J MFFE R S 0 N I AN REPUBLICAN 4 ihe government. The situation of the country nnd its business certainly does not require lho '.ranting of any bank -charters. Believing that he evils of banking ure corrected bv the good cnscof the community, I congratulate the Le- gislaturo upon the prospect of being from the immediate consideration of relicvcd the sub- ject for the present session at least. Tho report of the Superintendent of Common Schools, will exhibit iheir condition in detail. Every thing calculated to advance tho interest nf this most important of all our public institu tions, cannot bo too strongly commended to your attention. The vii.il interest -of religion, morality, and civil liberty iisclf, aro dependent upon the cherishing aid and enlightened sup port imparted to our Common Schools and high er Seminaries of learning. Here must be im planted tho eeds of vtrtuo, of intelligence, and of all that confers disiinction upon our citizens. Tho reporl of tho Adjutant General will be laid before you I look occasion, in my annual mcssago of 1840, to sav that " our militia svs tein is a tax, to a considerable amount, upon the State Treasury, which might be considera bly lessened if the Adjutant General were charged with the duty of personally superin tending the system in its details, and properly compensated therefor." In every annual mes sage since. I have urad the importance of some ! attention lu tins .uilject. 1 he office of Adju tant General has bren filled for several years by a gentleman of great practical knowledge and experience, who has devoted much time and attention to the discharge of its dutirs ; and H has been a matler of renrei iions have not bad tho weight lhat his nigges with the .Lei- iaiure, to which ihev were so justly cntillet the legi-lamni j the Jnst lew years, one i description of parson after another has been exempted from the payment of lines, until tha amount received at the Treasury, during the past year, falls short of the expenses the sum of S42.4-1S 59. This stale of things is so pal pably wrong, that nothing moie is required than o bring the facts to your notice, to ensure an early correction of the evil. Pennsylvania has a forco of upwards tjf thirty-five thousand volunteers, that will compare with any troops in this or -any other country. 1 cannot too earnestly recommend them to the fostering caro of the Legislature. Under the act of the 24:h March last, enti- tlfd 44 An Act to create permanently the office j of State Printer," Isaac G. M'Kinley and Hut- ter and Bisler hare claimed to be State Prin-j ters; tno former to uo tnc Jonglisti, and trie lat ter to do the German printing, of the Common wealth. The language of ihe Act of Assembly -seemed to mo to render the validity of this election doubtful, nnd I caused the question to be submitted io the Attorney General, whose opinion on the subject is herewith transmitted to the Legislature. I concurred with him, and according!' declined to approve the bonds ten dered, informing tho parties that the whole mat ter would be submitted to the early attention of the Legislature. Had the parlies interested reason to complain of the course pursued by ihe Jlxecuiive, ihey might have applied to the Su preme Court, durin- lis session in Harrisburg, for a writ of mandamus, directing ihe Governor to approve their bonds, which was a mere min isterial duly, unless ho could show some legal reason for his refusal. I was at all times ready io have met this issue before that tribunal, and have at no time entertained a doubt of the re sult, or proprieiy of my course. In addition to the legal argument presented by ihe Attorney General, which I regard as un auavvernble, there are some other circumstance! connected with that election, which make it j'Ocoharly necessary that they should be brought your most serious consideration. Tho elec lion was postponed from time to time, from the 27th day of March, ihe third day after the paa-f-age of the law, and on which, according to its provisions, it should have taken place, to the 15th day of April, on which, according to the certificate presented to me, it was made. During this interval of time, and before the day on which the election was consummated, I have been informed and have good reason io believe, that negociaiions were entered into and completed between tjie said Isaac G. M'Kinley, Hutter & Bigler and other persons, .supposed lo have influence with members of the Legislature, by which large sums of money were paid or contracted lo be paid by the indi viduals elecied, to those third persons, for their aid and influence in procuring their election. In some instances, as 1 have been assured, the tums paid, or contracted to be paid, depended upou tho number of votes procured by the con tracting parties for tho successful candidaies; rid ihu was exhibited a scene of scandalous bargaining and selling, alike disgraceful io ihe parties concerned, and dangerous to ihe purity of elections. It is not to be presumed that ibis theme of ofilco purchasing was known to any member of the Legislature ; for, if