THE GAZETTE. I
LEWISTOWN, I'A.
Friday Evening, January 9, 1852*
TER M S :
O.YF DOLLAR PER 4X.YFTI,
TV ADVANCE.
For six months, 75 cents.
NEW subscriptions must be paid in
advance. If the paper is continued, and not
paid within the first month, §1.25 will be charg
ed ; if not paid in three months, §1.50; it not
paid in six months, >1.75; and if not paid in
nine months, §2.00.
Notices of New Adu'rliseineiits.
Seventy-five shares of Lewistown and Tusca
rora Bridge Stock are offered for sale.
The Lewistown Water Company have declared
a dividend of 3 per cent.
CH ARLES BRATTOV offers a small farm for sale
a bargain.
The Real Eitate of DANIEL SEACIIRIST will
he offered at public sale on the 17th February, j
Persons interested in the estate of JOHN CHES
TER, deceased, are ieferred to the notice in an- i
other column.
FY* The Legislature of Pennsylvania
assembled at Ilarrisburg on Tuesday. In
the House John S. Rhey, democrat, was i
elected Speaker, and Wm. Jack Clerk, i
In the Senate John 11. Walker, whig, was
elected Speaker on the Bth ballot, which
was taken on Wednesday, when the mes
sage was sent in. Resolutions inviting
Kossuth to ilarrisburg have passed.both
houses. \\ e did not receive a copy ol the
Governor's message until last night, bul
as it proved to be coinmendably brief, we
give place to it in 10-dav's Gazette.
"
SUPERVISOR. —Major I). Eisenbise, Tur
ner Burns and John S. Miller, the present
incumbent, are applicants for the Super
visorship of this.division.
understand that letters have been
received, by the last arrivals, from George
Carney in California, and Samuel Hopper
in Oregon, which stale that both are well
and doing well.
Sxow.—lt commenced on
Tuesday morning, and continued-until late
in the afternoon, at which time it was 13
or 14 inches deep. Since then sleighing
has been fine, hut until yesterday the mails
and railroad trains have been in confusion
confounded.
To-day we had another light fall of
snow.
COVRT. —Lewis Kelly, a voting man
about 20 years of age, was put upon bis
trial on Wednesday for burglariously en
tering the store of John Kennedy and ta
king therefrom money, papers and other
articles of value. The case was submit
ted to the jury on that day and a verdict
of guilty returned. He has not yet been
sentenced.
Boaidlng Hand* on tlie (anal.
' Kir readers w ill recollect that some ado
was made during the recent election cam
paign respecting a law passed last winter
for the benefit of Gen. John Ross, who
claimed that, as supervisor, he was entitled
to a considerable sum of money for hoard
ing hands and furnishing them with provi
sions while engaged in repairing breaches
in the Can-d caused bv the flood of 1847.
The Canal Commissioners refused to al
low the claim on the ground that it is contra
ry to law for a supervisor to he concerned
.n such transactions. As above stated, the
Legislature last year passed an act autho
rising Mr. Banks, the Auditor General, to
examine and settle ihe account, and we
see that that officer has allowed our rep
resentative the snug sum of FOL R THOU
SAND THREE HUNDRED AND
NINETY TWO DOLLARS AND TEN
CENTS! We know nothing respecting
the hills rendercu to swell up to such an u
mount in the eating line, but it must strike
even e. casual observer that the General's
men must have had capacious maws—c
qual almost io anacondas—to consume so
much food. Tne bill, be it remembered,
is for boarding Ii out da and furnishing
them with provisions; of course their
daily pay is not included. Now let us see
how long it would take, say 100 men, at a
liberal boarding price, to swallow that sum.
Any person would no doubt be willing to
board such hands for 82.50 per week, con
sequently it would cost $250 a week to
"board" and famish that number "with
provisions," (fur we take it that the latter
means just the same as the former.; $250
a week for seventeen weeks and a half\
makes 84575, which is nearly the sum al
lowed. The flood occurred in the begin
ning of October, and hence it can easily
be calculati d that 100 men must have been
80 boarded from about the middle of Octo
ber to the last week in February—lso for
two-thuds of that time—or 200 for nearly
nine weeks, to call for the allowance made.
It may be all right—as our friend Epliraini
has adjudged it to be—but by ail the big
gullets in Mifflin county, we should like to
tee the items!
