eaasnaeMaBi sunasp icvmb JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN x. Thursday, July 4, 1850. FOfl CANAL COMMISSIONER, JOSHUA DUNGAN, , OF BUCKS COUNTY." e'iv FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, HENRY W. SNYDER, OF UNION COUNTY. iH FOR SURVEYOR GENERALj JOSEPH G. HENDERSON, OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. The Whis Slate Nominations. Wq are gratified to witness, says the Daily News, the hearty enthusiasm with which the nominations of the late WhigState Convention are every where received. They are unexceptionable in point of character and qualifications, and that they can be elected no one for a moment doubts. That they will be','ve fully believe, if the Whigs of the State rally .vigorously in their support. It is expected of every man to do his whole duty in the same spirit of harmony and zeal which actuated the convention m making me nominations, ano u mis is aone n we avail ourselves of the means in our power se- - r" . . cure in every township in we fctate a tnorougn ana efficient organizationand bring every vote to the pons, tne wnoie ticKei can oe eieciea Dy a mum- 11 -i l - t l lt phant majority. But we must do more than mere- ly cary our State nominations. The next Legisla- J J ture ougnt to oe v nig, ana we nave also memoers . . . tti i i ,l of Concress to elect. We appeal, therefore, to all interested in the triumph of Whig principles, and in the prosperity of home industry for the two go hand in hand to think for themselves, and act as becomes free thinking and free acting men. There is work to be done work for all, and the most im portant results hang upon the manner of doing it. A Good Endorsement. The Germantown Telegraph, an able and strict- ly neutral newspaper, thus speaks of the nominees of the Whig State Convention : The nominations are regarded as very fair ones the nominees being all respectable, capa bte, and popular gentlemen- that of Joshua Dungan for Canal Commissioner, we know to be excellent and unexceptionable Mr. D. being a practical farmer, of considerable intelligence and energy of character, and honest as the day is long. He is a member of the Bucks County Agricultur al Society, and has delivered one or two annual addresses before it, marked for their good practi cal sense and peculiar adaptedness to the occa sions rersliine vs. Galpliin. 'We seelhat theasnington Union and its sat ellites through the country propose, with irresis tible wit, to dub the Whigs with the name' of Gal phins. Upon this the York Republican aptly re marks, "we really do not know how we could bet- lex return the compliment of our kind Locofoco friends, than bestowing upon them the name, style and title of Ovensltines, as a memento of the mem orable transactions at Williamspott !" Fishing. The,Easton Whig, of the 3d inst., says that 1 Several gentlemen left that place last week on a fishing excursion to the Tobyhanna. They were fully equipped for the expedition, and camped out during their absence. They were engaged in angling five days and caught 3,493 trout, besides some fine pike and other fish. Some of the trout were very fine, weighing from two and a half to three pounds. The Fact Admitted. The Chambersburg Valley Spirit, in an article on the Williamspoft Convention, acknowledges 'that there is a set of men hanging to the skirts of the Democracy of this State, who are . among the most UNMITIGATED POLITICAL SCOUNDRELS in the world." The Whigs have said so for years, and for say ing so have been most lustily abused ; but as the charge is now acknowledged by the Locos them selves, perhaps the people will think there is some truth in it. CC' The cholera has appeared at Cincinnati, IEPThe distance from Itbica to New York, two hundred and sixty-two miles by way of the Cayu- ga Lake and JErie Railroad, is now travelling by davlieht, the passengers breakfasting at Ithica and Running in Npw York - " W " I rr"-e m. - - . T . , .. . 