IiA.TES OF ADVERTIBING. gear lines or less Constitute half Warn. Ten linen as viore than four, carnetitute a eqUare. oft,i ,05edaY.......40:2 One sq., one day---- 80:64 oneweelf--- 1.00 " ono week...» 1016 one month.... 2.00 4, ono month. 3.00 0. three months. 3.00 three months., COO six mont_ . 4.00 gg six. months .. . ti one year--- . • 6.00 44 one year.— 10.00 V- Business notices inserted in the Loon. Gown, Or ae{ore marriages and deaths, PITII CENTS PBS LINZ fOreaell joertion To meralaantaand others advertisingby the rear 16 will be offered. o ne mast be designated= the 1110 eumlber of inserti Ivertieamant: aiarriages and Deaths !du beineerted at the same teas regular advertisements. Boahol Stationer% &E._ (201100 L BOOKS. school Directors Teachers, Parents, Scholars, and others, in want of g KOlO, School Stationery, &e., will find a complete :mbeetmento at B. M. POLLOCK & SON'S 8008 STORM, sio rd Square, Harrisbarg, comprising. in part the Follow liADßltB.—MeGnffey's, Parker's, Cobb'! , Angell's eySLIAIRi BOOKS.—MeCnffey's, Cobb's, Webster's, town's,flyerfs_ Combry's_ SNGLISH aceblmees.—snmows, Smith's, Wood blonteith,s, Tut hill's, Wells' alSTOSlSS.—Grimshaw% Davenport's, Frost's, Wit eon% Willard s, Goodrich's, Pinnock% Gloldemith's and Olarlea_ stoddard'e, Stodrtionhil ?de's, Buse'!, Colburn's, Smith and Duke'!, Davie's. ALGEBBAS.--Greeniears, Davies, Dare, Bay% 618 - 04DiCTIONARYS.—Walker's school, Cobb'!, Walker, nercester's llonireliensive, Worceetcl a e Primary, Web gees Primary, Webster's nigh School, Webster's Quarto, J dorous. NATURAL PIULOSOPHLESmstock% Parker% rein's. The above with a great variety of others can at t ap time be found at my store. Also, a whiteco assort ment of School Stationery, embracing in the a corn. plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store. procnred d one days notice. Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates. ALMANACS.—John Baer and Son's Almanac for sale al M pOLLOCK. Ft BON'S 8008 STOUR, Harrisburg. Er Wholesale arid IlataiL myt EUST RECEIVED AT SCREFFER'S BOOKSTORE, ADAMA.II 7 2 - I.NE SL.IiTEAS OF VARIOUS SIZES AND PRICES, Which, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled, REMEMBER THE PLACE, SCHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE, NO. IS MARKET STREET. marl BOOK S! N E W JUST RECEIVED , 4SEAL AND SAY," by the author of Wide, Wide W 9344 1,, " Dollars and Cents," &o. i‘RISTORY OF METRODISR,"by ARtevens, LL_D. For sale at EUREFFERS 7 BOOKSTORE, sp9 No.IB Mario st. JUST .RECEIVED, • LABGR Alb SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL WINDOW CURTAINS , PAPER BLINDS, Of irarions Designs and Mims, for 8 Gents, TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER, At [mai] SCHEIRER'S BOOKSTORE. WA - LL PAPER WALL PAPER I ! last received, oar Spring 'Stock of WALL. ~P PAPER, BOBDERSiItiI SCREENS; &c., &o. Ulu theist-gest and best selectedsasortment lathe city, rangiugin price from aix (6)cents up to one dollar and aquarter ($1.25.) Al we parcheme very PM &sr cash, we are prepared to cell at as law rates, if not lower; than can be had elan. where. If parchasere will' call and examine, we feel confident that we can please them in respect to price and quality. E. M POLLOCK & SON, md Below Jon& House, Market Square, T ETTE R, CAP, NOTE P ►PE R,S, .1.1 Pens, Holders, Pencils, Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of the beet quality, at low prices, direct from the manu factories, at mar3o SCHEYPEWS CHEAP BOOKSTORE TAW BOOKS LAW BOOKS ! 121-4 general assortment of LAW BOORS, all the State Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of the old English Reports, scarce and rare, together with a large assortment of second-hand Law - Book!, at very low prices, at the one price bookstore of - - E. M. POLLOCK & EON, myB Market Square, Harrisburg. ItlisteUancoup. AN ARRIVAL OF NigW GOODS APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON! BILK LINEN PAPER FANS! FANS!! I A N 8 ! ! ! ANOTHER AND SPLENDID LOT Of SPLICED FISHING RODS! front Flies, Get and Hair snoods, Grass Lines, Silk tai Hair Plaited lanes, and a general assortment of FISHING TAOHLE! A OREAT NAHUM" Of WALKING CAN.E Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest! Barer Hood Loode4l word H ickory 711'1 Canes! Canes! Canes: vanes. came! HELLER'S DRIIII ,AND.TA.NOY STORE, no. 91 halms? MEET, bilth Me, one door east of Fourth street je9. 1) J. HARILIS, D. WORKER IN TIN, SHEET IRON, AND METALLIC HOOFING, Second Street, below Chestnut, HARRISBURG, PA. Is prepared to All orders for any article in his branch of Besione 3 . and if not en hand, he will make to order on short notice. IVIBTALLW ROOFING, of Tin or debunked iron, constantly on hand. Also, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Spouting, &o. He hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his etude onrs, to merit and receive a geceroce share of publim W attage. /13 - Every promise strictly fulfilled. B. J. HARRIS, Second Street, below Chestnut. jan7 - dly 1 FISIIII FIS Hlll MACKEREL, (Nos. 1, 2 sod 3.) SALMON, (very superior.) 