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Lyrics of tin Susquehanna Xo. 3.
. BT RAVEN.
On thy bants 0 ! noble rircr,
lived an Indian long ago,
A warrior with his bow and quiver,
A hunter roamed thy forests through, '
A chief he was amongst his brothers,
A man of a sagacious mind,
Well prepared to govern others,
For' in him noble traits combined.
When the g03pel first was spoken,
By the men who came to teach,
In the town of old Shamokin,
"Shickeleny" heard them preach,
He listened to the pleasing story, "
Of the Savior and his cross,
Of the christian's future glory, .
Whatso'er on earth his less.
Just as the morning sun arising,
Drifes the shades of night away,
So, to him the word surprising,
Turned his darkness into day ;
He that power unseen adorning,
Though his faith and hope are faint,
Thus he prayed, his gins deploring,
"Turn the Savage to a saint."
God who sees the heart's contrition,
Regarding not the outward hue,
Heard the Indian chiefs petition,
Made his heart entirely new.
In vain the ''medicine" enchanted,
Although in myterics deeply skilled,
Such doubtful helps he no more wanted,
The spirit's light his mind had filled.
No more he viewed the future rudely,
As the Indian's hunting ground,
Wherebraves their ponies rode so proudly,
Or hunter's dogs and rifles found.
But with the light that God had given,
He calmly looked beyond the grave,
And hoped to see the Lord in Heaven,
Who died a wicked world to save,
And now while homeward he was tending,
I'm at my journey's end he cried,
To friends, who o'erhi pillow bending,
He whispered Jcsu3 and he died.
"SENT BY EXPRESS."
- BY AMY RANDOLPH.
Marian Harlan was alone ia the world
her mother just buried.
She was a beautiful, brown haired girl,
with soft ehy eyes of violet gray, and rosy
lips compressed to a firmness far beyond her
years, lor alter all she was scarcely seven
teen, and so Beacon Gray was telling her, as
he sat by the fire spreading his huge hands
over the tardy blaze and asked :
''But what are you going to do to 'arn your
bread and butter, child ?"
"I don't know I haven't thought Mam
ma had an uncle in New York who "
"Yes, yes I've hern tell about him he
was mad 'cause your mother did not marry
to suit him,, wasn't he ?"
Marian was silent Deacon Gray waited
a few minutes, hoping she would admit hini
into her secret meditations ; but she did not,
and the Deacon went home, to tell his wife
that ''that Harlan gal was the very queerest
creature he had ever come across. "
In the meanwhile Marian wa3 packing her
few scanty things into a little carpet bag, by
the weired flickering light of the dying wood
fira. .
'I will go to New York," ehesaid to her-
Bolf, setting her small pearlt teeth firmly to
gether ' , ' ' ' -
"My mother's uncle shall hear her cause
pleaded through my own lips. Oh, I wish
my heart would not throb so wildly 1 I am
no longer meek, .Minnie Harian ; 1 am an
orphan all alone in the world who must fight
life's battle with her own single bands !"
Lower Broadway at seven o'clock P. M.
What a babel of crashing wheels, hurrying
humanity and conglomerate noise it was !
Minnie Harlan sat in the corner of an ex
press office, under the flare of gaslights, sur
rounded by boxes, and wondering whether
the people ever went crazed in this perpet
ual din and tumult. Her dress was plain
poplin, with a shabby old-fashioned little
straw bonnet tied with black ribbons, and a
blue veil, while her articles of baggage, the
carpet bag, lay in her lap. She had sat there
two hours, and was very, very tired.
"Poor little thing," thought the dark hair
ed young clerk nearest her, who inhabited a
sort of wire cage under a circlet of gaslights.
And then he took up hia pen and plunged
into a perfect Atlantic Ocean of- accounts.
"Mr. Evans T' .
-"Sir!" . ; .. .
..The dark haired clerk emerged from hia
cage with his pen behind his ear in obedi
ence to the beckoning finger of his superior.
'I have noticed lhat young woman sitting
"Exprerssd on, sir, from Millington, Iowa;
arrived this afternoon."
As though Minnie Harlan were a box or
a paper parcel.
