COVRENOR'S MESSAGE. r. "...rob,. 14. Semthwe nil Me rnhrrit IA r Mose IlepresenWiest .f the Genera/ vilearrt.rits :—A henelicient Providence has hanrest the people of mu. Vommutwealth with a hitt% elegem of health' and general prosperity daring the year just dosed, and with many 00 0 cutout'', of T , Nll‘l/ re and grauttle. iluui dy acknowledging these Idasqingu• let its wk Bea divine direction in the discharge of our tafficial obligations. It affenals nor unaffeeted delight to welcome the repotaentatives of the people to the scat of, roternment. sod rdy for a time. upon thy aid pf their coinhintsi wisdom in the administra lion ref puhlic *Wain; : as it is also a grateful i tank to.perfiwin the constitutional injunction I that requiteet thC Executive to "communicate; trt.the Ovneral Assembly infiwitiation of the date of' the Commonwealth." and make such auggeatio n s and recommendations as the , Nee of the people and the exigencies of the times mar smut to demand : and to the discharge of • . thliotiligation I now proceed The receipts at the tres Airy for the yvar 1653, exclusive of loans, and itteluding the cc " tit, habiner in the treasury on the first day of December. 1852, (bwing, *671.0.17 72,) amount , .d to the Kota or $5,952.474 47. .• . • • The payments for the saute period, exclusive :•"."• Orleans and other extraordinary expenditures, make et total sum of $4.134,048 47. being ttl .818 In 10 less than the receipts. Of this excess. $.5115 657 55 WAR paid to the Onmmis slit/nets of the Sinking Fund. and. 8589,000 to ' wards the payment of old debts and the con struction of new work on the North Branch canal and Portage railroad. being part of' the • temporary loans authotised by the act of the ' • nineteenth of April last: which, together with the balance in the treasnry applicable to the redemption of outstanding 101111/4 reduces the MS nal balance on the firm day of December last, to the !Mir of shout six hundred and twen ty-flee thou s and dollars, to be used in the pay ment of the February interest. The receipts for the year 1854, iholuding the balance in the treaaury on the first of °cum ber. 1853, may. in my opinion, lie safely esti mated at *5,946.417 '34. • The expenditures for the Rime period, inclu ding *250,000 for the payment of old debts on the public works, and *300.000 for tbosinking ‘• fund, should not, and if proper care be liken; will not exceed the sum 0f54,500,000, leaving ta balance in the treasury on the first of Dec., 18,54, of 51,340.417 34. Deducting from this *625.000. the amount that eboublimain in • the treasury to meet the interest due Feb. 1, 1855, and we should have a surplus revenue of meet 6700,000. it is thus made apparent to my mind, that the treasury will hare the abilit,T. during the coming year, to redeem the entire amount of the temporary loans now outstanding, and ppaay • tin debts to which I have already But no additional drafts should be made upon it, without provision being And made he *air payment. At the time of my induction into Auk the - liabilities of the State were as fellowe, to wit nix pet con. bold% Vim de. do., 11 Voir sad eae-Itaff per Md. WOK MISM " paw act enter t, 11141, SW= 1111 r molten letemet ea at pintiMielit, fir Me yen. tat, Nit, ma NUN atm tbeir ao. emostamd intermt. MOM Ni Dena rte crediters' muttikene, 54 fetal Ibblutiw , December 1.1411, 11/0,1114,411/V iI Mkt lon el Anil x, 1842, for the oempleibm et the dim* Drawn rod, VAN. At tbp time I assumed the duties of my present station, I found this work in progress of constriction : the western slope up to the seam& haling been placed under contract do. ring the summer of 1851. On referring to the reports of the Canal Conimisoioners and the engineer, the only data which I could psiy contents to the policy onto measure. t thetotal coat (Wagtail* tnich wu saints. ! ted at $1.015,000. The materials out the old road were valued at 11248.1150, which with the appropriations previmudy made, 1 ducted the amount to be peovided to complete ! the wertrin the meagre Num of $591,350. With these calculations before me. and am' a adding a !trim amount for errors in the Batt. mates. end the enormous eipenditures of the old road.in full view, I could not do •Ibt the expediency and sionomy of the tneastire. But the animal advance in the price of labor, ma terial and subsistence,' sdded Co the obvious wrote in the intimates, has clanged the entire salmi of this enterprise. . Tice sum of $ 6 50,00X1 has been weeptiated since that time, and over six ha nth•edthisisand 4fillara /sinen required' with the value of the old road, to bring the line into Sae. The estimated cost of completing the North Branch canal, at the period already named. was $772,000. One million of dollars has! since hem pad, and a sun exceeding ashen. 1 1 dred and arty thousand dollars is still required to pay for its completion. With such apex. !plated demands upon - the treaserfwithin the short apses of two years, it would not be ens. reasonable to expect an increase of the Habib'. tics of the State; but it is alike gratifying and astonishing to know. that this has not occurred. r aviltnectign seine!. extoodier from O. Ihr.er i me to mini, will be ready for businesa during the present month, and the State work from Pittston to the dam at Athens, a distance of ninety-three miles. has been completed. The only unfinished part of the work lies be tween Athens and the State line, a space csO two and a half miles, the construction of which i was delayed by an effort of the Canal Corn- 1 missioners and the Governor, under an act of Assembly, to negotiate with the Junction canal company for its completion. But even this I section, I am assured, will be ready in ample! i time for thq spring trade. ii ikussweebracenseteeproon, ern,en is These It win thus appear Suit the floating liabilities ' works will complete the last link in a •, • n • are 5im561.15 lees than when / mad the continuous water eon menu:aon between the Chesapeake bay the northern lakes. The 1 .i . it i t i A•s of iny.present station. It should be re- ' • • etruggle for this achievement has been long i ~, 0 1 tent fleeting debt , as show stated. la am eerienearly r am t hi ne. i s has Amt.. existed to . and goes. co l4 . quarter o a veleta . oe , k e7 degt , oo. be a u t' s a' - i tio nyi rs bee ; century. Bet the triumph is still a brilliant exhibited in this tom. A balance of unpaid one• and must be canto of gratification to the people of the entire Suite. . . appspriatione is unavoidable, and has not b een em em i t f or mow years , la st present Most Most auspicious and promising is it for the enterprising inhabitants of Northern Peoretyl. During the year 1852 and 1853, the allow. Innis, to whims untiring efforts itit final con ing appropriations and payments have bees no s e . t owar d s u m trection ernes . 0. summation may he mainly attributed. Through; menet: im P tcw I this channel , in the early port of next season. 1 and during each succeeding year, Pennsylvania I fur te-laylo g the nerth hank al thetlginwtol* retiree& SWAN NI will send greeting , to the people of a neighbor- I for Wes ennuttnetien et a mew ineS to ated4 the evidence of fraternal affection— tweasoposso on the An tahno, MAI 10 in state—the . - torte. mspietten of tho wwi wwwww , h ., ra„les et the aestnnince or political fidelity , and the bless- Tor th e Korth of nail. se Inc. of an extended commer ce , in the shape of - fee the sew Induc e the &tenure Dhisloo, °O M • inland vessels, fivighted with ber richest mine- From , .. Tao. 5t2,1411911 a t i flig , and receive in return, as she certainly the foregoing ilgures it ill apparent that I will be offered, from the vast rallies of the! the operations of the tremens have exceeded Empire State, now teeming with wealth in all 1 our most sanguine expectations, , yielding over its variety. assurances of full reciprocity, in a million of dollars annually above the online- agiction, fidelity and Commerce. And in due ry charges and expenses : and chewing, that time the coffers of the Suite. I am confklent. 1 if no new Onprovements had been in progress, will receive an ample reward from these new two millions, at least, of the public debt could! millions of trade. Indeed, on this point, the hare been peid during the last two years. In' large increase of profits; on the old line, for the addition to these extraordinary expenditures.! year just closed, furnishes' the most reliable there was paid out of the treasury during said indication of what we may anticipate from the period, ia pursuance of laws passed prior to new. The constantly increasing demand for ,852: for the State Lunatic Asylum, P70,70e: I cord, outrunning. as it has donator years past. for the publication of the Pennerlvania Archives the means of rinpply, jratifies. if it does not and Colonial Records $23.183 . 52 : for tbo ire-. Once upon tut the conclusion, that wit soon as prorement of the State penitentiaries 535.000: ! beats can be ocinstructed and proper business for the publication of Professor Regent' geologi- , connexions Ihnned. this canal will be patronised eat survey 818 000 : for the preparation of o p to its fiat capacity. A glance at the rant , regiqtratism books $12.190 19 : to the Sugar 1 rich and mimics** section of country which it Vulley and Deer Creek Turnpike company ! will be celled upon to supply with coal, for 88,000. every imaginable perpose, ftincetier. mechani. it will readily be perceived. therefire. that cal and unt ontheamaln* and at t h e recilfilee should the appropriations hereafter beeonflned offered by the New Teri omen and the lakes, strictly to the ordinary expresso of govern. to leach elf Points eiltbet country, " I St 4111 thilri "set, we shall have an annual surplus, revenue the most tortes) 116100."10.40"1111Pananeri exceeding oe million ef dollars, applicable to lof th is trnitnnntlyinint. the payment of the funded debt. That such I I tworratehtte you• theyelbre- are the nen' Rhombi be the policy of the State, after the coin. I nnintnoion ofan enterpr i se which he thus pletion of the works now in progrt,s. will not ' profitable to the mates end beneficial to the be doubted. The importance orsuch economy i people.in view of e..- ge• t end to be attained—the li. I The expediency of selling the public weeks goidatien et i t, p ' , tic debt—and consequent ! has been a topic of .discussion in the peas r e lied th e poopl, ~ oo foliation f or stat e po r . I of the State for some months pest. and with pusest• is too mane, I fir “rgument. Eittertain. l° 'n indicating a Police for the General As i„ty t h ese v i ews , I „,„1,! „,,t giver my assent 10 seuilly, or intemling the slightest diecourteay env new *Acmes of improvement 1)3 . the hate. In the peonies agents to whim* the manage. the operation!: on the public work.. ter the " tent or this 'wench &Public attains has keen year , ittat elo.ed do not present a very nattering I confided. 1 hare deenven it my linty to distnert picture, wt far as relate.. to nett, rt.% rime. The I n um' i f the cnitnidenttim n i incident to and apart gate atootint of business it as larger by; growing not of the Prelowitien• tuenty per cont. than that of silt Gamer veer. I indeed. it wmild he unreasonahle In assume Ali a fhe or receipts amounted to I IR' sum Of, 61 h" r fit' affentative or negative of the quot e, ott••2,4ns 31, bein g an va,.,,,,, of ant c15,. 1 toot. toot expect. to be properly understood. 684 Oh over tin neeipts of 1i . t52.. Tt„„ m„,,,, without , toott• explanation art to ate prioeofthe tii tounitso without a come, iotoliiig tnerea,e at winks and the audition or sale. Mel lige is the tionsornwilet of a wry great . ft t. hit' to Pr"olllle !bet those who: advance red oel i o n h i the rat e of tolls, a ~,,,mor„. in the; the atilt wind% e have distinfit ideas Sit to What o p :n i on of th e c ite d comnihod oner* , d eme ,„i m i i the ps lei should be. 1111./ that unless such oat by p o t& poli c y : and it nay be rem t h at w h et , shirts thou can be realizerithey would notaries ever has been lost to the treasury was gil I. n toI t " 'V"' extend °mammy and node. The e spendi t emu ' 'flue first inquiry therefore is. why should f or th e yegt'aloomdi t y it t o the report of rho Lanai . file•mt. work ' s be mold 1 The answer timially totwooshwwww ro , ninount e d to n w mini o f St . . given is, that the measure is necessary to re. 177,74E1% treeing a nett balance of 57 54, . I tutu the State debt as to relieve the people from' 752 38 filint'att this anal.dues not include any ! takation• Therm are great objects indeed, and porti on 011ie coat of new inweno tiro eng i nes : should. as 1 have no doubt they will, receive cud the qtreeciee of them bridges, the deducti o n !.yolir earnest eonsideration : their realization o f th e pew ? proportion o f tits will leave the' however, must depend mainly upon the price aunt a SENl,7sl4lB'as the actual nett balance. ' °L i tti ti"' The reeell4* and 'sPelu I ou ilturce and Arnd Should the interest on the public debt liqui fVffffiliff44 us the Celluloid& railtemi exhibit on ; dated 1:y the oak be leas than the net profits • wouceirifte eltillet idallkirm 'Lather also 4 0 on arising from the works, then the Net eh Weetekeeeteleani Lklawerellitteiue; •eounetuy Its ail. le t h at it would be Wee aloe the measure , free odd* Woe Use lblbw* phressolk: .. *UAWa To the ehshlhot hal. gent All RI NW* as oatAsuotthegowleoly%/011.11/ ------`.. Wel if Tobl sakeent at hedge 5454 M taM Mw, 6611.1152,31M1 et The meet this apparent Increase of $117.