i '4A JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, August 16, 1840. Protection ys. Free Trade an IIIhs tratiou. The Potlsville Miners Journal, very -good au thority, states that the expense of delivering a ton of Iron from Liverpool to Boston, is about the same as the expense of transporting a ton from Pennsylvania to Boston, because Ocean trans portation is cheaper than Inland transportation. In the neighborhood of Liverpool, the price of la bor at the Iron Works, will not average over 40 cents a day, if that, in this Country wages aver age over $i,00 per day, at our Iron Works. In manufacturing a ton of Iron all is labor, except the raw material, which is worth only from $1 to $1,25 per ton. Now, if any Free Trader can inform us how we can keep up wages and compete with the English manufacturers, at their wages, without placing duties upon the Foreign article, we will give up the idea of Protection. Without duties, we have either to 'give up the business, or reduce our wages to their standard. As it is with the iron, so it is with all other manufactures, where labor enters largely into their production. Yet, these English lought, Free Trade traitors to the Country, dare tell the workingmen of the United States thatMey are advocating their interests, and that the friends of Protection are deceiving and betraying them. Why, if they had lived in the days of the Revolu tion, and advocated such .doctrines, they would have been hung for English emissaries. x Mr. John A. Gamble. The Muncy Luminary, published in Lycoming county, the residence of Mr. Gamble, gives us the following account of this gentleman's occupation and general character : We have been considerably amused in reading the comments of the Locofoco Press upon the nomination of Mr. Gamble to observe the great dissimilarity in their statements of his occupation, abilities, &c, showing conclusively that Mr. Gamble is a man very little known even in his own party. Mr. Gamble has never distinguished himself in -anything save his tact for making mon ey, by which he has accumulated a large for tune. He follows no particular occupation. We believe him to be an honest man in his pri vate business transactions. As a politician we cannot say so much for him. In that situation we think he has proved tricky to his party in more than one instance. In 1816, and upon sev eral other occasions in county and district affairs, we believe Mr. Gamble has done as much to de feat his own party, as almost any Whig in ihe county. Of course we do not find fault with him for this. We rejoice to know that he has done some good things. Mr. Gamble is termed by many a " good man," but from our knowledge of him, we have no hes itancy in saying that he is much the inferior of Mr. Fuller. Indeed Mr. Fuller, displayed in the last Legislature, talents rarely met with in any man; and a knowledge of our public improve ments, which showed a mind ' booked up, in all the great interests of the State. Mr Gamble can carry with him no influence in this section of the State, beyond his party, and when "old sores" are remembered, we doubt whether he can do that. AUGUST ELECTIONS. North Carolina. The Raleigh Register of Wednesday, states tha from the returns received, the political cpmpler ion of the Congressional Representation from North Carolina will remain unchanged, viz : six Whigs to three Locofocos. Notwithstanding the dissen sions which existed in our ranks, in some sections of the State, says the Register, and the malignant attacks made upon the Whig candidate in the YHIth District. fHon. Ed. Stanlev.) we believe a - - r we have been able to hold our own, and to van quish the combined forces of Locofocoism, . dema gogueism and fraud. The Whigs throughout the Union, have cause for congratulation at this result, demonstrating as it does, the firmness and conservatism of the peo ole of North Carolina, and that the old North State is Whig to the core, and always to be relied on ! The delegation in the next. Congress will stand as follows j 1st district T. L. Clingham, (Whig.) 