before she left us, printing upon my cheek the last pledge of a sister's love, ' Dear brother,! said she, a few months since, your influence .-Hatched me from the giddy paths that lead to death, and is now about to introduce me to the thomeofthe blessed. A few minutes, and I hall strike my golden harp, and swell my voice to tho anthems of the blood-washed, with my ;Saviour in glory. A few years, and I trust I shall be permitted to greet you and our parents all home in iriutnph.' With her head pillowed .in my bosom, her happy spirit took its flight to fairor climes, and brighter scenes. In less ahan twelve months, my dear parents both fol Jowed her. 1 need not detail the incidents of their happy exit. They bore a similar testi .inony; and, like her, crossed the raging flood in rapturous triumph. Thus, I have been left like the lonely oak that bends to the sweeping tempest of the mountain's top. The unbidden :tear of lonely grief sometimes escapes my eye, bin the cheering prospect of meeting all my ' kindred dear,' When a few more griefs I've tasted, When a few more springs are o'er,' dispels my gloom, and makes my sorrows light." My friend Edward is now on Zion's walls, a :faiihful and successful minister of the Gospel. .Not only his own kindred, but hundreds more of his spiritual children, will doubtless greet him home to resi. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, December 26, 1814. Terms, $1,00 :n ad ranee: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid bcfoie the end ol the vear. IT? V. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate -and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and No. 160 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jeffersonian Republican, and give receipts for the same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by arailing themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which his agency affords. To all Concerned. We would call the attention of some of our subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas ters, to the following reasonable, and well sei zed rules of Law in relation to publishers, to -the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not giie express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue to send them till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the officers to which they are -directed, they are held responsible till i hey have settled ihcir bill, and ordered their papers discontined. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their piper is sent to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 5. The courts hare decided that refusing to take a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. Our Difficulties with Mexico. There is no telling where the mad ambition of John Tyler, and his designing counsellors, will end; and into what difficulties (hey will plunge the country. Their audacious scheme of annexing Texas to the Union, is beginning 10 assume a most serious aspect, and may lead to an open rupture between Mexico and this government. This is no doubt the wish of the President and a majority of his Cabinet; for ra iher than be foiled in their nefarious efforts to wrest the territory of Texas from Mexico, we beliere they would bring upon us all the hor rors of an unjust and bloody war. That our readers may the better understand our present relations with Mexico, we will give a short summary of what has transpired since the ad journment of Congress, in June. About, the middle of May last, Santa Anna issued an order, in which he declared that it was the intention of Mexico to invade Texas, and resume the war between the two countries. Upon the strength of this declaration, Mr. Ty ler despatched Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, as Minister to Mexico, with instructions to protest against the proposed invasion of Texas, and particularly to the bloody manner in which it was proposed to be made. Mr. Shannon ful filled his instructions in a manner, which proves him to be entirely unfit for a diplomatic agent. Senor Rejon, the Mexican Minister of For eign Affairs replied, in an able communication, in Which he denied the right of the U. Slates, or any foreign government, to interfere in the affairs of that Republic. Mr. Shannon, in re-! ply, says thai tho Secretary's letter is highly offensive, as it-charges the United Slates, its government and people, with falsehood, tricke ry, intrigue and designs of the most dishonour able character. He also alleges that the com munication of the Senor Rejon is so gross in its character, and highly offensive, that he can only demand that it be at onco withdrawn. To this Senor Rejon replied with great warmth, treating the earlier part of iVlr. Shan non's correspondence as being supercillious and offensive, and justifying all that he has himself written. He professes that the Mexican Gov ernment has done, and is doing, all that it can to prevent a rupture with the United States, but that affairs have reached such a crisis that it is absolutely necessary for his government to speak out before the world. He therefore de clines to withdraw his communication. Upon the receipt of this last communication, Mr. Shannon temporarily suspended all his of ficial relations and intercourse with the Mexi can Govornment, and is now awaiting orders, as to his future course of conduct, from Wash ington. What those orders will be, it is