- /17 53 of the public debt. it should be elem.- ind.that, by the cancellation of six per cent. AwalLe. we have a saving of $20.000 annually hi the treasury, which taequivalen t° a virtu al: jetyment of $400.000 dollars of the five per .oppe• bowie. The amount thus saved will be permanent rename, without making any u tictidu from the people, and nonstitute wsnb sauna! addition to the sinking fiend. It will a *halal reduction of the public debt to the *own of $252,222 47. • The flatting liabilities and current demands Oferlbsk b'' `" 4 6 , 7. at the period 1 bare Indian, / oreiusoir AS follow,.• • - taleocer ea eambioni, sad he Moo sal unitarian se the indilie monk pet er herprop, 3652, and aluo_paid, air 'wooers on iletensie the Amager iiimerie,, 15861,752 Iteirporrep near, MASS 00 .000 00 c,5044•5519611an050. M 0,401,000 15 The earelair the Cemsaanuoalei. sad annual domain npoa Me tower at ten tiros. mit: Pal neat ;aid r audi elona. ilifleopttathreaa, on the other thri.jon: of the canal they are tolerable : hut ‘iii the Allegheny l'ortagu rail road, the condition of 'Main; is entirely unsat isfactory. 'The system of management hereto fore practiced on that complicated and difficult work, would seem to demand a speedy and radical change. Rut the Rxecutive, under the lairs as they now RM. haring no control or di rection over the public works, it is right and pmper that I should leave the explanation of the iletnils of their workings and management to the people's agents, who have charge of the whole subject. I ant. however. still entirely sanguine that with the necessary change in the system of management. the publio improvennifits can be made to yield a very handtiome revenue to the treasury : indeed, even Gtr the last year„hail l tho expenses on the mountain division been unfitted to a reasonable *ma, thomett rertnuot would ha re reached hear one million ofdollars. Relieved from these alatorbing demand. by the oostructinn of the new road, or in some other way. and we shell mlne, by the year lesiS. a nett profit *pied to the interest on twenty-two millions or more of the public debt. i The work on the railroad to avoid the in clined planes on the Allegheny mountains, has not Progressed as rapidly as had been antici pated. It is the opinion of the engineer, how ever, as will appear on rekortice to his report, that should the necessary imams be promptly furnished, the entire line cioildgbe completed ti p)during the coming ye' The grading for a double track is finished with the exception of [bur loam. and the cost of this 'inhume, together with the expenses of laying down a single blnk. is estimated at six hundred and the thousand dollars. in addition to the valu e of the old track. The engineer also estimates the annual saving. as compared with the ex pendituresem the old mad. out a hnsineits equal to that of 1852, at two hunditst and ninety I thousand dollars. He also states that the road i between plane No. 4 and Hollidaysburg, with a double track: will cost about eight hundred thousand dollar* !elm than the Pennsylvania I railroad, for a like distance. Viewed in every aspect, it mist be confesses! that thin branch of the public affairs presents an embarrassing alternative. The prompt completion of the new work will involve the expenditure etyma° capital than the State can command without resorting to farther tempo rary loans; whilst, on the other hand, the maintenance of the old read. at a cost of tour hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum, is quite out of the question. Its exhausting demands on the treasury must be speedily ob viated, and for my part I can Roe no mode of dg this except by the completion of the new d. 11321,731 04 690,000 tMI 606,096 00 00 .. - • . would not he one of relief to the people. but 1 ehatkal work .pa :a n d hrinffinn LI hear ea their I Ides, and can Nally delgrodest WINN re m t VIII entweeneamestesene oe OMR, Wage to sear I moat neeentarilyincrearte o f to onotho awl dirertien. our whoa, of Mallon and that would ' beet sabot ini the estleitie Of ' w ere enterprise—that such substuiptioes ; And what. room is them le suppose that Ann tenure (*.office. rt. ideas are wand end I the electors. •le cidditioe to the fact, which ; were in truth, what had been all by seine. a , ' more can be obtained I Capitalists, it will he repubilion. • eni should never be diaregereed, in will not be disputed. that this busbies, rer I a mere loan of the' email of the inapeedve ‘I conceded. When welOinE the ( tangiest or a reference to IllittoPltertailline to our Po- Woes bet panfel eonsideration ha the Lees- municipal corporation,. and that *either prin. i ''L.--B—a-;--6„.',AA' r :6b. , 4lWv%' , Ak.'tel , ' , 7...•••w , 1ir purchase. will make the net profitson their in- !Meal carats inert a governmese t emit meat Islam it Is objeetioneble.beeasse of the great . elpel nor interest would ever be denten. i ventinents the basis of all their eakailations. he otneedifile;that ei e mere busippeas operation to space it annually tootipler ta thajousnale and 'dad, Th ey w ill loo k at the past operstions of these mak e a t ; 11l earepetitien with the creatures of. laws. I se e aware, however, that it has Weill The °eminences of this plassible and se. i works. in connexion with their proepteta in the 'lineation the effete of indhithethe wee _suggested that the laws of the United State. doylies doctrine were promptly manifested the «local in th e form of numerous septic:igloos for Is future—carefully anutidering every fact and net canton les en office in the organic law provide that the pieties for holdini circutosteno, bearing on their real value; and , of the hate -.end hence. it is net strange, hat li for %maw, of cong „,,„, , h „ Ib e g eed odour . authority to mun w pai halos womb. it is snaroely necessary to roma* • will only t h e iw i acirk a lynipte for one its not apply userelly both te Legislature of the several States, and : scrib e to railroad stooks in various ports of hay when perketly satisfied that they have the to the other “„.k.' Whelp I wrld in quire , would be that, therefore, the end in view cannot be at- 1 the State. These applications were invade- loot of the bargain. In attempting to determine the coorlidol-, of tbeitt r imiling- railroad, the Penn. tabled. In ansaaw to.. this objection, It may IMy pressed on ;the plea of promoting public' the question of value, it will be perceived. givenill miheitair_, .„140 other " i ' niln ' work !. wer e be remarked, tem the Legislature having in ; conveniencie and the general prosperity, end I other instance, delegated doubtful powers, a number of laws of this character were a- Cherokee,. that the inquiries, examinations and mot ivew ior buyer and seller, must necessarily ntendente•ltt tor t period*. and bring &tramper lerla required se entente their engineers anti super *itch as the right to make paper money. it is i dopted. So far as these apply to cities and be identical. into their eniellny e; The answer nmy be readily scarcely necessary to raise the question of boroughs, their operation has been rather sue. I * the right to delegate a function so expressly easeful; but when applied to counties it has It is apparent then , that the effect 01' compel'. discovered I . ette th ecateep eaperienee. alll Ive tee lition en the value of these work*: the inroads' "nen elf ^Pilule B in r "fm 8888 .to the 'alb"- I :l n f erre d. certainly been much less so ; failing ere diode s rd•• the Oind enmethiamermai. chantey' which ins4ba made by science and mechanic about' •,_. A large number of the laws of the last sea tirely in some lust anomeand in others lead melodic I and unquiet, but e h m , id era nn every description nftranamwtation tacit- ,_ "" , --, 4 ..,_' ' • •1 sing consist of ; special acts to incorporate big to violent controversieg amongst the oe m as an by the exigences,. of the ' ides now in existence : the casualties that tinny , . '' "'- t' be 1 , (hematite. to construct plank toads. This people, destructive to the value of the re eel result to them from the elements ;in short. the P uld ie .. ; lithe del' - tn an tut° III " object, right and proper in itself, might it , eiple bonds thus created. Viewd in e very nerv e , nen( de s should be dismissed at once, mutability of human structeres. and the pm- ~,, ~,,. -•_, f iineeit em to mei. . , seems to me, be reached by a general law, aspect. as a mere question of expo dies priety of simplifying the ditties of government. 6 :, 5 ' l i" ° 47rt'itur t z . • 4 4. superiorityfa of the services l authorising the association of a number of cy, the experiments already made would most conatituteemently, the considerationx in ' i rer7d i elt .m. mi., ° A I; other rules IC 'et- , citizens to construct these highways on prop. ' seem to weigh heavily against the policy of favor of a separation between the State and her .. l -- - -- - -s- . he .. ' !PP us ! to conditi ons . I Bitch subscriptions ; indeed, I have no hes ment *he Ventwed shoolo sper.dity obliterated impmvements. . d i 1 In former consmunications I have held the , notion iu saying that the aversien I have from l itheltese The present practice epr Tee On the other hand will he presented the hopes , the shoo , , o ee event, of . ihe bam . rtt orthat doctrine, that bat little legislation ofany kind I always entertained towards this principle, of future business and increasol profits to the i mteet 4lief e it i ; e ' re loohich aotrt ., a . all loon where was essential to the ends of mere business 1 , and especial . ) , its extension to counties, Ens treasury, predicated upon the rapid growth offs cheer. cle► . e . end erne) aments are at stake , enterprise --to promote objects understood by I been greatly strengthened hy this experience the Commonweelth : her vast and varied re- of 000ree t. - tsqgestioes tai reference to the he- all and within the reach of moderate means ; and we should now, it seem• to me, ass prim sources, and the influence of these upon trans tool as and that most certainly, whatever might he dent people, profit by this lesson and avoid pinta anew , rienee will not be wider. porta t ;on within her limits ; the increasing do- upplyeut piliir the steer. on th e work. ; for i n . I deemed expedient should he general in its the practice in the future. Always doubting mend for facilities to tress ; her producer; to ot „ oo, it tau but I , ale experience to mike al character. That the Legislature had no [nor- the policy of such subscriptions, and deeln market ; the endless consumption and unlimited i roie.r„ror , bile it has ael always will require this ! al right to grant special advantages to one ring my viewe freely against them, I have supply of her great staples of coal and iron, 'Lodi tl* render an %gent erdeient iii the conetructrien ' 1 citizen and deny them to another ; and I ; not felt required to interpose the Executive their proximity to her works at all points; the i u ,,, 1 repoir.gFeeitroo Its and canal . , to r or .„, ~t . , have declined to approveany sot on this sub- , prerogative against the judgment of the pro enlarged protium of agriculture, and the reels ! t , ntenclea et z i ,in s b sr m aajoaa dira••t1011 to the cur- ' Pict, where the corporatore were not noel° pie directly Interested in ties question ; or i n variety of menufactures, so rapidly multiplying rent rt of 'him enniPile ited blanch of pub. , liable in their individual estates for the debts , other words, tojildge for citizens of a pantie in every part of the State, etriskittiting at once 1 tic service. In ioort. the melee...sent mints the ! of that corporation. ; tiler locality on a subject relating merely to a hone bilsillean. With ages of dorottott before ; application it business organization and Mimi- I No clearer evidence. it seems to rile, can their pecuniary interests, or to resist the it, which 110 human agency ens disturb , and ' plea A syW of b u m,. sho u ld sopp;ant the use 'be furnished tirehow shot much of :hot special ; wiehes of their immediate representatives. Which Mint contribute at ail times a fair its. of cheek , i , and the operetinne le, so my, tiunic I legislation is ibught and is valuable only be- I In a communiention addreesed to the Gen come to the government. In addition to these : listed that th' e r ec eip ts and e a penditure. of each ' cause it is special, than is found in its own eral Assembly its March. 185-3, this sub considerations against a sale, may be urged the, month, as Ab e n oill f iti asiaiem passed hy, could be antiouie , hi story. It will ii be renietubsimil by many of Peal, I remarked, "ilea the power to sub necessity which would be presented for the ' cell to the ',abbe. I you, that during the Administration of (;rev- i scribe should never he exercised by muniel. creation of a number of oorporations, having a 1 Conte -ion. ober-nifty anl ',Mindere.) , ; •r , °Ur ernor Shenk, numerous applications were pal corporations, unless the interests of the community of interest and feeling with similar ! snimai volum e of law.