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Partially Married.
A Western paper declares the follow
ing to be a fact which occurred at one
of New England's quiet villages :
In old New England, long ago,
Where all creation traveled slow,
And naught but trackless deserts lay
Benue the early'settler's way,
A youth and damsel, bold and fair,
Had cause to take a journey—where.
Through night and day, and day and night,
No house would greet their wearied sight.
And thinking hymen's altar should
Precede their journey - through the wood,
They straightway to a:Justice went—
By love mid circumstances sent.
The Justice, good old honest pate,
Said It was quite unfortunate;
But at that time he could not bind
These two young folks of willing mind—
For his commission, sad to say,
Had Just expired but yesterday ;
Yet, after all, he would not say
Toot single they should go away,
And s , ire bade them join their hands
In holy wedlock's happy bands,
And "just a little'' he would marry—
Enough, perhaps, to safely carry,
As they were in connubial mood,
"Enough to do them through the 1 , 1...
edge port rh r ,rPll.ll.
itcrarg.
How to Save
Charles Lynford was a good mechanic
in good business. At the age of twenty
six he had taken to himself a wife,
Caroline Eustice, the daughter of a
neighbor, who hail nothing to bring
him but her own personal merits,which
were many, and habits of thrift learned
in an economical household, under the
stern teachings of necessity.
It was well, perhaps, that Charles
Lynford should obtain a wife of 'id,
description, as he himself found it very
difficult to save anything from his in
come.
It was not long before Caroline be
acquainted with her husband's failing.
She could not feel quite easy in the
knowledge that they- were living fully
up to their income, folcsecing that a
time would come when their family
would grow more expensive, and per
haps her husband's business, though
now flourishing, might become loss so.
Accordingly, one day, she purchased
of a tin peddler who came to the door,
a little tin safe, such as children fre
quently use as a savings bank. This
she placed cuuspieuottsly on the mantel
piece, so that her husband might be
sure to see it on entering.
" Hallo, Carrie, what's that, eh he
asked curiously.
"Only a liftle purchase I made to
day," said his wife.
But what is it meant for lie asked
agai 11.
"Let me illustrate," said his wife,
playfully. " Have you a ten cent hides
lama you
Charles drew a dime from his waist
coat pocket. His wife, tithing it front
his hand, dropped it into the box t 'trough
a little slit in it at the top.
Charles laughed.
do you have taken to hoarding, Car
rie? My wife become a miser:"
" No, only a little prudent. But seri
ously, Charles, that is what I want you
to do every night."
" What—drop a dime into this new
fangled arrangement of yours?"
" Exactly."
" Very well, that will be easy en.ugh.
A dime is no great harm. But may I
know what you are going to do with
this newly commenced lward
" Lay it by for araiuy day," answered
Caroline.
Charles laughed merely.
This ended the conversation fm the
time.
The plan thus inaugurated by the
young wife was steadily carried out.
She was not one of those ofAvlioni there
are so many—who enter tilion a plan
zealously but soon tire of it. In the
present case she was fully satisfied 01'
the wisdom of her purpose,,and resolved
to carry it through. Everyiniorning she
called upon her hushand; for a dime,
and every morning it was added to the
accumulation. Frequently lie had not
the right change, but would toss her a
quarter instead. She would assure him,
laughingly, that it would 11.11 SW or her
purpose just as well.
More than once Charles:hanterod her
on the subjectof her savings hank. This
she bore gaily.
But these were not the only accessions
the fund received. Her diusl quid lead
. early arranged to make her an ample al
lowance for dress—l say ample, though
I dare say :Some of my city readers
might not have considered it so ; but
Caroline, who was in the habit mak
ing her own dresses, provided herself
with a good wardrobe at much less ex
pense than some not sowell versed in
the science of managing could have
done.
After considerable calculation ~ e
came to the conclusion that Out of her
allowance she should be able to make a
daily deposit equal to that she had ex
acted from her husdanil. Of this, how
ever, she thought it best, on the whole,
not to inform Charles, enjoying in
anticipation the prospect of behig able
at some future time to surprise hint with
the unexpected amount of lies; savings.
At the close of every month the tin
box was emptied and the contents trans
ferred to a savings hank of more pre
tensionst where interest would he al
lowed.
When the sums deposited here be
came large enough, Mrs. Lynford, v. ho
had considerable buishess eapacity,
withdrew them, and invested in bank
and other stocks, which would yield
large per cent. Of her Mode of nnulage
ment her husband was in complete
ignorance. Nor did lie ever express
any desire to be made acquainted with
his wife's management. He was an
easy, careless fellow, spending as he
went, enjoying the present and not
having any particular cencern about
the future.
At the end of eight years, during
which time he had been unti, .11y
favored by prosperity in 'business and
uninterrupted health, his books slo.,
that he had not exceeded his incoo:c,
but that, on the other hand, he ha.i
saved absolutely nothing. Twenty-live
cents stood to his credit.
" Running pretty close, ain't it, Car
rie? I take credit to myself,, though,
for keeping on the right side of the line.
But then, I suppose yon have saved up
an immense sum?"
"How much do you suppose asked
wife.
Perhaps a hundred dollars," said
Charles Lynford earele:4sly, " though it
would take a good many dimes to make
that."
His wife smiled, but did not volunteer
to enlighten him as to the correctness
of his conjecture: So things went till
at- length came the panic of 1657—a
panic so recent that it will be remem
bered how universally trade and busi
ness of every kind were depressed at
this period—among others, the trade
which occupied Charles Lynford suf
fered.
One evening he came home linking
quite serious—an expression which sel
dom came over his cheerful face.
Caroline who had watched the signs
of the times, was not unprepared to see
this. She suspected that her husband's
business was affected.
" What is the •mattWr;'- Charles?" she
asked, cheerfully.
The matter is, that we will have to
economize greatly."
"Anything unfavorable turned up in
business matters
"I should think there had. I will
have but half a day's work for some
time to come, and I am afraid s that even
this will fail before long. You haven't
an idea, Carrie, how dull every kind of
business has become."
" I think I have,"' said his wife,
quietly, "I have read the papers care
fully, and have been looking out fur
something of this kind."
' "Do you think we can reduce our ex
penses one-half?" asked the husband,
doubtfully. -
" I think we will be.able to do so.
Both of us are well supplied with cloth
ing, and will not need any more for a
year at least. This will cut off con
siderable expense. Then there are a
great many little superfluities you are
accustomed to buy—little things which
you are kind iahough- to bring home to
me frequently, which I can do very
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well without. Then we can live more
plainly—have less pies and cakes—and
I have no doubt it will be an improve
thent as far as health is concerned."
"What a calculator yon are, Carrie,"
said her husband, feeling considerably
easier in mind. " I really think after
all you have said that it won't be hard
to live on half of our usual income—for
the present, at least. But," and his
countenance again changed, " suppose
my work should entirely fail—l suppose
you couldn't reduce our expenses to
nothing at all, could you?"
" , Thai certainly surpasses my powers,"
said his wife, smiling," but even in that
ease there is no ground for discourage
ment.. You have not forgotten our
savings bank, have you?"
" Why no, I didn't think of that,"
said her husband, "I suppose that would
keep 011 . starvation for a few weeks."
His wife smiled.
