ft if JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, September 12, 1S50. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, JOSHUA DUNG AN, OF BUCKS COUXTY. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, HENRY W. SNYDER, OF UNION COUNTY. iS FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, JOSEPH G. HENDERSON, OF WASHINGTON COUNTY Candidate for Assembly. The Locofocos of this Representative District, Monroe and Pike, met in Convention at Bartons- ville, in this County, on Saturday last, and nom inated JOHN D. MORRIS, Esq of this place as their candidate for Assembly. The Lady's Book. Godey's Lady's book for October has been received, and is rich in read ihg matter and embellishments. The prose and poetry is of an uncommonly interesting character. Godey seems, to improve with each succeeding number. New Jersey State Convention. The Whig State Convention of New Jersey met at Trenton on the 4th inst. and on the second ballot nomina ted Hon John Runk, of Hunterdon for Governor. He teceived 220 out of 380 votes, his principa competitors being Hon. Win. A. Newel, of Mon mouth, and Joseph Porlorof Gloucester. Fatal Affray. Mr. Asa Keeler, residing in Northmorsland township, Wyoming county, Pa., caused the death of a neighbor of his on Saturday a week, by stri king him on the back of the neck, causing instant death. The patties it seems were disputing on political matters, when Keeler ordered his victim out doors, who picked up a stone; Keeler seized a chair, and in the height of passoin, struck his dis pututant as above. Keeler was arrested on Tues day, and gave bail in the sum of ten iaousmid dpl- tars. The name of the unfoinate man is Matthew Weaver. Keeler is reported to be worth nearly a hundred thousand dollars. The Country Safe! The National Intelligencer, of the 7th inst. says: Our readers will, one and all, we are sure, learn with the same heartfelt gratification that we an nounce it, the fact of the passage by the House of Representatives, yesterday, of the Senate Bills to settle the Texas Boundary and to establish a Ter ritorial Government for New Mexico the two having been consolidated in one bill by the House The passage of these important measures will satisfy all reasonable men of every section, and give peace and quiet to the country. The bPls were passed by a small majority, it is true ; but the scant majority was no test of the true sense of ihe House. For it was remarked, by a sagacious member, after the vote wa3 announced, that he had no doubt the result gave joy to at least four-fifths of the members of the House. Our hearts are too full of a sense of joy on this event for any comment upon it to-day. When Decatur was bearing down on the Mac edonian, and ready to open his batteries on her, an officer came up and said, " Sir, the men wish to cheer.' " Let them take the ship, and then cheer" said he. Now, then, friends all ! Three times THREE CHEERS FOR THE UNION OF THE STATES, and those who hove, in the Councils of the Nation gal lantly stood by it I Foreign Mews. The Hibernia arrived at Halifax on Wednesday with Liverpool dates to the 24th ult. Cotton had advanced an eighth of a penny. Breadstuffs were much the same, perhaps a slight rise. The crops in Ireland are abundant very little of the potato rot heard Qr. jn England much interest was felt in American nnVu. France is not in .the most pacific condition. The President was turned out of a ball-room at Brescon, and ihe crowd was af terward dispersed at the point of the bayonet. The announcement of his being a candidate for re election in 1852 has caused a sensation. The Ilolstein army has advanced towards the position occupied by the Danish forces. JLate from Washington. There were great rejoicings in Washington last Saturday evening, in consequence of the passage of the California Bill. Guns were fired, and Messrs. Clay, Foote, Cass, Douglass and Webster were serenaded and cheered at their residences. All but Mr. Clay, who was absent, responded to the cheering of the crowd, in felicitous speeches. President Fillmore has signed the Texas, New Mexico, California and Utah bills. The House of Representatives on Monday last, agreed by a vote of 117 to 71, to adjourn on the 30th inst. It is thought the Senate will concur. (U The Cholera has again broken out in Pitts burgh, and there were eight deaths on the 4th inst. among which, were Orlando Metcalfe, a promi nent member of the Pittsburgh bar, and his son. (LT The Whigs have elected a majority of the Convention to amend the constitution of Maryland. The Locofocos have tho majority in a similar Convention in Virginia. (L5 The number of persons