JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, February 19, 184G. Tcnr.s, $"2,00 m advance: $2.25, Half yearly: and $2,50 if not paid octoictlie end 01 me year. 05s- V. B. PALMER, Esq is the Agent for this paper at his office of real estate and Country Newspaper agency in Philadelphia, North-West -corner of Third and Chestnut streets; Tribune buildings, Nassau St., N. Y.; South East corner of Baltimore and Calvert sts., Baltimore, and No. 12, State street, Boston. Mr. Palmer will receive j i r j .,.) Urhcnnfiit: fur alio Jejfcrsonian Republican. Messrs. MASON $ TUTTLE, at 38 William street, New York, are also our authorized Agents, to receive and forward subscriptions and adver tisements for the Republican. . The Right of Way. The Bill before the Legislature, granting the privilege o me new xur a..u ..e xw-u , .t - n:i i i .1 u - , . .1.. xt vi. i ni r : l company, o con.tnue me.r iv..i ivuuu, umn, , portion of Northern Pennsylvania, was ull ? undisposed of, at our Jatesl advices from Har rtshurg. At that time, however, it was the pre vailing opinion that it would pass, in a form slightly modified from that in which it had been reported to the House, by Mr. Eldred, from the Committee on Internal Improvements. We hope it may. The main opposition to it, comes from Philadelphia. The members from the City and County, are using all their efforts to defeat it. In the first place, by offering all kinds of amendments which would be impossi ble for the Company to comply with, and in the next place, by speaking, voting and lobby ing against the proposition itself. This is un generous. The Bill provides that any other Company, that is or may be chartered in this , State, mav connect with it ; and as the Phila- delphians talk of running a line of Rail Road from Tide Water to Carpenter's Point, it would he no injury to their trade in the vent of the completion of that project. It would also ren- tier the road doubly valuable to the inhabitants of the several counties through which it is in tended to pass. Let the North have some ad vantage from Internal Improvements, as well as other parts of the State. And as this would unquestionably be of great benefit to them, with out injuring their neighbors, it can be nothing but a short-sighted and selfish policy which at tempts to defeat it. Oregon. The House of Representatives, at Washing ton, have at length resolved to instruct the Pres ident to give notice to the British Government of our intention to put an end to the Treaty of 1827, by which that government and this have joint-occupation of Oregon. The Resolution was, however, first amended so as to give the world to understand that ihe friends of the Pres ident in the House, are not as anxious to have a fight, as we were told they were. The Senate is now engaged in discussing the same, or similar resolutions. Senators Allen, Clayton and Hannegan have already spoken, and it is likely the debate will last several weeks ; when the Senate will also, it is said, vote to give notice, with some restrictions. 6A Vr3 f .1 t 1 -r i I jur manias are aue to Major jCiarea, oi the Legislature, for a valuable public document. Xfyrhe first number of the "National Press," published by George P. Morris, late of the Mirror, has been received. The new journal is of large dimensions, and the typo graphical execution is unsurpassed. The well known ability of the editor will afford a sure warrant that its matter will be of the highest excellence. Terras, $2 per annum in advance. Sheriff Sale. We obserre by the last Easton Whig, that Sheriff Adams, of Northampton county, adver tises for sale on Thursday the 1 2th day of March next, at the public house of Abraham Long, at Bartonsville, Monroe Co., two Dwelling Hou ses, Apple Orchards, and about 738 acres of Laud, situate in Jackson township, Monroe co. the property of Egbert Somerdyke, mortgager, Peter Brong, David Cypher, and Wm. Bower, terre tenants. The first Monday of March, has been as signed by the United States Senate, for the con f ideration of Mr. Bngby's resolutions to amend ibe Constitution, by making the Presidential term six years instead of four, and providing against a re-election. It is said there are so many girls in Califor nia, that a man has to declare himself married when he goes amongst them, to save