And in those few weeks," she added,
" business might revive."
•• To be sure," said her husband.
" Well, I guess it will be all right—l
will try riot to trouble myself about it
any longer."
The apprehensions to which - Charles
Lynford gave expresilon proved to be ,
only too well founded. In less than a
Immtli from the date of the conversa
tion just recorded, the limited supply of
work he had been able to secure, failed
and he found himself without work of•
any kind, thrown back upon his own
resent
Although he had anticipated this, it
seemed unexpected when it really did
come upon him, and again he returned
home in a fit of discouragement. He
briefly explained to his wife the new
calamity which had come upon them.
".Itul the worst of it is," he added,
ti 11 1 , r , N ri it lie no better times till spring.
" Do con think that the business will
revive their"'
" It nuia by that time. But there are
liVe or six months between. Ido not
know how we are going to live during
that time.
" I do," replied hi , wife, quietly.
You!" exclaimed her husband in
surprise.
Yes, ydur income has never been
neine than six or seven hundred dollars
a .venr, and I have no doubt we can live
six months on two hundred and fifty
dollars."
" Yes, certainly, but where is that
money to come from ? I don't want to
rut in debt, Zlll,l if I did I should not
know Where to hOrrOW."
" kMlimately, there is no need of it,"
said Mrs. Lyn ford. " You seem to for
get our little sayings hank."
But is it ppssilde it ran amount to
t'.vo hundred anti fifty dollars?" he
asked in surprise.
(..s, and six hundred more," said
Ms wife.
" Impossilde!"
Wait a minute and I'll prove it."
Candim withdrew a moment, and re
appeared with several" certificates of
hank and railroad shares, amounting to
eight hundred dollars and a book in
which the balance was deposited to her
credit.
re you sure haven't had a legacy ?"
denlandel 'harles in amazenient.—
rnrelyatlinu , aday would norproduce
t two dimes a lay have, with
a little extrii deposit now and then. I
thiok, Charles, that we can ward off
starvation for a time."
" _\ It this I. owe to your prudence,"
said Charles, gratefully. " How can I
repay you ?"
('buries Lynford remained out of ern
pl.yment some Months. But in spiing,
as he anticipated, business revived, and
he was Olive more in receipt of his old
inoome. More than two-thirds of the
fund was still left, and henceforth
('harks was not less assiduous than his
wife in striving to increase it.
The little tin savings bank stands on
the mantel-pie,e t and never fails to
receivt. a leposit daily.
Landlord Outwitted
Hen. W. Morrison was one of those
free-and-easy, good-hearted, humorous
ceilows that WaS always ready to crack
a joke or perpetrate a "sell."
liftc•cu years ago Ben was trav
eling in Butler county on professional
laisiness. The roads were tolerably
hsd ; anal worst of all, the stage drivers
and the landlord at a certain hotel
where they stopped for dinner had an
understanding - with each other like this;
the passengers were taken in to dine,
and when cleverly seated, the coach
would furiously dash up to the door,
and the driver would call for his pas
sengers, stating that he could not delay
a minute on account of making his
They would rush out, leaving their
ineals half-finished, for fear of being
left. For the half-finished meal they
were charged half a dollar. The vic
tuals were kept for the next load of pas
sengers, \VIM) the skinning process was
repe:itt.d.
lien had heard of this place, and when
they arrived at the hotel he set his wits
to work. to see if he could get the value
of his money.
The 1, , 11 rang, for dinner, and the
crowd rushed in. They had hardly got
comfortably seated when the coach
reined up befi,re the Voor, and the
duvet: vociferously hooted:s
l'asseners ttfl aboard—can't wait
hui live minutes."
A general rush was made, but Ben sat
still,and ale his dinner very composedly.
Tile stago drove oil and left him, but he
seemed to eare very little about it.
Having disposed of his dinner, he was
enjoying the luxury of a long nine in
the side room, when the landlord ap
proached hint, saying:
" l—heg your pardon, sir, but did you
see a seitof silver tea-spoons on the table
wilco you went to dinner
" sir."
•' Well, they are missing—can't be
\ yt -,•' replied Ben; "one of the
I 1 e them Up — l SaW
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"Would you know him again ?'
ga,:poli the landlord.
" o:manly I would," replied Ben
with treat coolness.
'' Will you point him out to me if I
!limit up my horse and buggy, and over
mkt, the
"Certainly I will."
I 101iiface \ a,z ready in a few minutes,
and getting lieu in with him drove like
Jelin for ,eVull miles, till he overtook
the driver. The coach stopped, the
driverlooked friizitened, and everybody
wondered to see the landlord covered
with mud, and his horse covered With
sweat.
lkn jumped out of the buggy, and got
into the stage, when the driver, think
ing tlint he had hired the landlord to
bring hint after, was on the point of
oft', when the latter yelled out—
" Is that passenger in there ?"
" Yes," replied Ben.
" Are you sure ?"
Yes, sir -re," shouted out our bachelor
friend.
" Which one is it
" It's rile," replied Ben, with a grin.
" You '?" thundered lionif.ace, "what
the (1-1 did you with the spoons ?"
in them in the coffee pot; you
will boil them all safe," replied Ben,
with a curious twinkle in his eye..
" sold, by ginger, by. that darned
Yankee!" yelled the landlord, whilst
the passengers roared in laughter, and
putting the whip to his horse drove
hack, resolving to give the passengers
ever afterwards ample time for dinner.
A CHEAP WAY To CLEAN CLOCKS.
A eorrespOndent writing to the Scien
tific -4?ncrican, states:
" Common brass clocks may be
cleaned by immersing the works in
boiling water. Rough as this treatment
may appear, it works well and I have
for many years past boiled my clocks
whenever they stop froth an accumula
tion of dust or thickening of the oil
upon the pivots. They should be boiled
in pure or rain water and dried on a
warm stove or near the fire. I write
this by the tick of an eight-day clock
which was boiled a year ago, and has
behaved perfectly well ever since."
" Who Murdered Downie ?"
About the end of the eighteenth cen
tury, whenever any student of the
Marischal College, Aberdeen, incurred
the displeasure of the humbler citizens,
he was assailed with the question—
" Who murdered Downie?" Reply
and rejoinder generally brought on a
collision between " town and gown ;"
although the young gentlemen were
accused of what was chronologically
impOksible. People have a right to be
angry at being stigmatized as murder
ers, when their accusers have probabil
ity on their side ; but the " taking off"
of Downie occurred when the gowns
men, so maligned, were in swaddling
clothes.
Blit s there was a time, when to be
branded as an accomplice in theslaugh
ter of Richard Downie made the blood
run to the cheek of many a youth, and
senthim home to his books, thorough
ly subdued. 'Downie was sacrist or
janitor at Marischal College. One of
his chides consisted in securingthe gate
by a certain hour; previous to which
all the students had to assemble in the
common hall, where a Latin prayer was
deliVered by the principal. 'Whether
in s discharging this function, Downie
was more rigid than his predecessor in
office, or whether lie became stricter in
the performance of it at one time than
another, cannot be ascertained, but there
carr be no doubt that he closed the gate
with austere punctuality, and that those
who were not in the common hall
within a minute of the prescribed
time were shut out, iind were after
watids reprimanded and fined by the
principal and professors. The students
became irritated at this strictness, and
took every petty means of annoying the
sacrist; he, in his turn, applied the
screw; at other points of the academic
routine, and a fierce war soon began to
rage between the collegians and the
humble functionary. Downie took care
that in all his proceedings he kept
within the strict letter of the law ; but
his opponents were not so careful, and
the dbcisions of the rulers were uniform
ly against them, and in favor of Downie.
