JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, June 28, 1849. (t5 Wc are informed that the citizens of Ham ilton will celebrate the coming anniversary o American Independence at Snydersville. The occasion will be marked by the usual features: a sumptuous dinner, reading of the declaration, .toasts, speeches, &c. Messrs. Morris, Dreher, and Burnet, of Stroudsburg, are expected to deliver addresses. t 11 ' 1 1 i . . i Our Slate Crcdif. The Isincasler Tribune mentions, as one of the good effects of the election of Gov. Johnston, that State Fives, which at the time he wont into office, were selling at $73, are now worth $8U 3-4, and Slate Sixes, then only worth about $85, are now in demand at $102 1-2. A New Bank'. ""The Easton Sentinel of the 22d inst. contains a notice, signed by 70 of the citizens of that place and vicinity, declaring their intention of making application at the next term of the Legislature of this Slate, for the incorporation of a Hank, to be located in the Borough of Easton, under the name, style and title of the "Fanners and Mechanics Bank of Easton? to have general banking and discounting privileges. The capital to be $200, 000. The Lancaster Examiner puts it to the Loco foco press after this fashion The locofoco pa pers are crying shame because some person who had served in the Mexican war has been removed from a post office. These same papers last fall "denied that Gen. Taylor's thirty years' service gave him any claim to office, he being a Whig ; but a locofoco, who has served one campaign, they eem to think has acquired a life-right to of fice. Queer fellows, these locofocos! Cp Accounts from New Orleans for several days have represented the water in the city as subsiding, and the crevasses as nearly stopped. The weather was intensely hot. , Four men died in Schuylkill county last week, from the effects of the heat. ICP Will some one of our democratic cotempo raries inform us where and when Gen. Taylor said or wrote " I have no friends to reward, no ene mies to punish-" Gen. Taylor did say in his Al lison letter that he had " no private purposes to ac complishno party projects to build up, no ene mies to punish nothing to serve but his coun try," but to our knowledge, he never said that he had " No friends to reward." fiTIie Pen ii District Frauds. Our readers will recollect that shorlly after the I late election an indictment was preferred against the officers in the Penn district ih the county of, five deaths from cholera ; of these 17 were whites Philadelphia, for frauds at the election, by which and eighteen blacks. This statement is made up they succeeded in defeating the- Whig candidate from the entries on the books of the Shockoe Hill for Congress. This indictment has been pending Burying Ground, and may be regarded as perfect ever since, every effort to bring it to trial being ly reliable. Persons at a distance can readily successfully resisted, and last week, Judge Par- sons quashed the proceedings on the ground of in .formality in the indrctment ! The Philadelphia Bulletin a neutral paper ed ited by Democrats-has the following comments on 'this disgraceful affair : Penn District Frauds has proved, as we feared r a farce, the indictments having been quashed for informality. . Whether some of the ?s were not dotted, or the Vs not crossed, or whether the hill Jisolf written on fools'1 cap.instead of on post,does not appear: the only thing-certain is,, that-aseri-.ous investigation is avoided. ,. We confess that we should have thought better of the indicted parties, if they had refused to avail -themselves of any formal defence, but had gone to trial, on the merits of the case. Wcare sure that, even in a partizan view; 'sound tactics demanded that they should prove their innocence, and not screen themselves under a flaw in the indictment, the omission of a word, or the plea-of a joint in stead'of a several prosecution. A great political fraud was openly charged upon the Judges of 'election in Penn district ; and the accusation was Jieralded from one end of the Union to another. What will now be said of the mattes abroad 1 Strangers, ignorant of the immacculate honesty of the. accused parties, of !whichpersons here are pre sumed to be cognizant, will form tneir conclusion .from the; record : will pronounce that the- defendants- Jjave .avoided a trial ; and will hence con , qlude that they are