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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.
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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.
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