RATES QF ADVERTISING.
pm lines er lean constitute half a square. Ten lines
®r more than four, constitate a square.
rmific.,oneday— One one day....... 80. 60
one nese. 1.00 " one week.---. 1.20
one month— . 3.00 " one month... 8.00
three months. 3.00 " three months. 5.00
s iamontbs— . 4.00 " six months. 8.18 1
one 0.00 " one year. --- /0.00
Business notices ineerted in the toast. ooLutti a Od
„ fora mar riages and deaths, PM OSZITS PIER LIIIM for eilelt
; Be tio:pm To merchantsand others advertiiingbytheyear
liberaltel erillbe offered.
lirrbe numberof insertions must be designated OR the
deertieeseen t .
u :r alarrisges and 'Deaths will be inserted at the seam
ates se regular advertisements.
•
Books, etatiperp, &c.
sefiOOL BOOKS.--School Directors ;
Teachers Parente, Scholars , and others, in Want of
School Books, School Stationery, &o, will find a complete
assortment at M. K. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORM,
so w ware, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow
.
sa
gitaDllßS--McGuffey's, Parker's, Colibhi, Angell's
BPSLLING BOOKS.—McGuffey's, Cobb's, Webster's,
Town's, Byerles. Combry's„
INGLISH GRAMIKARS.—Bunion's, Smith's, Wood
bride'. es, Illonteith,st Tuthill's, Hart's, We ll s'.
HISTOSIBS.--Grimehavr's, Davenport's, Prot's, Wil
son% Willard's, Goodrich '., Pinnockle, Goldsmith's and
Mark's.
A RITHMETIC'S.--Mreenleafie, Stoddard's, Imerson's,
pike's, Bose's, Colburn's, Smith and Duke's, Davie's.
ALEHIBBAS.--ereenlears, Davie's, Bay's, Bay's,
B4o'a
ICTIOWANYS.—WaIker's Scheel, Cobbs, Welker,
Worcester's Comprehensive, Wereester's Primary, Web
'tees Primary, Webster's High School, Webster's Quarto,
Academie.
NATURAL porLosornigl3.—Cometoek ) a, Peewee,
e w uths. The above with a great variety of others can et
atly time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort
ment of School Stationery, embracing lit the while a com
plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store.
plp rocured it one days notice.
Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
ALMANACS.—John Beer and Son's Almanac for sale al
IL N. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORE, Harrisburg.
Wholesale and Befall. myl
JUST RECEIVED .
AT
SCHEEFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMANTINE S L sITE A 9
OP VARIOUS SIZES AND PRIOES,
Which, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled,
REMEMBER THE PLACE,
SCHEFFER , S BooxsToßS,
NO. 18 MARKET STREET. inar2
BOOK
AUCTION.
BEN F. FRENCH
Will supply his old Mends and customers with the
following Books at Auction prices :
Pacific Railroad, 10 vole., complete,'-4 Illustrations
Japan Expedition, 3 vols., complete, illustrated and
illioninstal, sl2_
EmerrsExpeditiou, 2 vols., complete, illustrated
illuminated
Congressional Globe, $1.50 per volume.
Waverly Novels, complete, 12 vols., cloth, 310.
If 27vols.,halfcalf,$34;
ate. „_&e.
All of the above Books I will deliver in Ilandsburg
free of charge. BEN F. mama,
278 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. 0.
feldlAtf
N . F.AW BOOKS!
.1 - 178 T RDONITDD
"811 AL AND BAY,” by the author rof 41 Wide, Wide
"Dollars and Oenta, ,, Lo.
4 tHISTORY OF ILlTHODlShi,"byA.Btervene, LL.D.
For sale at DOWESTORD,
sp9 No. 18 Marko et.
JUST RE-C - EIVED,
A LABOR AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT 01
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS, -
Of various Designs and Colors, for 8 cent', • -
TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
At [my24] SOREFFEWS BOOKSTORE.
WALL PAPER? WALL PAPER 11
aunt received, our Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, EIRE SCREENS, & c., &a. !tie thelargeet
and best selected assortment in the city, rangingin price
from six (0) cents up to ono dollar and a quarter ($1.25.)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to
sell at as low rates, if not lower, than can be bad else
where. if purchasers will call and examine, we feel
confident that we can please them in respect to price
and quality. E. M POLLOCK & SON,
iTS Below Jones' !tense, Market Square.
LETTER, CAP, NOTE PAPERS,
Pens, Holders, Vends ; Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the best quality, at low prices, direct from the mann
factories, at
mar3o SORSEFEE 7 B CHEAP BOOKSTORE
LAW BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS I. !-A
gonersl assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State
Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of
the old English Reports, scares and rare, together with
a large assortment of second-hand Law Books, at very
low prioes, at the one price Bookstore of
B. M. POLLOCK & SON,
Market Square, Harrisburg.