Reprimands and fines having failed in
producing due subordination, rustica
tion, suspension, and even the extreme
sentence of expulsion had to he put in
force ; and, in the end, law and order
prevailed. But a secret and deadly
grudge continued to he entertained
against Richard Downie. Various
schemes of revenge were thought of,
Downie was,in common with teachers
and taught, enjoying the leisure of the
short Now Year's vacation—the pleas
ure being no doubt greatly enhanced
by the annoyance to which he had been
subjected during the recent bickerings
—when, as he was one evening seated
with his family in his official residence
at the gate, a messenger informed him
that a gentleman at a neighboring hotel
wished to speak with him. Downie
obeyed the summons, and was ushered
from one room into another, till :it
length he found himself in a large apart
ment hung with black, and lighted by
a solitary candle. Afterwaiting for some
time in this strange place about fifty
figures, also dressed in black, 111111 with
black masks on their faces, presented
lemselves. They arranged themselves
in the form of a court, and Downie,
pale with terror, was given to under
stand that he was about to he put on
his trial.
A judge took his seat on the bench, a
clerk and public prosecutor sat below ;
a jury was empaueled in front; and
witnesses and spectators stood around.
Downie at first set down the whole
affifir as a joke; but the proceedings
were conducted with such persistent
gravity, that in spite of himself, he be
gan to believe in the genuine mission
of the awful tribunal. The clerk read
an indictment, charging him with con
spiring against the liberties of the
students ; witnesses were examined in
due form ; the public prosecutor ad
dressed the jury; and the judge sum
med up.
"Gentlemen," said Downie,
joke has been carried far enough; it is
getting late, and my wife and family
will be getting anxious about me. if I
have been too strict with you in time
past, I am sorry for it, and I assure you
I will take more care in future."
"Gentlemen of the jury,
.
judge, without paying the slightest at
tention to this appeal, consider your
verdict; and if you wish to retire do
The jury retired. During their absence
the most profound silence was observed;
and except renewing the solitary candle
that burnt beside the judge, there was
not the slightest movement.
The jury returned, and recorded a vet-.
diet of Guilty.
The judge solemnly assumed a large,
black cup, and addressed the prisoner :
' Richard Downie ! The jury have un
animously found you guilty of eonspir s
ing against the just liberty and immu-
uities of the students of Marischal Col-
lege. You have wantonly provoked
and insulted those inoffensive lieges for
some months, and your punishment will
assuredly be condign. You must pre
pare for death. In fifteen minutes the
sentence of the Court will be carried
into effect.'
The judge placed his watch on the
bench. A block, an ax, and a bag of
sawdust were brought into the centre.
of the room. A figure more terrible
than any that had yet appeared came
forward, and prepared to act the part of
doomster.
It was now past midnight, there was:
no sound audible, save the ominous:
ticking of the judge's watch. Downic,
became more and more alarmed.
'For heaven's sake, gentlemen,' saidj
the terrified man, let me go home. E
promise that you never again shall have;
cause for complaint.'
'Richard Downie,' remarked the
judge, you are vainly wasting the few
moments that are left you on earth.—:
You are in the hands of those who must
have your life. No human power can.
save you. Attempt to utter one cry, and
you are seized, and your doom complet
ed before you can utter another. I:ver:‘;
one here present has sworn a soleinn .
oath never to reveal the proceedings of.
this night, they are known to none but
ourselves, and. when the object for
which we have met is accomplished we
shall disperse unknown to any one.—.
Prepare, then, for death ; another live
minutes will be allowed, but no more.'
The unfortunate man in an agony of
deadly terror, raved and shrieked for
mercy; but the avengers paid no hee6
to his cries. His fevered, trembling lips
then moved as if in silent prayer ; fob
he felt that the brief space between him
and eternity was but a few more tick
ings of that ominous watch.
Now !" exclaimed the judge:
Four persons stepped forward and
siezed Downie, on whose features a cold
clammy sweat had burst forth. They
bared his neck and made him kneel
before the block.
"Strike!" exclaimed the judge
The executioner struck the ax on the
floor; an assistant on the oppoite side
lifted at the same moment a wet towel
and struck it across the deck of the
recumbent criminal. A loud laugh an
nounced that the joke had at last come
to an end.
But Downie responded not to the up
roarious merriment. They laughed
again ; but still lie moved not ; they
lifted him, and Downie was dead!
Fright had killed him as effectually
as if the ax of a real headsman had
severed his head from his body.
It was a tragedy to all. The medical
students tried to open a vein, but all was
over, and the conspirators had now to
letbink themselves of safety. The'
OW in reality swore an oath among,
themselves, and the affrighted young
men, carrying their disguises with them
left the body of Downie in the hotel. One
of their number told the landlord that
their entertainment was not yet quite
over, and that they did not wish the in
dividual that was left in the room, to be
disturbed for some hours. This was to
give them all time to make their escape.
Next morning the body was found.
Judicial inquiry was instituted, but
no satisfactory, result could be arrived
at. Thu course of poor Downie exhibit
ed no mark of violence, internal or ex
ternal. The ill will between him and
the students was known ; it was also
known that the students had -hired
LANCASTER; PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1865.
apartments in the hotel for a -theatrical
representation ; that Downie had been
sent for by them ; but beyondthis noth
ing was known. No noise had been
heard, and no proof of murder could
be adduced. Of two hundrqd students
at the college who could point out the
guilty or suspected fifty? More
over, the students were scat
tered over the city, and the
magistrates themselves had many of
their own families amongst, the num
ber, and it was not desirable to go into
_the affair too minutely. Downie's
widow and f mily were provided for,
and his slaughter remained a mystery,
:until about fifteen years after its occur
'rence, agendeman on his death-bed dis
.closed the whole particulars, and avow
.ocl himself to have belonged to the ob
noxious class of students who.murdered
`Downie.—Dicken's Household Words.
Wonderful Ruins In Cambodia.
The London Quarterly Review says
the temple of Ongor is the most beauty
ful and best preserved of all the remains,
and the first also which pregents itself
to the eye of the traveler, making him
forget the fatigues of the journey,filling
'him with admiration and delight, such
as would be experienced. on finding a
verdanroal-iis in the sandy desert. Sud
denly, as if by enchantment; he seems
to be transported from barbarism to
civilization, from profolind darkness to
light. What strikes the observer with
•not less admiration than the grandeur,
regularity, and beauty or these majestic
buildings, is the immense' size and
prodigious number of the block. 4 of
stone of which they are constructed.—
In this temple alone are as 'many as
fteen hundred and thirty-two Columns.
What means of transport, what a Mul
titude of workmen, must this have re
9uired, seeing that the mountain out of
which the stone was hewn is thirty
miles distant! In each block are to be
seen holes two and one-half centimetres
in diameter, and three in depth, the
numbers varying with the size of the
blocks; but the columns and the sculp
tured portions of the building bear. No
traces of them.
