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Time terms will be rigidly ad- GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA, bored to ADVERTISEMENTS and Business Notices insert 1.10 TUE LEUNLATuRE, 1861. ad at the usual rates. and every descriotlOn of JOB PRINTING - To ihe Honorable the Senate)), and Members EXECUTED In the neatest manner, at the latent or the Ild,inte of Rrprevntatares of the prices, and with the utmost despatch Having c ommoni , pa i th of p pnnsv i rania : purchased a large collection of type, we are pre pared tq retie, the orders of our friends 13 /15/11eSS lOirettorp. .....,,- BUR U. J. 111011711(0/Are, VEYOR AND CONVEYA NICER PPLNII'A WAIII.ILIALM U. REAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW 111114,1FOPTI, PA (Mee in the Arend°, xecond floor n g X ACAL.I.I JAMILS A DrAVEII IVA 11.1.1111THR dl• MK A VIKR, A I TWIN EIS AT LAZY, sci.i,Krovrx. I'KN NSA L. J. CRAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND REAL ESTATE /WENT I=l JAMIE* U. lIIANKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, I.IILLI.IONTII,IIRM'A Ofllia, on the Dientond, one door west of the Peet 01Sue EVEN NI BLANCNIARD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HICLIAMONTIS, PIN 'NA. Ofloe formally °coupled by the lion James Burn aide J J. LINGLE, SURGEON DENTISI PRLLICVOPITE, rItNTRII Co , PA la, now prepared to wait 11pOil all who may dawn hie profeaatonni nervieel Rooms at km reatdenee on Spring West. ECZE= LIMN A % 111.11101fs ATTORNEY'S AT LAW Mee ou Allegany street, in thu building for surly occupied tog Humes, McAllister, Hale & Co Sunken 41:1111•1110TVPISS, PHOTOGRAPHS A LAO IIfiRREOTYPES, C• 1•0 daily (except Sundays) from n A II to S 44 , J H BARNHART, In hie splendid Saloon, in the Arcade Building Bellefonte P•nn'• DR. H. L. POTTNII, PLIYaICIAN . SUIWEON C{NTRIC CO , PA, 011)111e• nn High Street (ord olfte ) Will attend to irefeeslonal °milk an heretofore, and rempertfully Agars hla■ervteoe to hie friend. and the nubile DU. A. M. VIIITCSIBLL, 6111.1.1[10/11 . 6, CZNTRSCO rA tqlll, attend to prof . ..nonel cells ea heretofore, he •respectfully offer. We serrmes to his friends and ileepubtle Office nest door to WI residence on Arming street Oat 28 ss-If SIRS C MITCHSI,II. f 1111'/1 T ALICIANIIIIII 111.11MMIKIA, Sr SEAM ANDES'', ATTORNEYS AT LAW, naLieroarx. reran'• ‘ollSeita in Reyncild•' Arcade on the Diamond Jr. C Mitchell has nenoeietial C T Alexander 'with him in the practice of law, and they will (VG prompt attention to 1.11i11048 untreated to them In Centre, kilffitn, Clinton ■nd Cle•rtield Aroontia. J. D. WEINIGATE, RESIDENT DENTIST lIIALLICVONTE, I RRTRR CO , FA 01100 and reetdenee on the North hut Comer of the Diamond Deer the Court Howie gar Will he found at hit °Mee except two week' n each month, commencing on the lire Iltindmy the menth,when h will be awn tilling profeesioliill uties BAMIKING NIOUIDE, F REYNOLDS & , BSI I.M.FONTN, 1130 , PA Bills of erehange and Notes discounted Col dation, made and proceeds promptly remitted •ter•st paid on special depoaits ICembange in the astern nines constantly on hand fur sate Dep.!- is reesiveu A • C ENNIS II • ALLISTIM T BALI A 0 CUNIIN DEPOMIT a trIK, -or - HUMES, Mt:ALLISTER, HALE & CO =I Deposita Reneived Kaohange slot Notes Discounted —interest Paid on Deposits °Notion. Made, and Proomids Itemttted Prompt j—Ksohange on the Kant constantly on bond J 111. STOVICK, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 11111.LS10STE, PIIIIICA Will practice his profession to the I Courta .of Centre County, All business intrusted to bun will be faithfully attended to Particular attention paid to collections, and all monies promptly re witted Can be consulted in the german no well as in the Bnglish language. Omen en Bleb at formerly occupied by Judas Burnside and D C Dual, Ksil. J. & W P. =ACMANU•, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Jimes Kaonotbos boa assooiated with Wm. P Maomanns, Esq ,in the practice of Law Profes• sdonal business - intrusted to their oars will receive rompt attention They will attend the several tonne in the Counties of Centre, Clinton and Olparfleld. Olas on Allegheny street in the building for merly oecmpledby Lino k 'Wilson IF. P. GUIEBR, DRUGGIST. MMMMMM ONTN, S• WHOLESALE AND KOMI/ DIALER IN Drugs, Medloissa, Perfumery, Palate, Oils, Var Dye•Stufht, Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Rah. and Tooth Brushes, Pano• arid Toilet Articles, Trusseis and Shoulder Braces. Garden Seeds. Osetomers will find my it ook complete and fresh, ind all sold at moderate prioes. reParmers and Physician/ om the oountry IWO ISTitad to examine my stook iIITAZIAIN ADAM HUT HALE Jr 0011 f, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PUNN'A. Will attend promptly to all builders entrusted to their eare (Mae in the building formsorly 000 u pied by Hon Jas T Hale A CARD.. Messrs FIALA A nor will attend co my business during my &biome in Congress, and will bo u Mpted by me to the trial of all clauses entrusted to them. J►ru T Hum. December 10 , 1809. FARE REDUCED. STATES UNION HOTEL, 606 & 608 Market Street, above sixth, PHILADELPHIA, PA G. W. HINICLII, Proprietor 'Pillll5 —sl 20 Plea DAY. (.IeNTLICIAISN ' - In submitting to the Gen eral Assembly toy last annual communica tion, it is the source of unfeigned gratifica tion to be able to hnnounce to the people, and to their Representatives, that notwith standing the present unfavorable crisis in the momentary affairs of this country, and the general - prostration of business and credit, the financial condition of l'imnsylva nia is highly satisfactory The recopta of the State Treasury, from all 4 , llrre4 fur the Ikea] year ending on the :10th of November, 1860, a ere $3 479 257 11. to a Inch told the amiable balance in the Treasury on the Ist day of December. 