,ffitotellattecnto.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
RILE LINEN PAPER
RARE! PANS!! FANS!!!
lamas. US deIAKDID LOT OF
P/. ICE D .FISHING RODS!
Trent - Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
sad Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
FISHING TACKLE!
. • L ORBIT TAKINrr Or
WALKING - CANES!
Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Head Loaded Sword Hickory Fanci
Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes!
HELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STOBB,
NO. 91 XANYNT MONT,
South side, one door east of Fourth street Se 9.
11 HARRIS,.
Jo.
WORKER, IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING,
Second Street, below Chestnut,
HARRISBURG, PA.
is prepared to fill orders for any article in his branch of
business ; and if not on head, he will make to order on
ehort - notice.
METALLIC ROOFING, of Tin or Galvanised Iron,
constantly on hand.
Alec, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware, Spouting, &e. .
Reliopes, by strict attention to the wants of his custo
mers, to merit and receive a generous ;share of public pmt.
mange.
jEr Every promise strictly fulfilled.
B. J. HARRIS,
jan7-dly] Second Street, below Chestnut.
FISH!!
MACKEREL, (Nes.'l, 2 and S.)
SALMON, (very impeder.)
SHAD, (Mess and very fine•)
lINDHINO, (extra large.)
OOD 'FISH
SMOKED HERRING, (extra Digby.)
SCOTCH HERRING.
SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the above we have Mackerel inwhole, ball, quarter
and eighth bble. Reining in whole end half bble. •
Into entire lot flew—maser ram e a BIBRI11)28, and
will sell them at the lowest market rated,
sepl4 Hrfel. DOW
rimithy BIBLES, from 1 to no,
strong and handsomely bound, printed on piper,
with legalt clear new type, mold at
mien l3oll.TelYlttli Cheap 800
fIRANBERRT.ES I 1 SPLPSDID LOT
Ultia%. received by
GM" Wit. 110(01..Ta., t. 00.
FOR a superior and cheap TA.BLE or
B A- 1 4" °Th t° unianws Dirti STORM.
THE Fruit .Growers' Handbook—by
widuno—whougas and retail at
TRAM 80UIPPRIP8 Boolean,.
SPERM CANDLES.- large NAY
A = lust received by
WM. DOCK; & 00.
ELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
to Ind the tut imorteramat *Meet* Mininstai. L
FISH! VI
do CO
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a i rto t Union.
t
VOL. 3.
(foal.
T° THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
COAL YARD 5
0017711 SECOND STREET,'
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
RARRIBDUEG, PA.,
Where he has eenetantly on hand
LYKSNS VALLEY BROKEN, NOG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL.
ALSO,
WILEMSBAMRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NUT 00ADi
ALL 07 THE BEST QUALITY.
It will be delivered to comment clean, and fall
weight warranted.
try- CONSUMERS GIVE ME A GALL FOR YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
U Orders left at my house, in Walnut streetoisar
Fifth; or at Brubaker's, North street; J. L. Sped's,
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
South streets, and John Lingle's, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention.
jy18.416m JOHN TILL.
COALI COtALli
ONLY YARD IN TOWN THAT DELIVERS
COAL BE THE
P A TENT WEIGH CARTS!
NOW IS' THE TIME
For every family to get in their supply of Coal for the
winter—weighed at their door by the Patent ,Weigle
Carts. The accuracy of these Carts no one /4i rites,. and
they never get out of order, an is frequelig iliaopie- of
the Platform Scales besides, the ocannunei v — has the .
satisfaction of proving the right of his Coal at-his
own house. •
" I lum a large supply of Coal on hand, co-14;t 4 0g of
O. M. CO.'S LYRENS VALLEY COAL all aim,
LYKENS VALLEY do '
W/LRESBARRE do.
BITUMINOUS BROAD TOP do.
Alt - Coal ofthe,best quality mined, and delivered free
from all imporitilkat the lowest rates, by the boat or
ear bald, single, half or third of tone, and by the bushel.
• . JAMES M. WHEELER,
Harrisburg Septembei 24, 1860.--aap2b
TOWN!P
WEIGH CARTS . -
Par the convenience of my numerous up town custom
ers, I have established, in connection with my old yard,
a Branch Coal Yard opposite North Street, in a line with
the Pennsylvania canal, having the office formerly occu
pied by Mr. R. Harris, Where contemners of Coal in that
vicinity and Verbeketewn can receive their Coal by the
PATENT WEIGH CARTS,
WITHOUT EXTRA . CHARGE FOR HAULING;
And in any quantity.hey may desire, as low as can be
purchased anywhere.
FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON HAND,
Of LYEENS VALLEY and WILHESBARRE, all - sizes.
lEr Willing to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undersold by any parties.
Ej'All Ooal forked up and delivered clean and free
from all iMpurities, and the Ist article mined.
Claims received at either Yard will be promptly tined,
ad all Ooal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carta.
