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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
STATE CONVENTION.

AT the last meeting of the Wing State Cen
,ral Committee held at Harrisburg, in pursu
ance of public call, it was on motion, ss
Resolpcd, That the friends of the National
and Stale administrations, in Pennsylvania, be
requested 10 meet in the several cities and
counties of the State and select delegates equal
in number to their representation in the State
Legislature. who shall meet in Convention at
The Cour, House, in Harrisburg, at II o'clock,
A NJ. on THURSDAY, the 10th day of u
GUST aext, for the purpose Of selecting can
didate for Canal Commissioner, and to do such
other business as the interest of The country
may require. 5a
By order of The Committee, -a
GEORGE ERETY, Chairman pro tenn.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
Locofoco state Convention.
PITTSBURGH, July

~
The Locofoco Stale Conven 10 nominate
a candidate for Canal Commissioners, met in
this city yesterday and organized by elecring
The Hon. t. M. Petit, of Philadelphia. Presi.
dent. The first ballo. resulted as folws:-
For John A. Gamble, of Lycoming, 50; Cor.
don F. Mason. of Bradford, "a Isa Dmock
ef Susquehanna. II; F. w. Bonman, of Lu.
zerne, 10. There being no choice, the Con.
yen,ion adjourned over until to-day.
Upon the meeting Of the Convention this
morning. several additional delegates offered,
and another balloiing having been gone into,
resulted in the nomination of ME-. Gamble by
25 majority. The ballot stood as follows.
For John A. Gamble, of Lycoming, II
For John H. Broadhead, of Pike, 80
For Thomas NJ. Petit, of Philadelphia, Is
Mr.. Gamble was Therefore declared duly nom.
mated
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
Great Robbery & Wholesale Arrest.

Information was received in N. York, few
days since. from Philadelphia, that the exen-
sive jewelry establishment, Of Hendeburn and
Brothers had been robbed Of jewelry and mon
ey 10 the value of $50 900, and that two noro'-
ious English pick-pockets, named Jew Mike
and Charley Williams, were suspected OF being
concerned in the affair. The matter was placed
in the hand. of officers A. NJ. G. Smith and
Read, who succeeded in arres,ing The accused
al the house Of William Fox, 79 West Broad
way Several other notorious characters were
also arrested at this house, among whom were
Jack Roach, Bill and Fred Evans, John Me-
Donald and an old English thief named Shan
dy, upon whose person were found two gold
watches and 1905 in gold. The keeper ofhs
house, William Fox, was also arrested for har
boring such bad characters. These fellows
are all in prison, and il is hoped Iha, the srOsa
properly may be recovered.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
Cholera Preventive.

These cholera times. all cures for This fear
ful disease, are anxionsly looked for. The
Reading Journal, whose editor is somewh hat ol
ouaek." says .ha. an infalible cholera pre-.
yen,iye has at length been discovered. II is
simply receipt for the advance subscription
of newspaper II has been ascertained, by
ayser,es of careful practical observations thai the
epidemic never overtakes an individual who
carries charm of this kind about him.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

SAVED FROM BURYING ALIvE.-A most sin :
gular case Of trance occurred recently at st.
Louis. A Miss Taylor, who had been attacked
by cholera, and was supposed to have died on
Sunday, but her brother insisted that she should
not be buried until the mex, day, and on Mon.
day she revived, and 10 the astonishmen, OF
every one, has recovered.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

letter from Strasburg. Lancaster county, says:
-" ] see by the papers that you recommend I'M
migrants to spread through the country to seek
employment; there is much demand in Lancaster
county for females to do housework have no
doubt that great many, both male and female,
would meet with immediate employment in this
section OF the country"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

GF St. Louis continues to suffer fearfully by
the cholera. The public journals Of that city TEEN
with melancholy details. Business is completely
at stand, and many of the citizens have left, in
the hope of escaping the epidemic. The Era of
late date says =
Many of US have relied too much upon the
prevalent idea that the epidemic has sought and
found most of its victims among the poorer class
es in our midst. and consequently there was less
necessity for the adoption of rigid sanitary meas
ures among the more favored portions of the COM
munity The mortality that is now daily transpir-
ing among all the classes and conditions in soci-
ety, and which must come under the observation
of the most superficial observer, deprves US all OF
any such fallacy.
The alarming augmentation of interments that
are daily occurring, the flight of families from the
city, the CONSERVATION that is depicted upon every
countenance, and the united testimony of all our
physicians, admonish US that far more systematic
and benefeent measures must be taken, both by
the people and our city authorities before we Car
look for any amelioraton of the epidemic"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
No tidings of Sir John Franklin.

