JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, October 17, 1850. The Result Ju the State. Sufficient reiurns have been received to show that the entire Locofoco ticket for State officers has been elected, and by a considerable majority. We omit our table of returns for Stale Officers, and the vote on the Amendment. The returns for the most part being extremely vague and unsatis factory as regards figures. The, vote seems to have been light throughout the State, and the Whigs more than usually inattentive to the impor tant interests at stake. In our next we may be enabled to give official returns of the whole Slate. Census. Silas L. Drake, Esq. one of the Assistant Mar shals, for this County, who has been engaged in ta ing the census, furnishes us with the following to tals of the inhabitants in the several townships com prising his District, viz. Borough of Stroudsburg, 811 Stroud township, 1419 Smithfield township, 1283 Middle Smithfield 1478 Tobyhanna 550 Goolhaugh 245 Paradise 428 Price 340 6,555 Deaths in these Townships during the past year fiU. Ohio Election. Reuben Wood, (Loco) is elected Governor of Ohio, by several thousand majority. The Free Soilers, by running a candidate secured this re sult. The congressional Delegation stands 9 Whigs, 9 Locofocos, 1 Free Soiler, 1 Abolition Locofoco, and 1 Independent Whig a great mixture. The Legislature consists of 18 Whigs, 10 Locos and 2 Free Soilers, in the Senate ; and 35 Whigs, 38 Locos, and 4 Free Soilers, in the House. Increase of Population. In forty cities, towns and villages of this coun try, from which census returns have been re ceived, the population during the last ten years has increased from 372,913 to 831,805, being an increase equal to 117 per cent. We do not be lieve there is another country on the face of the earth which can furnish a parallel to this rapid growlh. The Bounty Laud Bill. It appears that notwithstanding the imperfec tions of the Land Bounty Bill, it has become a law'i'the President having withdrawn his objections to it. We find in the Washington papers a noticee from Mr. Gallaher, the Third Auditor, in which he says that so many applications have been made to that office that he deeems it advisable to say, that copies of the army rolls cannot be furnished from his office. Pie adds that all applications for bounty lands, " must come through the Pension Office, (under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.) and regular certificates of service will be furnished to the Commissioner of Pensions by the Third Auditor, as is now the practice in re gard to all claims for pension or bounty land." Maryland. The returns of the lale election in this Slate, shows that the Whigs made a gain throughout the State, except in Baltimore city, where an over w helming Locofoco gain, defeated the Whig can didate for Governor. It seems that a re-action has already taken place in the city, or that the means (fraud probably) by which the former re sult was accomplished have been withdrawn, as the Municipal election last week resulted in the choice of a Whig Mayor, by ajnajority of 416. Iowa. Damel. F. Miller, (Whig) has been e lected to Congress for the district made vacant by a resolution of Congress in deciding the contested case between Miller and Thompson. It will be re collected that Thompson Loco was permitted un justly to take the seat, and hold it to near the close of the session, when by a vote of the House it was declared lie wa3 not entitled to it. Miller was al so refused the seat; but the people have just de cided in his favor. Appropriations. The Washington papers bring us the act ma king appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the present year. Among the items are the following: Pay and Mileage of Congressmen, $416,338 Pay of Officers and Clerks at Con gress, 41,913 Piinting and other Contingent Expen ses of Senate, 100,000 Printing and other Contingent Expen ses of House, 197,749 Addition to Contingent Fund of House, 30,000 Supplying Light Houses, 147,474 Paying of Light House Keepers, 127,448 Repairs, &c, of Light Houses, 84,630 Expenses of Floating Lights, c3140 Marine Hospital, San Francisco, 50,000 Survey of Public Lands, 249,759 Intercourse with Foreign Nations, 330,397 Relief and protection to American Sea men ahroad, 125,000 For deficiencies in Funds for relief of sick seamen, and for furnishing five new Marine Hospitals, 200,000 Continue construction of Custom House N. Orleans, 200,000 Survey of Delta of the Mississippi, 50,000 New Custom House at Bangor, Me., 50,000 New Custom House at Mobile, Ala., 100,000 Custom-House and Post-Office, Nor folk, Va., 50,000 Custom House. San Francisco, Cal., 100,000 Custom House, St. Louis, Mo., 50,000 Custom House, Coicinnatti, Ohio, 50,000 Survey of United States Coast, 186,000 JJS At a parish examination, a clergyman asked a charily boy if he had ever been bap tized. No, sir," was the reply, " not as I kuow.6 of; but I've been waxinsjed." A Tax-Payers Read ! . The Locofoco State Debt. The following is the statement of the various loans constituting the debt of Pennsylvania, made by Jon N. Purviance, the Locofoco Auditor Gen eral, under oath : Statement of the Public Debt of Pennsylvania. Loan per act of April 2, 1821 $26.951 89 April I, 1826 295,461 15 April 9, 1829 999,311 15 March 24, 1828 1,998,407 09 Decern. 