- vexatiou. inroads upon , made for special acts to incorporate manufme 1 people represented by retch authority are di lexlies already in -existence, and the danger (if ; Privet , Neles—attempts at dee usurpetion of pow- ' (tiring companies, and that the Governor re- ) reedy and certainly identified with the pr, thus inducing the organization of a controlling ;Cr 10;1 enesequent 'treeing, and leienition. are, in , . I • . lIISVU to give iris assent to their passage. In ' 4net on which the money is to be expended. power in the Commonwealth. my opinion,the legitimate fruits of our s ystem of I , 1819, a general law to encourage mariuriC. I Hie operation of the Principle may be eqiiita• But it is said that companies can manage eeccial and *estates legislation. Indeed the tiuth ~ tering, liberal in its provisions, was adopted, I Me, when applied to the people of a city or those works with greater skill and economy ! of . three Pr 8 1 10 `ili"" is t')'' p al p able to a . " it °' ; and you will be astonished to team that at I town, whose interests are identiesil, bin when than the'State. and for that reason they would i argument. a lt is manifested in every yen ' s expo : this time there are not a dozen companies in applied to the people of a "'aunty, it may not be most valuable in the hands of the fanner. rience , and in some instances the government. as . existence under it. During the sessions of ,be so. On the contrary, it may prove most and that the State c realize this difference by 8 cansequitir . has been forced into the humilia ; • ~ 1852 and 1853, much time Was consumed in , unjust and oppressive—subjecting the people a sale. It must be an minfes. that it is to they() I tine Posit 01 hee"mine a litigant 888l n" '`.. ' the considenition of special acts to incorporatel to boletuses in the shape of taxes for the eon coneiderations, and these only, that we can leek! " 4 emitter". Its (64mm-sating fl u " eace : I Mining coin pa nies.• , year 60 close of the ' etruction of pii bile iin provemen is, from which for arguments to sustain the idea that the Seate marked andolmitted on all hands and hatim tpheriou 1 last session a general law on the subject, ap- they filar never realise benefit. direct re re. can ;pun any thing, _pecuniarily. by a mile of , I v demands an efflrient rem be eily a;.tinu..he i , , , ; a me nd .. plicable to all the countioe in the State except mote. The people in one section of a coon her improvements That the difference in the ; lout Gene ral t Assembly i the axe at th:r.l,ot of the six, was passed, and although this law iv ai ty luny derive velettble edventatres from the expenses of the management of the works would 1 , "' I I . " • r 8/11"4 amount to a fair per oentsze, in the estimation , ••11.and marking th e era I solicited, but a single application has been ' of another section, equally tared (Or ter pay emote hope . of some capitalist". I here no &MUT but it is , is A m Y w si t a u • made under it for mining purpose* ; and , mint of the interest and principal of the debt, of mischief evaluate in the not so great as estimetete by some. Indeed,l .'''''. entirely d e r . even in this instance operations have not I so contracted, may possibly realise no bene• of . na a number of laws, certain portions of our own works are now I commenced. These are significant facts, ; fit at all." It is to these effects that may he similar in their eh tidies, in the wine bill, or ‘ well managed. an.,l his hoped and hollered that iin whet is hmiliarty knumn as the -Omnibus! and in tu t y opinion will fully justify the re- i attributed the violent contests that hour I such ithaneees ern be made in the system of di- B,,stimi... The inevitable, and indeed the tom i jeetion o all special sots on the subject in the I grown up in certain counties, to which the ; motion bow ?noticed by the State, as to lead I tie ,' n a y e,,,,,,,ved aloes of this mode un ait ed, t e m , fitters. I can see no reason why this general principle has been extended. telen.eral sidl and economy. i has been to facilitate the passage of hills through law should not be extended tote balance of In the State of Ohio, where this dangerous reit the main question will be the minimum ! tia, General Assembly, and to secure the sanctio n the State, if the people desire to have It; practice also prevailed, a oonenittitional pro- ___,,P e .lttet- ,ihrA shall be fixed on these improvements l 1 of the Execrative without that critical examine- but no special set to organzie companies with. hibition has been deemed necessary by the 1 40 ° itie proper disposition of this. it must be ; too India bis to a clear comprehension ef in the counties not included in the general people, and municipal suheoriptions usenet reatlily seen, will demand much earefill eibmi- I th e i r t ree import law, can receive my approval, and such as now bit; made, even with the assent of there nation. And in rehrentie to this point the I 1 In illustration of the difficulties which the are now In my poeseesion of this character affected by the measure , ' Pee experience of wisest and beat may honestly dial-, for the practice imposes upon this branch of the will be returned without the Executive 11.1140- that State, as I haiteleaused.-was alike against thaw belongs mainly to the future, and can government, it is only necessary to state, that aeon. the practice of making improvements in this . only be anticipated f reen the manila of the I within two date preeeeding the final adjourn- At the date of my last annual message, way. and that in the end, it Seeming inefficient. To these we inay look for senotnent. - meet of the last Legislature, no less than one proceedings were pending in the Supreme thiough the disposition of capitalists and oth- I For the year 102 and 1853, the net receipts , hundred and six bills were presented for 4 ... mut of Pennsylvania. to test the right of era to rely !dove upon municipal corporations • may be put down as equal to the annual interest ' Executive consideration, containing three the Far/kiln eanal company to oonstruot a for the means of construed ng pablie improve uPen about fifteen millions of th e publi c debt : I hundred and thirty-four different subjeete.— a railroad from the City of Erie to the Ohio meets. lam decidedly of the opinion, that and lam inclined to believe that. without any Some of these bills contained - its many as Sete line. The decision of the Court was • similar decision would be made by the increase of trade except on the North Branch, twenty dissimilar items of legislation ; and against the company on the main point, and people of this State, when the proper oppor. the n etTreate for the emmingrear may he eeti - of these, some were not even indicted by the opinion of Chief Justice Black shows tunity is presented. , In the meantime, this mated at a sum equal to the interest on seven- the transcribed title. moat clearly that the construction n ot their road insidious and dangerous mode of contracting M en of ei g h teen millions of the debt, and that In addition to the difficulty of comprehend- was widiont authority of law, but the prelim- debts should e . gat against with the lo tto mimpletlon or t h e wa d user the muntains,_ ing the import °fetich a hetrogerrioun mass of leery injunction prayed for by tile complainant most f u t ure nee. I shall indulge the hope, or lief waPe other way , kan the leeching matter. the Executive frequently in him- watt refused. on the ground that the Common- that allt applications for legislation of demands of that portion of our improvemeets, self forced into the dilemma of eigning a law wealth could not, under the law, give security this character, may be rejected by the Gener will see the net reven u e s , fr om thi s source, which his judgment rejects, or returning a- for costs. The effect of this decision was to al Assembly. swelled to a sum equal to the interest upon not het which he really approves. Neither place the privileges claimed by the compute It is my duty to inform you that $528,351 of twenty-two millions of the State bonds. alternittlee, you will agree with me, is in within the control of the Legislature. the relief issues of May, 1841, are still in exist- If it he desirable to sell the public works, strict accordance with the mandates of the In anticipation of this result, I had sumps- enc., and Conti to pollute tho channels ofi we sheruld not underate their importanoe, nor Constittitioo. Greet inconvenience results to tad to the General Assembly the propriety oirculation. Under the provieione of the net of ' is it just to disparage the wisdom of their , t h e people , „o ff t hi s s y stem . I n 1 Pey•leff the of taking charge of these valuable rights, and April last, Riug of these notes, of rt lees' founders. We are prone to murmer against enrolment ethi upon; private laws, le bills, ac t fee an might be praeliciabie, without the denomination than five dollars, have been can the policy thee dictated their neees......t.es, to- coca as I' have already described. may be exercise of an illiberable principle, render celled, and the whole amount Can. under this otua of th e debt we have thus incurred , and ll yet, if the proposition were submitted tom:mei i others not, arid the hill must be enrolled un- the seaboard and the great west, subservient ems has not been so rapid as wan knticipated, I this liability by their destruction or disuse, we der its be d title,d the tax to the interests of the peopleof Pennsylvania. proper mint ran an nor is it sufficiently so to meet the &genitalia should be compelled to reject it. be first paid. One party interested in this The subject was considered, but not finally the public weal. I respectfully suggest, thent- 1 At the time ef im adoption, this policy was legislation may pay his share, another will dispos e d 0 1, fore. that the law be vill amended as to make it necessary end proper. A venuevof this kind thee' reluste to do so, and and a third, on seeing In May last I received a eommoniea lion the duty of the State Treaeurer to retain loon' the body of the :state, to convey her vast produc tile amount of the tax, concludes that he can from the president of the company. covering t i me - to time, as near as practicable, th!. amount, hone to market, are as indispensable to her vigor- . live without the law ; and thus it has been Ule proceedings of a meeting of the board of in relief notes, necessary to meet the entire nos growth and physical development as are the seine ani/ arteries to the human system, to give no uncommo n nlaws thing for persona to be forced directors in which, after allusion to the ae- demands of the sinking fund. I almi err kWh they have no in- tion of the '' 'andtheL ' I • ' Supreme tourt llB u• mend the repeal of the net of April 10, 184,e, circulation to the blood soil consequent health t° p a y te . °l3 in . w . 1 - i of went ere! vigor to the body. To stop or clog these , in I tem "'a number of iro melte au tink le order to avail t 'mese ves . tore, the Legislature had expressly greeted. Such red , indicating the willingness of the tom- The oceurrences of the past luar greatly either case . would produce stagnation and elle. a state of affairs is scarcely consistent with psny to pay certain rates of taxmen r i fur the strengthen the views I expressed in toy hist mi nute destruction. Without reference to the abstract question of a t h e dig n ity of a great State, and certainly de- unrestrained use or the road, until after the twat inessage, ms rho subject of the currency. sale, I may say, that under no circumstances manila an efficient remedy. coming session of the Legislature. or until l'he angers lif au, inflated paper systhin have i should we entertain the proposition to part with Some of my predecestiors have urged the that ',ranch of government ahould act on the neon meet strikingly manifested in the experi the public works by th e cr e ati on of a joint stock General Assembly to change this system, subject. Believing that I had no right to i a n d of a number of the surrounding States, company, as befaisfa r y, r ep ea t e dl y prop oe d, h. and in sevenl previous commenicationa, I I make conditions with the company, or even I an d nothing, in nay opinion, ersved our own which th e Commons' cloth i s t o re m ai n a large have suggested the propriety and justice of to receive the money which they were wil- motropelisband posteibiyother parts of the State, shareholder, but the direction to be in the hands pesaine, each proposition eeparatete, at least ling to pay, I declined to entertain the prop- from the consoquencee of it severe ointraetion of individuals or eurponitions.assiseiated with her so far as the objects were diesitosler. But osition. l' he reletions of the rompany to. of the currency, hut our vast agricultural and in the ownership. I har e shears regarded this the evil still exists, and I sin deeply sensible wards the State, therefore, have Un.l.rgnfle miueral pniductions, mail the unusually high se • moat dangerous and in s idious measure. If of the difficelty which the application of aI no change Since the adjournment of tier" last pri ces which those commanded in fereign mar the proposition to sell b e seriously entertained, prompt and e ff ectual remedy guest always ; I.egilillature, except that the Attorney Gene r- ets , under the present condition of tbe money market, it to the General 'assembly. After lal tees recently taken merieures to obtain a fie I h alwy it should be bawd oil the idea ni a bona fide sale, much rolaction on time inignitude ot this evil 1 iial decree in the plea fur an injunction and country, ave like a a s ll (Olhl i eld the doctrine, that our e fora full compensation, iii exchange for the bonds --its various inroads upon private rights, I . of the etas, • id under ...