Coal Rohl by Boat Oar Icia4 single, half gm Wed of
tons, and by ifter muoraz.- - -
TAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, October 18. 11369.—0ca1b
LYKENS • VALLEY NUT COAL
rOT Sale AT TWO DOLLARS PIT TON.
AU Coal doUvered by PATENT WEIGHCARTS
. JAMES M. WHEELER
1.17' Coaldelivered from 1011 yards. • lion
,tlEDical.
HELMBOLIVS HELMBOLDPS
HELMBOLIPS HELMBOLIPS
HELMBOLIVE HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLIPS HELMBOLD'S
MELMIESOLDPS • HELMBOLLPS
HELM:3OI.IPS HELM BOLD'S
HELMIIOLD'S HELMLBOLIrs
• Extract tichn, Extract Buchtt,
Extratt Bach% Extract Bach%
Extract Ductal, Extract Machu,
Extract 'Wolin, Extract BitChu,
Patent Bach% Extract Bach%
Xl:tract Itathn Extract Dusan,
Extract Dacha: Extract .112chtty
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE IISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
PON SECRET AND DRLICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISOROERS,
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET A'D DELICATE DISORDERS.
'FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
A Positive and Specific Nemedy.
• • • A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and %Relic Rentedr•
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
FOR DISEASES OF THE
BLADDER, Grltit KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER,. GRAVEL, KIDNEYS DROPSY,
BLADDER GR A VEL,KIDNEY S,DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS , DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY%
BLADDER, GReIVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
MANIC WEA.KNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNICSS,
ORGANIC! WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WHARNEt3S,
And all Diseases of Sedum Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual argone,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of &meat' Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
ARISING FRGS
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudeneles in. Life.
Excesses, Exposure', and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposure-, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprndencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Impradeneles in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Inspradencies in Life.
From whatever cause Originating, and whether existing in
KALE OR FEMALE,
Females, take no more Pills ! They are of no avail for
Complaints incident to the sex. -Use
. . .
EXTRACT BUCHII
Helmboles Extract !Mahn is a 'Medicine which' is per
fectly pleasant in Its
TASTE AND ODOR
But immediate in its action, giving Hea l th , and Vigor to
the Frame, Bloom to the Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patient to a perfect state of
. MUSA TH AND PURITY.
Delmbcddie Extract Botha iri pr4parod according to
Pharmacy and Chemistry, arid is prescribed and need by
THE MOST EMINENT PHYSICIANS. •
Delay no longer. Procure the remedy at once.
Prieesl per bottle, or six for $5.
Despot 104 South Tenth street, Philadelphia,
BEWARE OF -UNPRINOIPLED DEALERS
Trying to palm off their own or other article' of BUCHIi
on the reputation' attained b • _
lIELIifsOLD43..EXTIIAPT Bl7oHtr,
The Original and only Genuine.
We desire to rub on tha
• MERIT OF OVA ARTICLE I
Tholes is worthless —is sold at much lees rates and cow
missions, consequently paying a much better profit.
WS DEVY 00 vIERTITION
Mk for
HELMBOLD 7 O EXTRACT WORD.
Take no other.
Sold by JOHN WYETH, Druggist, corner of Market and
Second streets, Harrisburg,
AND ALL DRUGGISTS EV.NRYWHERR.
nol4
E XTRACTS! EXTRACTS!!
WOODBWOUTH & 11IINNZL , 8
EtirElt/OR FLAVORING RIT.RACTS
Of
BITTER ALMOND L
NECTARINE
PINE APLE,
lITUWZIRRY;
EOM
VANILLALEMON Ainy
1
Just reeei,ed and for sale by
- WM. DQ9K, /LI CO.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1861.
Eti't atript nion.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 16, 1861
INATJG ITRA L ADDRESS
or
GOV. ANDREW G. CURTIN,
DELIVERED JANUARY 15, 1861
FELLOW CITIZENS: Having been entrusted by
the people of Pennsylvania, with the adminis
tration of the Executive department of the gov
ernment for the next three years, and having
taken a solemn oath of fidelity to the Constitu
tion of the United States, and to the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, I avail myself of your
presence to express to you, and through you to
the people of the State, my gratitude for the
distinguished honor they hat e,„in their parti
ality, conferred upon me.
Deeply impressed with its responsibilities
and duties, I enter upon the office of. Governor
of Pennsylvania, with a determination to fulfil
them all faithfully to the utmost of my ability.
Questions of great moment intimately connected
with the feelings and interests of the people of
all parts of the Nation, now agitate the public
mind ; and some of them, from their novelty
and importance, are left for settlement in the
uncertainty of the future. A selfish caution
might indicate silence as the safest course to
be pursued as to these questions, by one just
entering upon the responsibilities of high offi
cial position ; but fidelity to the high trust re
posed in me demand, especially atthisjuncture,
that I yield to an honored custom which re
quires a frank declaration of the principles to
be adopted, and the policy to be pursued during
my official term.
