Cr. A. The Ifiee Presidente sad other of f/Nan will capon to the Board of Managoro, at bly m.tretx,iioeth intormation rooperiitig Ag rieultunt In Adorns enemy or elsewhere, as may promote the interests of the Society. Aar. 7. 111 C• 1100 of the death of any officer, resignation or reflood to stereo alter an elec tion. the Hoard of %tanagers are authorised to *apply hit or their rim% by appointment, to continue until the next election. ART. A. 'rote (lonsittotion mar he altered or amended, al any regular meeting, by a Tote of taeci-thirtatita members in attendance. pro eidnt notice' V given of *nett amendment at the last previous meeting of the Suciety. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Felloweitisees if rte Se.ote nod of the ileum of Ryrountaaus Tlis interest with which the people of the Republic antioipste the assembling of Congress, and . the fulfilment, on that oe casdat, of the duty imposed upon a new President, it one of the boat evidences of their rapacity to realise the hopes of the foundcrs of apolitical system, at once complos and symmetrical. While the dif f, r.•n t 'brtinchl's of the Government are, to a eertnifi extent., indepondent of each eth er, tha \fifties of all, alike, have direct rot• erence to the source of power. Fortunate ly, nailer this system, no man is so high, and nine an bumble, in the scale of public staion, as to escape from the scrutiny, or to be exempt from the responsibility, which all official fuuctiona imply. Upin the justice and intelligence of the ma +sets, in a government thus organised, is' the beta reliance of the oonfederscy, and tho only security for honest and earnest dovotion.to its interests, against the flour putions and' encroachments of power an the midland, and the assaulta of personal ambition .00 ti.at ether. . The interest, of which I have spoken, is inseparable from an inquiring sell-govern ing comomnity, but stimulated, doubtless, at the present time by the unsettled cow ! dition, of onr relations with several foreign p iwers ; by the now obligations resulting; from a sudden estcti•don of the field of en term les ; by the spirit with which that field his beau enecteti, and the amazing energy ttith rvslurcos for tneeting the tletinn is of hurll3llity have been developed. Alt imuzlt di,esse, assuming at one time e „ ...tong at oue .. ecdme a citizen of the United Suttee.— the chareeteriaties of * widempread and devastating po,tilanoe, has left its sad tra, After remaimeg here nearly lien years, he visited Turkey. While at Smyrna, he ces upon smile portions of our country, we was forcible seized, taken on hoard an here still tee most abundant cause for rev- I Auslrisry b ra crew. tb telt fulnime to God for an accumuli. g of wavy r then lying in the harbor of that place, and there, confined tie,' elf signet mercies showered upon us as in trims, with the avowed detain to lake aI , 'anti It is well that a ennscioususse of rapid advancement and inereasingattength I t i r : ut i d iri a lci i 4h: r d ne e'n e in e l tri er of Autumn. Our be habitually aasooiated With an abiding n a m e inierp2ef for his e ffe r le ti a e s h e dt but e t i li be e t t e r e r t tlt s^nee of dependence upon Hun who hale feria were uneffectaal. While thus merit - in hit hotels the destinies of men arid nee toned; f' „ ommeifdreleetiretraham with the Voi d eas e ted States ship St. Louis, arrived at Smyrna, Recognizing the wisdom of the broad end after - inquiring into the circumstances of prtnci ple of absolute religious toleration pro- 111° ruse ' "See le the conclusion th" omen ni cl iizd in our fundamental law, " c/ reitii- was entitled to the protection ofehis govern meet, and took energetic and prompt melee ding in fhe benign influence which it has area for his release. Under an arrangement exerted eon our (social and political Bondi- !'between the agents of the United Settee and lion, I shOuld shrink from a clear duty, did of Austria, he was trensferred to the custody , I fill to expedite my deepest conviction. of the French• eonsul-geosrel, at Smyrna. that we can piece no secure telianee upon i there to remain until he should be despoiled of by the mutual agreement el the Consuls any apparent pregress, if it be not sustain. I ed by national integrity, mating upon 'hal 91 1: e vespective g ° !O rnineuvs at that place' u i rsuant If t h at agreement he has been re grew. truths affirmed and illustretedby di-i I mre , en d is now on his way to t h e () woa d vino reit eilation. le the melte, of Our Soc. I a uttrs: Tile Empernr of Austria has made row for, the sifilieti;ig and • suffering, it hear the conduet of our ofileers who took part in! , been consollng to see how promptly disaster' this transaction a subject of grave complaint. made tree neighbors of districts and cities! Rai:aiding Kovea as still his subject, and claiming a right to seize hint within the limns eepar it ed widely fielee each other, mid cheer ilig to w a t c h the strength of t h at commonrPid Ter 'Turkish empire, he has demanded of r bond of brotherhood, which unites all hearts this government its consent to the eurrend of the prisoner, a disavowal of the acts of its in all parts of this eel in, when' danger !grill., and satisfaction lot the alleged out. 1 threattris teem abroad, orcalarnity impends rage. After i careful consideration of the overuse( home. s ,„. ... ~...... . -. ••--_ ... •leseameteetneeevineineinerethetelltemstee O ur d i plomatic relations with fore i gn was eeized wieiout lewd authority at Satyr. r m,ers bete mudeigene no eeetntial (Image i na ; that he was wrongfully detained onboard o tines, the adjournment time Wit 4 some (if them, questions of adisturbs , tionslity of the United Statra ; and ' that t h l: 11g character are still pending, but there I seta of our officer*, under the circumstances etr good !tee( ns to believe that these may I of the case, were justifiable, and their conduct all be amicably adjuated. i 'has been fully approved by me, and a coin- For some years past, Great Britian Itasi plutece,wi lthware, thz.i has heed ativeraldema neclide of the Ern , or Adned. en conetrued the first article of the feinven. I perorm e Fora mute fell account of this transaction lion of she r Oth of April, 1818, in and my view. in regard to il.l refer foam e°l to the fetteri.es on the northeastern coast,' respondence between the charge d'affii l 'i 113 to exc.) tie our citizens from some of t Austria and the Secretary of State, - whi ch'is the &WTI grmindi to' *tech they freely I herewith transmitted. The principles and re.orted ter nearly a quarter of a century ' enlin.9. therein Inelntained en` the part of the subsetineut to the date of that treaty.— 'relied Serail will. whenever a proper cowl. Ilion occurs, be applied and enforced. The United States have never acquiesced In this construet ion, but hate al wept claim- de l re 'll i s t c o a di L i t ' e in ti nf China( at this time. rent ed for thee. fishermen all the rights which will oraur in that et ve se st me et l i t i l p ti t ' re ene w e l t iii. e d h i ee ti r i e l e l t ac, had so long enjoyed without ronlesta- lead to a more enrestrieted intercourse with ti n. With a view to remote all difficul- it. The ennituisidener to that country, who t,....s in he subject, to extend the right of has been recently appointed; is instructed to s it fi ,liermen beyond the limits fixed by avail himself of all neeatunne to open and en. fee emayention of .1818, and to regulate tend our commercial relation,. not only with . ti.ete by the Milted States and the Ifritish hhe , eu e . lPire of Chin's' but with other Asiatic n North American pros Wee., a negthiation e f i t e t u tSee,ln expedition was scot to lepsti has treed' opened, with a fair prospect of ender the command of Commodore Perry' a falter:Me result. To protect our fisher- for the purpose of opening commercial Inter: YU•Ni 'hi the enjoyment of their rights, and 1101118. 11,1111 that island. latelligenre• has pert eel collision between them and British he " received of hi. arrival there, dad of his having made known to the Emperor of Japan I sheemen, I deemed it expedient to station the ohjereof hie visit ; but it is not yet as a naval force in that quarter during the „mime! how far s h e g, per „ w ill b e d ee fishing admen. , pnsed to abandon hie restrictive policy. end Efubarrassing questions have 'also aria- open that ptipulene country to a commercial en between the two governmentein regard intereeetne with the Belted &ides. to Central Ameriea Great Britain has It hiss been lay earnest desire to maintain pi opened to settle them by an amicable ar- frtendly intercourse with the kovetninents t all , •tut•nr, and our minister at London is 'VI"' this r°"nnent• and to aid the"' in, Pe e ' ii..drtiett il to enter into ne,gotiatiations on serving good understanding among tuella. th it subject. selves. Math Mezleo, a dispute has enlist, as to the true-boundary line between our tPIN• • • A contintstoon for adjusting the claims story of New Mexteo amt the Aleximia Suite of our (inertia against Great Britain, and of CW lllll + lll l B A fernier oetuniiiisioner of ) tope of British subjects against the Uni. rho United States, outplayed is running that to,' Statea, organized under the oonvention hue pursuant to the truly of Geadelnfte Hi' dalgo, i a u f rue B tho ft l w i r t e h b e ru t a nk ry ia l !t a c it t t i , ot i l s o n f o i w um ai in t e tiog • e thelniti a l point on the Ele Grande; hut, ! 111 Inasmuch as his derision wall clearly a de- It is in tunny respects desirable that the enure (rent the directions fur told!!t thil biattidary line between the tit iiel States gauntlet.) , enntained in thin treaty, and wet nod the B r i t i s h provinces i n th e N ort h.. l not concurred in by. the surveyor appointed 1%094101 dewitpuited in the con% tntien of nn the part of the - United trustee. whose com et' the 15th of June, 1846, and especially (ha t e r use necessary to give validity m ti atr ,„ t t _ Le , _eantt_slbe terr i tory M aet t lingten . 74 " in .c t r he iritish ' pessess;onua' dad thereby; but of Meaico takes a dif. Iciest view of the *subject I n die mirth should be traded and mark- Terre eta also other uestione of ouniticieft, e • eel. r. .i. tberefore pressut ' the subject to elite niagnitude ilendin li between the two ri f f ..% tele notice. politica. Our minister in Mexieo hasarupte . Wi t h Ilene* our re i at i ont , cont i nue n „ inytnietitine to adjtist them. Negotiation., the Intel f r i en dly, f oot i ng. Th e cateee t ve have erre opened, hot sufficient progreattehne ntti hroof d i, thrrein to enable me to *peak (co Mimeo between the United Stated and th...,otaantt , m i ght - . h te eouevieed, be e,r _ i of the pr M.ilira revolt. Impte.sed Slill the laatiiii riftui Anna uniatiessary restrictions l ' iv e i i ti: nr i t h e e e i el r ' sr p i f u l ti e l . l i t i • dt 'li i i i i3 l : 4 l e iTl l el e i e rt hie re t h rl ne to the mutual itivaneige of both parties.l reality to alt her ;ask chid*. it , Iro jt riratl wi olln l hre V. ' igt 1 1 . WV 10 Ail su b ject, sem preempt, lent it et ten to arrangement mwently eat lies 444111 Made itt, negotlating a Iro.ity 01 Iwi w t ory w both emantriee 'nay be none:tided. e menace anti natripteon. I and a Imitill friendship between thole cow a d . . 