JEFgE RS 0 NI AN REPUBLICAN i - K:-'9t ' TPOTPPQnT.UT : Thursday November 38, 1844. if not iTcrms, $2,00 tn ndrance: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 paid befoic the end of the year. .ff? V. B. JPalmcr. Esq., at his-Real Estate and Coal Office, No, 59 Pine street, "below Third," ruvo squares b the Merchant Exchange nua , -uiiu nil. inn iassan sirppi. i 1 riuiuit: uuiiuuit:s.j i N. Y., is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jcjfersoman Jiepublican, ana mvc receipts ior me sums, mcaiiaiiw, .ic- chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend 'their business by availing themselves of the op- Owrturut.es for advertising in country papers which ... ..J To all Concerned, We would call the attention of some of our 'subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas- ners, to the following reasonable, and well set- 'Wed rules of Law in relation to publishers, to the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not nts express-no- vficc to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of much iiciiici, iiic a may uhiuuuc w V ln mini ! In send ihera till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscriber neglect or refuse to lake their papers from the officers lo which they are .directed, they are held responsible till ihey a . .... . ... ,Tl 3 t n s 1 1 1 zsrl llioir Kill onrl MrAraA 'Knir nnrvira I oei i iviu iiibii will. llu juwivu uiuu uuuvio ,. . , r r i if ...i :i . .i i :.u n suuscnuiu reuiuve i uuief places wuu- oui inrormmi? ihe nublislierB. and their nnprr is sent lo the former d reel on. ihev are hetd re- sDonsible. 5. The cours have decided that refusing to 'lake a newspaper or periodical from the office, -or removing auu leaving it uncalled ior, is -pri- ma facie" evidence of 'intentional fraud. Congress. "The last session of the Twenty-Eighth Con jgress commences at the Capitol in Washington -oil Monday next. Several of the members are already in Washington, and ihe rest of them are doubtless n their way there. IHr. Clay. . The -.editor -of the New York Tribune has re ceived.aiprivftte letter from a gentleman in Ken iucl-y, stating some facts which Mr. Clay's on,i weth.erefGre tracl the following passages: i- 'Letinoton, Ky., Nov. 19, 1844. "Last evening, I visited Mr. Clay at Ashland, and passed some hours .with him, talking over ihe -events of the last few months, nd the prospects ahead. 1 found him alone calm and self poised. He teemed to, forget himself, and to be anxious alone for the Coun- try: and Jais friends, whose fidelity and devo lion, he observed, fee should .never cease to cherish as above all earthly price. The vari 4?us combinations against him the infamous ifrrads in presenting the Tariff Question to jPennsvlvanta. -&c. the atrocious calumnies on iiis private character wre ail alluded to, and I stated frome facts oir under mv own ob- rriinr, ' oiin vm J.rb, .W. .o .h, nir. -., J F .. . ...W f.. 1 itaM .f 1 Kn ai;n;, ;,i, ks.w ,D staesfna has been huoteddown. "r " Mr.-Clau will rer arain. return tn vuhlic m. His;career as a Statesman ir ended. The measure of his fare is compete. His life will r , ..jT .1 i. :.. i ... . ":uy ue w"nefl yM impartial pen, ana vwniie me calumnies by-wicb he has been de- ,4eatedin nis last appeal forjust.ee from his co- eqiporartes will sink into oblivion, every page f -our CouHtry's recent history will be illunsin- ated byhiareatdeedsndf lowing patriotiiffl.7' "lehMM TawMKhiM d..!.. 1 7t.as latelv stated that Lennum (nwn.hin jP ike county, Pa. had iveB 152 vote, for Polk tand 1 !for Clay. In looking over the North Caroluu return. v find thre a YmU .trn,,J heother ky, viz: Clay. Polk. 00 00 00 on tlJIfl Knrl UTltM n ' 1 HA '" 'Prey's Cross fioads, 98 Crawford, 72 The "New OrieatM Picayune of the 15th inst. -ys-:-We learn that' nearly- Ifteeri burred migrasi.f Bssengws 4ive arrived at this port within the lay days. Iar proportion of tbem were frmi3rme. Pbody;s CiBcitiHaH Cwrnt, among o(.hf'-cAirios facts; flay, at seven iof lhe HctfHilMlberiF 'hitre Wm 691'avjivals -hfitftkt ftuim&i since ike Ui otjUet .f.aB.ary. . .v 1 hefll V BAWii-SJB till. Vkll'io-M. iiair. ika rta I ,,t - 1 I ciuey mhing poison, on &aujraay wee, be- cauhe a white girl would not marry iiisj. j Remarkable PreseHtiarent. In the last Doyleslown Democrat we find 8 notice of the death of Beniah Holdren, of Nock amixon, at the advanced age of 94 years. He died on the 14ih of October; and the correspon dent of the Democrat states that "on the