iEPFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thnrsday, Febrerary 26, I 46. -?enns, $2,00 tn advance: $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not paid befoieUie end of the year. 05s V. B. PALMER, Esq. is the Agent for .ni paper at his office of real estate and Country ewspaper agency in Philadelphia, .North-West :orner of Third and Chestnut streets ; Tribune Suildings, Nassau St., N. Y.; South East corner of Baltimore and Calvert sts., Baltimore, and No. 12, .State street, Boston. Mr. Palmer will receive and 'forward subscriptions and advertisements for :he Jeffersoman "Republican. Messrs. MASON $ TUTTLE, at 38 William street, New York, are also our authorized Agents, o receive and forward subscriptions and adver tisements for the Republican. Bribery and Corruption. During the past week ihere has been con siderable excitement throughout the country, in consequence of a person by the name of Daniel McCook, from Ohio, endeavoring lo bribe Mr. .Piollet, a member of the State Legislature, and one of the Committee on Banks, to give his tfoie and influence in the Committee in favor of sustaining ihe Lehigh County Bank, against the charges which have been made against it by he people of Allentown. A Committee of three -as appointed to investigate the case, and Mc Cook was arrested and taken into custody by W Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. Afier .'earing the testimony, the Committee made a report recommending the matter lo the civil au thorities, and directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to deliver Mr. McCook over lo the Attorney Gen eral. Our readers may find some allusion to it n our summary of Legislative news. Chief Justice of Sew Jersey. Governor Stratton, of New Jersey, has nom inated Henry V. Green, Esq., of Princeton, to the Senate of that Slate, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The venerable Chief Justice Hornblower's term of office expired in Novem ber last, and however much the people of New Jersey may regret his retirement, they cannot but congratulate themselves that his place is to he filled by one so competent and worthy as Mr. Green. The Right of Way. The Bill, granting to the New York and Erie Rail Road Company ihe right to construct their Road through a portion of the territory of Pike county, still remains undisposed of in the Le gislature. Its fate is doubtful ! Oregon. The debate on the Oregon Question is still progressing in the Senate. During the past week, Messrs. Hannegan, of Indiana, Dix, of New York, Benton, of Missouri, and Dicken son., of New York, expressed their views on this all important subject. Their speeches were listened to with great interest by large assemblies of persons, among whom was Mr. Packenham, the British Minister. The im pression begins to strengthen, that the Resolu tion to give notice to England of our intention to put an end to the Treaty of joint. occupation, will pass. As a number of Senators will yet speak, it may be more than a week before ihe question is taken. "The Fountain." This is the title of a monthly publication, of which we have received the first two numbers. It is printed at Morristown, N. J., and advo cates the doctrine of ihe "cold water cure." Dr. George T. Dexter, is the editor, and judg ing from the numbers before us, he conducts it with marked ability. , The Lady's Book. The February number of the Lady's Book lias been received. It is a rich affair. The engravings are splendid, and the reading mat ier cannot easily be surpassed. Godey is al ways a welcome visitor. UjThe Farmers' Library, for February, has not yet reached us. Will the publishers remedy the fault. It is too valuable a work to ntiss a number! ' 'f . The New York Herald says: Several very extensive failures have taken place among the produce dealers, involving a very large amount. These failures are caused it is said, by bills of exchange, for a large sum, being returned from London under protest, they having been drawn upon a house on the other side, which has 64oppedpaymeni." Notes purporting to be issued by the Farm ers' Bank of Genesee County, Le Roy, N. J , circulating in the West. FJiere is no such Bank in existence. Bick. Rep: LEGISLATIVE NEWS. CorresiMindence of the Inquirer aDd Gazette. Harrisburo, Feb. 21. 