1859 6839 323 00, and the whole SUM available lor the yi or will tie found to be $4 318 580 40. The expenditures for nll purpo•e4 for the same period. were 83.637,147 32 [leaving nil Mailable balance in the Treas ury on the Ist day of DeCeMber, 1860, of 5681 433 08 The following itenikare em braced in the expenditures for the fiscal year, viz' ',mins redeemed, Relief notes cancelled Interest certificates, I)umoetic•creduurx' certificates, Danutges on the public works, and old claims Making, of the debt t wally paid dlifini the, year, toe sum of 1191 757 89 The funded and unfunded debt 01 the Cllllllllllllweidth on the Unit day of Der, in tier, 185'.), was fi per cent loans, 5 do. 41, do. Total funded debt, 38 513 1183 37 UNFI NORD DEBT Relict - note., in circulation, 16101 213 00 Iniereat certilicatea outatrulling, 1)4 513 82 unclaimed, 4 44) ":3R IMineittic ercddora, 802 50 Tot a I unfunded debt. Making the entire debt of the Common wealth, at the period named, $3B 638 961 07 The funded and unfunded debt of the Si ate, at the clome of the la.t fl,cal year, December I, IMO. atom av rOlkWl4 ' 6 per cent. loant, 5 do. 4i do. 4 do, Total funded debt, UNVI:NDND DRIIT M lief notes ttr,eirculation, - $99 402 00 Int , rest celificatesoutt4nding, 16074111 1)o urpclainied, 4 44)4 3 Domestic credttcrs certificates,' 797 I() Total unfunded debt Making the entire public rleb• of l'ennqyl •area on the first day of December last $37 J 69 847 50 Ti; pay Ihe pri nci pal and interera of tiux debt, bowies the ordinary swim-eh of revenue. the Ciitionouw ealth holik the following irtgage INrndN , derived from the hale of hi r public his v c. Nook of Pennsylvania rail read vontnat,r $7.200,000 00 Boo& of Sunbury and Er 11l tatiroad company, 3.50111100 00 Bonds of Wyoming canal company,, ~.2}4 ,000 00 Total. 10,981.000 00 At the cloaeof the fiscal year on the first day of Decem ber, 1857, the public debt of this Commonwealth. funded and unfunded was $39 881 738 22 It is now. at the close of the fiscal year 18410, 37,969 8 , 17 50 Having been reduced doinhg the 111194 three years, 1,911,8'.10 72 The available bahwee In the 'Freattur) on the first May of December, 1857, was 8528 106 47 (In the first day of Decembe - r, 1860, it was 681 433 08 Exceeding the former balance in the RUM of ' 152 326 61 Add to this the sum paid at the Treasury' during the past three years, for debts and claims against the Commonwealth ansing out of Cho construction and, maintenance of the public improvements. apd which WWI substantially a part of the unfunded debt of the Commonwealth, a• mounting to 171 664 82 BELLSFONTE, PA And we have the HUM of By adding this sum to the amount pail on the public debt from December 1 1857, to December 1, 1860, to wit: $1.011,800 72. it will be found that during the pest three years the State hue not only met ejl her or dinary liabilities, including the expenses of government, and the interest on her public debt, but has diminished her actual indebt edness the sum of 2 235,882 15. When it is remembered tibit, for the last three years the tax on real and personal es tale has been but two and a hall mills on the dollar, while from 1844 to 1857 it was three mills— that for the past two years and six months the State has received no part of the tax on tonnage due from the Pennsylva nia railroad company—and that since July, 1859. the interest on the bonds held by the State against the Sunbury and Erie railroad company has remained due and unpaid, it IS certainly cause for hearty congratulation, that, without aid from these important sour ces of revenue, so great a reduction of the public debl.; has been accomplished in mom paratively so short a period. The funded debt bf the State is now less than Rims been sludelB42,.and the unfunded and floating debt, which at that limo amounted to up. wards of two millions of dollars, has been almost entirely redeemed. It is now reduc ed to 11120,721 78—and of . this sum over $664 R 57 65 1,811 00 2.439 51 5 40 2b14 32 = $4OO 630 (10 37.625 153 37 _ :1148,200 00 10(1 000 00 124 977 70 I= s4on o:to 00 311:967 2'.15 72 3411:200 00 100 000 00 37,1.119125 04) 1211 721 7g 324 901 42 ninety nine thodaand dollars coninifts of re lief notes, most of which firer - undoubtedly either lost Jr destroyed and will, thorsfore, never be presented for payment. 'I he claims' against the State, accuring from the con struetion and Maintenance of tier canals and railroads, are now redneed to a mere nomi nal sum ; and, in the future, after providing for the ordinary expenses of government, her revenues and her eliergit s may be exclu aively applied to the payment oldie interi.st, and the discharge of the min.:qui of her public debt.' The peopith of this Coinnumwealth have hitherto met, with promptness rite demands made ttpdii them. bon time to time, for the ways. and means of reph nishing the Public Treasury ; and noir, that they sec that the onerous debt with which they have been so long bind, tied, is earl' year certainly and rapidly dhappearing fora the amount re iiiiired="ineet the interest is aotiti•ily hying diminished I CI cons. gatirtly a still great er sum can each yin; lie devoted to Lie re (Milton of the print mat of the debt. without ri sorting to atitlitiossi sortie, • of reef Ilse and that with n proper hn.bawnng ,d the resource , of the Slate, the fat is not far dist ant when d.rect taxation in Penns% Irani., is ill cease altogether -the pay uu of such hazes as unity for the hint' be required to meet the publie necessities, will rontinue to be met witittehevi fiances aid alacrity Hut they will unquestionably hold those to a hose care the y have entrusted the financial intereata of the Stator to • rigid accountability there should, at this particular juncture, when the business and monetary affairs of the country are so greatly depressed, lie the strictest economy in puttlie expenditures., ra SU manifest. _that it can Sestet ly be neces,a ' ry to call attention to so plain a duty It is equally clear that any legh , latton which would tend greatly to lessen the revenues of the Commonwealth, would at this time he peculiarly unwine and inexpedient. 