JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, November 13, 1845. Terms, $2,00 :k adcancc: $2.25, half yearly; and $2,50 if not paid bcfoie tbc end of the vear. rr? V. 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,; If. Y..is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Jcffersonlan Republican, -and give receipts for the same. Mercnams, .ue chanics, and tradesmen generally, may extend their business by availing themselves of the op portunities for advertising country papers which his agency affords. A ISew Paper Proposals have been issued by Mr. Samuel Siegfried, of Northampton county, for a new loco foco paper in Stroudsburg, to be called 44 The Democratic Press and Monroe County Journal;" the first number to be issued about the beginning of next month. . State Elections. Three States voied on Tuesday the 4h inst. Below we give the returns under their several head. New York. The election was for State Senators, Members of Assembly, and for and asainst a Convention to alter the Constitution. The lucos succeeded by a diminished majority. The Whigs elected 3, and the locos 5 Senators. For Assembly, Whig 51, Locos 71, Anti-Renters 6. The majority jorz. Convention is large.. New Jersef. Although the Native Ameri can question was brought to bear against the Whigs in some of their strong counties, still they have secured a majority of the Legislature. The following table shows the strength of par ries in that body. Whigs. 12 31 43 Locos. 7 27 34 Natives. 0 0 Senate, Assembly, Whig majority in Senate 5, House 4, Joint Ballot 9. The Loco candidate for Congress, in the Second District, is elected. Michigan. A few counties only have been heard from, which show a large Whig gain on the vote of last year. Washtenau county, which then gave Polk 202 majority, now gives our candidate for Governor 200 majority Jackson, Macomb, and Calhoun, last year gave Polk 644, now they give the loco candidate but 320 majority. The vote will be close; but the loco Governor has probably been elected. The Oregon Question. It seems to be admitted by every one that Mr. Polk will insist, in his Message to Con gress, on our exclusive right to the whole of the territory of Oregon, as laid down in his In augural Address. The Washington Union, the organ of the administration, and which always speaks " by authority," is publishing a series of articles on the subject, in which tho above broad ground is taken. Such a course, on the part of the President, if sanctioned by Con gress, may Involve us in a War with Great Britain. Correction. In our list of Members elected to Legislature, published last week, Mr. Zimmerman was put down as the Representative for Somerset coun ty. It should have been John R. Edie. Solomon San well, loco, was also reported as tho Representative for Warren and M'Kean. Jjaterccounts inform us thai E. Bartholomew, Esq., Whig, has been elected by a majority of 16 votes. This is an unlooked for victory, and reduces the loco foco majority ttoa. The Tariff. The Tariff Act of 1842, will be attacked du ring the approaching session of Congress, and if possible, the protective features of it destroy ed. The President, notwithstanding the asser tions of bis friends to the contrary before the election, is in favor of an advalorem tariff of 20 per cent. Unless the Pennsylvania Delegation in Congress stands united on this measure, we are fearful the efforts of the enemies of the Ta riff will prove successful. Should this be the case, the great interests of this State, will all be prostrated and thousands of persons who are .now. employed in manufactures, be obliged jo seek employment in some other business.- We dare hardly hope that the Tariff will be sustained. Hew Jersey. Thursday, the 27th of November, has been recommended by Gov. Slratton, as a day of ' Thanksgiving and Praise. " iri that State. " ' The Biff Gun. The big gun recently constucted in England" for the United States Sieamer Princeton, has arrived at New York, in the packet ship Skid dy. The Princeton ta now in the Gulf of Mex ico, and it will therefore be some time boforo she can receive tbia big addition to her arma ment on board. Judicial Farming. Tho Wilkesbarre Democrat informs us that Luther Kidder, presiding judge of the 21st district, raised this season one hundred and forty-two bushels of corn-ears, from one acre of upland in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre. Pcnnsylvanian. Judge Kidder did all of that and the Penn sylvanian is justifiable in the announcement. But we have an offset against it this