If is an extremely grave one in its consequences, not to the creditor, only, but the future character of :the State; and it requires for its safe decision, a areful examination of our fiscal condition, inclu 1 ng our prospective income and liabilities, which 1 have not had the means of making. The con sideration of tin's whole subject will be among the earliest and most interesting of my oflicial duties, and I shall hasten to submit to the Legislature the views to which it may conduct me. Meanwhile, gentlemen, 1 pledge myself to you to the good people of the State, and to all its creditors, that on my part nothing shall be left undone, within the constitutional competency of the Executive, to ensure the prompt, exact and full payment of all the dues of Pennsylvania. I congratulate you, gentlemen, on the general prosperity of our constituents. It is impossible to look out upon our Commonwealth, without recog nizing our indispensable obligations to the Author of Good. A genial and healthful climate a soil fertile of agricultural productions, yet pre-eminently abounding in mineral wealth a hardy and in telligent population a government of the people themselves, that secures to industry, enterprize and skill, their appropriate rewards these, by His benignant care, have borne us up under con centrated trials, which might have crushed an ol der but less favored community. Let us be true to ourselves, that His blessing may abide with us. Fll'S R. SHUNK. Harrisburg, Jan. 21, IS 15. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, January 30, 845. Terms, $2,00 tn advance: $2.25, naif rcarly; and $2,50 if not paid befoic the end of the rear. (Lf5 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 availing themselves of the op portunities for advertising in country papers which his ageney 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 set tled rules of Law in relation to 'publishers, to ihe pa'.tons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not ghe express no tice io the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue io send ihern till all arrearages are paid. -3. If subscribers neglect or refuse so take their papers from the officers to which they are directed, they are held responsible till they hare settled their bill, and ordered their papers disconiined. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their paper is ent 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. Gov. Shuiik'g Inaugural. We present our readers, on the first page of to-day'B paper, with the Inaugural Address of Francis R. Shunk. It is a very unsatisfacto ry production, and has caused much disappoint ment throughout the Commonwealth. The Governor seems to act upon the non-committal principle. He passes by most of the important questions of Slate policy, and expediency, such as Protections our Coal and Iron Trade, the Annexation of Texas, Stc, without a single re mark. In regard to the State Debt, he says a few words, but they fall like a blight over the newly awaked hopes of our people, that the long night of gloom which has hung over us was to give plac.e to belter days. Gov. Porter, in his annual message, and the State Treasurer, in his annual report of the fi nances of the State, congratulated us, that there was money enough in the Treasury to pay the February interest on the public debl, and thai the probable income would enable the State to meet all her liabilities punctually hereafter. Mr. Shunk, however, expresses doubts on this subject ; and says he must first examine into ie matter himself, before he can agree to an immediate payment of the State Interest. As he first of February is near at hand, we may regard this new obstacle, thrown in the way of payment, by the new Governor, as tantamount to an announcement that our creditors must Hgain go without receiving their next semi-an nual interest and that too in the face of a re port from the Treasury Department, which allow it fullv able to pay them. This is wropg, and will injure the credit of the State more than any previous blow it has received. Wo trust, Mr. Shunk, will see the expedien cy of accelerating the payment of our interest, and throw no obstacles in the way thereof. A punctual payment of our obligation's will soon restore our fallen credit and as that is so much desired, surely the Executive should do every thing in his power to bring it about. The rest of the address contains nothing of importance, except an expression of opinion that all stock holders should be made personally responsible for the joint liabilities of their partners. The State Administration. Gov. Shunk was duly inaugurated on tho 2 1 st inst., and is now fully invested with all the powers of office. He has already appointed the following gentlemen as his cabinet officers. Hon. Jesse Miller, of Perry county, Secreta ry of the Commonwealth. Henry Petrikcn, Esq., of Centre, Deputy Secretary. John K. Kane, Esq., of Philadelphia, Attor ney General. These appointments are far from giving gen eral satisfaction. They were all hostile to Gov. Porter, and are considered as an indica tion that Mr. Shunk intends to proscribe all that cx-uigniiary's friends. As soon as Mr. Polk is inaugurated, and the offices doled out to the hungry expectants ; we may look for stormy times, both at Harrisburg and Washing ton, among the two factions of the harmonious locofocos. Annexation. The drill-sergeants of the locofoco party, have at length succeeded in bringing a suffi cient number of their members in the House of Representatives to agree to a Resolution for the