JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, July 24, 1S45. Terms, $2,00 in advance: $2.25, half yearly; and $2,50 if not paw buioicmc end oi the vcar. (t V. If. Palmer, Est., at his Real Estate and Coal Olilce, No. 5!) Pine street, below Third, iwo squares b. the Merchants1 Exchange, Phila., and No- lfiO Nassau street, (Tribune buildings,) ' N. Y.,is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for tho Jcffersonian Republican, and civo receipts for the same. Merchants, Me chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing themselves of the op p irtunities for advertising in country papers whioh ais agency affords. The Way it was Done. Political iniquity was probably never carried Jo a greater extent in any country, than it has been in this, or order to effect the success of annexation. Persuation, promises, patronage, executive favor, fraud, were all successively practised by those who had the object near at heart. Members of Congress, who were known :o be adverse to the measure, were induced to vole for it, and have since been favored by ap pointments to high and lucrative offices, from the President. Twenty-nine, of the fifty-two Senators, were hostile to the Annexation Res olutions, as passed by the House of Represen tatives, and only could be induced to give them lheir support when the Resolution offered by Mr. Benton was attached as an alternative - amendment. This amendment was concurred in by the several Senators, who gave it their support, on the promise that it would be adopt ed by the President, and made the basis of an nexation. The very day after they had thus voted, however, these Senators were doomed to see the amendment disregarded, and the ori ginal Resolutions, in favor of which, at the most, but twenty -three voles could have been procured, scut to Texas for the approval of that country. But bad as this was although fraud and corruption had thus openly been employed to effect the passage of the Annexation Resolu tions, this is not- ihe worst. Not content with submitting lheir plan thus fraudulently obtain ed, for the approbation or rejection of Texas, the President of the United Stales, actually in structed JMajor Donaldson, our Charge d'Af faires to that Republic, to inform the Texan government, that the " terms we proposed for annexation were hard, but that if they accepted them, our government would hereafter make all straight." This exira-official assurance was communicated to the Texan Congress by Pres ident Jones, and that body unanimously adopt ed our offers of union on the strength of it. And now, we will soon be told, that this coun try is bound to make good the promise thus voluntarily given by our accredited agent to that country. The consequence will be, that before two yearB are over we will be called upon to pay the debt of our new ally or confederate. That will be the consummation of this splendid piece of iniquity. Dr. Gardner's Lectures. The sixth number of this truly excellent work has been received, and is equal, in point of interest and value, to the best of the five pre ceding numbers. It contains lectures on the Radiation of Heat, Moteoric Stones, the Earth, Lunar Influences, and the Physical Constitu tion of Comets. All of which is furnished at ihe low price of 25 cents. Any person wish ing to obtain these Lectures can do so by leav ing his name at this office. Messrs. Greeley & &. McElrath, Tiibune Buildings, New York, are the publishers. The Coletmbian. Magazine. This excellent New York monthly magazine for August has already been received, and is a superb number. The engravings are truly el egant, and the stories and original papers are from some of our most gifted writers. The Columbian ranks with the best magazine of its kind in the Union. The Hot Weather. The heat, of which we complained in our last, has been still more excessive during the past week, than during the previous week, la this cool, mountainous region, where we al ways have a delightful current of air, even in the tvarmest weather, and where the trees and brooks are as abundant as they could be desir ed, the. thermometer several limes rose lo near ly 100 degrees. The receipts of the Philadelphia Custom House during the last week were $335,033, and exceed' those during the same period last year by GU,930. " , Pardoning Revived. Gov Shunk, it appears, is as fond of pardon ing criminals, and turning them loose upon so ciety, as Gov. Porter used to be.- During his brief period of power he has already, on more than a dozen occasions annulled the decisions of our courts. The last subject or his clemen cy was J. H. Foster, Editor of the Pittsburg Age, who had been convicted of .a disgraceful Libel on Judge Grier, of Pittsburg. The New York Fire. Our neigbors of New Yoik have been visited by a dreadful calamity in the form of another extensive fire, which has laid waste a large part of the business portion of their City. We sincerely sympathize with them in their afflic tion. For an account of ihe fire, see another column. War with Mexico. Now that Texas has accepted of our terms for annexation, all eyes are turned towards Mexico to see whether she will redeem her promise by declaring War against the United Slates. The Washington Union states lhat it is the opinion of Gov. Shannon and Captain Stockton, that Mexico will declare war. Ar rivals from that country will be looked for with intense interest. Accidents &;. in Eastoia. As the Reading Mail Stage was passing