drowned at Tama qua by the late freshet is 32 all of which, except 4, have been recovered. (Hp' The Electionjn Vermont last week result ed in favor of the Whigs, by a handsome majority. Cass and Bigler. The Looofocns of Montour county hare declaredfor Cass and BJgjr. WUis are You" Ready ? Whigs are you prepared to do your duty Are you ready for action 1 Arc you sensible of the responsibility that awaits you 1 Are you aware that your success or defeat in Pennsylvania will elevate the hopes or depress the prospects of those who cherish your principles in other States? Are you aware that the day of election is close at hand, and calls loudly upon every one of you to be up and dtoing to loose, not a day, an hour, a moment. The second Tuesday of October is rap idly approaching, and unless every true Whig goeB to work, quickly, ardently, faithfully, it will find us unprepared for the conflict, and we shall be defeated, with scarce a show of our real strength, and thus injure the cause we are anxious to build up, while we elevate that which the welfare of the country requires to be overthrown. We say to all, arouse we call upon the indiff erent and unconcerned to awake to duty. Let one and all resolve to act like true Whigs like Freemen who appreciate the responsibility that devolves upon them the importance of sustaining the great and down trodden interests of the coun try the welfare of the people, and the power and perpetuity of our glorious institutions. We repeat, the time is short it will not allow the folding of hands, of rest, ease, delay. What is done, must be done immediately. The people must be aroused and prepared to go to the polls and vote as men who " know the rights and dare maintain them." Every man must feel called up on to render service to the State by arousing his friends and neighbors, and seeing that they are brought to the polls to vote for Democratic Whig condidates and measures. We know that the Whigs are under many dis couragements, which are well calculated to relax their energies. They have labored for years to pro duce a change in the policy of the Government they have placed at its head the men of their choice but a want of the Whig ascendency in the legisla tive branches of the Government has prevented .the carrying out of such measures as the necessi ties and best interests of the country require. But this should not be allowed to discourage them to paralize a single energy. The difficul ties in the way may all be overcome provided the Whigs Wake up, and Work up to their full duty ! ! With the proper energy and effort there need be nn dftsnnnincT. The DrosDects were never better .... f- o for the Whigs otinnsylvania, if they will but cast of their Lethargy dismiss " General Apathy and sound the clarion notes of union and activity With every thing to urge us on to the rescue of the country from its headlong course to ruin, we should not hesitate every Whig should feel it his duty as well as his privilege to do all in his power to establish permanently the ascendency of Whig principles and Whig policy. On these alone the welfare of the country depends. Go to Work then, Whigs, all over the State, and cease not until the ascendency of your principles is established and misrule is put down. To the Whig party especially, who are bound to the support of principles which we consider beneficial and necessary to the continued prosper ity of the country, the duty of Coming up to the polls in their Entire Strength should outweigh ev ery consideration of personal inconvenience or trouble. The principles for which they contend are those of Good Government of a government which seeks to Protect the Interests of the People, and regards the prosperity of the Laboring Classes as of infi nitely greater importance than anything else ; as being the foundation upon which must rest the whole superstructure of Free Government ; as the best and only guaranty for the continuance of the freedom and independence of the people. They hold that employment, and Profitable JStnployicent too, should be secured to the people at all events, even if it be necessary to carry the principle of Protection so far as to prohibit entirely the impor tation of foreign manufactures which cpmpete with our own. Such principles deserve a cheerful and hearty support from the Whigs and people of Pennsylva nia. They need that support from every Whig voter, and never more than now, for there is sel dom a more important election than the one now pending. The vote of the State in Congress upon the election of President, which may go to the next House, depends upon this election. The fate of a Protective