- ,
ilkageelienebßinton tsnyder, fitriernOr of this %WM
Commonwealth, in his message. of -December Nth, Pruners
is Ifi, says; I Brokers
The subject of manufactures, from full expo... I Theatre, Circus Menagerie licenses
rience during the restrictive system and the war, I Pamphlet l aws
-is now so well tmderstood ; as respects the practi- Militi a rim
",'ability of advantageously carrying them on, as Tux on write, &c,
to the kind of goods which may be made and Tax on certain offices, _
the quality and durability of the articles which I Collateral inheritances -
" have had a fair experilnent amongst us, that it is . Canal and Railroad tulle
...teemed unnecessary to urge arguments in their I Canal fines, old materials, site.
-support. The general government, fully aware of I Tax on enrolment of laws
"the importance of the subject, will, it is confident- T ax on loans
"I y hoped, follow the dictates of political wisdom, Dividends on bridge and turnpike
"-and protect our manufactures against injurious _stocks
"foreign competition or combination: a contrary
Accrued interest
"course would protract the long and anxiously j i Refunded cash
"sought real independence of our country andagain
Escheats
"impose on ns a dependence almost colonial."
Fees on üblic
His excellency William Findley. referring briefly
Miscellaneous offices
to the subject, says: •
" As agriculture and manufactures are the great
sources of wealth, and the only solid foundation
of our comforts and independence, they are par
" ticularly entitled to the fostering care of govern
.. rnent."
In the first message of Governor Wolf he speaks
as follows:
"The protecting policy hitherto sustained by
"the General Government cannot, under existing
"circumstances, be abandoned or relinquished with
"the approbation or consent of the people of Penn
'• Sylvania. Their interests, their prosperity, and,
I may add, their comforts, are at this time essen
tially identified with that policy. The diversified
" branches of industry- in which our citizens are
engaged; the character of the productions peen
" liar to our soil; the state of the foreign markets
"to which we had heretofore been accustomed to
"resort for the sale and exchange of our staple
" commodities, and the interdicting duties by-which
the produce of our agriculturists is - excluded from
"those markets, leave us no alternative as to the
-course to be pursued. We must either suffer our
"surplus produce to perish upon our hands, or we
"must establish a Market for its consumption at
home. We must either submit to the humiliating
'condition of becoming tributary to foreign indus
try, or by affording encouragement to our own,
render ourselves independent of foreign imposition
and exaction. Under the encouragement and
' protection now afforded, our manufacturing estab
lishments are assuming a vigorous and healthful
"appearance, and give reasonable promise of pro
"rooting the general prosperity of the country, a:al
•of accomplishing the great end and design con
" templated by the friends and advocates of the pro
. tecting system. Happily for us in Pennsylvania,
-we have no constitutional difficulties to embarrass
"us in reference to this system. Our statesmen,
who have hitherto represented us in the National
"Legislature, as welt as in that of the State, have
" uniformly expressed their opinions affirmatively,
"and in terms by no means equivocal, that' this
"nation possesses the right, under the constitution,
"to"protect its industry by salutary enactments of
"its own, against the injurious consequences of for
••eign legislation, and that the acts of Congress
"imposing duties on imports are constitutional;
-and their constituents have as unequivocally re
' sponde s d to those opinions."
Governor Porter, also, refers to the subject in
the following manner: "It is 'unworthy the great
• State of Pennsylvania, to depend on the manu
factures of-other States, or of foreign countries, to
'• supply her citizens with those articles for the
"various purposes of life which they can produce
"themselves as well, as cheaply and as abundantly
-as any other people on the face of the globe. Our
"rallies teeming with plenty. our hills with ex
"lianstless deposites of coal and iron;—our streams
"abounding with water power, for all purposes
"unsurpassed by that in any other country; and
"our citizens stimulated by enterprise and possess
" ing means to render it effectual, should awaken in
us that spirit of independence which disdains to
" seek at the hands of others, that which it can
furnish with its own. It is with no feelings of
-envy or of local jealousy of others, that I bring
"this subject to your notice, but with an honest
feeling of State pride and a generous emulation,
"which should inspire us with a determination not
to be indebted to others for those solid and useful
means of promoting our prosperity and indepen
'• dence which Nature has bounteously lavished on
-our own citizens. -
A question of the greatest magnitude, involving
the honor of the State, and the interest of the citi
zens, will arise in the consideration of the public
debt. ' The regular payment of the annual interest,
and the formation of a sinking fund for the final
liquidation of the principal, should receive the
early and careful attention of the Legislature. It
will give me unfeigned pleasure to unite with you
in any rational mode calculated to facilitate an
object so desirable.
- The present debt of the State is as follows
6 per ct. stocks, $ 1,887,549 06
do. do. 37,305,801 18
41 do. do. 200,000 00
Relief Notes in
circulations
Interest Certifica
tes outstanding 220,789 52
Do. do. un
claimed,
Interest o n un
claimed & out
standing certifi
cates to be add
ed to theinwhen
funded,
Domestic Credi
tor:9,
$702,664 00
4,444 38
14,165 39
89,318 95
Total amount or public debt,
December 31st, 1848, $ 4 ,424 , 7 3 6 98
Of the above there is due and demandable at
the Treasury as follows.
Relief Notes - -
Domestic Creditors, - -
Interest Certificates of all hinds
X 1,031,386 74
It /s presumed the gradual process of cancella
tion or the relief notes, or their redemption as
heretofore indicated, will remove to that, amount,
the pressing necessities of the Treasury.
The residue of said sum of 81,031,386 74, to wit:
fine and demandable $328.722:i4
Also due and demandable °Nook
ed debt as follows;
toe Ist, 1841, 526,951 80
August Ist, 1846, 1,998,509 35
August Ist, 1847, 22,33:6 06
Present liability of Treasury, 5'..'.376,fi1s 91
Residue of public debt falling due :
March Ist, 1849, 559,551 46
Dec. Ist, 1850, 999,311 15
April 11th, 1853, 135,214 00
Dec. Ist, 1853, 1,998,407 09
Jan'y Ist, 1854, 798,474 64
Dec. Ist, -1854, 2,197,849 55
Aug't Ist, 1855, 4,489,463 79
July fat, 1856, 2,780,808 26
March 4th,1858, 3,998,395 47
July Ist, 1858, 2,540,010 56
July Ist, 1858, 529,922 74
Jiily Ist, 1859, 1,195,928 93
Augt. Ist, 1859, 49,998 25
-July lot, 1860, 2,643,777 64
Mch. 28th, 1861, 120,000 00
July Ist, 1862, 2,265,059 75
April 10th, 1863, 200,000 00
July Ist, 1864, 1,378,375 99
June 27th, 1864, 1,134,332 70
Augt. Ist, 1864, 860,680 89
July Ist, 1865, 959,540 79 - - ,
Jan'y Ist, 1865, 888,873 13
July Ist, 1868, 2,523,617 64. -
July lei, 1870, 1,939,583 65 -
Bank charter loans, 678;375 96
Total amount of funded debt not
demandable at the Treasury, t1i37;345,554 03
Interest en the public debt, $l,-
887,549 06 ut 6 per cent. per
annum,
37,305,801 18 .. 5 '•
200,000 00 4-6 "
.Regular annual int'st on the loans
as they stood .Dec. let,, 1848,
On a portion of the above loans,
there will be to pay 3i years
interest on February Ist, 1849,
which it is estimated will in
crease the amount
In whatever amount of interest
certificates may be funded be
tween the Ist cf February and
the: Ist of August next, there
will be due at the latter period
4 years interest estimated at
Probable am't of interest for 1848, X 2,000,542 94
To which add guaraptied interest
on DanviUe dr. Pottsville Rail
Road, and Bald Eagle and
Tioga Navigation Companies,
$2,039,04299
The estimated revenue for the current year is
as follows :
.