18, 1828 798,474 64 April 27, 1829 2,197,849 56 Decern. 7, 1829 50,000 00 March 13, 1830 2,993,395 47 March 21, 1831 2,481,711 83 March 30, 1831 209,096 48 March 30, 1832 2,348,777 64 April 15, 1832 300,000 00 Feb. 16, 1833 2,540,010 56 March 1, 1833 200.000 00 March 27, 1833 525,922 74 April 9, 1833 120,000 00 April 5, 1834 2,265,059 75 April 13, 1835 959,540 79 Jan'y 26, 1839 1,195,928 92 Feb. 9, 1839 1,278,375 99 March 16, 1839 100,000 00 March 27, 1839 469,679 22 June 7, 1839 49,998 25 June 27, 1839 1,134,332 70 July 19, 1839 2,053,933 42 Jan'y 23, 1840 860,073 13 April 3, 1840 860,078 13 June 11, 1840" 1,037,583 65 Jan'y 16, 1841 800,000 00 March 4, 1841 22,335 06 it ic it it it it it it ii ii ii it it :i it it it Loan (relief, May 4, 1841 752,664 00 Stock loan May 5, i84l 565,875 05 do May 6, 1841 903.048 20 Int. certificates July 27, 1842 44,681 60 do March 7, 1843 83,496 54 Stock loan April 29, 1844 59,551 46 Int. certificates May 31, 1844 82,611 38 Slock loan April 16, 1845 4,469,463 79 do Jan'y 22, 1847 62,500 00 do April 11, 1848 135,214 00 Total amount of loans, $40,366,803 75 Look at the above figures, examine them care fully, and then say, whether or not, the Locofoco party of Pennsylvania, is not the debt creating, poor man oppressing parly. It will be seen by the a bove, that not one dollar of Debt was ever contrac ted by a Whig administration. Ritner came into office in December, 1835, and went out in Decem ber, 1838, during which time, not one dollar was added to the State Debt. After him Governor Porter, and a rapid increase op Debt, which continued for nearly ten years, until the whole a mount was over forty millions of dollars. In July, 1848, by the death of Governor Shuxk, Wm. F. Johnston became the Governor Whig rule was introduced, and the Locofoco system of running deeper and deeper in debt was stopped. Under Gov. Johnston's Administration the State Interest was promptly paid, also a temporary loan of two hundred thousand dollars and a floating debt of four hundred and sixty thousand dollars, left by the previous Locofoco administrations. Nor is this all he commenced paying off the main debt. half a million of this debt was paid in the first year of this Whig Administration, besides one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was accumulated for the completion of the North Branch Canal, which had been abandoned. This year still more of the State Debt will be paid off, and a still larger sum saved for the completion of the North Branch Canal, which will soon be finished, and will then yield a handsome revenue to be devoted to the payment of the Locofoco State Debt. Tobacco. The growing crops in Virginia have again been seriously injured by the recent hail storms. The Lynchburg Republican of the 26th ult: states lhat on the Saturday previous a tre mendous hail storm passed through parts of the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Pittsylvania, Camp bell, Charlotte, Appomattox and Prince Edward, doing immense damage to the tobacco crop partic ularly. Hon. Chester Butler, Member of Congress from Wilkesbarre, died at Philadelphia on the 2d inst. on his way home from Washington city. He was a grandson of Col. Zebulon Butler, who headed the American forces at the Wyoming mas sacre. fll5 There is considerable excitement among the Fugitive slaves scattered throughout the North, in consequence of the new law, which offers a reward for their apprehension, and has tempted the cupidity of numbers of men to go into the bus iness of slave catching. Many of the slaves are making their way for Canada, and in a number of New-Englaud towns, where the fugitives are nu merous, and where public sentiment is in favor of their retaining their liberty, they are banding to gether, determined to fight for their freedom if the slave-catchers attempt to apprehend them. Penn sylvania appears to be the State where the fugi tives are the worst off and numbers of them have been captured by white men eager to pocket the " thirty pieces of silver." Cape May. It is asserted that the total num ber of visiters at