Tariff Bill may also depend upon the members of Congress elected in this State at this time. And upon the Legislature now to be cho sen devolves the important duty of districting the State for members of Congress and of the election of aU. S. Senator for six years. Let every Whig then consider himself specially called on to Pnd at icast one day for his Coun irV' Uariisburg Telegraph. JLoeofoco Iiigramtic. A Locofoco organ says : " We look upon cuery man who has, in any way, countenanced or aided the consummation of this Galphin fraud, as enti tled to no more honorable appellation than that of PLUNDERER OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS For example. President Polk signed and appro ved the following act of Congress, and all the Lo cofocos then shouted 4 Amen ' Be it enacted 6fc, That the Secretary of the Treasury, be and 13 hereby authorized to examine and adjust the claim of the late George Galphin, under the treaty made by the Government of Geor gia with the Creek and Cherokeje Indians, in the' year 1773, and to pay out the amount which may be found due lo Milledge Galphin, out of any mo ney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated." Approved, August, 14, 1848. JAMES K. POLK." The Washington Commonwealth very truly re marks that it looks so treacherous and cowardly, to praise a man up in his lifetime and approve his public acts, as the very perfection of wisdom and justice, because he has power to grant favors; and then turn round, as soon as that is spent and the dispenser of it is in his grave and abuse him like a pickpocket, for having 44 countenanced" "aided," and 'approved' an 'Act? the glory, justice and pa triotism of which, was so lately the burden of their song, and the theme of their adulation. HjThe dysentery has been very faial this summer at Harrisburg, especially among chil dren, and is now prevailing to an unusual ex tent in the neighborhood of Chambersburg. Many towns alongtbe Susquehanna are also Jgteaily afflicted withal. Sale of Turnpike Stock. By an act passed last sesion, the Auditor Gen eral was authorized to sell the stock owned by the State, in the Chambersburg and Bedford, and Bed ford and Stoystown turnpike road. In the first the Commonwealth owned 2760 shares in the latter, 2151 shares. The Auditor General superintended the sale at Bedford, on the 22d and 24th ult., and the stock was then disposed of at public sale. The stock in the Chambersburg and Bedford road was sold at an avarage of about 10 per share ; and the slock in the Bedford and Stoystown at an ! average of aboui $1,10 per share, the sale amount ing to S 13,685,44. Mammoth Cave. The cave recently discovered near Madison, Wis., is supposed to extend under the ground the greater part of Dover and Iowa counties. An exploring party -lately passed five days in examining hi They passed over and a mong large masses, which proved to be lead ore of fine quality, spread over an extent of thiee miles They found olso fine copper ore, and 11 pounds of native silver. Crystals, stalactities, incrusta tions, &c, were abundant, and waterfalls and a lake, which was explored in a canoe, and found to be 37 feet deep. Curious. Mr. Jefferson, of this village showed us yesterday, the. heart of a tame pigeon, which his good women was dressing with others for do mestic use, which said heart contained an entire pin, minus the head, running clear through it While dressing the bird, she felt something prick her finger, and upon closer examination, found the heart as above described. What appears singular, the pigeon had appeared as active and healty as any of the flock. Will some surgical operator solve the mystery 1 West Troy Advocate. Iron Mountain in Wisconsin. A few days since we were shown a specimen of ore from Black Riv er, Crawford county, the quality of which surpas ses any iron we have ever before seen. So pure it is, that it is thought by good judges that smel ting furnaces will be unnecessary for obtaining the pure metal, it yielding about ninety per cent pure iron. The amount of oar is said to be very great, it covering at least fortv acres. Mineral Point - Tribune, July 12. Cannibals in the Northivest. It is a fact, we be lieve, not generally known, that a tribe or band of Indians, inhabiting the country beyond the Missis sippi, are addicted to the practice of eating their fellow creatuies. They are called the Thick Wood Indians, and are regarded with the utmost abhorrence by the surrounding tribes Galena Ad verliser. The qnantity of peaches in the N. Y. market continued to such an extent last week, according to the Hightstown Record, that letters were re ceived by