purpose of annexing Texas to the United States, and passing it through that branch of Congress. The debate on the subject was closed on Sat urday last, and on tho same day the Resolution was passed by a vole of 120 yeas to 9S nays. It is an amendment of the original Resolution, offered by Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, proposed by Milton Brown, of Tennessee, and provides that the territory to be annexed shall be formed in to five States; some to be free and others not. It also leaves Texas her own lands, and to pay her own debt It is said, that if this Resolu tion should even pass the Senate, Texas will never agree to it. How thai will be, however, we cannot say. Our acknowledgements are due R. Eldred, Esq., for his polite and early transmission io us, of valuable public documents. Appointment by 6cr. Slmnk. Maxwell M'Caslin, Esq. of Greene county, as Aid-de-Camp tn his Excellency, with the rank and title of Lieutenant Colonol in the mi litia. Appointments by the Canal Board. David Watson, Esq. to be Superintendant of Motive Power and of Repairs, on the Alleghe ny and Portage Railroad, io take effect from and after the 3d day of February next. Collectors. Charles H. Williams, at'Easton. William R. Burton, at New Hope. Isaac Vanhorn, at Bristol. John Youngman, at Northumberland. Thomas Shannon, at Blairsvile. James Fearon, at Dunnsbttrg. Weigh'Mastcrs. Charles H. Williams, at Easlon. Patrick H. Mahon, at Columbia. Francis Basler who has for some time been confined in the Wyoming county Jail for the murder of his brother-in-law, had his death-warrant read to him on Wednesday last. He swore he would never be hung, and according ly during the fore part of the evening he broke jail and escaped. He passed through Carbon- dale about five o'clock on Thursday morning, coming here in a sleigh wiih two other persons. He took his way from here on the cars, leav ing his company to drive on which way they liked. Baslar is a Scotchman is tall and stoutly built has but one eye, and a scar on one side of his cheeks. Carbondale Mirror. It is stated on the authority of the minutes of the Methodist General Conference, that there are one hundred and thiriy-scven thousand col ored members of the Methodist Church in the slave-holding Stale.s, and eight thousand, three hundred and forty-five in all the non-slave holding Stales. The Columbia (S. C.) Chronicle, referring to the duel between Messrs. Clingman and Yau- cy,-says "Yancy is the same person who shot down his uncle. in the streets of Greenville, in this State, a few years ago. He afterwards emigrated to Alabama, and is now a member of Congress." I1 Most of jhe members of the Kentucky Legis lature are temperance men. Pennsylvania JLepisIa tnre. Harrisburg, Jan'y 22, 18-15. Very little business was transacted in either House after closing my letter of 12 o'clock, there being an evident disposition to stave oil for a few days the important bills now pending. In the Senate, the bill relative to the Delaware Insurance Company, which was under consid eration, was postponed for one week ; alter which a resolution was offered by Mr. Champ neys and adopted, calling upon i he Auditor General and Slate Treasurer to furnish the Sen ate with tho amount of taxes due and outstand ing whether the taxes assessed in 18-14 and yet uncollected, are included in the late esti mate of outstanding taxes, and what amount has becmcollected and paid into the Treasury from the additional one mill tax authorized to be col lected by the act of April last. The object of4iho resolution h to enable ihe Senate lo form a more correct estimate of the receipts for the present year, that they may thus determine what measures to adopt in re lation to the payment. of the February interest. It is now generally thought here thai an effort will be made so to modify the bill now before the Senate, as to provide for the payment of about half the interest; and it is also stated that this is in accordance with the views of the Go vernor. In the House, the bill for ihe appointment of a reporter for the Supreme Court, was adopted, with numerous amendments, providing for the salary of the reporter (1600 dollars per annum,) the publication and sale of ihe decisions, &c. The now State Treasurer enters upon his duties on Monday next. January 23, 1845. After the presentation of petitions, memorials, &c. against the consolidation of the city and district government for a change in the license law, and for the abolition of capital punishment a joint resolution was offered by Mr. Darsie, suspending the payments on domestic creditors certificates. The amount yet unpaid of the sum appropriated for this object by the last Legisla ture is something over $100,000, but for the purpose of meeting the February interest, pay-i ments have been refused for a considerable lime, although without aulhority of law: and the ob ject of the resolution is, while it legalizes the suspension, to rjroveni the new State Treasurer from resuming the payment of these certificates, thus lessening the amount, that it will probably be necessary to apply to the payment of inter est. A motion to proceed to the immediate consideration of the resolution was lost yeas 13, nays 19 after a few words in opposion to the motio'n by Messrs. Champneys and Steri gere; but those few words were sufficient to array the majority against it, and the vote may furnish an indication of what will be the fate of the bill. The nomination of Luther Kidder as Presi dent Judge of the 21st Judicial District, was then taken up in executive