m JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, February 13, 1845. Terms, $?,00 in ad v.incc: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid bcfoio the end of the vcar. 05 V. JJ. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and No. 1(50 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jcffersonian 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 agency affords. To all. Concerned. We wouid call the attention of some of our subscribers, and especially cejtain Post Mas ters, to the following reasonable, and well set tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not gie 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 fiend i hem 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 they have 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 have 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. To our Subscribers. No paper was issued from this office last week. The neglect was occasioned in conse quence of indisposition, which confined us to our bed, and prevented us from giving our labor and attention to the paper. We hope this will be received as a sufficient apology for our de linquency. The Whig Aiuianac. We have received a few copies of this ex cellent periodical for the year 1845, which may be had on application at this office. Besides the usual matter of an Almanac, it contains Washington's Farewell Aaddress, the Consti tution of the U. Stales, the Declaration of Inde pendence, the official vote of all the States, at the late Elections,the Tariff of 1842, a Register of all the officers, civil, military and naval, in the employ of the U. Stales, and much other valuable reading. It is valuable to men of all parties, and no one should be without a copy. Price only 12 1-2 cents. Our New Judge. We noticed in our last, the confirmation of the Hon. Luther Kidder, as President Judge of the 21st Judicial District, by the Senate. The nomination was strongly opposed by sev. eral Senators, among whom was Jefferson K. Heckman, of Northampton. A Resolution to abolish the new District, and petitions from several of the Bar's in the District, against the confirmation, were all urged without effect. When the vote was taken but five nays were recorded againsi him. We hope Judge Kidder, will make an acceptable presiding officer in our Courts and that those who opposed his nom ination will not have cause to regret his acces sion. Adjournments. Congress will adjourn on the 4th of March, the day that James K. Polks Inaugurated Pres ident. The resolution for the adjournment of the Le gislature of this State, says the Pcnn'a. Tele graph, which had passed the House, was a mended in the Senate on the 5th, fixing the time on the 25th of March, and passed. Congress. The Texas and Oregon Bills have both pass ed ihe House, but neither of them have yet been acted upon in the Senate. Much speculation exists as to their fate in this conservative branch of our national council ; but nothing certain is known. A few weeks more, and we shall know whether we are to have Texas annexed, and the Oregon Territory occupied, or not. The Senate has ere .this probably passed the Postage Reform Bill. I was ordered to a third reading on Saiurday. This Bill fixes the rate of letter postage at five cents, a single letter, for all dis tances. We hope it may pass the House also. We have not learned the other particulars of the Bill. A Special 3Iessaffe. On Wednesday a week, Gov. Shunk, in ful filment of the promise made in his Inaugural Address, transmitted a Special Message to the Legislature, embodying his views on the finan ces of the Commonwcalih. It is too long to be published entire in the Jcffersonian, and we thereforeconieni ourselves with giving a few of its statements, which will convey to our rea ders a good idea of the whole. He puts down the public debt, including the certificates for interest which have been issued sinco August 1842, at $40,703,866 89. On this, the interest for the year 1845,Vill be $2, 035,013 56. , The eniirb receipts into the Treasury during the past year, from the Stale Tax, profits of the Public Works, and the ordinary revenue of government was $1,759,514 91. During the same period the ordinary expenditures of gov ernment, and the interest on the State Debt, amounted to $2,521,613 93 showing a deficit of $762,099 02, or in other words, the expen ditures were $762,099 02 more than the re ceipts. No interest, however, was paid in 1844, but the money was applied to the liqui dation of oihcr claims, such as the Domestic Creditors, Cancellation of Relief Noies, &c, so that on the 1st of December last the amount in the Treasury was reduced to $663,851 88. Since then, to trie 26th of January, it has been swelled to the amount of $901,702 32. From this sum the Governor deducts $67,567 22, as unavailablojunds; thus leaving the actual bal ance in the Treasury, $834,135 10. To this he adds $15,000, aB likely to come in between January 26, and February 1 making the toial available sum $849,135 10. This, the Governor says, will not be suffi cient to pay the February installment of inter est by $122,260 80. He then gives an esti mate of the probable receipts into the Treasu ry, between this time and the 1st of August, which he sets down ai $679,959 32. The ex penditures for the same period, in the event of a full payment of interest on the 1st of Februa ry, he sets down at $490,159 56 this would leave a balance of but 189,799 26 in the Treas ur, to meet the payment