Lands $ 20,000 00
Auction Commissions 23,000 00
Auction duties 65,000 00
Tax on Bank dividends 120,000 00
" " Corporation stocks 150,000- 00
,
Real and parional estate 1,350,000 00
Tavern Usages 34,000 00
53,851,900 00
Estimated expenditures for the current year.
Public improvements, $ 800,000 00
Expenses of government, 220,000 00
Militia expenses, 30,000 00
Pensions and gratuities, 23,000 00
Charitable institutions, 30,000 00
Common Schools, including non
accepting districts,
Interest on loans and guaranties of
interest,
Domestic creditors,
Cancelled relief notes,
Damages on public works,
Special commissioners,
State Library,
Public buildings,
Weigh-lock at Beach Haven
Penitentiaries, '
House of Refuge,
Nicholson,
Escheats,
Abatement of State Tax,
Miscellaneom,
(Estimated revenue over expindi
tures) . $135,300 00
From the foregoing statement it would appear,
should the estimates of receipts and expenditures
be correct, sod they doubtless approximate the
truth, and should no unforeseen- casuality occur,
that the revenues will at .least equal the expendi
tures of the year. Admitting however the cor
rectness of the estimates, it is apparent the State
is placed in a condition no better by the lapse of
time. as no material diminution, if any, of the
public debt is effected. Indeed, even the payment
of the annual intereet has depended, and will de
pend on the anticipation of revenues properly be
longing to the next fiscal year. A-system of pro
riding means to meet the liabilities of the State,
which pays no part of the debt and meets the
payment of the annual interest by drafts on a
fund raised for the discharge of another duty, and
which collects from the people upwards of two
millions of dollars yearly, requires supervision and
amendment. A careful revision of the revenue
laws of the Commonwealth, increasing the tax
on such items as will bear without injury an addi
tion to their present burthens, with due economy
in the appropriations and expenses of government,
would not only pla n e the treasury on a sound
ba
sis, with regard to the annual payment of the in
terest, but wouid also, if set apart for that purpose
create a sinking fund to meet the amount now
due and demandable of the State. A result of
I this character would be honorable to the Com
monwealth, and gratifying to the citizens. Con
fidence would be immediately restored to the com
munity, public credit would be permanently es
tablished, and the Treasury relieved of a portion
of the public debt. The amount now demanda
ble is two millions, three hundred and twenty-six
thousand, five hundred and eighteen dollars and
ninety-four cents. When the faith of the State is
involved, no time should be lost in adopting meas
ures to restore its credit.
To form a fund for the liquidation of the resi
due of the public debt, is an object not less im
portant than the one just suggested. Pennsylva
nia should no longer bear the burthens which now
oppress her citizens, without, at least, a vigorous
and manly effort, to relieve herself from her lia
bilities. To the legislature belongs the duty of
devising such means, and enacting such laws, as
will best promote the interest of the people, and
efforts so laudable will at all times receive the ap
probation of, and be aided by such suggestions as
may present themselves to the Executive. A more
favorable opportunity may present itself at the pre
sent session, than will soon again - be offered.—
Many of the banks of this state have given the re
quisite notice, that they propose to apply for a re
newal of their cha: .ers, and I would suggest,
should it coincide with your views, the policy of
exacting from each of these institutions that may
come before the legislature, the payment of a cer
taia per tentage on its capital, in addition to Cie
taxes already assessed 0.1 banks by existing laws.
A sum raised in this way might form the nucleus
of a sinking fund, which, however small, would
regularly increase in importance and value by the
assistance it might receive from that and other
sources. The chatters of all the banks in the
Commonwealth will require renewal, the increased
prosperity, population and business of the country,
may require additional banking facilities, and dur- 1
leg each year a small amount could be added to the
fund. The investment of the fund thus created in'
the purchase of state stocks, (the present revenue
laws of the state being preserved,) and the interest '
lon stocks purchased, being again invested in the i
seine war , would increase the fund while it dimin
ished the debt, until all would appreciate its im
portance and consider it with favor. Should our ;
sources of revenue become of greater value, as
may be reasonably anticipated, large balances over
the expenditures of the governmet will accrue to
the treasury, a fixed proportion of which could
properly be added to the fund. Thus would it in
crease in triple proportion, until the enormous ;
debt, with which we are encumbered, would be'
finally extinguished. Whatever may be the views
of the legislature in regard to the plan suggested,
lit is ardently hoped it will distinguish its proceed
! ings by the adoption of means to attain-an object
so desirable.
In the revision of the laws on the subject of re
, venue, with a view to increase taxation, the farm
ing interest of the state should not be further bur
dened. The state, county, school, road. and poor
rates, levied upon land, and the reduced
price of the products of the agriculturist, occa
sioned by the present revenue laws of the national
government, operating to the injury of the home
market, should justly and equitably relieve it from
additional taxation.
For many years no settlement of the accounts of
of the Commissioners of the Internal Improve
ment fund has been made. It is worthy of con
sideration, whether a commission to.consist of a
Clerk from the Auditor General's and the State
department, with a third to he appointed, autho
rized to make an examination of said account ; as
also to ascertain precisely the condition of the
treasury and its disbursing agents, what monies!
are due to the state from corporations, individuals
and counties, and if balances are found to exist,
the reason why collections are delayed ; might not 1
by a caretul report, suggest alterations beneficial
in the manner of conducting our financial affairs.
In this connexion it is also proper to mention, that
a change in the manner of drawing money from
the Treasury should be adopted to afford more
ample checks; the present system being deemed
defective.
