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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-12

uYThe dysen'ery has been very fatal this
summer al Harrisburg, especially among chill.
dren, and is now prevailing 10 an unusual ex-
tent in The neighborhood of Chambersburg -
Many towns along the Susquehanna are also
gIesiy afflicted with il.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-12

Ns The number Of persons drowned at Tama-
qua by the late freshei is 32-ali Of which, except
4, have been recovered.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-12

Cass and Btgier.-Fbe Locofocos of MonlouI
coonty hare declared for cass and Bigler
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-12
DIED.,

At Bartonsville, on the 9Th inst, Mr. Samuel
Myers, aged 81 years.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-12
STOVES.

Just received and for sale at the cheap Store
of G. MALvEN, in S,roudsburg, Monroe county,
Pa, The largest, cheapes, and best assortment,
Of STOVES in This County. which he will sell
as low as can be bought this side of New York
He has also connected with his Store,
TIL MS HOP
and keeps constantly on hand a complete as
sorimeLi Of Tin Ware. All kinds Of work in
that line done short notice and reasonable
price.
GEORGE MALVEN.
September u. lS5O..3m
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-12

Suffrage IN Michgan,-The Michigan State
Convention, now in session al Lansing, delib-
era'lDg on The Ieconstrocling Of The Constitu.
.ion OF the State, have adopted clause ex-
tending The elective franchise 10 Indians and
their decenden,s, and have also adopted res.
olu'ion submitting 10 the people, as a separate
proposition, the question Of extending the same
fIght to the African race,
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From the Mobile Register.

The leading participants in the Cuban expedi-
ton were arraigned before the United States
Circuit Court at New Orleans, on Monday last
The following appeared in answer to their
names General Narciso Lopez, Col. Theodore
O'Elara, Colonel John Picket, Major Thomas J.
Hawkins Colonel w. II. Bell, Captain A. j.
Lewis, Colonel Robert Wheate, General John
Henderson, l.. J. Sgur, esq, and General d.
Augustin. Those W no did no! appear, were, A.
Gonnyles, Governor Quitman, John O'Sullivan,
Major Bunch Peter Smith, and N. d. Haden
Gen. Lopez plead in abatement to the indict-
ment, on the ;ound that the grand jury had
heen illegally drawn and impannelled; as did
also Messrs Sigur and Augustine. The Others
put in the plea of not guilty.
Gen. Henderson requested an immediate trial
but Judge McCaeb postponed the consideration
of that point, as well as of the pleas in abate.
ment, until the next day, when they could be
argued, and he would determine whether he
should await the attendance of the Circuit Judge
Mr.. Hunt for the Defenders.
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A PARAGRAPH FOR THE LADIEs.-We recon-
mend the following paragraph to the attention
Of our lady readers. 1t is from no less author
ity than the grave Lond.n Quarterly Reuie,o !;
Hon. 10 ,oear ShawL-lf lady sports n
shawl at all, and only very falling shoulders
should venture to do so, we should recommend
it to be always either falling off or putting on,
which produces pretty action. Or she should
wear it upon one shoulder and down the other,
or in some way drawn irregularly, 40 as to break
the uniformity. One of the faults of the pre-
sent costume, as every real artist knows, is that
it offers few dagonical lines. Nothing is more
pic uresque than line across the bust, like the
broad ribbon of the border of the garter as worn
by Queen Victoria, or the loose girdle, sloping
across the hips in the costume Of the early
Plantagenets On this very account, the long
scarf shawl is as picturesque a thing as a lady
can wear With the broad pattern sweeping
over one shoulder and a narrow one or none at
all on the other it supplies the eye with that r-
regularity which drapery requires while the
slanting form and colors Of the border, lying
carelessly round the figure gives that eastern
idea which every shawl more or less implies.
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A New Platform .

