n-r-irrr a, JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN- Tordhe Jhffersoniah Republican Mit. Editor: T shall say a jfew Swords or? this fubjectin a (lilTerent stylefronf mf- formcrjiwrn- TIuirsi8ay, April IS, 150. The young men recently arrested in this Bor ough, on the charge of arson, had a hearing before Justice Musch, on Thursday, the llih inst. and after a patient investigation were discharged. Cheap Postage. Ii is slated thai the Congres sional Committee have agreed to report in favor of a uniform rate of five cents for all distances on letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight. Dead. Hon. Thomas J. Campbell, Clerk of the House of Representatives, died at Washington on Saturday morning. The filling of his. place will probably be the cause of another exciting time in Gongress. Ilossacoitcad Exemption. A bill has passed both houses of the New York Legislature, and been signed by the Governor, exempting the homestead of a debtor to the value of ;$ 1,000, from sale upon execution. r.e;islal3irc lust Weclt. On Monday, in the House, Mr. Nickleson read in place abill to authorize certain persons to erect a wharf on the Delaware liver, at Dunk's Ferry The bill to repeal certain sections of the law of 1817, known as the kidnapping bill, passed finally yeas 50, nays 39. Mr. Nickleson voted with the yeas, and Messrs. Flowers and Williams with the nays. The bill to divorce William Wetherill received its quietus by the following vote Yeas 30, Nays 48. On Tuesday, the message of the Governor, ve toing the apporlionmeut bill, was received, and new bills offered in both houses. The alterations in the vetoed bill by the introduction of the new one, makes Lancaster the 7th district, with two Senators ; Northumberland, Columbia and Union the 13ih district, with one Senator ; Lycoming, Centre, Clinton and Sullivan, the 14th district, with one Senator ; Luzerne and Wyoming, the 15th district, with one Senator; Bradford and Susquehanna, the 10th, with one Senator; Tioga, Potter, M'Kean, Elk and Warren, the I7th, with one Senator; Clarion, Venango, Mercer, Craw ford and Erie, the l8th, with two Senators ; Arm-, .strong, Indiana, Jefferson and Ckarfield, the 2ilh, with one Senator; Mifflin, Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria, the 25th, with one. In the House of Representatives, Allegheny is given six members, Armstrong one member, Clearfield and Jefferson one member, Clarion and Yenango two members, Dauphin and Lebanon three members, Fayette and Westmoreland four members, Lancaster four mem bers, Mercer and Crawford three members, War McKean and Elk one member. In the proceedings of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we see little of interest. Steam a:td Railroads vs. Horses. It is said that, according to a late census of England, the number of horses in that country has been found to have diminished from 1,000,000 to 200,000 within the last two years in other words the railroads have dispensed with the use of 800,- 000 horses, and these animals, as well as oxen, are now scarcely used for transportation ; and thus the grain and food which the 800,000 horses formerly consumed, have been dispensed with and the land used for the growth of hay and grass is devoted to the growth of grain alone for the supply of bread. su - " ... r a . - . munication. Mr. Locke says l-nat ineauier ence to be found in the manners and abilities of men, is owing more to their education than , any thing else." What is education 1 The word means the act of educing or bringing out to view those qualities, or talents, which otherwise would lie in concealment. We are born with certain fac ulties. Whatever tends to develop and -improve these, is education. Whatever trains our mental powers, our affections, manners and habits, is ed ucation. Education conducted as it usually is upon one uniform plan, has a constant tendency to cast the minds of the uninstructed into one unvaiied mould, destroying all originality, even where it does not altogether benumb and cramp the intel lectual energies. Go, for instance, into ah old fashioned. School. How irksome iis monotonous drudgery, unrelieved by those continual changes which cheat other employments of much of their wearisomeness. All things must mov.e in a dull, unvarying, tread-mill track. But thus, the spring of mind is soon gone ; its ambition stifled, its en ergies deadened ; and all the stuff, or spirit there is in a child is " used up" in the school room. (No wonder children don't like to go to School.) It will not do to stunt the intellectual growth, cramp the energies, and dwarf all the faculties of a child. Onward and upward is the language of all creation. The stars