r H r: If 5 ; Bcuotci to politics, literature, Igricnlturc, Science, ittoralitn, anb cucral intelligence. VOL. 27. STROUDSB UR G, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 14, 1869. NO. 41. Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS Two dollars a year In advance and ifnot p.ti.i before the rnd of the year, two dollars and fifty tents Mill be rhaipecl. No jviprr disron;inueil until all arrearages are paid, except al trie option ot the Editor. IE7A Jvertisemcnts of one square of (eight line) or less, one or llife insertions 31 5(1. Each additional ttiM-ttinii, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion. jois ii:iti;, OF ALL K1T1DS, Executed la the hiplxvst style of the Art, and on the kiosC icasoiiiblc terms. IMS. I?. D. S.TUTII, Surgeon Dentist, Office on Main Street, opposite Judge Stokes' residence, Stroi'dsbvro, Pa. OCT Teeth extracted without pain.J0 August 1, 1SG7. Drs. JACKSON & B1DLACK, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DRS. JACKSON & BIDLACK, are prepared to attend promptly to all calls of a Professional character. Office Op posite the JStroudsburg Bank. April 23, 15G7.-tf. C.W. SEIP, M.D., Physician and Surgeon, tiTll O UDSB UIi(, PA. Office at his residence, on Main Street, nearly opposite Marsh's Hotel. All c:i!!s promptly attended to. Charges roasomlde. Strouch-burg, April 11, lS67.-tf. A Card. Dr. A. UEEVES JACKSOX, Physician and Surgeon, BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT 1IAV ing returned from Europe, he is now prepired to resume the active duties of his profession. In order to prevent disappoint ment to persons Jiving at a distance who may wish to consult him, he will be found nt his office every THURSDAY and SAT URDAY for consultation and the perform ance of Surgical operations. Dec. 12, 107.-1 yr. YCH. MT. PAIL. 3. D. HOAR CHASLES W. DEAN, WM. W. PAUL & CO. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS & SHOES. WAREHOUSE, 623 Market St., & GU Commerce St. above Sixth, North side, PHILADELPHIA. March 19, ISG3. tf. Itch! Itch! Itch! SCPwATCII! SCRATCH! SCRATCH! USE JiOLLIASHEAD'S ITCH i SALT BliEDi OINTMENT. No Family fhoul J be without this valua ble medicine, for on the first appearance of the disorder on the wrists, betwecu the fin per?, &.C., a slight application of the Oint ment will cure it, and prevent its bing ta ken by others. Warranted to give satisfaction or money refunded. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, hr W. IlUL.LlA&tlL.Ai, Stroitd.bnrg, Oct. 31,67. Druggist. 31. I. COO&.AtJH, Sign and Ornamental Painter, SHOP ON" MAIN STREET, (typosile Woolen Mills, STISOL'DSBCKG, Respectfully announces to the citizens of Stroudsburg ond vicinity that he is prepared to attend to all who may favor him with their patronage, in a prompt and workman like miri'irr. CHAIRS, FURNITURE, &c, painted and rpaired. PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds con stantly on hand or supplied to order. June II, ISG3. ly. BE S F , IP.OH AND PURE BRANDY, BY Dlt. II ART. MAN, Regular Graduate of the University of Penn rylvania. 07It will positively cure Consumption, Couple end Colds, ard all diseases of the ,uce or Uronchial Tubes. ft Ue U-?n the means of RESTORING 'THOUSANDS Lo health who have been giv en up beycud tha rc&eb of medical afsist ance. It docs mure to relieve the Consump tive than any thing ever known. Unequal led strengthcuer fbr delicate Ladies and Children. & Lvi -u fcoTTte costain the hu- TRITJ018 PORTION Of TWO POVXV8 OF CHOICE Uklk. The ure of Consumption was first effect ed by the use of RAW BEEF and BRAND V in Rufcsia, afterwards in France, in which countries I have travelled for year6. I have used it with perfect success in my own family. In presenting this preparation to the public I feel confident that every af flicted f;!ie who reads this (even the most fckep'ica!) nviy become convinced, by a sin gle trial that it is truly a most valuable med icine. Circu'ars and medicines pent to any ad dress. Trice 81 per bottle ixfor$5. Laboratory 512 Sjuth Fifteenth Street, PHILADELPHIA. Wholesale Agents. French, Richards & Co., Tenth and Market streets; Johnson, Jlolloway & Cowden, 602 Arch street; R. Shoemaker &, Co., Fourth and Race streets, Philadelphia. fjy Sold by Druggists Everywhere. Cheap Feed. RAIN AT 23 CENTS PER BUSHEL. Jf Apply at the BREWERY, , July c'J, lSG-.