1 lhe mount Holly Herald notices that on Mon- jrejgiuea wun some iiuy men, women ana cnu- oren, on.tneir way to tne -ueacn woods, near Hdnesdale, Pa. They were from the lower part of this Slate. Fr the Campaign. The editor of the Harrisburg Intelligencer pro proposes to publish his paper from now to the 15th of November, for fifty cents 3 copies $1,00, 10 copies $ 3,00, or 20 copies $5,00. The Inte Uigen cer is an able and spirited Whig paper; and will do good service in the cause, Mechanics and laborers of all kinds are in great demand in Minesoto, and the highest wages paid. Emigrants are flocking into the country in great numbers. PepHlatieK f BestoM. The census of .Boston has just been taken by the local. authorities. The total population is 138,788. In J85i-it was 114,366. The total-number of for eigners is 63,329, o.f which 52,r061fare Irish. The colored population lumbeis 3jU2, being an In crease of 300 since 1845, From" theTNexo-York Daily Tribune June 2-J. StroutisImi'Sf Institute. ThisreceMly established institution is in sue1 cessfuf operation at the beautjful villiage of Stroudsburg, Perm. Prof. W. S.;Post is .the6 Prinj: cipal ; he has the highest recommendations, from eminent men. Those who wish to give their sons an opportunity for thorough instruction, in a de lightful location, should address the Principal for particulars. There were nine deaths by cholera at Nashville on the 21st ult. At the' quarantine ground below ' St. Louis, on' the 17th ultimo, there were seven deaths of chol era. - During the week ending on the 15th ult. there were four deaths by cholera at" New Orleans :6f all diseases one hundred and nine. A writer in the Georgetown-Advocate says that the Comet that is now being observed at the ob servatories, and that can be seen by an Ordinary spyglass, will be seen by the naked eye in a few days, and continue visible until at least the middle of July. fr?" The steamer Pacific arrived off Halifax on Saturday, in nine and a half days from Liverpool, with news of but little importance. Cotton and Flour were without change ; but Corn had ad vanced 1 to 2 shillings a quarter. Foreign News. , The steamer Niagara arrived at Boston on Thursday, with news a week later from Liverpool, Vint nf nn importance excent that cotton was an ei nth t0 a .fourth 0f a penny. i0VVer, and market for breadstuns was aepressea, wun a migm ae cline in price, I """" Important from Santa Fe. Advices have been received at St. Louis from I . . y . t rr . ,1 - Santa Fe to the 25tn ol May, to me eneci wai a Convention had been held and a estate oorisum- on ioea, promami g Slavery. vva3 -f- I n Un ORlK nnA on a onlinn fur lprrlc ntlirP. mPITl- . f Conrress &Cmm was soon t0 be held. The Ult 111C uuu an uivunui. r S5tat trnvGrnment was to so into oneration on the 1st of July. EJ3 Grbelev says "all the good we get out of this Congress we shall consider clear gam, to oe received with greatful astonishment. ' A severe storm passed over the town of Cumberland, Md., a tew days ago, wnicn, in us . - . ... i t . nmorpss. thrfiw rlnwn the walls of a large hotel. in course of erection, crushed the railroad depot adjoining: and the lightning striking the stables of the National Koad btage Uompany, mey were en lirely consumea. Convicted. A man named James Lindsay was lried and convicted last week, in Philadelphia, on i a charge of robbing the Cashier of the Burlington Bank, in December last. He was arrested on ? . ? 1 at suspicion, and evidence was circumstantial ine robbery having been effected by abstracting a val ise containing some five thousand dollars, from the captain's office of the steamboat John Stevens. S2.3S6.497.50 of gold was coined at the Mint in Philadephia, in the month of June. Confession of Professor Webster. Boston June 29, 6 o'clock. It is stated, on high authority, that Professor Webster has written a letter to the governor and council, confessing that he killed Dr. Parkman, but that it was not a mur der, and askimg a commutation of his sentence. The letter, though long, does not give the partic ulars of the transaction, and will probably be con sidered by the governor and council on Thursday next. Suicide. Eleazer Porter, for several years a resident of thi3 Borough, committed suicide on Friday morn ing last. For some time he had occasionally been in the habit of drinking to excess, and when un der the influence of liquor, at times gave signs of derangement. For several days previous to his death he had been from home, and indulging in the free use of liquor. He returned to