Satur day previous to his death, his daughter, with 0,hor friei,ds' Paid V,V,t 10 ,he 0,(1 Pe0Ple5 I ,wuuu ' guim ucuuu, aim jiaaaeu a very agreeable evening end morning. The old sen- h'eman was sensible, agreeable, talkative and happy, and partook of a hearty breakfast; after which he observed " Now my friends, this is the last meal I shall ever eat : I am about to Jie h vain ored to dissuade him from such an idea he ,he more reaolutely persisted In it, and said be ... , , . . , was called and must obey; but while he yet had breath and the power of speech, he wished to :vc in8,ructions with resnect to his world- ijr cuucenis, ma uunai, oic, anu immeuiaieiy commenced. Some few moments after he closed his last directions, he was struck down with a paralytic stroke, and never spoke more. He lingered, however, on the brink of death, until Monday morning, when he expired, without a nman Many of our Lc-cofoco counties polled more votes at the recent Presidental election than hhey contained while male inhabitants, at the rnntxnt ,r. p. .. OAQ , . I ' . I',,,,cu ,u,3 ' "" P""cu i loga, with iM2, polled 3367; Perry, with 3500, polled 3671; Columbia, with 5033, I " notied 5108; and Pmter. wiih 732. nniieft 7Q4 l rrM . i 1 1 I his bodes unfair play s; pnimii prlr.;M, ,orija r,0l:n , ntrt I m . m . . . 1 ,a A uuv ' iM,a ' Me neighborhood of the late Nathaniel Macon. Warrcntou Reporter. Cathey's Greek (Henderson) sends greeting t0 Six Pound Clay 135, Polk 00! This is in the free air of the mountains, out of the reach and influence of Humbugs. By the way, we should like to know the name of that solitary Whig at Six Eound, he is the real grit whoever he may be, and if he will send ui his -address shall have our little sheet free gratis, if he will accept it as a token of our good will. Oxford (N.C.) Mercury. New Cabinet. A correspondent of the New York Express Pr0P0SM lhe following selections for Polk's VaDinet : John C. Calhoun, Secretary of State. Thomas W. Dorr, Secretary of War. Wm. Loyd Garrison, Secretary of the Navy. Isaiah Hynders, Secretary of tho Treajury. Robert Tyler, Attorney General. James G. Birney, Postmaster General. This Isaiah Kynders, we believe, is the lead- er of what is ca,,ed tho " mPlre Club " com posed of a gang of rowdies and bullies in New York city ; and perhaps would be as well to head the War Department if Dorr can't be got out of the Rhode Island State Prison in season. We should ihink that tho Navy Department ought to be given to Capt. Stockton of New Jersey and lhal lhe Treasury might-be en trU9ted 10 some of,he Locomotive Sub.Treas urf rs who have fled to Texis, since that de- ib..uio uoumry ia iu oe annexeu io mis uov " a nare oi me nonors U be conve'n '"0 to have the Treasury k!P! Te"S' M.il may be hand in W'ln' ofl lne 1 cXas JNaUonaI Susq. Register. Birney Defeated. Mr. James G. Birney, the Abolition candi- date for the Presidency, it will be recollected, was the regular Locofoco candidate for Assem bly in his county (SaEinaw) in Michigan. He got only 13 votes in Saginaw ciiy where he resides, to 36 for Holmes an independent Lo- co nd 60 rr Richmond, ihe Whig candidate Th.a CU,"y e,eC,ed the Wh,'& "ndida.e by 25 n"'7 my anU W0""cs b0,U' and - ,,e a ",8JOly of six. Mr. Clay' character is such that no good man can vote or him,' was the honest avowal of all pious Fanny Wright Locos of the land. In proof of ihis, lake the rote since cast in the infamous Five Points, New York, (now the 3d district, sixth ward,) which votes as follows: Clay had 183 voles. Polk had' (Hi8 votes. T ' oegrauea ana Dase M - 1 a ... 1 r .t." , 1 ii F F ' O J and Fr.elinghuysen 1 i an Amencau nonuiauon. voted anamst t: av The Vote of Jew York. Mr. Clay received at the recent elecljo.n in New York. 6594 rnoe votes ihan Gen. Harri- oa ia'l8i0, when his majority was oyer J3,- 000 - And vec Mr. Clav was defeated hv f 0'fi I 'Pi.:. ; 1 z i - . y , -v -r; i ..v. ..i.j. itwiii r u.nnn'uii 3ujro tint- i.iiityo Kendall is talked of as Postmaster General ub- der Mr, Polfc's admtnibtraiion A Hero UMplMinedr The New York Journal of Commerce .gives these anecdotes of Dorr, the man whom the Vice President elect of the United' States, Mr. Dallas, in a speech since his election has been ascertained, has eulogized as a Patriot and a Martyr, and one desiiaed to enjoy the highest honors of his country: We happened the other evening to fall into a conversation on board a steamboat, in which we spoke in condemnation of Dorr. One of the gentlemen related ihe