petual union with Texas because of her local institutions, our forefathers would have been rcvented from forming our present Union.--viceiving no valid objection to, the measure, and many reasons for its adoption, vitally affect ing the peace, the safely, and the prosperity of both countries, I shall, on the broad principle which formed the basis and produced the adop tion of our constitution, and not in any narrow spirit of sectional policy, endeavor, by all con Mitutional, honorable, and appropriate means, to consummate the expressed will of the people .i.l government of the United States, by the re nnexation of Texas to our Union at the earli est practicable period, Nor will it become in a less degree my duty to assert and maintain, by all constitutional means, the right of the United States to that poition of our territory which lies beyond the Rocky mountains. Our title to the country of the Oregon is "clear and unquestionable," and already are our people preparing to perfect that litle by occupying it with their wives and chil dren. But eighty years ago, our population was confined on the west by the ridge of the Alleghanies. Within that period within the lifetime, I might say, of some of my hcarcrs-r-our peoph;, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi; ad venturously ascended the Missouri to its head springs, and are already engaged in establish ing the blessings of self government in valleys, of which the rivers flow to the Pacific. The world beholds the peaceful triumphs of the in dustry of our emigrants. To us belongs the duty of protecting them adequately wherever they may be upon our soil. The jurisdiction of our laws, and the benefits of our republican institutions, should bo extended over them in the distant regions which they have selected for their homes. The increasing facilities of intercourse will easily bring the States, of which the formation in that part of our territory cannot be long delayed, within the sphere of our fed erative Union. In the mean time, every obli gation imposed by treaty or conventional stipu lations should be sacredly respected. In the management of our foreign relations, it will be my aim to observe a careful respect for the rights of other nations, while our own will be the subject of constant watchfulness. Equal and exact justice should characterize all our in tercourse with foreign countries. All alliances having a tendeucy to jeopard the welfare and honor of the country, or sacrifice any ono of the national interests, will be studiously avoid ed ; and yet no opportunity will be lost to culti vate a favorable understanding with foreign go vernments, by which our navigation and com merce may be extended, and the ample products of our fertile soil, as well as the manufactures of our skillful artisans, find a ready market and remunerating prices in foreign countries. In taking care that the laws be faithfully executed," a strict performance of duty will be exacted from all public officers. From those officers, especially, who ore charged with the collection and disbursement of the public reve nue, will prompt and rigid accountability bo re quired. Any culpable failure or delay on their part to account for the moneys intrusted to them, at the times and in the manner required by law, will, tn every instance, terminate the official connexion of such defaulting officer with the government. Although, in our country, the chief magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party, and stand pledged to its principles and meas ures, yet, in his official action, he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. While he exe cutes the laws with an impartial band, shrinks from no proper responsibility, and faithfully carries out in the executive department of the government the principles and policy of those who have chosen him, he should not be un mindful that our fellow-citizens who have dif fered with htm in opinion aro entitled to the full and free exercise of their opinions and judgments, and that the rights of all are entitled to respect and regard. Confidently relying upon the aid and assis tance of the co-ordinate departments of the go vernment in conducting our-public affairs. I en ter upon the discharge of the high duties which have been assigned mo by the people, again humbly supplicating that Divine Being who has watched over and protected our beloved coun try from its infancy to the present hour to con tinue His gracious benedictions upon us, that we may continue to be a prosperous and happy people. Canal Navigation. The different Canals belonging to the State are open for the season to day. Business on the Schuylkill Canal will also commence to,-day. The Lehigh Canal was navigable along jhe whole line from Mauch Chunk to Easton on Tuesday Jast, the 4th inst. North American, 10th inst. JEFFETISONIAN "REPUBLICAN Thursday, IfffnrcSi 13, 1845. Terms, 52,00 tn advance: 2.25, naif yearly ; and $2,50 if not paiUDcioicuic end of the vear. fX?3 V. Ii. Palmer, Esq., at his Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59 Pine street, below Third, two squares S. the Merchants' Exchange, Phila., and No. 100 Nassau street, . (Tribune buildings,) N". Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jejfcrsoilian 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. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not gie express no lice 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 them till all arrearages aro 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 discontined. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and their paper is sent to the former direction, they arc held re sponsible. 5. Tho 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. The Inaugural Address. We call the attention of our readers to the Inaugural Address of Mr. Polk, inserted in to day's paper which is an important document, inasmuch as it comes from the Chief Magis trate of the Union, and contains an exposition of the principles which are to characterise the new administration. Mr. Polk promises a great deal, as is custom ary by men entering upon the duties of office. How he will keep some of those promises, time must reveal. For our own parts, we have very little faith in them and for this reason. In his address, he pledges himself to an economical expenditure of the people's money and his very first act, after induction into office, was to tako twenty -eight thousand dollars out of the Treasury, to furnish the Whito House, and to decorate the garden attached thereto. Such economy as this will soon reduce the Treasury to where Mr. Van Buren left it without a penny. The President is opposed to the agitation of the Slave Question, by the Abolitionists this is rather hard, as those gentry gave him the vote of New York, and thus elected him. He should be moro grateful. He is opposed to a U. S. Bank, because it is inexpedient and unconstitutional. Only think of that. Mr. Polk has found out that a U. S. Bank is unconstitu tional. How ignorant Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall, and a host of our other great men were to suppose tbat it was constitutional. But democracy is progressive; and children be gin to know more than their parents. On the subject of the Tariff, he tries to be somewhat mystical but it is easy to see his real meaning. He is opposed to Protection notwithstanding all he says about incidental protection, a revenue limit, &c. He is very careful not to say a word about the Tariff of 1842. If he was in favor of it, how easy it would have been for him to have said so. But it is unnecessary to multiply words, as he is still, as he has always been, opposed to the protection of American Industry. Ho is in favor of immediately annexing Tex as and occupying the whole of Oregon meas ures, against which we have often spoken at length, and about, which we need say nothing more at this time. At the end of the Address, there is a remarkable declaration, that he will not be the President of a parly, but the Presi dent of the whole people. We hardly know what he can mean. He surely does not intend to follow in the footsteps of Capt. Tyler. But enough of this. Our readers will peruse the address, and form their own opinion of its mer its and demerits. Postage. The President has signed the Bill, providing for the reduction of the present, rates of Post age and it will go into effect on the 1st of Jur ly next. For this measure the Members of Congress deserve the unanimous thanks of the people. By arid with the advice and conscrd of the Senate. Harvey Roys, Esq.,- Associate" Judge for the county of Pike. i George Hess, Associate Judgejor the coun- ty of Northampton. The Inaugurations. The Inauguration of Mr. Polk, as President of tho United Slates, took place at Washington, on the fourth of March, in tho presence of the Members of both Houses of Congress, the Judges of the Supreme Court, Foreign Am bassadors, many ladies, thousands of citizens, and a large body of Military. The oath of of fice was administered to him by the Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court The day was rainy, and Mr. Polk delivered his Inaugural from be neath the portico at the East front .of the Cap itol. The Cabinet. On Wednesday last, the President nomina ted tho following gentlemen to the Senate, as his Cabinet officers, all of whom wcro immedi ately confirmed, with the exception of Mr. Ban croft, whose case waa held over until Monday, when it as probably acted on. James Buchanan, of Pa. Sec. of State. Robert J. Walker, of Miss. Sec. of Treasury. George Bancroft, of Mass. Sec. of Navy. Wm. L. Marty, of N. Y. Sec. of War. Cave Johnson, of Tenn. Post Master General. John Y. Mason, of Va. Attorney General. Wo have only time, this week, to say that the above is a tolerably good Cabinet, with the exception of Cave Johnson. He is a man of narrow mind, and violent political prejudices. He is also strongly opposed to Postage Reform and should therefore not have been appointed Post Master General. The Warren murders. The Supreme Court of Now Jersey have re fused new trials to Joseph Carter, Jr. and Peter W. Parke, who were some time since convict ed of murder at Belvidere. Sentence, howev er, has been postponed, and will not be pro nounced upon them until in May. FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. Messrs. Schoch y Sperin'g : In the last number of the Jeffersonian, ap peared a communication over the signature of " A. B. Respect," making an unprovoked and uncalled for attack upon Mr. J. S. P. Foust, the former worthy and respected teacher of the Stroudsburg Singing Class. The correspon dent aboy alluded to assumes authority not delegated to him, when he states that the mem bers of the Class are not quite satisfied with the conduct of Mr. Foust ; that he after engaging to instruct the Class for three months suddenly withdraws from his engagement. This we pro nounce to be utterly false and unfounded; no such engagement was made by that gentleman. He merely expressed himself willing to remain if the Class saw proper to continue him