his resi dence on Friday morning, shaved himself, and went into an out-house, where with a razor he nearly severed one arm, and cut his throat. WTrTen found he was dead". He doubtless was la boring under an alienation of mind, when he des troyed his life. Wilkes-JSarre Advocate, June 26. Mr. Sage, one of the publfshers of the Southern Press, at Washingtbn, some years ago published a paper at Allentown, in this State, and Mr. Heath, the other publisher, during the campaign of 1844, conducted a paper at Jackson, Michigan. Tall Damages. Dr. Wm. R. Winston was tried lately in Eaton, Ohio, for seducing Harriet Keever aged 19, and adjudged to pay her father $15,000. Winston is a married man and a doctor. Miss Keever was residing with him as a patient. All the gamblers in ban r rancisco were burnt out y lhe late fire according to a letter from a clergyman m that city to the Newark Advertiser. 1 fte samefc writer says: "during tne nre carts and leams were haulhig goods at $20 a load, and in some instances drawing pay in advance, uejore . . J. I iiigui a iraiuu was up auu nearly cuvereu un. me . . . r - - i j hnrnl rfiefnru nn thn nnrth etna nf tho cminrul ' YO.BisU The Philadelohia Pennsylvania has the fol lowinp : "The Rerks couniv 'Gold Mine' turns out to be something else nearly as valuable, for we gather from a paragraph in the Schnel post, a paper published at Hamburgh, in Berks county, ihat an agent of a company in New York recenjly visited the mine, the properly of Mr. Focht, of Windsor township, for the pur pose of negoiiating for its purchase, After a carpful examination of the "placer," he offered $1,000 for each acre through which it exten ded, but Mr.'Fochl refused to sell, determining to work the mine himself. According to pub lic rumor, the mine contains very little gold, but an abundance of the purest silver." A Clergyman praying at a camp meeting in a most fervent manner for the power of the devil to be curtailed, a zealous old negro loudly ex claimed "Amen ! yes, bless de Lor, cut he tail amack, smooih off!" Tha motion is gut .0 order,' as the chairman of a poHNcal meeuf sai-when a rowiy raised kis arm to throw an egg. ' 'Fqlhe Jeffersonian Republican. sjapuai r nnujraeui. There are a number of our fellow citizens who profess to have religious scruples': against capital -punishment, regarding it as a relicof barbarism as a contravention of the Saviours precept, "to resist not evil" as opposed to thai universal love taught in the gospel, and that the execution of a murdereris murder itself. If' these things are so, we ought to know thenr. While the laws of our Commonwealth remain as they are and so much wholesale sin is commited : by our roagis- trates we cannot be innocent, for we make and UPV hold. the laws and elect the magistrates. If if shall appear, however, that the warrant for '111 KB. - - taking life was given by the Great Author of life- . J , j that God himse f first gave the law to our race and sanctioned the execution ot it ; mere win not oe . much propriety in stigmatizing it as a relic of bar- tQt or ever commanded the execution of barbarous laws. Our Saviour in that most admirable pre- cep't " to resist not evil" was very far from con- demnmg tne laws or me ruiers unaer wnicn ne , ., , .. i . l? i l lived. In the judicial laws of ther Jews it had been en- noted that thfl maaictrBtftft should nnnish crimes in 0 . r - proportion to the injury done, as "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," Exodus 21, 24; Lev. 24, 19 20. The Jews had perverted this law and made it sanction private retaliation and revenge. Against this perversion of the law our Saviour speaks. He did not complain of the law in the hands of the magistrates, nor forbid his followers' appealing to it, but they must neitheir take upon ,u , ;.,j .v.0;. nrn , n;r tn .u . . . . , magistrate irom a principle oi revenge, ouroiy our iiOra aia not violate nis own precept wnen un- justly smitten before the High Priest yet he did not tamely turn the other cheek and invite the rep- , -I A . etition of the wrong. On the contrary he remon- strated against it. John 18, 23. He taught us to love our enemies. This precept pious rulers ob- served under the laws of the Old DisDansation. and they may