=CM= THE PITTSBURI POST .;1.1.'..ti P. ttitor RUA Pr,tpriViOkik PPTTSOURCH FRIDAY Ii)I3NING (HR KFAILI The Wrtkit; Post, of this week, issued this morning. is an excellent number, containing all the latest news, foreign and domestic, ins teresting miscellany, market reports, ,l'-.c., making in all twenty:seven columns of inter esting matter, in large, clear and realable type. It contains an excellent account of the capture of Fort Duquesne, which occurred just one hundred years ago, and which should be read by every one interested in the history of Pittsburgh. GOV. PACKER'S VETOES As foreshadowed in his inaugural address, Gov. Packer seems determined to put a stop, so tar as it lies in the power of the Executive to do so, to hasty and unnecessary legislation. Three bills have been passed during the time he has been in office—a day or two more than a month—which he hAs deemed it his duty to veto. In each instance ho bas given his reasons for withholding his approval in clear and distinct terms, and in each instance his opinions have been fully sustained by the very men, who have passed the bills. The last veto was that of a bill to incorporate the Norris CorniSh Engine Works. The message is a very able one, and is especially worthy of consideration as designing a policy regard ing incorporations, which will have a power. ful bearing upon future legislation as no doubt, the Governor intended it should do. The Goverisor objects to this particular bill because a company like the one contemplated is already fully authorized by the general laws of incorporation, and therel e e no necessity exists for a special act—because the bill pi () poses to limit the bonus paid to the state to a less amount than the general law, and thus infringes upon the principle of equal taxation, and because it does not hold the stockholders individually liable to the, same extent as the general law respecting corpora tions. There are other wholesome restraints imposed by the manufacturing law and its sup plements, which.iire not embrac:•d within the bill. After disposing of his oluoctions Le t Ito bill before him, Governor Packer con. ludeti his message with the following swim) find sonvi-, tile general remarks upon the subject 01 sp*. vial legislation, which wo in to tin cartful perusal of our waders "1 hav, Ow- • P ..r. I ,; 1 . , 1_, , J1 I !1`• ni is ~! i OCClit , iiin ot— , y, to spetiat 2cts ~r clearly entheauod iho its Lot t ipiehitott , t T ; the titTen.ity special I,:gimlailoit, (while o,pii,l desirous of co) o I..rge liberal advanbigt , ) the het of IKlli wr, p a nd wit t simil^r olject i it h , s since been eXt• , n.l ed to include nearly every i-pnies of businvs. for the transaction of which capita is required. If tho law , , on this subject aro tin perfect, let them be improved by proper amend meats A resort tv spocial loo o slati.n. for par titular cases, will I.ll,dUef! co imprc.vctne.,t our g. - -ro-rol , yptpin 14. tort coairkry Hill i!'n-liguro it. curl iotr, , necoli.tr ier ing itn ontrnono.nt two:- litsficult scarcely oecet•etary to pnutn t,peci..l 1,4;1,1 tti ; I,or itiV;r. brief I,4kttrin.:' tn. tr f Nriuch lihtht promi twu bill is ecil , finc . i It ,n• is lim in its applie.mi , :i t- reirticular company, fails to recievo, :.r fte Cie l - e;4i-.h.tnr, that con ,, ider.vior. v; Bich given to si bill, and which rettuisit,7 to gave it mi unohj,c tionable fOrm. The tc•sult tot nrifrkquently that powers are grr:t. -, 1 which should he with held, and re..trietir , n-; omitted which ought to h , imposed. eee:l C.rpt,FM ICH h 1,, law of its own,t n ,J , .!r, in 117:1t11 ,- r unil,rmity m.r equality in what is ~ onferre.l , or what is prohibi ted. Hence, that which one corporation can do with impunity, is expressly forbidden to another of the same character. Another evil grows out of the defective rinchinery provided for the practical operations of companies organized under special laws. Frequent occasion is there by given for supplementary acts which fill our statute hooks (although they are of no public interest,) and occupy a large part of the time and attention of the General Assembly and the Executive. It is a public grievance that so much of the time of the several departments of the government, should be diverted from the per formance or other important public duties, and consumed upon acts of this character- While disclaimi Fig hostility to propor legislation for incorporations, I am, nevertheless, free to sa . ‘ that one main 111 - wridone for the success of our business interests roust eest upon individual enterprise rather than corporate action. That close and careful attention to the minute details of business, as well [I. that strict economy in its management, absolutely necessary