Auditor General's Report*
We are indebted to Mr. Banks for a j
copy of the Auditor General s Report, ; (
from which wc glean the following items : (
RECEIPTS. ! ,
From R. H McClintic, treasurer of
Mifflin county, tax on real and pei- !
Sunal estate, 412,423 80
From Lewis Hoover, former treasurer, 1,500 00 :
•• U. 11 McClintic, tavern licenses, 047 00
ii " retailers' " 053 00
" " billiard room,
bowling saloon, and ten-pin alley
licenses, 104 50
From R. H. McClintic, patent medi
-1 cine license, 76 00
" " pamphlet laws, 9 50
" " militia tines, 285 37
i From Z. IlrUerihouse, Troth y, tax on
writs, dec. 176 06
From J. L. Mcllvaine. Reg. dc Rec.,
tax on wills, deeds, ,Ic. 169 00
From VV. It. McCav, collector, canal
tolls, " 13,020 81
From D. W. McCorniick, late col
lector, 1,130 00
From Odd Fellows Hall Company of
Lewistown, enrolling charter, 10 00
EXPENDITURES.
Amount paid to John Ross, late su
pervisor on the Juniata Division
| of the Pennsylvania Canal, on ac
count of boarding hands and pro
i visions furnished them whilst re
pairing the breach -in 1647, settled
in pursuance of the act ot Bth
April, 1851, §4,392 10
Paid to MilHin county for the sup
port of Common Schools, 1,963 60
R H. McClintic, abatement of State
tax, 526 31
\Vm R. McCay, mercantile appraiser, 4 74
John Ross, late Supervisor, for re
pairs of 1847, per act 11th April,
1848, §582 10
John S. Miller, supervisor, for re
pairs of 1849. per act April 15, 1851, 63 12
For repairs of 1850, 2,422 39 j
For repairs after Ist Dec., 1850, 4,872 38 r
For repairs of 1851, 4,702 34
For damages by flood, 3.551 50
For bridges, 484 34
Total settled with John S. Miller, $16,096 07
Joiyi P. Anderson, supervisor, lur debts prior to
Ist December,
For repairs of |849, 269 50
! Do of 1850, 2,764 36
Do. of 1850, per act 15th A
pril, 1851, 1.706 76
Do. after Ist December, 1850, 9,333 51
! Do. for 1651, t 16,815 74
j For Damages by flood, 33.208 92 ;
For bridges, per act 1850, 251 37
Do. per act ISSL 1,913 19
Total-settled with John P. Anderson §72,869 72 1
The Commonwealth is indebted to James Tur
ner, late supervisor. §3l 11
The valuation of Real and Personal Estate in
Mifflin county is §4,153,775 I
Assessment of Btate Tax thereon, 12,745 j
Population of the county, 14,980 j
Number of Taxables, 3,252;
The amount of stock held by the State in the I
Millerstown and Lewistown Turnpike Compa
ny is §35,850 00; in the Lewistown and Jlun
tingdon, §46,500. The latter is now we believe
a free road.
The Auditor General makes the public debt,
on Ut December, 1851, §10,114.236 39 j
The state tax on tonnage passing over the
Pennsylvania Railroad during the past year u
mountcd to §7,521 93
KOSSU TH HATS. —Some ol these hats, I
with the appropriate feather, have been on
our streets for several days. They are
neat and light, and might well supercede
the ungainly bell-crown so long in fashion.
The matter however will he carried to ex
tremes, if not to ridiculousness, as the fol
lowing statement from a New York paper
will show. Since the terrible slaughter of
poultry during the holidays, says that pa
per, " the imitation Magyar feather has ap
peared in the caps of multitudes of the
flash-hoys of New York. Not one of the
tail-pieces of the turkeys and barn-door
roosters has been lost; all have been pro
: moted from that exiremitv of the poultrv
to adorn the other end of the Fast-bovs
\V e noticed one fellow sporting in this wav
a couple of entire goose wings, so natural
ly disposed, that, to look at him, one would
| not have known that anything had happen
ed to the poor bird. They titled him ex
actly, and the spectators seemed puzzled
to And out whether one goose had lost his
wings, or another one had found a pair."
Secretary of State and Attorney General.
Col. Bigler has tendered the appoint
ment of Secretary of Slate to Francis \V.
Hughes, Esq., of Schuylkill county, and
that of Attorney General to the Hon.