-tf Eatl iSiroudslurj. t GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. To the Senate and Jiouse of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania : Gentlemen' : For the harmony and general relations of comity and friendship existing between Pennsylvania and all the other States and Territories of the National Union ; for the present prosper ous condition of the Commonwealth ; for the glad signs of coming political tran quility ; and for the succes which attends the progress of our free institutions, we owe a heavy debt of gratitude to Divine Providence. In view of the favorable circ'imst.nnces under which which you are now assembled, it becomes my pro vince and duty, as it is my pleasure, to offer you my hearty congratulations, and to tender you a cordial welcome to the Legislative Halls of the State. This, in deed, affords me a higher gratification be cause I participate with your constituents in the confidence manifested by them in selecting you to represent their indvidiual interest as well as those of the Common wealth. On your wisdom, integrity, judg ment, and discretion, all will undoubted ly rely for the correct determination of every question affecting the largest inter est and gravest responsibilities, aud for a continuance, and even an increase, of that prosperity which has hitherto been so signally enjoyed. It is not without a consciousness of the great responsibility resting upon me that I undertake the performance of a consti tutional duty, requiring that the Gover nor "shall from time to time give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and recom mend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient." In conformity with this requirement your attention will be called only to such mat ters of public interpst as iu my judgment deserve careful consideration and action on your part during the present session. FINANCES. The following is a carefully prepared statement of the financial condition of the State for the fiscal year ending Novem ber 30, 1SGS : The reports of the Auditor General and State Treasurer show that the balance in the Trea sury, Nor. 30, 1S67, was $4,GG1,S3G 46 Ordinarv receipts during the fis cal year ending Nov. 30, 1 SGS 5,21 G,049 55 Depreciated funds in the Treas ury, unavailable, 41,032 00 Total in Treasury for fiscal vear ending Nov. 30, 1SG8, " $9,918,918 01 Payment', viz : Ordinary exenscs during the fiscal vear, ending November 30th, "1SGS, 2,454,506 09 Loans, &c redeem ed, 4,417,403 C4 Other pavments, 12,S00 00 Interest on loans, 1,979,090 91 Dcpreei ated funds unavailable, 41,032 00 3,905,402 G4 Bal. in Treaty, Nov. 30, '03. ? 1,01 3,4 15 37 SINKING FUND. Fy an act approved April 10, 18GS, the transactions of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund were ordered to be thereafter reported annually to the 30th day of November. Their last report, therefore, includes, a period of one year and three months. The following is the "recapitulation" of the operations of the sinking fund, from September 3, 18G7, to November 30, 1803 : Balance in fund, Sept. 3, 'G7, 1,737,912 41 Receipts in fund from Sept. 3, 'G7, to Nov. 30, 'GS, 3,418.992 31 5,150,904 72 Paid interest, $1,808,003 S4 Premiums paid as equivalent for coin, 49 98 Loans redeemed, 2,414,816 64 1,222,871 9G Balance in fund Nov. 30, 'OS, $934,032 7G By the sixth section of the act of May 10, 1861, a special tax of one-half mill on the dollar was especially set apart for the payment of the interest and redemption of the loan created by an act of May 18, 1SG1, entitled "An Act to create a loan and provide for arming the State." Balance on hand Sept 3, 'G8, $319,933 17 The receipts from said tax and tax on gross receipts from Sept. 3, '07, to Nov. 30, '08, amount to 423,979 20 Total, 743,912 37 Interest paid in Jan. and July, 'GS, 1C9,245 CO Balance in fund Nov. 30, 'G8. $574,067 37 CONDITION OF BALANCES. Balance in sinking fund Nov. 30. 18G8, w $934,032 76 Balance in sinking fund Nov. 30, J 868, 574,007 37 $1,508,700 13 D&Iuctbal.inTreas.Nov.C0.'GS, 1,013,415 37 BaL in favor of sinking fund, $495,284 76 REDUCTION OF THE fcTATE DEBT Dy the report of the Commissioners of the Siuking Fund for the year ending September 3, 18G7, the "loaus redeemed" amounted to $1,794,5G9 50, and by their report from September 3, 18G7, to No vember 30, 1SG8, the "loaus redeemed" amouut to $2,414,816 04, making a to tal reduction of the State debt, in two years and three mouths, of four million two hundred and nine thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and four teen cents. The assets remaining in the Sinking Fund are as follows, viz : Uoud of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, six mil lion, four huudred thousand dollars, aud bods cfthc phili Jclphia, aud Kric lUil- road Company, three million, five hund red thousand dollars. These are non-interest bearing bonds and will not mature for many years. I, therefore, recommend to the consideration of the Legislature the propriety of the passage of a law, authorizing the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to sell these bonds at pub lic sale to the highest bidder, and direct the proceeds to be applied to the liquida tion of the State debt. TUBTIC DEBT. Public debt outstanding Dec. 1, 1SG7, $37,704,409 77 Deduct amount redeemed at State Treasury during the fiscal vear ending Nov. 30, 1SG8, viz : 5 per cent, loan?, $4,354,253 64 4.1 por cent, loans, 03,000 00 Relief notes cancelled, 210 00 4,417,403 G4 Public debt December 1, 1SG8, $33,286,940 13 Statement showing the condition of thn indebtedness of the Commonwealth on the first day of December, 1863. Funded debt, viz : G per cent, loans, $25,311,180 00 5 per cent, loans, 7,749,771 56 4 J per cent loans, 112,000 00 Total