Some of the Submissionists in Georgia de-
tended the late acts of Congress, the Federal
Government and the Union generally, by assert
ing that the price Of cotton was high, and the
people had plenty to eat.
We suppose these gentlemen will be out
soon with new platform. They will be silent
about territorial rights, abolition of slavery in
the District, Of the slave trade between the
States and slavery in the States, or about any
of their political rights in the Union, but pledge
themselves to resist at all hazards, and TO the last
extremity, when cotton falls to five cents a
pound, when bacon and hominy become scarce,
and when their coats are out at the elbow. They
will resist no breaches of the Constitution, nor
breaches of fai'h nor breaches of any kind but
breaches into their breeches pockets.
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From Tie Louisiana Courier.

The COMPROMISE IN MrssrsstPpI.-The Hon.
John ID. Freeman, one of the abIest supporters of
the Compromise in Mississippi, recommends the
following course Of action towards the North:
We can withdraw our patronage from the
Northern cities and factories, and refuse export
and import in Northern ships-we can establish
direct communication with the foreign markets OF
the world-export our own crops in our own ships
and import our own goods and money in return
establish Southern manufactures, encourage
Southern mechanics, and Southern interests of
every description, and make Of the army and
navy of the Union to protect Southern enterprise.
Make this proclamation to the North, and execute
it with an energy and determination worthy Of so
great a cause, and we shall revoutionize the Gov
eminent and conquer our Northern enemies with
out shedding drop of fraternal blood"
We fear Mr.. Freeman will not be considered
very orthodox in this city, if he breaches such
doctrines as these. There was nothing like this
said, or even squinted at, in the famous resolu-
tons at the St. Charles Theatre, and we question
very much if Mr.. Freeman would not have been
hisse' hooted, and hustled out, il he had been
there and preached such opinions.
Mr.. Freeman, however, says:
"a Declaration OF independence and secession
by Mississippi, will not repeal the Constitution
and laws Of the United States. The President,
having no opinion, will be compelled to enforce
them both; and unless make forcbe and sue
cessful resistance, we shall be in the Union, but
u
State and Withdrawn representation from
Congress, we shall be reduced to a territory, and
governed as SUCH"
These sentiments would have atoned for the
foregoing, and Mr.. freeman would, doubtless,
have been invited back into the Theatre by the re-
pentant audience, and been received with three
cheers.
We should like however, to know the modus
operandi of getting at Mississippi, if ever crcum-
stances force her, in defence Of her institutions,
her fresides and her sovereignty, to withdraw
from this Union. We can imagine how the Fed.
eral Government might possibly, annoy a sea
board State, but how would it proceed against
She is an interior State. or the
necessaries of life she produces more than she
sumes, and her exports are Indispensable to the
existence Of this CITY, of Boston, New York, and
Her great staple is the lever that reg
uates the trade and the peace ofthe world. She
could not therefore, be blockaded. She requires
not one dollar from the National treasury. She is
surrounded by slaveholding States, Of kindred
and interests. No response on them
or militia to invade Mississippi would be made
not a man would volunteer or submit to be drafted
md no army of federal mercenaries could set foot
IN their territories without finding an ambush and
IN enemy on every mile oftheir march
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Texas.