down Pomfret street on Wednesday afternoon last, it ran over a little boy, son of Mr. Sidney Down, of this place, aged about three years and a half, who at the time was in ihe act of crossing the street, in company- with several other boys, in front of Mr. Bachman's hole!, and instantly killed him. His neck was dislo cated, and his head, arms and legs very much bruised aud fractured. A Coroner's Inquest was summoned, who after hearing the testimo ny in the case, reported, "that the boy came to his death by being run over, on Wednesday, July 16th, 1845, at about 6 o'clock, P. M., by the Reading and Easton Stage, while driven carelessly and at a rapid rate down South Pom fret street, in the Borough of Easton, and that the said stage was driven by Jacob Willet." Willet was immediately arrested, and commit ted to prison, but has since been admitted to bail in the sum of $1,000, for his appearance at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer, to an swer the charge of " manslaughter." This should be a warning to all persons who are in the habit of driving either fast or carelessly through the streets of our borough. On Monday last, whilst Mr. Samuel Stem, and another person, were preparing a sand blast at one of the limestone quarries a short distance below Easton, a premature explosion took place, by which Mr. Stem was dangerous ly wounded. His life was despaired of but it is now thought he may recover. Too much care cannot be taken by those engaged in such employments. Accidents by powder are alto gether too frequent. Whig. The Warren ITInrder Cases. This morning Messrs. Vroom and Dayton, counsel of the prisoners Carter and Parke, sta ted to the Court, that their assignments of er ror were not formally drawn out. They in formed the Court of the errors in substance. Mr. Dayton has proceeded to pray a writ of certiorari to be directed to the Oyer and Ter miner of Warren County, directing that Court to send up the out-branches of the record. While Mr. Dayton was proceeding with his argument some difficulty arose in consequence of the incomplete condition of the assignments of errors, in consequence of which, the Court, after consultation, postponed the further pro gress of the argument till three o'clock this af ternoon, at which timef it was understood, the arguments were to be formally and finally pre sented Stale Gazette of Friday. The New York Courier and Enquirer says: " Last Sunday morning, at about 1 1 o'clock, a carriage drove down to tho Battery and a parly of several persons got out, and going upon the grounds had a regular bruising match, which lasted some time. There wore but two men engaged in the fight one of whom was consid erably injured ; but two or three hundred spec tators present. One of the most active persons in arranging this most disgraceful exhibition and in superintending the whole affair, was Ryndcrs, already notorious in almost every de partment of possible ruffianism, and recently appointed to a place of trust in the Custom House of this city." Gen. Combs gave Lynn Boyd an awful using up at Puducah, Ky., a few da's ago. The Hopkinsville Gazette, in noticing the affair, says that some of the ultra Loco-Focos ran away when the General's shot began to take effect, and Boyd himself looked as if he could have run a good foot-race without much pre paratory trainings . . Editorial Mania. We subjoin the following sensible remarks relative to the mania which exists for editorial ship, from the Delaware County Republican. Speaking of the discontinuance of the Morning Post establishment, it says : The demise of tho Posi, and tho pecuniary ruin of its conductor, is another instance of the folly of men engaging in the publishing busi ness who know nothing of its multifarious de tails. There is a mania among many politi cians to turn editor. They think, that with a press under their control, their fortune is made, and it is from this cause that we find newspa pers almost daily springing up in all parts of ihe country, to ihe injury of men, who, by a life of application and toil, have filled themselves fopthe responsible post of an editor. These papers after languishing a lime, finally give up ihe ghost, and with their death vanish the hopes and fortunes of those who projected them. The failure of one or an hundred men and newspa pers of this class, does not deter others from embarking in the business, and they, too, like those who have proceeded them, suffer for their folly. The men of our day are too wise to be taughl wisdom, but by sad experience In Rochester, the farmers obtain ten cents less per pound for Wool this year than they did last. The Democrat pertinently asks : If a farmer has a thousand pounds of wool for sale, and loses ten cents a pound because of ihe threat to repeal tho Tariff, how many hogs will he be able to fat on " glory V Mul tiply Buchanan's Democracy by Shannon's diplomatic acumen, and you will find ihe exact result ; and by striking off ihe left hand cypher, you will be able lo tell how many such soldiers as Polk was during the war, it would require to capture Mexico ! Horrible Story. The Brooklyn Adverti ser contains a long and horrid story, tho sub stance of which is that one Edward Higbee died about two weeks ago at Wallabout, of a cancer on the face, and his widow refused to let the body be seen by his relatives prior to the funeral. Afterward, suspicious circum stances arising, the body was disinterred on Friday night and found to be headless th widow substantially admitting lhat she had sold ihe head to a Doctor. Rather Doubtful.