s JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday February 27, 1845. Terms, StyiO tn advance: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid befoiethe end of the vcar. 05s V. B. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Fhila., and No. 100 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jeffcrsonian 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 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 the patrons of newspapers. THK 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 send thetn till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscriber 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 discontined. 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 ake a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud. k To Country Merchants. We invite the particular attention of the Mer chants and Manufacturers of Monroe and Pike counties, to an advertisement in another column, under the abovo head. It contains the names, business, and location of about enc hundred of the most extensive business Houses in Phila delphia, and cannot fail to be of great use to re tailers in this neighborhood, by giving them a direction and Introduction to the persons named in the advertisement. The advertisers are well-established, and extensively, as well as favorably known throughout the country. To the Business Men of Philadelphia. The practice of advertising in country news papers, by the business men of cities, is begin- ning to attract, pretty generally, the notice of those interested. It is a practice which cannot fail, in our opinion, to be of great advantage to them. By. inserting their advertisement in a country newspaper, their names and business become at once known to a large number of persons, who would probably otherwise never have known of their existence. For years past, our country merchants generally confined their purchases to a few old stands in the city sim ply because they were unknown and had no di rection to others. We are prepared to say, that thousands of dollars have been taken to Philadelphia, from this district of country, and expended where they would not have been, if our merchants had only known of the wherea bouts of the places of business of others who dealt in the same articles. This at a glance, proves the importance of country advertising. In Monroe and Pike counties there are many storekeepers and traders, who deal nearly, if not quite, altogether in Philadelphia. The re sources and wealth of the counties are great, and the population is rapidly increasing as a matter of course, the business must increase in an equal proportion. To draw the entire trade to Philadelphia, her business men have but to make known the superior advantages our mer chants will enjoy by doing business with them. This can be done in no way so effectually as by advertising in one of our newspapers. And for that purpose we recommend the Jeffcrsonian Republican. It circulates extensively, and is seen and read by all the business men of Mon roe and Pike counties. Our terms are -very reasonableand for the purpose of affording our city friends every facility, we have appoint ed V. B. Palmer, Esq., our Agent, on apply ing to whom they can obtain all the necessary information. The IaangHratEon. James K. Polk wille inaugurated President of the United Statesmen Tuesday next, in the presence of both Houses of Congress. The oath of office will be administered to him by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney. Thousands of persons will make it the occasion of a visit to Washington. The New Cabinet. Rumor fills Mr. Polk's Cabinet with the fol lowing named gentlemen. Mr. Buchanan, of Pa., Secretaty of State ; George Bancroft, of Mass., Secretary of the Treasury; James Y. Mason, of Virginia, Secretary of the Navy ; Gen. D. Butler, of Indiana, Secretary of War; Romulus M. Saunders, of N. C, Post Master General, and Robert J. Walker, of Miss., At torney General. Mr. Walker is a nephew of George M. Dallas, the Vice President. Annexation of Texas. The discussion upon this exciting subject, is still continued in the Senate, and the idea is daily gaining ground that it will be carried through at this session. Mr. Polk, since his arrival at Washington, has taken strong ground in favor of immediate annexation. He would like to be relieved of the responsibility of the measure during his administiation. Pennsylvania Legislature. Both branches are busily engaged in the bus iness before them ; but nothing of a very inter esting or general nature has occupied their at tention for some days past. No lime has yet been fixed for adjournment. Very Wrong. Washington's birth-day passed over, in this place, without any public observance of it. This is wrong, and should not again be per mitted. Morris Canal. We learn, says the North American, that the whole of the lettings for enlarging this Canal have been made. There are ten sections of about ten miles each, upon which three hun dred men are soon to be placed, making an ag gregate of three thousand men upon the whole line. It is expected that the enlargement will be completed by the middle of next June, of a capacity sufficient to pass boats carrying sixty tons. The Morris Canal commences on the Delaware, opposite Easton, and extends lo Jer sey City, opposite New York, a distance of one hundred and five miles. When thus enlarged, a large quantity of coal from the Lehigh region will pass directly to New "ifork by this rouie. Pennsylvania. Manufacturing establishments are annually springing up in various parts of our Stale. Among the most prominent is Luzerne county, which will shortly become famous for its man ufacture in iron. At Wilkesbarre there is a large foundry, where axes, chisels, planes, &c. are manufactured in excellent style ; and in Providence township on the Lackawana, there are two large axe manufactories, a scythe fac tory, a rolling mill, and a nail factory. A Call for Wives. lA Bachelor' ai Green Bay advertises in the Republican that 16 or 20 New York or New England damsels, of a suitable age, could soon enter into agreeable co-partnerships, by migrating to that part of Wisconsin, maids being scarce and bachelors plenty. Eastern papers requested to copy.' A man by the name of Christopher Clinetop, confined in jail at Pottsville for passing coun terfeit money, sawed off his irons and made his escape through the chimney, on Tuesday last. Sheriff Reed has offered $25 for his ap prehension. One of the prisoners, charged with rioting, had made his way through the same avenue as far as the outer wall, but was secured. One John McCuen, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, having posted his better half, she re plies in the Gazette as follows : "My husband has posted me as having left his bed and board. I wish simply to say that henever had any. All the beds to which he lays claim were given to me by my father." There! that's to the point. We think John will now regret that he did the ungallant act in question. A Mammoth Machine. A mammoth hydro-electrical machine of ex traordinary power, is being constructed in Eng land for the United States. It is said that it will be able to produce a spark of 36 inches to coat 3,500 feet of metalicsurface in a batte ry of 48 Leyden jars of 2 feet hgh, by 10 feet in diameter. This shock willsa thousand men in ah instant, if it were p1u3t4 thro' auch a chain. It will cost about jC10o6 ' Some wag says that the only borrowed arti cle he ever returned was a kiss from a pretty girl's lips. Of course he returned it might on the spot. One should never keep a ruMfag ac count of such trade. A man, by thejiame of Bacon, wishing to pass a joke upon his minister, asked him 'why hogs' heads were called ministers' faces ? For the same reason, I suppose,' answered the clergyman, 'that the other end of the animal is called bacon P FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. Milford, Feb. 20, 1815. The meeting of the Lyceum of this village, last evening, was an occasion of more than common interest. Though the weather was unfavorable, and the streets almost impassible from mud, the Presbyterian Church was filled with a large and attentive assembly. The lecture was delivered by the Hon. James M. Porter, of Easton ; his topic,. Pennsylvania her Institutions, and her Great Men. The address evidenced research and thought sub servient to a comprehensive intellect. It is with no small degree of pleasure that we be hold a man of Judge Porter's talents, and ur gent professional avocations, ready to do his part in fostering the interests of literature. On a subject of such extent, it was, of course, impossible for him to do more than touch, in the briefest manner, upon the great variety of interesting points presented in the discourse. Glancing at its early condition, the speaker re marked the difference between the unbroken wilderness, two hundred years ago, and the present state of Pennsylvania, is owing to its institutions and its great men. He gave a rap id, but highly lucid and graphic view of the physical resources of the State ; in the course of which he justly remarked, that tho coal and iron beds of Pennsylvania are to her better and surer sources of wealth, than the boasted mines of gold and silver of Mexico and Peru. The early settlement and subsequent history, the constitution and laws, and tho men who have raised themselves into notice in almost every department of public life, found a place and a brief review in the course of the address ; shewing that Pennsylvania thus far, though negligent in pressing their claims on public no- tice, has furnished her full quota of men of tal ent and enterprise, of scientific attainment and moral worth. He touched upon the slate of internal improvement, and the present and pros pective population, computing from data based on the facts of more than half a century, that in forty-eight years from the present, we may expect to see our 1,900,000, expand to 7,600, 000 souls. I could not but inquire of myself, as I reflect ed on the probabilities of this mighty increase, and the vast resources, the means of intelli gence, refinement, education and grandeur, the intellectual and moral power which must be here concentrated, what shall be the future course of this now great and future mighty common wealth. At no distant day within half a cen tury its population will exceed ihe highest and most visionary accounts we have ever re ceived of the inhabitants of old Rome herself, separate from the provinces on which she rest ed her iron heel. What then must;be the gran deur, and above all, ihe mighty influence of this State, in the day fast approaching, when its means and resources in other respects shall have been proportionably developed. We sometimes call her from her intrinsic im portance, her situation between the northern and southern portions of the national confedera cy, and her central position in