According to a Cambodian legend,
these are the prints of the fingers of a
tgiant, who, after kneading an enormous
quantity of clay, had cut it into bloCks
and carved it, turning it into a hard,
"and at the same time light, stone by
pouring ol;er it some marvellous liquid.
'flie principal entrance forms a long
gallery with a central tower, and two
others of less altitude. The portico of
each tower is formed of four projecting
columns with a staircase.
At each extremity are similar porti
co's, beyond which, but immediately
contiguous thereto, is a high door or
gateway, on the same level which served
for the'passage of vehicles. From con
fstant use the wheels have worn two deep
ruts in the massive flag-stones with
which the ground is paved. All the
mouldings, sculptures, and bas-reliefs
- , i appear to have been executed after the
erection of the building. •
The stones are everywhere fitted to
gether in so perfect a manner that you
can scarcely see where are the joinings;
there is neither sign of mortar nor mark
of the chisel, the surface being as polish
ed as marble. Was this incomparable
edifice the work of single genius who
conceived the idea and watched over
the execution of it'? One is tempted to
think so; for no part of it is deficient,
faulty or inconsistent. To what epoch
does it owe its origin ? As before re
marked, neither tradition nor written
inscriptions furnish any certain infor
mation on this point ; or rather, these
latter are as a sealed book for want of
an interpreter; and they may,perchance,
throw light on the subject when some
European savant shall succeed in' de
ciphering them. All this region is now
as lonely and deserted as formerly it
must have been full of life and cheerful
ntss ; and the howling of wild animals,
and the cries of a few birds, alone dis
turb the solitude. Sad fragility of hu
man things ! How many centuries: and
thousands of generations have passed
away, of which history, probably, will
never tell us anything! What riches
and treasures of art will remain forever
buried beneath these ruins; how many
distinguished men—artists, sovereigns,
warriors—whose names were worthy of
immortlii,y, are now forgotten, laid to
rest under the thick dust which covers
these tombs!
" said the
In the Talmud there is a very strik
ing legend, which has all the force of
those fables, the truth and the applica
tion of which are universal. Thisis the
legend of Dales. In the Jewish version,
Dales stands for Misery. An American
can interpret this Sombre name to mean
—this war.
This is the-legend :
The wife of a poor Jew, having occa
sion one day to visit the garret of her
miserable house, found it occupied by a
naked man, haggard and wasted, who
entreated her in pitiful accents to give
him shelterand something to eat. Near
ly frightened to death, the woman ran
down stairs and told her husband:
" - How can we entertain and support
this , tranger," said she " when we have
so mueh trouble to earn even our daily
bread?"
" I will go see him" said the husband, I
" and try to see if cannot get 'rid of
him."
He went to the stranger and accosted
him. " 'Why have you taken refuge in
my house, when I am so poor, and so
void of means to support you ?" asked
he. " Rise and go to the mansions of
the rich, where you will find comfort
and plenty."
" Alas," replied the unknown,
"would you drive me from the asylum
I have found ? You see that I am
naked ; I cannot enter a rich man's
house in this condition. Procure me
suitablegarments and I will leave you."
"It were better," thought the'Jew,
" to use the little I have in order to get
rid of this man, than to keep him here
and see him devour continually my hard
earnings."
So he killed his last calf, the one
which he and his wife had long been
trying to raise; he sold the meat and
the skin, and with the proceeds bought
clothing for the stranger. But, when
he went to him with the clothes, behold,
this man whom he had noticed as being
so small and so thin, had grown sud
denly stout and tall, and not one article
of the dearly bought apparel would fit
him!
Time and again the poor Jew, stricken
sorely by his calamity, sought to pro
vide the means of getting rid of his
troublesome guest. He pawned his
goods one by one, he gave himself the
backache with extra labor, and his poor
wife worked her fingers to the bone.
But all in vain. Each timg they brought
the stranger a new suit he had grown
out of proportion to it. At last when
they had exhausted all their means,
broken themselves down with labor,
and ready to giveup in despair, the in
truder flung off the mask.
" Abandon the foolish idea of being
rid of me." cried he, " for know that I
am Dales!"
The poor Jew wrung his hands and
tore his hair.
" God of my fathers !" cried he, " I
am scourged with the rod of thy wrath!
If thou art truly Dales, oh, stranger, I
vyill -never be rid of thee, Thou wilt
grow continually u•ntil thou haat de
voured all ray housfii :"
The War
Governor's Message.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
During the past year the people of this
Commonwealth have had reason to be grate
ful to Almighty God for many blessings.
The earth has been fruitful, industry has
thriven, and with the exception of the in
jury suffered by the citizens of some of our
border counties, through the disgraceful
barbarity of the rebel forces which ravaged
parts of them, and burned the .town of
Chambersburg, we have no public mis
fortune to lament, The year closes with a
train of brilliant successes obtained by the
armies of the United States, inspiring hope
in every loyal mind that the accursed re
bellion will soon be crushed, and peace be
restored to our country.
The balance in the Treasury,
Nov. 30, 1863, was - 52,147,331 70
Receipts during fiscal year
ending Nov. 30, 1864
Total 1n Treasury for fiscal
year ending Nov. 30, 1864... $6,880,644 72
The payments for the same
period have been 4,938,441 09
Balance in Treasury, Nov. 30,
1864
The operations of the sinking fund dur
ing the last year have been shown by my
proclamation of the 27th day of September
last, as nillows:
Amount of debt of
Commonwealth,
reduced $265,369 50
As follows,, viz:
Five per cent, loan
•of the Common
wealth s'6ti,3oB is
Interest certificates
redeemed 261 47 266,ti9 50
The fiscal year accounted for in the state
ment of the Treasury Departnait, embraces
the time from the first of December, 1863, to
the 30th of November, 1804. The sinking
fund year commenced the first Monday in
September, 1803, and closed the first Tues
day in September, 166-1. This will explain
the discrepancy between the statement of
the Treasury Department as to the reduction
of the public debt of the State, and the state
ment embodied in the proclamation relative
to the sinking fund.
Ain't of public
debt of
Pennsylva -
ni a, as it
stood on the
first day of
Dec., 16(33 , ..39,406,596 78
Deduct ain't
redeemed at
the State
Treasury
during t h e
fiscal year
ending with
Nov. 30,1864
viz :
•
Five per cent.
stocks $104,7.173
Four un d a
half per et.
stocks 10,000 03
Interest certi
ficates 2,270 11 116,092 S 4
Public deb t
Doc. 1, '64...
Funded debt, •
viz:
Six per cent.
loans, ordi
dary $ 400,630 00
Five per cent.
loans, ordi
nary :5,605,263
1' our and
a-lialf per
cent. loans,
ordinary..... 25ti,200 00 30,264,093 72
Unfunded
debt, viz:
ftelief notes in
circulation.. 97,251 00
Interests cer
titicatesout-
standing 1:;,08ti
Interest cer
tificates un
claimed 4,448 ti
Domestic
creditor's
certificates.. ' 724 t 2 115,510 22
Military loan
Ai•t 15th
Total public
debt, Dee•. 1,
1864
The Commonwealth holds bonds received
from the sale of Public Works, amounting,
to ten millon, three hundred thousand dol
lars, ($10,300,000 00 as follows:
Pennsylvania Railroad
panv bonds ' ;;;: 6,00,01 N) 00
Philailelplna and Erie Hail-
road Conipany bonds
Tlfese bonds are in the :=;inldng Fund,
and reduce the public debt to "o,u;ii,i;n:S
The tax on tonnage imposed by the acts
of 30th April . and 23th August, ISO-I, has
yielded something less than S2oo,ooo—a
much less sum than was anticipated. I re
calumet-la a revision of these acts for the
purpose of rendering this source of revenue
more productive, and amending other de
fects in those bills.