guilty. Some may even go so ..far as .to pronounce justice, at least ih politicalaf ..fairs, a farce in this city arid' county. To all this what reply can we make! How can we expect to convince strangers under.such peculiar circum- slances ? Alas I alas ! Ite Clay, and Turner Difficulty. CLAY RECOVERING. - Tw,.. n: -it . .. ic,au uiauy lumuuiiug repuus in relation JPfwe late fatal difficulty, between Gassi'us M. .lay and JosephM. Turner, that it is prudent to - give Jcredence to none of them. Mr, Clay", we - leanr,at last accounts, was recovering-, ills wound -not being as dangerous as it' was first supposed. It is- said that Mr. Turner, acknowledaed. -be- -lureoiis aeain, uaving siaoueu Mr. Ulay. North The Cholera. The number of deathsrfrom Cholera in Philadel phia from the '30th of May up to.Saturday last the 23d inst, is 23. The ' number of cases" during the same time, 51. New-York Cases. 41 30 38 40 ' - ' 38 47 Deaths. 10 14 14 IG 21 21 , 25 June 10th it 20 Op 22 23 24 25 i( ( It The Norfolk Herald of the 19th says : '" The Cholera has been manifestly on The -de clirie 'since the fatal days of the 9lh, 10th, and 11 ih; and the number of caseVhas probably not aver aged more than three per day since the last report." The visitations of the cholera in Louisiana are thus noted in the New Orleans papers : " Cholera in the Country. The Concordia Intelligencer of the 9th says that the excitement in that vicinity caused by cholera has abated. It has visited but few places in the parish, excepting near the. lower line, where it was very severe. In Natchez and Adams county, (Miss.) the cases have been very few. In Tensas parish neigh borhood of Waterproof, where it was terribly fatal . as well as elsewhere, cholera has almost en tirely disappeared for the time. The plantation of James Miller, which was nearly depopulated, has been provided with another complement of hands, all of whom are busy anil healthy. In Madison parish 4there is but one place among those from which we have heard whereon the cholera still rages, the place of Col. Player. In Carroll parish the disease continues, and we have heard of a number of deaths lately. The sickness that has run an unusual long course on the rich clus ter of plantations belonging to Dr. Stephen Dun can and family, situated in Issaquena county, (Miss.) and known as Stack Island Reach, (a reach of nine miles,) has abated. On Dr. Duncan's plan tations eighty one negroes died out of seven hun dred and five." The Nashville Whig, of June 14, says : " The cholera is in a more malignant form in our city at this time than on any former occasion. The number of burials on Tuesday was seven teen ; twelve of them from cholera and five from other causes. We learned from the sexton that on yesterday there were ten burials, eight from cholera, and two from other diseases." A despatch from St. Louis of the 19 says : " The avarage deaths by cholera during the. six days have been fifty-five per day. The report for the week, ending on Sunday night, numbers 439 of cholera and 76 of other diseases. The disease is on the increase." Cholera at Buffalo, (N. Y.) From the 30th ultimo to the 18th instant, inclusive, there were thirty-four Cases of cholera and thirteen deaths. On the 16th inst. no new case was reported, and on the 18th and 17th only one case occurred each day. One on the 18th terminated fatally. Deaths from Cholera in RiciiMuND.There have occurred in Richmond, from the 30lh May to the evening of the 17th June inclusive, only thirty perceive that cholera prevails in this city to a very limitedTextent. The population .of the city may" be safely estimated at 30,000 the proportion of deaths is believed not to be materially larger at present than is usual at this season of the year. Times. A Melancholy Scene'. The Cincinnati, Commercial relates 4he follow ing sad spectacle : " Our reporter on returning from St. Joseph's Cemetery, on Friday evening, met nine funerals, the last one unattended by any train, but consisted simply of a rude wagon, in which the rough coffin of an adult was placed at length. An aged woman was leaning' upon the 'coffin on one side and weeping, and an aged man sat upon the other sider the tears also coursing down his cheeks. He was driving the horse. This was all of that mournful attendance upon the grave a father and mother forced by poverty to perform the funeral riles of a beloved son, one, perhaps, on