to -ticcess, can ,only be insured when the motives that prompt are the hope of individual gain and the fear of individual loss. Money cannot take care of itself, and all experience proves that the extent of capital invested in a corporate enterprise will guard the institution from insolvency and ruin My earnest desire is, that our plan of iucorpo rating companies for business purposes, shall he the one best calculated to advance the interestA and well being of the State, and one that whilst it may afford a reasonable prospects of gain to the shareholder, will, at the Hanle time, protect those who arc strangers to the profits, from the necessity of contributing to the losses of the company. Such a plan can only be secured by a law general in its' provisions extending equally over the entire State, and applicable to every citizen desiring its advantages. I ilßialot there :ore sanction spejal acts of inc,rporition fot purpoPes already folly provided for by rho eral laws of the C.,airnouweillth OLP, LEGISLATION - .The gem ral tendency of, legislation at Aar• risburg this winter may be gathered from the following summary : Up to the 22d, there have been two hundred and sixty-one bills upon the house File. ((f the-e, three were for insurance companies, three relate to iron and coal companies, three to railroads, three to em power corporations to borrow money, seven teen to incorporate miscellaneous companies and charitable institutions, nine relative to roads, eleven relative to claims against the State, six relative to banks and banking, four to divorces and one to passenger railways. There arc two hundred :Ind twenty-live bills on the Senate File ; three to charter insurance companies, two relating to coal and iron cor• poration, three to railroads, eighteen to Luis. c .llaneous corporations, seven to roads, eleven to banks and banking, one to aivorce, and two to passenger railways. All the bills not classified as above relate to business of u miscellaneous character. Up to the present time but little has been done of ge , eral public interest. The first of March is at hand, however, and the agricultural portion of the members will begin to think about their farms, and, as a matter of consequence, busi ness will begin to be hurried up. Hunt ez, miner We acknowledge the receipt from these in, defatigahle caterers to the reading public of the Lon ton illustrated papers,Weekly Times, &c., &c. ull of the very latest dates. Whets ever of good reading is published, either in this country or England, you will always find upon the counters of the magnificent period ical store in Masonic Hall, Fifth street. They are agents for a great variety of standard works, now issuing from the press, such as - Col. Benton's Debates of Congress, the New American Cyclopiedia, American Elo quence and other equally admirable works. They will supply you at aay time with any of Appleton's publications. FEBRUARY 26 I❑ i first place, Nvii. The inovinient in favor of the repeal of this tax appears to be genetal amen); the commer, cial men of the State. On Tuesday last a memorial, very numerously signed by the merchants of the South and West, was pre sented to the Corn Exchange Association of Philadelphia. This memorial expresses in emphatic terms the opinion - of these gentle men upon the impolicy of the tonnage tax inp, posed upon the Pennsylvania Railroad by the State Legislature. It complained that their preferences to the Pennsylvania Route were hwarted by this injudicious impost, andsolicit ection to seek for its removal. The removal of this tax would be equiva lent to a bounty of nine cents per barrel upon the single article of flour sent over this route and to a corresponding amount onl grain and other articles of western produce. In short, he impost is a direct obstacle to Penneylva nia trade, and a discrimination in favor of the roads of other States which are in hot rivalry with our own The Pardon of Munroe Stewart The press, not only of our own city, but generally throughout the State approve of the action of Governor Packer in granting a par. don to Munroe Stewart. In speaking of this matter the Philadelphia Bullctin says ; Governor Packer has pardoned Munroe Stew art, recently under sentence of death, for shar ing in the M'Keesport murder. Under the circum stances the pardon was perfectly proper It is very probable that Stewart was accessory to the deed, but, both his accomplices declared with their dying breath that he was innocent cir cumstance quite sutiliciert to establish a doubt as to his guilt, and it is a humane and noble feature of Ewilish law that the accused shall always have the benefit of a doubt I; is well as it is, and the tloveruor has acted humanely and ored itahlv. Owv,Ns, as John ()nit, is immense. Indeed in all the characters which he plays he exhib its the richest humor and most delicate comic talent. With all his talent, however, John would make but a sorry soldier, for he is op• posed to sleighing during an engagerneni. Virginia Finances The actual outstanding funded debt of Vir ginia on the Ist of J anuary,lBsB,was $27,2 - ‘3,- 880 45 This includes $970.000 hypothecated by the agent of the Board of Public Woiks in the city of New York, t secure loans to the amount of $670,000. The State has prii, ductive investments amounting to $4,885,855, and unproductive amounting to «25,313.61 The total of both sorts is $30,199,469. Of the productive stocks $3,346,950 are banks. The remaining 826,852,519 of the Common. wealth's investments are in Stocks of and loans to internal improvement companies. Of these but $1,538,905 are productive. 01 the unproductive ($25;313,613) only the sum of $4,958,339 is secured by mortgages or other wise. The remainder consists of stock to the amount of $10,437,617 in improvements not yet completed, and $6,917,657 in improve ments completed but still unproductive. ,rtter from lion. Daniel S. Dicklnaon-- Ws Opinion on Knout'''. ILLARDS' HoTEL, WaSiliW2Aoll, Feb. 20, 1856. GrENTLEMEN : I A.III honrire.l with your kind note of this morning desiring me to name ail evening when I can meet my iliTieratic fcii nds of the District, and others ii'c ruing here, anti Ora expression to my opinions upon the great public questions of the day. I feelinLly appre ciate the generous and confiding spirit which suggested a compliment so gratifying and listin guished, and regret to add that, while it would afford me the highest satisfaction to comply with your request, the professional engilgement wide!. brought me here has just been cldsed, rat hp-,. calls of kindred character at home compel iii leave the city. Our country, blessed by a beneficent l'ravi I. dence with all the elements calculated terchtler a nation prosperous and happy, seems destined t,, convulsed by internal strife and disfigured by tiumestie discord. Of all the agitations which have disturbed our repose as a people, and arrayed one section against another, I have regarded, and will re gard, the Kauses question as the great artificial and causeless, originating in a great degree in bad intentions and worse actions. For all present purposes I shall not consider the oriminatious and recriminations which have prevailed, nor the allegations of fraud, violence, and treason which have signalized its unhappy history, but remark that the evils of which its people complain originate in their own bosom, and that as a people they have - generally held, and now hold, a fall and ample remedy in their own hands, and that those who refuse to exercise one of the dearest privileges and highest duties of freemen—that of the elective franchise—may indulge morbid grief, or cherish partisan spleen, but should never be especial objects of sympathy. The people of this Union have interests, both foreign and domestic, too mighty and diversified to bestow their time and energies and sympathy in considering the details of local constitutions or the fairness of territorial elections over which they can have no legitimate influence or control. Had I been a member of the Lecompton conven tion I would have urged the submission of its constitution as a whole, and in all its parts, to the people fur approval or rejection. But I am unable to perceive upon what poJaible sound the ory of non-intervention either the President or Congress can go behind a constitution republican in form, and determine whether a people who might have voted for delegates did so vote, or whether the delegates itg convention, in neglec ting to submit the detail r 6 of the constitution to the people, obeyed or disregarded the popular I will ; whether the constitution was wise or un wise, slave or free. All these are question be longing exclusively to the people of Kansas, at all times under their complete control, and in which the federal government, cannot intervene without disturbing the foundations upon which the popular federative edifice rests. If Congress may reject a constitution because its detail we r e not submitted to the people of the Territory, it may, in like manner manifest its disapprobation because they were. It it may intervene me compel a submission to the people, it may inter vene to prevent submission ; if it may reject a constitution fur the sole cause that it authoriz slavery, it may reject it because it does not ; and popular sovereignty becomes but another name for the federal despotism. The Democratic party, throng' many periods of vicissitude and trial, has proved itself to be the guardian of the constitution and the