The revenue derived from the tax on
banks during the year amounts t 05539, OW
-67, but under the enabling act of the States
so many ofour banks have become National
banks under the act of Congress, that this
source of revenue mac be considered as
substantially extinguished, and it will be
necessary in some way to make up the
deficiency from other sources.
The act of Congress authorizes the taxa
tion h r the State of the stock in the National
bankg in the hands , of the holders, not ex
ceeding the rate of taxation imp,sed un
other similar property, and part of the defi
ciency may be thus provided for.
the amount of debt extinguished by the
Sinking Fund during the year is unusually
small, which is to he accounted for by the
extraordinary expenses Nvhich have been
incurred. Seven hundred OM thirteen thou
sand dollars (713,ttit e ) have been paid to re
fund to the banks the money advanced by
them to pay the volunteers in service during
the invasion of the State in 1863. One hun
dred thousand dollars Si 100,000) have been
distributed among the . inhabitants'of Chant
bersburg, suffering by the rebel destruction
of their town. About two hundred thousand
dollars (S20),000) have been expended under
the nets providing for the payment of extra
military claims, and in addition to these
extraordinary outlays, the amount appro
priated to charities was last year larger than
usual.
In my opinion this matter of donations
to charities is fast running into a great
abuse. House of Refuge, and Insane, Blind
and Deaf and Dumb Asylums, appear to
be proper subjects of State bounty, because
heir objects are of public importance and
to be useful, and well and economically
managed, it seems to be necessary that they
should be more extensive than would be re
quired for the wants of a particular county.
But in our system, ordinary local charities
are left to the care of the respective locali
ties, and to give the public money for thok
support is really to tax the inhabitants bf
all the counties for the benefit of one.
It being alleged that . the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad Company has not
in various particulars obeyed the law by
which it was incorporated, the Attorney
General (on the suggestion of parties claim
ing to he thereby injured) has filed an in
formation in equity against that company,
seeking an injunction to prevent a continu
ance of its paSt, and the persistence of its
intended illegal course.
hfince my last annual message on the re
port of John A. Wright, Esq., that the Sun
bury and Erie railroad was finished, I or
dered the bonds remaining in the treasury
to be delivered to the company.
It is a subject of just pride to the, people
of this Commonwealth, that this great work
is completed, and whilst it opens a large
and wealthy part of the State to the com
merce of the seaboard, and unites capital
and enterprise within our borders, it secures
to the Commonwealth the payment of sums
due her from the company.
The national taxation is heavy and must
probably be made heavier, and the local
taxes authorized by unwiselegislation and
paid by our people are excessive. In view
of thesecircumstances, we should endeavor
to avoid increasing their burdens by mak
ing undue appropriations for any purpose.
In my special message of 30th April last,
to which I refer, I communicated to the
Legislature, in some detail, the circum
stances connected with the .advanch by
banks and other corporations of the funds
to pay volunteer militia of 1863.
It is not necessary here to recapitulate
them at length. The case was peculiar, and
it is believed none quite like it has occur
red. The call for volunteers was made by
the authorities of the United States, but it
being found that men could not be got, un
der that call, the form of a call by the State
authorities for the defence of the State was,
with the assent of the President, substituted.
The
,United States agreed to furnish the
arms, subsistence and supplies, but it was
alloged that Congreis kid made he *pro
priation covering the pay, In this state of
things, the emergency being great, the Sec
retary of War - telegraphed me thus:
WASHINGTON, Jlll . 1:2, 1863.
To His Excellency, Gov. A. G. C urtin :
Your telegrams respecting the pay of
militia, called out under your proclamation
of the 27th of June, have been referred to
the Presidet for instructions, and have been
under his consideration. He directs me to
say, that while no law or appropriation
authorizes the payment, by the General
Government, of troops that have not been
mustered into the service of the United
States, he will recommend to Congress to
make an apppropriafion for the payment of
troops called into State service to repel an
actual invasion, including those of the State
of Pennsylvania. If, in the meantime, you
can raise the necessary amount, as has been
done in other States, the appropriation will
be applied to refund the advance to those
who made it. Measures have been taken
for the payment of troops mustered inio the
- United States service as soon as the muster
4,733,313 02
and pay rolls are made out. The answer
of this department, to you as Governor of
the State, will he given directly to yourself,
whenever the department is prepared to
nutke•:uiswer,
(Signed)
EDWIN M. STANTON„
Secretary of War.
The banks and other corporations refused
to advance the money unless I would pledge
myself to ask an appropriation from the
Legislature to refund. it. It will be noticed
that the pledge of the President is clear and
distinct, but, notwithstanding the money
was paid and the accounts settled and
placed in the hands of the President before
the meeting of Congress, no such recom
mendation as promised me was made, and
afar tit:it reason the bill introduced for that
purpose tailed. The men were raised and
placed under the command of Maj. General
Couch and the other U. S. officers in this
Department. The troops. were held in ser
vice longer than the emergency for which
they were called out required. Several of
the regiments were marched immediately
into distant parts of the State, by order of
t he officers of the army stationed in Pennsyl
vania, against my repeated remonstrances.
They were retained, as was alleged, to pre
serve the peace and enforce the draft. Near
ly, if not quite, one-half the money was paid
) troops thus held, and after the emergency
had expired. Finding that the appropria
tion was likely to fail in Congress, I laid:the
matter before the Legislature, just prior to
their adjournment, in May last, and an act
of Assembly was immediately passed to
refund the money out of the State Treasury
ii inch, as above stated, has been done. I
ought to say that the appropriation by Con
gress was vigorously supported by all the
members, from this State, in both branches.
I laving done everything in my power to
procure the payment of thisjustclaimofthe
Suite, I now recommend that the Legisla
ture take the subject into consideration with
a view to induce proper action by the Pre
sident and Congress.
