symptoms of cholera arc prevalent, Lild "be str'icily avoide.d. Persons cannot b'e calh of General Gaines. An Official Telegraphic Despatch was yester day received at the War Department, communica ting the sad intelligence of the death of Brevet plunderers will be hushed, and the Fredericks Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, of will promptly proceed to imprison and shoot the the United States Army, He died on the Gth in- patriots whom in their weakness and terror they stant in the city of New Orleans, (said to be of cajoled with promises of liberal constitutions which cholera,) whilst in command of the Western Di- lhey will now repudiate and scoff at vision of the Army of the United States. AH eyes turn, therefore, to France, as the sheet We have not time to-day to prepare an extended anchor of the liberties of the world. And nobly notice of the 'departed General, but will mention have her gallant people responded to the mute ap- two facts respecting him which we now happen to Pea- The taunt that she is ' a Republic without remember. He was, according to military grade, Republicans' falls pointless. In spite of Iamenta- the second officer in rank in the army, Major Gen- Dle popular ignorance and distraction in spite of eral Scott having for a long time been the senior a" tne appliances of corrupt and unworthy rulers General in the service. The particular exploit ner elections show that the popular pulse beats that gave General Gaines his distinguished repu- niSn with love of Liberty. The returns astound tation was his conduct at Fort Erie in 1813, which a parties and electrify all who struggle and hope l. .1 r. 1 1 . 1 r .1 ... I fV. n Un -.3 f m tt i;e ueieuueu wnn great acuity irom tne nignt at- ,U1 a uiuer ui wings, xwo hundred and tack of a powerful British force, under the com- Forty Deputies have been returned by the So mand of General Drummond the loss of the Brit- cialist Democracy by the party whose Republi ish amounting to 9G2, while that of the Americans! canisra no man will dispute. They may not be was only 84. In regard to age, General Gaines ,ne ruling but they will be the leading party in the was the Senior Officer of the American Army, new Assembly. They may not form a Ministry, having entered theservice as-Ensign in January, 0,lt they will seal the doom of that which sent Ou- 1799 ; and he has left behind him a name which dinot on his shameful errand to Rome. They will adorn the annals of our country. National j may not command an immediate recognition of Intelligencer, SlLinst. . the Right to Labor and Education for all, but their election sets the seal of doom on all schemes of Gunpowder vs. Cholera. violent Reaction, either by the restoration of the When the Cholera visited London in 1JB32 and Bourbons or the Constitution of Louis Napoleon '33, the city authorities had small quantities of a President for life. The effect of this victory of gunpowder tied tightly in strong paper arid fired the Laborers is already powerfully felt in the ac- TKEATMEWT OF THE CUOLEA. Sulphnr a Cholera Specific. As any ihing relating to the treatment of chol era is interesting at ihe present moment we copy from the Chicago Journal the subjoined lelier, written by a physician of high sianding- at Chicago, who appeare to believe that a spe cific for the cholera has been discovered in the use of sulphur. A correspondent of the Albany Atlas, in referring to the letter of Dr. Herrick, observes, that " sulphur, it is said, has long been employed in cholera by practitioners of the ho moeopathic school, in accordance with direc tions to that effect in their book," but he justly adds, that this ought not to prejudice the pnb lic against its use. Dr. Blancy, mentioned in the letter, is a nian of science and research: Dear Sir: In compliance with the request of my friend, Dr. J. A. Bird, I have made the following brief synopsis of a letter from him, sent to me for publication in the North Wes tern Medical and Surgical Journal which, to gether with the few additional remaiks which I have made, you will please publish, in order that the members of (he medical profession and our citizens generally may have the means of testing, and the benefits to be derived, from what is supposed to be a new discovered reme dy for the cholera. J he facts stated in the letter referred to a- bove are briefly as follows : About six months since, Dr. Bird and my self were led into conversation upon the effects of atmospheric influences in producing epidem ics, from reading an article from a German chemist, in our periodicals, in which it was contended, that influenza depended upon the presence of ozone, and that the severity and number of attacks, as shown by chemical analy sis, was always in proportion to the amount of this substance in the atmosphere. Taking this substance in connection with the fact, that cholera is generally -preceded by influenzas, as shown by its history, we were led to the con clusion, that both diseases might be dependant upon the same influence, modified in degree according to the greater or less quantity of this deleterious agent presented in the atmosphere at the lime. The next step in the investigation, was to determine what agent would