observe under the laws of our State J J while performing the painful task of capital pun- ishment. Hatred and private revenge is contrary to the whole Bible, and to the laws of our State ajso , . . VA e hold that the great law of love requires cap- ital punishment. Moses sums up the ten com- mandments Dreciselv as Christ does in suDreme love to God, and love to man as ourselves. Cap ital punishment is the penalty affixed by God to one of these commandments. If his love led him tion his law with the penalty " Whoso sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed," how can obedience to that requirement by the civil ma gistrate be contrary to the law of love 1 Does that love which is the fulfilling of the law, and which is the substance of the gospel, require us to care more for a wilful murderer than for the safety of the entire community ? Would you coTidemn a skilful Surgeon, who, by amputating a limb pre- .i. it r.u . . j - t? serves the life of the whole body?- How then can you arraign the goodness of rectitude of that heav- en sanctioned penalty, which, while it cuts off the wilful murderer throws such a nrotection around the lives and interests of thousands of innocent .... rtiiu IIUUU3 LUlUUb: Gen. 9, 6, was only one of the cerimonial laws Treasury, lhis is worthy of every man's con rr.Aa r, ti, iaav.,aa c k nu n;.; scientious consideration ; and then it demands . ,. auu mat 11 uaa pusueu away wuiuiim aupensaiwn. It was made many centuries before the Israelites existed as a nation, and was enacted for us as di rectly as for them. It was a law enacted for the race immediately after the flood. The right to punish capitally was given at the same time with the right to kill animals for food. If our superior ugni ana civilization deprives us oi tne one ngnt it deprives us of the other also, and we are bound to give up our beef, pork, fish, venison, &c. &c. In Gen. 9, 6, a reason is erven, in addition to the one we are in the habit of alledging, for in the imafrA nf Knt mnrtp ho mnn The A,nt of hie having been made in the image of God creates no bar to his capital punishment, but is a strong ar gument for it, for the murderer has committed a grieveous offence aga'nst the creator. But the New Testament settles the question.- In the 13th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, the inspired Paul declares that "the powers that be" or magistrates are ordained of God ; are God's ministers to execute wrath on evil doers. And it is added of the magistrates that "he beareth not the sword in vain." The sword was an instrument of death and in ancient Governments there wer nf- ficers whose business it was to execute capital - . ... T. 4, , V, punishment m this manner. It was thus that Be- . , , , . , , n,'7BW wn "oswoio oy tne command Ofbolomnn. If the New TrtstamAnt fiflp.Tnrpa Ihnf God put's the instrument of capital punishment into the hands of the magistrates, and if he is Gods t.:i. JAn.:.:. 3 ri:r .t ujuuaici wmio ucpuviug mo luuiueier oi me, men 1 he who opposes this law opposes God. He who declares that the execution of a murder- er is murder, is accusing God of the mnatdrfladf.il crime. What right have they to live a day under u j w. Vl 7f LllKlL bIJJUltlU UlUlUGi . If UU1U a SVRlAm Iio nnmlnn 1 1V..1J the apostle have exhorted us to pray for rulers that they might be successful in their office, if they believed their office required them to commit mur der! Are we so much more virtious and enlightened than the New Testament, requires us to be ; that the precepts of the Holy Saviour and his in spired apostle are no longer suited to our superi or light and love ! There can be no doubt that the time will come when all war and capital punishmont, with their horrors, will cease, but this blessed consummation will not be reached by taking away the penalty of the law, but by removing the depravity of men. The universal reception of the gosple will cause men "to beat their swords into ploughshares," and cause the lion and lamb to lie down together. Let us labor by the cosnel to expel murder from tl Siaj!! !nd frPr3 Tl COnduCf' an-d we shall hope to see an end of the horrors of capi- tal punishment. r CITIZEN OF MONROE. Cool, Very An assessor, ealline on an ediitor to ascertain