We have assumed, as the great fundamental
truth of onr political theory, that man is capable
of self-government, and that all power emanates
from the people. An experience of seventy-one
years, under the Constitution of, the United
States, has demonstrated to all mankind that
the people can • be.agtrusted with their own
political destinies; aillthe deliberate expression
of their will should furnish the rule of conduct
to their representatives in official station. Thus
appreciating their liberal capacity for self-gov
ernment, and alive - to, the importance of pre
serving, pure and unsullied - as it came from the
hands of the Apostles of Libeir, this vital prin
ciple, I pledge myself to stand between it and
encroachments, whether instigated by hatred or
ambition,-by fanaticism or folly. ,
The poicy that should regulate the adminis
tration of the government of our- State, was
declared by its founders, and is fully estab
lished by experience. It is just and fraternal
in its aims, liberal in its Spirit, and patriotic
in its progress. The freedom of speech and of
the press, the right of conscience and of pri
vate judgment in civil and religious faith, are
the high , pierogatives to which the American
oitigeit is born. In our social organization the
rich and the poor, the high and the low, enjoy
these equally, and the Constitution and the
laws in harmony therewith, protect the rights
of all. Theintelligence of the people is one
of the main pillars of the fabric of our govern
ment, and the highest -hopes of the patriot for
rte safety: rest: on- enlightened public morality
sacrin •v. • • • —801461 S
-
' •
will ever enlist my earnest Bateau e.a—
or its
growing wants the most ample provision should
be made by the Legislature. feel that I need
not urge this duty. The system- has been
gaining in strength and usefulness for a quar
ter •of a century, until it has silenced opposition
by its beneficent fruits. It has at times lan
guished for want of just appropriations, from
changes and amendments of the law, and per
haps from inefficiency in its administration ;
but it has surmounted every difficulty and is
now regarded by the enlightened and patriotic
of every political faith as the great bulwark of
safety for our free institutions. The manner
in which this subject is presented to the Legis
lature, by my immediate predecessor, in his
annual message, fully harmonises with public
sentiment ; and his recommendation for aid to
the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania
meets my most cordial approbation. Invited
to the rich prairie lands of the West, where the
labor of the husbandman is simple and uniform,
when population has filled our valleys, it passes
away from our highland soils where scientific
culture is required to reward labor by bringing
fruitfulness and plenty out of comparative
sterility. While individual liberality has done
much for an institution that is designed to edu
cate the farmer of the State, the School lan
guishes for want of public aid. An experience
of ten years has fully demonstrated that the in
stitution can be made self-sustaining ; and it
requires no aid from the State except for the
completion Of the buildings in aocordance with
the original design. A liberal appropriation
for that purpose would be honorable to the
Legislature and ,a just recognition of a system
of public instruction that is of the highest im
portance to the State in the development of
our wealth, the growth of our population and
the prosperity of our great agricultural inter- -
eats.
The State having been wisely relieved of the
management of the public improvements by
their sale, the administration of the govern
ment is greatly simplified, its resources are
certain and well understood, and the amount
of the public debt is definitely ascertained. A
rigid economy in all its various departments and
a strict accountability from all public officers,
are expected by our people, and they shall not
be disappointed. Now that the debt of the
State is in the course of steady liquidation, by
the ordinary means of the treasury, all unne
cessary expenditures of the public money must
be firmly resisted, so that the gradual diminu
tion of the indebtedness shall not be interrupted.
To promote the prosperity of the people and
the power of the Commonwealth, by increasing
her financial resources, by a liberal recognition
of the vast interests of our commerce, by hus
banding our means and diminishing the burdens
of taxation and of debt, will be the highest
objects of my ambition '
and all the energy of
my administration will be directed to the ac
complishment of these results.
The pardoning power is one of the most im
portant and delicate powers conferred upon
the Chief Magistrate by the Constitution, and
it should always be exercised with great cau
tion, and never except on the most conclusive
evidene6 that it is dne to the condemned, and
that the public security will not be prejudiced
by the act. When such applications are pre
sented to the Executive it is due to society, to
the administration of justice, and to all inte
rested, that publio notice should be given. By
the adoption of such a regulation imposition
will- be prevented and just efforts will be
strengthened.
The association of capital and labor, under
acts of incorporation;. where the purposes to be
accomplished are beyond the reach of individ
ual enterprise, has long been the polity of the
State, and has done much to advance the pros
perity of the people. Where the means of the
citizens are moderate, as they generally are in
a new and growing country, and where the
concentration of the capital of many is neon
eery to development and progress, such associa
tion!, when - judiciously restricted, confer large
benefits on the State. The vast resources of
Pennsylvania, and the variety of her mechani
cal and other industrial pursuits, invite capi
tal and enterprise from abroad, which, on every
sound principle of political economy, should
be encouraged. Much of the time of the
Legislature is consumed by applications for
special chartered privileges which might be
saved by the enactment of general laws and by
such amendment to our general mining and
manufacturing law as will remove needless and
burthensome restraints, and at the same time
afford ample protection to capital and labor,
and to the community at large. Our statute
books arc full of acts of incorporation confer
ring special priveleges, various as they are
numerous, dissimilar in their grants of power,
and unequal in their liabilities and restrictions.
Well considered and judicious general laws to
meet all classes of corporations, would remedy
the evil, economize time and money, relieve
the Legislature from the constant pressure for
undue privileges; and be just and equal to all
in their administration.
The veto power
.conferred upon the Execu
tire was.given with much hesitation, and not
without serious apprehensions as to its abuse,.
by the framers of our organic law. It is, in
my judgment, to be used with the greatest eau
thm, and only when legislation is manifestly
inconsiderate, or of more than doubtful con
stitutionality. The legislators, chosen as they
are directly by the people, in such a manner
that a fair expression of their views of the true
policy of the government can always be had,
give to all well considered measures of legisla
tion the solemn sanction - of the highest power
of the" State, and it should not be arbitrarily
interfered with. While I shall shrink from no
duty involved by the sacred trust reposed in
me by the people of the Commonwealth, I would
have all other departments of the government
appreciate the full measure of responsibility
that devolves upon them.
The position of mutual estrangement in
which the different sections . of our country
have been placed by the precipitate action and
violent denunciation of heated partizans, the
apprehension of still more serious complica
tions *of our political affairs, and the fearful
uncertainty of the future, have had the effect
of .weakening commercial credit, and partially
interrupting
. trade ; and, as a natural conse
quence, deranging our exchanges and curren
cy. Yet the elements of general prosperity are
everywhere . difftised amongst us. and nothing is
wanting but a return of confidence to. enable
us to reap the rich rewards of our diversified
industry and enterprise. Should the restitution
of confidence in business and commercial cir
cles be long delayed; the Legislature, in its
wisdom, will, I doubt not, meet the necessities
of the crisis in a generous and patriotic spirit.
Thus far our system of Government has fully
anSwered the expectations of its founders, and
has denionstrated the capacity of the people for .
Self-government. The country has advanced in
wealth, knowledge and power, and secured to
all classes of its citizens the blessings of peace,
prosperity and happiness_ The workings of
Our simple and natural political organizations'
have given direction and energy to individual
and associated enterprise, maintained public
order, and promoted the welfare of all parts of
Our vast and eipanding country. No one who
knoictithe history of Penniylvania and under
arida the' opinions and feelings of her people,
- JutTaarpr - '5. ,, ,----=.4...t.t.att0, .41- our
brethren of other States, We regard them as
friends'and fellow countrymen, in whose welfare
we feel a - kindred interest and we recognize, in
their broadest extent, all our constitutional
obligations to them. These we are ready and
willing to observe generously and fraternally
in their' letter and spirit, with unswerving
fidelity.
The election of a President of the United
States, according to the forms of the Constitu
tion, has recently been made a pretext for
disturbing the peace of the country by a delibe
rate attempt to wrest from the Federal Govern
ment the powers which the people conferred on
it when adopted the Constitution. By this
movement the question whether the government
of the United States embodies the prerogatives,
rights and powers .of sovereignty, or merely
represents, for specific purposes, a multitude
of independent communities, confederated in
league.which any one of them may dissolve at
will, is now placed directly before the American
people. Unhappily this question is not pre
sented in the simple form of political discussion,
but complicated with the passions and jealousies
of impending or actual conflict. .
There is nothing in the life of Mr. Lincoln,
nor in any of his acts or declarations before or
since his election, to warrant the apprehension
that his Administration will be unfriendly to
the local institutions of any of the States. No
sentiments but those of kindness and concilia
tion have been expressed or entertained by the
constitutional majority which elected him; and
nothing has occurred to justify the excitement
which seems to have blinded the judgment of a
part of the people, and is precipitating them
into revolution.
The supremacy of the National Government
has been so fully admitted and so long cher
ished by the people of Pennsylvania, and - so
completely has the conviction of its nationality
and sovereignty directed their political action,
that they are surprised at the pertinacity with
which a . portion of the people elsewhere main
tain the opposite view. The traditions of the
past, the recorded teachings of the Fathers of
the Republic, the security of their freedom and
Prosperity, and their hopes for the future, are
all in harmony with an unfaltering allegiance
to the National Union, the maintenance of the
Constitution and the enforcement of the laws.
They have faithfully adhered to the compromi
ses of our great National compact, and willingly
recognized the peculiar institutions and rights
of property of the people of other States.—
Every true Pennsylvanian admits that his first
civil and political duty is to the General Gov
ernment, and he• frankly acknowledges his ob
ligations to protect the constitutional rights of
all who live under its authority and enjoy its
blessings.
I have already taken occasion i o say publicly,
and I now repeat., that if we have any , laws
upon our statute books which infringe upon
the rights of the people of any of the States,
or contravene any law of the Federal Govern.
mont, or obstruct its execution, they ought to
be repealed. We ought not to hesitate to ex
hibit to other States that may have enacted
laws interfering with the rights, or obstructive
of the remedies which belong constitutionally
to all American citizens, an example of mag
nanimity and of implicit obedience to the para
mount law, and by a prompt repeal of every
statute that may even, by implication, be liable
to reasonable objection, do our part to remove
every just cause of dissatisfaction with .our
legislation.
Pennsylvania has never faltered in her re
eognition of all the duties imposed upon her
by the national compact, and she will, by every
act consistent with her devotion to the inter
ests of her own people, promote fraternity and
peace, and a liberal comity between the States.
Her convictions on the vital questions which
have agitated the public mind are well under
stood at home, and should not be misunderstood
abroad. Her verdicts have been as uniform as
they have been decisive, in favor of the dignity;
the prosperity and the progress of her free in
dustry, and support of the principles of liberty
on which the government is founded, and
menace or rebellion cannot reverse them. They
have passed into history as the deliberate judg
ment of her people, expressed in a peaceful,
fraternal and constitutional manner; and when
they shall have been administered in the gov
ernment, as soon they will be, the madness that
now rules the hour will subside, as their' patri
otic, faithful and national aims bring ample
protection and peaceful progress to all sections
of the Republic.
In the grave questions which now agitate the
country, no State has a more profound concern •
than Pennsylvania. Occupying a geographical
position between the North and the South, the
East and the West, with the great avenues of
travel and trade passing through her borders,
carrying on an extensive commerce with her
neighbors, in thereat and varied productions of
her soil, her mines and her manufacturing in
dustry, and bound to them by the ties of kin
dred and social intercourse, the question of dis
union involves momentous consequences to her
people. The second of the thirty-three States
in population, and the first in material re
sources, It is due both to ourselves and to the
otherStatee, that% fen' WSWieitl'itiaticatuitagf,
Pennsylvania on the question should be 'dite:`
tinctly understood.
All the elements of wealth and greatness
have been spread over the State, by a kind Pro
vidence with profuse liberality. Our tempe
rate climate, productive soil, and inexhaustible
mineral wealth, have stimulated the industry
of our people and improved the skill of our
mechanics. To develope, enlarge and protect
the interests which grow out of our natural
advantages, have become cardinal principles of
political economy in Pennsylvania, and the
opinion everywhere prevails among our people
that development, progress and wealth depend
on educated and requited labor; and that labor.
and the interests sustained by it, should be ad
equately protected against foreign competition.
The people of Pennsylvania have always fa
vored that policy which aims to elevate and
foster the industry of the country in the collec
tion of revenue for the support of the General
Government ; and whenever they had the op
portunity, in a fair election, they have vindi
cated that policy at the ballot-box. When
their trade was prostrated and their industry
paralyzed by the legislation of the General
Government, which favored adverse interests,
they waited patiently for the return of another
opportunity to declare the-public will in a con
stitutional manner. In the late election of
President of the United States the principle of
protection was one of the imminent issues.—
With the proceedings of Congress at its last
session fresh in their memories, a large ma
jority of the people of Pennsylvania enrolled
themselves in an organization, which, in its
declaration of principles, promised, if success- .
ful, to be faithful to their suffering interests
and languishing industry. Protection to labor
was one of 'the great principles of its platform ;
it was inscribed on its banners; it was advo
cated by its public journals ; and throughout
the canvass it was a leading text of the orators
of the successful party.
This is a propitious moment to declare that
while the people of Pennsylvania were not in
different to other vital issues of the canvass,
they , were demanding justice for theinselves in
the recent election, and had no design to inter , .
en with L or abridge the'rightt3 of, • the people
Ater"ol tategtica.
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been retarded by, the abrogation of the princi
ple of protection from the revenue laws of the
national government; bankruptcy had-crushed'
the energies of many . of our most enterprising
citizens; but no voice of disloyalty or treason
was heard, nor was an arm raised to offer vio
lence to the sacred fabric of Our national Unfon.
Conscious of their rights and their power, our
people looked to the ballot-box alone as the
legal remedy for existing evils.
In the present unhappy condition of the coun
try, ft will be our. duty to unite with the people
of the States which remain loyal to. the Union,
in any just and honorable measures of concili
ation and fraternal kindness. Let us invite
them to join us in the fulfillment of all our
obligations under the Federal Constitution and
laws. Then we can cordially unite with them
in claiming like obedience from those Statea
which have renounced their allegiance. If the
loyal States are just and ~ moderate, without
any sacrifice of right or self-respect, the
threatened danger may be averted.
Ours is a National government. It has
within the sphere of its action all the Mini
bates of sovereignty, and among these are the
right and duty of self-preservation. It is
based upon a compact to which all the people
of the United States are parties. It is the
result of mutual concessions, which were made
for the purpose of securing reciprocal benefits.
It acts directly on the people, and they owe it
a personal allegiance. No part of the people,
no State nor combination of States, can volun
tarily secede from the Union, nor absolve
themselves from their obligations to it. To
permit a State to withdraw at pleasure from
the Union, without the consent of the rest, is
to confess that our government is a failure.—
Pennsylvania 'can never acquiesce in such a
conspiracy, nor assent to a doctrine which
involves the destruction of the Government.—
If the Government is to exist, all the require
ments of the CODEititution must be obeyed ; and
it must have power adequate to the enforce
ment of the supreme law of the- land in every
State. It is.the first duty of the National au
thorities to stay the progress of anarchy and
enforce the laws, and Pensylvania with a uni
ted people, will give them an honest, faithful
and active support. The people mean •to pre
serve the integrity of the National
_Union. at
every hazard. .
The Constitution which was originally framed
to promote the welfare of thirteen States and
four millions of people, in less than three quar
ters of a century has embraced thirty-three
States and thirty millions of inhabitants. Our
territory has been extended over new climates,
including people with new interests and wants,
and the Government has protected them all.
Everything requisite to the perpetuity of the
Union and its expanding power, would seem to
have been foreseen and provided for by the
wisdom and sagacity of the framers of the Con
stitution.
It is all we desire or hope for, and all that our
fellow-countrymen who complain, can reason
ably demand. It provides that amendments
may be proposed by Congress; and, whenever
the 'necessity to amend shall occur, the people
give to . the amendments
of Pennsylvania will
which Congress may propose, the 'careful and
deliberate consideration which their- impor
tance may demand. Change is not always pro
greets, and a people who have lived Belong, and
enjoyed so much prosperity, who have so many
sacred memories of the past, and such rich le
gacies to transmit to the future, should delibe
rate long and seriously before they attempt to
alter any of the fundamental principles of the
great charter of our liberties.
I assume the duties of this high office at the
most trying period of our national history.
The public mind is agitated by fears, suspicions
and jealoueiee, Serious, apprehensions of the
future , pervade the people. A preconoerted
and organized effort has been made to disturb
'the itatility of Government, dissolve the Theieul
the States, and mar the symmetry awl rage
PUBLIEHEt. EVERY MORNING,
MUNDATS iitiPTED,
BY 0. BARRE i tT & cd.
PTIN DAILY PATRIOT AND 'UNION will be owed to auk
seribers residing; in the Borough for sm . chi itTlinin want
payable to th 6 Oarrier. Mall rnbeoritars, tors - nor.
I.APB PIN ANTON.
Pau W/hUILY will be published as heretofore, sem&
Weekly during the session of the Legislature, and once a
weak the remainder of the year, for two dollars in ad
vance, or three dollars at the expiration of the year.
Connected with this establishment is an intensive
JOB OPPION, containing a variety of plain sad fang
type, unequalled by any establishment in the interior Of
the State, for which the patroness of the publics la go. "
Suited.
NO. 115.
of the noblest politiell structure ever devised
and enacted by human wisdom. It shall be
my earnest endeavor to justify the confidence
which you have reposed in me, and to deserve
your approbation. With a conciousness of the
rectitude of my intention*, with no resentments
to cherish, no enmities to avenge, no wish' but
the public good to gratify, and with a profound'
sense of the solemnity of my position, I hum
bly invoke the assistance of our Heavenly Fa
ther, hi whom alone is my • dependence, that
His strength may sustain and His wisdon guide
me. With His divine aid I shall apply myself
faithfully and- fearlessly to my reeponsible.du
ties, and abide the judgment of a generoutt
people.
Invoking the blessing of the God of our fatli-
ers upon our State and Nation • it shall be the
highest object of my ambition la contribute to
the glory of the Commonwealth, maintain the
civil and religions privileges of the people,
and promote the union, prosperity and happi
ness- of the oeuntr • .
GENERAL HEWN.
SINGULAR ACM/WM—ln Washington, on
Wednesday morning, as the hotel omuibusses
Wirciprellot xple7"ce.4444amt in time for the
early train, the horses attaeliait *Oh of itllt'
owned by the M'essrs. Willard, and that belong- :
ing to Clay's Hotel, took fright,. and run up ,
Third street at a furious rate. When at the
corner of Third and G street's, omni
bus upset, and the cmnphene lamp, Which was
in the front'part, exploded, setting fire to the
straw inside the vehicle. It was impossible to
extinguish it,- and the omnibus was entirely
consumed.
NEWSPAPER YOSTAGE NltilatACMA.—The
postage upon newspapers- addressed to any
part of Nicaragua upon the Pacific slope via
Panama, is two cents each, being the United
Statespostaile only. Upon newspapers addressed
to San Juan d'el Norte, or other places on the
Gulf coast of Nicaragua, sin cents each must
be collected at the mailing office in , the United
States, being the• United States and British
postage..
The Mobile Wine Company report that, should
the season be favorable, they expect to make
this year-10,000"gallons, or BOO' gallo u s to the
acre. The actual capital stock ottlie compaity
is now $20,000. It la now proposed to add to.
this $lO,OOO. During.the two years which the
company has been. in existence, the stockhold
ers have paid in forty per cent. on the 'capita
subscribed.
COINAGE OF FOREIGN COINS.—The Philadel
phia Ledger states that the coinage of foreign
coins at the United States mint will be deferred
some time yet, in consequence of the die of
1861 not being ready. A die has been pre
pared but it is found to be too small, and coin
age will therefore be stopped till a suitable one
MU be furnished..
A philanthropic old gentlemen in. St. Louis
was stopped on the street by a• young woman,
who appealed for•hie protection, telling the
story of her wrong;: and feeling considerable
interest in. her ease, he promised to see her
again. He didn't oare to, however.. Reason—,
she had stolen his pocket-book, with sl,oooin
money and notes.
LIEUT. GEN. SCOTT.—General Scott is the
largest man in the American service. He IS
six feet six inches tall, and weighs two hundred
atm An ......at.p..fonr...searS
old, yet his health is good, and his whole aye=
tem is apparently vigorous—much of which is
owing, doubtless, -- to.his very temperate habits.
The Milwaukie Sentinel says the wool crop
of Wisconsin, for 1860, is estimated by parties
in the trade, who canvassed the State pretty
thoroughly, at a within) and a quarter pounds,
against a yield of a- million pounds in 1859,
indicating an increase of 25 per cent. in the
production of this article in one year.
The South Carolina papers are discussing
what shall be like name of the new confederacy.
A correspondent of the Mercury suggests "Apa
laeltia." One in the Columbia Guardian pro
poses "Columbia." The editor prefers the
words "Southern Confederacy." A Virginia
paper suggests " Washington.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a
lecture on the Pilgrim Fathers, at-Cooper In
stitute, New York, on Mondtty- evening, in
which he eulogised their character, - remarking
with emphasis that he should like to vote for
Cromwell for President of the United States.
The Richmond Whig, in views of the national
crisis, urges the 'Legislature not to make any
appropriations other than are absolutely neces
sary for carrying on the government, and ad
vises that the work on all railroads besuspended
at once •
TRAIN SNOWED Up:—.A. train of CUM on the
Virginia and Tennessee railroad reached
Lynchburg on Thursday afternoon, after having
been detained on the mountain for three and
a half days in the snow, which is reported to
be from thirty to forty. inehea deep in the
vicinity of Shawsville.
New JERSEY LEGISLATE/lE.—The lower house
of the New Jersey Legislature was organized
on Wednesday by the choice of 'Democratic of
ficers, though not the regular caucus nominees.
This war effected by the Republicans voting
for Douglas. Democrats, who thus succeeded.
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIEGINIA.—David Paul
Brown, of Philadelphia, has been appointed
to deliver the annual oration before the Wash
ington and Jefferson Societies of the Univer
sity of Virginia, on the 4th of July next, and
has accepted.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILEOAD,- , -The SEISE/ of
land by the Illinois Central Railroad Company
the first week in January amounted to $56,000.
The cash collections for land sold, $23.000--
The sales exceed those of the entire month of
January, 1860.
ARDENT or INDICTED RESCIIEDS.—A. Brown
lee, R. hi!Laren and Hiram Dunn, indicted in
Ohio, for rescuing a fugitive slave, have been
arrested and held for trial. The Rev. George
Gordon, the leader in the rescue, has fled to
Canada.
TDB GRIDIRON RAILROAD ENZOlsro.--Judge
Leonard, of New York, has rendered a decision
in the Gridiron Railroad case,' ordering a per
petual injunction against the grantees, on the
ground of the unconstitutionality of the law.
The Pittsburg Dispateh. of Saturday, says that
Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster,, the most violent of all
the female anti-slavery lecturers, was rudely
treated in her lecture, at New Lisbon,'Ohio,
last week.
Pius IX. has received as Peter's pence 10,-
752,000 francs, which, though large in itself,
is het Mille, for the working of an expensive
government.
The New York Legislature Ids a bill before
them proposing to make many radical changes
in the present charter of the city.
On Saturday the steamer Ben Deford left
Norfolk with 700 balbs of cotton, and the
Jamestown with 600 bales, both for New York.
Orville (lordlier, the reformed pugilist ? ill
said to be lying dangerously ill Obis reeideage
ix, New York.
The nomination of Mr. Wsleh. sit Secretary
Of Legatiou to France, was confirmed on Mon
day,