of the August interest, which he says will be $900,000. On the strength of this blundering and dis crepant statement, the Governor says, " If I am correct in the views I have taken, it is appa rent we are not yet prepared to resume the pay ment of our interest in full, and to continue the payment punctually hereafter." He then goes on further to argue the matter, and from the whole tenor of his remarks, gives the Legisla ture to understand, that he wishes to keep a full Treasury and let the interest remain unpaid, al though the State, and our people, should be dis honoured in consequence. How this unfair and dishonest Message was received by the Le gislature, may be seen by the following article. The February Interest. The Legislature of Pennsylvania, by a unan imous vote, has consummated a most glorious act. In the teeth of Gov. Shunk'a Inaugural Address and his Special Message, our Repre sentatives have nobly sustained the ctedit of the State, and done themselves incalculable honour, by passing a Bill to pay the February interest on the public debt. It passed both Houses on Friday a week. In the Senate, the vote stood yeas 31 , nays 0 Sterigere, of Mont gomery county refusing to vote. In the House, yeaB 95, nays 0. This unanimous, and un looked for action, on the part of the Legislature, staggered even the Governor himself, and not withstanding his unremitting and persevering efforts to have the time for payment postponed, he signed the Bill. This is a great moral tri umph of honesty over a systematic effort, on the part of men, in high places, to do wrong. It is unfortunate for Mr. Shunk, that thus, in the outset of his administration, and in the full vigour of his influence, with strong loco foco majorities in each House, he should have risked a measure, which the newness of his ad ministration, the great power of his influence, and his party strengih in the Legislature, could not have enabled him to cary through. Such a complete failure we never heard of before and for a man of Mr. Shunk's aspiring nature, it must be as gall and wormwood. But it is right thai he has thus been rebuked. He was elected under a pledge to reform the extrava gant abuses of Government; and his first act was an attempt to commit a greater outrage than had ever been perpetrated by his predecessor. His power, however, failed him, and he now stands before the world exposed in the worst light. We hope it may prove a salutary lesson to him, and that hereafter he will take no step which may subject him to a4siniilur mortifica tion. Congress within a few years pasl has voted away $687,600 for books, &c, the greater part of which has been received, by the members. Snow Storm. The snow storm which we experienced here last week, extended over a large portion of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Dela ware, Maryland, all tho New England States, and perhaps some of the Western ones. It was terribly severe all over. The snow drift ed, filled up the roads, and cut off communica tion, in every direction, for several days. Such a severe storm has not been experienced for some years. The Oregon Question. This important question, which was made one of the issues in the late Presidential Cam paign but about which few of the persons who voted in favor of Mr. Polk, knew any thing has occupied the attention of the Lower House of Congress, since the termination of the Texas Question, and on Saiurday a week was dispos ed of. The Bill provides for the establishment of a Territorial government, to be called Ore gon, extending from the 42d to the 54th degree 20 minutes Norih Latitude, in which Slavery shall not exist. At present a portion of this Territory is jointly claimed and occupied by England and ihe United Slates and should this Bill become a law, it is believed by many that tho friendly relations now existing between the two countries -would immediately become overcast and be destroyed. What makes the matter worse for us is, that negotiations are now on foot between England and this country to settle the boundaries. A loco foco Congress, however, is willing lo peril tho peace of the country in preference to waiting a few months to see what a Treaty might effect. Abuse of the Pardoning Power. The House of Representatives, at Harrisburg, recently passed a Resolution calling upon the Secretary of tho Commonwealth, for a full list of all the pardons granted by Gov. Porter, du ring his administration. The Secretary has since replied ; and we gather from his commu nication, that the number is eight hundred and one; of which fifty-three were granted before trial and conviction. Such a wholesale release of rascals, we are prepared to say was never before made by anyGovernor and it is a dis grace, not only to the unworthy defunct, but al so to the people who elevated him to a station which afforded him the power of doing it. Criminals, of every grade, who had still long terms of imprisonment to undergo, have thus been liberated, and are now free to renew their depredations on society, and place the lives and property of our citizens in jeopardy. But our complaints are unavailing. The evil has been done, and cannot bo remedied and our only consolation is, that the unworthy officer who thus outraged the moral sense of the com munity has passed from office forever. Mr. Polk's Administration. In less than three weeks from this date, the unfortunate reign of Tylerism will end, and the new star of democratic principles will