JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, December 24, 1846. Terms, $2,00 in advance: $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not paid before the end of "the year. FOR GOVERNOR, PETER S. MICHLER, OF NORTHAMPTON. Subject to the decision of the 4th of March Convention. Wilis State Convention. A Stale Convention, lo be composed of Del egates from the ciiy of Philadelphia and the freveral counties equal to their representation in the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, will be held ai Harrisburg, on TUESDAY, the flih day of MARCH next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of selecting candid ates for Governor and Canal Commissioner to bo .supported by the Whigs and the friends of the Protective Policy at the next ensuing elec tion, and to transact such other business as may be deemed important to the success of the Whig cause. J. P. SANDERSON", SAMUEL D.KARNS, JOSEPH KONIGMACHER, MORTON McMlCHAEL, GEORGE ERETY. H.JONES BROOKE. THEO. D. COCHRAN, JAMES FOX, JAMES MARTIN, WILLIAM BUTLER, J. J. SLOCUM. JOHN R. EDIE, EDGAR COWaN, JOHN B. JOHNSON, Wm. J. HOWARD. Whig State Committee. (The active business of the season is fully over. The indications of Winter are around ns. The canals of this State are closed, and will no doubt, remain so until Spring. The amount of tolls are large, and exhibit a con siderable increase over the aggregate of last year. The Lebanon Courier announces, on author ity, that Simeon Guilford, Esq. will not con sent to be a candidate for Canal Commissioner. The Bradford Argus nominates Henry W. JTracy of that county, as a candidate for the Whig nomination for Canal Commissioner. Jj Hon. John M. Read, Attorney Gener al, has resigned his post, and the Governor has appointed Judge Champneys tosupply his place. There appears to have been some trouble in 1 the " wigwam," which occasioned the resigna- tion of Mr. Read. His devotion to the interest j of the Chief, was of a doubtful character, and'jjon we deny the assertion and challenge the none but the faithful can enjoy the smiles and ; patronage of Executive favor. liar. Intel. Retrenchment and Reform. The Low ell Courier makes the following excellent sug. gestion: "The next Presidential candidates ought to J bo interrogated in regard to the length of their messages. No man should be elected whose messages would exceed ihree or four columns. Of all public nuisances, the most superlative is a message of the length we published yesterday." Mike Walsh, one of the Represen,alive8 ' elect, of New York city, in his last" Subterra-1 1 i nean" advertises thus : " Wanted. A stout, able-bodied man, of a mild temperament, kind disposition, and un doubted endurance, is wanted to read Polk's Message for me. To one who will engage to read it through without falling asleep more than once during the onerous and gigantic task, a liberal remuneration will be given. Applica tion to be made at this office." The ToIsinteer. The President has called upon Pennsylvania for another regiment of Volunteers to serve in the war with Mexico. The call has already been responded to by three times as many troops as are required and it is likely that our Recond regiment will be ready as soon or be - fore the first of any other state. In Philadel- phia alone, says Bicknell's Reporter, no less thsn twenty-five Companies have tendered their services, or have opened armories for recruits while a like spirit is manifested in the coun- try. A third, or even a fourth regiment could be raised in this Stale, and without difficulty. All the companies for the First Regiment have arrived at Pittsburg. JVew Counterfeit. . Bank of Montgomerx Co., Norristown, Pa. t&'iS, spurious. Vignette, train of cars. At the bottom of the note English coat of .arms. Congress. The proceedings of this body seldom possess much interest until after the holidays ; but the peculiar state of our public affairs has already occasioned sundry discussions of an important character. The organization of Governments in tho conqueredMexican provinces, after re ceiving considerable attention in the House, was brought up in the Senate by a resolution presented by Mr. Westcott, which, among other consequences, gave rise to a spirited contest between that gentleman and Mr. Benton (both for the Administration.) The resolution was laid on the table, 23 to 23. Mr. Benton has given notice of a bill to regulate appointments to office, and to guard the public service from improper influences. A very laudable purpose, if properly carried out. In tho House, a prop osition to repeal the tariff of '46, was negatived, 110 to 73. A proposition for a branch mint in New York is before Congress. If this does not increase our aggregate of coin," it will add to our moans of employing what we have, by creating a reinforcement of those public bles sings office-holders. Bel. Apollo. The Ciuiibria. Arrived At Boston on Wednesday evening. There has been an increase in the prices of cotton, grain, and flour, since the last arrival. The sufferings of the Irish people were in some de gree mitigated by the reduction in the prices of provisions, and by the employment provided for them by Government. The cholera was inva ding Europe, and had made its appearance in Spain. The republic of Cracow, the last ves tige of the Polish nation, has been obliterated from the map of Europe by Russia, Austria and Prussia. This outrage upon human liber ty has excited great indignation throughout France. lb. Ad Valorem. Ai the