The Report of the Canal Commissioners will
enable the Legislature .to form an accurate judg
tnent of the State of the public improvements.—
Notwithstanding serious interruptions caused by
the destruction of the Freeport. aqueduct, and
other atonalities, the revenue front this source, has
been so large and so constantly increasing, that
these works should be carefully guarded and pre
served
as a moans useful to the citizens and high
ly advantageous to the State. In referring to the
Internal improvements of the State, I cannot al
low the opportunity to pass without alluding to
the North Branch Canal. It is supposed that a
million of dollars would complete this work, at
present profitless, and rapidly going to ruin. Al
ready has the State expended upwards of two
millions, which, while it remains unfinished, is ab
solutely 1 ost. The country through which this im
provement passes, is rich in the articles of coal ,
and iron, and in agricultural product& Its com
pletion by the increased amount of tolls received ,
on it, and the additional freight thrown on to other
portiOns of the public improvements, would em
ply secure the interest on the coat of its comple
tion. Under a deep sense of the correctness of,
these views, I could not avoid bringing the subjec
to your early consideration. In this relation it is
also proper to refer to the importance of avoiding
the Schuylkill inclined plane. Surveys and esti
mates by a skilful Engineer have been made of
three different routes, and the result will be laid
before you in the report of the gentleman to
whom was entrusted the duty. It is well to ob
serve, that these estimates are not included in the
estimated expenditures of the currdnt year, as given
in a former part of the message.
The attention of tie legislature will be called
to the subject of - the currency in connexion with
the Banking Institutions of the State. These in-
5:39,393,350 24
1,031,3'86 74
$702,664 00
89,318 95
239,403 79
$2,047,196 2
$39,722,072 98
$ 113,2572 94
1,865,290 05
9,000 00
1,087,542 99
7,000 00
12,000 00
32,500 00
100,000 00
2,600 00
0,000 00
1,000 00
400 00
, 20,000 00
40,000 00
20,000 00
60,000 00
1,650,000 00
3,000 00
3,500 00
115,000 00
!Minting have became an intimately Identified
with the buslneoo and Interest-0 of the eittocito,
and linnish such a portion of the circulating
medium, that a necessity is crested for their prop
or management and control. The standard of the
value of things among civilized noticing is conce
ded to be the precious Metals. The constitutional
currency of this government is gold and silver.—
Whenever the convenience of trade and business,
the encouragement, f industay and enterprise, or
the natural growth and developements of the coun
try•, require additional commercial facilities, it is
the duty of the public functionary to be watchful
that the representative of the precious metals
should maintain the standard value. The citizen
having in his possession a note issued by a Bank
of the Commonwealth, should be secure that he
holds the equivalent of gold and silver. In order
to obtain this result, care should be taken by the
legislature in the grants of authority to these cor
porations, to prevent them if possible from fur
nishing a less reliable currency. Banking institu
tions have long existed among us, and have-been,
when properly restricted, and judiciously manag
ed, highly conduzive to the best interests of the
people. Their notes, when kept at par 6 yalue,
form a more convenient currency than the precious
metals; are equally valuable iu all financial con
cerns, and promote the active industry of the
country. s Hence, solvent banks, whose notes are
readily convertible into specie, should be sustained
by the legislature, while those failing to keep their
notes at par, or to redeem them demand. I y in
flicting injury and injustice on the community, de
oy confidence, and forfeit our favorable consid
eration.
2,000 00
4,000 00
5,000 00
1,000 00
1,500 00
5,000 00
250,000 00
2,040,000 00
12,000 00
200,000 00
30,000 00
300 00
1,200 00
3,500 00
3,600 00
23,000 00
4,000 00
200 00
800 00
40,000 00
5,000 00
In jUdging of the amount of banking capital
necessary for the wants of the community, a.
sound and healthful state of business and trade
afford the best and safest criterion. These in- !
stitutions are better able to meet their liabilities
and redeem their notes, in a state of things such
as is here- alluded to, than during extraordinary
depression, or unnatural excitement. That the
increase of banking facilities is instrumental in
relieving the country in times of commercial dis
tress, is a belief as prevalent, as it is unsound. It
may postpone the crisis, but it cannot afford re
lief. The active healthful industry of the coun
try, and not the wants of individuals, should gov
ern the issues of the banks. In periods of great
commercial and manufacturing prosperity, an in
flation of the currency beyond the wants of sound
wholesomeitrade, leads to unwise, and often ruin
ous speculation. In short, the amount of the
circulating mediuin, should depend on the actual
and not the imaginary wants of the country.
From these observations, the Legislature will
readily perceive, that an . , extraordinary increase
of banking capital, in the present depressed
condition of trade, is not consistent with. my
views of the general welfare.
The location of a bank, as near as practicable.
tothe centre of its business operations, is a Mat
ter of some moment tot he community, and should
the Legislature in its examination of the applica
tions for the recharter of any institution now ex
isting, be satisfied that the "location of the exist
ing bank is unsuited to the convenience of the
business portion of the citizens for whose benefit
it was established, a wise policy would dictate a
refusal to recharter, and the establishment of a
new institution with the same amount of capital,
at a place more advantageous to the citizens.
The old and well established banking institu
tions, whose credit and solvency are undoubted,
and where the wants of the community in which
they are located require it, should receive a re
newal of their charters ; but in no instance ought
a charter to be renewed, until a complete & thor.
(nigh examination of the affairs of the institution,
and a full statement of its business, with satis
factory evidence of the BONA FIDE value of its as
sets, shall have convinced a committee appointed
for that purpose, of its entire solvency and ability
to redeem all its liabilities. Such statement duly
authenticated, should be filed en record in the
state department for the inspection of all persons
interested.
The several laws in force to prevent the use
and circulation of notes of a less denomination
than five dollars, does not appear to have produc
ed the result intended. A large portion of the
currency of the State, consists of notes of a lower
denomination, many of them spurious & defaced,
issued by foreign institutions, about whose sol
vency no knowledge can be possessed by the citi
zens. This'circulation while it inflicts injury on
the community, is in direct c, it ravention of tie
express terms of the law. ' it is manifest the
existing laws will not remedy the evil, it is sug
gested, that an act preventing under severe pen
alties, the banks and brokers dealing in money,
from receiving on deposit, exchanging, or paying,
the same from their counters, would have a bene
ficial effect in driving these notes from circula
tion.
$3,716,600 00
Should the circulation of notes of a less denom
ination than five dollars, be desirable, it is infi
nitely to be preferred, that they should be issued
by our State banks, whose solvency is known,
rather than foster a circulation issued by institu
tions, whose abilities to redeem them may be
uncertain. With these slight modifications of
our present system ; taking care that no unne
cessary and unadvised increase of bunking capital
be made, and in all cases either of new institu
tions, or the renewal of those now existing, that
(heir entire solvency should lie undoubted, and
that no danger to the citizens will arise front these
grants of power : I should deem it right to leave
the present policy in relation to these corpora
tions, as it has been maintained in former years.