We published yesterday the proceedings of
the Southern rights meeting at Matagorda,
Texas, the first only Of series destined to
revolutionize the public sentiment in that State,
if it be not already in principle opposed to the
spoliation scheme, miscaled a compromise
The necessities Of States, as we'll as individuals,
may sometimes induce q course of action which
does not truly represent convictions or feelings,
and we believe such to be the case with Texas,
judging from the character and past history of
her people.
Those who resisted aggression and dictation
in one instance against far greater odds, will
scarcely finch from repeating that resistance now,
sustained and countenanced, as they will be, by
their sisters and natural allies They must take
sides-and we hazard nothing in the prediction
that they will side with their own section.
Let Southern Rights Associations be formed
throughout that State, and the result of her
next legislative action will be widely different
from her last, and under different influences and
nober promptings Speaking of the formation
of the Southern Rights Association at Matagor-
da. The Tribune of that place gives this cheer
ing intimation:
"ln our columns of this morning will be
found the proceedings of the "Matagorda South
ern Rights Association" at its first meeting
together with list Of the members up to the
time of organizing. We will not assert that
the movement is entirely an unanimous one
among all the citizens of Matagorda county, but
from the brief space of time allowed, and the
very limited effort made for obtaining signatures
to the confession of Fuith," and the number
of the signers and the position in life of most
Of them, we are led to infer that the association
will number very strongly in this county by its
next meeting in January. We believe the plan
to be one that deserves the favorable conside-
ration of Southern men, and therefore recon-
mend it to the attention of our readers.
AS the first step, this association has issued a
circular for general distribution, setting forth
in strong language, the present position and
duties of all true Southern men at this time and
strenuousy urging the necessity of organized
resistance to Northern aggression. We shall
publish this circular at an ecry day.
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The Georgia Resolutions.

The resolutions of the Georgia Convention
have given as little satisfaction in some quar-
tiers at home, as they have abroad. Their evil
dent futility and feeblencss excite compassion
and contempt, however, rather than any stronger
feeling among the gallant spirits in that State,
who feel that it is impossible for the masses of
her people long to "acquiesce" in such pro-
gramme as that laid down by its "self-denying
ordinances"
The Macon Telegraph commenting upon
those resolutions, uses the following language :
AS graHeState paper, rejecting the sover-
eignity of great State like Georgia, it is not
destined in our opinion to take very high rank
And while no one can read it without being
struck with the extreme care and adroitness
with which it is written, none can fail to per-
ceive that it was prepared for just such expos-
tons as occasions might require. Every thought
expressed, seems to have been pondered, and
every word uttered, weighed in the balance of
the incest prudence. There is no drectness, no
ardor of feeling, no glow Of thought, no force
Of expression everything is calm, cool, and cal
culating. But nothing else could have been
expected from the school of politics Of the lead
ing minds which controlled the convention. A
more Objectionable document in our opinion
not only to the minority, but to large portion
of the maj rity, when they come to examine it
closely, was never written in Georgia.
Speaking of the resolutions the editor says:
They, like the preamble we fear, are intended
FOR exposition. The substitute adopted for the
fourth resolution, instead of strengthing the
original makes it, if possible, more vague and
general in its character. The change was
made rs the debates will show, and which we
will publish at an early day, simply to evade the
responsibility, of the legal question of the pow
ers of Congress over the subject of slavery in
the District of Columbia. Thus has Georgia
thrown away her last chance to her rights re-
spccted in the Union, without further agitation
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The Washington Union and the Vermont
Laws.