Letters have been received at Montreal from
the Hudson's Bay Territory, by way of Saut St.
Marie, bringing intelligence from Fort Simpson of
date the 4th Of October last The writer of a let
ter from that post says:
Eighteen men of the expidition arrived here
yesterday from Fort Confidence, sent to be kept
during winter. They went round from the mouth
of the Mckenzie to the Copper mine, but no ves-
tige or word of Sir John Franklin or any one else
except Esquimaux, who they saw in large num-
bers. A very large party of those daring rascals
met the expedition at the mouth of the Mckenzie
and as on a former occasion wanted to make a
prize fthe boats and all that was in them. Bu
nothing serious happened. Sir John Richardson
is to proceed to Canada as soon as the Mckenzie
breaks up next spring. Rec is going with one
boat again to the coast"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad.

The Harrisburg keystone says that the cars
will commence running on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, as far as Millerstown, sixteen miles above
the mouth of the Junata, on the 18th of July and
that the entire line to Lewistown will be ready
for by the middle of August. The bridge
across the Susquehannah is nearly completed
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

II We observe by the Easton Sentinel of las,
week, that the Directors of the I" Easton Bank, y
give notice that they intend to apply to the next
Legislature for a renewal of its Charter, with the
same capital and its present title, location and
privileges.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

CINcINNATI-I, is stated that there are 259
houses for rent in Cincinnati. the tenants hav-
ing fed from The cholera. 1t is estimated tha.
the city has lost about 1900 inhabitants from
this cause, and four or five times that number
by The ravages of the cholera.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

The following is said to be the rates Oi do
ner bill furnished California pilgrim during
short stay at Rio Janerio Six eggs, u.
one beefsieak, $l2; radshes, Sc bread, sl''
one bottle wine, $l0; segars, 81 so; cOn'''
81 milk for coffee, So Total, $50 So
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

The Boston Post, the champion of demOc'
racy in Massachusetts, faceiiously remarks -
We wish the whig papers wouldn't send Us
their extras, filled with nothing but six Of
seven columns Of government advertisement
they are no. agreeable to our eyes-ihey remind
US Of scenes once so charming now so long
banished"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
An Earnest PRAYER.

A man named Riley was hung al lass,S
Tenn, on the Sih ul,., for numbering a
Willis. He was hardened wretch. p
men, before the wagon started that convey
him to the gallows, very fat negro woman !
upon her knees, and grasping one ofIhe Sp'''
offered the following prayer:
oh, massa God, lei this pool brudei !,
has soul TO save, whether thou arI wIlllOs
not, save him from the iorments Of he'll
by golly, bressed massa God if you do y, ~
tank you thousand times, and ask YOU 20 w.
favors, now nor never more. Amen.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
$305,434 90
Total

Here is lamentable picture of Locofoco prodi-
gality and abuse. In the short space of eighty
three days the Locofoco officers on the public
works have drawn from the State Treasury the
astounding sum of more than THREE HUN
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS-or THREE
THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
DOLLARS PER DAY-while at the same time
the Locofoco press is filled with abuse of the State
Treasurer because he will not furnish the officers
with money to pay the laborers on the public
works :!
This fact discloses a scheme of viliany unpar
allelled, we believe, in the history of Locofocoism
in this State. The sum of $500, 900, formerly was
all that annually appropriated for the ordinary
repairs of the State canal and railroads. This
sum was for whole year.
This amount has already been drawn from the
Treasury for that purpose in little over two
months! What has been done with it That
is the question. Have the laborers been paid e.
The Locofoco press says they have not Have
the public officers been using this money, and tell
ing the honest laborers that they could get no
money, while they have drawn the enormous sum
of nearly one-third of a miion1 1fthe Locofoco
press tells the truth, it is If it is not so, then
they have been concocting and circulating the
most enormous lies and with the concurrence;
too of the officers on the public works. otherwise
they would voluntarily disabuse the public mind
One of two things are therefore, self-evident, and
cannot be controverted either the Locofoco off
GERS have paid the laborers on the public works
while they have given currency to vile and in
famous libel upon the State Treasurer; or they
have used the money drawn from the State Treas
ury for purposes of speculation and to screer
themselves from the just censure of those from
whom they are fraudulently Withholding their jus
dues, have put into circulation falsehood agains
the State Treasurer. Either horn of the dilemma
wiz hold them up to public anathema and indigna
ton.
It will not be contended by the most hardened
and INSCRIPTIONS Locofoco plunderer, that tht
sum of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS IN EIGHTY THREE DAYS, oil
THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AMI
EIGHTY DOLLARS PER DAY, is not suffi
cent to meet all expenses and pay all the laborer
on the public works No one will pretend tha
one-th of that amount has been expended with
in the time; and ifthe :" poor laborers" have no
been paid, and promptly too, there is gross fraud
The sum of $30O,O 900 was nerer before drawn from
the State Treasury, on account of ordinary repairs
tn the same time, nor can it have been required
1t is idle for Locofocoism to attempt to justify th
enormous draft and expenditure on that account
There has evidently been settled and deter
mined purpose on the part of the Locofoco wire
workers since Mr.. Ball came into office, TO ru
3 upon the Treasury and break down the credit Q
, the State and this unprecedented draft Of $500
600, in less than three months, for the public work
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