Custom House last week, a pipe of wine, invoiced at forty pounds sterling, was submitted for examination to one of our principal wine importers, who, after tast ing it, offered to take it at fifty pounds, and as many more of the sanu quality as could be pro vided. Such is one of the beauties of an ad valorem Tariff, with its bounty on fraud and false invoices. N. Y. Tribune. The Southern Patriot, printed at Charleston, South Carolina, contains an article on the Mex ican war, in which the annexed paragraph ap pears : ' We trust that onr Southern Representatives will remember, that the war with Mexico is a Southern tsar." The Volunteers. Ti,e pennsylvanian avers that " it is notori ous lhat a verv jarge majority of all who have gone rrom ty8 pjace l0 lne war is composed of Democrats if by Democrats tho Pennsylva nian inaans rrjends of the present Administra oof There nas been and should be, no dis- jtinction of party in the patriotic devotion mani j fested by our citizens in volunteering for the : war ; and the effort to excite such feelings manifests a lack of discretion or patriotism. North American. As predicted by us a month or two since, Money is becoming scarce and rates are rising. Good paper out of doors, cannot be negotiated for less than nine per cent. The causes are quite apparent. In the first place, the Banks are ther nervous, as they cannot form a confident P',nion as 10 lhe Probab,e 'erminaiion of the ir l tl.l Mexican war, and they are also unable to dei cide as to the course of Congress upon the re commendation of the President to borrow large sum of money to carry on the war. Hence they move cautiously. In the second place, this is the season at which our merchants begin to prepare for spring, and they need all the funds they can raise to meet their payments in January. In the third place, capitalists hold back in anticipation of the proposals from the Government to effect a new loan, and under the impression that an advantageous opportuni ty for investment will thus be presented These causes, the reader will at once perceive are quite sufficient to produco a scarcity in the ! market. It is probable that no change for the 1 better will take place for some months. In N i York, tho case is similar, and several failure have occurred. At least such is the siatement of one of the N. Y. Journals. The impression prevails that, the February Interest on our State Debt will be paid. The Treasury is in quite as good a condition as it was this time last year, and then the February interest was paid promptly. Nothing new with regard to the Philadelphia Banks. They are, as already ob served, acting with considerable caution. BichneWs Reporter. Flour at Detroit on the 8ih, $3 12 from wa gons. Postmaster General's Report. The income of the Post Office during the year ending the 30th June, 1846, the first un der the now law, was $3,487,199 35, which shows a decrease of $802,624 45. This dim- nution arises chiefly from loss on letter post age, but among other causes are mentioned ex presses, by which letters are regularly deliver ed, the collection and transmission of letters, directed to different persons, under one envel ope, by which the department gets, on the ag gregate weight, but a dollar or two in postage, when it should have five or ten dollars. " Car go letters" are also made the vehicles of fraud, nd the immense mass of printed circulars, transient newspapers, etc., which are not called or or refused, constitute a heavy, item of ex pense in lhe matter of transnortation. 1 o these must be added the " dead letters" which amount to nearly ino millions annually. - t To remedy these evils, he recommends lhat the rate for sinnle letters be reduced to one O quarter of an ounce, except in case of a leiter weighing less than half an ounce and written on a single sheet. That the same power grant ed to the Revenue Department to prevent a vi olation of its revenue laws, be granted to lhe Post Office Department. Letters relating to cargoes, he thinks, should be unsealed and subject to the inspection of Post Office Agents, and lhat postage on news papers be so adjusted as to approach more near- y the cost of transportation and delivery. rransient newspapers, or others sent by those who are not publishers should, he thinks, be rated higher than others. All printed mailer, also, should be prepaid, and all letters prepaid or rated double. This last suggestion is a very good one, for if a correspondence is worth any thing ai all, it is worth paying for. ' The income during the period above mention ed was $4,034,297 22, and the deficiency as compared wiih the receipts of $597,097 87. This deficiency was supplied by drafts on tho contingent fund of $650,000 provided for by law. The mail service of the United States, ex clusive of Texas, is performed by 3,530 con tracts on 4,285 post routes, the aggregate length of which is 149,679 miles. The transportation of the year, up to 30th of June last, amounted to 37,398,414 miles, at a cost, by contract, of $2,665,878. This is an excess of service, over last year, in the length of routes, of 5,739 miles, and of annual transportation, of 1,764,145 miles, at a diminution of expense of $202,913. There is an excess in the cost of mail agencies, of 4,893, and about $9,1S0 for four and a half months transportation of mails in Texas, from 6th February to 30th June, 1846; which is to be. deducted from this saving, which will re duce it to $188,831. A great saving has been effected in the re-letting of the