211 AD, (Mess and very tine.) HERRING - , (extra large,) COD FISH. SMOKED HERRING, (extra Digby,) SCOTCH HERRING. SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES. Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter and eighth bbls. Herring in whole and half bbls. Tho eutiro lot - nOw—DIRBOT FROM THIS FIERISIS/SS, awl will sell them at the lowest market rates. 8414 WM. DOOR, JR., & CO. CHAMPAGNE WINESI DUO DE MONTEBELLO, ' lIEIDSLECK & CO., CHARLES HEIDSIECK, GIESLER & CO. ANCHOR—SiLLERY MOITSSEUX, RAMMING MUSCATEL, MMUS & VERZENAY, CABINET. In store and for sale by de2o WOKORY j WOOD! !—A SUPERIOR LOT wit received, and for sale in quantities to suit pur tbssers, by JAMES M. WHEELER, Also, OAR AND PINE eenatitotly on hand at the ltivest-prioes. dee, 1 1 ARMY BIBLES, from 1* to 6E4 strew and handsomely bound, printed on good paper, With elegant elear new type, Bold at main • . SOREIBER'S Cheap ilooh.47re. lIRANBERRIES I !—A SPLENDID LOT hat received. by • WM. DOCK, In., do CO. FOR a superior and cheap lAMB. Or . SALAD OIL gc! to. - itEgniv r a Dana STOUP dbook—by TAT Fruit Grower it HAUL - WA II IIO4-4wboleesle 'Matsu at ' ' ' Mahn 8011111.11.141 Boolurtore. E VANDLES.—A large 11°- pply 3 bat Tecetvell seplll , w IMOK. la., &_09 .. . • 2 ELLEWS.DRIJO- STORE is the Om . t. Bad the best easortment of Porte Monnabox. JOHN H. ZIEGLER, 73 Market street. • • . _.,....., •,,_-,.. a iw__.,...- ;,..„-__:_-:-_,•„._. _ •:.-- -_:----7-1. , , , ` 7 . 0 4 _2_,6 - -:_,- - 1 -•-• ,-_-.zl. ,;.--,_- . . . _,--_-.-----. 7-..--- _ _„ _..... --- c. - ..,•.--.7,,,„,..,-- : :,-,_-5-___. .. i ._•.- . . _ .... Ai " .. . ,------ f - _ - _ , ....- , - , -. 1 ......kr,. • i • 1 1 II .-...--- • _- --_ ... . . 111! • . _ . . _-- - - -.- • .._ . . . . . . . . . • t -.1 1 nion ._ .. . .•• •-,----_-_: _.-,..•••-_-_- _ . _..,- _________- • --.:••• -- ‘. . . . . . . _ _ . I , f. ::47 . 7. ~. . . •' !! 1 - -..-, - • , .. VOL. 3. 41toal. TO THE PUBLIC! JOHN TILL'S COAL YARD, SOUTH SECOND STREET,' BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL, HARRISBURG, PA., Where he has constantly on hand LYKENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND NUT 00A14, ALSO, WILKESBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE AND NUT COAL, ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY. It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full weight warranted. Eye , CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOR YOUR WINTER SUPPLY. DX' Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near Fifth; on at Brubaker , a, North street; J. L. Speel's, Market Square; Win. Bostick's, corner of Second and South streets, and John Lingle's, Second and Mulberry streets, will receive prompt attention. jyl3-d6na JOHN TILL. COAL! C:OALII ONLY YARD IN TOIVN_THAT DELIVERS COAL BY THE PATENT WEIGH CARTS! NOW IS TEE TIME For every family to get in their supply of Coal for the winter—weighed at their door by the Patent Weigh Carts. The accuracy of these Carts no one disputes, and they never get out of order, as is frequently the cue of the Platform Scales p besides, the consumer has the satisfaction of proving the weight of his Coal at his own house. I have a largo supply of Coal on hand, co-Acting of 8. M. CO.'S LYKENS VALLEY WELL all sizes, LYKENS VALLEY WILKESBARRE do, BITUMINOUS BROAD TOP do. All Coal of the best quality mined, and , delivered free from all impurities" at the lowest rates" by the boat or car load, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel. JAMES M. WHEELER. Harrisburg, September 24, 1.860.—5ep25 UP TOWN! PATENT WEIRS CARTS For the convenience of my numerous up town custom ers, I have established, in connection with my old yard, a Branch Coal Yard inipoaito North street. In a lino with the Pennsylvania canal, having the office formerly occu pied by.. Mr. 11. Harris. where ?mermen of-Coal in that vicinity and Verbeketown can receive their Coal by the PATENT WEIGH CARTS, - - WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE FOR HAULING, And in any quantity they may desire, as low as can be purchased anywhere. FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON HAND, Of LYRBNS VALLEY and WILIEBSBARRE, all sizes. 117" Willing to maintain fair prices, but unwilling to be undersold by any parties. jp"'All Coal forked up and delivers I clean and free from aid impurities, and the best article mined. Orders received at either Yard will be promptly filled, nd all Coal delivered by . the Patent Weigh Carts. Coal sold by Boat, Car load, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel. JAMES M. WHEELER. Harrisburg, October 13. lio3o—octls LYKKNS VALLEY NUT COAL FOE Sale AT TWO DOLLARS PER TON. All Coal dotivered by PATENT WE IGIT CARTS JAMES H. WHEELER 117 Coaldelivered from both yards. nol7 It HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLDYS H ELMBt ►LD'S HELMBOLDYS HELMBOLWS H ELMBOLWS HELMBOLEVS HELM BoLD , S H ELM BoLDYS H ELMBOLWS HELMBOLWS HELM BOLEPS HELMIsOLD 9 S HELMBOLD9S Extract Dacha, Extract Buchu, Extrait &Lahti., . Etteact Bathu, Extract Bitch% Extract macho, Extract Bachn, Extract Buchu, Extract Bachtt, Extract Nicht', Extract ilacqu, .Extract 'Bach.