week. Messrs. Bowman and Lewis informs us that they have just gathered from one acre of simi lar upland, one hundred and fifty-three bushels of corn-ears, beating the above eleven bushels! Luzerne Democrat. Here is something worth the consideration of the ladies : This description of article, (jewelry,) by the! process of galvanizing, has of late become so much adulterated as to contain scarcely the IGOth part of the gold formerly wrought up into them. For instance, gold pencil cases; a very ! few years since a description of these articles, were sold at $19 each, and were of solid gold; precisely the same article, to all appearance, is now sold at $7 for gold. A fraud here is ap parent, because gold has not fallen in value. The cheap article nets the manufacturers 200 per cent., while the genuine would give but 40 per cent, profit. A pencil which formerly con tained $5 worth of gold has now a value of 30 cents thinly galvanized upon its exterior. So general has this practice become that probably seven-eights of all the ornaments worn are of copper although paid for as gold. New Counterfeit. A new counterfeit $5 note on the Bank of Delaware has been put in circulation in Phila delphia. It is signed H. Latimer, President, and S. Floyed, Cashier payable to S. Wilson, and dated August 9, 1845 vignette, locomotive and train of cars. The Death Lamp. A person writing from France mentions the following curious scene which presented itself on his visit to the vaults of the Church of St. Denis, in which the French Kings are en tombed : " But the most singular of ail other things is a lamp, which is kept burning on the coffin of Louis 18th, which it is said, is to be continued burning until Louis Phillippe dies he being ihe next King (if he dies on his throne) to whom the lamp will pass until his successor dies. Napoleon did not die on his throne, nei ther did Charles lOib; in consequence Louis 18th has not been buried, neither has the lamp been allowed to go out. It looks dreary and as dark as midnight in that vault, and I voluntari ly shuddered as I looked through the iton gra ting into the chamber of death and viewed the dark pall upen the tomb. The light of the lamp was. more like a star flickering through a dark cloud. It was indeed the chamber of death." Chewing Tcbacco. An editor says: Suppose a tobacco chewer is addicted to the habit of chewing tobacco fif ty years of his life, each day of that time he consumes two inches of solid plug, which a mounts to six thousand four hundred and seven ty-five feet, making nearly one mile and a quar ter in length of solid tobacco, half an inch thick and two inches broad." He wants to know what a young beginner would think, if he had the whole amount stretched out before him, and were told that, to chew it up would tax his in come to the amount of two-thousand ninety-four dollars. New Species of Wheat. Two new kinds of wheat have recently been introduced into this country one from Oregon and one from China. From some experiments made this year, in Frederick county, Maryland the Oregon wheat produced fifty bushels to the acre, and the china wheui 55 bushels. The China wheat wan originally obtained from a box of China ware brought from" the north o China, in which a few heuds were found. The Oregon wheal was discovered in that territory by a missionary in 1839. There are fifty -one candidates among the Locofocos for the office of Governor of Illinois. So says the Independent Democrat, of the 3d instant. Upwards of two millions of dollars have been assessed by the authorities of the city of New York, for the payment of city expenses this year being about -SHenta on every $JQQ oj valuation on real and .personal jyqperjfy. r The Signs of the Times. The lime is fast approaching fur ihe meeting of Congress,- and" men begin to look with fear ful forebodings to the thick-coming signs of what is to be done by tho new powers'that be, and " the assembled wisdom of the nation." It is most unfortunate for the country that it has no settled policy ; that laws which affect business operations trade, commerce and man ufactures have no fixedness, no stability, no permanency with us; that the capitalist has no assurance, when he invests his money in any given branch of business, especially if it be in manufacturing, that it will not be jeoparded or lost by the instability of national legislation. For more than thirty years there has existed in the United States two conflicting schools of political economists; one in favor of protecting American industry and enterprise against