diffi cult to tell. Mr. Tyler is still urging, with the most-desperate energy, his scheme of annexa tion, upon the consideration of Congress. Bills have already been introduced in the House and Senate to carry it through, and will be pushed to a vote as fast as possible. Upon this vote our Minister will be instructed to act, but wheth er it will be for good or evil to the country, re mains to be seen. Another Message. On the 18th inst , President Tyler transmit ted a special Message to Congress, in which he recapitulates all that has recently transpired between Mexico and this government. He de nominates the conduct of Mexico as being in violation of that courtesy and friendly feeling which should characterise the intercourse be tween the nations of the earth, and might well justify the United States in a resort to any measure to rindicate their national honor. But he affects to be actuated by a desire to promote peace; abstains from recommending to Congress a resort to measures of redress, and contents himself with re-urging upon that body prompt and energetic action on the subject of Annexa tion. By adopting that measure, he says, the United States will be in the exercise of an un doubted right; and if Mexico, not regarding that forbearance, shall aggravate the injustice of lier conduct hy declaring tear against us, upon her own head will rest ail the reaponsili ty ! The Message is an important affair, and was received with shouts of laughter in both Houses. A Little Squall. Tho Pennsylvania Electors, when they met at Harrisburg to cast their voles for President and Vice President, after performing their du ties, entered into a recommendation to Mr. Polk, to appoint James Buchanan, Secretary of State. This has given great offence to a large portion of the parly, in Pennsylvania, who denounce it as an unauthorized act of the Electors. They do not want to see their President elect thus honor a man who declared "that if he had a drop of democratic blood in his veins, he would let it out." Office Hunters. All Pukedom is now in commotion and ex pectancy to see who will be ihe recipients of Executive favor, and enjoy the fat offices in the gift of the President. Tho number of political pilgrims, who have wended their way to Ten nessee, to recount their services to Mr. Polk, is so great that he has been compelled to leave his own house, and engage apartments in the largest hotel in Nashville. The Whig papers generally are silent as to the struggles which the locos are now making for office; but if they were to follow the example of the universal lo co foco press, when Gen. Harrison was elei'a ted, and recount all the scenes which are rep resented to them, they would present a picture which would make every lover of his country weep for the deep degradation which has over taken us as a people. United Slates Senator. The Legislature will be called upon to elect a United Stales Senator at the approaching ses sion, to supply the place of the Hon. Daniel Sturgeon, whose term of .service will expire on the 4th of March next. The locos are busy in scheming for the honor. They have already set up more than half a dozen candidates, among which are David R. Porter. James M. Porter, Geo. W. Woodward, Wilson McCandless, and Daniel Sturgeon. They may have some diffi culty in effecting a choice. Thin shoes an article worn in winter by high spirited young ladies, who would rather die than conceal the' beaut.v of their feet. The Sub-Treasury. Our readers will no doubt be surprised to earn, that the locos of the House of Represen tatives, by a strict party vote, on Saturday last passed the twice condemned and odious Sub- I'reasury Bill. They contended that the peo ple at the late election had decided in its favor. What absurdity ! It was nowhere made an is- mi t C 1 . sue. l lie locos every wnere, were atraiu io broach it. They knew it had been a stumbling block in the way of Mr. Van Buren, and dared not fasten it on Mr. Polk. Where is the man either in Monroe or Pike County, who once heard it made the subject of political discussion during the past summer? And yet the party in Congress have the hardihood to say that the people hive decided in its favor ! Congress. During the past week, with the exception of the discussion and passage of the Sub-Treasury Bill, in the Mouse, Congress, has been the greater part of the time engaged in receiving Reports, and considering bills of a private and local nature. In the Senate, one day last week, a short but animated discussion arose, on the presentation of some petitions for the alteration of the Naturalization Laws. On Monday last the discussion of the Annexation Question was commenced in the House. Illness of a Kembcr. We learn from the Reading Journal, that James Hunter, Esq., a member elect to the Slate Legislature, from Berks county, is dan gerously ill, and will not be able to take hii seat. His disease s of a pulmonary character, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Trial of Abncr Parke. The trial of Abner Parke, for the murder of his brother, at Changewater, Warren County, in May 1843, was commenced at Belvidere on the 5th inst., and is not yet concluded. The testimony was closed on Friday last, and the Attorney's have been employed ever since in summing up. The Jury will probably render their verdict to-morrow or on Saturday. Swindled Pennsylvania. The Polk party of Sugarloaf, the banner town' of