1 spa t i il l ,flfp * hide tix et% o l f ro ettr potiaa vatu t zble a t . r g ade i tif i ftel -r9 ,d ,":,::;:,, e "..,, P u : P i e u i g "4l : - . o , : ided for a full mot , -h, ,_____ ttoolk iri,oo,ltor t 'grroriog out Lf our. u,A.414 ; - I AilNittirte tho l iolood of. Cutta and •i'vrto CING-loppro ovum nue, *lint sof6 eito4loletelit.osl *wow* have boom lta4i ss iv.peaufliorised expodm itio 'apynst either of tbutqt 4441 2%0 1,3 1 10 via% etnottt b•)auxui f•s" 414 ( 1 14iits,ilf 4 . l3 4 lo baill=vigoroualy e !All6 lootosiug ateurrectua% wil'llleWltiptir iihmautow •or HI • rho v.,roitify lito ittlooktVfeatia, betArequi our Atitoisb au , *W I N t): of dolt is lo Ist aiwtrut-Aptd u tu di* I traek of trade between some of our prig ) oiple oities—and the suspicious vignanoe with which foreign intercourse, p:„rneultir. ly that with the United States, is there guarded, a repetition of tllre6 occurrences nay well he apprchentieri. As no nevi° intercourse is allowed between our armee' at Ravenna sod the Cuptain-Geu• . .. ..t l 9/ 411 140- i •.._ -- 2 eeot, of all climes was, on the territorial domain. and Charged et:m.6oly with ; ditures would not, by modes and m ean s clearly oral of Cobs . ready explanationeounnot he way for intern - stionai trade'. Sevens l of the fourth *4 - March 1853 sixty — ' ' „ it lne ninon one power to dispose of territory belonging to the' legitimate and' proper, raise the fund necessary ramie, or twrinipt, redress afforded whore South American shims are de e ply interested hrdred and ninety thousand nil thirty-seven' United State.", has, far a long course of years , fur such constructions as the safety or other in• In this esteem% to seems - the free navigatinn I dPiara : payments - on account of which have beginning with the administration of Mr Jet• , teresta of their commerce might • injury has resulted. of the A lesson, end it is nrasonatele A us expect A bean made, aince that period , to the amount of lemon. exercised the power to construct re . ad s i If that can be regarded 11.11 a sys tem, All complaint on the part of our °Weems, I twelve millien roe_ ven hundred and three chats • within the Territories : and there tiro so many :in the, experience of bore than thirty years their Ae c t o li -tl e p a zu n n ta n to the moss a Ilitn , „.., t 1 . under the present arrangement, must be, I and threehun dred and twenty - nine dollars ; and obvious distinctions between this exercise: lyre at no time so commanded the publio•ludg in in the brat place, presented-to this govern- tlPltlttltifl amongna n tions are timer a ana n oi t oi n f . 1 leaving un paid, and in the continuous course of power and that of making roads within the I melt as to givo•it the chariwter of a settled went, and then referred to spsin, Spain : tore liberal views ant generally . 'ed 'i or liquidatron.' the sum of fifty-six million four, States, that the former has never been consid• ! policy—which, though it has produced sumo twain refers it to her local authorities, in as to the common rights of all to 811Ift 1 Mundtandeighty-aix thousand seven hundred LeredsUbject to such objections as apply to the 1 works of ennerded importance, has been atten- Cuba for inveSligation,.and postpones an althorn' means which nature h as ' d e d land eig °Hers.' Thescpayments, although ' latter, and such may now be considered the, ded with . nit expenditure quitedispr t i t y s o ttu rti n u t n i: international ottatmunicistloa.. .! o these . made at' the market price of the respective settled construction of the power of the Fedo-, ate to their value.—and has resulted ' a till eke has beard &int these 3u• for liberal and enlightened views, it is classes of stocks, have been effected readily and , ral Government upon the subject. I during large sums upon objects 'which - it a n s wer s. To avoid . these ireiteting acid I t111,7,7d that timed will coefurni her olio and ,' to the gen eral h advent* of the Treasury , and ! , Numerous applications have been, and no : answered no valuable purpose,—the inter I l e' vexatious delays, a proposition has been ire:love all umittcessery trietion P upon Y. i h proved of signal utility I doubt will continue to be, made for grants of of all the States require it to be abandoned, " Made to provide for a direadiOpial for ro• free use of a direr, whirl, traverses sOiea t n " V t . i i t h i l e v th e in e . o a re n t e l t y ie;t nn he na y n t t ibi iin ve n 'incidentally afforded to ' land, in aid of the construction of railways. ; unless hopes may be indulged for the future marketend lo the industrial and L it is not believed to be within the intent • . and which find no warrant in the past , dress to the Captaln..Geneial t our coon . I Stales and so large a part of the continent. I bill; in behalf of ourinjuted AA sr-citizens. am happy to Inform you that ,;he republic of ' commercial puntnitdof the country. melt ' ning o o f f th th e e Cstitution, that t hepower to With an anxious desire for the completion Hitherto, the government Of Spain hats de• Peragear and the Argentine - Vonfedrration I The second of the above-mentioned objects , d publ ic i d omain, s hou ld be used of the works which are regarded by all good; t , have yielded to the liberal policy eta reared that of the reductk,n of the tariff. is of great ot herwis e u thaninig it be expected from a pru- . eitizms with sincere interest, 1 have deemed dined to enter into any such arrangemen . by B r „ • 1 • a! in regard to the nverigable river* i importance , and the plan suggested by the dent proprietor, and therefore, that grants of it my duty to ask at your hands A deliberate This cowl* on her.part it deeply regretted ; : within their respective territories Treaties Secretary of the Teeasury, which is to reduce land to aid in the ses nstion of roads should' reominideration oft hequceti o n, with h e cleat, for withouteeme arranbenosnt of this kind, ' einbraeing thia subject among G o;her s . have i the duties on certaiitarticles. and to told to the b e re s t r i c t e d to ca where it x•nuld be for the animite lby a desire to promote the [' rima the good undenitendiug between , the two ; been iwgotiated with these overnments, ; free list many artier & now taxed, and especial- interest of a proprietor, under like eircumstan- neat and substantial intereat s o f the omi t try, countries maybe exposed t o occasional ins! whieh will be submitted to the Senate at tile Ily such as enter into manufactures, and are not cert. thus to contribute to the construction of your wisdom y p equal .1 ; I lately. or at all , pie:Need in this country , is these works. For the practical operation of devising and in tit t a tiiiin ru g r a n 1 which , n ti p La p h lio/i terruptiou. Our minister at Madrid is in..l Present sea". A now branch of commerce, Important to , commended to your candid and careful con- such grants thus far , in advancing the inter -' to their subjets, may 1,1'01116e sotnothing better ' 6tructed to renew the proposition, and to! eats of the States in which the works are Inca- than constant strife, the suspension of the ' ]t has o t ti t h a o la io ut z u i re e4 o v th s go e v co ero ns n itra r.. tion of ; i .. he agricultural interests of the llnitedgialeir, i sideration. . ~ . within,a few - yeare.,P s e t , been opened i You will find in the report of the Secretary ted. and at the same linie the sulistantial in- , powers of local enterprise, the exciting of vain I with Peru. Notwithstandi ng the inesheesti • of the .Treaaury. also: abundant proof of the terests of all the other States. by enhancing the ' hopes: and the disappointment' of cherished' '' • For several years Spain has been calling hie deposit of guano upon the islends of that ; entire adequacy of the present 114(.11 system to value and promoting the rapid sale of the pub- ! expectations. l meet all the me - • els' r the the' attention of this goviiinment to a country, considerable difficulties are ti C rho last Congress, several (-Ms have arisen in y lie domain, I refer you to the report of the See- In expending the appropriation s made b the requisite supply .— ; I . ' and that, ehil l e tire p m n l ° o y f t ad" p n i i t :l he s ic te g re e d,. c 7i n t . retary o of th . e . Interior. A careful examin . ation. I Claire for Nimes, by some of her subjects, : caeca in obtaining community 1 r h es e l e l . t ve o r f . a wlii sh?l, .tha . t this experienee is the relation Cu works fur the improvement of hnr• the case of the gehooner, 4rnistied.—l'Measures have been taken to romo s v u e - tilnito { operates to the advan m ta per lust disc ri m ination, and will be far hors which involve question as to the right difficulties, and to secure a more abundant ;ordinary business relat g i t i s ms. This claim is believed'io reef 011 the obli f a '; importation of the article. Unfortunately, 1 I respectfully ask your attention to sundry from atibrding encouragement to a reckless or, i Gro o o f au s n i fit i ' i ir l oat a i l iti V :titv j we tt ero r nn i tr a l il tet i ni c et t s i a ti t.u n t , ilio, n hrt : i, d t hav e threaten e d lions iinpmoed by our existing treaty wtth , juiioe ira, admitted,' there has been a mrine* collision between , suggestions of improvements in the settlement- indiscriminate extension of the principle. that country, Its citizens who have mewled to the Chi b .of accouuts especially as regards the large I commend to your favorable coesideration y ri l ig ) f h right I t u i : state ei in s t r * ti l c' nod , roc • 1 s in u e rn o s t, o a r n o d u o t r s ' t o a t n h ilingkrres7 doe to the Govern • the men of genius of our country, who, by their a break water, jetty, or dam, would s ° in our diplomatic correspondence with the l. Wends for it, and the Peru er re forms in th e . administrative inventions and discoveries in science and art.! cossarily, to carry with it the power to unt' p ne- Spainish government , as early as Marelyil stationed there. Redress fo v r ta t n he nuthnri g tiva ao ; action of his Department. which are indicated have contributed largely to the improvement test and preserv e such constructions. This lti47 ; and MN of wy prod ors, in his " ; milted Sy the latter was prom o iTy - t e le: i m ,e a t nd it ed no b w e o u u n r de M r tie n t s e i r d e e t ra ti o m n a . . and there fa This sub• Iby the Secrete'' , : as al so to the progress made of the age, without, in many instances, sect-, can only be e f f ectually done by having inthe in the construction of marine hospital s . cusuim- ring for themselves anything - like ad' q u u a t n e diction c i ,it lt tit o t ti l e o r n _Tie found, eial : t ri nt u t w n h t h cla t ti o me re o et f rho t.l: rho I s ha no t tl p al ra r siqu gn ah n o t u tat oi, r m sr a ,ze f o o u ire en pa de y d i i reason to believe that Pere Is disposed to o f. 'houses. and of s new mint in California and reward. For many iterestingd n e n iaila y ment. In January last it ma again sub: far adequate indemnity to th e aggrieved ; essay office in the city of New York, heretofore this subject I refer you to the appropriate, P° re- ' .1. • t .lIM I , t le United States toexert em ur d • witted to Congress by the Executive. It „flies. !provided for by Congress :an d also to the end- ports, and especially urge upon your early at- lion oter the soil of a Stat escep't tliat th e it : Inently successful ntogresa. of the Coast Survey , tendon the apparently slight, but really im- ' ferred by the eighth section 'of the brat article has received a favorable consideration by We are thus not only at pesos with all for • and of the Light• House Brsrd. . octant modifications of existing laws therein ,of tea C'uteeitution. It is, then, submitted, cnirtmittces of both branches, but as yet, sign countries, but, in regard to political af- Among the objects meriting Tour attention, suggested. . there has been no final action . upon it. I l (Mrs, Sr. exempt limn any cause of serious whether, in till eases whore constructions effe distiuietude in our domestic relations. will be Important reennumendati••ns from the The littoral N ' ' spirit which hoe so long marked etinceive that good fluilh requires its prompt to be created by the Oeneral Oovernment„ the ofCongress relation to the District . 