1846. There was no quorum in the Senate this morning, consequently no session of that body. In the House, Mr. Thomas of Chester, offer ed a resolution, directing the Committee on In ternal Improvements lo inquire into the expedi ency of reporting a Bill to authorize the Canal Commissioners to laying a irack between the White Hall station, and the Philadelphia In clined Piano, which was agreed to. Mr. Ives read a bill in place, relative to ihe Militia. The amendments of the. Senate to the bill lo form the new county of Blair, was considered. Mr. Burns moved to refer ihe quesiion lo a vote of the people of Bedford and Huntingdon, which proposition after debate was negatived, yeas 13, nays 68. On motion of Mr. Given, ihe House then concurred in the amendments of the Senate. So this long fought bill only awaits the signature of the Governor lo become a law. The appropriation bill was then again con sidered. On motion of Mr. Burrell, ihe House struck out the appropriation to pay the guaran teed interest to the Dansville and Pottsville Railroad Company. The resolutions relative to ihe payment of the Judges' salaries, were then passed. The Committee on the bribery case made a report of the facts proved this morning, with a resolution directing ihe Attorney General or his Deputy for Dauphin county, to have McCook indicted in the Court of Quarter Sessions for Dauphin county, directing the Sergeant-ai-Arms to detain him until a warrant issue, and then to deliver him over to the. Sheriff of Dauphin. This resolution was at once adopted, and Mr. Piollet went with the Deputy Attorney General before a Justice to procure a warrant. Mr. Justice Kline issued the warrant, and bail was entered for his appearance in the sum of S2000, by Messrs. Stevens and McCormick, the xttorneys of McCook. It is said that Mr. McCook will himself en ter a prosecution against Piollet, for taking a bribe, and also prosecutions against Messrs. Piollet, Laporie, aud Burred, for conspiracy lo induce him to commit a crime. February 23, 1846. Senate Mr Anderson, from the Commit tee on Corporations, reported a bill to incorpo rate the Pennsylvania Seamen's Friend Socie ty of Philadelphia; also a bill to incorporate the Harrisburg Town Hall, Association. Mr. Sullivan, from the Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred sundry petitions from Philadelphia, praying for a repeal, of the act authorizing an additional Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Of Philadelphia, made report adverse to the prayer of the petitioners, and the Committee was discharged from ihe further consideration of the subject. Mr. Dunlap reported a bill to incorporate the Meadville Theological Seminary. Mr. Foulkrod reported a bill to authorize the Commissioners to issue Certificates of Loan, to pay the damages for opening Girnrd Avenue. Mr. Carson, from the Committee on Educa tion, reported a bill " to promote the cause of general Education." Mr. Crabb reported a bill to enable the West Philadelphia Railroad Company to complete their road. The Senate then took up the Central Rail Road Bill, and il occupied the Senate until the hour of 12 o'clock, when the members and offi cers of ihe Senate proceeded to the Hall of the House, to hear read the farewell address of Gen. Washington. House. Mr. Connor offered a resolution, calling upon the Committee on the State Libra ry lo report to the House the amount of debts due. by lhal Institution, what they were con tracted for, and with whom ; which was agreed to. Mr. Burrell offered a resolution, instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the ex pediency of reporting a bill, to define moro clearly the crime of bribery, and the more ef fectually to lo punish the bribery, or attempt to bribe any momber of the Legislature, or any officer of Government ; which was agreed to.H The resolution from the Senate to adjourn sine die on ihe twenty-ninth of March, was then taken up and considered. A motion was made to strike out the word " twenty," so as lo leave ihe ninth of March which was agreed lo. Yeas 74, nays 1 Mr. Hollowell. The Senate got no advantage of the House in this race for popularity. At 12 o'clock the two Houses met in ihe Hall of Representatives to hear read Washing ton's Farewell Address, according lo long estab lished usage, and ihe same is now being read. There are seven hundred miles of Railroad in operation in Massachusetts, costing iwenty- eight'million'dollars. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Correspondence of the Inquirer and Gazelle. Washington, Feb. 21, 1846. The complexion of the foreign news cannot but prove highly satisfactory to the friends of np.acfi. What a lesson does ihe gentlemanly and magnanimous lone of British Statesmen on . . . i . i. the Oregon question, give lo the turbulent nee-.. .. . i , .1 loririg spirits in our Congress I As the course of Mr. Pakenham is not approved, there can be little doubt but that another offer will be shortly submitted, which cannot fail to britig about an .,k:-i r-;t ,,.. amicable settlement ol the vexatious difficulty. As the northern mail failed this morning, it is not yet known whether Mr. Pakenham received desnatches nr not. but I nresume he will re- : , , i - , i r carry their bill, and the reduced Sliding-scale ceive additional instructions from his Govern-, "- , rpt i. i r i- .i .of grain duties will go into effect. That ihe merit. Ihe ultra war members, finding ih.n : tt their efforts have produced so little effect England, feel no doubt very sheepish. No thing so effectually humbles a proud, hectoring ; , , t. .- r i an as to take no notice of him. mm o . t . I he Senate was not in session yesterday or i mm, r- it.. -ii r i day. i he Oregon debate will of course, be man to resumed on Monday, but in a far diffeient tone. . After the conciliatory spirit manifested by the I The ,noo,inS of lhe Quee's British Government, that legislator must be ra-i sPcech- a,,(J ,he remarks (,f S'r Koberl Peel bid indeed who will now resoect the wholesale aml L,,rd Jn,m K,1Ssel ,M rela,u,n ,0 ,he fore,Sn denunciations against her. IIovv true i is that 1 arairs of Great Bri,ain P"ularly lhe a sof. answer turneih away wrath, and a kind I Uni,ed S,3,es' 5vk a ver' rarab! complex word breatketh the bone." We hall probably 1 io" 10 ,he "?gn W"0"- Robert and have a message from the President on the sub-L"rd Juh" condemn ihe course pursued by Mr. ject sometime next week, in case Mr. Paken-1 Pake,,1,am on ,1,u 'gon qeuon, particularly ham should not resign, as some suppose he will i hia rufusal of ,he uffer of Mf' Btha,,an. WIlh" on account of the censure of .Peel. j oul submitting it to the consideration of ihe go- In the House yesterday, the only business of, vermnenl interest, was the oassaae. bv an almost unani-1 ThtJ Q,,een Peneu Parliament in person on mous vote, of a bill prohibiting the reception by Senators of constructive mileage. It would , s,a,e 01 nor loreign relations, anu expresses a slea(1 of bursUng and flying into minute fra scarcely be believed, that heretofore, when an ' fervenl desire for mcasures lo compose domes- men,S jn conseqece of overloading, or Ion, extra session of the Senate has been called on ! ,ic doubles. Her ministers have taken meas- ( weaf 0f es(raor(lil)ary accident they merely lhe day following lhe termination of a regular urea 10 reIieve the 8uflerinS in consequence of ; separate hjIO ,wo norliona thereby proving vast session, that Senators have charged, and been j lhe Pola,oe failure in lreland- She announces ; ,y ,ea3 dallgeroU3 lo ,hose who hamlie ,hcm paid their mileage, as though they had actually measures for the re-; 4 They wiH wear much longer. 5. Thr been home and returned. Upon what princi-. , . , , , r , , may be manufactured of a prodigious size, ami , . , , , -.if. I Lord De Kos seconded the address of the:, , ., , r ,, pie of moral honesty ihey reconciled this to , . . , , , , be used with as much safety as smaller gmn ,. - ii . t , Lords in reply, and expressed a hope that our ' ..... , their consciences, would be rather difficult to, . . . .. . ., , I These cannon, it is said, have withstood evwv say. This morning, after an ineffectual motion lo go into Committee on the bill establishing Mil- ltnrv Pnalu nn tlio rniiln tn Cirtnnn I Vi Hinoo ... ,,, -, . r' occupied ihe whole day in the consideration of , . ! bills on the private calendar. i I The Law of Hereditary Descent. Prentice of the Louisville Journal concludes;"0'. by lh exercise of moderation and good a racy article, showing up the follies of the Lo- co-Focos of Ohio, with the following pungent paragraph: "If the progressive Democracy don't die ofj wisdom or some other strange complaint, we have no doubt it will certainly before long pre- sent some extraordinary developments to won. der-loving phrehologists, philosophers, and pys - chologists. The craniologisca configuration of the future Loco-foco children will undoubtedly be different from any thing that Gall, Spurtz - heim.and Dr. Caldwell ever saw through their gold spectacles. Every little fellow born of . .,, . , ilU6,UM,nlll U,611lm-Ua,m,aHli-lu- ucation.all of Oregon, barn-burning, flour-stealing, law-hating bumps in beautiful perfection sticking out on all parts of his lovely head. His fingers will be tapering, long and admira bly adapted to picking Uncle Sam's breeches l'ui',"ji oiia.u iui tunning aw fleetly that neither bailifl' nor race horse can catch iheir owner. JO3 We have received the promised "entire article of the Eaaion Sentinel against the Whig nnrtV 11 mpsmirn. a Kllln morn fli-ir turn nnl. , , lr , . , umns and a half, and weighs a little less than ,, . a