Cape May, during last summer, was seventeen thousand. Putting the expense of each at an average of twenty dollars, we have a sum total of three hundred thousand dollars expend ed in three months in that remote part of New Jer sey. A correspondent of the Boston Post says, that during a promenade around the Common last Sabbath afternoon, he met 150 pretty women ! One hundred of them were engaged in the very common practice of sucking their parasol handles. Park man Tragedy. Mr. Ephraim Liltlejield, Janitor of the Medi cal College Boston, has arrived in this city with the wax figures of Webster and Parkman, and a model of the College, which he will explain, also relating the whole story of this horrible affair. His first rehearsal will take place on Monday even ing, Sept., 30, at 8 o'clock, in Clinton Hall. Ad mission 25 cents. Tribune, Sept. 28. Taking it for granted that this advertisement is genuine, we would advise Mr. Epraim Littlefield, in order to appear in his infamous exhibition in propria persona, to do so in the character of a Turkey Buzzard. What this unsightly and unsa vory bird is notoriously among the fowls of the air, must that man be among his fellew men, who is willing, for a shilling a head, to pander to one of the lowest and most degraded appetites of hu man nature. If there is no law to put a stop to what is so evidently contra bonos morse, we hope that an indignant public sentiment will do jt. in New York, and in every city and village through- out the land. Newark Daily. I PEXarSYIVANIA ELECTION. Congressmen Elected. 1st District Thomas B. Florence, Dem. gain. 2d District Joseph R. Chandler, Whig re-elected. 3d District Henery D. (Moore, Whig, re-elected 4th District John Robins, Jr. Dem. re-elected. 5th District John McNair, Dem. re-elected. Gain. n. 6th District Thomas Ross, Dem. re-elected. 7th District Dr. John A. Morrison, Dem. Gain 8th District Thaddeus Stevens, Whig, re-elected. 9th District J. Glancy Jones, Dem. elected. 10th District Milo M. Dimmick, Dem. re-elected. 11th District Henery M. Fuller, Whig, elect ed. 12th District Galusha W. Grow, Dem. 13th District James Gamble, Dem, elected. Dem- gain. 14th District Thomas M. Bibighaus, Whig, e lected. 15th District Wm. H. Kurtz, Dem. elected for 32d Congress, Joel B. Danner, Dem. for vacancy. Gain. 16th District James X. McLanahan, Dem. re elected. 17th District Andrew Parker, Dem. Gain. 18th District John L. Dawson, Dem. Gain. 19th District Joseph Kuhns, Whig. Gain. 20th District John Allison. Whig. 21st District Thomas M. Howe, Whig, for 32d Congress, and Harmer Denny, Whig, for vacan cy. 22d District John W. Howe, Whig, re-elected. 23d District Johh H. Walker, Whig, re-elected. Gain. ( 24th Alfred Gilmore, Dem. re-elected. 10 Whigs and 14 Democrats. Members of State Senate Elected. Philadelphia City Wm A. Crabb, Benja min Matthias. Philadelphia Couny-Peleg B. Savery, Thom as S. Fernon, Tho. H. Fonyth. Montgomery Owen Jones. "Chester and Delaware H. Jones Brooke. Berks--Henry A Muhlenberg. RucksBenjamin Malone. Lancaster and Lebanon Joseph Konigmach er, Daniel Sline. Northampton and Lehigh Conrad Shimer. Dauphin and Northumberland Robert M. Frick. Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne No repre sentative. Adarns and Franklin Thomas Carson. York--Henry Fulton. Cumberland and Perry-Joseph Bailer. Lycoming, Sulivan, Centre and Chnton-Wm. F. Packer, Blair, Cambria and Hunlingdon--i?oier A. Mc Martrie. Luzerne, Columbia and Montour-Charles A. Buckalew. Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyoming-Not known yet. Tioga, Potter, McKean, Elk, Jefferson, and Clearfield-Timothy Ives. Mercer, Venango and Warren Carver reported elected. Erie and Crawford-Jom H. Walker. Butler, Beaver and LvLWieuce-Archibald Re bcrtson, Wm. Haslit. Alleghenyi2o5er Carothcrs. Washington and Greene-Geo. V. Lawrence Maxwell McCaslin. Bedford and Somerset-Isaac Hugus Armstrong, Indiana and Clarion -Judge My ers, Independent. Juniata, Mifllin and Union--James A. Cun ningham. Westmoreland and Fayette -No representa tive. Schuylkill-Charles Fraily. Whigs in italics. Members of the Assembly Elected. Whig. Loco. Adam-?, 1 0 Allegheny, 5 0 Reaver. Butler and Luzerne, 3 0 Blair and Huntingdon, 2 0 Bedford and Cambria, 1 1 Berks, . . .. 0 4 Bucks, 0 3 Bradford, 1 1 Chester, 2 1 Cumberland, .0 2 Centre, 0 I Clearfield, Elk, and McKean, 0 1 Clarion, Armstrong and Jefferson 0 3 Columbia and Montour, 0 1 Dauphin, . ' 2 0 Delaware, : 1 0 Erie, ..-.' . " 2 0 Franklin, 2 0 Greene, .. " 0 1 Indiana, I 0 Lycoming, Clinton and Potter, 0 2 Lancaster, 5 0 Lebanon, ? 0 Luzerne, 0 2 Lehigh and Carbon, 0 2 Monroe and Pike, 0 1 Mercer, Venango and Warren, 0 0 Grawford, 0 0 Mifflin, 0 1 Montgomery, . a. :' 0 3 Northampton, 1 1 Northumberland, ,; ;l. ; 0 1 Perry, t- .7 0 1 Philadelphia City, . .. 