-. .o, and under such N1111.141;rY reservations and restrictions as the interact. of the people may demand. But it in urged by many that the State'a system of managing the public works is SUSdepli hi 0 of impmvement—that much can bedone by judicious nsforroa to ao4ment the receipts into the Treasury, and facilitate the business of trans portation ; and, ea much of ibis system results fnim positive law, it may not be deemed officious on my part to make suggestions on the iothject. In a special message, - omoninicated to the Gen eral Assembly, anon after my induction in.() office, I advocated the policy of making cash payments for labor and materials, and the interdiction by law of the creation of debt by the officers on the public works, and made allusion to tither radirod defects in the system, which enuid scarcely be tinichnl Ity the Canal Board. To some of these I shall now blielly allude, 1 . In the first place, it is imposeihle •Ni avoid the • eseation of debts, if the appropaistione be inaulli• cleat In meal nneanidahle expenditures. Th e business of triiseportation and travel on *twee highways must be kept op. whether the exposes ke paid or not. These circumstance' have de. tested. $t some tweet. the eilministratisin of the law of Mei,bald , 'squiring cash payments and prompt settlements by the carers on them works, and prohibiting the cretins ofdebts. This mesh, I regret, fee I ant siliN decidedly of the opinion, that no other durum in the gam lace likely to beget economy, purity lad edicieney in their gen eral sasection. Pot the lot year, however, Ibis low we. strictly carried oat on roma of the diet. eking, and it is sincerely desired that tarrother the practice may beet tended to all. I Deed net dimmer the consequent= of the cum toren/ making debts Oil the public wwk.—il. el, ram are too palpable to need refutation be area. moot; and 1 limit only repeat what I 1 11 4 1 11411131i41. IT sail to the Gement' Aseembly on a former occa sion, that in4id.thiou to the opporMulty iLaßird ed Wt eabotiou . off the State, if uot *dual fraud upon she locerts9, the Awe that of ner% fn. the lime being, Arnold lie allowed to scatter the milli of the U1)11 1 / 1 3.11111rellIlitl broad east, to be dimmer al end tedremed. at same fatnie period. by their successor % bi a monstroeity In the economy of public altos rs. There seems to he some pl 111101hility, if not, ac tual troth, in the allegation, that the man agement of these works is expensive and loa ded ; and yet it is not clear to my mind. dot treated as a mere boobies', affair, her sopervisione would not be ea cheap and efficient as that of cot pennons and individuals. lint the 'notability of her isencies render* accuracy and economy ex ceedingly ..lidkult. Her periodical change oroffi nets has always deviled her or the hen, lit of et. perienee in this s o uk; and this, in any Intaineas, you will agree with 'ma. is eqoivalent to a fair profit. and that ,t i. eminently so in the repair and twofold supervision of ',inroads old CBlllll6l. Tbim shifting practice bra h;o1 the efTect of making her world a otpetle• of NOF11)111 fult the edliCill• non of ensineers and supervisors to take chorus (other improvements 'Phis instsbility resells from the tern/nth...old pitons on the Mats works, as putnbal otfiwti instead t 4 stews& and use. . . and its demoralizing ten dene upon the inter ests of the people, and the more elevated purposes of legislation, I have determined to co-operate with the General Assembly in the application of the most efficient means which their wisdom may devise fur its re. maim! ; but is the mean time, as a restraining part of the law-making power, I meet beg to be indulged in claiming the privilege of con sidering each subject of legislation separately, and on its own merits, as contemplated by ffie spirit of the Constitution. Hence forth, therefore, bills containing a variety of subjects of legislation, dissimilar in their character and purposes. cannot receive the sanction of the present Executive. Another branch of the evil, and if possible a still greater one, consists of special and lo 'cal legislation. It is to this practice that we are mainly indebted for an annual volume of laws of most unseemly dimensions, end fora , separate code for nearly every locality in the bite. The reeled" for this must he found in the adoption of a few more general laws, and the rigid administration of those already in existence. Special eats, you will agree with me. should in 09 inshinee be passed senor, the object emir be reached under general laws. The law of 1791 and Its several stipple. meets make Foroeision for the emotion and a utendment of corporations for literary. charite. ble and religious purposes, and to create ben eficiary sorted/ sod fire engine and hose companies. through the instrumentality of the Attorney (bowel and the Supreme rho set of the Illth of October, 1899, extend. ed this potter to the courts of the several counties. The i/tirof 1836 and 1838 *lte W I provision for the association of Wield 4, ' , through the lostrtimentality of the Attorney General and theMovernor. Inr the purpose of manufacturing iron from mineral coal. In addition to these acts, the law to encouragei minutheturing. pa 819, and its sup pimento, provide for sesoc ns for the purpose of usanallictuting wool! cotton, flax and silk goods, or fur making iron, glass, paper, lumber. oil from mein, mineral paints. artifiaial slate, .and for printing and Publishing; 'and the supplement of 1833 ex. tends its provisions, in a modified form, to , the Widnes* of misting of almost every de. scription. On the subject of erecting new townships and incorporating boroughs, the courts have unlimited power; and in the matter of selling real estate, the prtiperty of minors, by guar diana, executors ur others, rioting in a fidu ciary rapacity, the apt of last session on this 'object will, in my opinion. reach every imaginable case. its provisions should not he infringed, for the subject belongs must le gitimately to the courts. I ran see no raison why the power to 'des ignate election house's should not be confined id the commissioners of the several counties. Those Weal/ are usually familiar with locale by writ of quo WARRANT° to revoke the frail , chimes claimed by the company. Recent occurrences at the city of Rae e vince an intensity of feeling amongst the peo ple. seldom equaled on a question of this kind. indicating not only the propriety, but necessity, for prompt and decisive legisla tive action, as to the rights of this com pany. It must he clear to the impartial observer. that the Legislature never intended, by any previous act, to authorize the construction of ti"railroad between the city of Erie and the Ohio line. Indeed, the highest judicial tri bunal in the State has expressed the opinion, that nu such authority can be found in the charter of the Franklin canal company ; and, in my opinion, the grant should hereafter be made on such conditions only, as will pro tect and advance the interests of the people, of Pennsylvania, so far as they may be .in volved in the subject. It so happens that Pennsylvania holds the key to this linpor• tent link of connexion between the East and the West, and I Lutist unhesitatingly pay,' that where no prinallo muity or oomrnerce Is to be violated, it is the right and the• duty of the State to turn her natant' advantages to the promotion of the views and walnut, of bar own people. - It may be said that a reatrietion that would require a break of reliroad gimp at the har bor of Erie, would be the use of an illiberablej principle. The answer is, that the necessity far a break of guage between the Ohio line and the seaboard exists, as a consequence of it difference in the width of the New York and Ohio roads. The only question temente, therefore, relates to the point at which it should occur. l'have been able to discover no reasons, founded in public policy, why the break should be Axed at Buffalo,that do not apply with equal force in favor f Brut.-- Tonnage and passengers Gan be as well trim shipped at the letter, as at the former city. So far as concern, the benefit (Weigher city, ineideot to a transhipment, the Idea is un worthy,of notice. But the effhete of a break of page. and eensequenkftenshipment east of Ede. upon the business of that harbour, must be paralysing, if not fatal. It woulk virtually require shipments to be made either at Cleveland or Buffalo. 'Scarcely less em• bartaseing would this arrangement be upon the interests °film Sunbury and Erie road, or any other avenue that may eteetler con nect the lake with the city of Philadelphia. It may be that neighboring states, possess mg similar natural advantages, would give them away for our benefit. but I have not been able to discover any fact In the former policy, to justify such a conclusion. 1 shall await your notion with anxiety. The subscription, of the cities of Philadel phia and Pittsburg to the stook of the Penn sylvania railroad, and the prompt payment of the Interest on the astute, together with the flattering proapews of that improvement, had the taro of extending the belief that °MOW. ..,ry, Airs, must have u system of currency ; and whilst. therefore, I have resisted the excessive increase of banking capical, I have nut sought (1) taproot, entirely, the system we have. That it is the best that the wit of man could devise, is not believed, nor is it probable that the authors of this paper system, enjoying the experiencoof the present age, and possessing the vantiuntmnt of cum now in existence, would have entailed this evil upon us. But we have it, mud the best we can do is to mitigate its con nequeniies whilst it endures, anti throw it MT by degrees. I belie% et that the Pennsylvania, system of paper weney , resting on a specie ba sis, small ire it is, and the individual liability , of the stockholders, is as safe itti,nny other. I prefer it vastly to tho Immo pistil existing in some of the neighboring States, or to the scheme of free bunking adopted iu other sections uf the Union. That any system of banking that authorizes tho emission of small paper an n mtvlium of circulation, must entail evil consequences upon the country, has been too'clearly demonstrated by our own experience to need elucidation by argument. It is believed, therefore, that it is the true policy of this and of all the States, to restrict the paper circulation to notesof a large denomination. Thom doornail denomination I should be gradually withdrawn from oiroula. thin, in mac to make nom ibr the vast itomm l 'ions of the precious metals from California and Australia. In vain shill we seek to dime.: minute coins throughout the country, sad duce their circulation at points remote from the'' Atlantie cities so long as small paper is permit• ted to exist. If notes of the denomination of five dollars were withdrawn from the channels of circulation, the vacuum thus created would; be rapidly supplied with gold and silver, and so also with those eta greater nominal value. But so long as this paper medium le permitted to circulate, it will be impracticable to hide°e the general diffusion of coin. The people in quire why it is, that with tho vast increase of gold so little is seen. The answer is, that bank notes always intervene. The trader, merchant and other@ retain the coin and pay out the paper; and the only remedy is to be found in the remove! of the latter. Thtmejs, perhaps, no principle applicable to this that better settled, than that which proves that two kinds of currency, differing in value, will not circulate together. The least valuable will constantly bo obtruded, whilst the snore pre. oious will be displaced. The gradual with.i drawal of the smaller denomination of papier, presents to my mind the greatest practical re form that can be applied to our eystom of cur rency. The exchange of one paper system for another, end the incorporation .of restrictions on this or that point' f the one we have, altho' often right and necessary, can never eradidhte the evil. • _ / I would not, however, be understood as fa voring a very sudden alteration in our system of currency; regarding, lie I do, all vaoleet changes in the ;silky of gioverninent as tallith& and oppressive. All; the bUsiness arrange-r meats of the country are lowed upon our pre*. -_ ~~~ eat plea. and it is so iatentoren with the g , arid Whirs of life. as to forbid its rapid wv ekrawal. Bat the beginning should be ma , and we should prelate to throw off a systi which will is the future, to a greeter extra rhapii, than in the pest, render our count blllsiry to bet rivals,' and make our pool "hewers of wood and drawers of water to nth uatitins.'' No other reform in the politii policy or thia,nation, I sincerely believe, wou have such a direct tendency to prtnioto all t great Interests of tie American people. I practical. safe and efficient mode of carryir oat this work. is to be foaled in the gentile , extinguishment of bank Dotes of a small It nomination. This reform, however, to be ecniplete, and g ive the people the full lamefit of its 'allot/to' effeote upon our commercial operations wit other nations, must be common to the who country, The efforts of a single 'member of tl Confedersey,however thorough and well direr ed, eau achieve but partial success. Et en i a loCal point of view they can scarcely exereit a contrullink influence, For instan ce , sect um, in the channels of paper circulation in ut State are too liable to be supplied by the issue of others, interdicted, though the eirculatie o f the latter mny be, by positive The: considerations have suggested the imperial.r of a simultaneous action of the States on di subject, and it has ()veneered to my Mind, the a convention of dele g ates from each, a proi te by theresp'etho legaslatut es, might be a g.W mode of directing Katlic attention to the sul jeet, and securing efficient action. In the menu time, our State can take lit leaul in this work, as she eau also carefully re strict the evil tendencies ((fate present sysll.lll by reguiring the institutions now in i•xisl to wake more frequent settlements, and rend, more efficient her present system, coutinin ; the amount of banking capital, as is I,itsis I,llper ibfilleS, to the lowest point consistent mitt the demands of legititnate business. 