how much money he has at interest ! I From the Harrisburg-Telegraph; Hinfi to-ill o People. .No State in the Union has suffered more than Pennsylvania from the errors, follies, and corrup tions of politics, and too strict party attachments. Her State debt is overwhelming, and her taxes oppressive, yet with all this burthen upon the peo ple, her treasurers are daily squandered with an improvident hand. All the income, or nearly so, of her public improvements, is scattered along the lines to keep them passable, much less in good re pair. The system of paying off active partizans with fat jobs supplying lumber and other materi als for hauling, &c, has swallowed up our tolls mam. fAnc ivnilo nilr !fata 4 I. nnrl rtui tnv- es jiave gradually increased. vjf the people knew why this was so, and how I - - . 1 to apply a remexiyove are connaeni they would not low tneir nanas unm u. accom- plished. We propose briefly to offer some hints . . rnnsJerLo twBting that they will seR i - t i 7- . :i .i a . v. ' w ' anj fee their force. For many years, all those officers who expend the oublic funds, and settle the accounts, have II il 1 I . . n u I lur I Tnnil I :nm ueen in me nanus ui uncuty. uui vvw micoinnpra nnr Sunp.rintendents and Supervisors, onr1 th(. Auditor General have been of one family: and it is not necessary to charge open corruption, to prove that this fact alone has cost rennsyiva 1 nia manv nuiiurtius 01 iiiuuaauua ui uuuaia. i ai - . party atlachmenl8i and party partial itipo. tnn nftpn micjlpaH the iuriVement. There has been no check or watch upon their actions, there was no one to make them asnamea or airaia, even though they might have been too honest to steal, outright, the treasures of the people, yet " when one's self is in the scale, it is hardly rightly adjus ted. In every State wheje party power has changed hands occasionally, we find the condition of the treasury always better trTan in those States where one party nas been permitted to rule supreme, and have grown insolent and corrupt, because of their. strength. For twelve years, the mysteries behind the cur tains of the Auditor General s office, have never been exposed t0 lhe public eye, (and may that not be one reason why just at the time when a Whig Governor would expose the secrets of that "prison house," the appointment was taken from his hands and given to the people, believing that they were sliUBsafe m lheir strength The people are now called upon to choose from among their own number, some person to fill that office. Do they desire to know its secret history 1 If so, m?s leT Wl whose interest are. to keen them stil in ltrnnrance. Again, would it not be more certain to guard the money of the people, if the auditing of these ac counts of political favorites was to be done by one whose pride would be to detect and expose any and all abuses of power 1 Would not that very thjng make the disbursing agents more careful perhap3 more honest Nothing can be more cer- tain. It would save for the btate thousands and and thousands of dollars. Freemen ! and Work doers ! Tax-payers, and State debt payers ! Would it not be well for you to think over this subject, and act at the next election as common sense shall dictate? You all remember how the lamented Power, while Canal Commissioner, scared from the Treas ury of the State, the vultures of party, who sought to impoverish it by their lavish and imprudent ap propriations Has the lesson been thrown away win you permit another chance to pass and re fuse to set one to watch two ? While one member of the Canal Board is directly politicallyinter ested in watching the other two (it matters but little to the people for what motive) the temptation, apd the ability to do wrong is much lessened. Fear, if not honesty, would make the majority mQr6' camioM( morey'prudenl and less carele3J3 and extravagant; and the result is that the money of the tax-payer is more sparingly, and more properly applied, lhe opportunity is again offered to di v,u, Hl" FUU"r ,h T Vk V T . T and as it may be that both parties need watching onoh will hp as n wntr.h spt ovpt th fhpr nnri the people will reap the harvest in the replenished that action at the election which republican mteg- r,ty w,u endorse as Well