"Who for?"
"Consigned to Walter Harrington, Esq.
"And why has't she been called for ?"
"I sent up to Mr. Harrington's address to
notify him some time ago ; I-expect an an
swer every moment"
"Very odd," said the gray haired gentle
man, taking up his newspaper.
. "Yes, sir, rather. I'
Some three-quarters of an hour afterwards,
Frank Evans came to the pala girl's side with
an indescribable pity in his hazle eyes.
"Miss Harlan, we have sent to Mr. Har
rington's residence "
Minnie looked up with a feverish red upon
her cheek, and her hands clasped tightly on
the handle of the faded carpet bag.
" And we regret to inform you that he
sailed for Europe at twelve o'clock this day,
A sudden blur came over . M i n n ie' s e3es-
she trembled like a leaf. In all her calcula
tions, she made no allowance for an exigency
like this.
"Can we do anything further for you ?'
questioned the young clerk politely.
"Nothing no one can do anything now.'
Frank Evans had been turning away, but
EOmethmg in the piteous tones of her voice
appealed to every manly instinct within him
Shall I send you to any other of your
friends?
"I have no friends !"
"Perhaps I can have your things sent to
some quiet family hotel I"
Minnie opened the little leather purse and
showed him two cent pieces, with a smile
that was almost a tear. .
'This i3 all the money I have in the world.
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So young, so beautiful, and so desolate
Frank Evans had been a New Yorker all his
life, but he had never met with an exactly
parallel case to this. He bit the end of his
pen in dire perplexity.
"But what are you going to do ?"
I don t know, sir. Isu't there a work
house or some such place, I could go to, un-
tu I could find something to do ?"
"Hardly." Frank Evans could scarcely
help smiling as poor Minnie's simplicity.
"They are putting out the lights, and pre
paring to close the office," said Minnie start
ing to her feet "I must go somewhere.'
tff TT 1 tt " 1- ... it
iUiss iianan, saiu frans, quietly, my
home is a very poor one I am only a five
nunureu aouar cierk but l am sure my
mother will receive you under her roof a
day or two, if you can trust me."
Trust you?" Minnio looked at him
through violet eyes obscured in tears.
"Oh, sir, I should be so thankful !"
"How late you arc, Frank ! Here, give
me your overcoat it is all powdered with
snow and "
But Frank interrupted his bus tling cherry-
cheeked mother, as the stood on tip-toe to
take off hb outer wrappings.
Hush mother 1 there is a young lady
down stairs."
"A young lady, Frank?"
"Yes mother ; expressed on from Iowa to
old Harrington, the rich merchant He sail
ed for Europe this morning, and she is en
tirely alone. Mother, she looks like poor
Blanche, and I knew you wouldn't refuse her
a corner here until she could find something
to do."
Mrs. Evans went to the door and called
her cheerily out.
"Come up stair, my dear you're as wel
come as flowers in May I Frank you did quite
right ; you always do."
The days and weeks passed on, and still
Minnie Harlan remained an inmate of Mrs.
Evans' humble dwelling.
'It seems just as though she had taken
our dead Blanche's place," said the cozy lit
tle widow ; "and she is so useful about the
house. I don't know how I managed with
out her."
"Now 3Iinnie you are not in earnest about
leaving us to-morrow ?"
'I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only think
I have been here two months to-morrow ;
and the situation as governess is very advan
tageous." , ;
"Very well, I shall tell Frank how yery
obstinate you are." .
"Dearest Mrs. Evans, please don't 1
Please keep my secret"
"What secret is it that is to be so relig
iously kept ?" asked Mr. Frank Evans, cool
ly walking into the midst of the discussion,
with hia dark hair tossed about by the wind,
and his hazel brown eyes sparkling archly.
"Secret 1" repeated Mrs. Evans, energet
ically wiping her dim spectacle glasses.
"Why, Minnie is determined to leave us tc-
morrow. .
"Minnie!"
"I
must, Frank, I have no right further
to trespass on your kindness."
No right, eh ? Minnie, do you know that
the house has been a different house since
you came into it ? Do you suppose we want
to lose our little sunbeam ?"