The Union and Inlelhgencer having been lab
oring to show that the Fugitive slave law was
resisted in the North only by small and in
significant portion of the people, the law Of
Vermont recently passed, to Illustrate or defeat
the execution of the Fugitive slave law com
pletely crushed this pretence of the organs. So
they undertook to explain away the Vermont
law by publishing and endorsing an anonymous
communication signed by one A. c. which pre-
tended that the law passed the Vermont legis-
lature, inadvertently and contrary to the sen,i-
ments Of the people of the State.
To show the absurdity of this assumption, we
published the law of Vermont passed in ls43,
forbidding Ill her citizens ard officers to aid in
the recapture Of fugitives, and denying the use
of her jails for that propose, and excepting from
the penalties only such as acted under the Fed
eral authority.
Was it not evident from this law of 10, that
the present law Of $50 was passed in accordance
with the sentiments of the people of that State {?
The present law is clearly designed to render
the present Fugitive slave law as futile as the
act of 1893 had been rendered in Vermont by
the act of lS43 and the law Of lS43 was rs
great breach of faith in that State as the pre-
sent law.
We said that the late act of Vermont was
more stringent than the present one.
Upon this the editor Of the Union INDUCES
in an eruption of witless scurrility, as follows:
When this act of ls43 was passed, there was no
act Of Congress with which it came in conflict in
fact, the rroviso shows that it expressly recog-
nized the validity Of the act Of 1893, repealed the
prior law giving jury trial to fugitive slaves and
excepted all the officers of the Federal Govern
ment from Its operation; but it would have been
far void, if it had rot. This late nuiifying act
expressly contravenes the act of Congress for de-
ivering up fugitive slaves, takes the fugitives out
Of the hands Of the federal officers places them in
the hands Of those OF the State, and gives them
jury trial. in the teeth of the act Of Congress and
the decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States. And yet the Southern Press has the ig,,o-
the dudaciy TO assert that the act OF 1943
was more stringent" than the late act of NULL
feaiion! He who would make such groundess
assertion is above or below shame. He would put
Munchausen to the blush, and make Sinbad, the
sailor, jealous Of his character for reracity. We
notice the matter now, only to show to what das-
tardly shifts the editor is driven 10 calumniate us,
and to show, also, that his front, if .not brass,
is at least so completely jpanned, that the origi-
nal metal is impenetrably shielded from the pub
lie gaze.
Now if he had published both, acts, as we did
the extravaganza of his absurdity would have
been apparent without any further exposition Of
ours.
The act of ls4s, imposed a fine Of "not more
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than thousand dollars" and directed imprison-
ment @of not more than FIVE years" for any of
ficer or citizen Of Vermont except by authority
of federal courts who aided in the execution of
the law of 1893 although the decision of PRIGG
VS.. the State of Pennsylvania as the Union it.
self quotes, admits that all might aid in execut-
ing it, if NOT forbidden by State authority Hence
the law of ls43 was more stringent than the
present law of Vermont which infct no such
penalty. And the fact is that the law of Yer
mont was as effectual in multiplying the act Of
1893, as the present law of Vermont can be in
multiplying the present law of Congress.
All the trash therefore of the Union about
ignorance, audacity, veraeity, and Sinbad the
Sailor, must pass merely as a silly attempt to
buster out of ridiculous predicament after
having ridicuously clustered in
The Union proceeds.
He seems to lie delighted at this late act of Yer
mont, chuckes over il as Garrison or Fred. Doug
las would, and regards it as an act of unpardoI,-
able wrong to expose and denounce it. How
truly do ertremes meet We are not aware of a
single act passed, or act done, by the .4boioniss,
uurihS the late violent az itatlon the subject of
slavery, that has not met with his entire appro-
oation.- The Crafts case in Boston, the late Yer
mont law, the Union meetings at the North, and
every thing else tending to support the Constitu-
ton and laws, have been gloated over, or sneered
at, IN spirit that has afforded the Abolitioniss
infinite JOY.
The enumeration Of the Crafts case in Boston
aud the Vermont law, among the things tending
to support the Constitution and laws, puts the
Editor of the Union beyond the pale of argu-
ment, and calls for medical aid If our forehead
is japanned it is high time his head after the con.
cussions we have recently given it, ought to be
trepanned
As for imputing to US the want of new
theory of colors, it is unfortunate. If any body
is in such need it must be chameleon editor
who has ex hau sted all the varieties of the prism,
without success, and whose propensity for chang
ing his hue is limited only by his Ignorance Of
what color to assume next
AS for saying he ais mol aware Of n single
law passed or act done, by the Abolitonsts,
during the late Violent agitation on the subject
of slavery that has not met with" our entire
appreciation" We suppose il is designed as a
specimen of his vcracty-and we therefore place
it on record. If such assertions can be found in
one short article Of the Union, who will read or
believe his long printing story?
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Vote of Georgia.