peach growers near the latter place, from their agents, stating that they could not dis pose of them at any price. Hon. David Wilmot has receired the 20 by of ihe Locos of Susquehanna county ; who resolved at their recent county Convention ihai the Congressional Conferees of the district be instructed lo support a candidate from Tioga. Mr. Wilmot is a resident of Bradford, and the resolution is iherefore a manifest blow aimed at him. His free soil notions, rendering him ob noxious to the high powers of Locofocoism, they have determined that he shall be super- eded. Late from Texas. Galveston papers to the 22d, do not fnrnihh any items of interest. They had received in formation of the passage of Mr. Pearce's bill in the Senate and the Civilian raises objections to it. The principal, and indeed, we may say the only one is, the reservation of five millions of the indemnity, until certain creditors sign a till release lo the United States for any asser ed claims in consequence of the transfer of the revenue from customs which Texas had previ ously pledged to them. The Civilian, howev er, acknowledges that ten millions is a full in- emnity for territory. This being the case, fexas had better accept the liberal offer, and we do not believe she will have any diffidulty n settling all claims upon her in a satisfactory and honorable manner, and, of course, all which are not presented within a limited period, would be prescribed. The Profit of Treason. Treason is ihe mosi profitable trade that can be followed . and the surest process by which a bankrupt Slate may fill its coffers, is by the easy and honest method of rebellion. So says the Philadelphia North American, and it makes good, the startling proposition thus Texas assumes an attitude of qnasi-hostility to the United States, taking steps to marshal ,tcHps, openly summoned to make war against ihe republic ; and the result is besides a vast deal of praise, admiration, encouragement, and promises of military .si8lance from several Southern Statesthe Senate ptl85e8 a bj ro. warning i esas wmi a grant oi ien millions of dollars and public territories' belonging to h United States, amounling altogether to some one hundred and iwenty or thirty thousand square miles. This is what slock jobbers and speculators would call a good operation ; and we commend it to the attention of ihe people of Pennsylvania, who have been heretofore practising on ihe old rule of honesty being the best policy, with the result witnessed at Wash ington on Saturday, when her claim for relief to her suffering laborers of ihe mine and fur nace was rejected with the coolest possible contempt and indifference. Can there be any reason assigned, for the different wav in which Texas and Pennsylvania are treated, except the one manifest reason that Texas bullies Con gress while Pennsylvania inplores it ? Suffrage in Michigan, The Michigan State Conveiiteon, now in session at Lansing, delib erating on the reconstructing of the Constitu tion of the Slate, have adopted a clause ex tending the elective franchise to Indians and their decendents, and have also adopted a res olution submitting to the people, as a separate proposition, the question of extending the same right lo the African race, DISASTROUS FliOOU. The rains of Sunday the 31st ult., and Monday, the 1st inst., while they did but little damage in pur neighborhood, caused one. of the most destructive floods ever known upon the waters of the Lehigh and Schuyl kill. At Mauch Chunk, the current was greater than during the great flood of 1841. The Lehigh Navigation above and below Mauch Chunk, was much injured and cannot be re paired under a month orsix weeks. A por tion of the dam there gave way, and several bridges near the town were carried off. A number of boats were lost. Fortunately in that neighborhood no lives were lost. Xt Tamaqua the water reached a great height during Sunday night. Thirty?.one persons men, women, and children, are known to have been swept away and drown ed, a lanre number of buildings in which thev were at the time being carried off. At Pottsville, fifteen or twenty persons were drowned. About 30 or 40 houses were swept away, the canal has been very much injured, many of its dams and lock houses being carried off, and also the embankment at many places. Numerous bridges were de stroyed, and along the whole line of the Schuylkill, vast damage was done. The Easton Argus says : The heavy rain on Sunday and Monday caused the Lehigh to rise to a fearful height, At the mouth of the river it was about twen- ty inches higher than in July last. On Mon- day afternoon between two and four o'clock the water