whom they had depended for support, But in. times like these, poverty has but too many such illustrations of itselfand what a' striking contrast to the long and- glittering trains that fol low in sombre ostentation upon the plumed car that bears the clay which wealtrionce held in honor, as though that clay in its plumed ceho'iaph, was rnore in death than that' which slept in the rude and tear-bedewed coffin seen in yonder wag on. Wealth marks the grave of one with marble, the tear alone starts the wild flower which shall designate the other. WeallJi leaves contentions for the vain dross which it leaves behind. :. Pover- i - , s ty nothing but sorrow. f. . The Attorney General pf the United States has decided that1 the State Courts have no jurisdiption in.the case. of newspaper. postages', and that, the postmaster at Syracuse acted legally in .charging letter postage on a paper, bearing the initials of a friend. The costs in- the suit will probably amount to at least .&400 the amount -involved in ,the original dispute between, the postmaster and the person to whom thepaper was addressed, 'was nine ceVits. - .-IT? Ajiother fireman's rioUoccurred irtiphiladel phia on Sunday morning,-and ten of th'etfridfers .werearrested. w.V..-'i . H ; Mrfcj . Msasesajiii mmgnii Northeastern Boundary. The boundary line between the . United " States and Canada, ran in accordance with ,the Ashbur ton treaty, cost the labor of three, hundred men eighteen months. "For three hundred miles a path was cut through the forest thirty feet wide, and cleared of all trees. At the end of every mile is a cast iron pillar, painted white, square, four feet out of the ground, seven inches square at the bot tom, and four at the top, with raised letters on its sides, naming the commissioners who ran the line, and the dale." Spurious Gold Dollars. The Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat says that a passenger on a steamboat lately passed at Napo leon fifteen or twenty spurious one dollar - gold pieces. They purport to be issued by A. Betcht ler, and loconiain, twenty-seven grains of Caro lina gold, twenty-one carats fine. t ., More States. The United States territory not yet formed into States, will make forty-six and a half States as large as Pennsylvania. Of these thirty-five will be North of 36 deg. 30 min. or free States. Eleven and a half South 36 deg. 30 min. or slave States, supposing the Missouri Compromise line to be adopted. The United Stales toill then consist of Seventy- six Sovereign Slates. To Iiave fine Mutton. The sheep, as soon as killed, should be disem boweled. It is the neglect to remove the entrails at once, and not the meat being touched by the wool, which imparts to it that strong mutton taste. The reason of this is, that the warmth of the body, carried off by the loss of blood, is for a time sup plied from the warmth of the bowels, and thus the objectionable taste created. The West. fXp' The progress of the West is onward. The growth in population and wealth of that region of country, is truly extraordinary. In 1840, for ex ample, the vote of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi gan, Wisconsin and Iowa formed an aggregate of 533,789. In 1818, the result was 734,847. This is equivalent lo an increase of fifty per cent, in ten vears. The census of 1850 will exhibit still more astonishing results. In the course of a few years longer, the West will have become the rul ing section of the Republic. It will by the strength of its population, possess the numerical force, and hence the political power. The seat of Govern ment, too, will sooner or later be removed from Washington. This we regard as inevitable. 'The measure will be urged on the ground that the pre sent location is not sufficiently central. learnings of the TX. IT. & Erie Kail Road. The income of this Road for the month of May has exceeded the expectations of the company. It amounts to $00,069, G7, showing an excess of 163 per cent over, the same month last year, when the road extended only to port Jervis. The' Westbrook : Phenomenon. The. Worcester Spy gives some-, account from an eye-witness, of the late sinking ofland at West brook, Maine, which took place between four and fiveo'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the '5th instant. TJie actual quantity of land lost is estimated at forty acres, and a brook, has been fornted, not so large