JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, ITCarcU 6, 1845. Terms, $?,K) in atfvance: $2,55, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paiu Dcioicinc ena oi me rear. ftf" V. B. Palmer, Esg., at his Real Estate nd Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and No. 160 Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) 3ST. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the JcfTcrsonian Republican, and give receipts for the same. .Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend iheir business bv availing themselves of the op portunities for advertisings country papers which ins agency affords. To all Concerned. We would call the attention of some of our subscribers, and especially certain Post Mas lers, to the following reasonable, and well set tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to he patrons of newspapers. .THE LAW OF NHWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not give express -no iice to the contrary, are considered as wishing 10 continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue to send them till ali 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 ihey have settled their bill, and ordered :heir papers 3isconiined. 4. If subscribers Temove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their paper is sent to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 5. The courts have decided thai 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. Communications. We neglected, at the proper time, to call the attention of our readers, lo the admirably writ ten Communication, of a Milford correspondent, in last week's Jeffersonian. We shall be hap py frequently to acknowledge such favors from the same writer. A communicaiion signed a " Citizen," has been received. We will publish it, provided he gives us his true name ; as we will not pub lish any communication unless we know the author. Annexation of Texas. The long agony is over, and as far as the ac tion of this government can make it, Texas is now an integral part of the United States. The House Resoiutions,-with an amendment, passed the Senate on Thursday last by a vole of Yeas 07, Nays 25 ; which amendment was concurred in by the House, on Friday, by the following vote, Yeas 132, Nays 76. The Resolutions, as thus amended, leave it optional with the President, either to take Texas into the Union at once, upon her complying with a few re quirements, or to open a negotiation with her for that purpose, as he may see proper. This was tacked on to the original Resolutions, for the purpose of securing the support of Messrs. Benton, Tappan and Niles, who would other wise have opposed them. Every loco foco Senator cast his vote in fa vor of them ; whilst on the other hand, every Whig Senator opposed them, except Messrs. Johnson, of La., Henderson, of Miss., and Mer rick, of Maryland. The two former voted in accordance with the wishes of their respective States i but the latter, William D. Merrick, treacherously betrayed his constituents and his country, and secured the passage of the iniqui tous Resolutions. His vole against Texas, would have produced a tie, and prevented an. nexation but like a traitor, as he is, he desert ed his friends, and placed them in a minority. He has no doubt received his reward. Let him henceforth be despised and shamed by all decent and honourable men. The consequence of this act, will no doubt be a war with Mexico, which will cost ihe United Stales millions of dollars, and the blood of many of our bravest countrymen. It will al so throng the seas wiih Privateers, who wil annoy our merchantmen, and destroy our com merce. And who will undertake to say that it may not ultimate!' lead to a dissolution of the Union itself. The Constitution has been vio laied. The rights of the Northern States have been disregarded and trampled pon. And who shall restrain them from .standing up in their own defence. As friends of onr glorious Union, we see much cause to be alarmed for the future. In our next, we will speak of this subject more at large. A bill repealing the Stay Law' has passed both branches of the Legislature the same lo take effect on the 1st day of May next. The New Administration. James K. Polk, was inaugurated President, on Tuesday last, and is now in the discharge of the duties of his office. We have not yet heard, officially, the names of his Constitution al advisers, but believe that the gentlemen whose names we published last week will com pose his Cabinet. We shall endeavor to pub lish his Inaugural Address in our next. The Whiffs of New York. The Whigs of the citv of New York, we are glad to see, are tallying for the Charter Elec tion wliich is to take place in April, in the proper spirit. They have -nominated as their candidate for Mayor, that sterling Whig, Dud ley Selden, and will make a noble effort to elect him. Their attachment to the Whig name and Whig principles is stronger than ever. Ifliss Webster Pardoned. Gov, Owsley, of Kentucky, has pardoned Miss Delia A. Webster, recently convicted in one of the Courts of that State, and sentenced to two years confinement in the Penitentiary, for stealing several slaves, and assisting them to get their liberty. She had been in prison since the beginning of January. The Govern or gives, as his reasons for pardoning her, that she is penitent for her crime, and that the peti tions in her behalf were uncommonly numerous. Cheap Postage. We were loo fast, last week, in our remarks on Postage Reform. Since then the Reduc lion Bill Jias passed both Houses, and at our latesl advices from Washington, only awaited the signature of the President to become a law Letters arc to be charged Jive cents under three hundred miles, and ten cents for all