An lrishman, al a recent religious mesiN'
at Cincinnati, 60, up and began an addrs" y
follows My friends, the profigacy OI 10
times is such, lha, little children, who eau ns'
ther walk nor talk, may be seen rshning sS'''
the streets cursing their Maker!
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

A despatch from Louisville, KY, states that the
Hon. Henry Clay was attacked with the Chole on
Tuesday of last week.
A later despatch says--We are happy to state
that the Hon. Henry Clay who was announced,
by telegraph, as having been attacked by Cholera
is recovering, and his physicians have pronounced
him out of danger.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
The Cholera.

The cholera has been fearfully prevalent a
Rondout, the terminus of the Delaware and Hud-
son canal, where large number of vessels are
constantly lying, taking in coal.
ST. LOUIS, June 3Oth, IS interments, from Chol.
era; July lst, e5; I'd, 1913.
The steamer Uncle Sam, arrived at St. Louis
from New Orleans, on the 2sth ult. Of the $50
passengers, rs died Of cholera on the passage.
The ST. Louis Reveille of the 9th ult.. WED
nesday) says:--According to the daily returns the
mortality for the week ending on Monday last
would be eight hundred and ten in all, of which
six hundred and forty five were cholera cases.
This must be somewhat incomplete, as several
cemeteries, on different occasions, failed to report
The total mortality, we presume, will reach about
nine hundred.
The St. Louis Union, of the 26th says -
The whole number of cemeteries of the city re-
port for the week up TO Monday last, 25th the un-
parallelled number of seven hundred and sixty
three interments, of which hundred and eigh-
ty-nine died of Cholera-and of children one hun
dred and sixty -four under five years of age. No
mortality equal to this has ever occurred for one
Week III l1OuiS iiCiCtOiOICs anu IL 10 " UClOpCu
will not hereafter a.
The week after this, as we learn by the tele-
graphic dispatches, the number of deaths was
949. The population of St. Louis has been de-
creased from seventy to fifty thousand by families
leaving in consequence ofthe ravages ofhe cholera
In Cincinnati the total number of deaths for the
week ending July 9th was lo47, Of which 799
were by cholera.
Pitts6urg.-July 1, S deaths by Cholera Cd,
Sd, deaths 4th, ,3 deaths; 7th, deaths
Brooklyn, ". Y.--July, I'd and Sd, cases and
S deaths by Cholera 4th and 5th I2 cases 7
deaths.
Al5any.--July 3, 7 cases and a1eaths; Sd, IL
cases aud deaths 4th, 6 cases and death
9TH, 16.cases, deaths.
Richmond, July. 6.---There were ii deaths by
Cholera on the 4th and 5th:
Washington, July 6.-The Board of Health re-
port Is cases of Cholera and 7 deaths, from the
25th ult. up to to-day, mostly colored persons.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

II Two new post-offices have been established
in this county, in Price township,-one called
" COresrWe," George Ink, post master; and the
other called Priceburg," John Price, Esq. has
been appointed post master.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

GF Theophilus Fem, editor of the :" Harris
burg Telegraph has associated with him in the
publication Of that paper, Alexander w. Rea.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