the whole Union, the Keystone State. The political importance of Pennsylvania is great ; so great, that as she goes, it is perhaps not hazarding too much to say, the Union must also go. If she fail in ac complishing great and noble ends ; if she rises lo power only to misuse it, her proud surname must onlv be an emblem of the mischief of her example: and as certainly as ihe fall of the Keystone, when knocked from the arch, .will ensure the downfall of the fabric, so will her failure to meet the demands of a high and hon orable career, be the watchword for national misrule, anarchy and ruin. We say this not to excite despondency, but to arouse to watchfulness, and to spur on to ac tion all who aim to do good to their State, their country and the human race. We shall do most wisely to steer between the extremes of presumption and despondency, neither hoping for prosperity without exertion, nor despairing of success if we do our duty. Whatever we can do to make men think, and to think and feel right ; whatcvor will excite and foster the spirit of intelligence and virtue, or I might say intelligent virtue, will tend to the great and desired result before us. We should never forget that mere mental cul ture is insufficient to truly elevate and bless ; since the capacity to do great things, undirected by right principles, enables men to do unspeak ably greater wrong, than though ihey had never known more thau how to supply their own phys ical wants. C. Rancid Bntter. To make rancid butter sweet beat two pounds of it to a sufficient quantity of water, into which drop thirty drops of chloride of lime, and after washing it well, let it stand for two hours in the water, strain it off and wash it again in fresh water, and ir will be fresh and sweet. This is a French rccripe safe and simple. Furniture for Mr. Polk. Is there a man or woman in the country who does not remember the abuse heaped upon Gen. Harrison, because Congress appropriated six thousand dollars towards new furniture for the President' House 1 but which the venerated patriot promptly refused to have expflnded, de claring that tho White House was then too ex travagantly furnished for the home of a Repub lican President. Recollecting this, what will the people say when they learn that the present Locofoco Con gress have appropriated TWENTY" THOUS AND DOLLARS to furnish the President's House for Mr. Polk, the Grand;on of a Revo lutionary Tory ! and BIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS to improve the ground around the White House making in all TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS! Let the People, who pay the taxes and make the Pres idents, look at the facts ! Gen. Harrison, who fought for his country, repelled British and In dian foes, and was elected President by the Whigs, refused even the $(5,000 voted for fur nishing the President's House. Mr. Polk, who is the descendant of a Revolutionary Tory, that wore a Biitish red coat, and took protection un der Lord Cornwallis, was elected President by the Locofocos, and is to have $25,000 expen ded towards furnishing his residence, and orna menting the grounds about it! Which of the two men is a Republican, Democrat, or Patriot, the friend of the People ? Harrisburg Telegraph. Who arc the Sabbath Breakers? During the late presidential contest, the Lo cofocos were violent in their denunciations of Mr. Clay, because he arrived at New Orleans, about a year since, on Sunday. Mr. Polk not only arrived at Wheeling on the Sabbath, but was received amidst the FIRING OF CAN NON and GREAT CHEERING, and MADE A SPEECH to 'his political friends.' During ihe rejoicing and tumult, a young man named Hilchbrand was dangerously and in all proba biliiy mortally wounded by the premature dis charge of the cannon. What a warning to the Sabbath breakers and libellers ! lb. The Gathering at Washington' is thus described : The " suckers," " ihe corn-crackers," " the buck-eyes," "the hoosiers," "the pukes," "the wolverines," "the alligators of the South," and the buffaloes of the west, are here. They have heard that the fourth of March is coming, and that this is the hour, and Washington the place, where dollars are dispensed to people who can gel an office, and hither they have flocked. Having been taught that in a free government the doors of public office are open to all, they have not unnaturally inferred that all are com petent to enter. The true characteristic of these western and southern Indians is entire confidence in iheir competency to fill, and their willingness to accept any station, from a for eign embassy down to a porterage in the cus tom house. Half of Tennessee is here; Ken lucky has her hordes, Michigan, Indian, Ohioa, and Illinois have sent iheir fox skin caps, all eager for office, all perfectly certain of the justice of their claims over ihoso of all others. They have heard of foreign missions and charge ships, consulships and collectorships, and of the spoils connected with them, and if they do not know the geography of St. Cloud or St. James, they are a't least ready to try their hand at either, in the same spirit of patriotism which prompted the confidence of the boy, who when he was asked if he could read Greek, said he did'nt know, he thought he could, though he had neyer tried. New England has sent her'philosophers, and her poets. New York promises her represen tatives of the various factious, each claiming a preference in Presidential favor, and