Union, the preserver of the public peace, and the foe of sectional strife and disunion, under whatsoever pretence presented. Its chart is the constitution, its policy progress in the cause of true freedom and human regeneration. The country looks to it again in this crisis to put forth its conservative power and r escue the last hest hope of man from the evils which menace it. The administration of its choice, firm in its purpose, and guided by wisdom and moderation, is devoting its best en ergies to procure the admission of Kansas into the Union, and thus le' - fave the elements which dis turb a nation's repose and arrest its progress to the correction of those with whom they originate. It is gratifying to perceive that the democracy throughout the Union, with great unanimity are railing to the support of the administration up on this great principle and sustaining its policy. This Kansas question is the aliment of those who live and move and have their being in sec tional strifes; and they will feed upon it and urge it upon others so long as it can be made available for partisan purposes; and when it can he no longer used to stimulate faction or "adorn a tale," it will be discarded as worthless, and all the clamor for freedom and the rightsof the people of Kansas will vanish into thin air. No one familiar with the course of events can doubt the design or the consequences of a pro longed existence of this controversy, nor the importance to the best interests of the country and its institutions that it be brought to a speedy conclusion by receiving Kansas at once into the Union. That done, the question no longer re mains a disturbing element beyond the confines of the State. Thus limited, with the inherent and conceded right of the people to change their constitution at will, it becomes a question of local and restricted interest, and of course t e stricted agitation. Beyond that limit, while sotto have been misled by artificial clamor, the first object of those politicians who started this issue and seek to prolong its discussion is the over throw of the Democratic party and the adminis tration of its choice—a party which is identified with the great interests of the country, and which at all periods of its history has interposed MEE 11 ri•l it • • I • • t . .Ci! • Vl . 1 W . 411.11.ui , f(7l:cprzt- upon the consequeuce,;, if at. this tiara, nut uuder such circumstances that party and its adminiAration shall be broken down, and itll the disturbing ele- Ira tits at the late Presidential contest he again et in in..tion; arui let him - tiskliimself if be can tna.le auxiliary to such an *object and to such e e ra , .•t i tiortecs. To the ritizpris thh- lto.trict, ever loyal to 111, L ob.o o mi It r n iuuico n ai hate earls, 11 in happy to rent .w the exprvions of my at tachni, Lt. and respo , t, and to acknowledge the gratitit!Ation it affords me to feel that. I stilt live in their rt collection. May no rolver=e influences evror pr,vent it from being the great central bond of Union et the Shoe: , of our glorious IZe public I I hive to be, with high regard, sin cerely yours, U. S...DICKINSUN. JN.. F. ENNIS, EsQ Predl'ieflt Washington Democratic , Assooia titw, raid others. linitertß Lles A correspondent of the New York llcr ald, who speaks ex cathedra, gives the following sketch of the way the " Roorbacks," of the Eastern press regarding Kansas are thought of in the territory. He says:— It i.. a ,ingular fact that people, in this other w;se fiat country, get their most important local news team the eastern paper It iv a fact, Rl,u, that this important near when it does arrive, finds, " Laughter holding bath his sides." The way some newspapers and their fanatical read ers are " bled:" is enough to arouse the sympa thy of the,tougheet "border ruffian." In taking up the accredited organs in New York, St Louis and Chicago, (the respective facilities of which for blood and'thuuder seem commensurate with the changing necessitie .of the party ) one begins to wonder if be is in a dream, or out of Kansas, or, where is Kansas, or how and whence come these many contradictory and .false tales. Cui- ' bone P -Friends writing from home are inclined to indulge in complaints, and: refer me to such sources for confirmation. More than that, they cutout the editorials io which the old stereotyp ed tune is sung over, and which, provokingly enough, the editor refers to his Kansas corres pondence " in 'another column" for the ;non of what ho says. All I can say is. God help them, if they stake the accuracy of their knowledge of the civil and military hi,.tory of this " Kan -1 H9B imbroglio" on such ree'oda. Between Kansas boribles, manufactured to play on the passions of weak humanity, and its current of