1 brlim I the amount we hate now conies up to tile standard, rind that the best interests of the pc, pie require that it should nut lie inereased. Efforts, extensive, energetic, and highly {.1,111, mendable are being made in all parts of the country tt PIIIV/1111e the interest of agrirultin.,, by the dissemination of cornet inforim. fool concerning this great pursuit, 1111/1 ill 1/4`SIOW ul..at (Ile 1 . 5111111. r, aloe Lle iu s e, ./' scientific, as well as it greatly nfiuwl prai•iii.: ! understanding of the noble work in urllleii I. • is engaged. l'ctinsylvanin, so eminently an agricultural Stare, cud therefore so deeply interested, not he indifferent to the merits of this em. r. prise. Iler best energies lilac wisely rises to secure itz4 SlTerldl 11111.1 1 tins been al'ell/11111i,111.41 in this 11,1 y of lens nil. prejudices heretofore extensi,ely I optima any system of agricultural edueittli-11. and by the extingutsbniebt of don lit. as le 11,., utility, or even the practicability, of applying 7 , the principloo of selectee to the business of farming. The belief that these principles can he so c . applied, I am gratified toperceave it. rapidly I gaining pepalar favor. ndeed, the export talents bare been made in this country and in Europe, clearly Aitaiiish the utility of scientific farming, and in both , the necessity fur such a system is manifest, A proper understandixfg of the constituent elements of the soil—the Influence of these in the production of vegetable matter—th e means uf maintaining these elements in their original •-• etrength—the nature of stimulants fort 111'0441. and their proper use—the quality of seeds, nod the breed of animals, nuthe up the main feature.[ • of this system. These subjects will coussit, to an agreeable, and. I base no doubt, a highly I advantageousstudy forth, farming comfit . In my . laot annual message' I iirgeste.l t flo propriety of appointing an A4rioult Chemist, to be paid is moderate salary, i.e.! whose bastes should be given to the State a ael county societies. I still entertain the opiiiiiiit that such an officer, surrounded by proper portunitien, could render great service to t erbilse of agriculture. The utility of satabliehing au agrieulter I college, with a model harm at niched, when tt the principles of a scientific eultivat ion of it., soil and manual labor in that pursuit n I be joined to the usual atauleutical "(Will P., 1,., linen strongly urged upon nay attentieli. Such an instant' and elvstent ..f it is believed, would at thi sante time riapre, the physical and moral condition ..f the rim fess meal inerean tile classos. and prom. o• Iho social and intellectual attationent...f , eulturist, mechanic awl laborer, in Md.: OM too the vast benefits it would reefer upon the 1.111- suit of the firtuer. These consid, r, , I. others which will doubtless 1.., 1...."...1..1 y the adveeates of the prsmos,sl I 1 commend the subject to your ftvoritble- eration. It is believed that s u ch that can be successfully organise..l at/Apices of the State and county .oeiwies. A highly useful institution 1.3. !men organize,' at l'hil.otelphia, mot, r fl allllpil)C11 of lilwral and ititens : that' city MIA {iCillity, in purse:nice of an 0. 7 of the Intst ses , mimed - The ie. l:• nic College of l'entisylvaniu." iu whim. rh education ef youth in it Frt.:tie:ll ktmul,sig. t miuing, tuatetfacturing and d: I is Milted with the, ordislary liii•rary studs. s. Surely. an Heidi val. demo, a i - tical understoreling of the pursuit of the 1..2 - mer. Within a fw years past the general got e, I. - mout has evie,o,led a large sum ~f the emnstruetion via dry dock :it the PI. phis, navy yard, with a rails ay ;atm+, d. • , facilitate the operation of raising and rep. rti.4 vessels. A survey of the Delaware riser lea also been utadie, which justifies tht, epiiin that there is a sufficient depth of water in ita channel to inimit vtasseh, of a Ltrge class with entire safety. The location of this yard. all the bank of' the Delaware, in the Sottlierti fart of the county of Philadelphia. iieeessil rom all points, sun-outwit,' by a vigorous awl fiuurishi4 population, imul blessed with healthy climate, given to - ii advantages not i•nr passed by those surrounding the navy jarda of any section of the Union. There is, then, no reason why it should not reeuive a full share of patronage front the (I sheal l lovment. Why it has not been so favored sh all not at this fowl attempt to learn, but that the fact has beet, t ho cause of regret and complaint among the peo ple of Philadelphia and other parts of this State, is a circumstance which cannot be dis guised. No oonsideratioas of public interests, which I bare beets able toa dismiss". would seem to demand this policy. Nothing, is my eplakin, leteed= emmomy, aiortiey in or skill co at of vessels. The materiels for this work item be as cloaseniently and cheaply i preenred at Philadelphia' as ati any others. pont in the ecninhy, and her me. chunk' stand as high as say Akers in point of skill and efficiency in all the breathes of this basilicas, and proesninost is the sonstruetion of steam machinery. I feel justiled, therefore, in entertaining the hope that a more equal dis tribution of patronage shall hi nailer distil guish the action of the department at Washing. ton. The consolidation of the city and county of Philadelphia into one municipal government, is a subject that will be pressed upon your consideration daring the present session.— Without desiiiig to express an opinion on the Policy of the measure, I num say, that !regard it es involving vett eonsidmetions connected with the welfare of our metropolis, and con sequently to the litnts at lorice, and as such it should as 1 have no doubtla will, command prompt and anxious eonsiderist' inn. have long believerithar the loons of the . gi s te s hould be coosolidated into three or four chimes, and be under the direct control of the trelsorydepartmentetHarrisburg. Thebooks are now kept it the Bank of Pennsylvania, where the loans are transferred, reissued and out up into may shape to suitthe wishes of the holder; for which service that institution is claiming heavy yearly compensation, There would be no difficulty whatever, I am confident, in exchanging new (*upon bonds for the cer- - acmes of loan now outstanding, without any average extension of the maturity of the loans,, at scoot of a few thousand dollars. Indeed, on ' this point I am entirely certain the exchoinge can be made a source of profit to. the Slate , -:sinus all expenses. This arcompliehM and the,interest can he raid at the Treasur y, sAtk , . the whole business nftheitdepartmentremiered painted Albeit G. Waterman. Eat. of Philedel.' the mere simple and safe, phi., the trustee on behalf of Pennsylvania. -The fitutnoial year commenciee and closes The thetas *iffiest York, New Hampshire and Censeetlent have Walked laws similar to that of 1 "on the last day of November, and the atproper% i bi s , gam. so d syegiss-b eee been appointed in ation and school year on the first of June.— stub. Under tjte teems of then laws, aogetion The erect of title arrangement is to beget two- can be taken by the treetsee, until at last nine of fusion in the business of the several depart- the thirt een original Silage shell have elenigad mente of Government: Indeed, so oempletely thew whammies. to perticipsie in the etnerprise.— There are still four States wanting, and with them is this the case, that it is quite impossible fag a Perron net familiar with the aohJeet 60 OM' the e im m i laribro l- al k ,L p e re th ae at in an object so en prehend their operation. I suggest the pro- finely proper in imelf—wo congenial to the feelings propriety of oommeneing the fiscal year fbr of he American nation—u significant in he hist°. all purposes on the fi rst of December. This rio t and moral beerier!, and so touchingly interestirm would ring b the Canal. Treasury, School and to every American heart. can even be deleyed, much lees defeated. It was the magic power of the Auditing Department. into harmonious action, Declaration of Independence which bound together nod reader their operations concurrent and simple. thirteen "steely populated, tax-ridden and oppres sellooorees, nd d tem into nndent I have never felt willing to see our funds- nation. l By it a wuerecte fi rst pro c laimed laimed to g nde the world mental law changed for light or doubtful roe- the equality of all men, and their capacity (or, and i right of sell-government. Under the auspices of some, but I sincerely belief. that when the proper time arrives it will be wise SO to amend this great instrument our liberties were achieved,l and the thirteen feeble colonies acting on its be the Cunatitution as to require that earth law g ni n principles , and guid edevery at ste p by y en e shall be passed in a separate bill, and receive over - ruling - not lens an a majority of votes of each House sovereign States—all teeming with the elemenisof on a call of the year and nay', ; to provide that national wealth—ell prosperous and progressive— all laws of a public nature shall be ipmeral in members of one ran confederacy, whose bounds rtes are marked'by the Atlantic and Pacific, and their character and apply to the entire State ; fi d a ohm merce co-extensive with the civili that municipal corporations, vested with all : i n iir yin the power the Logielatnre could confer, should ; -„,,,'"„wno.r. already n° s r u e s d ie . ifnetanrged; and o i p t r e t t r i o e n n i t e r t w b e y n a t all not have the right to become subscriber', to or five millions of inhabitants', I.c l: forcing in the blear holders of the stock of other corporations ; to sings of civil and religious /there,. and in a high interdict the creation of dubt for any purpose degree of mural and social happiness And @Mall we not have a monument to perpetuate the events accept war; to unite some other functionary , from which these manifold blessing. have sprung, with dottin the ower.Governor in the exercise of the par • Some imperishable memorial of our gratitude—an g p In everlasting witness of the great things done among oompliance with thin provisional of the jperfor ute—some visible sign to perpetuate the s:itli smition of the last general appropriation' memory of the Declaration of Independence—the law, directing the Governor to "sell and eon- Revolution—the heroes who participated in the v.'y the State arsenal proiperty in Juniper mighty struggle—and the Constitution that crown e.