James Campbell, who, it will be recollect
ed, was one of the Democratic candidates
for Judge of the Supreme Court at the
late election, but was defeated by a large
majority. In relation to the first named,
majority.
AVho would not be a Whig7
1 he Inflowing detinition ol the words !
Cabal and Whig may he interesting to
our readers as an item of historv:
1 he word Cabal originated in ibe reign
of Charles the Second of England, from
the initial letters of fii-s ministers' names
—Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arling
ton and Landerdaie. The -word Whig
was given to (he liberal party in England
hv the royalists, in Cromwell's day, from
initial letters of their motto, " We hope in !
God."
-Close of the Year*
Desirous of closing our accounts as far
■as possible up to January Ist, 1852, we
are now weekly sending out bills of the
larger accounts due ibis establishment, i
Our aim is to do as near a cash business
as possible, and we therefore request all
w ho know themselves indebted for ADVER
IISI\G, JOB WORK, or SUBSCRIPTION*, to call
and settle their bills, or remit the amount
by mail. Our postmasters are generally
j obliging and attentive, and any money
handed to them on account, will be prompt- !
ly forwarded to us.
i
Correspondence of the North American.
WASHINGTON, January 4, 1852.
The report of the Secretary of the j
Treasury, Mr. Corvvia, will be sent to
Congress to-morrow. Among other items
we have the following:
RECEICIS FOR THE YEAR 1851.
Customs, $43,017,567 92
Lands, 2,352,305 30
Miscellaneous, 943,106 G5
Aggregate, £52,312,979 87
which, adding balance in Treasury on the
Ist of July, 1850, viz: 86,604,544 49,
gives a total of 858,917,524 36.
The expenditures for tlie same year
were 848,005,878 68, leaving a balance in
the Treasury on the Ist of July, 1851, of
810,91 1.645 68.
The estimated teceip'.sand expenditures
for the fiseal year ending June 30, 1852, :
are as follows:
RECEIPTS.
From Customs, first quarter, £14,754,909 34
Second, third, and fourth quar
ters as estimated, 34,245,090 66 :
Total, $49,000,000 00
From lands, 2,100,000 00
Miscellaneous, 400,000 00
$51,500,000 00
Adding balance in the Treasury on the j
Ist of July, 1851, as given above, we
have a grand aggregate of 802,11 1,645 68.
EXPENDITURES.
First quarter, $10,937,587 31
Second, third, and fourth quar
ters estimated, 40,015,31G 28
$50,952,903 59
Leaving an estimated balance in the i
treasury July, Ist. 1852, of 811,458,-
742 09.
The estimated receipts and expenditures '
for the year, coiniueneiug July 1, 1852,
are as follows :
KEC tiers.
Customs, $49,000,000 00 j
i.ands, 2,500,000 00
Miscellaneous, 300,000 00 j
$51,800,000 00
Add estimated balance in treasury July
1, 1852, as above, we have the aggregate
of 863,258,742 09.
The estimated expenditures fur the
same year are 842,892,299 19.
Leaving an estimated balance in the trea
sury, July J, 1853, of 820,366,442 90.
< )f the estimates lor this vear, there are
for ordinary wants 833,343.219 07 : for
new Territories and treaty obligations, 89,-
549,080 12. The surplus remaining, it is
estimated, will be sufficiently ample to
pay the loan due July J. 1853, besides
additional appropriations and the expenses
of the present and the next session of
I longress.
Mr. ( 'orwin states the public debt to be j
862,563,395 26; showing a reduction of j
tnore than a million and a half during the i
calander year, exclusive of the Mexican
indemnity, lie recommends the purchase
of State stocks, for the redemption of the
public debt, instead of paying the enor
mous premiums on (iovertiment securities.
The excess ot export for the present I
fiscal year, over the last is more than I'orty
three and a half millions.
The tables show that the exports of cot
ton in "50 with half a crop, yielded, in dol
lars more than forty millions and a quar
ter over the crop of the previous year, j
Breadstuff's have declined more than two
thirds in the aggregate export since 1818. 1
namely from sixty-nine millions in 'l7, to
twenty-two millions now.
During five months of the present fiscal
year, twenty-seven and a half millions ol
specie w ere exported.
Mr. Corwin urges a modification of the
tarifi, under present circumstances of ex
cessive imports of goods and exports oft
Specie, as a means of snlbt\ . He exhibits
a decline in iron manufactures, from '42 to i
the present time, by irresistible figures. lie
recommends the English policy regarding
silver coinage, making it a legal tender
only for sums not exceeding ten dollars.