done. Let every Farmer; Mechanic, Laborer, and those who "sit at home at ease," examine these hints, and see if they cannot profit thereby. The Sirfail Note Law. The Locofoco Danera are sauirmin? at the Jaw which prohibits the oae of Bmall notes af- ter the 21 st of August. We advise them 10 keep cool, as the act is a simon pure, undiluted "democratic" bantling, got up by Mr. Laird, the Chairman of the Bank Committee, and Mor "80nt lhe candidate for Canal Commissioner, woo was aiso a memoer oi said oommitiee The Tiosa Eagle, a strong locofoco paper, says : "What is to be done in regard to the law prohibiting the circulation of small notes ? This queston is frequently asked in our viciniiy, but has not yet been satisfactorily answered. The principal circulating medium for change in the norih-eastern counties of this State, is Now York Siate, and New Jersey paper, under the denomination of five dollars. If ail this bank paper of one's, two's and three's, is drawn out of c,rcu'a,lon. we cannot see what business men wl do for "change" in their daily trans aPUon9' WJ hf.v.e nt banka call at for change no facilities whatever such as exist in nc . . i .u 1 . 1 -n other parts of the state, and the ate law will ,herefore be e2lremely oppressing on the bus- !: r t V W3 , mess community 01 ionnern rennnsyivania. The late act of Assembly, forbidding the circu- lation of small notes, may be called Democrat- itri. : . i 1 i ic or vv iiig, we cars noi wnicn me act was uncalled for, and will be found highly oppres ive ,0 tQe people of this part of the State, and must be repealed at the earliest moment. We 8 for a rePeal of lh.is Iaw unlili olher S,ales a uuuom suiaii iiuiu issue. TTT'An old lady in Iowa, while recently in the woods, was bit on the end of the nose by a rattlesnake. The old lady recovered, hul the snake died. Cornor's verdict "'poisoned by snuff." How it was Passed. An Englishman admitted in Philadelphia recently, that the passage of the British Ta riff Bill of 1846, had cost England at least one million pounds sterling, but did not think the price high, considering the market theyobtained for their manufacture. Thin iinmr!n ifm v. tery whjch many could nQ ,ain beforej those who took an active nan in the Dassace nf that bill, and who were nnnr hfnr. nhnnlfl 80 ,udenly become rich and live in affluence! J VTCifA 7Wnr den TayIor "aa y purchased the spien- AlA c n - ii . aid gagar plantation of Captain Fullerton, twen- iy - n nauta irom Jew urieans on the bank or the river nrice $37,000. The General means. it is-said. to abandon hie cotton nlantatinn. ar Rodney, and concentrate his force on kis new nurchasa.f Gkmrhstnn n,rir. w v- ww-mw w .w-m a w w IVf Mr. Pa i He's Scientific Discovery of EJglit and Heat from Water." Wo have stated our doubts of the genuineness of Mr. Paines' great discovery of a cheap mode of getting burning gas from common water; but from a recent notice in the London Patent Journal, there appears to bo a strong probability 0f s truth. Let us wait patiently until ho lights up the Astor House, a3 he says he is going to do shortly--Meantime let us discuss a late discovery of a French savant, one Joseph Pierre Gillard. He has filed a caveat in England for an invention con sisting in certain apparatus and .processes Jor prp ducirighydrogen gas, by the decomposition qwa ter, and its pplication to heat and' light. The means and processes by which he obtains this gas are by incolescence of iron by carbon, and .by magnets three different modes. The Patent Journal gives a long account of the modes by which M. Gillard proposes to produce this burn ing gas, one of which looks to us exactly similar to Mr. Pair.e's discovery. This specification reads thus : "The illuminating by means of the elec tricity of magnets put in motion by any mechani cal processes ; and producing hydrogen and oxy gen, by means of magnets, put in motion sfmalta neously, by any force whatever, the two gases be ing separately collected." On the whole, we think Paine has really made the wonderful discovery he claims ; and it only remains to be seen whether the burning gas can be produced as cheaply as he tellsthe public. If it can, then good by to coal and coal mines, and all kinds of fuel. Water, water, everywhere, will