whisper it in their courses; the seasons breathe it as they succeed each other; the night wind wistles it ; the water of the deep roars it out ; the mountains lift up their heads, and tell it to the clouds ; and Time, the hoary headed potentate, proclaims it with an iron tongue ! From clime to clime, from ocean to ocean, frcm century to century, and from planet to planet all is onward. From the smallest stream down to the fathomless sea, every thing is onward. Cities hear its voice, and rise up in beauty and grandeur ; nations.hear it, and sink into dust ; tyrants learn it, and tremble on their thrones ; continents feel it and are convulsed with earthquake shocks. Men, customs, fashions, opinions, and, above all, prejudices, aie all changing rapidly, but stil they are onward. States, counties, towns, districts, cities and villages, are all onward. From one stage of civilization to another ; from one towering landmark to another, we still move onward and upward. Thus our forefathers escaped the bar barisms of past ages ; thus must we conquer the errors of our time. We must be educated to move onward, with our armor bright, our weapons keen, and our hearts firm as the everlasting hills. The weapons which our hands have found Aic those which Hc.wen itself hath wrought Light. Truth, and Love ; our battle ground, The free, broad field of thought. There are some bigots and dogmatists who ; scoff at the madness of Xerxes, yet themselves trv to fling their chains over the ever-rolling irre pressible ocean of human thought. Properly edu cated Dersons will take the hard rubs and dry I . ' -I. m. . . ! r .i. i .? i l;nucks,oi Hie composedly, inc gem cannot oe i upprusseu, wno seemem not to near, polished without friction, nor man perfected with- J Many thousands of them have dragged their man out adversity. Properly educated folks will not acled limbs away, away to return no more; and be perpetually detailing and bewailing their mis- j as the mother lay, the springs of her bosom hare fortunes. Thev will fix their eve on the top round 1 been dried up by .sorrow's fires, and her children of the ladder, and climb manfully, instead of j are torn from her, and sent to seek the sustenance rrnnrhincr Hrnvn to examine so minutelv the ontier i she car. no longer ive. Premature old age has LETTERS OF MRS. SWISS1IELM . . No. ,3 a!)nm ieavin Visilissj; .Wa;hiaiglou The Capitol--' 2? Mar-ylandTSio Slsivc.-TradeKoss5 txieelsv.,.- . . s Washington Correspondence of the Tribune? . fr r. , ' Living IIoush, Wednesday, AprillO. Deak Mr. Grkelev: Away out in Western Pennsylvania, where I was born, the people used to talk a good deal about Congress and the Capi tol. -They-had news 'from Congress speeches made in Congress and wonders to tell that were done there. One could hardly get the men folks to chop oven-wood if there was any late news from the Capitol, and when they sat down to smoke and laid thoir feet up on the chimney-board to dry, they twisted their cigars round to one cor ner of their mouths, held them in their teeth, and through the little aperture uttered great words of glorious doings or terrible disasters at Waaliing ton. Sometimes things would get into a desperate fix, and by the words that cut led up among the tobacco smoke, one could learn the clouds were about to grow nigardly and withhold their rain that the sun was to stop shining for want of gas, and " my bony lady moon1' to take perma nent lodgings in a potato-pit, forced to suspend op erations for want of funds ; and all because some body was going or was not going to Washington. Is it any wonder should get to think this same Washington a wondeiful place, and feel very cu rious to see it?'' As the common consent of man kind has assigned to Woman an extra quantity of curiosity in lieu of other inalienable rights, the. right to gratify that curiosity should be included in the grant. I for one take it for granted that it is so ; and hope you will not object, especially as this same inquisitiveness loads me to wonder how the crude ideas of a western woman would look in the columns of the far-famed New-York Trib unc. beside the finished productions of the master minds ol tho age. You will respect this laudable curiosity as woman s natural right, I am sure, and so permit me to tell your readers of all and sun dry the wonderful things in this, wonderful place, In the first place you know the Capitol is sub lime. I never saw anything the work of man's hand that struck me with such, sublimity. Com ing by the Baltimore Railroad, it suddenly starts into view, in the midst of a wilderness, like the glorious visions of our prophet poets, on the deso late wastes of our present bleak and barren world. Maryland ! poor