session, and consid erable (febate has arisen upon it. Although un decided as yet, there is no doubt but the nom ination will bo confirmed. In the House, this being petition day, a very large number were presented, when several lo cal bills were taken up and passed, as was also the resolutions of instruction relative lo the armed occupation of Oregon. Mr. Bayard read in place three bills with the following titles : A Supplement to the Act to Incorporate tho Insurance Company of North America; a Supplement to the Act establishing the District Court for the' City and County of Philadelphia; and a Bill relating to the appoint ment of Trustees in Orphans' Courts. Mr. Hollingshcad read in place a supplement to the act of last session relative to the Militia. The bill is calculated to promote the formation of a Rifle Regiment in the 1st Division. The resolutions of instruction in favor of the distribution of the proceeds of ihe Public Lands, was then taken, up, and is now under consider ation. The nomination, of Judge Kidder, has been confirmed. Yeas 2G, nays 6. After confirming the nomination of Luther Kidder, the Senate took up that of Hopewell Hepburn, to be an Assistant Judge of the Dis trict Court of Allegheny, and Perciphcr Lemon to bo an Associate Judge for the county of Wy oming; both of which were unanimously con firmed. January 24, 1845. In the Senate a large number of petitions, &c,, were presented. In the House, the bill passed at the lust ses sion providing for tho redemption of the over issue of the. Berks County Bank, and which had been vetoed by Gov. Porter, ai the com mencement of tho present -session, was taken up and after being debated for considerable time, passed by the constitutional majority of two-thirds. It will doubtless also pass the Senate, and brcoqje a Jaw in spite of the veto Jan. 25, 1845 Iu the Senate to-day Mr. Crabb, in place, introduced a bill to divide Cedar Ward. Mr. Biglerand Mr. Chapman each presented memorials for the confirmation of Judge Burn side. On the question of referring these me morials, the Senate agreed to go into Executive session, and the nomination was then confirmed 31 to 1. In the House, Mr. Bingham, from the Judi ciary Committee, reported a bill relative to fu gitive slaves and slavery. Mr. Smith. Chairman of the Jndiary Com mittee, reported that the bill for the appoint ment of a Public Counsellor be negatived; and against the proposition to extend to the courts jurisdiction to legitimize childrenchange names of persons, &c. Mr. Trego, in place, introduced a bill to re duce the capital of the Girard Bank. The order of tho day was the Tariff resolu tion!. The question pending was the amend ment offered by Mr. Smith of Berk?, against an U. S. Bank, and expressing confidence in our Senators. Mr. Bingham had the floor, and he opposed the amendment at length and with much ability. He was followed by Mr. Shu man, after which the subject was postponed to take up the bill from the Senate to suspend the payment of domestic, creditors' scrip, until the interest on Stale stock be paid. This bill at once passed committee of the whole, Mr. Por ter in the chair. On second reading ii was opposed by Mr. Burnall, and supported with great ability by Mr. Bayard and Mr. Burnside, who called the pre vious question. This call was sustained', 57 lo 34; and the bill passed final reading, 75 to 16. On motion of Mr. Hazzlehurst, the bill to continue the District Court of Philadelphia was taken up, and the same passed final reading. Jan. 27, 1845. Numerous petitions were presented for and ! against the consolidation of the incorporated districts of Philadelphia; for such an alteration of the Constitution as shall require 21 years' residence to entitle io ihe right of suffrage ; change of license laws, &c. Mr. Kennedy laid upon the table, a resolu tion io meet at 9 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Hilands offered a resolution, calling for information relative to the expenses of ihe Ju ciary, and one instructing the Judiciary Com mittee to report a bill to pay Associate Judges and Judicial officers, proportionate to the duties they discharge. A Bill to enable trustees and guardians to purchase in certain cases, is now before the House. In Senate, considerable discussion arose upon the subject of the State Library. The joint Library Committee having on Saturday removed H.K. Strong, Esq. a very gentlemanly and com petent officer, and put in his place Dr. Seth Sa lisbury, who is not regarded as very competent, and whose appointment, at any rate, does not give satisfaction. The subject was brought up so as to prevent him taking possession. They finally passed a bill to take an inventory of the books, and to require bail for their safe keeping. Executive nominations Andrew Arnold, of Armstrong Co., confirmed as Associate Judge ; Jacob Heintzinger, Esq., of Schuylkill county, do. The nomination of David Kidder as Pres ident Judge, in place of Judge Burnside, was also taken up, but then postponed at the request of Mr. Chapman, until Saturday next: The Senato then proceeded to the consider ation pf the bill to repeal the act requiring the RevenucCommittee to meet at Harrisburg to equalize the taxes which is now under con sideration. Death of "Blue Dick" Tho celebrated raceru"Blue Dick," who has pushed "Fash ion" harder than any animal on tho turf, died recently at Carrolton, La. It is supposed he was poisoned. We believo he was never beat en in a three mile race. Gov. King. Gov. King, of Rhode Island, has had his accounts adjusted, by a committee of the