but you may jump across it in many places. The Spy says : There is missing some twenty acres' of wood land and about the same quantity of pasture land. Over this whole extent the natural soil has entirely disappeared, and in its place is a firm plastic blue clay. The woodland was- covered with a heavy growth of timber, the whole of which has sunk below its. original level some thirty feet, leaving perpendicular walls on three sides, and gradually sloping on the other side. The trees on a portion of the land have disappeared entirely, and on another portion they are thrown aboilt in great 'disorder some sunk half Or two-thirds their length in the earth, yet remaining upright, some partly tipped over, some prostrate', and others re versed, the tops being under the surface, and the roots standing up in the air. One large and valu able elm tree, which had been sold by contract for timber, has entirely disappeared, and not a vestige of it remaining. The clay is dry and firm on some parts but on others it is so moist that it yields rdadily to the foot, and a man standing on it will, by the weight of his body alone sink into it. A ten feet pole has been run down its whole length into this clay, and it appears to be of the same consistence the whole depth. When jumped upon, .it has a tremulous shaking motion as if it rested on water or a semi-fluid mass below. The present surface is neaily a level plain. ' The brook or " Stroud water Kiver,"7before mentioned, for merly passed over the earth. which has thus sunk, but now passes by on the side which slopes into the cavity., This shows that the borders of the cavr ity. were., somewhat elevated by theinking-of the mass, and thus anew direction was given to the stream; i, , tIVew Counterfeits. State. Bank, New-Bjunswick," N.. J. Vs 2's;3's spurious.. May be detected by the two horses be tween :the; officer's names -which are not on the true notes. ' State Bank, Elizabethtown.-N. J.irs 2's 3's, spurious. Same as i -above. Bic. Rep. "IGPiNE A pples, it is saidV will Jproduce the cholera1. We see ''number of 'deaths recorded 'aY'New-Ofleans frckn eatingKaY' fruit? i i trrwrmv-wr"- Poisoiicd by Root Beer. Five persons have lalely died atBIairsville, Pa., by drinking root beer, made by mistake from wild: parsnip instead of roots of sweet myrth and sarsa parilla, and some 16 or 18 persons are still suffer ing from its effects. A Mr. Genter,' the maker, was a victim, and Samuel Hosac and Mr. Dough ertyalso victims. An eagle, measuring 7 feet across the wings, was recently shot in Piscataquis Co., Me., by a Mrs. Bagley. She saw the eagle about pouncing upon her little child, who was playing with a hoe in thefgarden. The child screamed and fought with the hoe, and the eaglealighted in a tiee ; Mrs. B. immediately seized o gun and shot the " feathered king" to the ground. A large hog in St. Louis attacked.two or three children last week and partly devoured them. . Strange Biseasc. The physicians of the Baltimore alms-house, have issused a card in relation to a disease now prevalent among the colored population in that city, peculiar in its symptoms, and in many of its characteristics new. It has appeared within the last three weeks, duiing which time 4G cases have been admitted, 20 of which have proved fa tal. It is most grave among males, and in a ma jority of cases, has proved fatal between the third and seventh day. It is infectious in its character, and to guard against its spread, a rigid enforce ment of the? municipal regulations in regard to cleanliness is recommended, and that assembla ges of people of color should be avoided as far as possible. That Gold. The Cresent City arrived at few York on Saturday with that half a million of Gold on board from California. Simple Remedy for Burns. An esteemed lady friend sends us the following " remedy for the most paiuful burns," which,- " if applied immediately,- affords instant relief." She says : it consists ol equal pans oi nnseed onanu lime mixed together. It must be well shaken be fore using, and poured over an even piece of raw cotton and applied to the sore, it ought to be" renewed two or three times a day. This- remedy is valuable to families,- and so simple that it is within the reach of every one. She has seen al most immediate relief derived from the application of this mixture to the most painful and serious burns, which, without it might have