1 he controversies, whirls have agitated the ' Secretaries of War and Navy. Ism fully sat- the action It in right it seil should not be fir -t. It• ' l d Austment, aud I present it to your earls , Statesof country heretofore, me peening away with the jetted that the Navy of the enited is not Columbia will, I have no doubt, continue to i 1 • . • • '' n ' ' Luc ' ' nn egt- Attie provision be made to cover all such and favorable considers i ion. amid the passions iin a condition of strength and e ff iciency coot- be manifested. eil,..ti. Martin Komi, a Hungarian by birth, ' causes which produced them A which they had awakened • or, tf anytrace of , mensurate with the magnitude of our commer- The erection of an asylum for the insane of , Fur rho progress made in the , t' e , nstrtio . ion eaten 10 thisixountry in 1850 , and decla-1 them remains , it mayreasonably . lp d j cial and other interests , - d d an commend to your the District of Columbia. and of the Army and o f roads within theT ' ' crritories, as provided red his intention , iii Jun form of law.. tel will I li , I It _ . t!II y ? perceived in t h e aea-ous rival. ; espec i al attention the suggestions on this sub- Navy of the United States. has been ht ' • - -• . . 4,... . .. . . - . - - -- becdine a ei.' iAtvr Nnn rent ti i I irr jnjuly NAL As yet he h. 1.1 tr... to, Vll.ll wily .111' of iliene vilwro• tie wa4 'Weetlvecl . in the tuiiiui r . It ir - hoptal . that blot „na „„,„f tither. will' haves benign dibnpiiiiiine which them. Mid in eninlihnhinig still' Arvirn linimate and friendly relinione be t wee n ilpient .n..etivrtyrowni hatworn-unith of them and thin Vatted ititatO*.' thwe'4ll“ rrtioni.of Ibis non• • nod.k.thu tionileve,,of MAWS which would be Hindu secenoible by the Ore tutr lp of tlot tires. 'ASS4II,II. particular ii. lnation has liwit triton to thin subj4•ol.-...; through whom.. „territories it p law Ilse utreu, bon Milted° yertisiod iu • .1. . ' policy fro ritrictivid, in regard lb the Oil. of I apply the surptoa m y elitis to the dlaotar ge o f this river , as to obstruct. and nearly exclude. 1 the pit dell, so .fhr as it mild judiciously foreign commercial intercourse with the ; bed and' eee oru n r ,, fe d er a l e means f or t h e suttee which lie upon ii. tributaries and upper gra' alinivertie revenue to the standard branches. Our intirister to that country is of the ex' ' .. instructed to "built a reluantion of that poii• 1 (if t object first has been in the the cv. and to use his efforts to induce the Bra. °mime ' hccomp rnent. in a manner end to 1 ;Hien governnient to open to poi-onion Oh un- , a hfghly natinfactory.' The amount of dectl ,.. der propretifogiturde,ihis great newel Milli- , the pu deht, of - ry of all good citizens to testily their respect fur the right of the States, their devotion to the Uhien, and their common determination that each one of the States, its institutions, its welfare. and its domestic peace shall be held alike secure under the sacred aegis of the constitution. This new league of amity and of mutual confidence and ripped, into which the people of the republic have entered, happily affernls inducement and opportunity for the adoption of a more compreheillnive and unembarrassed line of policy and action, as to the great ma terial interests of the country, whether re garded in themselves or in connexion with the powert of the civilized world. The United States hare continued gradual ly end steadily to expand, through acquisi tions of territory. which, how much suevet some of them quill:have been queationed. are now universally seen and admitted to have been wise in policy, jarlire - riaracter, and a great element intim advancement of our @nun gtry, and with it of the human race, in frae dom. in prosperity. and in happiness. The thirteen States have grown to be thirty-one, with relations reaching to Europe on the one side, and on the other to the distant realms of Asia. • I em deeply sensible of the immense re aponeihility which the present magnitude of tbe republic, and the diversity and multipli• city of its interests, devolves upon me : the alleviation of which. so far as relates to the immediate 'pentium of the public business is, I first, in my reliance on the wisdom and 1,31F1- ' misfit of the two Hotel:l_of .Illonfirese.;_ and. litCrOridry,liiiia . directions afforded me by I the principles of public policy. armed by our lathers of the epoch of 1798, sanctioned by long experience, and con . werated anew by the overwhelming voice of the people El the Uuited States. Recurring to these - principles. which con stitute the (motile basis of union, we per online that, vast as are the functions and the duties of the federal government, vested in, or entrusted to, its three great departments, the legislative, executive, and judicial, yet the substantive power, the popular force, and the large capahities for social and material developemenY, exist in the respective States, whieh, aill•heing of themselves well omisti turea repablics, as they proceeded, so they alone are capable of maintaiinina and Pereellt sting the American Union. 'rho federal gov ernment has its appropriate line of action in the specific and limited powers conferred on it by the. constitution, chiefly as to those things in which the States hive a common interest in their relational to one another, and to foreign, governments; while the great mass of interests which belong , to miltivated men, the ordinary business oaf life, the springs of industry, all the diversified personal and do mestic affairs of society, rest securely upon the general reaerved powers of the people oC the several States. There is the effective democracy of the na tion, and there the vital essence of its being and its greatness. Of the practical consequences which flow from the asuman( the Federal Government. the primary one is the duty of administering with integrity and fidelity the high trust repoacein it by the Constitution. especially in the appli cation of the public funds. as drawn by taxa tion front thepeople, and appropriated to swot& 'objects by Congress. Happily I have no oc casion to suggest any radical changes to the financial policy GO the Government. Ours is almost, if not absolutely, the solitary Power of Christendom having a surplus revenue, drawn Immediately from ;inputs on ocinuneme, and therefore measured by the spontaneous enter pritse and natitmel. prosperity of tho, country, with such' indireCt relation to agrieoltore, manufheturea, end the products of the earth and emu to violate no constitutional doctrine, and yet vigorously promote the general welfbre.' Neither u to the sources of the pablie treasure, .nor as to tbi mariner of keeping and managing it, does any .grave controversy now prevail. there being a 'general acquiesamott,in the wis dom of the present system. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will exhibit. in detail, the state of the public finances, and the condition of the various branches of the public service administered by that department of the Government.. The nmenne of the country, levied . almost insensibly to the tax-payer. goes on from year to year increasing beyond either the interests or the proepecii ve we nue of the Government. At the chow of the 'fiscal year ending June 30, 1052. there remained in the Treasury a balance of fourteen million six hundred and thirty-two thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars. The public revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1853, amounted to filly-eight million nine hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars from cus toms. II ncl to two million four hundred and five tar -rid a hundred and •-• ouptjtpu seven hunt. and eight dollars from public lands and other miscellaneous sources, amounting together io sixty-one million three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars . ; while the public ex penditures fur the same period, exclusive of payments on account of the public debt, amounted to forty-three million five hundred and fifty-four thousand two hundred and sixty two dollars : leaving a balance of thirty-two million four hundred and twenty-five thousand Your hundred and forty-seven dollars of receipts above expenditures. , This that , of increasing surplus in the Tres sury,vbecame the subject of anxious considera tion at a very early period of. my administra tion, and the path of duty in regard to it seem ed to me obvious and clear, inanely; drat, to: J• . ett. made by fife Seertibtry of the Navy. I retained, by the great demand for ineteriel;: fii.'sr in the appropriatiotio of the Ina Congress, rater you to the report of the Secretary of respectfully submit that the Army. which, un- and labor during the past summer ; but full , W ar , detour system, must always be regarded with preparation for the reception of patients, before - w. : l l: , izre t.r is im r t e he nu il l i t t i r e i c i t .,, i i l e f i a mp t r m t • , : i s , t ,‘ "( , ) , a n t i i ilu t r i e w , ' the highest interest. ana'nucleus around which the return of another wittier, is anticipated : the volunteer forces of the nation gather in the and there is the best reason to believe, from I,, , tiiTeh i s i sit i ,i ii,, rie e , t l i ti,evig, egaten . lsito s ts it, „ iii „f to r„ rtt, ,,. 7,,r,p. l , i llt . , , r . hour of danger. requires auginentation,or modi- the plan and contemplated arrangements which , &anon, to adapt it to the present extended have been devised, with the large experience t e e :::i r t . t y ni e a t t i ::- . . l t i t t it ' i l l " LP . al ch.l c i l i " eh to it t i t tf u e ' reTt Pui p ' sar o is r limits and frontier relation,. of the country, furnished within the last few years in relation and the condition of the Indian tribes in the to the nature and treatment of disease, that' of the wide expanse of our country art, interior of the continent: the necessity of which it will prove an asylnm indeed to this most . I I I : will appear in the communications of the helpless and atiliesed class of sufferers, and • to .It 3 tr,ilk•el 4 n c l oser eunnection fur purposes both of defence and commercial iutoriniuse, Seefetaries of War and the Interior. stand as a noble monument of wisdom and . and more especially such ea nppertain to the In the administration of . the Post Office De- mercy. • I c.entriunicato in of those great dives us of the partment for the fiscal year ending June M. - Under the acts of Congress of August 31. u t s e „ „hi t s, li e „ ti the opposite s ts estif the 1853, the gross expenditure was seven million 1852. and of March 3, I 553, designed to secure R ieky 31 iuntains. nine hundred and eighty-two thousand seven for the cities of Washington and Georgetown . That the Gofer has not been unmind ful of this heretufeee, is stpperent front the hundred and fifty-six dollars: and the gross an abundant supply: of good and wholeieune receipts dining tliesaame period. five 'million water, it became any duty to examine the re- ' aid it lots afforileil. iltroeala appropriations Sir , nine hundred mid fortystwo thousand seven port and plans of the engineer who had charge , mail facilities and other purposen. But the hundred and thirty-ffierffollars: showing that of the surveys under the first act named- The. g . ssess i su bj ect w i ll now puesetti, itself under the current revenue fa* to meet the current best, if not the only plan. calculated to secure 11.p1.3.38 111.3,1 illlp,,si . 4 awl more purely 113- ' expenses of the Department by the sum of two permanently the object sought, was that which : ..1 i tem.., ey reason of the surveys ordered by million forty-twothou. • .d and thirty-two dot- contemplates taking the water from the Great c ottgres ,. full now iti, the pr. , era. , of eomple _ then. fir communication by railway across the lays. The causes whi , tinder the present Falls of the Potomac, and, consequently. I give postal system and law led inevitably , to this to it my approval. 