— street, in the city of Philadefploa," condition d and defined the privileges so nobly achieved ed that the sum of thirty thousand dollars 1 1 , f ee t e hTs e e en d e es re er e v te e d n t o n t v a a m ffl onument, then all other* should he obtained for the Hnia,,, I cau B ed hp - 1 A atructure commensurate with the metal gran flee to lie given, through the press, that sealed ' dour of the event, its warld•wide consequences, is proponals would be reeeived for the name, and not contemplated ; but whet can be, and should be Laming the minimum price and terms of mile, accomplished, is the erection of a structure after plan indicated by, the committee—it beautiful The highest and only bid received wan Ono of ' th e the l'enneylVallill railn/11/1 company, Limning end l ara, i ever-enduring taia to tha a a i r l n . a t c hant , : r e o n a t o i l: ), the n ~! :Nation's tilt/ 41111 of thirty l t.'""nd d"llar'• Thr'ro I imperishable personification Cl our fidelity to . its n being no other bidder, the property was ac- principlex, and Hire natural offspring, the Conant eoritingly conveyed to that company • tution and the Union. f • File location of this politico! Mimes will be most rim purchase of another suitable lot and the ' I fortunate. Central to the original :hates—eligible erection of a new building, presented it service of greater difficulty, the law restraining the ! it,retnitteedyeeunnigneetemmeiTifb,ehres oldal' tiiiitetecee.ennieedewrireyneaentdr entire nest to the price obtainiel for the old ; I:as, and be the blessing of Gpd, never will taller prie•rty. 1 deornod it proper that tnilitary lin her fidelity to the national compile% to all iis p. , •titlonten of Philadelphia should Is- consulted . , ' forms and conditions—as in times past. an wilt she it , to the location of the new building. The '1" tutu re, should the (moisten unhappily arise, general wish appeared , te be the selection of a troult upon the first dawn of diecontent against the I central site, and at the skins time the erection T .," h u r i :,Y °I 'h.° Union, come whence it may, or by of a building of greater dimensions Mid el mst i mon:7 e i t e e v i e e r n i t n n s i t e i e g t ai p ed ,wer Th il weight rm e n t i , :i l it e h e e e r vast l than the act 'teemed to contempinte. ` Recent - Ihe wielded to resist the tide of dissension end dis k% however, ntigis iatione have been started ; etilutinn. and in keep the political atmosphere fir the purchase of e lot of ground, which it is i around the monument, when erected, purely na. believed will answer the purpose, and give ' t "'"" l ' The prevent is also en auspicious time for this y„citeral satisfaction rot to location. I work of national icitowehip The compromise The Attorney General, an required by ith „„,„. ,;„„in led. 'end sanctified by the net approved the 19th of April last, lots made approval of Clay, Of Kritg end of Webster. have diligent efforts to close the claims of the Com- quieted die elements of nstiotial discord ; and to neinwealth against defaulting agents and pub- erelong this peace and quiet. it is hut necessary to lie officers. The result of his labors will be maintain these measures, nod the requirements of the onetitutiont to discountenance in future the ounneunicated to you at an early day. aniiation of euestiona settled by the federal corn- In accordance with th e 95th "action of the pan and diaMain the actions of those who would appropriation law of last session, I appointed hazard the praorolibe country to gratify - prejudice, 41 , torge Blattenberger, Esq., to superintend the or to accomplish the ends of personal ambition. removal of 'certain obstructions out of the "mitt Jan. 4. 1854. WM. BIGLER. channel in the Susquehanna river, at Brubi- ' ker's island." Ifs hits caused the work to be completed in a satisfactory manner, at a cost of $247 50, leaving $lO2 50, of the appropria tion unexpended : to the treasury. - I . clantatt_prupar to-remark in this °enema tion, that there are obstacles in the way of de scending navigation at various points in that titre:tin, the removal of which, by the State, 'would be but an actor justice to those interemt ol in the navigatiun, in view of what they have suffered in personal comfort and pecuni ary profit, as a consequence of the construction of the public works. The intineroum accidenta that have occurred tin the reilniasbi of the opuntry during the islet poison—the nonsequintt destruction of human life and property; the difficulties that have surrounded all eaorte to trace these casualtlen to their true cause, and to impose on the de linquents just responsibilities, have suggested the iteeesnity for more specific laws on the sub ject ; and I respectfully moo e moi sture to your favorable notice. It ia lieved guises that inuch mould be accomplished f the so. curity of railroad travel, by additional promo tit 'nary measures in the direction of passenger trains. Our State, it is true, has not been the scene of On many of these disasters no POlllll oth ere ; but this may not be the case when speed shall be greatly increased, as is contemplated I,y morn,,, Of our railroad illlbmpitniee. Whatever relates to the cause of sslueation—to Hie moral and social condition of the people or to the amelioration of human stiffening, thould com• Moot ftellbetole eomitleration All Our educa lineal, 'omin u eiti,chatitable and reformatory in atittitions ate, therefore, commended to your tiperial care The State Lunatic Asylum, situate within a mile at the repitol, is now in sure...arid operation and in mostiourishing condition, realizing to the . roilest extent the saturnine expectations of lib amiiihte and benevolent founder ; end it is bat josh to its accomplished superintendent to sat'. that Mi.. Dix regards its present organization awl • management as eminently proper and skilful.— Upon this institution the Stale has already he stowed the slim of itgtif.,49o. and a small slim may vill be required to plate it in II terldllloll 01 perfect sett reliance. By the act of April '7. 1853, was incorporated .........ill''ivito,' tianong whin.' for oinolic sod feehle.iiiiii.let chi Id rvo.'' To tiro hiallitille Mild 14,1, oleill 0,11.5. tic 1AT10110.,,e wiIII !lie lib rialify whirl, has ever distinguished the Stare, since the rime in her illustrious arid pure minded Pander, has extended a helping hind The ob ject of tins institution is to discover homaiiily in its lowest condition of mental and physical weak ness and deformity. and elevate it to the dignity of intelligence, order and iii.efolness lis disin• tereSied and benevolent Initialers have merited the thanks of the clinstiari and pail mt. The House of Refute, in Philadelphia, may Possibly require further legislation The board of managers of that truly charitable institution are now erecting a spacinus and costly building, into which they expect to transfer the inmates of the old home at an early day. Of all schemes for the amelioration of human distress and suffering, or tot the reclamation of erring humanity, there is no one which more forcibly Commends itself to ghristian sympathy and support than the House of &lugs. Having for its sole aim the reform.. tion rather than punishment of the young, whose ollenees are often the result of misfortune rather than criminal intent ; who sin through the weak. Pas of moral perceptions, or from impure also. Mations which so fatally attract and o'isleed the vomit and though:lees. I shear/ally. and earnest. lyost commend vire. col this admirable istatitettee to your fng The report el the imperinteedent will exhibit to you the winditiee of the common schools of the Commonwealth. No department °fib, Gorr. trivalent bee greater claims upon tilt General As. tenthly than this, and it affords me lb. greatest satisfaction to be able to auntie you of the flour ishing condition of the common wbool spawn. and of the unusual interest manifested in every part of the Commonwealth in the cause of educa tion. We should look forward with lively into.. rest to the day when our great Commonwealth, freed, to some extent, from the shackles of debt, can, as she doubtless will, contribute an adequate sum to obis cause. My attention has been called to the condition of the State Library byt officer having charge of it at this time, It is al pod, with evident res• irt i vsw son and truth, that the wje NO Are too small for the purpose; that many of the books are !lowed away in boxes, mid also that the laws providing k r theft security and imposing respoo , abilities el the 'Librarian, are quite insufficient. This highly interesting and useful institution will doubtless receive your special can. •: , . Is le towiF that !Should make known to you the program l ank I his berm made on the aultiect of la, *realign Q • monument* Independence Ha 1, in Philidelphie, commemoreilve of the Declaration of Independence. In Oritobet,tbe er:tile Of Philadelphia, by unanimous coneent, liaised an ordtnance &di. mitip.ll7 the necessary ground in Independence Squint: to this patriotic aid national parturnet and Troubling to ate MIMI yr/miles a to the reprceelthitkall o f nine or more of the 0 4041 tt tame. HY an ant of the loirteleture of Irehrectry tut, ennfirminit this outman,' ol the ermined., the One. erne* was anihnnsed to appoint • trotter in act in conjunction with the trust*. li of 'he other States, .0 the orectiO, of the moionorrni. I se. arditiglytip• A SHERIFF DREAMING TO FOX E PRE posc—The Highland Eagle ( Winchester county, New York,) related the following A few days since, Mr. George F. Sher man. of Cold Spring. while on his way lime from his place of business, missed his pocket book containing about $372 in bank bills, and a number of drafts, notes and valuable papers. Whether it was dropped from his pocket accidentally, or feloniously abstracted therefrom, Mr. S. was not able to determine. The fact was communicated to Daniel Dykeman, Dep uty Shemin of Putnam county. He dreamed that night that the money was in posses sion of George McNary, a clerk in the hardware store of Messrs. H. & E. Pel ton,,that a part of it was fasted to the in ner 4uing of his vest, and a part in the crown of his nap, and that among the bills was a ten dollar note on the Putnam Co. Bank. Mr. Dykeman communicated this singular dream to Mr. Sherman, and. to gratify their suspicion excited by this dream, they kept an eye upon Mr. Mc- Nary, and on Saturday night last, as he ( was on his way to the cars, with the in tention of leaving the place, he was arres-11 ted On searching him the money to the amount of *323 was found as indicated in Ovkemsn's dream, and the $lO note was especially recognized. 11tIeNary confessed ( that he found the pocket book in his em iployer'e store while making a fire early in 11w morning of the 21st nit., that he slip. I llCPNothing of importance transpired at peallet, d out with wh the package of hill contains and fl ed, in ung the ! Washington during the past week. w to -------- 1 the stove, and it was consumed by the ! licrA man in 'Wisconsin who recently f flames. Having disbursed a part of the inserted a long advertisement in the pa ) money , lie promised the Sheriff that he ..)ers, the offering his farm for sale, closed it would restore the balance if they would ! take him to a relatimi of his in Orangesublimelystyle: in following ridiculous county. He was conveyed to the place "The surrounding country is the most beau- pointed out, and was permitted to enter ' tiful the God of Nature ever made. The! the house, unaccompanied by the officer, , is celestial—divine—also two we- I through which he escaped, and was not scenery perceived until over half a mile in the dis- gone to sell and a yoke of steers." lance. Dykeinan pursued him about six miles. when darkness coining on, the fel on plunged into a swamp and was hid from view. In his valise was found a valuable patent spring trunk lock, and some other things taken from the hard ware store oh Messrs. H. it E. Pelton DEATH OF MRs. OPIE.—We learn from England that Mrs. Amelia Opie, the pop ular author of numerous works, of no. lion. died at Norwich. the elm of her birth, on the 2d Dec., at the age of eighty. fi re. IrTh charitable, remember the poor, when the blasts blow aroupd your houses. /frill) Governor's Maslow, has crowd ed .oal a number of advertisement. which will reeeive attention hereafter. ayes" , Extract of Raft Ease. The Ow im indisputable that this medicke le superior to anything heretofore oared loth* pab: liq for pa . rifying the blood. Keep year blood pure and you steak from all those troublesome disease' that afflict en many of the human rasp._ Myers' Helmet not ooly pdriiiss the Wood, but Invigorates the whole system, giving • healthy tone to ammoniac* and imparting Mead energy 1 to the weak sad eneareted. SICK HEAD-ACHE, Mr. A. B. L. Myer.— 'Deer Mr tir-I hat* Ikon childhood, seared with pariodkal tarns of the sick Headache, %seeing until tbielieetyeer. wae usnidly laid bYAdmost weekly, mail I commenced the ass of, your Compound Extract of Rock Hose—.ortelarge j bottle has completely cured me. I have had no oomsiort to use it br months. yours disc. - - NANCY St PA NEWLY. lea Orange - arm, New HON t; COMO. I pan heartily concur willies,* above. JOHN PA RSHLY. Clisatoi4 Coats., Oct. 1 2tH ,1808. key. A., fl L. Myers-- Deer Mr have stared very much with the Sick timid Ache for ONO yore t there wag scarcely d week but what I was obliged to give up my work, but by accident/ became acquakied with your valuable Extract of Hock Rose, and hive used one bustle. It has completed& sum. I havirnot been troubled with tbe rumple lot - now, 1 and I think It has otherwise improved toy health; very much. *COMMA CARLTON. 