'the exigencies of the future no man can foretell -- the prospect before ua is beclouded with doubt and uncertainty -it is, therefore no more than the part of wisdom to guard. with unceasing vigilance, all our present sources of revenue, and to thus be prepared for every po•mitile contingency Since July. litftli, the l'etini,vivania rail road company has refused to pay the tax 01l tonnage required fn be paid by the art mem poreiting the company, and its various sop ;Acme'sa.: and there 19 now due to the State, on that account cxi•lusive of interest, the sum of i 671 296 22 Including the interest the slim now due iv about $7lll I 000. Ili fore my last annual message was communicated to tin Le gislature, a cave had liven tried in the court of common pleat, of Dauphin coon ty, hots een "the rommonwial•li and the railroad company involving the t ri ,i ion of the con , ..tttAttionality of this tax whiel t was decided in favor of the Stair, and the impo sition of the tax uniiiounctil col stitutiotial In January last. another suit oil tried be twee. the same partres in the rime "our!, ining the haute question, with a like re at ,iti December last. a judgment — was T obta r 011 invelheldifilinet court ill'ltlvilittlelphia , upon oile eathe semi annual set , b meets, for SI lit IIIX) So that lodgment hls hvel. Oh w oe( ' f or $365 (1110 of the dept being the whole amount which bees tale doe prior to 1860 The tax which secured during the past year amounts to Slt(18 7,12 i (13 The first settlement fir the year is tudore the Dauphin county court, on an appeal taken by the company . and the second. or last settlement was marle•init a few days Once, by the accountant department of tile Come , monwealth After the recovery, •ii the common pleas of Dauphin county. thwoases were removed be vi rite; of error taken on behalf of the de fendants, to the sriprenie of dos St. i te, j where they were argued in June last, and in October that tribunal su%tained the decision of the court of . ..gnomon pleas, and held the lax to be clearly constitutional : thus unit. mg with the I iw making power in affirming the ri.dit of the State to tax a corporation under a law to which it owes its existence. But, notwithstanding this concurrence of opinion and action o, behalf of the constitut ed authorities of Pennsylvania, the lit igation IN not yet at an end : for the railroad compa ny has recently removed the cases, by writs of error, to the Supreme Court of the United Mates, where they are now pending. That the decision of that court will, when made, fully sustain the right of a sovereign Slat. to i oforce a contract between the State and a corporation. arid entirely vindicate the power of a ,State to impose such taxes upon corporations, as in her sovereign will she may dettu proper, I cannot for a moment' doubt. To complete the history of this important litigation, and to show that e very eflort has been. thus far, made to ronipel the payment of this large Slim of nnnnev mid the Trea‘irry o(the State. it is proper to add th it the law ollice, of the Commouwealth being of emot ion that the writs of error were not i.sered from the Siii.reitie court of the United States in trine to prevent the colleetion of the. jetelg ments'rentlered 111 the State courts execu tions were issued to the sheriff of the County of Dauphin and proceedrags are now pert& mg in the Seipreine Court of this State. to determine a helper the Commonwealth cart oomml the reit merit of the Judgments alrea dy recovered, before the heal decision by the Sups me Court of the United States The Sunbury and Erie railroad comport V having faded to negotiate Its mortgage bonds in their present condition. the expectations confidently entertained of an early comple tion of that most to, portant improvement. have not been trelli s ed. The work during the past year, however, although greatly retarded, has been continually progressing : upwards of one million of dollars having hecn expended on the hue from Xeivember, 1859, to November. 1860. The whole length i of the road. front the borough of Sunbury to the harbor on the lake, at the city of Erie, is 288 miles ; of which 148 miles are now finish ed and in operation, and 116 miles of the re maining portion of the hoe ere graded : leav mg but twenty five miles yet to grade.