By .the act of 22d August, 1864, I was au
thorized to cause an immediate enrolment
the militia to be umde, unless that recent
ly made by the United States should be
!Omni sufficient, and to raise by volunteer
ing or draft a corps of fifteen thousand men
for the defence of our Southern border.—
The United States enrolment being found
very defective, I directed an enrolment to be
made, which is now in progress under the
charge of Colonel Lemuel Todd, whom I
appointed Inspector General. A draft by
the United States was then in progress, and
it was not thought advisable to hernias our
people by a contemporaneous State draft,
even if a draft had been practicable under
the present law. Volunteers could not be
.ibtained, there being no bounties, and the
men not being exempted by their enlistment
hl that corps from draft by the United
States. Fortunately, the United States
placed an arrow under General Sheri
dan betweim us and the enemy, and thus
provided effectually for our defence. With
such adequate protection as proved by the
brilliant campaign of that army, 1 did not
think it right to incur the expense to the
State of an independent army, and the with-
Irawal of so many of our people from their
Manes and pursuits. Meanwhile arrange
nerds have been made with the authorities
at AVlashingWu for arming, clothing, subsist
ng and supplying the corps at the expense
of the United States, and an order has been
given by the authorities of the United States
to furloug such volunteers in the corps as
may be drafted by the U. States. The corps
so privileged not to exceed 5,000 men. It is
my intention to raise 5,000 men during the
winter,and I have already adopted measures
to that end. There may occur irruptions of
irregular bodies of the rebels, and it is well
to be provided against them. The number
proposed to be so raised and put into actual
service, will, in my judgment be sufficient,
and a regard to due economy requires that
no more than are sufficient should be placed
on imy. The remaining 10,000 will be or
ganized, and ready for service in case of
necessity. I invite your inunediate atten
tion to the very able report of the Inspector
(=uncial, which sets forth the defects in the
law which he has discovered in his prepara
tion for carrying it into practical effect.
The State agencies at Washington and in
the South-west, are in active and successful
operation I communicate herewith the re
ports of ('ol. Jordan, at Washington, and
'Ol. Chamberlain, agent for the South-west.
The provisions of the law requiring the
agents to collect niones due by the United
States to soldiers, have been beneficent. .
reference to their reports will show the
magnitude and usefulness of this branch of
their service. I desire to invite the atten
tion 01 all our volunteers, officers, soldiers
and their families to the fact that the State
agents will collect all their claims on the
iovernment, gratuitously, as I have reason
believe that many are still ignorant of that
fact, and are greatly imposed upon by the
exorbitant commissions charged by private
elluiri agents
Under the act of the 6th of May, 1804, I
appointed Hon. Thomas 11. Burrowes to
take charge of the arrangements for the ed
ucation of the orphans of soldiers. I com
municate herewith a vopy of his report on
the subject. lie has discharged his duties
with commendable zeal, fidelity and effi
ciency. I earnestly recommend that a per
manent and liberal appropriation be made
to support this just and worthy scheme of
beneficence.
reconunend that an appropriation be
made for pensions to the volunteer militia
men, or their himilies,) who were killed or
hurt in service in the years 18(12 and 186:1.
As soldiers sometimes arrive here who are
insane, and who should be protected and
cared for, I recommend that provision lie
made for their being placed in the State
Asylum fir the Insane, at this place, and
kept until notice can be given to the au
thorities of their respective counties, who
should be required to remove and care for
them.
$1,942,2113 ti 3
5:19,379,603 94
36,379,603 9-1
3,000,1)10 11(1
539,379,603 94
3,500,00) 00
I:10,300,000 UU
11,1 It to be Inv duty to invite your se
rious attention to the evils growing out of
tho systcin of passing acts authorizing char
t Ts 11/ bl• obtained without special logisla-
Con. These acts have been generally pri—
pared with some care, and contain the pro
visions which the. Legislature thought ne
cessary to protect the Commonwealth and
her citizens. If these general laws are not
found to answer such purposes, they should
be amended and perfected. If any company
desires to be incorporated with greater pri
vileges than are conferred, or to be relieved
from any of the conditions imposed by
these acts, it appears to me that it
should be required first to obtain a char
ter under the general laws, and then
apply to the Legislature for an act making
the changes which are desired. The atten
tion of the Legislature will thus be drawn
to the specific object, and a judgment can
be formed of its propriety. I would also
observe that great evil results from the
habit of granting privileges to a corpora
tion by a mere reference to some former
private act relating to other corporations,
sometimes without even giving the date of
these acts. All these practices are bad,and
although they may sometimes be pursued
by parties hinting, no bad intention, yet
they certainly originated in the design of
surprising the Commonwealth intogrants
of privileges which it was known could not
be obtained if their extent were understood,
and they are often followed now for the
same fraudulent purpose.
I strongly recommend the repeal of the
act passed the 18th day of July, A. D.,
1863, entitled "An act relating to corpora
tions for mechanical, manufacturing, min
ing and quarrying purposes."
Its provisions are found to be practically
so inconsistent with the due protection of
the citizens and with the just policy of the
Commonwealth, that it ought not to be al
lowed to stand longer on our statute book.
I approved the act in question with great
reluctance, and subsequent reflection and
observation have satisfied me of its mis
chievous character.
I also recommend the , repeal of an act
passed the 22d day of July, A. D.,
1863, en
titled "A further supplement toan act to
enable joint tenants and tenants in common,
and adjoining owners of mineral lands in
this Commonwealth, to manage and de
velop the same."
This act allows foreign corporations to
hold three hundred acres of land in this
State for mining purposes. It was passed,
it is believed, for the purpose of enabling
companies near our border engaged in the
manufacture of iron, to. hold - land as ore
banks. But under the idea that the sinking
of an oil well is mining, it is believed that.
companies have already been organized
under the laVes of ether States and the more
will be, for the purpoSe Of holding_ lands
and carrying-on the oil •bnisinerra th
.itite. it. Nimbi .at , Mot to reire*e. all
NUMBER 1.
doubt on this queition by repealing the act.
These companies, being foreign corpora
tions, are not within the control of our laws
to the extent that they ought to be for the
purposes of taxation and regulation.
The immense development of wealth in
some of our western counties by the discov
ery of oil, has added vastly to the resources
of the Commonwealth.
I have made efforts to ascertain the value
of this product during the last year, but
failing in procurinr , information sufficiently
accurate to justify me in estimating its
amount. It is already vast, and is rapidly
increasing.
The productions and manufactures of the
State have become so diversified and abund
ant that some measures should be taken
for an accurate ascertainment of them, so
that their extent may be generally known,
and also that the necessary taxation may
be intelligently imposed. f recommend for
these purposes the creation of a Bureau, of
which the Auditor General and State Treas
urer shall be members, and the head of
which shall be a new officer, to be styled
Commissioners of Statistics, or designated
by any other appropriate title.
The act of 25th August, 1864, providing
for the voting of soldiers, should be care
fully examined, with a view to its amend
ment, and, indeed, a revision of our whole
election laws would seem to be desirable,
with a view to the two essential objects ot;
1. The admission of legal and exclusion of
illegal votes at the polls; and, 2. Faithful
and correct returns of the votes actdally
polled. I communicate herewith the opin
ion of the Attorney General on the conflict
ing. returns for the 16th Congressional Dis
trict, which will show- sonie of the practical
difficulties which arise under the egisting
system. Without undertaking to recom
mend the adoption of any particular plan,
I submit the whole subject to your careful
and earnest consideration, in the hope that
in your wisdom you will be able to devise
some measure which will produce the re
sult so essential to the existence of a free
government: that votes shallbe fairly taken
in the first instance, and fairly counted and
returned afterwards.
I have endeavored since I came into offi
ce to exercise as cautiously as possible the
powers confided to the Executive, and avoid
usurping any. I shall endeavor to persist
in this course to the end.
A new call has been made by the Presi
dent for 300,00) men. This renders it proper
that I should invite your attention to the
evils' which have resulted from abuses of
the system of local bounties which was be
gun, in an emergency, by the voluntary
and generous loyalty of our citizens
before the passage by Congress of the
enrollment act, and has since been
continuedA by sundry acts of Assembly.