1 -, - -- 7 , I Mly armor with obi above 11110414110111. I 6: r More.euicifileit occur la new En JANES CARLTON. . g by 8. H. r hod than in all the reit of the United irrm non' in ilitlyoni ng BU FIR. LER. earl try Omuta& paintly• Sept. is. Staten, TOR STIII INDIANA CETTITSBURC. Thursday Ern*, Jan. 5, 180. Bleak Scheel Orders. crßlank Orders on Treasurers of School Districts can be had at this office, at the usual prices. Vir*We issue our paper a day earlier than usual, to lay the Governor's Message before our readers. The late hour at which it came to hand precludes comment this week. The Governor strenuously opposes the sale of the Public Works—argues a gainst special legislation—denounces the right of municipal corporations to make municipal subscriptions to internal ha-1 provements—recommends that no more new Improvements be commenced by the State—and is oppostkd to granting more capital for banking purposes. Ilt:POur thanks are due to Messrs. EL- Lia and MELLINGER for early copies of the Message and other favors. icy. GEORGE ARNOLD, Esq., the County ITreasurer elect, has given the usual bonds and enters at once upon the duties of his office. Mr. WARREN wade a clever and accommodating officer, and we can safely predict the same of his successor. The Variations of the Needle. 11(-7" We have received another commu nication in regard to the application of the } variation of the Compass Needle, too late 'fir insertion this week. It will appear next week. The writer endorses the views of "Freedom" in our last issue. We may sad here—and we say so upon good author ity—that "Freedom" is correct in his views. To obtain the true bearing, the variation (which for Adams county is about 81 must be added to the N. W. and S. E. bearings, and sublaraeled from the N."E. and 8. W. bearings. Ifc7"An effort is making to have a Post office established at Round Bill, in this county. It is about three miles from Hampton, down the Turnpike. An effort is also being made to remedy the difficulty in the mail communications between this place and East Berlin, arising from a want of connection in the mail routes from Hanover to Abbottstown, and from Abbottstown to East Berlin. At present, mail matter . for East Rodin lies over, at Abbottstown, from two to three days, although but four miles from its des tination. The department can readily remedy the difficulty if it have the will ; and it ought not to hesitate a moment in extending a desirable accommodation to an important and populous district. It will be well, also, if the Department, while it has its attention directed to this county, were to examine into the cause of the frequent failure of the Philadelphia mail, which, for some months past, has, been about as irregular as it well could be. The working of the Hanover Branch Rail road by the Baltimore and Susquehanna Company, is a nuisance, and will continue to be a nuisance until something better than worn-out, broken-down engines are put on the road. The Company has con tracted to carry a daily mail over that road, and the Department ought to sec to it that the contract is fulfilled. Mel'ummoN has retired from the Lancaster "Tribune." Mr. FINN, late of the Harrisburg "Telegraph,' succeeds him. lICPA negro who was called on as a witness•in one of the courts of North Car olina, on being examined as to the nature of an oath, was asked if he knew what would be the consequence here and hereaf ter if he swore .to a lie. "Yes," said he, "ears off, and no share in the kin_dom." licrA model return upon a writ was re cently made by a deputy sheriff in Horgan eouoty, Indiana. It was--"Barved the withini• but waa tit with brick-bate by the woman so. shit I couldn't wave it," The inauguration of the Ron. Thom as Watkins Ligon, Governor sleet of 4 41. rylatid, win take place at Annapolis on Wednesday, the 11th of January. Kr Letters from Minister Gamow, dated City of Maxie*, Deo. 10, confirm the intelligence previously, received that Banta Anna had deolared himself Dictator for life with power to appoint his snocesser.-- The people are enthusiastically in his fa vor, and he rules with undisputed sway. azyThe Easton (Md.) Gazette dates that a fine huge barn, belonging to Mr. Edward Hopkins, on Hest 'shod, was oonsnined by fire on the 20th nit. , togeth. er with 226 barrels of corn, and all his fodder aid farming utensils. It took fire from a fire-orecket, ignited by a small hey. neg.,Mrs. Christina Dinkel. of Rocking hall county, Va., having been confined to, a sick bed for a long time, attempted to walk across her room last week, but un fortunately fell headforemost into the fire, When foiled One of ler ayes was burned out, her clothes were In a blase, and her head and nook presented an **hal speaks ele. • Elbe was, howelvelt, stilt alive, but died a sbort tints'allermards. --"` Or. ~y , Legl of 711111149. = Both brandies e Legislature ran ised' on Tuesday. Mr. CHAS; of Susque hanna county, was elected Speaker of the House, haviog t teccived 69 votes to 28 for Hart (Whig.) Chase was the Loco catmin t s nominee, having beaten Struthers, of Car bon, two votes. Struthers is a "Carnero niati," and anti-Bigler. The vote in cau -1 met on 2d ballot stood—Chase 84, Stratit -4iBB. OoL Jack was re-elected Clerk to the Incase; Wm. S. Belting, of York county, Anistant; and Messrs. Adam; Gray, Gil lie and Stockwell, Transcribing Clerks. The'aminus nominees for the other posts wall midoubtedly be eleckd, to wit Humplubte, Sergeant at Arms; J. J. Horn Doorioniini; Wm. M. Barron, Messenger. Mat.,,MeOentaa, of Green county, was elected Speaker, of the Senate by a vote of 18 to-W.4 s hd Whig Senators voting for Mr. Kunkle. Further organization of the Senate was postponed, the Loco caucus not having beep abloto agree upon a candidate for Chief Clerk. The vote in caucus stood Maguire 9; Barrett ("Cameroniau") 7; and Patrick 2. The subordinate officers were aged upon, to wit : Assistant Clerk—ll. Pettibone, Lucerne. Transcribing Clerk—A. L. Hannerhaltz t of Berke; N. Weiser, Lehigh; W. 11. Blair, Centre; 8. f 4 teliley, Dauphin. Sergeant-at-Arms—W. B. Cummings, of Westmoreland. Assistants : D. Vonei da, Puna.; W. P. Brady, Dauphin. Doorkeeper—Win. Alberger, Bucks. As east/gra-I-Wm. Italsom, Armstrong. Messeuger—Wm. M. Barren. The Governor's Message was read in both Honits on Wednesday. NS t F THE TIMES."—At Ex l 1 eter Hall • London , the Rey. Dr. Cum- mings lately lectured on the "Signs of the ' Times." He said that the Prophet Daniel had prophesied 2300 years would be the duration of the Mahommedan powpr, but it did not follow that Rnasia would plant the cross on St. Sophia. On the contra ry, he thought that - the 12,000.000 of Ma hommedans might become Christians The events of the year 1848 had been clearly alluded to in prophecy, and he calculated that 1864 would bring about the fulfilment of the apocalyptic prophe. cies, and the commencement of a better age—the good time coming ! THE ERIE RAILROAD TROUBLEO. --Gov. Bigler hat week, authorised the Mayor of Erie to call out the military and citizens of Erie county to aid him in sup• presaing riot, ancl -\ preiersing the public peace, and to enforce obedience to the lawa. Fortunately no disturbance has einoe occurred. OZP - Ssze, the Vermont poet, speaking of the artistic imperfections of our female po ets, says,."lt seems impossilge for Pegasus to trot handsoitely under a side-sad. die !" 'The Maine Liquor Law bill is be fore the Tennusee Legislature. locrDr. Norr, President of Union Col lege, N. York has given to that iustitu Lion over $600,000 u an endowuoint ! Sig - Letters from Ireland state that in telligence has been received of the escape of Smith O'Brieu, the last of the Irish State prisoners, from Van Dieruan's Land. A Young Hero. In the Madison (Ind.) Daily Argue. D ecember I, we find the following account of the martyrdom of all American boy— a youth of whom our nation may be proVd—who died because he'would nut. tell a lie : A cape of heroism exeeeding that impu ted to Knud Iverson, occurred in Mar quette county. in this State, a little over a year ago, the facts of wnich are estatktish ed by judicial investigation, and werOre hied to us by Judge Larrabee, who pre sided at the trial. A beautiful fair-haired, blue-eyed boy, shout 9 years of ago, was taken from the Orphan Asylum in Mil waukie, and adopted by a respectable far mer of Marquette. a prolessor of religion and a member of the Baptist persuasion. A girl a little older than the boy, was also adopted into the same family. Soon af ter these children were installed in their new home, the boy discovered criminal conduct on the part of his new mother which he men toned to the little girl, and it thereby came to the ears of the woman ; she indignantly denim, the story to the satisfaction of her husband, and insisted that the boy should be whipped until he, confessed thik falsehood. The man—, poor weak bigot--impelled bye sense of, religious duty. proceeded to the task assigned him, -by procuring a bundle of rode, stripping the child naked midi suspending him by a card to the rainwear the house, and whippin him at intervals over two hour.. nl l g the blued ran through the floor. making a pool on the floor below ; stopping only to rest and interrogate the bay. end fatting no other answer than "Pa. I told_bw tretb.-.1 can not tell a lie ;" the women all the time ur ging him to "do his doh" The poor little hero, at length released front hie tor ture.threw his arise asoned the seek 'of •the tormentor. kissed him sod said, "Pa, lam so cold." and died. It appeared in evidence, upon the aisle( this man and woman for murder, that the child did tell the truth, and suffered death tether than tell a lie. The sge . ,Of . heroism and of manyrdoui will not poised till moth _ __ ere cease so instill the holy preeepts into the osio'de of their Mims offspring. The man and woman who murdered this angel ehild are now in the penitentiary et Wan pet. to which they were sentenced fur ten years. THE JAremnstr.—On Monday, Lieut. Conies, of the U. S. Navy, just returnel CI rib)HENT SaUtSv 114 WA IRO' from the Japances Espediunn. bad an in , avattueot te MOM sok KELLeit KUgliriti terview with the . President. during which BLANKETS I were presented, from Commodore Perry, LARGE, lot ut BED B LANKETS VII it artsittiti o an assortment ofispanese snide., such as t" .t. at different priers. with a very large splendid aseurhoes, i silks, pipes, &c., &c. The Sentinel says, i assortment of horse BLANKLI'Iik, at tlioi 1 1 kit Orned sk . & La., these were a portion of the piesents sent! .i Cheap Corner of KUittrs. lor Perlie o$ levelly variety yollt! 34 ~ . .o•'eo: nn board, slier the interview at Geri grj.....lohn."saidit pedagogue ihe other,. --; :he wilt sellst pikes that will de mown. Hammer, and the delivery of the letter 'if tl.iy. "whet's dela:lied you f liitur acme iterlll-SOl //,, 5a,f,014; UN til 00000 here ur elossitte.o. Remersiber I the President of the United States to the you so Lie to schiou f" k' Weil, eir, I had oh' the bust quelity-.-uttßays out han d buy for earls. and under the nom Leven* a miimumer to meet the commodore, gimp for thinner, and hod to wet fur it to and for sale in Gettst.huto, it the rirrUll""".ls 4 , which eliibiel"""Dimai while operinienv of A iiieric.ii nteatulacturee cool." , •Take your a. 4ti i your excuvit se Foundry ot ; *het t prootire. Ne harobuggips, *di eillt Were giten us return, lutfieietil," I , 'l'.. WARREN di SUN ' it'd*, hi yulasisOlo• .,..1. I•,. . 'a ~J.~r;- LATER FROM EUROPE. The steamer Africa. with Liverpool dates of thik-47th ult., arrived at New York on Fridays The following is a Telegraphic summary of her news:. JiMrd Palmerston has resigned his seat in the British Cabinet. Some of the Lon. don papers attribute this step to • disa greement in the Cabinet in relation to the Turkish question ; bid the London Timer denies that it had say connexion with that question. , Letters from Bhoharist of December sth announce the suspension of hostilities on the Danube. The, impreission at Vienna was still strong tEat the Eastern question coAld be satisfactorily arranged. • Ii was reported that a Basilian naval di vision, with 8,000 troops on board, had been repulsed at Cheftikil. One Russian 'steamer was destroyed, a frigate thsautated, and 1.500 Russians killed. Another engagement had occurred near, Abaca between two Turkish steamers and a Russian frigate and brig: when the latter 'withdrew badly shattered. The allied steamers had gone to Coa -1 siantinople. The defeat at Sinope had caused a great sensation at Constantinople, and a grand divan was im mediatrly held. at which all tho foreign Minister* were pres ent: There was no doubt that the whole allied fleet would soon enter the Black Sea. The carnage at Sinope was immense.— The Turks lost eleven and not thirteen vessels, of ''which three were traftsports ; the Russians lost' seven ships, including two of the largest class. The town was completely destroyed. In an engagement on the Black Sea, between several Russian vessels and three Turkish steamers, two of the latter mica. ped, and the third was blown up by her-, commander rather than surrender. The Russians fired into a Turkish brig near Odessa and sunk her ; all on board perished. The Russians had defeated the Turks on the Armenian frontier, the latter sus taining a loss of 4,000 men. Notwitb , standing this reverse. the Tnrkscontinued successful. They had captured Alkaha lit h and the Important fortress of Alexaa dropolis. Schamyl, the Circassian leader, and Stain Pasha were gradually approaching each other, taking all the Russian for treaties or she line of their march. Prime W.wansofr was surrounded on all sides at Tiflis, and his retreat entirely cut off.