handful of thistle-down. The writer has, wo i' uiiapuiv; a Mini; iiiuiu man iwu kui If mnn utiri. n I 1 1 r n i Ii.. r . frankly confess, so far redeemed his pledge as ! to have brought a "party" into "contempt;" but, unfortunately, tho said party consists of but one solitary member, and he is an unlucky Locofo-: co editor. As to lhe "maledictions," it would be worse than "poiuting dread artillery 'gainst a fly," to waste a single one upon an object S() perfectly innoxious. We would counsel our friend of lhe Sentinel to make his next on i t . rn ... , slaught upon the Tyler party, which, at the) V , ,- , . .. . , i present t.me, appears io be 'just about his size.' Belvidere A polio. JToitii Jacob Astor. The following is given as the estimate of Mr. Astor's immense wealth, in a book of the 'Rich Men of New York.' It says that those know ing his affairs best, place it al $30,000,000, and some as high even as $50,000,000. His in come on a moderate estimate, must be $2,000,-1 000 a year, or $160,000 a month; which is about $41,500 a week ; $7,760 a day, $240 an hour, ond $4 a minute. Mr. Astor has made a donation of $350,000 for a library in N. York, the interest of which is to be expended in em ploying agents to purchase books and in the erection of a building. FOREIGN NEWS. Arrival of the C:itnbriitOae month JLaler. We are indebted to the Tribune, for the news i received by ihe Cambria, brought from Halifax! to New York by express, for the Tribune and some oluer I,aPer8- 1 The news is important. 1 he Queen s. Speech, r , , followed by Sir Roberi Peel s able and compre- J .... , j hensive exPc'se' devdoPe ,hc 'steral Plan ! of Tariff ReUio... It is earnestund sweeping. Great Britain, (if the Ministerial project is adop ted) abandons, partially at present and pretty thoroughly at the expiration of three years, the Corn Laws and ihe protective Policy generally. It is of course believed that the Ministers will inlu," '-T"' 1"". another affair. The news from the Continent is of seconda- ry interest. M. Gttizot, the French Premier, j . . . " has replied with dignity and frankness to .Mr. . l"1 'M""" J Polk's censure of the opposition of France to i 1 ' the annexation of Texas. ; ,lie 22d IIer 9Peech efers ,0 the Peaceful 1 .. disturbed by ihe Oregon dispute. In the Commons, Mr. Hume complimented Sir Robert on the pacific and liberal policy of the speech from the throne. In reply Sir Ro- . , . , , . , . r bert said "it would be the greatest misfortune , , if a coniest about Oregon between two such J powers as England and the United States could sense, be brought to a perfectly honorable and satisfactory conclusion. FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES. Mr. Guizot, the premier, thus in the Cham- ber of Deputies replied lo the censures of Pres - - ident Polk, of the attempt of France to prevent the annexation of Texas. He said thai the ' 1 commercial and political interest of France had j ! alone dictated the course that had been pnr . j sued relative to the annexation of Texas.- j , There existed between lhal slate and France a ; ; treaty of commerce, and the annexation stripped J her from the future advantages her navy and! t no imuiu au a.,.uol,o uC, ua j ..vi IaUfl UMgUl HittU UCflVeU II. -MI I ll HI till U tlUUU UtaiVdi XJIgtll ll i IIIU OV'i other hand, the excessive aggrandizement of jj haVQ been caughl at Hardensburg and ihe United Stales was, in a political point of lher p,acc3 in ,he counly and a 8li jarcr view, by no means desireablo. 'number in an adjoining county. The head- After absorbing Texas their ambition would! ers WQre al BeachWs in Laruc coun,v. be directed to Mexico, and .he balance ol pow - er, wnicn it was necessary to uiuiiuuiii in uiu ! new, just as well as in the old world, would be destroyed. &ucn were tne considerations mat had determined the French Government to ad- vise Texas to maintain its independence against iino nrnlnnuinnc ilf lint TTnifml StnlBB' land the same advice would live been given to 1 , , , . . . , , . . t Texas had us independence been threatened, . . ' . , . , not by the American Confederacy, but by Eng land. The part which Franco had taken in the af- j fair had, however, been a very limited one; she had confined herself to warning Texas, and abstained from further interference the moment the Texan people had declared in favor of an nexation. Tho Washington Cabinet had no reason to take offence at this conduct, wherein France had done nothing but what she had . . , ., , , . right to do, with propriety aud moderation. " . ' , vi Although the languago used by President Polk in his message betrayed much irritation, il was hoped