Luzerne county, Pa. had a Barbecue in honor of their triumph on the 26th ult. At this festival, they passed, amoug others, the fol lowing resolutions : "Resolved, That WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THE TARIFF OF 1842, and will do all in our power to sustain it, believing that it is well calculated to advance the best interests of the people of the Keystone State as well as the who!e.peoplc of the Union. It is a Tariff for Revenue and gives incidental PROTECTION to the real staples of this State. "Resolved, That THIS WAS THE ISSUE MADE AT THE POLLS on tho 1st day of November, and we are determined to recom mend such measures as were fully canvassed by the people at the election. We are opposed to Free Trade, and believe the country can not prosper if Free Trade principles are adopted. " Resolved, That we do hereby instruct our Representatives in Congress and in the Senate and Assembly of this State to vote for and use their influence to SUSTAIN the TARIFF of 1842." Their proceedings were directed to be pub lished in the Wilkesbarro Farmer and Tunk hannock Patrol, tho two nearest organs of their party. The Farmer omitted all the above Res olutions ; the Patrol did not publish at all ! There is some grace in this evident shame at the frauds which they have perpetrated on the People. Tribune. The locos and their allies, the Birney men, are never satisfied with any of Mr. Clay's trans actions. They now say that his emancipation of his servant Charles is of no account. Some of the loco papers assert that Charles is so old that he could not render any service to his owner; but we are of opinion that if he is not able to provide for himself, Mr. Clay will most willingly take care of him and moreover, al though a free man, we do not believe he de sires to leave Ashland. At all events, no one can doubt that Mr. Clay will be as ready to as sist Charles, who has served him faithfully, as he was to take care of Amos Kendall when in distress. The colored man, wo venture to as sert, will never disgrace himself by abusing his former master, as the white man, Kendall, has his benefactor. All we have to say to the self styled " Liberty party," is, ihat Mr. Clay vol untarily emancipated his slave Birney sold his. Forum. The State of Florida. The citizens of Florida are holding meetings and instructing their representative, Mr. Levy, to claim and demand its admission into the Union at the next session of Congress, in ac cordance with the rights secured to the inhabi tants of Florida by the treaty of cession. They also say that the Indians in that Territory mtjst be removed by the Government, and oinphati- cally declare that they are in favor of re-annex ing Texas. Assault on R5r. Adams. The National Intelligencer of yesterday says -A personal assault was made yesterday morning, in tho lobby of the House ol Repre sentatives, on Mr. Adams, the venerable Ex- President of the United States, by a person who is said, and may well be believed, to be under mental derangements. J he lollowing statement of this atrocious outrage has been furnished us by the Police Magistrate by whom the offender was examined and committed to answer the assault : " A great deal of excitement prevailed in our community in consequence of an attack being made at the Capitol upon the person of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, hy an individual named Thomas Sangster, whoeither in a fit of insanity, or under the influence of intoxication, attempted to commit an act of outrageous vio- olence on the Ex-President. The House was in session, when Sangster sent a message to Mr. Adams, by one of the pages, that a gentleman wished to see Mr. Ad ams in the lobby. Mr. A. then left his seat, and when he met Sangster, the latter, accost ing Mr. Adams, exclaimed, " You are wrong," and " I'll kick you," and made an attempt to seize him, upon which Mr. Adams took hold of Sangster by the wrists and endeavored to hold his hands," but had not strength to do so. j Sangster then attempted to stnke Mi. Adams in the face, but was prevented carrying out his assault lo the extent which he intended by the interposition of two or three bystanders and witnesses of this outrage. In the mean time Sangster left the House, but was soon after wards pursued with a view to his immediate arrest by the Sergeant-ai-Arms and his atten dants, bearing the mace of the House. The Sergeant-at-Arms did not, however, succeed in promptly overtaking Sangster, but the latter was arrested in a refectory on Pennsylvania xVvenue by officer Burr, under a warrant issued by James Thompson, on the affidavit of two witnesses, who saw the assault. The magis trate and officer immediately repaired to the House, when an affidavit being made in the speaker's room by the Hon. John Quincy Ad ams of the circumstances of the assault, Sangs ter was fully committed to prison for the want of the required security. We learn that Thomas'Sangster, the person who committed this gross assault upon Mr. Ad ams, keeps an agency office near the western termination of Pennsylvania Avenue, and is a native of Virginia." John Tyler has appointed Mr. Birney Mar shall (nephew of Jas. G. Birney,) P. O. Agent for the Southwest. Perfectly right. The Bir ney family ought to be well rewarded for their effective labors. Without their assistance, Lo cofocoism would now be sunk deeper than plummet ever sounded. Sussex Register. Tho Baltimore Clipper, in alluding to the re tirement of Henry Clay, very truly romarks : " Defeat cannot obscure his greatness, as a patriot, orator and statesman, nor obliterate the remembrance of the many distinguished ser vices which he has rendored to his country. The retirement of such a man is to bo regretted on public account to himself it must be relief." immigration. The following is an abstract from the official report of the'Dcpartment of the number of pas sengers that have arrived in the United States from forergn countries during the year ending Sept. 30, 1844. Maine, 3,649 New Hampshire, " 256 Massachusetts, , 6,440 Rhode-Island,- 154 Connecticut, 58 New-York, .. 