threaten ing vengeance if tho Empire State is not al lowed to control, as heretofore, in the greal fam ily of Democracy. Constantinople, with its Turks, Christians, Moors, Musselmen, Arabs and Tartars, never presented a greater variety of costume and com plexion, from the swarthy Westernman.the fair faced Yankee, and sallow Southron, than Wash ington presents at this lime, and yet more than a fortnight is to elapse before the flood uf va riegated patriots will cease to flow in on us. A most fortunate government, the United States. We abstract less talent from the general mass of industrious pursuits and honorablo profes- i ... k sions man any other nation in tho woild. Fortitude of a Wolf. A Wolf was lately taken by one of ihe paws in a snare set near Imphy, France; but it had sufficient strength lo drag the snare after ir, and swim across the river. Being seen, it was pursued, and its followers gaining on it rapidly, u suuucniy stopped andilm the paw off, thereby getting rid of the object which Impeded its flight and then escaped. Santa Anna's Probable Fate. The Capture of Gen. Santa Anna late ft,,, ident of Mexico, and the consequent restore,., of tranquility in the sister republic has been,,, nounced. Previous advices from Mexico cf. Santa Anna at a small town near Puebla, wai. ing for an answer to his offers of submission ii the new government. These offers were not received with favor, and Santa Anna's force, having abandoned him, he was forced to ta flight in a coach, dressed in the garb of a pri(.M Being discovered hy some Indians on the 15, of January, he was delivered up to the Govern ment and confined in the Castle of Peroie, and on the 20th ult., was conveyed to the Cny f Mexico to await bis trial on the following i!Ur. ges : 1st. High Treason, in attempting to subvert the Constitution and elevate himself to ihe su preme authority as Emperor of Mexico. 2d. For violating the Constitution by an ar bitrary exercise of powers not delegated to hi-it. 3d Foi malfeasance in office; applymu jlt. monies of the Government to his own use, ami sending out of the country on his individual ac count several millions of the public money ap propriated by Congress for national objects. 4th For violating the principles of war at Puebla; opening his batteries upon the city a,i cruelly butchering the inhabitants while a ce sation of hostilities had been solicited by l.i.u and granted under the sacred; guarantee of a liji of truce. 5th For robbing the national mint, pillag:n cities, appropriating to his ows purposes pubi.e and private property. 6ih Disobedience to orders, in refusing to deliver up his command when ordered bygm. ernment. v These specifications embrace the primpl charges against Santa Anna. He defends Imiv self by appealing to the constitutional prnviMimt of 1841, known as the Bases of Tccubuya, sort of Temporary Constitution which tnherej in the establishment of the present governmen tal system at the time the previous constum: and its defender, Gen. Bustamcnte, were mer thrown. He contends that his powers under the Basses were and are unlimited, absolute that he is and was the Constitutional President, and that the present government is unconsliiu tionallv organized, and its officers mere usurn- 4 o I ers. These positions will probably be throws aside, by the present administration, and bein sustained by public opinion, we suppose they will dispose of him by summary process. They have in the present constitution, which wa adopted in 1843, ample power to do so, h Bases of 1841 being merely a temporary ar rangement which provided for the organization of the Government and the calling of a conven tion to establish a constitution, which latter now the supreme law. Har. Telegraph. The Climate. According to ihe Meterological Register U 1844, kept at the Bloomingdale Asylum, ibi weather has been as follows : Cloudy days, 81 Fair, ' SOS Rainy, 01 Snowy, . . . 12 Total, 30a The prevalence of wind as follows : Wind, N. " N. W. W. " s. w. 1 " s. 10 105 12 46 23 Wind, S. E. . " . N. E. " calm. N. Y. Evening Post. Calvin Fairbank, the accomplice of MissD? lia Webster was tried at Lexington, Kentucky, last week upon three several indictments fi the abduction of slaves from their owners, convicted on all of them. The Lexington (ft server sa3's : He elected to be tried on all the indictmea'1 at once, pleaded guilty of ihe charge, and thre himself upon the clemency of the Jury. 1" mauu a uiivi uuuross iu luu jury, siaim stance, mai no was an aDomionisi oy euucaw- . .W .W5. O.O.V.,, crying sin, and that to relievo men from its fce:- llsiTO U?!) O virllla inctni..! P -:,n . I hit b 'IIIUU, Higiwuu IJI a Clinic was satisfied however that he had violated laws of the State in the act which he had cost milted, and deserved punishment thereto' but in consideration of the fa.ct stated, pfaJ! the leniency of the Jury is. his case. More MiLLERt3Mo-The Bangor VIng-iS.r that some thirty citizens of Orringion have K come so much, excited with the advent mtK of "Father Miller," as to neglect all busing and to live upon their substance by sellings' from their farms and the furniture from dwellings. They have set the twetiiy-ih""1 uoxi monm as me aay wnen tne worm uDsuujeu ana may snail uo cnugiu uf air to meet their Lord. ,..... I J .1 L.tt t U on in lh expenses of the Courts ol tne i-u' States,- for jurors,, witnesses, &c, amount $500,000, The salaries S12G.000.
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