himself from being devoured, or forced t,o marry against his will. LEGISLATIVE NEWS. Correspondence of the Inquirer and Gazette. Harrisburo, Fob. 14, I84G. House Mr. Webb, from the Committee on Corporations, reported the Senate Bill to in corporate the Franklin Medical College, with a recommendation that it be negatived. Mr. James reported a supplement to the act relative to fisheries on the Delaware. Numerous private bills were reported, among them several divorce casea. Mr. Fernon, in place, read a bill to incorpo rate the Gunner's Creek Improvement Company. Mr. Forsyth, in place, read an act to lay out College Avenue, Philadelphia county. On motion of Mr. Larkin, the bill to remove the seat of justice of Delaware couniy was eon- SlUerou li was debated by Mr. Larkin and Mr. Burnside when the first section was nega tived. A bill to increase the revenue and diminish the Legislative expenses of government, was, on motion of Mr. Burrell, considered and pass ed, yeas 50, nays 27. The Speaker communicated to she House a f A j. Gonera rea,jVe to the ' miliua of hi, office . a,so from lh r;i,rar:,fl rwlalivR tn.lh(, cftnfii,i f .h State Librarian, relative to-the condition of the Libraty. Mr. Matthias reported the following bill, which will no doubt be read with interest by many of your citizens. BUI to Cosmmite the Punishment of JPcalis. A Further Supplement to an act entitled " An Act to reform the penal laws of this Com monwealth. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, in all cases of conviction of the crime of murder in ,be first d e before any courl of ,his. , , it shall and may be lawful for the governor of this commonwealth, on the recommendation of the court and jury before whom the cases shall . ,ried t0 coraraule the punishment of death inflicted bv the nenal laws of this state, to ! ... that of imprisonment lor life, separate and sou- lary, at hard labor, in the penitentiary of the proper district, there to be fed, clothed and otherwise dealt with, as is directed by existing laws of this commonwealth ; and if the decision of the governor on such recommendation of the court and jury shall be favorable to such recom mendation, the said court on being officially in formed of such commutation, shall pass sen tence and judgment of imprisonment for life as aforesaid, against such convicts, with like effect in all respects, as if said crime were by the ex isting laws made punishable according to the terms of such commuted sentence and judgment. Section 2. That all such convicts whose punishment shall be hereafter so commuted, shall be considered from the date of such sen tence in all respects as naturally dead, intes tate, and their estate and effects shall be there upon administered to by the proper parties ; and after payment of debts agreeably to the present intestate laws, the residue of all such estate and effects shall be equally divided, one moiety to and amongst the heirs and representatives of such convicts agreeably to said intestate laws, and the other moiety to and amongst the wid ow, children, or other legal representatives, agreeably to said intestate laws, of the party upon whom such homicide was so committed by such convict ; and in default of known heirs, kindred or legal representatives of such party so murdered, the said moiety shall escheat to the commonwealth. Section 3. That so much of any existing law of this commonwealth as conflicts with the pro visions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Senate The Speaker presented a remon strance against dividing the District of Kensing ton into wards. Mr. Chapman presented petitions from Phil adelphia in favor of a reduction of the milliner of the Judges of the Common Pleas, and merous other petitions were presented. nu- Mr. Sterigere reported a bill relative to exe cutions. Mr. Crabb moved that the Senate go into the consideration of the Central Railroad lull, but objection being made, it was not agreed to Yeas 18, nays 11 not two-ihird-t. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bill again came up in order. The question was upon the amendment offered by Mr. BigW. The de bate was continued upon this amendment by Messrs. Darsie, Crabb, Herkman, Bigler, Chap man and Gibbons, who held the floor until the hour of adjournment. February 15, 1846 noon. Senate On motion of Mr. Bigler the Sen- i ate agreed to meet tin afternoon . for the .pur pose of considering the Central Railroad Bill, and the Bill authorising an outlet lock on the Delaware. Right oj Way. This hill again came up in order, and Mr. Gibbons resumed his remarks commenced on Saturday. He is speaking at great length in favor of the bill. House. Mr. Hallowell offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of so amending the fee bill, that small estates shall not hare to pay as high fees as large ones. Agreed to. The House, by a vote of 52 to 17, refused the Committee on Banks the liberty of employ ing a clerk to investigate the Lehigh Bank Mr. Burnside, (Judiciary) reported that it was inexpedient to make any further laws rela tive to Hawker's and Pedlar's. But, on motion of Mr. Taggart, the report was postponed for the present. Mr. B. also reported a bill relative to Justices, . which was considered and passed. It relates to Justices where towns are divided. He also reported a bill relative to the election of Con stables. On motion of Mr. Trego, the petitions rela tive to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia were referred to the Ju diciary Committee. On motion of Mr. Magnehan, a motion to print an extra number of copies of the Report of the S'ate Librarian, was considered, and was negatived after much debate. Numerous private bills were read in place, and the morning orders have not been got through with. It is unusually dull in the House, the attrac tion is in the Senate where Mr. Gibbons is speakin ltr Dreadfttl ITJurder of two Husbands. Mrs. Van Valkenburgh, who was hanged in Fulton county, N. Y., a few days since, two days before the period of her execution, con fessed that she had murdered two husbands. She admitted that she had given her first hus band a dose of arsenic, which although he did not die immediately, was the cause of his death. Those who witnessed the execution state that the scene was awful. Notwithstanding she had expressed to others that she had a hope of forgiveness from her Maker, yet, when brought from her cell, her face showed a most haggard appearance. Despair was depicted upon her countenance! After she was brought to the gallows, a prayer was offered up by the Rev. Mr. Hitchcock. She then spoke a few words to those present, and said that if there were any drunkards or transgressors present, they must take warning by her fate: and then com menced praying to God to have mercy upon her soul. The drop was then let fall, and as the rope straightened upon h'er neck, and just as she raised her feet, she gave a shriek, and I past from time to eternity. Very Malicious. Secretary Buchanan recently gave a party at Washington, which cost $1500. Some of the papers recollecting his celebrated speech in Congress on the Sub-Treasury, have inquired, I. in the most malicious manner, "how long it would take the Hon. Secretary to make fifteen hundred dollars at ten cents a day wages." A communication in the New York Observer, j states that there is iu a densely populated part of the city there, a whiskey distillery, connect ed with which there are stables, in which two thousand cows are confined in stalls, and fed on 'slops,' or refuse grain, which runs directly ; from the still to the feeding troughs. Such milk as these cows must produce, should not he sold, but it is said that it is disposed of as farm milk. Some precious confessions slip out in the Texas debate. Col. Young, the other day, while arguing that it was necessary to drive Slavery as far South as possible, expressed his doubt whether any climate north of " h I was hot enough for it." Senator Johnson, who spoke to-day, insists that it is better not to glo rify Texas ; that while he and others swallowed the pill, they did it reluctantly, and no politician can now stand up and yindicaie it us a means for extending Slavery without being d d, not religiously, but politically. Albany Eve. Jour. Wisconsin. A bill is before the Legislature of Wisconsin Territory providing for the forma tion of tho Territory into a State, and its ad mission into the Union, The bill provides thai a vote shall be taken on the 1st of April next for and against a State Government. If a ma jority should decide in its favor, the census is to be taken, and