contracts in New England and New York, and another, equal to thirty-three per cent., has been made in the re letting of contracts in the Northwestern and Southwestern States and Territories. Tho deductions from the pay of contractors for irregularities in the performance of mail du ty, amount to $26,273 54. The mail service in Texas has not been sat isfactorily performed, one of the mail boats hav ing been lost in a storm but ii is expected to be placed soon on a permanent footing. On tho thirtieth June there were 14,601 post offices ; 877 were established during the year, and 459 discontinued making an actual in crease of 418. At this time the number is 14, 793. Nearly one-third of the post offices in the United Stales have been voluntarily vacated since the act of 1845, owing to the consequent increase of labor and the abatement of privi leges and compensation. The onerous manner in which the law presses on Postmasters and clerks is briefly but clearly shown ; but while the evil is lamented no remedy is suggosted. It is evident the Postmaster thinks the De partment should have control of the lines of telegraph, and he again urges his opinions upon the attention of Congress. The contractors to carry the mail between New York and Bremen, are progressing as rapidly as possible in tho completion of their steamships. A lino from Charleston by Ha vana to Chagres, in steamers, and from Panama in sail or steam vessels to Oregon, is aain re commended as a subject for legislative author ity to authorize. In conclusion he speaks again of the Tele graph of the fact that it supersedes tho Post Office ; announces lhat he has possessed him self of all necessary information in case Con gress should think of making a purchase of the lines. The editor of the Boston Post says: " All that is necessary for the enjoyment of sausa ges at breakfast, is confidence." We should think some buckwheat cakes es sential, as well as confidence that there was no dog meat about. N. J. Mirror. A Gallant Act. A Mexican Brio Burnt under the Guns of San Juan de Ulloa.. Extract of a letter dated "Off Tampico, Nov. 30, 1846. " I record with pleasure a feat of no little daring. Lieut. James L. Parker and Passed Midshipman Hynson and Rogers, attached to the brig "Somers," recently conceived the idea of entering the harbor of Vera Cruz, and di rectly under the guns of the famous castlo of San Juan de Ulloa, burning a vessel which lay at anchor, or was moored to massive rings in iho walls of the above fortress. Having made due preparation, they proceeded at night to car ry their plan out, and actually got on board, look the crew of the vessef, some seven or eight in number, as prisoners, sei her on fire in dif ferent places, and then returned to the Somers in safely. This was certainly a daring and gallant feat, and reflects the highest credit upon the chival rous officers and men concerned in it. Synopsis of the War Report. It is chiefly occupied with a history of the commencement and progress of the Mexican war operations, embracing the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, the three days' con flict at Monterey, the termination of tho ariuis lice, the conquest of Santa Fe and the Califor- nias, etc. etc. Satisfactory, though not official information had been received of the taking of Monclova, but not of Chihuahua. Gen. Kearney's de tachment was expected to reach the Pacific, about the last of November. The operations of Col. Fremont and Com Stockton, west of the Rocky Mountains, are referred to with com mendation Authentic information, but no of ficial report, had as yet been received. The military force of the United States has been augmented from 7640 to 39,000. The duties of the department have been arduous and embarrassing. The department of Tamaulipas, on the right bank of the Rio Grande, for several hundred miles from its mouth, New Leon, Coahuila and Chihuahua have all in effect been wrested from the Central government of Mexico, and the Mexican authorities, both civil and military, dis placed in New Mexico and the Californias, all in the short space of seven months. The regular army created under the law of the last session, when filled up, will amount to 16,998 officers and men, but it does not now exceed 10,300. The want of success in filling up the ranks, is attributable, probably, to the large numbers called out since the passage of the bill increasing the army. It impossible to tell what number of troops the exigencies of the war may require. The volunteers called out who have encountered the enemy, have more than justified the high expectations formed of this description of troops, but it is no dispar agement of them to say, that a regular force would be preferred in a war to be prosecuted in a foreign country. Considerations of economy also are decided ly in favor of troops being engaged to serve during the war. The Secretary is most solici tous that this subject should receive the early attention of Congress, and that a body of troops should be raised to lake the place of those vol unteers who will claim a discharge at the end of their year's service. A plan recommended by Gen. Macomb, in his report in 1837, in reference to regimental and field officers, is approved of by the Secre tary, and the attention of Congress directed to it. Provision should be made for the punishment of offences committed by our troops, and per sons connected with the army. A further increase of tho regular army is re commended. The estimated appropriations