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th do do do do do do do do Joseph P. Caldwell, do. Edmund Deberry, do. Augustine Sheppard, do. Abraham W. Venable, (.Loco.) J. R. J, Daniel, W. S. Ashe, Edward Stanley, iDavid Outlaw, do. do. (Whig.) do. Indiana. Whigs. . Locofocos. John S. Watts, ' Nathaniel Albertson, Edw. W. McGaughey, Cyrus L. Dunham, D. R. Gilgore. Wm. J. Brown. G. W. Julian, Free Soil. Three districts to be heard from. Last Con gress contained four Whigs and six Locos. Kentucky. As far as ascertained, the Whigs have a majorr ity of the Legislature. The reports say about an equal number of Whigs and Locos are elected to the Convention, but no emancipationists. As far as heard from four Locofocos and five Whigs have been elected to Congress, .'and one district to be heard from. ' .. a Tennessee. The reports from this State are very irregular ; but enough is known to show a Locofoco triumph in the election of a Governor, a majority in the lower house of the Legislature, and a gain of two or three members of Congress. Hon. Fitz Henry Warren. Among all our Locofoco exchanges on a certain particular day last week, we noticed not a single word about our model Assistant Postmaster Gen eral. These Locofoco editors little knew the anx iety they were creating by their silence ! We be gan to have serious apprehensions that Fitz Har ry was sick, or that some accident had befallen him. Not so, however. He is still vigorous and unwearied, and so again are these Locofoco edit ors. They have harped and warbled till their throats are hoarse. They have exhausted every species of manufactured invective, as well as all the raw material, and are now bankrupt slander ers i entirely without a resource. We hope a gen eral bankrupt Jaw may be passed for these insol vent libellers else they will never be out of debt. The Lancaster Intelligencer calls Mr. Warren the " Nero of the post office department." Well, we should rather like to see him fiddle over the burning of Locofoco stubble. ' Say any thing you please gentlemen ; and don't be decent about your terms. You never have been, you know Daily 'News. Death by Cholera. , .The Easton Sentinel of Friday last says, a boat fBtian named Everhart, arrived at the wharf on .Wednesday afternoon, as we learn, in a dying condition. He had been attacked with Cholera in ..Philadelphia, and had partially recovered, but on his way up the .canal, had a relapse, and when he arrived here was in the last stage of the disease Medical aid was promptly afforded, but it was too late. He died early in the evening. His mother, mho is a widow residing in Chestnut Hill, arrived r.a short time before his death.. s To guard against any false impression, to- which the foregoing may give rise, we would add, that r-the general, health of owBorough continues good. : rr Common School CoHventiow. . The meeting of the National Convention of the frjpnds ofCommqn. schools, which was to have een heldinPHadelphichton lhe22d inst., has been postponed ;p the. 17th .of ,Oatober next,, at tbe; sug gestion of several SuteSuperintendenty and other influentiaV.friends of the'eause of popular Vduca nion in different sections of thaJJnion. " " " The Norristown Herald contains the fol lowing significant communication : To Morris Longstreth, Esq Sir : In the toast sent by you to the locofoco celebration, at Philadelphia, you say that "it is not the fault of the Canal Commissioners" if the laJ borers on the Public Works of Pennsylvania are not paid in cash. Will you inform the public whose fault it is ? Will you also inform the public to what pur poses the $400,000 drawn from the Treasury by the officers appointed by yourself and your col league, Painter, have been applied ? Whether that is not a larger sum than has ever before been drawn in one year for ordinary expenses on the public works, and whether " the laborers," for whom you have such tender regard, should not have been paid out of that sum 1 You will also confer a favor on that public which you appear to be so anxious to enlighten, by sta ting whether you have not received your pay dur ing the period which the laborers employed un der you have been deprived of theirs, as you in sinuate in your toast ? M. We opine the Honorable gentleman will find it a difficult task to answer the above queries ! We answered the latter query last week, by stating that Mr. Longstreth had drawn his full pay up to the first of June, the end of the last fiscal year, although he scarcely performed, thirty days ser vices for the last year ! But the laborers who worked hard every day for what they earned, must wait for their pay, till it pleases the commis sioners and their agents on the public works to give it to