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.
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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