The result has been to to the last degree op
pressive to our citizens, and unproductive of
corresponding benefit to the Government.
In some counties and towaships, it is be
lieved that the bounty tax during the last
yeaL, exceeded the average income derived
from the land. The large sums uttered its
some places iu the competition for men, have
demoralized many' of our people, and the
most atrocious frauds connected with the
system have become common. The men
of some of the poorer counties have
been nearly exhausted by their volun
teers being credited to richer localities
paying heavier bounties. The system
as practiced lowers the /morale of the army
itself, by putting into the ranks men actu
ated by merely umrcenary motives, and
who are tempted to desert by the facility of
escaping detection, and the prospect of new
gains by re-enlistment, a process which
they expect to be able to repeat an indefi
nite number of lilacs. Of the number of men
for whom bounties have been paid, it is
believed that not one-fourth have been
actually placed in the ranks of the army,
and even those who have joined it, have
probably not on all average received for
their own use one-half of the bounty paid
for them. Immense sums have thus been
appropriated by cheats and swindlers, in
many cases believed to be acting in com
plicity with agencies of the Government.
An effort was made to prosecute some of
the parties concerned in such frauds under
the act of Assembly of 14th August last, and
they were bound over by the Mayor of this
city, but alter the witnessess had come here
on the meeting of the court, they disappeared
from the public eye. I recommend the whole
subject to your careful consideration, that
the system may be purged of these evils.
I am officially informed that the quota of
this State, under the recent call, is 66,999,
but I am not informed of the principle on
which the draft is to be Made.
It appears from the President's proclama
tion that it is made chiefly to supply an al
leged deficiency in former calls. lam sur
prised at the amount of this lare deficiency,
and can only account for the difference
tween the number of men furnished by the
State and the deficiency alleged to exist in
the assignment of the present quota by the
assumption that the men never reached the
army, although enlisted and mustered after
the payment of bounties by the localities to
which they were supposed to be credited.
It is probable that there are very few coun
ties in the State which have not paid large
bounties for a number of men sufficient to
fill their former quotas.
Taking the local bounties at the low aver
age of four hundred dpl.lars, it is believed
that it can be demonstrated that the people
of Pennsylvania have been robbed of more
than twelve millions of dollars during the
past year. This estimate does not include
the anoney fraudulently taken from Wren
who have actually gone into the service.
The continuance of these monstrous and unpa
ralleled abuses cannot be tolerated.
Certainly more men are required to aid our gal
lant soldiers in the field in crushing this rebellion,
nd every consideration of patriotism and of re
gard for our brothers who are now in the face of
the enemy, obliges us to spare no effort to raise
the necessary force.
In June last I gave letters to% a committee of
the prison society of Philadelphia, requesting that
the members of the committee might be allowed
to visit and examine the prisons and poor houses
throughout the Commonwealth. I transmit with
this communication a copy of the report made to
me by the society of the results of their labors,
and commend the same to your attention with a
view to the adoption of proper measures to reform
he abuses which have been found to exist
In connection with this subject, I again call
your attention to the expediency of providing for
the reception in the penitentiaries, of persons con
victed of murder in the first degree, and who may
be pardoned on cmldilion of serving a limited term
therein. It has beams a custom that an incom
ing Governor should not issue a warrant of exe
cution in cases left uuacted on by his predecessor
and it not I:infrequently happens that even in
cases which are recent, while some punishment
should be inflicted, that of death may appear to
be Executive to be too severe. The result is that
there are at this time, in the various prisons, some
eighteen or twenty persons under sentence of
death, and who may lie there fur an indefinite pe
riod of time.
The vast amount of additional labor which has
been imposed upon the Secretary of the Common
wealth by the existing stale. of affairs renders it
ens , lutely necessary that the clerical force of his
department should be increased. The making
out of commissions for our large army of volun
teers in the field, and the preparations of election
blanks required by law to be sent to the army—
he receipt, filing and recoreing the returns-of the
soldiers' votes —the enrollment of the yearly in
creasing number of acts of Assembly, and of
charters obtained under general laws and the
making out of letters patent for them--,.11 these,
together with the previous heavy duties of the
office—form an aggregate, the weight of which
must ultimately break down hie few subordinates,
diligent,' faithful, and enduring as they are. I
I recommend, therefore, that provisio, a be prompt
ly made to meet the necessi , ies of this case.
It is a subject of just congratulation that not
withstanding the distracted condition of the coun
try, our System of common schools continues to
flourish. The report of the Superintendent, which
I herewith transmit, shows that there has been an
increase of scholars during the peat year. It is
important to secure as teachers a sufficient num
ber of men of suitable education and ability, and
with a view to this object, I suggest for your con
sideration the expediency of making out of the
school fund itself some provision for the support
of such -teachers as shall after a-given term of
service become superannhated or disabled while
in the performance of their duties.
Of the funds placed in my hands by the acts of
the 16th May, 1861, and of the 4th of May, 1964,
and to be appropriated in my judgment in milita
ry service, I have expended in the last year $6,-
124 68 in support of the agency at Washington—
up until the 30th of May last, for my personal
staff and ,than milithry service, an account of
which is settled in the office of the Auditor Gen
eral.
No similar appropriation willie required at this
session.
A bill was introduced and passed the House at
the last session of the Legislature providing for
the appointment of a commission to ascertain
the damages done in the counties of Bedford, Ful
ton, Franklin, Cumberland, York and Adams, by
the rebel army in 1863, which failed in the Senate
for want of time.
' I recommend to your consideration the proprie
ty of the passage of such abill during the present
session._ is just to the people of these counties
who have suffered, as well as to the Government
that these damages should be fairly ascertained
and the evidence perpetuated, whatever may be
the view to be taken on future consideration by the
United States or State Government as to the pro
priety of paying such claims.
Major General Hance.* has been authorised by
the War Department to raise a corps of 'veterans,
to be called the First Corps. One of the regula
tions is that on application by the Governor of
any State, recruiting officers will be designated for
each State. I have been requested by General
Hancock to make such application, but have hith
erto declined to comply with-the request. It op:
peers to me that the families of menraistid oiethe
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plan adopted by the War Department would pro"-
ably not he entitled to the relief, provided by-our
own laws for the families of volunteers. I havein
nuked of General Hancock whether the proposed
corps is to form part of the regular army or of-the
volunteer force, and if the latter, under what act
of Congress it is to bo raised. He has referred
that commission to the War Department, tram
which I have as yet received nu answer to it,
The following letters have passed between Gen
eral Hancock and myself on tnis subject :
PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
HArtnisnurto, Pa., Dee. 29th, 1884.
GENERAL received your letter at the mo
ment of my departure for Philadelphia on Monday
last. I returned this morning and hasten to re
ply.
Gating no knowledge of the organization of
the corps you are to command than what appears
in the newspapers and orders, I will be obliged if
you will inform me if it is to be regarded se a
part of the regular army of the United States or
as part of the volunteer service.
If it is part of the army ut the United States, I
certainly have no Connection with it, as Governor
of the State. If it is organized as volunteers, ber
pleased to inform me under what act of Congress?