counteract the in fluence and destroy the deleterious properties of ozone. . The accurate chemical knowledge of Mr. Bird, enable him to suggest at once the well known substance sulphur as possessing the properties of acting upon it in such a man ner as to neutralize its influence. In search ing for facts to support this conclusion, it was found that the cholera never had prevailed in the vicinity of sulphur springs, or in situations where this substance abounds ; hence the con clusion, that sulphur might be, and probably was the antidote for cholera. In one of our Medical Journals, an article appeared describing the method of detecting ozone in the atmosphere, ihus supplying the v ough the results so far as obtained, in ashcT Yuneand by a few individuals, seezn tojUsJl lour conclusions, it is hoped that physicja will continue to depend on what they connj"' the most efficient practice in bad cases of cIm era, until they shall have tested the ina, themselves, and formed their own conctusjoa! and also, that whatever may be the connCen5' of individuals in this orari)yiher remedy, t! will not depend upon their own judgment any case, even of slight symptoms, wheneeii it is possible to consult their physician. It is suggested by Dr. Bird, that a combinj I tion of powdered charcoal, one part lo four of sulphur, has seemed to make the remedy ranr I eiucieni. vv. a. tierrick Ed. N. W. Med. $ Stir, JoUTi in the alleys and.o'ensely populated portions of the great metropolis The concussion disturbed the air, and the odor from the powder displaced ob- ,4, tion of the Assembly it is felt in the inaction of Oudinolit will be felt throughout Europe, if Hungary can but stand six months, Franco will noxious ernuyp and purified the atmosphere. It, stand or fall with her. Courage, suffering Na was useu m uieatres, cliurches and school rooms, 1 lions.! llle gray dawn is before ns Tribune and was found to be a powerful disinfecting agent, the smell remaining upwards of 24 hours in the buildings. It was used in the lazarettos of Trieste and Malta, and was tried in 1833, and also fn Mon treal: In the latter city cannon were placed in the narrow streets and fired with blank cartridges. It) someof the western towns, recently afflicted, the same remedy has been tried with success; Yellow Scab. A disease by this name, resembling somewhat the small-pox, and erysipelas,has been urevailinir TT " ' ' -"1 iinncock .conntv. Tndi.ma. to a rnnsirl . J J I - - It;..; 1 : ? . . '1 11 jh lenrescniGU 10 ue contagious, inim i , - T--,-' " C in extent not vorv fatal The Khasi Calves. The Richmond Republican states that Governor Floy has agreed to et Mr. James Castleman of Clarice county, have charge of the Khasi Calves, brought from the Dead Sea, and returned by Lieu tenant Lynch for the benefit of the Virginia far mers. Mr. C. is to have them three years, and to distribute the breed in a way to prove most bene ficial to the stock raising community. They have not attained their growth; whenthey do," they will probably measure -fifteen feet in length and seven ,'feet in height. ' v. : . - ' - means 01 determining wnether or not it was present at the very time when cholera was be ginning to make its appearonce amongst us. Dr. Bird's experiments, as well as those made subsequently by himself, and by Drs. Bird, Bla ney and myself from day to day, since that.trfne, shows that ozone is prsent in our atmosphere, and that the amount is in proportion to the se verity of the disease from time to time. About a week since Dr. Bird determined to try the effects of sulphur upon himself and others troubled as nearly all have been more or less of late, with uneasy .sensations, slight pains, &c, in the digestive organs. The re sult was entirely satisfactory, so much so that Dr. Bird came immediately to my office, and requested me as a friend, to test its efficacy in my practice, bin to say nothing to others with regard to the ingredients used until facts should justify its public announcement as a discovery. The benificial effects resulting from its use in my practice was such as to convince me at once of its utility in the class of cases described above. During the last few days Drs. Bird. Blaney and myself have continued to use this apparent simple remedy, to the exclusion of all others in cases of choleric symptoms. The result has been wonderful. All premonitory symptoms, such as pain, a sense of fulness, un natural movements, slight diarrhoea, &c, have uniformly yielded at once to a dose of three to four grains of sulphur. In cases where either cramps, diarrhoea or vomiting have been present, and in fact where all these symptoms have existed in conjunction', the use of sulphur, in the above named doses, every three or four hours, has had the effect to ameliorate the patient's condition at once, and when used, in a few hours, to dissipate choleric symptoms. So far as its effkacy has been tes ted in the worst stages of colapse, most satis factory results have been obtained. In two or three cases of the kind the effect ofihe remedy has been to biihg back pulse to the wrist, re store warmth to the surface, and slop the pro- iusq uiarrhcea arid vommng. In truth, the re sults obtained so far, have been such