4 0 County, 0 11 Somerset, l o Schuylkill, - I 1 Susqehanna, Wyoming and Sullivan, 0 2 Tioga, ' 0 1 Washington, 0 1 Wayne, 0 1 Westmoreland and Fayette, 0 4 Union and Juniata, 1 0 York, 0 3 Independent The Senate will stand 16 Whigs to 16 Locofo cos, and one Ingependent elected by the Whigs. The House 63 Locofocos to 37 Whigs. Amendment of the Constitution. This measure has undoubtedly been carried by a very large ma jority. The result, in the counties heard from is as follows : For it. Philadelphia city and county, majority of 12,511; Berks 1,508; Bucks 2,401; Montgomery 453; Delaware 1,695; Northumberland 1,500; Lan caster 3,500; Union 27, Wayne T560. Against it. Huntington 911; Northampton 1, 928; Chester 940; Mifflin 235; Schuylkill 436. (tThe Mackerel Fisheries promise to afford a capital catch this season. Synopsis of the Fugitive Slave Bill: Congress, by a large majority, has passed a bill for the arrest and return of runaway slaves, of which the following is a synopsis : 1. For the appointment of Commissioners by the United States Courts in the States and Territoties, whose duty it shall be to hear the demands and grant certificates to the claimants of fugitive slaves for their apprehension. 2. Commissioners shall appoint assistants to ex ecute their duties in the counties, and shall all of them have power to summon the posse commilalus to their aid. 3. Testimony of claimant or agent to be prima facia evidence against the fugitive, whose evidence is not to be taken ; and upon a hearing before any magistrate, justice of the peace, U. S. judge, com missioner or assistant, the testimony of the claim ant or agent, the fugitive slaye is to be delivered up. 4. Persons hindering the execution of the law to be fined $500 and imprisoned six months, and on conviction by trial of having caused the escape of a fugitive, to be fined $1,000, subject to recovery by law. 5. Prescribes the fees to marshals, and deputies, and clerks of the TJ. S. Courts, &c. &c, for their services under this act. 6. Additional persons provided for to assist, if necessary, in the reclamation and transportation to his master of a fugitive, and their compensation de fined. 7. It is provided that a certificate shall be given from one State or Territory for the pursuit of a fu gitive, and his re-capture in another State or Terri tory. 8. It is provided that when a marshal or his dep uties permit the escape of a fugitive from their pos sesion, they shall be amenable to the value of the slave; and for default of duty in his capture, amena ble to a fine of $1000. For the Pennsylvania Telegraph Bursal Clay as a Manure. BV H. D. WHITE. A good deal has been said of late in refer ence to burnt clay as a manure ; and in certain localities the burning and application of it is, 1 am informed, practiced with considerable su,c ces. Loudon says that the oldest work in which it is mentioned as a manure was pub lished upwards of a century ago. The mania for burning clay reached its climax in England in 1815, since which time its most strenuous advocates have said but little in favor of its general adoption, though very many farmers still practice it, and often with most flattering success. The practice has never as yet been thoroughly carried out in this country ;or, if it has, no accounts of the modus operanni, or the resulsts has been published. Many have com menced experiments with apparently the most vigorous and exhaustless zeal, but have allow ed their ardor to cool and their efforts to relax with the first discouraging circumstance Most persons expect too great and too immediate re sults from their hasty and ill-directed efforts. Disappointment follows, and the project is a bandoned forthwith as a matter of course. In undertaking experiments of any kind, it is al ways best to begin on a small scale ; then, if unfortunate, the failure involves no serious loss, and valuable information, often on important subjects, is acquired at trifling expense, for ex periments that result unfavorbly are frequent ly no less valuable to the farmer in the lesson they inculcate, than theso which terminate successfully or in accordance with cherished expectations and desires. During his sojourn in this country, Cobbet, whose erratic course is so universally and justly deprecated, made use of burnt clay, with considerable success. Most of his experiments were made on Long Island, and are detailed with lhat minute pre cision, and scrupulous regard for minutia, which characterizes all his statements, however insig nificant may be the subject. Loudon, whose opinions on all topics asso ciated with agricalmre and