— Pemsylvaiira is largely interested in the early completion and success of this great thoroughfare, not only because she is tlie i creditor of the company to the amount' of throe and a half millions of dollars, but nfor the additional, and more cogent reason, that the Improvement when completed, will open nun of the most important channels of trade between .he city of Philadelphia anti the great lakes of tire west, at the best harbor on Lake Erie,' entirely within the limits of our own State, which has ever been contern plated. It will, moreover, develop the re sources of a large portion of North Western Peuns3lvania, aboundiu with the richest minerals, and a lumber region cf unsurpass ed excellency, which the munificent hand of the Slate has hitherto totally neglected, By disposing of her branch canals to that Jrom. patty. in exchange for its mortgage bonds, the State has already largely aided in the construction of this great work f and it may he necessary, to 11141111.1 its completion. that further legislation should be hail in order to render the menus of the company available It 14 evident that a liberal poliey, on the phrt of the government ; , will promote alike the interists of the Commonwealth and the railroad company nevertheless, gnat care should he taken ..1) protect, as far as lasso ble, the debt now due from the company to the State If all propositions which may be made for a change ut the securities now held by the Commonwenhii, be carefully consul tired by the Legislature, and no more yielded than NOl.lllll econiitny demands with proper priiVl4loll fur the 11111111C11111011 or whatever means may he realized, it ix believed, thnt millet, tit relief can be,granteill to the romps ny, to enable tt promptly to finish the road, while the si curtly r. 'naming will be folly sib 'plate to Insure the ultimate payment of the principal and interest of the bonds of the railroad vompnny now held by the Corn monwealth commend thIS 41111k.Ct to the Legisintore, as one entitled to its most careful considera tion. as well on account Qf'ite vaat % import mice to that portion of the 'gate through whicla the railroad passes—to the cities of Philadelphia and Erie—and to the rail rood company— as to the Commonwealth herielf. Premising 'hat in iatevor policy It may be thought expedient to 'pursue. should be a (looted solvlN 'with reference to the pro4i Mum and iorther.o, of the public t rests. The attention of the Legislature is again invited to slip subject of general 0111e:won At the pro sent juncture it presents peculiar claims The experience of a quarter of a century has satisfied the proverbially cau tious people of Pennsylvania, of the :Wept riots of the common school system ta. Melt . wants and condition. No less has the severe ordeal of the past three yearn shoe in its ea liability to endure those sudden reverses which is casionally -prostrate the other ii- Itrests of the community. Involving greater expenditure than the rest of the del.arintents of goverument, and that, too, mainly iliaWn Item dire, t taxatton, it is a proud Net, that, while inti.d of the enterprises of society have leen serously embarrassed, and some of the in sippe toted, by the pecumnry rixis of I sra our educational system 11,14 110( been ridattled - in any appreciable degree On the contrary, Its opera lions have been 11111111111111 cut, to on extew. a 11101 pinmly Iliftle Lie% that our citizens lolly appreciate its veto,. Uon- Irastine its main results during the past year. with those of 11t57, we tae t (hitt the a hole number of pupils now in the schools. to ColT 414, being ill increntie of 44.422 : these were !alight in 11 577 schools, 621 more than tit 1557, during no average term of live months and and Ope hilt days, at a cost of lilts six cults per imialt"Per month. by 14 rosr, teachers, lienig":l29 more than in 11157 Th, entire expenditure of the srotem, lor.xdoe post y eat, including that of the S•bool Uepnttun nit is 82.fillS 550 80 These fig me, afford some idea of the magnitude of the o p er ations of the system , ftut m tiller nor figures can adequately express the tin port aliee (lilts influence upon the present. or relations to the future In contemplating the details of a plan for the doe training of the yrmth of a rommont ty 114 large roportionii mid imposing array 01 statistics do not display the points of its greatest importaime Pupils may lie enrol led by hundreds of thousands : school lions es of the best structure and most complete arrangements may bir dotted at convenient distances over the whole lace of the land : the most perfect order of amities may he adopted, and the best possible selectmin of books made but what are It titese,^Witlr out the learned and skillful. the !labilei moral and devoted teacher I Without this animating spirit, all is barren and unfruitful. In this vital department I am happy to an nounce that the improvement ef the common school teachers of the State shows more solid advancement within the past three yearn. than any other branch of the system. This. therefore, being the point whence all real progress in learning and culture most origi nate, is also the one to which the fostering attention and care of the public authorities should be mainly direcasl Our pectiLar mode of training teachers under the normal act of 1847, has now stood the test of practical expenence and. against the most ready adverse circumstances has produced results decisive of its slieectiti Already it has placed one institution ui Nil operation in the south eastern par'. of the Ouse, equal in standing and extent to any in the Ilmon Another, with all ,pore musts of the law, has Just appiWd for State recognition in the extreme north west commend these noble. and peculiarly Penn ,s v !taloa schools. to your favor Al.l to them will tie the best investment that can be mode fur the rising generation. Good in struction for our children, is the stnpmest I earthly guarantee, that, whatever Ilse we ; l iego o a ii i them, their inheritance will Ire a bleating and gar a curse : and', if maitre more is pelt in the well cultured minds, the wilVg hands. and the trust.in God, office-' men, they will have all that is essential Nearly eleven nil of our rattreetti z.ns are note devoting their efforts to the im proveininf of thli - commou -ophool, an direct ors Thou this there in no more meritorious I body of men An increase of the 1111111110 State appropriation would not only be ► ma i 'crud relief to the districts. at this time. but would, to some, extent disembirrass direct ors in their loyal operations. I It is not, however, the minimum school firs nun, vast and honorable to the State as it is. that claims your entire attention, in refer , mice to education. Pennsylvania also boasts her collegiate, academical, scientific, profits nional, and philanthropic institutions. and numerous private schools of every grade.