ILLNESS OF Mrs HARRIsoN.-.-Ih Cincin-
natl Commercial of the 2nd instant, says the
widow of Ex-Presiden, Harrison. is lying al
her residence, in North Bend, Ohio, very 10"
with cholera
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

THE Down East Debating Society, haV''4'
missed the question, where does the Nv 8
when it goes out = has got new and IOIs
citing one up "Where house Is t' ,strOy'i
fire does it burn up or does it burr : .O,rny ID
will probably be warns debate on this qu'''
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

Pigeons abound in great numbers in Wiscon-
sin, some portions Of the State being complete
ly covered with them. The sporimen were
Staying them by thousands.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12

MnNTREAL.-Annexaiion to the United States is
still the topic Of discussion. II is advocated by
the press of that city generally and paper is
about starting for its support,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
proprietors of the New yor

CALfFoRNIA-The proprietors of the New York
Tribune, for the purpose of obtaining accurate in
formation concerning California, have sent J. Bay-
ard Taylor. one of the editors. to San Francisco.
on MS arrival there, he will traverse the country
in every direction, and send the result of his OBJ
servaions home. This is an enterprise of most
communicable character, and Mr.. Taylor has been
Well chosen for the performance Of the difficult
duty
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-07-12
From the Pennsylvania Telegraph.
State Treasurer and the LabOrers ON
the Public Works.

The Locofoco press over the State, taking its
cue from the Keystone of Harrisburg, is filled with
abuse of Mr. Ball, the State Treasurer, charging
him with Withholding the appropriations made for
the payment of payment of the laborers on the
public works. Having seen these repeated at
tacks made upon that officer, as we believe with
out ground or reason of any kind, we addressed
him the following note:
HARR1sBuRG, June 80, 1s49.
G. BALL, EsQ.-Sir: Having seen it stated
in the public press repeatedly that you have re-
fused to pay appropriations made from the State
Treasury for the payment of he laborers on the
public works; if the charge be not true, will
thank you to furnish me witt statement of the
amount of money drawn from the Treasury since
you have had charge oft, by the Supervisors on the
public works, for the purpose above mentioned,
Very respectfully, yours, &C.,
THEO. FEM.
To which we received the following reply:
Treasury OFFICE, July 3, ls49.
Dear Sir: In reply to your note ofthe 30th ul!i.
mo, herewith send you list of the Supervisors
and Superintendents, on the public Improvements
who have drawn money from the Treasury, and
the amount drawn by each since the adjournment
of the Legislature. The total amount so drawn is
$3O5 434.s2, from which it is easy Judge wheth-
er sufficient amount has been drawn to pay the
laborers on the public improvements or not.
Yours, &C., G. ]. BALL.
The following is the statement that accompanied
the above answer:
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Containing the Public and General Statutes passed
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from 1887 70 l547 inclusive, whether Expired, Re
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The profession are particularly invited 10 era-
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July 2t-d&twtf
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FUME BATIIs.

Two all who are afflicted with Rheumatic com.
j plants we would say, go and try DIR. EMER-
SONS SULPHUR FumE BATHs, at Cops Pavilion,
on Louisiana avenue, near Sixth street. The pc
cuarities of IL are such that il cures efiectuslly
this complaint, Also all other diseases Of Chronic
nature, such scroiuls, Govt diseases OF the skin
joints, &c,
Galyanic and Electro Magnetic Electricity.
DR.. Emerson still continues 10 apply these inn
portant remedial agents 10 such Diseases and such
cases az indicate their usefulness
Aug. 22-2awu
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the acceptance OF his proposals. the quantity being
prescribed by the Department Cor WEI will exc
cute contract according 10 this agreement, and
give satisfactory security to the Department within
ten days after the acceptance OF this bid and in
OF failure TO enter INTO such contract, and give such
security, / Cor we) will pay to the United States
the difference between the sums hidden by me, Tor
u.s. and the sum which the United States may be
obliged TO pay for the same articles"
Each and every bid must also be accompanied
with guaranty the following form, to be signed
by one or more responsible persons, whose suffi-
cheney must be certified by some one who is known
To the Department, either personally by his Off
cial position.
II Tor WEI hereby guaranty that - -, the
above bidder, will comply with the terms of the adj
vertisement for proposals for Indian goods, dated
Doth September, lS49, if the contract should be
awarded to him. and enter into bond for the execu-
ton of the same within the time prescribed
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