them. This is the kind of sympathy Mr. Longstreth cherishes for the " poor laborers"! Penn'a. Intelligencer. More Eocofoco Dishonesty. The Louisville Journal exposes. another piece of Locofoco dishonesty in the case of Dr. Love, late Pension Agent at Louisville, and now the Locofo co candidate for Congress. He has been recent ly removed from the office of Pension Agent, and Mr. Vance appointed, in his place, but for a long time he refused to give up the books and funds in his possession, and it was ultimately ascer tained that the funds had been loaned by him, in express violation of the sub-treasury law, while pensions remained for months unpaid. The fact that the money to the amount of $2060 was admit ted by Dr. Love, and finally on the 30th ult., he succeeded in raising the amount, and with the ; books, handed it over to his successor. ' j 'Proffress'oi the Cholera. August 7, W 8, -ilOl " " 9, " 10, " u, " 12, !New York. t'Casco. Deaths. 85 71 105 86 57 41 44 33 51 37 35 4; Philadelphia. ifCasesf-" Deaths; , -2 3 4 1 lC 18 16 7 week aver- At Cincinnati, the interments last aged about half a dozen per day. At Boston,; the deaths last week about a dozen a day. . - At Providence, R. I., the Cholera, hasbroken out, arid four deaths occurred on Thursday.' In most of the cities where it has been 'fatally prevalent, it has now very much abated, and in some of them nearly disappeared. " On Saturday, at Boston 16 deaths ; Rochester 2; Albany 4 Cincinnati 12; Montreal 7; r Que bec 6. , The next Presidency. The New York Herald has nominated! Gen.' Scott for the Presidency in 1852. It did the same thing for Gen. Taylor in 1847. Shoe Business. The shoe business in Lynn gives employment to ten thousand and fifty-eight persons; of which four thousand nine hundred and twenty-five are girls who bind and sew the shoe and gaiters. The number of pairs of shoes made the last year was three million five hundred and forty thousand, at a total cost of two million three hundred and ninety two thousand five hundred and .seventy- five dollars. Florida. Mew Invention in Baking.' An invention has been made in Glasgow, which promises to be of great, service in the process of baking. As it has not yet been patented, we are not at liberty to enter into details. Some idea of it3 effects may, however, be formed from the fact that a little model, a mere toy in appearance, stan ding upon a table less than a yard long, and only half as wide, is fully capable of doing the whole work of five or six bakers a class of men whose abor is well known to be none of the lightest. The dough is both made and moulded by the ma chine into loaves of the required size and shape ; and, by the original ingenious process of mixing and kneading, which can be. done either with or without barm, the usual loss of weight, attributed toevaporation in" raising the sponge' is avoided; and a great saving in flour, as well as time and abor, is consequently effected. The bread man ufactured by the model of the machine is of the most excellent quality. Glasgow Citizen. More Indian Outrages in Dreadful Murders. . St. Mabxs, Fla., Aug 1. The Hon.. Mr. Magee, bearer of despatches to Goy.Mpseley, from Tampa, arrived here last night, bringing the following news : Late on Tuesday evening; the 17th, four Indians made their appear ance at an Indian store on Peace Greek, kept by Mr. Paine. They desired to sleep in the store, but Mr. P. informed them that it was against his rules. They then reported that they had packs on the opposite side of the river for trade, and tried to, induce him to.go.after them, which he promised to do after supper. MrC P. and his family had'slcarcely taken their seats at the table, when the lhdians'fired through the door, instantly killing Mr. Paine and Mr. Whid den, and severely wounding' Mr. Colvfn in the shoulder. Colvintfhen sprang for a gun, which delayed the Indians long enough' to permit Mrs. P. to rush from the House he following. The Indians fired upon them as they ran, wounding them in the legs. They succeeded in secreting themselves in some Palmettos and escaped.. On the 19th a camp in the same neighborhood was fired upon by four Indians and a boy killed. The whole eastern section of the country is in confusion. The settlers, are leaving as fast as possible. , ' The reports that a family was killed by the In dians near Fort Dade, on Saturday night, needs confirmation. " " The