— In this respect, she in second to no member of the con4ideracy ; but, front mere want of attention to the proper statistics, she has I thus far been ranked far below her Just-1 standard. The present is not the proper time to renew grants to institutions of these ' claseee which heretofore feceired State aid. If it wit.re, the potato authorities do not ms- ROSS the requisite data for • cafe and just ex• tension of liberality. The period will arrive when nil public" educational agencies must bo laded in one great o _pyptem for the ele vation of mind and_morals ;•• lie& when the State will, no deuttt, pettonite every proper ,y Wort in the good Work. For the details of the system. during the 1. Threil—That condensed monthly state last school year, the attention of the Lettis t intuits, venfled by the signatures of the And• nature is respectfully referred to the annual , itor Cleneral and State Treasurer. shall be repot tof the Common School Department pubishtd in on newspaper in Philadelphia • herewith submitted t and one in Ilarrishurg, stinwincthe balmier 8 I desire again. especially , to call the at- t in the Treasury, and where d eposited, with tent ion of the Urneral Assembly to the f•',irirtthe piripeular amount of each deposit : and er's (ugh School of PeattßYlVallitt as an to- I Pool I#l That the bond of the State 'Trt its. st ItAtitin ytlnch proposes to aci olnplish an titer he increased to the sum of two hundred objert aholt his never been attained in this and fifty thousand dollars. !country the supply 01 ti want a Inch has Our various charitable and reformatory ever been fell by th e agrieultural otatiteartin I Imo it lit ions - the State Lunatic) Hospital, at ty the education 01 their sons, at suet., Ira llarrisburg - the kVi•stlirn Pennsylvania scierltifle l ouioL age halutunT Intluidry and Ifir:pital for the insane at Pittsburg - the pratitoial shill to lit them fur the assonta. not lums lot the Mind, the deaf and dumb at ' turns of rut it hr..s n.l the ortitipation chosen I'llll id, lithia -the Houses of Refuge et Phil Gtr them lit the o fathers The gains el the • ad , !ohm nod I'M shorg, and the 1'1.11T14 \ lea farmer hart eve! ei maul. are stns'. Th, nui Tt•inw g School for the ideate and feeble ethicaturwlif ...oils should therefore, be minded ehildren, at Mt tits, will present their in, astir, ii lay the nature of In., 111141.0. A , 1 , 1 , 11 nuns it el.umv upon the bounty of the Pure 414.111 i li be noFFaci al ite, le of State. Tlit Si' r xcelleut chirdies are ettotio cticapt•nitig 'ion. but by COTTI' , ,,' /111 It inn .10,11.1,111. Z hem ill, 11•.11 blessing, u p ,,,, amount al reap' te th er , wit hie 'li, aleloy of stiff, ring awl erring humanity, which Can a finner, will, Ihe dad Y labor or the nuWien, sear,', ty he iv, rrated. They are heartily so 34 In make the 111 , •111tItIrili so ti, arlt st If c,rintilentlt d to the thscriminailluz.ilibert-y of eust.tuttint t, In ben. It Alllllll the fi hof the Legislature. I refrain, as I have here. 11m1 claw.; who eoweillite sum. 11,1111 a tofu re Jane. from recomitterding, as proper branch of ilit 1111,t (y ni or 1 , 1.11111 e 'The 0 1 . jee 1 S of appropriation% in in the Slate ortgittal , t cat of this i school rnabra,r,l the Treasury, other (limitable and bellefillt•flt 1C00 , 14110,1 Linn nl liarfiarhuntind stndeuts, n itodittitions not because they are tindesery • iin In le r t.h`telt;t4l to lilt. "o"Maleal working 1.4 the confidence and patronage of the pub- I of the s y s t em , an d a lth o u g h ., the apple. I Inc but because they are local ih their char-! linos fill mtnns.ion tree numb, Hess, th e lit- •t: r. nmd 111 my judgment have no chums ( intuit efforts of the Limiters have trot enabled upon the comllloll fund which can he admit ( them to complete one third of the building I ted in justice to the rights and Interests or or to accommodate more titan a corre.mond other portions of the flotornotivvealth, tag number or students Mane tndieidu its The inspectors of the Stale l'entlerd Lary throughout I leaSi.ce, cony tswed of t he 1114 lit for the Eastern District or Ibnnsylvauia, 1 of all 111,11111th.11 rr lurh promi,,es so much their annual rt•ports fur Ihr year 14.Y4 .11111 ! good have cooly-Nit, d hirer:illy to what has 1859 ealltal the attention of the Legishitute already b,rn door no d th e boatel of i ron . to the to-te• 11l Ity of such parts or the Punter ! teen lotve Libor til with a zeal a Inch cannot tisri building as were exposed_ to their Ott fail lir eranniend it, I f to the kind feelings of tit es and 111418 e of them ighlarrhootl and re all our roil.. 