Minnie smiled sadly, but her hand felt very
cold and passive in Frank's warm grasp.
"You'll stay, Minnie ?"
"No." She shook her head determinedly.
"Then you must be made to stay," said
Frank. "I've missed something of great
value lately, and I hereby arrest you on sus
picion of the theft I"
"Missed something 1" Minnie rose, turn
ed red and white, f 'Ob, Frank, you can nev
er suspect me !"
- "But I do suspect you. In fact I am
quite sure the article is in your possession."
"The article!"
I love you, Minnie Harlan, and I will be
good and true husband to you. Stay, be my
little wife!"
So Minnie Harlan, instead of going out as
a governess, according to the programme.
married the dark haired clerk in Ellison'
Express Office.
They were very quietly married, early in
the morning, and Frank took Minnie home
to his mother, and then went calmly about his
business in the wire cage, under the circlet o:
gaslight '
"Evans!"
"Yes sir."
Frank, with his pen behind his ear aa o
yore, quietly obeyed the behest of the gray
headed official.
"Do you remember the young wjrnan who
was expressed on from Milliugton, Iowa
two months since ?"
"Ye3 sir I remember her."
A tall silver haired gentleman here inter
posed with eager quickness :
"Where is she ? I am her uncle Walter
Harrington. I have just returned from
Paris when the, news of her arrival reached
me ! I want her ; she is the only living rel
ativeleft me !"
"Ah 1 but sir," said Frank, "you can't
s
have her,"
"Can't have her ? what do you mean ?"'
"Has anything happened ?"
"Yes, sir, something has happened ; Miss
Harlan was married to me this morning."
Walter Harrington started.
"Take me to her." he said hoarsely. 1
can't be parted from my only relative for
such a mere whim."
"I wonder if he calls the marriage service
and wedding ring mere whims," thought
honest Frank ; but he obeyed in silence.
"Minnie," said the old man, in faltering
accents, you will come to me and be the
daughter of my old age? I am rich, Min
nie, and you are all I have in the world."
But Minnie stole her hand through her
husband's arm.
"Dearest uncle, he was kind to mc when
L was most desolate and alone. I cannot
cave my husband, uncle Walter I love
him!"
"Then you must both of you come and
be my children," said the old man, doggedly,
And you must come now, for the great
house is as lonely as a tombf"
Frank Evans is no longer an express clerk,
and pretty Minnie moves in velvet and dia
monds ; but they are quite as happy as they
were in the old days, and that is saying
enough."" Uncle Walter Harrington grows
older and feebler every day, and his too
children are the sunshine of his declining
ife.
Tl . rri a
i owir of v omen in I UP.KEY. A man
meeting a woman in the ttreet, turns his
head from her, as if it were forbidden to
bok on her ; they seem to detet an impu
dent woman, to shun and avoid her. Any
one, tncrelore, among the (JhriJiians, who
may have discussions or altercations with
Turks, if ho has a woman of spirit or a
virago for hi.s wife, sets her to revile and
browbeat them, and by these means not un-
re'juently gains his point The highest dis
grace and shame would attend a Turk who
should rashly lift his hand against a woman ;
all he can venture to do, is to treat her with
harsh and contemptuous words, or-to march
off. The sex lay such stress on this rrivi-
ilege, that they are frequently apt to indulge
their passion to excess, to be most unreason
able in their claims, and violent and irregu-
ar in the pursuit of them. They will im
portune, tease, and insult a judge on the
bench, or even the vizier at his divan ; the
officers of justice do not know how to resent
their turbulence ; and it is a general obser
vation that, to get rid of them, they often
et them gain their cause. Sir George Lar-
pent's Turkey.
mm
Parents and tiieir Children. There
is nothing better, nothing safer, nothing so
sure of bringing forth the right fmit in the
end, than truth. Tell your child the truth.