as their leader. Some of the members of tho class met one evening and expressed their desire to have Mr. Foust continue with them in the capacity of teacher. Those members then, instead of performing their duty as they should have done, by informing Mr. Foust that they had chosen him leader, and that they desired him to re main, were inactive and manifested but little in terest in the success of the class. That gen tleman, of course, under circumstances like these, did not consider himself under any fur ther obligations to the class, but at liberty to accept any other proposals that might be made to him. The members of the class, therefore, consider the conduct of Mr. Foust perfectly justifiable, being themselves the delinquents, and not Mr. Foust, to whom for his kind atten tion and gentlemanly deportment to the class, the members tako this opportunity of returning thoir thanks, together with their best wishes for his future success and happiness. By Order of the Class. The charges set forth in the communication of "A; B. Respect." published in the Republi can of last week, were made on tho authority of several members of the class. Those mem bers are therefore to blnme, and not " A. B. Respect thoy should not have made the charges without being sure as to their correct ness. Eds. Republican. Freak of Iattirc. William Worthington, says the Doylcstown Democrat, of Wrightstown, has a Calf, a few days old, which presents tho singular appear ance of being without a Tail. Of this append age -it is entirely destitute; having not the least sign or rudiment of one. A naturully tailless Calf is, we presume, not pnly an anomaly, but a thing unknown in tho'annals of- natural His- t0ry . ' r Disgusting. A large quantity of horse oil has been seized in Paris, while on its way to be converted into genuine olive, or sweet oil, v Our poliiicaL Abolitionists, who ntanagedf to defeat the option oPMrCIay,- have caught a Tartar. His rapier is already under their fifth rib. They have indirectlyelevated to the Pres idential chair one, who, even before ho takes that chair, denounces them. He can do so without the charge of ingratitude, for he never encouraged their conspiracy to defeat his rival. On the contrary, he told them if they took him thoy must take Texas with him. They accept ed the terms, and both havejeome in the one to cover their counsels with odium, and the other to ex'end the curse of slavery. Had some malignant spirit blasted the mental vision of these men, or pushed reason fro.m her throne of light, we might find in the moral abstirditieo of their conduct something to pity and forgive. But no plea of insanity can avail thorn. They had their reason unimpaired and claimed to have their conscience in full play. Their work of mischief and misery was deliberately planned and deliberately executed. Had they been tho avowed advocates of Annexation and Slavery, they could not have moro effectually promoted their aims. They merit, so far ai the election is concerned, the lasting gratitude of the South. The rebuke of the new President is the unkind est cut of all. It was enough that the whole Democratic delegation abandoned them on the Texas question. The fruit of their nuptials with this party has turned to ashes. The bri dal robe has changed to a shroud, and (he mar riage song has become a knell. The moral germs of their cause, however, still remain and will yet take root, though' they have, in their suicidal' follies, thrown on them tho mildew of death. Bring these germs to the light the light of conscience. Let past offences be steeped in penitence. Let not the pleading rights of the oppressed be again sacrificed on the altar of unhallowed ambition. Place this cause once more where God and the human conscience placed it in the sanctuary of tiuth and humanity. Let it not again be polluted by the breath of the demagogue, or be betrayed by its avowed friends. North American. Very ITKaporSassi ! Captain Tyler signed tho Annexation Bill on Saturday last, with a pen made of " an hick ory stick !" tho same stuff that the dutch ora tor said the sling was made of with which Da- fid killed Goliah. Har. Telegraph. Discovery of Dead Bodies. On Wednes day afternoon a couple of boxes were shipped on board tho South America, at New York, marked " Tools," directed to some person at Albany. The boxes emitting rather an unpleas ant efHuvia, some of the persons connected with the boat suspecting they contained dead bodies, immediately broke them open, and discovered the bodies of a man and girl in one, and two men in another. They were, no doubt subjects for dissection, intended for some medical man. A Foriusaaac iscovcry. A young lady of Philadelphia, a few days since, picked up a pocket book in Fourth street, near Market, which she had reason to suppose to havo been.just dropped by a gentlemen pass ed by. She inquired of tho gentleman, who proved to be a merchant from Tennessee, if he had lost anything, to which he, with some sur prise at the inquiry, replied in the negative. The young lady repeated her inquiry and sug gested that he should satisfy himself by exam ining. On doing this he suddenly started and declared himself a ruined man, for he had lost his pocket book. The book was then handed to him by the lady. On recovering which the gratitude of tho stranger was unbounded, and on the young lady's positively refusing to ac cept a portion of tho lost money, he insisted upon presenting her with a gold watch, which was declined. The strange merchant, howev er, forced upon the lady two notes of twenty dollars each, being all the looso money in his pocket. The pocket book, contained $10,000. JLehsgh County Bank. The report of tho Committee appointed to investigate tho manner of taking; the Stock of the Lehigh. County Bank, fully sustains the in stitution. The Harrisburg Telegraph says : "The Committee stalo that the evidence is full and conclusive that the bank went into opera tion in strict conformity to the conditions of its charter, and is thus entitled to the confidence of the public." 