story of Dorr and f he rebellion in Cambridge College in 1823, if wej remember right. The lelator was then a mem ber of the Cgllege. No boy, he said, was loud er than Dorr in his denunciations of the facul ty, and in his declaration to perish or have jus tice done. But when the superior power of the faculty appeared, Dorr was one of the very first to ask for forgiveness, and was actually one of the four who thus escaped, while the whole class besides stood out, and were ex pelled. After the circle broke up, one of ihe gentlemen accosted us, saying he was pleased with the manner in which we spoke of Dorr. " I," said he, " was one of Dorr's head men ;" and he went on to tell the ridiculous and pitiful story, himself agitated with alternate laughter and regret. " I went with Dorr," said he, " un til the Constitution was formed but I was op. posed to its adoption, for I perceived that it brought about a condition of things which seemed to me dangerous. Dorr, however, pro claimed the Constitution', and the officers and legislature were chosen. I asked Mr. Dorr, in this attitude of affairs, what his plan was. Here were two governments over the same ter ritory. 1 he landlord s government would not withdraw, and if we should go on, collision would be inevitable. Dorr's reply was, ' All we have to do is, to go ahead.' Others whoj saw the difficulty went to him with the same inquiry. His common reply was, ' when you hear the bell ring, then clear the track.' I per ceived, and we all perceived, that we had a leader who had no plan. On one occasion I said io him, ' Mr. Dorr, the new Constitution of the Law and Order party is, for any thing I see, as good as ours, and in some respects better. Why should not we proclaim our approval of it, and so put an end to the trouble 1 You issue your proclama tion, advising all your friends to vote for ii, and in my judgment we can make you the first Go vernor under it without difficulty.' 'I would not care,' said Dorr, if it were never so much belter than ours ; I will accept nothing which comes from the other side.' After this, I in a great measure withdrew from him, as did most of his leading adherents. On the night of the attack upon the arsenal, I visited that post, and found u full of picked men, well armed, with several of Dorr's relatives among the leaders. I went thence io Dorr's head quarters. As I passed along, six cannons were discharged in succession, and directly armed men were run ning by me. I inquired of some of them what they were going to do. They replied that they knew only that the cannon were the signal for muster. At Dorr's quarters there were soon assembled about seven hundred men. By con versing with Dorr and one or two of the lead ers, I perceived that there was absolutely, in this critical moment, no plan. At length Dorr mustered his men in line. It was rainy and uncomfortable. I inquired of one or two of the leaders, what they were go ing to do. No one could answer. I said to ihem, are you sure that you have any object in view, worthy of the hazards you a're running. The object upon which we started is accom plished, iu the formation of a good Constitution. Is ours so much belter, as to compensate for all lhe hazards which you are about 10 encoun ter? Some replied, We do not feel like sub mitting to the landholders.' But you must ro collect said' I, that there are other feelings be-! sides that, which are awakened at this hour. There are mothers, sisters, children, who are feeling now, and let me; tell you that I have ex amined the armament of the arsenal, and that if you attack it many of you will feel the pangs of death the next moment. So you seo there are other feelings up, and to come up, besides haired of the landlords. I think these feelings have influenced our leaders ; for only one or two of ihem are here. I called their names ono after another, and-inquired if they were present.. The Members of the Senate and House, lhe officers of the government are they here ? My opinion is, that they are at home and shall go home. The principal mart on ,he ground, except Dorr, said to me, When you gq I wjlj lake your arm.' -By and by Jpnrr ordered the troops to march, when 4aboui ibree hundred went toward lhe Arsenal, and four hundred towards their homes. Dorr halfed Wore the arsenal, where the. thought of honitxdrow off his men pretty rapid.- ly, one affer another. Tho net rnojnjng- prr was i riot to Be" found.