for eign competition, the other in favor of Free Trade; and the contests between them have been carried on, upon tho part of the latter, as we think, with more zeal than knowledge, and with more of denunciation than reason. Our readers are aware that a compromise took place between these two conflicting schools In 1833, commonly called " the Compromise Act," which was to continue for nine years. Upon tho ex piration of this act, by its own limitation, in 842, the contest between the two schools, or parties, was again renewed, and resulted in the passage of the Tariff Act of 1842, by the Whiga, than which no measure ever produced more salutary effects upon a paralyzed and prostrate country. Fortunately for the country the Whigs, who are almost to a man in favor of protecting American labor and American enter prise, then had a majority in both branches of Congress. The act was passed in spite of the most strenuous and determined opposition, and its effect upon the country was like that of fresh air upon a suffocating man ; new vigor and ac tivity were infused into every fibre of ihe body politic. Since then, and under the operations of that acU we have enjoyed a degree of pros perity which rarely falls to the lot of any people. Are we to be permitted to enjoy this prosper ity, or are we again to undergo the torture of new " experiments ?" This is an important question, and one to which the people of the northern and middle States are anxiously seek ing an answer. We have closely watched the signs of the times for some months past, and confess their indications rather increase than diminish our apprehensions that the present Tariff is to be sacrified upon the altar of party; that it is to die the death, not for any evil deeds of its own, but on account of its paternity. The Union, which is the acknowledged organ of the administration, has, for some time past, been giving the free trade men of South Carolina ev ery assurance that u Mr. Polk will give his best efforts to reduce the present Tariff," to ivhat it is pleased to call " the revenue standard," which, according to Mr. M'Duflie, and others of that school, is a uniform duty of twenty per cent, upon every article imported. Mr. M'Duf fie in a late letter, published in the Charleston Mercury, and republished in the Union, says : " Can it be believed, that Mr. Polk, bound by the united ties of interest and duty to sustain the great principles of FREE TRADE and unshackled industry, which he has so ably sup ported through a long course of public service, will now, when elected to the highest station to which ambition or patriotism can aspire, be tray hi political principles and sacrifice those popular masses by whose voluntary and unsoli cited suffrages he was raised to power 1 I trust not the tale." In copying this letter, the editor of the Union, who speaks by authority, assures Mr. M'Duflie that he has not misjudged Mr. Polk. Tho editor constantly talks of" the injustice and oppression of the present tariff act," evidently with a view of prejudicing it in the minds of the people, and of inducing them to concur with Mr, Polk, Mr. M'Duflie, and, the free trade party in Congress in destroying it. Ho goes upon the principle that to give a thing a bad name, is to insure its destruction ; and when has that party made the destruction of any thing a parly measure, that it did not sue ceed 1 . But we shall be told that the Pennsylvania delegation will resist any and every attempt to destroy the present tariff, under which she is now enjoying a mom unprecedented degree of prosperity. It may be so, though we have very little confidence in their opposing any party measure. Did they not advocate the election of Mr. Polk, and assure the people that ho was a better tariff man. than Mr. Clay," when 'they well know the contrary? Are such men to be trusted ? We have no confidence in them.