for fortificat ions for the next year is $495,600, including their defence, and the support of the sappers and miners and topographical engineers. The present organization of the Ordnance Bureau is inadequate. A deficiency exists in the Med ical S'aff of the army. . A history is given of the operations in Mineral Lands during the past year. The numbor of Pension Agencies is forty-four, exclusivo of navy pensions, and the number of Pensioners about twenty thousand. The independent treasury act contemplates the employment of officers therein named as pension agents, and renders it doubtful whether those hitherto employed are nol suspended. It is, therefore, recommended that authority be given to continue lhe present agents at a rea sonable compensation. Thirty-four hundred and thirty-four Indians have been removed from the East to the West of the Mississippi, since the last annual report. New treaties with the Indians are referred to, and the solicitude of government expressed for the promotion of the' Welfare of the Indian tribes. ITIore Troops. Washington, Dec. 2010 o'clock, p. m. It ia rumored that a bill authorizing ten ad ditional regiments to the regular armv, will be introduced to-morrow. How Now? In the months of September and October, it will bo remembered, flour ad vanced in price considerably, and the locofocu newspapers, from one end of the country to tho olher, called upon farmers tojook and see what the tariff of 1846 had done for iheni. In vain did whigs protest that the increase in value was not caused, directly or indirectly, by the tariff of 1846, or any other rariff, but by iho failure of tho crops abroad. The locofocos in sisted that the rise was occasioned by ;he ta riff of 1846, and it alone, although il,a, ilw VI& not gone into operation. Now, we ask them to abide by their own declarations, and explain why it is that flour has fallen in valuo nearly $1,00 per barrel since the tariff of 1846 went into effect. Here is a good chance for tory calculations, which we cordially invite our lo ry neighbor, the Herald, to prove. Ilonesdale Democrat. There is now before Congress the plan of a fire-ship, made by Mr. Brown, of Illinois, for marine and harbor defence. It is so construc ted as to reflect off shot, while it is capable of enveloping in a single moment, an enemy's ship in a sheet of inextinguishable fire. It 13 not against ships alone thai this dreadful en gine of destruction might be used, but in land service, in defending passos, it would also prove invaluable. I. O. of O. F. An Institution of learning is about to bp e tabljshed at Columbus, Georgia, under ihenat ronago of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows. Some persons fear very much tint Secrpt. Societies will ruin this country. We belie o they will, if I heir establishing Schools and Col leges throughout the United States, and assist ing tho widows and orphans of deceased mem bers will accomplish it. New-Jersey Mirror. A case is now pending in Mississippi, in which an attempt is to he made to enforce tho law of that state, which requires that a man shall pay the debts of each individual whom he kills in a duel. About 100,000 bu&hels of wheat are remain ing over in Buffalo for winter storage. Bank Charters. Application is made in the Newark Daily for a Bank al Stumptown, with a capital of Twenty-jive Dollars, to be called the " B'troya' Bank." We are opposed to having so many Bant the only new Bank we should be in favor nf at present would be one located at Salt River. with a capital of Nineteen Millions, to bo cilluii the " Polk Bank." N. J. Mirror. The N. Y. Tribune reporter is restored tn his seat, whence he was expelled last yea: for. poking fun at Sausage S. One of lhe interesting transactions of the last few days, is the renunciation of Romanism by! a congregation of some two hundred German Catholics, under the direction of their Priest, ia the city of N. York. This is one of the officii of the movement commenced in Germany by tho Abbe Ronge, the young Luther of the n ne teenth century. It is said thai a Yankee has invented a can-l dlestick which will wick and make the cardie j as it burns, by merely turning a cylinder that! contains the tallow, which is poured in, n aj melted state. The cylinder may be sufficiently; large to contain tallow enough to last a. week,; and the candle may be made any length desired. The Yankees bring many things to light. Dow, J:p. says to his hearers, in a se mor upon courage "You talk about having the pluck to pitch into a panther! Why you hav'tf courage enough to cast an insinuation at a uoj quito, or to collara hen. You are wanting tn the very rudiments of courage. In nine timej out of ten, yort lack the courage to tell a simp!1 truth ; so you sneak round the corner, and h ? yourselves under the fence of falsehood. W r.i' is your courage? fT?5 As Christmas and New Year is drawing close to hand, and our county is filled with so many young folks, who aro looking for something nice for a present at that time to strenghten their friendship, we would advise them to go to Md $fVs Fancy Store, where they will find the hand somest assortment of pretty things ever exhibits in this county. Parents who want the smiles and good feelings of their children, would be paid tec fold for the trifle they spend for a smalj preset for them He has, we say, a pood assortment oJ Fancy Goods. Call and see- hp charges nothytf for showing them,. uiock and mtcnes ca..
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