great er distances. Newspapers are to be sent free "or thirty miles ; over that to be charged one cent, it was tnougni mat me rresiuent wouiu sign it We hope he has. Congress Adjourned on Monday night last, but we iave no account of its concluding scene. Much business, however, remained unfinished on Saturday, which no doubt failed for want of time to attend to it. The general appropria tion bills were uuder discussion at the latest dates. The Legislature. Our Solons at Harrisburg, are plodding along slowly, without any body, hardly, taking notice of them. The exciting questions, which have been agitated at Washington, for some time past, has drawn attention from our State Capi tols, to both Houses of Congress. By refer ence lo our exchanges, however, we find that nothing of special interest has transpired du ring the past week. There is no time fixed yet for adjournment. ' The 32d Again. A " subscriber" takes exception lo our no tice of last week, which stated that Washing ton's Birih-day had passed by wilhoul obser vance, in Stroudsburgh. He says, that so far from that being the fact, some ten or a dozen kindred spirits assembled together in the even ing, made merry over some bottles of Wine, &c, and closed the day by getting most glori ously " corned" This certainly, we are compelled to admit, was an observance of the day; and one too which those interested will not be likely soon to for get. But still, tec are not satisfied. If we had reason, last week, to complain of the non-obser vance, we must now complain of ihe mis-obser vance of the Jwenty-second. Wo hope, that out jovial friends will observe the next 22d, in a more unexceptionable manner. For this ob servance, of theirs, was an observance, which will be far mpro honored iu the breach, than the observance. for the jeffersonian republican. Messrs. Schoch 6f Spering : The Ladies and Gentlemen of Stroudsburg and vicinity, composing Mr. John S. P. Fousi's Singing Class, are not quite satisfied with his conduct. They are of opinion that engage ments entered into ought to be fulfiled, or thai some satisfactory reason should be given for not performing his contracts. Mr. Fousl after having engaged to instruct the class for three months, without any reason given, suddenly withdraws from his engagements. It is true, he slates in the notice given in the Monroe Dem ocrat, "that circumstances over which he had but partial control, prevented a formal dismis sal of the class." This is the stale apology made use of by all persons who cannot, or wii not, give the true reason for their conduct. Hi acknowledges the liberal patronage which he received from the class, Sic. &c. If this is the way Mr. Foust treats his friends, and fulfils his engagementsihe public will eoon learn lo ap preciate him and .o treat him wiih the contempt which he deserves. A. B. RESPECT. The Itlurdcr of Frank Combs A Touching Narrative. Gen. Leslie Combs has written a letter in relation to the death of his son, which we find published in a late number of the Louisville, Journal. The General slates thai aboui two years since, he purchased a place for his son, just below the mouth of Red River, to which young Combs removed and commenced work. A few months after, a near neighbor died, and a man named O'Blennis, purchased the place of the deceased, and put some hands on it, but not his family. The day before young Combs visited Kentucky in July last, he bought a small strip of land, lying between him and O'Blennis, at public sale. O'Blennis desired this land, and each had endeavoured to buy it from the claimant, who refused to sell it to O'Blennis, because he had first promised it to young Combs. Gen. Combs continues : " After my son started home last November, I received a letter from his agent, Dr. Jacks, addressed to him, advising him of the bad con duct of O'Blennis during his absence, iu de stroying his stock, and especially of his cruel ty towards his riding horse, in forcing him, with the aid of one of his negroes, over the river bank backwards into a bog, from which he could not extricate himself, and when found and pried out he died. Shocked as 1 was by such inhumanity to a dumb brute, I became se riously alarmed for the safety of my son, and wrote to hirn to be on his guard to have noth ing, personally, to do wiih O'Blennis, but lo seek a legal redress for any injuries he had sustained, if, on consultation with his friends, it was deemed advisable. This course he adop ted, although soon after his return to his place, ho was informed, by a man iu the employ of O'Blennis, lhat the latter individual had offered to pay him if ho would kill my son, and .that O'Blennis himself was repeatedly absent till a late hour in the night with a double barrel gun, loaded with buckshot. My son apprized me of these alarming circumstances, and thai some of his neighbors advised him to leave his place, but said that he "had rather die than be thus driven off;" in the meantime, however, he was preparing, under my instructions, to wind up his business as soon as possible and come off, temporarily at any rale, until something could be dono to render his residence safe, and bul "or his murder he would have left early in Jan uary. Things remained in this situation until the 30ih of December: my son never having met O'Blennis bul once, on which occasion he told him of his intention to seek legal redress for the injuries he had done him, and expressly dis claimed all intention of any personal injury to him. From this circumstance, and that two months had nearly elapsed since his return and O'Blennis had not executed his threats, my son began to think he was merely boasting, and,, at any rate, thai he would not venture to aitempt any open act of violence upon him. On