3Icditcrrancan Wheat From a letter of N. J. Palmer, Esq. Milton, N. C I have been trying Mediterranean Wheat for two years, the .seed of which I pro cured from Philadelphia. Ii succeeds admira bly, has a very large, plump grain, and makes excellent flour. It will grow much belter on thin land than our May wheat, will ripon'as early and is not so liable to injury by the fly, or affected by the rust," Mutiny and Murder. vWe;find in the New Bedford Mercury a! ahu minute account which occurred on h-.ni& the whaling ship Sharon, in November, I3jv and of the manner in which the ship was reta ken from the mutineers by a single person, Mr Clough, the mate. Some natives of Ascension Island, who- bad been shipped as part of crew, mnriftied while the mate and others were in the boats faking whales, killed the captaur and took possession of the ship. One of the natives, entirely naked, leaped up-m thetsffiail atutlbrajulishing a spear, he dared ike crew tr "come on board. An armed native stood gti.nj at each side-, and hammers, belaying pins, ani other 'missiles, had been collected for theiriKe and were hurled furiously at the boat. jr Clough, who was in the boat, was the only on,, who dared ailempt to board the ship. He ac cordutgly, after dark, was taken by the boat ahead of the ship, at some distance, to avoi suspicion, and taking a knife in his teeth to de fend himself from sharks, which had been a--traded by the whale, swam to the ship, after a hard struggle of an hour and a half, during which two sharks kept him company, but Jj not offer to molest him. Having reached tho ship, he dived- under, seized the rudder at t!,e keel, and climed to the starboatd cabin window, through which he made his entry. Laying aiide his clothing, and ascertaining ihai no suspicion existed of his being on b:iard, he groped about for arms, and found two cinlav-es, and two muskets, which he loaded. A i!es;;t?r ate struggle with the,nalives Misued, m which Clough killed two of them, and gained com mand of the ship. The men in the boat then came on board. The owners of the Sharon have given Mr. Clough the command of a fine ship, which, if the narrative be true, he well deserved. Success of a Yankee JSoy. Mr. Coleman, the inventor of the P. dno at tachment, which has attracted the admiration of the musical world, is among us, (f-ays ihe Boston Bee,) having returned in the Iliberma. Tho New Bedford Bulletin states that he has disposed of his entire right in the invention in Europe for six hundred thousand dollars, cash down. Before leaving this country, he sold the right for ten thousand dollars, and for N. York for one hundred thousand dollars. He thus re ceives seven hundred and ten thousand dollars a pretty fair sum for a Yankee not yet tinny years old. Mr. C. has a handsome estate at Saratoga, where he resides. The ITIadness of REilierism. This terrible mania which has produced so much misery and death is still raging in soras parts of this State, in the msst revolting shape. We recently published a brief account of it foul work in Orrington; and we now learn I'roa another section of the State that in a new shape its infatuating influence is raging. In the town of Atkinson, Piscataquis Ca. the "receivers" as they style themselves t." I the Miller fallacies, have discovered a new theory: which is, that the day of grace has beeo passed, and that we are all now in eternity, ani that the "awful horrors" of a general iudgetnent are soon to ue manuesieu to ait eves, ooinew pi them take special pains to humble themseire, and for this purpose wash and kiss each other feet creep upon the floor, &c. In some in stances their conduct is revolting in the ex treme. Take this case, which recently occcr- . . mm red: A pious, yirtuous woman, felt it herder, as she staled, to appear before the assembly sb was addressing entirely naked. This suppose duty she at once discharged by loosening he; cloak and shawl ! the only garments she hil on and letting them dron tn the floor! Tfc "receivers" of tho doctrine are increasing. Portland Arts Dissolving a Partnership. Tho following announcement appears the editorial head of tho last " Disseminator, published at Brandon, Miss., tho parties beia tho former proprietors of that journal : "The copartnership heretofore existing tween J. O. Shook and L. P. Hall wasnftW- ly dissolved on the 7th inst., by the parlies li king a shot at each other's pate." Our brethren of tho South should not"5 their shooting-sticss in this way ly dangerous. It is decuf' Seine Difference. 0no of tho best jokes we have seen for 1 long time is thus told by a New York papr A poor German, relative of Mr. Asior's arrivei not long sinco, and applied to the old man f-f charily. Mr. A gave him a five dollar hd" Why," said tho discontented rejaiivc, "jc: son just gave Jen dollars !" ."Well he nr- said tho old man :"the dog has a rich father' It is stated that St. Augusiine, Florida."' by moro than forty years the oldest, town 13 the United Slates. 1.
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