August Interest Paid. The people already begin to see the beneficial effects of Whig Policy and Whig management and economy. On the 1st inst. the interests dri the State debt was paid in full by G. J. Ball, Esq., the present Whig State Treasurer, and that too in Gold and Silver, without the aid of any loap, and at the same time leaving a balance in the Treas ury. This is one of the first fruits of a Whig ad ministration. The interest of the public debt paid .off and the honor and credit of the State re deemed ! Let the people nobly sustain the pres entadministration, and our good old commonwealth will rapidly progress in her onward march to pros perity and greatness- -rShippensburg News. " A. 7iinner"venquires through the National In4 telligencer, whither anybody has ever known or heard of a house covered with tin; ' being injured or struck by lighlning. :': IHormans in Kentucky. The Rev. Wm. Smith, brother of the celebrated Jo Smith, the founder of the Mormon persuasion, has established a church in Covington, of that per suasion. A newspaper devoted to. their interests, is also published in the same place. Chance for an Inference. A little boy of four or five years, was much vexed with his grandmother for boxing his ears ; but not daring to ' sauce' the old lady directly, he took up his favorite cat, and stroking her back, thus addressed her : ' Well, pussy, I wish one of us three wa3 dead and it ain't you, pussy, and it ain't me, pussy !' Savanna h, Aug. 9. The Florida Argus of Thursday says, St. Lucie, Benton, Hillsborough, and part of Mason coun ties, are broken up. The Indians are extending over the country, if we may judge from the num ber of signal fires. The lights stretch from Olla- vaha to St. Johns from there they appear to connect with signals on the Atlantic coast The farmers on lake Bryant anticipating the. destruc tion of their property, are moving and " forting" on the neighboring plantations. Ooala is crowded with people, while many have passed through going noYth. A postscript states that the Indians have burnt one dwelling fn Ben ton county. The family escaped. Indian signs were reported at Fort Springs. The Indians, in small parties, are spreading over the whole country. Pleasures of a California trip. A correspondent of the N. O. Crescent, writing from Chihuahua, under date of the4th May says : " Since I started we have been near starving three time once for provisions, and twice for water. Once we were five days without water and once three ; we were six days without anything to eat except a few snakes and hawks which we found on the road and shot. Moreover, we have had two hard fights with the Indians had two of our men killed and eight wounded. My bed is made nightly on the ground ; that is, 1 sleep on one blan ket and cover with another. I eat dried beef and venison, with coffee and bread of my own making. I work hard, drive mules, kill and butcher deer, physic the company, fight the Indians, and trade with the Mexicans for corn, flour and beef. . My spirits are low and my hopes are flagging." Curious Case off White Slavery. The Columbia (Geo.) Democrat mentions that a white girl, 17 years old, named Mary Fann, who had been sola as a slave, by her inhuman father two years ago, has lately beer) rescued by the mother from her servitude, in which she had been treated as a negro slave. It seems that Fann's wife had obtained, several years since, a divorce from him, and subsequently -married. The girl Nancy, was taken off by her father Fann, to Wynnton, where, for a blind horse and Jersey wagon, she was turned over to James R. Jackson, as a slave. By some means the mother heard, of the situation of her daughter, and with, the volun teer aid of lawyers and sheriff, &c, she recovered the cljild by a writ of habeas corpus. The public feeling, was becoming highly excited against both purchaser and seller, the former of whom was a church member, the latter a degraded, being of open concubinage-. . i he journey from New Yprk ..to. Milwaukie is J now made in about three days, and.the fare from Buffalo, to that, place, including mpaliaandi every j thing, is stated by the ;Miiwaukie Sentinel to be but $5.. -. Mr- Greeley, being asked by a correspondent at what season.,of the year a gold hunterisljouldi start for California, repliesi gravely,.' We consj'denthe 'first of A'priVus good. a season as any. ? . l. Successful