Maryland ! how disconsolate she lies, with shackled limbs and coin and joyless bosom. It is very wonderful to see the old State lie inactive, with great tracts, as far as the eye can reach, at the very foot of the Capitol, strsach ing out in primitive wilderness or exhausted barren wastes. I wondered much, but when 1 saw an old man stand, with face as black as ebon, and hair as white as snow, with the cringing aspect of a vas sal, and the coarse and tattered garments of a slave, I. knew that Maryland, like a second Rachel was weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted ; not that they "are not," but that they are worse than if they had never been. The poor, old, desolate mother! One would think that at this moment she held up her hands, like Jacob of old, to plead, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and will ye take Benjamin also V For long years she has lain in an apathy of grief, as the thous ands of her children have cast themselves upon her bosom to utter their agony of prayer to the If 1 am not too fanaticlal to'be j admitted into. your columns, 1 shall4 .soon write again.- : YotiVs, respeihfullv. v.x 85 H -JANE J. SWISSHELM. I ickaies in CHios. The violent epidemics which so frequently and fatally prevail in large cities, while the interior of the country is comparatively healthy and free from r3iseas"e-rhatifrally lead the "inquiring mind'to'ask the cause of this difference why are the inhabi tants of the city, generally, so delicate, feeble and sickly a comparison with the robust, strong and healthy country people Numerous reasons can be given to prove the superior health of the coun try to the city. Contagious diseases are frequent ly brought io our shores by emigrants from the old world, who arrive in ihousands at our Atlantic seaports often in the most sickly and destitute condition. Cholera, small pox, and other foul diseases, are mostly imported in this way. The atmosphere of the crowded city is impure, and be comes impregnated with the ozone of disease, while the pure balmy air of the country the odor of the flowers, fields, and, forests--promote and stimulate American Securities. It is a gratifying circumstance, and one of fa vorable augury, too, that in the midst of all the discontent and dissatisfaction which prevails in different parts of the country, and while the dis unionists are boldly proclaiming their nefarious designs to the world, public secuiities, State and national not only remain unshaken, but are sought 'after with increasing avidity, both in Great Brit ain and on the continent. No more conclusive evidence could be desired of the high estimation in which the stability of our institutions is held on the other side of the Atlantic. No thermometer is so sensitive as the stock market, and no men look more eagerly or accurately at our condition and prospects, than those who have a pecuniary interest in the fate of the republic. A shadow of doubt as to the perpetuity of the Union would strike down American stocks in erery money market of Europe. That they maintain their high est price in the face of the irritating discussions in Congress, and while fanatics are threatening a rupture, is proof that whatever apprehensions are entertained by timid persons here, the keen and practiced observers in Europe, whose vision is in which they rr.cy have been capsized, In this world which is our School, it seems to me that some folks read no other volumes but The Fall of man The Faults of Woman The Errors of Youth The Deception of the World Man was only made to Mourn The Corruption of So ciety rf he Perishing Classes"' The Arrant Rogues- Costfereace Appoiztmetts. Among the appointments made by the Bish op, before the adjournment of the Methodist Conference, in Philadelphia, on Wednesday last, were for North Philadelphia Djs7rec. Philadelphia, Robert Gerry, P. E. St. George's J. Castle; Trinity, J. B. Hagany ; Eighth Street, D. Shield ; Fifth St. R. W. Thomas; St. Johns, Wm. .M 'Coombs ; Kensington and Port Rich mond, D. Daily, A. Cookman ; Sanctuary, A. Johns; New Market Street, J. W. Anhur; Cohocksink, J. Shields ; Twelfth Street, A Alwood, H. F. Horn ; Bethlehem Mission, William Mullm ; North City Home Mission, George Qtiigley ; Zear, to be supplied ; Miles town, J. L. Tail ; Lehman' Chapel and Fairview, J. Henry; Frankford, J. H. M'Far Jand ; Buatleton, J. VV. M'Caskey ; Bristol, H. S. Atmore ; Attle.borough, A. Freed ; Newton, J. Edward, W. B. Wood ; Quakenown, io be supplied ; Easton, Wm. Bams ; Richmond, V. Gray ; Stroudsburg, M. H. Sisty. J. P. Darbin Cor. Sec. Missionary Socioty' ol m. ;. Uuurch. D. D. Lore, Missionary to Buenos Ayres South America. Sundry Travel. The question of running cars on the Central railroad on Sunday has excited much discussion of late; and having been sub mitted io a vote of the stockholders a majority of 344 representing a majority of 5825 chares, has been in favour of Sunday trains. Interview between the Webster family and Gov. Briggs.