JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, ITCarcU 6, 1845.
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nd Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third,
two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila.,
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3ST. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and
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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
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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.