funded, $33,172,951 50 Unfunded debt, viz : Relief notes in circu lation, $96,415 00 Int'st certificates out standing, 13,0S6 52 Int'st certificates un claimed, 4,448 33 Domett, creditors cer tificate, 44 G7 Total unfunded, 113,994 57 Total funded and unfunded, $33,2S6,946 13 Which is the amount of the State debt as before stated. During the last eighteen years there has been carried upon the accounts of the Auditor General and State Treasurer, and in their several public statements, "depreciated funds unvailable" to the amount of forty-one thousand and thirty two dollars. I recommend the appoint ment of a joint committee, by the Le gislature, whose duty it 6hall be to ex amine the said depreciated and unavail able funds and dispose of them to the best advantage of the Treraury ; or, if found to be worthless, to cancel and de story them, so that the accounting officers may be relieved from the necessity and responsibility of annually accounting for them. The large cash balance remaining in the Treasury on the 30th of November, 1SG7, has been used for the payment of the twenty-three million loan and for the liquidation of outstanding claims against the State. The investment of the funds, in one of the modes recommended ia my last annual message, has, therefore, in a I great measure been rendered unnecessary lor inc present. iut m tne event or large accumulations of mosey hereafter, the re commendations therein given are respect fully referred to, and renewed. When ever there may be surplus funds in the Treasury, they can, with safety and bene fit to the State, be employed in the pur. chase of its outstanding bonds, and in saving the interest on them which would accumulate prior to their maturity. I regret to state that the last Legisla ture, although fully forewarned in regard to the insecurity and want of proper and sufficient guards for the safe keeping of the money of the Commonwealth, failed to determine upon any mode by which the Treasury may be effentually guarded against the possibility of loss. The pre sent Legislature has it in its power to se cure for itself no ordinary houor, by the enactment of such a law, strong and ef ficient for the purpose iudicated, and the enjoyment not only of the approbation, but the permanent gratitude of every cit izen. Notwithstanding the srtisfactory reduc tion of the public indebtedness, as shown in the foregoing statements, and immense State debt is still upon us, requiring near ly two million of dollars to be collected to pay the interest accruing upon it an nually. Its extinguishment at the ear liest practicable period, not inconsistent with other public interests, is of the highest importance to every tax-payer. I cannot, therefore, too strongly urge the strictest economy in respect to every ex penditure and the utmost retrchement in every department. Retrenchment is emphatically demand ed by the people, in legislative expendi tures, as well as in every other branch of the government. Their eyes arc open to investigate every transaction, and by their ballots they are ready to strike down those who will not take effective action in favor of positive and radical reform. The money paid into the Treasury is the property of the people, every one of whom has a just right to hold his representa tives to a strict accountability for every dollar that may be appropriated or ex pended. I here renew the remarks made last year on the subject of "annual appropria tions," to which you arc respectfully re ferred. For four successive years the general appropriation bills have been signed on the eleventh day af April, be ing about the time of adjournment. The Governor has been forced either to sign the bills without proper investigation, notwithstanding any objections he may have ; suspend the means to defray the operations of the goverumeut for the en suing year ; or call an extra session of the Legislature. I repeat that "it is earn- 'estly desired that the appropriation bill be taken up, discuhscd and passed at a EuCicieutly early period duiiuj the ses sion to enable it to receive that thorough examination which its importance de mands." EDUCATION. COMMON SCHOOLS. The annual report of the Superintend ent of Common Schools exhibits the con dition of that department in a highly satisfactory manner. Within the State there are 1,91S school districts; 13,766 schools ; 2,382 graded schools ; 11,693 school directors ; 73 county, city and borough superintendents; 16,771 teach ers : and 800,515 pupils. The cost of tuition for the year was $3,273,269 43 ; of building, purchasingand renting school houses, $1,991,152 55 ; of contingencies, $854,253 21. These three items, with expenditures for all other purposes con nected therewith, amount to the aggre gate sum ot $6,206,537 96. These facts are exhibited with great satisfaction, as they show the average an nual cost for the tuition of each pupil to be about seven dollars and seventy-four and a half cents. The average amount paid to each teachor is about $195 17 per annum. This, in my opiuion, is too small a salary to