Attempt to Sustain the Su premacy of the JLaws in Illinois Encounter between the Regulators and FlatheadsDeadly Conflicts. Paducah, Aug. 1. A band of lawless, thieving desperadoes, with the unenviable appellation of Flatheads, have for some time past, committed some of the most out rageous depredations upon the honest portion of the population of the Southern end of Illinois. This band of thieves, numbers' about 300. For. the. safety pf life, and, personal property, about five hundred of the most repectable inhabi tants of that State had formed themselves into an association, called the Regulators. The aggressions perpetrated by the Flatheads becoming so insupportable, the Regulators deter mined to use the most vigorous measures to bring the culprits to justice. They accordingly pro cured writs for the arrest of ten or twelve of the leaders of the FHtthead gang, and summoned the officers to aid them in the execution of the law. The Flatheads, hearing of this movement, the most determined of them, to the number of about seventy -five, assembled in a log house where, armed to the teeth, and making a fort of the log house, they determined to stand their ground, and give battle. The Regulators having discovered the retreat, came and. summoned the Flathea'ds to surrender, which request being refused, the Regulators threat ened to charge the log house and invited every honest man who was misled into it to leave. About itwenty-six. seeing that the side of justice was the strongest, left their companions in the log house. The Regulators then charged upon the remain der of the Flatheads, and soon put them to a pre cipitate flight. During the charge two of the Flatheads weTe killed, and three wounded. Three of the Regula tors are said to be mortally wounded. The whole neighborhood is in the greatest ex citement. The Regulators, assisted by the au thorities,, determined to run the lawless band out of the county, are pursuing.them in every direc tion. A number of the Flatheads have fled over to Kentucky, and others have hid themselves in the swamps CaliforniaGoIdSIavery. Extract of a letter from E. Gould Buffum,who went out to California a lieutenant in Col. Ste venson's Regiment in 1846, and who is now a member of the District Legislature atS. F. dated San Francisco, June 17, 1849. You people at home are altogether mistaken in regard to the gold mines of California. Gold is not to be shoveled up here by the pailfull, but the most severe and arduous labor is required to pro cure it, and then there is as much luck in it as there is in speculating in lottery-tickets. I will, give you a little of my experience. For the first week, I believe, I dug only about $5 a day ; and many a day since have 1 tramped up and down the ra vines with my ipfckt and pan. and gone home at night without hayipg dug a dollar. The most I ever found in one day was $56, although, t have seen' a man alongside of me light upon a pile con taining nearly a thousand. The fact of the exis tence, and indeed the inexhaustibility of the gold, ,fs not to be doubted. It is everywhere. Advise all persons coming to bring with them a ngnt machine, as a machine does the work of about tor men. The South has already sent her emissaries here to work: among us for the introduction of the darling institution of Sla very ; and we, a few of us,, young, ardent and strong, hyvfl pledged" ourselves to' lsibpr agairist tyranny in any and 'every form, and will certainly triumph.. California shal never be' polluted -with a slave track, . t . The President's Tour. - ...President. Taylor, left Washington Citv Thursday of last week, and proceeded by Wa' n( Baltimore to York, in this State. Thence he 1 go to .Lancaster, and afterwards to Harri From Harrisburg, in company with Gov.jQ5' ston, he will pass over the middle and wes, n counties, pausing at various places, and especial!" "RorlfoTft Snrincro. nnA roar U Piticku.. .1 ''7 a c. j: a . ... . ,0lM 1.1 icr speuuiug a uoy ui iwo ai me jauer plaCe v visit some or tne iNorinern counties in this Sta'J aim luciiwc uiuoj iwtu iicn x uik, uuu auVJnce f ine Hiast. Democracy and Federally, The Washington Union says : " Democracy, and Federalism represent tWo t agonistic systems of political philosophy-.., f nmn tt V i r V 1 1 vi J J .1. . igiuo, "uiou, uimei uiio lorra or auoiner have ei I isted and divided the oDinions of men fmm .u. , 1 , ""cnr.i r -M .... ul'k organizauon 01 civu society to tne present ti iiiu uue icjjicacius mc ui me many,antlij omer mat 01 trie iew. Now, says the New York Mirror, as Oen.Ta ....... -1 I liil , J iui was kikciuu uv -intj manv. ann n r. j j . cn, vijtJ was defeated, having only received tho suppottof " the few," according to the Union, there canro longer bo any doubt as to which constitutes Democratic party the Whiff or Locoforn Cholera in Great Britain. TU U 7 : : J .1 . Great Britain. The cases announced in the Lcn. m aon gazette since its appearance are 19,095; deaths, 8,731. 