be the universal fuel. A man's Host bit off arid SwoIIowedl Two men named Thomas B. Burchell and Sam uel Lewis, got into a fight one day last week, in a porter house near Red Fort in the Fifth ward, and in the scuffle Burchell was thrown down by Lew is, and while down Lewis was on top, and being a much larger man, Burchell endeavored to extri cate himself, and finding he could not, he seized the nose of Lewis in his mouth, bit off the end, and swallowed it; this he was obliged to do in or der to prevent himself from choaking, as the piec of nose, when bitten off, fell back into his throat and there was no other alternative than to let it go down. Burchell was arrested and committed to prison. CnbaOificial Despatches at Wash ington. We learn from Washington, says the Inquir er of Friday, that despaiches have been re ceived from Cuba by the Ohio, and of a highly interesting characier. Our prirale advices by the same vessel, inform us that the prisoners captured by the Spanish sieamer "Pizarro were yet on board lhe Sobrano, awaning lhe final decision of ihe Spanish Government at homo. A sort of mock trial was in progress, and great anxiety was felt for the result. Two American sloops of war were cruizing off the port, and they would remain until! the arrival of Commodore McKeevver, in the "Congress." Gen. Campbell, the American Consul, had made several applications in relation 10 the American prisoners in custody, but without suc cess. It will be remembered ihat the instruc tions of the United States Secetary of State un der date of the 1st of June, were of the most decided character. The response of ihe Cuban authorities has not yet transpired. The priso ners in all, do not amount to fifty in number, and General Armaro assumes a sort of indepen dent control of them. The story of their libera tion, as recently announced by telegraph, is untrue. Our Government is pursuing a calm, firm, and straight forward course, and we can not for a moment believe that the Spanish au thorities, after hearing all the fads, will refuse their release. It is quiie probable, however, that the Cuban authorities are procrastinating the affair, with the object of hearing from Spain. No other reasonable cause can be given for this delay. Texas. In Texas, choice tracts of the finest soil, adapted to the growth of the sugar cane, can be purchased at from three to four dollars per acre. Cotton lands can be purchased from fifry cents to two dollars per aero. Vicksborg, (Mi ) June 10. We have some Cholera here at this time, and, from the very rapid fail of the Mississip pi, I apprehend there will be much sickness here this summer. Crops in this part of tho country presents at this time but a very poor prospect. Commodore Stockton has written a letter contradicting the Mory that he had resigned his commission in the navy lo goto California. He has no inteniion of going thither, and wants no more leuers on the subject ; the ru mor having v.ery inconveniently increased his correspondence. Gigantic Reptile.M a recent meeting of the Royal lnstituiion in London, Professor Ow en exhibited, among other fossils, the arm bone of an extinct species of lizard, which was four and a half feet long and thiriy-two inches in circumference. Professor Owen remarked that the animal to which this belonged must have been ninety feel in length. The Boston Post mentions in proof of. the progress of phonography, that a lazy boy out West, spells Andrew Jackson, "&dru Jaxn." AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the Orphans' Court of Monroe County, to examine and restate, if necessary, and repoit a distribu tion on tho account of John "Van Vlcit, adminis trator of the estate of Joseph Van Yliet, decd, will attend to the duties of his appointment on Saturday, the 6th of July next, at 10 o'clock a. m. at the. public house of Jacob Knecht, in the. Borough of Siroudaburg. " JOHN T. BELL, Auditor. June 6, 1850. A. R. JACKSON, m. . Has permanently located himself in the bor ough of Stroiidsburg, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the inhabitants of the borough and sarroding country. Office at S. J. Hollinshead's hotel. j Stroudaburf, March $8, 1850.
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