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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.
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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--'
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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