1 I continent; and wholly within the limits of the result, are fully explained by the report of the For the progress and present condition of this United states, The power to declare war, to raise and sup- Postmaster General : ono great cause tieing the important work, and for its demands, so far as lenurnious rates the Department has been coin- appropriations are concerned, I refer you to the port armies, to provide and maintain a navy, pealed to pay for mail service rendered by rail- report of the Secretary of SVar. un I t) call forth a militia to execute the laws, suppress inserreetions, and pel invasiuus, road companies. ' The present judicial system of the U. States I The exhibit in the report of the Poritnnistei• has now been in operation for so long a period w, citiferreel upon eking:roes an t i eans to pro trailsidethe steamers will be folind peculiarly interest- of its details. become so familiar to the country, : territory and it population nets Wiilosl/rOIIII 'ireg, and of a character to demand the immediate and acquired so entirely the public confidence, t vastly multiplied. As accidental action of Congress. ~ . . that if modified in any respect, it should only and Numerous and flagrant frauds upon the be i n those particulars which may (elate it to indispensable for the exercise of this p to and ower, it e Pension Bureau have been brought to light . the increased extent, rpelation, and legal bue 7 , um ". DIU:l. arson retastannet rot ;rues be 111'et . ,o,ary toe onstruct mil pee t ffirrte.riessis reffigss. -To within - the - Mat - year, and. in seine instances, Mg's' ofilie United Slates. • Tn ibis relation. t he apprepriatious by Congrees fir such object* 'merited punishments inflicted : but. unfortun- organization of the courts is now confesnedly no sound 0 bjes ti4i, can be raiseil. Hap pil v ately. in others, guilty parties have escaped, inadequate to the dutien to be performed by for our country, its peaceful policy and mita not through the want of sufficient evidence to them : in consequence of which, the States of . , iy tncreasing population impose upon tin no warrant a conviction, but in consequence of Florida. Wisconsin , lowa. Texas, and Califor- . the provisions of limitation in the exist ing laws. nia, and districts of other States, are in effect .urgent necessity for preparation, and leave From the nature of these claims, the remote- excluded from the full benefits of the general but few trauklenn deserts between assailable o ness of the tribunals to pass upon them, and system, by the functions of the circuit court amid a patriotic people ever ready and generally able to protect them. These iteeee the mode in which the proof is, of necessity, „being devolved on the district judges iu all wiry li nks, the enterprise and etteray of our ' furnished, temptations to crime have been great- those States, or parts of States. - . ly stimulated hy the obvious difficultiee of iletec- ' The spirit of the Constitution and a due re- people are steadily and boldly re:regaling to 9uppi _. All 3 experietese (Arnie that, IVIIPITV• lion. The defects in the law upon this subject gard to justice require that all the Stntcso(th o private enterprise will avail, it is most wise are so apparent, and so fatal to the end); of Union should be placed on the same footing in Gtro toe 3. 1 1 , 31•41/I“toverninent, to leave to Mtn and j justice, that your early action relating to it is regard to the judicial tribunals. I therefore individu tl watelifulnese the location and exe most desirable. commend to your consideration this importai . fiscalLute,ll of all 1110,111 , of conitnunietoon.. i ls t During the last year , nine million eight subject, • which, in my judgment, demands t hi s hundred and nineteen thousand four bemire,' speedy action of Congress. I will p Toe surveys before alluded to were designed and eleven acres of the-public lands have been you, is d e emed desirable. a plan, whie v l s i vn l tto an t to ascertain - the must •s d ra iticable and ((venom ft.ei the river 31insis surveyed, awl ten million three hundred and prepared to recommend, for the enlargement drat e reut , 3tur . ;l... rail ro a d 1, 1° 1 . '211 . 60 are now si xty-ihree thousand eight hundred and ninety- and modification of the present judicial .system. , eipptto the i Ono one acres brought into market. 'Within the The act of Congress establishing the Smith- , ufield maims expldrationn, w here VI, same petit:el. the sales by public purchase and simian institution provided that the President I" the ' examinationshil not sit ifilivil sufliment 1 1 "" il tiler( there was thin ' Lust reason to private entry amounted to one million eighty- of the United States. and other persona therein three thousand four hundred and ninety•five designated, should constitute an -establish- : ' 41 , 4' ' le ' West " a u ht mi hi he found. The " 4' the ; . t.i j nie . beni g s buth rue just, it ie nut to be acres : located under military bounty land war- went" by that name, and that the member: rants. six million one hundred and forty-two should hold stated and special incetimigs f or t h e e ill e:p i l , ' .c " ,:ei l ih-ualltheL turateknowledge desired thousand three hundred amisixty acres : Inca- supervision of the affairs of the Institution.— wil l bo oh nined, but it is hefted that:Duch nud ted under other certificates, 'nine thousand four The organization not having taken place , it unpurtantinformaf 'II be added to the stovk hundred and twenty-seven acres : ceded to the seemed to Inc proper that it should be effected . !enviously poseeeseV n t y' l ' tl that ‘ partial, If out full States es swamp lands , sixteen million six h e n- without delay. This has been done: and an i reports ti o u r th t e r :u ts rvi s n a jo o l a r t d to e ' red w ill be received, died and eighty-four thousand two hundred occasion was thereby presented for inspecting : l e n . time r the two [louses of and fifty-three acres : selected for railroad and the condition of the Institution. and apprecia- ; rnsress, on o i r m before the fi rst Monday in other objects , under acts of Congress. one mil- ting its successful progress thus far, and its Fe bruary next, a s ria n tuired by the agt a ai r lion four hundred and twenty-seven thousand high promise of great and general awfulness.; pruprianon. T hem gut i tude tif the enterpriee I a 6 1 four hundred and fifty-seven acres. Total I have emitted to ask your favorable emend- I contemplated has aruusee ,um w i llam tMs amount of lands disposed of within the fiscal erasion for the estimates of works of a local ; continue to excite ' a very general interest , year, -twenty-five million three hundred and character in twenty-seven of the thirty one throughout . the . cou ntry, In its political, its Ibrty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety- States, amounting to one, million (wren hundred commercial, and its military be a rings, it Las - two acres ; which is an increase in quantity and fifty-four thousand flee hundred dollars, I varied, groat, and increasing claims to t e d o e n i s a id. ' sold, and located under land warrants' and because, independently of the grounds which oration. The heavy exponse tt the great , grants, of twelve million two hundred and have been so often urged against the applica- j and, at times' , fatality talent lug traveli by dela y, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and eighteen tion of the Federal revenue for works of this . tier of the isthmus route., have dettionetrated , acres over the fiscal year immediately prece. character, inequality with oonsequent injustice ! the selsautager which would result from inter- 'ding. The quantity of land Rohl during the is inherent in the nature of the proposition,and i retorted cominunicatiop by 'such mete and rap. 'second and third quarters of 1852, was three because the plan has proven entirely inade- ' id moans as a railroad would supp ly. hundred and thirty-four thOusan I four hundred quate to the accomplishment of the objects These difficulties, which have been cocoon -1 and fifty-one acres. The amount received there- sought. tared in a period of' peace, would be magnified for, was six hundred and twenty-three thou- The subject of internal improvements, claim• and still further increased. in time of war,—.- lialld six hundred and eighty-seven dollars. ing alike the interest and good will of all, has. But whilst the embarniasments already encoun The quantity sold the second and third quer- nevertheless, been the basis of much political sered, and others under new contingencies to ten of the year 1853, was one million six bun- discussion, and has stood as a deep graven line be anticipated, may serve strikingly to exhibit died and nine thousand nine hundred and:nine- of division between statesmen of eminent ehil• the importance of such a woes, neither thoao, teen acres ; and the amount received therefor, ity and patriotism. The rule of strict con- nor all considerations cornbinesl, can have an I two million two hundred and twenty-six thou- struction of all powers delegated by the States appreciable value, when weighed agnitist the sand eight hundred and seventy-six-dollars. to the General Government has arrayed itself, obligation strictly to adhere to the Constitu The whole number of land warrants Issued from time to time, against the rapid progress dun, and faithfully to execute the powers it under .exiiting lawmtprlor to the thirtieth of of expenditures from the National Treasury on confers. Within this limit, and to the extent September last, was ,two hundred and: sixty- works of &local character within the States.— -of the interest of the Government Involeed it six thousand and fortystwo s of which there, Memorable as an epoch in the history . of thie would seem both expedient and. proper, 'if an were outstanding, at that date,. sixty-six thous subject is the message of President Jackson, ecOnumical and practicable route shall be', rand nine hundred and ferriy-rieven. The quoins of the 27th of May, 1830, which met the sops- found, to aid, by all constitutional means, ! City of land reqiiired to satisfy' these outstand- tern ofinternal improvements in its comparative 'in the constellation of a road which will unite, . ing Warrants, is four million seven hundred and infancy : but so rapid had been its growth that by speedy transit, the populations of the Pa seventy-eight thousand one hundred siemens the projected appropriations in that-year for cifiestud Atlantic States,. To guard against ty acres. . • works of this character had risen to the alarm- 'misconception, it should bb remarked that, al. : Warrants have been issued to 30th of Sept , - leg amount of more than one hundred millions ,though the power to conetruct oruldin the cons tauter last, under the act of 'llth February, of dollars... • ' o• • atruction of At road within the limits of a 1847, calling for twelve million eight hundred . It that message the President Admitted the Territory la not embarrassed by that questiont and seventy-nine thousand • two I hundred and 'difficulty of bringing back the operations of the .ofjuriedietion which would arise within the ' eighty acres :under acts ofSefffirmber 28,1850, Governinein to the construction or the wistrt limits of eft* it ie nesiertheleas held to beef and March'22.lBs2. etailhig for twelve million tutiini set up in 1798, and marked Bias *Wads doubtful sewer, &lore thiul doubtful propriety, five hundred and flee thousand three hundred smottitoey profit of the'neoesait of guarding that even within thelimitsof:atenitoey, forte eGlinisl and sixty acres : makinga total of twenty'4" r Manumit , with sieePirata ii lowa against the :bent Governmenttoundertaketoadminister the I million three hundred and eighty-four thou- I authority of pr+ecedentawbichh had not the saws affairs of a railroad. a canal, or: otheraimitex ' sand six hundred and ,forty acres. . , .. I lion of its most .pliinly defined powers. oonetructio% ithd therefore that „its ceinneetion, It is believed that - experience has verifiedi Our 9osernment exists ntoler a written corn- with a work elf this I character abottld be acei the diedona and justice of the present system, pact between sovereign States, uniting . forpe- dental rather than' primary, will 9l y add, -. - • ..,I - • .nd with srws'' with regard to ti, untie' particulars. You will perceive, from the report of the Se c, retery of the Interior, that opinions, which . have oft en been expesiied in relation to the opera- lion of the laud system, as not being a source of revenue to the Federal Treasury, were erro neous. The net profit* tl-oj the sale of public lands to June 30, 1853. amounted to the stnii of fifty-three million two hundred and eighty , ' nitio thousand four hundred and sixty-five dol. cars. recommend the extension of the land sys tem over the Territories of Utah and New \lex• ieo, with such tuoditleations as their peouliari ties may require. Regarding our public domain as chiefly val. WO to provide bomea for the industrious Ind e public domiin, in Most ur knIZIER !Pr: -*.ta `1 , 1?r , :!,;. - sterivAge: z fti enterprising. I em not prepaned to reoonunend I ibr the protection of internal commerce, which any essential change in the land system, ex• i does pot , equally apply to the improvements cept by modifications in favor of the Wag i upon the seaboard for the protection of ftweign settler. and an extension of the preeMption prim , cm:muerte. 