it had been, the parties concerned would, I have no doubt, been exposed and consequently defeated. As this transaction more immediately concerns the purity and honor of the Legislature itself, I need only ealj your attention to these circumstances, ni have no doubt you will feel it to be your xluty io institute a thorough investigation inio the frauds, thus practiced upon the Legislature, to procure an election. Should ihe facts, upon 'Xnmination, be found to be, as 1 have the strongest reason lo think ihcy are, can it be, that a hingle member of the Legislature will re cognize the validity of an election thus procured? Let ii be known that candidate can resort lo ncli means in accomplish their purpose., and thero is an end to all confidence and respect for our Legislatures. It is one of ihe elemen tary principles of every enlightened system of jurisprudence, vhat frsud vitiate every contract inio which it enters; and in every stage of com pletion, these contracts aro arrested as soon a iht fraud is discovered. There can be no fraud- iilent practice more odious ihan one like 'this,, striking at the purity of legisjaiion, and 1 am confident the representatives of the people will apply a thorough corrective the instant they are made acquainted with the facts. No .inconvenience has arisen thus far, nor detriment-to the public interest, from my refu .sal to approve the bonds offered by lho individu als claiming to have been elected. The portion of the law, therefore, pointing out the modo of eleciing Siaie Printers, not having been com plied with, the matter rests with you to make such provision on this subject, as you believe the public welfare requires. The frauds prac ticed upon the . public by some of those persons entrusted with the public printing, the last few years, are loo palpable and notorious lo pass unnoticed, and whatever measures the Legisla ture may think .proper to adopt, will, I trust, provide security against their recurrence. It is no disparagement to her sister States to assume that Pennsylvania, in her geographical J position, and in her mineral and agricultural re sources, is surpassed by none in the Union. Her population, lor hardy and effective indus try, presents a model worthy of all .praise, and this industrv, devoted to a constant develop ment of her vast mineral wealth, cannot fail, in i good time, to produce the most astonishing re sults. There is hardly a mountain or valley within her borders, that does not abound in deposits of coal or iron. Our canal and railroads pene trate almost every one of ihese mineral regions, and furnish them with a cheap and -ready high way to market. If those entrusted with the guardianship of ihe public welfare, are but true to their trust, ihe dav is not far distant, when Pennsylvania must become the great workshop of tho Amori- can Union, for the production of coal and iron, and the fabrics constructed from these materi als. If those great interests are surrendered to some imaginary, theoretic, Arcadian schema of free trade, we may still continue to serve as hewers of wood and drawersjof water to foreign capitalists and artisans, and our incalculable mineral deposits, may lio useless for ages. 1 trust, however, the peoplo of this Common wealth will never be seduced into a sacrifice of their dearest rights. The policy of standing by her own interests, has been, for the last half century, too deeply fixed in Pennsylvania, to be abandoned without struggle ; and those of her public servants who would advise the surrender of any of her staple productions, without tho fosterfng succor of the Government, will soon find on how mistaken an estimate of popular feeling thoy have relied. It is idle to talk of reciprocity of trade, when England will not receive our flour under a pro hibitory duty of less than ihrce dollars per bar rel for us to receive her coal and iron free, or nearly so, of duty. Free trade and reciprocity of duty, like tho golden rule, are beautiful and benign in theory, and, if universally carried out in practice, would render mankind better and more accept able lo their Maker ; but, unhappily, this obli gation is voluntary, and is assumed only by the less crafty and grasping of men and nations who are used for their own ends by the rest. This fundamental truth i taught by all history, and was familiar to our father. Como what may, we cannot desert the standard of Pennsylvania; i and I, for one, have batlled under it loo long to see it struck without a manly effort lo uphold it. If we are true to ourselves, and those who come after us but do their duty without shrink ing, Pennsylvania will soon be placed in her true position. Our agriculturists, manufacturers, mechanics, j and every class of citizens, are alike interested in a steadfast adherence to the policy of pro- i lecting and encouraging our own peculiar Stale ! productions; for on ibis policy rests our hopes ol future greatness and independence. A per manent homo consumption, i., alter all. the on ly market on which our farmers and other pro ducers can always depend for a steady demand j for their commodities, without the fluciuaiions ! of price that will ever attend foreign markets.) It will afford me great pleasure to co-operate I with you, m giving ihe most effective support to it, boih in our domestic and national legisla lion, so far as may he compatible with our du'.y 1 am not awaro of any oilier subject lhat re-J quires to be specially brought to your notice,: aunougn mere are a number o! minor impor tance, referred to in my former messages on which no legislative action has been taken. 