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doubted rhblic securities, and coin in such 1
proportion to circulation ami deposits as may
be deemed sufficient to secure their conver
sion into specie, on demand, with proper lim
itations and restrictions, is deemed preferable
to the present system. Irs introduction would
correct many existing abuses not only in the
system itself, but in the present ruode of bank
ing. These questions. however, with the rem
edies necessary to prevent a recurrence of
the evils under which we now suffer, together
with the nature and extent ot the relief, if any,
that may yet be required bv the Banks of the
Commonwealth, to enable them to resume the
payment ol their liabilities in specie, are all
referred to the wisdom of the Legislature.
They are practical and important business
piestions, and as such should receive your in
telligent consideration.
The present condition of our Commonwealth
and country deserves at least a passing re
mark. A severe financial revulsion has oc
curred, inducing a suspension of specie pay
ments by the Banks, not only ct tiiis Com
monwealth, but of all the States ot the Union,
deranging the currency and atiecting disas
trously all the great interests of commerce
rnd the industrial pursuits of the citizen.
Labor is without employment, and thousands
of strong active men are now asking for work
or bread. The causes assigned for these evils
are almost as various as the interest or pre
judices of those who undertake their explica
tion. To whatever cause or causes they may
be referred, it is neither just, nor proper to
charge all our present financial and commer
cial distress to the Banks and their manage
ment. However much they may have con
tributed, other causes have operated still more
directly and powerfully to produce these re
mits: and among them first in importance
and influence is the present system of !oi du
ties, in connection with the warehousing sys
tem, adopted as the policy of the General Gov
ernment in lSi'3- The abandonment of ti e
protective policy, as embodied in the Tariil
act of 1842, was resisted by Pennsylvania with
a unanimity almost unparalleled in her history.
Iler representatives in both branches of the
.National Congress strenuously opposed the
repeal of that act. The evils under which we
are now suffering were predicted, as a conse
quence of such repeal. But other counsels
prevailed, the act was repealed, and the indus
try ct the country exposed to a rninons coin
petition with the cheap labor of foreign na
tions. The disastrous effects of the repeal,
were postponed by the operation of causes
well understood I y every intelligent citizen.
Famine abroad produced an unprecedented
demand for our breadstr.rfs, and the pol l of
California, although it may have added to the
excitement of our proiress, and contributed
its full share in producing existing financial
and commercial embarrassment, in millions,
supplied the means of paying the overwhelm
ing balances against us en our foreign impor
tations. Under the present system ot low
duties, the escess ot imports over exports has
been beyond the most extravagant wants o!"
the country. They have been enormous aud
ruinous destructive if domestic industry,
and involving the home manufacturer and
home lalor, in one common ruin. We have
imported more than we could piy lor, and
much more than we needed. Pennsylvania
abounds in iron ore. Iron and its manufac
tures are justly regarded asimportaut elements
of her material wealth ; and from her abun
dance, it properly fostered and protected by a
wise national policy, could supply the markets
of the world ; and yet, since the passage of
the act of lSlu, we have imported of iron and
teel and their manufactures, more than two
hundred millions of dollars in value; paid for
in gold er our bonds and stocks, now held by
foreign capitalists the interest on which but
adds to the burdens imposed upon us by our
foreign indebtedness. The same is true of
many other important branches of home in
dustry. Many millions in value of cotton and
wcolen goods have, during the same peiiod,
l-een imported, that should have been made in
our own workshops, should have been woven
on American, and not on British, French or
German looms.
As an example of the practical working of
the system, otliciil documents exhibit the
fact, that during tiie past four years, the im
ports of foreign merchandise exceeded our
exports one hundred and eighty-four millions
two thousand seven hundred nd sixty-eight
dollars; aud as a co!isepien.:e, the drain of
the precious metals was correspondingly great.
The amount of specie sjnt out of the country
during that period was two hundred and thir
teen millions three hundred ami sixty-four
thousand three hundred and eighty-four dol
lars; specie imported, twenty-six millions
nine hundred and twenty-seven thousand four
hundred and twenty-seven dollars: leaving a
balance against us on specie account ot one
hundred aud eighty-six millions four hundred
and thirty-six thousand nine hundred and
titty-seven dollars. This depleting process,
aggravated by excessive importations, unset
tled the currency and induced an inflated pa
per circulation, resulting in bank suspensions
and financial embarrassment. But the evil
does not end here. An inflated paper curren
cy, by cheapening the price of money, increa
ses in this country the cost of production, and
thus, whilst the American manufacturer is ex
posed, under a system of low duties, to a ru
Itious competition with the cheap labor of Eu
rope, he is paid fcr his goods in a curreiiey
less valuable than that paid to his foreign com
petitor. As a necessary result, the home fab
ric is driven from the market, aud the home
manufacturer ruined. The operation of these
causes, stimulated by low duties, is suilicient
todestroy the industrial energies of any people.
With there facts before usit is no matter of
surprise that our mills, factories and furnaces
have been closed, and thousands of honest
laborers thrown out of employment ; that com
merce has scarcely an existence, that bank
ruptcy and ruin are around us, our general
prosperity paralyzed. To avoid these disas
ters, to which we have been periodically ex
posed, reform not only in our system of bank
ing, but in our revenue laws, becomes indis
pensable. If the principle of the act of 1812 had been
preserved even if its rate of duties had been
reduced onr specie, by millions, would not
have gone into foreign coffers to build up and
sustain the foreign manufacturer; homo indus
try would be prosperous, and the cry "we
want work," issuing from a thousand lips in
our large cities and manufacturing districts,
would not now be heard ; nor would a foreign
debt of nearly five hundred millions of dollars
exist, to startle and alarm ns. That system
that practically prefers foreign to home labor;
that keeps our workshops in Europe, instead
of bniiding and supporting them here ; that
takes our gold to pay the wages of the British
laborer .whilst our own are without employment
and without bread ; that fills the eountry with
foreign merchandise, to the exclusion of the
borne fabric ; that lays the British rail upon
the road through our iron districts, and by
onr rolling mills, whilst they are silent and
deserted, and tbat invites to speculation and
extravagance, is at war with every true Amer
ican interest,and should be at once abandoned.
A period of low duties has altvays been mar
ked by excessive importations; large exports
of specie 5 overtrading ; bank expansions and
snsensions. and financial and commercial re
vulsions. Under the protective policy, these
peculiar and startling characteristics of free
trade bave all been wanting. The history of
the country establishes these facts. A well
regulated tariff", adjusted to protect the pro
ductive industry of the country, is not only
the true policy of the government, but is a
better regulator of the currency, and a more
certain security against bank expansions, than
any system of paius and penalties yet devised
for the control of banking institutions, or the
operations of capital. To this we should re
turn. Pennsylvania is yet true to her ancient
and long cherished convictions of its proprie
ty and necessity. She may have been misled.
Political and partizan pressure may have lor
ced her from her true position. This was her
misfortune, not her fault. She sees and feels
the wrong, and with an emphasis, intensified
by her injuries, will demand redress; protec
tion for herself, and thj great industrial inter
ests of her people.
The agricultural interests of fhe country
should ever be fostered :.nd sustained by the
Shite. They arc first in necessity and useful
ness, and constitute the basis of State and Na
tional prosperity. Upon their progress and
development depend the success of our me
chanical, manufacturing and commercial In
terests. Agriculture, in its varied and multiplied re
lations, is the unfailing sotiice of national
wealth, and to its promotion all should con
tribute. Individual enterprise and liberality,
State and county associations, have done
much to advance this important branch of pro
ductive industry: Iifive collected and circulat
ed much valuable information ; and encouraged
Ly their honorable exertions, the progress of
scientific and practical agriculture. Science
and art have nobly profiered their aid the
State should not withhold her encouragement
and support.
I have heretofore recommended the estab
lishment of an agricultural bureau, in connec
tion with souu one of the State departments,
to give ciliciency to the collection and diffu
sion of useful knowledge on this subject. Im
pressed with the necessity and usefulness of
such a bureau, I again earnestly recommend
it to your favorable consideration.
The Farmers' High Sciiool of Pennsylva
nia," an institution incorporated by the Legis
lature of 18-73, is entitled to the especial atten
tion of the friends of agriculture. In the
teachings of this institution, the scientific and
the practical are united ; end whilst the art of
farming, arid all that pertains to the manage
ment, business and work of a farm, will be the
subject '.f instruction, the natural sciences, in
their relati-m and application to practical agri
culture, will also be taught. The student of
the institution will be enabled to test, in bis
daily occupation, the truth and value ot the
knov, ledgo communicated.
Much of the land ronnceted with the school
has been successfully cultivated during the
pa: year. Orchards of every variety of fruit,
and hedges, have been planted, and mauv val
uable mi
i 'lot em ems iiia'ie. uouoic sii ieu
barn, large ana convenient, as also t;
er's house and l-art of the out-LuiUlin
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ami occupiet
From the report cd' the trustees we learn that
"a contract has lirin made for the erection of
an edifice calculated for the residence of pro
fessors, lecture halls, and dormitories for stu
d jiits, to be built of stone, four stories high,
two hundred and thirty-three feet in front,with
wings, and to cost fifty-five thousand dollars.
This building is already in progress, and it is
hoped that a pait of it may be put under roof
and be so far completed as to enable the board
to make arrangements to receive a few stu
dents before the close of the current year."
The Legislature, at their last session, appro
priated SoO.OjO to this institution, one-hall" of
which has been paid ; the remaining $2",IH0
will be paid on condition that an cijual sum
be realized from other sources, w ithin three
years from the passage of the act making
tin; appropriation.
The objects and character of this institution
its' relation to agricultural know ledge, and
the pioneer in the great work of agricultural
education, commend it to the generous pa
tronage of the Legislature, and to the confi
dence, and liberality of the people of the
Commonwealth.
The report to be submitted by the Superin
tendent of Common Schools w ill pi t scut a clear
and satisfactory statement ol the general ope
ration of the sys.tem during the past year.
The seperation o' the School from the State
Department, by the act of the hist srssion, was
a just tribute to the importance and value of
our common school system. The great edu
cational interests of the State, the care and
guardianship of the intellectual, social and
moral improvement of the youth of the Com
monwealth, should occupy a prominent and
independent position among the departments
of the government. Ii the care of the trea
sure of the Commonwealth, the development
of her mate! iul wealth, and the advancement
ol l.er politico-economical interests, have re
ceived from the government the marked a:id
distinctive recognition of their importance,
how much more should the mind of her youth
with i:s wondrous activities its constantly
unfolding energies, and its iniinite superiority
to ti:o material and physical, claim a stiil
higher consideration, and receive from the
representatives of the people, a more honored
recognition.
As un independent department, greater efll
ciency will be given to the system a more di
rect and immediate supervision will be secur
ed the details of its operation more careful
ly observed its deficiencies discovered its
errors corrected the accomplishment of its
noble purposes and objects rendered more cer
tain, and tha system itself saved from the
dangerous sad debasing influence of political
excitement, and partizan prejudice.
The county snperintenJency, tested by ex
perience, iias realized the just expectations of
the lriends of the measure, and may now be
regarded as a permanent and indispensable
part of the system. When committed to com
petent men, it has accomplished a noble work
in promoting the success and ussfulness cf our
common schools; and wherever the duties of
the oilice have been faithfully performed, the
character of the schools has been elevated,
their number and the number of scholars in
creased, and the confidence and encourage
ment of the public secured. In the hands of
incompetent men, these results have not been
obtained ; but, on the contrary, opposition has
been provoked, and the cause of common
school education retarded. This office should
not Imj committed to any but men thoroughly
qualified by education and experience for the
performance of its arduous and responsible du
ties ; and if the school directors of anv coun
ty, in disregard of their obligations, from op
position either to the system or the office, se
lect an incompetent person for the place, the
odium cf the act, and of failure to secure the
benefits resulting from a proper and intelligent
administration of the office, should rest upon
them, and not upon the law authorizing the
appointment. The defects of the system, when
clearly established, should be promptly cor
rected ; but change is not always reform ; and
innovation, induced by selfishness and pre
judice, may endanger its permanency and des-
trov its efficiency.
fhe act cf the 20th dif of May, 1857, pro
viding for the due training of teachers for the
common schools of the State, by encouraging
the establishment of Xormal schools within
the districts designated in the law, has receiv
ed the cordial approbation of all interested in
the succe.s of our common schools. The pas
sage of that act inaugurated a new era in the
history of common school education in Penn
sylvania. It ia a movement in the right direc
tion ; full of encouragement and hope for the
greater perfection and usefulness of the sys
tem. Large and enthusiastic meetings of the
friends cf education have been held, in many
of the districts, to promote the establishment
of .Normal schools, as contemplated by the
act; and liberal sums of money have been!
subscribed to secure this desirable object. A
noble work has liecn commenced, and sustain
ed by individual enterprise and liberality en
couraged by the State, and vindicated by its
own intrinsic merit, it must go on until State
Normal Schools, in number and efficiency,
equal to the supply of wen-trained teachers,
shall become the just pride and boast of
Pennsylvania.
The organic structure of our system is as
perfect, perhaps, as human legislation can
make it ; but it needs the competent ami thor
oughly trained teacher to givu it greater vital
ity and efficiency, and secure the full accom
plishment of the purposes of this creation.
The teacher, the .properly educated, the well
trained, the scientific teacher, is the great want
of the system. We need the teaching mind,
not the automaton movements of mere physi
cal organization or antiquated routine, to di
rect and control the intellectual energies of
the youth of the Commonwealth. We require
mind, educated mind, in our schools, that
knowledge may be communicated, not only ef
fectively and practically, but that in training
the young, they may be taught to think and
how to think to investigate, and know for
themselves, and thus be fitted and prepared
for the high and responsible duties of the
man and the citizen.
This deficiency can only be supplied by
State Normal schools for the education of
teachers. To them we must look. The future
is full of hope. Much has already been done
to provide for their establishment and support.
In connection with honorable individual effort,
more legislative encouragement may be re
quired. It should be given cheerfully and
promptly. No subject of greater interest can
claim your attention; no one appeals with
more reason and truth, to duty ami patriotism.
Teachers' institutes, as auxiliary to Normal
schools, should be aided by the State. Through
their agency, sustained by the noble and self
denying efforts of the teachers themselves,
much good has been accomplished in educat
ing and training teachers, and in dignifying a
profession too long undervalued by those most
deeply interested in their useful labors.
In the great woik of popular education. there
should be no retrograde movement in Penn
sylvania no yielding to the impotent clamor
of" ignorance, selfishness or prejudice, in their
attempts to stay its progress. These, one and
all, may denounce and condemn, but virtue,
patriotism, truth, bid you onward. Let the
system be maintained in its unity and useful
ness : let it be improved and perfected in its
details; but let no act of yours impair its
strength, or ni r the beauty and harmony of
its proportions.
Based as our institutions are on the will of
tha people dependent for preservation on
their virtue and intelligence knowledge with
us should occupy the high position to which
it is so pre-eminently ci. titled. Knowledge,
founded upon the pure principles of eternal
truth, is the crowning glory of the citizen
the safeguard and defence of the State. Ed
ucation, full and free to all. is the boon we
ask for the children of the Commonwealth it
is th? duty, paramount to all others, the State
owes to her citizens. The aid of the Common
wealth should be liberally bestowed. The
subject, in all its relations, is warmly commen
ded to the generous care and patronage of the
Legislature.
Legislation, whilst properly encouraging the
development of the material w-ea!i!Wof the
State, should recognize t!ie still higher obli
gation to improve the social, intellectual and
moral condition of the people. The amelio
ration of human suffering, the reformation of
the erring, and the correction of youthful vi
cioiisncss, are objects that deserve the atten
tion of the philanthropist and statesman. To
secure these results, the educational, charita
ble and reformatory institutions of the Com
monwealth should be fostered and encouraged
by liberal legislation.
The several charitable and benevolent in
stiiiitions of the State are recommended to
further encouragement and aid
The Militia system is very imperfect, and
requires revision. Yo!iuitecrcomp.inies should
be better encouraged.
The new Arsenal at Philadelphia is corn
plated. A monument to the citizen soldier? of Penn
sylvania who died in the service of their coun
try in the Mexican war, is recommended.
The State Geological Report will soon be
finished and published.
Under the bite amendments to the State
Constitution, the Legisl dure will he required,
at the present session, to apportion the city of
Philadelphia into single Senatorial and Rep
resentative districts.
Not the least in importance amongst the
recommendations of the message, is the erec
tion of a Governor's House. This comes w ith
preat propriety from the present Executive.
Being about to retire from office, it cannot be
charged that he is actuated in the recommen
dation by any .selfish motives. It is a measure
of eminent propriety, ami we hope the Legis
lature will concur ia the views ot tha Govern
or, and carry out his suggestion.
In my last annual communicatoin to the
General Assembly, my sentiments were fully
expressed in reference to reform i;i the nat
uralization laws, and the admission of appli
cants to the rights of citizenship to the pre
servation of the purity of elections, by the
prevention ami punishment of fraudulent and
illegal voting, and the enactment of a judicious
registry law to freedom as the great centre
truth of American republicanism the great
law of American nationality to tnc rights of
the States, as Independent Sovereignties, and
the power and duty of thcGeneralGovernment
to prevent the extension of the institution of
slavery to the free territories of the Union
to the wrongs of Kansas, as exhibited in the
violation of the doctrine of popular sovereign
ty by t'.'e General Government, in its attempts,
by the military power of tiie country and
otherwise, to defeat the will of the majority
in that territory ; wrongs still existing and
aggravated by recent outrages on the rights
and privileges of that jioople and approved
by the high National . Executive authority.
To the views then presented, you are respect
fully referred.
lie refers, iu appropriate terms, to the ex
piration of the period of his term of office,
and remarks : "I will surrender to my suc
cessor the cares and responsibilities of the of
fice I now hold, with greater cheerfulness tiian
I assumed them ; and will return, without a
murmur, to the society and companionship of
those who can approve without selfishness, and
censure ouly at the bidding of truth and friend
ship. To the judgment of impartial history I
commit my administration and its acts, with
out a fear of the result ; and when time shall
have softened the asperity of partizan feeling
healed the bitterness of disappointment,
and corrected the errors of prejudice, truth
will sustain the judgment and justice approve
the record.
Our beloved Commonwealth, rich in all the
elements of material greatness, her broad and
fertile fields her lofty mountains, filled with
iueshaustiblo mineral wealth her rivers and
her streams her internal improvements her
furnaces, rolling-mills and factories her col
leges, academies, aad her noble system of
common schools her churches and charitable
institutions her population, enterprising, en
ergetic, intelligent and prosperous all these
arc justly the pride of every true-lieartcdPenn-sylvanian.
Our mighty republic "tiie free
heart's hope and home" the Constitution
and the union of the States the civil and re
ligious privileges of the people the right ol
conscience and freedom of worship the great
and essential principles of liberty and free
government, here enjoyed, and our American
Nationality, founded in a true and single de
votion to home and country, are oljects that
fill -with patriotic emotion, the heart of every
American citizen. May they be cherished
and defended until patriotism ceases to bo a
virtue and liberty' be known only as a name.
The true glory and greatness of a nation
consist, not itlone i:i the number, privileges
or intellectual superiority of her people, her
material wealth or physical strength, her po
litical position or form of government.
"Righteousness cxalteth a nation," and "hap
py is that people whoso God is the Lord."
Our fathers trusted in II im, aud were not dis
appointed. Recognizing Him as the Sovereign
Ruler of nations and men ; invoking a con
tinuance of His watchful care over the inter
ests of the Commonwealth, and His blessing
upon your official labors may your acts and
tiie acts of those who ma' succeed us in the
administration of the government, iu their
character and results, be such as patriotism
demands, and hone r, truth and conscience can
sanction and approve. Jams Pollock.
Kansas. Authenticated information has
been received at Washington, dated Fort
Scott, Kansas, Dec. 2;th, which states that a
force of three hundred armed Missnuriuns who
"hare been encimpcd near the Fort,'" were
compelled by (Jen. Lane to liberate thirty
Free State prisoners and return to Missouri.
One hundred U. S. Dragoons,w ith civil officers,
proceeded to arrest a number of the FreeState
party, but Lane, having a powerful foice at
his back, forbid it. The arrests were attempted
to be made under the "bogus" Rebellion Act.
The U. S. troops avoided a collision with the
Free State force and returned to Leavenworth.
Lane then broke up his camp and returned to
Leavenworth. Peace was considered restored.
The recent acts of the special session of the
Legislature are sustained by the people cf
Kansas. A letter dated Lawrence, Kansas,
Iee. 28th, states that the election returns thus
far, show six thousand votes on the Lecomp
ton Constitution, and the Lecomptonites boa:t
that there will be ten thousand cast. The
mie letter states the writer's opinion that the
FreeState men will probably bo induce 1 to j
vote the '-bolter's ticket," adopted by the
secessionists from the late Free Slate Conven
tion. It comprises a full list of names fori
State officers.
Thk Hero of Six Jacinto. Sam Houston
has done a good deal in his life. One car.
hardly help calling him1'()ld Sam," and slap
ping his metaphorical back at the idea of his
exploits among the chapperels-aud llowery
forests of Mexico. He arrived in Richmond,
Va., the other day. Says the Whig. 'die
passed through Lynchburg on his way hither,
and not fancying the idea of crossing the High
bridge on the line of railroad, concluded to
try the canal packet. Tiie Lynchburg Courier
thus notices his personal appearence : He is
six feet four inches high, large in proportion,
and as straight as an Indian. He has but lit
tle hair "on the top of his head," and what he
has, has been silvered by the touch of time
as has also the large moustache which digni
fies his upper Hp. He w ears a vest made of
some kind of animal's skin, (wild cat appar
ently,) has his pantaloons stuffed in the legs
of his boots, and altogether presents quite a
backwoods and dilapidated appearance at
least so far as his dress is concerned. As
General Jackson said of the old soldier who
vouhl get corned Sam has achieved enough
and fought enough to wear his pantaloons any
way he pleases.
Important from the Utah Expeihtion.
The St. Louis Republican of Jan. 8th contains
a letter from Fort Kearney, of the 23d Dec,
stating that Col. Johnston was at Fort Bridget
Nov. 2'3. Col. Cook w ith his w hole command
had also arrived. The grass had all been burnt
and the animals were dying at the rate of one
hundred a day. The Mormons were fortifying
all the passes leading to Salt Lake City. Jes
se Jones, agent of Majors & Russell, hud been
released, and sent to Col. Johnston's camp.
In pissing through the different canons he w;;s
blindfolded by the Mormons, to prevent him
from obtaining a knowledge of their move
ments. The repoit that 200 of Col. Cook's
troops had been massacred, lacks confirmation,
and is thought to be entlrelv false.
After a long and spiiited debate in secret
session, on the 7th. the U. S. Senate confirmed
the nomination of Theonoie Sedgwick as Uni
ted States District Attorney at New Voik, in
the place of John McKeon," by a vote of 2a to
2:j. McKeon was removed by the President
because he opposed the le-election of Fernan
da Wood. Mr. Crittenden lead off in a speech
against the course of the Administration.
Douglas also condemned the executive action
iu the removal of McKeon, and Pugh ol Ohio
spoke out forcibly on the same s'de. Slidell
of Louisiana and Davis of Mississippi defend
ed the Administration. Bigler has not been
heard from since his last attempt at a lilt with
tiie small giant.
'ifoncx'T receive it. When the ni'-ssage
of Gov. Ligon, of Maryland, was announced in
the House on the Sth inst., a motion was made
that it be not received, and the motion was
carried by a vote of 13 to 27. This action was
on accouut of the expressions contained in it
regarding the American party, and the Gover
nor expressing the opinion that the city mem
bers were elected by fraud aud violence. The
message having been published before it was
sent to the Legislature, the members thus ob
tained a knowledge of its contents, and the
majority decided to vote against its reception.
Mr. Buckalew has introduced a bill into the
State Senate to repeal the law erecting the
School Department into a separate one. As a
dependency of the State Department its affairs
were badly conducted. Under the present
system the school business has lieon conducted
with regularity and despatch. Mr. Buckalew
must, therefore, have some paitisan purpose
in view. Mr. Hickok, the head of the depart
ment, is a Republican, and by the act ol the
last session is made independent of the Gov
ernor. It is necessary to legislate him out of
office in order to give his place to a Democrat.
Gov. Packer'sCap.ixet It is now well un
derstood that Gov. Packer's cabinet will be as
follows: Win. M. Hiester, of Berks Countr
Sec'T. of State; II. L. Pieffenbach, of Lock
Haven, Deputy Sec'y ; Hon. John C. Knox,
now the of Supreme Court, Attorney GeneiaL
Judge Knox will resign his present position,
and Wm. A. Porter, Esq., of llarrisburg, son
of Ex-Gov. Porter, will be appointed Supreme
Judge in his place.
Mr. Coffey, on the 7th, read a bill in place
in the State Senate, declaring that the true in
tent and meaning of the Cth section of the act
legalizing the general bank suspension is, that
the stay of execution it provides "shall ex
tend as well to judgments entered more than
one year prior to the passage of the said act as
to judgments within one year from that date."
THIETY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Jaxlap.v 4. Congress, after going home to
Herid the holidays, resumed its sessions to
day. In the Senate, Mr. Davis introduced a
joint resolution to define the authority of the
President under the Naval Retiring law. Mr.
Fitzpatrick called for the correspondence ami
documents in regard to Central American af
fairs. Mr. Pugh had loivo to introduce a bill
for the admission of Kansas, which was re
ferred to the Territorial Committee. The bill
is olleretl as a compromise, and provides for
admission under the Lecompton Constitution ;
but requires that the article relative to Slavery
shall be submitted to a direct vote of the qual
ified electors on the 7th of April returns to
be made to the Governor; the election to be
conducted under the laws in force on the 7th
Nov. last. It provides further, that the peo
ple shall have liberty at any time to call a con
vention to alter or amend their form of gov
ernment. In the House, the resignation of
Mr. Banks was received. Mr. Clingman called
for information in regard to the seizure of
Walker, which led to some debate several
members desiring the President to communi
cate information in regard to the getting up of
Walker's expeditions. The resolution was fi
nally adopted in a form to cover this ground.
A committee was appointed to investigate the
Fort Snelling swindle. Mr. Morrill offered a
bill to punish Polygamy in the Territories,
which, alter some merriment, was referred to
the Judiciary Committee. A large number cf
other bills were introduced.
Jan. o. Jn the Senate, Mr. Fesenden in
troduced a French Spoliation bill, which was
referred to a select committee. Mr. Gwin of
fered a resolution inquiring into the expedien
cy of sending a Minister to Jap-ar. In the
House, tiie debate cu the Message was re
sumed, on resolutions referring its subjects to
tiie proper committees. Mr. Quitma i moved
for a select committee on that part relating to
the enforcement of the neutrality laws, and
thereupon proceeded to speak in favor ol
Walker, the tillibuster. Mr. Glanoy Jones
wanted the matter to go to the Judiciary Com
mittee, but wasreareful not to s.iy anything par
ticular for either side. Mr. Keilt pitched in
to the President and supported Walker. Mr.
Stephens concurred with Mr. Quitman. Mr.
Grow was glad to sec the other side ready to
restrain the encroachments of executive pow
er, aud asked that the rule should be applied
to Kansas. Mr. Lovejoy spoke severely of the
character and doings of Walker. Mr. Stan
ton justified the President. Before concluding
the debate, the House adjourned.
Jan. 0. In the Senate there was some de
bate on Mr. Crittenden's resolution in favor of
increasing the duties on imports, and substitu
ting home for foreign valuation. Mr. Fitch
moved an amendment to tax all bank notes,
with a discrimination against those of small
denominations. The resolution and amend
ment were laid on the table. In the House,
resolutions were adopted, calling lor official
correspondence with Paraguay, New-Granada
and Brazil. In Committec"of"thc Whole, Mr.
Sickles male a speech in favor of the Presi
dent, in the matter of tiie arrest cf Walker,
and spoke in severe denunciations on the
course of the eminent rillibuster. Mr. Bliss
spoke against the Dred Scott iTecision. Mr.
II skin followed on tiie Nicaragua business,
taking ground with Mr. Sickles, and denoun
ced Walker. Mr. II. spoke highly of Com.
Paulding, and then went in to advocate a Na
tional niiibustering operation of Cuba. Mr.
Stephens replied, condemning Walker's ar
rest as a great outrage. Mr. Gilmer depreca
ted the criticisms passed upon Commodore
Paulding, and wished to see the documents
before eondeming him.
Jan. 7. In the Senate, r.fb-r some resolu
tions calling for correspondence ,md informa
tion, the President's reply to the call for in
formation as to the capture or Walker was re
ceived. The President thinks Com. Paulding
committed an error, but his motives were pa
triotic. Nicaragua alone has the right to com
plain, and as she received a substantial benefit
there is no probability of her doing so. A de
bate followed, in which Messrs. Seward, Doo
little and Pcarec sustained the President's
views ; while Messrs. Davis, Crittenden, Umw n,
Pugh, Toombs and Douglas look the opposite
ground. The message v.;;s referred to the
Foreign Relations Committee. In tiie House.
Mr. Thayer of Mass, spoke upon Central A
mei ieasi affairs, goin for the Americanization
of Nicaragua, not ly swords and rifles, but by
subsoil plows and the implements cf peaceful
emigration. Mr. Adrian of N. J. was in favor
of such amendments to the neutrality laws as
would prevent Walker expeditious in the fu
ture. Mr. Washburn of Maine, tpoke on pop.
nlar sovereignty, "bowing the inconsistencies
of the President and tiie Democratic leadurson
tiie subject. The House adjourned to Monday.
The Democratic State Convention of Indi
ana, whi!.! reaf'lrming t'.-.e principles of the
Cincinnati platform, has resolved, by a vote
of more than three to one, that State Consti
tutions should be submitted to the people,
and that no Territory &hvuld become a State
until a fair expression of tin; will of the citi
zens respecting their organic law shall I.ave
been hud at the ballot-box. The Hemocafic
caucus of the Ohio Legislature lies unani
mously resolved to instruct the Congressional
delegation of their Stat.; to oppose the Le
compton mi indie. Tiiis news is said to have
been as unexpected, as .t was agitating, to
Messrs. Brigl.t and Pugh cf the United States
Senate, as well as to the Administration, which
had derived its notions concerning the feeling
of the Western Democracy from those gentle
men. A Rkv::i:se, asx a Bad Oxe. In the month
of December, IS-'O, the exports of Domestic
Produce from the port of New York amoun
ted to S8,210,5C8, and of specie to $1.77'J.1S1.
In the month of December. 1S-37. the exports
of Produce w rs S2.832.318, w hile those of
specie were S7,53".(!o2. This is turning the
table completely. Perhaps some democratic
politicians can explain to ns bow long it will
take the country to return to prosperity under
the workings of a change like this.
State Treasurer. A storm seems to be
brewing among the Democracy about the State
Treasurership. John J. Mear.y, a catholic, of
Philadelphia, is making a desperate effort to
defeat Magraw, tiie present Treasurer. Col.
Mott is, however, thought to be bis most for
midable competitor. Insinuations have been
thrown out that Magraw had made Improper
use of the furds.
Strixofellow, the notorious Border Ruffian
who is now in Washington City, has written a
letter, in which lie denounces the Lecompton
Const it ut ion, and declares Kansas ought to be
a tree State. He holds that the question was
decided by the election of Parrot, the Free
State delegate to Congress. The Washington
Ui.ion refuses to publish Stringtellow's letter.
PiTTsarno Election. The election for May
or and other municipal officers, which was
held in the city of Pittsburg on the 5th, re
sulted triumphantly tor the Republicans.
Mayor Weaver, the Republican candidate, was
rc-eiected by a majority of 1231. Fremont
had only l74 of a majority.
riTTsncRGii Market. Monday, January 11,
Flour sold in Pittsburgh at SI for superfine,
$1,2-3 for extra, and si,o0 lor family. Butter,
dull at 15 and 15 cents for prime roll.
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
rnEPAKED FOR TIIE "RAFTSMAN'S JorEXAL."
Centre Coixtv. On Tuesday ,the 20th ult.,
Mr. John Ilikely, residing near Kart bans, went
on a hunting excursion and not returning in
the evening, the people of the neighborhood
went in search of him. He was found on
Thursday about one mile from home in tho
woods standing beside a sapling with his ami
through its fork, which attitude he had assum
ed to rest himself, and was nearly frozen to
death. Ilikcly got bewildered and wandered
about until he became exhausted. He died on
the od inst., iu consequence of bis exposure.
He was a single man about 2 years of aget . . .
A large bear, weighing 4-"0 lbs., fas killed on
the Seven Mountains, on Friday the 2-3th of
December, by Mr. Peter Keilin. Quite a
number ol bears have been killed in that lo
cality during the present season and there
are still a number roaming the mountains. ...
The Whig says a man named John Leonard of
Clearfield, is in the Bellefonte jail, charged
with dealing in counterfeit money On
the 2tth Dec, Thomas, James and John Askcy
killed a large panther, on the Little Moshan-"
non near the mouth of Benncr's run, which'
was nine feet in length and weighed 2(K
pounds A man by the name of Griflie
Griffith, foreman at the engine of the steant
saw mill of Irwin & llyman, in Burnsidu town
ship, on the 2d inst., was by some means
caught in some of the machinery of the en
gine, and torn and mangled in a horrible man
ner, causing instant death. One of his legs
was broken into two or three pieces and torn
entirely from the body, bis arms broken in
several places, and -his skull badly crushed.
He leaves a w ife and four children Tho
son of Mrs. Allison, of Bellefonte, who wai
shot accidentally in the face a few weeks ago
by young Loneberger, died on the 2d January.
Berks CorxTV. A few days since a bat
was found ou top of Blue Mountains, between
Rehicrsburg and Pinegrove, w hich has arous
ed suspicions that a murder has been commit
ted there. The hat has a cut in it, as if mado
with an axe, and stains which have been pro
nounced bb od. It was found in the brush
forty paces from the road. The citizens havo
been making search, and are trying to unravel
the mystery An Irishman, Patrick Mul-
vany, was run over and instantly killed on tho
Reading Railroad, on New Year's evening.
His wile died recently, and they leave six
children, the least barely six months old. Li
quor was the cause of Patrick's misfortune
.... On the 21th ult., Maj. John Beitenman,
of Hamburg, as he was about getting on tho
down train, slipped and fell on tiie track. Just
as a wheel was about passing over him. lie was
dragged away by Mr. Wiu. Schall. Narrow
escape, that.
Westmoreland Cooty. Samuel M'Cabey
whilst engaged coupling a car at Larimer's
station, had his hand severely injured, ahich
rendered the amputation ol three fingers nec
essary A few days since as Col. Mar-
chan, of the Republican, stepped, out of his
house about daylight, lie discovered s couplo
rabbits in his garden. Hu went in and got a
gun to shoot them. When he returned, he
found the rabbits playing with a kitten. It
was several minutes before he got an opportu
nity to shoot w ithout injuring the kitten. Fi
nally, however, young grimalkin left, and th
Col. killed both rabi:s at one shot. .... A
sucker called at the Grcensburg post office a
few days -since, and inquired for stamped en
velopes, thus : "I want a dime's worth of post
otlice kivers with freedom on 'eru."
Erie Cot ntt. A budget of rain able cloth
ing was mysteriously abstracted from a houso
iu Green Tp. not far from the brick school
hoi se, on Wednesday night, the 23d ult. A
man was discovered, about inc o'clock in tho
evening, boldly making away with the budget,
and was pursued by the occupant of the dwel
ling for some distance through the barn-yard
and orchard ; but the burglar, (bein? no doubt
an adept at the business,) soon outstripped his
pursuers ; but unfortunately for him there was
alight snow iqwn the ground, and he, like
Putnam's wolf, had a deformity iu one of his
feet, which two circumstances combined ena
bled other members of the family to track him
to their nearest neighbor's door, where it is
now supposed said recreant lives.
LrzERXK CorxTr. A man named John Able
died on the 27th Dec, at a colliery near Janes
ville, from the effects of a bite of n cat re
ceived ten weeks liefoie Mr. Daniel A.
Fell had his leg broken at Gray's Mines, by
falling from a piece of timber which broke as
he stepped on it.
North tM her land Cocxtt. On the night
of the 2d inst., the prisoners in the Sunbury
jail made an attempt to escape, but were dis
covered by the Siierifl before they succeeded
in their design, and again securely locked up.
Clixtox Cor st v. A fire occurred on New
Year's night, in Lock Haven, which consumed
three buildings of W. White, the store of Raff,
Shanabrook Hunt, and damaged J. S. Bow
er's house and furniture.
Fati-tte Coi xtv. Tho wife of Mr. James
A brains, residing near Smithfield.in this coun
ty, had her neck broken, on the 22d Decem
ber last, by falling down a flight of stairs. So
says the 'Genius.'
ITew Advertisements.
"Si-VY I'P 'The Rooks of the nnJe
-fi. now posted up and ready for settlement. All
person knowing themselves "indebted are request
ed to call and settle immediately,
jnl" DAVID LITZ.
TVTOTICI". All persons are hereby cautioned
-L nainst purchasing or trading for a certain
"onnty order. No. 54a of 1357. payable to It. J.
Wallace, for S"0. ns the same has been lifted by
inc. end has since been mislaid or lost.
JOHN Mcl'JIERSOX.
Jan'y 13. 1S3K. Treasurer.
TV'OTICD. The subscriber having purchased
X the s-toek of Merchandize lately owned bv 11.;
1). Patton, offers the same for sale at rea.ounbfoli
prices on credit. .r YLHY LOW FOR CASH. All !
kinds of Country Produce taken ia exchange for
Uooils. I respectfully solicit a share of the public ,
patronage. JollX PATTON
Curwcusville, Ta., Jan. 4th, ls'jS.
15UBLIC MEETING. On Wednesday eve
ning of Court week. (Janinrr 2tl.) at tho
Court House in Clearfield, a nmnl"r "f addresses
are expected from different speakers, before tho
public annual meeting of the Uible Society.
The public generally, both ladies and gentle
men, are invited to attend.
janl3 jji.McENAI.LY, Scc;y.
ivr.w uk Nt;i:Mi:NT : i selling
1 1 OFF AT C 1ST!!! The undersigned, hav
ing removed his ik of !ols from Marysville to
the store room of Richard Mo-fop in the Borough
of Clearfield, announces to the public generally
that he will dispose of the Fame at the lewest pri
ces for Cash. His stock embraces
DRY r.noPS. :RX"ERIES. hardware
Ol'EEXSWAlin. some READY-MADE CLO
TIIIMJ. TRIMMIXUS and a variety of Notions.
As the undersigned w ishes to close'up tke stock
now on hand, persons will find it to their advan
tage to give him a call soon.
CHARLES SLOAN.
Clearfield. Jan. 13, 1S38.
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