--A man at St. Etienne is said to have invented a five-bladed carving instrument, which " being placed in a roasted fowl, and a spring being pressed, tho blades will in a second separate the legs and wings. and divide the carcass !" Who is Col. Polk ? This question is now answered. He has been making war upon the Post Mistress of Lebanon ; he is therefore the Petticoat Hero ! Sam Medary late of the Ohio Statesman, at tacked Mr. Follet, Editor of the State Journal, in the streets of Columbus, a few days since, yelling, ' I'll whip you, you d d scoundrel !" (so reported by a brother Loco-Foco ) This is the conduct and language of one who pretend ed to oppose Mr. Clay because he was charged with using hard language when in a passion y falsely charged too. The Cincinnati Inquirer, another Loco-Foco moralist, approves of these disgraceful proceedings, and says there are a few more of such scenes to come off!- Trib. " Important if True !" We find the fol lowing in last evening's Philadelphia Gazette. Wo rather think that the Tariff had more to do with it than Oregon : " Gentlemen from Washington slate with confidence lhat Hon. James Buchanan had re signed the Secretaryship of Slate, and that the President has selected Andrew Scvc7ison of Virginia, to fill the place. Differences of opin ion as lo the Oregon negotiation have induced this slep on the part of Mr. Buchanan." fc Privileges of Postmaster. We havo just seen a letter from the office of the Post master General, under date of July 12, from which we make the following extract: " When subscribers refuse to take Pamphlets or Newspapers from the office. Postmasters are now, as heretofore, required to notify Editors, &c. and may jrank letters containing such 7io tice." Noyel Objection. A persoo ihe other day objected to the new postage law, for the reason lhat before the passage of the law he received but two dunning letters a week, and he now re ceives five or six per day. Texas is filling up very fast. It is stated that more emigrants are going there this sea son, than at any time previously. Medicine bottles should always be labelled, Mr. S. P. Lawton, of Westerly , R. I., died on Monday, from having taken a quantity of cor rosive sublimate instead of some mild medicine as he intended. ANOTHER GREAT FIUE IS NEW Terrible Explosion and JLoss of liife Two or three hundred !SuaIdi:is Desroyed Loss six or seven Mil lions of Dollars. New York has been again visited with a most destructive and terrible conflagration a conflagration unparalleled in the history of thai city, save by ihe great fire of '35. It broke out on Saturday morning last, and in the short space of seven hours, no less lhan one hundred and eighty valuable ware houses, filled with costly merchandise recently imported, with ninety other buildings occupied as dwellings or work shops, fell a prey to the flames. The loss in buildings and merchandise, part of the latter be ing saved, is noi less than five or six millions of dollars, nearly covered by insurance in that ci ty and elsewhere. The Home Insurance Companies are able to meet their losses, as are the New York agen cies of foreign offices. The sudden withdrawal of capital from set tled channels, and the total annihilation of so much property, cannot fail to exert a very great influence upon the prosperity of the city and its commercial relations. The exchangeable commodities are materially reduced on the very eve of a great business season, and the means of doing business considerably lessened. The fire originated says the New York Sun,! in the upper story of the four story brick build-i ing, No. 34 New street, occupied by J. L. Van doren as an oil store. That building with its contents was in a very shorl time entirely de stroyed, as was a large brick building adjoining, occupied as a carpenter shop. At a quarter to four o'clock, Crocker & War ren's store in New strpet, in which was siored a very large quantity of saltpetre, blew up with the most tremendous explosions ever heard or felt in this city. That building itself was of course scattered in fragments in an instant, and those near it were little better off. So awful was the shock that the thick plate glass in near ly all the buildings in Wall street was broken in fragments and strewed over the pavement, in many instances the substantial window sashes themselvos being broken in. Rushion & As pinwall's large show window in William street, near Maiden Lane, was broken out, although a quarter of a mile from the scene. One of the fire ongines near the scene was shivered to atoms. The three explosions were accompanied by shocks resembling those of an earhquake and so powerful as to shatter win dows within a circuit of one mile. The doors of the American Exchange Bank in Wall street were burst open with a loud crash. The City Bank doors also burst. The streets or buildings every where in the vincinity bear marks of the explosion, which not only carried away three buildings, and shat tered doors and windows, but it also carried flame and burning'timbers into adjoining ware houses, and, thus encouraged, the flames raged with intense fury. A member of the Fire Department had a mi raculous escape at the explosion. He was on top of the building in which it occurred, and was thrown on the roof of an adjoining building a distance of thirty feet, where he alighted in safety. The explosion was heard