rise to shed its effulgence'over the land. Ere then, James K. Polk, the man who never did tho country any important service in the Council hall or tented field, will assume the helm of government, and guide ihe ship of State. Wo have no hopes of the new administration ; and will not therefore be disappointed at any thing it may recommend or do. Mr. Polk, himself, is a third rate man, with very contracted and limited views of statesmanship he is, more over, thoroughly imbued with Southern notions, and will contend to the last for the advance ment of Southern interests. His Cabinot will be filled with men of like character. John C. Calhoun, is to remain as Secretary of State, Gen. Robert Armstrong, of Tennessee, will be his Post Master General ; and the other situa tions are already promised to such individuals as are certain to act in concert with them and their chief. How utterly unfit such an admin istration will bo to carry on tho government, and dispose of the deeply important questions which they will be called to act upon, the read er may readily imagine. We apprehend the worst consequences from the rule of such men. One Hundred Mormons Shot ! The western Illinois and Iowa papers of the 14th January bring- reports that the party of Mormons who recently left Nauvoo for the pur pose of settling in the Pinery,' (high up the Mississippi Riier) have all been murdered! Having got into a dispute at a French trading establishment about the price of some provisions which they thought exorbitant, they unceremo niously helped themselves to whatever they wanted; which so exasperated the Frenchmen that they called in the aid ol the Indians, and massacred 100 of the Mormon party, amount ing in all to 3 or 400. The Green Bay Re publican gives the same report. JJThe discount on relief notes in Philadel phia, ranges from five. t,p ten per cent, JDesiructioiiof the rewlrorl Tribune Office. Between four and five o'clock on Wednesday morning, the large five story brick building,. 160 Nassau street, occupied by the Now York Tri bune as a printing and publishing office, and by Jansen & Bell's bookstore, was totally destroy ed by fire, together with the small building ad jacent to tho corner of Nassau and Spruce street, occupied below as a groggery, and above as a printing office. The building on the eas terly side or the Tribune building, was damaged. The fire originated in the publication office of the Tribune, and it is said to have been oc casioned by the carelessness of a boy who was employed to kindle the fire. A portion of the publication office of the Tri bune, was occupied by Mr. Win. II. Graham, a periodical agent, who lost not only his whole stock, but $450 in specie and paper, and a val uable gold watch. Mr. Graham slept in the second story, and saved his life by jumping from tho window, which he did without injury. A lad in his employ also sprang from the win dow, without material injury, the depth of snow breaking the force of his fall. Messrs. Greely & M'Elrath, proprietors of the Tribune, have published a card, in which they state that their printing materials were en tirely destroyed, together with all their stock of books, including Clay's Life and Speeches, Farnharm's Orogon, &c. The plates of the Whig Almanac, being in another office, wete preserved. The account books, mail books, &c. of the Tribune, were in a safe in the cellar, and it is hoped, will have passed through the fiery ordeal, without harm. It will be impossible to recover them for a day or two, on account of the heat of the ruins. Tho publication office of the Tribune is temporarily transferred to 30 Ann street. Messrs. G. & McE. were partly insured. Messrs. Jansen & Bell's loss is stated al about $8000, and their insurance about $4000. In the adjoining building on Spruce street, No. 3, was tho office of a German paper called the Schnellpost. This building was partially damaged. The editors of the Schnellpost have published a Card in which they speak of their establishment having been " destroyed," but say they shall resume the publication, as soon as ihe necessary arrangements can be made. The buildings were owned by Mr. Thomp son Price, and partly insured. We annex an extract from the card of Messrs. Greely & M'Elrath, proprietors of the Tribune : The publishers of the Tribune having lost all their materials by the fire this morning, ask the forbearance of their patrons and the public for a few days. Through the kindness of friends, they expect to be able to issue some sort of a paper to-morrow, and thence regularly each morning and evening. Our pecuniary loss is in part covered by insurance, and we shall soon present our paper on new type, and in a style which will evince that we have lost nothing of energy or spirit by our sudden calamity. Un less our mail books are destroyed, (which can not be known for a day or two, until our safe can be dug from the ruins,) we shall recommence serving our daily mail subscribers in a day or two, and our weekly next week. We desire to return our heartfelt thanks to those Firemen, who, in defiance of the most furious storm dragged their engines through streets impassible by ordinary efforts, and des perately, though vainly, struggled to save some portion of our property. Had the fire occurred on any other night of the last two years, these efforts must have been successful. To the pub lishers of the Express, American, Mirror, Morn ing News, Sun, Herald, and Evening Post, who have generously