He also recommends the establishment of j
I'ranch Miuts at New York and San
Francisco, and the discontinuance of those
tit North Carolina and Ceorgia.
DEATH BY SI FKOCATION. —In N. York,
on Friday afternoon, a family, consisting
, of four persons, named Philip Brady, his I
wife Catharine Brady, James Brady, a
brother of Philip, and a lad also named
James Brady, Philip's son, moved to the
rear house 17 1 24th street, where on Fri
day night they made a large charcoal tire i
in their sleeping room, which was very
much confined. In this room the whole
family retired to rest, and they all were i
found dead the next morning, they all hav
ing been suffocated from the poisonous gas i
arising front the coal. Cap!. Whigam, of
the Eighteenth W aid Police, on being in
formed of the melancholy occurrence, re
paired to the house, broke open the door
of tin* room where the deceased parties :
lay, and removed their dead bodies to the
air, hoping by so doing to resuscitate them,
but to no effect, life being extinct. Alder
man Conrkliu was notified to hold an in
quest ou the bodies, which lie did on Sat
urday afternoon.
n?"\Ym. Elliott, who was sentenced to
the penitentiary about eighteen months ago
from tiiis county, has been pardoned, and
returns, we trust, to his family a wiser and
better man.
I) i E1).
At Warrington, near Pensaoola, Florida, on
the 13th December, 1851, JAMESMcDOW'HLL,
j son ot Col. John .McDowell, of Armagh town
ship, Mifflin county, aged 37years, 4 months and
23 days. The deceased had gone to Florida
. with the hope that its salubrious climate would
j restore his failing health ; but a wise and over
ruling Providence had seen fit to decree it
otherwise, and a few days after his arrival at
the above place he. peacefully yielded his spirit
into the hands of HIM who gave it.
On Thursday, Ist instant, at the Mifflin county
Alms House, JOHN RYAN, formerly of Brown
township, aged gfmut 80 years,
i On Tuesday *rHh instant, at the same place,
ELIZABETH K-REPS, formerly of Granville
township, aged about 80 years.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
To the Honorable the Senators and .M'mbers of the
Ho use of Representatives of the General Assembly :
FELLOW CITIZEN* :—ln the abundance of our !
harvest, the universal health of our peoplo, and
the niaintainance of peace, and individual and
social prosperity, are to be found new motives of 1
gratitude to the Father of Mercies, who holds
our destinies in his hands. That grateful ho
mage, the acknowledgemeiitof onr independence
on his Almighty Will, it becomes us most cheer
fully to render.
Never in the History of the Commonwealth,
has there been a period of more prosperous
tranquility. The citizens o! the State, aside j
from other sources of contentment, have at last ,
realized that a cause of disquiet, which has tor
the last twenty-five years -oppressed them, is
about to De removed. A beginning has been :
made in the practical liquidation of the public 1
debt.
On the Ist of Dec. 1848. the
amount of the public debt
was £10,824,379 31
On the Ist of Dec., 1951, the
amount of the public debt
was £40,114,23f, 39
Thus witlrin the last three years, there has
been effected a reduction of upwards of seven
hundred thousand dollars of indebtedness, with- j
out impairing the efficiency of the public works
o. retarding any plans of practical beneficence,
such as the Legislature according to a policy
of wise economy, have thought proper to au- j
thorize.
1 do not hesitate to attribute this important
result to the successful operation of the effi
cient and real sinking fund system, established
by the act of the 10th April, A. 1). 1849. The
detailed transactions of the Commissioners of
the fund will appear in their report, to be sub
mitted to the Legislature.
This system copied in its leading features
from that which was established in the early
sears of our history, for tire extinguishment of
the national debt, has worked admirably. While
there can be no precipitated collection of pub
lic securities such as would derange and dis
turb our monetary relations, neither can there
be, under the present law, any such accumula
tion of stocks in the hands of the commission
ers ax-fo tempt or permit the application of the
fund, under any accidental emergency, to other
purposes than that for which it is set apart.
Pledged to the payment of the public debt, it
must be sacredly regarded. The creation of
this fund, and the adoption of the system of
making no loans, unless provision for their
liquidation be made in tlie laws authorizing
them„Jiavc already exercised a moral influence
on pufTlic policy.