as to con vince all of us, who have administered it, and witnessed its effects, that if any remedy de serves the appellation, tfrjs is a specific for cholera. It having been determined to make this pub lic statement, it is expected in ruturn that no hasty conclusions will bo made, either for or against whailpfiars to be a proposition to ac ctmiplish muchnty very simple means. .. A1- The Overflow at New Orleans, TEE SCENES. The New Orleans papers give aome louch ing, and at the same time amusing sketches f the condition of affairs in that city, caused b the overflow. The distress has been great arij wide-spread. In the suburb streets the housej are surrounded by water from one to fue feel in depth, and the difficulty of intercommunica. tion is of course very serious. The inhabiiatiij can get along tolerably well in boats, but unlejj at aii expense insupportable to the poor, t is impossible for servants to repair regularly market. People in that quarter are compelled 10 live as it were from hand to mouth : mmri eggs, sailed meats and fish, and &uch provision, as may be kept without spoiling. The ladiej in the submerged district, unless disposed ra encounter the risk of destroying or soiling j1P.Ir dresses in boats, must content themselves hj being penned at home. . T-tnl iKauo oniro ilia Ron Prp pnmniri!..l minor evils, and. the editor proceeds io notu those of a more serious character : "The water for the last week has been steadily though slowly rising, and 111 its )rn. greus has invaded the yards of moM of inures idents in the back pan of the city, lying i3 many of ihem to the depth of a foot or eiglreea inches. There is little motion in the aluou mass and it soon becomes stagnant, its .Mirii:e mantled with slime and filth, emitting a noisos and disgusting oder. The all-penetraiitio p. er of the element has enabled it to force its ar into the cloace, and these receptacles have, i'i some instances, bursted and scattered their it fectious contents in all directions : while u others the water becomes thoroughly imprej. nated with feculent matter and sends forth a horrible stench. In the meanwhile the yards being submeri and the water gradually encroaching upon ihe inteiior of the dwellings, and domestic employ ment is either suspended or very imperfect,? performed. Cooking can hardly be goithrouol, with, as well m consequence of munda:ed kitch ens, as on account of the extreme difficulty c! procuring wood. It is absolutely dangeroai, too, for servants to move about tne yards, unless their limbs are protected by caoutchouc ow alls, since noxious reptiles abound and vei.j mous snakes are frequently seen glancing amnrj tne waters. Happy tnoso residents win 1. j in two story houses ! They can, -at all emu, confine themselves to ihe unner narl of the!' fi i dwellings, occupy a single floor and manage u perform their domestic avocations after a bill ion, unmolested by the flood. That such a condition of thin fs must hees- inently pernicious to health needs no elaboitt argument to prove. The atmosphere is cc; stantly charged with moisture ; the hot rayscf the sun acting upon tne decaying veoea'p vhich encrusts the waters in the submerge! vnrrJo must h nrnflfi,. n V noKttlonliril mataru The vile odors which assail the nostriU asl which proceed from the causes adverted 10 j bove, must aid in generating an atmospheres!- W 1 together incompatible with healthy existence. It may be asked why the people Imngu these districts do not move ? Where are tea thousand people to find unoccupied houses c: dry ground ; and granting that they could te found, how are the humbler clssses to transpft iVinir a fT n t a iVirrttmlft tVtn t - 1 ntnn I Y a nflf! of removing every cart full of furniture isqai tupled ? We know of one family who wen fortunate enough to discover a vacant tenemeS in Camp street, and to move thither ; and though at the time the water had not re3cbe-i l. 1 f : t t. r. 1 A. solutely frightful. All have left the inundi districts who could possibly afford to do si uiiu iliu noic CililUIUU IU 1JI1U SUIIaUiC ces elsewhere. But thousands yet remain, s struggle fruitlessly againts the advancing e ment and submit with whatever patience 01 be gathered from helplessness, to calami privations, and sufferings brought upon theratj no agency of their own. Curiosity. A day or two since we were shown t common Grubworms, out of the-mouth of ej of which a plant had grown, one of them 2 3 inches long. The worms were dead, & dried to a hard substance, without losing1' natural appearance, and showing peifec'!)' dried head, body and legs. Theso uoms picked up in Lake township, by Ira Brow;' Esq., on ground just ploughed. A numb' others were picked up in the same TovtTtS'M one of which was nlantpd nA nrnwin?fil!l I T - J ' iy. in every instance ihe nlant seemeu shoqt from the throat of the worm. QVl Had the worm attempted to swallqw a seed-' some plant, which sticking in the throat kt' the worm, and theu germinated. It is doubik so, while reajly those exhibited, the samen' of their appearance, the plant and worm bsiC; so fastly grown together, looked very much J is 11 tne worm itself was the seed from the plant sprung, the former becoming the rj ol the Jailer. WxlHesbarrc Advocate