become wide' spread, tedious and expensive wounds; From the Region of Ice and Sliow. Mr. Ay re has just arrived at St Paul, from the Red Lake Mission, several hundred miles- north1 of us, in latitude forty-eight degrees north'. Red' Lake is the source of one branch' of Red River, which, after a. course of about 300"rnHc5',- forms a confluence with Otter Tail River, and then take3 the name of Red River. The branch .flowing from the lake is about half as large as the Mer'rimac at Lowell. Red Lake is about thirty miles long and ten miles wide, abounds with fish particularly the white fish of which the Ojibway Indians upon its shores, numbering over nine hundred, take large quantities in the fall, with gill nets and dry them fresh, strung upon poles, in the smoke of their cabins, for winter subsistance. Salt lakes are found, in those regions, however, of which the water yields salt in the proportion of one part of salt to three parts of water. These Ojibways (a name synonymous with Chippeways) are repre sented to be quite industrious ; even the' men en gage in agriculture with the women and'grrls", the boys alone being exempt from labor. Last sea son they raised 2,500 bushels of corn, much of it being sold by thereto the traders for clothing and supplies, at $1.50 per busheh- They also- raised 1500 bushels of excellent potatoes the pbtatoe rot being unknown there. Many of the Ojibways have built log houses to live in The past season they have been more prosperous than usual, and have had no murders committed among them late ly, owing to the efficient agency of Mr. Rice, and of Gen. Fletcher, agent of the Winnebagoes, in intercepting the traffic in whiskey, formerly car ried on at Crow-wing. The past winter has not been unusually severe. The greatest depth of snow was about sixteen inches. Besides groves of pine timber, the most usual kinds of forest wood, are the pitch-pine, tamarac, sugar-maple and elm. The soil is generally poor, and rather sandy, with occasional spots of considerable fertility. In win ter the principal mode of travelling is on sledges or trains, drawn each by two or three small dogs, with sharp ears and resembling the dogs of the Esquimaux. The traders generally drive a larger breed of English cur-dogs of which the price is usually from five to twelve dollars each, accord ing to their docility, strength and action. Mr. Ayre intends to drive some working oxen back with him to Red Lake. Teams and farming utonsils are much needed and desired by the Ojibways. They will come down to Saint; Paul after a considerable amount of supplies,, probably in June, or about the time of the arrival of the caravans here from the Selkirk and Red, River settlements. Minnesota Pic-ncer, May 5. The Railroad which connects Easton in this State, with Elizabethtown. N. J., and with the New Brunswick and Jersey City railroad, it is stated will bo completed the present year. The communication from EUzabothtown to N. York will be by steamboats. This improve moni brings the coal' fields of tho Scuylkill, L'ehtgh and Lackawanna, all within 125 miles of tlie New Yoik market, ; VVthhoi Ti, i r Nr... "r ... jlho lupuna tium new J.UIK, iMlchj gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, aij concur in representing the Wheat crops to be ver. fine, and the southern wheat crop has not yl been killed off, as it is regulaily once a year in the papers.' ' n Model Editors. The Loco press of the interior of this ste produce some queer specimens of the oenU editor. But decidedly the most original of a are the two luminaries whose irradiations ojVe light through the columns of the Bedford Ga zette and the Doylestown Democrat. Thef0r. mer of these worked himself into quite a m triotic passion in. his last sheet, at the spectacle ot rresiuent iaylor being polite and civil i0a numerous assemblage of fashionable people at Washington ! Such a thing was too much for the Lqcofocoism of the Ex-adjutant General The Doylestown Democrat is no less virulent and a great deal more ridiculous, in its denim! ciations of the President In his latest effusion the editor hopes that all Taylor democrats whJ do not return to the bosom of Locofocoism.may bo " compelled to pump thunder at three cents a clap !" North American. Rishop Doane. Many of the papers are enlightening their readers on the case of Bishop Doane, of New Jersey who lately failed for more thousands of 'dollars than we ever expect to get into our hands at one time some of them accusing him of all kinds of rascality, and others holding him up as a very pattern of piety. We have paid no .more attention to, nor been more wurpris-j at, the failure of Bishop Doane than we-should have done to ihai of any oiher man io th same amount,- we not being one of those who bel,eve in the infallibility of Bishops and Priests. V& are a Democrat, and don't care a snuff wheth er a man is a Bishop or a layman, a king or a commonor. If a man bo as "poor as a JuV turkey," "a man's a man for a' that." If Bbh.