Like the protective system in national legis
tion, though by another process, they prevent
the Representatives of the people from heed
lessly incurring new debts ; they make the pay
ment of the public debt a part of the fixed
policy of the State, which no one will he willing
to disavow or disturb; they interfere with no
extension of public improvements or expendi
tures for beneficent purposes. The first appli
cation of Surplus revenues is to pay a portion
of the State debt, the next to extend and tnain
tiiu such objects of public improvement as
will, when completed, increase actual revenue
and diffuse the greatest good. To maintain that
system of financial policy, which has for its
object the gradual and certain extinguishment
of the public debt, is as weil the duty as it wiii
be doubtless the earnest desire of the General
Assembly.
Believing that the revenues of the Common
wealth, if properly guarded, are adequately
sufficient for both objects—the payment of the
debt and the completion of the public improve
ments, J again, and earnestly, press on the at
tention of the Legislature the claims of that
great section of ttie Elate lying ori the North
Branch of the Susquehanna. The North
Branch Canal ought to he finished without
further deiav. its completion would insure in
creased revenue to the treasury, and would be
a simple act of justice to a large portion of the
people interested in its construction.
The propriety of calling upon the National
Government for a portion of the public lands
in aid of the several giant lines of railway com
munication within our borders, is again sug
gested and urged upon your favorable con
sideration.
To the existing and completed Internal Im
provements of the Stale, or rather to the mode
ot their administration, I invite special attention.
I'here is in it some radical defects which need
reformation. It is wanting in proper checks, and
the enforcement of the responsibility, to secure
which it is respectfully urged upon the Legis
lature to make, such change as will authorise the
election of the Canal t-'onimissioner by the peo
ple for a term of three years, to whom shall be
entrusted the w hole supervision of the system,
and tiie selection by the Legislature of an En
gineer to serve for a similar term, to w horn shall
tie committed the duty ol making the necessary
examinations and estimates of the propriety and
cost of construction and repair of the public
works. That a commissioner or agent for pay
ment shall be selected by the Internal Improve
ment Commissioners, to be charged with the
disbursement of the public funds annually ap
propriated to these purposes. Officers thus
elected, owing their appointment to different
powers in the Government, would, from that
fact and the nature of their duties, act as checks
upon each other, bring responsibility directly to
each department of the system, and secure a
more active and energetic discharge of duty.
It cannot be doubted that the revenues de
rived from the public works ought to be very
greatly increased. These improvements should
now bring a clear revenue to the treasury. In
other States, canals and railways have rarely
failed to become sources of such revenue with
in twenty years from the period of their con
struction. while with us, from causes heretofore
suggested for legislative action, and still within
legislative control, the result has been widely
different.
Our system of public education is far from
that perfection which is desirable. The defect
appears to arise from insufficiency of funds, and
the want of proper teachers. It is manifest that
: competent persons, in sufficient numbers to
supply the demand for their services, cannot be
had, unless some practicable plan is adopted as
part of the Common Sehool system, to create
professional teachers The ability to impart
knowledge to others, particularly to young
minds, is to be obtained only after long and pa
tieut study, assisted by all the facilities which
science and learning can atlord. The future
greatness and happiness of the country depend
so much upon the enlightenment of the public
mind, that the statesman and patriot cannot de
vote his time, energies arid talents, to a more
worthy object than its attainment.
The recent agricultural exhibition was so nu
: merously attended, and so creditable to our
people, in the display of works of skill and
home industry, as well as of agricultural implc
i ments and stock, that I am coviuccd great pub
lic good must result froin it. The urgent re
quests of a former message, believed to be of
value and importance to this great interest, it is
hoped will meet favorable action at your hands.
These exhibitions should be repeated in other
parts of the State, and cherished as the best
1 means of diffusing a practical and scientific
knowledge of agriculture. The establishment
ot a State Society for Western Pennsylvania,
would he highly advantageous to the people of
that portion, deprived as they are, bv the diffi
culty of transportation, of a full participation in
the benefits of the present society.
Contracts have been "made for the publication
of the Colonial Records, and of the maps and
other documents connected with the Geological
Survey of the State. An interesting report from
the gentlemen charged with the arrangement,
for publication, of the Fe nsylvania
accompanies this message. 1 invite to it and to
i their important and interesting papers your fa
vorable action.
I The supervision of the publication of these
papers should he entrusted to the gentleman
who has arranged them. The labor performer!
has greatly exceeded the amount contemplated
by the Legislature, and hence demands additional
compensation.