% Xatrat Buda, Lurid Dub% FOR SECRET ANL• DELIcaTE DISORDERS FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS 10 SHO RET AND DELICATE DISO'RDERS FOR : SECR ET AND DELICATE DISORDERS FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS FOR SECRET A , s.D DELICATE DISORDERS MR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS A Positive and Specific Remedy. A Positive and Specific Remedy. A Positive and Specific R. , medy• A Positive and Specific ttemedy. A Positive and Specific Remedy. A Post ive and Specific Remedy. A Positive and Specific Remedy. FOR DISEASES uB TEE BLADDER, GRAVEL MANEy% DROPSY, BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY, BLADDER, - GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY, BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY, BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPNY, BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY , BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY, ogliwqr.) WEAKNESS, ORGANIC WE +MESAS, ORGANIC WEAKNESS, ORGANIC WEAKNESS, ORGAN:O WEAKNESO, ORGANIC WhA KNEW And all Diseases of hennas Organs, And all Dis.ases of Sexual organs, And all Diseases of Sexual Organs, And all Diseases of Sexual Organs, And all Diseases of Sexual Organs, And all Diseases of S..eual Organs, ARISING FROM Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life. Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudenoies in Life. F.xeesses, Expostire-, and Imprudencies in Lire. Excesses, Excosnres, and Immudeneiss in Life. Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life. Excesses, Exposures, and Imprnoencies in Life. Prom whatever ea, se originating, %nd whether existing in MALE OR FEMALE. Females, take no more Pills ! They are of no avail for Complaints incident to the Rex. tree EXTRACT BUCRU. Helmhold , s Extract Enchn is a Medicine which is per fectly pleasant in its TASTE AND ODOR , B u t i mm ediate in ite action,. giving Health and Vier to the Frame, DIOOin tO the'Pallld Cheek ) and roistering the patient.to a perfect state of lIRALTH AND PURITY. Heinxboldia extract Buctin is prapared according to Pharmacy and Chemiatry , and is prescribed and used by THE MOST EMYLVENT.PHYSICIANS, Delay no longer. Procure the remedy at once Price $1 per bottle, or six for /63.. Despot 104 South Tenth street, Philadelphia. BEWARE OF UNPRINCIPLED DEALERS Trying to palm off their own or other articles of DiCIORU on the reputation attained by HELMBOLD , B EXTRACT BUCHU, The Ctiginal and only genuine. We desire to ran on the' MERIT OP` 0 UR ARTICLE Their's Is worthless —is sold at much leas ratan aaal com missions, consequently paying a much better prat. WE DEFY 0011PIITITION ! Ask for HELMBOLDI3 EXTRACT 811011117. Take eto other. Sold by JOHN WYETH, Druggist, corner of Market and Second streets, - Harrisburg • AND ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE. nol4 ddr,w3m. EXTRACTS! EXTRACTS!! wooDswoßTH & EtINNEL 2 II g, I7 P-E-Rieß FLAVORING RXTRAGTS BITTER ALMOND or , NECTARINE, APPLE ETRAWISERRY noss,_ LZMON Ain Just received and for side by VANILLA, icao WM. DOOltan CITY LIVERY STABLES, BLACKBERRY ALLEY, illf4 IN THE REAR OF HERR'S HOTEL. The undersigned has re-commenced the LIVERY BUSINESS in hie NEW AND SPACIOUS STABLES, located as above, with a large and varied stork of HORSES, CARRIAGES AND OMNIBUSES, Which he will hire at moderate rates. octi3•dly F. K. SWARTZ. 1 4 1RANK.A. MURRAY L Successor to Wm. Parkhill, LIVERY & EXCHANGE STABLE THIRD STREET BELOW MARKET. • • &Opt' 7114: RAVING purchased the interest of 3. Q. Adams n the adablishment, and made large additions to the stock, the zridersigned is prepared to accommodate the public with iIIPRRIOR HORSES for Saddle or Carriage purposes, and with every variety of VER.I.OLEB of the latest, and most B,pproved styles, on reasonable terms. PLEASURE PARTIES will be accommodated with Om aibusses at short notice. Carriages and Omnibuses, for funeral occasions, will be !urnished, accompanied bycareful and ebligingdrivers. He invites an inspection of his stalk, satisfied that it is wily equal to that of any other establishment of the kind n town. FRANKA: MUR RAY • BRANCH STABLE The undersigned has opened a branch• of his cLivery and Sachange Stable" in the, buildings lately occupied •by A. W. Carr, in Fourth street, opposite the .Bethel, where he prepared to accommodate the public with Horses and Vehicles, at all times, on reasonable terms. His stock is 'ergo and varied, and will recommend itself. aul6-dtf FRANK A. MURRAY. FOR RENT-FROM THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL NEXT—A C,mmodious Two-Story DWELLING HOUSE, in Second street, below Pine,) with wide large Back Build ng, Marble Mantels