-Mr. Webster and her ihroe daughter, vmited Governor Briggs, Sunday, at the Adams' Hnuve. The interview lasied for an hour, and it was Mipposed waa for the pur pose of pleading metcy to the condemned. The New York Tribune, beyond all question the ablest and most influential journal in the Union, is now issued in double quarto form (eight large pages) wiihout any augmentation of its price. It is the cheapest paper ever pub lished, and must in the .nature of things large ly increrse its circulation, and as a necessary concequence, impress its active, liberal and ca pacious intellect" still mor.e widely and deoply "upon the ng and body of 'he times." The Horrid Murders, and others of a like character. But ii we trace, careiuily ana thoughtfully, page after page of these volumes even, we can behold brilliants so bright, that out from the murky pool that engulphs them will leap dazzling rays of virtue. The bottom of this sj called "Lake of Corruption" is lined with precious jewels thrown over-board by society, which ii properly gathered up and polished would uecome Crowns of Glory," in the cause of Truth, Im provement and the good of mankind. Speak no ill of the fallen, never. Let thy lips for e'er be sealed, 'Guinst the weakness of another ; 'Tillthine own frail heart is healed, Utter nought against thy brother. ':. j' ,-, Hard the heart that seeks its glory I -"V ' On the crush'd heart's funeral pile ; "Weak the tongue that lends its story ' ' Only to its kind revile. Such a" spirit sinks our nature Tramples on the law ol Love ' Spurns the blessings of our Maker, Sent,. in kindness from above. But enough of this for the present. In my next I may say a word or two about the so-called prodigies in learning infant pro'digies that are sometimes said to perform such intellectual won ders. P. S. W. (To be continued.) UlF A Traveller was once recounting with an air of truth some incredible thing when one of his auditors, vexed at his extravagance, said to him:- "But, sir, all that is not much, since 1 can assure you that the celebrated organist Yolger, once im itated thunder so perfectly that he curdled the milk for three leagues round." FlaimFaclMred Hlohogaiiy. Any wood of a close grain may be made per fectly to imitate mahogany, by the following French process: Let the surface be planed smooth, and then rubbed with a solution of nitrous arid. Then ap ply with a brush, the following mixture : one ounce of dragon's blood, dissolved in about a pint of spirits of wine, and with the .addition of a third of an ounce of carbonate of soda, mixed and fil tered. When the polish diminishes in brilliancy, it may be restored by the use ofa little cold-drawn inseed oil. Dragon's blood, as most of our read ers know, is a resin obtained by incision from certain tropical plants, and is sold at the druggists, to the varnishers and marble stainers. The meth od is extensely adopted in France, and might be well adopted in the United States, for the interior decoration of our dwellings The Poultry mania is raging in such a degree in the towns around Boston, that several gentlemen, ... . . who are extensively engaged in the raising ot the feathered bipeds, have some of their finest speci mens daguerreotyped. The prospect of an abundant grain and . fruit crop in Ohio is said to be very flattering. The wheat fields are represented as looking exceeding ly well, and the backwardness of" the season is very favorable for fruit. Providing for Widows and OrpIi;m A law passed the Georgia Legislature at its last session, giving to the widow and child, or children, of any person dying insolvent, $100 worth of the properly of said insolvent, frec and clear of all claims for debs by him. come upon her, and yet it is not enough. Those who should cornort her, who should give her " beauty for ashes .nd the oil of joy for mourning," are seeking for another Egypt where her Josephs may be sold into bondage a cattle-market for her sons and "daughters, where their bodies and souls, like those of the craven -Egyptians, may be exchanged for corn. These thoughts naturally suggest themselves after passing through the garden-like plantations of eastern Pennsylvania and then coming suddenly to an extended waste, reminding one who has seen both, of the huckleberry -districts of Butler Coun ty. As tfie locomotive sped along and set the trees to dancing, waltzing, whirling to the music of its railroad gallopade, I sat