— Schantyl had taken six Russian fortresses after hard fighling and great loss on both sides. He had totally deletted 15,000 Russians under Gen. Ottawa. LATER.—A later arrival anaounees the entrauoe of the allied feet into the Black Sea. Mr. Soule, our Minister at the Court of Spain, and his eon have both been engaged in duels,—the. former with the French Minister, and the latter with the Duke of Alba. "Nobody hart. COLORED EMIGRANTS TOR We have already noted the sailing of the brig Gen Pierce (uf Baltimore) from Sa vannah, for Liberia, with MB colored em igrants. Rev. Mr. McLain, the coloniza tion agent, furnishes the following inte. reeling incidents touching this large expo "Of these emigrants, 50 rare liberated by Richard Hoff, Esq., of Oglethorpe county Georgia, who paid $OO each for their transportation and support six months in Liberia, in addition to, giving them, when they embarked, about $2,000. ••lt win be remembered that the Hon, W. E. Kennedy. of Columbia. Tennessee, sent in the Zebra from New Orleans last spring 20u1 his slaves. lie *maim:lather company of 29 in the Gen. Pierce, leaving only two with him, who are unwilling to leave him while he lives, but intend to go to Liberia alter his death. "The I interesting and extraordina ry part of this expedition was a faintly ol thirty.eight, consisting of a 111411 and his wile, and their children and grand.chd drew, from near Nashville, Tennessee, lib , muted by Col. Montgomery Ball, a grit. denten 85 years old. He gave them eve rything requisite as an outfit, and paid us 52,000 for their transportation and support six months in Liberia. lie has a large number more, of whoa] he wants to vend about eighty as soon as we eau take them, and is willing to pay one-half the expen. sea of transportation and support, beitidee giving them a comfortable comfit and pav ing their expenses to the port of embarks. lion. These people are the •iron teen of Tennessee. Mr. Bell has long been known as one of the largest noanufectu• rers of iron, and his slaves have been his only workmen. They thoroughly under stand the business; and have among them miners, colliers. mouliers, and are fully competent to build a furnace for making iron and carrying it on themselves. They are men ol high moral Character, which would reader them an acquisition ,to any country. Thomas Scott, the psuiandi of the family. who sailed In the Gen. Pierce. helped to snake the miaow hells which were *red (rca behind the cotton beheld the battle of New Orleans. and he la ye t a man of " gnat nativity and own of ehareeter. Tan Broome.—lt Is MOW that Mrs. Miller. a datightatof Garin Smith, (the millionaire Free Soil Abolhionitit, and a member of Minima num the Western part of New York,) exercises it great deal of curiosity in Washington, by 'appearing in tall Bloomer costume. Mr.. Miller is quite handsome and young, and her dress consists of a Scotch plaid frock, which comes down to her knees, and pants with morocoo bootees, and a jaunty black hal, such as ladies usually wear on horseback. In addition to her Bloomer dress, she had over it. when 1 law her, a black velvet sack, richly trimmed with bugles and other tasteful ornaments, just such as you might find upon • fashionable lady, but it ap. I peered in odd contrast with Bloomerisin. Mrs. M. has an intelligent, expressive face. with fine eyes. Gerrit' Smith is a burly, good•looking. old gentleman, ■nl his costume is like any othiolsin dressed citizen. The eccentricities of both make, them objects to be stared as, whielk per. haps they do not object to. RALTamionn 1114itsier. firatru via aatarturie guar or esurraamt FLOolt.—The Maur market aontinnes Arm, with an upward tendency in prices. Sale. to day of 8500 bbl. Howard street brand. at $7 12 per MI. Time are the highest prices that Flow has yet attained to. The market chard Ann at the above • quotations. Rye Flour 113 30 ; and country Corn Meal 113 76 par hbl. `DRAIN.--Ahoot 2500 bushels of Wheat oMyr ed ibis mousing, and cold at I 60 a 91 63 to red and 1 68 tl 81 72 per Martial flir gond to Prime whits. fahrior lota 2 to 16 cents below the a* 'boy , dorm. Corn—A hoot 14).000 'mewls offer ed cod manly sold at 61 a 63 rents for white. and Ada . 70 ante per bushel for Peno• qlvail• Rye 96 a 97 ante t*aies art Pennyylea eta O,tta at 43 46 cents per bashed. Sera,— Motor 6 87f 1168 #. Timothy $3 per bushel; and Plumed unabaned. GROURRIES..—Market steady. Salem of Rio 00 , 041 at 18 • I*i rants per Ih. %nom and lb Madams slightly Armor. Rica 4/ aSi clues per PROVVIOn..--The Promlision market le ete•dy. Wee, however. eri . moderate. We loot. Illera.Porft at 14 • $14.121 par MI. ;Yaw bane aboulders sad Moe 8 cents and old hams 10 • L. cosi@ gr lb. Lard in bhis. 911 a, 91 mite par lb. Dhow in kegs II •L 4 eruti, roll 10 • 18 meta per lb.. Ohm* unchanged. VORA aLISkET. FLOUR, per bbl,. from WIIIOOII, - $ i 02 WHEAT, Fit trothrL, I 40 to 108 RYE. 85 .. CORN. di • OATH, .1 37 ' 40 TIMOTHY "WED, pet barbel, 000 to 3 00 CLOVER 881 ED. ","0 18 FLAX - HEED, “ ` I QS PLASTER OF PA RIO , por too, • 8 301 HANOVER INARRIM FLOUR. per Wont, (from •Wegooe) $6 50 WHEAT, pes buebel, 160 to I 68 RYE. " 85 CORN• HATA, TIMOTHY-1111ED, PLOVER-BF.EU FLAX-HEED. MARRIED. 01119tb ah. bti Rn. J. EL Morrie, D. D., Rao. T. a WilknON, ,of Pittabntg, aml Miss MARGARET Wait daughter of Maj. Jacob Handers, of Haltlisem, formerly of Gettysburg. On Mai oth' alt., by Res. E. Haßheles. Mr. JOHN MORITZ and Miss MARGARET PHIL L•IPS--h Mb of Hampton, Adam. county. DIED. On We Nth *IL, In Butler tonna*. hint SARAN DULL. widow of Chariot Dna, &wok tol, aged 46 yearn Nor the same ibis. 4144 a dame, aged Myosin. Utah wore intorno' in ono grove. On the 2lth *lt, of enneuntinitin, him BRILL GET'T WEAVER, rile Jorontind Wanor. of itiountploarun god at Yolfs. 7 months. and a thin • • NoTicia. A Li. persons knowinr themselves to be indebted to m. by Ntite or Book. account, will plisse call and_pav the seine on or belore tint drat day 0' Iliarckaaat. All who neglect this notice will find their accounts in the-hauls of an officer for col lection. ABR'III ARNOLD. fan. 6; 11354.--tr AGRICULTUItii rirgHE Annual Meeting. of the ...Aileron 'county Agricultural Society," take place at the Court-house, in Gettys burg, on Tuesday of Janmer N Court, (17th inet.,) at 1 o'clock, P. M. A lull attend mule is expected. itnisr , The Committee.; appointed at the I.e t meeting to procure members in their several neiebrirhoods, are urged to he ac. tire in their duty, and report at the meet. in` on the 17th. JOHN MoGINLEY, Free!. HENRY J. Sumc, Seq. Jun. 6, Lss4.—id THE SINGING BIRD." T HE undersigned having succeeded in ceiling his alsom of Juveniles. begs leave to announce that the first lesson will be given on Saturday (to•morrore) after noon, et VI o'cloek. P. M., in M'CON- A UGIIY'S HALL. which will he the regular time and place of meeting. H e requests all desirous of joining, to he pre sent at that time, as none can possibly be admitted alter the 2tl lesson hoe been giv en. None bet Parents "(pupils and those desirous of joining will be' admitted to the meetings. Pupils are requested to be punctual in their attendance. A. J. POTTERFIELD. Jan. 6.-1 N To the Hon. Judges of the Quar ter Sessions of Adams county: iII 'HE Petition of MARY HROUGH, II of Mann tpleasent township In said county, respectfully showeth :—That she occupies a house in the said township, heretofore used and occupied by her late husband. se a public house of entertain. meat, and is desirous nf cositioning to keep a public honed therein. She 'therefore prays'your honors to grant her a !Immure to keep a public house at the place afore said for the intoning year. And she will ewer prey, dm- MARY BROUGH. The subscribers, citizens of the Town.. ship afuresaid recommend the shoo* petitioner and certify that the Inn or Tay. ant abut* mentioned is necessary to an. eeinmodate the Public. and entertain ales ,and travellers, and that the pen. tioner above named is of good repine for honesty and tempe►aere, and is well pro vided wit h houseloom and conveniences for the bulging and accommodation of string era and travellers. John Shelia, Jacob Hslizel, Abdil Rougher. John McMaster. Jacob Feieot , jr.. Wm. Young, H. Header. of R. Jacob Falser, Jacob Sanders, Daniel Diehl, Joseph Herman, Nicholas Reline'. Jan. 641854.-34 • Draw ',e'er—Come um( see 1 JL. SPHICK would inform the Ladies iu" • thst he now offers the largest assort ment of BONNETS, Bonnet Silks and Velvets, Ribbons, Flowers & flair Ocotillo. ever before opened in this place. (Jell and see theitt,.no trouble to stntw Goods. Oct. 7. 194111--41 4 : , ........ ~ r HE Cemm ,aioners of Adam. conntt,'. - 01 hereby ' e notice shit they hall‘kl; fixed upot the following time* for do.. holding nt App eals for the several Biti..; If% mighty an d Powitaltipe or At l anta county. ;-, at life 01 vs of the County Comnieition• era, in Gettyalliirg. when end where they.': will atteiht to bear Appalls; between the% hourr of II o'clock. A. M., end 11 o'ciock. ',. P. M. For the township* or Montojny. Ger.P nosily. Volum. Conownsitn. Mottutpletuant. Berwick. °stool, Strsban, Hamilton, Reatlinir;soid Ty roue, nu Afonday do Oda day of .14broary neat. For the townships cot Hitiotington, Lat. irnnre, &tennilett, Butler. Franklin, Hans. Hand:lan, Liberty, Freedom, Cumberlend, end the Borowth Getsysbunr— o n 'Tues. day Ilse 7th day of Fhsruary next. ARR4HIM REEVER, JOHN MICKLEY. jr. JAHES J. WILLS. C'antatissianert. Attest-4. Anowinatuon, CYcrk. Jan. 6. 1864.—id If 1 1 (0 I' Or E.st R MARTIN. At the Old Stand, N. W. Corner of the Diamond, Ciettysiburg, *VENDER their thanks to their mem niers tor pest favors, and respect fully inform the public that they combi ne tei Cut and make all Garments, in the beet manner and on reasonable terms. The cutting will he done as here. tofore. by Rooms MARTIN. Fashions aro regularly received. and every effort made to secure a good at and substantial sewing. The subscribers hope. by their long experience in the business, and re newed efforts to please, to merit and receive a continuance of the public patron age. 37 It 60 to 336 6 00 to .6 75 I 1 oar work is made by regularly. employed journeymen ; upon this, our customers may rely. IK:rThe Fall and Winter Fashions have just been rccived Imm the city. tK) - All kinds of country produoe taken ity exchange for work. E. & R. MARVIN , Oct. 14-11 - DA V' - --- ID WILLS, -Altonley at Law, H AS takes Mr. STRVIM9OIIeB 015t0. North West Corner of Centre Square. 81 9I P EIUINCZ.—Rcm. This(Mew Niavrnit, /11$. Laneaster. Dim 20, 1861. 0.4.1113% RE undersigned, advised by hie phy sician to relinquish the practice of h s profession, for the present at least, has .piseed Ids bissinese and papers in the hantos of DAVID WILLS, Esq., who will pray. tie* Law in the several courts of um minty, in whose professional abilities I have every confidence, and whom I cheer• folly resommend to the support of the community. W. H. STEVENSON, Dec. SO, 1853.—tf BR'M ARNOLD has nnw us hand i lk and is multifamily making op, Over casts. Dress Coats, Frock Comm. Ponta. hviti,Vests.sndoviry nniclein liseClothing line, which he will aril 30 pot sent rheap.. or than env CLOTHING STORE or SLOP SROP in ihe 'Cows or County. s. Cell and examine hue yourselves. Oct. 7, 1853-1( NEW & SEAFtONARLE DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES. A B. KURn has Iwo opened an on. manse stock ill all the new and de. sirshie etyles of• DRY GOODS, alaa Queeneware and Groceries--whinh he in vites his memento* e,nstionors ►w call and see: all of whieh will he sold on the principle of ..Quick Elides and Smelt Prat its:" Oct. 14, 18611. _____ Groceries__;" '''' __ g h UEENS & GLASS Ware, a fresh , and full supply, FR cheap as *ha mar. item itoii; cal) and see them at TOBIAS' LINIMENT, VIOR the cu of Headache. Cholera *whoa, Toothaehe. Bruises. Sprains, &o. --a must excellent remetly—for Islet at de DRUG STORE of S. H. BUEHLER. TCHEAPEST CLOTHS, Caul. Jo. netts, Flannels. and Ready made Clothing in town, purchased before the rise, to be had at the store of GEO. ARNOLD. Oct. 28, 1858 ItRIV r.A\ kr, 040451, fl UST received and now open ing at the Store of S. FA HNESTOCK & SONS. Tress'AN 1 Trutekat Iha ve just waived large hit 4 TRUNKS, which 1 em selling witlio out rep o .' t o ofolt. to make room for rilltr% tome's. ABRAHAM ARNOIAL CLOTHS, Black Blue and Fanny ena 7 atoms, Casa met t's, °yew/ming. Kontueky Jeans, Curdy. a new stela Freud' uord, Satin, Bilk. Velvet ~ n ) Fmk. ey Vestiunn, are offered arty cheapen S. KIHNESTOCK .SYMS. Sign of llnt Ked Frau'. ( I A L(COKS. a large asatictiurut. now IL) iiiylna t a!tiit tititattlatha. and otl.rrr, with a lIITNIO rarity of DRY GOODS tout late to optimism hem Gak and see tlitith at X r" '•' - ',-;.; - ,• , .Itiri, , i ,, •.', , i ,, i - ..c.,0 , ' - ' - .:.i . . •,• ~ - -..i.,54 TAX RPM
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