1 have discharged my duly by submitting them to the consideration of ihe representatives of the people, and shall be ready, at all limes, to unite with them in ihe adoption of such meas ures in relation to ihem and oilier mailers, as are deemed conducive lo ihe public good. DAVID H. PORTER. Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, January 3, 1814. ) Mail Robbery. The stage running between York and Gettysburg, Pa., was robbed of its mail bag on Saturday night, the 30ih oh., and the loiters taken therefrom. It was found on ihe following morning, m a wood-house in Ox-5 ford, ten mila from Geilvaburg, wiih the let-' ters broken open and the papers scattered about. Ono of the letlern broken open, showed that $70 had been extracted from it. On the dis covery of the mailer in the morning, says the Getiysbarg Siar, Dr. Pfeifler promptly look such testimony in the mailer as iho circum stances justified. We since learn that strong suspicion are afloat in regard to who is the robber. We hope lhat he may be discovered. A new Salt Spring has beii discovered about 30 rods from ihe Erie Canal, on ihe western border of the Montezuma mirs'lif the water of which, according io analysis by Dr. I. C. I'eck, cotilaining attoui one per rpnt. more of coni- mon &ai: than ihe Atronyenl Onondaga brine. . . . , . - . - - . - - - i JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Stroudsburg, J3zt Hilary U, Terms, 2,00 :n advance: $2.25, half yearly; and $2.50 idiot paid befoie the end of the year. OC-r" V. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, -Philadelphia, is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jejfersonian Republican, and give receipts for the same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which. Ills agency affords. Henry Clay. The brilliant prospects of this groat states man, and the almost moral certainty of his elec tion to tho Presidency next fall, haH alarmed some of our politicians, who can see nothing but defeat and ruin to thoir hopes, in the event of his success. Hence their unceasing opposi tion to, and vituperation of, the man. They know that in years gone by, when Gen. Jack son was at tho zenith of his popularity, a well concocted falsehood drew upon Mr. Clay, the indignation of a large mass of his fcllow-coun-men. The cry nf "bargain and sale," was rung through the land, anil so often repeated, lhat for awhilo it took possession of (he minds of lho people, and induced them to condemn an innocent man. But "truth is mighty and must provail." The eyea of the people were in time opened to tho true facta which attended tho election of Mr. Adams, to tho Presidency, by Congress, m 1824. They then held Mr. Clay entirely blameless of every thing like unfairness in tho transaction, and have ever since regarded him with greater favor and approbation than bofore. The success which attended ihe propagation of that falsehood, has induced a band of mer cenary and vile imitators to fabricate another with which they vainly hope to blast his pres ent prospects. It is nothing leos than the charge that he is a Murderer, hu being the prin cipal adviser in the Graves and Cilley duel. An obscure print, called the 44 Coos County Democrat" has been selected as the medium for giving it currency, from which it has already been copied into a number of papers who have no moro regard for truih or decency than itself. We scarcely consider it necessary for the ends of public justice, to give a denial to such a ridiculous charge nor would we trouble our readers with any allusion to it, had not the Monroe Democrat, with ail the braying of its trumpets, blasted it forth, ns truth, last week. There is not even the semblance of truth, in the Etory it is too absurd for any person lo credit. BesidK, the people have become ac customed to such awful disclosures in regard to iheir great men, and will be careful how ihey believe them. It will require better evidence than lhat of ihe 4 Coos County Democrat" and the "Monroe County Democrat," before the free men of ihe United Stales will pronounce Hen ry Clay a murderer. Such base nnd wanton charges can have no other effect than to rally Ills friends still closer around him, and to bring to support thousands of his opponents, who must be disgusted with such meanness. Tlac Goveriaor'a Mc&sAgc. We publish entire the Message of Gov. Por ter, in to-day's paper, and ask for it a careful perusal. It presents raiher a discouraging pic ture, it is true, to ihe people of Pennsylvania; but it is one which wc must become accus tomed to look upon. Our