watching for the overflowing barns, the flocks and herds, the troups ot poultry, green fields, extensive gardens, hot and green-houses, that I supposed must extend far and wide tor many miles in every direction from so fa mous a city as our great Washington, that Pan dora box from which proceeds all things good and evn, and cannot well describe my surrpise when as we passed a tract of soil apparently too poor to bring mullm and pennyroyal, and partially en closed with a rickety old post and rail fence made with spider-leg posts and three thin rails here and there propned with rotten slicks, or in terwoven with brush and briars, suddenly as thought the great marble edifice loomed up in the horizon the Capitol of this great Republic in the midst ol a desert ! Here, Mr. Greely, let me take breath, and re cover Irom the mortification I have just now suf fered ! When 1 got thus far Dr. Snodgrass called to say it was tune to go to the Capitol, where had been yesterday to hear Harris of Tenn. be daubing the remnant of the Northern Democracy who had "stood against the s-l.o-r-m stood firm while the thunders roared, and one after another had lallen a victim" to their great love for the glorious Constitution and its immortal compro mises. Poor fellows ! how 1 pitied them and felt ueiievoienuy inclined to oiler the loan ol an umbrel la, much as any one dislikes to lend that article. But it was pitiful, indeed it was wondrous pitiful, to ,U;I. f . u : ..4. i: . 1 -i , mum ui inpir suanuing in me rain, ana it tnunaer ing ! Ue appeared to think they were in as sad a situation as the "meandering" lover, I once heard a Western orator talk of, who " had nauth- ing but c-o-l-d airth fur a downy pillow, and the broad canopy of the blue skies fur a cuverin." Indeed it might have drawn tears from all eyes to hear the hon. gentleman uroan forth the sins e hard 'storm' in that deep guteral agony revival a preacher is apt to use in the latter part of an ex portation. I he poor gentleman did appear to be in a sad way about the polilical executions of his dear friends and allies. Moreover he says you wicked Northern Whigs are every man of you in favor of the horrible Wjimot Proviso! Some Dem ocrats too were recreant to their sacred ' trust of defending the " glorious privilege," not of being independent, but of whipping women and selling babies. It 13 a very great shame for you all to tax your Southern brethren with such unbrotherly kindness ; and if you do not speedily do works mete for repentance, something terrible is eoinp- to happen ! Just mind if it does not ! But 1 have ran away from my subject ! What 1 was going to tell you was about the speech to day ol Ross, from our State. Oh how my cheek is burning ! 1 tremble with indignation to think my native State my own noble old Pennsylvania has given birth to such a caricature of manhood such a poor, miserable apology for the likeness of the Eternal. I cannot tell you about it,. I cannot bring myself to repeat his words of sickening ser vility. Your regular correspondent will do that soon enough, and too soon. Then, when he had earned his reward a pat on the back and a stroke on the head to see the entire Southern delegation come up with their congratulations their well done, good and faithful servant I How long, Oh Lord, how long shall they, under the Statues of the goddess of Liberty-r-American Liberty ex change triumphant greetings on these mutual ef forts to extend and perpetuate the ' vijest- system of Slavery that oyer saw the sun !' The . mail health. The habits and modes of living of many persons in the city, when compared with the reg- sharpened by perpetual solicitude for the safety of ular and natural life of the husbandman, will aiso their investments, discover no danger whatever in show the bright side in favorof rural life-. Anoth- the subsisting condition of things. Republic. er, and most, fearful cause of sickness in cities, is found in the consumption of unwholesome food. The New York Herald publishes the following horrible statement relating to the poisonous milk furnished to the citizens of New York. The sub ject demands the most severe interference of the authorities. " We have from time to time exposed the ' mockery, delusion, and a snare,' palmed upon a credulous community as pure Orange county milk. We do not refer to the chalk mixture, or the co pious additions from the hydrants, which are so notorious. Crolon water will do no injury to health, though after already paying a tax for it, it may be hard enough to have to pay for it again instead of milk. Our allusion is not to these di lutions apd adulterations, but to something much more horrible. We have recently received vari- BrieF, an a to