'is ~hwat an, has cvnitn, nd, .1 that roofs of styli of the corn adv meed the in crests 41,f eve re avocation of 0, s as a-era, covered ash shingles, and life -taw terilture far I, Ms than any othgt - needed Niamey' al should he replaced with , anti for till 1111111'0,1 reason Chit it hail not slate Or metal On visiting the institution t reached It to the vvnr extent. and never wilt my attention wits called to the subject bY I reach it unless the body li' eitheated t o th e nisi cetera The necessity for the chan ge plow at. well as t h r lurid to the phdu<nntu ' was ~ (1 appal, nl and urgent, that I advised eat prioctples which the plow's a ark derel them no to 11. so ate in having the old, roil , 4 lapirlated nod d tiigetous wooden roof- of I have alwsys looked 'item the F a rmers such ;Portions of the budding as required re high Stil t ell with pr ,1 favor, as well be new al, replaced oli. some substantial tire Call,e o f l ay 110.11 en t ,y 1 1.1 1 0,14 of Its i1t1111114441. proof material The, has accordingly b e en useful!. ss, the I tVilr 0.111,11 has hitherto dom. and I -c.o.minify recommend that a been ,} l , ) , Vit In i t I, Li, IL. pre4oll,lllYo4 appittpriat 1011 he granted to defray the 1110 111 I,ple lis chart, t , 11011,, All :rumenl penses mein:v.l exhit u t t o n o f its reeelpts pim'ht ores and ' I to your consideration the re• nnerat ions generally, tied these will doubth ss port oI 1111' :41.111` Lthrartatt, it hose ai !tuition •be Intl before you to lbe int, rest• of the Library under his hi,' the net passed liy I lie last l.e,u lttttre, , are, deserirs the rtannest emunirtel tuna establishing .a 's% stem of free hi t ,sing in ; Thesystem o f e telt:lotting, with the differ Pennrvlseuro, .your lig ;he ptil.he lltlrll Inre from n@Olvrul hariks /11 licxl ,r hinges were made in the hank sµ:. Li w, of this State lestead — of Cirporatinits creatud by spinal laws voluntary assneiations are authorized to trammel ihe bilainetni of bsolsidg, without forth. r gndation and au an Indispensable prerisposite to the IS4lllllg of bank notes for circulation as money, ample seem ity must be depurated Nall dm Auditor (Vinland for their prompt redemption makes provisions not only 11 1• 4 he 1111Orp.i1/111011 of new lintiktrig tissociations. lint enables bank trig Hist iiiitions air. tii1",111 A' Xlol'lll'l', In ran Ii (ill their business for twenty sours after the I•xpirallon tit their Fire%writ 1.11.r , ci• upon einoplyttig with it, iieorteions, by m.tthdraw utK uld nireulatioo. otaitog the no runitea for Ow of their new issueq The pithily, I am sure «iIl re joiWllifil no further tires.' rTusts for leg ',dative action either on the Knhlrrt of rreit ting,gew or le chartering old banks and that The Hine and at'rnttnn of tin ir Itepro at ntatives a ill now happily, be no longer monopolized in the coniniteration of a subject hitherto productive or pn much strife and contention il not of pin.iiive evil 'rho rapid trirrett.e or 0 , 1( the State, 119111 kl M II ettleteritly right that they should he played omitr proper le!zi.la Live r4•Nt lenonv, and th tt the latgr 11111.1111 t. or cap.! than .111 1 .1.,yed 010,1111 Iw tole to contribute tta fair proportion to the reveinies of the Commonwealth 'l'heir businens. in the aggregate, is now believed to amouot to a sum almost if not quite, equal to the whole business of the regularly chartered banks : and yet it entirely imrearrwo and. with the exceptlm of a mi rely notiau:l licenao tax is free from to v stain This 14 unjust to every other class Of our tax paying and vspeeolly Nn to the bauklng Stittit,orm lb ) cling eliatte I,otn the I'olll monwealth for which they have emelt pand a liberal (snow and are in addition auhret to a very large tax on their dial& 'nix respectfully commend thix xubp.ct to the atleni tun of the Legokture A high seas, of dilly orrpels the again to call the attention of the lon,l , htiire to the inathapriey of exeotag lawn, regulating the receiving keeping the dialmrsemen id the ievenitln•l of the Stale. The Pllbltr inoneyv are pall Ifrrertly to the State Treasurer u ho deposits tht in at ht. °tell diacretion, when . V! . I 8011 , 1 111 1 11• 1 1(0' he ch,oxex anti pays them out w I ,IIIIIS t idler kuiall or great, lye,' lito own unnt tested eheck rx, hisivel:: 7— Tlie avootiot thux receival kepi awl dixttioq, d la annually - beta een three awl foot millretx of dollars, with balances on h nil, at times r x co.ubtokirne million of qbalatx wink the bond of the State Trya.tira r 111 lur oil, eighty tholotatel dollars illy accoont. are yen tied monthly by the Auditor 1L neral by •whoin the ri °otos lur 8111,111. 1 y paid In to the Trona toy are counterxignixf and these are the 08 IV MI rvgunrtle provided by law 1., tnrvcuL the and improper uae or the mono) , o r the :hate, by 0111 State Treasurer. Happily the rvvetilies of the Common wealth have hitherto been safely kept. pritp •riy disbursed and promptly accounted for, by those in charve of the l'uhlie Treasury : but in view of the lotions derrikations %eh:eh have occurred ekewliere, and in other Sates, this fact should furnish no reason wl,y we ought not to guard against loss nl the Iowa) Iteferritg to my former annual m• sages, I respectfully, hut most earnestly t recommend that provision be made by law rst —That no money'shall be iteprelited by the Stitt', Treasurer in any hank. or ulster where, without flrht requiring ample security to be given to the Uommonwealth for the prompt repayment of Kur) 81110 as may be ileposited : awl that such securities shall be depoijited in the office of the Auditor General., Sercnd—That all checks issued by the Stite Treasurer, shall be countersigned by the Anihtor General, before they, are used, and 'hat daily accounts shall be kept of the moneys received, deposited and .disbursed, in' the Anditor General's office, as well as in thedtreasury Department.' eat Staley of do. I . o 1011, and n•ith foreign got•et time.