its kindred branch es, are eminently clear and judicious, remarks that the advantages of burnt clay, as a manure, have been greatly exagerated ; and Aiton, in his " Farmer's Magazine", says : " 1 regret that the discoveries of florin grass and of the effects of burnt clay have so far overated their value. Both are useful and proper to be atten ded to, the grass to be raised on patches of marshy ground, and used as a green food to cattle, and the burnt clay as a corrector of the mechanical arrangement of a stubborn clay soil; and 1 have no doubt, if they had only been re commended for these valuable purposes, they would have beer, brought into more general use than they now are, or will be till the prejudices against them, arising from disappointed expec tations, raised high by too flattering descrip tions, are removed." Where a fanner has fa cilities for burning clay, a limited supply will no doubt be an advantage in promoting a high er degree of fertility in certain soils ; but a large amount of capital invested in this way, will, as a general thing, unless under very pe culiar circumstances, never be returned py cul tivated crops. Cash expended in reducing vegetable matter to ashes, to bo disseminated over the soil of his enclosures, will pay a much belter dividend, and operate powerfully to tho permanent improtement of the soil. Every farmer may, with comparative ease, secure from two to three hundred bushels of powerful ashes, at a small expense, and the effect of the same, when applied to his growing crops, will be of a most decided and beneficial character. Bushes, weeds, chips, and indeed all ligneous or semi-ligneous substances, may be had re course to for this purpose. Even turfs and sods are often accumulated and burned to supply this article, so essential to a healthy vegetation on soils of a certain class. Windham, Maine, 1850. New ITIodc of RaisiB&s Potatoes. The Germans have recently taken a particular fancy to raising potatoes. The following is their method of producing the greatest good for the greatest number : " The potato is planted whole, without any preparation, only allowing a little more space than usual. When the plants have attained the height of the hand, they are also cleaned and hoed as usual. When, however, the time for drawing up the earth around them has arrived, the following process is adopted instead : -'The green stalks are divided and laid down by the hand on the fiat soil in the form of the spokes of a wheel, and covered with the neighboring earththe ope ration being readily performed by placing the foot on the plant. Some weeks later, leaves begin to push through the soil, when they are again laid down and covered with four inches of earth. This is all the labor required, and occupies about the same time as the ordinary hoeing-up process, but it produces six times more fruit. The subter ranean stalks are covered with potatoes in the form of a wreath or chnplet.'" Only $52,700,000 a Year. On. Monday week, according to the report of the Congressional proceeding, Mr. Jones of Tennessee, showed before the House of Rep resentatives, that the expenditures of the pres ent year will amount to the enormous sum of FIETY-TWO MILLIONS SEVEN HUN DRFD THOUSAND DOLLARS or, about two dollars and fifty cents to each man, woman and child, black and white, bond or free, in the whole country ! ! This immense expen diture double what the expenses were during one year of Gen. Jackson's administration, a bout the extravagance of which the opposition shouted so lustily is made in time of profound peace and tranquility. Had this Administra tion been in power during the Mexican war, the National debt would now be at least iwo hundred millions of dollars. rtfThe above is from the Lancaster In telligencer. Mr. Buchanan's organ and is a beautiful specimen of the manner in which ihe Locofoco papers in their electioneering ar ticles " lie like truth," and impose on the public confidence. It is an effort to charge the pres ent Administration with being the causo of spending, $52,000,000 a year. Now is this true ? The Administration cannot spend one dollar until Congress appropriates the money. In who-e hands is the Legislation of Congress? In that of the Locofocos they have majorities in both bodies, and '.he chairman and the major ity of members on all the Standing Committees. At the head of that on Ways and Means in the House stands Thomas H. Bayly, of Va. a Locofoco of the deepest dye, none the less malignant for being a renegade from the Whig Party of less than ten years' standing. He re ports the Appropriation Bill. Why then has he not cut down these extravagant Appropria tions 1 If the public money is wasted whoso fault is it but his that