lhat day my son was visiling a friend in the neighbor-, hood, when O'Blennis rode up to the front fence, a few steps from the house, and seeing my son in the portico, dismounted and came in without being invited so to do bv the proprietor. Soon afterwards, dinner was announced, and my son, seeing that O'Blennis had seated, himself at the table, declined eating; a brief altercation en sued, when the host interfered and ordered or desired O'Blennis to leave his house, telling him he would not allow him thus to insult his guest. My son remained all night and until one or two o'clock the next day. In the mean time, O'Blennis had sent one of his slaves late at night to a neighboring grocery for a gallon of whiskey, wiih a written order very strangely worded, showing that he had some desperate deed in contemplation. The nexi morning, and during the forenoon, O'Blennis was seen by Beveral persons walking in the public road, or sitting on a log by its side, armed with a double barreled gun. Along this road my son would be compelled to travel in returning home. Al though aware of the difficulty between them, they did not suppose he wai contemplating an attack, and, therefore, did nut take the trouble to notify my son of his danger; so that, at about one or two o'clock, when he started home, ac companied by a young gentleman, named John son, so far fiom intending or expecting an at tuck, he put his pistol (a small six-barrel re volver) iu his baddle-bags, unloaded, and took neither powder nor ball with him. When they arrived at O'Blennis' plantation, ihey saw him in the field near the jroad, and by the lime they had come opposite the house, he was in the yard. Without speaking to him, or hearing him if he spoke lo them, they passed on at a slow pace. When thpy had gone a few hundred yards and were in sight of F. Combs' house, they heard a horse approaching them in the rear at a rapid gate, and looking back saw 0'Blcmi& wuh a double barrel gun on his shoul der, riding at full speed. Johnson immediate- y said to my son: "O'Blennis is coming after you, to shoot you," and he replied: "I expect he is." O'Blennis rode past as fast as lie could, but said nothing, and when he had got some wenty or thirty yards, jumped from his horse and attempted to hitch him to the fence, but ailed, and immediately levelled his gun al my son and approached him; he and Johnson both jumped to the ground, and Johnson said: "Mr. O'Blennis don't shoot him." My son exclaimed, raising his right hand, without attempting to draw any weapon: "Stop, O Biennis, stop 1 6'Blennis made no reply, but slill approached till within a few. paces, my son looking him riht in the face, and wholly unprotected; both barrels were then discharged, so nearly at the same time that Johnson iho't but one was fired, although several persons al my son's house dis tinctly heard two reports. The parties were so close together that the whole load (the first one in my opinion) entered his forehead, with out touching his hat, in a circle not exceeding wo inches in diameter, crushing the skull and lodging in the brain. The second load must have passed over his head as he fell, as there are marus on me lence wnere seiciai aim struck it, jusi behind where he stood. Johnson, filled with horror at the scene, mounted his horse and started to look for help; just as he did so, he heard O'Blennis call him, and looking back saw him standing near or over the body of my son, and heard him say something about his being armed It was more than an hour before Judge Black & Mr. Hopkins reached the place, accompanied by Mr. John- son. in me meantime i uciguuui uui- dentally passing and saw a man lying on his face by the road side with his horse grazing near him. He supposes it must have been ten or fifteen minutes after the deed was done. He immediately dismounted and ascertaining thai it was my son, turned him on back; his pulse was slill beating; he groaned several times and died. Whether he was rendered insensible at the moment he was shot, or was suffering the agonies of death all this time, God knows. O'Blennis was subsequently arrested, and Gen. Combs concludes his touching account with this language : " My son's body is deposited temporally in a neighbor's grave-yard. I shall bring it home with me and bury him by the side of his moth er. The sod on which his head lay when he died is slill saturated and red wiih blood. I shall dig it up and place it at the head of his grave in Kentucky. If he had been a boister ous, forward boy, I do not think my heart would have been so sorely bruised, bul be was as mild and retiring In his manners, as he was brave and high-toned in his feelings and prin ciples." Young Combs. The funeral of young Frank Combs took place at Lexington on the 22nd ult., and was attended by a large number of persons. The Observer makes this touching notice of the last sad ceremony : " Ho who, bul a few months since, left his paternal home, full of hope and happiness, and with bright prospects in the future, was brought back to it, by an afflicted father, a mangled corpse not killed upon the battle-field, but shot down upon the public highway, by one old enough to be his father his nearest neighbor one who ought to have been his friend and protector, instead of his assassin. Oh ! It was cruel for one so young and noble-hearted to be thus butchered in a distant land, with no friend or relative of his boyhood near him. Yel even in that land of strangers, so manly had been his bearing, so upright his conduct and character, than one universal burst of indignation and hor ror followed the flying footsteps of his cowardly slayer, and tears of heart-felt sympathy from all eyes upon his bloody grave. Wo have rarely seen upon a similar