The Insane Asylum, as well as the other char
itable institutions in which the State is directly
interested, are in a prosperous condition. The
kindly regardsjof the Assembly are solicited for
these institutions.
It is a pleasant reflection now, and will be a
grateful reminiscence hereafter, that in the pro
motion of all these interests, the Administration
of public .atfairs, while under my control, has
faithfully and to some extent, effectually direct
ed its labors. It is to be regretted that more
was not accomplished ; but it is still encouraging
to know that so much of practical good has been
done.
In the enactment of the revenue laws of the
National Government, much injury has resulted
to many of the industrial interests of this State.
Their alteration in such a manner as will pro
tect those interests, all must earnestly desire.
I have, on former occasions, most fully ex
pressed iny views on this subject, and have
urged upon the Legislature the propriety of such
action as would influence favorably the National
Congress. The great manufacturing, mining
and agricultural interests of Pennsylvania re
quire and demand a change of the present sys
tem of tariff laws. The ill success attending
former efforts, furnishes no excuse for an omis
sion again to call attention to the subject. In
the confederacy of Slates, we Isold an important
position. Pennsylvania, from the numbers of
her population, and their acknowledged patriot
ism, has a right to demand for her industry that
kindly legislation which it deserves and should
receive. It is not the part of a high-minded
people to make bargains for the security of
their rights, and it is equally unbecoming, tame
ly to submit to oppression and wrong. A firm
and manly demand for the change of policy
which is rapidly impoverishing a portion of our
citizens, retarding the growth of the State, arid
preventing the derelopement of its mineral re
sources, would have an effect of securing from
our National Government, such modifications ul
its laws, as would protect American labor
against the ruinous competition it meets, in our
markets, from the labor of foreign countries.
It is most sincerely to be hoped, that the
present Assembly will"determine, in its action
on this subject, to be faithful to Pennsylvania.
A communication from the Inspector of the
Western Penitentiary has been Jan) before rue
Its statement shows that the number of finished
cells is inadequate to the accommodation of the
convicts. To secure punishment by separate
confinement, it is proposed to finish another tier
of cells already commenced. While concurring
fully in the recommendations of the worthy
Inspectors, I desire to call your early attention
to the letter hereto annexed.
My attention has been directed, by the occur
rence of fearful accidents in the cities of our
Commonwealth, to the necessity of precaution
ary legislation on the subject of the construc
tion of private and public buildings in crowded
communities. I respectfully ask your consider
ation of this matter. It is idle to say that a
sense of individual self-interest is a sufficient
protection on this subject. All experience
shows it is not so; and that in localities where
ground is very valuable, space restricted, and
competition for position active, everything is
lost sight of but temporary advantage. The
public is not roused to the sense of impending
clanger until some frightful casualitv, involving
the loss of innocent human life, startles it from
false security. Legislation in prevention of the
recurrence of these casuaiities is earnestly re
commended.
The laws in relation to small nates issued by
batiks of other States have failed to realize the
results intended by Legislature. In uiany
counties they are entirely disregarded. In a
former message, reference was made to the
evil consequences likely to result to the morals
of a community from open disobedience to law.
It is clear thai the present law is not, and will
not, be executed. The circulating medium it
proposes to banish should not he permitted to
exist among us in its present condition. Authority
to the banks of the Commonwealth to issue
this denomination of money wouid speedily
drive from circulation thi> depreciated currency,
by the. substitution of notes issued by institu
tioi s under the conttol of the Legislature. In
relation in this subject, as well as to a system
of free banking, based upon public securities,
the recommendations of a former message are
respectfully referred to your careful consider
ation.
I would refer you lo the report of tiie Canal j
Commissioners for a detailed statement of the ;
proceeds on the public works during the past
year, and to the. Reports of the Auditor-Gene-rat, ,
State Treasur r Surveyer General, Superin
tendent ot lommon Schools, and Adjutant
General, for information ;n relation to the oper
ations, and condition of their several depart- -
merits during the same period.
The following estimates of receipts and ex- l
penditures for the current year are duly sub- 1
niitted :
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS.