During the last session of the Legislature,• an
act was passed regulating the hours of labor in
Factories and specifying the age at which minors
shall be admitted therein. It is respectfully sub
mitted, whether this law does not require amend
ment, so as to prevent special contracts to labor
more than the time fixed by the act. 'File oper
ation of the law as at present in force gives to
those violating its spirit, an advantage over him
who, faithfully carries it into effeqt, by permitting
the owner and operative to enter into such con
tracts in relation to the extension of time, as they
may deem proper. If it be right to limit the•
hours of labor in Factories, (and who that desire
lie education and comfort of the citizens can
doubt it.) the law should be so changed as to ope
rate alike in all such establishments. Should the
Legislature concur in this opinion, it would be
proper to repeal the proviso, allowing of special
contracts by parents and guardians Mr the labor
of ntinors above the age of fourteen years. They
should not be left in a condition of more hardship
than the adult. I have brought this subject to
the notice Mille Legislature, as well because of
the justice and propriety of the suggestion, us that
my friendship for the measure was well known
to the people, and has been approVed by them at
the late general election.
It gives me unfeigned pleasure to announce
the fact, that the common school system is at
length adopted throughout the State. The friends
of education muS deeply gratified, dint a con
summation so desible, promising such advan
tages
to the citizen and security to the State, has
riS t
been attained. Jr y well be considered as a
a
conspicuous epoch it our history. The blessings
of rational and ii ral cultivation dispensed
throughout the Com onwealth will improve the
condition of the people, enlarge their spheres of
usefulness, and give to the State a character for
intelligence and virtue. The report of the Super
intendent will furnish valuable information to the
Legislature for the further improvement of the
system, and will enable it to remedy existing de
fects.
The Adjutant Gdneral's report on the subject
of the Militia, contains many important sugges
tions, well worthy the consideration of the Leg
islature. It is the production of a practical
military officer, who has bestowed much thought
on the subject, and will be found interesting
and valuable, particularly as pointing out a
mode by which the vast expenditure of the pre
sent system may be saved to the Treasury.
In the reports of the Auditor General and
Surveyor General, you will find a detailed ac
count of the financial operations of the year,
ending on the Ist of December last. To these
reports I would refer you for a full statement of
the condition of the affairs of the Common Wealth
in their several departments.
The acquisition of New Mexico and Califor•
nia, presents again in the National Congress,
the important question of the extension or non
extension of human slavery. At the adoption
of the national Constitution, the longer continu•
slice of what was then considered an evil was
strongly agitated, and resulted in a compromise
permitting it in the States where at that time it
existed. The Constitution being submitted to
the States, was adopted with others by Penniql•
vania, and after the lapse of more than hall a
century, it remains the great fundamental law
01 the Union. To preserve and perpetuate it,—
to acknowledge its supremacy —to maintain
and defend its principles,—and to submit to its
compromises; are duties to which every citizen
is pledged, whatever his opinions in relation to
questions arising under it. This fundamental
law recognizes the right to hold slaves in the
States which were parties to the compact, but
it makes no farther acknowledgement. It bears
on its plain and expressive pages no agreement,
express or implied, for the further extension of
human slavery. That this national wrong has
been extended with the progress of population,
is not an argument in favor of its justice, its con
stitutional right,.or of the salutary effects it has
produced in the terrritories where it has been
admitted. Shall it be still further extended?
To the Congress of the United States belongs
the authority to settle this important question.
Before it shall have been determined, the opin
ions of our citizens on the subject should be fil
ly and distinctly made known, through their
public functionaries, to the confederate states.
The right to instruct our Senators,. and request
the representatives in the National Councils,-
ought not to be used on light and trivial occa
sions, while on subjects gravely affecting the
well being of the country, it becomes a duty
which none will venture to decline. In the ea-
,raise of this adMitted right, the legislature will
find . the opportunity to express in terms not to
hb mistaken, the position which is held•by Penn•
1 1 1 °nnin on this grave and momentous qoestion.
While the compromises of the Constitution
should be maintained in good faith , towards our
Southern brethren, it is our duty to ate that
they are "preserved with equal fidelity - to our
selves. No encroachments, however sanction
ed by. use, should be acknowledged as prece
dents for further wrongs against the interests,
prosperity and happiness of the non-slaveholding
States of the Union. if slavery be, in itself; an
infraction of human rights; if it be directly op
posed to the enlightened spirit of our free in
stitutions ; if it destroy the equality of power in
the general government, by enlarging where it
exists, the constitutional representation—if it
possess a direct or indirect influence against
Northern and Western policy and interests, by
promoting a system of laws destructive to do
mestic industry, and vitally affecting free labor,
--if it retard the natural growth of population
and improvement, by the appropriation of large
tracts of land, for the benefit of the few, to the
injury of the many,—ifjt be in open defier ce of
the spirit of the age, the march of rational truth,
and the enlightened policy of mankind,—it is
time to arrest its further progress These, it is
believed are the settled convictions °Four citi
zens, and their' determination to maintain them
is unalterable.
FELLOW CITIZENS : My duty is now perform
ed. I have endeavored to present to the repre
sentatives of the people, such matters as are
deemed important to the interests of our mutu
al constituents. To the wisdom, virtue and in
telligence of the assembly; with a firm reliance
upon the assistance of the Omnipotent Being
'.from whom cometh every good and perfect
gift," may be safely confided the performance of
every duty calculated to secure the happiness.
the honor and the welfare of the country.
WM. F. JOHNSTON.
Executive Chamber, Jan. 6, 1849.
From the New York Tribune
Sketch of Louis Napoleon
The news of the election of Louis Napoleon to
the Presidency of the French Republic will natu
rallylexcite some curiosity in regard to his history
and :public character. Hitherto he has only been
known through the 'foolish affairs at Strasbourg and
Boulogne, his published works, notwithstanding the
merits claimed for them by his adherents, having
failed to enlarge his reputation,' His life has, never
theless, been somewhat eventful, and he does not
lack the advantage of varied fortune and severe. ex
perience. Whether lie has profited by it, remains
to.be seen. From such hasty materials as we
could procure, we have arranged the following brief
notice of his history:
Charles Louis Napoleen, son of Louis, Ex-King
of Holland, was born in Paris on the 20th of April.