- Doane be a Villain, and has imposed on hu congregation, 41 is their business and not our's. If it was their money he got hold of and spem, they deserve to lose it for letting him have it wiihont good security if it was his own mon ey he used, he had a right to do with it as he felt inclined, if in so doing he did not violate the laws of his country or of Religion. We, however, can't help to remark that Bishop? seem to have been unfortunate these few yean back, the " good things of the world," acenr. ding to rumor, "overcoming the weakness of the flesh" in several instances. Lcb. Courier. A new dfsease, (almost equal to the ' Tylor Grip,') called 'the Fitz' is said to be prevail ing among the locofoco postmasters of ihe country about these days. It is said to afiiict the most seriously those who have beer, polit ical brawlers, and made themselves conspicu ous in the late Presidential election. Many have been- already removed from a political stale' of existence, and the epidemic threaten rrJore of them. Great is their tribulation in conseq'uence and lamentations for their fa'o is the principal topic of tlie tocofoco paper It is indeed a salty a- briny--a crying nine with them. Arabian Cattle. Lieut. Lynch brought with him, from Syria, a male and female of the beautiful Khaisi breei of cattle, which he presented to the State of Virginia. The Legislature of that Common wealth, in turn, presented them to the Gover nor, to dispose of at his discretion, to that far mer within the State whom he should jdge as most likely to secure the propagation of the breed. Governor Floyd, accordingly gaveihcoi to Col. James Castleman, of Clarke couniy. The cattle were lately exhibited at Washing ton, D. C, and a spectator thus describes them: The khaisis are, respectively, eighteen and and sixteen months old ; and weigh, the bull 950' pounds, and the heifer 650. The bull four feet 10 inches high, and 10 feet 4 inches in length, from the nose to the end of the tail the heifer of a proportionate size. They are the most beautiful animals of tho cattle kind m have ever seen. Their limbs are as delicate as those of a gazelle, yet strong and well set as those of a race horse. Their heads hate something of the elegance of outline of a deer; their nostrils are as thin and flexible, their feet are broad and flat, yet delicate; their tails thick and flat at the insertion, taper down to the thin ness almost of a whip lash, ending in a long tuft of silky hair. They are of a deep shining bay colour, and their horns, which are juit sprouting, are black as those of a buffalo.- W hnn Full ttvnwn ihnrt ova niH in c!n nfl ScVcJ feet high, and the cows are said to yield three half bushels of milk a day. The stock of the valley of Virginia, it is be lieved, will be much improved by the introduc tion'bf this new breed. Col. Castleman value the pair at $10,000 Just liikc Them. The Lancaster Union says it has reason ia believe th.ai while the present excellent Sta Treasurer is engaged in a laudable effort W provide the Treasury with the means to ir"' the August interest promptly and in good fufi-'1 the Locofocos are using every effort to enM' ra nim, and, through tjie Department nef which he presides, throw odium on the Staj Administration." The locofoco Canal Comm aioners are drawing largely upon the TreasM? unnecessarily so we are assured ; the Ic0 foco office-holders have drawn up tq the pres' em time, and in some instances have aciually draff n their pay three months in advance. 8 have no fear that these.gentlemen will succeed in Jheir, efforts, for when Mr. Ball wills a thing, h generally finds a way, but it is mr tifying to think that any poriion of our peopl could be so base as to form, a conspiracy agains the character and crecjit pf the State,
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