Tell him that obedience requires unpaid
sacrifices. Tell him that he need not expect
purse of gold will drop into his hand the
moment he denies Inmsell ot a coveted
pleasure. Tell him that the path of duty is
often terribly hard, and seldom leads to an
oil well, or a seat in Congress, or to a brown
stone front house. Tell him that virtue
sometimes brings thorns, enmities, neglect
But tell him that it is virtue, nevertheless ;
the brightest the noblest, and the best of
ifts, and whatever comes of goodness it is
the one thing desirable, itseli above all
price. Make him feel that obedience is
pleasure,' that goodness is delight, that love
is altogether lovely, and he will not expect
to be paid for the smallest service and be
tempted to withhold a kindness when he is
not sure of a reward. Parents must cease
appealing to the appetites and the avarice of
their chileren if they would have them any
thing but selfish -and sensuaL
WTnAT we Love. The "local" of the
Owen county, (Ia.) Journal is responsible
for the following : We love to see the bloom
ing rose, in all its beauty drest; Me love to
have our friends disclose the emotions of
the breast We love to see the cars arrive
well laden at our door ; we love to see our
neighbors thrive, and love to bless the poor.
We love to see domestic life with uninter
rupted joys ; we love to see a happy wife
with lota of girls and boys. ' We love all
three yet far above all we have said, we
love what every printer loves to Jiave sub
scriptions puid.
WaAT is the relation of the door-mat to
From the N. Y. Freeman's Journal.
The Capture of John H. Surratt.
We have, heretofore, mentioned the fact
that this uahappy man has been arrested in
the Turkish dominions. They say a vessel
of war has been specially ordered to bring
him to the United States.
If newspaper accounts can, by possibility.
tell the truth, it is moderately probable that
one Wilkes Booth mortally shot Lincoln in
a cowardly manner, in the back of his head,
while the latter was making merry at a low
theatre on tho solemn night of a Good Fn
day. And it is farther probable that this
John Surratt was one of the silly and un
principled tools that the said Booth invei
gled into his plot for the unlawful killing of
the aforesaid Lincoln. Supposing these
data to be true which we think probable,
but do not believe to have been proven it
would follow that this John II. Surratt,
brought Wilkes Booth, and various other
loose characters to his mother's boarding
house in Washington Citj Mrs. Surratt, a
Southern woman, sympathized with the
South. No question of that A kind
hearted woman, she was easily imposed on.
Booth playing theatrical mystery, imposed
on her for his purposes. He made her do
things she supposing it was to benefit some
poor escaping prisoner, perhaps. Certainly
she knew, or comprehended, nothing of the
tragedy that followed. But it happened !
Probably John Surratt was as much in tho
dark about it as she was. But John Surratt
was what is called a man. By the loose as
sociations he had brought around "Lis moth
er's house, he had caused her to be impli
cated in the plot When his mother was
cruelly, and wickedly condemned John
Surratt, instead of telegraphing from Can
ada that he was coming, and then coming
on, to say that his mother was innocent and
to die in her place, or else with her, made
himself scarce! We own, if called to sit
on a jury to decide on his life, while we
could say wo had a mind open to evidence,
we would feel bound to say that we enter
tained a strong prejudice against the prison"
er !
They talk of taking his testimony in regard
to the plot There is but one way that tes
timony could be received, according to law.
It is not that he would be pardoned on con
dition of his telling tJte truth ! Now, if he
were thus unconditionally pardoned, we
could not believe a word he said. The male
human being that deserted the mother he
had implicated, we could not trust in any
case. As a juryman we would be a mdire
of testimony, and wc would judge his testi
mony as worth nothing.
We may do him a great wrong. It may
be that the foolish boy who fell into Wilkes
Booth's pnare that is supposing it was
Wilkes Booth that shot Lincoln in the low
theatre on a Good Friday night of which
there is no legal evidence this foolish boy,
we say, on these suppositious, may have
ripened into' a man. He may come forward
and testify truth. If he did so, there would
be a verisimilitude about it ! There would
be something that would commend itself to
calm reason as probable. If ho and a thou
sand like him, were to testify that, of his
knowledge, Mn Jefferson Davis approvedi
or countenanced or tolerated, the assassina
tion or the abduction of poor Abe Lincoln
we would say the evidence of character, and
of known sentiments, to say nothing of the
political ability of Mr. Jefferson Davis who
would know how futile such a move would
be give the lie to the testimony of a thou
sand hired and perjured miscreants ! Their
testimony would be no evidence !