+, r nintoelic,(l.l am] priNfamited muter hi, ft11.4.1e4.., ha% resulted in great wit Iltatvzott to the Litrury, ttott dertervert the ronunucd i•erititetialtee of the L egis t a tue r . The inerea•ro of the Ltbrarv, at a compar atively sinsill expen4e to the State. bar been mud!, that it toon neeiki enlarged averintteardit titian fir the safe keening of the velumem, aed, if £llO inereasa erratutuas, will sorss re quire n separate building for It 4 excluilve The reperts of the State Trett•orrer, the A n .hre r betters!, the Adjutant iiente al and the Attornmy tirto•ral, will inform you, •n of the opernil.,ll4 Of the fdtvernittnt, us presented by several departtnettp„ for tho-Ittat liee4l y1.14P They firs, emitted to the attentive consideration or the Legts- latu re Sun after my mnu nrntinn, 11r11,1 the rer,immoti.lart , m ~f mp preileeriiiirw in ortioe, a Ihsvlling honor• en, puretta.teil m th+ city l'ur the rt , oletiite or Lite ti.ivertior of the I ',onion tit I' titl. Tho included several whole.' of furniture, then in the litithltag and a ~mall appropriation would eionplete the iteetiretary furtit.thing or the 111111.41. .0 114 toi 111. Ike It a tit and conk ntent re..oleoev for the inronnog, P:Kectitive I eheorfoll , , revolllllloll.l VllO 11111111111 ab. of it hill making a .witable itppropria tom for thin porrv , w 'rhe ectreorduutry and alarming condition of our national affairm &manila your imam dinW attenttnr•. On duo 20th, of Deeemorr last, the Convention of South Carolina, or ganized under the authrinty of the Legiala- luro of that Slot°, by a ounnunouo vote, il, Clarqd U 11101111•,, Stlll,llStillg, tween Smith r.in•litht and the other States, nnller Itte name of the United Sintei Gl' Ainerwa, 14 Ili reily teal already taken in 401 oral nihrr S States 11,11.401.4, 1110-t cle,irly, their tnteutlrn to follow lbs example (II behalf of the advcentes of secttmmion, it is claimed that the Colon compeer between the several State+ emu posing that any one of the Stator, which nifty feel aggrieved, may, at its plea.- are, declare that It will WI longer be a party TI the e oupttet Thor doctrine in clearly erroneous. I'lle Contitttation of the Nile.' Sratesim sonrsthing more than a mere coin part, 41r ~A r cbA n at, between 010 several State. AS 111,140.1 to 160 . 1.111 i, 1101111pliet is but a treaty, which may be afirogatel at the well of either party . ; re+ponmilde to the other party fir its Inift faith in refusing to keep it, engagement+, but entirely irresponsible to any superior tribunal, A government, on the other hand, whether created by con sent or by conquest, whoO clothed with legis !wive, 1,1,11.i.el and executive powers, IN 110.4444111'11y 111 itti flaunt) siu °reign ; nvt fr nn this sovereignty flows its right to en free its laws and decrees by civil process, lull, in an emergency. by its inillitary, and cal power, The government owes proteo• t on to the -people. add they in turn owe it their alleijance. Its lawn:Jan:nit be violated by its citizens, without accountability to the intim:it'll created to enforce its decrees and in punish offendern. Organized rosintance to it is rebellion, If succen4ful, it natty he pitr ; :eil of crime by revolution. If (Immo ee4,lll I, the persons engaged in the rebellion in iv be executed n 4 tritiuna. The govern :nen t of the United States, within the limits ae sign it^l t, it, in as potential in sovereignty, as any oilier .covertnnent in the civilized world. 'rho Constitution, and laws mad: In pursuance thereof, are exprmsly declared to ho the MU promo law of the land. Under the Constitution, the general government has the power to raise and support armies, to create and maintain a navy, i(tpil to provide fur calling forth the militia to execute its laws, euppress insurrection and repo) inva• ion Appropriate statutes kavo boon enact ed by Congrele, to aid in the elocution of thew, important governmental povrere." The area on of the Federal Government, with the pr ere enumerated in the Coned totion, mai thlr'aet of the people 'of the United States, and it,ie perfeetly immaterial that the people of• the sm end States acted separately 4itliin tke territorial ,limits of I each State. Tht form of tlll4r action is of no consequence, it view of the filet that they erfated it Fed era thivernment, to which they surrendered c am powers of sover eignty. and declare threw powers, thee' smisui,tered. to be stsprem-, withoutkreserV log to the States, or to the people, thi right got , erosion, ritillitiCalmn or other resistance. It Ir, therefore. clear that there is no con stitution il right of seeessitm. '.Becessden only 'mother I,rm ut nullification. Either, shwa at tent itch t , , he earned out by force, is Jvheilion, nml shntld Lu trusted use titio,ll, by do.st• a flour duty at ir to main tain 111 e taiprimmov ul the Constitution and lea 4 of Ihe Potts 1 `otter. It N 004 101 rs I Ise, 11104 m Imes or great rinse 1111 y, ebon tile . 00 0e...0..11 111 COV ern' tt1 , 11( 1111, itos'e n'.le that civil e there the res,duf ',rimy sight of resistance; Is it where Iho autism Iv ul fl.e Govertipent is hunt.' by n nrstien Constitution, - and is 11,01.1 ul lhrrk by the other depart nientA, It will rarely, if ever, happen that the I•lozens to 9 , not be nde quotrlt Ir itbuul resorting to the -.Ted 111111 bothenable right to remelt and • turnment which has been per vei tell aI) rataty. while denying the right of a State to alissltt e its citizens from the allegiance whieh they owe to the Federal (loyernment, it hi not ertheless highly proper that we 'thole(' carefully and candi Ily examine the reasons whtt•li are otilvlttieell by these wh o h i r e o, 'need itdeteriniffititou destroy the Un 101 of the-e A Ineruv Sitter , and if it 0111111 nppwtr that ftliroF the enures. of com• nisusit ase well founded, they ialiiill.l be un 11C411 unllZly f1 . 