of his Locofoco co'lea gues on the Committee, of the Locofoco major ity of the House, and of the Locofoco Speakar who appointed the committees ? So too in tho Senate, at the head of the Committee on Fi nance, to which all the Appropriation Bills are referred, is placed Daniel S Dickson, of New York " Scripture ZhcA-,"as he is profane ly termed, because he quotes everything, good, bad and indifferent, as coming from the Bible who is an Old Hunker of most decided stripe, and a Cass man up to the hub. Why does he permit tbexe extravagant appropriations to be made ? Why don't the Locofoco majority of the Senate cut them down 1 Ah, indeed, WHY DON'T THEY 1 The reference of tho Intelligencer to the Mexican war is a most unfortunate one for its case. That war did leave the country deeply in debt under Mr. Polk's auspices, and the present administration has to pay the interest and principal of that debt. It has to pay too Fifteen Millions of Dollars to Mexico for Cali fornia and New Mexico, as provided by Mr. Polk's Treaty. It has to pay Three or Four Millions to our citizens for their claims on Mexico, which Mr. Polk made one of the pre texts for the war, and caused this government to assume the payment of at it3 close. It has to pay Ten Millons to settle the Texas Boun dary Question another legacy of that war, an nexation and the last Administration. It has to pay the expenses of maintaining a force to prevent our Indians from making incursions into Mexico, which Mr. Polk bound this Gov ernment to do by treaty. It has to meet tho greatly increased expenses of defending our frontiers, vastly enlarged by the acquisition of California and New Mexico, from the inroads of the Camanches and other 6avages on the border settlers, and to furnish protection to the large bands of emigrants who travese the Wes tern praries, deserts and mountains to Oregon and the Gold Regions all fruits of the gras ping policy of Locofocoism. In addition lo this, the seeming expenses of the Government are excelled by the fact that the gross receipts at the custom houses are by virtue of an act passed at the close of Polk's Administration, paid into the Treasury, and the salaries of tho ofilcers paid by appropriation by Congress, whoreas previously the net proceeds went into the Treasury after tho expenses of collection had first been deducted. This swells the ap parent expenditures Two or Three Millions at least, and then there must be added the vast additional cost of collecting the revenue at the ports of California and Oregon, and the expense of transporting the mails, &c, to and from those countries by steam new sources of outlay thrown upon the present Admtnistrtion. De duct all these items, and there need be no fear of comparing the expenses of this Adminis tration with those of that of Gen. Jackson, much less Mr. Polk. If there is any extrava gance about them, however, let the Locofoco committees and majorities in Congress answer for it to tho people. The fact is that now as in 1840, the Locofoco Administration has left heavy arrears of debt for their Whig successors to pay off, and while they are doing it, those political deceivers are all the time crying out extravagance, while it is tho result of theirBown folly, recklessness, corruption and waste that they are holding up bofore the people as the sins of the more honest, faithful and wise public servants who have taken their places. York Republican. The ITIeclical Profession. The opinion is prevalent that the country is overrun with physicians, and many have lamen ted the hard fain of many a graduate and stu dent, who wiih full permission and qualifica tions to practice, was yet without patients. Professor Tucker, of ihe Virginia Univesity, in a recent lecture, undertakes to correct this erroneous impression. He allows one physi cian for 800 persons, which would give 26,875 as the whole number of medical practitioners in the United States. He states the annual mortality among the whiles lo be about iwo per cent, which would carry off aboul 537 doctors per annum. Tho Professor, referring to the annual increase of our population makes it 802, 000, which he thinks, demands an increase of 1002 physicians. He reckons two per cent, on the 537 doctors, who renounce phials and gil lipots, and take to other pursuits, and then as sumes that under all circumstances 2076 new practitioners will be required, while the entire amount of graduates of the schools, is but 1500, which leaves a deficiency in faculty throughout the Union. This is quite curious, and will cre ate some surprise among the Savans, who always bolieved that tho country was thickly and urouuty sown wirh physicians.
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