members to a Convention to form a constitution are to be apportioned by the Go vernor. The election of delegates is then to be held, and the Convention is to meet on the 9ih of November next. A Fair held in Richmond last week, for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum of that City, re alized $Ss22 90. FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. A gentleman bought a cask of wine, partly filled, and not wishing to draw off its contents to ascertain the quantity, called on me to guage it. 1 immediately put the cask upright on one end, and then took the dimensions of it. The bung diameter heing 31 inches, head or end di ameter 25 inches, length of the cask 36 inches. and the surface of the liquor from the middle of the cask 6 inches, all inside measuieineut. Let every lover of mathematics do the name, and find the contents in gallons. II. C. M. Westfall, Feb. 9. 1S46. Highly Important front ITIexioo. A Washington Correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, of the 10h says: 1 have a few moment before the cars leave to say that I learned late last night from Com. Moore, who had just seen a letter from Mobile stating that another Revolution had taken place in Mexico, and that Gen. Arista, one of their most energetic and best officers, had superse- ! (led Pnredes as President, without bloodshed. Arista was the commander of the troops in the five northern Provinces, and is said to be decidedly friendly to thin Government and op posed to Santa Anna, the English and French. If so, Slidell may be received and our friendly relations with Mexico restored. 1 hasten to send you this, us it may reach vou in advance of other information. From Mexico. The following extract i taken from the cor respondence of the New-York Tribune, dated Pensacola, Feb. 1, 1S46. "I happened to be out of town yesterday when the Somers arrived, and did not return until too late to lake advantage of the Mail. " Mr. White, the First Lieutenant of the So mers, weni to the city of Mexico to carry and receive despatches. He says he found less ex citement there than he expected to find. He , . , . i I , thinks it worse than useless to speculate on the ' prouauuiuea wiiii ieaiu iu iue cvemuui success I ill"- U I . .1 I or failure of Paredes' scheme but the counter movements now progressing evidently give Mr. Slidell great encouragement in looking forward. Mr. Slidell is now at Jalapa. Parrot accom panied Mr. White to Vera Cruz. Little or no apprehension seemed to exist among our mer chants at the latter city. Revolutions are eve-ry-day matters, and no great uneasiness is ex cited by rumors of War, domestic or foreign." 3Ir. Walker's Tariff Bill. A correspondent of the New-York Tribune, gives the following outline : (All duties ad valorem. Per cent. Iron of all kinds, 30 Manufactured Woolens, 25 Wool 20 Manufactured Cotton and Flax, 20 Manufactured Worsted, 25 Ready-made Clothing, and all made up arti cles worn by men, women and children ; and Hosiery, Silks, Wines, Brandies and other distilled spirits, Sugars of all kinds, Molasses, Coal, Coffee, Tea and Salt, free. 30 30 30 75 30 30 30 It is important to ail individuals to know that castor oil may must easily be taken mingled with orange jnice a Utile sugar being added to the juice, if the orange be not ripe and sweet Tho difference between this and any other mode of taking this valuable medicine is sur prising. The editor of the Haverhill Gazette includes the following in a humorous enumeration of the advantages of a war: " We can carry on a war of fifteen or twen ty years, if we are all agreed to exert our ut most strength. We raise about 50,000 young men a year, which we can have killed and hold our own. We can give up our foreign com merce, and our revenue, and borrow $100,000, 000 a year for twenty years, and then not be so much in debt as England, and it would not take us more than two hundred years of peace and pro.-perity to pay it up." R'ortSa and West Branches. We extract an article from the Pennsylvania Intelligencer, showing the Finances, &c, de rived from the Canals. It will be seen thai in the increase of tolls, the statistics from which the Inielligencer made up its statement, com bined the North Branch Canal with the West Branch, and the Susquehanna Division. Why do not ihe proper officers, show the receipts irom eacli Division by. itself? The most of the increase, we presume is to be credited to the North Branch, and by placing it there,, would tend to .