in Parlors, Gas In six rooms, all the rooms just papered and painted.. The second story divided into seven rooms, one of which Is a Bath. This, in connection with the fact that the house has just been placed in the most thorough repair, makes it one of the most desirable houses in the city. Enquire E. M. POLLOCK, Market Square, Harrisburg.. Also, several SMALL HOUSES for rent. dell-dtf do " " hi OR SAL E—A Light Spring One -1 riong4 wAa-o.N. Apply at'Patterooa o Store, Broad street, West Harrisburg. cle3l-dtf NOTICE TO SPECULATORS ! • VALUABLE BUMPING LOTS FOR SALE! A number of large size BUILDING LOTS, adjoining the Round House and Work Shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will be sold low and on reasonable terms. Apply to an2O-d6in JOHN W. HALL. TAKE NOTICE! . That we have recently added to our already full stock OF SEGARS LA NORMATIS, HARI KARI, EL MONO, LA BANANA. OF PERFUMERY FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF : TURKISH ESSENCE, ODOR OF MUSH, LUBIN'S ESSENCE BOUQUET. Ton Tan HAIR: EAU LUSTRALE, CRYSTALIZED POMATUM, MYRTLE AND VIOLET POMATUM. Pon THE COMPLEXION : TALC OF YENICE, ROSE LEAP POWDER, NEW MOWN HAY POWDER, BLANC DE PERLES. OF SOAPS Rtsfwls FiNwas. MOSS ROSE, BENZOIN, UPPER TEN, VIOLET, NEW MOWN HAY, JOCKEY CLUB. Having the largest stock and best assortment of Toilet Articles, we fancy that we are better able than our com petitors to get up a complete Toilet Set at any price de sired. Call and see. Always on hand, a FRESH Stock of.DR UGS MEDI. LINES, CHEMICALS, &c , consequent of our re ceiving almost daily additions thereto. KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE, 91 Market Street, two doors East of Fourth Street, nape. South-side. JUST - RECEIVED! - A FULL ASSORTMENT OF HUMPHREY'S HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS TO WHICH WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OF THE AFFLICTED! For tale at SCHREIER'S BOOKSTORE, ap9 No. 18 Market at WE OFFER TO A New Lot of LADIES' PURSES, Of Beautiful Styles, substantially made A Splendid Assortment of GENTLEMEN'S WALIfSTS, A New andilElegant Perfume, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' BOQU,ET, Put up in Cut Glass Engraved Bottles. A Complete AMortozont of HANDKERCHIEF PERFUMES, Of the best Manufacture. A very Handsome Variety of POWDER PUFF BOXES, KELLER'S DRUG STORE, jy3l 91 Market street REMOVAL. JOHN W. GLOVER, MERCHANT TAILOR, Kos removed to 60 MARKET STREET, Where he will be pleased to see all his friend octB-dtf CANDLES!!! PARAFFIN CANDLES, SPERM CANDLES, STEARINE CANDLES, ADAMANTINE CANDLES, CHEMICAL. SPERM CANDLES, STAR (SUPERIOR) CANDLES, TALLOW CANDLES. A lorg9 invoice of the above in store, and for sale at unusually lots rates, by WM. DOCK, JR., & CO., jaul Opposite the Court House GUN AND BLASTING POWDER. JAMES M. WHEELER, HARRISBURG, PA., AGENT FOR ALL.. POWDER AND: .FUSE MANISPAITUND DT I. E. DUPONT- DE NEMOURS I CO., ILMINGTON, DELAWARE. ftrA large supply always on hand. • For nue at manu facturer's prim. Magazine two mile) below town. tO"Ordere received at Warehouse. nol7 SOOTOR W HISK Y.—One Puncheon of PURE SCOTCH WHISKY itict received smiler sae b j JOHN H. ZIKOINE, Pox 73 Market sired. MPTY BOTTLES !'!-0f all aizea X./ and descriptions, for sale low by deed pcpp, .k CO. & CO iIARRISI3URG, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1861. Liven) Stables. for Sale & eo Unit. Aliatellatteourp. CUSTOMERS Eke atriot it 'anion. TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 5, 1861. THE SUNBURY AND ERIE RAILROAD, AND THE STATE LEGISLATURE. When, in 1860, the Sunbury and Erie rail road company made application to the Legis lature, their enterprise was already far ad vanced towards completion. In the Eastern Division, 82 miles from Sunbury to Wheatham station, and in the Western Division, 66 miles, from Erie to the borough of Warren, were en tirely finished, and in operation. In the Mid dle Division, the work of grading and bridging having been placed under contract, was being pushed vigorously forward. There were, therefore, at that time, of the whole length of the road, which is 288 miles, finished and in operation,_ 148 miles; ready to receive the superstructure, 100 miles ; leaving ungraded, 40 miles. These latter were since, notwithstanding the heavy financial pressure under which the Com pany labored, considerably reduced, so that at present there remain only 23 miles in an un graded state. In the annual report of the board of mana gers to the meeting of the stockholders, held February 73th, 1860, it was shown that the entire work might be completed in somewhat more than one year from that:date, It was also shown that the company were possessed of the means requisite for that purpose, consisting in bonds and other valuable securities, of which, however, they could not avail themselves, for reasons which will be explained presently. The treasurer's account of the receipts and expenditures, contained in the same document, exhibits the financial condition of the company up to January Ist, 1860, as follows; RECEIPTS Am't of capital stock paid in..... 54,306,920 13 seven per vent, Nolo 594,000 00 Temporary loan .... 