1 sitinuft to you whether it neny not ciple in certain eases, for reasons, and on be safely anticipated that, if the polioy were grounds. which will be fully developed in the once settled against appropriations by the Gen- reports to be laid before you. 1 oral Goreratnent for local improvements ffir the Congress. represent the proprietors eff the benefit of commerce. locsli ties requiring open- cilia objects, and witE specific grants totheir general agent. If: then, in the progress of its administration. there have been departures from the teimi and intent et the contract, ills, and wilt ever be, proper to refer back to the fixed standard which our fathers left us, and to make a stern effort to conform our actions Lott. It would seem that the fact of a.principle hav ing been resisted from the first by ninny of the wisest andmiost patriotic men of the Republic, and a rolicy'having provoked constant strife without arriving at a conclusion which can be regarded as satisfactory to its 111014 earnest ad vocates, should suggest the inquiry whether there may not be a plan likely to be crowned . by happier results. Without perceiving any sound distinction, or intending to assert any principle is opposed to improvements needed l=it= t r. at present, that, ully appreciating the mag nitude of the subject, and solicitous that .the Atlantic and Pacific shores of the 13aitublio may be bound together by inseparable ties of common interest; as well ae of automaton feal.. ty and attachment to the Union s I shall be disposed, so far minty own action is concerned, to fyllow the lights of the Cutistitution, as ex pounded and Illustrated by these wh•tse opinions and expositions constitute the standard of po litical faith in regard to the powers of the Foddral Government. It is, I trust, not ne essary, to say, that po grandeur of enterprise, and no present Urgent inducement promising popular favor, will lead me to disregard those lights, or to depart fruMthat path, which ex perience has proved to bit safe, which is bow rodisat with the glow of prosperity and legit. Vl - 1 ,- 14.1w:;: - 01 4, UVA14* • • ,z Imes constitutional progreas. We can efferd to wait, but we cannot afford to overlook the % ark of. oar eeenritv. - It is ao part or My purpose to give proud. name to any subject, which may profierly be regarded out set at rest by the deliberate judg ment of the people; But while the present is bright with promise, and the future full of de. mend end inducement for the exercise of active intelligence, the past can never be without useful lessons of admonition and instruction. If its dangers serve not as beacons, they will evidently fail to fulfill the object of a wise de sip. When the grave shell here closed over all who aro now endeavoring to meet the obli gations of duty, the year 1850 will be recurred to as a period filled with anxious appreheu eion. A successful war had just termtnated. Peace brought with it a vast augmentation of territory. Disturbing questions arose, bearing upon the domestic institutions of one portion of the Confederacy, and involving the eonstitu tional rights of the States, But, notwithstand ing differenees of opinion and sentiment, which then existed in relation to details, and specifio provisions, the acquiescence of distinguished citizens, whose devotion to the Union can nor. er be doubted, has given ronewed vigor to our institutions, and restored a sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the Confederacy. That this repose is to stiffer no shook during my official term, if I have pow er to avert it, those who placed me hero may be assured, The wisdom of men, who know whim, independence Cteit,.--who had put all at stake upon the issue of the revolutionary strew gle.—disposed of the subject to which I refer, in the only way consistent with the union of those States, end with the march of power and prosperity which has made us what we are,— It is a significant fleet; that from the adoption of the Coustitutien until the officers and sol diers of this Revolution bad passed to their graves, or, through the infirmities of ago and wounds, hind ceased to participate actively in public affairs, there was not merely a quiet ac quiescence in„but a prompt vindication of, the constitutional rights of the States. The re served pimem were scrupulously respected.— ; lie statesman put forth the narrow views of easitists to justify interference and agitation, but the spirit of the compact was regarded as sacred in the cyo of honor, and indispensable for the great experiment of civil liberty, which, environed by inherent difficulties, was yet borne forward in apparent weakness by a pow er superior to all obtain:los. There is no con demnation, which the voice of freedom will not pronounce upon us, should we prove faithless to this great trust, While men inhabiting dif ferciii pars of this Niue continent can no nano he expected to hold the same opinions, or en tertain the same sentiments, than every varie ty of climate or soil can be expected to furnish tee same agricultural products, they can unite i i , a etinot t on object and sustain collative prin ciples es-emial to the maintenance of that ob j,..t. The gallant men of the South and the N orth could stand together during the struggle iif the Hat elution ; they could stand together in die mare trying period which succeeded the elittigor of arms. As their united. valor was toll.,itlato to all the trials of the cutup and dan go; et of the field, so their united wisdom proved equal to the greater tusk of Wending, upon a , deep and bread basis, institutions which it has been our privilege to eujoy, and will over be our must sacred duty to sustain. It is but the tecble expression of a faith strung and univer sals to say that their sons, whose blood mingled so often upon (hie saute field, during the war of 18112, and who have more recently borne in triumph t h e nag of the country upou a fUtOlipt soil, willsever permit al.euatitt of feelitzg to weaken the power of their united efforts, ii r internal dissensions to paralyze the grew. aria of freedom, uplifted fur the viudicattiat of self= govern Went, I have then briefly presented such sugges tions as seem to we especially worthy 01 your consideration, lu pro% idirg fur the peseta, you can hardly fait to avail yourselves tit tho light which the experieuce of the past casts LIVH) the future. The growth of our population has now brought us, in the destined career of our o.i. thine! history, to a point at which it well te hootes us to expand our vision over the viut prospective. Tne .ueee,sive decennial returns of the eel, E.lrdrgi /Pe m- hate resealed it 14w of atead3 progrts-it e 0. - ‘eloptueut, which may be suited, in general terms, as a duplication every quarter 1111 t. Carried first aid. Iron the point a hooey ri at 1.- t."l, fur only a short period of time as upplicti ble to the existence of a nation, this beet of progress, if unchecked, will bring us to almost incredible results, A large alto% twee for a diatinittlied proportional utleet of emigration would nut %cry terially reduce the csuntate, while the increased average duration ol human life, known to have already resulted trout the scientille mud hygienic impruvetnents of the tvwt hay ye.irs, will tend to keep up through the next filly, or peiluips huu d iaa , flu bSIII.II ratio of glow O h which has been thus reicaled in our past progress ; and to the influence of these CUU.e, way he added the influx of labor ing masses front eastern Asial,tir the Pacific sine of our poaausaiuns, together with the prob able aocessioi of the populatitm aheady exist in other parts of our hemisphere, which 'tit the period in question, will feel, with 3 early increasing three, the natural attraction of so vast. powerful, and prosperuvui a ontledera tion of self-governing Republics, and will seek the privilege of being admitted within its safe and happy bosom, transferring with them selves, by a peaceful and healthy process of incorporation. spacious regions of virgin and exuberant soil, which are destined to swarm with the fast-growing and fast-spreading mil lions of our race. 'These considerations seem fully to justify the presumption, that the law ot population above stated, will continue to act with Ininished effect, through at least the next half century ; and that thousands of persons who have already arrived at maturity, and are now exercising the rights of freemen, will eloso their eyes on the spectacle ot more than ono hundred millions of population embraced with in the majestil protairtiona of the American . Union, It is not merely as an interesting topic of speculation that I present these views for your consideration. They have Important practical bearings upon all the political duties we are called upon m perform, Heretofore, our system of Government lisa worked on what may bo termed a miniature scale, in compari son with the development which it must thus assume, within a future so near at band, us scarcely' to be beyond the present of the exist ing generation. It is evident that a oonfedendien so vast and ID varied, both in numbers and in territorial, extent, in habits and in interests, could only be kept in national cohesion by the strictest fidelity to the principles of the Constitution, as understood by those who have adhered to t4 lO most reotrioted .construction of the ,powers granted by the people and the Stites. Inter proted.tind applied according to those_ princi ple.. the groat compact adapts itse lf with, healthy ease and freedom to' an unlimited ex tense on of that benign system offeilmstive self government of which It is per glorious,and, I trust, Immortal charter. Lot us,then, with redoubled vi i filanea t he,akillir wird against to IteMptation of th e exercise of doubtful pb ere, - asset - lade" 'the 'pressure of the motives of conceded temporary advigitigs and ippezentiempertry expediency. The minimum of Federal Goienuntatt,sAte patible with 'the Maintenance ofnatitmal unity and eihaient action in our relations with thg, resi s t/ the world, should afford the rule'en Meanie of construction of out powers under! the general ohms* of the Constitution . ' A spirit of 'strict, deference to• the sovereign rights and dignity of every btate, rather than 6, diva position to autsmiiniste the States into a pro! vincial relation to the central authority4muld characterise all our exorcise of the respective powers temporarily vested in us as 4 emirs' trust from the generous confident,' Of our con- eituents. In like manner,Ats a ,manlfostly indispensa ble condition of the perpetuation of the and of the realisation of that msigaillotait tut. tional future adverted to, does tile duty be. come yearly stronger and eleirer upon us, $4 citizens of the several Stites, ko Otati SS'S,frs" terual and idfuctionate lafliptsr, rotsti mam;M co uduot, is regard to other States, and in role, tion to she ,varied intereeta, institntions, and habits of sentiment and opinion, which may 1 respectliely cheraisterize thorn. Mutual for bearanoe, respect, and noninterforence in our personal !Lotion as citizens, and an enlarged exercise of the must 'lowed principles of comity in the public dealings of State with State, whether in legislstion or in the execution of Laws, are the means to perpetuate that confi &owe sad fraternity, the decay of which a mere political union, on so vast a scale, could not long survive, In Dial another point of view, is an important practical duly suggested by tins consideration 01l the uniyillitilijo of diniellslolllll. to which our puliti ical system, with its corresponding inachlliery so rapidly exyinditig. Willi iii• ; creased vicilaild ' o noes it reiptre us to cultivate the cardinal virtues of puhlic trti , :ulity and offline' in• teitrity and purity. Public affairs ought to be so co ,, ducted that s untied conviction shall pervade tile entire Union. that iiiiihing short 01 lie highest tone and standard of public morality marks every pm., of the administration and legisla , lon of the Genera) Government. 