1308. His god-parents were the Emperor and
Maria Louisa, and during his childhood he was an
especial favorite of the former. On the return of
Napoleon from Elba, he stood beside him on the
Champ de Mars, and wherr embraced by him for
the last time, Malmaison, the young t.ouis,'then a
boy of seven years, wished to follow him at all
hazards. When the family was banished froM
France, his mother removed to Augsburg, where he
received a good German education. He was after
ward taken m Switzerland, where he obtained the
right of citizenship and commenced a - course of
military studies. After the July Revolution, by
which he was a second time proscribed from France,
Ke visited Italy in company with his brother, and
in 1331 took part ig a popular insurrection against
the Pope. This movement failed, but he succeeded
in making his escape, and, his brother dying at
Forli the same year, he visited England, and after
ward returned to Switzerland, where, for two or
three years, he contented himself with writing pol
itical and military works, which do not appear to
have been extensively read. The death of the Duke
of Reichstadt in 1832, gave a new impulse to his
ambitious hopes. His first revolutionary attempt,
at Strasbourg, in October, 1836, completely failed,
but after a sort imprisonment in Paris, he was
sent to this country. The illness of his mother oc
casioned his return the following year, and after a
visit to Switzerland he took up his residence in
England until his second attempt at Boulogne, in
1841).
In this affair several of his followers were killed,
and he was himself taken and sentenced to impris
onment for life in the Castle of Ham. The parti
culars of his escape in May, 1846, after an incar-.
ceration of six years, are well known. From that
time until the end of September last, when he was
returned as a Deputy to the National Assembly
from the Department of the Seine, he has resided
in England. A late London journal, in describing
his mode of life, gives the following not very flat
tering account:
He was unscrupulous in contracting obligations
which were wholly beyond his means of repayment;
and his most serious pursuit was the study of alche
my, by which he expected to arrive at the discov
ery of the philosopher's stone. So vigorously did
he prosecute this exploded science, at a house which
he had filled up as a laboratory at Camberwell, and
so firm was his faith in the charlatan empiric whom
he employed to aid him in transmitting the baser
metals into gold, that he is said to have actually
appropriated his revenues in anticipatiori, and to
have devoted the first milliard of his gain to the
payment of the national debt of France, in order to
acquire thus an imperial throne by purchase!'
The large majority by which he was elected a
representative astonishes every one, and gave his
followers the first encouragement to bring forth his
name as a candidate fdr the Presidency. To defeat
the acknowledged Republican party, he received
also the suppoit of the Legitimists and Orleanists,
and those combined influences have elected him by
an immense majority. The rest must be left to
time and tide.
• ii DAN MARBLE. Was in Boston the other day,
and strolling along the wharves, when he met a
tall, gaunt looking figure, whose sun-burnt counte
nance. and tattered parti-colored garments, origi
: aally of the most out-landish fashion, had that pic
turesqueness about them, derived only from long
continued exposure to the atmosphere which fancy
• sketchers delight to present on canvass.
Dan, who never permits the lack of an introdne
lion to interfere when he desires to form an acquain
tance, hailed the stranger— , lfalloO! my friend,
where are you from 1
"Jes' from Calerforny, stranger."
"Ali. indeed! and you can tell us then whether
its all true about that gold/" somewhat anxiously
interrogated Dan in reply.
"Tree, as you live!—and a darned sight more—
for no man out of Calerforny raally does live. -
Then why did you come back (.
Back f—why to get my family. Fact is, stran
ger, a man there gets so powerful rich that he be
comes covetous of himself—and of he aint very
kearful, will cut his own throat to rob himself.
The root of all evil, you know—there's a leetle too
much bf it, and I left fur a while—partly on that
account"
"Oh, you did, eh?'
" Yes—and between you and me—that's the only
way a man can die in that blessed land."
tt Healthy climate, I suppose?"
Healthy!—it aint anything else. Why, stran
rt,er, you can choose there any climate you like—
iot or cold—and that without travellin' more than
fifteen minutes. Jest think o' that the next cold
mornin' when you git out o' bed. There's a moun
tain there—the Sawyer Navayday, they call it—
with a valley on each side of it—the one hot and
the [other cold. Well, git on the top of that moun
tain with a double-barreled gun, and you can, with
out movin', kill either summer or winter game, jest
us you will."
What!—have you ever tried it !"
"Tried it! often—und should hove done pretty
well, but fur one thing."
u Well, what was that!"
“I wanted a dog :that would stand bolOclinuars,
The last dog I had froze ar /tin tail while pintin'
on the summer side. He didn't git entirely ont al'
the winter side, you see Trew as you live P'
Marble sloped.--4/6nny Argun,
GOLDEN Tuouon•rs.—l never yet found pride in
a noble nature, nor humility in an unworthy mind.
Of all trees, I observe that God has chosen the vine
—a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall ;
of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb ; of all fowls,
the mild and guileless dove. When God appeared
to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar, nor the
spreading palm, but a bush, an humble, slender,
abject bush. As if He would by these selections
check the conceited arrogance of man. Nothing
produceth love like humility; nothing hate, like
pride.
PILEMTU3tS TO WmTsas.—At the close of the
year 1849, a complete set of the volumes of the
American Tract Society will be awarded to the
writer of the best article on each of the following
topics:
1. The best authentic narrative, suited to lead
the impenitent to the cross.
2. The best article on the duty of indi.vidual
Christian effort for. the salvation of souls.
3. The best article on novel-reading.
•1. The best religious anecdote.
EY - During the year' 1848 there were erected in
the city of Washington 52 brick and 84 wooden
buildings. The total number of dwellings in' the
city is 5.922 ; and the population is estimated at
35,532 souls—being an increase of 12,000 since
1840. •
litelligencer Sountal.
E. W. MUTTER, EDITOR.
Lancaster, January 9, 1849.
1113' We 'are requested to state that JACOB
WEAVER, Esq., will be a candidate for the office
of Mayor of this city at. the ensuing election in
February, subject to the decision of the Deniocratic
convention.
Ea- THOMAS H. BURROW ES, Esq., will be a
candidate for the Mayoralty of this city, subject to
the action of the.Dernocratie nominating meeting.
it JOHN L. KEFFER will be a candidate for
Assessor, subject to the decision of the Democratic
city comrention.
Irr GOV, JOHNSTON'S first message to the Leg
islature appears in our columns of to-day. The
lateness of itareception, however, and the pre-occu
pancy of our columns, leaves us no room for com
ment. There aremany subjects contained in it that
will be noticed heraafter.
EU" We owe thanlisto the Democratic members
of the State Legislature ; , for their very liberal re
membrance of this journal in the selection of their
session newspapers. It hag far exceeded our expec
tations.
Next State Convention.
It will be seen that the Democratic State Central
Committee, at their recent meetingin Harrisburg,
have designated the city of Pittsburi,as the place,
and the 4th of July next as the time, for the meet
ing of the State Conception to nominate a.candidate
fur Canal. Commissioner. The last States Conve
ntion, by a large vote, adopted a resolution that the
next one meet "in the West," and to this decision,
whatever opinion may be entertained o. its pro'pri
ety, the Committee felt itself bound to adhere.
change of place seemed to demand a change 01'
time, also, to afford delegates facilities for travelling.