placed their offices at our disposal, and to our many personal friends who have tendered us every aid in their power, we tender our grateful acknowledgments. May the day bo far distant when we shall have an opportunity to reciprocate this kindness! Something for Americans. At Dublin, on Tuesday evening, Dec. 3, there was a dinner of tho Orphan Charity So ciety, at which Mr. O'Connell presided. At this meeting, says the London Spectator, the Rev. Mr. Moriarty of Philadelphia, (now in Ire land to collect funds for rebuilding churches in that city) boasted that Mr. Pol!; had been elect ed President " by the unUed spirit of Irishmen"- " 1 his was a subject perhaps of more conse quence to Irishmen than they imagined ; for tney naa lor the last two years their monster meetings at New York, at Georgia, and else where. The priest and laymen met, and pour ed out their prayers for tho welfare of this country. Forty thousand Irishmen in America and they were still alive were pledged the moment that one drop of Repealer's blood was shed in Ireland, to rush into Canada and rescue it jrom British Dominion." (Loud and prolong ed cheering.) Counterfeits. Beware of $1 bills Massachusetts Bank, al tered to $10.- They read " the Massachusetu Bank promises to pay ten dollar" the bem cut off. Caution. Altered notes of the Slate Bank at Newark, (ones to tens) are in circulation letter D., payable to E. Bolles, and dated Janu ary 1, 1844. They are well done. In ,fj0 words ten dollars on demand, the word on is left out. Several of them, we understand, have been passed in the neighborhoodofTrentonbyatxan rf who purchased cattle and other stock. Abolitionists in Southern Prisons. Seven persons from the North arc now Southern prisons for assisting Slaves to run away from their masters, Thompson, Work and Burr are in Missouri penitentiary under sen lence for 12 years; Rev. C. T. Torrey, of Mas. sachuseits, in the penitentiary of Maryland for 6 years; Delia A. Webster, of Ferrisburgh, Vt. in the penitentiary of Kentucky for 2 years; Jonathan Walker, of Harwich, Massachusetts, in prison in the Territory of Florida for -years; and Mr. Boyd in the penitentiary of S. Caroli na, we believe, for 4 years. In addition to these the Rev. Mr. Fairbank, a Methodist Cler gyman, is in jail at Lexington, Ky., awaiting his trial on a charge of the same character. The severest remarks thai we feel inclined to make respecting ihesc persons is, that the have fallen victims to an indiscreet zeal in fi vor of Universal Liberty. K. Y. Tribune. A iie;v Remedy for Too! ha die. Among ihe thousand remedies for looih-ache, caoutchouc i now staled to be a very effica- cious one. A piece of caoutchouc is io I e put on a wire, then melted at the flame of a candle, and pressed while warm, into the hollow tooth, and the pain will disappear instantly. The cavity of the tooth should first be cleaned oat with a piece of cotton. In consequence of the viscosity and adhesiveness of the caoutchouc, the air is completely prevented from coming into contact with the denuded nerve, and thus the cause of ihe toothache is destroyed. Mr. Gough says that a man, the morning af ter he has been "drunk with wine," feels at though he had the rheumatism on every hair o his head The Ifew York Tribune A Hand some Compliment The New York Plebian, a Loco Foco paper, in alluding to the destruction of the Tribune Buildings by fire, pays the following handsome compliment to Horace Greely, Esq " The Tribune has an extensive circulation. which will not be diminished by the unfortu nale occurrence that we have related. It wi be issued regularly as usual, characterized hr all the talent that has heretofore graced its col umns. Mr. Greely, though opposed to usn politics, is one of the great men of the nine teenth century, whose expansive intellect w:,, ever command respect, even from those who differ with him on nolitical Questions. The Tribune is one of the most valuable papers the United Slates, and generally the first oih perused by us in the morning. We always read its columns with a profound respect form editor, though forced, to differ with him on mi ny subjects. We regret the loss he has met with, though it will not in the least dampnnh;s energy, or, perhaps, seriously diminish his s- bundant pecuniary resources. Prosperity mas ever attend him, while distinguished talent an purity of heart are the distinguishing feature! of his intellect." Capital. There are some laughable stories relative t: the rather rough conception which the Secre lary, Mr. Bibb, gives to office-seekers. other day a straight forward Kentuckian enter ed the office and handed his letters of recoa? mendation Having read them, the Secretary turned his visiter, and in a stern accent said, 'i at me sir.' The applicant looked at him., Look at mo again sir.' Now,' said the Secretary, 'do you think look like an executioner ? Do yon think 1 li going to take the bread) from, woollier mao mouth to fill your V The Whigs in the Virginia Legislature suc ceeded on Friday in electing R. T. Daniel' Counsellor qf State for three years, in plac John Rutherford, whose term expires by a & jority of two. Daniel received 79, just the nu bor njBcessary to a choice, anJ Rutherford on the last several ballots. London Atmosphere. Punch says tl Professor Howard; in analysing the clim1'9 London, took some fori home in a hasin, 3 foundfi.t to, contain nino parts smoke to opep1. porter!
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