11141V1i.1, 11 , 1 1 1, I, far as 110,1.1i1,1e, repstrati.sit 111.111,t fir the 1,401, and Ocourity cis en 111 the Int lire , fur It 10 net to be tol erated, th.tt n 14 0rerninent created by the people, nnll nuuntniuc , l fit. 'their benefit, ~.hould do injustice t, any portion of lite ClllOl.llO After as.orting her right to withdraw frcm th e Cnnnt, S.nrth Carolina, through her eon, ention, 'inning other reasons, deulared that .be Jii•dilied, in ecticising, at this true, that right, because ...eiersil of the Stat, hate fur yea's not old) refused LO itittil their e.bittit.tttett.,,t ehh g ationt h but haw •ted laws either nullifying the Con- Itilteie, or rendering. u 'elem.' the acts of Con, _, , erikditti o to the surrender of fugi tit e that they ha, e permitted the open e.dahlishinent 01 societies, to disturb th.• f of her States , that the people ~f the noti,elaveliol ling States have aided in • the ese ipo of slaves fr.an their masters, and hate incited to eicrvile insurrootion those that rein std--and have announced their iletermiliAtion to exclude the S oth from the ' , minion territory of.the Union. As the Itepresentativea of tho people of Penneyl v,iia, it becomes your solemn dluty,to exam ine these serious tiliarge4, made by the au thorny of a a. ',reign State. Penns:He:min is inchrried in the that of State. that are charged ails hating refuted coin pl mike with that unettlittmtimif the Con stitiition of the United Slate., which ds-ri (dares, • that no person bold to service ift laUor 11l one i`tlitl• • under the twee thereof, eecaping into another, *hall, un consequence of itey law or regulation theca', be die rharged from ouch ter, len or labor, but shall he duli,ered up, int claim of „the party )0 whom stieli sera or labor ma, he due:" So far (111111 adiittin , the truth of this eliarge, I unhesitatingly 'tier, that, upon a candid l'N uniriati“n it will be found that the legielettie arid Judicial action of Penn S‘llllllll,. whether 114 It 1:111 , illy,'/I. a member of the old eon federation, or under the exist 4 mg C.institiitin of the rioted States, has bee in, ariably inilueneeil by a pr. - tier appreciation of her own obligations, and I,v a high reg tr.l 6,r the rights, the feelings .and the intoreete of her elettir State'. As Pally as 1705, the pr vinci,ti authori ties of l'ennsylvania, after reciting in the preamble, that " thee importation of Indian slavas from oinilion, or other places, bath been idi•erseil to Site the Indians of this province 501110 umbrage for suspicion and dissatisfaction," passed an act against the importation of Indian slates from any oth er priivinee, or colony, in America, but at, the same time declared. "that no such In dian slave, as deserting (is in titer's service elscwheir., shall fly into this pros MCC, 14111111 lin um rnto , i.l or construed to ho compre liendid within t!iis am." And when, in 17sO, more than eight tears be f ore the COll emotion ill thin United States went into op ration, I'm iisyl,ania passed her law for the gradiml abolition of slavery; mindful of the rig'its of her eonfoderatos, she de clared that "this /I,t, or anything in it con minis', hind , not give aly relief or shelter to ninny ale,conding or runaway negro or mu latto slate, or servant, who has absented himself, uir shall absent himself, from his or her owner, master or mistress, resisting in any other State or country, but such was ter or iiii.tresm, Khali have like right and aid to demand, claim and take away his slave, or servant, ns..ho might have haul in case thins not And not been made." A provision mach more usieiptildenl in its phraseology, and direct in its command, than those founa on the name sdb t jeot, in the Constitution of the Union. This act, by its terms, was made inapplicable to domestic slaves attend trig upon delegates in Congress from the other American States - , and those held by persons while passing through this State or sojourning therein for a period not longer, than six months. and tire it. In 1788 it was made a high penal offense for any person, by force, violence or fraud, to of this State, any negro or Mulatto,' with the intention of keeping or stilling the said negro or mulatto as a slave, fora term of years. Soon after the passage of this act, the Supremo. Court of Pennsylvania de cided that it did not apply to the forcible removal of a slave, by the owner or his agent, but that its object was to punish the forcible or fraudulent abduction from the &lid of froo nogroes, with the ioten tion of keeping or soiling them .as slaves Thus at that early day, givingjudioial sanc tion to the dootrino, that R master had tho right to tako his slaves whereVer he isoutd find them. The first not of Congress providing for the rendition of fugitives from justice or la barrwas paved in 1793, and originate from the refusal of the Governor of Virginia to surrender and deliver up on the requisition of the Goavornor of Pennsylvania, three per sons who had been indicted in Pennsylvania for kidnapping a negro, and carrying hint into Virginia. And whon• it was found IUIifBEIR 2,
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