- But suppose they should oppose the destruction of the tariff, can they prevent it ? We think not. The Locofoco party have a large majori ty in the House of Representatives, and .a ma jority, in the .Seriato, and we knowhai, with the exception of jhf.rni'inberH from N.e.V York, - . -zi - Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, every Lo.co- foco is opposed to the; protective policy, and some of the New York members, we believe, are also opposed to it. The establishment of the Sub-treasury, and the overthrow of the pres ent tariff, will be the two great Polk measures) of the session ; thai they will be carried out, we see very little reason to doubt, and much cause to fear. In addition to the language of the editor of the Union, we notice that other accredited or gans of the Locofoco party are denouncing the present tariff as iniquitous and oppressive. Among these are the New York News, the Richmond Enquirer, the New York Evening Post, and many others we could name, both at the North and ihe South, indicating a unanimi ty of opinion and purpose hostile to the protec tive policy which bodes it evil. . But we shall be asked, as we have been, how Mr. Polk can, in view of his Kane letter, oppose the protective policy? Ou the other hand, Mr. M'Duflie asks if Mr. Polk can, after so ably supporting the great principles of Free Trade, through a long eourt.e of public service, now betray his political principles. f It seems evi dent from these interrogatories that he must prove false and faithless to one portion or ano ther of those who gave him their votes, and the question is, which portion did he intend to de ceive while a candidate ? For ourselves, we never had a panicle of doubt, that he intended to practise upon the credulity of the friends of protection, and that the Kane letter was con trived for this express purpose. We proclaim ed this opinion during the Presidential contest: we cautioned the people of Pennsylvania not to be deceived by it, and showed them, what Mr. M'Duflie and Mr. Ritchie now affirm, name ly, that Mr. Polk had supported the principles of free trade through his whole career in Con gress, and that, in the canvass for Governor in Tennessee in 1843, he told the people that " during the period he was in Congress, he bad steadily been opposed to a protective policy," and further, that he had also declared the inter est of the country required the repeal of the tar iff act of '42. A majority of ihe people of this State chose, however, to be deceived by the Kane letter, and 10 put trust in those who were interested in deceiving them, and wheu have now got their reward for so doing, in the shape of offices of honor and profit. They will soon learn how much reliance is to be placed upon such men, and upon a letter put forth in the midst of a canvass in which the writer avows principles which he has all his life opposed ; and if they pay dear for the Ie3son, they must comfort themselves with the old proverb, that " bought wit is the best if it is not bought too dear." U. S. Gazette. Noble Sentiments. The Native Americans of Berkshire county, Mass;, lately nominated the Hon. Asahel Foote, of- Williamstown, as one of their candidates for the Senate. This nomination was respectfully declined ; and subsequently Mr Foote address ed a letter to the Pntsfield Eagle, in which he takes a stand in favor of Whig principles : " Could I for a single moment entertain the conviction that Native Americanism was to be the agent, under Providence, of averting evils like these, 1 would not fail to avail myself of that moment of conviction to throw myself, soul and body, into its embraces. But that moment of conviction has not arrived ; and I think (hat I discover obstacles which will postpone it lb a day too distant for my purposes. I must therefore still adhere to my old relations, and rest satisfied with Whig principles, Whig meas ures, and Whig men. ' With the Whig party I am, in a great measure, satisfied. 1 believe it to embody more intelligence, more correct prin ciples, more honest patriotism, more genuine philanthropy, and more real Christianity, than any other political organization under ihe hea- vena. Until recently, Chapman, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, battled against the Whigs and called it "skinning coona." He is now battling against a clique of his own party and he calls it "skin ning skunks." We recognize the distinction. Hopkins L. Turney has been elected United btates benator, by the Legislature of I.ennes jSB. r y"w ('om ,he 4'h of March next. Mr. Turney is a Locofoco, and was. elected by union of the whig with a few locofdcoTrienBs of Mr. T. Mr. Dun Jap was the VeglOaf loed candidate. James Clarke formerly Canal, Commission er of thin, State, has been appointed by. Presi dent Polk, Governor of the Territory of Iowa, in ihe place of John Chambers, removed. The coffee, in sono of hn boarding houses in Boston, is so 'very weak' that miniature steam-epginea i .aiej-equired to force it dojvn the throaty of .thVvictirris. . - From tho New York Tribune. " . Ifew York Market. . Tuesday, Nov, 4. FLOUR AND MEAL. Another rapid im provemeht in FJour was produced by ihe re ceipt of the advices by the steamer of continu ed bad