-. He had' probably heard the bell ring and "'cleared the track." The Chepachet affair ourinformant had .nothing to do with. There also Dorr heard the bell TVT it i mow ne is secure, wis nje is sate, lie never hears the bell ring, and so his stubborness is no mote overthrown by his cowardice. But. let only the sound of the bell echo in his cell, and he would be on his knees swearing alle giance iu a moment. This is ihe poor crea lure whom some men in high places, we are sorry to say, are so weak as to extol.. Theodore Freiingliuysen. The Alexandria Gazelle, thus justly speaks of the Whig candidate for the Vice Fresidency " If the Whigs, during the late political con test, had a candidate for President whose fame and reputation are as dear to ihem in defeat as they would have been crowned with victory, they are equally as fortunate with 'regard to iheir candidate for the Office of Vice President than whom a purer patriot, a better citizen, a more worthy man, does not exist within the limits, of the twenty-six States. Theodore Frelinghuysen is a name honored wherever it is known. Party malevofence itself has al most been struck dumb when it stood in his presence. Almost, we say, because the histo ry o( the late canvass will show that the poi soned weapons of abuse, of slander, and of mean prejudices were hurled even at him ; but the impenetrable shield of his character turned them aside, and they fell harmless at his feet, or rebounded and hurt his defamers. This was the ordeal through which he was .destined to go, and he has come out like gold thrice re fined. Henceforward, all men will look to him as one of the Fathers of the Republic ; of a reputation stainless as ihe untrodden snow, and as worthy of the respectful regards of every one who looks at the great and good men of the country as the 'jewels of the country' more precious, for their example, than any of the deeds of arts or arms which arc most prized i and eulogized. Honor to Theodore Freling huysen!" The Richmond Whig, In an article review ing the past history of Henry Clay, and the meritorious services he has rendered his coun try during the last forty years, winds up as follows : " And what has been his reward? Country men! Even many of you who have assisted in the deed of his mortification and rejection, now that the deed is done and cannot be re called CAN you think of it without shame and remorse ? Do you not blush at having been accessory to an act so ungenerous to a great Patriot, and so unjust to you country?' Carried Away by Intense Feeling. "An anecdote of the Attorney General of Mas sachusetts is told in a late Boston paper. The worthy old gentleman must have been complete ly carried away by his feelings, yet who can blame him. Road the story: The Attorney General, now eighty years of age, and said lo be more competent to the discharge of the ar duous duties of his honorable station than al most any practioner of experience, as well as a remarkable retention of mental power, was managing a case in behalf of the commonwealth of Middlesex county, where a man was indicted for gouging out the eyes of a girl, because she made oath that he was the father of her illegit imate child. Her brother, an intelligent lad of nine years of age, was on the stand, as a gov ernment witness, and his relation of the fact which he saw, produced an electrical effect on the whole audience. The girl was also pres ent, iu total blindness, and every circumstance attending the investigation of this horrible bar barity, was highly exciting. The boy stated the preliminary circumstances, and then said: "I was cutting bean poles behind the barn, and my sister was milking. I heard her scream, and then I ran with a pole in my hand. As I came up I taw that he had pulled her over; then he looked over his shoulder, io see who was coming, and I struck him with ihe pole and broke his jaw." 4 Why did you not repeal the blow ?" exclaimed lhe Atiorney General, car ried away by the tremendous interest " why did you not repeat the blow, and knock his d d brains out ?" "Mr. Attorney," said the Judge, you well know that profanity in court is a- high offence, punishable by imprisonment ; but in consequence of the unusual excitement oi me case, it will in this instance be looked." over- The city of London, which covers only fifty quar miles, haa more inhabitants than.Mitie, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode UUfidv.whi.ch occupy sixty thousand seven hundred and fiTiy-one square rsilea, . We see U stated that President Tyler pro prises taking a irip tp Europe