From Lands, $20,000 j
" Auction Commissions, 25,0UU j
" Auction Duties, 50,000 j
" Tux on Dank Dividends, 420,000 i
u Tax on Corporation Stocks. 1(50,000 j
" Tax on Re it and Personal Estate, 1,250.000
" Licenses, Tavern, 100, Out) j
" " Retailers, 170 000
" Pedlcis, 2,0 i 10
u " Brokers, 8,000
" " Theatre, Circus and Menagerie,
" " Distillery and Brewery, .3,000
'■ " UilLi trd Rooms, Jtr. 2,000
u " Kiting Houses, &c. 8,000
" " P.iteut Medicines, 3,000
" Pamphlet Laws, 500
" Militia Fines, 9,000
" Foreign Insurance Companies, 3,000
" Tax on Writs, Ac. 45,000
" Tax on Officers, 18,000
" Collateral Inlicritenre, 173,00u
" Canal and Railroad Tolls, J,700,000
" Canal Fines, 1,o(i0
" Tax and Enrolment of Taws, 5,000
" Premium on Charters, 20.000
" Tax on Loans, 140,000
" Interest on Loans, 20,000
" Bales of Public property, 10,000
" Tax on Tonnage, &c., 25,000
4i Divii ends from Bridge Tutls, 500
" Accrued Interest, 2,000
" Refunded ( ash, 10,000
" Escheats, 1,500
" Fees of Pul lie O.liccrs, 4,000
" Miscellaneous, 5,T00
£ 1,317,500
ESTIMATED expenditures.
Public Works—supervision and repair, >OOO,OOO
Expenses of Government, 240,000
Militia Expenses, 5,000
Pensions and Gratuities, 15,000
Charitable Institutions, 100,000
Common Schools, 200,000
Commissioners of Sinking Fund, 233,000
Interest on Public Debt, 2,020,000
Guarantied Interest, 30,000
Domestic Creditors, 5,000
Damage on Public Works, 20,IM)0
Special Commissions, 500
State Library, 500
Public Grounds and Buildings, 10,000
Penitentiaries, 40,000
House of Refuge, 6,000
.Nicholson Lands, 2,000
Escheats, 1,000
Geological Survey, 8,000
Colonial Records, 5,000
Abatement of State Tax, 45,000
Relief Notes, 2,500
Counsel Fees, &e., 5.000
North Branch Canal, 350,000
Miscellaneous, 10,000
$4,253,500
An art, entitled "An Act to graduate lands
on which money is due and unpaid to the
Common wealth of Pennsylvania," passed the
10th day of April, A. L> 1851, expired by its
I own limitation, on the JOtii day of December
iast. Its re-enactment would secure to many
the advantages of its provisions, who, fr.,iii
pecuniary inability, or other causes, hive betm
j unable to avail themselves of it-, provisions.
It will devolve upon the present Assembly if,
make an apportionment of the State, for the
election of members of the House of Represen
! tutives of the United States. I feel confident
the greatest care will he observed, to give to
every portion cf the Commonwealth its just
claims, and to make the arrangement of a c
: Congressional District strictly conformable lo
those censiderations of population and 10. jii- ¥
which should apply to them.
I And now, gentlemen of the General Assembly
as this is the last occasion upon which 1 shall'
formally, by message, address you, I be" to
; present to you, at parting, assurances oi my
highest esteem and regard.
WM. F. JOIIXSTOX
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, /
Harrisburg, January 5, 1652 >
The amount of U. 8. Treasury notes
outstanding on the first instant, according
to an official statement, was slol,B]] Oi.
THE MARKETS.
Lewistown, January 9, 1852
| Flour - . . J."*"""
\\ heat, white - - .
Do red - . .
Rye -
Oats - V-'
Corn -
| Cjoverseed - . 4
Flaxseed . . . j (M>
| J imotbyseed - . ... p.,
Butter, ifood - . . i~,
Kggs - . . i.
Lurd .... V
TalJuiv
Potatoes ... fai
T lie Lewislown Mills arc paying 77 cts per
• bushel for White Wheat, and 72 cts. for Red.
| live .7.7 cents. Corn, old 50, new 45 rents per
bushel. Prices of Flour— $2,2.) pei 100 lbs. f..r
, extra, and j.2,00 for superfine.
Hyr* R R LOCKF & Co. at Locke's Mills, arc
paying til) cents for Rye, and 45 cents for Com.
At Philadelphia Flour isquoted at
Red Wheat 89a90, White 98a81.
; IIIMT-FIH SLL IIIILS
lewistown and Tnscarora
BRIDGE STOCK.
can be had at par value. Apply to
JAS. MILLIKEN. Jr.,
! January 9, 1652—2 i Pennsylvania Railroad
DIVIDEND.
r pHE President and Directors of the
J. I.ewiatoivn Water Company have litis day (.'ah
January) declared a Dividend of THREE PER CENT
on the capital slock of said company, payable on and
after the second day of February next, at the Banking
House of Messrs Loneem-rker, Orubb dr Co.
W. RLSSELL, Treasure)'.
Lewistown, January 9, 1852.—3t
Real Estate at Private Sale.
'pllE undersigned offers at private sale
a SMALL FARM situate in Braiton town
ship, Mail in county, containing
9 i ACIt KS ,
more or less—about 70 acres of which are rlearrd ard
ntiilfr cultivation, and the remainder good Rail and
,!uild '''P Timber The "improvements
®ST • ' / consist of a substantial
MjM STOiX f ■! , V ,;SE a,,,i
aSSssfcss Kitchen,
with sundry outbuildings, and the best bearing Orchard
of fruit Trees in the township. This property is in a
good neighborhood, convenient to C. Bull's Mill, and
within one quarter of a mile of a smith shop, school
hnne, and about the same distance from the railroad
and . anal Altogether this is a desirable place, and will
be sold A -BARGAIN.
8> Terras easy, and possession given any time from
, this date to Ist April
CHARLES BRATTON.
5 January 8, 1(552 —4t*
513 32,11
; of Valuable REAL ESTATE.
| ¥>Y virtue of an order of the Orphans'
j -L* Court of Mifflin county, the undersigned Trustee
appointed fcy said Court to seti the Real Estate of DAN
j IELBF, ACI 1 11 IST, late of Wayne township, said count).
; deceased, writ expose to sale at public outcry, on the
■ premises, on
Tuesday, February 17, I S3 %
the two following tracts of Valuable Real Estate, Viz
*>. 1.
Sntmte in Wayne township, Mifflin county, adjoining
Leslie's land on the east and south, Samuel Wharton on
I the south and west, and the Juniata river on the north,
: containing
ami ram iisuM
j and allowance, about ninety acres of which are cleared
jfeyV "'"l a good stale of cultivation, bavin"
'hereon erected TWO LOG UOl!> Es,
'* ' ' Ims& ,W ° st<wies hi S h > a s, °'ie and Frame B.\\ K
80 feet hv -15, and other improve-
Nine or ten acres of this tract is
good meadow land. Also,
TWO APPLE ORCHARDS
of good grafted fruit, a good Spring of Water and Draw
Weil near to the door.
Xo, *2.
| Adjoining the above described tract, containing
Acres IS? Perches,
| and allowance, good Limestone I.and, about 25 or 30 acr. a
of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation.
I adjoining Leslie's land on the northwest, D Jenkins on"
j the east, and lands of E M'Vey on llm south.
O- The above described tracts will he sold together or
\ separately, lo suit purchasers. Persons wishing to view
| the premises tan call on the subsciiber, who lives near
i>\ I" - re the Railroad Bridge crosses the Juniata river, lie
| low Newton Hamilton,on the south side
I Iliiw of Bu—One-third of the purchase money to
be paid on continuation of sale, the balance in three equal
annua! payments, with interest, to be secured by bor.il
i and mortgage on the property.
JAS. \\ HARTON, Trustee.
Wayne township, January 9, 1832.—ta
Estate of John Chester, dee'd,
J..ITE OF ARMAGH TO IVMS NIP
]\OTICE is hereby given, that
| Letters Testamentary on the estate of JOHN
( HEBTf.lt, tate of Armagh township, Mitliin ro-.tity,
i deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, resid
ing in said township. All persons indebted to said estate
' are hereby notified to call and make payment without
I delay, and those having claims to ptrscul litem, duly
) authenticated, for settlement
>! SUSAN CHESTER, Executrix.
' January 9, 1832—0t
Petroleum or ISock Oil.
~j l | D>ZR.\ bottles Rock Oil, raise,! by
i 1 * " steam 700 feet from the bowels of the
, . earth. It is highly recommended by physi
. cians for the curi of a great many obstinate
) diseases, such as coughs and it;fl imitation of
j tiie luugs, pains in the limbs and back, boms,
uruises, &c. For sale by
■ i JOHN KENNEDY.
* > Lewistown, Mey 9, 1851.