secure the services of competent teachers; and I am fully justi fied in urging the necessity of increased compensation. It is but just, and it will have an elevating tendency not only up on the teachers but the manner in which their duties are performed. Your attention is called to the fact that, notwithstanding the amplo provision now made by law for the education of all per sons between the ages of six and twenty one years, large numbers of children, principally in our cities, do not attend any kind of school. Over twenty thousand of this .class are found in Philadelphia, and the number in the state is estimated to be not less than seventy-five thousand. These children grow up in ignorance, fre quently without employment, and many of them contract habit3 of vice, which eventually cause them to be committed to houses of refuge, county prisons or penitentiaries. Humanityand sound pub lic policy demand that something be done to remedy this growing evil, and also that of the neglected condition of considerable numbers of children in the alms and poor houses in many of the counties. Four Normal Schools are now re cognized as State institutions. The num ber of students attending them during the past year was 2,115, of whom eighty graduated. Two additional Normal Schools will probably go into operation during this year, one located at Blooms burg, Columbia county, and the other at California, Washington county. The value of these institutions to the common schools system cannot be estimated. Onr schools are comparatively worthless with out qualified teachers, and such teachers can most easily be obtained from the Normal institutes, where the art of teach ing Is made a specially. A meeting of the presidents and other authorities of a number of our pincipal Colleges was held in Ilarrisburg last win ter, the object of which was to bring about a closer union of all our educa tional institutions, andconnect by a bond of sympathy, if not of organic structure, the common schools, high schools, acade mies and colleges. The establishment of such an educational department seems to be desirable. There is no subject more worthy the deliberations of the Legislature than the promotion of the welfare of our common schools. They immediately underlie the characteristic features ot our social sys tem ; they arc fountains of that wide spread intelligence, which, like a peren nial vitality, pervades the nation, aud are nurseries of that inquiring spirit to which we are indebted for the purity and pre servation of our free institutions. In a republican government education is a sure basis of power and public prosperity. I5y it the people are taught to discern and estimate the value of their own rights; to distinguish between oppression and the exercise of lawful authority ; to discri minate between liberty and licentiousness; to preserve an inviolable respect for the laws, and exercise "eternal vigilance" against any encroachments upon them. It is admitted that a thoroughly educated people alone can be pcrmaueutly free. by cducatioual culture patriotism is ex panded, and the principles, manners and Ecntiments of the wholo people are as similated. Many of the sources of ical ous!yand prejudice are diminished, social harmony largely increased, and the struc ture of our free and happy system of government cemented, strengthened and adorned. soldiers' orphans' schools. In his report the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans' Schools exhibits the total expenditure for their support from December 1, 1867 to may 31, 1863, to be $236,970 26 ; total numberof pupils ni the schools 3,431 ; average cost per pupil $69 06 for six months; and the average weekly expenses per pupil $2 65. The fiscal year of these schools, like that of the common schools, termiuates by law on the last day of May of each year. The pre sent report of the Supcrinteudeut, there fore, embraces only six months, aud re ports will be made up to the 31st day of May, annually, hereafter. The special ap propriation of Febuary 25' 1863 made in accordance with an estimate of the Sup erintendent, presented in my last annual message, exceeded the actual expenses $6,001 J i ' Notwithstanding every possible effort 123 beta, aud .vrijl coutiuuo to be piaJc, to economize in the expenses of the pre sent year, and to keep them as far as pos sible within the appropriation made by the last Legislature, it will readily be ob served that there will be a deficit for the year ending May 31, 1869, the amouut of which will be carefully ascertained aud presented to the Legislature prior to the close of the present session. The schools are all in good condition and improving, and their usefulnes is daily becoming more manifest. They are among the most philanthropic institutions of the age, and reflect high honor on the patriotism of the Legislature by which they have been so liberally endowed and upon our people by whom they are sus tained. The children who are the re cipients of their benefits are the offspring of brave men who voluntarily endangered their lives in the cause of their country in the most trying hour of its existence, and who, glowing with patriotic ardor, fought as bravely and as heroically as the noblest men in the worjd's history. Thousands of them who left their homes in the bloom of health and with the bright est hopes of manhood, now sleep in death, leaving their widow? and little ones to the care of the country in whose service they fell, and which promised them its protec tion. Their children are the wards of this great Commonwealth ; and too much praise cannot be awarded its people for the munificent and tender manner in which they have thu3 far, through their representatives, discharged the sacred and delicate trust. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Before the General Government ap propriated public lands to the several States for the purpose of agricultural and military education and the mechanic arts, and prior to the time when Pennsylvania endowed the Agricultural College with her share of these lands, it wa3 depend ent wholly upon individual iufluenee, without any other means for its support than its own earnings. History proves that seminaries of learning cannot be efficiently sustained by their own internal resources. The education of youth in the higer branches of knowledge seems to require the aid of philanthropic con tributions. This institution had not these benefits to any adequate extent, and though the board of trustees bestowed upon it the most anxious care, their zeal and labor, combined with those of its friends, were not equal to a contestvrith the want of m;ans. llenco the school did not coin- mand the confidenca of farmers who were ! able to educate their sons, aud who could not forget that the character of the college attached to the character cf its graduates; and that its failure would enter into the estimate which the world would place upon the education it bestowed. This feature has now been removed. The peo ple, . through their Legislature, endowed i this institution with the interest upon a fund of $318,500 00, (invested in United States and Pennsylvania State six proudest boast. It endows the Amcricaa per cent,) payable to it serai annually. .citizen with a freedom and a power not Last year this interest amounted to $25,- possessed by the subject of any other gov 642 78. The residue of the fund, $43,- j eminent. It makes him the peer cf his 886 50, has becu appropriated, under the fellow man, whatever may be his rank.. law, by the board ot trustees, to the chase of three model and experimental farm3 ; one at the college, in Center coun ty, for $3,000 00, ouo in Chester county, for $17,750 00, and one in Indiana coun ty for $13,13G 50. The board has also recently re organized the faculty and remodeled the course of studies, so as to adapt them to the wants of the agricultu ral community. This new order of things goes into operation at the commencement of the next sesion, aud it is earnestly hoped will be a success. There U no profession, trade or calling in life, where the value of knowledge and the lights of science, and the practical application of both, arc so potent for profitable results as in their adaptation to agricultural pur suits. And in this truly practical a:e it is well worthy of the conisderation of parents, whether they should not avail themselves of the benefits of this institu tion, now so generously endowed by the State. MILITARY. From the report of the Adjutant Gen eral you will learn the condition of the Military Department. The inactivity in military affairs after the cessation of hostilites and upon the return of peace, has iu a great measure beeu dispelled, and an active martial spirt now prevails throughout the State ; inoro particulary in Philadelphia, where, by a special legis lative enactment, the miuimum number of men required to from a couipauy has been reduced, and a brigade fund is raised by a tax opon those who are not members of a military organization, but liablo to the performance of military duty. I recom mend tho passage of a similar law for tho whole State. For the sake of preserving the great interests involved, which include the lives, property and happiness of our people, this is presented to you as au im portant subjeet lor your deliberation, livery possible encouragement of volun teers has been afforded, and notwithstaud ing the difficulties iudicated it has result- ed as follows : In 1SG6 there were eight The commissioners appointed to codify (volunteer companies in the State; in ; the fctatute laws of tho State have diligcn ! 