luePoiut. Tho Post Master General recently removed a Locofoco office holder, named Siarr, from of fice at Angelica, N. Y. and appointed a Whig .in his place. Mr. Siarr had been permitted to hold over a year, and began to think he was safe, sure enough. Being considerably disap pointed at his removal, he addressed a letter to the Post Master General to know the reasons for the change, and the following is the very excellent reply he received Post Office Department, ) Appointment Office, Feb. 1, 18.50. Sir In reply to yours of the 26h ult., you are informed that the charges upon which you were removed from the office of Postmas- ous communications, giving descriptions of the al Angelica, N. Y., were entirely of a po- menaaeries up town, where milk is manufactured, litical uharacter. that are sufficient to make each particular hair of one's head stand on end, like the quills of 1 the fretful porcupine.' Orange county means that re gion comprised in the Twelfth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth wards ; and as for the purity of the ' licor,' yclept ' milk,' that is distributed thence over the lower wards of the city, we leave the reader to determine after perusing the following details: The cow stables consist of long ranges of low shantees, where hundreds of the unfortunate animals are cooped up for the term of their miser able" lives. Once they enter, they never return till they are brought out dying or dead. They are fed with intoxicating 'swill,' and ' grains' from the breweries and distilleries, which so stimulate Very respectfully, &c, FITZ HENRY WARREN. Ezra Starr, Esq., Angelica, Allegheny county, N. Y. TSsc Galpliiu Claim. There is much discussion in the newspa pers, just now, concerning the allowance by the Secretary of the Treasury of interest upon a claim, the principal of which was paid under the direction of the late Secretary, Mr. Wal ker. The claim is known as the Galphin claim. It is an old claim, dating as far back as the flow of milk as to greatly increase the quantity. 1773, and it derives its guaranty from a treaty while the quality is sadly deteriorated. This stipulation between me governor oi ueorgia would not be so poisonous if the animals were al lowed to go into the open air, and had some ex ercise. Jjut they are rendered so sickly, bloated and dropsical by the confinement, the foul air, and the distillery stuff together, that the milk is not only unfit for human beings, but positively deleterious to health. The stench of these menageries cannot be described. It can only be judged by bring ing the olfactory nerves' in contact with the ef fluvia at some sixty or one hundred yards, which would be about as near as most people could venture to approach these abominations. Let any man who is able to endure close prox imity, visit one of these concerns, and he will find some of the animals bloated io an extraor dinary degree, the prelude to a-more advanced stage of disease, which is marked by extreme emaciation, hollow eyes, the udders and teats spoiled with leprous aores ; some of ihem so far used tip, that, if they lay down, they could not rise, and they are therefore propped by belly bars, while their eyes drip rheum, dis colored purulent matter is pressed from their teats, and the animals operated upon seem as insensible as if under the influence of chloro form. The skins of all of them are covered with filih, presenting a horrible picture of cru elty to animals. But the cruelly, alas ! does not stop here it is cruelly of the worst kind to human beings ; destruction of ihe health, ay, and to the lives of thousands! Yet, the out skirts of the lazar houses will be found well washed, reminding one of 'whited sepulchers;' on the one hand and the Creek and Cherokee Indians on the other. It appears that Galphi.v, with others, traded with the Indians an held a lien on cettaiu lauds as security for debts ; ihai by ihe treaty of 1773 these lands were ceded to the British Crown ; that the British Government, consequently, be came responsible to Galphin and his associate traders ; ihai all of them except Galphhi re ceived conpensation, principal and interest, from the British Government ; that the claim of Galphin was rejected because he had taken part wiih the American Colonists in the revo lutionary war, while his associate traders ad hered to Great Bntian. Galphin's claim was presented to ihe Stale of Georgia and its jus lice was acknowledged ; but it was maintained that inasmuch as the Government of the Uni ted States, after the war of independence, suc ceeded to all the rights of the British Crown over the public lands, the application for pay ment of the claim bhould be made to that Got ernment. The application