after lhe 4th of Marrb no. . Coal -Mines in onr Country. ' TherelareUwo theories concerning the oriin tdf Mineral CoalCiSfc First, that it is decomposed vegetable mat ter. Secondly, that it is the result of Chrys talization. . The fqrmerjheory.isgenejaJy; received by Geologists from the following proof. I. Jet, (which is of vegetable origin) by be ing heated in a gun barret may be reduced to coal. l.lt is of a woody, fibrous nature. Vegetables are converted into coal by ihft united action, of moisture, pressure, heat ami exclusion of air. The heat is produced by vol canic action, either by the volcanic contemn be ing poured upon the vegetables, or by the in. lernal heal below. Different degrees of heai make different degrees of coal. The bitumtn- jt ous is made by the least degree of heat; An thracite may be made from the Bituminous, and tl Plumbago from the Antbracitc. The coal strata for the most part contain fresh water and terrestrial plants, and coal u L-t-i r t r i. (A prouAuty a if can waior lunuaiiuii. ii appear to have been deposited in tranquil waters. U occurs iu regular strata in any rocks below old ; sand stone. The Alpalachian system contains the An thracite and the Alleghany lhe Bituminous, ei-! lending to lhe West over an immense area. j o nave ine usual coai measures we siioui.; n t t i . . be elevated many hundred feet. There art- small deposites in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. No part of the werld equals Pentwl vania in coal beds. Here is found three kind. 1. Cannel; 2. Bituminous; 3. Anthracite, ft occupies a pari, or the whole of thirty out of fifty-four counties in that State. In Pennsylvania, one b'ed'of Antracite is 6) miles long, 2 wide, and 100 feet deep. The Antrhaciie regions lie in the N. E.ofiht Susquehanna; the principal fields of this de scription are three in number, with an aggre gate of 65 miles in length, and three unlet u breadth, embracing 624,000 square acres. The Bituminous region in Pennsylvania i still more extensive. The beds vary from on to twelve feet iu thickness. It abounds in ail the western counties except Erie, embracing j field of 700,000 square acres. Two million of tons are annually taken from these beds, equa. to one twelfth of what is annually taken fron all lhe other countries of Europe, and abof. equal lo lhal of France. In Maryland there are two fields, one of which embraces 400 square miles, the otheri of unknown extent. rvi t t ttt ? r a r . r. l ne uoai oeus in Virginia are irom iu iu. feel in thickness. Nearly all ihe S. E. part of Ohio U onewi field of Coal. Some places will yield 9.00C, 000 tons to a square mile, and there are note!) than 12,000 square miles of Coal. jj It is also found, in the N. E. part of Kentcc-j kv. in 13 counties in Tennessee, and in AM bama, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois, &c. N. Y. Jour, of CommcTU. The Debts of She Slates. It is difficult, says ihe N. York Expies.-,! state with precision what the amount of indetj edness of these seven non-paying States is.fcfj we believe with the interest added, and whicij has been increased for the last four years, may be safely set dowrr as follows : Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Indiana, 43,000,000 6.000,OOi 18,000,000 15,000.000 Illinois, Michigan. 6,000,000 7.000,000 17,000,000 i 112,000,000 At the lowest calculation. there is at least v .hundred and twelve millions of dollars hone1 due io creditors; a very large portion of is io .capitalists, abroad. A man in New Hampshire gave as a rM! for not voting for the abolition of capital ishrwent, thai all who deserved lo be hung01 move to 'New Hampshire, and'they had q1 enouch of thai class already .Exchange p?i A very sensible man, that. New Hafrf is a locofoco stronghold. An English papersays there is an establi3 mem in Essex for manufacturing sugar fa potatoes, and that I cwt. ol sugar can.bsn from 3 cwt. of potatoes. If this froveS l0j the casa, il wjll, furnish an addhinnal mo" formers to .turn ihajr, attention, more to tlu1 title of produce, fie. first iagisiatura of Pennsylvania tfca of rW.KW IfflQ: at Chester,- wat tfothwjri TlU mi'attaf lasted only1 j UBJ9, BW HMWl.lM.IMMing man i III iiuv.ii wim o, imri6wii uaf'm-"- . among Ukem. J -5 Ii Ft: Sl I c a u ist i or Iol E or Hi ft. pe klit lii ty iuI lani Mi kill nu ; S tail, lil invj T, heir ring 'ric. iera: urns Pi actu go r A 5ara 25( ih lay 16( 7Z IC ! 5 All l6 Hi r - - - Milfon
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