Upon consultation the FOURTH or JOLT was se
lected—a day consecrated to good and patriotic
works.
The delegates who are to represent Lancaster
county on the above occasion were chosen in
August last. They are:—WILLIAM MATHIOT,
ANDREW DUNLAP, SAMUEL J. MASTERSON, ISSA
CHAR REESE, SAMUEL SLOKUM and J. J. KELLER.
They are uninstructed.
Speaker of the House.
The re-election of Gen. WILLIAM F. PACKER to
the Speakership of the House of Representatives,
affords cause for felicitation, not alone to the mem
bers by whose firmness it was effected, but to the
Democracy of the whole State. The candid of all
parties admit, that as a presiding officer General
PACKER is incomparably superior to the nominee
-of the Whigs, and that the body is, therefore, im
measurably the gainer. Gen. PACKER'S strong
perceptive powers, fine oratorical talent, and long
and varied experience in public affairs, combine to
fit him pre-eminently for this post.
But there are yet other reasons to render this
result peculiarly acceptable. With the State Ex
ecutive and Senate in open opposition, the Demo
cratic party has needed some such refuge, to shield
their principles from the "pelting a the pitiless
storm" of Federalism. They now have the forma
tion of the Standing Committees for the Session,
whose influence for weal or woe is all-powerful.
What a security in these perilous times, to have
the Committees on Banks and Corporations in the
hands of Democrats! How acceptable, too, to
have a majority of Democrats compose the Com
mittee oil Internal Improvements, to expose and
'defeat the alarming Wrong meditated in certain
quarters against the present Canal Board!
It is proper to state, in this Connection, that Gen.
PACKER'S election resulted from no sort of compro
mise or concession on the 'part of the Democrats.
Although ultimately, voted for by three of the
Philadelphia county Natives, they gave this direc
tion to their suffrages' only alter they had exhausted
every effort to render them effective to the Whig
'Candidate. The Democratic party is not in the
habit br contracting improper alliances, and least
of all with a party so notorious on the political
pave as the Native Americans. It is hence a
double gratification, to know, that their votes,
however effective in determining the election, were
not, solicited, and that not so much as a chew
tobacco was given or promised in return for them.
Samuel Fegely, Esq.
Too much praise cannot be awarded to this vet
eran representative of the Democracy of Old Berks,
for his noble conduct at the recent meeting of the
Legislature. Although much enfeebled by danger
ous illness, and whilst still suffering severe physical
pain, almost with his life in his hand, he braved
the inclemency of the season, and the fatigue of a
long joiirney, to be present at the organization.
Arrived at Harrisburg, at the sacrifice of every
comfort, no gentleman was more resolute In resist
ing unworthy compromises, or more determined to
sit nut the stubborn Whigs and Natives. If a truer
or a more self.sacrificing Democrat than Father
FEGELY lives in Pennsylvania, we have yet to make
his acquaintance. He is a worthy son of Old
Berks—which we regard as no mean compliment.
V. S. Senator.
The election of U. S. Senator by the Legislature
of Pennsylvania takes place to-day. The principal
candidates are THADDEUS STEVENS, JAMES COOPER,
and WILLIAM MEREDITH. The Native Americans
are said to be in favor of GEORGE FORD, Esq., of
this city. If the latter with-hold their votes from
the Whig caucus candidate, he will fail of his
election. The Democrats will, of course, as in the
choice of Speaker of the House, seek to profit by
the divisions of their opponents.
We learn that the Democratic caucus has united
upon Hon. RICHARD BRODHEAD, the present repre
sentative in Congress from the Northampton dis•
trict, as their candidate for U. S. Senator.
The Pennsylvanian.
With the New Year, this able and popular Dem
ocratic journal has appeared in anew and beautiful
dress, which renders it, more than ever, deserving
of the most extended patronage which the Democ•
racy have in their power to bestow. We congrat•
ulate the enterprising conductors, Messrs. lianttc
•rox and Fonsisr, upon this new proof that their
services are meeting with proper appreciation at
the hands of that great party, whose principles they
espouse with such admitted efficiency and zeal.
New Attorney General.
Comluaus DARRAOII, Esq. of Pittsburg, has
been appointed by Governor Johnston the Attorney
General of Pennsylvania. 1 4, 1 r. D. was formerly a
member of our State Senate, and subsequently a
representative in Congress from Allegheny county.
LIBER►L DONATION.--MilyOr CARPENTER has
received from D. Longenecker and Alfred R. Fisk,
the sum of $6O, as a donation from the Operatives
in the Conestoga Steam Mills to the suffering poor
01 this city—the one half of this sum to be expended
under the direction of the Union Dorcas Society.
Major Lewis Cass. jun.
We are gratified to state, that the nomination of
this gentleman as Charge d' affaires to Rome has
been confirmed by the U. S. Senate. The opposi•
tion made to his confirmation we have regarded as
utterly frivolous, not to say factious. During our
residence in Washington city, we boarded in the
same house with Major Cass, during ,a winter, and
if our endorsement were at all needed, we should
say that he is every way deserving and qualified.
We will go bail, that he will do nothing abroad to
reflect discredit on the country—but, like his illus
trious fattier, much to add to its fame and honor.
Ho!platten of Judo') norm
lion, A, If,►ras, the eatcemod Proident Judge
of the Thitrint Court of this county, has resigned
his commission, and, asi will be seen by the sub•
joined cord, has resumed the practice of the jaw
in the courts of this county. 'A bill to abolish the
court has beau introduced into the Senate by Mr.
IKozeromarmus. We hear some very valid reasons
assigned for the continuance of the court.' -
• The following card from Judge Hires will ex
plain the reason of his resignation:
A Card.
In answer to all inquiries upon the subject,
deem it proper, in this manlier, to make known
that my purpose in resigning the office of Judge of
the District Court, is to resume the practice of.the
law ; which I intend henceforth to pursue, as an
attorney and advocate of the Lancaster Bar.
ALEXANDER L. HAYES,
Late President Judge of the District Court for tho
City and County of Lancaster.
Lancaster, Jan. 9, >49.
Meeting of the State Central Com-
mittee.
The Democratic State Central Committee met
at Mr. Buebler's Hotel, Harrisburg, on Thursday
last, and were called to order by the Chairman,
E. W. Humes.
HAMILTON ALRICKS, Esq., submitted the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That we recommend to the Democratic
citizens of the several counties, to meet according
to the usages of the party, in the respective coun
ties and districts throughout the Commonwealth,
and appoint the usual number of delegates to meet
in State Convention, at:PITTSBURG, on WED
NESDAY, JULY 4th, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for the office of Canal Codimissioner,
to be supported by the party at the ensuing election.