State Debt is truly alarming, and nothing but speedy action in re gard io it, can save us, as a people, from the win st of conscque'nees. The Governor recom mends retrenchment in the expenditures orgov ernmeni, and an increase of Tax sufficient to pay the interest on our funded Debl, which will lake nearly tico milliojis of dollars per annum. Trial for Murder. The irial of Frederick Hess, a German, who on the I2th of December last, inflicted a wound upon a countryman of his, named John Seidlen, at Souih Easton, from the effects of which he died the same night, will come on at Easion next week. Sentence of Babe the Pirate This individual, indicted in the Circuit Court of New York, for Piracy and Murder, on board the Sarah Lavinia, was sentenced on Wednes day morning last, io be hnng on Thursday tho 7th of March next, and his body in be delivered to i h. College of Physicians and Surgeons for ulSMCtlOIIS. The Whigs of Berks County held a large and enthusiastic meeting at Reading, on the 2d inst., and appointed Delegates to the 4ih of March Convention; and unanimously instructed them io vole for the nomination of Judge Banks, for Governor. Ioi-2i:u!i2Hoii CossaaJy. The Whigs of Old Northampton will hold their County Meeting, at the Court House, in Easton, on Tuesday next. Delegates are then to be appointed to the 4ih of March Conven tion. EiectioJs. Gen. D. L. Clinch, Whig, has been elected to Congress from tire Richmond District, in Georgia, to fill ihe vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. Mr. Milliter. -From the Daily Foniixi. Cossress Saturday's Proecediasgsl Our correspondent's letter is so extended, that we have hardly room for any comments on the proceedings ol Saturday. The debate on lho Report of the Committee on Rules was con tinued. Dr. Duncan supported ihe Report, but was in favor of Slavery, wherever tho people choose to continue it. During his speech, the Doctor called on Mr. Giddi.vgs, of Ohio, to say whether during a speech before his conslit uents last fail ho read a letier from Mr. Clay in favor of the abolition of Slavery When Mr. Glddings obtained a chance to reply, he stated in substance that he did read such a letter, but distinctly slated lhat it was from Cassius M. Clay that he asserted distinctly that he be lieved from the high character and undoubted patriotism that Henry Clay, when called on, would support ihe Constitutional rights of ihe North, as well as the South, and at ihe same time gave distinct notice that he was not au thorized by Henry Clay himself, or any friend for him, to say that he would so maintain the Constitutional rights of the North, but that it was an inference of his own, founded on his knowledge of Mr. Clay's character. The House, after lho morning hour had ex pired, went into Committee of the Whole on tho Stale of the Union, on refunding the fine to Gen. Jackson. Mr. Weller, of Ohio, had the floor, and thinking the House did not under stand the subject, went overall lho ground, be fore travorsed by the various locofocos. He reforcd to Judge Hall as a British Judge, but was corrected by Mr. Barnard, of Now York, who said that an aged and moat respectable gentleman had informed him lhat he was well acquainted wiih Judge Hall, in early youth; that at the ago of 16, he was a student in the University of Pennsylvania, and his whole fam ly at the time were residents of the country. Mr. Weller had a fling at Gen. Harrison and the vote by which a year's salary was giron to his widow. His remarks were intended en tirely fur political efTed; this shows what an appreciation they have formed of the sense of the people. He asked Mr. Peyton, of Ten nessee, if the power of General Jackson was feared, that there was so much opposition to the bill. Mr. Peyton, in reply, said if he re ferred to political fear, he would direct the gen tleman's attention to the late Tennessee elec tion he had gone to the door of ihe Hermi tage had knocked at the very gate of the pal ace and boat one of the royal family in the can rass if he referred to personal fearv he be lieved he had as much courage as ihe gentle man from Ohio; and neither personally nor po liiicaly had recent results given him cause for fear. Mr. Weller prophecicd lhat in after times, the Hermitage would be the Mecca to which the young democracy of the country would re pair, as to a pilgrim shrine! He did not carry out lho simile to how lhat both were shrines of false prophets. Mr. W. was followed by Messrs. Dickersoiij Stephens, and others, when, on motion of Mr. Jameson, the Committee rose and reported pro gress. Newspapers. Judge Thumpson, of Indiana, decided re cently 44 That where a subscriber to a periodical failed to notify the editor to discontinue the pa per, at the end of tho time for which he sub scribed, or pay up the arrearages, he was bound for another year." ' A year or two since, the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania decided, 44 That where a Post Masier failed to notify the publishers of newspapers, thai their papers were not lifted or taken out of his office, he rendered