'fins will the lederat eya• tam WitilteVnt expansion tittle and progress may give it, continue mere and more deeply ruined in the lane and conti loner of die people. ' nisi weir etinliolliy, Willeti is as for removed trim [1(11 . 91111 , 111V as Iron corrupt and corny i it rx rayaglll,,—that Jungle r.ganl for eon 11 , 1:nte iond, whet, wilt intent upon oil al temp's in ad• prOaeil !he Treasury with iii,odioth. pri jertio of i Nate int creel cloaked under piddle pretexts. -- t hat sound tie& adminwirmein. winch, pi the lieu doarilitent, guards agaii•et the any conic I. in mai ions incident to oven flow leg ri.V1.1,1.11 . , In die liXeCUtive, at, un,,1,0 tu'rees against the tendency ol all 1101101011 , spew door. to exgnvegance, — while theV are adIIIIIIed elementary polincaldinies.mav .1 trust be deemed as proyierly adverted in and urged, in view ot ate mere linprensine sense of that hose-Pity. who'll to directly suggested by the 00nintle111110116 now ptn• aellied• Since the adjournmiint of bongress, the Vice rreelderll of the II mied States has ionised from the scenes of earth, without having entered upon the duties of the otation to which he had been called by the voice of his countrymenl , laViiiit oningliell, almost continuously, liar nun than thirty year... a seal in one or the other of thts.k , i;o I lees. mg, Congress, and has g, by his singil r purity and wiridom, seemed unbounded confidence and universal respect, Ina failing health wee writ ell• rd by the nation with pa n fuloo solantude Ilia loss to the country. miller the etrouinsitinces, hue Lean jar stly rtiliettleil cc 11 - Wpartible. 1 , 1 compliance with the Ail of Concrete. of 74,areh 1. 11 , 53. the onili 4,lothoe axe nit,,,,nietereli to 1141, , ni, the 211 i, of Ilrui month. ii, tinting+ ea -I.lle. near NI al aim so. in the 1,14nd id Cuba; hut '.li gradually derlinYd. and vies htudly aulli lib enable him to return tit hi, horn, Ain I, milk , whore on the etirlitortilib day 1,1 Aprti, In inn moat onlin end peaotifill .IV. htr hifig and em inently uselid curter wan tartnimited. Entertaining inilimised contiderie , in your intel• lovol unA patnotir dev oion to the pub'te a nd being ronoloous 01 no lootived 100 my part s.lljeli no' 111,1 ui+•parable how Ihr honor and nd• vent elopro 11111• etttintt v, I hope a hilly 'm ge to thoorve nod bet 0r,,. it flit y tint rne. dial cooperation in great politic mentoirt.4. hot afro Ott, relnt Irma of mutual confident e and regard. which If a alway+ an &Ninth:atorn; ovate herween members cicoordmate Marlette+ • t I . ; tvermet. II A N Kl,l \ lttlCk. artutaccroa. Dec. 5. 1145.1. zr4l3P.ul.r cubbzi)slo (IgOA Ptiol'erfuniry, Oil*, Motto " Willett, Piltlipallltig, ite., a new aq- eortment jury opened at ISCEDLEICS Hook and Drug Store, in Chanaberralurg toreet. (1 ERM AN REFORMED 11 Y M N ItC OKS. Allolll,l' new supply 01 Hymn Books. of the (;errunn Relortned Church, lino just been reretveti at K Book store iLOTIIS, Black 'Putt and Fancy Cas I L" siineres. Cassineit's, Overenatintr Heniti , ky Jeans, Cords. a new siN le French void, tialin, Silk. Velvet and Fan vv' leskiii 2 s. nre olTered very elven!. la S. F.-J/I.V f (1( 'K 4- SI1,1".1. Sign of the Red Front. guressherf. re ! Que.. • thsro IlleM ARNOLD li' in , l received In large lot of QUEENSAVAIIE. tyltwlt hn will sell low. Call and see. raw FALL., GOODS,, JUST received and now open ing at the Store of N. & SONS. 1t()(' it 111 :S. II 111.' all kinds and trr.h. to be I,nd 11R lOW as the market affords at K elleav euriwr • tt, es • z t 11 4 1 s GUNS! GUNS! Marge lot 01 Singh. :01d Double llhrrel• e d MINS & RIFLES, 01 a tilwr jOr make, je=t reveivotl, 111111 f(.r. RR le ellen) by FA IINESTOCK & SONS. Oet. 14. 11.453. Histi LINENS. Mux Ttekilogs, Flannelf, Linen 'Faith, Citraw, Tuw cling. anti Ortlltngs—a large varietv—lor Rale at SClill HostP.tY, o:nves, Bonnet :khiteiiid and Bonnet Ribbons, Laces. Edg ings. Very cheap at FAUN ESTOCICS. Comforts OF all the different St 3, lex. enlnrs. sizes priers, for Ladies, gentlemen and children, at KURTZ'S. BLANKETS, LARGE lot of BED BLANKETS lat Merritt Fires, with a very large annortmeet horse BLANKETS, at the Cheap Camera KURTZ'S. 1 A LICOES, a large assortment, new L.) styles, also Gingliains„ D01101,1.0( . 11, arid others, with a large variety of DRY GOODS too large to mention here. Call And see them at KURTZ'S Corner. Groceries, 'QUEENS & GLiSS Ware, a fresh sod full supply, as cheap as the mar. keta Aunt; call and see them at KURTZ'S. WINDOW BLINDS I—A new, as. imminent of Window Blinds, Ifni. intim' of Oil Blinds, just arriveli at the yrell.known Store of KELLER KURTZ fitHAWLI3, Bay Mate, Blanket, plai n " end figured Caultunere. White Crape, Mona de Lain. and 'Tibet Wool, of dif ferent prices, cheap at FAHNESTOCK & BONS. Domestic's jrIINEITIAM, Marline, Wool end Cot ‘-31 totkirlannele Calico. of all color. and , Priettatelweye to be had at the cheap Store of S. TAIINCIITOCK & I he" j"" I large lot of . TRUNKS,' whieb I sin setting with. ,Oet teganfte ett, to tpahe romp for cue. tower!. BRAR4.IO ARNOLD. IETIIOD,IST tjy34N BOOKS. IM IMAM ,botinti iu the but Turkey Morocco tbin4iefl 'lntiu44 l o t,f Terkeit4Sheep o tte.. ; gar sale et the Seined rash rote, at the 'beep Ronharini of K THE STAR AND BANNER. CIEMSINOtt. Thursday Evoniug, Dec. 8, 1853. The Mefhuge. li:7•We issue the "Star" in advance of our usual time in order to lay the Presi dent's message before our readers. • As the message itself is of moderate length and will be generally read entire, we fore go a synopsis of it. lts contents have been pretty fully anticipated, the message, as the Baltimore Sun remarks, having " , nothing in it of a very marked or impres sive character." The President is tolvorse to appropriations for Internal Improve ments—speaks guardedly of the Pacific Railroad—approves of Capt. Itigraham's interference in the Koszta affair—mu plains somewhat of Cuba's jealens policy —a reprcstintit the foreign policy of the coon y as wearing a peaceful ripest—urges a modification of the present tariff so as to increase the lint of fr!e articles—and goes it,strong for the Uuiou and the Cumpro 1111S0 measures an "a finality." rj..Last week Mr. I). C. BRINKERHOFF, of Straban township, shot a largo Eagle upon his farm, measuring even feet from tip to tip of the wings. It bad a few days previously carried off a Turkey from Mr. Brinkerhoff's flock. VT'The Town Council have enacted an Ordinance against the selling and firing of squibs, fire-works, &e., under a penalty of or itupri-iontueut fur 48 hours. Soo Oilinance in to-da)'3 paper. The Council, at its last meeting, made provision fur collecting and remodeling of all the old ordinances, and the enactment of such 110 W ones as may be deemed neces sary under the new Borough Act, with a view to tilt, poli:ieation of the Charter, the nrn Aet, and all the Ordinances, in paw phi,:t form, fur the u-c of citizens. • , Cemetery Jlcctiug un Tuesday night ufter app.,inting additional 1' nuwittocv, adjourned to nit•et. evening, tit 31,•Condigliy's I Over $2,000 114%11 beau subscri bed. Ir7-Post Mas4rs are allowed ten cents for the care of 0417 paper sent free of postage in the county. A brutal J'rize Fight, between Bradley, a Moyamensing, and Sloan, a Baltimore bully, took place near the Rail road Tunnel, at Pliconixville, on Thursday afternoon. Thu fight occupied but seven teen minutes, in which time eleven rounds were Ttught, and Bradley was then do cd the victor, his opponent not coming up to time. Bradley has been arrested.— Sloan was carri,l off the ground, bleeding from nse, ID eyes and cars ! lougreois rt" — The rongtess assembled at WANliingtort on Monday, a ilur)nim ap pearitig, in .both Houses. .31r. Cooput was in his scat in the Semite, and :qr. Itt - 5,E.1.1. in the llou-e. The ,Senate sea .,ion was devoted to tinalifying new Sena- t.rsun l bourn uninip..rtant general busi- The House was the scene o f sperial in terest, s,4no difficulty la an:h.ipated in the ~rganizati,n. The Oprei,iiion caucus quisives, ln,wever, were all put through, wit but serious oppositi,n, being thesame )ar, viz : Spe:iker, Lynn t 'lerk, J. W. Forney. S •rgeant at Arms, A. J. t; lossbrencer Doorkeeper, Mr. .Me K new. Postmaster, Mr. Johnson For Speaker, 113 votes were cast for Lynn Boyd, the rest of the votes being seat feted, most of tho Whigs voting for Joseph R. Chandler. The members drew lots for choice of seats, Mr. Benton taking a scat directly in front of the speaker's chair, near the wain Nothing, of special interest occurred in either House on Tuesday- beyond the read ing of the message. The Fugitive Male Low. From the Cho, leAton (S. C.) Kerney "The :south has gained nothing but a loss by this law. It was a stupid blunder on the part of Sotnhern state...man. 'rte value of the slate lost is eaten up it capture follow.. while hatred to the institution abroad and opposition to it at home, are increased by its hin d features and the barboi.., cies enfei cement of them." Irj'A remarkable confession, consider ing the quartet: whence it comes, and wor thy the attention of the Northern dough faces who would make an unqualified ap proval and support of the Fugitive Slave Act a test of fidelity to the Union. On the first announcement of the Act, we thought the South had overreached itself, and would sooner or later regret its pas sage. The law never can bo enforced, and every attempt to do so will do more to de velope a bitter hatred of alavery than all other causes combined. ierANSON 0. PIIELPS, of New York, recently deceased, has lett 8581,000 for re ligious and benevolent purposes, including 5100,000 to the An ericau Bible Society, 8100,000 to Foreign Missions, $lOO,OOO to Home Missions, and 850,000 for literary and theological education in Liberia. ifirThe Missouri Legielaturehas before it s bill prOviding that no man shall be al lowed to endorses not without the eon eeut, of his wi6, and that no , indorsement shall be vklid in law without •sneh eon abut. Irishman employed a 6 fiesd'e brewery, in Troy, N. Y., fell into a •at containing about 200 barrels' of boiling bear, on litattirday la*. and was not dia. *toted till7ihree hours aft*. - Alt the beer was turned off into the sew* la the presence of A, coroper's.iury. From Europe. *slake steamers Europa and Humboldt have arrived with eight days later intelli gence from Europa. The latest accounts report no further decisive engagement be tween the Turks and Russians, although skirmishing was going on almost daily. The Tur equenee of the lateness of the season, had re- ossed the Danube, abandoning their positi ns, except Kalafat which they have gar! oned with 25,000 men. Should the Russians, after receiv- r , ing reinforcetnents, march agaftist Kale fat, a desperate engagement may be ex pected. The Turks are strongly fortifying it. The impression, however, seemed to be that both armies would go into winter q uartets and await the opening of spring for further decisive operations. The Russians must have suffered severe ly, as they were sending their sick and wounded into the interior, the hospitals of Wallachia and Moldavia being insufficient to contain them. France has fortnally - announced to Aus tria that if she gives refuge to armed Rus sians retreating from the Turks, Franco will regard it us a declaration of war. The French Government was collecting troops between Strasburg and Marseilles, which would enable it to send off 100,000 men on five days notice. England's course is still kept quiet.