Just as we disdain insulting our readers
with any proof that Mr. Davis neither
cnew anything, or connived at anything
against the honorable rules of war at any
thing like the hotel burnings in New York,
or the murder of Lincoln ; so we despise and
condemn any testimony that is to be wrung
'rom a poor, half-witted fool, as Surratt
must be, if the crazy Wilkes Booth con
trolled him, in regard to any facts, not in
themselves probabla.
But, if Surratt's testimony, in a plain and
straight-forward manner, could help to set
tle public opinion, there art parties it might
benefit. They are not Jcffreson Davis, nor
any respectable adherents of the late Con
federacy. These had all to lose, and noth
ing to gain, by Lincoln's assassination. But
the Northern Radicals ! When we heard of
the assassination of Lincoln, our first thought
was that it was the contrivance of such men
as Stanton, Holt, Butler, and the like. We
quickly abandoned that supposition, and put
it down to the freak of a madman, and his
tools. But there are intelligent men in
these States who have still their suspicions.
Then, again, we never for one moment be-
ieved Andrew Johnson had anything to do
with it Yet we have talked with intelli
gent men, versed in the affairs of the coun
try, who entertain, what we hold to be an
absurd opinion, that a terrible revelation is
possible in that direction.
And it is a curious fact that, while it is
nown that Stanton and Holt are deadly en
emies of President Johnson, the latter
bitter as he has shown himself towards
other opponents, still keeps these in high
laces ! Gossipers assert that Stanton and
Iolt have some mysterious power over
resident Johnson by which they can shake
their fingers in his face, and dare him to
remove them. Some of the premises on
which these things are said are of startling
brce, but, that it goes past the murder of
Mrs. Surratt, and oth like horrors of hb
administration, we never have believed, nor
can we believe. Still, Stanton sits firm in
his
seat, a bitter enemy of the President
did not nctS a court of inquiry in regard to
the procured perjuries thatjought to impli
cate Jefferson Davis and others in the Lin
coln assassination has giv.en just reason to
the suspicion that were Holt to be found
guilty, higher officials would be found to
have been his accomplices !
It is, altogether, a very dirty business,
and, if Surratt is openly tried before a civil
court, it will take a great deal of hard swear
ing to make it look white-washed I We
don't believe in this hard swearing.
A Hoosier in the Engine Room.
A specimen of the genius "Hoosier" was
found by Captain , of the steamer
in the engine room of his boat, while lying
at Louisville one fine morning. The Cap
tain inquired. "Whatwashe doingthere?"
"Have j'ou seen Captain Perry?" was the
interrogative response. "Don't know him ;
and can't tell what that has to do with your
being in my engine room," replied the Cap
tain, angrily. "Hold on ; that's just what
I was getting at You see, Captain Perry
asked tue to drink, and so I did ; I knew
that I wanted to drink, or I wouldn't have
been so very dry. So Captain Perry and I
went to the ball ; Captain Perry was putting
on some extras on one toe. I sung out, 'Go
it, Captain Perry, if you bust your bilcr!'
With that a man steps up to me, says he,
'fee here, stranger, you must leave.' Says
I, 'What must I leave fur?' Says he, 'You
ara making too much noise. Says I, 'I've
been in bigger crowds than this and made
more noise, and didn't leave, nuther.'
With this he took me by the nape of the
neck and the seat of the breeches and I
left As I was shoven down street I met a
lady. I knew she was a lady by a remark
she made. Says she, 'Young man, I reckon
you'llgohomewithme?' Politeness wouldn't
let me refuse, and so I went I'd been in
the house but a minute" when I heard
considerable knocking at tho door. I
know'd the chap wanted to get in, who
ever he was, or he wouldn't have kept up
such a tremendous racket Byand-by says
a voice, 'Ef you don't open, I'll burst in
the door.' And so he did. I put on a bold
face, and says I 'Stranger, does thiswoman
belong to you?' Says he, 'She does.' 'Then,'
says I, 'She's a lady, I think, from all that
I have seen of her.' With that he came at
me with a pistol in one hand and a bowie
knife in the other, and being a little pressed
for room, I jumped through the window,
leaving the bigger portion of my coat tail.
As I was streaking it down street, with a
fragment fluttering in tho breeze, I met a
friend. I knew he was a friend by a remark
he made. Says he, 'Go it, bob tail, he's
gaiuin' on you.' An, that's the way I got
into your engine room. I'm a good ' swim
mer, Captain, but do excuse me, if you
please, from taking tha water."
On Skating and Winter.
"Gris," who is evidently a brick, writes
as follows to the Cincinnati Time wa com
mend the item to all skaters and everybody,
-1-1
eise wno can enjoy a langu :
"Winter is the coldest season of the year
because it comes in the winter, mostly.. In
some countries whiter comes in the summer,
and then it is very pleasant I wish winter
came in summer ia this country, which is
the best Government that the sun ever
shown upon. Then we could go skating
barefoot and slido down hill in linen trow
sers. We could snowball wi'.hout our fingers
getting cold and men who go out sleigh-riding
wouldn't have to stop at every tavern,
to warm, as they do now. It snows more in
the winter than it does at any other season
of the j-ear. This is because so many cut
ters and sleighs are made then.
"Ice grows much better in winter than in
summer, which was an inconvenience before
the discovery of ice houses. Water that is
left out of doors is apt to freeze at this sea
sou. Some folks take in their wells and cis
terns on a cold night and keep them by the
fire, so they don't freeze.
"Skating is great fun in the winter. The
boys get their skates on when the river is
frozen over and race, play tag, brealr through
tho ice and got well all over (they get drown
ed sometimes and are brought home all drip
ping, which makes their mothers scold, get
ting water all over the carpet in the front
room,) fall and break their heads and enjoy
themselves in many other ways. A wicked
boy once stole my skates and ran off with
them, and I couldn't catch him. Mother
said, 'never mind, judgment will overtake
him.'
"Well, if judgment docs, judgment will
have to be pretty lively on his legs, for that
boy runs bully.
"There ain't much sleigh-riding except in
the winter. Folks don't seem to care about
it in warm weather. Grown-up boys and
girls like to go sleigh-riding. The boys gen
erally drive with one hand and help the girls
to hold their muffs with the other. Brother
Bob let me go along a little way once when
he took Celia Ann Crane out sleigh-riding,
aiid I thought he paid more attention to
holding the muff than he did to holding the
horses.
"Snow-ballijg is another winter sport. I
have snow-balled in the summer, but we used
stones and hard apples. It Isn't so amusing
as it is in the winter, somehow."
EST I say friend, your horse ia a little con
trary, is it not ?"
"No, Sir."
"What makes him stop then?"
"Oh, he's afraid somebody '11 say whoa
and he shant hear it 1"
x , , , . " I :
Tot art of book-keeping taught io one
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania :
We have reason to be thankful to God for
the blessings of peace, abundant crops, that
industry has been rewarded, and that thus
the Commonwealth has been able to do her
full duty to herself, to the country and pos
terity. ;
The condition of our finances is as foilows :
Balance in Treasury, Novem
ber 30, 1865, - - - -$2,373,668 14
Receipts during fiscal year
ending Nov. 30, 1866, - - 5,829,668 54
Total in Treasury for fiscal
year ending Nov. 30, 18C6. 8,203,336 68
Payments for same perioa
have been - - - - - 6,462,303 41
Balance in Treasury, Decem
ber 1,1866, - - - - . 1,741,033 27
Amount of the public debt as
it stood on the first day of
December, 1865, - - -$38,476,258 05
Amount reduced
at the State Trea
pury. during tha
fiscal year end- - 1
ing Nov. 30,1865,
5 per cent loan,$l,S28,553 25
4 J per cent loan, 25,000 00 -Relief
notes, - - 626 00
Domestic creditors'
certificates, - 26 65
1,854,205 90
Public debt Dec. 1, 1866, 835,622,052 15
To wit, funded debt :
6 percent loan, - - $400,630 00
5 per cent loan, . - - - 32,073,192 59
4 i percent loan, - - - 213,200 00
6 percent loan, military, per
act May 15, 1861, - - 2,820,740 00
Unfunded debt,relief notes in
circulation, ... $96,925 05
Interest certificates outstand
ing, 13,086 52
Interest certificates unclaimed 4,458 38
Domestic creditors' certificates 119 67
.$35,612,052 16