occasion so large a multi tude, as filled the house and streets adjacent to it, while the funeral service was performed by the Kev, Mr. iMattnews. iNor nave we ever listened to a more appropriate and touching dis course and prayer. The samo Reverend gen tleman had attended the bedside of a dying mother; and little more than a year since, in the same place, delivered a funeral discourse commemorative of her high character, fortitude and piety, prematurely as she was hurried lo the tomb. All parties and classes, then, as now, united in testifying their love and regard for the deceased, and in sympathizing with the afflicted family and relatives." The editor of the Quincy Herald, who was recently sacked" al a Singing School- by a damself of an uncertain age, perpetrates the fol lowing ill-natured remarks. " The safest place in a thunder storm, is on the larboard side of an' ugly old maid. Being a decided non-conductor, there is no danger of hor attracting any thing." Another Great Race The Hforih Against the South. We learn from the Spirit of the Times, iut a match for $20,000 aside, between the Nr, and the South is iiKeiy to come oh over the LV I ion Course, Long Island, in May next. The North is understood to comprise all that section of the Union north of the Roanoke- the South iu like manner, all south and south-west of ilm 1 river. In lieu of making a match between the rival champions of ihe Nonh and South Fashion 1 Ti g I . n w iin!ti....H11.. I aim rcyiunu wuv oio unit ciaauy acKntiiv. edged to be at the head of the Turf in their re spective sections of country, ihe parties lnr entered into a post match, so as to ensure a race, each being al liberty to name his horse at i.t post. The posi match has been made u; ,V the particular friends of Fashion and Peyou,,, of course with the sole view of bringing thm together, but should accident occur to either, the match cannot, under any circumstances, through. Wonderful Discovery. Correspondence of the National Intelligencer. New York, Jan. 30, 1815. Considerable sensation has been produreil among our engravers by the news of a disenv. ery, which is not only likely to affect their in terests to a great extent, but which, if general ly made known, must lead to consequences af. feeling the paper currency of ihe civilize world, the importance of which it is hardly po,. sible to exaggerate. I am indebted to Mr. Chapman, the well-known artist, for an account of the invention and a specimen of a plate pro duced through its agency. The discovery consists in a process by which an elaborate line engraving of any size maybe so accurately copied that there shall be imper ceptible difference between the original and tin copy ; by which an engraving on steel or cop per may be produced from an impression of h print the original plate never having been seen by the copyist and the copied engraving be ing capable of yielding from ten thousand iu twenty thousand impressions. The producer will undertake to supply a Bank of England note so exactly copied that the person who signed and issued it should npt be able to swear which was the original and which the copy. Many guesses have been made as to ilia mode by which this marvellous process is ej ected, but as yet without result. The proceu does not even infer a necessity of injuring the print delivered as a model, which is returned unscathed. The inventor is an Englishman, and an engraver by profession. He has taken no patent, neither does he think it expedient to do so, inasmuch as, if he does, any unprincipled person may at once adopt it, with Ihtle proba bility of the inventor being able to prove thr. his process has been the medium by which its print has been produced. A friend of the a ihor of the invention, says, with justice, "Thers is no knowing to what extensive changes n legislation it may conduce ; for, if any printed or written document can be forged with so mud ease and certainty as to defy detection, ths consequences may be more appalling than hs care to anticipate." The invention embraces the capacity to re produce any form of letter-press, or any quaftj of print, drawing, or lithograph, in an unlimited quant'uy, in an inconceivably brief space . r .1. time, for instance, from a single copy ons' Intelligencer plates might be produced in trea ty minutes from which impressions could w worked off with the ordinary rapidity of t steam-press. The finest and rarest eiigrarinf may be reprinted ad infinitum; bank notes raij be reproduced in fac-simile, without the sugg est poini of difference ; and last, though n least, books may be reprinted, as from s'ere types, in unlimited quantity. Indeed, trie n rious mechanical and other interests offset by this remarkable discovery have noiyetbttf half enumerated. Amnsing Calculation. A singular genius somewhere has amused b self by making the following singular calculation; it is rather funnv : He savs " I have been married thirtv-two years, duifcj which time 1 have received from the hand of 0 wifn ibrfio wins nf rnfffift ftnr.h daw. two V1 morning and one at night, making about 55,0 cups of half a pint each, or nearly seventy barrt of thirty gallons each,, weighing 17,520 pound nearly nine tons weight. Yet from that period -have scarcely varied mvself in weight from f pounds. It will therefore be seen, that I W .drank, in coffee alone, two hundred and eighth times my own weight. I am not much of a eater, yet I presume I have consumed about e ounces a day, which raakees 5,805 pounds, about ten oxen. Of flour I have consumed, m ,J thirty-two years, about fifty barrels." In Bloom Th Naw Orlaans Pica)'' . ? e 11 LlAnm in lk says mm peacn trees are in run uiui -neighborhood of thai city.
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