861,271 35 Income from the road 270,984 31 Old assets of company... ...... 1,738 78 Proceeds of sale of Delaware Di vision canal. 1,775,000 00 Proceeds of sale of North Branch and Wyoming canals .... 1,600,000 00 Proceeds of sale of West Branch canal 500,000 00 Interest on bonds 199,787 57 Income from canals EXPENDITURES. For road construction and super structure ........ . ... .:.$5,738,024 60 For buildings, land and right of way ........ 375,240 93 For engineering 280,446 97 For maintenance of way 76,016 49 For equipment... 107,252 63 For discount on municipal and other bonds 523,134 11 For interest on stock b0nd5...... 656,734 69 For interest on temporary loans 241,402 86 For incidental expenses, salaries, &c. 238,859 98 For piers at the harbor of Erie.. 91,403 62 Paid to State Treasurer 75 per cent. of nominal s surplu srecei ved from canals . 281,250 00 Balance 1,560,602 92 10,169,869 80 This bolonto oontitio of Liko following items, to wit: Cash ...... ........ $14,730 78 Bills receivable and amounts due by companies... Bonds of the Wyoming canal com- pang 674,000 00 Bonds of the North Branch canal company 346,000 00 Bonds of the West Branch canaj company 337,000 00 Bonds of the city of Erie 7,000 00 Boucle of the Quakake railroad company . . 15,000 00 Stock in telegraph company. 2,000 00 In hands of agents, and balances of the unsettled, accounts 82,686 60 Coal received for tolls 19,411 78 Interest due on bonds 69,801 41 The company had, therefore, at that time, applicable to the payment of their temporary loans and the completion and equipment of the road! The above balance 0f... ...$1,560,602 92 The balance unissued of their 7 per cent bonds ....... 406,000 00 One half the 5 per cent, mertgage bonds secured upon the whole r0ad......... ... 3,500,000 00 Instalments on stock, about 470,000 00 The report of the engineers appointed by the Governor, in pursuance of the act for the sale of the canals, passed in 1858, gives a detailed estimate of the cost for completing the unfin ished portion of the road, and a statement of the assets of the company, as required by the 6th section of that act, fully sustaining the re port of the board of managers, as may be seen from the following extract: ESTIMATE FOR COMPLETING GRADUATION, MA SONRY, AND BRIDGING, Ac. Div. No. 1. Removing any slides that may °emir • $5,000 ic 2. For completinggrad nation, masonry, and bridging. 44,000 o 3, g u 1,250,000 ti 4, cc ti 120,000 4, 5. For completing any repairs 5,000 1,424,000 For track superstructure (main track) from Rattlesnake west- ward, 155 miles • 1,085,000 For adihge 434t1 turnouts, 30 mike 210,000 " ballasting, 18a miles 185,000 " water stations 30,000 ,6 right of way and fencing.... 50,000 ca engineering and contingen . cies 800,000 --$8,284,000 00 Assets of company as handed us this day by Treasurer. ..1,289,576 18 Amount of reserved bonds in hands of Treasurer of State. 3,500,000 00 4,789,576 18 Balance of securities on hand, 1,505,576 18 The following comcluding remarks of the report explain the apparent discrepancy be tween its statement of the assets of the com pany and that given in the report of the com pany's treasurer : "In presenting the above statement, we have taken the contract made with M. Courtwright, Esq., in full amount ($1,250,000,) without any reference to the stock subscription noted in said contract now before us, amounting to $BOO,OOO. This anbeeription we conceive as properly belonging to the assets of the com pany, though , not included in the schedule pre sented to us by the treasurer. And we have also omitted any finlOUnt fOT work which has already been eompleted by M. Courtwright, some of which, we have every reason to be lieve, has' been paid for, though not officially inforMed ad' ,to the .precise amount, which amount bf:Payinents, ae ' well 'as the stook subscription 'above allUded to, would increase the balance noted in the above estimate, thus enabling us as your commissioners to present you with confidence the balance shown in the accompanying estimate as fully sufficient to complete the road as directed under the act of Assembly first above noted, even supposing that the market value of the securities should be below par." To explain, now, the relation which the Stakl i e holds to the company, and the nature of thrlogislative action asked for by the latter, the object of which was to enable them to com plete the road, it is necessary to revert to the act of 1858, for the sale of the State canals.