I need Lot say, General, that I would be most
happy to do all in my power personally and offi
cially to raise a force to be commanded by you.—
Can we not raise you two or three regiments in
Pennsylvania, iu the usual manner and according
to the act at Congress, for your corps 1 Of course,
I would consult you in the selection of officers and
only commission where you approved.
I cannot understand the importance of my ask
ing that persons be sent to Pennsylvania to induce
veterans to go to the District of Columbia to en-
_ .
list. I certainly will du nothing to embarrass the
plan proposed.
We have benefits, by general and special legis
lation in Pennsylvania, which attach to the vol
unteer and his family. While I will do nothing
bedews the veterans of the .iStato from entering
your corps, I hasitate to cunneet myself with a
mode of enlistment which may deprive them of
such bum at, unless it is my duty under the law.
I am, rioneral, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. G. CURTIN
Major General WINFIELD S. HANceeE.
EA 11Q II AIITURS Fl ST CORPS,
Washington, D, C., Dec. 31, 1864.
To His Excellency HON. A. G. CuATIN, Governor
Pennsylvan is :
:—.l have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your communication of the 29th inst.,
and have referred the same to the War Depart
ment. I theuk you for your kind expression of
personal good will, and regret that there should
be any occasion for hesitation on your p trt to
lend your official influence, as Govern, r, to the
raising of chu corps as propuEed by lhe War De
partment.
It is nut within my province, perhaps, to dis
cuss the plan vi organi atom, as I am acting un
dry the direct orders of the War Department, and
my wu VIOWS, therefore, are of no practical mo
ment. I may bay, lio.s ever, that I have no knowl-
edge of the organization other than what I have
derived from the orders and circulars of which I
mailed you official copies December sth.
I cannot s ea how volunteers for this daps rrant
your State lone any of the advantages attaching
to th..se for other .•rgaoizations.
They are credited b. th,• 1-cainies where they
o r th e i r lami iet or, domiciled, end m.unt on tile
quota of your State.
It olicuid be h. roe in mind that this is an effort
to got men into ecrytne Who tau not subject to a
draft.
I have the h tar to remain, very rnapeolully,
your obedient servant,
WINFIELD S. HANCOCK,
Major General U. S. Volunteers, commanding
First Corps
The only act of Congress for raising volunteers
that I am aware of, requires that the field our line
officers shall be cound-sionetb,Jey the Governors
of the several Stales. The men in this corps are
not to be formed into organizations of the respec
tive States, and it is proposed that its officers shall
be appointed by the General Government I know
of no act of Congress or of Assembly under which
men so raised will be entitled to penal ne a r their
;an:plies to benefits from the United Staten or
State Government In addition, I will observe
that without any feeling of jealousy, I am still not
ready to participate actively in transferring to the
United Ssatteillegally the right of appointment
vested in the States, and which the State authori
ties can exercise with more discrimination by rea
son ot having a greater familiarity with the me
rits of the citizens of their own State, than the
United States authorities can possibly have. I
will transmit any further communication that I
may receive on this subject. It will be perceived
by referencia to the correspondence, that I have
offered to raise, in the manner provided by law,
two or three regiments of veterans for Hancook's
Corps. My desire is to assist the Government In
every legal modo in raising men, and especially
to facilitate an officer—a native of Pennsylvania—
n, distinguished us General Hancock, in his efforts
to organize a now corps.
I ;hall throw no olootooles in his way on the
present occasion, but I cannot, certainly, be ex
pected to invite a violation of laws in carrying out
a plan which sacrifices the rights of the State un
der existing laws, and would leave the men on
protected by them, so far as concerns future pro
vision for their comfort and that of their families.
I will further observe that it appears by the re
port of the Adjutant General, herewith transmit
ted, that the State, under the system established
by law, has put into the military service of the
United States since the commencement of the war,
ho following number of men, viz :
Troops sent into service during 1864.
Organizations fur three years'
term,
Organizations for one hundred
days' term
Organizations for one year term
Volunteer recruits ..
Dratted men and substitutes
Recruits for regular army
It-enlisensenta of Penneylrania
Votuyitvern
Infantry
Cavalry
Accredited to other States
91,704
Troops sent into the service of the United States
Since the commencement of the rebellion, includ
ing the ninety dogs' militia in the department of
the Monongahela and Suequchanna in 1863:
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During the year 1861 130,594
do do 1862 ... 71,100
do do 1863 . ... 43.046
do do 1864 73,828
Re-enlistment of Pennsylvania volunteers 17,876
338,444
The twenty-five thousand militia of 1882 are
not included in this statement.
I call the attention of the Legislature to the
Report of the Surveyor General, herewith pre
sented, and commend the suggestions made by
hat officer to your consideration.
This message is accompanied by full reports of
all the military departments. They exhibit the
large amount of service performed during the past
year, and contain a full history of all the military
operations of the State. Many valuable recom
mendations are made in them to promote the effi
ciency of our volunteers, and the comfort of the
sick and wounded, which I o,mmend to your
earnest and immediate attention. It affords me
great satisiaetion to bear my testimony to ill,.
ability, diligence and fidelity of the officers in
the several departments.
Before closing this message I desire to advert
to the delay which has sometimes occurred in the
passage of the general appropriation bill. It is
necessary that this bill should become a law, as
otherwise the action of o,,ernmeut would be
stopped. Tu delay Its presentation to the Execu
tive as was done at the loot regular session—tilta
late hour of the night before the morning fixed
for the final odjournment, is t, deprive th people
of their right to have all acts submitted to the
revision of the Legislature beture becoming laws,
in case the Executiue should not approve them.—
If there had been time, I should probably have
returned the appropriation bil of last year for
such revision, at when I had the opportuntiy of
deliberately examining - 11, I found provisions
which I could not have approved --but that upper
[unity was denied me before the bill had become
a law, and in fact, as the Legislature was on the
point of adjournment, the only question presented
to me w,,s whether that bill should became a law
without amendment or the necessities of the gov
ernment remain unprovided for.
The gallantry of our soldiers in the field still
sheds lustre on the Commonwealth, and - that
their merit is appreciated by a generous people
is shown by the continued and cheerful liberality
with which the men and women of the State contri
bute or their means for their comfort and welfare.
May the blessing of God be on those brave men
wh , have stood by their country through the
dark hours of her trial. A. G. CPRTIN.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,}
Harrisburg, Jan. 4, 1865.
Losses by Fire.
During the past year the enormous
sum of twenty-eight millions five hun
dred and twenty-two thousand dollars
was lost by tires in the loyal States,
without counting losses under twenty
thousand or losses by the war, as at
Chamhersburg. This amount exceeds -
the losses for any previous year within
the last decade. Adding ten millions of
dollars for the minor lossesartd we have,
a grand total of nearly forty millions of
dollars worth of property consumed by ,
fire in a single year. This heavy loss is
owing to the rash, off-hand style in..
which Americans conduct their business
and the carelessness with which they
store their goods. In Europe such con
flagrations are almost unknown. Al
though London is a larger city than
New York it has not half so many Brea,
We ask the attention of practical muni- z
cipal philosophers to the facts;--.
i lregd. _ _
7,675
16,094
28,567
10,651
2,974
13,862
2,834
799
389 17,876