political trickery there is a wide gulf of discrimination. The latter seems to be truth fully portrayed by some gentleman writing con fully from Lawrence The whole things reminds rite of a pot of 'iv. , ei Is, wriggling, squirmine, wouud and bound up in every imaginable slope The fact is, nothing but the admission of Kan ras free Stale will Tight matters new all wrong. The practical eanditinli Of the Territory is a settled thing; but that is not enough. A Strict aiiheraucto to the sanctity °flaw may coin • pel Congress to accept the Lccotopt on coth-titu ; and those who imagine civil VJAV will follow I'3l' act are simply mistakeu. Nor such thinp. A few assassinations or bloody noses do not oonstitute civil war. Those on whom POW pent tip passions might fell el.] well be spared ; - deed, it would have heeu well for the community 1 . a Kilkenny extermivatiou in certain quart r, had taken place long ago. As I remarked in a previous letter, the Krtn.a , comedy is nearly played out. The republic au party has clung to it,tooth and nail, hammer and tongs, with the ruling passion Firm in death. It still hogs to the ultra partisan stain meat, that the administration is dkertili 13 ,, i forcing slavery in kitnsait, aided by gunpow ler an .1 lead. But such virtue willreap its reword. II ow'? * The first. general election after the formal ad mission of Kansas will find her a sound demo cratic State. Before that, the parties as organ ized in the old States cannot meet face to fa7e The free State party here is a conglomk r t!, mass of all sorts of humanity, from the Jack-on democrat from Berks. county, , to the radical abolitionist front Worcestor, Masn. F,r the pur pose of making Kansas a free State they pre sent a common front ; after thin is gained the \ separate for ever. The negropholists will con continue their worship and high-r law" absur dities, while old Berks will resume voting for Jackson, and stick to the plain English it our beloved constitution. I care not under what ft to Kansas is admitted, republicanism is a lead c. (k iu the idt. National democracy can afford to wait a little longer fur justice on this Kan , as question. It has had to struggle from the be ginning against a mountain of political history, as well as the passions of men perverted by mg ger worshipping demagogues, who have practised well the singular axiom— " When fiction rises, pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie —A project is said to be contemplated for re ducing the press in France to a still more ii.h:;te mious regime, and bringing it to political teetutl,l - though it puzzles one how anything more can be done except complete suppression of all political news, borrowed or original. —The first batch of African emigrants under the new contract made by the French Govern ment, arrived at Martinique, recently. Symp toms of discontent had been manifested among the Africans on the island, and an attempt at flight to St. Lucia had been discovered on one of the estates. —Wells Kellogg, late Deputy P. M. at Ash land, o.was on Friday last, arrested by Mr. Prsn ties, of the P. 0. Department, for committing depredations upon the U. S. mail. Mr. Kellogg was educated at West Point, and was but a few weeks since mhtried to a young lady of foriuue in Huron comity. —Tho Journal of Commerce sententiously re marks on a strange state of things in New York: —"The banks glutted with money, the city with flour, and something like one fifth of the popula:- tio# dependent on charity. A GREAT MEDICINE FOR FF.MALES.—HnndredA of stimulants have been - invented and sold, purporting to be specific in the various diseases and derange ments to which the delicate form of woman render her subjeot. The result of all these stimulants Mis been to impart momentary activity to the tem, and false vigor to the muscles; but this relict has been succeeded by a depression and prostration greater than lief ore: and the repeated attempts of iti valids to build themselves by these Juice rentetlies, have finally ended in destroying what little vital or ganization was left. 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DIED. •i:;• i-4 , .:,.:',.., i.lv .!-....7, i4._ 4m: ';,.., PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATUE.E. CONGRESSiONAL Defeat of Fhe .tt . inny IC: i;a the Mato on iho 1 xpulsio hirl't 5,11 %1/ 1 - '-' I //' .t .\"/) 771/ 1 1,'11I Brigha m V„ i v..g. il t ber C. "Intl Otiki eik(ileted for Treason. KANSAS MATIER:z &c., l'es; tot t. t::t• Mort.it,t_t t.t l'lsl IiNSYLVA i A It EGltitilt A 'ElLitir• FeLru,ry transpired t:i tr-dity. flutow i.etitiouri. arid rcruirii-trunerr Wttll.l pre,entetl, ftlnong CI cm! a retn ,rsfr. , t,eu sixty-xis eitize:, vt l'“rteingbaul again-t n f•pseial tax to pay the th.bi, of