— By that act, the Sunbury and Erie railroad company was authorized to issue its five per cent_ bonds for seven millions of dollars, and secure the payment of the same by a mortgage of its property and franchises. Its property, at that time, consisted of forty miles of rail road, extending from Sunbury to Williamsport, on which there was a mortgage of one million of dollars; a right of way from the latter point to Erie, on which at different points some grading had been done, and about one hun dred and fifty acres of land in the harbor of , Erie, with' a water front .of 3,000 feet. The bonds and mortgages so authorized were exe cuted, and the State received three millions five hundred thousand dollars of the bonds, in consideration of which the canals were granted and conveyed to the company. The residue of the bonds were depositea in the office of the State. Treasurer, to be surrendered to and ap plied by the company to the completion of the railroad from Williamsport to the harbor of Erie. LETTERS TO THE PEOPLE OF PENN SYLVANIA. . ON THE SECTIONAL HIPP ERENC ES, WHICH PLACE IN JEOPARDY THE UNION OF THE STATES—No. 2. FELLOW CITIZENS :—ln my last letter, I ex hibited the position of the seceding States, in the view of National law, as that of de facto Governments, cognizable by other nations, with whom war, if waged, must be waged on the terms of civilized warfare ; captives being treated and exchanged as prisoners of -war, and not regarded us traitors or rebels. I therein showed, that neither the Constitution of the United States, nor any existing act of Congress, clothed the President with power, on any pre tence whatever, to use the naval or military force of the Union against such seceding States; the Congress of the United States being the only authority competent to declare war against de facto Governments at variance with the Fede ral Government: 4. also showed, that, in the event of such declaration of war, fifteen States, whose stars lately sparkled with beneficent light in the glorious galaxy of the Union, will at once be plunged into a fratricidal strife with eighteen other States of the Confederacy. In this letter, I propose to inquire into the exist ence of any good reason for the inauguration, by a Congressional declaration of war against seceding States, of such horrors as a dissolution of the Union, a destruction of trade, civilization and commerce, general anarchy, the conversion of fair and peaceful fields and cities into waste places and scenes of rapine and carnage, the erection of a military despotism and the conse quent extinction of civil and religious freedom among men. The argument in favor of the em ployment of military force, urged by a partizan press and blatant office-seekers, succintly stated is this: Every Government has an inherent right, and is morally bound to maintain its integrity, against every assault, by the employ ment, at its own discretion all the civil and military power it possesses. The United States is a Government, and "secession," as it is termed, is ant4esaultonits integrity; therefore the United States may. with every propriety, employ its military force to put down " seces sion.' The premises of this argument imply that the Government of the United States is not a Confederacy of States, but an original sover eignty, in the absolute sense of the term. Dis regard the anterior political individuality of the CoMmOßWealths of the Confederacy, to gether with their agency in framing the Con stitution of the United States and in maintaining it, and concede the postulate of the ancient Federalist and the modern coercionist, that the Government of the United States is a govern ment in an absolute sense, because it is or dained and established by the people who live under it, as directly, fully, and effectually as are the several State Governments by their respective citizens, and the question of the propriety of employing naval or military force to execute the laws orthe United States within the territory of a seceding State, in the face of its armed resistance, presents itself in a very different aspect from that of engaging in hos % tilities with a creator of the Federal Govern ment—a sovereign State of the Confederacy.— There is a very conceivable distinction between the dismemberment of a Confederacy of equal sovereignties, however intimate, united and sa cred that Confederacy may be, by the solemn withdrawal of a member of it, and an assault upon the integrity of an original, inherent or con solidated sovereignty, with no feature of a Con federacy, by a revolt or rebellion of a disaffected portion of its citizens. While, in the latter instance, the prompt employment of miliiary power may be wise, appropriate and effectual. in the former, it may be the climax of folly and iniquity. To be sure, in both instances, " might is apt to settle the question of right ;" but the results of a conflict between the parties at variance, are widely diverse in each case. Rebellious subjects may be reduced to obedience by military force, without any or but slight inconvenience to the successful government; but a free sovereignty subjugated, becomes an enslaved province, and can never be restored to its pristine dignity and influence. Representa tive h'ephblicanism can no longer exist there.