himself iiable for the amount of the .nubscripiion. Irish Black List. We have before us, says the Buffalo Gazelle, a list of the Irish members of Parliament, who voted for the union wuh England, and the rewards which each re ceived for so doing. Th3 list comprises ono hundred and forty names, all of whom received ofiico or pecuniary reward for betraying their country. Ho.v. Dan. Wrbster. A Newark paper says that Daniel Webster has purchased tho Wehawken House, two miles from Hoboken, and formerly the, properly of Judge Bergen, for 25,000. It is conjectured lhat he is about to reside in New Jersey, for some object connect ed with his legal pursuits. A new election is io be held in the 5th and ?ih Congressional districts of Maine on the 22nd of January, lo fill vacancies. In tho other jfive districts Congressmen have already been, chosen. Serious Kiot Several Persons Shot. On Tuesday evening last a week, a great ri ot occurred in the rail-road house at Syracuse, N. Y., a Dutch tavern kept by a man named Earl Seigle. It appears, says the Syracuse Sentinel, that the Dutch were holding a ball in the house that a number of men were in tho bar-roum, and among the company was a youii man by the name of Wm. Blake, who either was, or affected lo be under the influence of li quor. He was around tho bar, in which was the landlord and a woman, and took hold of a decanter of liquor, which was seized by ihe wo man, who attempted to rescue it from his grasp; but falling, Blake pulled the decanter upon the floor, at which tho woman slapped him in the faco, ihe landlord at ihe same time grasping from undor lho counter a latgo horse pistol, anil uttoring a scream, fired at Blake, who stood two or three paces from him, tho ball entering un der tho right ear and passing into the under jaw, separating an artery. He fell upon iIih floor and was dragged to tho door and kicked off the steps by the woman. A number of pis tols were discharged at short intervals into ifn crowd, and in :he course of a few minutes th inmates fastened the doors and continued th' firing from the upper windows. One boy wa slightly wounded in tho forehead, another in tho arm, and another in the leg. At this jtins lure the Syracuse Cadets were ordered out by the sheriff, and were soon at their posts, pre pared to restoro order at the point of the bayo net. The inmaies were ordered to open tint doors, which they refused. Tho Cadets thea entered by forco, and commenced a diligen; search for lho actors in this dreadful tragedy, the house at the same timo beiiig surrounded ! intercept iheir escape. Tho landlord was foun I secreted m a closet, and with eight or ten of his associate, was conducted to jail to awa:' their trial. Tho scene created much excite ment, and at in often the case in similar oir breaks.a destruction of furniture, &c. fnllowtri, which admit.- of little or no ju-itlication. Th ball t exiracted from young Blake's jaw, ai.d he is likfcly to recover. Great Porker. Mr. David Lnngneck.-r, of West Lampeter township, Lancaster county, ha raised a hog this season, which, it is Aiipr posed, will weigh 1200 pounds!!' ,.. r "N Willis says that a resgVti y funeral hi New York costs from U"n ' to eight hundred dollars) being rather , expensively done in new xoriv ana Boston than in any city except Xeu-Orleans---vhere they say a man may afford to live who cannot afford to dtc. VlT Wanted immediately by the a few persons of good character, (age or sex imma terial,) at a salary of 500, with a yearly increase, until permanently fixed at 1000 per annum, who will be required merely to mind their own business, and to leave other people's alone. Applications, with testimoni als, to be made to the secretary of tho " Neglected Home Department." So says Punch. Appointments Confirmed. The Senate of the United States, on Tuesday a week confirmed the appointments of the Hon. John Nel son, as Attorney General, and the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, as Secretary of State. The Franklin iron works, at Ve nango, Pa., were put in blast on tho 23d Ultimo, and six "blooms," of eigh ty lbs. each, were made, and "shin gled1 under the trip hammer. All for Clay. We learn from a late Memphis In quirer, that a vote was taken on the "T)r Franklin" a fine new steamer UL " iust out from Cincinnati on her trips i -I r.n . down ana up, resulting. as ionut:. Trip down Clay 28, Johnson 2, Van Buten 3. Trip up Clay 102, Van Bureti 33, Johnson 9, Cass 3, Cal houn 2, Tyler 2. A hundred citizens of the United States are prisoners at Van Dieman's Land, on account of the Patriot war in Canada, in 183S, while many cf the leaders in that movement liar alreadv been, nardoned, and appoint ed to office by the British Govern-1 inent. The way to make fuel "go farther" in cold weather, is to have your wood sawed, split, and piled. v;p at the door, instead of in your wood-shed. Bv this means a load tf wood has been .known to go haVJ a mile in one night Mr TJirr., i,a United State? Senate, 'a wiiting a lift? of James Madison. i
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