'Ihe French Government y been asked by England to state what remed course was pursued in Paris when the disease broke out there. A report in reply is daily i:. pected in London, whither Dr. Majendie, pres.. dent of le Comile Higiene, Paris, has gone tosu verbally the result of the experience of the m?. cal profession. I Among the various remedies adrerfool r,. cholera, the efficacy of brickbats has not atirar'o' the attention of the scientific ; but the fact f;y they have been applied externally with ths beat effect, is proved by the following extract of ak ter from Sandusky, Ohio, dated July 29. 1813 The writer after describing some of the effects c.r cholera in that plague-stricken city, says : " Awful as are the scenes to relate, it is ing in comparison with witnessing them. Sia however, partake of the ludicrous Four Irish men were at work on our road some 50 nvle3 fn here, neara small village. One was attir?: with cholera, cramps, &c. A doctor was ca!Vi who administered medicine and left diret -j with the other three to rub his body and limbsr til the sui face looked red. They stretched Irs out naked on a rough plank, and at it' they, w", with cloths in good earnest for a while, but ec tired, and finding no symptoms of vitality oris. to the surface, they concluded to try sometV more substantial. Une held him on the c.i wnue tne otner two, earn witn a hnckoat. rcer at him again, and literally skinned their ronipi:- ion and saved his life ! He is still suffering ve much from the loss of his hide, but is outnf-i ger of Cholera." In Cincinnati, it is said that when the m&rti- kers meet persons carrying home cucumbers, tv. from market, they begin to measure them v;j their eyes, and speculate upon the chance of aj A melting sermon being preached in a cocrAi church, all fell a weeping but one man, who be!.1:! asked why he did not weep with the rest Oh ' said he, " I belong to another parish." Tlie Falcon. The bteamship alcon arrived at CVevUr!eiy.l from Chares. on the 4th fnsL. after a oassasaofl six days. She brings $170,000 in gold dust ; & ler but no later accounts have been brought fhsl the Gold Regions. Health of West Chester. The health of West Chester continues umate- rupted. During the last week, says the Recril there has been no death from any cause, and symptoms of cholera among our townsmen. Bachelor's Indignation. The following Resolutions, are said tohaT?Sj peared among the proceedings of a meeting of tj Bachelors of Greene, Adams County. Whereas one W. J. E: has rudely taken carried away one of oui handsomest young la&j against our will ; and, whereas, we feelmuehJij grieved by the said act of the said stranger, tti fore, be it Resolved, That each of us go in mourning, 1 wear a checked hunting-shirt for the spa: three months, and that all our sweethearts quested to leave off their bustles, and wsarjostf for the same space of time ; and if any other p lers come through here, hunting a. wife, that will not give their horses any. fodder. A contemporary remarks that the bachelor :j Greann Will rro l'nrliimonl T.av.r nftan if theT ''I pect to make its beautiful grrls old: maids.. Qniok Passage, The European Times, of the 23th lulv, s' that the steamship Canada, Captain Judkins, Boston, on the 18th and Halifax on the 20th, 115 I T 1 1 . n , . 1. .Uo ?tV luieytdpuwu uu uuijuoau ui U O CIOOK, u'c f Alio ninrVlt- T'hto IE KannnJ 11 niinnlinn thP fltl'i est passage ever made across the Atlantic" 7 3-4 days from Halifax to Liverpool, Watsr Cube. Bayard Taylor writing w Tribune from New Orleans,says, " it is the W' acaauu ever buuwu 111 ixew inca Ul- 1 1 j; . 1 iVollnfft' vsuuioia uax entirely aisappearaa, auu er is retarded by the rains and inundai Who can say that the wet shel (s not the Voracity . . - a PI v
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