The Milledgeville Recorder has published
Appling county, and announces the grand result
as follows:
awe have added the highest vote on each
side, and find the entire vote to be 71,ll5. BY
comparison of the same vote, we find the union
majority to be 22,ll7, the Union ticket thus sue
ceeding by about two-thirds of the vote of the
State"
We learn from reliable source, that scarcely
more than two-thirds of the entire vote of the
State was polled on this occasion.
This is significant.
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Attest: DAVID JACKSON, Sec'y

BIsHoP Observation-Disclosures has been re-
ceved at Little Rock, (Ark.) that this enterpris
ing and much esteemed prelate is on his way
home. He precedes the colony he proposes tt
settle in Arkansas, for the purpose of making
arrangements for them. The number of colo
nists has been swelled from $780, to 1900, includ
ing many of substantial character and worldly
substance.
We learn that portion Of the colony arrived
here on Sunday last, on the ship Judah Touro,
from Liverpool. Those pointed out to us are
certainly the most superior looking emgrants
that we have ever seen. They are exactly the
kind Of people to whom we extend at once the
hand Of fellowship and welcome.-N o. Bulle-
tin Dec. H.
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KExTUcKY.-A bill has just passed the legis-
lature which prohibits the transportation of ne
groes across the Ohio river by owners or keepers
of ferries, except in company of their owners,
or by their written authority in the form of
power of attorney duly acknowledged certified
and recorded, and imposes for every such offence
a forfeiture of the ferry right, fine of 5000,
and makes the owners or keepers of the ferry
liable in addition, for the full value Of the sa-
yes,
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we cite this instance to show, how powerful
end pc would be in an emergency Of this
huence to restrain those who are menacing and y. ~.
sailing the constitutional rights of the South %rsd
ually forcing on a catastrophe at which honss and
patriotism and humanity win hang down ,Sa;r
heads and weep t. " "e"
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H-We invite attention to the speech ofTIon.
A. G. BROWN to his constituents, which We re-
publish from Mississippi paper. The glow Of
just indignation, aud the spirit off, true South-
ron animate every line. He speaks as man
should do-boldly and To the point ="
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-25

IMPORTS OF NEwBERN.-We copy from a
late number Of the Newbernian, the following
statements of the imports of Newbern, embrac-
ing the year ending October, 1850:
5000 barrels of Flour,
5000 barrels of Lime,
3,I00 barrels of Pork,
1000 barrels of Whiskey,
$1,000 pounds of Butter
$4,000 pounds of Cheese,
100000 pounds of Hay,
10000 pounds of Tobacco,
10000 pounds Of Lard,
$1,000 pounds Of Cotton Yarn,
1000 bushels of Potatoes,
500 barrels of Apples,
1895 Kegs of Nails,
$4,000 worth Domestic Goods,
70 Tons of Iron,
$1,000 pounds Hollow Ware.
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THE CHoRERA AT KrNGsToN.-The cholera
had abated at Kingston, Jamaica, having de-
cimated the city, but was raging with increased
violence in the country. On one plantation
nine out of ten were taken Off Over 1000
deaths occurred in Kingston alone.
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IMPORTANT FROM South AMERIcA.-Probable
War Commercial Crisis - General Taulor's
Death.--By an arrival at New York we have
advices from Montevideo to the 23d of October.
The threatened rupture between Brazil and
Buenos Ayres begins to assume serious aspect,
and it is probable our next advices will bring in,
telgence of the beginning of open hostilities
A revolution has taken place in the CONNER
cial circles of Buenos Ayres, and some Of the
heaviest merchants have gone by the board
A French commission merchant had failed for
$2,4OO,0O0, and another for $l,3l20OO. An
English house had also failed
The highest honors were paid to the memory
of General Taylor at Montevideo. The flags of
the shipping were placed half.mast, minute guns
fired, and other marks of respect manifested
An American ship, bound to California, with
a cargo valued at 100000, is reported to have
been lost 100 miles south of Cape st. Antonio.
Crew and passengers saved.