rose at that place about five feet, filling manv cellars in the lower part of the town, anil destroying considerable property by its sudden and rapid movement. At the "Point," the Borough and State works have suffered some loss, by the destruction of the wall and the washing away of the street. About 60 feeL of the basin wall has caved in. Serious apprehensions are entertained of the destruction of property along the upper waters of the Lehigh. It is feared by some that the canalTcannot be put in rder much belore the season closes. One of the abutments of the Allentown Bridge has given awav. The destruction on the Schuvlkill is terri ble. So far as heard from, every Bridge on the Kiver has been swept away, including the one at ueadinir. A number of houses have been swept awa in the lower part of Read- iner. I he store-house of Fries and Resinaer - i . was carried off and four roung men who were at work in it, at the time, drowned. The distillery of Mr. Bushong was destroyed with several hundred of his hogs. The house ofiliiehael Sands was carried off with two of his children. He saved his wife and one child. S me other lives were lost. At Philadelphia very considerable damage was done along the Schulkill. A Philadel phia paper of the 4th inst., says :.. The Schuylkill, at an early hour yester daj' morning was eighteen inches higher than ever before known, a mark placed on an object near Fairmount, at the lime of the great freshet of 1822, by the elder Mr. Graeff was covered, that depth under the surface of Ihe foaming waters lb the beholder the river presented a view alarmingly beautiful the dam at that point was undiscernable the lock gates on the west side of the stream were almost covered, and the large quantities of building and bridge timber floating down gave it a pleasing appearance to the eye, and at the same time time presented a view terrible to the imagination. Every thing betokened great devastation of property, and every one in the whole vicinity was thrown into the greatest excitement. The Delaware was al so very high, hut the destruction of property on this river is not so heavy as on the Schuyl kill, where the flood reached its highest altN tude about two o'clock yesterday morning. At this height the rushing and angry waters remained until daylight, when evidences were shown that they were subsiding, and up to 8 o'clock last night when we left Fair mount, the murky waters had fallen about three feet. About daylight, not a wharf could be seen along the Schuylkill, and above some of them the water was full ten foot high. Warehouses, mills, coal and wood yards, counting houses, stables aud sheds, innumer- -LI. 1 - a 1 I .1 II I auie, were inunoaieo many oi tne smaller buildings, which stood near the piers, looking as if they had suddenly changed their origi- nal positions for new ones away out in the . . 53 9 middle of the stream. Immense quantities of and kps consiantly on hand a complete as wood, coal, lumber, lime, &c, have been sor.mer.t of Tin Ware. All kinds of work in swept offathe wharves, some of which retain- ed scarcely a vestige of the property thai was piled and heaped upon them the evening be fore. Great Bustle among the Fi mi nines. Miss Webber is out, boldly and ingeniously rocommeuding ihe male attire as the " most ap propriate vQSiUre for bingle females." She ad duces author'nie t0 prove ihat, in early ages, men and women drescd precisely alike ; and that the distinction in dress which now exists " was arbitrarily drawn by the male sex, in tho tyrannical exercises of power which ihey do rived solely from the greater physical superi ority. Her plan is to ret.trict girls to their frocks until the completion of their education. Upon their entrance into society, they are to dress precisely like males until the day of their mar rige. Widows, at ihe end of ihe mourning season, are to resume men's apparel, unless they are determined never lo marry again. In effect, this is a scheme to distinguish marri ageable females from married women and con firmed widows. Regarded in this light, it has at least one merit, and mav. on ihat account, claim tho friendly countenance of the bachelor fraternity. It would save ihem a vast deal of trouble in ascertaining the domestic rank of a new lady acquaintance and prevent them from committing the new common error of falling m love witji married woman. Syracuse, (A7. Y) Mrs. Swissuelin on Drukards. Mrs. Swisshelm does say some good and true things. The following is among them: " We could not live near one, for we should die of uick stomach. It may be very angelic for a pure minded, virtuous woman to love and cares a