— The Cabinet, held freqUent meetings. It was reported that the Russian ambas sadors at Lotratm and Paris had orders to demand their passports if the combined fleet remained in the Black Sea. Austria and Prussia have given formal assurances of neutrality. The Queen of Portugal died on the 15th ult. in child•bed. The heir apparent is but 15 years of age. Ctz!rAn ezciting trial for Murder took place last week in Hyde county, N. C.— The Rev, GEORGE 11. CARAWAN, a Bap- tist preacher, was convicted of the murder F tX-sEED of a Mr. Lassiter, a School teacher, whom-I he suspected of improper intimacy with his (Carawan's) Rile. Carawan, who is described as a tall, and admirably built, fine looking man, was attended during the trial, by his wife and three children. Af-: ter the verdict of the Jury was rendered, a recess of the Court for one hour was then ordered, and, the crowd commenced leav ing the court-room, when two reports of , pistols were heard in quick succession. It was found that Carawan had two self-cock ing single-barrel pistols, One of them he had discharged at E. J. Warren, Esq.. 1 (the counsel for the prosecution who had made the closing address to the Jury,) i tylio was but slightly wctinded, the ball Laving struck just above his heart and :lanced; andzwith the other Carawan l al shot a hole through his own head, and fall a corpse in the prisoner's box bitY - The New irk Journal of Coin mercy contains an official announcement of the amicable settlement of the diitote whteh has so long - exiatotl between tho tun bronchos of the 3lethodbit Epi-copal Church, North and South, in regard tothe property NI 1)1(41 belollgOl to them iu coin -111011, prior to the separation. Thu Coutnissioios of the Monodist E piscopal Clrurch North retain all the prop erty belonging to the Book Concerit, to eluding t h e depositories at Boston, Pitts• burg and Charleston. S. C., with the pa pers at Auburn and Pittsburg, and pd to the Commissioners of the Methodist Epis copal Church, South, their pro rata divi dend, A m mint in g to the Ro m of $69,062,59 And for 'heir interest in the above properly of WhoLe amlunt to be paid lb. South, I:R.0,000,W I The South retain the newspaper presses with about 840,000 in old notes and book accounts, within the bounds of the Metho. dist lipiseupal Church, South. iiiirThe late Senator Atherton, among other bequests, has left one of $B,OOO to President Pierce, with whom ho was, for many years, on terms of the closest inti por•Thirteen public houses iu Reading, Pa., have been fined $4 each for violating the Suuday Law. Ir:ATho Senate of South Carolina" has voted a sword to Capt. Isiututawst for his conduct in the Koasta case. A LOAD Or LIVE FREIORT.—A family of nine persons passed through Dayton, Ohio• last week, ou their way to Liwa, nn a frieght trout and as frieght. At Belle. tontaine, it is said, they were put upon the smiles and weighed like dead shoats, and a regular hilt ut lading was made out for them at 10 cents a hundred, after which they were stowed away in a freight car and lurked up, like so many bales of merchandise, or so many tubs of grease. MORTALITY AMONG vester, living near Point Rood, Philadel phia county, has, it is said, within the list few days, lust upwards of fifty of his hogs, front some unexplained disease, and he fears his whole stock, amounting to nearly one hundred, will die. The disease ap pears to be the same that has carried o8•ao much poultry. NI) RAIN IN Pitao.—lt never rains in Peru t the vapors. as they ascend ,from the sea, ire attached to the summits of the Cordilleras, where they are condensed into showers. But on the line of coast, which lie, between the sea and the base of these stupendous mountains, the rain never falls. All agriculture ip the result otartifirtal irrigation. But the frequent and fulliareartle, flowing from the Cordil leras; makes this cornpataiively easy. NEWSPAPIIIIii VI TES Wonto.—The following is supposed to be the number of newpapera in the world in Austria. 34 in. Afries, 24 Spain,9o in Portugal, 89 in Asia, QS in Helping, 96 in•Denalark.:9o in Raisin and *Perini!, 820. in other Ger. mink Steam, 000 la' great Orintin and Itelsail, sad 1800 'nib" Uglitatilslitelli, THe CAROLINA Tart we.--A new freak of nature is now to be seen - in Charlestoni in the persons of the . 4 0ar . olina Twins . a These children were born int olumbus county, North Carolina. They are join. ed together at the beak, by the-union of twn spines in one, and are a second edi tion in miniature of the renowned Siamese Twins. Some of their organs are in coin. mon, while others are perfectly distinct. The parents of these children are now living in 'Columbus county, N. C.,.and are both slaves, formerly the property of Mr. Jahcz McKay. 11A - ICili MORE DI ARK El'. [►ROM -ens H ..I.TIMORIt SUFI OW TIATIRDATJ FLOUR— Market active to-day. Soles of 6.000 !Toward street brands at *6 75. Rye Dour S 5 50, and Corn Meal unctianeed. . . . GRAIN— bout 8,000 bushels Wheat offered at $1 45 a $1 50 for red, and $1 85 s $1 00 for good to prime white; sales small. dealers holding off. Corn atradr, old yellow 70 a 71, new yellow 64 a 66, new white tio a 62. Rye 92 a 93 Oats 38 a Clover $0 70, Timothy 93 ; and Flax- seed 130 a $1 35 per bushel. ORM:EWA —Coffee firm. Sales of Rio at 116 al2 cents per lb. Sugars and Molasses un. changed. PROVISIONS.—The sales are 'small. We quote Mess l'ork at $l4 per bbl. Bacon quiet— bhouldera and sides 66 a 7 cents. and hams 10 a 12 cents per lb. Lard in bbls. 91 cents, ■nd in kegs 101 s 11 rents per lb. Butter in kegs 1 . 21 a 13 mita per lb. CATTLE.—Prices ranged from $3 to $4 on the hoof, equal to $6 a $7 78 net, sad averaging $3 50 gross. PORK.—There were sales to-day ■t $5 a $5- 31 per 100 lbs. YORK MARKET. FLOUR. per RA., from wagons, $6 37 W HEAT, per bushel, I 40 to I 00 RYE. " 83 CORN, .. , 62 OATS, .. 40 TI‘IOTHY S. ED, per bushel, 200 to 3 50 CLOVER SEEP, " 8 It: FLAX•sEED, 1 26 I'LATEII OF PARIS, per ton, 6 50 lIANOVEIR rosAltuur. FLOUR. par barrel, (from Wagon.) $6 25 WHEAT, par bushel, I 85 to 1 45 RYE. 83 et IRN o 4TA, TI NIIITHY-SRED, CLOVER-sEED MARRIED. La Fairfield, on ihe 2441 ult, by Rev. P. D Clarke. Mr. JA 111 MIT., and Miss RUl'll FLOUR. Emodtaborg. on the :Uh tilt, after F , lona }ire. BARBARA. wife of Mr. Henry Gelwicka, aged 29 years 5 months and 16 dept.' RAIL ROAD MEETING. rug 1-J ER E will he a meeting of the Di- I L rectors of the Gettysburg ROI Road Company at the office of the Secretary, nn , Sitiordify the 101 h of December ittri., at 1 o'clock, P. Al. An person, having in their piirtses.ion y Sotiveriptioo 1300k4 belonging to the Coinicitiy, tclll ple,poi have them before (hell:AM on that dec. By 11 , d, r Ole Pr. - .ent, JANI ES G REED. &Cy NOTI II HE undersigned, apnointed by the Grith ',mil of Adams eo., I'a., Auditor, to distrihute the balance remain tug in thy 11:111d5 Or JACOB liquor. Aul,olll - I,r of the Estate of Wm. W. AlEr• CALFK, lain of Huntington towntthip, Ad ams comity, Pa.. 141 and ain , tne' the per. eons entitled thereto, will attend at fits of• five in Gettysburg, Ott Saturday the 71/1 day o/ January raert, at 10 n'dock, A. Al., for that purpose, of wbieh all persons in. teresual are hereby notified. D. A. DU F. 111 .Elt, auditor Dec. 8. 1853. An Ordinance to prevent firing Guns and Fire-works. 121.997,41 n E it enacted by the Town Council Jill of the Borough of Gettysburg, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the sane, That if any person or persons, froin and alter the publication of this Ordi nonce, shall fire any Otto, Pistol, or other Fire-arms, or shall cast, throw, or fire any Squib, Rocket, Torpedo, Cracker or other Fire-work, in or upon any public street. or alley, in said Borough. or within fifty. yards of the saute, or in any garden, lot, or other inclosure, adjoining or pertaining to any Dwelling-llouse within said Bor ough, or shall sell, utter, or offer, or ex• pose to sale, any Squibs, Rockets, Torpe• dos, Crackers, or other Fire-works, with in the said . Borough, (without a special cense Iron) the Town Council for that purpose first being had.) he, she or they, so offending, shall, upon conviolirm there• of before the Burgess, forfeit and pay the sum of Five dollars, with the costs of pros ecution. or in default of thereof, shall be imprisoned for any time not exceeding the term of forty-eight hours. Adopted De cember 8, 1853. R. G. HARPER, Burgess Attest —E. 0. MI.; ar RS, Cle,k. December 8, 1853.-3 t PROTHONOTARY. To the Voters of Adams courtly. tHATEFUL for the favors and eviden , ces of confidence heretofore extended to me by my fellow citizens, and encour aged hi' numerous enlieitioions and friend ly assurances, I ain induced to announce myself as n candidate for the Offi or of PROTHONOTARY. subject to the de cision of The Whig County Convention, pledging myself. if nominated and elected; to devote my beet efforts to a faithful and impartial discharge of the duties of the Of fice. JOHN PICKING. East Berlin. Deo. 8, 1853. AT the urgent solicitations "or o„oy friends 1 offer myself is a cendidite for the Office of SHERIFF, et the meat Election; subject to the Whig Nominating Convention. Should The so fortunate ai to he nornineted and elected, I pledge my self to discharge the duties of the owloe to the hest of my ability and, without impair. tialitv. JOSEPH 'HARKER. Germany townshi , Dec, 9, . 1853 I OOHING GLASSES. of iII shoo L 4 and pill's, for isle ai MOBICKIS 250 to 300 6 00 to 575 DIED, .V.lkkeilritil MID FOR 1854 . 1854. A-N pursue°, of the Mt of Asseuthly passed tie 27th dal of July,, 1842, the fob' lowing stßement is hereby published by the Commissioners of, Adanie weal, which exhibits the amount, description and value of the Real and Personal ProrallYr Trades, Occupations, and Professions, made taxable by the several Acts of Assembly of this Commonwealth : F . ... - . - u c. 3 ' 4 ah co g il Borough, Cumberland, Germany, Ox ford, Huntington, Lail more. Hamilton ban, Liberty, Hamilton. Menallen, unben, Franklin. Conowarro, Tyrone, :Noun tjoy , Mouutplessant, Beading, Berwick, Freedom, Union, Butler, 3894773 Attest—J. AUGIIINDATJOH, Clerk December, 9, IS(3.—St. FARM FOR SALE. LLL be Soh! It private sale the Farm situate jn Mourojoy town• ship. Adams county, Pa., now ()erupted by Mr. JACOB BoLLINCIER, containing 130 Acres, more or less. on which are erected a ON R A ND•A•IIALF •TORY LOG _ DWELLING HOUSE , s 9 I I Log Barn, and other out buildings. There is a good spring of water convenient to the dwelling, and an ORCHARD OF CHOICE FRUIT on the premises. A fair proportion of the Farm is in good TIMBER ; also good mea dow 1,,n,d. Persons wishing to vi..w the promises, can do so by calling on Mr. Ballinger residing thereon, or on the sub• scriber, residing in Gettysburg. ELrFor !erns and other information apply to JAMES A. THompsoN, slgc..zt for Ilarrisbuig Bank. Decomhor 8, J853.