legislature, and is shown to be the cred iior and not tho dehtor, of the State. Anti-Ground Rent Excitement in Lan caster. An anti-rent excitement has sprung up in Lancaster, Pa. An agent of tho Hamil ton estate arrived in that place last week lo collect ground-rents, when some persons col lected, formed i procession and waited upon him at his hotel, but were unable to procure an interview. They then resolved that they would pay no more ground-rent, which was received with acclamation. It was in the same county that the meeting was recently held, at which they resolved not to pay any more State taxes unless tho Stato government should reform and its representatives grow more honest. From the Saturday American, Taie money Ittarliet. January 2 1st, 18 15, Nothing has ever more clearly and signal, demonstrated the value of character, than ih'e total absence of impression, which attended the Message of Governor Porter, announcing iml,e most positive and unequivocal terms, the pay ment of ihe February interest on the State Debt. Between the conflict of doubful and op posite opinions, that had so long agitated the public mind and caused the prices of Stocks to fluctuate from day to day, according as every new rumor changed its color, it was natural to expect that positive assurances of payments from the Governor would give it an impulse up. ward of at least 10 per cent. Yet, contrary to all the common sense of similar events, the Stock declined and fell off from one to three and four dollars per share, the moment the mes sage arrived to settle the question. But how settle it? By a conviction ihe very opp3ite of that designed by the message. The mo ment the Governor announced the payment, t:.e public were convinced it would not be paid! Nothing fair, clear, and frank attended his ex position of ihe financial relaiions of the State. Every syllable of vain glory and false logic, ap peared to have been devised for some ulterior purpose, apart and distinct from the facta of ths case. He was about to retire from office, and he became ambitious of making his exit in a blaze of glory : so that the world should vv with the song that D R. Porter had retries I the credit of the State ! Vanity and amhi-o had spurred him on to plausible mtarep'esen a lions, whose effect was to still further depr? ciate his own character for double decline, du plicity and sinister motives ; so that even tie tattered skirt of reputation, that accident hil left him became soiled and torn in his futile struggles to rise to the eminence of the patriot. fhe precious value of the beautiful simplicity" of truth, as an element of public character, a well as private, was seldom illustrated in so re markable a manner, by a palpable exhibition of the contrary qualities, and furnished a commen tary on the man, who while claiming the mem of renovating the credit of the State of Penn sylvania, coolly confessed that during hi ad ministration," the debt had been augmented to eleven millions by the accumulation of cot.- Character is never worth so much, as in t'.e financial transactions of a country. We down mean the mere honesty of payment of a money debt, which, in itself is a shining virtue, hi that honesty, which, under all circumstances, discloses an unspotted frankness of Saul, wh:ca no temptation can induce to conceal a fact, or pervert the truth. A Governor, fashioned oa the model of old times integriiy, who has no object to influence his conduct, but the endunrj fame that crowns an honest and faithful d.s- charge of duty who looks to his conscience, and his God only, for council, advice, and sug gestions, will hold a precious remembrance ia the hearts of the latest posterity, and achieves renown, far exceeding all the value of gold, sil ver, and rich possessions. Such a Chief .Ma gistrate, Pennsylvania has long wanted. ArJ may we not cherish a hope, that the example of the contrast to such a one, bringing down 03 his head universal censure, and muttered scor will nnnralp tn 5nfliifni thp. snrrnssors of T- ..... R. Porter, to puisue a policy at ouce lofty, hoc- orable, frank, and patriotic having but oc? great object in view : the fame, interest, an. knnnr lC Prt,nofltfirio ? Tt rcrmtfl tip IO sIjB' 11 W 1111 Ui A I V Ulf iU l 1 WWII fw der the genius of our free Institutions, to doui- the ultimate consummation of such a wisti. Januarv 24, 1S45. On the very eve of the day fixed by law,. the navmenl of the semi-annual interest on State Debt, we are enveloped by as much & certainty, in regard to the available funds Treasury of the Commonwealth, as prevail one year aso. Never before did a cloud of st1 mystery, obscure ihe financial resources 0! Republican Government. Ignorance it car' be termed, for it equally pervades the Lec ture, now in session the Executive, now -m parted (thank God I !) to ihe shades of pr-" life the new Governor, now inducted w'o( fice ihe State Tieasurer the oflicial ne papers, and alt' who cither oughi to know seek to know, the exact condition of our fe cial relations. All who discuss the subject,1 fer on points essential to exact knowledge-' One journal makes an exact calculation by ures, which never deceive, to prove, that on -1st of February, there will bo in the Trea' only $2CO,000, to pay one million I ' Tins c dilation, is, however, immediately overiu'" by a counter statement, based on the uce tinction of a fiscal year and an App"'Pri1 year the latter terminating in June IS-3-1 the former in January ! ! but without ie us, how the distinction of lime, can make ntf moro, or less abundant in the hvnls tfc