great drunken beast, but for our ahare we have not ihe slightest pretentions to being an angel, and the coil of an Anaconda would be quite as pleaseni a corsage as the entwining of a drunkard's arm. From the smell ihey have fon the streets, one would imagine the angel that staid near Ihem would require to be pretty strongly scented with brimstone. Evil com munications corrupt good manners, and people are-forbidden to be unequally yoked ! We can think of no yoke so unequal as that which would bind a decent woman (0 a drunkard; and we most firmly believe, that so far from its be ing the duty of a wife lo live with a drunken hus band, it is a violation of the laws of God, and the dictates of common sense and common de cency. A woman who will persist in so living, should be shut up in a lunatic asylum. Gram it, ihat she has a right to dispose of herself as she pleases ! Has she any right to entail mis ery and degradation upon a helpless offaprngl' Has she any right to furnish the State with paupers and criminals ? Has the drunkard any right to hand down his vices and their con sequences to posterity !" High Shirt Collars are unfashinable in Paris. ?xAper'. , , . . ... , U I uii iu nccu mat, iiji iv io (iguuiiug iu ace mu awful danger a great many youngster's ears are in from the " stands ups," resulting either from the collars being too high or the ears too long, we can't tell 'zackly which. The Oldest Postmaster in the Country Prob- ably. Mr. Abraham Hewrs, in Weston, Mass. is now nearly ninety years old, and has been Postmaster in the town 38 years. "He is the first and only one the town has ever had. He shows a very touching letter dated last July, from one of the Assistant Postmasters at Wash- ington, who had taken ihe trouble to draw off Mr. Hews account for ihe last 152 quarters, which gave the- latter a balance of SI 48. ' Springfield Post. Wiihin tho last ten years says the London Chronicle, 140,000 Mormons have emigrated from Great Britain to the United States, most of thern men of some means from Wales and the northern and eastern parts of England. Rebecca Smith, of the town of Henderson, Jeffergn Co., N. Y., relict of Ahirn Smith, deceased, has ? pooled and quilled the yarn for 1000 yards of cloh, knit 60 pairs of stockings. within the last 10 month", besides attending to her household dune, usually making her own and two otner oeus daily, and wits at the age f 90 years in February next. Girls do vou hear that. Tha Jersey City Sentinel slates ihat a ser vant girl in the family of the Ruv. Mr. Tuttlo was in imminent peril of her life from a peach pit, which had lodged in her throat, when the family relieved her of it by throwing up her arms violently, by which the pit was lodged. A few weeks previous, it also mentions, a child swallowed an iron thimble, which nearly chok ed ii to death, when the father seized it by the heel?, dropping her head toward the floor, al the same lime shaking her, when the thimble dropped out. .HARRIED, On the 5'h-int. by the Rev. M. H Sisty. Mr John Yieslev, of Lower Smi'hfield and Miss Susan Arnst, of Upper Sinbhfield. On the 4th inst. by the same, Mr. Brodhead Coolbaugh and Miss Ann Huntsman, all of Strondsburg. JuIjGI, At liartonsville, on the 8th inst., Mr. Samuel Myers aged 37 years. STOVES. Just received and for sale al the cheap Storo of G. Malven, in Stroudsburg, Monroe county, Pa., the largest, cheanest and best assortment 0f STOVES in this County, which he will sell J as ovv as can be bought this side of New York, He has also connected with his Store, a mv ,ur ,me uonc ai non nonce ana reasonaoio price. GEORGE MALVEN. September 12, 1850.-3m. FOR SALE. The undersigned offers at private sale, in South Easton, Northampton county, Pa., a Six Horse Wagon and three new let of Double Harness. The Wagon is nearly new, having been used but a few limes. Size of the wheels 5 feet 4 inches, and 4 feet 4 inches. Size of boxes 3 1-4 by 5 inches. Price of Wagon and Har ness $175 00 P- H. DEPUE. South Easton, September 12, 1850. To the Voters of Monroe county. Follow-Citizens : At tho solicitation of nu merous friends, I have been induced to offer myself as a candidate for the office of County Commissioner at the ensuing general election. Should I be elected, I pledge myself to discharge the du ties of the office with fidelity, and to the bet of my ability. Being a heavy tax-payer my self, I shall endeavor if elected, to conduct the business eniruBted to me as economically as possible, and I will not charge the county rnor than $80 a year for my services. ADAM SHAFER, Stroud township, Sept. 12, 185Q.
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