— The military force which conquered it, con verted into a military, despotism ; must hold it, and will, in turn, usurp and destroy the gov ernment which employed it. Borrowing an illustration from a Roman poet, it may be said that an artist would, with as much propriety, incorporate the neck of an horse with the frame of a man, as a statesman introduce military force to coerce a State sovereignty into a Con federacy of Representative Republics. To determine the correctness of the argument of the coercionist, it is therefore necessary to ascertain whether the Government of the United States is the Government of a Confederacy of Sovereign States, or a Government of original, absolute, inherent and integral sovereignty, ir respective of any State organizations, and con stituted by a people owing exclusive allegiance to it as directly, immediately and fully as are the governments of the several Commonwealths which, in 1787, entered into the Union, regula ted by the Constitution of the United States. If the Government of the United States is that of confederate Commonwealths, the argu ment of the coercionist fails, both as respects lawfulness and expediency ; and there is room for an inquiry into the occasion or cause of the sectional differenees which place in jeopardy the union of the States, with a view to a dis covery of some peaceful and appropriate reme dy, as will be attempted in subsequent letters of this series. The Federal Government, as it has always been called, not only in its cotem poraneenis eiposition, "The Federalist," but also ill every State Paper since, is, as the phrase Implies,;"nGovernmest of a eanfederacy of 'Commonwealths." The system is federative, based on a solemn league or compact, and not consolidated. It is what its very title expresses, 60,167,66 10,169,869 80 83,472 35 /,669,902 92 5,936,602 93 8111.115.1113 EXCEPTED, BY 0. BARRETT 80 CO PRs DATLY PATRIOT AND Craton will be served to au b scribers residing in the Borough for aia CENTS NIEMEN* payable to the Carrier. Mail rubscribers, roux not, LAIIB PER ANNUM. THE WEEKLY will be published as heretofore, semi weekly during the session of the Legislature, and once a week the remainder of the year, for two dollar., in ad vance, or three dollars atthe expiration of the year. Connected with this establishment is an extenaive /0B OFFICE, containing a variety of plain and fancy type, unequalled by any establishment in the interior of the State, for which the patronags of the public is so. Betted. NO. 132. the Government of the United States. These States existed anterior, imperfectly united ill the Revolutionary struggles, more perfectly in 1787, and until now, as free and independent sovereignties, and "in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domes tic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity," as appears from the preamble to the Constitution, ordained and established the Government of the United States. That Gov mcnt was instituted for the benefit of each and all of its creating States and to the injury of 12091P—IL Government to he felt by its blessings, rather than by its power. It is a measure of political convenience and expediency, on the part of its constituting States, intended to be perpetual, because of the presumed perpetuity of such convenience and expediency. It is a Government which maintains itself solely by answering the ends of its original creation.— It derives its power from the consent of the people of the respective Stoles, who have a natu ral right to alter, modify or change it, when ever it fails to answer the ends for which it was created, which were purely beneficent, and not injurious or oppressive. The history and prominent features of the Constitution of the United States are these of a confederacy of sovereign States. The thirteen original Com monwealths, which confedereted together in the Revolutionary struggle, framed and ratified the Constitution, of 1787, in their separate State capacity. That Constitution provides for the admission of new States into the Union on the same terms with the original States, and for the equal representation of the States, however numerically unequal, in the Senate of the United States. The Constitution throughout, from beginning to end, is but a written expression of terms and conditions, of compacts and agreements, between the equal State sovereign ties of the Confederation, in relation to limita , tions voluntarily imposed therein, on their respective original sovereignty and to the delegation of certain governmental functions to the Government instituted and marked out by it. If the Government of the United States be not a federative system, what mean those provisions of its Constitution which refer to the apportionment and election of Representa tives in Congress in the several Stoics, in their distinctive capacity, to a choice of President and Vice-President, by State Electoral Colleges, and, on failure thereof, by the several States, voting as equals in