-how the importance of I hit Di vision. Wilkes-Ihirrc Advocate. , New Counterfeits. Monesdale Bank, Honesdale, Pa. 10's, spurious. In the genuine the title of ihe Bank is in two lines, in the bad note it is in one, by which they may be detected. Bank of Northern Liderties, Philadelphia. 10's altered from 1's. Easily detected by hol ding up to-light. Trenton Banking Co., Trenton, N. J. 10's spurious, Vignette, an Indian and railroad train. Morris County Bank, Morristown, N. J. 10's spurious, Vignette, Spread Eagle. Morris County Bank, Morristown, N.J. 10's spurious, Vignette, a female in a car. Mechanics' Bank, Newark, N. J. 10's altered from 2's. Vignette, female hold ing a child in her arms. Reapers, &c. in the distance. Unlike the true 10's. BicknelTsReporler. An Enviable Condition. The late grand juryjof Adams ennnty, pa., had not a single case before it, andjthere was not a single prisoner in the couniy jail. The Gettysburg Sentinel says, the county owes not one dollar of debt, and there are above three thousand dollars in cash on hand, and above five thousand in outstanding taxes! A correspondeni of the?NewjYork Sun, wri ting from Buenos Ayres, says : " We have had something to talk about with in a few days, being nothing less than a Court Martial held on board one of the French ves sels, (which has just sailed with ihe up fleet,) to investigate the conduct of a young officer, who smuggled a pretty Argentine Indian giil on board, dressed as a sailor boy. As the story goes, the mysterious boy came on board in the forenoon, and being of rather a dark complex ion, and a stranger withal, he excited some re mark among boys of his own age, each one be- lilt: ucsiiuua ui ijiiM2; iiiiii "J iiw -i'iii 'omuii. ' , f..n1m.iA .( i n aarmiewf "into 4nn Ihu !. tin i JCnluuniua ncio aiuuau u uiiu-i, aim 1111. unit? secret leaked out among the officers before the stranger was two hours on board. The girl be ing very beautiful, pure, and artless, the Court Martial ordered that the young officer should either be cashiered or marry her. A Priest was sent for, and the happy pair were united." There is said to be 2000 idiots in the State of New York. New York Market. Friday, Feb. 13. FLOUR. Wheat Flour, Michigan, $5 26. Very good N. Orleans is offered at 5 50, with out sales. Nothing new in Rye Flour or Corn Meal. GRAIN. Wheat and Barley are inactiTe, and no sales have come to our knowledge. Rye is nominally 80 cts for Northern; 500 bush els Jersey brought 72 cts in the slip. Oats are without change; 1200 bushels handsome North ern sold at 50 cts. Corn keeps plenty, and is quite dull; 1500 bushels sold yesterday at 62 a 63 cents. FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MARKET BEEF Good Beef is now worth 7 1-2 a 8 cts. per lb , and the demand was scarbely sup pliedthe market being entirely cleared. MUTTON-The price of Sheep varies much. They can be bought for from $4 to $6 a piece. Some are sold as low as $2, and others bring $10 00. PORK'- Fresh is worth 6 cts., and a great deal is sold a notch lower than this. VEAL. -Fine Veal is rather plenty, a 5 cents per lb. on foot. It is sometime sold as low as 4 1-2 cts. FISH. There is an excellent supply and variety of Fish in Market. Boston Cod are worth 5 cts. per lb. Bass 6; Smells 6; Perch 3; Eels 5. Oysters can be bought for $4 per thousand HAMS. Nice Hams are worth 10 cts. per lb. There are a great many choice ones in market. TURKEYS Are very scarce and high. Good fat ones cannot be had for less than $1 25 $1 75. Average lots soli for 10 a 12 cents per lb. CHICKENS. Good chickens are worth 62 a 87 cents per pair, and sell quickly at that price. GEESE. 5 to 7 cts. per lb., according age. DUCKS. Are worth 75 cts. a $1 per pair. EGGS. Are worih $1 50 cts per hundred. BUTTER The best quality of Butter i worth 22 cts. per lb. From that it ranges down to 14 15 cts. CHEESE. Sells readily at 7 a 9 cts. per lb., according to quality. POTATOES Are worth 87 cts. a $1 per bushel, APPLES. Fair .Winter Apples are some what, scarce, and sell .'for' about S3 a $1 Fer barrel,.
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