weather in England, and an advance of 37 1-2 cts. was realized.,. The market opened at 5 75, but went up to 6 25, at which several thousand barrels were taken. The sales were about 10,000 barrels at 5 75 a 6 25. The mar ket was less firm and fell back to 6 183-4 a 6 hi 1 o . u:u i. tnm ,1 'pi l 1 iii wiiitu aaica ncio luauc j nere are said to be large orders for the other side, but generally limited below the market rate. Sales 900 barrels Troy at 6 121-2. There have been 4000 or SOOCbarrels taken to-day for Liv. erpool at .6 25, a portion of which wai shipped at 3a. sterling freight. The lower grades of Flour are unsettled. City Mills 6 50. Hoi. ders of Southern have put up the rate to 6 00 for common descriptions. We note sales 600 barrels Richmond City, not Haxall or Gallego'j at 6 25 a 6 50. 300 do Howard-si. C 00; 500 do Baltimore and Richmond County at 5 75. Rye Flour is worth 3 75 a 4 25 with sales..-. Brandy wine Meal is put up" to 3 25, hhds. H 50, small sales. Jersey, bbls. 3 J2 1-2 a 3 25. Western Ship Stuffs 13 a 15 cents. The re ceipts of Flour and Wheat at tide water for the last week of October were very great; exceed irig any previous week since the opening of the canal. The receipts of Flour were 146,870 bbls., and of wheal 181,404 bushels, being an excess over the corresponding week last year of 26,017 bbls. Flour, and 126,379 bushels of Wheat. The difference between the receipts of Flour and Wheat at lido, this and the last year is now merely nominal about 40,000 bbls. of Flour. GRAIN. The holders of Wheal hare put up the price in consonance with the foreign news, and some have asked for Geneee 1 37 cents. There are considerable ordets for Wheat for shipment in our market and vessel have been taken up for Ireland to load with Wheat. We notice sales 6000 bushels Gene see supposed at 1 30 cents for export, 3000 do inferior Southern at 1 05 cents, and 2000 d fair at 1 20 a 1 25 all for milling. Corn has improved also, there being a demand for ex port which has taken 15,000 bushels, southern and Southern and Jersey at 68 a 70 cents. There were also sales 2600 bushels inferior Southern at 62 cts measure, and 25G0 do good for distilling at 70 cts. not delivered. Yester day and to-day about 10,000 bushels Rye, part before reported, were taken at 74 a 75 cts. sup posed for exporr. Barley is without change, sales J5500 bushels at 56 a 58 cts. Oats are 42 1-2 a 43 cts for Canal. Sales 1400 bush. Southern at 38 cts. We notice sales 426 bags Black Eyed Peas on terras not transpired. PROVISIONS. The Pork market contin ues' firm for Mess, but the other descriptions are neolected. We note sales 300 or 400 bbl. O at 13 874-2 a 13 94, and the latter price was refused for -500 bbls. Prime is nominally 10 56 a 10 62 1-2 for new, and 10 25 for old. In Beef we hear of but Utile doing, and no change. The advices have imparted firmness to Cheese, and good lots are taken for shipment at 8 ct. Butter stands at 16 a 18 cents for prime lots Western Dairy. FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MARKET BEEF. Within the last week Beef h been duller and lower than for some time put The best lots will not bring, on foot, more than 5 1-2 cts. There is rather a full supply in mv ket, and to some extent over the demand. PORK 'Little hogs,' already for roasting, begin to lake their places among tho rest of the poultry. Pork in carcases is worth 5 1-12 cts. per pound. POULTRY. Chickens are really Good ones bring quickly 56 a 62 c. per Pa,f at wholesale. Ducks are about the same. Turkeys vary from 88 to $1 25. Fowls ought to be carefully picked if one would avoid irc position. . We fear that the system of blowioij them up, like: the Grand Vizier in Maznhi". prevails tb a great, too great extent in this com munity.' Those who practice it ought the selves to be blowed up most incontinently. BUTTER There" is pot a full PP? of . 1.. Frnh Unilrtr in market, and it COini'.' I jjuiici ill mat rvci, diiu m tat, does arrive is aoughtfor a, 22. c?K erri canle had in, tolerable plenty av All that Western .-EG'GSAre scarce and dear. I 9 cC driered a particular favor on the pai.t of huci stera to let you buy them at $1 50 par hundre APPLES. Good ordinary Apple are o?i from $1 50 to $2 per bajreU Some ar rnuci higher, Th& supply altogether is scarce. U ii tstiaaied; that upwards of 1800 s buildings hay been built in Baltimore. present season, and yet the increase of b"1' ness and population is so great, says the Sim, thai there are few dwelling '0 rent.
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