the Rouse of Representa tives of the United States ? What means the seventh article of the Federal Constitution, when it provides "that the ratification of the Convention of nine Stales shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same?" , What means the final attesting clause of the same Constitution, as follows, viz. ;—" P 999 in Con vention by the unanimous consent of States present?" What means the tenth article of the amendments to that Constitution, which pro vides that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constittitioe, nor prohibited by It to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people? On the whole, it is perfectly manifest that the Government of the United States is not that of an original, inherent, integral and ab solute sovereignty, as is a government directly instituted by the people in their sovereign capacity, such as this noble old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; but is the creature of pre , viously distinct and independent States, who have never merged or consolidated their sepa rate State existence, and whose compact of Confederation is contained in a written Consti tution, delegating certain limited, statutory and express governmental functions or au thorities to the Government originated by it. If this be not so, what significancy eon be et welled to the emblematic and heraldic stars emblazoned on the flag of the Union ? Each of t.lose stars represents a State of the Union and symbolizes the great political truth, that as each star, in the shining heavens, is the sun of a separate planetary system, the centre and source of light, heat, gravitation, attractien and of all guiding, controlling and governing influence, so each State, in its own political sphere, is independent and sovereign in its governmental dignity and action. A conser vative view of "State Rights," of which a brief and imperfect exposition has been attempted, not only condemns a coercion• of a State with drawn from the Union, as unconstitutional, in expedient, monstrous and ruinous, but like wise repudiates the dogma of " constitutional secession," or a right derivable from and re cognized by the Constitution itself, and to to exercised at the sole pleasure and discretion 9f each retiring State to dismember the Union. "Secession," so called, can only be properly regarded in the light of a revolutionary mea sure, to be justified as rightful when in redress of insufferable wrong. which cannot, within the workings of the Constitution, otherwise than by a recurrence to original sovereignty, be redressed. The safe is the middle course between " the Scylla" of " constitutional coer cion" on the one side, and "the Charybdis" of "constitutional secession" on the other. The sound and conservative expositor of the Fed eral Constitution on this point should hold that the Constitution has not provided any redress for grievances by means of -revolution' or "secession," for the obvious reason that its framers never anticipated the occurrence of intolerable political wrongs or injuries to a eon federate State, under its proper working. Nor can such wrong be done, or even threatened, to a State of the confederacy, save by a gross perversion and abuse of power vested by the Constitution in the Federal Government. It, is only by an entire perversion of Federal power, that a collision between individual States, or sections of States, about essential interests, can be brought about. In my next. letter I propose to demonstrate that the cause or occasion of the sectional dif ferences, which now imperil the Union, is an attempted gross and intolerable perversion and abuse of the governmental authority or power, delegated by the States, in the Federal Consti tution, to the Government designated therein, threatening destruction to the essential inter ests and property of the slaveholding States, by a dominant and overbearing sectional party in the non-slaveholding States of the confeder acy. JACOB LEIBLEB, MARRIAGE BROKER'S SUIT THROWN ORT.-• Elizabeth Sehaumberg, a dashing young Ger man girl at Rochester, desirous to marry one Salli, who had a fortune of $lO,OOO or so, ne gotiated with her intimate friend Zimmerman to bring about the match on a promise of $lOO in ease it should be consummated. An agree ment was made between them to this effect and signed, and the match being made, glizabeth wholly refused to remember her bargain. She declined 10 pay, and Zimmerman sued her; but the courts have decided that he cannot recover on the note, as it was given without consider ation. The Doter (England) Chronicle has the fol. lowing.item of Masonic intelligence: " is rumored that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will be initiated this year in 'Free' Ma sonry. Owing to the death of the IterqUlS of Dalhousie, the titles of the diseased nobleman (except the marquisite) are now borne by Lord Panmure, Deputy Grand Master of England PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING,