© yan within fificen days any on a den J Ne. = = ———p Vor. Poss In SENATE oF PENNsrLVANiA—J aN. 10. MILITARY CONSCIiPTION. The ioliowing is a condensed view ol the provisions of a bill now before the senate entitled, * An act (0 raise a military iorce for the defence of this commonwealth.” Sec. 1. Not more than 9000 men shail be called to actual service for twelve months. Sec. 2 Immediately after the passage of the zt, every commanding officer of a “eompany shall proceed to make a list of the frec white maie Inhabitants within the iim its of his company, above the age of 18 years, and trapsmit copies thereof ohe to : the county commissioners, one to the bri ~_wgade inspector, and retain a copy himself: 1 F= 3. ‘I'he commissioners suah divide the lists thus furnished, into classes of twenty two persons each. When» there is a fraction of a class in any county, that frac tion shall pay an equal proporiien of the current expense of procuring a substitute at that time. | Sec 4. After such clasification the coun ty commissioners shail deliver to each comm: ding officer ot a company, a ist of the classes, the members of wich, or a mas jority of them reside within the limits of his company ; the commanding officer then to deliver to each member of the class to which he belongs, with a notice requiring a class within 15 dayt, to report to the djutant of the regiment, one ot their mem. Hers or « substituic Lo serve twelve moiiths, ‘$c. 5 The coubly commissic nurs are ters sor ~performing duties under thie act, empowered (0 require, and the command- ing officers of vegiiuents are required to 4 ive any necessary assisiance towards ©x- ecuting duties under this act. Sec. 6 If the person delivered to serve be hot an able bodied man, another must be supplied by the class. Sa if the person fur- nished descr, before reaching the place of rend xvous. Sec. 7. ifany class refuse to furuish a ¢ of the class may furnish one within five days thereaiter, and the commissioners shall apportion the expense among the class, the comtmis- sioncrs to act as justices of the peace in the cclicetion. The bounty thus paid shall net excee | 200 doilars. Sec. 8. If within twenty days after a no- tice a class shall not furnish a man, the commanding officer of a company in which the class res¥ics, shail call all the class * ministers of the gospel and those disabled by physical infirmity excepted ; to meet within five days, and ballot for one of theip snembers to serve—the commanding offi- ¢cr to ballot for those refusing. The per- son to whose lot ii falls to march shall re- port himself to the adjutant, or in five days furnish a substitute to be the same as in section 7. Any person returned between the ages of 18 and 45 shall be exempt from draft. Sec. 9. The lot falling on a person con- scientiously scrupulous, &c. the command- . ing officer shall find a substitute. If the bounty given be more than 200 dellars, the excess shall be paid by the member on whom the lot fell. The excess not to cx- seed 200 dollars. Sec. 10. The brigade inspectors on re- ceiving lists from the commanding officers tn each brigade shall provide all the means PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ALEXANDER HAMILTO N, BELLEFONTE, (P — - Ca = —— —— MOADAY, FEBRURY 13, 1815. EE — a et et tt — of marching the rendezyous of the regi . ment, brigade or division. Sec, 11. The governor te nominate, and with the consent of the senate to ap- point officers &c. for the command of 8000 men agrecably Lo the laws and regu- lations of the United States’army. Tue same to be organized into six regiments of infantry, one of artillery and one of rifle- men. Commissions granted during the recess of the senate to expire twenty days after the meeting of that body. ; Skc. 13. The adjutants of regiments to march the men to the place el rencez- vous, 2nd deliver them to the commanding officer hers, taking a receipt, for the men aud transmitting a copy to the commissi- oners. The term of service of men to commence on their arrival at such rendez- yous. ° 8ec. 13. Ifthe governor is satisfied that the troops will be paid and subsisted by the United States, they shall be placed at the disposition thereof, Provided, They shall be employed in the defence of Penusylva- nia, the adjoining borders of the neignbor- ing states, of the city of Balumore, and no other service. Sec. 14 Commissioners of counties, and militia officers to be ou oath, and for mal- conduct in office to pay, en prosecution to conviction, in a criminal court, a fine of not icas than $300—aud not exceeding $1000. One half to the prosecutor, the other to the county. . Skc. 15. the offiecrs ‘and commission- to receive B11 50 per day for scrvices. Sec 16. Ii death or accident or refusal prevents a commissioner from acting the other commissioners shall appoint a citizen in his stead. In case all of the commission- era ave prevented from serving, or refuse, the associate judges of the county shall supply the appointment. If a captain or adjutant is prevented from serving, or re- fuse, the colonel shail appoiat till the next election. Sec. 17. The bounty given shall be recovered in a civil suit, if the person shall desert. : Sec. 18. Provides that the assessors shall de the business of commissioners in the city of Philadelphia. Src. 19. The governor Is authorised to contract for 8,500 suits of uniform &c. —— 1107 — TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. You have been in session four months, convened at an earlier period than custo- mary, and for the purpose of meeting e- mergencics and averting dangers of an ex- traordinary character— Waar have yom dene? Your session must close in forty days. have you conmdered, that it depends entire- ly upon the measures which you