59,762 Pennsylvania, 4,886 Delaware, 32 Maryland, 6,006 District of Columbia; 32 Vermont, ' " 197 North-Carolina, , ... , 5- South-Carolina, 320 Florida, 58 Louisiana, 3,889 Total. 84,764 48,897 of which 'were males, and 35,867 fe males. A snow storm commenced to the eastward on the 11th inst. which continued for 36 hours. At Greenpori, L. I. it covered the ground to the depth of from seven to ten feel ! Potatoes. Several thousand bushels have recently been imported lo this country, from France and England, and still larger quantities are expected by the packets to arrive during this moiyh and the next. They are staled lo bo of nn excellfitt quality, and readily command a fair price, A Wish. It is an idle phantasie, But could some fancy change My shape to what I'd choose to be, To something new and strange ; I'd not wish dove'3 light wingsnot I, Nor would I " be a butterfly 1" But to a form inanimate, Though full of life and song ; Which has no tongue yet tells its tales To many a happy throng : Which cannot walk yet, strange to tell, Legless it " runs" extremely well ! Now list ! ye gentles all to me, The secret I'll reveal And show the form which mine should be, Could I another's steal : I like bright eyes on me to look. And should have, were I Godey's Look! Oh ! it must be a pleasant thing To dwell in Beauty's hand, To look up in her lovely face, And tears or smiles command To charm her with a varied store Of melody and graceful lore ! Perhaps, upon her pillow lie From dark till morning bright Then watch the opening of her eye, And feel on me alight Her earliest glance, and I, all mute, Hear her voice sounding as a lute Or, trembling in her feeble hand, Upon some couch of pain, To cheer, while in her darken'd room, And bid her smile again ; Oh ! for such pleasant task to m?, 'Tis I, the Lady's Book would be! But Fairy times, ahs ! are pasa'd, I cannot change, I fear, But only be a Lady'3 Page Upon a page 'tis clear So, therefore, 'twas my pen I took To write these rhymes for Godey's Boos. J. II. D. Circular. The Temperance Associations of Pennsyl vania, of every description are hereby notified that in pursuance ot tne loiiowing nesuimion, i adopted at the State Convention, held at Hir rtsburg in January last, a State Temperance Convention will again be held at Harrisburg, on the Fourth. Wednesday, being the twenj second day of January next, 1845: l Resolved, That we recommend to all lbs Temperance Associations of this Common wealth to appoint Delegates to meet in Conre:. tion, in the Borough of Harrisburg, on the sec ond Wednesday of January 1845, and that ita said societies furnish the chairman of their re spective delegations with a report, embracing the names of their officers and the number members belonging to the Association, together with any other information they may think prop er to lay before the Convention." It is also earnestly requested that all Asso ciations which do not send Delegates to lis proposed Convention, address a letter, To ih President of the State Temperance Convents at Harrisburg, containing the information de sired by the resolution above stated: so tin1. satisfactory Temperance Statistics, of the whoii Commonwealth, may thus be had. Note. Owing to the meeting of the Lcgn lature, the second Wednesday of January, day fixed .by the last Convention for the tier. Annual Meeting,) the Central Committee hi deemed it advisable to change the time to tw Fourth Wednesday, being the twenty-sect of said month. JOHN C. BUCHER, Chairma State Central CommiM Prcservai'iou of Iron. As iron enters so extensively into tho c'5' struction of nearly all the implements of 3Sr'' culturo, as well as almost every tool used irttk arts, the preservation of the metal from the:" jurious effects of rusi : or corrosion in watc' has for a long time teceived the attenu"f scientific and practical men. It was founds experience, that the ordinary paints and varnish 6 win jr ct u uiui J 'o r when onco tho paint began to decay, ft ed rather than retarded the progress, of decs; In the tenth volume of Reports of the Bn'J Association it is stated that by the direction the Association, Dr. Hallet,, of Dublin, ha perinteuded a series of experiment, in every kind of paint, oil and varnish, was apr ' to kind of iron, immersed in various kmfr running water, for two- years, the result which prove that coal tar boiled", and U the iron while hot, has over all other preps' tion This discovery is of much consequent as iron vessels are so rapidly and extensive coming into use. Mr. George Barber, late of Sherburne, Mj5 wore ihe same pair of calfskin boots consta"1 to meeting for fifty-four years. They must moil have possessed. " immort souls
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