Assets in Treasury :
Bonds Pennsylvania Railroad
Comnany, - -
Bonds Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad Company, -
Intereston bonds of Philadel
phia Si Erie Railroad Com
pany, - - -
Cash in Treasury,
$6,600,000 00
3,500,00 00
1,225,000 00
1,741,033 27
13,086,033 27
Liabilities in excess of assets, 22,536,018 89
-
35,622,052 16
-
Liabilities in excess of assets,
November 30, 1861, - -$23,148,060 36
Liabilities in excess of assets,
November 30, 1866. 22,536,018 89
Improvement in Treasury
since 1861, - - - 5,612,041 4T
The extraordinary expenditures, during
the war and since its close, in payments
growing out of it by authority of acts of As
sembly, have amounted to upwards of fiva
millions of dollars, which, added to the ac
tual payment of the indebtedness ef the State,
and money in the Treasury for that purpose,
shows the revenues, above the ordinary ex
penditures, to have amounted to $10,612,
200, which would all have been applied to
the payment of the debt of the Common
wealth in the last six years. A careful at
tention to the revenues of the Common
wealth, with such lust and prudent charges
as may be required in the future, and a wise
economy in expenditures will, in my judg
mcnt, insure the entire payment of the pub
lic debt within the period of fifteen years. .
The time fixed forthe redemption of $23,
108,026,24 of tho indebtedness of the Com
monwealth having expired, I recommend
that provision be made for its redemption,
by making a new loan for that purpose,pay
able at such periods as the prospective rev
enues will justify.
I recur, with niuoh satisfaction, to tha
wisdom, prudence, and economy of the rep-'
resentatives of the people, in the manage
ment of the finances of the Commonwealth)
during a period of much embarrassment,
uncertainty and distress, and uongratulat
you and them on the near approach of the
entire liquidation of the puUic debt
Since my last Annual Message, I haver
drawn from the Treasury, two thousand dol
lars of the fund placed in the hr.nds of tho
Govrenor for secret service and other extra
ordinary expenses, which I have expended
in payment of my personal staff, and for
other purposes, as heretofore, except five
hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty
eight cents, which I have returned into ibe
Treasury.
I present for your consideration, tho
amendments to the Constitution of tho
United States, proposed to the Legislatures
of the several btates by a resolution of both
Houses of Congress, passed on the 16th day
of June last 1 was glad that it wa3 possi
ble, without delaying the final adoption " of
these amendments, to ascertain the opinion
of our people upon them, at the general
election, in October last By the election of
a large majority of members openly favoring'
and advocating the amendments, that opin
ion seems to me to have been abundantly
expressed. Indeed, the amendments are so
moderate and reasonable in their character,
that it would have been astonishing if the
people had failed to approve them. That
ever- person, born in the United States, and
free, whether by birth or manumission, b a
citizen of the "United States, and that no.
State has a right to abridge the privileges
of citizens of the United States these ara
principles which were never seriously doubt
ed anvwhere, until after the insane crusado
in favor of slavery had been for some time
in progress. What is called tha decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States, ia
the Dred Scott case, has made it eipedieot
and proper to re-assert these vital principles
in an authoritative manner, and this is dono
in the first clause of the prposed amend
ments. The right of prescribing the qualifications
of voters is exercised by the respectivo
States, under the Constitution of 1789;
three-fifth of the slaves were counted in as
certaining the representative population off
the several States. The amendment of tha
constitution abolished slavery in all tha
States and Territories. Though it was for
merly otherwise in most, if not aU, of tha
old Southern States, yet for many veapa
past the Negroes have not, in any of these,
been permitted to vate. At present, "there
fore, the late slave States would ba entitled
to count the whole of their former slava
juo.