at Flushing and supposed to be a shock of an earthquake. Cin ders fell on Staten Island, and for several miles over in New Jersey. The sun was obscured by the smoke during the forenoon. Tho Bay House, Clifton Hotel, and all the Houses on Staten Island, a distance, some of them of eleven miles, were made to tremble by the explosion in Broad street. The harbor, for ten miles below tho city, was covered with floating fragments. Several pieces of burnt goods were picked up on Slaten Island. Tho stench of the city was so great, caused by the burning of spirits, oil, and every com busticle mailer, that it was offensive to those approaching the city for many miles beforo they reached the dock. The city from tho Bay presented a vast sub lime sight. Spectators beheld it in silonco. It seemed as if all tho city was in flames. The sheet of fire and smoke ascended to the clouds The chief of police and Alderman Charlick had a very narrow escape of their lives. Tho walls of a building, while they were in Stone street, nearly hemmed in, fell, and is known to havo killed one man and a boy it is supposed Col. Johnson of the new pullae, who was in front, and who has not been seen since. The Philadelphia Hotel, at the corner o Beaver and Broad streets, presented a, sublime sight. The whole seven stories were wrapped,' in flames at one moment. The sides boino; atone, it presented the appeaiance of a volcano The flames, ascending upwards, from the cen tre to an immense height, while the fire pour ing out from every window on its" four sides gavo it a grand and majestic appearance. A melancholy and truly distressing SCPt, look place at No. 10 Greenwich street. ,t Henry, son of John Carey, died of consump tion while the fire was raging and while tht flames were spreading to such an extern thalll was supposed lhat the house in which he was might be consumed. Death, however came' and his body wrapped in his bed clothes wa immediately removed to a place of safetv. A fireman, apparently in the agonies of death is laying on the steps of the Bank of Commerce' surrounded by physicians and Iripnds. Neither his name nor the cause of the'accideni could be ascertained. The scene in Broadway near the fire, in Wall street, South William, Exchange place Rector, Morris and Thames-street, quue Jr. fies all attempts at description. Drays, can and wheelbarrows, hastily loaded with the mnm incongruous cargoes, are pushing through tho dense trovrd in every direction, attended by th,. sweating, blackened and exciting driven. Irish women, with a bed in one hand and two ()f three naked children in the other, run tu de posit them on the walk, or wherever there may be a look for safety. Ten men have been sent to the Tombs for stealing at the Fire. A lbtter, nearly perfect, was picked up on Staten Island, although somewhat charred. It vas signed by Caspar, Meyer & Co., and mu; have come from Broad street a distance uf 7 miles. There were Jive thousand barrels of saltpetre in the store which exploded. The fire was subdued at 10 o'clock on SV urday. The Chambersburg Whig says thai John Kyle, aged fourteen years, has been appointed Postmaster at Faunettaburg, in that county! This is a pretty strong indication that Mr. Pulk. favors "the Young Democracy I" It is said that a spoonful of horse-radish pu into a pan of milk, will preserve the milk sweet for several days, either in the open air or im cellar, while other milk will sour. The Fire of 1845. We do not remember ever to have heard of so many great fires in any one short period cf time as have happened on this continent intk first six months of 1845. We annex a list of the losses experienced, in the order in which they occurred. Barbadoes Pittsburg London, Conn, Fayetteville Quebec Mantanzas, New York $2,000,000 3,500,000 500,000 500,000 7,500,000 1,000,000 6,000,000 S2 1,000,000 Total This aggregate surpasses the loss by tta preat fire in this city in 1835. Then abuft $20,000,000 of properly was destroyed. N. Y. Herald. A Feat. Tho greatest feat of cradling that we fwo seen chronicled this season, says the Charles town Free Press, was done by Mr. Wm. Bine. of Beaver Run, Hampshire county, Va. Ha commenced cutting in the morning a liule below sunrise, and stopped for wani of more grain cut, an hour before sun-down, cutting eiglt acres & eleven poles, of tolerably heavy whei'. yielding 250 dozen of sheaves, with iovU bands. Had he continued lill dusk, ai the & rate, ho would have cut down nine acres a ! thirty-five and three-sevenths poles, yieUJ 285 dozen. Cool,. Summer clothing in Georgia con sist it is said, of a shirt collar and a psiri spurs ! uvaiu is iuu wages ui sin. ina-r W- 1 ,J Atncti sinning, and stand out for higher wages. Importations of Leather. The remiss: of tho duties on leather has induced import tions of this commodity from the United State Thn r.nr.t-c.1 ohm Vr. r L- li i r vvllirh arHVeJ f1 Thursday last, brought 2,447 hides and 31 M- uies oi me arncie, wnn a variety m r.L. i r.t :.. ' mini1 notions, amongst them as companions for L" leather, we suppose, len casks oi snoe i'c5J Liverpool paper. A Good. Sugoestion.-'-A correspondent : an Alabama paper, speaking of the prosper' United Stales, sava : i j , i In the event of a war, I would suggest13 the 'Jlyler-men be marshalled and sew iw as, a son oi vanguards ana tne ioliu-- placed next in order, ana the wmgs w r tne rear- to Keep tie balance irom t r . mum a ay. m
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