-3t II SIC MIRTH. FOR TWO NICifITS ONLY. ALE. HOWAtin j ~ II O:ML.[E,C".TO `6',VIJIVIO*4II RO .NI Niido's garden, New York. formerly Mister HOWARD, (TUE ./.ILER/C.I.V OLE BU LL.) whose fame is s irilirmigliDui the United Suites and British Prov Mims, inn.' respect fully announces to the Ladies aid Gentle men of this town, that he will give Grand, Brilliant and Sublime Musical Entertainment! nt MecON A 1.A.; HYSHA LL, nn Pridey and Saturday Eveuingli, Derember the Uth and lOth, on which oecaston a new ly improved lustrumunt will be introduced, called the 13.1. VG U I Ty 1 II G 0, which will he seciompanittlt by several hew and origiusl California songs, chaste comic songs. concluding with the hest comic song in creation, called SQUIRE Jones' daughter. Atlmlet•ion 25 cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock--Entertain ment to commence tit 71. December 2. 1853,--2t REGISTER'S NOTICE. IN oncE is hereby given to all Levi tees and other persons concerned that the. Altnintstration Accounts herein after mentioned, will be presented at the' Orphans' Court of Adams county, for con firmation and allowance, on Tuesday the 27th of December next. viz : 173. The first account of Rev. George Haines. Administrator of the estate of &d -ward Haines, deceuf,e(l. 174. The first awl final account or Ja cob Meyers, Esq., Guardian of Isaac T. Shrivel.. minor son of George L. Shrives . , deceased. 175. The second and final account of Samuel Kennedy, Administrator if the estate of John Kennedy, deceased. 176. The second Recount of Robert Smith, Executor of the last will and testa ment of Walter Smith, deceased. 177. The first and final account of Mahlon Griest, Administrator with the will anpexed. of Isaac P. Garreteon, de ceased. 178. The Recount of Peter Trost's, Guardian (lithe estate of Lydia Slonecker minor child of William Blunecker. de ceased. DANIEL PLANK, Register. Register'. Office, Gettysburg, Dcc. 2. 1859. S lc AVTICE. LETTERS 01 Administration nn the estate of CATHARINE SIIIBI.ER, deed, late al Conowsgo township, Adams county, having been granted to the sub. scriber, residing in the same township. he hereby gives notice to those indebted to said Estate, to call with him and settle the same ; and those who have claims, are de. sired to present the same, properly authen ticated, for settlement. WILLI A M A-3Y 0 R'l'Z Adni r. Deo: 2, 1853.—=-4114 1107t23. THE Stockholder" of the Bank of Get. lysburg. intend to make application to the next Legislature for* renewal of their, ' Oharter, under the style .of the .• Bank of Gettysburg".—with banking, prilleges, and s a me eapitaL , rights and pnvtleger. they ,aow enjoy. • By orthe of the Ilaardi •. 44 a. svirmitE. Trees. Oetiyiburg, Jane 171 hi 11114...001; g 2 g • . F E F. 4... % . 4 B w mom 9882 1 55797 173i5l 12760 097;! 37031 76351 81828 14530 40110 106911 29202 20608 14611 t 10911 92741 32924 1661221 15300 19041! 27757 23024! 37105 8848 18867 10339 4450 115661 13746 17602 25841 13352 32702 49581 2151, 46601 7908' 61906 30734' 133781 21502 260101;501037 ABRAHAM REEVER, JOHN MICKLEY, jr, Commillianers. JAMES J, WILLS, ETTERB of Administration nn ,the IA estate of JULIAN ECKENfIODE. late of Butler township, Adams county, Pa., deo'd. having been granted to the sub scriber, residing in Tyrone township. notice is hereby given to such as are in. debted to said estate to make payment without delay, anti those having claims are requested to present the same, proper ly authenticated. for settlement. GEORGE F. ECKENRQDE;- .tldininistrater. Nov. 25. 1853.-6 t• LETTERS of Administration nn the estate of CORNELIUS . NicCAL LION, late of Liberty township. Adams eo., dec'd, having been granted to the subscriber, residing in spine township, he hereby give* notice to all p e emins i ni l e b tut i to baud ertyle to make inmiediate payment, and to those lissom claims against the mime to present them properly authenticated for settlement,. JOON . C. bIoc:ALMON, Nos. 25, 1853.—1 it dbina'r. ItTl'he P.O. address of the admiring:ow; is Emutitsburg, SAVE YOUR MONM ESSZINOE Or OOFFEE. H. BUEHLER keeps constantly on ). ' 7 • band for sale, the Genuine F... 44— 'FELICE OF COFFEE, of best quality. !toile iiiieot this article in families will be themd a very great saving in the course of Re year. -IrgsFitriette; Wtintnarrtn SL:TAIL, at the Drug & Book 49inre of MMn '2O, 1853 'l'o THE PUBLIC. rito HE. Subscriber desires to call the nt. YL Irtitioll of the Citizen,/ of Adams County, to bin eXienPilve Amyl: of Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Porte Ma tin ales, Perfumery, Brushes. Combs, 4.c.—also, Boots. Shoes, flats and Caps, which for variety and cheapness, he &flea all competition in this or any ni the neigh. boring Counties. M_" 7 Call and see, at the North East Corner of 6.litre Square. June 10.] KELLER KURTZ. RAIL ROllll MEETING. 11 AMY at Kuriz's Cheap Corner. JO Sundays exeepted,) Irmo 9 o clock A. M.. to 7 o'nlock P. M.. examining & buying Goods just arrived I dim philailet. phia, via B•drimore and Usnover Rail Road. Call soon, and save money: you may be too late. Remember, A. B. KURTZ'S Oct. 14. • Cheep Corner. Fashionable thievats. ICI - ARGUS SAMSON has just receive IT" ed a large armament of beauti. lul CRAVATS, of the latest style, which he will sell cheaper than any other estab lishment in town. December 2, 1853. • OVER COATS. 6IER COATS, Prepare for Winter. rrnE subscriber has just received and A opened a choice Int of Oveicoats of every tlescrisMon, made in the best onto nee. and latest 'styles, or Walt he is de. termined to sell (-hearer than any other es tablishment in the County. To lesnim truth of this call and examine. Remem ber no trouble toshew GOODS. Al A RCUS . SCOWL 1 ONG BAY STA'rE square 11 .. 4 SHAWLS in great variity,Tii mint, Red and White Vrapit do, a !HMO nrli- Ile, BONNET ve,r.v.rs, silks, die.:very cheap at' the litiire'nf • G O. Altriol.P. Oct. 14, 1E153. ' • OF everY style. De Hoge. De Bnge A - ' l -fir pan, Mimi de lainex- Alpaca:Silky. -to &w., with trimmings 1a...ai1. ler sale cheap at P4HSEST9CrS , ;JICIE•PIACKS from an ,E c tlitoer, iwitt pul)4sh . e4 the Appleitons. r m . ba i ef KCI.LER Kurars DituGs *NI) liaantgistric. 4)P all kindt r from the beat all in the City. con snotty nh hand , and for sale at the Drug and Bouttattorn of ' •li. 014N2111. Ribbon.. lid Parasols, it bog loisolosont. and *NI Own, tit •AIIPPLIWOIIII., ...3 n CO ot 7.. i i ITT 4 . , 4 1 , L... E 2 3 a f r - a cOi EIS] sou 1 235 ;1 2482 2141 30Q 1216 300 3u4 260! 1830 2241 1237 103' 2244 60 378 1 60 3282 260 6 61 75 163 224 223 1146 400 818 73 12a 2257 1100 4128 4161 26 ;127 00 4 Ou 1 5 00 2 25 3 60 1 00 t 060 NO` ZOE. .3'071e E. S. U. BUEHLER DRESS CODS sn'ariss 3 nultL • RU. ll 94arsiined, will he a eawilitial• OICVOne. 811E1111W at tits ! next eleciiim, subject, to the derision. the Wil*Coatity - Convention, and respeay fuqj witieke the favorable eonaithipstioia and support- of his friewlii, pledigits t unmin:gtrti end sleeted, rho: the duties of tile Wiles with kilelige , y„ir * ' JP!' N Gettysburg, Oct. 26 4854._ ROUG H the ettenotagernetn-tof number of fraitola I oiler *wish` *a a candidate foe die °See of. - !oleos to thasloeisami ofi, the. What Halos: ty t.lonssomilin—pledgisig myself. itiniting in■tea and flr!edo Or di the Ott.* of the Offlets t the lieet i asy UEO 43..•431 . 11 41001:1FM. Geitisburgy Hee. tl. 4945• . ' ITIEIROUG/I the comaalarment or a a- •number of friestils. I ukirscptl l4 dt to candiihns for the aflkieefSHENIFK bob , ject to the &mimeo of** Whit calinTY Convention. It ttierr4ore reepeetAilly`kirit ' your yams infloallos.r • 1310(oold IrVpir teed lanai nomination and Om t ip effort' dr exertion on av part ihtßlie w spared; by a ihfut and impantilt prh lormanee of the dittie; thereof; ha"er iiire my tense of ybur Itlnitneyi deuce. '"'' ; ."' t `DAVID 'NEW i ctllllO4 4 4„ East Harkin, Nov. 0.18 . PELLOW• CITIZENS bieTre. quest of many friends I again ollt4 myself as ci randiditalltr tint otsat SEMI- IFFALTY ot. Adams coun)y. - saihjaim In the decision ottty Whig _ (Timmy quartos,. lion, and pledg e triaelpf nominated, and , elected, to discharge the duties of the Oitco astisfactorily to all. DANIEL lIINNIGH. lottimore tieß., N0v.4.18511. CLERK OF THE OMNI& EiEt.t.o NV err4F,fiN:,-At the request e AL - (dwell friends I spin offer tuy.ell are la candidate krr the neat , 'CI,ERX OF TIM c, COURTS of Aghtuts Pctiltil. futio 4o,4 ob. decision of the %V Iti 4 Ouunty.ovi t tandaq i , and re*P•of!*,ifqi,.4Yeur,faverabie sou sitleration end supporit.,pletlgkog royeslf, l if, , nominated and eletited lin Aisaherla lb. k 01 * - ties of ;he Offloe:witkpuentalityijut. ra- ;,. itY• , . , 3UL...A 414DE1 • . Straban invinship, pnike. 11..1094. IWILL be a catotlrtlate i tor 0044 CLERK cor TII,O next Election.lout,c(lar.-thO 9004 oF„ the ‘Vhig Cottni,y 'enaetitlott,. , , Joltrioliitv/s ) Gettyaburg, Nev. 14, , * of, - V Tri 0 ogideiorwd,7kit 1111 .5. -1 1 " 1 0 bta lilt. the elligeol . ,Cti•Eß4o.9r , T4 l4 ° COURVl..object to the ltertaten, olobtal W lug Coo nIY, I; l 4) UV ol iirn , aolicita the aiippart (4' hi. , le qv, steal. )041X MterMAlrtr; Fnirfleld , Nnv. 18, 18153. REGISTER & RECORDER. To any friends and fellow voloi,v,'otati4 runs Colinty— E gennu out and cnirdittl; !plea!, 1 rereived nu former inc cyaid?ns ettrooragm! me in pieeetitnett , your coneirlerotinn and thator'4l),;Vlndip r County Convenli9Pl"! eg ll (ligh!t,i fnt riiii e' orttEl4lS'l'Flg Rrailgoji of Adams county at thn nett ttleCtbitt i Tmiti therelnre repperitolly 10. !4'. rod influence: Should 1 snrceed In lbe nondo,,tion pod he elected. ninr(roit, t;!. vxml ion on my pirri shall be apntetc, tuitltid and impartial perfotniauce'of die dillies thereof, toiev)'nen niy st. nen 01 rou r kindness and arstifidenne. ' 'lollti Nov. 11. 163. THE untlerelgoett wit! he , elinflttlete for the Office of REGIST,P* REContrElt,s6 l / 4 10 1 ,11 , Wh ii Cnunly Coneeno4. anti reepeetr (Ily solicits the support of his tellow•eiti• A LEXANPER, cppool, Gettysburg, Dem. 21, IBbtt. PROTHONOTARY , `HE2 untlersigiipil 'wilt he * . cendbitle for', o ffi ce of pilt.rrnokoL. TARY et the neil` ID the decision of the %V big Coiniti thineen. non. w&1. 11,04114113*.r: , Butler, tp. Nor, It. J 863 .. COLLECTORS'TAKE AUTICE! r r HE Co l leetbrii of lazes ih rot towneitips or Adams cmlntfolif ' hereby notified thin they will be rigtifiiii to seitle up their Duplireter on or bikini ° Friday .and - Soltieddir tie OW, fnd' lac Ways of December next. IA witieh daye the (Intninieiiionere wiU.. iflekf at, their office to give the necelitairtexontiti•-" ti one, ke. 1 •• , it "Collector.' of 'Faxes alarm! prior I" 1053 ate barOlif that. if their I)ltheatea are not settled lip is; foil by Viet al o%a thne, 147 will •be deals with , so cording to luyt, without regard va, pat .ous. ABRAHAM HErVAB„ 111.! Jilg MJtigl,F.X. Jr.. a. JAMH:4 f Att , st—J. AtaxixtaVolt, Nov. 211. - it118: - .--'4d -- `7.: - - SPOUTING; .RPOUTINGI (1 EORGE sod lielry Wiottpler, Make (Oiler 11 1 1 tiuting and P itt, . die ewe ~esith or rllllll . lo_ -duce. •all ` ' their Hisoses. Barris. ate. spouted, .would do well to gjethopent, a ,mall. • • • Al. A.Drit tO*lB63' Al'itEloil ICE MAlkil N A iiprengeeiti the N ti,irpt,E-TRE 7k o t o j kluf b)r the y•iih, Pi•rihrr. if 141;1 emir_ "I'liff,appIWIIIII•01. 11 %1J"!0!01 1 4 4 44 4 40* gite,l ritonteirr. , . • . • if)llrtt..l..i;w,4ll, Cieityobtirg. NOV. 1•064**" t)xvii-sott, rteorausi F the heKt gthilit). 7 alwe 7 s op b l ind and for iglu, in Gitiyaborg. of lb* Fpnadry T. WARREN k SOir E/27 - plants of Ai VACS sale at AO PM* r.~- -~%--~---
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