On motion, the committee then adjourned
E. W. HUTTER, Chairman
I. G. ArKiNLET, Secretary
- - -
' 'GEORGE DARSIE, Esq.. of Pittsburg has been
elei'ted Speaker of the State Senate.
Major Reynolds.
Major ly.rs-oLns, who distinguished himself so
nobly in the late war with Mexico, after an absen'ce
of five or siX,years, recently paid our city and his
friends here a short visit. A number of our citizens
offered him a social dinner, which he, however, de-,
dined. The following correspondence passed on
the ooccasion :
LANCASTER, Dec. 27, 189 S
Major JOHN F. REYNOLDS-
Dear Sir :—The under
signed, your fellow-citizens, having learned with
much pleasure of your arrival in this your native
city, after an absence of a number of years in the
service of your country, beg to offer you, as a small
token of their regard and admiration for your brave
and meritorious conduct, in the several battles, in.
eluding that of the memorable Buena Vista, in
which you were engaged, a social dinner to be giv
en at the White Swan Hotel, on Saturday next, or
any other day you may please to name more con.
venient to yourself.
F. A. Muhlenberg, Geo. H. Krug,
Wm. B. Fordney, Lewis Hurford,
E. C. Reigart, C. Hager,
Ellis Lewis, Geo. M. Steinman,
N. Ellmaker, John P. Myers,
Geo. W. Hamersly, John Myers,
A. L. Hays, F. S. Burrowes,
B. Champneys, Ch. Boughter,
John N. Lane, G. A. Miller,
James B. Lane, W. Russell,
Thob. E. Franklin, Geo. B. Kerfoot,
M. Carpenter, B. S. Muhlenberg,
1. Carpenter, A. Herr Smith,
James Evans, H. Baumgardner,
W. Carpenter, Edw. C. Darlington,
Samuel Humes, E. W. Hutter,
John L. At!ee, John L. Thompson,
William B. Norris, George Ford,
John Wise, : Newton Lightner,
John C. Hager, I. E. Hiester,
John F. Long, H. R. Reed.
R. R. Bryan, G. Clarkson,
A. Slaymaker, G. H. Whitaker,
Samuel Parke, W. Gleim.
LANCASTER, Dec. 27, 1848,
GENTLEMEN :—Your letter of to-day offering me
a "social dinner . ' was received vvi.h deep emotions,
and I regret that my short stay among my fellow
citizens of Lancaster, compels me to decline the
honor. Allow me to assure you that no feelings
are more gratifying to the Soldier than those exci
ted by the approbation of his fellow-countrymen ;
and that this testimony of your approval of my
conduct in the service of my country will ever be
most gratefully cherished by me.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN F. REYNOLDS,
Brt. Maj. 3d Art:y.
To Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg, Wm. B. Fordney, Esq.,
E. C. Reigart, Esq., Hon. Ellis Lewis, N. Ellmaker,
Esq., Geo. W. Hamersly, Esq., and others.
MERCHANTS' HOTEL.—Chambers McKibbim
F:sq , Postmaster of Pittsburg, we understand, has
leased the Merchants' Hotel, in Philadelphia, from
the Ist of April next.
THE VOTE or WiscoNs&.—We have at last the
official returns from Wisconsin, except St. Croix
and La Pointe ; which were not received. Thevote
stands thus—Taylor 13,7-17 ; Cass 15,001; Van
Buren, 10,418.
ATTEMPT TO ROB ♦ BAux.—The Westbrook
Bank, at Portlaud, (Me.) was entered on Friday
last, and an attempt made to open the sale. Fail
ing in this, the rascals set fire to the building, and
before the flames were extinguished the damage
amounted to $6OO.
Axoxima BONAPARTE ELECTED.—The election
for Deputy to the National Assembly for Corsica
terminated in the return of M. Louis Lucien Bona
parte, the son of the late Lucien Bonaparte, and
brother of the Prince of Canino. General Arrighi
was recommended to the electors by Jerome Bona
parte, ex-King of Westphalia, by his son Napoleon,
and by Pritice Louis Napoleon, in opposition to M
Louig'Lucien Bonaparte, a republican.
PRSEWORTHI.—The Louisiana Legislature,
previobs to adjournment,. appropriated $lO,OOO for
New Orleans, and $2500 for Lafayette, to be ex
pended for the benefit of the sick of choleta, and
sanitary measures.
DELAWIRE.—The Legislature of Delaware tnet
at Dover on Tuesday last, the 9d January. The
Senate stands 5 Whigs to 4 Democrats. The
House stands 14 Whigs to Democrats, with one
vacancy occasioned by a tie vote in Sussex. A
special election will be held to fill the vacancy.
DEMI SZA ExrzuriioN — , 'We learn from the IV.
V. Courier that Lieut. Lynch's report of his explo
rations around the Dead Sea, is in the hands of the
great publishers, the Harpers. It will fill two vol
umes, and will be eagerly sought after by thou.
sands of readers:
Govearma or AfKLNSAe.—Hon. JOllll S. Roane
hae been nominated by the Democrats of Arkansas
as their candidate for Governor of that State.
EDITORIAL Cas.Noz.—Mr. S. M. Shaw, of the
Poughkeepsie Telegraph, has purchased an interest
in the Ilbatase Argus, and become onet of its pro•
IssuanseTrosr Sueensssen.—The slave rebellion
on Col. W. H. Polk's plantation, in Arkansas, was
suppressed immediately upon the arrival of some
white men. The rebel slaves went quietly to work
again.
NORTHARN Roos.—A Railroad is under con
struction "from the St. Lawrence river to Lake
Champlain, and twelve miles of it. are finished at
the Champlain terminus. Charles H. Schlatter;
formerly of this State, is the chief engineer.
•
{CT Henry A. Washington, of Westmoreland,
Va., has been elected Professor of political economy
and history in William and Mary College.
ALL - AORTA OF PARAGRAWM.
Ttia COWLIMONT TO Nara*SOß . N011611,---The
complimentary -present which the Sultan of Tut•
key has bestowed upon. Professor Morse for his
telegraphic invention, is a magnificent:Air, The
New York Courier says the brooch is an inch and a
halt, or thereabout; in diameter, and contains 180
brilliants; worth some $BOO or $lOOO. Conferring
this decoration in Turkey is equivalent to confer
ring the Legion of Honor in France, or Knighthood
in England. The Sultan became acquainted with
Professor . Morse's great invention through DoCtor
Smith, an American resident of Constantinople.
who informed the Sultan about it, and at his request
procured a model from this country for his exam
ination.
THE END OF A LONG SRHVICE.—Henry Wil
liams, Postmaster at Fredonia, Tennessee, has re
signed his. post, and the 'office luti been discohtinued.
The late incumbent has held the same station tot
57 years.
At a " Tea Party" given ih Georgetown, D.
C. ; last week, by the ladies of Trinity Church, the
sum of $811,(16 was realised, in aid of the erection
of a new Roman Catholic Church in that town.
Puom PT P.m—A hotel in : Syracuse, N. Y., was
sold by auction, last week, for $46,050, and the
terms of sale were $5OO down.at the last stroke of
the auctionees hammer, 10,000 in art hour after
that time, and the remainder during the day.
ROYALTY IN Tum PimeiT.—The King 01 the
Feegee Islands occasionally ascends the pulpit and
preaches the gospel to his subjects, and; it is said,
too, with much effect.
A CHEAP CRE W.—The barque Carib, which sailed
from Boston, last week, for California, took otit a
crew wlto ask only one dollar wages Inc the whole
voyage to San Francisco.
REFINED.—The New Orleans Crescent knew an
army postmiSter in Mexico so refined, that when
he sent dead letters to Washington, he used to mark
them "deceased epistles."
GEN. Terton.'s Aur..—We perceive a statement
that Gen. Taylot, is but fifty-eight years of age.
This is not corredt. We had it from the General
himself, that he was sirlyfour.—N.. 0. Della.
ID" Gent Taylor is by many thousands the lar.
gest minorjty President ever elected to that high
office, being about one hundred and fflyseuen thou
sand behind his competitors! .
ELT The Journal of Commerce says all the diffi
culty and disgrace in which the legislature of Ohio
is involved oi iginated with the whiga.
I'm ultra:cam Lx.c ISLATO s.—The Legislat me of
Louisiana adjourned sine die on the 21st. After
the appearance of the Cholera in New Orleans, it
was difficult to Mid a quorum.
11:7" Samuel M. Magraw, Esq., has been appoin
ted Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court of Harford
county, (Md.) vice John W. Rutledge, resigned.
SUNDiIr CIVILITY.-" Have you not mistaken
the pew sir ?" blandly said a Sunday Chesterfield to
a stranger, as he entered it.
I beg pardon," replied the intruder, rising to go
out, I tear I have—l took it for a Christian's.'"
LUNATIC Asycrx.—Miss Dix is petitioning
the North Carolina Legislature to endow a Lunatic
Asylum, and with so much success that a joint
committee has reported a bill appropriating $lOO,
000 for the purpose.
A NORTHYRN CAuccs.--Many members of Con
gress from the Northern States, propose holding a
Northern Caucus, to put forth their views on sla
very, in opposition (6 the Southern Committee.
Fri - The Delaware county Republican, (Whig,)
bears hard upon Gov. JOHNSTON for the appoint
ment of Jetts H. CReNET as Quarantine Master, at
the Lazaretto. It says he was opposed to the
Governor up to within a few days of the election,
and had been previously appointed by Gov. Suuxx.
A GOOD Washington county (Pa.,)
there are two Colleges and four Academies for
young men, and three Female Seminaries, all of
which are in a healthy and flourishing Slate.
Irr The Hon. Horace Binney has made a dona
tion, in trust, to,,Burlington city, N. T., of a thou
sand dollar Pnited States bond, with more than a
year's interest accrued thereon. The city of Bur
lington is to have this fund in trust, and the interest
is to be distributed in the purchase of fuel, for poor
women, housekeepers and room-keepers in the
city.
LARGE BART.—The Rochester American says,
that Mr. and Mrs. Randall,: the celebrated Scotch
giant and giantess, have recently had a son born
to them, at their residence, near Mineral Point,
Wisconsin, whose weight at three days old was
twenty-two pounds! This is their first child, and is
we believe, the first successful experiment in modern
times, in the production of a race of giants. They
do great things in Wisconsin now-a-days.
HAl..crsor POVERTY .-A tract distributor states,
- in the N Y. Express, that three houses in that city
were occupied as follows ;-10 rooms in one house
by 51 persons ; 21 rooms in another by 81 persons ;
1.1 rooms in another- by 64 persons.
DEATH OF A Cumorswr.--.Rev. W. C. Webb,
pastor of the German Reformed Church l at Cave
town, Washington county, Md., died on the 26th
tilt., aged 37 years.
CHOLER• IN GRE•T BRITAIN. -Up to4he 14th
December, inclusive, the whole number of cholera
cases in Great Britain was 2,317: deaths 1,077; re.
coveries .400 ; still under treatment 809. Only
four or five cases a day were occurring in London,
and fear of it had subsided.
117 - A boy who was a witness against a man
named Edgar, who was indicted at 'Memphis, for
murder, was missing for several days from that
place, his body was lately found in Wolf River.
with his throat cut.
ELECTION RIOT I PAms.—During - the election
a conflict occurred between some of the Gardes
Mobile and troops of the line, in which two soldiers
were killed, and several others wounded.
(ET So bold haVe the. street robber\ of Naples
lately become, that a few evenings since, the Nea
politan Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
Was stopped and plundered by them, in the Strada
di Chiaja, the most public part of the city.
1:13 - Mrs. WELLER, wife of Col. John B. Weller,
late Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio,
died in that state last week.
EMU) HANTS.-3,766 passengers, principally from
Liverpool and Bretnen, arrived at New Orleans
(luring the week ending the 9th instant.
POKTAU E.—The French Assembly has
passed a bill for the reduction of postage on, all
inland letters, to four. sous or four cents. The
same to go into ellect on the first of January next.
Russia has also establibhed a system of penny post
age throughout her great empire.
FzutiorNo IN TUL Navy ;Mr.' Haynea, a noble
and warm-hearted tar, is flow in Troy, N. Y., solie:
iting the names of the citizens to a petition for the
abolition of flogging and the use of rum in the
Navy. ,
Err There is an astronomical clock in the-tele
graph office at Cincinnati, which can be heard to
tick in the office at Pittsburg, 392 miles.
Pants.—The population of the city, including
the suburbs, is one and a half millions. In New
Yqrk the population is 400,000, and she has two
hundred churches. Paris has only forty-two, and
some of these vacant on.the Sabbath.
ur Gen. Wool, who greatly distinguished him
sell at the battle of Buena Vista, is now on a visit
to some friends at Taunton, Ohio.
TEXl9.—A . ccording to the accounts, Texas is
making a very rapid progress in population. Emi.
gration thither, particularly from Mississippi, is
said to have been going on at a great rate, ever
since the Presidential election.
my: Mr. C. J..Macmgrdo, sr, one of the oldeit
and most respected citizens of Richmond, Virginia,
died lot Friday, aged 78.