that so transient a misunderstand ing would not impair the friendly relations that existed, and ought always to exisi, between the two countries. As regarded ihe question of the Oregon territory, M. Guizot, added that Franco had nothing to do with it ; she must sincerely wish for ihe maintenance of peace, but should the differences unfortunately end m hostilities, France would immediately reap the immense advantages arising from a neutrality. M. IJillauli replied at a great longth to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, but was.ljstened io with much less attention than usual. M. Burrycr. notified that he should move the inser- tion of an additional paragraph respecting Tex- I as and the United States, in the way of a:, j amendment to the address, and the jjeneral de bate was then closed. Wilmer & Smith's Times speaks in most en- thusiastic terms of the new Tariff of Sir Ro bert Peel. IRELAND. Circuinsiances of a most im portant character have occurred in Ireland sinCe the sailing of the Med way, on the 16th u!t. The state of that distracted country remains, in several parts, in anarchy and confusion ihu laws set at defiance, life and property insecure, and assassinations and agrarian outrages thi order of ihe day. The executive, feeling imperative necessity of putting an end to mu insubordination, have been obliged to procLt several baronies in the county of Limerick and it is not improbable but that that cotm v. notorious for its blood stains, Tipperary, t ere long be placed under the same surveillaii'i-. The latest accounts from the sister coiir-y contain particulars of the most horrifying, Ul,!t t and barbarous outrages. Wrought Iron Gnus. We learn from the Boston Courier, tin' i small pamphlet written by Daniel TreatUt-J,. has recently been published in Cambridge fil ing a description of an invention recently per fected by him, in the most important engine of naval warfare, viz : cannon made of icrownt iron and steel consisting of rings welded to gether by a process of his invention. Tlie ad vantages which these guns are supposed to pt . sess over common cast iron and brass guns are, 1. They arc much lighther than those "tui.t of lhe same calibre. 2. They are much les iia- ble to burM wilh equally heavy charges. 3. k. i test that has been applied to them, several of i them having been manufactured for the United States, and put to trial under the direction of the W-ar and Navy Departments. Oregon Population. One of the Canada journals states that one third of the population of Oregon is composed of French Canadians, most of them of mixed j Indian face from he Rjnere R and lhev will be likely to lose their lauds should the plan of the American government be carried out. h j3 represented thai these colonists are in very ' g00(j circumstances, but il is thought that the esi ,asle js nol exhibited in the choice of wives, wfj0 are generally squaws. A" Enormom Nest ofCoimterfeitcr A ,ellcr Ha"d"burgP(Iveniuckv) sars of ho c anJ lhose of' hare reconIy broben lhe , ba(u, of f. ' , counlerfeers anj horse ihieves ever discovered ! - , ,Q. ,-, Q,, o, . Tvlnlif nr fori l( ilia r-lill. i where a ,arge amounl of spurioU3 mouey WJ, found. ' They are said lo number thirty or for'y in Larue, and the oan? extend as far as Njs!- ville. They are a pari of Murrell's band. JJjTh5 New Orleans Picayune has hear 1 ihat General Taylor, in command of the L'ni el Stales troops at Corpus Christi, has receiveJ orders to break up that encampment and tnuv. to the Boca del Rio, (mouth of the Rio Graudi') and there take 'up a position. One account has it that he is going no farther than Brazos San tiago, a position some ten or fifteen miles t!n side the Rio Grande, and near the southern extremity of the Isla del Padre, the leiig'h r.f which tho troops will probably inarch by land. It is thought that the army will commence th ! march in the course of two or three weeks, ' a. as soon as the moans of transportation art? " readiness. 1 , ......, This new movement, coupled with the rece; departures of the U. S. vessels from PensacrX aud the increase to the naval foice in the C- would indicate ihat our Government i &f v mined to watch closely the movements of li,: edes and be in readiness for anv emergency. Bfcw YorH Market. Friday, Feb. 19- FLOUR. There is nothing doing lo-daym Western. Tho market is heavy, ond peih? lather more since the news. The sales of Howard-st. are 700 to 800 bbls. at $5 12 l" GRAIN. In Wheat the sales are tC bushels Genesee and Illinois, for ntilhn?iJl private bargain. Barley and Rye are wiitw1 demand. Oats, 45; Corn 66.
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