1SG7, thirty-eight ; and in 1SC8, seventy-ty prosecuted tho work assigned thcru. seven, and a number of others iu prepara- jand with every prospect that it will lo tion for organization, fully completed within the time preseri- By a reduction of tho number for a ' bed by the legislative resolutions of April 'company from that now required to nn8, 1SGS; and in further compliance with. nggregatQ of fifty officers and men, com-1 them, they will cause to bo laid before panics wouiu soon be uumbcreu ny iuc;cucu uiauca ui uiu mucrui ...sseuiuiy, at hundred, auy of which could easily be recruited to the maximum quiied for active tcrvice. uuutbor if ro- The State that always maintains the highest degree of preparatiou, accomplishes most and suf fers least in the conflict of arms; and by being in readiness it often prevents impro per encroachments upon her rights. The Adjutant General presents a full and detailed statement of the disburse ments in his department during the year ending November 30, 186S, with an esti mate for the necessary appropriations for the current year, and also for such amounts as have been discovered to be due fromr the Transportation Department, contract ted during the war. STATE AGENCY. The existence of the Military State Agency at Washington terminated on the 31st day of July last, at which time the appropriation for the pajruont of its ex penses was exhausted. Much benefit re sulted to many of the soldiers of our State, and their representatives, from this office,, in which thtir just dues from tho United States Government were collected and transmitted to them free of charge. Ia August, after the agency ceased to exist, there still remained a considerable unnv ber of unsettled claims, and as no one knevr more about their condition, or could pos--sibly obtain an earlier settlement of them than the late agent, Col. Cook, I prcmit--ted him, upon his own offer, to close up the business of the office, and to transact - lany other business for the soldiers of- Pennsylvania at one-half the fees that are' charged by any other private agency ia Washington City. This arrangement has thu3 far been carried out, and I am pleased to add, with very general satis faction. All the books and papers of tho agency will be transferred to the effice of. the Adjutant General. REGISTRY LAW. At the last session of the Legislature, an act was passed know as the "Registry Law," the intention of which wa3 to pro tect the ballot-box against corruption and fraudulent voting, to which it has for many years been disgracefully exposed. This law seems to have been so defective in some of its provisions as to have re ceived the condemnation of a majority of the Supreme Court, by which it was pro nounced "incongruous and uaconstitutio nal." At the election immediately after this decision, it is alleged that frauds wero perpetrated, surpassing ia magnitude,, perhaps, any that have been consummated heretofore in the history of the Common wealth. These frauds have demonstrated the necessity of the passage of some law,. or laws, tnat will accomplish tne uesireu object, without being subject to the exceptionable features pointed out by the learned gentlemen who pronounced the opinion of the Supreme Bench. There is no subject of such vital im portance to the whole country as the sanctity of the ballot box, and the protec tion cf all citizens in their right to the. elective franchise. Thi3 riht is our pur-,s'ation, or position in life. To be depriv- ed of it by any me ins whatever, his boas ted freedom becomes a sham his especial and exalted prerogative a mockery and a farce. What avails it to the citizen that he is entitled to a vote, if that vote is to be nullified by fraud ? Such guards, then, should be thrown around the polls as will, effectually, if possible, preserve them from, the taint of a single illegal vote. Not: only should false voting be severely pun ished, but false swearing to obtaiu a vote, be visited with the pains and penalties of.' perjury and with perpetual disfranchise ment. The people mut be perfectly free to regulate their public business in their own way, and when the voice of the- majority is lauiy and clearly expressed': all shonld bow to it as to the voice of God.. They arc the sovereign rulers, and their will must be the law of the land. Cor ruption of suffrage in a republican govern ment is the deadliest crime that can be perpetrated ; it is assassination of the sovereignty ofthe poople, and will be fol lowed by a despotism, the motive power, of which will be money and perjury.-. And if this privilege bo tampered with, sooner or later the sure and indignant, popular condemnation will be rendered aud condign punishment administered. All Good citizens, of whatever political opinion, should lend their aid for the ac- . complishmcnt of any and every measure . that may tend to secure to each voter, not only his right to the elective franchise,, but the assurance that his vote will not. bo rendered valueless by illegality, cor ruption or fraud. livery proper facility for the naturalizat ion of citizens of foreign birth should bo- afforded ; but tho Legislature, in its com bined wisdom, can surely enact some uiodo to prevent the possibility of a single vato being cast upon spurious naturalization papers, and thus fully secure tho purity, of the elective franchises. KLU31U "1U ,l,t" ! its present session, various titles of. bills, with brief abstracts of ihcscveral Fcetioua. of each, which have, leeu t&utu-rtd. I hi v; . i 14 i5' I ' . i V
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