was accordingly made to tho General Government ; but such is the delay attending all applications of this kind, that no final action was had upon it until tho year 1848, when Congress passed an act by which the Secrotary of the Treasury was "au thorized and required to examine and adjust ihe claim of the late George Galphin, under tho treaty made by ihe Governor of Georgia with the Creek and Cherokee Indians in the year and wagons may be seen handsomely painted, 1773, and pay the amount which may be found anp bearing the following words in large let ters 'Orange county milk, pure. I hen when the animals die, or are about io die, in these dens, they are coaveyed to Hoboken and oth er places in New Jersey ; and having been butchered there in due form, they come to our markets as New lersoy meat ! And the calves taken from them, dead, are also sold to the poor, as appeared from a paragraph in tho Her ald, two or three days ago. By those means men have grown rich passing rich and hold their heads as high as any of the 'fishy' aris tocracy ; no doubt believing that dollars smell as sweet, coming from fmtid stables as from stinking codfish. When these establishments are permitted by the authorities, ihe owners are not to blame make what money they can of them. The people themselves are in fault, and they pay a fearful penalty. Can ii be wondered that the blood of the children of this city ig tainted with scrofula and other frightful dis eases due to Milledge Galphi.v, executor of aid George Galphin." The interest money has been paid, and it is this about which the opponents of the admin istration are finding fault. The payment of tho interest was proper at least, according to chief justice Taney, "there is no statute of the United States that forbids the Secrotary of War, or tho accounting officers, to allow in terest to a claimant if it shall appear that in terest is justly due to him." But this Galphin claim comes under the sanction of a treaty stipulation, where the public law is imperative; and if the claim be good at all it is good for both principal and interest. Republic of Liberia. The Republic of Liberia, tvith the object of which our readers are all familiar, is prosper ing at a truly gratifying degree. A correspon dent, writing from that Republic, to the New that so many of our population are pre- York Commercinl Advertiser savs : Our po- maturely cut off in childhood and youth, and litical affairs thus far have been very prosper- that so many of those who attain to riper years otis, even beyond our most sanguine expecta are afilicted with tnaladios which render thoir tions. Wo have seemed to pass through an lives a burthen io thorn 1 But we have a May- age in mo space of three short years. Our or, and a Common Council, a Board of Health, progress has been so rapid that we fear we may and sanitary laws ! Ihrico happy people ! have grown beyond our years. If ever people had reason to bless a kind providence, we aro Iiidiaia Starvation and Caamibalisni. that npnnln Thn finor nf Gn.l hn hn The Minesola Pioneer of the I3ih says: We plainly seen in the establishment of this repub- have heard from the "Bois Forts," Chippewas l'c When 1 think of the tears and prayers, n I. I- . I .1. I- .L . I l n , or iviusKiegoes, wno live on me northeast anu 1,10 precious mvob mai nave oeen onereu boundary of this territory. Thoy are in a uPn l"e a',ar for our benefit, my heart over starving condition; so much so that many flows with gratitude. The friends of Africa will be obliged, as they have sometimes been, havo 'onS na( 10 struggle with gigantic diffi to eat their fellows. Their rice crops failed last cullies, but the summit is now passed, and ihe Fall, and the rabbits have, almost entirely world may see, if it will, lhat the African race through some malady, disappeared from all tho are capable of self-government, without running uwiiwi iuuiiiiy. xiuiuuH uuitji nuius ui news in - "augiuqb. . t. .i . . uib quarter, mere nave oeen sent to some ol the Pillager, Mississippi Chippewa and bands. tobacco as an invitation to join a war party to collect this Spring, at Pembina, asainst tho Sioux. Tho party is headed by Wat-ish-ance. a half-breed of Red Ui ver, whose nephew al so a half-breed, was killed two years since by the Sioux, "The. party will number," it ia said, "1500 men. Chinnp.ivus. CiPoltB a boins." There aro over nine thousand miles of fail road iu the United States. The Cholera; One hundred and foriy-nine deaths by A si alic cholera are reported in new Orleansffor ihe week ending March 23. Tho wholenum bpr of interments lhat week was 234 a large number for a population of only 150,000. a
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