may adopt within that period, whether your country shall be desolate in the approaching sum- mer, your finest eities, your Hourishing plantations and numerous manufactories, conflagrased ? Do. the ruins which surround yon in- spire no generous emotions? De you feel no social sympathies for the numerous fa- milies whicn must fall by the sword or the bayonet of the ruffians whe rioted in rapine — - and ruins en the shores of the Chesapeake or who indulged in complacency the cani.’ bal carousals on the hearts and entrail$ of your countrymen in the West? To what unexampled and inscrutable causes must your apathy be attributed? Has the lapse of thirty-two short years produced such a revoiutien in the human character as to amount to justification of the reproach of Eastern Europeans, that the species de- gonerated in our climate-~or has it come. to pass, that the same people should at the ‘same moment present to the astonishment of the universe the greatest valour on the ocean and the land, and the least possible degree of public spirit, energy or wisdom in political counsc)s ? : Whatever may be the cause of this ex- traordinary puenomenon, this deficiency or this obliquity of capacity, to devise and carry into execution, great measures for great occasions, the whole country feclg the approaching danger, and exelaims a- gainst it with indignation ; the enemy and the enemy’s adherects, have cause of exul- tation; but the friends of human happiness and liberty, the men who feel no joy separ- able from American honour and indepen- dence, do mutter curses, not loud but deep,’ against those whose tameness or gmidy exposes the nation ’to danger and its counsels to derision, Examine what you have done for four months—and ask each man of you your own heart, if; in your individual domestic affairs or business, you would not have been asha- med to have done as you have done, or left undone, for your country, : - TACITUS. ——to— Adstract statement of the receipts and ex- penditures at the state treasury for the year commencing wiih the 1st Decem. ber, 1818, and ending Nov. 80th, 1814. . ; RECEIPTS. Lands and fees of land office § 99,683 43 Dividends on Bank stock = 197,727 50 Auction duties 49,687 78 Tavern licences and militia exempt fines Tax on certain officca Court fines Fees of the office of secretary of the Commonwealth Old Debts Miscellaneous receipts Bank of North America, re newal of charter Loans m pursuance of the act 25th Feb. 1814 30.879 43 8,708 19 5,113 59 988 46 16,753 10 16,072 9 120,000 300,000 844,677 07 To which add the ballance in treasury, Ist Dec. 1813 @ 346,719 95 ® 1,192,697 07 EXPENDITURES. Expences of Government @ 164,497 30 Miiitia expenses 12,8%3 59 Arsenal at Philadelphia 8,600 Pensions 13,973 65,450 2,376 06 84 Improvements Pennsylvania claimants Miscellaneous expenditures Am’t of the first loan (with interest thereon) returned Expenditures consequent to the present war with G. Britain, viz. Riregyrax 103,138 89 B 310,657 oe S——— er a———— A.) NEXT DOOR SOUTH OF THE BANK. Munitions of war and other military supplies purchased under state authority, repairing arms, &c. Miscellaneous expen ditures Additional pay, or boun= ty, granted to the mili- tia, by acts of the legis- lature Detence of Erie, includ- ing additional pay, &c. Expenditures, under re- quisitions of the United States for our militia 166,000 9,639 59 93,400 132,300 59,000 780,096 92 oe 1 fui o 1,159,529 oF To which add the balance in Treasury, lai Decem- ber, 1814 36,167 05 A ——— + —— A ——. | PB 4,192,697 02 rein. INTERESTING TO FARMERS. There has lately been discovered an ex. tensive and valuable bed of Piaister of Paris, about one mile W. of the New City of (:lass gow, directly opposite Upper Red-Hook Landing, and only twenty miles from the ci- ty of Hudson, where it may be had at Six Dollars per ton; and from experiment; made, it is believeb to be equal in quality to any in this state. Gen. M¢ Arthur has made a requisition on the Governor of Kentucky, for one regiment of Militia, to be marched to De- troit. They are to rendezvous at George- town, on the 8th of February next. (Ohio Messenger. * A new militia bill is before the Legislas ture of Ohio It proposes to call on tie se- veral companies for their quotas, and if the men are not furnished voluntarily, to raise the number by drafting—~the drafts to find substitutes, or march in person, or be taken by force as deserters. Belmont Repository. ~ James Campbell and Nathan Smith, prie vates in the nothern army. were excited at Buffalo on the 3d inst.—The orme: was. sentenced to be hanged, for twice desoriing, and ence te the enemy : the latter was shot for sleeping at his post while a sentinel. [Messenger Send § Ws 3 _ The following relation of a curious fact in natural History, is copied from the Leeds Mercury, printed in England. “ We have always felt a little sceptical - on reading in the papers the account of the fatal effects produced on some occasions by eating duck eggs; but a circumstznce lately occurred in this neighberhood, that must remove all doubts on this subject. A short time ago a duck belonging to Mr. Clemishaw; Winmore near Leeds, laid an egg, rather above the common size, which was broken for the purpose of being cook- ed for dinner-- but on examination, ‘the contents were found to consist of dark mud. dy slime, neither resembling the yolk nor ‘the white of an egg, in the middle of which was deposited a young snake, of the length of ten inches ! When the egp was broken the reptile unfolded itself, and remained apparently mn a healthy state for about twenty hours, when, having wrapt itself up again, it soon after died, and isnow preset< ved in spirits by Mr. Clemishaw.”
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